skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a wonderful piece. Well written, well constructed, and immensely informative for those new to the details of the internals of CPUs. Perhaps it deserves to be submitted every month or so. In some sense, seeing it surface yet again gives me hope that there are still people on HN who crave discussions about technical issues.

In case you think that the people here are intelligent and might have something to add, here is the previous discussion of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637196 <- Most comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5960299 <- More comments

For those complaining that it seems to be posted regularly, here are some of the previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167834

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4170972

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185226

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355548

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4964931

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5167935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5666751

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5679080

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6732689

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6739947

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6831202

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6995154

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7005187

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7029578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7247337

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7297196

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7448337

There are more.
People will always do the right thing… after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives
I personally don't see the value in their product, but they've got huge market saturation so that valuation sounds about right.
Show HN: Search Engine (Social Emphasis)
Embarrassment, or is any form of political activism now seen as a threat?
Cool, glad you mentioned this! I've used namecheap for a while and never noticed this feature! This will save me the trouble of having an outside service for DDNS.

For anyone else looking for this feature, log in to namecheap.com and click Manage Domains, click the domain you want to use DDNS with, then look for the Dynamic DNS link on the left menu under Miscellaneous.
Time dilation is officially capped at 1/10th of regular speed. Of course even beyond that threshold the additional load can have an effect.

These big battles are the exception, and they certainly get the outside attention, but there are many more smaller fights for every one of these big ones. And the small ones are typically over far more quickly and aren't fought in time dilation.
Show HN: Explore the Marvel Comics Universe
Yes, ... but why? And why specifically these groups? What's the agenda?
> Native apps are silos, full stop.

Except that they're sometimes not, and certainly don't have to be. There's no reason why HTML has to be the One True Form of hypertext - inter-app deep linking and app-to-HTML linking do exist, even if they aren't quite as widespread and cross-platform as HTML-to-HTML linking. There's nothing fundamentally different about the way HTML links than the way iOS or Android apps link to each other: it's just that one is more common and works on more things.

I still prefer HTML's linking, but I also prefer the experience of a native app (for now). There's no fundamental difference between them, beyond the issue of distribution (which is an important one, but not one you mentioned).
Who claimed that any of those apps were part of the web?
Not anarchy, diminishing the power of the US.
Is anyone here hosting their own dyndns setup?
A cheap ($218) 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet like the Toshiba Encore can certainly replace a desktop or laptop for many if not most purposes.... because you can use it with a full size keyboard and four screens. OK, you need a USB 3 docking station as well, but it runs Microsoft Office perfectly well.
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Encore-WT8-A32-8-Inch-Tablet/d...
Carbon dioxide levels are the highest they've been in 800,000 years
I used to be on EasyDNS and they got acquired by DynDNS many years back. They really have been trying to kick off the free users for a long time. Anyone who's hung on til now is a survivor.

They dropped from 5 free hostnames to 2, in 2010. And they have been enforcing this "log into your account monthly" since at least that time. Not 1 year, but at least 4 years or more. That's how I lost my free hostname - because I missed a month. Thanks Dyn!
Acer Iconia A1 830 – value for money tablet for budget users
They usually don't look at the important things (most of which is never recorded in EXIF), like where the light is coming from, whether or not reflectors or external (usually non-TTL) flash were used, and so forth. Beyond "wide" or "narrow" (for the sensor format and focal length), the aperture is rarely critical; the same applies to "slow" and "fast" shutter speeds. Both of those can be derived by eye, and if they add up to "not enough light", then there must have been a higher ISO in use. And I'm rather hoping that some day people will figure out that distance controls perspective and focal length merely changes the framing. (Fisheyes being an exception here, but they're sort of easy to spot. And Scheimpflug corrections are not EXIF-compatible.) The actual numbers don't particularly matter, and are highly situational.
Mediafire Offering 1TB of Storage for $5, Says Native Android Apps Coming
Not yet, but this looks interesting: https://github.com/asmaps/hopper.pw
The sad thing is that much bigger companies often don't get this right.
Isn't JIRA already using some Apache Ofbiz (pretty fullish ERP + e-commerce platform) components? That would be going pretty much full circle.
Sorry about that. Just pushed a fix up to production. Our server was crying for a bit there ;)
Damn I must be getting older... I tend to hate every redesign that appears and this one is no exception.

Twitter was about being short, fast and to the point. That's why it worked so well to make people get in touch.

