skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly my thought. It's the same thing with meeting someone on The Bachelor or something. I don't care if you want to date 25 people and winnow them down in a rose ceremony, or if you want to televise your rushed courtship, but I'm very nearly 100% sure that I would never want to date anyone willing to participate in that particular spectacle. Same thing here - I don't care if you want to marry someone for their money or their body if that's what you're into. I'm pretty damn sure I want no part in it.
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I agree with what you are saying, and I think this is perhaps the most important tradeoff that many CMS designs do not deal with properly.

This is particularly true of the current plethora of 'static site generators', many of which are not really improvements in any aspect.

If you build a static site, you can concentrate on making sure a rebuild is quick; if you build a dynamic site, you can concentrate on making sure the data structure is robust to scaling.

You might never be without these problems, but you can minimise them to the extent that they are no longer costing your users excessively.

It's not that we need to go back and forth: either solution could work perfectly fine for all but the heaviest sites.
Does Piratebox support wireless bridging or mesh? This is a super handy feature of dd-wrt (http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index).
what makes this better than firebase?
Apple absolutely has graphics driver teams for iOS and OS X. They control a significant portion of the driver stack, not to mention the rendering APIs.
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Doesn't that just mean there'll be an underground AmazonTurk for people happy to visit websites to noodle around for a few minutes / hours?
So the solution he proposes at the end is to use Mantle? AMD has already proven themselves incompetent (or are they only unwilling?) at implementing OpenGL, unable to compete with either Intel or Nvidia, and now they want to fragment graphics APIs? And this is the 'solution'?

As for OpenGL's issues - that's what happens when a spec gets old enough. But the fact remains, it's the only graphics API that could be called 'universal', they have modernized the spec, and despite all its failings, somehow it still delivers better performance than DirectX...
I had great fun writing a silly toy kernel module a few weeks back, ( https://github.com/benjojo/dev_markov ) Would totally recommend anyone curious giving it a go.
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"Like it or lump it" is not a great advertising strategy :)

I suspect the point about this subset-of-GL4 thing is that what you can rely on in practice is OpenGL3, plus enough extensions to bring it up to something closer to OpenGL4. Take a look at the Unity3D hardware stats (http://stats.unity3d.com/index.html) or the Steam hardware stats (http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/) - ~50% of the Unity market and ~25% of the Steam market is pre-DX11, which I believe limits it to OpenGL3 at most.

I might agree that the the author of this piece is a bit careless about distinguishing between OpenGL as it is implemented and OpenGL as it is specified. Aside from the bind points nonsense, and the massive pile of random 16-bit values that is GLenum, the OpenGL spec doesn't actually require everything to be this total clusterfuck. I'm not aware of any specified reason why the GLSL compiler couldn't just as easily be a shared component (as it is in Direct3D), for example, and I don't recall the bit where the spec insists on shitty drivers. Still, we have to work with what's there, not with what should be there, and when what's there is a bit of a mess, it's absolutely fair to call it what it is.
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Yes - I have an INC or LLC for a bootstrap style (no intent for funding) business

:-)
You don't think the supposed difference in values is the result of ignorance of how the internet works? Or what a security researcher does? Or that security researchers exist as a hobby and profession? Or that the security of the internet at large depends on people who do this? That the every-other-month theft of giant numbers of credit cards or passwords can be prevented if white hat hackers find the security hole first? I would expect most people don't know that big companies like Facebook or Google offer bounties to people who find exploits, or that bugs that threaten the entire internet are routinely found by people who donate their time in order to protect people they don't even know, and who don't know they exist.

The facts of the case: someone broke into a computer system without permission.

The inability to interpret those facts in the light of what a security researcher does isn't a result of different values, but a lack of knowledge of the context. People who don't know how computers or the internet work are open to being told whatever story the prosecution decides to spin.

Edit: I think the ignorance is actually made clear by the example in the GP. Imagine some good Samaritan is walking past a jewelry store after closing time. They notice that the front door is ajar, and upon testing they find that the alarm doesn't go off when they enter the store. So they call the owners and wait in the store until the owner can get there and make sure the store is secure.

Do you think it's likely that this person would be prosecuted? Or, if they were, that the prosecutors and judge would throw the book at them to "make an example"? People understand that scenario and are likely to treat it with leniency in a way that they don't understand the equivalent scenario in computing.

