skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still with Dyn because their performance is ahead of Route53 and their health-check and failover functionalities are at this moment better than Edgecast.

However, we're using Edgecast for some things because the prices are much lower and they are actually capable of doing the same kind of health-check, failover and routing tricks at Dyn does. Their interface is just not fully ready yet so you have to email support to get changes and custom rules.

EDIT: Very quick non-representative test from 8 locations around the world shows Dyn responds faster than Google DNS in all of them. Note that these were datacenter connections so it could be very different for lower-bandwidth end-users.
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1 - you don't need Moore's law, just the observation that computers have got steadily faster for decades and will probably continue.

2 >I know of has the limiting factor ever been the power of the hardware

One example would be computer chess:
"In 1990, futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that a computer would win a game of chess against a human by 1998. His prediction came true on May 11, 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue defeated the world chess champion Garry Kasparov."
that prediction was done pretty much entirely on figuring the computational power needed and projecting when we'd get there. Not really rocket science, just some back of the envelope calculations. His 2029 prediction for the turing test is the same stuff.
How about anything. Try configuring browser settings in Firefox or controlling a Chrome updates. It's a mess.

Chrome sort of has group policy management, but it's buggy. If either browser had an API, IE would fade away -- this is literally the only reason it exists.
maybe we could introduce the concept of "resource minimalism"
You're ignoring the fact that many users have applications other than a browser open, and that those applications also consume memory. Start hitting the swapfile and any performance advantage disappears. It is in the best interest of everyone to make applications use less memory, since all the applications (and the OS) have to share what the system has.
Those puzzles create small problems, but with referencing other code, you can learn how to code better / refactor.

Refactoring is one of the best way to improve your coding (even on your own code)
Besides startups, it's not enough to find the most important thing you should do. You should also make yourself do it, often at the expense of ignoring everything else. I'm surprised how often I'm able to intellectually tell what the most important thing is and still not bring myself do it. I wish the article offered tips on how to do that.

A big problem I have with time is that it seems you need to have some runway of time for your subconscious to mull over things. And you can't force this process. Not only do you get an answer when you least expect it, which you can't predict, but it also seems that forcing yourself to come up with an answer yields a bad one. It's as if you should be forcing yourself to not try hard for an answer.

How do you deal with that?

Could you get better at this type of ambient thinking? How? Are there exercises for improving, or at least directing, subconscious thought?

I suspect the place to look isn't the hard sciences but the arts.
You can't take advantage of two's complement arithmetic if you want portable C, though.
"403. That’s an error.

Your client does not have permission to get URL /cloud-dns/ from this server. (Client IP address: [my-ipv6-addr])

We're sorry, but this service is not available in your country."

Google is denying access to services based on their broken ipv6 geolocation data (they think I am in Tehran, but I'm in London.)
I started reading on mobile but reached for desktop and converted to pdf using http://www.printfriendly.com/ (they have a nice bookmarklet).
Interesting, got a source for that?
Isn't this called time management? Seems like hacking is just becoming a verb for anything. Well I gotta get back to hacking my breakfast.
The Cell SPE's are not as general purpose. They're SIMD processors (single-instruction, multiple-data), and don't have transparent access to host memory or the other cores (for some of the Parallella demo's, you can exit the main program and watch the Epiphany cores continue to DMA data straight to the frame-buffer).

They're more similar to a GPU than to the Epiphany. Each SPE is more powerful in terms of Gflops, but the Epiphany CPU's offer more independent instruction streams. If your problem is basically well suited for a GPU (easy to vectorize) chances are it will probably do better on a Cell than the current Epiphany's. If your problem has lots of independent branching, the Epiphany stands a better chance.
It's on the roadmap: there's plans to split the standard library into parts which require the runtime and parts which don't (as well as into parts which don't require malloc). As it stands you can write them, but you need to avoid parts of the standard library.
Fantastic! We need more of this kind of thinking. "No computer required" should be the default, not the exception.

I've been playing with some ideas in my head for a while now that we should be able to build most apps this way, and not just prototypes. If we can extract the default widgets and behaviour from applications and make them reusable and connectable without code, then we'd be taking steps towards a real revolution.

I am really excited about the direction we're going in with products and tech like this.
I could not agree more. You are living is what I call quiet (or quietish) success.
Another possibility, with the power being open and having a market in servers is easic which offers chip manufacturing technology that is fit for lower volumes, with easier customizability option, to offer a customizable server processor.

In the places this fits, it could offer substantial improvement. for example 10-100x performance/cost+power for in-memory cache servers.

And they're working on making this tech programmable while still keeping this same cost levels.

And all this in the context of moore's law grinding to a halt. So definetly ,intel will have a hard time ahead.

