skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finish your degree. But it would be a shame if you totally dropped the hobby you’re passionate about right now in favour of listening to the conventional wisdom and becoming a “true autonomous adult”.

See if you can make both work out somehow. You’re not alone in this and there are many streamers that manage to pull in money to cover their living costs while still being able to pursue an education and the necessities to thrive (hanging out with friends, exercise, learning skills not related to anything in particular, etc.).

Try to combine your two passions somehow. Building gaming-related products and creative ways to give back to your viewers using your engineering skills would be good candidates.
We've been using it for 3+ years and we love it. We are a small team, so it enable us to build stuff fast, plus it has many good features, 2.3 has amazing REST support.
New York is the heart of a new digital economy.
So tarsnap compresses then encrypts?
No doubt, this was the #1 joke for April Fools 2014 as far as I'm concerned.
> Answer this: where can I look at some stuff you built?

You can't, it's closed source proprietary internal stuff. And I'm not allowed to talk too much about it because I had to sign a NDA.
Except the 1st Amendment already has limits on freedom of expression for things that people find distasteful, does it not?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_excep...
I wondered for a second "Is CVS still hosted using CVS?" only to discover that the answer is yes and that all is still right in the universe.
Doom is coming up with new game Wolfenstein
Intel tries to woo partners into creating content that only runs on Intel chips
I thought was something like a "Dazzle camouflage" -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

The principle it that would be harder to a lion know where they are heading when running. Actually the zebra is supposed to have inspired the development of this technique.
I originally thought the same thing, until I read through to the article.

Git is already supported by many Apache projects, though. The Apache Flex team did the move quite a while ago, so their primary repository is in Git.
Someone else on this thread suggested concorde, which seems to be the engine behind fargo.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7512666
Actually, I thought it made a lot of sense for the project.
Subversion still has a place for large-file/binary repos
Well; the Maidan insurgency was suicide for quite a few of the protesters. History is littered with insurgencies that won through losing.

But as for Crimea vs. Kosovo; without international intervention the Kosovo situation would still have been explosive. Crimea was already mostly independent and had a referendum for more independence coming up already and showed no signs of destabilizing.

Also; I'm not aware of dramatically self-serving incentives for NATO's intervention in Kosovo like there clearly are in Crimea (gas reserves, lease for black-sea naval base, destabilizing post-Maidan Ukraine, nationalization of Ukrainian assets, prestige through this 'little war' and restoring former USSR glory.)

My recollection from Kosovo was that NATO intervention was done begrudgingly in an honest attempt to stabilize an explosive situation.

Once again; I'm honestly curious about your perspective on this...
Is having a portfolio website necessary now-a-days? What does HN think?
Nuget.org is down (slow day for .NET Devs starting new projects)
It's been like this since at least 8am.
Or, she could be a "Teela Brown" -- someone who is naturally (or unnaturally...) lucky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teela_Brown
Definitely vault physical backup copies of private key material at a physical safety deposit box in a bank. Preferably two copies in two banks in two different timezones.
Gone wrong? It was perfect!
http://www.tarsnap.com/faq.html#DEDUPE

Deduplication across users isn't possible due to encryption, but it is done locally on your own data, so it is true that you only pay for unique and compressed data.
We have a new iOS app coming soon!
Nothing, if you're asking me.
Its easy to take a sail above the speed of the wind. Airfoil effect. Did it all the time on iceboats as a kid (sailboat on ice skates, basically). Not sure how or if that applies to a kite. A sail (at least a properly designed one) is not a parachute... it pushes against the keel to go faster than the wind.

I would imagine performance in calm to variable gusty conditions is interesting. Could of course pop a very small mast and sail with that. I've been stuck in the middle of nowhere and no breeze with a conventional sail, so I suppose this isn't any worse other than dunking the kite and tangling the wires.

For long distance sailing I was always hyper paranoid about bigger ships (duh) and a fairly obvious safety feature that wasn't discussed (that I saw) is lifting a simple tinfoil and styrofoam retroreflector up with the kite. I wonder that no one sells small/tiny kites with retroreflectors to cruising sailors.
I love this concept and think this model has serious legs across all domains.

As a student, hearing more voices and perspectives, some that will immediately resonate, is invaluable.

Teachers meanwhile supplement their knowledge with SMEs from various domains.

The SMEs add interactions that they don't get in their day to day, also gaining access to new perspectives.

Administrators improve their curriculum, environment and experience without huge budget changes.

Win, win, win, win?
I just returned from South Africa, where the rangers were emphatic that the stripes are for camouflage. Not in the way we initially think when we hear camouflage either (to make them invisible), but to make it difficult for a predator to see how many zebras are in a group, and which way they're standing. Zebras can kick very hard, apparently, hard enough to easily kill a man, and if you don't know how many there are and which way they're facing, it makes sneaking up on a group risky.
I think the fact that Colin handles everything himself increases my trust in tarsnap, because he clearly knows what he is doing. I trust it in a way that I would not trust a faceless corporation like crashplan, even though they also advertise client-side encryption.

