skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you also suggesting that the kernel provide a "great implementation" of SHA? Of SSL? Of https? Where do you draw the line?

There's no reason for the kernel to provide standard library functions. In fact, I'd argue that syscalls should be reserved for only actions that cannot be done wholly in userspace (futex is a good example of this). The current model of "hardware randomness to seed a PRNG" makes sense. It is up to the userspace libraries to provide good implementations.
How is Flappy Bird MMO built?
So yeah basically I have been trying to learn how to build multiplayer game with Javascript (I don't know if that's possible). Anyway, so I just wanna know how this flappy mmo (http://flapmmo.com/) is built. If you also have any tips on how to build Javascript multiplayer games, please show me where to start :)
We do offer access to the data that makes up the graph depicting trends in on-time repayment rates at Zidisha: https://www.zidisha.org/index.php?p=114

It generates a simple table with the repayment performance of each of the 6000+ loans that have been funded through our platform, with links to the individual loan profile pages.

We'd definitely like to offer an API similar to Kiva's, when web development resources allow.
Haha I love how they charge customers to keep customers safe. I mean, really?!
It seems that they're saying that marijuana legalization is like a gold rush, not that Rust is --- i.e. marijuana legalization, Rust, and VR, are all manifestations of Living In The Future, and additionally, marijuana legalization is a gold-rush situation.
The nice thing about this is that you don’t have to wonder whether or not your VPN provider is saving logs or not, you are in control of that.

If you take over a single router, a provider does indeed have logs of both the inbound you used to reach the router, and the outbound traffic you create from it. Simple timing logging will show its you and if its "their" router, they'll (at least theoretically) be able to decrypt your traffic too. (And that's assuming it wasn't a great big tasty honey-pot to begin with, pooh-bear)

If you must do this, bounce between a few... and if you must do this, just use tor already.
I don't think they're making all of these games, just playing a lot of terrible ones. It's hilarious either way, though
Blunt contradiction does not really make an argument. If you had something more precise to say than "give less equity to people who joined later" - now that would be interesting.
> it's likely that you haven't thought through what can happen if something you try actually works.

Yup. Luckily, when I tried something similar, I was very much a minor, so the only consequence was that our ISP banned our previous account and required us to sign up for a new one.
It isn't promotion of bad science journalism. It's a crap story, but there are 3 other links in there too. I'm strongly pro-legalization and think the concerns are overblowon, but a lot of people are using the 'bad science' complaint to silence a point of view they dislike.
hi, i'm jodok from crate.
yes, right now we only use the sql parser (and extended it)
> Gather round: here we have a rare example of the North American Ivory-Billed True Ad-Hominem Fallacy in its natural habitat.

This is definitely ad-hominem, yourself.

> It is obviously possible for Andreeson to simultaneously be chief among "bubble deniers" and also correct about private company valuations.

Whatever, dude. Marc's point may be relevant for small slices of small firms, but no one has ever spent $500M on what are effectively equity call options outside of a bubble. As such, I posit in the case of AirBnB his logic is not applicable. So he's only just a bubble denier and not correct about private company valuations.
Physicists design quantum switches which can be activated by single photons
My own way of doing this:

https://github.com/swarminglogic/sdl2-cross/blob/master/src/...

https://github.com/swarminglogic/sdl2-cross/blob/master/src/...

Certainly less verbose, and solves the problem quite nicely as far as I've been using it. If someone with some wisdom feel like commenting on it, I'm not averse to learning.
I agree, this would be awesome.
It wasn't "trashy"; it was misogynist.

And as such, there's no place for it on HN.
Please don't do this. This exact approach is what caused the problems described in the article.

If you need secure random numbers, do what you had above (though in light of other comments, perhaps consider a different algo besides MT).
Many cannabis dispensaries and growers have been successful small business for a long time now in states where it's legal. In fact dispensaries in California lobbied against full legalization in an effort to protect the existing economics. I guess they are making lots of money already and fear consolidation and industrial grow ops will change the business and hurt their margins.

VR has a long way to go imo. Having used the first gen occulus, though interesting, it feels gimmicky and very much reminds me of 3D glasses(in terms of hype vs how cool the tech is in practice). Few people will willingly strap a vision obscuring black box to their face for more than a few minutes at a time to try it out. Probably worse than that, even if it was fun to play games with, it probably wouldn't catch on mainstream for a long time because the dork factor is incredibly high. It's like google glass on steroids.

Rust is not that different from existing languages.

I appear to be disagreeable today, apologies.
My thoughts exactly. Sounds like a PR piece for Metascan.

- "downloaded almost 12,000 apps" - I know there are a lot of apps out there, and a lot of crappy ones, but finding 12,000 apps to download from "third party stores" not Google Play or Amazon... well, it's a lot indeed.

