skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really intuitive, though. When you switch to a tab, either you page in that tab's memory for the current process. Or you page in that tab's process and memory.

That is, by going to a "per process" approach, the amount of memory that gets paged in almost certainly went up. No?
> The local market is dead...

Focus your search on networking with senior execs who you know how to help, ex local CIOs/CTOs.

Don't lead with a resume, instead ask them a question-- do know anyone who needs software development help? Asking for a referral opens up the conversation to more possibilities. It also makes you stand out as a peer, not a supplicant.
On a macro level, a likely hypothesis for this trend is that there is nothing better to invest in than tech. But tech isn't moving fast enough (value is hard to create, not in a gold rush period), so we try to translate money into growth much more. Because otherwise that money's just sitting around!

In an ideal world that money might somehow be invested in long-term societal growth than can yield high tech growth in the future, like education, or maybe investing in individuals for some long-term return on their income. More R&D at all levels. Just random ideas. Point is, it'd be nice to see some creative thinking with investment money rather than see it pumped into companies trying to sabotage each other's ride sharing apps, or out-sell their fundamentally identical crm services, etc.
Sure, for most people it isn't an issue. But sometimes it is. E.g. if you're hosting some kind of product that collects or inserts data into customer's websites.

If you are really aggressive about performance you'll have data centers within 100-200ms of all your customers. If you do this, and you buy into the microservices, it doesn't take many inter-service calls to exceed the network latency. On the TechEmpower benchmarks most frameworks struggle to return a static bit of JSON in <50ms. Now imagine 10 services communicating to fulfill a request...
I was just about to comment that sandboxed iframes aren't really well supported but it seems like I'm completely wrong, they're much better supported than I expected http://caniuse.com/#feat=iframe-sandbox

Still it would leave a fair chunk of users with IE 9 or older no better than they are right now.
In the summary, “At some point you have to build a real business, generate real profits, sustain the company without the largess of investor’s capital,” Wilson said, “and start producing value the old fashioned way.”

I do believe a significantly higher proportion of companies today are doing exactly that, and are quite focused on it, whereas they were not in 1999. That's a general and very un-scientific argument for why this bubble (which it still surely is) is not as bad.

Sure, some companies have shaky monetization strategies; but you just can't say companies like Uber are not producing value (rumors of ~$10 billion gross revenue).
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In the summary, “At some point you have to build a real business, generate real profits, sustain the company without the largess of investor’s capital,” Wilson said, “and start producing value the old fashioned way.”

I do believe a significantly higher proportion of companies today are doing exactly that, and are quite focused on it, whereas they were not in 1999. That's a general and very un-scientific argument for why this bubble (which it still surely is) is not as bad.
Surely you have hobbies, so enjoy those as much as you can. I get tempted to do things such as learn a new framework or tool or a language as you suggested only to find I can not invest that much time in the end.

I find that handling some unfinished business and doing something that is completely off track from your daily routine is best to keep unnecessary stress out of your life.
I'm sure they will write it down as they go along.
That isn't generally what is known as 'law'.
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Early iphone 5 units had a bad run of batteries. There is a free replacement program. Apple has a web site to check your serial number to see if your phone is afflicted. It made a world of difference on mine.
I had a very similar problem with Skype (also now a Microsoft company).

I had been using this Skype account for years. Suddenly one day out of the blue my account was suspended and I was asked to recover it, no biggy I thought, since I had access to the email account AND didn't set it up with gibberish (i.e. real name, real address, etc).

Here is what Skype asked for (with remarks):

- Contact email (easy)
- Account Creation year (who knows this?!)
- Country of registration (easy)
- Payment history (huge problem, discussed below)
- Skype 3 contacts (buggy, needs the Skype usernames, not "friendly" names)

On the face of it this seems "easy." Except it is super buggy/finicky and Skype's support has zero alternatives. In fact they told me to register a new Skype account if I couldn't complete the form(!). They even sent that reply to my registered email address.

The main issue I had with the above form was, Account Creation Year (I didn't know it!), Skype contacts (it needs either Skype name (e.g. BSmith123) or email address, NOT profile names/friendly names e.g. "Bob Smith").

Payment history is just horrifyingly terrible. I tried my current credit card (nope), current debit card (nope), old debit card (nope), and even somehow tracked down my long since cancelled old credit card (nope). I also tried other with a comment (nope).

After being without access to my Skype account for several weeks, I tried setting my Payment History to "Never paid for Skype" even though I actually had (many many times)! Worked. After logging in I had an expired credit card on the account (one of the ones I tried several times).