I have a secondary emergency backup in a bank vault, so even in the unlikely event that tarsnap were to crash and burn at the same time my disk fails, I still have another backup, it's just 1-2 months old.

Honestly, I'm not sure I would be a tarsnap customer if it were a larger operation where I could not gauge the trustworthiness and skill of all the involved parties.
Code envy: yes indeed! :) Apart from the nice graphical touches like animating the branches and zooming and whatnot, the node-based navigation looks like a win for dealing with scale issues.

It's also nice that he abstracted the layout so thoroughly that he can not only create a variety of 2D and 3D views, but also map the underlying data structure onto actual game elements in the game's main display, as you can see in one or two of the other demo videos.
Pure speculation: random, untrained and disinterested parties might be better than CIA analysts at making geopolitical predictions because their results aren't politicized. "Are there WMDs in Iraq?"
I don’t have the following experience since switching to a MacBook, and it’s not something that would suck the most for me (can’t think of any others right now). But I dislike how the bootup sequences of most PCs looks like you’re startup up some PoS system for a fast food restaurant. It doesn’t look sexy at all and doesn’t fit in most of the environments a PC would be in.
I don't have NDAs but I have the same kind of problem - lots of things I've done have been internal tools/systems which aren't visible or wouldn't make sense to anyone outside the relevant companies.
Honestly, not a new concept, but an effective implementation non the less.

I remember a few students at my old school creating sites that would be picked up on the schools filter (which would look for words like porn/games/curse words) and link a lot of the schools resources.

The IT department being rather inept, saw the school website being blocked, and took down the filter until they could find out why.
If you have 3000 people predicting the outcomes of events with say a probablity of 0.3 after 6 trials there would be 2 people who got all of them correct and many others who would have a very good record out of pure chance alone.

Unless they publish the detailed numbers we can't be sure of whats going on here.

If some person with access only to normal sources is able to perform so well against people with access to lots of classified sources and information , what are we to conclude ?

Either they are just lucky or the people at the CIA aren't as competent as we think they are.

If we are unwilling to accept any of these theories then we need to know what makes these people good at it. I don't see how just plain simple analysis can beat people at the CIA.
Which at least gives balance to how I feel about Kings (Kings like Saudi Kings in particular) and those who would criminalise anyone who does not believe in their daft religions.

Know them for what they are - no friends of democracy, freedom or human rights.
No idea, but would idly speculate it could be related to the effect seen in bees, where stripes could be used to fool them into thinking the ground was closer or further away:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22915710
How nice of them to publish this list. I can now simply revert to the line number in this file and only have one instance of my email adress on the public internets.

Changing contact info now to: line 34 of the coinbase leak-list on pastebin.
I read this as a spin attempt of multiculturalism. Try to feel good because he’s the only one that doesn’t see the word with the “western” cultural glasses.

All maps have bias. These maps have a “city” bias. Some information is more useful for some kind of people.

It’s possible to use the same paragraph with examples of Americans farmers from the states with more rural areas. If you only have a small subsistence farm, and almost never go to the nearest city that is 200 miles away, then you probably don’t care about the localization of the Starbucks. (Or perhaps you like Starbucks, and you already know the stores in the two nearest cities and don’t need the map.)
a) In my case, I've held these views concerning the utility of marriage for a while. However, to answer your question, since gay marriage is still very much an unorthodox institution to many people, it likely provokes them to think outside of their usual boundaries on the topic of marriage in general.

b) This is a very, very watered down form of "protesting against injustice". You're essentially attacking one person and trying to boycott the decades of seminal work by a non-profit foundation for free software over one morally objectionable act. One that he does not seem to bring into his workplace, and one that by the way, got ruled unconstitutional and overturned. It has no present effect on anyone.

Of course, it is remarkably less difficult to do that, while still flying under the guise of a greater cause.
I haven't actually checked that; all I mean to say is that it would be relatively safe to do so.
Actually, I do think domestic energy management is a real problem - we spend over £1000 between gas and electricity for the winter quarter and I'd love to have a simple way of getting a decent breakdown of those costs so I can do something about it.
I don't know anything about popcorn app specifically, but you'll normally see a message (instead of a 404 page) if GitHub removed a repository.
I would rather avoid a browser that was either pro or anti women's rights. Or pro or anti abortion. Or pro or anti slavery. Or pro or anti human. Although an anti-human browser might be cool... Tools should not be politically oriented, in general. Mild special case for politics pertaining to the tools themselves, like Firefox supporting an open web.
Abuse is generally the exception to the loving relationship rule. You're being intentionally obtuse. If I had intended abuse to factor into the decision, I would have specified that.