- "which flagged 32% of the apps as suspicious" - meaning what exactly? To me any app that queries my phone ID looks suspicious. Most apps from Google play do.

- "the majority of the apps it highlighted were marked as malware" and "many files were picked up because they had been classified as adware" - they are quite specific with the number of suspicious apps, but not very specific with apps that are supposed to be malware. If they tested 12,000 apps, of which 3800 (~32%) were suspicious, then more than 1900 (>50%, the majority) of them were supposedly malware. That's roughly 16%, which doesn't sound like a number all that impressive anymore. Regarding the adware claim - well, a big percentage of apps available on Google Play is adware. If that alone qualifies for suspicious...
Heh and then comes the gas surcharge and the waiting penalty and before long they have to put a sticker in the window with all these fees enumerated, and there will also be so many ubers that they'll have to put little signs on top so you can tell which one is taken and which isn't.
Language learning becomes easier for the person who tries a few different languages, and for the person who formally studies linguistics, and for the person injected into an environment where the target language is pervasive. But somehow there is still individual variance in how rapidly and thoroughly language-learners learn in otherwise identical environments, so it is worthwhile for the United States government and other organizations to spot the learners most likely to be successful. For Hacker News readers who have to learn a natural language (for example, English) whether it is easy or not, I suggest referring to a set of language-learning tips posted 231 days ago as a Hacker News comment[1] back in the thread about Paul Graham's article "Founders' Accents." My tips refer to several issues for language-learners who desire to be understood by native speakers of their target language for business or for pleasure, based on academic research and my personal experience as a translator and interpreter.

I look forward to taking this test. (My background in learning languages other than my native language, General American English, is disclosed in my user profile.) I missed one chance to take an earlier general language-learning aptitude test in one previous employment setting because I was exempted from the test, having already demonstrated proficiency as a second-language learner of Modern Standard Chinese. But it would be fun to find out what this test says about my "natural" level of ability to learn a language ("baseline" would be a better adjective) after years of studying various languages.

I agree with comments posted earlier here that sometimes each new language attempted becomes easier than the previous foreign languages attempted. The first foreign language I was ever taught was German (it was mandatory for all elementary school pupils in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade in my school district in Minnesota, very unusual for the United States). German is also a heritage language in my family (German-Americans are a bare majority of my ancestors), so I was happy to keep learning it as an elective subject in junior high school and senior high school, with some interruptions caused by a move to another state with a school district where German wasn't available as a junior high language (even though that state, Wisconsin, has a higher percentage of German-descended persons than any other state in the United States). In the years since, I took Russian as a high school and university subject, and ended up majoring in university in Chinese. Today I can comfortably read a book on a familiar nonfiction subject in German, but I am much better at speaking and understanding Chinese than German.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302816
Well, in comparing tip splits to equity allocation, I observe that only one of those activities involves predicting the future.
Nobody's opinions should be discarded based on their behavior. Otherwise, we'd have a scant few scientists, artists, and thinkers in history actually worth discussing. (Also, people who link to him are complicit? Are you serious?)
The problem you're describing is similar but not the same as the one in the article. What you describe is part of the libc implementation of rand(3), whereas the article is talking about reads from /dev/urandom, which has a lock inside the kernel code (for the same reasons as libc).
I haven't been able to find any programming channels I'm absolutely in love with (comeback everyday to), but I do have a couple channels that keep me entertained:

Seananners - https://www.youtube.com/user/SeaNanners

GassyMexican - https://www.youtube.com/user/GassyMexican

TheMrSark - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMrSark
The fact that you characterise the artists as starving pretty much suggests that people dislike their work. That it isn't valued.
Yeah, I need to work on it some more ... that's top of the list!
The C++ standard gives little guarantees for the quality of std::random_device. As I remember, MinGW on Windows uses the Mersenne Twister with a hardcoded seed for it.

boost::random_device, on the other hand, has better guarantees: it is only implemented where there's a decent entropy source.
They want to assure you that their amateur drivers are very professional.
Here's what I think led to this:

UberX was priced appropriately for the market, but Uber wanted a larger cut of revenue. (Say average ride was $12, Uber gets $2.40.)

In January, Uber announced a 20% decrease [1] in UberX prices. (Continuing hypothetical, average price could be $9.60, and Uber gets $1.92)

This week, Uber adds the $1 safety fee, of which drivers get none. Now, continuing my hypothetical averages, the average ride costs a consumer $10.60 (less than before), and Uber takes $2.92 (more than before), and the driver is taking the loss.

Crafty, I guess.

[1][edit: here's the 20% price drop in January I mention above: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/09/big-uberx-price-cuts/ ]
I've exercised before. Typically, you email hr and say, "I want to exercise"; they send you some paperwork which you fill out; you write the company a check. DO NOT DO THIS BEFORE UNDERSTANDING TAX CONSEQUENCES. You will typically pay tax on the spread between strike (your price per option) and the fair market value (fmv) which is set by the board and often updated quarterly. This can also be a backdoor way of a board tightening those golden handcuffs; if you where early enough the taxes may well exceed the strike price. You should also be able to get the fmv by asking. Keep in mind these shares you're buying may well be completely illiquid and the irs wants their taxes right now anyway.

