skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be cool if someone in the neighborhood could purchase a device that would setup a local nextdoor type of service. It would show up as a wireless connection, once connected when they try to visit a website it would give them an explanation what this service offers and allow them to setup a profile. Only people within a certain distance would be able to connect, the network could be expanded with multiple devices. It would allow, decentralized networking based on geographic location. Users would also be allowed to create a backup of their profile and interactions for record keeping if they wish.

It could be very helpful for local discussion, community awareness, emergency communication (if the access points are kept off the main grid) and possibly even direct democratic voting for small local issues.

Sort of like a PirateBox, but more sophisticated non-anonymous local private social network. Not entirely sure if the technology exists to allow this to scale affordably to at least a block or two.
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Interesting. My anecdotes are different. Windows 7 and Win Phone made sense, while Windows 8 was a nightmare. I guess YMMV.
As @jjnoakes points out, you'll get malloc()==NULL if your ulimits are set. For a long-running program you definitely want to have a ulimit that will kick in before the OOM killer does.

Even in the absence of the OOM killer (i.e. the old days) you had to do this -- otherwise the machine might be swapping itself unresponsive for ages before you ever get malloc()==NULL
TBH, I don't think this would be very effective at all. I manage hundreds of servers for businesses, and if I ever see a Dell splash screen it's purely by accident. With basically everyone using virtualization, it's a long time between reboots for physical servers to begin with. And when I do need to reboot the physical server, I'm usually sitting at home in my underwear, not looking at the console. We can manage most of the BIOS-level settings through Dell-provided tools, so even when we change BIOS settings, we don't go into the BIOS.

In my IT experience, anything requiring manual human checking basically doesn't get done after the first handful of iterations. If it needs to be reliable, it needs to be automated. My best guess is, you can install a package from Dell to enable BIOS info to be pulled via WMI (Dell OMCI I think). You can set all of your BIOS asset tags to some unique value (per machine) and if it changes, your monitoring software will see it and alert you. I'm not sure how easy this would be to spoof though. It might be trivial.

Fortunately, most of the models they mention have been out of warranty for some years now, and most businesses choose to upgrade to a supported model. For businesses who chose not to upgrade to supported models, it's usually a reflection of the immature management in charge of the business, meaning they make poor decisions in many areas, so a BIOS hack is way down the list of potential problems for them.
This.

Armed forces use scopes to gather information; this is acceptable.

Police under the influence described by the Stanford Prison Experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment) Aim weapons at civilians to assert dominance that they feel they must exert.

The action is the same, the reasoning is different.
With the latest firmware + ios7, Airplay now works in such environments because it uses bluetooth for handshaking. Might be worth re-trying?
When you talk about Chinese "investors", I think of high-wealth individuals who see real estate as a long term investment and/or occasional vacation home (e.g. Manhattan or London). Then the article goes on to present the strong Chinese cultural presence and good local schools as reasons why these individuals are buying real estate in the area. Those are things that immigrants care about, not investors. And if these are law-abiding Chinese immigrants buying homes in the Bay Area, so what? They have every right to it. Why are we promoting some new wave of fear about mega-rich Chinese people buying up all our houses when there's no evidence it's happening. Stop deflecting blame from the groups and organizations that could actually fix the housing situation.
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He writes code by himself?
Benefit Corps
We're starting a business from HK but incorporating in Delaware as a Benefit Corp. I've heard that its possible to self sponsor in order to get a Visa as an Australian to the US but its never been done as a Benefit Corp. Wondering if anyone has comments/suggestions? Also on whether its hard-er to raise money as a Benefit (not B) corp. The truth pls.
Thanks for the explanation.

>I like React too so perhaps someone could implement something like Satellizer that integrates with React.

Indeed. And such a project could still make use of the server code of Satellizer, I'd imagine.
This is an essay I will always remember. It helped me get through a burn-out, and contains a lot of wise lessons. One quote specifically touched me:

"The part of life we really live is small."5 For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.

Cherish the moments you really live. The moments you create your memories.
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Well, I don't like to say I told you so, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148415

(No, I didn't actually nominate it; I'm too lazy. But I'm delighted it won, even though it beat Saga to do so.)
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>But I definitely don't see Windows as being tightly focussed nor a single predictable entity.

This is perhaps because you know about the topic. The average user, because MS dominated most computer interactions that they've had, psychologically feels quite comfortable with it.

But I don't know if Linux is ready for the desktop yet. IMHO it's place is in the back-end.

Because Linux has more freedom it attracts developers/coders/programmers that also value freedom over vendor support. Any *nix flavor offers more hackability than MS.

