skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, I had this dynamic of cost-to-market in mind and you provided the perfect example.

I would see the propagation of SaaS model as advantageous to competition and not detrimental and thus beneficial to all who consume software, as it will reduce the cost to market and make profit models actually deterministic.

I work in a company whose products deal in the structural design for construction. The energies put into retail, licencing, fighting piracy etc. are very off-putting for anyone thinking of starting a software business but they seem to be essential part of selling expensive desktop software. Also, the de-facto standard licencing server solution (I'm looking at you, FlexLM) is ... not so good.

I actually only now start to believe there could emerge viable competitors to Adobe in publishing/graphics design, Microsoft in Office and Autocad in 3D design. The age of the dinosaurs is finally coming to an end. Yay!

To the average consumer it does not matter whether the software lives in the providers server or in the local substrate. It's the added value, usability and the trust in the software that matters.

Adobe's CreativeCloud pricing pisses you off? Fine, start up your own desktop publishing software company, implement, say 20% of the features you need and expand. Of course, race to the bottom is never good but a product that implements say 10% of the Creative Cloud feature set does not need to be as expensive - it's in a totally different segment - and once it has a user base and traction the company can grow, implement new features and products. When this virtualization-as-a service really kicks in it actually will be just as realistic option to start a desktop-equivalent product as making a web-app as the dynamics of propagation _will_be_the_same_ as for any web service. Good products will propagate and creativity will flourish.

Huge proportions of cost of desktop software development are about licencing, fighting bugs in different user desktop configurations, etc, non value-adding, labour intensive things that you need to provide a usable desktop product which are mostly about platform fragmentation. Suddenly you can develop software on top of _only_one_platform_ that will be more or less _stable_ in terms of your core functionality.

People, this is not a catastrophe and return to the age of the mainframe behemoths, this will be a new renaissance (... just as long as the pricing for the core technologies will be such that they do not lock out small time players... fingers crossed).

The only downside here are software patents which probably could and will be used by large companies to fight scary small competitors who will not sell but I'm optimistic their time will go away... at some point.
Yep, and if you're really hard up to get it into 10.10. Just extract the relevant binaries from the 10.9 version.

Though a better question would be what the hell are you doing with 10.10 that you need to. OS X betas are very much beta.

https://gist.github.com/mitchty/6e835bb51735099b6eba
Wow. I guess I'm out of date with state of the art after all...

Your post reminded me of an excellent passage from Yvain's recent post[0] (it's long, but it is a goldmine).

The point is – imagine a country full of bioweapon labs, where people toil day and night to invent new infectious agents. The existence of these labs, and their right to throw whatever they develop in the water supply is protected by law. And the country is also linked by the world’s most perfect mass transit system that every single person uses every day, so that any new pathogen can spread to the entire country instantaneously. You’d expect things to start going bad for that city pretty quickly.

Well, we have about a zillion think tanks researching new and better forms of propaganda. And we have constitutionally protected freedom of speech. And we have the Internet. So we’re pretty much screwed.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
The SPARC has tagged arithmetic (TADDCC), to support Lucid Common Lisp and Smalltalk.

http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/91-04-082

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPARC_Assembly/Arithmetic_Instr...

Back in the late 1980's, a Sun employee jokingly pointed out that because the DECstation used the MIPS processor in little endian mode (it supported both big and little endian) to match the VAX, its processor should be called the SPIM. I asked if the SPARC supported little endian mode, would it be called the CRAPS? He was flustered, and told me to shut up and never tell anyone that SPARC spelled backwards was CRAPS.
On Coinbase's official blog they recommend a third-party iOS app on the iTunes store. This seems a bit more lax on security than I would expect from a wallet provider.

The unofficial app on the App Store uses Coinbase's name and artwork, and doesn't say that it's unofficial [2]. It's seen updates since Coinbase's blog post, where the author could have added this but hasn't. I also wonder if they've been making sure that they're still willing to say that they believe it to be secure and safe to use after the updates.

