skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is obvious that Docker will be acquired very soon. I think the Sequoia investment is a very safe bet, almost a gift. Companies such as VMware are nervous because less VMs are deployed with Docker and there is less impact in performance.

Docker doesn't replace VMs but there is an intersection in their use cases.
What you are asking for is asking for a VC to talk down their own book. That's a ridiculous request. Fred and his colleague are already taking a pretty daring step in writing this, you can bet that any future potential acquisition party will make damn sure they're not buying into one of the companies that Fred is apparently unhappy about today, and that a whole horde of junior associates at various establishments is currently looking through their portfolio to try to figure out which companies were the ones he was talking about.

VCs will never talk about specific portfolio companies in a negative way (in public) unless they have a direct financial motive for doing so (in which case storm is brewing or in progress, and likely the press has already had a field day with something).
Show HN: JamKazam – Play Music with Others Online and in Real-time
I agree. It seems this could be used to determine only whether the testee is not-human. It's trivial like you say, to trick the test into believing it is human by not finding a face.

At first glance I thought the test was only to determine whether the testee is definitely not-human but the description actually implies categorising into computer and not-computer:

"FADTCHA(FAce Detection Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a type of challenge-response test to determine whether the response is generated by a computer. The test involves asking a testee to find* a face in a presented image and draw a square region of the face. If one correctly finds a face, it can be presumed that it is a computer, otherwise it will be regarded as a non-computer."
Uber Ban in Germany Is Lifted by Court
Show HN: Voise – A simpler way to text many friends at a time
New Release of MINIX 3 for x86 and ARM is BSD compatible
A major new version of MINIX 3 (3.3.0) is now available for download at www.minix3.org. It is based on a tiny (13 KLoC) microkernel with the operating system running as a set of protected user-mode processes. Each device driver is also a separate process. If a driver fails, it is automatically and transparently restarted without rebooting and without applications even noticing, making the system self-healing. In addition to the x86, the ARM Cortex A8 is now supported, with ports to the BeagleBoard and BeagleBone available. Finally, the entire userland has been redone to make it NetBSD compatible, with thousands of NetBSDpackages available out of the box.
The 'Uber Effect' on the Property Market
Retro Apple Watch
Corresponding offer: http://www.intelfreepress.com/files/2014/09/95_sys7.5.jpg
JamKazam allows musicians to play with other musicians over the internet in real-time.

There are a number of challenges we've faced so far, but the biggest two are latency and audio gear setup. Latency doesn't only come from the internet; your audio gear and OS can also add quite a bit of delay as well. Our approach with latency is to measure well, and help users reduce latency where they can (and of course optimize our own software to add as little latency as possible).

And we continue to refine how you hook up your audio gear to the JamKazam PC/Mac application. Some gear works great. Some... gives us quite a bit of trouble.

Anyway, the product is usable, although we have much, much more to improve on.

If curious, we are using a RoR w/ Postgresql hosted mostly on Linode. We are using Websockets + RabbitMQ to help route messages between clients and browsers. We communicate over websockets for control messages when initially establishing media between two parties, then ultimately going directly P2P with UDP audio to help with latency; hair-pinning audio through the server is not your best bet.

You can check out some videos...

Musicians jamming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2reeNKtRjg

Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYcvTY9CVo

Getting Started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBo--aj_P1w
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Teambuild
the team member add him into the team page, writes his own description, adds his own social icons, gets access to all related HR documents, understand his roles, performance indicators, compensations, rewards, get connected to the team and start getting introduced to whoever he needs to work with within the team. This will be a place for all employee matters of a company. It is next generation team page for HR & employee. http://weblab.preseed.in/projects/teambuild/
Comparing Floating Point Numbers (2012)
Minix 3.3.0
Must watch videos for entrepreneurs
Corresponding offer: http://www.intelfreepress.com/files/2014/09/95_sys7.5.jpg
I did. still too tedious to control, after getting used to modern games.
Truth be told, to me those are not very meaningful, as those companies operate on a scale, and have requirements that are on another planet from mine. Is Docker useful for people/organizations that are not so large? The other responses seem to think so!
What Is the Universe? Real Physics Has Some Mind-Bending Answers
True, they literally saw it, and aside from those few spin-off sets, they didn't act.

On the other hand, LEGO has no experience managing a software product, the LEGO themed games are all outsourced, and around that time they had a pretty big "failure" project (Lego Universe), so they would've been wary of a big risky investment.
I think one of the defining features of HN is its lack of advanced features.

Considering who´s behind the site, if they thought HN needed more features there would be more than enough financial and technical resources to do so.

