skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess 91% of us are saying "Don't sweat the small stuff such as a degree". However, I wish unlearning the college stuff would have been as easier as a switch to linux :)
No, his comment was neither long-winded nor did it say "tl;dr".
Do you have a wireless keyboard and do you live in close proximity to other people who do? (roommate, dorm, apartment buidling)
A friend who went through a Master's program in education relayed something his special education professor said: "I don't know what IQ tests measure, but they do it precisely."

I haven't met the friend or his professor, but either something has been lost in relating the saying, or a different issue is being addressed. The best literature on IQ testing

http://learninfreedom.org/iqbooks.html

would make any practitioner aware that there is an error band around ANY mental test score from any brand of mental test, and also that IQ scores change over the course of life for most individuals, and anyway no IQ test has even perfect test-retest reliability, much less perfect correlation with any other IQ test.
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Where's the URL to the original IBM press release / article? I would rather read the news from the source, than from those gizmodo subhuman morons any day...
Have scanned it with housecall (an online anti virus) as well as sophos anti virus

it is working now like, lol, seems all good now, until all the sudden will start going crazy again.
How is the picture 3D?
Also shouldn't we see electrons in pi clouds above the aromatic rings?
perhaps they are more adapt at finding bugs and implementing fixes in all realms of their lives?
How? I wanted to do that, but could only find a very complicated method that involved editing the startup files on the router.
no, its a laptop, so the keyboard is built in. I reinstalled windows so have not installed the driver for wireless internet, but last time it found a wireless network but that was encrypted.
ako mozi odma prajteja
[Private equity investments are only about 20-25% of our total AUM.] Both straight buyouts and VC. Any stage. A focus on financial and business services companies that are also strong internet plays. We invest outside that circle, but sparingly.
Wouldn't it have just made more sense to just further limit his CPU share? Even if he was abusing the service, I don't feel their actions were justified. Especially since they state in their email to him that if they cap the CPU then they don't care how much of his CPU share that he uses.
> Your arguments against copyright are so solid that they appear to change with each comment you make.

I don't think you're reading very carefully, then.

> What is lost when a penniless student downloads a song? Not much. What is lost when every penniless student downloads a song? Tens of millions of dollars.

You're assuming they'd all spend money on the song -- which, if they're penniless, they wouldn't. The only difference for most of them is whether they hear the song -- and tell their friends (who have more money to spend) about how highly they esteem the song. Whoops, now you're talking about free advertising.

It's worth considering not only how much money each song is supposedly worth per customer, but how many people would actually get the song if the only way they could get it was by paying for it. The real question for a business would not be "How many people are listening without paying?" but, instead, should be "Would we get more money if we punish people for listening without paying, or for encouraging them to share with others who might then spend money to get more songs because they liked what they heard?"

Conflating punishment for not paying with actual potential profits isn't really very useful as an economic metric.

> People download because technology has, for the time being, made it easier to download than to buy. That simple fact has no bearing on whether it's right to download without buying.

True. The same is true of the law. We need to look elsewhere than what laws are on the books and how many people are downloading illegally to find a basis for the ethics of the situation.
Microsoft's present is Cisco's future. Cash rich but without any innovation. Just copying whatever the new kid on the block is doing. It's just one paradigm-shift away from obsolescence.
I think there would be major issues getting folded protein to 5K. Plus proteins "live" in 300K and the oscillations are probably very important for the function (perhaps even more than a single arbitrary structure you would get from a picture like this).
NVIDIA's CUDA Superhero Challenge
whoosh

Apparently, you too did not read the article, nor most of my comment -- or maybe you ignored the beginning of wwalker3's comment, where (s)he said:

> It's a reiteration of a sentiment I've seen a lot recently: "My livelihood doesn't depend on copyright, so I'll feel free to violate yours."

Compare that with the meat of my own comment. Notice the relevance, and the fact that the opening to wwalker3's comment is completely off-base.
Hooray for this analogy! Sadly, you didn't really use it correctly :(.

Pausing the VPS instance would have been like locking them out of the apartment completely...

I would much rather have a landlord come into my apartment to turn my faucet off (keep in mind: after I ignored her requests to for MONTHS) than lock me out of it completely.
In my experience, employers are not particularly happy when you do this kind of thing. I can't tell you for sure, but my assumption is it's make them feel weak or helpless & the last thing they want is to seem like that, especially to a key employee.