If you but the new layout side to side with the old one you can clear see how it influences you to spend more time with each tweet. It feels like the tweets got more content. More like a blog post or a facebook status. Nothing like Twitter.
Perhaps more reasonably: write the core of your application in Coq and have it expose a DSL for writing business logic atop this infallible core.
I wonder if there are any correlations between shirt colour and content - like he [unconsciously] wears a red shirt when he's being less open with his responses.
Hopefully they patch OpenSSL before they roll their keys...
Also be wary of your projects Gems, we just finished a 3.2 to 4.0 upgrade and though rails itself was pretty easy, there were quite a few problems with things such as Solr, Formtastic plugins (some FormTag internals changed in rails4, which broke some stuff).

So yea, the biggest problem was upgrading to Rails4 and getting the Gems to work- many of which had large structural changes in the Rails4 versions. For instance, Devise changed how they handle tokens in the Mailers, etc.

We have a very large App and it took us about 2 months part-time work to migrate fully to Rails4 - of that I'd say about 70-75% of the work was a combination of rewriting strong_parameters/attr_accessible stuff and updating/monkey patching Gems to get them working. But we did go really far, we removed all the stuff that generated deprecated warnings and removed all the "migration helper gems" like "protected_attributes". So if your project doesnt depend on many gems it could be really easy especially if you dont care about using the helper gems like protected_attributes until you get around to rewriting things.
"40 bits can address a terabyte, two orders of magnitude beyond the primary and secondary storage capacity of all but the largest systems today"

Couldnt' help but smile when I read this.
I just got home and I'm looking at this book shelf now and there's probably less than 150 books here. I'm just incredulous that you can have a 10,000 book library without being incredibly eccentric and wealthy, or maybe a well off professor or book fanatic. 10,000 books must take at least 1000 sq ft to store (assuming you arrange in such a way that these books are accessible, not just piled 8 feet high in storage boxes) -- realistically probably double or triple that if you wanted a place to sit down and do all of this reading, unless you have extremely high ceilings and a rolling ladder.

I just did some quick googling, and your assertion is the equivalent of owning 1/5 of a smaller sized Barnes & Noble, the smallest of which are around 3000 sq feet, or a fairly large detached 3 story home with maybe 4-5 bedrooms in a suburban area. Yes, Barnes and Noble doesn't organize it efficiently for storage, but for display, my point still stands that 10,000 books in a personal library is extreme.
If ever there were a post to be "pinned" on HN, this would be it.
Ask HN: what's the most ancient browser you've had to support?
Many people are complaining about IE8 and IE6, but what about even older browsers?

Looking at Stack Overflow, there are actually a few results about IE5(!)

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=IE5
In nearly 20 years of building distributed systems, this has held true every. single. time. Trying to abstract away the distributed nature of a system inevitably leads to pain and sorrow. I think having explicit knowledge about what is local and what is remote is critical, but having a single, universal address space, so any application can reference any resource, anywhere, when it logically needs to, would be great. They are just different things.
Personally, I just want effective government. I happen to believe that it will be more effective if it is smaller (in manpower terms, at least) ... but constraining & minimising government is a means to an end, not the end itself.
If you feel that this really did have value then I stand corrected. My personal experience is that venting like this has usually, if not always, had, on balance, negative effects. My experience is that venting feels better, but is counter-productive in the longer run.

I genuinely hope you are the exception. I genuinely hope that you find a way to make the situation better, and possibly retrieve it from the car crash it appears to be.
> The board could just say "total breakdown in trust between employer and employee" or "bringing the company into disrepute" as grounds for dismissal.

The courts usually see through obvious window-dressing like that.
How do you make a computer improvise with a human?
His YouTube channel is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/digitalraja
I still don't understand why XNA was discontinued. Is there a suitable replacement for creating games rather easily in C#?
Eve really is as fun as it sounds in the articles, for a few hours every couple of months. Unfortunately, you have to "work" for many more hours than that to get to the fun parts that spontaneously happen every few months.

Now, if you are just looking to relax and blow up imaginary spaceships PVE style, that can be done easily and on a regular basis and can be reasonably fun. If you are looking for the amazing PVP battles, those are much tougher to come by, and require a lot more work to support the fact that your stuff is getting blown up. When they do happen though, it's the best part of any game I've played. It really is the best game there is, for a few hours every couple of months. :-)
Nobody claimed that mobile apps were all part of the web. The argument was in the context of cdixon argument (more people using the native versions of webby things on mobile than browser versions), maybe we should consider those native apps as part of the web.

The "Doc McStuffins" game is hardly a counter-example in that it doesn't replace anything that would be considered part of the web. The argument wasn't that all mobile apps are "the web."
It's worse than that. Since the server has to use the TOTP key/secret to generate the token for validation, there's a very high chance the secret will be in the server's process memory at around the same time as the first-factor credentials are, unless a separate keyserver or HSM is in use. This applies on every login, not just during the initial TOTP exchange / setup process.

