skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is. There is a large "unfriend" button right there on their profile. Or if you want to remain friends with them, you can always hide their posts if you find them annoying. I really don't understand this whole problem here. I don't believe people have an inherent problem with stickers - only with people that abuse them. But then those are the people you have added to your friend list yourself, they didn't magically appear.
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On the same topic, I've heard that every supertanker has a proximity radar in order to avoid to collide with small boats.

However, in some heavy-traffic routes like the Straight of Dover or Gibraltar the proximity alarm goes off constantly. So the commanding officers usually disable them, leading to a good number of accidents with fishermen boats.
Um, no, it's not. If the amount of calories you burn decreases more than the calories they intake, for example, you might not lose weight. You might even gain weight.

And that's the point -- calories burned is not a constant. It changes a great deal, and it's very common for the body to respond to less calories in, by burning less calories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Christs_of_Ypsilanti

"While initially the three patients quarreled over who was holier and reached the point of physical altercation, they eventually each explained away the other two as being patients with a mental disability in a hospital, or dead and being operated by machines."

[EDITED to add: See also http://squid314.livejournal.com/324957.html which is only marginally relevant but anyone who finds "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti" interesting will probably love it.]
At my University (Imperial College London), our operating systems coursework was built around a toy OS called Pintos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintos), which is written in assembly and C and runs on x86. The project was to fill in the blanks in the implementation (more advanced scheduling, memory management, swapping etc) and I think most people thought it was one of the most fun projects we had. Being more realistic wasn't really a problem as the really arcane parts were already implemented.
In these other types of music the talent seems much more dispersed. Like there's a lot of great stuff, but no dominant creative figures.
I'm of the opinion that it's possible to over think these things and be over prepared, so limit yourself to a time.

I'd spend the majority of your time prepping what an investor really cares about. That is, "how big is the market oppurtunity?" and "How do you generate revenue?". If those two things are compelling enough and you articulate them well, they will want to know more.

Overall I'd say 4-5 hours on the pitch deck and then 1-3 practicing (depending on how confident a public speaker you are). Best of luck!
I prefer to base all my valuations on the sale of broadcast.com, which puts us at a bit over $10k per user.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com
Echoing what z-e-r-o said, nobody uses MPI to render individual frames. You do one frame per box and lots and lots of frames (all attacking the beefiest network file system you can find, but luckily it's all reads and thus easier to cache).
Not true. In Lynx, backslash views the source; slash is search, very much like it works in vi.
"Vendor everything" was my conclusion to solving dependencies as generally as possible, while trying to knit PostgreSQL modules (locally produced schema chunks) and extensions with a base of versioned Rails apps.
The tree would just give you code-folding for free. Callgraphs, searching for references etc would still need to be recalculated by the code indexer. The only advantage is - no parsing step.

Meanwhile you would need to rewrite all the universal text-based tools from scratch specifically for your particular binary format. And this almost never happens so people are left with no way to merge files (Oracle Forms I'm looking at you).

BTW - merging and diffing files is when the abstraction often leaks, too, or at least wants to leak.

For example - when you have 2 trees with every node the same, but root node changed from <interface> to <class>. I guess your tree-based tool shows the whole tree as a difference? What about when you wrap half of the tree in <namespace>?

Textual diff would be 2 lines in both examples.

There are many possible situations, and I admit that in some tree-based approach is better, but there are many situations where you need better granularity than is possible without leaking the lower level. With text format that lower level is human-readable, and you can automerge unsafely (but concisely) and leave fixing the result to human. With binary format if you couldn't detect concise description of the change - you just show "everything was deleted and that new file was added" which isn't particulary helpful to the person that merge changes.

Can you merge word documents or databases? There's certainly market for that.
Which point?

My point was that in a (nonadversarial) context where you have known triggers for false alarms, P(problem|alarm) falls dramatically once you have identified the presence of such a trigger, and it's entirely reasonable for our actions to reflect this.
Kind of a shame with the filing cabinets getting binned. Maybe digitising things is the way forward.
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How a 3D Printer Changed My World
I didn't get a warm fuzzy from this mea culpa. There is cognitive dissonance in the way the CEO accepts responsibility: "We are really sorry to have messed up... SparkFun are going to make it right..."

Going out on a limb here, but I bet "they" (MicroView) were the root of the problem. It's never mentioned in the article, but I'm guessing MicroView is eating the $58K bill.

