skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Taught self from Python in 2012 to Front/Back end Web Dev to general C#/.Net. Have cracked a dozen specific books but haven't finished a single one from cover-to-cover yet. Started with LPTHW from start to finish.

- Yes, but there was no ship date. "When it's done"

- Nearly 2 years, however I received an offer to do entry level front-end web development 8 months from starting that I declined because I had received another (non-programming) job offer that paid a bit more. I was not in a rush at the time.

- This is my first gig. I started two weeks ago and do support/patch issues for large medical records and clinical management software. It is overwhelming to say the least with a very large line count in the repo and a lot of moving parts and the threat of patient data compromise looming.
Although if the goal is community, the game development community feels fractured enough (in terms of sites to visit) as it is.
Those certainly aren't my goals, nor the path that I have followed or advised for others. For me, and for the most successful founders that I've known, creation is primarily an intrinsic activity.
Or, an open access journal (with discussions and feedback) that I enjoy reading and will probably submit to in the future is https://peerj.com/

In physics there's obviously the ArXiv, and various sites to rate and comment like, https://scirate.com/
> One thing that makes me happy is accomplishment.

What you describe sounds suspiciously similar to what Muehlhauser calls creating "success spirals" [1], which is coincidentally in the same sequence "The Science of Winning at Life".

> The allure of LW is that we're perfectly rational or that we can at least make ourselves that we through sheer force of will.

And to be fair, LW: does make a distinction between epistemic (ideal) rationality and instrumental (pragmatic) rationality [2]; is aware of its propensity for insight porn [3]; and has made progress towards bringing things in the stratosphere [4] back down to the object level (e.g. [5][6]).

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/3w3/how_to_beat_procrastination/

[2] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Rationality

[3] http://lesswrong.com/lw/9p/extreme_rationality_its_not_that_...

[4] http://lesswrong.com/lw/58g/levels_of_action/

[5] http://lesswrong.com/lw/58m/build_small_skills_in_the_right_...

[6] http://lesswrong.com/lw/k4n/a_brief_summary_of_effective_stu...
According to the DMCA, in order to avoid potential liability, the provider is supposed to take down the content "expeditiously" upon receiving a notice and not restore it for 10 days, even if you file a counter-notification immediately. In theory, someone knowingly filing a false claim is then liable for damages, but good luck collecting on that.

In practice, though, the one time I sent a DMCA notice to a hosting company, they tried to mediate between me and the site owner rather than immediately taking anything down.

Note that as far as I know, non-US companies will usually comply with DMCA requests.
There isn't actually any game development related content on there. It's just games business news, if that.

GameDev, r/gamedev, tigsource, and polycount are already great resources.
The Superluminal Scissors
A protocol already exists that does a significantly better job both of providing query integrity and confidentiality on the "last mile" for DNS: it's DNSCurve. DNSSEC on the other hand is almost perfectly unsuited for last mile security, requiring as it does every enabled resolver to act as it's own fully recursive cache. DNSSEC almost petulantly fails to provide confidentiality, too.

2014 advocacy for DNSSEC seems to me like distilled sunk-cost fallacy. It sucks that people spent 2 entire decades working on this protocol (most of the design is still traceable to TIS!), but they did, and it didn't work out, and now they should move on.

The manifold weaknesses of DNSSEC are completely unnecessary. The protocol has no meaningful deployment. Inflicting it on the internet in 2014 would be a grave and unforced error. Do better.
Edward Snowden , NSA, Bradly Manning, Stuxnet, Open Source...etc is Politics. Technology/Knowledge
for the few?
You were also paying to lease the hardware for those 5 minutes.
In 1970, I had a total of a one-week FORTRAN course to my credit and a B.A. I walked into an insurance company, applied for a job, and one month later I was writing mainframe assembler for a living. I was 20.
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/r/gamedev
First thoughts: It's ugly, overloaded with unnecessary stuff (why on earth would you put that gray "about" sidebar there?), I hate infinite scrolling, and you can't tell how many comments something has just by looking at the "Discuss" link.
Fantastic implementation -- are you considering a Papers integration?
“Oh crap”
It seems like a stretch to classify Julia as Object Oriented. It has types and record structures, but these aren't strongly coupled to functions like you'd see in most OO-style approaches. It also doesn't encourage hiding data behind a bunch of "accessor" methods on objects.