Thus, the key exchange doesn't need to be exposed for heartbleed to have a good potential to leak TOTP/2FA secrets.
Hm, if you would be running a saas business and after 8 years you only have come so far, you'd be dead. roundcube was great back in the days but there are quite a few alternatives now.
Same issue here but I have set a reminder for every 2 weeks and luckily haven't missed.

I have my parents' old router set to use this - and really have no good way out.

I guess I give 'em money. Oh well.
Buffett Will Steer Investors to Airbnb to Avoid Price-Gouging by Omaha Hotels
for BRK's annual shareholder meeting
His YouTube channel is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/digitalraja.
Some of his music without all the talking can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8UsRkWhNa4
Apparently the total value lost in-game was 11 trillion ISK which, according to http://isk.thealphacompany.net/?isk=26000000000000

is roughly $700,000 USD.

Edit: updated the ISK value thanks to comments.
More like a bunch of dots, if your lucky icons, and text all over the place. Watching a few on twitch.tv was more like watching a bunch of bright dots here and another pack over there and occasional flickers.

The only time I have seen really good shots of the ships is when the one streamer parks outside the major port and just broadcasts all the coming and going. Even when watching single player combat versus pirates(npcs) or the like it never was like the vids I have seen coming from the publisher.
Yes, that's why I referenced in practice vs. in theory.
This is good write-up about what's new with actual numbers. http://devops.com/news/mongodb-2-6-significant-release-mongo...
Quote: "MongoDB 2.6 provides more efficient use of network resources; oplog processing is 75% faster; classes of scan, sort, $in and $all performance are significantly improved; and bulk operators for writes improve updates by as much as 5x."
> Symptom of the game being 11 (!) years old.

Actually it is because they don't shard the world. Every other MMO has the exact same scaling problems.

Many non-MMOs can manage more players by avoiding direct contact (which turns your linear scaling problem into a quadratic one, since everyone has to know about everyone else).
Validation for pulling Flappy Bird!
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07GHz, discrete nVida graphics, Ubuntu

Maybe you are using integrated graphics or your graphics driver in on the FF blacklist? Platform?

There has to be some reason why--
Level 10 can be solved by code injection :)

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/d65048c34bd6874478a1
well hired.com do a lot better job, its a amazing company too.
So the actual protocol change that needs to be made in order to make challenge-response protocols fully effective is basically the inclusion of merkle-sum-trees - make each node N = [ H, F ] where H = sha256(N.child0, N.child1) and F = N.child0.F + N.child1.F. Otherwise, there's no way to efficiently prove that a block does not have excessive fees. Unless you do some crazy ugly hack like creating a separate overlay merkle tree with its root being output 1 of the coinbase, that's a hard-forking protocol change.

As for changes actually being implemented, to be honest I haven't seen anything actually substantial since P2SH. The one big change that would benefit everyone now, increasing the block size limit, has been on the table for a year now with absolutely no progress toward pushing it through. If it does come close to happening, then I'll publish a bitcoinmagazine article cheering it on. For now though, it seems as far away as ever.

What I generally want to say when I make such statements in blog posts is "We _plan_ to do something that others have not yet _put into practice_"; of course, that just means we're equal and not better, but the point is to say that we're moving quickly and we'll get there soon. Bitcoin is currently a slow-moving target, and it given the $5 billion of existing capital stored inside of it it would be irresponsible to do things any other way; so I think it's unlikely that Bitcoin will develop second-layer scalability protocols first. If you wish to wait for actual results then that is a philosophy that I very much respect.

I have realized over time that pretty much nothing in Ethereum is new; Turing-complete contracts were in Ripple and Qixcoin (although I was not _thinking of_ either one of those two, and I did not even realize that Ripple contracts were Turing-complete, when I came up with the idea), Patricia tries I got from Alan Reiner back in 2012, all sorts of clever blockchain designs were mulled over on bitcointalk in 2009, and that doesn't even begin to describe the legions of forgotten hackers on cypherpunk mailing lists in the 1990s. A few weeks ago I learned about the concept of "rules engines". And then of course there's Yap stones. Meanwhile, Vertcoin is coming up with a memory hard proof of work that claims to be revolutionary and powerful but runs into a fundamental scalability issue that I solved months ago with Dagger. So perhaps I do need to tone down my "this is amazing and new" rhetoric; but at the same I've come to realize that since we are philosophically similar people attacking similar problems some degree of collision, whether of the "independent discovery" form or the "heard about it, forgot it, reinvented it without realizing" form is inevitable.
Depends how many people are involved. Under heavy load game-time slows down, so the battle plays out in slow-motion.