Maybe find a more subtle way to push this, but being very direct (for me) has only ended up with an employer who is upset that I know my role is delivering 5-7x my salary.
That wasn't piranha's argument though. The argument was that Jinja's tags API is more difficult to use because it provides structured access to the code whereas Django just gives you a string. That Opera analogy doesn't apply because the API clearly exists.
But Rimuhosting states in their email to him that they can give him a fixed CPU share, and then they don't care what he does with that. And they already had given him a fixed CPU share. If it was too large they could have further limited the size of his share, and then called him to notify him.
In my recent experience with startups, or at the very least ideas for startups, I'm beginning to find that not acting upon your ideas quickly can also be detrimental to your startup. Being stuck in the "Product Development Diagram," particularly in the "Concept/Bus. Plan" phase can allow others with similar ideas to get a head start, and possibly even get to launch before you've even started.

Personally, I think that by getting into the development of your idea as soon as possible will help you. As an added bonus, there are always ideas, features, or a different method of implementation that get brought up while you are developing that you cannot anticipate during the planning/conceptualizing phase.
* Also, the landlord owns the place, but that doesn't give the landlord carte blanche to enter the apartment anytime they feel like it.*

Of course not, but the landlord does generally have the right to enter the property if there is an emergency (water is dripping from your unit into the unit below you).

The hosting company here did not just drop in to see if he had any good scripts or pr0n to steal, they did so after resource issues.
Yes, just saw it, thx. How bizarre, for an item about Arc it was very taxing on Paul. Perhaps it just shows how no one really gets it, and why bother explaining if you do: those who know don't tell.
Ask HN: What's your Startup Motto? (or just yours)
I recently came across one that I particularly like : "If they are number one at running, we'll just fly".
That's the implicit message in anyone's attempt to legislate the way I use, or dispose of, what I have in my possession the way copyright law does. "My business model sucks, so I'll use the government to ensure you conform to it -- since it won't stand up on its own."
I wish getting the money that I spent back would have been as easy as switching to linux.

Oh, idea, OPEN SOURCE SCHOOLING!
This is just handwaving. "Whoops, now you're talking about free advertising". Whoops, now you're talking about dictating the recording industry's business model back to it, because you don't like the one they chose.

If that's your argument, why are you tilting at windmills? Why aren't you instead writing a blog post advocating that musicians ditch the recording industry? I think I know the answer: because that would be boring.

Is it unethical to disobey the law? We could waste lots of time on that question. I personally don't think it's black-or-white. But who cares? That's not the argument I was responding to.

The argument I responded to, which you've now jumped into the middle of, is the idea that because copyvio is rampant, the law must be wrong. That logic doesn't hold. Something like 15% of all transactions in Brazil in the mid-2000's were fraudulent because of bank and credit card theft. The laws weren't the problem.
Someone else may have gotten hold of your computer, and s/he is trying to drive you nuts.
> So you're advocating simply ignoring the laws you don't approve of?

Not as such. More to the point, I'm advocating phasing out those laws, regardless of whether anyone follows them while they're still on the books. People are already simply ignoring those laws, in ever-increasing numbers; nobody has to advocate for it.

> You are free to avoid the RIAA: don't use their offerings.

I don't.
Gaining root in such an underhanded manner against the client's wishes is bordering on criminal behavior.

No. Not even close. Rimuhosting owns the box in question. You can't possibly break into your own box.

Of course, I write about security professionally. Maybe I have a different perspective on what constitutes unacceptable behavior than you have.

I work in the hosting industry professionally. I've never been or worked at a service provider, but I've worked for the industry for 12 years as a vendor.

As a security professional, perhaps you can take the other side's view for a moment...

What would you, as a security professional who was dumped into the role of running a hosting data center, do when a box on your network (which has thousands of other boxes) has been rooted and is sending out spam at a rate of a million messages per day, even if you know that your paying customer is not responsible for sending those messages? This much traffic is impacting network performance for others, is spewing filth into the mailboxes of innocent people all over the world, and your customer is unable to stop it or cannot be reached in a reasonable time frame. What do you believe your responsibility would be in such a case?

How about if it is (innocently) DoSing other systems on the network? This happens a lot more than you'd think.

Many people here are suggesting that simply applying resource limits would solve this problem...but that exhibits a lack of understanding of how such resource limits work, and the likely end result for the customer of such resource limiting in the event something has gone wrong. To the customer, a limit on resource usage could very well also result in services becoming unavailable. If you cap CPU at 10%, and your website gets enough traffic to need 90% of the CPU, you'll only be able to serve a small percentage of your clients (and they will wait a long time). The same is true of nearly every resource limit in a hosting environment. If you are using more than your fair share (which I know Aaron has explained he was not; again, probably poor judgment and problem assessment on the part of the tech) then when the limits are imposed, you will be "turned off" for some of your users. You needed those resources to serve all of your requests...you don't have those resources anymore, so you can't serve all of those requests anymore, or if you do, you do so very slowly.