This is concerning to me, as a Coinbase user.

1: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/64824441934/the-coinbase-ios-a...

2: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/coinbase-bitcoin-wallet/id88...
Unless you have experienced email person on the technical team, you will waste way too much time on configuring, etc.

I used to have email servers running AWS and eventually gave up. Hosted email services are far less hassle.
Why People(Still) Prefer the Mall Over Online Shopping
True. That, not the iPod, was Apple's real weapon. Apple was able to bring that off because for a reason that's not well understood. Remember, Apple was nowhere in consumer electronics at the time. There were bigger companies with MP3 players. But Apple had an edge.

Hollywood, which includes the music industry, is very hierarchical. Steve Jobs was not only CEO of Apple. He was also CEO of Pixar. As the head of a major movie studio, he outranked all music executives. He could deal with them as their superior. That got him in the door.

iTunes is now the largest music vendor in the world.
+1 to alexandrescu's "Modern C++" showing the expressive power of C++. Also, imho, one o the key points of the book is how Alexandrescu criticises the OO patterns of the so horrible Gang Of Four. Anybody who have readed their book in depth should note that they provide a poor cookbook with "Do you have this problem, copy-paste that code" notes and an implementation provided by someone thats completely biased with all the OOP buzzwords, but never implemented them seriously in a real language.
I'm not saying there are no inefficiently run companies in the world, but these PE buyouts all seem to follow the same plan.

Buy a company, pay yourself a fat fee. Force the company to borrow a ton of money and pay yourselves back. Start cutting costs. Some is fat, but much of it (like Mark Hurd slashing R&D at HP) is cutting R&D or sales in ways that don't hurt for long enough for the PE firm to cash out. It's a hell of a business model, particularly when it seems like these PE firms often financial engineer themselves into a position where they succeed financially whether the acquired company succeeds or fails.

It seems to often work out well for the PE firm, and much less well for the company, customers, and employees.
Photoshop Lovers – Get Ready to Use Adobe Photoshop on Chromebooks
I wanted to show a single field for address, because it just seems so much more user friendly... but then I realized I also needed to filter users by state, and I thought better of trying to figure out how to parse the block of text.
The whole point of the exercise was to get rid of bandwidth requirements from the cable. Its running that locally on local X server. X server commands do not require moving all the pixel data, they do not all that redundant data like logos and pictures, the text you see isn't at X protocol level group of pixels its bytes to a font. You move the icon once through the cable and the server will hold to it. That is beauty of X server being capable of running remote apps. From the server point of view your local computer would become remote computer running the application and the monitor would become the computer, handling input and running local apps which pretty much only consist the server that handles the graphics.
The way that this is overcome is that most garbage collectors only permit direct pointers to an object rather than to a particular field inside an object. For example, there's no Java equivalent to this C:

void a(int *b)
{
*b = 5;
}

struct c
{
int d;
};

int main()
{
struct c foo;
a(&foo.d); // no way to do this in Java!
printf("%lu\n", (unsigned long)foo.d);
}
Add HTTPS Support to GitHub Pages
I upvoted it in the hopes that someone would provide the missing piece. Like "oh, we forgot to mention that the DNS is pointing to our own haproxy servers that all have redundant power/network/whatever) or something.
This seems like a strange tradeoff in that case. Most programs don't have a lot of "loose" integers lying around. Programs that have a lot of integer values tend to store them in arrays, which are themselves tagged and thus have all the information needed to do GC. To save a 64-bit tag per loose integer value (of which there usually aren't very many) this design sacrifices the performance of every integer operation, not to mention memory compatibility with C. I'm curious what kind of code motivated the choice.
> So we’re pretty much screwed

No, because the human immune system can learn to defend against propaganda. Many of the unfair advantages of propaganda arise from nominal invisibility when masquerading as healthy sensory input.

