skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the network can adapt by modifying the code, so calculating the cost of destroying Bitcoin is not trivial. The security of the network is not static, because it's also made of people with economic incentives, the same way any other system is also made of people, eg: When a website is under a DOS attack, their administrators will do various things to mitigate or completely stop the attack.
There is this interesting movie from Québec filmmaker Pierre Falardeau about wrestling in french-canadian society

http://www.vitheque.com/Fichetitre/tabid/190/language/fr-CA/...
Absolutely agreed. Once I realized I couldn't find the price, my eyes got glossy.
Fotorama – thought-out UI design for a jQuery image gallery
That seems really cheap for such a crucial piece of infrastructure that has to wrap a quarter of the way around the earth
HAProxy with Consul
But being able to attach a 4K monitor doesn't necessarily mean it can scroll a window at 60 fps.
Adderall Has a Tech Industry Problem
This piece spoke to me in a lot of ways. I’m not an adderall (or similar) user, but as a startup co-founder I can totally see the appeal of it that drives others—people much like myself—to it.

The first thing that stood out to me was the normalization of this in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley culture, which casually overlooks or ignores the risks involved. Not one person I know in tech who's taken it recreationally has ever made mention of the risks, perhaps because they don't think they experience any side-effects (or they're not impeding enough for them to care).

Then, the pressure of being the "10x" performer is very real; hero programmer or startup co-founder, you're weirdly expected by the tech environment—rarely by individuals, in fact—to be able to pull off amazing productivity and quality. Especially as a startup founder, this pressure—if you're susceptible to it—can lead to a very pro-work, anti-social [activities] feeling, which is isolating and subtly demoralizing on an [inter-]personal level.

Lastly, the part in the piece about reasons people use to self-diagnose away any symptoms of ADHD and argue (again, to themselves) that they don't have ADHD spoke to me in a very eye-opening manner. I've done all of those things, and have felt miserable over them. Now, my 'symptoms' could still be caused by the stress of being a startup founder, but this piece set me on the course to explore and treat it as potentially a real condition I can get medication for. Or, find out it's not that (for me), and have the comfort of knowing this is something I can reduce by reducing my stress. Either way, I'm immensely grateful for this piece.
Awk came after visicalc? Really? Wow.
This means that the Guinea Worm is now a very endangered species. Won't someone think of the worms?
Attacking Obama Policy, Hillary Clinton Exposes Different Worldviews
reminds me of http://i.imgur.com/clSvSzG.jpg
You can actually use this method on LinkedIn to endorse all of your friends, and because it offers more results, you can set an interval to endorse infinitely. My LinkedIn friends all hate me now because they've been endorsed for random things.
All right, they are only going to hire a H1B if they are cheaper than an available US citizen per unit work.

And you can't say "there are no US citizens available". Of course there are... for the right price.

Now you've got a question. Is the price excessive because there are too few US citizen workers available in that field? Or are the companies just being cheap and trying to drive down the price of skilled workers? In an environment of heavy lobbying, with very persuasive people trying to make their case, how can the government objectively tell which is going on?
It's amazing to me that cake.c with minor modifications can still compile and run on modern Windows.

http://jcode.org/screenshots/cake.png
How Does Alexa Rank Truly Work? – Onenaija Blog
My first XT clone could would POST in less than 3 seconds if I skipped the memory test (all 640K of it), and I stayed with DOS 2 much longer than everyone else because it run almost all software at the time, and properly configured (big BUFFERS in CONFIG.SYS, for example), it would boot from floppy in 3 more.

I've recently managed to get an ubuntu server to boot as quickly (with preconfigured network interfaces and a few other things), but for years I could find the magic combination that would boot a usable system that quickly.