As programmers, you all know there are no silver bullet for solving hard, complex problems. Resource usage in a virtualized environment with untrusted users is a hard, complex problem. No amount of hand-waving about your "rights" makes that less true.
I was referring specifically to a wireless keyboard not wireless internet. I've read stories on the net about a neighbor's keyboard attaching itself to a different computer.
That looks handy. you can use screen to do a similar thing which is much easier to install on the actual Linux server, and works with windows, Linux and mac
One person starts a screen session, and the other person uses screen -x to share it.
Indeed gets more job searches than any other site. 
Indeed is now getting more job searches run on the site than any other job site out there. I think this is a great example of a using a better model (search) to benefit job seekers and advertisers. You get a great product for job seekers - comprehensive one-stop-shop, and a more affordable solution for advertisers (PPC)/or, par-for-performance.

Great disruption of the job board industry here. Love it.
Now you're writing as if copyright was something designed explicitly to allow the RIAA to sue teenagers, which, independently of whether copyright is a good idea or not, is a ridiculous argument.
monetizing data.
They said it was a 20-hour scan, at 5K, with the AFM tip 0.5 nanometers from the pentacene molecule. The molecule itself is 1.4 nm long, so they were only about 30% of its length away from it in the vertical direction.
In my 2+ years hosting typeracer.com with Rimu, they have been absolutely outstanding. All my questions, no matter how complex, were answered within 10-30 minutes. Hundreds of times. Anything I've asked them they did. They installed all kinds of packages and performed configurations I requested, all for free and without hesitation. And I'm not a premium customer by any stretch. I only have 2 quarter-VPS instances with them for about $200 a month.

In the 2 years I only experienced 20 minutes of downtime recently due to a one-time network hardware upgrade (1 week's advance notice was given - a bit short but forgivable) and another 20 minutes due to a DDoS on their network about 6 months ago (which most likely prompted this recent hardware upgrade :).

I really hope people don't jump to conclusions from a single data point (aaronsw). I would recommend RimuHosting to everyone I know without hesitation.
To anyone that knows C, but hasn't done any work on the GPU yet, these challenges are a great (and fun) way to learn about CUDA programming. It's really not too hard to learn the basics, and once you are familiar with it, you'll find all sorts of cool ways to use it.
> Nowhere does apotheon actually advocate that copyright law is wrong

Incorrect. Try following links once in a while.

Do you expect me to say everything in one place? My god, all my opinions and explanations relevant to them in one place -- it would be a document fit to fill the Library of Congress.

> Instead, he's set up a passive-aggressive straw man argument.

The fact you are incapable of recognizing the implicit message in advocating for strict enforcement of copyright law is your failing -- not mine.
From what I have seen, it's either going to be really tough to get a raise, OR very easy.

I've tried to use bargaining chips like having a job that paid significantly more to try and hike up my salary (didn't work in 1 case, worked very easily in another).

Simply asking for a raise while alluding to your value in cost savings, other pending offers & highlighting your loyalty, know-how & good work ethic will usually do the trick. If not, be ready to move, quickly.
I dont think the council have quite the same problem with loitering pregnant mothers
"I would rather read the news from the source, than from those gizmodo subhuman morons"

Cut them some slack. At least they're watching/trying. Their article is a news item here, after all.
If you don't use RIAA offerings, why aren't you advocating that other people do likewise? That's Stallman's argument. I don't find it compelling, but at least it's intellectually valid.

If you think that's the argument you are making, then where do business models come into the picture?
Are you aware you just made an argument to the effect of people who can't afford things not representing a loss of revenue when they download it for free?
It's you - it's a browser 'helper' object. I generally use Spybot Search & Destroy for removing this kind of thing.
I think I too voted that comment down, as I felt that it was not addressing the intent/spirit of that person's question, however ill-formed it might be considered to be.

From your comment : Perhaps it just shows how no one really gets it, and why bother explaining if you do: those who know don't tell.

IMHO this is a dangerous attitude to have towards a disagreement, as it can cloud your thinking.
You missed the 'or further limit his CPU share' part. The entire point was that they had options to limit his affect on other users without directly accessing his instance.

In this case, they also have given the users the option of the 'master key.' Their ssh key is in the authorized_keys file by default, but the users are allowed to removed it. To me that is a statement to Rimuhosting that this customer would prefer that they did not access his VPS directly.
yes, because there is absolutely nothing else you can spend money on in the app store.
Breaking in customer's account could happen anywhere? Really?
dude aweeeessssooooommmee. i'm definitely going to check this out later. i had seen the YHC/JS backend a while back but it looked like progress there had seized up. this seems pretty new. any experience with it?
No -- I'm writing as if the current form of copyright law was:

1. roughly inevitable, given continued support and enforcement of copyright

2. inevitably going to result in behavior like suing teenagers

Actually, I'm not even writing as if that's the case. You're just correctly guessing that the RIAA suing teenagers is a bad result of copyright law, and assigning that to me as some kind of guess at the original purpose of the law. I'm really writing as if it's the case that copyright law is a violation of individual rights, thus placing the burden of someone else's poor business model on people who have no ethical imperative to bear that burden.
Perhaps you or someone with access to your machine have enabled a remote desktop server and one of your friends, or enemies, is having his jollies at your expense.
Yeah. These aren't the droids you're looking for, yadda yadda yadda.
What a time to be alive.

