skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fb paid him
You get 3,200% of a CPU, not 3,200 CPUs.
Those videos sound interesting, link?
Beware of the Twitter Trolls
It's worth saying, I admire how they run the company.
Any ideas on referral prizes for a free, social, app? The nice thing about selling razors is that you can give them away and people want them.. How would Snapchat have done something like this?
I like this idea. I will try to remember this because it is the perfect answer in situations like these...
Avoiding crime isn't really an effective way to avoid needing a lawyer, unfortunately.
Your point is very well taken. The choice of whose community values to use is an important one. If your goal is to try and exclude some actually popular but perhaps embarrassing opinions, then you are likely to need to incorporate some of the values of other communities where this sort of speech would be filtered.

Applying r/SRS standards to r/RedPill would be an extreme example of this, and a good thought experiment. Could you model what kind of karma score a RedPill post would get on SRS? How would it change what a discussion page looked like?
OK, I have followed some of the musings of the cryptocurrency crowd, though not in tremendous depth. I watched the video, I'm not looking for a tl;dr; per se, just what is it that I just watched?

I feel like I just watched yet another solution to all the world's problems or something.

Now, when he says "users can be rewarded with tokens of value into the startups that they invest in" .... Now, in my world, this is not a novel concept. This is called "money," wall street does this every day. Just saying ...
"Women are much more likely to receive threats because they are more vulnerable"

So you are saying that women are different and need to be treated in a different way than men? I thought we were trying to avoid this and treat women the same as men?
I'd hope that's not admissible as evidence in court though, while in this case the emails would apparently be.
> Even if you were creating creatures, simply varying the amount of limbs would only produce so many interesting results.

That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the gazelles, the diplodocus, and that oversized rhinoceros plowing through the purple forest. This is meant to be a one of infinite worlds to explore, and it's just Earth with a few tweaks.
Confire: a Python configuration library
OwnCloud 7 is released today
Runnable also has large set of existing frameworks and code that can be spun up very quickly.
I use to mock textmate users over the very same thing. Yet I never felt Sublime is as closed and distant as TM. So I like it and use it, paid for it, totally worth it, however it seems it is going the way of TextMate.

Which makes me worry I will have to continue to use Vim for next decade. Vim is great, but we need to find something better.

I think, if I were author, I would try to find a way to incorporate what makes editors like Vim awesome, what makes Emacs awesome is already implemented several times. This other part is still elusive and could benefit innovation.
And extrapolating based on that is exactly why so many have been so wrong about the iPad's growth trajectory and why it's slowing down so rapidly.
agreed, i think this is more of a tim cook approach, in recent times he has tried to send out a clear message when it comes to things that apple feels very strongly about, some of them may involve their products and some of them may not for ex. 1. the emphasis on caring for the environment 2. support for the LGBT community 3. the focus on user privacy... and so in this case they seem to be pushing forth the message that user privacy is very important to them
They appear to be wealthy enough for the iPad because according to Apple emerging markets are outpacing the developed markets.
I'd love to learn more about the tech stack. Any blog posts I can refer to? How come you decided not to use Docker for something like this? Seems perfectly suited.
Nice! I like how easy it is to get an example up and running. The in-browser terminal is a nice touch. Two comments

- It would be great to have share buttons so I can tweet examples of awesome code.

- Are you guys thinking of having an 'Import from GitHub' option? I'd love to use this as a REPL for my FOSS projects.
A link to nowhere
Runnable provides containers across high-performance AWS virtual machines. We launch millions of containers every month. Publishing your own image is as simple as installing packages in our terminal and hitting "publish"

- Yash (Founder, Runnable.com)
Gotta differentiate it from the other stuff somehow.
Failing the Third Machine Age
Oops guess I should have read those ToS for once. :) And I agree essentially with your other point, but mostly wanted to protect myself from being sued.
Is this the western/hipster equivalent of a 419 scam?
Your demos show impressive speed in booting, machine resizing, and snapshotting. Kudos.

With that said, several hypervisors do support hot-resizing, snapshotting, and cross machine migration. Xen has excellent hot resize support, where VMWare has pushed hard for live migration and proper snapshotting over the years.
Looks like they are running on AWS -- you can see in the video "xlarge" and other systems types that are named the same in AWS. Interesting how they are playing some "tricks" to enable some cool capabilities. I am willing to bet they have a AWS box running of each type and using Docker or something like that. Probably spinning up instance types as they are used up. I am also willing to bet that if they got some non-significant traffic, that 5 sec will be 5-10 min. Don't mean to throw cold water on it but over all looks cool -- not sure what I would use it for. I would love to see the architecture for this product.
Are we already going post-bitcoin? By all accounts we are still struggling to figure out bitcoin.
William Shatner is 83. That is amazing to me. I hope I'm that with it and well put together if I make it to 83. I suppose being worth $100 million doesn't hurt, but it still gives me some hope.
That isn't a great metric without examining the pace of sales in the developed world, so you know what you're comparing. And has no connection to phone sales.
This is covered on slide 46 of the original researchers presentation.