EDIT: it appears that the power8 support an open extension interface to other chips(CAPI). Which means will see such accelerators sooner than later.
I'm trying to understand what precisely there is that could be considered "offensive". Can you give us an idea of what inspired your post? I'm trying to grasp just what it is that would offend someone - is it the characters, the hooker, the drugs, etc.
Interesting, I've been enjoying https://www.codeeval.com/ which also has the headhunter based model and supports a few more languages, but doesn't have the time limits like a real code interview usually would.
Unfortunately signed overflow behavior is undefined in C so you can't guarantee your XOR with rp will give the expected result. This is partly why the article is so careful in its casting and the order of its checks.

This actually easier to do in Java and many other languages because signed arithmetic is precisely defined.
http://www.ibas.se/ has a good reputation in Sweden. In looking for an English version of their site i discovered that they're now part of Kroll Ontrack, who, indeed, has a UK site: http://www.krollontrack.co.uk/

That said, I've no idea how good they are.
Ugh, you're right. Checking the default list from https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt confirms it. I'll have to look into this more and see if there is a better list to subscribe to.
Nice, a useful extension to the double handle would be having multiple pairs of handles so that you can segment up the bar.
So what?
Vulnerability in random noname website worth approx. $0
Can you source this from public docs somewhere? It's interesting and I'd love to compare the early mockups with early chrome.
Finally let your users use a LIKE button for your products (Spree)
Why One Giant Source Control Repository Is Bad for You (and Facebook)
This is one of the most interesting things I've seen as a Show HN in ages... Awesome! I can't wait to see how this plays out, and how scared people are to tell each other about what they're building with it, while it's begin built (e.g. if listings for ideas are public to developers?)
How does this differ to popapp ( https://popapp.in ) which I've been using for over a year now ?
The repo in question is 2 years old. It may be worth getting in contact with the uni who runs that course though.
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Depending on what they're measuring, 98.3% can be pretty bad. Given that there's about a 1% portion of the population with schizophrenia, if the test is right 98% of the time (irrespectively of everything else), then it'll misdiagnose two healthy people as having schizophrenia for every correct diagnosis.
Perhaps a more valuable question: how many people sit down, hopefully starting early in life, to define what success is to them? And how many people keep reevaluating that definition?

If being successful means getting what you want, what people seem to want is relatedness, competence and autonomy, whatever that translates to for each person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory#Basic...
Competitive Programming Books
Companion web site for the book: "Competitive Programming". It's targeted towards computer science students learning algorithms and preparing for the ACM competition.

Also, the first edition is free.
> Now, via Famo.us-Angular, you can tap into that performance with AngularJS, too.

How, I tried this using Angular and i cannot get it to work.
Any sample available on github?
You now also excluded thousands of true positives which dont present the code exactly as queried
This is BS
https://mentii.com - a peer to peer career advisory network. The site features are listed here - https://mentii.com/features.
From the blog:

>I have history with Firefox layout and graphics, and programming language theory and type systems (mostly of the OO, Featherweight flavour, thus the title of the blog).

Hmm, what are "type systems" of "featherweight flavour"? Anything real or some inside joke? Or perhaps an elaborate way to say "not that complicated"?

(Google mostly returns references to the same blog)
I did jury service in the UK once. It would terrify me being in court for something I didn't do.

We were clearly instructed to base our decision on the evidence, which there was very little of - just one word against another. At the end the judge seemed to sum up, and it to me seemed that he was advising a non-guilty verdict, based on exactly that lack of evidence. Yet a large proportion of the jury still seemed to base their decision on tabloid headline style judgements and non-evidence.

"OK, the times didn't add up for that bit of the story, but maybe he should be found guilty of that other part, just in case."

Its not some sort of bargain, there is either evidence or there is not. In this case there was not any real evidence.

As I say I would be absolutely terrified to be in that position.
I think Groupon is a slightly different case to Herbalife. Herbalife had/has a pretty substantial pyramid scheme component to it.

Groupon, IMO was a trend. Trends have a ballistic trajectory. The reports of hard selling and unhappy customers confuse the issue, but I think the heart of the problem was that Groupon was popular for a while and now it's less popular.

Our default business systems don't know how to deal with that kind of a thing. A company with a 2 year half life. All our financial systems and our valuation of companies are built around companies that are lang lived, practically immortal (in the sense that impacts net present value). But, not everything is like that. A film or a computer game is often produced by a firm that forms and the disbands to create a single thing. It has all the things a normal company has: employees (including some highly paid stars), investors, assets, liabilities, etc. It only exists for a short time.

Crocs was like that too. A product that made a splash, sold a lot of brightly colored shoes at a great margin and then contracted.

I think the problem with Groupon wasn't Groupon. The problem was the whole system trying to treat it like Strabucks when it was more like Star Wars. Star Wars wasn't a failure because it stopped making money.. ..wait. Bad example. Exceptions prove the rule.