There also isn't OO-style inheritance and polymorphism. Julia's multi dispatch reminds me most of Clojure's protocols, which is a great feature. It achieves polymorphic behavior of functions without having to do ugly things to the objects. That Julia can make this fast and ubiquitous in the language is pretty awesome.

I'm also new to Julia, but I really like the above design decisions, among others features.
You are correct about the Matt's Script Archive forum.
I ran a few 10,000+ message forums back in the late 90's that were based off it. They ran mostly without any issues and only occasionally you would find a parent node's tree was not saved correctly and truncated. In most cases this could be manually repaired.

The biggest issue was archiving as the main file would need to be manually edited to remove older threads.

I had moved on to other things by the time phpBB was released.
>On the other hand, you could find a sort of work you enjoy, rather than treating it as something be endured in exchange for money.

I think that having enough money that you can choose a job based on joy rather than monetary remuneration helps a lot with that. Having money also makes it a lot easier and less scary to leave jobs when the working environment turns bad.
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Sorry I was a bit dense and took ThemeForest literally.

Godaddy responds as most US companies do to DMCA Takedown Notices
by removing access to the cited content. By law, they must disable
access if they receive a valid takedown request. It would then be up to
you to file a "Counter-Notice" with them, at which point they
will enable access to your content again. The Digital Media Law Project
(DMLP) has some useful info on how to file a Counter-Notice:

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/responding-dmca-takedown-not...

If you contact GoDaddy first, and inform them about the false
threats, they might consider any takedown request they receive
as knowingly false, and not disable access to your content, and/or
well as give you time time to file a Counter-Notice. It won't
hurt to ask them about what you should do, since at least then
you'd have a pre-existing support ticket number to refer to if
they do get a takedown notice.
Currently the WiFi protocol is vulnerable within a millisecond, and a completely new non-defective-by-design WiFi protocol would have to be created.

Also, you'd have to make sure that the device(s) could not have a vulnerability to remote code execution of any kind, or the device may be capable of being remotely turned into a directed energy weapon, which could lead to serious security concerns.
Can the title be edited back somewhat toward the original? "Can SHA-3 be trusted?" is definitely editorializing, but the new title wipes away the context for discussing SHA-3's security.

Even a title of "SHA-3 NIST announcement controversy" would be good.
There is no 'DMCA institution', further issues are handled in US courts assuming that the theme marketplace is operating under US jurisdiction. Read through the DMCA FAQ at http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi paying attention to the notice, takedown, and counter-notice sections. Other countries may have similar mechanisms but details are likely to be quite different.

Assuming that the theme marketplace is in the United States and that your competitor does file a DMCA, you have the opportunity to file a 'counter-notice' with the service provider (theme marketplace) asserting your work is original and that you have the right to distribute it. The service provider is supposed to restore your original work in 14 days unless whoever filed the original DMCA notice brings a lawsuit in court. Whoever files a DMCA notice may be liable for damages incurred by the takedown.
Even if it was true that targeted changes were impossible this would still be a bogus argument. But it isn't true; attacks can be carried out surgically against small targets.
People have little idea of how undiagnostic MRIs are for most kinds of soft tissue and joint pain.
Textbooks? Really?

How about start with a great lecturer like -

Nando de Freitas - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0z_jCi0XWqI8awUuQRFnyw

David Mackay -http://videolectures.net/course_information_theory_pattern_r...

or the (sometimes too dense) Andrew Ng -
https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
Accidentally. I was making little games for fun and someone contacted me to sponsor it. Woo!
I signed up, but I don't think I will implement it on my site.