It´s simple, minimalist , and it just works.
You mean, a kind of oil made with snakes? A snake-oil?
Wolfram need to basically adopt the model that Adobe unofficially has ie. don't stress too much about users pirating your software, because they'll become so dependent on it that when they go and use it in industry they'll demand enterprise licenses.

Except Wolfram should just restore Wolfram Alpha to its once free glory (instead of the annoying nagware that it's become) and also offer this Wolfram cloud stuff at a reduced price.

The end goal for them should be to convince people that they need to purchase Mathematica. Pricing at $15/month means they're only really attracting existing Mathematica users who want the convenience of the cloud when they're away from their primary machine.
Yes, I'm the SJW. And I think that flame bait was a dude going off with "hey, maybe the abuse was totally justified". Pretending that there isn't enough information where the dude straight out admitted he abused his privileged situation (literally, in this case) is completely ridiculous, but hey, not surprising from someone who thinks "social justice warrior" is an insult.
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>> "It's entirely possible that the NSA has hacked Apple, or that an Apple employee has been subverted by the NSA and inserted a back door into the encryption system."

"Entirely possible" is the understatement of the year. I think you mean "absolutely guaranteed." This is the raison d'etre of signals intelligence agencies. The alphabet agencies would be utterly failing at what they see as their job if they didn't have many, many plants inside Apple/Google/AT&T/large communication organizations.

And Tim Cook isn't stupid; he knows this. His claims might be technically true in a strictly literal sense, in that he doesn't have the key, but the claims are certainly misleading to the nontechnical public. He knows full well that iMessage is uber-compromised, probably in several different ways (legal wiretaps, technical intrusions, HumInt, etc).
I wish there was an entire LaTeX-like templating language. Not just the math typesetting; the typesetting is, for the most part, raw TeX.

Markdown is very deficient in, say, organizing a blog post in several sections and subsections. There's formatting syntax, but not semantic syntax. No support for different styling at a higher level (in the template renderer); no support for generating indexes, footnotes.

(The state of footnotes on the web in 2014 is lamentable).

All these valiant efforts in having portable math typesetting that like to make puns with "LaTeX" fall regrettably short of enabling one to make a short blogpost detailing a mathematical curiosity, or even heavily-referenced semi-scholarly output. LaTeX is a template engine that happens to leverage a programmable typesetter. We have a programmable typesetter with modern JavaScript, can we focus on semantic templating already?
Given that the set of rationals is countable, and that the set of irrationals is uncountable, nearly "all" real numbers are irrational. In our experience, however, we mostly interact with rational numbers, and so irrational numbers seem to be the "strange" ones. But there are infinitely more of them! Were one able to devise a method to choose a real number at random, it'd be nearly impossible to ever get a rational number.

As such, it would indeed be extraordinary to have some non-trivial function transform an irrational number (or two, like e^pi) in an unexpected way into a rational number. I imagine most mathematicians would take a very lopsided bet that they're irrational.
> Does that mean every task will be an OS thread?

By default, yes.
Technical superiority (which is subjective) is not really that connected to value.
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A good use of investor money is when you have a proven and controllable conversion from signups -> paying customers.

For example if you need $200 averagely to acquire a customer and the LifeTime value of the customer is $500 over a 10 months timespan. With a positive conversion, you can scale very aggressively with almost no risk, whereas if you re-invest your profit, it will take much longer to reach the same point. If you are in a competitive space, you especially might benefit from investor money.
it would be great to have people share more on the (open-source) software driving forums and news-sites. For example, I learned quite a lot about Ruby and Redis from looking at the source of Lamernews ( https://github.com/antirez/lamernews ) and I also learned using Promises and Redit with Node while experimenting with ( https://github.com/mulderp/echojs )
I live in Orlando, FL. Our only choice for ISP is Brighthouse or to go without.
The initial release was pretty bad, but subsequent ones are fine. Safari, for example, is at least as fast as before. More annoying are third party developers testing only on new hardware. A phone that can run "Infinity Blade" should not take two minutes to start "Threes".
Joel Spolsky wrote the canonical post on this:

https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078

Spoiler: "Coming up with idea", "working on initial prototype" doesn't earn you any equity. Also: vesting usually runs 4 years. One year is certainly not long enough.
I think 1.3 million ends up being an interesting number. The number is small enough that CBS might consider just paying it.

However, they are a huge company with alot of lawyers at their disposal. They could chose to fight this without the financial burden that alot of smaller players like Adam Corolla would have had.

> Now that its patent has been validated against CBS, Personal Audio will be allowed to move forward with trials against NBC and Fox.

This is also interesting. The enemy of my enemy is my friend may come into play here as I'm sure FOX and NBC don't want to go to court.