There was a production test procedure that should have been performing 'ship-ready' verification of test-able requirements, along with an engineering deliverable (containing analysis, software compilation records, etc) that covered everything else that couldn't be tested. Between these two docs, verification of all requirements (physical, functional, non-functional, etc.) via 1 of 4 verification methods (inspection, test, analysis, or demonstration) should be documented. And the lead engineer from MicroView should have ultimately been responsible for ensuring all requirements of his (MicroView's) design were adequately verified. He should have been signing off that the product delivered is as-was designed. (Unless Sparkfun owned the whole shebang, but I doubt that is the case...)

If Sparkfun is smart (and I'm guessing they are), it should be written in the contract that they are only responsible for delivering a product that meets what MicroView's lead engineer ultimately signed on. And what was ultimately signed on was a verification method that clearly missed checking the correct software components were loaded into the HEX mix. Hence, the miss was with MicroView, so they eat the bill.

source: test and verification engineering and 3yr subcontract manager for world's largest defense contractor (ugh... shiver)
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I read through the Spotify article, and if I understood it correctly, you don't need to run QEMU+PANDA to get at the unencrypted stream. That was just the method the author chose to analyze the running code. He tracked every memory read and write made by the CPU, and looked for byte distributions that looked like encrypted data, and found the decryption function at address 00719b84. He then located that code inside the Spotify binary, at 0x0042e2ed.

Once you know that, you don't need to repeat the initial analysis every time. You can just set up a hook to record all the data that flows through that function after it's decrypted.
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>So about 8%. Bordering on market insignificance.

That's crazy talk.
Nicholas Carr's new book is also about the dangers of too much automation: http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Cage-Automation-Us/dp/0393240762
From direct personal painful experience, there is no useful conversation to be had on the topic.
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Sure, but the subset of situations where it will save you is so small and the level of effort required high enough that you can't really argue that you should become strong because it will help you survive.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with exercising in order to be healthy, or to look good, or for fun if that's ones fancy. But the fascination with physical strength that seems to be fairly common boggles me.
AFAIU you're doing Twitter right - I mean your last tweet. Easy follow.
That is a single counterexample simply because I decided to post a single one. Working in the firearms industry for years has shown me that if the ATF/FBI don't like what you are doing they can legally make your life hell. 'Someone' makes an anonymous tip, judge rubber stamps a warrant to search all your premises. Two parts from unrelated weapons in the same building, conspiracy to build a machine gun.

What you don't understand is, you don't understand the full technicalities of the law and your adversary does. Does it really matter if they don't convict you in the end if you exhaust all your resources fighting them on lawyers?
We had the chance to go to Startup School in NYC a few months back.
It certainly spurred some thinking for us, namely:

i) Embed persistence and resilience into your startup’s culture because you are probably going to face a lot of rejection and resistance throughout your journey

ii) Should applying to Y Combinator be a first resort instead of a last resort?

We wrote more about this here:
http://blog.planitwide.com/2-hugely-important-thought-starte...
Some hint of what the mitigation will end up being would be nice. In particular, does this so thoroughly destroy SSL 3.0 that we need to be prepping to turn it off entirely, in which case frankly all hell is going to break loose? Is it tied to ciphers such that we might just be able to cut off RC4 or something? Will it turn out to be "don't allow people to make over a trillion failed connections to an SSL 3.0 service"? This is so vague as to be useless, even as a heads up.
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It's a phenomenon called publicity. Usually people concerned about an issue spend most of their effort towards generating it. Your comment reads to me as if you resent it, but I may be projecting.
Don't know if you are being sarcastic... But "conqueror" may be a reference to Age of Discovery/Conquest [1], similar to "navigator" or "explorer".

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery
You wouldn't need MPI, just have multiple concurrent writes to a tiled EXR.

We do it occasionally for stupidly big (>64K) frames.

Doesn't work for deep though :)
Whereas the REAL answer to the question is "So that the British Airways pilot, listening in, can understand the request and has an opportunity to realize that it might cross his flight path."

The use of English as a common worldwide air-traffic control language is widely considered a step forward in air safety.[citation needed] The safety comes from the consistency, not from any particular property of English.
I think so too. The image first looked weird, and then I realized this.
Combining emacs' org-protocol and conkeror, when I'm on a github repo, I can easily type 'm-x clone-repo' in my browser, and make it send to emacs the url, and run any elisp function to clone the repo in my ~/projects directory.

Same for creating branches with standarized names when I'm on an issue page.