"Oh, and… there’s a bypass switch for pairing anyway"

--- Next Slide ---

"An electronic alternative to interdiction could be
deployed by spoofing Apple’s certificates and
configuring / pairing the device out of the box."

"OR by penetrating a targeted organization, supervisor
records can be used to pair with and access any device
they’re supervising."
I can't reply the comment below so I will reply to this one.

XorNot: Please correct me if I am wrong.

USD is not a relevant comparison. What matters here is how money gets moved. When money is transferred within the country, a central bank (Fed Reserve, Bank of England, Reserve Bank of Australia) keeps an account for each local bank. Which means that when 'Alice' of Wells Fargo sends money to 'Bob' at Chase, the central bank actually debits and credits the banks. And then several times a day the banks will settle with each other and net out the differences.

But this is not possible internationally, that means banks must each other have direct bank relationship and have an account with each other. And if 2 banks don't have direct relationship, then they have to go through intermediary banks which they do have a relationship.

Enters Bitcoin, what bitcoin provides is not a reserve currency, what it provides in this context is a global ledger. Instead of the Commonwealth bank of Australia (CBA) needing to have a direct account relationship with Wells Fargo (WF) bank. CBA can just simply send bitcoin to WF.

There is a bit more about the underlying transfers here: http://gendal.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-...

Although here is my question:

Why doesn't international transfers just go through the VISA network. The VISA network is essentially the global central bank
As a student of management (once upon a time) what I found to be one of the more interesting paradigms was the Theory of Constraints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Constraints
No. The earth moves them..
Yeah, that would be awesome. Probably not going to happen with actual DOM objects anytime soon.
I must be an abnormal software engineer, because that's how I found my job too. It certainly wasn't "thrown" at me.
The author open sourced his last game, Liberal Crime Squad, and its... The work of a madman. IIRC it was one ~40kloc C++ file full of globals and switch statements 6+ levels deep.

I'm sure someone's cleaned it up some now, but it made me wonder if that (unpredictable spaghetti code) is what's required for truly dynamic behavior, the kind that you see in DF and (to a lesser extent) LCS.
The key technology of cryptocurrency is the blockchain, which essentially allows for many sorts of centralized verification to be replaced with math. Most of the application ideas floating around the cryptocurrency world aren't fundamentally new, but are rather taking centralized ideas and doing them in a decentralized way.

So, Bitcoin is just online money transfers, but without banks or credit card companies or Paypal being involved. Ethereum is just the stock market (and lots of other things), but without Wall Street or any of the other centralized authorities.

It's not yet clear what the best use-cases are, or which specific implementations (if any) will survive. But I'm pretty optimistic about someone finding something useful to do with this technology.
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There was another one where a guy with the name "XBox Shut Off" would run around griefing players in Call of Duty and when they yell at him to stop, accidentally initiate the "off" command.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGZeU4s28kk
A great project tacking this now. I am really hopeful for them but suspect they will be an early technology superceeded by MS/Apple when they realise the market demand for this is now:

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android
You'll probably find a few good ones in the old recurring income threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402
Xen/VMWare also support hot resizing of CPU and RAM.

What's interesting is that neither LXC nor Docker support memory snapshots (machine state), which Terminal.com has demonstrated. Xen, KVM, and VMWare do, but I can't really imagine people running these atop AWS infrastructure (Xen underneath).
I don't think it's anywhere near 10%. Even of those who pay, those numbers would be inaccurate. I have an ST2 license, but I've used it on many machines without putting in my license, and I've probably reinstalled it a dozen times on my main machine (I've had 3 machines since I've had the license, and each machine has been wiped 2-3 times each). So are they limiting "users" to registered accounts, or some other metric?
I was surprised Zdziarski made such a big deal over the packet capture tool. It's been documented in the referenced developer Q&A and in various blog posts[1] since iOS 5, and I've personally found it very useful for troubleshooting connectivity problems on enterprisey networks.

[1]: http://useyourloaf.com/blog/2012/02/07/remote-packet-capture...
I wasn't trying to account for all crime everywhere, because after all there are cases of mistaken/misattributed identity that are very time-consuming to defend, but all in all it's a very good way to avoid 500 hours of lawyer.
The finesse of Sublime Text is admirable (considering it's mostly 1 guy's work). However the ratio of open/closed bugs on Github isn't too comforting. I hope they expand the team soon.
Think of it this way: you're in jail and you're talking to your lawyer about what he thinks the prosecutor's strategy will be, and how he's going to defend you against it. That has nothing to do with evidence admissibility but could still be damaging to your case if the prosecutor finds out about it.
Your explanation is clever and could account for most of the behavior of the product. Certainly the environments, rapid booting, and even hot resizing.