I currently use PureChat, which is also free, and they provide a very professional looking chat box that is easily customizable. With Nice Chat, I didn't see any templates and the chat box that is displayed looks plain with very few ways to customize it, so I pretty much gave up right there.

Good luck, and I hope this feedback helps.
Some of the Atheros Wi-Fi firmwares are open: https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware

Unfortunately ath9k_htc is mostly found in USB devices.
Because the purpose of the guidelines is to make the site better, and changing that headline would not make the site better.

Also, the headline modifications in that case were not made with the same intentions that other (harmful) headline modifications are made.
Apple Buys HopStop.com From Nigerian Entrepreneur Chinedu Echeruo For $1 Billion
Ask HN: MacBook Air for Web Development?
Okay... This may be a bit late as I already placed my order for a MacBook Air 13" 8gb RAM, 126gb SSD [latest model] (phew!), but I am wondering if you see it as a fit laptop for web development? I'm keeping my 15.6" Ubuntu Dell Inspiron laptop, but don't intend on using it much.

Also, are there any apps I NEED to know about if I'm going to be coding on a MacBook Air? If so, which ones? I'm mainly a Node backend developer.
Far far easier (and more rewarding as it goes) to learn to like people.
I actually wrote a comments-section application to address this exact issue (It should be up and running by next Friday or so, notbl.com). Everything's anonymous with no social media integration, to help alleviate autocensorship. There's no notion of "down-voting" to prevent controversial opinions from being cast into oblivion. Website owners can censor their own instance of the application. However, changes are only visible when viewing the thread on the owner's website. Viewing the thread on the main site (my site), will display the thread with only spam redacted.
A few years back I had the chance to talk with Joan Daemen after he gave a presentation about keccak, which hadn't won the competition yet. This was way before Snowden. He was very sceptical about the use of his work. He thought it was fun doing it, but it didn't have any use, since everything has backdoors anyway. That's what he said. Sounded a bit paranoid to me back then, but now it sounds a lot more plausible.
>A goal to retire early doesn't address the "people" side of the "people vs. pleasure" idea. All the luck to you if you never want to work again, but the parent comment's points still stand.

My point is that if you are spending 40 hours a week working and 5 or 10 hours a week commuting, you don't have nearly as much time for your friends as you would have with a little more financial independence.
Pay market rates equal to that in SF / Silicon Valley as it's the most expensive area in the country currently.
We also need to shift our culture and empower our employees to build their own careers, networks, and ultimately, dreams. Companies should take the opportunity to encourage their engineers to give technical talks, release open-source code libraries, and receive external credit for the work that they are doing.

I get the sense from this article that every startup can be reduced to a lot of engineers chained to benches with a founder (or cofounders) standing gloriously in the limelight, cracking the whip between press interviews and investor meetings at the Battery.

One thought is that the founding team at a startup is likely to be entrepreneurial and initiative-taking enough to seek out these opportunities for themselves, should they want them; though I appreciate the nod to startups who remain in 'stealth' mode indefinitely, leaving a puzzling blur on someone's resume.

Another, that I definitely see folks out and about from startups who are not the founding team, but then I go to technical events and read technical publications, neither of which tend to fawn over the CEO to the exclusion of all else. Should we glorify the Rails developer who built a CRUD app over the CEO who found the money to pay the team, test the app in the market, and ultimately grow the business? No, we should reward ingenuity regardless of the title of the person behind it. But HN does a pretty good job of that, and at its core I think this article is just an argument against shallow tech journalists who prefer a tidy story about college roommates over a messy bunch of talented folks who did great work.
You actually missed the more relevant term here: Regulatory Arbitrage. Uber is not constrained by the same type of regulations that encumber taxi cabs (including but not limited to the price ceiling you mentioned). The price ceiling is only one part of the story
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AFAIK Atheros radios are softmac which moves most of the work into the driver, which is open.