Obviously I'm trying to draw a parallel between homosexual relationships being deemed as deviant or second-class and something the parent may have understood, namely the pain of being separated from a loved one for no reason.
There is a cause I believe in pationately, but somehow not everyone sees it the way I do. Do you think it's ok for me to use hyperbole, if I'm sufficiently convinced I'm defending the right viewpoint?
Cost of Living, Season 1
Why do you need Colin alive in order use tarsnap?

(God, that's a strange sentence to write. Sorry about that, Colin.)
They are based in California, what did they expect?

Well, Prop 8 did pass, so...
Ask HN: Can I get an H1B visa without a degree?
Do you think it's possible to get an H1B visa without a degree? Is it more difficult?
Flies are tiny automatons with only a few neurons controlling their entire behavior. I'd guess stripes hack that simple control system in some dead-simple way.
The average UK heating bill is about £650 a year (based on 2012 numbers with a ~10% increase). Assuming you have a reasonably stable routine I can imagine a better thermostat could save 15% on your energy bill - amounting to about £100 a year. It could be worthwhile financially.

Of course though, that would need to be tested. Fortunately there's a big queue of early adopters just waiting to do that for us.
Nest’s smart Thermostat is now available to buy in the UK, priced from £179
Highly recommend this book, which is on the subject ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
An Oculus Rift Hack That Lets You Draw in 3-D
>I'm not really sure which right, but probably no.

To decide how they want their society shaped, including what rights they grant to whatever minority.

Apparently some people in other countries think they should run other people's countries for them and bring them their democracy and their moral code. As if they weren't one of the last countries to abolish slavery, or enforce Jim Crow laws that continue (masked) until this day. Or as if they didn't consider homosexuality mental illness until a few decades ago.

It seems that whatever some countries have decided for themselves (no matter how late they are to the party) should be enforced to everybody else.

As for other stuff, which they are still backwards (e.g the death penalty, lack of gun control, stand your ground laws etc) those are OK, since they are doing it.

>Yes, let's play oppression olympics

Better than playing: "whatever I decide is OK, is OK, everybody else must follow my lead. Oh, and I get to do whatever I want myself".
I see the same but the job hunt seems to favor OSS. if you can't share code you write at work then the other option I'd to give up free/family time to do some side project you can share.
That's because your house is broken or you're on the wrong tariff or you like it like the tropics. My entire year in a 4 bedroom detached house is around the £726 mark for gas and £540 for electricity. That's not bad, especially as there's 5 of us and I work from home. We have proper double-glazing (with decent glass), insulation, floor underlay etc.
It seems to me that you're basically declining my offer to have a discussion on the meta level ("what should be the rules of the political game?"). You're trying to discuss the object-level issue instead ("what should be the outcome of the political game?"). That could be an interesting discussion for some people, but I'm not interested in it, sorry...
I would not trust that.. I want the source code! I hope this is a late april joke
What's the problem? Did you read the last post? Most parties "complaining" about the move to git in the ticket were actually aware it was a joke:

> And plenty of thanks to all of my co-conspirators on this issue. Yes.. even my antagonist [~jimjag] was in on the ruse :-) … the Infra team handled this with perfect aplomb. And the Directors and Exec Officers came in with a perfect level of wrath. Our Subversion teammates showed a great sense of community and circling the wagons… Thank you all for making this work!!!
7 Reasons Why You Should Simulate a DDoS Attack On Your Site
A strong construction should be impossible to compress because encryption maximizes bit entropy, which should make the cyphertext indistinguishable from a PRF (ie a random noise source).

MAC, decrypt, decompress.... always^9 in that order.
That's equal to admitting your career in a technological organization is strongly determined by whatever personal political views you hold.
the wrs book wears very well. he was a good man.

as an aside, its generally a mistake to use IP-Size > PMTU (commonly ~1500).. the result is IP fragmentation and IP stacks commonly have very limited resources devoted to IP reassembly (otherwise its a DoS attack) - so its very easy for your fragmented UDP message to get "lost" even when the network transport does not have an error.

When it seems to work ok its basically because your app is the only one doing it.. if it were common practice you would all fight for the same reassembly buffer space and the OS would have to start dropping things. Your application also becomes trivially dosable at low bandwidths by an attacker intentionally using up the reassembly buffer.
I don't program in Ruby. I write Python so Lettuce (http://lettuce.it/) is the obvious Python binding to use. I've only used Lettuce once and I had an awful experience. That was a two years ago.

I like writing tests though my experience with software development has been limited to school projects, personal projects and intern projects. Nothing major. Nothing at the scale of ecommerce or Google scale.

But one thing I learned from writing tests (unit tests, integration tests and functional tests) is that do what is straightforward and don't worry about the strict TDD cycle. I worry about logging and error messages.