What's missing, however, is how they do machine state snapshots (not supported in any container system afaik). I know Xen/VMWare support these, but if they are running atop AWS they will not have access to the hypervisor. I can imagine kludgily running another hypervisor atop AWS, but there would appear to be a more clever solution.
I actually think it's unfortunate that a "pure" currency was the first application of the blockchain. Bitcoin's problems are around mindshare and social acceptance, because it's useless without it. Something like Filecoin interests me much more, because the value of the system is a bit more independent of crowd psychology.
What do you mean? The shuttle-c was never built.
After reading up on this addictive topic, it makes a lot of sense that you have a very high IQ. I bet you also have rs4680(G;G):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechol-O-methyl_transferase
Finch.io – purely functional REST API with Scala and Finagle
Review: Amazon’s Fire Phone
I guess you read what you want to read :)

It's just like any other IT guy's day. Go to work, do your job, fuck up a bit, say sorry, give others a hard time when they fuck up :P But seriously, no difference apart from the fact that I can see men at work are very cautious around me as far as cracking jokes is concerned. But I can't really blame them with all these sexual harassment out of nothing stories floating around everywhere now, can I?
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Nice.

The page layout resizes (top banner) every few seconds and crashes Chrome (iPad 2) after about one minute.
Reusability trumps everything.

EVERYTHING.

When you throw away the entire rocket every flight you throw away tens of millions of dollars in hardware. If you can recover and re-fly stages you can get away with a lot of compromises elsewhere. Especially since the first stage, for SpaceX anyway, represents 3/4 of the hardware cost of the launch vehicle.

Even reusing the first stage once means cutting the overall hardware cost of a flight by nearly 1/3. For SpaceX that translates to about $20 million per flight in savings. And that's from one and only one reuse flight of the first stage. In comparison the fuel is nothing. In comparison even a massive payload hit is acceptable. As long as the payload reduction is less than the cost reduction, everything is golden, and the rest is profit margin. For 2 reuses (3 total flights) the hardware cost per launch drops to 1/2 of current costs. For 5 or more uses per first stage the cost drops below 40%.

SpaceX's launches are already cheaper than the competition, dropping below 1/2 of their current cost floor makes it impossible for the competition to keep up and would enable them to own the launch market.
"Publish a fully functional working machine with your project on it

Don't worry about complex package management systems, or what environment a consumer of your program might have.

Just give them a copy of your environment: it will always work in the future."

I'm not convinced that a virtual machine snapshot is an adequate replacement for wrestling with a package manager. If all you distribute is a VM image, then:

- Users can't easily run your software without provisioning an entire virtual server and, as far as I can tell, giving Terminal money and their email address.

- Without active maintenance on your part, the other software on the image will get out of date. Security holes will be discovered in the versions of nginx and openssl that your image uses. Have you ever tried to upgrade a Linux box that hasn't been touched in a few years to the latest version? After a few years, every potential user of your software will have to go through that first.

- If Terminal goes out of business or pivots, your image will no longer work (I think?).

- Your software will not fit naturally into your users' deployment environments. It will not by default show up in their administration tools, know about their VPNs, integrate with their logging infrastructure, or appear on their graphs.

I think this makes a lot of sense as a low-friction way to distribute software, but if you're writing code that people will care about in a few years it shouldn't be the only way.
Actually, offline mode is a thing. You still go through the client, but the service being available is neither here nor there.

However, I find that the client offers enough on its own (the in-game overlay, mostly) that I'm more annoyed when I can't get it to work with a game. I have re purchased games I already owned on physical media and other ways to get the Steam integration (and I'm not alone there).

Steam going bust, in addition to being really unlikely, would be a mild annoyance at best, since bypassing it is a simple matter of replacing a DLL.
It's been patched. Here's the Tor Project's take: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-denial-service-atta...
I think that the number of paying customers will be in the 2-5% range. Sublime Text is fully featured for "free", it's a trendy editor, and has a large international following.

Plus this is the raw number: I know that I have a license, and I have it installed on a number of computers and VMs. I assume that I'm not alone in taking advantage of this.

So sure, if he has sold 50k licenses then that's $3.5m, and for that sum you expect active development (its like 580k/year), I doubt that he's pulling in millions a year..
I imagine the number of people that are philosophically opposed to DRM (rather than practically) is asymptotic to zero.

GOG's going to have to out-feature and out-customer-service Valve, because the Steamworks DRM is transparent enough that most people are not going to see that as a valid selling point.
Check out CRIU.
This is something that always caught my imagination: using DC for the last mile.

