skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you here. I've found that even phones have enough juice to handle most manipulation, and the website appears more responsive because the server isn't bogged down.

Haven't scaled it yet, though...
It's defined this way by people trying to use the problem to create a reform that benefits a few corps in spite of everybody else.

The fact that propagandists have enough money to get heard shouldn't make them right.
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They also argue that this poses a long-term potential problem for VC as well. Eventually an institutional investor wants their money back. Eventually they have to settle up and see who the Amazons are vs. the Pets.com. That forces businesses to transition towards exit in some fashion, if they move to IPO, this shift forces them to make a shift (to become profitable) which will kill some.

I don't see how that's a controversial point, but it's a distinction that a lot of people who aren't in tech, or around startups don't get.
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1781

Seems the mods or poster updated the link to point to the PBS site, this is Scott's blog if you want to read the comments diziet mentions.
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yes, this. only way out is for the L-1 holder to start the green card process to "upgrade" his/her status - provided this is desired.

L-1 sometimes really is just for a temporary work assignment.

While the L-2 + work permit sounds better, the smarter companies use the risk of the L-1 holder as leverage against the L-2 holder.
Sometimes I get the app with the Russia news and sometimes I get the landing page. It's probably a propagation issue.

Looks awesome. Excited to watch this grow.
I am working on an electronic product (a kind of smart card) but have very little expertise with electronics.

So far, I've been trying to outsource the electronic design as much as possible in order to focus on the firmware. Even then, I am starting to reach a limit.

I'd like to get in touch with someone who would know how to program something useful on a random micro-controller given the micro-controller's data sheet and a circuit diagram. Or someone who understands weird terms like "ISO/IEC 14443" or "JTAG".

How I can help: I have years of experience as a full stack web developer and have a very good grasp of Javascript, Node.js and web standards. I can also remunerate if you feel I'm taking too much of your time.

Help me out!
I'm sorry but all I need can be handled by simple key/value stores, and I prefer the simplicity of JSON data structures, without predefined fields.
Of curse is it.

I have a iOS app that integrate with several ERPs/POS (http://elmalabarista.com/bestseller) that is used in my country.

In first place, API???? What the hell is that? No kid, POS/ERPs don't know what a true API is. Is direct access to the DB, plan text files, and a lot of hyper-pain talking directly to the developers of that systems. And good look doing data archeology of all of that.

Because this I'm also building a POS for the iOS (in late stage, but is hard to do this solo). One of the innovations it have? The customer table is called: drum-drum-drum "Customer". Seriously, after dozens of integrations mine is the only one that the tables have names that make sense. And the fields. And the data type of that fields (cough a database have a datetime field? cough).
That's good to know. Calibre was on my list too.
But that defeats the Conginitive Dissonance side of the things. If the offer is available daily (or even weekly), then the employee can just quit the very day (or next week) he feels crappy about his job.

Right, or did I miss something?
I'd be interested in how many of the ones that have sent tweets were from hijacked accounts.
It's actually a word in Sanskrit, meaning creative energy, but it has a secondary meaning of seed / discharge. And my comment sexualizing the relationship between a dev and his work is not a joke - I really believe that thing that allows us to enjoy such work that other find repulsive is a kind of attraction similar to sex. I'm using this insight for finding a good attitude towards my work - you know, you gotta admire the curves before you get into the mood. :-P
Hear hear!

Now can somebody convince the W3 and Mozilla that there's nothing wrong with implementing SQLite next to IndexedDB so that I can move forward without having to write an IndexedDB adapter for my clearly relational TV Show -> Season -> Episode data please?

https://github.com/SchizoDuckie/DuckieTV/blob/angular/js/CRU...

Foreign Relationships on foreign keys are not difficult

Many to many Relationships are not difficult

SQL is not difficult

Joining is not difficult

Grouping is not difficult

Now try to do that in IndexedDB / NoSQL, and suddenly you're in a world of hurt. It can work, but can it perform? Maybe. With time and patches. So wham, let's throw the option of implementing the probably most well tested piece of software (in the universe probably, see http://sqlite.org/testing.html ) out of the window.
That's true, but the employer is the one paying that.

It reminds me of a job offer I had in the UK, which was 30% lower than the equivalent job in the US. When I visited the site in the UK, the people working there admitted the wages were lower, but stated "You don't have to pay for health insurance."