And I haven't seen a Windows machine that boots to usable state in less than 15 seconds (SSD, 30 seconds on magnetic hard drive) in a long time. "Usable" means you double click on something and it responds, btw - not that it shows the desktop.
It would make most sense to urbanize Silicon Valley
This is great feedback thanks!
That's being done for Xeons and discrete GPUs; 700 sq. mm. chips are now a thing. It increases performance but doesn't help price/performance or power efficiency.
I think it does matter, but it's good to be realistic about it.

If the availability of your application over the internet determines your revenue flow, you probably do want to try your best to make it as reliable as practical. Creating a mesh network to serve a large website is overkill, cost-wise. So you do what you can, and then you implement things like continuous integration, monitoring, trending, alerting and escalation procedures to be ready for the eventual failure.

In my experience, relying on a service provider designed to increase reliability (let's say Akamai) will smooth out the great majority of problems a live website might have with availability. One really reliable datacenter will keep the big problems at bay, leaving you to get good at iterating over common minor issues like maintenance and local performance issues.
So basically being a normal human being, that is not a good enough soulless drone for the benefit of shareholders, was totally out of the question. Sounds like a "perfect" place to work.
Why wouldn't someone just create their own API service?
This is the most clever comment I've read on HN this week.
The problem is if you make a CPU twice as large, with transistors have the same resistance, and power consumption as before you double the heat output and double the power input.

So yes you can. But if you do this for more then 26 months we'll end up with 600 watt CPU's.
Even the "hd graphics" or low end Kaveri GPUs from AMD can drive 4k.

Hell, Adreno from Qualcomm can probably drive 4k.

Desktops, compositing, and light effects like transparency are nothing next to video game or 3d model rendering. In practice, any GPU manufactured today is enough for non-3d purposes, unless you try running 3 4k monitors off the numberless hd graphics or something.

If you aren't getting 60 fps scrolling, it is usually due to the cpus being low powered and the application not using GL accelerated drawing for the scrolling.
There is also http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8164480. Which article is better?
There's actually an XML spec, don't know whether this is enough to automatically generate language bindings from it though: https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/ogl/trunk/doc/registry/pub...
It literally says "LUXURY" on the side of some of these buses.
For a U.S. perspective, there's also Beyond the Mat, a very good documentary on American pro wrestling and the physical and mental toll it takes on the wrestlers themselves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Mat
Anxious. I'm still good at dealing with process lists and so on, so I have a knack for things like malware removal or reversing. But whereas I used to know what was going on, these days I have to rely on intuition more than I used to, and it reminds me uncomfortably of youthful ignorant blundering.

I guess it's like being someone that used fix their own care and tune the engine etc., only to have modern vehicles increasingly turn into black boxes that require more and more specialized equipment. I don't love such troubleshooting enough to want to make it my full-time occupation, so I suppose it's an inevitable one-way street.
from ch 11

WordPerfect Corporation was not a platform for personal achievement, a
career ladder to other opportunities, or a challenging opportunity for
personal improvement. The company did not put the needs of the individual
ahead of its own. The company was not concerned about an employee's personal
feelings, except as they related to the company's well-being.

WordPerfect Corporation was not intended to be a social club for the
unproductive. While other companies might condone many personal or social
activities at the office, ours did not. Things like celebrating birthdays,
throwing baby showers, collecting for gifts, selling Tupperware or Avon,
managing sports tournaments, running betting pools, calling home to keep a
romance alive or hand out chores to the children, gossiping or flirting with
co-workers, getting a haircut, going to a medical or dental appointment,
running to the cafeteria for a snack, coming in a little late or leaving a
little early, taking Friday afternoon off, and griping about working
conditions were all inappropriate when done on company time. Even though
these activities were condoned by many businesses across the country, we
felt there was no time for them at WordPerfect Corporation.

This guy sounds like a real dick. I mean, sure -- running a betting pool at the office is a big waste of time. But this guy is independently wealthy, so of course errands are no problem: you can almost always trade money for time. But going to a medical or dental appointment is not to be done? When exactly are you supposed to see your doctor, given they work M-F 9-6? And I bet they weren't shy about asking for extra time from employees when it's crunch time or there's an urgent bug.
I found it interesting that in the paragraphs right after that, it's all about depending on employees to do the right thing, giving them trust and empowerment, and not micro-managing them. That part sounds more like GitHub or Valve than like 1980's IBM.