These kind of things make my daily browsing life easier. Here's a more detailed explanation: http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/well-after-mont...
Deploying a multi-node ElasticSearch-Logstash-Kibana cluster using Docker
Will there be a proper debugger I wonder?
Skip the middle man - bootcamps. Hire non-developers to screw up he codebase!
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The problem I have with those practices is that they all happen in secret - so that the US can deny their involvement if, for example, an uprising goes out of hand and people die by the dozens. I'm all in favor of getting rid of oppressive regimes and such, and I approve of the people living in said regimes standing up for themselves, but I don't like how the US's involvement is all under cover and in secret, or why it's only the US doing those things (apparently).
No... but other people were, and those people wrote first-hand accounts of what happened. In history those are called "primary sources". That's how history is determined. And I don't know what else to call the depicted slaughter, the wars, and the forcible relocation to useless lands other than systematic eradication.
I graduated from a bootcamp a year ago after working in the non-profit field for over a decade as a researcher and a social worker, and doing a few years of standing up wordpress sites for small non-profits and doing other IT support for them (setting up better CRMs, networking their office, setting up online donation systems, etc)

A few things:

1) Bootcamp graduates shouldn't lead to poorly written codebases if they are being mentored properly. This means good code review at a minimum, as well as pairing, as well as onboarding and assigning appropriate tasks. If you are a company bringing on junior developers and just letting them loose in a codebase you are doing a disservice to those junior developers - they are going to feel exhausted and overwhelmed and lost most of the time - as well as to the rest of your team (trying to deal with their code) and your clients.

2) No one should be claiming that you can come out of a bootcamp with the same experience as someone that's been coding web software for 3+ years, but you come out with a solid foundation in a framework, with basic coding skills, and a hunger for learning more.

3) Demand for coders is still outstripping supply. Demand for experienced coders even more so.

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Arguably we are stuck with the 10 week-3 month model though. I think the 6 month model offered by Turing School makes a lot more sense, up to a year.

I have a lot more thoughts about bootcamps but these will do for now.
> Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after

This is the part that tripped me up at first. I kept grokking that as the his book being named Coming (and that the quote just had a capitalization error). This didn't make sense:

> One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, <TITLE>, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs

Other than that you just break it down like this:

1. The stuff between the emdashes is just an aside. It could have been in paranthesis, thought I'm not hip to the finer points of when to separate with dashes vs. parenthesis. So you could rewrite it like this:

> One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs (who is generally, though not entirely correctly, understood to be the model of the radical (and congenitally irascible) American) is that it is a paean to cooperation, to the idea of force-multiplication through collective effort and, in particular, to the transformative power of the diamond triangle of industry, academia and government.

Or even remove it entirely:

> One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs, is that it is a paean to cooperation, to the idea of force-multiplication through collective effort and, in particular, to the transformative power of the diamond triangle of industry, academia and government.

2. Those last clauses are just a list of ideas that are tied to the book. You could just grok it like so:

> One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs, is that it is a paean <LIST OF "to ..." CLAUSES EXPRESSING IDEAS IN THE BOOK>.
The western model is broken
We used something similar in the end I.e. SQL Server Compact Edition and sync the data with a master SQL Server instance.
Ugh, that's right, my bad.
A stall warning occurs when the angle of attack (angle between the wing and the airflow) is too high to maintain lift. There is a separate instrument for detecting this (which can also be disabled by ice build up, but appeared to be working here). Low airspeed is not the only condition for a stall - it can happen even at high speed!
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Google unveils subscription plan for same-day ‘Express’ delivery service
Completely wrong. Streaming music services have added a convenience factor to pop music enjoyment, but they've made exploring the complete repertoire orders of magnitude easier and more rewarding. I've listened to music in the last few years that would have cost me tens of thousands of dollars to listen to even a half decade ago (music pirating outlets were miles away from what Spotify/Rdio can do).

I believe that in a world where the 3 minute radio-friendly song is an artifact of a bygone era and the constraints of physical media are gone, there will be a major resurgence of interest in epic, complex works of music. Just as Netflix has made psychologically complex, extremely long TV series much more central to our culture, I think people will start to gravitate to headier music that was constrained by yesterday's media.
I'll admit I'm no expert at gdb, so I'm not aware if it falls short vs debugging c, c++, but what's wrong with using gdb?
I kind of feel like this is an old fashioned style of writing. I enjoy simple conversational style more, though it's not exactly painful to read this.

