skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a must read article for anybody
Trying to understand what's going on
in the hardware / server side for enterprise IT.

Cisco's bet seems to be that they can't do anything
about hyper scale data centers (AWS, google,
Azure, Facebook etc) since they will have the scale
to design their own hardware.

So- they are going after large enterprises
that want to still have their own servers.
In this market they seem to be growing.

But - their strategy reminds of me
Of trying to provide the most efficient
newspaper printing machine just before the printed
newspaper itself gets killed.

Two points supporting the newspaper analogy:

1) If the applications themselves (SalesForce, workday,
Successfactors etc) are moving to the cloud
& delivered from their own servers or AWS,
Then won't the overall demand for enterprise hardware
Itself reduce?

2) Even if companies want their own custom
Computing resources (e.g. Analytics) - won't
These sub-scale enterprises themselves go with
The hyper scale data centers (AWS, azure etc) ?
What on earth makes these enterprise companies believe
That they can take Cisco hardware & believe that they
Can be more cost efficient than AWS/Azure.
Currently, I mostly agree, and I hope it lasts.

However, I've found incredible value in the connections I made at university, which would've been much more difficult if I had not studied. Assuming you live in a country where you don't amass crippling debt, studying can still be very valuable, for a variety of reasons.
Thanks for the kind words joshu. I'm reluctant to take money because then I feel obligated to write an article reasonably promptly about something I'm not as interested in, and it replaces the fun with pressure. (I hope that makes sense.) But let me know if there's something specific you're interested in. And if you want to donate, my daughter is raising money for wells in Africa: http://righto.com/change
I agree with pretty much everything you said but is it true that regulations would have prevented someone like Karpeles from doing the same with say, gold? What regulations prevent this? I'm asking genuinely because I have no idea what regulations exist in that world and I keep hearing that argument from smart people so I guess it's probably true.
I thought this was about League of Legends.
I struggle with it too. Sometimes there's loads of work then sometimes none. There's plans to start that never materialise. They always think you're too expensive. And they're always SO persnickety with their damn PSD layouts!
Numerous Scribd uploads, which we needed for our business, were fine one day and irretrievable the next. The response from tech support was to re-upload the content, which wasn't possible. Haven't left, yet, because I'm not sure where else to go to host thousands of documents quickly.
Not as surprising when you realize that 95% of tech startups in Silicon Valley are built on a foundation of Finnish software - Linux and MySQL.
I love using Acme with a three-button Trackpoint / nipple mouse, since I don't have to move my hand off home row. Trying to use a two-button mouse, or even one with a scrollwheel, is frustrating; my preferred solution is to map the [f1]...[f3] keys as mouse buttons.

An Acme idiom I use heavily is to create shell scripts in the root of a project's directory to diff, grep for the selected text, rebuild, etc. This essentially gives me a set of IDE buttons that are tailor-made for my current project.
I am thinking about ... well steel in which ceramite/martenite nodes are replaced with small diamonds. You will have incredible edge taking ...
I found that strength training really pushes your nervous system hard. The training worked ok, and I could lift 220kg at the end. But I also developed anxiety issues. Nowadays I do much higher repetitions at lower weight, pushing muscle endurance much more, not one repetition maximum lifts which increase the load on your nervous system.

I also, without fail, include 30 minutes of cardio in every session. This appears to be critical if you are like me and prone to anxiety attacks. I'm still progressively overloading, but if I can't do 3-5 sets of 20 repetitions at a given weight, I don't do it at all. And I've seen others in my gym who have unbelievable physiques doing the same. So it does work, so long as you keep increasing the weight as your body adapts.
We tried to get feedback prior to release. We put up a website and tried to get some postgres people to engauge. We were lucky, when no one was interested we were able to pull down the website and no one was harmed.

We use our product internally for a few customers so no harm done that no one was interested but, to be honest, it stung a bit.