Up to a few hundred participants can be tense and fast-paced, beyond that it can become a long drawn-out grind.
What's with the horrid markup (tables and inline CSS) on that page??
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They did compartmentalize. They still do.

That's why having an insider with sysadmin access and prestige for social engineering purposes is so dangerous.
A close reading of this thread shows that CloudFlare(?) knew about the vulnerability for a week. It's been known for at least that long
I've really liked fogbugz.
This. My favorites are the (un)staging by hunks/lines and 'use rebase instead of merge ...' option.
You don't need to store the whole blockchain as long as some CDN is willing to serve the pieces you need. In a well-designed blockchain you can verify that pieces are legitimate without downloading the whole thing.
Oh that's and easy task! You can always create a career out of offending half of the country and making the other half passionately support you. The talkshow pundit circus could certainly need somebody who positioned himself as "exposing the hypocrisies of the liberal valley elite.
Collecting the session IDs is not illegal, but yes, using them would be.

(but of course courts have sent people to jail for much less...)
You have too little data and/or too little metadata, and are not taking into account time, flexibility, tooling, etc etc.

Essentially you say something akin to "Death metal is just pulsating air-waves, like jazz, so what's the big difference?".
It's not bad, still, it tries to be too similar to Trac
I imagine you could do something like this.

Off the top of my head this would pose a few issues.

1) While the magnetic force must go from one rail to the other, the amount of electric force is effected by how much of the body is doing the conducting(if my memory servers me). So while you could use wheels, you would still want the current to flow through the entire(or large portion) of the projectile housing(for lack of a better term). This leads to the second issue.

2) Melting. With these huge amperage's there is also huge heat levels. If you were to conduct this much current through a small point(as would be the case with a wheel) the heat generated would be even worse. Most likely causing the wheels/barrings to melt.

Neither of which cant be accounted for, just issues that would have to be considered.
50 euros + the price of a Mac :-D
I'm not certain but from the copy it sounds like they'll be using that same pixelated cartoon no matter who the candidate is. Also, it doesn't appear like the signup form has a field to attach a photo.
Funny to see patio11's comment percolate up, after watching this thread today. Wondered why it took so long. Just waiting for the "OMG...security hole found in snappy checkout" comments to take over. :)

BTW, OP this looks awesome and I'm hoping to try it out soon. didn't mean to snark.
Collecting session IDs through an OpenSSL exploit certainly sounds like unauthorized access† to me, so I wouldn't be so quick to say it isn't illegal.

† http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
I don't know why, but this makes me feel good. Like a world that makes sense. A regular old business, that makes money and continues to grow and make more money, gets valued on a nice speculative curve, doesn't make useless dodads or chat apps or whatever and went from $0 to $xx billion valuation in a couple years because it has some possible tangential business tie in with somebody else, but instead makes something useful.

It feels like the universe makes sense again.
Why A/B Testing Too Much Leads to Bad Science (Apptimize YC S 13)
or not. from NOAA:

The model predictions of ENSO for this summer and beyond are relatively unchanged from last month. Almost all the models indicate that ENSO-neutral (Niño-3.4 index between -0.5oC and 0.5oC) will persist through the rest of the Northern Hemisphere spring 2014 (Fig. 6). While all models predict warming in the tropical Pacific, there is considerable uncertainty as to whether El Niño will develop during the summer or fall. If westerly winds continue to emerge in the western equatorial Pacific, the development of El Niño would become more likely. However, the lower forecast skill during the spring and overall propensity for cooler conditions over the last decade still justify significant probabilities for ENSO-neutral. The consensus forecast is for ENSO-neutral to continue through the Northern Hemisphere spring 2014, with about a 50% chance of El Niño developing during the summer or fall (click CPC/IRI consensus forecast for the chance of each outcome).

sooo flip a coin i guess?

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/en...
http://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso...
Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability
They were one of those services that would repeatedly make the free service worse, in an attempt to get you to upgrade.

At first they changed it so you need to touch your account once every 30 days to keep it active. Using the automated updater counted as touching it.

Then they changed it where the automated updater didn't count anymore, so now you needed to log in manually every 30 days.

Once I didn't get their email, and they purged my whole account. I had to recreate it as a new account, and by now they had severely restricted the list of domains that were available for the free service, so I couldn't get the old domain back.

I realize it was a free account, and what not to do with gifted horses, but sending you an email every 30 days and purging your account if you don't click on it within a very short window is a little too annoying for me.

In a way this step now is more honest. If you don't want the free users, don't offer the free service.
Aside from the fact that most apps are rubbish, the real problem is the move from the open, free, creative web to heavily-censored walled gardens controlled by giant corporations. Also, apps completely invade your privacy.