I'm not sure they actually managed to implement the culture as described, because after all, trying to change a company culture through a series of lunch lectures sounds remarkably unrealistic, but those values are very nice, and haven't really been superseded by any newer insight as far as I can tell.

And almost in direct conflict with the part you quote, but ok. Can't have it all :)
Yeah, I think there should be a middle ground. On one hand, having more resources that enable us to worry less about lower level minutiae is good. But on the other hand when I see a resident Android device take up well over 400MB from its UI and services alone, I can't help but think there's something a little wrong here.
Apostrophes don’t swing both ways (2007)
And only scammers say that pre-mined != scam. Else explain why you tried so hard to remove all the Ripple references from Stellar's code, and market it as a completely new system (after selling all your ripples of course and crashing its price).
OpenGL 4.5 released
Ah. My error, I thought Trinity was a uranium/Little Boy type.
As mentioned in another comment, we recommend using schema-less embeds, e.g. "//www.youtube.com/embed/...". Regardless, these embeds should still work when embedded over HTTP.
I'm saying the marginal benefit of 5k founder visas is of tenuous benefit. Nobody (I assume?) is debating the value of google's search engine, or thinks like book search / digitization.
https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333?feature=em-subs_digest

is another very very good channel
Static Analysis of Open Source .NET Projects
If you don't mind, I'd like to plug my own open source tool, Snebu (http://www.snebu.com). It is a snapshot-style backup system which uses a sqlite database for its data catalog (stores the list of files/metadata associated with each backup set). Individual files are stored using SHA1 checksums for the file names, so you get file-level dedup, even across multiple systems.

I've just got it to a point where I've been dogfooding it for a year or so, and feel comfortable promoting it more, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that (other than packaging it for various distros, and submitting it to them).
Ask HN: Experiences with SEO Consultants and Companies?
Hi,

What are your experiences with SEO Consultants and Companies? Which ones did you work with? Which ones are reputable and white hat? Did working with them improve your rankings?

I work for an online store that has been in business for over 15 years. We're still growing mostly thanks to loyal customers. We have around 40 employees and we're expecting to do over $40M in revenues this year. For the last 7 years or so we've been dropping in rankings and organic traffic. It's getting to the point where we're afraid this will severely impact our growth since we're barely getting any new clients.

Some stats: at our peak in 2007, we were getting over 200K visits (well, sessions to be precise, some months went beyond even 300K). In 2008-2011 it was around 100-130K. Last 2-3 years it's been steadily dropping, now down to 60K, and most of this drop is attributed to clients not coming to us from the search engines (read: Google).

We're looking to help stop the bleed.

I welcome any and all criticisms, suggestions, recommendations, experiences.

Thank you!
That's funny you mention the lawyer thing. My dad is a lawyer and his firm still uses it today. I've shown him Google Docs, and even Word, but he still swears by his WordPerfect (and now that I think about he still uses AOL). I didn't read through the manuscript but I'm curious ifWP targeted lawyers back in the day.
> For the right price

Sure, if you attract them away from their current job. Then what happens to the company that had their employee taken away?

My point is that an immigrant isn't necessarily cheaper. I'm one of those immigrants on an H1B working in the US that isn't cheaper than an equivalent US worker.
I don't have a monitor recommendation but second getting a VESA mount and putting the monitor on an adjustable arm on the standing desk. I find that I need the monitor a couple of inches higher when I'm using the desk in standing mode vs when I'm sitting.
Well, if you wish to offer some habitat.
10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry
The quote about "The Wrestler" is really powerful:

> Both Randy and Cassidy live on the fringes of society: they are employed in sectors which are regularly mocked and derided, and their personal lives, much like their physical bodies, are ravaged by scars … They have no means of income, no means of survival, nothing to sell but their bodies and the labour these bodies can produce. And so they sell them, for decades, and when their bodies are exhausted they are left in poverty.