A numerical example: 20k shares with a strike of $0.11; fmv of $0.39. Then I write the company a check for 2e4 x 0.11 = $2200 dollars and report income to the irs of 2e4 x (0.39-0.11) = $5600 (for amt).

A nuance is if the company is succeeding, it can be worth it to buy options when they vest; it starts the clock ticking on long term capital gains and can roughly half your tax bill if and when you can actually sell the share. Which reminds me: you will pay taxes twice: once when you exercise the option to turn into a share, and again when you sell the share. If you are lucky enough to go public the company will often get a firm that handles all this for you and just gives you a check net of all taxes.

A good accountant will cost $500-ish (or less) to go over your situation in detail. It's worth the money. If you already pay ab accountant, not someone at hr block or similar people who just know how to fill out paperwork, they may go over your situation for much less money.

Also, you must understand amt; that can bite hard. If you don't understand amt, see that accountant.
Only in this case you aren't rolling your own crypto, but (hopefully) using a popular, field-tested CSPRNG available as a library for your language of choice. Unless you mistakenly pick a non-cryptographic PRNG, and assuming the implementation is correct (which is just as true of kernel code as it is of user code), I fail to see how you would introduce a vulnerability.
It seems like many of the uber/rideshare/taxi services have been in a price war lately, some with explicit price match guarantees. I wonder if we should expect to see more of these fees as a way of complicating comparison shopping.
The problem is then you're stuck with OS dependencies. Browsers are cross-platform.
It's not a channel, but there's lots of good ones here - http://thekidshouldseethis.com/
Is it just me or does the website have issues with character encoding? I am seeing things like "Bottom Up â€".
Sadly, she seems to have veered into madness.
I am having a problem finding video of the launch that was scrubbed after ignition, do you have somewhere?

I believe it was in Dec of 2010 but not sure.
So, as a founder I quit my lucrative job, max out my credit card, work 18 hour days for a year giving up a social life, vacations etc. Once we're making money and I hire you to do QA where you work 8 hours a day and take no risk. There is no circumstance under which you should get even close to what I as founder get.
But disruption, man!
I use Privoxy on my devices consequently I am always surprised at the ad laden internet other people have to use. I never see youtube ads at home. The worst is when some classroom video demonstration (I'm a part time student, soon to be full time) has to wait for an ad to complete / skip.

http://www.privoxy.org/
Very few bits of what you just said have anything to do with computer science. Maybe data structures, and logic.
I’m still trying to understand the details. I hope that this data is correct, please confirm o correct them:

This video was filmed yesterday (2014/04/17), it’s a launch of the new v1.1 model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)#Grasshoppe... )

This is not a video of the launch of the old v1.0 model (2013/04/17 or 2013/08/13) that also reached 250m. (In another test, the old model reached 744m before landing.)

This is (obviously) no a video of today launch to send cargo to the ISS (uses v1.1 model)
They have decoupled the language center from specific sounds associated with language.

Our neighbor's raised their kids tri-lingual and it was amazing to watch in action. Especially the pipeline stalls when a language concept had a word in one language but not another, (the foreign word would be injected).
News roundup:
http://techwatching.com/page/spacexs-third-iss-supply-missio...
I don't want to go all Dr. Phil on you, but you have to sort a couple of things out with each other. Your wife isn't going to have kids, you both are. Before anything, make sure you get on the same page about having children. The responsibility is bigger than anything entrepeneurial you'll ever do, but so are the rewards. I'm like you, mid-30's, no succesful startup just yet, but I have two children. They're my no. 1 priority and inspiration. They don't stand in the way of working on my startup, although they delay the work somewhat, but I don't mind that.

Having kids is awesome if you're (plural!) ready for it. It also doesn't mean giving up on your dream. I work 4 days a week, I take care of the kids 1 day a week and the weekends, and work on my startup while commuting and on some evenings. It's perfect like this.

Whatever you decide, good luck. Shoot me an email if you ever want to chat about parenthood and startups!
There's an amino acid called glutamate which creates an umami or "meaty" flavor. It's present in various additives such as monosodium glutamate and hydrolyzed yeast extract. Look at the nutrition facts of e.g. Doritos or Cheez-Its; you'll likely find one of these additives.
This is a recommendation that says that a developer should actually consider using the Mersenne Twister for secure random numbers to avoid a potential performance problem.
That is a bummer. Compared to other stuff I see sitting on the front page for hours, I'd say a Space X launch that is testing first stage recovery is a pretty big deal.
How quickly (and disappointingly) the disruptors become the new rentiers.
Yeah, I feel like this is trying to answer the question "What is a computer" instead of "what is computer science". Still a really interesting question, but definitely not what I was expecting.
Claiming benefits is no longer automatic for NZ citizens in Australia. It was stopped over a decade ago, with the Australian pollies happy because of the reduced welfare load, and the NZ pollies happy because of the reduced exflux of young adults.
Why was this posted now? It's been around since 2011, and since then hasn't seen any significant browser penetration as far as I know.