And I think you'll find that the folks who use it think more freely when designing solutions as well.
Ironically, it was (the first edition of, I believe) Meyer's "Effective C++" that made me question "WTF? Why does anybody use this???" (given that Turbo Pascal / Delphi, or Perl, actually were much easier to understand). Maybe C++ is usable now, but back in the late 90s, nobody that I respected used C++ - all the code I saw at work in C++ was by resume padding morons who wouldn't recognize polymorphism if it walked up and bit them in the ass. (the opinion being either use C, or a high level language, but not C++)

Not fair to judge the language by the fools that used it 15+ years ago, but I have no use for operator overloading, copy memory leaks and all the other C++ obfuscation.

C++ would probably benefit from a "lessons learned" do-over with a new name (as referenced elsewhere in the Perl 6 / Python 3 debacles)
Why Flippa Sucks for Selling Your Unused Domains
I've been using https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ for a few years now to host my RSS aggregator. NearlyFreeSpeech is a pay what you use hosting service and it is very cheap.
>Some need to be uncompromisingly fast. C++ is in the latter set and nothing more convenient to think in is faster.

Yes, and C++11/14 make significant strides toward being more convenient to think in as well, without compromising speed. In fact some improvements also improve speed in some cases.
Careful, there are spoilers, right at the top. I'm glad I didn't read it before seeing the comic. (Heck, even revealing there's something to spoil is kind of a spoiler.)
In the fuel manufacture for redeployment, it's more or less as simple as melting down and recasting. The distinction is reprocessing is generally way more complicated, frequently involves chemicals, and could separate out plutonium which gets people worried.
I don't know why, but I don't like the font. And the section, "What to expect when working with me..." is really verbose.
"Clients hire me to..." Main points can be highlighted as a headline. "Design websites and write code. Redesign existing site. Consulting. I think the site matter can really be condensed a lot. Good work overall. How long did you work on this site? Good portfolio too.
(The email field in the profile is "secret", for example it's used to get a new password. To share your email with the other users you must copy it in the about field of the profile.)
Those Chinese investors will be in for a nasty surprise when they try to sell...the FIRPTA laws require buyers to withhold 30% of the purchase price of U.S. real property sold by foreigners that are not U.S. taxpayers. (Yes, that's 30% of the gross, not net!)
I don't think its just Chinese investors. Its all investors since there are fewer better investments for them now. Prices on my street are up 250k in 18 months. And this is in San Jose. I'm not really celebrating. They could just as easily come crashing back down.
So Gen4 Energy started with a similar sized "nuclear battery" concept. After burning through many millions of dollars of investment and years of hard work from a highly skilled team, they decide that prospects are better for larger scale reactors. That ought to give these guys food for thought. I hope these guys know something the Gen4 team doesn't, but the basic trajectory UPower on has been followed before without paying dividends.
From one of the author's linked tweets:

i'm all about stifling the kind of free speech that
makes people feel comfortable joking about rape.

The author appears to be one of the many contemporaries enamored with postmodern factions dedicated to a simplistic and reductionist theory of social justice. But that's not even my main concern, but rather his misunderstanding of the use of comedy.

Laughter is not necessarily a positive emotion. It can also originate from discomfort, anxiety, sadness, etc. The purpose of comedy is not just to be ephemerally funny. It's often used as a tool, by those skilled enough to pull it off, to shed light on the darker aspects of human existence and present them in such a fashion that it elicits a humored response. It is a coping mechanism, a way to come to terms with troubling things. Indeed, this is the point of black comedy.

We joke about death and torture all the time. There is no reason why rape couldn't be joked about. In the hands of an excellent comedian, comedy has no boundaries. It starts to border on philosophy, musings of the human condition. Anyone who objects to this either misunderstands comedy, or has very unfortunate beliefs that free expression must be hindered.

Otherwise, I read this article not so much as a reliable telling of internal issues in GNU (though they no doubt exist, as with any community), but as one man's personal frustrations with the community somehow being inadequate to his expectations.
He's almost as accomplished as Kim Kardashian now then.
Google street view car killed a dog
I want my hour back.
Open CV is a mistake, but the style guide in force at the Times gives guidance for the use of dots in abbreviations. G.P.U. appears as dictated by their style guide. The Times also inserts dots into C.I.A. and F.B.I. for the same reason.
> dirty money is flowing into real estate in the world's top cities: London, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong

That's one of two trends here. There other is specifically Chinese, like Hong Kongers, Taiwanese, and Koreans before them, emigrating to various English-speaking cities around the Pacific Rim, such as Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Vancouver, Toronto, Seattle, and San Francisco/San Jose. The (Northern) "California Housing Bubble" is a conflux of these two trends.
This seems like an interesting technology, especially if you can keep the moving parts to a minimum. I did a bit of research on mineral extraction. Not surprisingly the more refined your minerals the more valuable they are, and building an on-site blast furnace to convert various forms of iron ore into pig iron would allow countries like Afghanistan extract more value out of their mineral deposits. The challenge is that without infrastructure the traditional solution is build a mine, build train tracks to the mine, and then transport raw ore from the mine to the processing facility (this is being done in some of China's western provinces). Primary issue of building a refinery is a reliable source of power. One key is unattended operation. Is that something you are planning for?
I cannot thank you enough for introducing me to Riesz. While finishing up my math degree, I came up with the idea that “it's all about distance/proximity/nearness”, and it looks like the same thing Riesz was thinking according to this: http://www.emis.de/journals/SEMR/v6/a1-10.pdf

Here are some old comments where I used the concept:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2457581

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/e429d/best_expl...
I distinctly remember being taught the one syllable rule in elementary school in the US. There are, of course, some exceptions, like "narrower" and "quietest," and "stupidest."
But now you aren't talking about Rust the Language but Rust the Ecosystem.

Not that I am disagreeing with your points, I am not. However, when people talk about C++'s problems, I immediately assume they talk about C++'s problems as a language rather than it's ecosysem.

Rust isn't out there to tackle C++'s ecosystem, tooling, legacy code or professional workforce, but rather Rust aims somewhere near C++ and fixes many of the language flaws which are inherent in C and C++, while still being competitive in performance and low-level control.
"Big red" was the example chosen by the article, not me. And it seems a rather reasonable choice to me, it's French that's being weird here ;)

But the noun placement is actually irrelevant here, as the point is that "grand" still precedes "rouge", and you'd never say "rouge avion grand" or even "avion rouge grand".
Really boring. Switched off after five minutes.
Do you wish to import plastic products from a country like China that has something printed on them?

I did find this:

http://www.wholesaleforum.com/discuss/

These manufacture markets are at least 10 times as huge as the software/services market (IMHO).

As far as getting info about it, I'd preferably talk to someone who is in the manufacture/wholesale business instead of going to a forum.
> it is the official policy of China that the police can convict and sentence its citizens to a year of labor camp ("reeducation through labor") without a trial.

I think officially they ended this. Officially.
There are no official coreboot images.

John's images are kind of a coreboot distribution, as is libreboot (http://www.libreboot.org/)
That analysis is probably confounded by the fact that "more fun" can be used with "fun" as a noun, as in "We had more fun after you arrived."
On the other hand, assuming you can't convince your friends to all choose the same provider, almost every provider will know everything you post.
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Sure, in the same sense that Paul Newman mixes salad dressing.
Additional time spent on this problem does not make your startup more likely to succeed. If you borrow a trivial sum of money from family, repay them, optionally with interest. The end. (In the McKenzie family, at least, saying the word "interest" causes a heck of a lot more strife than 5% APRs are worth for either side of the conversation. This may be true in your family as well, in which case just pay them the principal and be done with it.)

They can use the money to buy CDs with interest distributed monthly if they wish to, which offloads lots of tedious grunt work to banks that have systems and processes in place to deal with it.
"Simple," "narrow," "clever," and "quiet" are usually listed as exceptions to the rule, and their suffixed superlative forms also usually appear in dictionaries.
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I don't see how that refutes the parent's comment. The areas you listed are very small niches. Frankly, very few people care about scientific computing or even animation rendering. Generally speaking, using C++ is like wearing jeans and white sneakers: popular in the 90s, but definitely out of fashion now.
I'm not getting what this "novel strategy" is. The jellyfish ride currents back and forth in search of food... so? Does anyone have an article with actual info about the strategy?
"In 1950 ... Buffett had made and saved $9,800. In 1954 ... his starting salary was $12,000 a year. In 1956, ... Buffett's personal savings were over $174,000."

So with the generous assumptions that Buffett's salary was paid in full in advance each year and he made $12000 every year and he had no personal expenses and he paid no tax on his gains, Buffett would have needed a rate of return of 15%-ish to hit those savings numbers. Or 22% if he saved only $8000 per year from his paid-in-full in-advance salary. Pretty much any set of assumptions is pretty outlandish. Can someone clarify how he hit those numbers?
Do you feel that rape jokes are appropriate in every forum? Even if rape could be a fruitful topic "in the hands of an excellent comedian", that's hardly the situation being discussed is it?
They didn't so much as "miss" it as they "swerved to not catch it." Ken Olsen was truly perplexed as to why anyone would actually want a computer if they weren't a scientist or a large corporation, and DEC had the biggest market share of those markets. He affirmatively shot down ideas suggesting otherwise. It wasn't until the IBM PC proved him totally and absolutely wrong (one could argue the Apple II did but the thing that really got his attention was one of his competitors entering the market) that DEC came out with some variations on their machines for personal use. But because he didn't understand why people wanted them in the first place, it was really challenging for folks to put through really good projects.
Explanation of the story: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1190:_Time
1) Massive earthquake, followed by

2) Tsunami, followed by,

3) Complete loss of power to all control systems, followed by,

4) Gas explosions and core meltdown.

