skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
apps can log using the syslog primitives. I do not believe the require network sockets. What syslog-ng decides to do with it (flush to disk, or push over network socket), is no different than the proposal of shared mem to another process (which then has to make the same decision).
This is about emotion, not logical conclusions. Today, the number one threat to our freedom comes from the prospect of terrorist attacks on US soil. Even with this fact, we see endless complaints about the NSA. However, even the NSA's biggest critics can't answer simple questions about the supposed danger they pose:

1. Cite a single example of an American citizen suffering
any type of loss or damages resulting from the NSA's actions.

2. Make the case for the US government unilaterally crippling
or disarming it's signals intelligence capability.

I chalk it up to a bunch of tinfoil hat types and libertarians living in a fantasy world. When you look at the threats to freedom in the world today, the NSA falls at or near the very bottom of the list.
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I think all that you said is true. I think people who don't have a good understanding of the industry have trouble seeing why these things are so expensive.

However, as your post outlines, a lot of these barriers are ones that the industry itself have put up. That same industry can tear them down. The fact that people are hosting a torrent, for no compensation, suggests that the minimal cost of providing the content is outweighed by the potential interest in viewing it - even at low quality.

It looks like a product with a lot of overhead that could be delivered a lot cheaper.
Example in Scala from Play:

https://github.com/playframework/playframework/blob/2.3.x/fr...

The '=>' means call-by-name in Scala, the argument is lazily evaluated.
I'll have to try it out, nice excuse to get beyond my toy program Go experience as well.
Yeah I am actually.

What does it matter when the data never leaves the device?

And it's not like it's draining your battery either. M7/M8 are very low power.
(S)he's talking about people physically mailing DVDs, not the digital locker thing. I can't imagine that would be illegal, but never underestimate the entertainment industries ability to buy judges.
Two of the drives survived a year of continuous use, so even regular swapping is trivial.

Say you're using your computer 12 hours a day, half of that doing tasks where memory usage greatly exceeds your physical memory, and you're using 1/4 of the bandwidth of the drive to swap in/out (of which 1/2 are writes).

Under this quite heavy scenario, the writes will catch up to this endurance test after 32 years.

The speed, price & capacity of these drives are (at least for now) improving so quickly that by the time you wear one out, even with torturous use, replacing it will be trivial.

Cost per gigabyte has halved over the period of this test. So even when taking the drive that just died and using it for the most pathological use case imaginable, you'd be buying a $200 drive today, replacing it with a $100 drive in one year, $50 in two years, etc. Not a big deal.
It's all about scale. Think of it this way -- if you were torn between buying two houses that are approximately the same price, and the owner of one home announced that they were taking the kitchen stove with them, would that make you choose the other home?

Most people would say no, because the $500 stove is a really marginal add-on in relation to a home. But at the same time, if you went to Home Depot, bought a new $500 stove, and found out that the free delivery doesn't apply to stoves, you'd be livid over the extra $60 fee.
Excellent example of First World Problems.
Not spending on PR or going to conferences pre-product is highly actionable for a large number of start-ups who do the opposite. Balancing the early team to be able to execute a product people love before scaling a marketing organization is highly actionable as well. The advice on doing a start-up for the right reasons is the most actionable of all.
Yes, you are correct.

Your friend didn't necessarily make a bad decision. Facebook traded as low as ~$18/share in 2012 and didn't get back to its IPO closing price until mid-2013.

According to a media report[1], at one point, even employees who joined the company as late as the end of 2010 were underwater. So anybody (you, me, your friend) could have purchased FB shares with a cost basis lower than that of many employees.

Given this, it's somewhat disingenuous for Dustin to use Facebook's current valuation to demonstrate "getting rich at a startup." It's actually a better demonstration of "getting rich trading the stock market." Adding insult to injury is the fact that the investor with long-term capital gains receives more favorable tax treatment on his or her gains than employees usually receive.

Incidentally, employees who don't exercise and sell as soon as they can are effectively investing their hard-earned gains back into their employer's stock. Depending on how well the company's stock does, and when sales are timed, this can either be a really profitable thing or a really unprofitable thing.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-lockup-release-2012-...
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Soderbergh has a couple other re-cuts on his site, too. One intermixes the two PSYCHOs, the original and the shot-for-shot remake.

The other is a radical re-cut of HEAVEN'S GATE. I've watched a couple hundred movies this year, but it's that HEAVEN'S GATE edit I keep coming back to in my head. I'm not really sure why (which is probably why). He somehow found the movie lurking inside the sprawling version that was released.

http://extension765.com/sdr/16-heavens-gate-the-butchers-cut
YCombinator companies have a far higher success percentage than the general start-up population. Most fail is hardly a criticism when the default environment is 90% of start-ups fail. Moving 90% to 60% for example means your chance of success quadruples, but it still meets your criticism of "most fail".
Am I the only one who is frustrated by the plethora of operating systems available for x86? Why not just have just a single, highly customizable and secure desktop operating system instead? Is there any sane reason for having so many[1] mainstream OSs?