When I mentioned I only paid $150/month, they seemed shocked.
then follow sites. lots of them now have twitter feeds.

see @daringfireball vs. @gruber.

or the various @HN feeds.
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We had an almost identical event last Sunday in one of our dev accounts: multiple high end spot instances in multiple regions with a newly created security group pointing to a suspect IP.

We caught and corrected it quickly, but we still don't know how the keys leaked out - we have chalked it up to lower security practices since it's not a production account and is shared by more people (e.g. no 2-factor on it). We started to investigate, but then Heartbleed happened.

I wish there were more mechanism in AWS to prevent bills from mounting up, but the basic billing alarms worked in this case. I can't imagine how or why spot instances would be excluded from alerts, their cost certainly is included in the estimates that alerts are based on.
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If that ever comes to pass (nope), perhaps the US taxpayer should have thought twice about prosecuting him.
YC sponsored job postings notwithstanding
Typically, the best you can hope for out of your data is that it is a directed graph. Relational databases exist in a sweet spot of efficiency, widespread availability, and fairly decent ability to represent directed graphs.

But you need to know the shape of your graph first. The document-store model tends towards giving up the graph entirely and just going with a tree. Us programmers love tree structures. They make things nice and tidy and can be traversed in finite time.

But I've never worked on a project that could easily be modeled as a tree. Unfortunately, this was often realized after I had been working on the project for a year. You know how phenomenally fucked you are having a tree-like data structure when what you really need is a directed graph? You're basically all the fuckeds.

Directed graphs generalize trees, so trying to shoehorn a tree where a directed graph is needed is basically bringing a Fischer Price tool set with you to Habitat for Humanity.

Thus, from experience, I never start with a tree now. I always start with a directed graph. If I learn that the data is a tree after a year and not actually a directed graph, oh well, look at all this flexibility we didn't need.
That word "autocorrect" masks quite a lot of suffering on the part of local business owners who close up and lose their livelihood and investors (including pension funds, retirement accounts, etc.) which lose their money.

Sure, in the long run it all works out, but in the short term there's quite a lot of turmoil.
If there's nothing special about them, why are companies hiring them?

The usual "cheap workarz" angle is irrelevant. They all get market rates. Not to mention businesses having to sponsor relocation and the actual visas.

Surely you're not suggesting a business would bear H1B related overhead for no reason, unless they would be forced to do so.
Does Uber Black Car really subsidize UberX?

I find it hard to believe that UberX isn't profitable alone - Uber just takes 20% of fare.
Linux distro 'elementary' grows up, starts paying developers
What is the format of the private key?

I.e., is it a 8192-bit AES256 key?
No, I'm implying that a lot of capable Americans prefer not to work in fields flooded with foreigners. The status attached to working in the field would improve and attract more native candidates.
Cheers to google for properly compensating these guys for their findings.
This is only if you ignore why people moved to NoSQL in the first place.

PgSQL is great for a lot of things, but I would argue that if you're using it you're betting on your overall product/service having some other killer advantage than data processing. The competent wing of the NoSQL crowd are using it in strange ways that enable new classes of product and service that cannot be achieved with PgSQL.
Ok the draft calls it "arrow function" (how fat arrows are used). I'm talking about how is (some) languages, "=>" is referred as "fat arrow" or "right arrow" as opposed to "->" thin arrow.

I mean, I don't invent anything :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979923

https://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=bugzilla.mozilla.or...
The speedup would be well worth it by being able to tell the mmc to move 100 bytes from position 20000 to position 40000 instead of give me 8 bytes from position 200000 then check evry one of the bytes then ask the mmc again give me 8 bytes from position 20008 and so on.

If I got to chose in this day and age I would define a c string/array as a pointer to a long int and after the long int we have or data.
Allowed to leave? Probably (unless he's on probation). Able to leave? That's another question. Many countries will refuse entry if you are a convict.
I'd be happy to put some stuff in an email for you. For reference, I ran one of the largest early successes that unfortunately turned into an ongoing trainwreck. I'm actually still bullish on crowd-funding, but there are definitely some things worth sharing from the experience. Email is in my profile.
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You do realize you're implying that Americans are xenophobic?
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Which is why most things should be done with IAM keys specifically locked down to minimal privileges.
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Did you find this court judgment "dense"? I didn't. I even found the judgment's summary of the case against weev to be clear and informative, and others here agree.

I encourage you to read court decisions, research studies, and academic papers. Many are clear, insightful, and educational. It's also true that many are not, but I'm astonished by the number of people who don't even try.

