skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, clink author hit the nail on the head. `Minimally Enjoyable Upgrade` I guess.
On the other hand, this has been possible for decades using RC planes (let alone regular planes).
Our story is here: https://medium.com/@buro9/the-journey-of-a-london-startup-wh...

But in essence, we figured that out quite late... moving from helping to assist building a community to having created an import tool and to push our numbers harder by simply moving existing forums/communities to us.

We hit the end of the runway before the impact of that was felt. We didn't manage to raise enough funds to continue.

We've open-sourced everything now, and I'm helping a couple of customers set up their own instances. Most customers are staying on a single shared instance though, as one of the larger sites is able to cover all of the costs of this (via the affiliate fee structure we had built in).

It's a hard thing, to fail in such a way. We had 44,000 users, 280+ forums, and some revenue. But the revenue was significantly lower than costs (when you have employees, founders, etc), so the crunch hit us.

I hope that the platform continues to live, and that it continues to shine. The customers are really happy, and some of the sales effort is still paying off (I spoke to a customer 3 days ago, who have 4k users, and they are joining the LFGSS.com instance of the platform).

It would be easier if we had failed more spectacularly, more obviously. Perhaps by just not getting any users at all.
Cool, same to you!
Your website looks great and the app too. Anyhow, you have a very specific topic ;)
Edit: I was looking at the pictures rather than watching the video. The audio explanation does give a fair treatment of the subject matter.

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It's a nice idea, but the pictures about ISIS are a bit disturbing. I think it might be a good idea to stick with science and topics that aren't controversial, because otherwise it seems a bit like propaganda. Maybe I'm not used to viewing such media, but it feels like if you gave me a piece of text, I could read it and decide for myself whether or not it makes valid arguments.

However if you give me a piece of art, you are basically telling me a story whose validity I have no way of discerning (within the framework i.e. without having to do extra research). Having (what I presume to be) the ISIS emblem and a bunch of skulls around it seems like it's telling me "these guys bad", "those guys good", which is a bit authoritative for my taste and feels like it's from a dystopian classroom where we are told what to think. Everything is black or white. You're either with us or against us. There is no room in such a worldview for nuance. Perhaps this is a consequence of the medium, in which case established science (as opposed to politics) would be the topic of choice.
A Twitter bot that creates low polygon pictures from any image it gets sent
Is there actually anything you can do to prevent this kind of attack?

I'm assuming once your network is compromised to such an extent there is not much you can do.
What exactly would it blow up? Nuclear plants were designed to withstand missile and plane strikes weren't they?
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Free Download DoulCi bypass iOS 8.1.1 version release
Did not do enough market research before building and launching product. A product similar to ours released some months ahead of us and got rave reviews in a lot of dev forums (HN included). Took that as validation of our product as well. Turns out, comments on HN don't really translate into money over the counter. Fast forward a year and we have near zero growth. Eventually both the similar product and us shut down.

After that I needed to rebuild some confidence in myself, so I joined a small consultancy company as a lead dev. It's been a year since that happened, and now I'm beginning to feel the startup itch again. Working on a few side projects. The plan this time around is to not quit the job and go full time on the startup till it starts producing a certain amount in monthly recurring revenue. Let's see how this goes...
What would happen? Nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZjhxuhTmGk
reverse engineering binaries. as patterns are visualised you can also skip reverse engineering for some goals. for example general entropy levels of bytes (in relation to their siblings) may allow one to quickly pull out encryption keys from binaries or memory images.
Only over HDMI. DP works at 4K 60Hz.
Is there anything that does decrypt HDCP in real time? Something where you plug an encrypted cable into one end and it outputs an unencrypted source on the other? One that maintains things like audio?
I realised my startup had failed last year, and part of the realisation was that it was doomed from the start. When I was coming to terms with that I applied to a bootstrapped startup for which I'm now the CTO. It's nice to have a steady salary now while I learn a hell lot about how to run a successful business in the real world

Why did I fail? Well, basically what I wanted to achieve was only a nice idea, one that everyone loved when I explained it. But then, when we implemented it, it was so badly executed that it didn't do anything useful. Then we fell in the feature creep trap, I argued with my co-founder and he parted (because I didn't listen to him, and because he wasn't 100% committed), pivoted into another failing product (at least I managed to sell it and have some real customers) and finally entered into zombie mode for a while (actually the company is still officially in business as I had to take on some consultancy projects in order to pay back €50K in loans we took). Total time of my life spent: 4 years.