[1]: FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, Minix, OSX, Solaris, are the ones I know off the top of my head
Webcast of the event can be seen here http://webcast.isro.gov.in/
Roku does this. They have a universal search and any channel on the device that the movie or show is available on will come up with the pricing.
Computers are chaotic systems. They're deterministic, but changes in starting conditions below the threshold of observation can lead to wildly different outcomes. That's why they're usually unpredictable.
For background: I grew up (until about 28) in Australia, then moved to Thailand (a couple of years ago).

1. For pleasure, and because most western food I've found in Thailand is not great. Regardless of the meal it would almost always be cheaper to eat out here.

2. Not so much a meal plan - usually we just look and see what is available/looks good (i.e. imported or less common items are not always available or fresh) at the market/supermarket and then make decisions based based on that.

3. Various pasta sauces are quite common as they're quick and easy (especially if my wife wants Thai food that night and I don't), but anything from roasts to curries (both thai and indian), to things like risotto, pizza, burgers, and various 'meat & veg' using stuff like salmon, steak, etc.

4. Not specifically, I just try to watch what goes into the pan/pot - trim excessive fat/skin from meat, use olive oil when possible, reduce salt/sugar/cream/butter etc when possible.

5. Experiment when you can. For me a recipe is almost never an actual recipe but more like a napkin-sketch outline of the basic ingredients and process. I lived alone for several years which really gave me good opportunities to try things and get a feel for what works and what doesn't. When you are the only person who will end up hungry (if it fails) its so much easier to be brave and try something new - it becomes inspiration to try again until you find something that works. I find I'm much less likely to experiment to the same extent if I'm cooking for my wife. I'll usually get her to try stuff when I do, but its not common I will try something I've never done before if she is expecting to eat what I'm cooking for dinner.
I'm really glad that a lot of hackathon projects are addressing YC's RFS categories, a lot of good can come out of these.
The old Windows defrag with the small blocks was like visual bubblewrap.

We need more system utilities that are fun to watch.
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Clarification: In the example with 0, 1, and 2 as allowed digits, I still intended for the number to be "binary" in the sense that the ith digit has weight 2^i. Thus, 12 in this system is 12^1 + 22^0 = 4, in decimal, and, in this system, 12 = 20 = 100.
"We're designed to help improve your'e company's performance in the critical area of XYZ."

- your'e

- company's

If it is worth millions of dollars do a spellcheck.
What is even more commendable is that it was done pretty cheaply [1]. Granted the capabilities of some of the other craft are different - but not THAT different.
Add to this the fact that this was a success in the first shot - getting a craft from the Earth to to Mars Orbit correctly in one shot on a meager budget is indeed a stunning success for ISRO.

[1] https://twitter.com/WSJIndia/status/514591179363864578/photo...
Alex, thanks for the detailed answer. Looks like you're building some really interesting stuff.
Not recently, no. I do know that a journaled filesystem can exacerbate this sort of problem as it can make extra work. For example: http://lwn.net/Articles/328363/

In a few cases in the past when dealing with unimportant data I have downgraded to ext2 for a nice performance bump.
Broadcaster? Not hardly.

If Netflix were a broadcaster then at 8PM local time, everyone watching Netflix would be watching the same show. Assuming that Netflix was only a single channel, anyhow.

But hey, let's suppose that Netflix has not a single channel but say, 1000 channels. That's way, way way more than cable or satellite or anything like that. Okay, but Netflix has nearly 7000 movies and a bunch of TV shows, so it's not a 1000 channel broadcaster.

Let's say that Netflix has one channel for every movie and every show in their collection. That's something like 10000 or more channels (which is way way way more than any other broadcaster in the history of the world has ever offered) and it STILL wouldn't work!

Why not? Because you can start watching a Netflix title WHENEVER you want. But let's be reasonable, let's say that they'll run as many channels as they need so that you never have to wait more than a minute to start streaming. Since most of their titles are movies and a movie is on average around 90 minutes long, that's 10k*90 = 900k channels.

There you have it folks! In order for Netflix to be a "broadcaster" you've got to assume that they're roughly equivalent to a cable company with in excess of 900,000 channels.

If that could be considered "quacking" like something then I quack like a billionare!
India puts a satellite into Mars orbit – the cheapest ever
Spielberg is the grand master of staging, he makes it look almost effortless. RAIDERS was maybe the peak of his staging skill, so it was a perfect choice, but Spielberg is always wonderful with it.

A simple scene for it is the start of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, the beginning when they find the planes in the desert. Watch the flow of the camera moves and the cuts. Notice how he uses the fence to establish geography and directions. The rhythm of the plane inspection edits. It's all absolutely perfect.