I think it probably would be easier to build for consumers or businesses. Our product was a developer tool so we knew our chances were slim. We actually got only two email addresses and when we tried to reply to one we never heard back. A couple days later we pulled the site and went back to the drawing board.

We now have a plan to go B2B with a product and we have a first client so we're moving forward. I thought it would be tough to get the team to change focus but its actually been energizing.

I was also afraid we'd have more than one idea with the team split as to what to do.
PDFs that don't force a download open inline without asking in any browser, just like any other readable file (e.g. webpages, text files, images).
Yeah, "AMDisbetter" was quite amusing. Until K7 which was really better.
Sharpening. Almost anything that requires abrasion benefits awesomely when the abrasive is diamond.
> Therefore, if we are copying into s2 and we only leak data after the 4th character, we can assume that by default in the uninitialized stack there is a null at s23.

I'm very inexperienced with reverse-engineering, and haven't finished the article yet, but is "s23" here a typo? I can't find any other reference to it in the article, and it doesn't make sense to me. Should it be "s2"? Thanks
Rip is great. I even got him to admit that a valsava isn't recommended for me. (ascending aortic dissection survivor, and yes, I lift.)
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I prefer viewerjs.org - I don't believe it if people that say that every modern platform has a PDF viewer.

Having a document hosted on your own website together with a javascript viewer reduces the risk for users both in terms of privacy and security, as Acrobat Reader is a seriously problematic piece of code and all the remote code is a serious violation of trust between the user and the owner of the site.
This seems like something that could easily be hacked together over a 3 day weekend (at least a basic version). It could be profitable pretty quickly too if you go for the current Imgur model of ads/pro accounts.
*adds to to-do list&
Jeez, Daniel. You obviously has a strong opinion on this subject and you are simply not listening. What I mentioned is a simple solution to a major (if not the) moderation issue that HN has that will work for everyone. What you are defending is an approach that works for some cases, but fail in many.

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For one, by editing a submission title you are effectively putting words in submitter's mouth. That in itself is already an ethically questionable practice. I had a title on my Tell HN post changed and I was absolutely totally pissed by that. If you change a title, then do everyone a favor and put your own name next to it.

For two, I happen to actually care for what particular angle the submitter had in mind when posting a link. This is not a Reuters, this is a discussion place and every discussion has a starting point. You change "Algorithms" to "Nurses", you change the point. You do it halfway through the discussion - congratulations, you just f#cked up the whole discussion. This is what I meant by "ruining". Who the hell cares about eventual consistency of HN archives if one can't readily understand the context of what's actually people are talking about now.

</edit>

Try this - say, HN adds an option of keeping the original title. Let's further assume this is not a default. Can you please explain how did you arrive at "It would change HN dramatically, and almost certainly disastrously"?
Rippetoe's workout is not as simple as the article portrays "built around five old-fashioned lifts" and all that. The rumors people may have heard are true, he really does write sixty pages on how to squat properly without hurting yourself, and other exercises.

The article also has a strong style over substance aspect wrt "photographs were so poorly shot". No they're actually pretty awesome if you're trying to learn how to do this safely. Its like complaining that an engineering blueprint of a perfect engine camshaft doesn't capture the fluffy marketing message of the car, well, yeah, that's kinda not the point...

Its interesting how SS has taken over the field. I've been lifting on and off (mostly off) for about 30 years and will certainly start back up again sooner or later, and its interesting watching how the field has almost universally crystallized on SS for the noobs. In like, the 80s, there was a lot more variety and a lifter might start on machines or freeweights fairly randomly.
you might consider dropping a day. 2 on / 1 off / 2 on / 2 off

I found that 5x/week led to an overtrained state.
Making a Map: CS:GO Museum
I don't think it's an unfair question: clarifying what's intended by "intellectually gratifying" would help a lot of people. Left so vague, some portion of people seem to find, say, political hit pieces to be absolutely fascinating.