Complaining about "big issues" that no one has the resources/will to fix always sounds like martyrdom to me.
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Yes, refrigerators full of bodies.

This person preaches just what we'd expect from an HR/selfhelp person: accept it individually. More sensible people don't just organize in "cult-like" corporate communes to further enrich wealthy elites; they organize to build a better society, which requires dismantling these "soulless" gangs which treat humanity as "just collateral damage."

(Unfortunately, most who fancy themselves hackers really have no imagination for such things, regardless of rhetoric about "disruption" or "creative destruction".)
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RRAM's are memristors. If you check both their wiki pages, you will see Crossbar's RRAM lined in 2015 and HP's own giving in 2018 for commercial availability.

Memristor is a theoretical term. And RRAM is (arguably) an implementation of memristor. So RRAM seems to be a type of memristor.

Anyways it will be interesting to see the competition. Crossbar will be releasing product much earlier. Lets see if they can seize the day (and the industry). Otherwise HP will deliver. Hopefully the competition will benefit the consumers.
Let's not forget that optimizing only a few variables in a system as complicated as happiness can easily result in a net loss.

If you optimize a race car's engine for power, the engine will explode and you will lose the race. That's because you optimized for only one variable, and did not consider longevity. With complex systems this is an important concept to remember, as you may not even be aware of some of the variables, and inadvertently sacrifice them!
Only a month or two ago? Sounds like you could get their support now and be all set.
But with a virtual good the marginal cost of production is zero so most traditional economic theory breaks down. I think the current market shows that plenty of people make games despite the fact that most are unlikely to make a profit. The fact that there are some mega-hits especially superficially simple games like Flappy Bird tempts people in with hope that in most cases isn't fulfilled.

Who do you picture paying for the quality checking body? Consumers won't normally pay and if the developers pay then the incentives are all wrong.

I agree consumable in-app purchases in games are usually shit. I can live with charging for more levels although it might be good if there could be reviews of the particular purchases. Also the only way to currently offer a trial is to use in-app purchases.

To declare an interest I do have a non-game app with in-app purchases. In-app purchases are currently the only way to offer a try before you buy experience. I offer an "Everything" purchase and some separate features intended to justify the everything price and to steer people to that purchase.
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I can't mention BigCo's name, they definitely wouldn't appreciate it and the deal would be off the table now anyway.

Other info: We asked to keep our discussions confidential. We weren't asking them to sign an NDA, we explicitly mentioned that their word would have been enough. It's pretty simple, they weren't willing to discuss it confidentially, so we let it drop after about 9 emails.

It's true it was a snubbing, but I'm not upset about it. It is however somewhat ironic to read this call for help after we proactively contacted the EFF with just such an offer of help.

A lesson I learned was - you can admire what an organization stands for, but not always the way that organization is run. It also may be an ineffective organization. I guess these comments could hold for quite a few charitable organizations.
I guess I went the more traditional route? I've always had a knack for computers since middle school where I learned QBasic on my own writing silly programs (it came with DOS). My high school offered a class programming class in BASIC where I learned more advanced concepts (file IO, sorts, etc).

Went to college, majored in Computer Engineering. In my sophomore year, I got introduced to web applications. Then I came up with an idea, bought a few books on PHP and MySql and implemented the idea in about 5 months in my junior year. So technically, my first buck is from ad revenue and affiliate sales from that.

Didn't make the big bucks till after graduation...went through the whole career fair, interview, etc.