Have there been new developments?
USB attacks need physical access right? Not any more...
Property taxes are very regressive in the sense that rich people typically live with other rich people. Ghettos and shanty towns are a direct result of thinking such as yours.
Anything claiming to be "from the Bottom Up" and starting with Unix and Advanced C instead of Assembly cannot be taken serious.
Note that the phrase employed here was "full-stack web dev". It sounds like you aren't doing web development, so that would be the distinction.
cassandra is a super choice for write oriented workloads with really high performance. it's also super stable.
we want to be in the spot where you also need advanced realtime search, high numbers of concurrent read/writes.
and yes, we focus to make administration as easy as possible
How well does it handle css properties like size and position being templated?
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Interesting cross between an axe and a froe. Gives you the levering action of a froe in one motion.
There is in practice no such thing as "entropy depletion". The retail side of a CSPRNG is very similar to a stream cipher. The idea behind "entropy depletion" is structurally the same as the idea of a stream cipher "depleting its key". You can run AES-CTR as a stream cipher for several exbibytes before the output starts becoming distinguishable (which is not the same thing as "reveals the key").
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"Think of the children!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
It's true, I do find the old 'think of the children' appeal to emotion, and the trotting out of the 'gateway drug' myth to be distasteful. However, I'm not silencing anyone's point of view--I don't have admin rights on HN, just the ability to rate comments.
this is like saying the explanation for alcoholism is consuming too much alcohol.
Lyft's ain't free, it just uses the legal fiction of a "suggested donation" as a fairly transparent attempt to avoid taxicab regulations in some cities.
I would draw the line somewhere between SHA and SSL. Next question? ;)
I hate to write this but you come across self-absorbed. I would have hated to be married to someone like you - "isn't as intellectual as me", "demands a lot more time", "emotional stress", "couch potato", "unlikely will find a job", "wants to turn homemaker ..". Just the number of negative expressions you used for your wife is staggering in a short little paragraph.

It appears that you see her as liability rather than asset. First, change your outlook toward your wife. If you can't value her properly, you are not going to value anyone else either. Startups require lot of sacrifices not only from you but also from others involved. Spouse and family do the most sacrifices to achieve entrepreneurial dream of a family member. Putting them down is not going to get you far. Learn to respect what others bring to the table.

I will suggest you forget about being "entrepreneurial" and focus on salvaging one project "Your wife, your marriage, and your relationship". Once you recognize the positive qualities of your spouse then talk about growing the family or becoming entrepreneurial.

ed: Apologies for being rough in my response. The OP just touched a raw nerve.
It would be cool if people got a "career manager" who helped them with this kind of stuff on an ongoing basis (at least within a given job, if not across companies for the duration of a career).

If you trust the founders, they can probably help you up to ~50 person companies like this, but there is an inherent conflict of interest.
If the upside of investing 50% of your pay was significant, the upside from your allocation as a cofounder should have been far more significant in a successful exit. To me, the delta between a paid off IOU and a return on equity purchased with a pay cut sounds like cheap insurance. But I don't know enough about your situation to say.

Reasonable people can disagree; I'm invested only in the idea of giving 50/50+IOU its fullest, fairest hearing.
overperformance is far more dangerous (in large companies) than underperformance.

Why? Can you explain.
Or automata theory and turing machines, for that matter.
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> Are you seriously equating the laws of physics and human artefacts?

Yes I am. The property that they share is they will not be changed or avoided in the near future.

Another property is that despite certain limitations, you can still accomplish many things. If you focus on these limitations, you will accomplish less.

> If the laws of physics suck, suck it up.

Not in all cases. Physics is just a model of our understanding of physical existence. Einstein demonstrated that.

> If your tools suck, change them.

I guess if it's worth it to spend that much effort, then go ahead. Just know that the frequent examples of javascript's "problems" are easily surmountable, that is if you don't dwell on these "problems". Javascript has some great attributes to it.

Indeed, it does not "suck". That's like saying the human body sucks because we have this ridiculous tail bone and wisdom teeth. No accounting for taste, I suppose.

I choose to focus on that and progress in mastery of my craft. If you want to complain and/or change your tools, go ahead. I don't judge you.
Possibly the situation where a public resource or right of way (eg. a lake) is completely enclosed by private properties (eg. a developer or HOA acquiring all lots which have any of the lake's shoreline)?