Financially, a company is the NPV of all its future cash flows. In practice, the system assumes those cash flows will continue steadily forever, growing if the company is healthy. If they try to swallow a company that will exist for just 4, they choke.

I think we need to be on the lookout for things like this. The world is getting fast paced. Maybe we need to be able to deal with 4 year companies.
For starters it's not available on Android.
Sadly, there's cases where exec() is impossible to avoid - for example, every kind of tool that doesn't have a proper library and language bindings. See git and the grit library for an example.
> We won't need to waste 4-10%+ of our entire lives staring at the road doing nothing.

No you don't. That's why many people use public transport or combine travelling with exercise (bike). Self driving cars doesn't solve the real problem which is that people have the idea that cars are actually sustainable.
The Cell is the world's first in order execution PowerPC. Its similar in design to the G3 family but has a very high clock speed. They stripped a lot out of the chip design (such as the out of order execution pipeline, a lot of the cache brains, etc) to get the core as small and as low power as possible while relying on modern compilers to make the magic happen.

I'm not entirely sure they succeeded in their goals, but with how well SPEs are used in PS3 games, I'm not sure it matters.
App looks nice (can't check it out, no iDevice). I like the simplicity of it. Do you plan on adding any vision capabilities, like auto-detecting rectangles as candidates for buttons, circles as candidates for radio buttons, etc? I can also see you app used to make quick&funny games, which you can send your friends. Think taking a picture of a street, with a bar door as a button, and then taking a picture inside, making the bartender a button, then a picture of the drink, etc...
Here are a few key differences:

* Our iPhone app ties in with our web app, which allows you to prototype both web and mobile. http://www.marvelapp.com. Our iPhone app is just one part of the eco-system

* We support PSD importing directly into the iPhone app

* All your images are synced with Dropbox so you can easily access them

* Our web app allows you to download prototypes as ZIPs to run offline or on your own server

* You can select dozens of different device frames (HTC One, Lumia, iPhone 5S etc)

* You can export iPad prototypes using our iPhone app
Thanks - they offer a 4 hour free evaluation, and quote 299 to 999 + VAT, which is significantly more than others. If I don't proceed, they charge to send me the disk back, which others don't. They are definitely at the top end of the price range. No evidence of whether the extra is worth it.
Do you mean ASIC for the coprocessors, or for customizing the main design? The latter isn't strictly impossible, but it'd be a pretty major undertaking to take the POWER8 design and put it on an ASIC. The reference design, at least, is intended for a 22nm SOI process, and it's not a trivial port to put it on something else.
Thanks, but no thanks, GalacticDomin8r. Obviously this was not professional advice, but I have many years of experience both from the inside of the mental health system and from helping others navigate it. I stand by what I just said. A skilled therapist would be able to see things that GP doesn't, so that would act as a counterweight if GP was to ever get sick and unable to see it for himself.
Are there any machines in widespread use today that don't use two's complement? I guess if there were, we'd hear a lot more about this issue... I know that some mainframes are an example, but they're somewhat of a niche.
I would guess most of the users simply don't install any plugins or addons. So in that case listening to them would simply mean not changing anything.
SOOMLA – Backbone JS A Better Fetch Function
Great advice, I thank you
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Why you should not use it, at all
Hey! You could give our web app a spin http://www.marvelapp.com, no iPhone needed :)

We don't have any image recognition stuff coming or pre-made elements but we are adding transitions/animations so that you can get a sense of what your apps might feel like.
>That's the most detrimental effect of Chrome's scroll

No, that is just designer's dumbness. Scrolling should be a system setting and browsers should not override it but just read and use it (I am looking at you, Firefox). And websites certainly should not override it with at all.
How do you not see all the image dimensions in the filter rules? Picking just the those mentioned I tried 'grep 300x250 easylist.txt' and got 478 results!

Many are very specific and look like useful filters, but here are just a small sample of rules that are problematic:
-300x250-
-300x250_
.300x250.
.300x250_
/300x250-
/300x250.
/300x250/
> programming challenges do not help you become a better programmer

Depends on the definition of "better". If fluency and coding speed in a (new) programming language, and knowledge/experience with algorithms and their efficiency are part of that metric, then programming challenges do help becoming a better programmer... or at least: a better coder. No, the challenges do not address the whole required skill set of a good programmer.

BTW, the most important reason that Project Euler is independent of programming languages is that the answer to a PE-problem is a number. It doesn't care or evaluate how you came up with that number. Some problems might be solved with some mathematical formulas, and possibly a piece of paper and a pencil. (Or a smart query towards Wolfram Alpha, for wider definitions on "how to solve a problem".)
In Fujitsu servers there is a remote console but that requires a licence to function. Of course a hacker can acquire (even pay?) for that license and get console access. This leads to leaving the management network unplugged and losing remote reboots and other management features.
Looking back, there were signs. But it was like a marriage, I just thought I was being paranoid or something.

