skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like 299 million fake and unused accounts and 1 million real accounts.
Accounting for "all resonance modes" is physically impossible as there are an infinitely many number of resonance modes.

It's more precise to say "accounted for most dominant resonance modes".
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"Oh dear, have I forgotten to write a program at all? I believe I have. How very careless of me."

-- liw, ttyplay <(nc pieni.net 3000) , minute 76, works out why his test suite is failing

You should follow along. I mostly am running ttyplay at 8x speed, to catch up to the ongoing live performance. The first 10 minute or so "hour" is an excellent demonstration of TDD and planning and the yarn testing tool.
This famous quotation kind of needs an update:

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Some Famous American Bloke
"A lifetime", that doesn't seem very long... ?
Adam Smith noted cities were founded on "navigable rivers", because that's how trade works. Still true today for cargo ships. But today the internet is a river everywhere, for information goods.

New Zealand is the most beautiful place in the world, in my travels (circumvented the globe, but not been everywhere). Though I'm biased towards mountains.

So, theoretically, beauty+internet makes it a great place for software developers (and other information goods and services producers).

OTOH, NZ has prevented software patents (one of the few countries in the world to do so). Although many software developers love this, consider the question: will it increase investment in patentable inventions, or decrease it?

But in a way it's irrelevant: NZ itself is a tiny market. What counts is patents in other markets, US, Europe, Asia.
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The reason to secure your network is a good reason to secure your car.

Your network and your car can/will be used by bad guys to do bad things.

You should care.
> Incidentally, you can add that to your list of reasons why Earth can't possibly support advanced life

I did think of that, read the comment again - it's the one about the extreme temperature variations which prevent higher life forms from arising :)

But yeah, harsher environments leading to harsher species feels instinctively right, though on the other hand what's considered a strength on one world will be a weakness on many others. On Earth, most life is coupled pretty tightly to the local conditions and that's why so many species die off whenever some minute changes occur.

Luckily, there are more resilient generalists around as well, like us. And if technology-producing intelligence is a generalist trait, we could assume life on other worlds to be similar in that regard. Intellectual generalism seems to require, or at least strongly favor, a departure from innate mental dispositions in favor a cultural imprinting. So that leaves some measure of hope that, whatever an intelligent species' origins, traits such as being warlike might not be inescapable.

Anyway, it's unlikely there are Klingon-style people out there who can just come here and perform much better in our own environment than us, the natives. At least not without massive technological help, which kind of nullifies the importance of biological strength.
This is really a specialty tool. Normal axes were also used to fell trees, demolish wood structures, and occasionally personal defense.

I'm guess that it's less useful if you're chopping against the grain or if you want precision.
Did you install the nvidia drivers using a binary or from the repositories ? If you have installed drivers using a binary installer, it is pretty much a given that you will break things during upgrade. This is because the system has no idea that you installed software from outside its repository.
Cool.
Would this approach work if 'partialp' is not coming from the starting or ending bits of the targeted prime number?
KDE 4.0 was released on January 2008. KDE has improved since then.
Because kiwis are too cool to worry too much about money and productivity.
Wow, this is really informative and thorough. Thanks for going through all of this. I've got an older MBP 2010 that was a real pain the last time I tried to install Ubuntu (13.10) when OSX got me pretty irate.

The other big gripe I had was the touchpad. It was weirdly sensitive and didn't understand many gestures. The weirdly sensitive part is probably the biggest deal, as any incidental brush was picked up. I guess OSX ignores certain patterns to cut down on the accidental movements.
I don't know how common the "tire guard" featured in the video is, but it seems like a damned good idea. It would solve the problem of split pieces flying off with explosive force. I'd probably pursue that idea posthaste.
I don't disagree -- esp. with decent logs, the strength you need for a maul is more about safety when things go wrong than about swinging it; i.e., strength grants control rather than brute force.

The head is heavy and out on a long handle specifically so you can apply a lot of force just starting up high and letting it drop to the wood, but that works against you if you miss your target and it goes flying off to the side.

And of course, if you've been at it for a while and are tiring, or you're less strong to begin with, aim suffers.

> ...the maul would just bounce of that log

I remember a few like that! I'll bet it was also pretty green and/or water logged... that would have that effect.
Granted, that concern is valid. Just let me note that it is normally not that difficult to reconfigure unity to use its own designs everywhere, but I think as well that it is not particularly nice that this is necessary.
SHA256, SHA3, AES, ECDSA and ECDH/ECIES are all good, plus one-time pads and Shamir's secret sharing. There's no real need to use anything else.
This looks cool, but as terrible as this is I kind of write things off as potential malware threats the INSTANT I start seeing russian references anywhere. The stigma is pretty bad (maybe just because I have friends that work with malware all day), but the intermixed russian-english mix is throwing some red flags, which I am sure are unwarranted.
Seed project for Ratchet and AngularJS apps
cool axe. FWIW, an easier/more efficient way of keeping the wood together while spiting it is a bungie cord. Using a tire only works if you have a relatively big logs.
It's even more important given how this axe works -- using the remainder of the kinetic energy to essentially exert force outwards on the two parts of the wood.
Initially it was aimed at big-budget ad agencies. The idea was that they could create polished little micro-sites that were launched from the ad, and wouldn't have to leave the app showing the ad.