Take away that cover and it's much cheaper to audit and firewall hostile media, using exactly the same epidimiological and social network analysis techniques that can spread parasites and propaganda. The technology works in both directions, see Palantir and http://www.insna.org/socnet.html
Did EIG secretly buy CodeGuard? customer support tanked
Anyone else use CodeGuard for remote backup solution for clients? Was wondering why their support pretty much died during the last several months, about the same time HostGator and GoDaddy started partnerships with them. Oh and Rackspace too apparently. If EIG hasn't purchased them yet, it seems they are getting pretty friendly anyway:

http://blog.codeguard.com/cloud-backup-hostgator/

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/simply-backup-cloud-sites-with-codeguard/

EIG is web cancer. I'm dead.
The reality is more and more services will switch to the 'client-side-encrypted' model and then you're left trying to stomp out easily replicated and anonymously sharable lists of pointers to legally stored encrypted blobs. Good luck with that.

From an ideological point it seems hard to rationalize. We pretty much have an obligation to fix copyright law, build a digital Alexandria, and give it to the world. For Free. All art, movies, music, books, educational materials, everything. Free. We can figure out another way to reward creators without creating artificial marketplaces that demand most go without so the few left have reason to spend.

If we're going to fuck up the climate for later generations - I think we can manage to at least figure this out. It's pretty low hanging fruit from a technical perspective.
Jeff Bezos on why India puts a spring in his step
I don't see how the judge could rule against Grooveshark. How is Grooveshark any different from Youtube, for instance?

The only difference is that the users, on their own, upload much less of their own content on Grooveshark than they do on Youtube. The users are more prone to upload illegal work.

But that seems like an arbitrary reason to make this ruling. It's unfortunate that the law can be so vague and ill-defined, and arbitrarily interpreted, usually to the benefit of larger corporations.
What makes me bullish on ello is that it seems like there is an incredible team behind it.

- Paul Bundtz - Founder of Kidrobot
- Berger and Fohr - Art Design Studio
- Mode Set - Agile Software Consultancy

All these representatives would be successful on their own. It seems like they're combing forces for something BIG
Since when did defending your territory became 'ethnic cleansing'?

Remind me, who went over the border?
In a Ukrainian conflict, why do we keep hearing about Russian soldiers? Oh, and by the way, where did the bodies of 4000 dead Russian soldiers go? Wait, how did they get to Ukraine in the first place?

http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/09/27/rights-activist-4000-r...

And please, don't quite RT.
Wrong. Buy/sell spread is zero, research before you speak.
ELB scales horrible and can not scale to even tens of thousands of connections per second, let alone handling spikes of 100k/sec simultaneous connections. Even if you get AWS to prewarm to ELB at a higher peak rate, if you spike over those limits you will drop new incoming connections. HTTPS termination is trivial compared to a requirement to be able to actually handle hundreds of thousands to millions of simultaneous connections per second.
But it's suddenly a viable business plan to start competing in the DTP space if you can find the talent.

Adobe can charge anything <-> suddenly anyone can realistically start to compete with Adobe.

I would say that evens out the playing field.
Once you have the pointer (which includes the decryption key), can't you then send a normal DMCA takedown?
Google's HR Chief: The One Simple Formula for a Winning Resume
Your app already has more features than I wanted! So no problem with that. I found the navigation a bit confusing initially, despite the interesting intro video. Have figured it out now. I will need to use the app more more to say how I like it with larger notes.
Did you see the part of the article where employees of Grooveshark uploaded infringing music?
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It also seems positively weird that Apple's support pages and this security update aren't delivered via https.
It takes somewhere between 441-12,000 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef, depending on whether you want to believe the stats from the beef industry or an ardent environmentalist/vegetarian: http://www.gracelinks.org/blog/1143/beef-the-king-of-the-big...

My guess is that the real number is somewhere in between, but that still represents an order of magnitude more water consumption than producing plant-based foodstuffs.