In order to finally gain access to an account I lost access to for reasons I still don't understand, I had to:

- Search through several boxes looking for old cards
- Pull down a backup of my Skype profile and extract Skype profile names for my contacts using an SQLite tool
- Search tons of historic emails for my creation date (never did find it)
- Contact support half a dozen times (they were utterly unhelpful).
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the inverse would be funnier in a scary kind of way.
I argued the same way about 10 years ago! I feel you! Nowadays I have developed different goals. Because my job and daily life offer enough opportunity to grind my skills. Therefore games that don't require me to get better for enjoying them became more interesting to me.
Parallel to Aaron Swartz is rather strong, in my view, in that this is also a case of gross prosecutorial overreach.
A single, non technical founder’s search for a good tech guy
New LiveMinutes is a über-Slack: Team chat, calls, Doc collaboration, and more
It all went downhill, when compuware bought numega and killed softice. yes, ollydbg and windbg work fine, but still...
I use it as a brain dump to think about what I want to write, and it seems to work. I write better when I have a decent plan about what I want to write, and I use 750 words to work through that plan. At 10-11 minutes for an entry, it's not a big commitment and it pays large dividends. That said, writing at 750words.com for me is different than "real" writing.
yaa, and sharing his experience :)
Why I bet £900k on the Scottish referendum
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I am having the same problem! I have been trying for several days to sign in to outlook to retrieve my email w/o success.They keep asking for my code to protect my security which they say they will send me one by phone..I've yet to receive it. After several attempts this a.m. was told too many attempts to obtain code and to try again in a week. What am I doing wrong? Fortunately I can retrieve email and f.b. on my kindle. I am not a computer guru so very frustrated!
The term you're looking for is "white hat" hackers.
Sure it is. VCs aren't the money guys, they just invest the funds of the money guys. Not investing really isn't an option for them.
It sold over 250k[1], which is astoundingly successful for an indie game, and was critically acclaimed[2].

[1] http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/06/gone-home-finds-250k-sales...

[2] http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/gone-home
J2EE+CSS company was in Turkey, he quit and got a different job in Barcelona
Automating automated testing
A Vi/Vim site is proposed at stackexchange
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You might find this amusing:

http://jezebel.com/every-healthy-morning-habit-you-should-ad...

Please forgive the Gawker media owned link; it's worth it.

On a more serious note, this also can be applied to the #YouCanLearnAnything campaign. Sure, it's a positive message, and probably true, but what to learn? I sympathize; what I've found helps is starting with two realizations:

1) The possibilities are quite literally endless; don't tell yourself you can't, because it's probably not true.

2) The one certain limitation is time.

With those two things in mind, it comes down to one question: what do you want to do with what time you have?

More deeply: what is important to you? How can you best achieve it? Is your scope to small? Good, you'll finish it fast. Is your scope too large? Try breaking it down, and realize you're only human. Anyone can change, but most people won't. Don't try to change everything at once; start small and keep focused on your long term goals.

I wish I could do significant research, contribute more to open source, build a business, etc. As it is, I'm too busy coding at the day job, and all my other time is eaten up by training for search and rescue and practicing for musical performances. I'm lucky I got time to setup a self-hosted cloud for the wife's new tablet this weekend. But those are the choices I've made, and I'm mostly happy with them.
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I really, truly don't see how this is a "silly detail" any more than ensuring the person who collects your credit card information in a retail setting, in person, actually represents the company they claim to, by looking for a uniform, nametag, or other immediately obvious information that identifies someone as working for someone else.

We've been trying to drill it into people to look for the lock icon before entering anything personal for decades and it's kinda starting to stick.

Is it really that much more to ask that you double check to see if the URL you're putting your sensitive information on matches what it claims to be?

It's literally right there. A glance upwards. No clicks or any special arcane knowledge required.
That article describes a though experiment that would A. remove an ad, and B. should (but doesn't) trigger a BitCoin miner. It's clearly marketed as an illustration to an idea. I'm failing to see the consumer fraud. Is this like accusing a car-manufacturer of manslaugher because they latest concept-car didn't have seat-belts?

I would like to know if that's selective reporting from Wired, or spectacular fishing from NJ state atorney.

Also, neither the hackathon, nor MIT appear to be in NJ: what is their jurisdiction? Those two issues should be clarified in any basic coverage of the incident: at this point, it is plain bad reporting.
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It took about 2 years to recover (I went to occupational therapy, and stumbled through 18 months), and then I was able to have a very high functioning life. I can exercise to full exertion, I had a very normal pregnancy, and am overall doing physically well. I'm very very very lucky.

There are still gaps in memory. My friends, since this essay was published, have told me how they visited in the weeks and months following my stroke, and I am floored by how I don't recall their visits, whatsoever. Like, nada. But I know I felt their love, so there is that.