At the very least, it's hard to judge the summarizer without sometimes comparing summaries to the primary literature.
They need to be removed immediately for misconduct. Every day they are allowed to continue practicing law is a spit in the face.
> Interesting, how did you end up in Dart team?

My starter project at Google was working on front-end UI code for what eventually became Hangouts in G+. Lots of JS in a very large JavaScript application.

I really like UI stuff (that's what a lot of my background is in), but I wasn't at all interested in the domain (videoconferencing) and trying to do an app-like user experience in the browser is not something I would wish on my enemies.

Through total random chance (we took a one-off improv class at work together) I met someone who was spinning up a small team working on tech to try to push the web forward. This was right around the birth of my second kid, so I got my manager to agree to let me switch teams when I came back from paternity leave.

I worked on that for a short while before the project ended up getting reshaped. My little team then basically spent a week or two interviewing teams at Google to see where we'd go. It was awesome: we literally had teams coming to us pitching themselves.

Since I love programming languages and open source, the Dart team (which was still in it's very early days) was a great fit.
Go take a look through TJ's Github credentials. I don't know who made that commit, but TJ has this well handled I'm sure.
Wow, guys, thank you!

As for homophobia: I am open-minded, respect other people's beliefs, orientation, views and so on.

Actually, I have a very European way of thinking, rather than Russian (at least I think so).

Nevertheless, there are some problems with migrating to Europe/USA (and other countries) that scare me a little bit.

They are:

1. Bureaucracy. A lot of documents, visa, cv, cover letter etc.

2. Language barrier.

3. I have a girlfriend. I don't know how to leave Russia together. Who will give her visa? Who will invite her?

4. I'm not very confident about my skills. I think that foreign employer will hire you only if you are a genius or a strong senior specialist with many years of experience.

And so on...

I hope that the real situation is not so scary and complex :)
Scott is making it really difficult for people to follow along. My initial reaction was "wtf am I looking at" followed shortly by "why wasn't the HN link pointed straight to the PBS article?". And clearly others agree given that the top comment at the moment is a PBS link.

No doubt the guy is competent but this just smells like a poorly executed attempt to move traffic to the blog. I fully expect it to get ignored as such despite the PBS article being good.
Killed as dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6927905.

It's a good idea to check whether an article has been posted before. In the present case, running the title through HN Search returns the above pretty easily.

When an article has already gotten attention on HN, we generally don't allow reposts for about a year.
This is similar to the "kill Hitler" time travel joke [1], it's easy to say things would be better but all we know for sure is that they would be different. Instead of `char` we'd have strings that were `struct` and we'd STILL have a ton of different string formats because of lengths and character formats. (Bonus problem: are the lengths in bytes, or in chars?)

[1] http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/08/wikihistory
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Carmen Ortiz has been playing up her involvement in the Tsarnev brother's case (the Boston marathon bombings last year).

Hopefully that doesn't overshadow her despicable role in Swartz's case, but given how sort the public attention span is, I'm not holding my breath. :/
In other words, he exceeded the "ham sandwich" threshold.
If they don't pay the drivers enough, there won't be any drivers. 20% is probably not a hard rule.
A percentage!? That doesn't even come close. Perhaps a multiple is more fitting.
How does this square with the jurisdiction shopping that patent trolls do, to their great advantage. Somehow, everyone who infringes on a patent does so while in the eastern district of Texas?
Maybe because iostreams are synchronized with stdio by default? It's possible to disable that for a big speed boost.

There's also the issue that iostreams might be implemented on top of stdio for simplicity. Hard to make it faster in that case!
How do we know that some of these businesses are losing money? Looking at the menu of SpoonRocket that the author listed, you could make the same meal for less.

I have a feeling that the profit margins are very low, but I do not think they're in the negative.
> - I don't believe that a Bachelors degree necessarily limits your career options. Holding a four year degree basically means you are trainable, committed, and follow the rules. The ideal employee. I'm willing to disagree on this point.