In the future, I will try it again, and of course I will do different. First of all, it'll be small from the start (I'm even thinking of doing something that just provides some passive side income, in the level of 1000€ a month). Then it will have to be profitable from the beginning.
Respectfully, I think you are mistaken to say that Regan's speech did nothing. The reuse of Regan saying "tear down this wall" in various pieces of remix culture is evidence of the iconic nature of the speech.

By no means am I arguing that these words literally tore down a wall. But if anyone can argue that a speech can ever be important, this one was, at least for American culture.

So my point here is that this author is punching at a straw man. I don't know anyone who believes this speech itself contributed to the felling of the wall. It was an event in a much larger storyline that was bigger than the wall itself: the cold war.
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The worst you could do is cause the plant to shut down, it wouldn't go any further than that.

Gnat vs Elephant. Landing a 747 on one would be a different matter (but they're supposedly prepared against that eventuality too, though I really hope nobody will ever try to see if that really holds up or not).
I ditched mrxvt long ago because of lack of Unicode support (though I did use it under Cygwin/X).

https://github.com/simonzack/urxvt-tabbed - is this the project you're using?
I would recommend reporting the prankster to the police. It prevents the loop hole of being able to take any project offline at no cost to yourselves and prevent the loophole of not investigating a server break in because it would cause downtime.
Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires: 5 Commandments You Wish You Knew Earlier
Nope. PHP is overwhelmingly used for ordinary, legitimate websites and has no particular features designed to aid criminal usage. It's all about volume and intent.
A geek with tech/idea,0 funds to scale the right way how to approach big boys
Hello,
I have started a company in March, being so into the tech and the idea. Now i have a lot of clients but i have problems on delivering the hardware for everyone and scale big. How do I approach real investors?

In London everyone is saying they want at least 7 to 15% of the company for a sum between $20k and $150k and some of them are lying... but i think the tech and company is valued at more than that, having around 10 patents already and around 10 trademarks worldwide.

How do I approach the big boys?

I want to create my dream team..
This is about what I thought. If it needs effectively the same prep work as a normal meal, plus cooking, there's basically no reason for anybody to go to the extra hassle of shuffling stuff in and out of the machine versus just doing the middle step themselves.

The only actual draw I can see here is for professional chefs making artistic or experimental dishes (for example, complicated multilevel cakes), and even then, since it's just extruding raw ingredients, I'd be surprised if there's much if anything complicated that it can "build" out of anything softer than cookie dough or decorative icing.
According to "Command and Control," Regan at one point sincerely proposed to Gorbachev that both countries completely eliminate their nuclear weapons, much to the chagrin of his military advisors.
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the main purpose of a backend is the access to data... e.g. like Firebase. For open-source approaches, ArangoDB Foxx looks more intersting with this regard: https://www.arangodb.com/foxx
Yeah I confirm that. It happened to talk about the rent price with some of my german friends and some of them claim that there is a upper rent-price limit set by Berlin government that keeps the right of poor people to still live in the city center.

Isn't this amazing? It's the greatest social state ever!
I was convinced that it wouldn't work unless I dove in and did it full-time. You lose your residency visa when you quit your job here, and you have 3 months to leave the country. There are ways around it but they are too expensive if you're bootstrapping.
In the meantime a number of large supermarkets in the UK let you scan everything as you drop it into your trolley, and just pay at the end. A nice middle ground until, as you say, supermarkets disappear.

http://www.tesco.com/scan-as-you-shop/ is one example
Fujitsu Developer Talks Up Btrfs File-System, Declares It Ready to Use
Occupy Wall Street Co-founder: Appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America
"In total, Shavers took in more than 700,000 BTC - which at one point constituted approximately seven percent of all Bitcoin then in public circulation."