In reality, ad-funded apps never really took off on iOS, probably due to free-with-in-app-purchase becoming a big money maker. And with the growth of Android, making a platform specific ad was not nearly as appealing.
Without anecdotes, HN would be mostly devoid of content. Let's not be silly.

> If you some evidence that DO is inferior at the same price level as Linode then you should post it.

I don't care to do this, I'm not out to prove anything. I'm here to share my experiences. Take them or leave them, I don't care either way.

If you are using DO and you like it, then stick with it. I've personally been happy with DO (for the price), but feel like you get what you pay for in this regard. Sometimes over-provisioned host machines, erratic network and disk IO, frequent maintenance windows, slow and hurried customer service.
I know upgrades are supposed to work, but they almost never go 100% percent right.

Use dpkg/synaptic to backup your installed packages and backup your /home...then commit to the time to going fresh install. If you use LTS releases, you'll only be doing it at most every other year.

IMHO, it is worth the time.
Make sure your router doesn't allow admin access from the outside. Make sure you have a decent admin password. Disable any built-in cloud/ftp/sharing services that you don't use or need. If you use them, make sure to use good passwords and remove any built-in/default account. Disable UPnP in the router if you don't really need it (and understand the risks).
RIP: Rapportive.  Finally stopped working today :(
DRTA, but I listened to the podcast. In it, they say that if the Citicorp tower fell, it would topple nearby skyscrapers like dominoes.

Out of morbid curiosity, what's the worst case scenario for something like this? Let's assume terrorists could detonate a bomb large enough to knock over any one skyscraper in the world. Where should they put it to maximize the chain reaction of destruction?
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Unity, definitely. Having window menus appear / disappear right in the top bar, much like the beloved, glorious Amiga did in the golden days of computing :) makes it probably the closest you can get - that is, without turning on your old Amiga or installing AROS :)
I don't use Unity though - KDE suits my taste better. But that's the beauty of Linux, you get to choose whatever desktop you prefer.
Xubuntu is the simpliest,light-weight choice that still has a lot of functionality available if you want to turn it on.

I am grateful for this choice.
I was able to basically saturate my connection downloading the torrent, 10.3mb/s. 10 hours later I'm still at a ratio of 0.038. Kind of surprising how many folks are seeding.
So recently I re-built the theme for Read the Docs which some of you more pythonic devs might be using. Despite having designed sites for nearly two-decades it was the first time I'd ever gotten a request to make sure there was some print rules in there. Makes sense with docs.

The funny bit of course is I didn't even know there was a specific print rule I could use. Took me about 10 minutes to fix.

Actually, looking at the design now I just noticed a bug. Off to my text editor!
If you are an "emerging adult" at age 30, then there is a problem. Further, the author of this article claiming that these so called "emerging adults" are not lazy or self-entitled is ridiculous. It is clearly a case of "first world problems". The mere fact that these "emerging adults" have the luxury of living "on the dole" (whether parental or governmental) while they "figure out what they want to do with their lives" into their late 20s and early 30s is a clear case of self-entitlement.

If you don't have a place to live, food to eat, and shelter ... you "emerge" as an adult pretty quickly and figure out what you "want to do with your life" by DOING WORK you don't want to do to get said food, and shelter (i.e., to survive).

What is the saying? An absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
The idea of a "factor of safety" has gone away in structural engineering to be replaced by a similar concept of "factoring" (look up allowable stress design, ASD, and load resistance factor design, LRFD, for more information). Factors are based on statistical analysis and criticality of failure.

No combination of factors approaches anything near what you would call a safety factor of 6. Typically things are designed with an analogous safety factor of 2.5 or less.

This isn't to say that higher factors of safety aren't possible, it's just that they're not worthwhile. We can design for anything. We just can't pay for it most of the time.
Same's kind of true on iOS. Ultimately, the best solution seems to be on both platforms, ... VLC. Everything else seems to be based on ffmpeg anyway.
No, I prefer this. It as some very rich metadata tagging and categorization. I've used Dropbox to share files for years and it's starting to show. Files go in but if you don't do constant pruning it becomes a drag.