What he said. This is amazing.
Have you read the comments on gizmodo?

They're trying? Trying what? What they usually do is copy-paste from the source. That does not add much value. Hence, I ask again: where's the URL to the original press release? I don't want to read such great news from a website that allows comments from retards who know nothing about Physics...
You could simply name all respondents by their response position in the thread, first is person1 (hope that's not too limiting!):

person1:yay
person2:people here like intelligent comments
person3:go to digg if you want to yay all the time
person1:yay

And have an option to reveal names and/or show them on the mouseover link for personX.
I've got a fairly extensive list of contacts, and I've put them all into linked in ...

...and I never use it for anything.

Obviously some people have figured out how to use LI for their benefit, but I haven't.
Ask HN: What determines whether I can reply?
I've noticed that in some cases I can't reply to comments, and in others I can. It's not even a case of not being able to respond to comments I've downvoted, or to comments that belong to people I've downvoted elsewhere, or comments within a particular subthread where I've downvoted someone's comment. I don't see the pattern, and it's frustrating to not be able to reply to someone who is engaged in discussion with me. What's the rule?
Could just be some fried circuitry. Since it's a laptop, you're kinda in a jam. I had this once when a mouse was going bad. It started phantom-mousing around the screen. See if there's any diagnostic software for your laptop and run all of those scans to see what you come back with.
One thing that I see often that annoys has to do with the logical volume manager. Many people allocate their logical volumes to use the entire volume group. This doesn't leave any room for snapshots, which is the #1 reason I use LVM in the first place. I've had to work around this in all kinds of crazy ways in the past, like unmounting the swap partition and reformatting it as a physical volume and adding it to the volume group. After I take my snapshot and I'm through with it I'll put it back as swap.
Time proportional to the depth of the comment.
Those "some people" are generally recruiters.
If you rent an apartment, you don't call it "the apartment that I rent", you call it "my apartment". Also, the landlord owns the place, but that doesn't give the landlord carte blanche to enter the apartment anytime they feel like it.

This analogy doesn't really hold. "Your" apartment gets special rights under the law in the US and probably other places. Those rights are actually pretty extreme (it takes months after they stop paying to evict someone in most states, for example), and you don't have those same rights or expectations of privacy within an office building, or anything else you rent or lease that isn't your domicile.

According to their terms and conditions, "Misuse of System Resources" is prohibited, but their only listed recourse is to "restrict, suspend, or terminate" the account.

Sounds, to me, like they restricted his account to one that wasn't running Apache.

But, I agree that they should have simply turned him off. Customers that don't want administrative assistance on the system should never have it imposed on them, and I would also prefer my provider never login to my systems (and I don't provide them with access to my systems; though I know that because they have access to the hardware, they always have root available to them; I rely on good faith to prevent them from doing harm or abusing my privacy).

However, that probably would have shown how oversold the machine really was.

While this is very often true in the VPS hosting industry, Rimuhosting has an otherwise very good reputation. It's pretty easy to know when you're on an oversold host, and it's not something I've ever heard Rimuhosting accused of.
> bbn.com, think.com, mcc.com, dec.com and northrop.com

I worked in a startup (OpenMarket) that moved into Think's old office space. I was offered a job from DEC when I graduated college. I worked with Tom Knight from Symbolics when I was at Permabit, I've had lunch with Dan Weinreb of Symbolics, etc., etc., etc.

Working in or around Cambridge, MA puts you on historical ground ... and not just Paul Revere's Ride, and the battle of Lexington and Concord, and all that!
Should it? Isn't that irrelevant to how fast the "best of the best" can get to 50 Mil?
as another security professional I'm inclined to agree with Swelljoe.

(mostly because it's clearly going to be in the T&C's)
I agree about the homogeneous culture comment - even if it was true (which I accept your point that it isn't) I still don't understand what "a culture that has a consistent way of thinking about mathematics" means!

You have expressed some views on education in the past that I find very interesting. I would really like to ask more but I am guessing this is not the forum. If you don't mind being pestered please drop me an e-mail, my address is in my profile.
Your Best Customers Probably Aren’t The Ones You Think Are
I just wanted to say thanks for writing all of those "Write a compiler in Ruby" articles. They've been really interesting and informative. For a little while, I was following along, but targeting x86_64 rather than x86 so that it didn't feel like I was just copy/pasting everything that you did...
Simple, low-tech attack on Credit Unions