To me it's about learning something new that I didn't know and maybe hadn't even thought about before. If it's about politics or economics or by Reason.org or Krugman, it's probably part of an argument, and not written for the sake of conveying an interesting fact.
I don't want to rain on anybody's parade, but before starting a serious deadlifting / squat / snatch / jerk routine, please please go to a trainer. You need instruction for correct form. The aforementioned exercises will work very well for you, but if performed incorrectly they can permanently injure your back. If money is a concern, there are often private trainers (I can give references in sf) not associated with a gym that are very affordable -- eg $65/hour in sf, much less expensive elsewhere.

NB: a good trainer can, at minimum, perform those exercises for reps with more than bodyweight. Many gyms -- 24 hour fitness and crunch come to mind -- employ "trainers" who appear to hopefully have read a book but are wildly unprepared to train others in exercises that can destroy body parts if performed incorrectly.
On client-server and evolution
Part 1: emergence of the apex predator

Known from early Paleolithic era, client-server was probably the first and to this day, most successful, way to deal with scaling information systems outside of a single computer. We find fossilized remains all across the world, from polar circles to the equator, deep in the trenches and high in space. Officially, this gigantic apex predator does not exist anymore, been long displaced by more sophisticated and/or nimble architectures. However, its legacy can be easily traced both in the genotype and phenotype of the modern software species. In some sense, it’s more alive today than when it was the only available option...
A related article (2010) "Everything you know about fitness is a lie" -- http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/everything-yo...
Good question. I'd like to know too. It seems like the stock market would be the most relevant arena to seek examples from.

Anyone know what kind of regulations prevent sneaky behavior in the stock market? How do they work?
Commonsense does suggest that, but I've heard such a wide variety of people with different linguistic backgrounds say that Mandarin was the hardest language they learnt that I'm inclined to believe there is some real underlying difference.
I figure Stronglifts is more accessible because of the rows instead of powercleans (which are hard to do right), and as you as the app is great.
>"Predictably, there is a very high OxyContin addiction rate there"

Missing the point. There is a very high addiction rate of alcohol, caffeine, porn, and sugar. Addicts are going to be addicted. Society has not yet collapsed despite these legal addictions running rampant. Closing the oxy loophole would lower oxy use. The same people would move on to different substances. What positive has been accomplished? Some of them would spend decades in jail, despite causing no other harm or threat to society. Think big picture. Are you trying to have a civil society or are you trying to end addiction? The only way to end addiction is the extinction of the human race.
Everyone is different.

No two people respond the same to the same exercise.

No two people respond the same to the same diet.

Period.
I've heard the "you're too expensive" too many times. How do you handle that? It's actually made me second guess myself and my rates in the past.
Doesn't look like it from the home page.
Ah, no I wasn't. The file format page simply marks that region as reserved. http://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html
Cherie King, a deaf traveler, and her iPad
What was both Iraq and Afghanistan wars for, if not for oil? Americans always claim that they want to cease dictatorship and build "democracy", but strangely, they only tend to do it in countries that have some natural resources in high quantities available (mostly oil). At the same time they don't even bother about democracy in most of the Africa.
OOP in JavaScript "done right"
It sounds like you knew your chances were slim but it still stung a bit? Why? I'd think if you braced yourself for that it wouldn't be as painful.

That's awesome that you were able to get the team to move forward and focus on the new product. Is there any fear or struggle with getting customers for that one?
WoW has real economy? please

This is classical EVE Online ponzi scam.

http://www.tentonhammer.com/eve/news/eve-online-ponzi-scheme...