I've spent a whole week learning Lettuce. At that time the research project I was working on lacked tests (the project was using Django). I was told to look up Lettuce because writing Lettuce tests is like writing stories.

My awful experience was trying to wrap my head around the framework, trying to do many things that would take many steps and many tricks to complete. The table was awful. I didn't like it.

I gave up. I turned back to the built-in unittests module. I wrote some tests and from that point the only testing framework I have to add is the mock library. When I need an isolated unit tests I would call mock. When I need to test integration between modules without involving database calls or HTTP requests I will use mock.

Testing should be straightforward and should remain simple. Maybe Cucumber works nicely with Ruby's RSpec (I heard a lot about rspec and how rspec is so awesome and helpful for testing, not sure if that's true since I am a Python developer).

I also don't think writing a million test cases will work. In the end, while I think unit tests and integration tests are useful and awesome, I like to catch up with my functional tests. Most of my tests are done on the server side (so just use requests library to make HTTP calls). Depending on what kind of application you are testing, the testing tools can vary.

In the end, keep your tests simple. If something breaks, you better fix it quickly.

Logging , incidents collection and error messages are the most important thing in deployment and testing. If I have to spend hours to trace down the bug (the process died half way) or user is confused why the service is not working properly, I will waste more cycles to build my product.
Ya those are from the original version, that the developers shut down on March 14th. The GitHub that the OP linked is the link to the new GitHub fork that is/was under active development. Not sure what happened but the saga seems to be continuing
I'm a longtime sailor and did a bit of kiteboarding back in the early 2000's when the kites were a lot less safe than they are now (they automatically dive now when the rider loses control, which I would have loved instead of being dragged onto a beach and into a fisherman's truck)

The amount of power generated is insane, but I would love to see a computer controlled kite instead of relying on a human to keep the kite moving in a way to maximize power. The margin of error can be small there.
Unjustified. Why jump into conclusions before official statements are made?
That would explain it. It's remarkable how ambiguous TOSs in general are. I can see from a business perspective how Github was probably pressured from outside source, MPAA, to remove the application that could be used as a conduit to illegally download magnet links. This is such a slippery slope though...
#4 it has an autoaway mode, which will determine a using motion sensor if you are around. And if not it won't heat or cool aside from your scheduled events.
A good way to frame this: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html
Embrace Bad Ideas and No Business Model
At first the ISPs were blocking the sites by their IP addresses. But it is easy to change the IP address, so now they are required to constantly follow the changes of A records of the blocked domain and block all the new IP addresses as well. This is where the exploit comes. If your site is blocked you can add kremlin.ru's IP address to your domain's A records and the kremlin.ru will be automatically blocked.
I frequently wonder, alt.history-style, what would modern Atari and Commodore computers look like.

Actually, that extends to other "classic" machines like Xerox Stars or Lisp Machines. Or Liliths. It would be very interesting what products those ideas would bring when combined with modern fab technology.
This was my first thought too - it would be a bit like saying you shouldn't right the compiler for one programming language in another, which would be patently absurd.
Religion predates the Abrahamic religions too.
Currently both religion and homosexuality are 'protected classes'.

There is evident conflict between the two. Discriminating against Eich expressing his religious views would be immoral to some people, in the same way discriminating against gays is immoral to some people.

Ultimately, we have to decide whether beliefs qualify in a class where all the other items (race, gender, sexual orientation) are considered innate.

Until we have that debate nothing will be solved.

Edit: because this got downvoted almost immediately, I'd like to clarify: I am not expressing an opinion either way in this matter, but rather highlighting a much larger conflict the matter is part of.
He did explicitly start his sentence with "If".
Sorry - was away for a while. The drag FORCE will be the same, but the lighter car will deaccel faster as I clearly stated above.
F=m*a
thus: F/m = a

Think of it like this: it's really easy to push a car that weighs one pound. Much harder to push a car that weighs 1000 pounds.

The momentum advantage was explained in the first point.
Either that, or it's code that runs machines that most people haven't even heard of. Not everyone builds web-apps for a living.
Well, besides that obvious fact.

For those of us who have not been following it's development; were there any noted improvements of the new (now-missing) version over the original?
hardly new
The issue is that people should be free to support the political movements they like, and not be punished for it.

When the political movement has as its sole and only goal depriving a subset of the population of a basic right, your argument falls apart. And that was the goal of Proposition 8.

Additionally, freedom to speak comes with the freedom of others to shun you for what you say, or to speak freely in condemning your opinions. It cannot be a one-way street.
Don't call yourself a programmer.
Now let's get some of those jobs out onto long island.
It would at least give you a lot of confidence that the decision-makers understand that there are differences between various SCMs and that there isn't a 'one-size-fits-all' solution.