skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're using libcurl via PHP (I know, I know) which doesn't expose curl_global_init at all.

Here's the stacktrace for the /dev/urandom read -- it's happening in curl_easy_init.

Catchpoint 1 (call to syscall 'ioctl'), 0x0000003a74ecc4ba in tcgetattr () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) backtrace
#0 0x0000003a74ecc4ba in tcgetattr () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x0000003a74ec7a1c in isatty () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2 0x0000003a74e60d51 in _IO_file_doallocate_internal () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#3 0x0000003a74e6d6dc in _IO_doallocbuf_internal () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#4 0x0000003a74e6ba7c in _IO_file_xsgetn_internal () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#5 0x0000003a74e61dd2 in fread () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#6 0x0000003341606414 in ares_init_options () from /usr/lib64/libcares.so.2
#7 0x0000003d3404f0c9 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4
#8 0x0000003d340242a5 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4
#9 0x0000003d3402f9a6 in curl_easy_init () from /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4
#10 0x00002b35e0304fb0 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/php/modules/curl.so
#11 0x0000000000606da9 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000000006456b8 in execute_ex ()
#13 0x00000000005d2bba in zend_execute_scripts ()
#14 0x00000000005769ee in php_execute_script ()
#15 0x000000000067e44d in ?? ()
#16 0x000000000067ede8 in ?? ()
#17 0x0000003a74e1d994 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#18 0x0000000000422b09 in _start ()
(gdb)
Beautiful. Is this the only one of its kind or are there other known hexagon-based robots? Seems such a practical design after seeing it in action.
Amazing drone footage of a Space X reusable rocket’s first test flight
what’s your point? everyone knows this. Who said I dismissed them because they were from those sources? use logic just for one second. The original person that the poor aren't looked down upon, and i responded by listing people/shows that look down on poor people. What the hell does that have to do with judging a point by its source? its a totally different subject. I agree with you, judge the logic, not the source. That's why I disagree that only women or minorities can have an opinion about issues concerning them.
In that video, Louis is talking about himself in the third person: he's the one complaining on the plane. It's not about some group of "others" who are "bad" and don't appreciate the world; it's about our nature as humans.
My first response to the article title was "I've already gamified my habits - I use org-mode". Trying to check off as many yellows (and reds!) every day as possible, not-breaking-the-chain by continuing the green line. It's sad, but it does give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Of course, to each his own; many can't understand how anyone could stand to play nethack, which is about the level of "gamification" of org-mode currently.
Hey folks,

I'm the Director of Architecture at Metafor Software (http://www.metaforsoftware.com/) in Vancouver, BC. We just raised some money, and we're looking to fill five open positions:

* Front-end Web Developer

* QA Test Engineer

* Graduate Student Internship Position (in Machine Learning)

* Development Team Lead

* Java/Scala Developer – Big Data

We strongly prefer onsite work, and have not previously paid relocation or sponsored any visas, but for the right candidates, we might reconsider.
Yes, sad that ethical behavior in companies buys no upside.
There's not much job security elsewhere either
Big data starts at N+1 rows, where N is the number of rows the person your responding to manages.
Are you implying that the study does not report findings of brain damage? Then you are wrong. Scientific texts tends to be as specific as possible which is why they write "deformations in brain part X, Y, Z" instead of the more general term "brain damage."
My trick to avoid getting an axe stuck is to aim for the outside edge of the log furthest away from you. Not sure why it works, but it does. The closer to the middle of the log an axe lands the more likely it gets stuck.

Also dry wood will have natural cracks. Aim for the cracks and the wood will just fall apart.
Yep, I agree completely. That's what I meant by "Good luck magnifies the effect of hard work, bad luck can make it appear non-existent."
e) Other reasons. Someone else replying to your question mentioned Pittsburgh.

In Pittsburgh the median sale price for a house is $129,000, according to Trulia.

In Palo Alto the median sale price is 17x higher, about $2.2 million, with significant yoy increases:
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2013/12/24/real-estate-ma.... "In

If you're making $100K in Pittsburgh, you're doing quite well. And you might want to increase your salary by a tremendous amount, perhaps 5x-10x because obviously some costs don't change, to justify moving to Palo Alto and buying real estate. (Yes, there are other places to live in Silicon Valley, but speaking as a homeowner here, there aren't any that are non-coastal cheap.)
It's impossible (or just not worth the trade-off) to make one piece of software (this time, kernel) fast for any use case imaginable. In this case, kernel behaved correctly but with the speed degradation for extreme cases. That the author's Rube Goldberg machine then runs slow I don't consider kernel to be guilty.

The guy uses PHP and instead of built-in HTTPRequest he uses curl to make a request to "a bucketed key-value store built on PostgreSQL that speaks HTTP which uses Clojure and the Compojure web framework to provide a REST interface over HTTP." A bit of shooting the flies with cannons on every side?