The 35mm tons of wasted food is terrible, for numerous reasons, but we shouldn't stop there. There are a lot of things we can and should do to drastically reduce our water consumption. Like eating alternative foods.

Fwiw, I essentially haven't eaten beef in about 17 years. I eat a fair amount of poultry and fish, and occasionally eat pork, but I skip beef both for personal health and general environmental reasons.
While I tend to agree, you can't spray your fields with nuclear energy (or solar, or wind, or whatever). Oil plays an enormously fundamental role across a broad spectrum of uses in our civilization.
Protect yourself from the hidden dangers of `curl <url> | sh`

... by running this script i'm hosting on the internet.
I'm disappointed this is the top rated comment. Your repeated bigotry towards "outsourced Indian engineering" combined with using a throwaway detract from what appears to be potentially useful information (Loggly CTO changes, running without EBS and without swap, etc.). Can someone else corroborate the factual bits without the xenophobia?
at least until the `apt-get upgrade` or similar :)
Yes it will. But only at the companies where you wouldn't want to work at anyway. Enterprise companies with cushy layers of middle management love 'B' and 'C' players.
Thanks. I've seen that. But what I'm looking for is a project specific resource.
Of course you can apply to any of these you want. But the best approach is actually taking the application process as a learning experience in itself, since it's unlikely to result in the direct benefit you're seeking.

In other words, if you're going to apply, make the most of it regardless of the outcome.
Would gravity affect soundwaves at all? If sound is traveling parallel to the Earth's surface, will it follow along the curvature of the Earth (implying gravity has an effect on it) or was it able to propagate around the Earth four times simply because the intensity was so great that it was able to still be heard despite the loss of energy in the "up-down" directions relative to the origin of the sound?

If I had to completely guess, I would think that gravity might have something to do with its behavior in this case, because if sound decayed at 1/r^2, it seems highly unlikely that the sound could survive four trips around the Earth. Yet we also have to explain how the sound was able to preserve itself even though sound travels "sort of spherically" (if you're up in the sky and someone shoots at you, you can hear it, so sound must be going up-down as well as left-right and every other direction) but if it was simply spherical in this case then it would decay into the upper atmosphere. If you imagine a sphere that grows from any point on the surface of the Earth, most of it will wind up in space, but since it circled the Earth, it must not have traveled exactly as sphere, which implies it didn't fall off as 1/r^2.

The most likely explanation seems to be that sound of huge intensity somehow follows the curvature of the Earth, which is very interesting. I wonder if gravity is influencing the soundwaves directly (which might actually be nonsense, since waves aren't matter, but something that travels through matter) or if gravity somehow sets up the propagation medium in a way that lets the sound curve around the earth without losing intensity as 1/r^2.
I had the privilege of watching STS-134 launch from the press site and everyone tells you: "it's loud. louder than loud. you will be surprised by how loud it was." and that still wasn't enough to prepare me. It is loud. It is literally like the sound is clipping, the brapping noise moves through your teeth, it vibrates your clothes, you feel it inside of you. It is incredible, and I was so lucky to have watched it from the closest any humans are allowed to be (except for the brave rescue team in an APC 1 mile away).
Honestly it sounds like they just need a high performance L3 load balancer, rather than ELB. As you said though, just because AWS doesn't give them that doesn't mean the slot up was Route53 instead of say haproxy.
> How long ago did that happen?

Debian shipped dash as default shell in Squeeze, which was in testing from 2010-08-06 and stable from 2011-02-06.
You might find the history of unlicensed spectrum interesting http://mises.org/daily/1662 TLDR: in the 1920s spectrum was treated as a homesteadable property right, which you could use to stop others interfering with you and could trade.
The theoretical service uses distributed RAID6 -it detects the downed file - builds it back from distributed parity - and bans your client by hardware UUID. Your last known coordinates gathered from bluetooth/wifi/gps are broadcasted to local library users so they can ask you what's up.
I really, really wish they would port Photoshop to Linux - it's going to be the killer app for Linux, hugely driving up adoption.
Well, radio waves consist of light, albeit outside of the visible spectrum. It is certainly possible to transmit signals using visible light (see Li-Fi), although visible light transmissions could be jammed using the same techniques.