P.S., Always a pleasure to be slapped down by tptacek :)
I wrote a real-time transit app for my city and the second-most requested feature is a widget for a favorite stop that will display ETA automatically. As a frequent bus rider myself, I would make a lot of use out of something like that.
PS4 doesn't use OpenGL. No game console I'm aware of has ever used OpenGL. (The PS3 is the closest example, since it used to let you run Linux, so you could run Mesa - but the GPU wasn't accessible to you.) I don't know why people keep claiming that a given console runs OpenGL.
This list is yet another example of how the condemned receive something that neither their victims nor most other convicts get: a ceremonial death. They get last words. A last meal. Last rites with the clergy. Candlelight vigil by those against capital punishment. Final appeals to the courts and to the governor for clemency. Witnesses to the execution. To rot in obscurity would be greater punishment for these people. Instead they get to go out as celebrities, complete with profiles on an official government website. Disgusting.
> If two actors A and B send a message to an actor C and expect a response from it, they are sharing memory: what's in C's state.

Ok in that respect there is just one big pile of shared memory in the whole world, isn't it (maybe except for military air-gaped system). It is the equivalent of saying if A makes an HTTP post to server C the it shares memory. Well ok, I am not sure what you mean by "shared memory", usually it means living in the same heap. So can access it via a pointer or reference.
I remember my version of @home's ad fondly after buying Excite:

"I don't wanna grow, I wanna buy a crappy portal! (let's grow!)"
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This is what Tails is doing:

https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/replace_truecrypt/
You touch on a very unusual aspect of corporate law...Dissolution

I will not provide any legal advice here, but the concept of letting "it lapse" verse filing articles of dissolution with the State to wind down the business can have significant impact on liabilities/legal rights of the owner/directors/officers/entity. I have seen very bizarre situations where each was the right thing to do under a given set of facts.
I use spark a lot and my experience has been quite the opposite. The queries I run against spark are billions of events and results are sub-second.

I could only speculate as to what this users issues were. One difference between hadoop and spark is that it is more sensitive in that you sometimes need to tell it how many tasks to use. In practice it is no big deal at all.

Perhaps the user was running into this- the data for a task in spark runs all in memory, whereas hadoop will load and spill to disk within a task. So if you give a single hadoop reducer 1TB of data, it will complete after a very long time. In spark if you did this you would need to have 1TB of memory on the executor. I wouldn't give an executor/JVM anything over 10GB. So if you have lots of memory, just be sure to balance it with cores and executors.

I have seen spark use up all the inodes on systems before. A job with 1000 map and 1000 reduce tasks would create 1M spill files on disk. However that was on an earlier version of spark and I was using ext3. I think this has since been improved.

For me spark runs circles around hadoop.
AFAICT, generally (and, of course, as this is mostly a state law question, there will be variations in details from state to state), the single member of a Single Member LLC (SMLLC) receives the same protection from liability as those of a multi-member LLC (or shareholders of a corporation), but in many states an SMLLC is not as protected from liability for the personal debts of its single member as is the case with a multi-member LLC.

Single member LLCs may be more likely to have defective LLC operating agreements (apparently, a common error is to use a template agreement designed for a multi-member LLC) or be more prone to having the owner engage in the kind of behavior that would permit piercing the corporate veil, but that's not the same thing as the SMLLC form not having the same protection as other LLCs.

EDIT: Just to reiterate a point others have made in this thread, if you are making a decision on this for a business you plan to run, do consult an attorney knowledgeable in the laws of the jurisdiction you plan to operate in. Big picture discussions may give you an idea of the landscape and the concerns you need to be aware of, but you don't want to find out too late that a critical detail wasn't covered, and a couple paragraphs on HN aren't going to cover all (or, likely, even a sizable fraction) of the salient details of business law relevant to your circumstance.
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You're being downvoted but you're absolutely correct.

Even today, in the 21st century, the US Congress mandates Solid Rocket Boosters in all NASA heavy lifters, as a Congressional mandate with strong oversight on design to ensure compliance.

The reason is purely political. There is no engineering or scientific benefit to SRB's, not a single one.

But there are benefits to propping up SRB companies with NASA purchase mandates that we source ICBM stuff from.
And how many of those run DirectX? Are we really trying to debate whether or not OpenGL is more portable than DirectX across platforms? Really?
I think they have it for free now, and they have showcased a data filtering capability where you can hook your API's into it. They have no documentation for it, but that's what they are going for. So both JS and Server in your control :) I like the idea.
...because it's not.
Yeah, it sounds likely - but my point is that you would get used to it after a few days,and could continue using your car exactly as you did before. And all new cars would be produced with dials using km/h as the main unit,so the problem would eventually go away on its own. The only problem that I can think of occurs if your car somehow doesn't have a dual kph/mph dial,and shows miles per hour only. Then yes, it becomes an issue.
Are you talking about the Federal bankruptcy issues, differences in state law, etc?

http://www.keytlaw.com/azllclaw/asset-protection/single-memb...