Pretty much the worst possible scenario, and yet no member of the general public was killed from radiation exposure.

Just how safe do you want something to be?
It's kinda interesting, Zorin does exactly what you've mentioned but I've never seen it get really popular. I think the big issue is that the UI isn't what people stumble with when moving to Linux. The bigger issues is the differences in file-system and programs, and it would be extremely hard to create a compatibility layer for such differences because Wine just isn't perfect (Nor should it really be recommended when Linux equivalent exist), and lots of programs ask for files and there's no easy way to patch them all in such a way that it appears like the Windows drive system instead of a Unix file system.
I see in this thread, already, the blog author has succeeded in clouding the discussion by conflating "jokes about rape" with "topical references to a recent discussion of rape culture."

The problem with stifling free speech is that the most effective tactics also involve stifling free thought. The proper course is a persuasive discussion, rather than browbeating everyone around you into submission.

His goals are correct; his methods suck.
After a couple of hundred years the waste is no more radioactive than the ore from which it came.

Although the fear-mongers never mention this,"long half-life" means "less radioactive". By definition.
He said average income, not median income. There's a huge difference between the two when you talk about the Bay Area, since the income gap is so huge there.
It was built by agency Hitcents, who gave the production process a fairly detailed write-up here:

http://www.hitcents.com/b2b/work/hanx
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Lately, I remember hearing that a new CTO at "well known company" stipulated that he would spend 20% (or some significant percentage) of his time "coding"... since then, I've been unable to find the reference.

1) Does anyone here have the reference?
2) What do you think - "Should CTOs Code?"
So "Modern C++" is a mirage, but Rust and Go are the surefire winners? Do you have any substance to add to your post?

I don't know, I've been writing C++ for about a decade and the code I write is "modern" as far as I can tell. I just started a new project. It is C++, it is "modern", and Rust and Go simply aren't options.

Rust is an infant and not yet ready for prime time, and Go simply wouldn't be considered by management. Not because they're ignorant, out of date curmudgeons, but because they want a larger pool of talent to draw upon and a language that is well known, well understood, and has decades of work invested around tooling. I can't say that I blame them.
Good stuff - the generic broadcast example has now been replaced with a working chat example and there is a link to it from the front page.
What's a double cul-de-sac?
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Well, the article is rather haphazardly written, but from what I gathered there was no rape joke. Rather, the statement was, quoting the author's context:

One of the presentations after lunch is by a GNU hacker. He starts his talk by stating his hope that he won't be seen as "offensive or part of rape culture or something".

Which he deemed to be a trivialization of rape culture, but it was certainly not a "rape joke" by any conventional means.
Robots are slowly integrating; it will be unstoppable and messy.
@nostrademons, thank you for your perceptive and reasoned response. In my opinion, you don't have to bring the unconscious into your formulation. In fact, most of the therapists practicing today never utter the word "unconscious." To invoke the difficulty of understanding human behavior, one needs to go no "deeper" (for example) than the influence of events in early childhood (attachment theory), the imperfect thought processes of a human brain that has evolved over time (cognitive distortions), the fact that behaviors that are practiced over time become easier (neuroplasticity), or what we know about how traumatic experiences affect one's later life.

I would complete your "You go to a therapist..." sentence with "...because you're smart enough to understand that you don't know everything about your own complicated life, and you want to get the assistance of someone who is professionally trained in understanding human experience and helping people make and implement healthier choices in their lives." It's not voodoo--it's someone who knows the territory helping you get to your chosen destination faster.

And what does it mean to be professionally trained? Well, read my article for details. But I'll summarize: at minimum, a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology (3-4 years) and 3,000 hours of "supervised practice." In my case, that was 1,700 hours actually working as a therapist (seeing clients), maybe 1,500 hours of professional supervision while doing that work, over 100 hours of my own therapy, plus attending trainings, workshops, etc.

Who am I? I have an ancient Masters degree in computer science, I wrote for BYTE magazine (the first major computer magazine), I worked for Apple and a pre-IPO startup in Silicon Valley, and I program (badly) in Clojure. Because of my own therapy, I went from being a maladjusted, terminally shy young adult to being a therapist. I know that therapy can work wonders--if you're willing to do the work.

Thanks for listening.
Ignoring all other positives, I love how easy the install/setup is.
You were the one to "invent" the "technology" and you don't even know if it's different than the smileys used in every forum around the internet? Was there someone else who formulated your application? Have you even read it?
You should lobby [[zuck]] to use the Innovators Patent Agreement developed by Twitter legal found here: https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreement