skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for wasting 4 minutes of my life! For some reason, I picked up a Wyse Winterminal S50 from Weird Stuff last week... a thin linux client box from 2006 that has some sort of underpowered x86 and very little memory.

So I was playing with it and it has this weird linux on it that lets you set it up to very slowly browse the web and such, but it wasn't very interesting, all told.

When I saw this project come up, I grabbed the .img, wrote it to a spare usb stick and damn if the thing didn't just boot up to floppy bird. Nice work! Now I wonder what other dumb PCs I have sitting around that can boot it...
> This writer is just being a dick to stir up controversy

You clicked, ad shown (Ghostery claims there are Amazon ads), mission accomplished
So Crtl+F being mapped to the find command in every other application wasn't "a really good reason"?
Yes, I've posted to this effect several times on HN, and the point generally encounters a fair amount of disagreement. I'm glad to see your post at the top of this page.

All trolls are NPEs, probably, but not all NPEs are trolls. Universities and independent inventors are generally NPEs, but AFAIK rarely engage in trolling behavior. The paradigmatic troll, I think, is the company suing people for infringing its scan-to-email patent. What we have here is (a) a patent that never should have been issued [0]; (b) an NPE suing defenseless small companies (c) whom it has no direct evidence are infringing. That, to me, is trolling.

[0] I long for a ruling from the Supreme Court that makes the obviousness test meaningful again, since the Federal Circuit has so thoroughly gutted it. They had a perfect setup in Alice, but blew it, in my opinion, by making the patentable subject matter test the basis of their ruling (which I think will fail to give the lower courts any guidance they can understand). I would rather they had said that simply computerizing an existing manual process is, in 2014, thoroughly and unarguably obvious.
I was surprised to hear from GE that a CO2 working fluid power plant using turbine waste heat is a thing nowadays. They have a contractor, Echogen, who provides that part.

http://www.cospp.com/articles/print/volume-14/issue-01/featu...

http://www.echogen.com/documents/why-sco2-can-displace-steam...

In ships, when fuel costs just keep on rising, that starts making sense. (There are other reasons why it might not be good though.) On land power plants, it might make natural gas electricity more competitive against coal with this better efficiency.

Though I don't see the keyword supercritical on the Echogen site yet...
ART uses DEX as intermediate format and the framework code is still Java based anyway.

Compiling to native code does not change the fact the languages need to be able to interact with ART ABI, which requires Java semantics.

This is no different from the old days when OS had multiple system programming languages and C ABI != OS ABI.
Dust: Rust like language in your browser
Feature request: I want to buy a new gaming machine but the sticker shock is a little much right now. Is it possible to save my configuration and get price alerts when a component goes on sale? Bonus points: could I configure multiple acceptable components and get an alert when any of those products goes on sale?
The big thing is really ease of use. Our blog post has a few more details on that point [0] but basically what we heard over and over and saw ourselves, is that Core Data quickly gets in your way if your app grows [1][2][3]. In essence, we tried with this initial release to offer a rich feature set with a simple API, less side-effects (especially for multi-threaded apps), and a performance that’s even better than using raw SQLite.

In early testing we got a lot of higher-level questions about what Realm was exactly, so we decided to go for a descriptive tagline instead, but you’re right that we should add more details about how we compare to Core Data!

[0]http://realm.io/news/introducing-realm/
[1]http://wbyoung.tumblr.com/post/27851725562/core-data-growing-pains
[2]http://alastairs-place.net/blog/2013/04/17/why-core-data-is-a-bad-idea/
[3]http://inessential.com/2014/06/11/core_data_thoughts_june_2014

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>'The issue here is two fold: if you committed a simple offence like -say- shop lifting at some point of your life, get caught, get punished, regret it then you try to make things right and get back to society. Having a permanent record of that in the internet can pretty much destroy your life even though you didn't kill anybody.'

Not necessarily.