On another side, if it can be proved that urandom has serious problems in reasonable use cases it should be checked what can be changed and how.
I think the working and traveling part is cool. I am not sure if you can put a price on that.
In this case the VPN "provider" is the router itself and since you owned it you can eliminate logs. The ISP may have flow-level logs but those are so voluminous that they probably aren't kept long.
Startups seem more consumers than potential producers. Further it smells like a market about to bud and quickly become a brutal commodity like coffee or tea.

It would be cool to see cannabis traded in the futures markets though.
The reality is that "Full Stack" means different things to different people, as evidenced by some of the threads here.

That said, "people who can fill multiple roles" isn't exactly a marketable title for a demographic. And while "full stack" may have a variable degree of definitions, there is a commonality between them, and it resonates with our target audience.

You're right, different gradients will emerge and we'll facilitate that--we'll be the ones grading them, in fact, and make it easy for you to find the jobs that align with your skill set.
Fox News is the most watched cable news channel, so surely their views align with some portion of America. Even if its not the majority view, its still a powerful force.
I worked as one of the very early founders of Digg. I bought my options. Obviously they're worth nothing, yet I owe the IRS about $120k. This threatens to destroy all my savings, retirement, and credit for 10 years.

ISOs are not only worthless 95% of the time, they're also actively EXTREMELY DANGEROUS 50% of the time if they're not simply worthless.

My suggestion: get a salary, and buy just-IPO'd stocks from companies you believe in.

If you find yourself ready to buy some ISOs, I further recommend you IMMEDIATELY sell them, as in have the buyer sitting there with you as you purchase the ISOs, and do the trade instantly thereafter. Take the short term capital gains hit. Do not hold onto them no matter what any CPA or tax attorney tells you unless they can talk at length about ISO+AMT Tax Trap and assure you you cannot possibly have that happen to you.
Inserting a day between the regular weekdays once a year sounds pretty dangerous to me. I bet there are a lot of things that need to happen weekly that would quickly go out of whack if they are delayed a day.
One of my ideas I've been kicking around for the last year or two has been to write a book on learning to read code properly. I would submit that one of the greatest weaknesses of your typical programmer is that they don't know how to read other peoples' code.

On another note, being able to read other peoples' code is one of the strengths of Haskell. The Functor/Monad/Monoid/etc stuff becomes a way to know, based on a common vernacular, exactly what kind of interface is being exposed and what sort of data structures you're working with.
furthermore we don't know if by family he means his parents, or his wife's parents, or even his wife.
The point in time I was referring to, was full-stack web dev plus DBA & scale-out work.
Aren't there materials that become semi-fluid when a shock is applied to them? (The opposite of your non-Newtonian cornstarch fluid.) How about steel handled mauls covered with something like that?
First Hand Account of Flying Spirit, the Most Hated Airline
Google Code Jam – Contestant Solutions
Thanks for the info. Seeing as I'm already using boost, that sounds very useful.
> you're stuck either investing often tens of thousands of dollars into an illiquid investment while paying taxes on it right now

I am not really familiar about this area. It is a one time price to pay to purchase the stock options, is that correct? Furthermore, where does tax come into play? Don't you only get taxed if you decide to sell the stocks to generate income?
https://github.com/ryjm/habitrpg.el
Maybe the wood acts as a lever arm to apply more force to the center, where more force is needed.
I just guess, but maybe the things missing in the stack trace (marked with ?? -- maybe you miss some debug symbols?) do what is described in the manual entry I've quoted (calling global init which calls ares?).

And why curl at all? PHP has built in HTTPRequest?
Yet another way of storing human muscle power, then releasing it all at once.
You need a marriage counselor, not advice from HN. You should also know that your 30s are not "your last chance to do something entrepreneurial". If you believe tech's ageist memes, I've got bad news for you: you're 10 years past what vocal tech morons think your prime was.
And be sure the accountant knows what he's talking to. I did that and it was still fail, because they didn't understand ISO+AMT Tax Trap.

As someone who's lived through this, immediately (as in the same hour you purchase the ISOs) sell the ISOs. All of them. Take the short-term capital gains hit. The alternative can and will destroy you.
Why don't you just allow an HTTP endpoint ? People on dropbox can just create a URL to their design.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book but it doesn't go into near as much detail as I would like- it gives a vague, general concept of how things work and some pointers on how to implement them, but doesn't really go into real systems, often relegating major features to "optimizations", etc.
"If you have tourists stay overnight, report this to the government"
When I think fast, I think being able to rendering hundreds of thousands of data points in real time, kind of like 'Google Maps' but for Time instead of Space, you should be able to fly over and analyze vast datasets.