It just takes more concentration than it should to understand. I don't see the benefit over breaking it up. Also, that disembodied tense is a little harder to connect to. Just narrate the damn paragraph. This long sentence makes you forget that he's trying to contrast something.

One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs—who is generally, though not entirely correctly, understood to be the model of the radical (and congenitally irascible) American —is that it is a paean to cooperation, to the idea of force-multiplication through collective effort and, in particular, to the transformative power of the diamond triangle of industry, academia and government. - 1 sentence

Issacson's new book follows his biography of Steve Jobs who is generally, though not entirely correctly, understood to be the model of the radical (and congenitally irascible) American. In contrast, 'The Innovators' is a paean to cooperation, the idea of force-multiplication through collective effort and, in particular, to the transformative power of the diamond triangle of industry, academia and government. - 2 sentences, shorter

The Innovators follows Issacson's popular biography of the famously brilliant-but-belligerent Steve Jobs. His new book praises different virtues: the force-multiplication power of collective effort and the transformative power of industry, academia and government working together. - shorter & flatter

The Innovators follows Issacson's popular biography of Steve Jobs. It's an interesting contrast. Steve jobs was famous for both his belligerence and his brilliance. He is presented as an archetypical a lone genius. His new book is different. It praises cooperation and the the idea of force-multiplication through collective effort. Interestingly, the book even emphasizes the diamond triangle of industry, academia and government. - 6 sentences, more narration. Tells you what it's trying to tell you.
32bit ARM Cortex-M0,STM32F0.pin-out Similar to Arduino Uno with Lower Price
Yes at least 20 of our clients phoned up about this as well which is funny because we don't have any Linux machines at all.
That might tie in with the excellent question of why there's no people with 3-5 years of experience willing to work in those environments. Don't kid me/us that 3 years ago no one knew how to code, or computers were invented six months ago so there are no living people today who started out four years ago, LOL. You can seamstress your whole life, and the seamstress in the article needs to ask herself why her theoretical future employers can't get anyone to work for them longer than 36 months in their environment, in their career field.

Also I remember when I only had 3 years experience programming and that was in 1984 and I was... not quite as wise as I am now. Optimistically I'll still be alive in 2044 and looking back at code I wrote in 2014 and asking myself WTF I was thinking, what noob wrote that and signed my name on it, way back in '14. A labor market of 40 or 50 years duration where 3 year olds are being marketed as being senior citizens is another strong indication of "peak of bubble".

I'll make a lot of money cleaning up after the kids, so I am grateful, but there should be more to life than spending all my time wearing a mental hazmat suit and wielding a virtual manure shovel.
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XEmacs? I remember when it was the more modern emacs and I was younger and had to have all the new things. After a while I noticed that gnu emacs had picked up everything that xemacs had and was better maintained so I switched back to gnu. Maybe another fork like that could drive emacs forward. The more adventurous emacs users could use and drive the fork forward while other can stay comfortable with regular gnu emacs for a while longer.
I wouldn't spend time thinking about your minimum requirements. Seems like you've already something pretty close to that.

I recommend instead to think about what your ideal situation is, and then invest your energy in creating/achieving that. Make it something compelling enough that you'll put in the massive amount of effort to make it happen.

Hearing other peoples ideal work situations might be a source of ideas, but ultimately, it's up to you to decide what's important to you.

Personally, my list includes: high income, respectful clients, choice of languages and technologies, working on things that matter, getting paid to learn new technologies, smart colleagues, good process, autonomy, time freedom, location freedom, ability to bring in team members I select, low bureaucracy, low politics, and working with contacts high on the org chart.

As far as my physical work environment, I'm pretty flexible. I've worked from coworking spaces, cafes, Regus locations, hotels, 3/5/7-series BMWs, airplanes, restaurants, E/S-class Mercedes', dinner tables, beaches, boats, train stations, and occasionally even the offices of my clients. I do my best to pay attention to ergonomics and environmental quality. I carry an inflatable lumbar pillow and a yoga mat and like workspaces free of fluorescent lighting and chemical scents.
Is known what distros are affected by this backdoor, who made it and who knows the magic key?
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Yeah we do that now. We store them in a big file in pages that contain rows and an externally visible network process allows us to manipulate the things.

(sql server)
Reading this I feel Go is boring, and that's an asset. Let me explain.

Seeing [what's happening in Haskell (GHC)](https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-October/0065...), which is soooo much more exciting; but then I totally understand that "exciting" is what you want to stay away from in some cases. In these cases a Go is a much better choice I guess.