I think this has a good summary of the potential pitfalls.
Great design work!

But I have to wonder, how is this different from Pinterest?
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Man. Thanks for posting that. That hits hard.

> Tonight, we tell our children that in some instances, in some cases, killing is right.

> a system that is supposed to protect and uphold what is just and right can be so much like me when I made the same shameful mistake.
The activity most likely to lead to more blogging is "more writing". Its easy to blame the CMS/Blogging tool/SSG, etc., but really - those who write, will.
Excel killer is worth a billion dollars easily.

Hint: It won't look like Excel.
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I'd love to see a world where an enormous network of these makes big telecom obsolete. Don't think the issues with big internet will ever push enough people into creating this but at least there's a safety net. Pun intended?
Ask HN: How do you *really* get a good Software Engineering job?
It seems like anything I do is never good enough. I can know how to code in multiple languages and provide decent coding examples. But, there is always one little thing that I didn't have in order to get the job. It feels like job postings are not very honest at what they are looking for either. An example would be of a 'Frontend Engineer' job posting that I got an email response back from the hiring manager for, and he asked for a link to a fully functioning and non-trivial web app that I had built before. Wtf? I have not built that as of now (even though I am confident I could). And it would not have been in the companies preferred stack anyways. I just want to know one thing: WTF do hiring managers actually want? And why do they almost never seem know themselves? Sorry for the rant but it just seems like this industry is a load of bullshit.
I'm calling out the incredibly common lies that
a) game consoles use OpenGL
b) all major game platforms use OpenGL.

Like it or not, neither of those are true. It might be nice if they were.

OpenGL is obviously still a widely-supported choice on desktop PCs (and mobiles), so that's not in question.
Also, regarding the `many ways' section, which bits are removed in the core profile? It looks like everything he complains about is still there in the 4.3 core profile...
This does actually look pretty cool, and I too am a fan of local app+1 time payment.
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Good links indeed. And interesting. Thank you.
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> Everything I've thought about has been done already. That feeds into the negative feedback/lazyness cycle I'm stuck in.

Here's something I've learned.

Truly novel ideas--something that nobody else has ever thought of--are extremely uncommon. Like, once-in-a-lifetime uncommon. If you're waiting for the day when your biggest contribution to humanity is an original idea, you'll find only disappointment.

But that doesn't mean you can't be successful (whatever that word may mean for you). Most of the world's "innovations" simply rehash existing ideas, but do so in a way that stands out above the rest. To make something great like that takes a combination of talent and experience. While you can't exactly control for raw talent, you can, given time, build the requisite skills and experience.

This--for me and I hope for you too--is extremely encouraging. It allows me to dive deeply into my work and, yes, my ideas, without worrying about how original they are or if others are doing the same. Knowing that I can be successful if I work hard enough--all without ever having an original thought enter my head--takes a lot of the pressure off and allows me to free up space to be creative without worrying about the repercussions. As a result, and contrary to what you might expect, this makes it more likely I'll one day have that crazy idea that nobody else had.

This is only my experience, of course. But my hope is that you'll realize it's okay and perfectly normal to be, as you described, "idea bankrupt," as long as you realize that ideas aren't your only currency.
I don't know why there's so much hate here, but I actually find the redesign much easier to comprehend quickly, without constant head-turning to read axis labels. The rephrasing of charts labels to, eg "Number of companies financed", in readable fonts makes things so much easier.

@EmilandDC, I really hope you do a complete redesign of the admittedly long presentation. I gave up a few slides in when I came across the original, but I am more likely to make it all the way through if I can read it in your presentation style.
As a note to the OP, "Growth Hacking Pro" and Buzzfeed-style headlines typically do not go over well with this crowd. As it is, I can (and will) live without these tactics :)
In this picture, they show the PirateBox attached to the bottom of a skateboard:

http://piratebox.cc/faq

Can it actually run this way? Do they actually have a portable way of powering this device?
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There might be some people in the world for whom text reveals more of the interviewee's secrets, and other people that pick up more via face to face interviews.

I'm willing to bet that for most people the latter is more intuitive.
And on the flip side... If you let your emotions get the better of you one time, there's always 2nd chance.

Which lesson should be taught to kids?
It's incredible to hear stories where businesses will self immolate just to protect a cherished cash cow. Microsoft's reluctance to make many of their products free online can be seen as a special case of this. And game theory wise Google was quite sharp to start offering under-featured products such as Google docs for free online. Despite the fact that these products had only a fraction of the features of e.g. Word, they were a direct attack on Microsoft's cherished cash cow (Office), and put Microsoft in the incredibly uncomfortable position of either having to begin innovating and offering their products online at deeply discounted prices (and hurting themselves further), or just sitting still while Google's initially awful offerings became more feature rich and a more threatening competitor.