I can see them helping CBS in an appeal with what I think is called an amicus breif/curiae on CBS behalf.
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They should definitely not being using MD5 for anything. Even if the people in this thread saying that finding MD5 collisions is hard were correct, and they aren't, why take the risk? The performance benefits aren't large for MD5 over competing hash functions that don't have know systemic weaknesses and MD5 attacks will only get better.

Use SHA256, SHA-3 or MD6 (I like MD6, others may disagree. Disclaimer I worked on proving the differential resistance of MD6).
I'd call the police. Is that strange?
There is also gamma (lim_{n -> infinity} (sum_{k=1..n} 1/k)-ln n), that, as far as I know, hasn't been proved to be either rational, either irrational, that is "long suspected irrational", and probably is.
The words; Horse, Stable and Bolted come to mind. VC's and their stupid valuations have created this problem.

The idea that a business isn't worth investing in because it's only going to make millions, not billions, also doesn't help.
VC's would be better off diversifying in lots more companies that have a better chance of making a more modest profit, than a few that are then pressured to make 10's of billions.

I guess ultimately it comes down to the point in which they exit, the dumb PE ratios of Facebook, Twitter etc allowed someone to cash out nicely when they floated, but for the suckers that brought the stock on the public market have no hope of recovering their cash.
Is there a good way to get into Qt? Some getting started blog posts for devs would be very useful, but I've always thought that the Qt learning curve starts with good intentions and then goes vertical. Does anyone have some resources to share?
> Everyone stop changing passwords and re-issuing certificates, guys, everything's fine; he got paid by the russians", and the slides with router passwords would suddenly disappear from the face of earth?

No, but surely such a discovery should alter how we interpret the message, right? Suddenly, it's impossible to discern something that US government is doing to its citizens vs/ something than an enemy of the US wants you to believe.

I really don't understand why Assange and Snowden are getting such a pass. If anything, their motivations and the source of what they are releasing should be scrutinized ten times as much as any previous whistle blower or journalist.
+1. The carousel switched faster than I could read all the text.
Is that because there is actual infringement of a valid patent or the patent holder is offering a settlement that's lower than the court costs to attack the patent?
Last years fight in Fedora to do something similar: http://lwn.net/Articles/561494/
Salt water-powered electric car prototype approved for roads in Europe
Cdn for uploads?
Are there any services which can help improve upload experience like CDN does for download? What did you do to improve upload experience for your customers?
LOL the irony
I had the chance to fly with Delta this summer, the electronics had been updated in my flight, and the UI was great and felt "responsive" in a certain way, let's say 5 times better than before.
Minecraft's Business Model: A Video Game That Leaves You Alone
A more complete example, giving you a Lisp REPL, and calling C code from Lisp: http://vwood.github.io/embedded-ecl.html

And a "port" to Windows: https://github.com/fabriceleal/ecl-win-vs11-example.

Also a tiny non-working "game-engine" that uses SDL1.2 (while not working, may have more examples):
https://github.com/rjmacready/pico-gmengine
They pay for development, they get branding, but for how long?

The answer might change your thinking. Exclusively theirs forever, less attractive. Exclusively theirs for a year, then no restrictions on what you do next, more attractive. Theirs for 3 years, then you can take it to others who are not their competitors, perhaps less attractive.

It's all in the details.
Minimize things you can't bear to lose or reveal, both electronic, and physical things in your drawers etc. As for physical, I can walk out the door with a small plastic grocery bag (which I actually keep in my desk), and if I couldn't have what I'd put in the bag I wouldn't think twice about it.

I have a few pictures I've uploaded from my camera. They can have them. Same for a few O'Reilly ebooks.

I have a few Firefox bookmarks, and browsing history. They can have them.

I have the LastPass plugin installed, but I don't have it set to stay logged in. I'm always logged out of LastPass, and if I need to get to a site with a LastPass password, I log in, do the thing, and log out.

The only hole that I've pondered is that I'm always logged in to pinboard. I suppose the solution there is to change my pinboard password the evening after being let go, if I remember to do it.
Three people replied with the same link. It is clear that that link should replace the originally posted link.
> I don't dispute the truth of his disclosures?

That's the problem you should at least be questioning that truth just like you question the truth of what the government tells you.
This makes me think about every time I call tech support and end up bitching them out. Usually the first thing any customer support does is get all of your personal info like address and stuff. So in essence, by the time they have pissed me off and I have told them they live a worthless existence where toilet paper has more of a use than they do,and that they are friggin idiots, they are sitting there google mapping my house and plotting revenge. Thankfully, phone rage seems to subsist quickly. But I have said some stuff to customer support and then thought twice about how much information that person knows about me when in essence I know nothing about them.
- Guile last version: 2.0.11 (2014-03-20)
- Ecl last version: 12.7.1 (2012-07-24)

I think guile it's better for language embedding. Anyway if you prefer lisp (to use an asdf package for example) maybe it's better sbcl with ffi.