I'm really happy Soderbergh is doing this. He's one of the very best at editing and this kind of staging construction. He's not quite Spielberg, but even Soderbergh's "bad" films are very well put together. We're lucky he's sharing this stuff with us, how he sees things. Not something that's been able to happen so easily in the past.
I think the insinuation is the Microsoft Research is beholden to business drivers, and therefore not truly 'free, blue-sky' research.

That doesn't seem unfair, given the layoffs.
Come back again when you've done :)
The word clouds are made with R, using the worldcloud package.
Actually this one is not an easily scriptable thing. I dove deep on this one.

The main use case I miss is this one. I work with two monitors, either a 30" and a sideways 24" or a 30" and my laptop screen.

Gvim, terminal windows, etc on the primary and web browser on the secondary. Works fine in xmonad and awesome.

But then I have something unusual, maybe I have a screen with a mitm proxy and a detached chromium devtools or console and a repl all layed out nicely to debug something. Aha, I think I found it, let me look at the code ... shit, I layed these out on my primary.

With xmonad I can throw that whole screen over to the secondary, might have to adjust a bit because of the resolution difference but that's way easier than having to move each app over individually which just completely breaks flow.

I tried to script it but it just ends up a mess because you do have to move each application individually and they always require a lot of fiddling.

Lua is very easy to mess around with, my first day with awesome I couldn't find a battery monitor that I liked and that worked with my laptop so I just wrote one that's perfect. Took about 2 hours since I had never written Lua before. The docs were quite good.

Xmonad should take note, have some actual documentation. Auto-generated garbage consisting solely of type signatures doesn't count.
It is so incredibly inspiring to listen to a PM speak about space, science, research and exploration for more than an hour. Does anyone know if this is broadcast on Indian national TV?
You're not being imaginative enough. 'Mind uploading' need not be some passive process that merely copies the current state of your brain and runs it in an emulator somewhere.

You could, for example, hook your brain up to some machine which would replace parts of it, bit by bit, bringing that functionality into an emulator 'gradually', while creating an interface with the still-physical parts of the brain such that the thing functions the same as the physical brain did before, only with part of it still using the old hardware, and the other part running in the emulator. Continue this process until the entire brain - and perhaps even the entire nervous system or body - has been brought into the emulator. Now you're virtualized.

It's obviously extremely speculative, but all the same I can't find any point in a process like this, where your phenomenal consciousness would be disrupted.
> I was thinking about this comment, and I realized this is probably the source of most of your angst

No, what gives me the most angst is the arrogance of a certain segment of Linux+systemd users who think that just because they can apt-get install systemd and write some minimal unit files for some trivial services somehow makes them domain experts on OS design. And these people seem to think that other users' requirements don't matter, since if they're not using systemd too, they're clearly doing it wrong.
Excellent, between that and being written in Python I will definitely be trying this out.
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They do run adverts from http://adzerk.com. Maybe it was them?
It cost them $74 million. I'm going to predict it now - in about 10-20 years, wealthy hobbyists will be sending probes to other planets, eventually creating a worldwide community of amateur planet probers.
That would be the point of government investment in research though - to drive commercial advantage in their country. Everyone in governmenthas an agenda; there's no free money. That leaves insanely wealthy companies or individuals with an altruistic bent to drive free research.
Yes, indeed it's broadcasting live on our National TV here in India
Well it speaks to the OP's comment about Macs being "Form over Function."
One doesn't have to be a good teacher to make a good, free, online University. But one does need at least some content to get started ;)
I am new to HN, but you say Paul Graham has already decided.

Check out this article:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/29/after-stepping-aside-from-y...

Also, your comment was still allowed to post.
Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, MATE, Cinnamon, Unity. I find this list beyond frustrating, and verging on absurd.

I tend to think of this as the lack of pipes problem. Every unix tool can be piped into or out of every other tool, and so combined with absolute freedom -- perhaps too much freedom. The choice of shell used to do it barely matters, and can be swapped out easily, so we don't have to ask at install time if the user wants bash or zsh or fish. The desktop developers have not come up with a flexible unifying abstraction (and some even seem to be throwing out the few abstractions available, like separate window manager programs) and so are stuck either imitating the past, or fragmenting in a ceaseless, aimless desire for the new and shiny.
They should have included Samsung 850 Pro, which sells since August. http://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_7?url=search-alia...
> Settings → Keyboard → Shortcuts, the ‘Typing’ section

Thank you!

> a non-obvious spot

No kidding; the Compose key being an actual key, it really belongs with the rest of the keyboard mapping settings. I guess since they removed that section altogether, they had to stick it somewhere.

> It's also in a more traditional form in Gnome Tweak Tool.

