skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not sustainable. Facebook is not buying these companies because they are adhering to some kind of moral code. Facebook is a corporation like any other that needs to justify things to investors and analysts. That's the model as far as I know. So if they're pouring money into Oculus and its ecosystem then surely they expect to get something out of it. Ultimately they control the technology and as a profit driven corporation they are going to drive the technology in the direction of profits. They are not going to drive it in the direction of sustainability. Facebook is not in this to break even and they are not going to subsidize more benevolent but unprofitable uses of the technologies they acquire.

Like I said in my original comment. I don't think this is a good or bad thing. My philosophical stance on technology is different and I'd much rather see a sustainable ecosystem of technologists that are not always driven by profits and quick payoffs from acquisitions.
A visit to Hacker School (2012)
Most comments here focus on the immediate revenue potential. But this is part of a much larger ecosystem, that spends billions of dollars deploying enterprise marketing platforms with Adobe, IBM, SAS, Oracle. Performance Optimization is just one of the many areas in this space.

The enterprise marketing platform is an area ready for disruption. Few large, expensive and slow players. Most offering clunky proprietary products, that require a huge learning curve.

After (if?) Optimizely solidify presence in this space, they can move up the food chain: tagging, re-targeting, DMP, personalization, campaign management, content management, etc.

So far they're off to a good start. And worst case scenario, they'll be acquired by Adobe and will become the new version of Test & Target.
Thanks I appreciate it. Off to read it now.
Good interview with Theo recorded as part of ruBSD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXS8ljif9b8
I don't know why so many down votes. I just happened to have a problem, made a comment to confirm If it was me.
Startups need to be profitable too.
EFF Statement on Rep. Sensenbrenner's USA FREEDOM Act Amendment
Literate code with inline graphical output. Kinda like Logo for scientists.
By "new" you mean the standard font used in Theo's and other OpenBSD developer's magicpoint presentations going back to at least 2003?

vether(4), 2010 -- http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2010_vether/mgp00001...

OpenBSD release Process, 2009 -- http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_enginee...

Exploit Mitigation, 2005 -- http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-deraadt/mgp00001.html

Exploit Mitigation Techniques, 2004 -- http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04/mgp00001.html

Exploit Mitigation, 2003 -- http://www.openbsd.org/papers/pacsec03/e/mgp00001.html

OpenBSD und Openssh, 2003 -- http://www.openbsd.org/papers/cebit2003/mgp00001.html
"Reopened on Novebmer 6"

Is this an early draft?
And Haskell.

It would be nice to open a port on IPython and send code from the IDE to it for execution and visualization.
Please blog about this.
Nice illustration! Glad I'm a nonsmoker!
> But while it took some time for us to diagnose, as soon as we did, we merged and pushed a fix within a few hours.

The comment in the thread says on May 1, "We have a fix for this issue and it will be pushed on or before our next weekly push next Tuesday"

But it didn't go out until May 5.
Also these frameworks are frequently disabled. There are MANY widely used software products, for which step 1 in the installation instructions is "disable SELinux." The majority of the security features described in the OP, by contrast, do not need to be disabled to get mainstream software products to work.
A small correction: You die if you go over 127 lives. This is due to the fact that the game uses 8 bit signed integers to store the number of lives. You don't die immediately either, but when you do die normally, you get a game over because the game detects that you have less than zero lives remaining.
fyi comrade your hellbanned
Well, thanks for all of responses especially from oncletom. I of course know the book but I was curious about the thought process in choosing the name. I didn't want to assume the worst.

Unfortunately it won't play well with Americans despite your honest intentions. I would find it hard to introduce you to a contact if you used that domain for email.
Thanks again for the feedback. I've updated the site with some blurbs that hopefully explain things a little more.
Oculus 2014, which would be released beta-quality in 2015 and usable-quality in 2016 as Oculus 2014 SP1.
It doesn't need ADB. There's an app for that: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakeg...

So it is similar in that you could conceivably have an app that manages fake contact lists' data.
According to the game, every single security officer either starves or can't get to work. I was originally eager to learn more from the game, but became more upset by the hyperbole that by the social situation. (Or is the premise that there are no security officers, having all been unable to reach work or died of starvation?)

That probably led me to apply higher scrutiny to the line in the petition:

> No job in this country should pay so little that employees can’t make ends meet.

I believe in a safety net (along with what appears to be a shrinking majority of Americans [1]). However, I strongly disagree with any statement that equates to using legislation to ensure that every profession is viable forever. That philosophy would lead to subsidized buggy whip manufacturers, it would prevent anyone from adapting to changing times, it would prevent wages from signaling to workers where they can serve some of the most vital and immediate needs of society.