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/12/biggest-eve-online-s...

http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2011/08/18/how-two-people-sc...
If your delimiter appears in a field, the field needs to be quoted.
Counter tactics? The bill from doing it their way.
It strongly depends on the person. If you get enough sleep and you have high testosterone, you can pretty much train every day. Your advice does hold true for most of the population though.
The New York Times KPI’s
Personally, I think the worst sort of intellectual is the one that gets all judgmental and mad at people based on flimsy hearsay information.
Nice! Last update was in 2005, sadly, but I've just installed the screensaver version. :)

It seems like this might be an idea whose time has come--the page bemoans the loss of simple, evocative, lo-fi visuals, which have very much come back into fashion since 2005.
IF your library is a solid library, then release it. What he is saying though, is don't roll your own if you can use a solid library. And if a good solid library exists, why bother writing your own?
As someone who started with Starting Strength about a year ago, and who goes to a gym in Manhattan with lots of trainers around...

Nope. The book is far superior to any of the trainers I've encountered. The book has so much detail on each exercise, it will take you weeks to absorb it, but if you read relevant parts before/after each workout, to make sure you're doing everything right, you'll probably wind up with much better form and technique than a random trainer's personal opinions.

And if you don't already know the correct form/technique, then how on earth are you going to evaluate which trainer you can trust? Answer: you can't. The book is the way to go, if you can be conscientious about reading it thoroughly, constantly reviewing it, and following what it says.
It might be a slight typo, but I think that s23 is referring to the 3rd index in s2. Since the 4th character (or index 3 in a 0-index string), is the one that is causing the leak, this must be where the null character is.
Any chance you could also update the slides as PDFs in addition to all the videos, and maybe even PDF document/HTML versions of the same information in textual form? Some of us prefer reading stuff to watching a talk.
Hmm, I just did a spot-check and medicine (including alternative medicine and supplements) seems to be getting better - the articles I recalled being terrible have improved. Climate is still pretty broken - the article on "climategate" is exhibit A - but maybe that'll come around eventually too. One can hope.
Well the standard says to double the double quote to escape it. If you are seeing \" or even """ to escape a quote, then someone isn't following the standard.
Is there any evidence this is actually moving ahead? Seems somewhat stalled.
I blogged about the advantages/disadvantages of trampolines in JavaScript a while back. See http://taylodl.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/functional-javascrip....

I'm preparing to analyze TCO in ES6. I'll do a write up of my analysis.
Thank you for taking all of 5 minutes of your precious time to speak justice and pass judgement based on a magazine article. I am sure future generations will marvel at your wisdom, O Solomon.
Vinod Khosla's Predictions on the Future of Healthcare
In the US, if you avoid debt at all costs, you get a rude awakening when you apply even for secured loans because you have "no credit". What's worse, the "what's my score" sites will tell you you have a high score, even as every lender thinks you're a hobo!

Yes, I know (now) that there are ways to get out of the catch 22 (get a tiny limit or secured CC) but it was an unpleasant surprise at the time given that it's drilled into you that "you should stay away from debt and credit cards" (which really means CCs on which you don't pay in full each month, and which you must carry).

Is the Netherlands anything like that on credit?
Well a lot of times you are reading in a csv file given to you by someone else. You can't expect it to be "simple" and you need to parse it correctly
It took Quora support several weeks to delete my account, and only after repeated requests.
The UI looks to be heavily inspired by Mixpanel's
Its one thing for me to fail, its completely another thing for my two sons to not get the recognition our customers and I know they deserve.

RE: getting customers for the next product. Again, we're building for a specific client so the bills will be paid. If it fails to generate interest to people beyond that we'll live. But we have a lot less anxiety over that since a straight B2B product is a lot easier crowd to sell to than your peers.
What is wrong with trying to be all things to all people? If you use a good solid library you don't need to tell people "this works with some versions of MS Excel" And that is the main point of the article.
I wonder if this will have any implications for spatialite? If spatialite were a little better able to make automatic use of spatial indexes, I could easily see it becoming the default foundation for many open source GIS.
Usually explaining that paying me £x per day works out the same or just a little more than the equivalent salary for a full time developer, works ok. If they still complain after that then I usually don't take them on unless I'm desperate and give them a rates cut.
Finally a fitness article that says "Just do it". There really isn't a silver bullet to this stuff. If you keep working out, you will become stronger and eventually if you also eat reasonably well you will start looking better as well.