Not anywhere I can see, but that's not a big deal.
Not only did Mom reach Mars, she also got a pretty good bargain on it. So Indian :)
Seem like pretty vanilla sales tactics to me. Even if choosing the more expensive company was the better investment, this is just rationalisation.

Some really good tips (I thought) for selling at a higher price than your competition: http://everyonenegotiates.com/selling-high-price.php
Dalek

> No results found for dalek.

Bah. Humbug.
I disagree.

The content is great and communicated well.

Some people prefer making presentations having only some general idea of what they are going to say before hand. Other people spend a good deal of time thinking about exactly what they want to say and how they want to say it. Both presentation styles are perfectly valid.
What software are you using for color management?

Last I checked, colord had been broken for at least six months, and the only mostly functional alternative [0] was some project called Oyranos that's signed with expired GPG keys and distributed from some OpenSuse server.

[0] It applies color profiles just fine, but fails to also color-correct full screen programs.
Were any HNers ever able to reproduce what RiskIQ reported? Namely seeing jquery.com include the script from the malicious jquery-cdn[.]com domain?
First, just to clear things up, C and C++ are two different languages. Yes, C++ is backwards compatible, but you'll do yourself a favor if you start perceiving them as two completely separate laguages now.

Before you start, you need to answer yourself why you're doing it. Unless you really have some inherent interest in the language, learning it just for the sake of learning will be tough because there is no instant gratification.

A good book to start learning C++ is Stanley Lippman's "C++ primer". Make sure you have the latest edition because it reflects the recent big changes in the language.

The best thing you can do when dealing with lower-level languages like C and C++ is understand that things like lists, strings, integers, floating point numbers, objects, etc. do not actually exist. They are simply abstractions. There are only the CPU and memory. You can think of the memory as a very very long array of bytes.Pointers are simply indices for that byte array. Roughly speaking, all that happens in a computer is the CPU fetches some bytes from memory which contain instructions and then modifies the bytes in some other region of the memory according to given instructions.

Once I realized the above things, a lot of other things immediately started making sense to me, so I hope this helps you or others.
I cant think of a better way to put that. well said. I wish I could upvote this twice.
What does Apple have to do with anything? The same problem exists on Windows and Linux.

And, no, I don't want to run and manage a local "LAN Dropbox clone". It's all about the integration with different mobile and desktop apps and services, the remote backup, and that you don't have to manage it.
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But the extended Dane-geld concept is quite rarely referred to as tribute. It was a feature of Chinese foreign policy during the pre-modern period that all diplomatic relationships involved the other country explicitly acknowledging the superiority of China. Other countries paid tribute to China, and China responded with the magnanimous grace (return gifts) appropriate to its exalted station.

Despite finicky wording, a lot of money and silk somehow got sent up north.

Cities all over the world and across history have found it preferable to hand out welfare to the local poor rather than suffer through riots. The Romans conceived of a goddess of welfare (yep) to whom it was proper for the poor to give thanks when they got their free bread. Modern Americans like to speak in terms of prserving the essential dignity of being human. But it's not so easy to see a difference in the policy, or the strategy, other than the rhetoric that accompanies it. I suspect that if the rhetoric were switched to "let's pacify the poor so we don't get murdered in our beds", support would drop despite the policy staying the same.

Similarly, you can "buy peace" with another nation just by overpaying for some minor consideration they end up giving you in the peace negotiations - basically the same concept as accounting goodwill. Everyone involved knows what's going on, but the process is near-totally opaque to the outsiders who cry "war is better than tribute".
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Hey! I was at the talk during Hack the North in which you practiced your pitch. Awesome job!
It would be impossible to access content as Netflix, Hulu, etc. would most certainly block your service.

For them it's also about controlling the overall experience, not just regurgitating the content they serve (e.g. users spotting gaps in coverage).
How do you get about watching the things you want to see?
Take a look at Nim. It is extremely efficient (since it compiles to C) and clean, and will allow you to incredibly easily interface with C or go down to the low level.

http://nim-lang.org/

Also, take a look at DCPU-16 stuff. Assembly might be more fun to play around with. http://www.dcpu-ide.com/ Also x86 assembly. Its exciting because you can get incredible performance and get insight into how things work at the lowest levels. Google x86 assembly tutorial. Also the DCPU-16 has awesome peripherals like the display and even a 3d vector display.

Then when you can come at it from the lowest level pointers are less of a big deal. You can think about making your own OS, (look for a tutorial) and then it will be a more natural progression to C (with pointers).
Sam, your voice sounds very irritating to me. Sometimes too fast, no "tempo". I think you should change the way you deliver your points to a classroom. (constructive feedback, not rant)
What does that have to do with commentary on needing to have larger cross-batch samples?
very hard for me to sympathsize with thunderfoot after watching his video. the graphics point to sensationalism and a lack of maturity. i don't think HN is his target audience.