skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again, the critics and the LibreSSL team are talking two different languages.

To LibreSSL, if the OS doesn't have a secure, reliable source of entropy, it's broken, and the "right" behavior for a crypto library is to fail. That's even an option in the Linux compatibility layer -- if there's no good entropy source, fail.

To the critics, the entropy the responsibility of the crypto library, and if the OS can supply it, the library should have a fallback.

The LibreSSL fallback layer is what's in question here, and if you really want security, don't use the fallback layer and get a fixed for the Linux kernel that provides the ideal kind of OS-level entropy.
Communication Hacks #02: Surprise mothaf#cka
Thanks for the heads up on that, my downloads folder resides on another drive. This app wouldn't be much help :(
Hello everyone,

I am building a website ( http://libflow.com ) to share free documents, textbooks and papers. The purpose of it is to host free material that can be readily accessed with no paywalls, subscriptions forms or ads.
This started as a personal project, but it is growing and I would like to know if there is someone who would like to support it. It is not a for-profit project, and does not have a business model. However, I have a long term goal of (financially) supporting the creation of more free materials (e.g. textbooks) and make them available for free. Therefore I am also interested in the possibility of generating some revenue without ads.
Certainly that's only good for AirBNB. They'll get free press out of a otherwise non-newsworthy event.
Communication hacks #01 – Create your own Archenemy
A nonlinear blog. “Prezi for Word”
Only a select few of the largest companies in the world employ 1,000,000+ people. The chance that a startup company will displace an international conglomerate like Walmart (most of whom's employees work for very low wages) is nil.
yes - 2011

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37122.html

Venue : Proceedings of Scala Days 2011

Publication Year: 2011
Our previous versions were solicited to friends and family, people who were going to sign up anyway and who knew roughly that we were trying to build a platform for Bitcoin derivatives. I suppose I've been way too focused on getting the double-entry bookkeeping and other accounting layers perfect to think "would I sign up for this landing page". So yes, this is very helpful feedback (even if it does make me feel a bit silly).

Previous feedback had been that our tutorials were extremely long and that our interface was too cluttered; I think it's probable we swung too far in the opposite direction and need to find a healthy medium.

I don't think it's a suspicious idea if you start to think about the problem that volatility causes with Bitcoin adoption. There are many derivatives platforms out there now beginning to grow but most cater to offshore sophisticated investors and speculators. We are trying to build a market around a derivative product that would be eminently useful to Bitcoin businesses and make serious steps towards other derivative products that would smooth out the bumps in the Bitcoin price.

Thanks for the feedback.
I don't expect it to (and I agree with him, I'd rather have a REAL app), but my needs are modest.
the go side of that paper should be accompanied by this link, always:

http://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs
I noticed there's a lite and pro version of the app. You might want to combine these into one app for a couple reasons off the top of my head:

- easier maintenance and sanity for you as a developer/creator

- leverages lite users to just for example pay an in-app purchase to upgrade (vs having to discover the paid/pro version)
> You can save a ton of money using your local library though.

I'm quite specific about what I want to read. My local library (that happens to be just round the corner) never has what I want. I often don't even seem to be able to order in what I want. So I gave up and just buy books on a Kindle instead.
Weavi is the product we have been working on for over one year and a half. The motivation is that some people need to write and share nonlinear content, like mindmaps, manuals, knowledge blogs, or even books, in which they need define the order of content as they wish, not timeline by default.

The present solution is adding many tags and dividing your systematic content into different parts like "How to be a good writer 1""How to be a good writer 2", and your readers are likely to see "2" before "1". We know the design of blog (web log) is not for usage of this situation.

So, we build Weavi: "a nonlinear editor"+"free subdomain setting for every single article like abc.edf.weavi.com".

Weavi is a great tool to organize and share thoughts.

Happy to answer any questions, comments, or concerns.
This thread started with drz saying we should leave everyone to their own devices, and "those with highest merit deserve representation". I agree that this should be happening, but I disagree that it is happening. drz then claimed that you can't dictate interest. I disagreed. drz claimed that only taking and passing CS courses can "show interest". This is obviously false; if ever a woman was interested but then discriminated against, she might not pass the CS course. I submitted an article on stereotype threat, which is one reason that competent women might not succeed in class or industry. I think drz took this to mean that I thought women were, on average, as competent as men. I admit to getting confused at that last change in topic since I don't think it's relevant or interesting. No one in the original article, or anyone else in this conversation, has made that claim.
I wanted to come and type that up here; when we do apps, web, scaling, cdn, file storage, trivial SSL etc we just prep for AWS. All the scripts are there as most people ask for it and it always works. With their solid offerings and constant price drops I would see no reason to ever move. It's all the stuff so painful once and now is all such a warm bath.
> They do not like the solution proposed (Title II reclassification)

Title II is not the solution proposed by the FCC, its an alternative to Title I (Section 706) regulation on which the FCC asked for comment. FCCs proposed solution in the NPRM is revising its approach to Section 706 regulation in a way which it hopes will survive court review better than the last attempt at this, rather than resorting to Title II.
Hi, I'm an engineer on Montage. We decided to use Dart to help manage the complexity of a large HTML5 application. From this standpoint, Dart has been amazing. We value having a structured language that supports optional typing, libraries and namespaces. So being able to have language features like this has been very productive for web development.

If you do choose Dart for your next web project, you'll probably decide between using Angular.dart or Polymer.dart for building your UI. Polymer is Google's implementation of the emerging Web Components spec. The project is still early, and they're still hammering out the implementation. It seems like things are stabilizing though, but don't be surprised if you face some gnarly bugs or breaking changes. Angular is probably more mature, but I don't follow the project closely enough.

We started working on Montage before the Dart versions of Polymer and Angular. Because of this, we're using WebUI, which is the predecessor to Polymer. We plan on migrating to Polymer soon.

Hopefully this is helpful. I plan on writing up a post that goes into more detail of our experience with Dart.
benchmark - now 2014 : http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
That's basically http://www.smartbackyard.com/ (from SmartGardener.com)
I wish I was only bullied physically as a student, then I probably wouldn't be saddled with issues 15+ years later.

Oh I forgot, I was a boy though so it doesn't matter.
> I think people want TItle II partially as retaliation for the ISPs being as terrible as they are.

I think people want Title II because they support the general direction of the 2010 FCC regulations, and recognize that those are very much common-carrier style regulations and that there is significant doubt that they can both pass legal muster under Title I and retain their substance
That's good to hear. Thanks for pointing it out. I wonder if streaming will be a "free" feature or a "premium" feature? For now, it's back to Pocket Casts.
Would be nice if someone could make an arduino/pi one :) off to hackaday to have a look. $495 is a bit steep for me.
Something that many people keep missing out is Automator. You can easily create a Folder Action in Automator and makes magical stuff happen. I think Automator is really underused for many people.

I should make one for myself and open source it.
F# most definitely allows null values. They might not be encouraged, you can't always assign a literal null to a type, but null is very much a first class concept in F#.

You're far less likely to run into them in F# code compared to C#, though.
Reddit has a semi-active aquaponics community too, it's worth checking out: http://www.reddit.com/r/aquaponics/

It's been a wanna-hobby of mine for about a year now. Been too busy so far this year though.
Yes, and the title was rewritten as well [1].

Submitters: please use an article's title unless it is linkbait or misleading [2].

1. Submitted title was "Google Publishes C++, Go, Java and Scala Performance Benchmarks"

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The music is in the video, that autoplays on scroll completion. Sorry if it annoys you.
2048 in OCaml with Js_of_ocaml (with some bugs)
Yes, however the mechanics for SEM are a bit different because you still have the ability to track which keywords (ads) ended up creating the incremental revenue, an option that has been taken away from SEO's over the past year's roll out of GA's (not provided) data.

I am not an SEM expert, but I think this kind of technique could be interesting to explore: http://www.seobook.com/business-lessons

- Simon
I think this is a step in the right direction for Airbnb. It has more warmth and personality, feels more accessible and less like a website created in 2005 (the existing button styles always irked me). A minor nitpick I have with the design is that video background header, on my desktop Mac with a screen resolution of 2560 x 1440 viewing in Chrome at maximum width and height the scaling bugs up and the heads of everyone are being cut off. As I drag the sides of my browser in, the heads come into view and looks much better. It looks a little strange with the cut off heads, perhaps centring the video would be the most ideal fix. The video content seems a little strange as well (especially the one of the woman sleeping).

I am loving that explore view and the subsequent single listing pages with the sticky quick book form. Definitely leaps and bounds better over the existing site. I don't know how I feel about that logo though. I love the story behind its creation, I love the versatility of it as a brand mark, but it kind of looks like a vagina/rocket ship. Hate to be crude, but once you see it, there is no unseeing it. Based on Tweets I've seen about it, I am not alone in thinking that.

Another thing that surprised me is the fact the site is only responsive to an extent. If you shrink your browser down small to that of an iPad mini, it kind of breaks. Surprised the site doesn't work at all resolutions considering the great teams they'd have to make it happen.
Source is here [1].

[1] https://github.com/dinosaure/demilekarantuite
I had no idea what it meant until the article described it. I can't unsee the pot now, but I still think it is confusing.
It isn't particularly surprising, but it would be much more interesting to look at margins vs revenue. What is the margin on that $5B vs the $3.1B? I'm guessing that given the recent price cuts in between Amazon, Google, Softlayer, and others that the margins are starting to get squeezed down a bit.

I find that particularly interesting when looking at the relative success of Docker. The reason being that IBM's Z1 mainframe seems to have better operational economics near full utilization than rack and stack servers do. You can see how that works by looking at where the OpenCompute stuff takes out cost, no more sheet metal around servers, shares power supplies etc.

Makes me think that 'blade' computing should have been 'building sized' from the beginning :-)
This is really old. C++, Java are mature languages. Scala hit 2.11 in March 2014, while Go version 1 was released in March 2012 and currently is at 1.3. Versions don't tell the whole story, but they do matter.
Why the First YC-Backed Biotech Company May Just Be the Future of Pharma
Segment.io (YC S11) Is Hiring Success Engineers
Archived version of the original article: http://web.archive.org/web/20131204090140/http://leschroniqu...
You could get away with a voluntary Wufoo survey limited to 5- 10 questions. Our company would have time for that (2-3 minutes?)
Thank you! Sorry, but we can't share the uncompiled source publicly.

Our experience with Dart has been very positive. I've written a brief response to a similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8045226. I hope to write a more detailed post about our experience when I find some time.
It's still a thing, though it does depend to some degree on one's manager.
Congresswoman defends “states’ rights” to protect ISPs from muni competition
Reminds me of the documentary: Berkeley in the 60s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEySwyM2ZQ0
Yes, but you can only read them on a Kindle device, not the app.
It's a shame how little the authors of the books see from that service.
The site design looks great. I've been curious about one of these systems for a while. I clicked to get started, and was greeted with a signup screen. Maybe I'm not your early adopter, but I stopped there. I wanted to see how the system really worked before I started giving you my personal information. Something you may want to consider.
The Monty Python added some official high quality videos, and that increased the official sales. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446807 (56 points, 2000 days ago, 43 comments) (56 points was a lot in those old days).
One thing I like about this reflection is the highlighting of the weirdness of the connection between a service's creators and its users. I'm on both sides of the fence, and I find myself wrestling with lots of different feelings towards my users (mostly positive, but not all). I guess this dynamic has existed since the printing press, but it feels a bit more intimate now since you can see the emails and read the tweets.
Functors are not parameterized signatures: they do not allow a signature to depend upon another signature, but rather a structure to depend on another structure. (However, SML/NJ has an extension called `funsig` which does what you have described).
Pretty slick video. The page is pretty buggy is some annoying ways. The chrome gesture for paging back doesn't work since I assume it's grabbing the mouse. When you page back or forwards to the page it reloads and it's white.
Walmart was a startup once. Starting a company to take on an entrenched giant is not rational. But I don't know what else I would do. It's right for me to take on Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis. Probably not for everyone.
Unfortunately it is truly annoying and very loud. Maybe warn folks before they blast that out their speakers in the wee small hours.
I actually was thinking this, because of a Mad Men episode[1] and came here to mention it.

Overall I like the logo, but the idea of something akin to the Hobo Code in particular is pretty brilliant IMHO. It's a very Don Draper idea :)

1: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1097128/
Wrong thread? Or do you know something we don't about Frame.io's choice of interaction framework? :)
Ugh, Bitcoins aren't stock, but I suppose for those caught up in its (so-called) "volatility" and whatever "derivatives" are supposed to be, this could be helpful. Sorry, not for me.
Why the Apple-IBM deal matters
May I suggest a new feature that I don't see in the fitness apps i've checked out. I listen to a lot of athletes on podcasts (JRE) and they always talk about proper form and its importance for taking care of your body. In things like yoga you could be damaging to your joints, spine, or muscles. Maybe have "exercise tips" or "learn how" section/videos. I know some exercises are intuitive and may not need this. Just throwing ideas.
Weavi is the product we have been working on for over one year and a half. The motivation is that some people need to write and share nonlinear content, like mindmaps, manuals, knowledge blogs, or even books, in which they need define the order of content as they wish, not timeline by default.

The present solution is adding many tags and dividing your systematic content into different parts like "How to be a good writer 1""How to be a good writer 2", and your readers are likely to see "2" before "1". We know the design of blog (web log) is not for usage of this situation.

So, we build Weavi: "a nonlinear editor"+"free subdomain setting for every single article like abc.edf.weavi.com".

Weavi is a great tool to organize and share thoughts. You can find it here: weavi.com

Happy to answer any questions, comments, or concerns.
I wonder if it's possible to design (and build) a digital sundial with arbitrarily many digits (the obvious upper bounds of 'arbitrary' imposed by our physical universe notwithstanding). It's an interesting thought experiment...

edit: spelling
this is so awesome, you have no idea how happy it makes me to hear someone is actually using this to get healthier! i would love to hear from you and how you are doing in half a year or so: if you want drop me a short line at muellerwolfram@gmail.com

I promise I will fix the scrolling issue in the meantime.