I don't know how you'd define "the vast majority of the Bitcoin community", but 7% of the money supply is a pretty significant minority.
I remember when the first Cable TV operator started operating in my town. Back then I was 8-10 years old and I remember how Cartoon Network was the only channel that grabbed my attention.

I'm glad it wasn't dubbed or subtitled. Because of Cartoon Network I learned my base knowledge of English when I was so young.
An underpowered phone SOC with a closed GPU requiring binary blobs sure sounds like a great fit for a project whose goal is making an open laptop.

I've used multiple attempts at ARM-based laptops / two-in-ones. So far they've been all been painfully slow. If they're targeting a x220 chassis, the constraints are going to be completely different from anything a consumer ARM SOC is ever deployed on. The standard battery on that is 63Wh, and it used 35W TDP CPUs. If there's a chip that can get laptop performance rather than phone performance, it makes perfect sense to spend at least a little bit of that massive thermal and power budget on it.
Freenet doesn't have the concept of a server that hosts a site though. Data is distributed across the datastore in nodes in Freenet. When users request a site or data then it is gathered from the nodes that hold the information.

This means sites can't have dynamic functionality but for those that host only static data then it would seem to be an alternative.

They are possibly vulnerable to being discovered when inserting data if the attacker knows what they are inserting.
For the french : http://nos-medias.fr/video/drones-l-hypothese-inquietante-d-...

He explain that they may want to target transformer station and could shutdown all electric network in europe, yes that's scary

Edit: i put the right link... the first one was just a report of the incident (sorry)
OnePlus Sells 500k Phones with a $300 Marketing Budget
Can't wait until Apple will disclose more information about Swift IR that compiles to LLVM IR. Too bad they canceled this year LLVM Devmeeting keynote.
Uh... Go plays very well with C and C++.

https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2013/07/23/the-most-powerf...
On the same logic moving out of a place requires planning in advance what to throw and when. You're moving on saturday and have to throw your remaining cleaning stuff ? Too bad, non burning garbage is on tuesday. If your building doesn't have a garbage room you'll be pissing off the neighbourhood for 4 days.

I was going to justify all the complexity by an extremely good recycling rate, but it seems Japan is at 20% on average, which is behind 16 other countries [0], way behind South Korea.

[0] http://www.pinterest.com/pin/129830401728417991/
The Stock Market Is on Edge About a Cable Merger
Ask HN: What small open source webapps do you know that have many deployments?
Did Sun ever make a public statement that anybody is allowed to independently re-implement (subsets of) the JRE class library APIs? I don't recall such a promise. Probably it's tied to the notorious TCK certification process that always was entirely at Sun's discretion.

Actually many years ago Sun has successfully sued Microsoft over Microsoft's incomplete JRE implementation, but I guess that was more about breach-of-contract and trademarks than it was about copyright.

What Sun has done is release (most of) their own JRE implementation with a GPL(+exception) license, which would of course imply a license to the API copyrights that Oracle is now speciously claiming... but Google is not using this implementation (because, as everyone knows, there are obvious legal risks to using GPL'd code); IIRC the class library implementation that Google uses comes mostly from Apache.
Note to Apple: Innovation shouldn't cost stability
One of go's strengths is how easy it is to refactor. Implicit interfaces means that you can change a function to take an interface, and the caller who is passing in a concrete type doesn't have to get updated at all.

also, there's a relatively recent tool created called gorename that does 100% type-safe renaming.

Plus there's been gofmt and gofix for forever which you can use to automatically rewrite your code.