As a historical note, since this is an area near and dear to my heart, I shipped an open source library several years ago circa 2007 that attempted to do this by applying the 3D graphics concept of a "mip map" to time series, with several representations of the data at various LOD automatically computed by sampling and filtering. I demoed it at Google I/O 2008 rendering 1 million data points in real time. Location here: https://code.google.com/p/gwt-chronoscope/, it's written in Java using GWT, and also the same code runs on the server for Java2D rasterization, and on Android. It has a JS API and Microformat API as well.

Here's a screencast of it in action, including things like animation, markers, synthetic datasets (technical analysis), styling, and history undo/redo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLYNHQVIeNg

I eventually wanted to get to a point where people could collaborately analyze data and tell stories about it. This screencast shows "Timelord" which was a integrated with social networks and supported a concept called "Micro-presentations", using a markdown-like format to allow people to write animated two-way video/chart synchronized stories. In this video, Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" is synchronized to a Chart of CO2 and Temperature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Y21t0u_Zw
It is an interesting observation. I expect it is the difference in expertise though. The author compares reading code snippets in Dr. Dobbs (which dates them probably 10 or 15 years ago) to reading stories.

Here is the thing, everything you read in a story is supposed to convey imagery of things like what you may have already experienced, they are already internalized, you "see" them when you read as if you were there.

Allow me to use another popular space as an example, music. When you are first reading sheet music, you see notes on a stave, key signatures, different shapes representing different durations. At first you mechanically take that understanding and laboriously turn it into actions on your instrument. But after a while, if you do it enough, the shapes become recognizable as rhythms, the tones in the staves become tones not symbols, and then you stop "reading" music, you look at it and you can hear what it will sound like. And by that time you can make your instrument do what ever you hear.

Coding is not entirely different, at some point you don't see syntax, you see algorithm, you see inter-relationships of data structures, you see flow. After a number of years of coding I got to the point where I could see what code was doing pretty easily (except for obfuscated code which is always jarring on first look). I stop seeing code loops and start seeing iterative processing, if statements are branches on a path.

Anything in words or symbols, is code for something else. Whether its a murder mystery, a symphony, or a sorting algorithm the words and symbols are there to express the idea inside your head you can understand it, I think it is all reading though :-)
You know what else causes 'brain damage,' according to this logic? Becoming a London cab driver[1] or a musician [2]. You know what actually causes brain lesions? Alcohol.[3]

[1] http://www.wired.com/2011/12/london-taxi-driver-memory/
[2] http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/26/health/mental-health/music-bra...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_impact_of_alcohol_on_...
Drat. I want a place called Cryptobucks, where drinks are purchased with cryptocurrency.
It's probably a little more complicated: caloric surplus marketed by corporations in ultra dense, cheap and convenient hits coupled with insufficient exercise and other health/Maslow's hierarchy deficiencies. One example how bad the situation is: orange juice (the orange flavor packs kind) has more calories than an equivalent HFCS soda bottle, but I'm unsure of the glyclemic relativity... it's still sugar in a bright bottle masquerading as a healthy alternative.

Edit: here's a non-gov funded study, so could be orange, soda or other bias https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2049981
For that to be true the average ride would have to be under 25$. (which it probably is)

I agree that this makes some sort of sense viewed from that angle, I don't think it's a pricing structure that jives well with the brand as a whole though. I think one of the strengths of Uber was the clear pricing model and this layer of obfuscation doesn't help that.
Do you mind sharing the name of the microfinance bank you deposit at?
It's probably fine to advertise is as "free rides" with an asterisk "* surcharges and fees may apply". Here are a list of fees you can tack on:

- driver fee
- passenger fee
- initiation fee (1st time rider)
- healthy sf fee
- tax recovery fee
- safe driver fee
Yes, as another person who resides in NZ here, this is the problem. Our government doesn't realize just how important the Internet is and high-tech companies are to the economy and does nothing to foster them. The PM often refuses to meet even the largest, most promising tech companies (the biggest three) because he sees most of the countries value in agriculture.

As someone who works in high-tech company, I can't see any reason to stay here once we've got a big enough base to support ourself. We'll probably shift to the US.
The article fails to make the distinction between lunar and solar calender. It's just about dividing the solar year to equal months, but we also want to make the month align with the moon, which circles earth for 29.5 days on average. The big problem with the Gregorian calendar, in my opinion is that it so clearly missed the lunar month. it just feels intolerably close, but not quite there...

by the way, no need to invent a new calendar. the Hebrew calendar is both solar and lunar.
> Am I the only one to whom this sounds absolutely crazy? How can I trust you if I don't know who you are?

Well, cryptographers had invented a fancy thing called "ring signatures" that allows one to check whenever a signature belongs to someone in a group, but don't allow to determine who exactly that was. So, technically, it's well possible to remail anonymous (as far as belonging to a group does not break your anonymity) and be trusted at the same time.