It's as simple as that. No miracles required, just a bit of patience.

Personally the solution I've found works best for me follows two simple rules:

1. Never be hungry and never be stuffed.

2. Do a simple 15 minute bodyweight routine 3 to 4 times a day. Do nothing every 4th day.

When conditions are right (I'm living in Ljubljana) I will also add boxing training 3 to 5 times a week and I've been running every day lately because I can't do boxing. It works really well. I look bloody amazing naked.

edit: The only problem I have with this much working out is that when I can't do boxing for an extended period of time I have too much energy and become edgy. Like, things just make me angrier than they should and I have trouble sitting still. The running helps, but isn't quite strenuous enough.

edit2: The BEST part of working out this much is all the food you get to eat. And with much greater delight than if you're not working out.
When a user does not yet have sufficient USD on deposit with Gox to buy the bitcoins they want, they deposit more, and MtGox now has more real USD under their control. It's not a matter of selling the coins for real vs fake USD.
Post a sample .csv file you believe is too difficult.

I will solve your problem with only UNIX utilities. And I'm sure others will solve it other ways.

Usually I only need sed and tr. Sometimes lex or AWK.

Arguing about something without ever pointing to an example accomplishes nothing; it's just whining.

Post an example.

Thank you.
Batman vs. Wonderwoman
Because Excel doesn't export JSON.
Because if you have a table, offering comma delimited field is easy.
But really, people you work with give you csv files, and you don't have a choice.
I refuse to talk cost until they have a way to judge value. For example, i might turn a spreadsheet into a program. It won't have everything but they'll be able to see something. Then I can say, OK, this is what I did, this is working, this isn't, and it took me X hours. Now I can tell them my rate and they can judge value. I've never failed to get a client once I was able to get them to that point.
I've found that, in practice, traditional neural networks tend to be prone to overfitting and are finicky about their parameters (in particular the topology and number of nodes you choose).

I use the word "traditional" to describe the NN architecture discussed in the article. Recent NN research has been promising [1], but this article strictly discusses traditional NN's. I don't really have much experience with the newer NN algorithms, so I'm not sure to what extent they suffer from the same problems as traditional NN's.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network#Recent_improveme...
For node-based API backends, I've been using Sails.js or Deployd. In addition to providing automatic RESTful CRUD APIs for your data models, both Sails and Deployd also provide WebSocket interfaces that make it really easy to support real-time capabilities without doing any extra work. It doesn't look like LoopBack does that.

I've been particularly happy with Sails.js as the backend framework for my single-page web apps. I get rid of the Sails view system and use it solely as an API backend. The current 0.10 beta, which adds support for associations in data models, is really nice.
the nice thing about fitness is you need no tools more than your own body, though shoes do help.

Really. Only your body and the space to use it.
Social engineer explains how to break into an airport
I really think you should give Minuum a try. I've used most of the ones you listed above (Swype, Swiftkey, 8Pen, Fleksy) and ended up sticking with Minuum. I've been using it for almost a year and don't regret switching. I used to love Swype, but it started to get pretty slow and once I switched to Minuum, it was nice to see how much screen space I could reclaim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_madoff

The world (of warcraft?) economy.
Wow, thanks for those links. Though I knew of Lenin's mausoleum and Romania's mega Palace of the People.

But that statue, The Motherland Calls, wow!
I do not have a NYTimes subscription, please consider not posting from this website.
Well, the whole Sherlock Holmes magic is based on that.
> but their work can shift to research.

Can we use that much researchers ? what are the other barriers assuming doctors are willing ?
Looks really awesome. Building my REST app with Baucis right now and finding ACL built-in is really nice!

Any plans for using Express > 4.x? More and more stuff is targeting Express 4.x these days.