Finally, because almost all go code is formatted with gofmt, you can often do simple find and replace changes because all the code is completely regular.
Their Youtube channel [0] is excellent, they really grab the attention of someone young about a large variety of topics, and they really make you want to keep watching their videos.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt
"Humans are wicked animals"

Indeed. As Jonathan Swift put it: "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth"
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No? I don't actually know rust, but I don't think the first thing he typed was invalid code. It just returned an iterator instead of a vector. I was suggesting that when he tried to pass the variable into a function that expected a vector, the compiler would complain. No snark, I just meant what I said.
XP didn't have this feature. It was in Vista onwards.
Yes, there are. Although not many yet. I've been involved in building one that currently ships.

ARM64 (ie. aarch64) is not that different from 32 bit ARM.
"Apple chose the facility, negotiated all the contracts to design and build it, and GT had no direct contact with the Apple subcontractors."

You do understand the Apple purchased the facility for $113 million dollars of their own money, right? GT's job was to install furnaces, run them, and deliver sapphire of a particular size and quality, which they were unable to do. And, they did so with money loaned to them by Apple.

Effectively, Apple took 100% of the risk, and when things went south, GT (after their CEO made a few million dollars on the stock), declared bankruptcy and forced Apple to settle GT's debt.
Haha, agreed; categories/tags would actually add the possibility of content selection. I even suppose the lack of those will shift people away from the site; I closed the page as soon as I saw those NSFW questions.

Good luck!
I'm a pretty decent front-end developer and looking for a back end developer as well :) my email is aladin.bensassi@gmail.com Contact me if you wanna talk it through
Nonpolitical Images Evoke Neural Predictors of Political Ideology
Perhaps the higher power tablet chips (ie. closer to 5-10 Watts TDP) could be a nice alternative? FWIW, I have used desktop Linux on a ~2012 ARM tablet chip and it wasn't fast but still a decent experience.

I'd be more worried about finding any sort of decent graphics chip. The discrete laptop chips tend to be for gamers (ie. high power) because all Intel laptop CPUs have an integrated GPU in them anyway (for mainstream customers). And sourcing discrete GPUs in small numbers is going to be difficult. Add in a requirement for open source drivers and it's even more difficult.
Probably hoping they have such a long one they will make money before the first drops will fall back down on them.
There's very little ARM hardware in a laptop form factor in general, none of it is ARM64, and the ones that exist are mostly chromebooks, so maybe not the best build quality.
I'm guessing that it's only conventions to work around the hardware specific parts of LLVM IR. Stuff like pointer and integer size, etc.

If you want to look at something similar, OpenCL has an LLVM IR -based standardized binary IR.
So I live in a no fly zone. good to know. Most of Maryland is.
RC Planes are drones too.
Just shoot them down?

Its an unauthorized vehicle over key infrastructure. Wouldn't even result in a loss of lives. So shoot it down & wait for the owner to start bitching (or not).
taskfreak.
Quite. I seriously considered the Hackintosh route a few years ago and spent some time looking into what's involved, but in the end decided it wasn't worth it. One of the reasons I switched to the Mac was because I want something that just works - I was fed up with viruses and virus scanners, driver issues and such on windows. Linux wasn't an option for similar issues though I always have it handy in a VM.

The problem for me is that while I think I'm perfectly capable of handling the technical issues with setting up a Hackintosh, the extra value of that customisability it's isn't there for me. I'd rather pay a few hundred quid more and have a solid, supported system than spend a few days of my time setting a machine up and then a few hours every few months fixing niggling issues.

I fully understand why people with specific needs go the Hackintosh route, for them it's worth it. Maybe I'll be in that camp some day, but not for now.

I suspect this is why Apple doesn't bother killing Hackintoshes. If people, are wiling to spend their own time and effort doing it, they're probably not going to instead spend the money with Apple. They are still paying a cost though, so that's the market in action. The alternative would be Apple spending Engineering effort fighting them. Again, that's not an efficient or economically useful way to spend that time and money.
"There is no room in such a worldview for nuance."