But, unfortunately, I don't think F2F mesh networks would prosper anytime soon.
I don’t think Uber is trying to do this to pay for check: they are asking its users to contribute to safety. It's a branding move — confusing as many have pointed out, but fairly clear when you consider psychology/behavioural economics.

The amount is minimal, and the motive too vaguely in the right direction not to be agreed with. You can’t even not select the option. The idea is the same as adding a ‘green’/ecoLabel sticker on a product: posturing. But, rather than just ask people to agree with it, they ask them to make a financial effort, albeit minimal, to empathise with it, to adhere to the direction the company is aiming at.

How can that ride not be safe? I paid for it to be!

It makes a ton of sense when you consider how safety is perceived: it's rarely actually violent event — just non-descript feeling. “That driver was creepy.” Anyone who worked in dating website for instance had to measure how pervasive that issue is, especially among women.

To me, it sounds a lot like paying to get pink cabs — and those wouldn’t feel nearly as ‘safe’ if there weren’t more commitment than a paint job: the drivers of those cab have to display mace, an interest in self-defense.
The last time I took an Uber to SFO, the driver stepped out of the Prius without pressing the "Park" button. Maybe I would have gotten my $1 back.
Inside Minerva CEO Ben Nelson's plan for disrupting universities
Unity 5 Feature Preview [video]
Meh, you lost me. Completely.

One thing you have to remember is that in general, Americans are culturally one of the most generous nations in the world. Broadly speaking, that includes foreign aid and domestic welfare as well as voluntary charity. But at that same time, the US is an industrious nation that prizes hard work. It's a fine line to walk and people fall through the cracks in the system.

Nevertheless, it's extremely uncharitable IMO to suggest that the poor are "hated" in America.
Lift[1] has some interesting ideas for using social interactions to achieve non-social goals. Their blog is worth a read.

https://lift.do/
Edward Snowden Is Russia's Puppet Now
The amount really isn't minimal when you consider it's a 8-12% surcharge on the typical UberX fare. Weren't they just doing a bunch of marketing about how they reduced their UberX fares 10% in SF?
Xero HQ is very much in New Zealand and the CEO (Rod Drury) still lives in Hawkes Bay of New Zealand. This is not correct.
I started using OneTab after I saw this comment last Sunday. Just wanted to come back and thank you for bringing this to my attention :) It's added a lot of value for me.
Well sorry my buzzword filter removed half of your sentence. :) I understand that engineers can get excited about async and event driven but these mean absolutely nothing to your endusers. I could implement your service with blocking IO and non-event driven code and still get the same performance. It simply does not matter that much. The key to Hadoop's success is scalability and predictable performance. Don't get me wrong, I think Hadoop is one of the worst ecosystems I have ever seen in my entire life, the code quality makes me cry sometimes, but putting all these aside, projects like PrestoDB making Hadoop viable and keeping it alive in the long run. Your project looks interesting but without extensive performance testing and proving that your TCO is lower than Hadoop's, and having the same features as Hive, PrestoDB does will be really hard to break in to this market. Again, I would be the happiest person to see something more sane than Hadoop on the market.
Loved this quote:

"One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago."
I think you severely underestimate the difficulty of what AirBnB has built. Two-sided marketplaces are hard. But I agree that in the long-term, the trend will be towards decentralization of marketplaces, and AirBnB will need to evolve or be displaced.
You know, I just really like the idea of leap days not being called anything. It sort of reminds me of the Egyptian mythology. Something-something-something, why doesn't the year have 360 days like degrees in a circle, blah blah blah, so here's some fake days to get around Ra and have your babies by another man. It's like metaphysical hackers.
You might have to be domain specific.

I feel like people are A-players when the environment around them lets them shine. To date, I have not found a single person who hasn't impressed me in some specific domain. Of course, sometimes it takes me longer to figure out what domain a person is an "A-Player" in.
Reminds me a lot of http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Droideka. Would be very interested in reading about the software used to coordinate everything.
You're right that a lot is possible, particularly if you're willing to write a trigger at which point you have a programming language at your disposal. But it's not a great environment for writing code with logic, in terms of things like tool support, debug support, library ecosystem.
Obligatory: Then play some KSP.
Yes, if there is no a urandom generator per core, it would be convenient for some extreme cases to introduce such. The question is if it's worth the effort and the resulted "bloat" of the kernel code and memory usage. Linux runs on some very small devices too and even there decent user-space programmers can easily do their own per-thread generation in their programs. Normal uses of crypto are such: you initialize your own crypto once, then produce a lot of data in your own space.

If urandom is really "one for all cores" somebody should be able to demonstrate the speed drop by just writing some bash script? Volunteers?
The plight of outsourcing web development (oDesk)
BiwaScheme has call/cc