Chicken scheme it's also nice and very portable.
If only I'd known!
That's hilarious. :)

I think containers as a concept have the chance to really fundamentally change the way applications are developed, delivered, and managed in data centers going forward - whether it's my own little rack sitting in a corner office, or a large scale, multi dc deployment.

We're betting on that being Docker, but, the worst thing that could happen is to become complacent and not recognize there's a tremendous amount of work left to do.
It depends on what you want to use it for (Qt covers a lot of use-cases) but http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtexamplesandtutorials.html is probably a good start.
It was posted an hour before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8324111

It had a less exciting title though.
Same. The betas where buggy and crashy but the GM works OK. I don't notice it being slower than iOS 7.
I've learned a lot in the last few years about living efficiently. Being financially independent is less about how much you earn, and more about what percent of your income you save along with getting some rate of return on your savings.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...

Good luck, everyone
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Note for those looking for commercial pricing - it is sort of hidden under the top buttons in the download page:

http://www.qt.io/download/

That said, just having a publicly listed price anywhere feels like a big step forward for Qt. In the past there was just a "Contact Sales" form with whispered mentions across forums about real pricing. I think this dissuaded a lot of indie devs from trying out Qt.

I'm not sure why this new site doesn't just have a page called "Pricing" that explains what the monthly pricing means. Answer questions like "Do the tools lock out if the subscription is cancelled or do my rights to published statically linked Qt apps get cancelled?" and "Do I have to pay each month to keep those rights even if there is no active development on an app?".

My guess is that Qt must make a bulk of their revenue on enterprise sales and are reticent to open up a self serve sales process (highlighted by the squeeze page they put up when you click the 30 day trial download button). It is a shame because I think Qt could enable a lot of great apps.
Hey there! Tonight happens to be my last night in Stockholm, as I'm leaving for Bergen tomorrow. I don't have any plans though. What part of town are you in?
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It's LGPL as well.
Linux developers who write GUI apps. The many people who write server apps are unlikely to have more than user experience.
It is the blind spot of the Web/Silicon Valley/Startup world that not all programming is web programming. While the Googles and Facebooks of this world get all the press, there is a stupendous number of developers working on good old-fashioned desktop applications and embedded software. That is the world where Qt is very popular.

In fact, it is my opinion that Qt is the one thing that keeps C++ relevant these days (http://weblog.jeroen.ws/blog/2012/11/19/how-relevant-is-c-pl...).
It's nothing more than a disposable electronic good to me

To you, yes. I suspect you have a lot more money than others do.
>Finding a collision in MD5 is costly, finding a collision in MD5 which is within -+10% of the actual size is extremely costly (technically possible, but maybe not in your lifetime).

MD5 collisions with 10% of the size of the file can be found in seconds on a old laptop computer. I've done it, we assign it as HW in class.

Read this http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/

Notice that the two colliding exe are exactly the same file size. These attacks have only gotten better.

>Zip is an extremely good format for crafting fake files which match a checksum. Really any format which can take arbitrary metadata (which is MOST) is pretty easy.

The example I gave uses windows and linux executables. No zip files in sight. These attacks are from 2009.
Let's see what can do
Though Qt provides loads of tools useful for writing headless applications. It's not just a GUI toolkit by a long way.
Guess web is not its circle. ;)

I've used in software for multiplatform oil and gas data analysis and visualisation. I've left the company many years ago, but they still use it heavily.
Paul Brody (IBM): We Are Forking Ethereum
Why would Docker sell their dotCloud platform if they wanted to stay in the PaaS business?
Is notch? I was under the impression that notch has not worked on any real production code in a long time. I was always under the impression that he is not "technically" that good and the original minecraft code was very inefficient but I could be wrong.
I run "random" images. However, I do so by only running automated builds with source code I can (and do) first audit. Some of those images, by the way, are official and provided by the application developer / org.
It's also strange that the open-source version doesn't have "Full rights to modify source codes". This is clearly an error.
Some things aren't tradeoffs. We hiked well over 10 miles per month on various nature trails last year as a family. Weather this spring and summer was miserable but we still racked up considerable mileage this year.

I runkeeper and by looking at mile times its pretty obvious when the kids are along vs my higher speed lunch hour exercise. With kids equals mile times around 30 minutes. Well, whatever. It might not be good exercise, but its better than watching TV on the couch.

Speaking of lunch hour exercise... that's another non-tradeoff tradeoff.
This video may also supplement the knowledge about floating point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTSvthW34GU
Palm Note iOS beta is out
That's within the same price point as other leading IDEs.

Plus, as a commercial company you can still use it for free provided that you abide by the LGPL.
Cloud darling Docker gets $40M in funding to push its container technology