On the other side, as population increases in certain areas, the supply of livable resources will decrease. Costs of living rise, and in so doing, encourage more efficient use of space. While pricing people out of an area can be tragic, the unintended consequences of artificially halting this trend, allowing unchecked increases of population density beyond what an area can support, are even more frightening.

[1] http://www.people-press.org/2012/06/04/section-4-values-abou...
Make sure you aren't violating any non-compete agreements with your new employer. Also make sure they don't have any clauses in your employment agreement where they claim ownership of your projects. Read the fine print. If you're really concerned, ask someone there. That should be easy if you've worked there before.
There are probably a lot of reasons that wouldn't work (and didn't happen... I'm sure they were aware of the project).

But as a huge Valve fanboy... it sure is fun to imagine.
The point I was driving at is we still end up with people who don't understand basic algebraic manipulations. So the issue isn't "you never did math", the issue is we're failing to get people to understand it.

The converse side of the idea - which I'm presently experiencing - is to definitionally heavy and try and show the proofs for all sorts of things. From my personal experience, this is equally as bad - I have real difficulty following proofs, where applying the results of said proofs is straightforward - easier to memorize, and apply, and slowly from that work backwards to figure out what the ramifications are elsewhere. But that's a process which takes years - I have 1 semester so in a practical sense memorization is the key.
Hey Gabriel, congrats on the new launch! The new autocomplete -as-you-type feature made me curious: you mentioned that you don't associate queries with IP addresses, but does DDG save queries?
I had one which, with a bios change was supposed to be able to run an Alpha.

Fun fact, the board - the Asus K7M, came out at a time when Intel was putting pressure on vendors not to support the (brand spanking new) AMD Athlon. The vendors were so scared that the first few shipments of K7M boards came in plain white boxes, without a reference to the manufacturer anywhere in site. Not even the fine print.
Forcing the choice to only guns that could be remotely deactivated by the government kind of ignores the whole point of the 2nd amendment, doesn't it? (an emergency government reset button). I know that this particular gun precipitating the story doesn't have remote deactivation, but I don't think it'd be far off.
7 reasons why your startup will fail (and how to soften the blow)
The Related Topics algorithm needs a lot work.

I search for "Denver" and the top related topic is "Gang Activity in Denver." Really?

I search for "Chicago" and the entire related topics list is places on the historic register in Chicago. Really? The whole list?

I'd turn this off until you make it work better. It grabs a lot of attention and degrades the rest of the experience. My first impression is that if DDG gets that part so wrong, what else are they getting wrong with the search results? Cruel, perhaps, but that's my impression.

The new interface is nice and fast otherwise.
I posted my resume, but I was 2 days late (at work when it was posted, and remembered until the next morning). I had no replies, but I find it invaluable to be able to put myself out there without LinkedIn/DICE. I got my current job through DICE and I got calls incessantly for a week, mostly from really clueless recruiters who would call me and ask me to tell them what "OOP" meant. I'm only on my first job, so my "Network" isn't impressive, most of them are in a city I don't have an interest living in for various reasons.

As for recurrence, I thought there was enough interest (over 300 comments!) that it would add value as a monthly thread.
> 1 April 2001

This is an april fool's joke (one that significantly postdates the rise of "foo" and "bar").
https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=monkey+images
Never been there, but I heard about warm beer! England did one heck of a job in WWII, a big step up from what they did here in the colonies back in the last of the 1700s! There our George beat your George!

At times, it appears that some people in England use the language so well it's almost as if they had invented it. But then they mess up their success with some outrageous errors in spelling!
As someone who has recently learned programming and is unaware of history of programming languages, all this PHP hate leaves me whimsical.
[1] I have wanted to read this book for a long time. Thank you for doing this OP!

In my daily life, I feel rejuvenated by doing yoga and meditation, going for walks in nature and playing pickup basketball. I started playing in high school and found it to be a kind of catharsis - forming teams with strangers, learning each other's names and style of play, then finding a way to win. I don't travel often, but I find travel and cultural exploration to be very rejuvenating as well.
That will fail when you have words in different langauges that mean different things.
For reading comprehension? Yes, absolutely.
Neither button in the "Learn More" dialog works for me. Left click, Chrome Version 34.0.1847.131 m, Win 7 64 bit
If you are in the "in" group, there's an invite-only event the night before. That is obviously valuable as you will have been vetted in some way thus draw more attention from vc's etc.