Exactly such a conviction didn't stop at least one guy from becoming in some sense the most notable CIO in the US and VP at a major SV company.

Of course, I expect he was better equipped than many to mitigate such things, but not exceptionally so.

Ideally, we would - as a society stop discriminating against or wholly shredding each other over petty bullshit. We'd acknowledge a whole range of stuff that currently is called at best an indiscretion or lapse in judgement as actually perfectly average, human behavior.

Obviously, that's not to say any and everything is simply 'OK', particularly if it is habitual or done with malice.

It's simply getting back to a reality where we try to hold each other to such squeaky clean ideals that someone representing them would either be so bland as to have little in common with the rest of the world or more likely, have done a great job of covering it all up.

Moving forward, I actually think we get to that point one way or the other. I don't think information security has much hope of keeping up with our increasing connectedness, sharing (intentional or otherwise) and growing trail of digital footprints.

Eventually it's all just noise.
I think unless you or your company is managing their own email servers then yes, email is now "cloud".
If those things are interesting enough to people (including those reading them for the first time on the nth posting), to be upvoted multiple times, then it's not "gaming the system".

What we should care about is if we have interesting articles to read -- and if people that might have missed something in the past have a chance to see it, that's for the better.

There have beens lots of very lively discussions on the 3rd and 4th posting of the same story, and I wouldn't want those people to miss the post entirely, or those conversations to never happen.

As for the duplicate poster getting points from something he knows will be popular again, well, nobody cares if he does get the points. HN is not some silly high score competition.
It would be nice if after configuring a pc, I could just copy the URL and send it to someone and have it display the pc I had configured.

Still, cool site!
Why I handed off my growing, profitable startup to my Leadership Team
iTerm's ability to make "non-lion" fullscreen windows is worth a tremendous amount to me.
This is how I generally try and position myself and I think more and more startups will find this type of role valuable, but as of now I don't see many startups that are explicitly looking for this type of early employee.
I am a mortgage company underling and can confirm that almost everyone at my company, and the realtors we deal with, use tons of emoticons. I think it's the only way everyone manages to stay sane in this business.
Is working at one of those labs as much fun as it sounds?
The hardest part for me about building a pc is making sure I get the proper RAM config, and this doesn't seem to help much. I want LOTS of ram (32gb), so let me pick a motherboard with 4 slots easily, and then make sure the selections have to be compatible. Same sort of issue with a video card. I want dual DVI for output to 2 monitors, that is more important than speed for me.
I've used save several times when I wanted some information on the web page to be accessible offline. Commonly: ticket information. Or, all the information on some table on Wikipedia.
Part of the issue is people are used to free. Journalism costs money, and if your skilled enough in tech to write the in depth article, your probably going to get a job in the field rather than writing about it.

Some of the problem is its hard to have a business supported by advertising that reviews products from the same companies that are advertising.

My cousin found this out many many years ago when his news station produced a segment "should you buy or lease a car". There was reaction from the car dealers who were advertisers.

Same problem as game reviews have.

I miss AllThingsD which Kara was a writer for.
I just hang up and call again. You'll eventually get someone who doesn't care and will just disconnect you.

I once had a Comcast agent claim that he needed my father's death certificate to cancel my service! (No it was not under his name, it was always under my name.)
How Microsoft’s Cortana used Big Data to predict the FIFA World Cup
I was removing my actual facebook token and reducing profanity. Fixed the issues!
I couldn't agree more. Who needs a shortcut to send an email anyways?
This is all fine and dandy, but whatever happened to JPEG-2000 and wavelet-based compression? Still licensing/patent issues blocking wide adoption?
More of her art:

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2014/07/14/megumi-igarashi-3d-pr...

http://6d745.com/
According to the study linked in OP, it's still true. https://people.mozilla.org/~josh/lossy_compressed_image_stud...
PuTTY on windows is a fantastic terminal emulator, certainly the best one available for windows that I'm aware of.