Not everything needs room nuance. It seems to be a theme is some places, HN being one, where there is a need to not assign morality as fact. But at the extremes, we are allowed to collectively decide something is good or bad as an absolute, and agree that anyone that disagrees is disturbed in some way.

Slavery was wrong, all throughout history.

Hitler was evil.

I know the arguments for allowing space for nuance or the dangers of assigning morality absolutely. Normally I agree. But sometimes, something is so close to absolute that we can discard any margin of error, because it doesn't change the conclusion.

We should almost always be careful to challenge or leave room for challenging our preconceived notions. But sometimes, just sometimes, there really isn't a need.

Edit: at least that's my opinion.
Interesting that retweeting something is used as a part of the argument.
Is there a reason you need some built-in map thing and not just user-defined functions? If a loop is too hard to read inline, you slap it in a nicely named function and now it's more clear and more concise. Either way, you have to write the code to do the conversion. select(odd) doesn't work unless you've already written the code behind whatever "odd" is, for example.

I can write go code that makes this line legal:

odd_ints := parseInts(myStrings).select(odd)

but I'd probably write code so it looked like this:

odd_ints := odds(parseInts(myStrings))

Is either of these harder to read? Does it matter that parseInts is a "map" and odds is a "filter"? Their function is obvious by their names. If anything, the words "map" and "filter" are extraneous.
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Great response, btw.
The reason why 1 hr near Gargantua is 7 years on earth
According to the interviewed expert in the video linked by audessuscest, they are night flights.
Strictly speaking, they can, but then you're parsing strings to figure out what exactly is wrong...
Except for "reasonable memory usage".
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You can use a timing attack.
I believe I've heard something to the effect of if a plane was flown into a nuclear power plant there's no real chance of catastrophic nuclear-related damage (of course the loss of human life and some structural damage will happen)
And I've been involved in writing ARM64 compilers and ARM64 kernels. Saying ARM64 is not so different than 32-bit ARM is understatement of the year.
Then you are a lucky man. Ever tried to work with MsysGit in a Cygwin shell? For starters, there's the CR-LF vs LF problem, which can screw you big time. Then there's the problem that Cygwin handles Windows paths differently from MSYS (C:\foo becomes /cygdrive/c/foo on Cygwin, /c/foo on MSYS, but that's just the obvious difference, filename handling is actually much more subtle). And then there's the stuff which you won't notice until it bites you, like for instance '.cmd' and '.bat' not being treated as executables in Cygwin.
Is this a bot account? I am also getting a 404
Thanks, It's been a long ride getting it to this point.
No, not an external project, just one of the "official" rxvt variants. I use the same one on linux as on cygwin/X.

rxvt-unicode-256color

I use it on cygwin at work because I use it on linux at home, because of the tabs (which are text-based and have nothing to do with whatever desktop environment it's running in), and because the 256 colors make it easier for me to distinguish different code parts in a colored text editing session.

The default terminal in cygwin is OK, but the small number of colors were really bothering me (old eyes).

As for unicode, I've displayed Japanese and other scripts in rxvt-unicode-256color just fine.
C#/F# .NET:

- ASP.NET WebAPI : web server

- Xamarin : iOS, Android

- Azure : cloud

- Akka.NET : actor model

- XAML/WPF : enterprise LOB, Windows Phone
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By that time it was estimated that $2 million had been spent on the project. It is thought that development of the bat bomb was moving too slowly, and was overtaken in the race for a quick end to the war by the atomic bomb project.

I can just see the conversation now.

A: "So what are you working on?"

B: "Well, we're harnessing the nucleic forces to create a destructive force hitherto unknown to man. How about you?"

A: "Um... bats"

B: "What?"

A: "We attaching firecrackers to bats."

B: "OK, um great!"

A: "Yea..."
the claims are very misleading and unclear. almost everything returns nothing in google instant. try "horse", "house", "mitch". All return no instant results for me. Perhaps I am missing something but this article appears to be blowing things out of proportion.
On the Science of Interstellar