Might not be ideal for covert communication though, since you could see someone broadcasting without any special equipment.
Defending your territory? From what, the people who already live there?

The operations in the east were essentially punitive, simply because they didn't support the new government. Yanukovych never sent the army after the protesters, yet the new Kyiv government did... I don't know if you remember the sequence of events, but Donetsk never separated and formed an army until after the massive escalation of violence by the pro-western Ukrainians...

> Oh, and by the way, where did the bodies of 4000 dead Russian soldiers go? Wait, how did they get to Ukraine in the first place?

If you honestly believe the completely incompetent and inept Ukrainian armed forces could kill 4000 Russian soldiers you're insane... The fact they were routed by a separatist force composed mostly of retired soldiers and volunteers with a few Russian advisers, despite having superior numbers and actually having air forces speaks to their competence, or lack thereof. By the way, the ceasefire was called because the Ukrainian military had basically given up, and many, if not most of the soldiers were on the verge of disbanding...

Odds are they didn't even kill that many separatists...
this would make an ideal mobile experience. I wish they had provided an API to build an app on top of it.
I see no downside to this.
Well said - this is a crazily over-engineered and highly problematic approach to the problem at hand.
Now someone needs to write something like the Art of Electronics based on this component set.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8385374
Avoid bash vulnerabilities?
The Definitive List of Music Used by Apple Inc
Arguing that using a neural network instead of a simpler classifier is a good idea because of recent developments in deep learning is like arguing that driving a car from the 50s is safer than taking a train because of recent developments in airbag/cruise control technology.
Or you could just cmd-TAB to the right application then cmd-` to the right window.
Oh, I thought you were talking about Mega, not science fiction.
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The perfect question, and the perfect answer. (Upvotes both)
I'm kicking myself for not investing in almond farms like Mike Burry did.
Yeah... no.

First, GoF and design patterns in general isn't really meant to be "copy and paste" code. They're very clear that the code is provided merely for illustrative purposes.

Most of the design patterns in the GoF book are actually cribbed/realized in standard libraries of various languages where they work quite well. The problem is, those languages look almost nothing like C++. You could describe it as "biased with OOP", but it's really more that C++'s peculiarities (value semantics, comparatively complex and tightly coupled inheritance semantics, a purely functional meta-object protocol with very limited reflection semantics, and yes, it's multi-paradigm approach) make it serve as a bad fit.

Ironically though, much of MCPP is proving C++-style manifestations of GoF design patterns...
Actually this does have some merit. Cloud Flare once protected Lulzsec servers. The FBI likely established their relationship with CF during this time to monitor all network activity to/from Lulzsec sites. Now Cloud Flare is the #1 ddos protection service for all sorts of shady sites, all those script kiddies on Hackforums, and everybody else the FBI would like to keep tabs on. CF's response to protecting booter services and the like is they don't discriminate against customers and remain a so-called neutral party. It would be a goldmine for the FBI to have one US based service with full traffic monitoring of all these persons of interest. A TLS gateway would be an even bigger goldmine.

They claim they have never done this but have to comply with warrants and NSLs being US based. Hard to believe the FBI never requested anything from CF back when Lulzsec had dedicated agents after them. They would be incompetent if they didn't get data out of CF to help their investigation.
Laser point to point:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/128207-1gbps-wireless-net...

This is not low bandwidth if you have the right tools.
Is Creative-Commons License Compatible with Apache License?
our lives are made possible by oil

So what?? In the future, they can be made possible by something else!

Your comment is s complete non sequitur. It's as if you can't see any gray area between something being totally good and being totally bad.