Makes me think about all the times I've heard people say that we should legalize prostitution, or selling organs, or getting money for adoptions, etc.
(Disclaimer: I'm not an EE)

To be technical, Moore's law is about the number of transistors on an integrated circuit.

So your point isn't too far off the 3D comments elsewhere.

Simply making the die bigger doesn't get you much: larger dies (without additional redundancy) have lower yields (as you're more likely to have a defect given a constant defect/area rate) and fewer can be stamped out of a standard sized wafer.

However, if you carry that idea to its logical conclusion... we may turn from shrinking the transistor to shrinking the packaging as the path of least resistance. 3D transistors, chip stacking (aka PoP), and through-silicon vias (aka vertical connectivity) all help get us more processing / area (while remaining within fundamental thermal, manufacturing, etc. physical limits).

Again, this is a CS major with an architecture interest, so anyone please feel free to correct me if I'm off-base.
Ugh. I don't know how we missed that. (Edit: fixed.)
If you read the article you would see that they are one of a number of partners. The project costs several billion US$. By 'buying in' like this you are given a dedicated portion of the bandwidth to use.
Don't worry, it's only Monday, I'm sure things will improve.
In addition to what has been said (power requirements/efficiency), signal propagation becomes a problem; you may not reach enough of the CPU die during a clock cycle.
It looks like after the frame-selection step, the rest of the process never refers to the discarded frames. Is that right? Do you think making the frames available for blending in the later steps would results in smoother blends?
Heh, indeed. Except I've never found Word for Windows anything less than rock solid, perhaps I missed an iffy version. But I do remember buying 1.0 or slightly later way back when, and using many versions since then. Not a program I use regularly, but when I do rather heavily, e.g. for documentation, it was rock solid by the summer of 1994.
It does, especially in comparison to the other number referenced in the article. Running a cable from Singapore to Japan cost $400mm, but running one from America to Japan costs $300mm?
I am from that vintage.

Having gone through a few cycles in language changes, I look forward to the day C is drinking its retirement tea together with PL/I, and the industry finally understood the path taken by the Algol/Mesa/Cedar languages for memory safe systems programming.

It might take a few generations, but it will happen.

The same way it did to many of my fellow developers that saw C and Pascal dialects as high level bloat.
The NEC press release says the total amount of investment across six different companies is approximately $300mm
I did some work with the Neurosky Mindwave Mobile headset. Compared to OpenBCI it is cheaper and more practical to use, but on the other hand it only has one channel and a resolution of 512hz. It is mainly useful for neurofeedback training and assisting learning technologies. It has been used for simple BCI tasks.

OpenBCI offers more channels, and I suspect a higher possible resolution. You'll have to get more involved with the hardware though, both in terms of rigging a device and electrodes, and programming the hardware on the chip (arduino). More channels means that you can increase spatial resolution, which allows for easier discrimination between mental "switches", more advanced diagnosis and feedback.

Still, keep in mind that you need to get dirty with the hardware!
The Playbook http://playbook.cio.gov/
and TechFAR http://playbook.cio.gov/techfar/

Both also available on GitHub
Ask HN: What to do with t-shirts from a defunct startup
I have about 140 t-shirts from a defunct start-up. Does anybody have any advice of what best to do with it?
There's value in knowing how it's implemented.
My dad is also a lawyer and is extremely sad about the demise of WP. I wonder if there's something about the feature set that makes it good for lawyers.
Donate them to your local shelter or thrift store.
No, http://www.getweave.com
I wonder if we are experiencing the typical adoption curve of security. That is, a technology arrives, we rush to adopt. Then over time we become aware of the consequences of this new technology (eg. loss of privacy) and legislation/policy steps in to correct that gap.

