skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is what fertile means.

Ah, sorry, I missed that word. I'm still confused about the "lower energy" bit, though.

> The sun will be a viable energy source for billions of years, vs tens or hundreds for nuclear.

Or thousands or tens of thousands, if we use breeders. Or millions or billions, if we get fusion working.

I'll agree that the Sun is the current front runner by a wide margin for "time available" if that's all we look at. But given the pace at which human technology is changing, I don't think there's much difference between a few hundred, a few thousand, a few million, or a few billion years; on any of these time scales, we are going to make profound changes in the way we generate energy. What we need right now is a way to get to that point; right now, solar can't give us that because we don't know how to capture it in a way that can provide reliable base load power all the time.
Don't forget eBay, they went out of business. Adobe has also shut down.
Can you elaborate? Or post a good link?

I'm guessing the issue isn't "what is the difference" but "why does it matter, and when do they get confused with each other"?
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Accelerated makes hardware that helps businesses take advantage of mobile networks and they make a management web application that manages those devices.

We're looking for a systems engineer. You'll be creating the support infrastructure that the application and the devices use. You should be have solid understanding and experience with Linux networking, tcpdump, IPsec, HTTP, SSL, virtualizaiton and containerization, databases, file systems, and systems monitoring (collectd, Graphite, statsd, CloudWatch, etc).

This role has a lot of freedom and a lot of responsibility. You're responsible for developing robust, highly-available, secure systems and you have the flexibility to choose the correct technologies and methodologies to make it work.

This has been my position at Accelerated and I've enjoyed it thoroughly. The team there is great, fun to work with, and always interested in self-improvement. I'm leaving Accelerated very soon, so they are looking for my replacement ASAP.

Drop me a line if you're interested. shawn.goff@accelerated.com
No, it'd be business as usual. It is exactly how things are expected to work in industry. Industry is not academia, and crediting the originator of the idea is not a concern. Especially when it makes you look bad (why couldn't you come up with this? etc.)
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The loss of physical buttons and keyboards has made basically every modern phone a frustrating step back in usability.
'reset' might work, but often when this happens to me, it's because the window's name has been changed to something ridiculous. Hit "<prefix>," and rename your window back to something sensible.
There are huge disasters that come of software mistakes -- but look at the story of the Therac-25 vs. this kind of story. Factual stories don't normally have punchlines.

If however many billions of dollars were actually lost due to a server rebooting at the wrong time, would it actually be possible that it remained a secret, only documented in this one humorous and totally un-sourced account?

Also note the exaggerations of the incompetence of the IBM datacenter operators.

It's an entertaining read, because it's written to be an entertaining read ("a former gnome of Zurich"?). Maybe there's some kernel of truth in there; maybe not -- but there's no way to tell now (without other, better sources) what that may be.
HAMMER is currently in the middle of a major rewrite to HAMMER2. That's supposed to support multi-master cluster usage, in addition to ZFS/btrfs-like features, so is quite ambitious. The new version is the main focus of full-time development, but not yet considered production-ready. I think the old version is stable-ish but was considered a dead-end by the main developer, so it doesn't have much deployment or development. I would consider the project research-stage at this point, though it's quite interesting research.
>Since this interviewer seems to have made up their mind already with pre-conceptions of which candidate is worth hiring, what is the "correct" answer to this question? "Pick random co-ordinates, check, and retry?"

The most efficient way (which is arguably unnecessary for Minesweeper) is to treat a 10x10 play field as a 1 dimensional array of size 100, stick your X number of mines in the first X cells in the array, then use something like the Fisher-Yates shuffle* on the array.

* Y = random number 1-100. Swap contents of cell Y and cell 100. Y = random number 1-99, swap contents of cell Y and cell 99. Repeat for entire array.
Think about this from your average end users perspective. They somehow manage to revoke permissions for an app, and parts of it stop working. They may not even realize they have revoked permissions, they would likely just assume the app is buggy.