Despite all the configurability, it still feels quite minimalistic. A single fullscreen PuTTY window is my favorite way to use a windows machine.
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> I'm just surprised there isn't a competitive $199 console out there.

Well, there's the Ouya, which is a nice little platform. You can get one an second controller and most of the games available for that price point :)

Specs and SDKs at https://www.ouya.tv/develop/

hth,
adric
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Incase you were unaware, these guys (http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc) _are_ your target audience. And your main competitor is pcpartpicker
Usually they are recording the call anyway (or reserving the right to). A robot normally mentions it at the beginning of the call. I'm no lawyer, but maybe this is enough to give you permission to record your own copy?
TripAdvisor lets users post reviews direct from hotel Facebook pages
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One Shellcode To Rule Them All: Cross-Platform Exploitation
Whether it's 5.7 or 6.0 (or as one suggestion pegged it, 7.0), it's still phpng :)
A big plus for sqlite is that you can use it everywhere. For example, for a REST service instead of return a JSON I just return the sqlite database. Also, I can see the data in the desktop, use it on python, etc.

This could work elsewhere too? Be usable in python?
I've heard it has very fugly error management. No exceptions.
It doesn't look to me like he's discriminating against realtors for not having gone to college; he's bashing them for actual demonstrated poor literacy, which is a lot harder to excuse than not going to college. (If you meant to instead make a more reasonable complaint about him painting with an overly-broad brush, you should have said so.)
My 2 cents is that all the talent in LS is fleeing and no matter how good the CEO is, they will have to completely up-end their internal culture and fire their skill-less work force
I'm not actually. They both share the commonality of non-destructive updates, which seems to be a recently pervasive technique of performing unsynchronized parallel work. I do grant that the techniques are not identical, though. Certainly GFS has at least minor locking so that it can grab the current high water mark.
Here's What Happens When Your Joke Goes Massively Viral On Twitter
Don't most large companies still manage their own e-mail servers?
Here's a link to the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/ShaneWilton/one-shellcode-to-rule-...
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CTRL+E for simple find
F-Sim Space Shuttle
This is why it seems to me that the core problem with the current patent system is that it's too cheap to obtain and hold large patent portfolios.

There's an analogy here to land ownership. Land is a public good. It is owned collectively by the nation-state that contains it, and the people rent exclusive rights over parcels of land. I'm talking here about the difference between allodial title (typically owned by the state) and fee simple title (owned by individuals). We do this so that the owners have an incentive to use and improve it, and everyone benefits when it owned by the people who can best do so.

Patents are similar in many ways, since inventions are also a public good. That's why patents exist in the first place: to promote the advance of our technology for the benefit of all, by granting exclusive rights to the use of a technology. And, like land, you want patents to be owned by the people who can best use it.However, in order for the system to work, there needs to be a cost to holding rights to the property to encourage people to sell the rights to someone else. With land, this is property tax; land owners have to pay a percentage of the land's value each year for the continued right to use the land exclusively.

We need a property tax for patents. Patents should have an assessed market value, and a patent owner should have to pay a percentage of that value yearly as 'rent' on the exclusive use of the invention. If they no longer feel that it's worthwhile to pay that tax for the benefit they get from holding the patent, then they can sell it to another party. It could be (and probably should be) a closed system, where all taxes collected should be put into a fund that the government uses to buy patents itself. When it does so, the patent gets returned to the public domain, and anyone can use it from then on. In that way, you may be able to get rid of patent term lengths.
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Right, that's how it should work in theory. In practice though, marketing doesn't have the capability to interview and hire their own engineering talent. How can they, when they are marketers? How is a marketing manager supposed to do, say, a code review?

So what happens in practice is exactly what smacktoward described: the B-level engineers are sent to the marketing department because Engineering doesn't want them around.
Two places, the BBC article from the OP (Scorpion + F-35 per hour figures), and this Times article from 2013:
http://nation.time.com/2013/04/02/costly-flight-hours/

Since I posted the above I have learnt that the Global Hawk Drone's per hour cost has decreased quite substantially. It is now closer to 18.9K/hour, instead of 49K per above.

You can read more about that on this Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RQ-4_Global_Hawk#Cost_increase...
Since today Google started showing exchange rates to/from bitcoins
I've been looking for a site like this for a while. The only issue I had was picking the $605 configuration and wanting 16 gig of memory and blue ray. What you initially choose sometimes limits capacity later, though not with hard drives.
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Everything below is my own personal opinion and doesn't represent Google, etc.

Hard to say, since I don't have one. It probably helps if you want to join a researchy team at Google, but if you just want to be a SWE then I doubt it makes much difference (though I can't speak for HR of course). In terms of maintaining a job, that's all about what you do at the job...once you're in, your degree probably doesn't matter at all.
This is the feature I miss the most in Chrome. I wish there was a good way to add this.
Your obvious rival here is PCPartPicker. Having used that extensively, here's some things I don't like about yours:

Expert mode removes compatibility checks. This shouldn't be the case - as soon as I select an item, it should cull the results and show me only the intersection of items that are now compatible with my chosen piece of hardware.

The lack of an ability to filter. Maybe I want to splurge more on a graphics card, but I need one that has at least 4 mini-display port outputs to drive my monitors. Right now there doesn't seem to be a way to say "show me only gpus that are nvidia, above $500, and can drive at least 4 monitors".

One of the biggest things for me: lack of reviews. You have a pangoly score. That's great and all, but you're a brand I don't (yet) trust. If I'm buying a component that costs multiple hundreds of dollars, I want more than a single score from a company I haven't heard of. I want to know what the reliability is like, and I want to hear it from people who have had hands on experience with it. I want to know how loud the fans are, what temperature it runs at passively and actively, etc.

Visually your site is really nice, but your expert mode leaves a lot to be desired, and I think you have a ways to go before you catch up with the competition. If I were you I would try and find your niche - either target users who are switching over from console gaming, and want to build their first computer, or build out a bunch of more expert features and target regular hobbyists.
Yes, that's one terrible shortcut. For those on Firefox: in about:config, set browser.backspace_action to 2 to disable it. Made my life better, though it also made me realize I used to use it to go back sometimes.
From what I see in the clip on the front page, some of the syntax is certainly reminiscent of Groovy as well
That person often has contradictory wishes. In this case, for example, it's likely that the person paying them to do the work wished for ^F to move to the next message and for them to build the best product for their customers.

Good management involves prioritizing these things in order to sort out the contradictions, and good employees help with this process by pushing back against directives that contradict what appear to be more important goals.
The First Million in Sales is the Hardest, Redpoint Ventures' Javier Soltero
guess I'm puzzled why this is on the front page today. Been using this for months. It's fabulous though.
They're making money. They use SSL and OAuth. that works 99.9% of the cases. The rest would be nerds like me who would go on hacking the damn thing. I've gotten a few dates but nothing interesting. The previous API version had real birthdates, full names and geolocations. That was gold!
www.logicalincrements.com presents similar info in IMO a better format as well.
The localized Excel formulas! Oh, the horror! Who would translate a programming language?
I do the same with spaces and Divvy. I have 8 spaces.
Space 1 is full screen browser.
Space 2 is full screen terminal.
Space 3 is full screen music app.
Space 4 is full screen mail.
Space 5 is full screen code editor.
Space 6 is IM/Twitter.
Spaces 7-10 are used as needed.

It works just fine, I know where every app is, so I just go directly to that space with ctrl-$SPACENUMBER

Now, note that I say full-screen, I mean "with menu bar visible, maximized using Divvy." I can't use system-provided full-screen API, because I lose ability to use only keyboard to navigate around.
You can do the same thing with Realm. We actually have a couple of key benefits over SQLite there, which are that our file size is much smaller (usually about 50%), and we don’t require deserialization to get objects out of the file (Realm data can be streamed directly into memory as native objects in your language).