This time however I am not convinced that the US will ever be ready to correct the situation (I am more bullish on Europe). It strikes me that the organizations (companies and government departments) gain to much by their new incursions into privacy and data. While these same organizations are also some of the most powerful, so they have the influence to ensure that corrections from legislation and policy remain only superficial.
going to a medical or dental appointment

Hm... the Family and Medical Leave Act is from 1993, so maybe this was legal back then. I seriously doubt it is now.

griping about working conditions

This sounds dangerously close to forbidding the initial steps of labor organization. Which also sounds like the sort of thing that would be illegal.
Adjacency Matrices of Graphs (2012)
They can be made larger but that would reduce the manufacturer's yield. The bigger a single chip is, the more surface area you lose when you get an error.

Imagine a scratch that runs straight through the middle of several chips parallel to 2 out of the 4 sides and runs for 175 millimeters. If the chips are 50mm x 50mm each, you would lose at most 12,500 sq mm of silicon (3 scratched through and 2 with 12.5mm scratches = 5 * 2500 sq mm). If they are, say, 60mm x 60mm you could lose 14,400 sq mm of silicon from the same error (2 scratched through and 2 with 12.5 mm scratches = 4 x 3600 sq mm).
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But how far do you stretch this? The same argument could be made for many types of manual labor and blue-collar work. I would argue even prostitution and selling organs are far apart on the spectrum.
Why Lawyers Love WordPerfect: http://www.microcounsel.com/nextgen.htm
Wow, same with my Mom, who is a lawyer.
Entering Space

Ranges in topics from Helium 3 fusion to mining the gas giants for fuel to the implications of braking on spacecraft with solar sails.
Unlike Ruby, Scala has a potential to be a multi-purpose language (mobile, web, enterprise) - like C# already is (Scala is more enterprisy, C# is more mobile). Unfortunately Ruby's dynamic nature is a big limitation - both in terms of error checking and performance (e.g. for mobile games).
Immigration to the US, 1820-2007
WordPerfect was supposedly written in assembly language, so when would they have had time for all that stuff anyway?
Many people don't understand the terms and conditions of social networks like twitter and facebook, and privacy with those services is ambiguous and difficult to manage.

If a person is feeling suicidal because the people in their life are not noticing their pain, I really doubt that knowing an algorithm had to do it will make them feel any better.
Cheers for the reply. I went to Github to look for <a programming language> koans, and they exist for a lot of languages - oddly I couldn't find one for C.

Anyway, recently I decided I should try to be more multilingual, Javascript with Eloquent Javascript.
I do appreciate knowing that this ingredient is in Colgate Total. That tube is getting thrown out!

Let be clear, this is really old news. Here are a couple HN threads on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6917335

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1251369.
How is this any different from all the other android power saver apps?
Wonder how much this would affect the pricing model?
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Joel Johnson has responded (well, I think, though it's unfortunate that it had to come this far): https://twitter.com/joeljohnson/status/498874679973937153

Remains to be seen what specifically will be done.
How heavy do the dumbbells at your gym go?
mine go to 150 kg
Great move.

In my experience it can be very hard spur change from within Government, but he's coming in at a point high enough that he should be able to simply set the example.

Shame I don't know the guy, I'd love to work for him.
The sentence that immediately proceeds what you quoted changes the context immensely:

> WordPerfect Corporation was not intended to be a social
> club for the unproductive.
Hopefully with the Roslyn release static analysis will gain even more ground. Producing hundreds of unit tests shouldn't be the only strategy.
This could be incorrect:

I've been told by layers that WP got the word count feature right at a time when MS Word often didn't. Apparently, certain aspects of the profession demand that some documents don't go above a limit. As I understood it - if they do, then the document can be thrown out by the opposing side.
Péter Szilágyi, creator of Iris, gave an excellent talk about it at FOSDEM this year: https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/iris_decentra...
Never call readlines() on a file