In business inertia is often death.
Fantastic advice. As a software developer, this is how I'd like to be recruited. A strong signal for me is when the first contact contains: a personally crafted appeal (why specifically are you interested in me?), a "technical vision" as described in the article, and evidence that there's developers in the recruiting system, such as the first contact coming from a tech lead or engineer.
The UK took a while and still hasn't switched some units. Our speed limits are miles per hour; beer on draught in pubs is sold in pints and half pints (and it is not legal to sell it in other units even if clearly labelled with conversions).
>> The one thing holding me back the most, and probably the reason I didn't land a job sooner was that in contracting land, you're expected to start pretty much the next day, and I had a 2-4 week wait before becoming available.

This can be true, but can also be a load of cobblers from recruitment agents. On top of that if you contract in banking, the reference/background/credit checks take at least 2-3 weeks anyway.

>> Oh, and don't trust recruiters. They're a necessary evil.

I'd change that to "don't trust all recruiters". If you can find a good one that tells you the truth, stick with them.
Companies like Sony use in-house custom versions of OpenGL for their API's.

They support OpenGL but aren't using it out of the box for their toolset.

See: libgcm, gnm, gnmx. Although I'm not positive that gnm/gnmx are opengl derivative.

Also see: http://develop.scee.net/files/presentations/gceurope2013/Par... (pdf warning)
"You are not using HTTPS. Are you fucking stupid?"

> SSL certificate invalid

gg guys
I've been a solo founder for 10 years. Not only do I work only a couple of hours each day, I take lots of vacations. I've traveled for 40+ days at a time without problems.

However, when you say "remote" places, do you mean places with absolutely no internet access? If that's the case, you're going to have a tougher time. But there are really few places in the world that don't have internet access.

I recommend you read a book called "Work the System". It will teach you step by step how to create processes and train people to run aspects of your business that either you don't want to do yourself, or can't do due to travelling, etc.

http://www.workthesystem.com/
Step 1: Think of them as "women" and not "girls."
I'm following the series! Very informative.
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Or separate symbols for the beginning and end of a quote, so nesting is unambiguous. You know, something like:

(quote Wonder what their victims word cloud would look like? (quote Mercy) (quote Please) (quote I'm begging) (quote I want my Mommy!) (quote Help))

Everyone just needs to learn s-expressions.
That is documented in text/template.
https://www.zerotier.com/

Right now this is a side project, though it does have billing enabled and an LLC. I'm not sure if this is going to turn into a high-growth funded thing or a lifestyle business. Part of that depends on what I want, and part of it depends on how much traction I get when I start really promoting it.

So far it's got about a hundred regular users with basically zero advertising beyond a few posts and word of mouth promotion. That's been intentional -- I've wanted a small group of beta testers to make sure there are no major issues. With the most recent update and completely new site design I plan to start really advertising and promoting and seeing what happens.

So far reaction has been very positive from a lot of people, so I'm encouraged.
That's precisely what makes me so excited about them (and physical computing in general). The next Jobs/Woz team is working on that stuff right now and it seems as weird to the layperson as PCs did back when the Berkley Homebrew Club was doing its thing.
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Given that games cost $50 in 2000, they should be costing $68 in 2014 based on inflation alone. So if anything, games are much cheaper today for much more content on a man-hour basis.
I... I'm not sure what I expected, but that was brilliant.
Too bad you're getting downvoted, because it's true.
plus Scala's `Future[T]` has a better design than C#'s Task

Why? The one issue I have with Task is the aggravating SynchronizationContext/continueOnCapturedContext. ConfigureAwait(false) really should have been the default. Otherwise, my experience with both seems about equivalent.
Google "asset protection of single member LLC" to find a trove of scholarly/legal articles on the subject, add your State for State specific explanation.

Basically, the LLC derives its existence from "partnership laws", just as it sounds partnerships entail two or more owners. As a result, the majority (if not all) States have case law on point where the Courts do not extend asset protection where there is only 1 owner of the LLC.

Here is the Florida Supreme Court Case on point, but I am certain you will find a similar case in most other jurisdictions, and if you do not find a case from your state, more likely than not it is because they did not hear a similar case yet (LLCs have only been existed in the US since 1977, and States slowly adopted the concept over time), not because they have case law going the other direction: http://assetprotectionworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/O...
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not sure why, it seemed useful enough to me

Automated spam filtering would be my guess. Using a throwaway account with no history probably didn't help.
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