I appreciate your advice and I thank you.
This could also mean big trouble for AMD since they're pushing high-density ARM64 in the data center, one could even go so far as assume that Google isn't taking AMD seriously.
Pair raises $500K, preparing to rain Bitcoins on undergrads
And that's the winner in my book - this is not about doing a test or challenge once, and passing some "exam". Its about stretching me and discovering more about the strengths and weaknesses of certain languages and environments - I should do more little practises like this, but in different ways.
I really like this idea, and in combination with the bitnami stacks, the "handover" to the client could be very easy too.

[1] https://bitnami.com/stacks
Or you can use Personal Menu [1]. I have the history in there.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/3895/
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W3C sends password change requests after breach
Mail I recieved today:

W3C has discovered unauthorized access to its user database, including
retrieval of encrypted passwords. As such W3C is requiring all of our users to
change their passwords.

If you have already changed your password in 2014, you may ignore this
message.

Please read more at the following article:

http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/03/w3c-password/

Accounts that have not been updated by 2014-05-12 will be disabled. If you do
not see this message until after that deadline, you can recover your account
using the recovery system linked from the article above.

[...]
The project I work on compiles for eight different target architectures. Debian supports at least fourteen. Every program in a Linux distribution which has any inline assembly code means extra work that has to be done to support porting that distro to a new architecture, and code that has to be audited if an existing architecture gets a new calling convention (like x86's "x32", or ARM "hardfloat"). A portable 10-line implementation that gets reviewed and tested once is often going to be better than half a dozen 5 line architecture specific implementations.
Debian announces LTS version with 5 years of support
We started http://communityplates.org/ a few years ago to help with this issue. Our goal was to use volunteers + technology to help with the logistics for getting the excess food to the people that needed it. Proud to say we will rescue over 3M pounds of food this year from grocery stores, restaurants, farmers markets, etc.

We are in Fairfield County, CT, Albuquerque, NM and Columbus, OH, but looking to grow.

(By the way, if anyone is looking to donate some app development time to a good cause, we'll gladly take the help)
Have you seen http://tech.fundingcircle.com/codecraft/
6MP the best compromise between pixel count and sensitivity for Consumer cameras
Free GTD/TODO List app Lifestyle Inspector – new version 1.1 released
>1 - If memory management is a serious problem for the software you work on, I've never found the boost library lacking. This seems like the main selling point for RUST.

No, the main selling point is memory management with guarantees for safety but full performance. You don't get that just with boost, it's mostly a GC.

>2 - I'm not a fan of the implicitness and I personally don't use 'auto' b/c it makes scanning code harder. I guess this is more of a personal preference.

Type inference removes redundant information.

>4 - the Rust switch statement don't fall through... This one was truly mind blowing. The one useful feature of switch statement got ripped it out!

Huh? The fall-through has been known to be a bug hazard and bad style for ages. And for what, to save a few lines with a not that clever trick? The only useful abuse of the Switch was Duff's device, and that's stretching it already.
Show HN: Mowbly – Open source enterprise mobile SDK
Seminário Sobre Vantagens da Construção Metálica na Tektónica 2014
Some compilers (MLton, fe) have static analysis in place to skip the check when no overflow can occur.
Unbescape: new Java lib for escape/unescape of HTML5, JavaScript, JSON, CSS...
Same here. For that goal, PE is a fun and efficient playground. The forum discussions (only accessible after submitting the correct answer - always a number) are also a great way to see how the problem can be solved in other languages and programming paradigms. APL definately scores points in Code Golf :-)
Mail I received today, 2014-04-29:

W3C has discovered unauthorized access to its user database, including
retrieval of encrypted passwords. As such W3C is requiring all of our users to
change their passwords.

If you have already changed your password in 2014, you may ignore this
message.

Please read more at the following article:

http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/03/w3c-password/

Accounts that have not been updated by 2014-05-12 will be disabled. If you do
not see this message until after that deadline, you can recover your account
using the recovery system linked from the article above.

[...]
There are some safety issues around temperatures, but typically you can only save what hasn't been served yet and this food is usually in a warming tray in the kitchen.
I've got money, a house, cars, flexibility to take whatever time off I need, international travel ... all I want in life. Except no wife or kids.

Not feeling very successful right now.
Awesome idea. Will definitely check it out. Any plans for an android version?
In the link here they estimate the price for a single power8 cpu at $5000, based on real server price.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/181102-ibm-power8-openp...
http://i.imgur.com/Ueqq29i.png is what my current vimperator browsing window looks like (ff27), the new changes make this very difficult to replicate via changes to userChrome.css, but hopefully, as it gets more exposure, these things will get ironed out