Otherwise, if you've seen the videos of previous years, you'll get exactly the same (which is quite good), however I am disappointed in the lack of slides to go with the presenter video recordings.

So if you don't have an in for the pre-event, there's not a whole lot to be gained by a physical presence.
While it's true that the average population density of the US is low compared to much of the rest of the world, that is due to including the US's vast empty spaces, mainly in the West. The vast majority of US citizens live in densely populated areas - just like the rest of the First World, only with crappier internet.
I dont want to take away from the good thoughts in this article but it annoys me when people create terms for something that already exists. A "pre-mortem" as described here is just a "Risk Assessment", outside the startup world its typically a must have part of any project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_assessment
Have you looked at JSX[1] yet? Because I feel it was invented exactly to address your tl;dr - you're writing something that is very close to HTML inside your Javascript, so it definitely seems easier than writing JS snippets in XML.

Also, although I've found that ReactJS tends to encourage a more modular component structure (which I'm personally a fan of), there's nothing stopping you from laying out large chunks of a template instead of small snippets.

[1] http://facebook.github.io/react/jsx-compiler.html
Is Servo not a real project?
I appreciate your insight, but it really is still a political battle.

The reason why is because companies have to work with local governments to get construction permits to build out the access network. There are huge barriers here that prevent individuals and small companies from actually getting that work done. One of those barriers is the fact that even local governments have problems with bribery and corruption (you don't say!).

Google Fiber is demanding those massive regulatory concessions because they must! They're asking governments to bend over backwards for them because they recognize how hard it is go get through the bureaucracy. That's why they put on this big campaign to get the people to talk to their local representatives and essentially beg to be saved from the monopolies.

Take for example, Google Fiber versus Sonic.net. Sonic's been trying to build out their fiber network for a long time. However, since they're small it's much more difficult for them to work with the local governments and as a result their fiber rollout has been slower despite consumer demands.
We initially thought we had a fix, but upon further investigation, we discovered a deeper issue. I agree, we could have been better at updating the bug with this information.

In the meantime, the severity of the issue became more obvious, which is why we accelerated the fix and deployed it today (May 5th) ahead of the regular weekly push scheduled for tomorrow (May 6th).
NASA may transition shuttle landing site to private use
I have to disagree here.

Recipe's are a very helpful fallback where you might be struggling with understanding the origins of material in a rigorous manner. You can inspect a triangle all you like, but at the end of the day it's much easier to simply remember the formula.

This, I am finding, is the only way I'm managing to actually understand complex analysis - take the formulas for the results, and remember how to apply them. It's revealing to me that what looks complex gets very simple in that manner (and also that I still get tripped up by elements of basic integration).

If I couldn't do this, then I'd be lost - and in a test simplification remembering how to work through the definition isn't possible (and isn't required thank god) because that's a path which leads to me spending 6 hours figuring out and trying to picture something in a way which makes sense.
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In my experience, JavaScript is quite fast in most browsers. Communication between the DOM and JavaScript is much slower and causing lots of layout invalidation and repaints absolutely kills an app's perceived performance. React's approach is simple for the programmer but takes advantage of the fact that JS is fast and minimizes those slow bits.
Forget food trucks, someone needs a food wheelbarrow. Something they can roll past these lines, filled with premade sandwiches or aromatic burritos.
Show HN: New Running Motivation iPhone App
Hi, I wanted to share a new iPhone app that a friend and I created called Run the World.

It's a new motivational twist on the traditional running app - challenge yourself to run the distance between two cities and Run the World keeps track of your progress to meet your goal.

I don't really enjoy running but I know that I should run so I'm the target audience of this app. I also wanted to get some feedback from others so that we can keep improving the app to reach more users.

The app is free to download on the App Store by following this link - https://bitly.com/RunTheWorldApp

I'd appreciate any feedback or suggestions you might have - thanks!

tl;dr

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The second paragraph of the article is fundamentally wrong:

Now randomness doesn't really exist. When we humans see
something as random, it's only because we don't know or
understand all the details. Therefore, any perceived
randomness on your part is your inability to track all
the variables.

(The currently accepted explanation of) quantum mechanics says otherwise. The essence of quantum mechanics is not certainly but probability. But this annoyed even Einstein, who famously said "God does not throw dice". Einstein was (probably) wrong about this.