This fills a niche I think we all have. You have a link or article you see and want to read but you aren't on your phone or your tablet. Typically I email the link to my personal inbox.
I personally don't care that much about most articles being printable, but if you're making any kind of material that is supposed to be studied, please, please make sure it's properly printable. Doing research / studying a topic is something that is still infinitely easier to do on paper IMHO.

Having said that, does anybody know a decent web-based app for researching stuff? What I definitively need is:

* Ability to have a collection of related articles in one place

* Simple list of bookmarks that link to a specific part of the text.

* Highlighting in different colors

* Adding comments to a page that are _easy_ to view. Preferably in a sidebar next to the page or something.

* Adding links to external sources interactively to the document

* The ability to write a summary of the article

I've searched before a few times, but I've never been able to find something that had all the above and, more importantly, properly integrated those features.
> the [_] tended to be really crap as parents, resulting in a generation ([_], more or less) who are absolutely adamant that they won't inflict the same on their own kids

Hmmmm. That sentiment may be less unique than you realize.
The idea of printing a web page (particularly an article) does seem, in many ways, pointless. As others mentioned, it's a fundamentally different medium that strips out all of the things that make a web page compelling (linking, dynamicism, etc.)

On the other hand, there's clear value in stripping out the ephemera and detritus around a work in order to concentrate more centrally on the work itself. While the idea of "printable" becomes less and less tenable, the core idea of focusing on the work itself is still important. In some ways it seems a loss that these ideas have become conflated.
Most Americans are wary of futuristic science and tech
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The reason many stone and masonry structures are still standing is two-fold.

One: most of them are not impressive from a structural point of view. Two: most of them have been retrofitted so many times that they're hardly the "original" structure.
Older bridge structures in the US are like this too -- especially old viaducts and masonry bridges built for trains.

They were overbuilt because they didn't have the tools to estimate and calculate loads well, and didn't have alot of choice in materials. Essentially the choices were wood trusses or masonry arches.

I agree with you about lifespan -- look at New York's Tappan Zee bridge as an example -- it's a major traffic corridor, with a bridge with a lousy 50 year lifespan. Replacement will cost something like $10 billion!
I'm not an expert on this, but I wouldn't know of "stuff that is expensive to close down" relative to the extra costs of a masonry bridge.

Let's consider the Golden Gate Bridge as an extreme example (extreme because lots of traffic across it has no reasonable alternative routes). If we needed to replace it, we could build a replacement bridge next to it, connect roads, and then open them over a weekend with little disruption.

If we chose to shove the new bridge in place of the old one in a week or so, that would have to disrupt traffic, but I doubt it would be more expensive than building _and_paying_for_ 20+ piers instead of the two we have _now_ (looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_masonry_arch_br..., we cannot build masonry spans over 100m. The arch bridge is the best we can hope for when using stone because stone isn't strong in tension).

Also, such a disruption, announced years in advance, need not be that much of a disruption. People will take a few days of, stay with friends or family, maybe a temporary camp will be set up, etc)

On the other hand, that Wikipedia page mentions that many 50m+ stone arches have been built in China since 1950.
> Doesn't a company with less assets than liabilities have to enter bankruptcy even if it's profitable?

No. A company is at risk of being forced into involuntary bankruptcy when it cannot meet its current obligations, which is different than having less assets than liabilities; but even when insolvent it doesn't have to enter bankruptcy, though its creditors can force it to do so (and, if it is profitable and expected to remain so, its creditors might not want to force it into bankruptcy, because they may expect the liabilities to be more fully paid, if delayed, if the firm remains in operation vs. bankruptcy.)
Painless upgrade with no problems.
Yes, exactly, it only has it for couple of months, that's why I asked about version.
> The premise is questionable. A webpage lives in its own medium, or it is its own medium.

You have to bear in mind that this view is diametrically opposed to the principle of separating presentation and content on which CSS, the HTML content-markup elements and so on were based.
It feels like we need to include anonymity in the Internet Bill of Rights:

1. I have a right to read or write public information in an anonymous way.

2. I have a right to prevent you from reading or writing MY private information in an anonymous way, even if the intent is to obtain the right to exercise #1 in the process.

3. Using someone else's infrastructure/compute/power to enable #1 without breaking #2 requires you pay for it. I would also propose my private information is available at a price.

Expecting the right to anonymity by removing the rights of others in the process places an individual in cognitive dissonance. It's not a good place to be.

With the advent of cryptocurrencies, we're finally in a place someone can pay me to use a portion of my infrastructure for enabling their anonymity. I'm willing to contribute to the cause as long as it's worth my while.
This must have been in the golden age before Citigroup was run by idiots.
Meh, after struggling with linux for years, I finally swallowed my pride and paid a hefty price for a Macbook Air.

Best decision I ever made. OS X hasn't disappointed me yet. I don't have to worry about driver/sound problems or incompatible libraries every other week.
This article takes way too long to get to the point. Can I get the Cliff-Notes?
Sorry, I missed the earlier comment asking about Wayland.
"Spell-check is your friend."