Again--thank you all for the amazing response to my essay. I am overwhelmed in the best way. We writers don't get a lot of kudos, so when the love does come around, it matters very very much. I know it holds me through the darkness and keeps me going. So, thank you for keeping me going!
> On a macro level, a likely hypothesis for this trend is that there is nothing better to invest in than tech.

I think folks are missing a bigger part of the macro picture: It is not just tech. Low interest rates and easy monetary policy have inflated many types of assets.

By way of example, this is currently headlining on Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/some-powerful-voices-add-to-fe...
Because they're beneath mention from a design perspective?

There's no inventory management system, there's little stealth ability, there's no threat of player death, there's no backtracking, there's no maps, etc.

System Shock 2 got a lot wrong, but I don't think it's worth mentioning the "spiritual successors" from a design perspective, as they're strictly a step backwards.
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"On the plus side, any time you have a problem, it gets dealt with by me, who built the software and has all necessary authority to fix your problem"

This is excellent advice. I am going to use this on my bootstrapped SAAS from now on. thx :)
Two things have to be taken into account here. Firstly the original post is from the point of a VC, and from the point of view of a VC, not hiring a sales team to actively pursue high value enterprise sales and partnerships in a market amenable to them represents the great evil of limiting traction and leaving money on the table. From the point of view of a micropreneur or small business not trying to win the entire market or go bust trying, it might be taking a massive business risk on something with far less predictable return than ramping up existing marketing spend.

The second is that there are millions of small businesses which aren't searching Google for software solutions to certain problems and yet are willing to part with cash if somebody shoves the solution in their face.
We're lucky to have an organization like the EFF that fights this nonsense. It's a good time to support their work.

https://supporters.eff.org/donate
thanks, vote added.
Definitely worth trying it...
100% satisfied or refunded (oups... it's free)
It's a similar argument to: I have very little time so I can't afford to read a good book and can only afford the instant gratification of twitter (or insert your favourite poison here). Also, I'm a grumpy old software engineer, I'm not you 10 years ago, I'm you in 10 years' time.
> Perhaps it is a "possibility", but it doesn't exist today

So? It's not a reason not to make one or to claim that since it "failed" everyone needs to run to platform specific APIs. That was the point.
The CEO that never was a CEO – Why I quit my startup
Similar issues with xbox. The stupid crap Microsoft makes you jump through to recover an account that is only set up to make on of their pieces of software or hardware work is insane. It took me two days to get access back to my account so I could unlock a game for my 7 year old on his xbox. Microsoft's security requirements are garbage.
Yeah, listening to Chicago's at night can get pretty gnarly.
Caveat: This only works if you measure your self-worth by your github streak number/commit stats
Compare to the 99's. One couldn't keep track of all the IPOs back then.

Anyway, the VC bubble will not pop alone. It'll take stocks with it (or the other way around), and people will suffer worldwide again.
It's hard to believe that spraying a bunch of stuff to kill insects all over might have a negative affect on insects.
> hackers (in the MIT/HN sense of the word).

As someone at Berkeley who's been to many events at MIT, I feel like the definition of Silicon Valley/West Coast "hacker" is very different from the MIT hacker.
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Google and Apple Won’t Unlock Your Phone, but a Court Can Make You
If your phone has had 2+ years of continuous use, you have definitely lost battery capacity. It does happen gradually.
From an article on HN a week ago:

In 1900, about 4 percent of the U.S. population was older than 65. Today, 90 percent of all babies born in the developed world will live past that age.
> Anecdotally, any discussion of obesity I have seen on internet forums (typically reddit) places the blame entirely on the overweight people.

"Most people who think that eating less and exercising more can help obesity" and "the loudest voices on the internet forums Afforess frequents who think that eating less and exercising more can help obesity" are not the same groups of people.
Why do I get the feeling that there's a joke here with a punchline of "Tarsnap"?
>> it's a little strange they didn't do it

Exactly. It smacks of someone at Apple saying "Hey, if we keep the base at 16 gigs it will make more people upgrade to the 64, which will be more money".
This is orthogonal, but the AOT versus JIT difference between ART and Dalvik is hugely overstated. Dalvik attempted to AOT compile, and when that wasn't possible it also maintains a pre-compiled cache for subsequent runs. Similarly, while ART attempts AOT, for various reasons it often resorts to JIT with some types of code. They both behave incredibly similarly.

ART is a ground-up rewrite of Dalvik. The AOT thing seemed to take root as some sort of differentiating talking point.
I don't know I've been mostly stung by bees, and I had hornets and wasps live in attic of my parents house at different timesand they never stung us. Maybe it's because both my grandfathers kept bees and sometimes they swarm out.

Usually a bee flies into hairs and can't escape, people panic and try to make it go away and then it stings.

It's not that bad, hurts for a few minutes only, if you are not allergic. My grandpa said it helps for reumatism and he tended to bees with only a veil.