Then they go and contact the developer for support, and make the developer spend a bunch of time troubleshooting why features aren't working.

All a feature like this would do is waste a lot of developer time, and cause users to unhappy with their phone/apps.

There appear to be a couple third party apps that do this: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/protecting-your-privac...
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Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/teemu-virolainen/21/570/49b
https://stackoverflow.com/users/940353/sharpneli

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No it doesn't, in fact it doesn't have anything to do with network connections whatsoever. Yes it allows you to re-attach to a running session, but that has nothing to do with making a connection with, say, 40% packet loss usable.
Address books are backed up on icloud aren't they? So you get into one celeb account and it's easy from there. Use their address book to find agent/manager/publicists's info, then an endless chain of celebs from there.
If you haven't seen it, you might find it interesting:

http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
So, basically give in to bullying? Let the bully back into the forum, to potentially harass other users, continue doing whatever he was doing that got him banned? What's the point of having admin/mod rights if you aren't going to use them to make the forum a better place for the users?
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(banned person could be reading this thread)

Banning is a governance issue for any community. If the community is large enough, there may be other senior (by time and participation) community members willing to act in a leadership role. Ask for their help in formalizing the ban process.

The governance group (ideally excluding you) can engage the currently banned person in a public process on the forum, where terms of engagement are defined by the community, not lawyers or countries or emotional individuals.

If the costs (time, money, risk) of maintaining a forum become too high, other admins have closed their forum. Presumably the aggrieved party simply wants to participate in the forum, not destroy it.
That's odd. Regular ssh uses TCP while mosh uses UDP; perhaps there's some issue making UDP slower in your case?
What country is his blog site hosted in? If it's one of the big blogging sites, you may get a good response by contacting them about his breach of their terms of service. Law enforcement are unlikely to be interested.
No, every default mdadm install performs a complete scrub on the first Sunday of the month. Every block of the array is read back and validated. For RAID modes with parity (e.g. RAID-5, RAID-6) it is able to detect and fix the offending disk when a silent error occurs. You can trigger such a scrub whenever you want (I run mine once a week).
Hidden in these sorts of proposals is an underlying assumption that being able to install the newest version of some arbitrary program the day it's released and have it Just Work is something that (a) people actually need, and (b) this is a solvable problem that doesn't involve significant tradeoffs in usability, cognition, third-party integration (which is more important in server environments than people realize), or security.

I've been working with Linux systems for over 20 years now. Despite the grumblings of wet-behind-the-ears programmers to the contrary, having the newest version of package Foo is almost never necessary and one can generally get things done on a 1, 2, even 5 year old version of some operating environment. In fact, I'd argue that allowing time for software to mature is a Good Thing -- in the meantime, bugs get fixed, regressions in libraries are reverted, semantic versioning violations are repaired, etc, which reduces the amount of needless headache you have to deal with when you just want to Get Work Done.

Of course there are exceptions (I would never ask anyone to write server code under Ruby MRI pre-2.1), but those conditions are readily dealt with: you compile what you need (perhaps statically), put it in a tarball in /opt, make some symlinks to /usr/local (or update your PATH and other environment variables) and move on to the next actual problem.

Yes, standards and "old packages" can be annoying if you're used to a greater level of control on your personal equipment. But fences and constraints can be good: they keep your eye on the problem you're trying to solve; they keep the goalposts from moving; they minimize combinatorial compatibility problems; and they allow people to leverage their zones of expertise at the appropriate layers.
Yeah, my oldest vdevs were configured with 512B block size, because that was the default and the ZFS community wasn't being particularly loud about ashift=12 being a good idea until later. As far as I know, there is no easy way to solve that problem? Is it possible to replace one vdev with another? Off the top of my head, my understanding is that you can replace individual disks, but replacing entire vdevs isn't possible?