I prefer koans to proverbs. Proverbs strike me as code without tests; they may seem superficially correct, but where's the proof?

Koans get you to think though a situation and (hopefully) arrive at an understanding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan
The problem is, you're asking people who've lived in a place for generations just to up and move because yuppies want easier access to bars and fancy coffee shops. Surely you can understand why this isn't so simple, I hope.

People who have roots are getting uprooted because they declined or couldn't get in on the sweet tech boom dollars. A lot of the locals are pissed.

I live in Brooklyn, and I live in a part of Brooklyn that really, if they figured out I worked in Tech, I wouldn't be shocked if they showed up with torches and pitchforks as a warning to others.
>They're not deleting their own copies of these films

Are you under the impression that anyone thought they did?
Because you still need a critical mass of people and interactions to generate enough economic serendipity.

Zuckerberg won't just bump into Sean Parker unless they are in a melting pot.
I'm no expert but I imagine it's a combination of keeping your router's firmware up-to-date, using a properly configured firewall, and using a strong password for your router login.
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"...But follow your dreams!"
When your country is as beautiful as NZ you don't have to worry about things like the GDP.
Yes. In general, either GCD or lower level atomic ops are a better choice for thread-safety than @synchronized blocks. Just pointing out that there are reasons other than global mutable state for wanting a critical section in a class method.
No, it's perfectly reasonable.

They wanted to jump start the service with few select big clients, like Nike, Coca Cola, Disney etc.

For those kind of companies, 1 million for an ad campaign in a major mobile platform is small change.
A few more:

* Read whitepapers, not blog posts

* "Just ship" is no substitute for design

* Attempt personal projects that are big enough to scare you

* Today's fashion is tomorrow's legacy

* Learn weird languages to broaden your horizons

* Industry focuses on technologies at the expense of practice and discipline
It's interesting to look at the one time events that have happened in the last few (or several) generations. The destruction of farming/agriculture as the primary source of employment and the post war boom would be two big ones.

I think the change in agriculture is interesting here because the decision making process for the child of a (relatively poor) farmer wouldn't have been very involved, they would be quite likely to do what they knew. There would also probably be quite some pressure on them to get to it.

The post war boom is interesting because there were substantial opportunities for every single 18 year old that went looking for them. That's probably still reasonably true today, but the opportunities are at least riskier (in a life trajectory sense) than getting a good paying job at a mill or factory.
Here's mine, doubtless it's not original but it is born from my experience:

"The better the job you do, the more they discount the level of difficulty"
I couldn't disagree more with the author about appended URLs being a problem. A print stylesheet is exactly when you want URLs to be displayed in the text of the page, because there's no other way to find out where that underlined text is supposed to be pointing.
Tell us when you make it open source. I would be happy to have a look and maybe help.
Yes .. here you go: The article is about the self-entitled generation of "emerging adults" (apparently who range from 18 to 40) of which the author was a part of, but now spends his time writing long-winded articles rationalizing how they (he) are not lazy and self-entitled.
It is, Apple is terrible at advertising sales. I think they thought that would mean they would only get large branding campaigns (Toyota, Coca Cola, McDonalds etc) that would pay high CPMs and that those large advertisers would clamor to reach the high spending iOS users. It failed as hard as an advertising platform can fail, evidences by dropping the minimum from $1,000,000 to $50 and is still not gaining traction.
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Probably worth pointing out that one should remain aware of their local laws when carrying out such activities as the ones outlined in this HOW TO. Because you're blindly hitting hosts and attempting logins, you don't know whose infrastructure you're probing. If you accidentally knock on the wrong door, the simple act of attempting a log in can cause issues for you (legal and otherwise).

I'm trying to avoid sounding like Chicken Little here, but this article makes these actions very accessible. If you're someone who is just getting started toying with networks and security, it's likely that you haven't thought through what can happen if something you try actually works.

Nmap has a great page that discusses the ins-and-outs of the civil and legal issues involved with port scanning (a related activity). However, keep in mind that the guide linked here goes well beyond port scanning in to actually attempting, and presumably, gaining access to someone else's network. While the legality of port scanning is ambiguous, accessing someone else's network is not. If you land on the wrong guy's lawn, you can end up in a very expensive, and potentially dangerous place.

http://nmap.org/book/legal-issues.html
This has been my experience with Linux as well. Not to mention every upgrade of Ubuntu seems to try some wacky new interface paradigm that makes it harder or just plain weird to use.
you got one wrong. i think it is supposed to read:

"ONLY commit on master when drunk."
Meh, after using linux for years, I have yet to see all of the trouble that many folks keep referring to in getting it to work. Different strokes...