I wonder if American bees are the same as European ones.

Trading queens and trying to switch them seems to be very popular here. I remember my parents trying to catch the queen in some grandpa hives.

Reading all this I feel a little bad for never being particulary intrested in bees, my parents even met in beekeeping high school, but they ended up working different jobs.
See Indeed.com for a quick benchmark on local salaries>
http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=java%2C+python&l1=Austin%2C+...

Current local average for python & java backgrounds in Austin, $99K.
The End of Standardized Readability
Startup building the open-source “operating system” of the Metaverse
Are there any positions in the industry where this is part of the average work day? It seems awesome and I really want to get into it.

(the above is copied from a dead post on this thread, possibly by a hellbanned user. i'm reposting it because it's a reasonable question)
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Just to be clear, are you referring to the original XCOM, or the new ones? There's a lot of difference.
I'd curious to find out why NJ AG would get so paranoid about this? I couldnt really find a link to their side of the story.

The Natinal Science Foundation did discipline a researcher who did some mining on their computers.
The amount of memory that gets paged in went up, but the whole point is that you never have to page any of the current tab's memory while you're using it, unlike with the monolithic 1 GB Firefox process today.

I feel like I must not have been clear earlier because I have made just a single point, and both of you are discussing things not related to that point. Let me try one more time: it's all about performance of the current tab.
> I hope you are not suggesting that it is OK to send code compiled with a beta version to a client.

If the client's demanding a single-codebase solution for both Android and iOS and you are better at Ruby than you are with either Java or Objective C, then it might make sense to sell the client on using the beta.
The inverse is true in a lot of technology companies sadly. I once worked with a "network security expert" who got the job after 2 years as a front end web dev and zero real training in network security. He knew what SSL was so got promoted...
Made even worse by the fact that it renders at 2208x1242 and then downsamples to 1920 × 1080.
I'm doing a social search engine. Won't be big and
professional like Google. This has been brewing
for a while, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in it :)

Are there any other social search engines that draw from multiple sources? I know there are services like mention.com, but I wanted something where you do not have to sign up and can just search right away.
A) If you can get a new phone (or you have a backup phone you can activate quickly) you can get a 2 factor from text.

B) You can have multiple devices with the 2 factor app. (i.e. Nexus 7 and phone)
It's been in the news before.

It's spectacular fishing from NJ state attorney, it could in theory violate the law as written if deployed on a website and mined bitcoins without implied consent by the client (but then again I could argue the same for flash ads), but the whole thing took place in MA and as far as anyone is aware only in lab environments in MA as part of the competition. The code could be used maliciously, but wasn't and there is no evidence it ever was, its NJ overreaching, pure and simple.
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The 70s was ten years. 2014 is one year. Is it so unexpected for there to have been 10 times as many good games (or movies) in the 70s as in 2014?
Are you saying there is an elite group that is publishing something close to truth? Who do you mean?

Everywhere I look it's just another battlefront in the information war.
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> because JITted code is not shared between processes

It depends on which JVM you talk about.

IBM J9 does it if I am not mistaken.

Additionally, the OS/400 JVM is integrated with the kernel JIT used for the bytecode executable format of OS/400 applications (TIMI)

http://www.drdobbs.com/new-to-the-as400/184404408

> I think the 3 sweet-spots are:

A few more to your list. These do all three.

- IBM Websphere RealTime J9

- Aonix Perc

- JamaicaVM

- Excelsior JET

Sometimes I find a bit sad that many equate JVM == OpenJDK, not understanding how many choices are out there.
This. A thousand times this.

Every bad experience with navigating a level is because of shitty level design. Every bad experience with "I don't have enough health, I don't have enough ammo" is because of shitty level design.

Go back and play Blood, or Duke Nukem, or Doom, and pay careful attention to the way that the levels are made. It's vastly, vastly different than the funhouse rides created for modern shooters.
> Executable code is what results when a software compiler turns source code—in the case of the AXE, programs written in the PLEX language—into the binary machine code that a computer processor executes.

That was my first thought as well, but it looks like they used a language called "PLEX" that is specifically built for the AXE switches.
I accept your point.
I wrote my own application in french since 750w was charged after a month: www.3pages.fr it got pretty famous in France.
This is where I am as well, why is the NJ AG in such a snit? I get they may have thought there was crime here, but once they got the facts they should have just gone on about their merry way, especially when the university tells them this. Now they look stupid, they have to know they look stupid, and so what or who is pulling so hard that they are willing to look stupid to fulfill that request. Very very strange.
Still have my Digi-Comp I in a box somewhere. Boy, did that thing make a racket. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I
Agreed.

In this regards, it wouldn't take much. For a seasoned state spy to turn someone and get them to do this for them for some extra cash would be child's play.