On the minus side, We don’t work from everywhere yet, but we have internal bindings for Python, Ruby, C#, Java, PHP and a few other languages. We focused on the iOS launch so far, but we do plan to wrap up those additional implementations and share them on GitHub.
NEA Backs BetterDoctor’s Quest To Develop Tools To Find A Better Doctor
Yeah, screw progress and experimentation, right?
The same could be said of the grocery stores or car dealerships in my town. The problem is that as soon as you say it'd be more efficient to have all our eggs in one basket, the human nature of the carrier kicks in and says, "Hey I've got it made now. I can take it easy because no one's allowed to compete with me". Unfortunately, hiring some delegate who's multiple-times removed from the consumer/voter and is likewise unmotivated to improve the situation doesn't change that.

Yes doing the trenching and tunneling through various neighborhoods is disruptive and requires heavy machinery, etc. but that's just to create a hole in the ground. Once some conduit is laid (as a public good by the municipality?) it should be relatively easy for new carriers to come in and pull fiber or what-have-you. You just have to make the channel big enough for e.g., several cables and then you lease the space to the x highest bidders for five years at a time where x > 1.

There are probably better ways to finance things and minimize the disruption, etc. but overall it doesn't seem infeasible to me.
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I thought the point of "cc" on an email was to prove you've sent something to someone.

How can you achieve the same with a letter?

I can obviously just write the same letter twice and send it to two different places, but neither will know the other was also sent the same thing.
if you're skilled enough in tech to write the in depth article, you're probably going to get a job in the field rather than writing about it.

I'd guess this problem also applies to other industries.
I used to work in consumer service at Nintendo. On the very first day of training, the instructor made us listen to this call as a example of worst practices.
5 Surprising Reasons Why Your Email Marketing Campaign is Not Working
Very thorough work and some interesting points along the way.

The title is a bit misleading though - This is not so much benchmarking Ruby as it is benchmarking the infrastructure around it. People may be switching to other languages because the actual application code is faster.
I really can't name any technological aspect in which consoles are more powerful than a PC. That's kind of the point I was driving at.
Airbnb, Flipkey, VRBO, Homeaway are all short term/vacation rental sites.
Everything below is my own personal opinion and doesn't represent Google, etc.

I've been at Google for 2.5 years and am the tech lead of a small team. My prior work experience was internships and a startup (which I sold after about a year on it in grad school and another year on it full time).

I've done a combination of boring plumbing stuff, moderately interesting plumbing stuff, very interesting mathy stuff (figuring out how to make place ratings better), applied ML stuff (for local review spam and quality), and crowdsourcing optimization stuff (making the humans who do manual things to maps data more efficient). I'd say the interestingness of my projects has probably been above average, but not exceptionally so.
That and 4chan is a big content generator for the internet. Everything further down the line (reddit, imgur, 9gag, tumblr) should support it. Especially tumblr, who can consume over a gig of ram if you scroll down long enough.
We don't pay enough to get smart, educated people into the job. All we can hope for is basic competence and seriousness about the job. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/TSA-Transportation-Security-...
From the site:

"Enterprise support means more to us than simply adding a GitHub Enterprise connection through our SaSS product. We aim to provide your company with a virtual appliance that meets the ease of use that GitHub Enterprise provides. Your administrators are already trained to install and maintain HuBoard Enterprise, because we've modeled our virtual appliance to work exactly like GitHub Enterprise."

+1
Are you familiar with http://pcpartpicker.com?
Looks interesting! The Swift examples on the homepage seem to be showing Obj-C code: http://cl.ly/image/2r250h3a0A1y
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It integrates with windows and other microsoft services a lot more closely than thunderbird.