Some employers wont touch you for entry level roles, because they assume with a degree, you'd jump ship for something better paying in your field at the first chance.
You, my friend, have not had a proper nethack addiction if you don't have the desire to wish for a blessed +3 warhammer named Mjollnir.

http://www.nethack.org/
> What’s more, there are recent developments in quantum gravity that seem to support the opposite conclusion: that is, they hint that a standard quantum computer could efficiently simulate even quantum-gravitational processes, like the formation and evaporation of black holes. Most notably, the AdS/CFT correspondence, which emerged from string theory, posits a “duality” between two extremely different-looking kinds of theories. On one side of the duality is AdS (Anti de Sitter): a theory of quantum gravity for a hypothetical universe that has a negative cosmological constant, effectively causing the whole universe to be surrounded by a reflecting boundary. On the other side is a CFT (Conformal Field Theory): an “ordinary” quantum field theory, without gravity, that lives only on the boundary of the AdS space. The AdS/CFT correspondence, for which there’s now overwhelming evidence (though not yet a proof), says that any question about what happens in the AdS space can be translated into an “equivalent” question about the CFT, and vice versa.

If you would like to read more about this, the author of this article has another blog post [0] that discusses the Susskind paper "Computational Complexity and Black Hole Horizons" [1] in its first half.

They key point, for those who don't have time to read the post:

> On one side of the ring is AdS (Anti de Sitter), a quantum-gravitational theory in D spacetime dimensions—one where black holes can form and evaporate, etc., but on the other hand, the entire universe is surrounded by a reflecting boundary a finite distance away, to help keep everything nice and unitary. On the other side is CFT (Conformal Field Theory): an “ordinary” quantum field theory, with no gravity, that lives only on the (D-1)-dimensional “boundary” of the AdS space, and not in its interior “bulk.” The claim of AdS/CFT is that despite how different they look, these two theories are “equivalent,” in the sense that any calculation in one theory can be transformed to a calculation in the other theory that yields the same answer. Moreover, we get mileage this way, since a calculation that’s hard on the AdS side is often easy on the CFT side and vice versa.

[0] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1697

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5674
When I was a teenager, I had a temper problem. I got angry and the smallest things, and I'd scream and yell until I got my way or I got grounded, whichever came first. I started a job that had to do with some machinery, and occasionally the machines would break. I'd have to go fix what broke, then start it up again. And my machine broke a lot. I would cuss and scream and kick the damn thing, and I'd get so angry that I'd have to do it over and over.

One day my boss comes over and just starts helping me fix the machine. He's humming a little song and happily fixing things. And I just looked at him, and I said "Doesn't this fucking piss you off? That this fucking machine keeps fucking breaking?" (I was a kid. "Fucking" was a fun word to say. Still is, actually.)

He looks at me and says, "Does the machine care if you're mad?"

Huh.
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i've locally tested the BN_div function and the sdiv buffer is intact at the end of the function with a p or q value. however, the BN values seem to be allocated in some kind of pool and they are reused so the private keys get clobbered by another BN function soon after. also, at the end of the RSA_eay_private_encrypt function the BN values are zeroed (or written over with crap data) so unless there is another implementation bug it should be impossible to leak the intermediate values in a single threaded implementation.

leaking the intermediate values in nginx to recover the private key looks like a dead end. however, i think this could be quite promising for apache mpm_worker. :)
I've been looking for a resource like this for awhile! Thanks for posting.
Held to the proper degree xenophobia is a normal, healthy instinct in all cultures.
>> eventually (hopefully) entirely crowdsource breaking news

Yes, and almost equally important (at least IMHO) would be providing a record of what happened in the past. A way to find every piece of news surrounding an event. For example if I want to see a full outline of every Snowden related article I could pull them all up and then filter down to just news articles that were first to publish a particular story. While I am sure there are people creating pages/full websites to document this one issue I would love to have that for every event so that instead of endlessly googling for articles related to something you could just got to Grasswire (or other site). Sort of a Wikipedia for events but built from sources instead of written by people who then link to sources.
> Do you seriously think Russia will invade Ukraine or Baltic republics

Have you not been paying attention? This has already happened.
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"dumb web vulnerabilities" that have huge implications could fetch a pretty penny for sure
The article actually missed one angle: increasing cost of living. It's not just that prices are dropping for services like food/trasportation/etc, but that it's happening while rent prices are going up. If anything, local service prices ought to be rising along with rent. It's doubly striking that they are dropping.
The welfare state has a limitation: it needs to be paid for. It also has a consequence: people who seek welfare may attempt to move to the welfare state in order to obtain it. This may imperil the ability of the state to pay for the welfare - or, at least, the willingness of the taxpayers to fund that welfare.

So this impacts immigration policy. Insofar as the welfare state IS like an insurance policy, this is like the health insurance company denying coverage for a pre-existing condition.