Since you're the one creating the timeline, I'll let you decide what you want to consider as my day 1, and day 1 of being paid. Not sure if people nowadays have the patience to go through an engineering curriculum if they just want to learn web development.
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Hate to be that guy, but that video is hard style, not the real Melbourne Shuffle (there's a difference) :)

Also, if you haven't yet seen it here's the full Melbourne Shuffler documentary on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ0Vn6AlXiA
I went to school but also taught myself as I needed to solve a particular problem (build a GUI driven desktop app) and my school work wasn't moving fast enough. The curriculum was C++, lots of algorithms, and data structures. Good stuff, just not very applicable to my problem at the time so I picked up a few books on C++ and C# and by the time I worked through them I pretty much never had trouble with classwork again.

It took about a year before I landed my first gig which I found through craigslist.
Which really seems to be missing a great opportunity. Why would they want open access routers just so it can connect to one of a handful of local monopoly ISPs? That's not freedom.

If they're doing it, why not instead work on building a mesh. There are enough wireless hotspots in my metro area to link up the whole city if only these things talked to each other instead of to the centralized wired network.
Full legalization is the optimal solution but this is still a political problem. To pass something like this, you have to pander to a lot of stupid idiots who may be persuaded to accept decriminalization but not full legalization, even in cases where the two are semi-equivalent. I think generally decriminalization is pushed for because of such wider support and the chance that it might and has succeeded in the past. Of course, once drugs are decriminalized, legalization is the next step. The reason for such roundabout tactics is that the opposition is not rational.
What is ad good for that would justify the additional cost?
Thanks for the pointer. I didn't know about this. That's very cool.
Is losing your photos really THAT painful?

The best photos are usually backed up on Facebook/etc. anyway.
- Forward the email to your theme host service. They're the "DMCA institution" you'll be dealing with.

- Ask them what steps are necessary to restore in case it does happen.

- Ask them if there's anything they would like at this time to prevent a long takedown / restoration process.

If everything is as you claim, it's possible this is a common issue with the complainant and the final straw to force them to leave the service due to a pattern of harassment.
Are you really trying to deny that google cars and other automated systems at least partially based on AI have safety issues? Even if we're talking autonomous, "life-like" AI, there is a long list of interesting philosophical and legal questions to be asked.
I can't say I find any of the statements here or in the article very appealing, but you shouldn't dismiss real safety/security issues just because you don't like the guy.
Personally, I don't know what the black dot, top center, just about the horizon is, but there are tons of people calling it a UFO [1]. Regardless, thought it was interesting, and makes you think about the power of a couple pixels published by NASA. You could cause a massive stir by adding a couple pixels to their archive.

[1] https://www.google.ca/?q=NRB_458574869EDR_F0390444NCAM00295M...
Ask HN: Should i quit?
tldr; 23K € in the bank, minimal living expenses. 3-5 years runway. Should i quit my non-developer job now, and start working on a not-yet-conceived SaaS business or at least seek a developer job abroad? Or should i weather it out until i have something definitive going in parallel to my job?

Much more info here: http://pastie.org/private/fgdermsyhgjemx2otmwbpq
That's "Liquid democracy"
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Working For A Woman Boss?
That's exciting, very happy for you. Can you share more about this?
The firmware for many older Atheros chips is open source, but as far as I know they haven't yet released the source for any of their 802.11ac firmware. The availability of open firmware for the wifi chipsets is one of the main reasons that CeroWRT is still targeting a router model that's now out of production: the next big problem they want to tackle is wifi performance, and there's no point attempting that if you can't hack the whole wifi stack. CeroWRT is still primarily a research testbed, even though almost all of it is stable and ready to be integrated upstream (which is why it's not entirely crazy for a new project like this to be based on CeroWRT rather than upstream OpenWRT).
I don't see how that's relevant at all.
If an "example" is a "suggestion", you may want to have look at my Kudocracy attempt: https://github.com/virteal/kudocracy
A lot of firmwares have this feature. I'm pretty sure CeroWRT does.
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PHP RFC: Name of Next Release of PHP
looks like hellbanning just leveled up.
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If Slingshot fails, can mobile startups start ignoring Facebook’s empty threats?