If it is possible, yeah, I'll definitely replace the older vdevs entirely with new ones that have better ashift. And, while I'm at it, I'll probably switch to all 6-disk raidz2s, since that's another thing that I only learned too late, that raidz2 works best with an even number of disks in the vdev...
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Cloud Data Security: Is Your Company Its Own Worst Enemy?
>The best-case for "born digital" archiving at the moment are probably publications that still produce a full PDF version of each "issue".

I'd go so far as to say that publishers who do not do this and provide these to the Library of Congress should receive much less copyright protection from the government. Copyright and preservation should go hand in hand.
Documenting Your Sales Compensation Plan
After a day of heavy usage I'm down to about 30% which I feel is good, I can airplane mode it while I sleep and use it for directions home in the morning if I'm out. The other day: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kmx0jpvsmpeorty/Photo%20Aug%2026%2...
What kind of pants are people wearing that they can fit galaxy notes in? Big baggy American pants?

I agree with you on the short Levis pockets, real annoying.

I have the S3 and I wish I could find a smaller phone. I really like the iPhone size yet I don't want to switch to iPhone. I also wear skinny jeans so I that's my reason for wanting a smaller phone. Can't wait for the curved phones to become available
No it's not - the limitation is part of DEX file format (it only has 16-bit method counter). ART is a runtime which runs these DEX files so it can't help there.

To change this, Google would have to update the file format and somehow ensure dual format compatibility when running.
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Willing to relocate: yes

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I'm looking for remote work from the US or Europe or a short stint for a few months in The Netherlands coming winter. I speak fluent English and Dutch, I'm an intermediate Spanish speaker and I speak some German.
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I didn't specify RAID-1. RAID-5 or RAID-6 can reconstruct the correct value in a silent fail.

Honest question: how often to drives silently fail? Drives contain per-sector checksums these days, explicitly to prevent this problem.
"One IP per customer" makes accounting and bandwidth capping much easier.
I guess he uses his iPhone
http://www.cnet.com/news/knock-knock-app-unlocks-mac-with-tw...
Would you getting fired make the asshole stop? If so...

Get one of your supervisors to contact the guy and lie to him that you have been fired, take on a new username and stop posting non-anonymous stuff with it.
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Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: Open to remote

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: I'm an electronics engineer who builds webapps on the side. Would be open to building electronics products, internet of things, or a webapp development role. Would also be interested in developing for financial firms (personal trading experience only).

For electronics, I can build circuit boards and know analog design.

For webapps, technologies are: Python, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML/CSS, NoSQL, MySQL, Django, jinja, web2py, Bootstrap, App Engine

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Best webapp example: http://sudokuisland.com

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A zap to the brain can trigger a lucid dream
The thing i love about Dropbox is that the more i use it the more extra space and "gigas"...they give me. As an early and heavy user (i've invited 20 friends or more so far) they want me happy and i can feel it. that's what i love. They are not charging me for anything,and they won't try it. they know what type of user i am (a happy user that invites all of its friends) so they treat me like the user i am. I am sure my extra space is billed on any friend i've invited to the platform..
The guy just bought the wrong phone. Nokia 1100 could save him a lot of money and bring a life changing experience - the monochrome screen! I kid you not. And it has superior battery life.
Location: NYC Metro

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Not right away

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, C#, PHP

Resume: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jgj

Email: jay [at] substancedesigns.com

UI/UX, Django and Flask, all things front-end and game dev. Self-taught, loads of experience. I've done coding and visual design: for consumer and b2b products; independently for small businesses; in-house, producing marketing sites and internal tools; for fun and profit nights and weekends. Extremely eager to learn and grow and make.
After centuries of thought, humanity has developed some concepts beyond dualistic black & white. Everyone is free to choose the terms of their own engagement, rather than handing that power to the first-mover.

http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Several commenters are asking what mosh provides that's better than ssh+screen/tmux.