Stephen Hawking says:

God does play dice with the universe. All the evidence
points to him being an inveterate gambler, who throws
the dice on every possible occasion. [1]

[1] http://www.hawking.org.uk/does-god-play-dice.html
I beg to differ. Networks are transitive.
I agree, However: This is also something that OpenBSD is guilty of— defining security as things like strlcpy (which experience has shown causes its own mistakes) or an OS with all services off while eschewing security functions others have deployed (like the SE Linux stuff mentioned there, or the excellent virtualization features in other OSes).

> And other operating systems have come around to adopting OpenBSD's security features and techniques, rather than the other way around

AFAIR, the PAX/NX stuff was available on Linux back in something like 1999 or 2000, several years prior to OpenBSD— likewise for many of the things in that slide deck. OpenBSD been a leader in some techniques, and a follower of others. I think sometimes the public doesn't get to see a complete picture do to the excessive fandom and politics.

Relative to the level of investment in it OpenBSD does very well, but they're not the lone light of security insight some some people try to make them out to be!
I don't think it's stupid, but I do think you shouldn't be surprised by tech interviews.

This is for a screen to make sure you are a programmer. If you can't code up a four line function without an editor, there are going to be a lot of jobs you might like that you won't get. Ditto with calling strangers stupid.
I personally find if SELinux "just works" for the purposes then it is great. However if I want to integrate a third party software product into the existing policies I don't know where to start with it. e.g. if I have a daemon xyzd that wants to write to a pid file and to its log file, and have read write access to its own data, how do I write a policy to confine it?
they should do one for having and not having kids
Having the option of getting biometrics when you stick something in your head doesn't prevent getting data other ways too. Me, I listen to podcasts for an hour a day or so while my phone is in my pocket and the only thing touching my body directly is the earbuds. It'd be easy for the phone to be passively collecting data during that time - any time I'm listening to something via headphones - and it wouldn't require me to change my behavior or carry yet another device around.

I live in New York, so I listen via earbuds while I take the subway. In California a lot of people listen via earbuds while they go jogging or work out at the gym. There are almost certainly enough people who listen via earbuds daily to make that feature "a mainstream success", even if it doesn't match your own use case. If you never use the earbuds, you don't have to buy the earbuds that do biometric monitoring. Or you can ignore that feature.

There already exist apps that check your pulse (using the camera) and that check your sleeping patterns (you leave the phone charging on your bed; it uses the motion sensor). This would be just one more option along those lines.

But I'm curious: What would you consider "a good solution to this"?
node_modules/".bin"/lessc works!
There are some subtile things like dirnames with dots need to be quoted but quoted forward slashes given to mkdir creates path seperator fuck ups C:\first/meh\second..

Annoying. But I still don't miss grunt :)
Apparently smoking changes the size and location of your eye orbits. I am assuming the skull remodeling is for dramatic effect but it is too bad that the site does not provide references for some of the claims made in the descriptions of the effects.
I don't smoke, but I've known many people that have smoked for decades, including some who have died from smoking-related cancers.

Many of the claims these illustrations make are heavily exaggerated. For example, see the absurd claim about acne.

Why not just focus on what's actually true, which is that smoking causes lung cancer (as well as bladder cancer in women), and that these cancers are not likely to become curable in the future? It's straightforward to explain that smoking cuts decades off of lives in many (but not all) people that do it.

On smoking (and anything else, for that matter), there is no need to propagandize; the plain truth is enough.
Yes, a post like mine, intended to be comedy, can be too close to the line of nasty criticism and look mean. But it was fun to take the opportunity to crack a joke suggesting that Silicon Valley is so insular that they regard NYC as going international!

That's a lot of air traffic just for warm beer! But, where do people in London live? I mean with all the Russian and Mideast money buying up all the properties, a little one room condo goes for, what, $20 million?

And, England is a huge step down from where it was when Di was alive.
I've talked about this before -- one of the reasons is how it helped in changing sharing culture w.r.t. privacy. One example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530166
Business: Word of Mouth
>"This might well be the beginning of the end for x86 as we know it."

That would require that Intel to stand still with its Atom line. I'm quite sure that Intel, with its well-known corporate paranoia about the marketplace, will continue to compete in low-power x86 technology. Even if AMD delivers on this hybrid with a good product, I expect they'll still have a helluva fight from Intel on their hands.
What exactly is 'mailcloud'?
I am assuming it's a email hosting company plus they added 'cloud' to the mix.
Touche, excellent selection of links.

I've apparently not followed OpenBSD for the last decade at my peril.

I somehow suspected this day would come. :)
Donning my pre-mortem cap: perhaps they pre-died because it's impossible to figure out what mailcloud actually does.