I don't understand electricity well, but it seems that electronic components require regulated DC, and producing that requires an AC somewhere in the transforming circuit. Is that correct?
Right, which is why it's titled "William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions".
Steam’s preferences are an absolute mess. Completely disgusting and disorienting UI. Valve have only themselves to blame for this. There is no excuse for that atrocious UI.
Samsung's actual rival – Xiaomi
Thanks for the feedback. We're optimized mainly for desktop browsers
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> Top 3 winners get $200, $100, and $50

Those are 2013 numbers. This year it's "all-expense paid trip to attend a one-day data visualization course", $500, and $250 for top 3 winners. But presumably this isn't meant to be done as a job.
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Cool, thanks. I hadn't seen this before.

For those wondering: CRIU is Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace.

http://criu.org/Main_Page is the project, and http://criu.org/LXC is container support.

From a quick look, it seems that there are some limitations in CRIU, especially with LXC support, but it is work in the right direction.
Interminable Degrees
It's not like there's really a difference between the two, under *nix.
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Ethereum launch in review:

- Investment Prospectus: https://www.ethereum.org/pdfs/TermsAndConditionsOfTheEthereu...

- Premine Part I: Anyone can buy ETH in exchange for BTC for the next 42 days

- Premine Part II: On top of Premine Part I, +10% of the total ETH allocated during Premine Part I will be distributed to "early contributors"

- Premine Part III: On top of Premine Part I and Premine Part II, +10% of the total ETH allocated during Premine Part I will be distributed to the Ethereum Foundation

- The supply of ETH is uncapped and inflationary at a rate of +25% per year

- The premine is being conducted by "EthSuisse", a Swiss entity which will be prompty dissolved after the premining period ends. The Ethereum team makes no guarantee that development of Ethereum will continue after the dissolution of "EthSuisse"

- Regardless of how many BTCs are raised during the premine period, ~4000 BTC is explicitly reserved to pay for "Expenses incurred prior to and related to Genesis Sale". Translation: they are pocketing the first 4000-5000 BTC

> The Ethereum Platform is being developed primarily by a volunteer contributor team - many of whom will be receiving gifts of ETH in acknowledgement of their dedication - and will continue to be developed on a volunteer basis by some developers as well as under a more formalized contracting or employment relationship for other developers. The group of developers and other personnel that is now, or will be, employed by, or contracted with, Ethereum Switzerland GmbH ("EthSuisse") is termed the "Ethereum Team." EthSuisse will be liquidated shortly after creation of genesis block, and EthSuisse anticipates (but does not guarantee) that after it is dissolved the Ethereum Platform will continue to be developed by persons and entities who support Ethereum, including both volunteers and developers who are paid by nonprofit entities interested in supporting the Ethereum Platform.
"It is at a later stage that matters become risky. Britain has created plenty of tech millionaires, and politicians are easily smitten by these inspirational business people. But the question they should ask is not “How can I help this fascinating fellow become a billionaire?” but how “How can I stop him becoming one?”"
That should go without saying. But even with all the security measures in the world, it's still prudent for a user not to publish without thinking about issues like this.
Example: Postal codes. Say you're transferring an address in JSON and you have a postal code field. In the UK, postal codes are strings (e.g. "BS42BG"), easy enough. Now, someone enters a US postal code (90505). Should we transfer it as a number, or a string?
It starts very fast! Is it based on lxc? or some other container?
It's a different technology and has a different capture method. Glasses.com requires using a mobile device and an external mirror.
It's actually 3062 from 5 May 2014.

http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
Yeah, particularly the JVM, it will happily use all the available heap space and never free it once it's no longer needed.
Commercializing the first direct-diode laser bright enough to cut and weld metal
http://www.terminal.com/terminals
is broken in Firefox 30.0
So why is it not a developer option then? Why is it continuously on?
Coincidentally, 3059 is also the projected release date year for Sublime Text 3.
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New schizophrenia research hailed as major step forward
"For any type of a tag, a new node with a name matching the id parameter of the tag is inserted into the default object scope. In other words, <div id=test> will create a global variable test (of type HTMLDivElement), pointing to the DOM object associated with the tag."
Did not know this.
Interesting. Perhaps, it was the output of a tool that compiled higher-level code down to C.
sink/drain, not source/sink ? Does anybody use "sink" to mean the place where stuff comes out of (from a particular system's perspective) rather than the place where stuff goes ?
I'd like to know as well. I just tried but I can't get it to work following the documentation.

Edit: It seems that the request must be made over HTTPS.
Seems like we just need to switch to DC already. 60hz AC is good for resistance heat and... that's about it. We are at a point now where we're creating DC on our roofs, turning it into AC to go through the walls of our house, then turning it right back into DC to charge our cars and power our other electronics. With losses and expensive hardware at each step.
An IT tech isn't going to want to enable developer mode on Joe User's iPhone just to find out why it can't get an IP or join the VPN. The device still has to be paired with a Mac (and on iOS 7, unlocked and the Trust button tapped) in order to activate pcap.