The reason why I decided against running the exercises one after the other is because it makes it possible to chose the length of the break yourself. When I do the 20 minute version for example, I almost skip the breaks altogether in the beginning, but in the end I am so exhausted that I almost need a whole minute to recover between exercises. But I guess I could make it an option.

Do you remember which exercises are lacking explanations? I really want to avoid videos, that would make the app size enormous.
While those are definitely interesting numbers, it's important to understand that for rapidly growing companies, jobs and revenue are typically trailing indicators of success, while valuation is more of a leading indicator (though obviously not 100% reliable). For example, Google and Facebook both had high valuations long before they had high revenue or head count.
I didn't even know I could scroll down because holding the down button did nothing.

That said, I do agree the video is really nice, and it's been a while since I saw a promising approach to collaborative video editing.
Except that your extension is running in Chrome which is a "general purpose Internet browser" and expressly allowed in CraigsList's TOS.
The video should play if the user prompts it. To be honest, it's not the video but more the music/sound which bothers (so maybe do what Facebook does and enable sound when user clicks or something?)
The great benefit of something like tinder is that it only allows contact after both people show some sign of interest. Compare that to an app where you can just message someone...and you've experienced spam on a new level. I've seen several people message others over 20 times, without ever receiving a response.
Yea looks like the title got edited. This Signup page is built in Famo.us
Sounds reasonable to me. If people want to build ISPs they should do so with their own money - either investment or charity. Forcing people to fund the provision of an ISP is immoral, and it's economically destructive too.
Hey, quick note, the "About Shoelace" link in the bottom doesn't work for me (Safari 7, OS X). Cheers, good stuff.
> free

paid by taxes.

nothing is free.
Definitely, but a well-made site will degrade gracefully. I digress though, because I'm okay with turning on JavaScript; the issue is that the page still doesn't react to scrolling.
Not sure what you're talking about, because one of the major complaints with the recent LibreSSL release was that in the event there was no reliable entropy source, it happily used an unreliable one.
Interestingly, a lot of people are putting up non-node.js libraries on NPM (front-end stuff), which Bower, Browserify, and others take advantage of. So don't be shy, just document that it's for front end (though I have a feeling it'll probably do just fine in node anyway, the lack of dependencies makes it easy)
Artist Leaves Facebook Right
The PH-Tree – A Space-Efficient Storage Structure and Multi-Dimensional Index [pdf]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespass_to_chattels#Beyond_spa...
Creating jobs doesn't necessarily mean employing people. A marketplace could create jobs by facilitating freelancer/client relationships which were otherwise impossible or unlikely to happen.
I go to NU and find this opportunity extremely interesting. I am not involved in any kind of agro-tech, but I will put a word in with people in the university's sustainability committee, who probably know of projects that might find this useful.
I love assembly, and ARM is pretty neat! Nice work man.
I called Air NZ about carrying a kubotan baton ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubotan ) on their aircraft back in, what, 2006? Their response: if aviation security lets you through, it's fine by us.
You don't need a lot of money to travel.
Hey James, I know that most .NET/Windows programming has ALL-CAPS names but you should still write "OCaml" with small letters a-m-l.
He also travels business/first and stays in 5* hotels (clicked something on the Explore tab). My guess is some kind of previous startup that sold well? Maybe his roommate can fill us in.
It's your turn, Google
Please, please, PLEASE don't automatically play audio upon the page load.

Serious question to the creators of frame.io: what makes you think that it's okay to do that?
> Most people don't spend $9.99 on books every month on average. If Amazon encourages people who are infrequent readers to devote more of their time/entertainment-dollars on reading, then this service will be a win-win for Amazon and authors.

Totally. I'm one of those people and right smack in the middle of the crosshairs for this. I'm the kind of person that is always willing to overpay in order to have "unlimited" anything, even if it doesn't make direct financial sense. I'm not sure why, but I guess it's because I don't like having limits or having or budget, etc. Part of the reason I happily pay $9.99/month for Spotify when, if I really think about it, I wouldn't really buy 7-9 new songs a month every month on iTunes. But I don't care -- I'd still rather know I could stream 20 entire albums if I want for that same $9.99.

And same goes with Kindle -- I probably (actually, certainly) don't buy a book a month, but knowing I have a catalog of 600k titles at my disposal for $10 will be a no-brainer.

/psyched
The site is incredibly laggy for me to the point where it's not usable.
last time i checked i could reserve on my local library probably a billion more books than what is available in the tiny kindle library. e.g. taocp
Pricing info would be nice. It will store and serve probably huge files, and multiple versions of them, meaning the storage and bandwith usage will quickly climb, and I suspect it is going to be expensive.