A few years ago I spent a summer at a remote field site, sharing a flaky T1 with 100 other people over equally flaky site-wide wireless network. (Many of those people were undergraduates who had been politely asked not to use the research network to access facebook, but, well, you know.) Not only was packet loss common, but latencies to an outside host varied whimsically from 50ms to 2000ms. In those conditions ssh was unusable, tmux or not. I was able to do work on remote servers only because of mosh.
Yup, the Louvre is just a monster. It really should not ever be done in more than 2 hour blocks, but of course you would need about 30 visits to get through the whole thing at that rate, which is fine for those of us that live in Paris, but not so good for tourists.

It's an amazing museum though, if you can avoid getting overwhelmed. I particularly enjoy doing the antiquities sections, with an eye for the technology used to produce the pieces on display. It gives you a new appreciation for the technical sophistication of the ancient Romans, Greeks and Egyptians.
There is a case to be made with these situations that you weren't actually asleep.. you just didn't lay down memories for the period of time, because nothing happened.

You feel like time is missing because you have no recollection of that time - but that does not have to equate to you not being awake, or able to respond.
> AFAIK Java 8 won't be available for Android for some time

Pretty sure it will never be available on Android. Best case scenario Google moves away from it. Worst case, it will add some new, similar features to Dalvik VM. But I doubt they are considering adopting Java 8.
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I am posting this for my wife, who is looking for a QA position (manual/automated testing)
Location: San Francisco Bay area
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies: Java, Perl, Selenium, HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, Linux
Resume: http://goo.gl/2GwVTV
Email: Plz Check resume.
Previous experience: Netapp, EMC.
My wife (for whom I am posting) has 4 yrs experience in test automation. Most recently, She has learned writing Selenium test scripts in Java. She has previously worked as a software engineer in Netapp and EMC both of which are storage giants. She has worked on automating NACL file system using Perl and Java, in Linux Environment. She has done load testing and UI testing using QTP and other tools.
She is happy to pick up new languages as needed.
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Oh, thanks for the correction. I had assumed that JetBrain develops Android Studio and Google just puts their stamp on it.
> Unban him from the forum. Then he'll (maybe) stop.

This is a very, very bad idea -- it's on a par with negotiating with terrorists.

> Maintaining control over your life and online reputation is more important than keeping him banned.

You seem not to realize that, by giving in to blackmail, one surrenders control of one's life to the next person who wants to engage in harassment. Also, what's to stop the original perpetrator from gloating about his victory over you and resuming or escalating his unacceptable behavior?

No, this is not an option.
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Does it matter which equals operator (== vs. ===) to use in JavaScript?
I should also mention I am jailbroken 7.1.2, flux is required and nospot, cccontrols and appcake are incredibly useful.
Yes, but not just yet:

https://plus.google.com/107130354111162483072/posts/VEy3JChn...

Mentioned at about 27:55 in this podcast where a member of the ART team is interviewed:
http://androidbackstage.blogspot.se/2014/08/android-develope...
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Location: London, UK
Remote: Open to remote
Willing to relocate: Yes, worked previously in Czech Rep, Germany, Norway, UK, Romania
Technologies: Most fluent in C#, prefer Knockoutjs and UX
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It's not often an HN item's title is changed away from the article's official title but for the original title to have been more descriptive. It seems odd without the Minecraft reference that it so hinges on.
http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/?cat=umtsover&xf=2794_200... lists about 20 smallish phones, are all of those plastic crap?

That said, I see the point. The love of my live will have a real problem finding a new android phone that she can use one-handedly.
That's too pat a response:

- You don't know that Dropbox does.

- You don't know that hubiC doesn't turn data over to their government or whether it's shared with allies.

- You don't know whether either of them have bugs which can be exploited by a MITM – or will in a coming update…

Government spying requires political changes to establish a culture of oversight and accountability. You're fooling yourself if you think that choosing one company over another is anything other than an exercise in distraction when the attacker has the power to compel access with a gag order.
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Currently a computer science student at Ohio University looking for remote and part-time and/or Summer 2015 internships.
How well does the bytecode convert with RoboVM?