skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try looking at the prelinger archive, which is now hosted on archive.org. Pay attention to the copyright situation, though -- which differs heavily between countries.

There are a lot of notable films that are in the public domain in the united states because of some changes to copyright law in the US that occurred in the late 50s and early 60s -- Night of the Living Dead, the original Jim Henson version of Cube, Fritz Lang's Metropolis. But, those films are not necessarily out of copyright elsewhere (and some countries, such as Germany, have no concept of a public domain -- all works belong to the estate of their creators in perpetuity).
a bit like MS in 90

don't you mean M$ there :P No offense meant, but you know, it's a bit difficult to take people serious when they use terms like that.
You probably are right. I like him as the guy who shaped out Amazon the way it is today (AWS and the store), but I'm not sure I'd be willing to work for him. The whole Android forking and Appstore was a terrible idea although I understand the motives.
> “We should just be more careful at the specification stage”. But this turns out to fail, badly. Why? The core reason is that, as you can see from the examples above, if you were to write a specification in such detail that it would capture those issues, you’d be writing the software.

Not true; a specification can precisely describe the properties of the solution of a (sub-)problem, rather than the process of solving it.
It's definitely a "horde" in terms of the impact Everest (and the families of tour guides regularly sacrificed so rich tourists can get their kicks) can actually sustain.
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Having always lived in the Bay Area, I find it hard to imagine it is tough to live on a combined income of $250k. That's at least top 10% of household incomes in the Bay Area. No, you won't get any neighborhood there is, but 80+% of places are open to you.

First, $5900/month is a huge amount to spend on housing. Large houses on the peninsula rent for around the $4500 range; you only hit $5900/month for 4 bedrooms in the hottest neighborhoods of SF.

Paying $5900 (after tax deductions, including property taxes) for owning a house implies a $1.3M mortgage, so maybe a $1.5M house(?) which is high-end. Houses that cost over $1000/sq foot are very rare; most are in the $600 range looking at Zillow on mid-peninsula.

Also, note that owning a $1.1M house is a form of retirement savings, so you can adjust accordingly.

And housing costs differences of $800k over 30 years (your Madison link vs. a $1.1M Bay Area house) is about $3300/month. You need to earn maybe $70k (before taxes) more in the Bay Area to have equal non-house income. I find it hard to believe that earning $180k in Madison combined (top 8%) is struggling.

Finally, there's always the Easy Bay: great houses in great neighborhoods for $800k.
There is https://github.com/cryon/subatomic which is kind of a mix between cobalt and zenburn.
This is a very good point. The "free" storage comes at the cost of being strongly disincentivized from ever cancelling your Prime Subscription.
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It intrigued me enough to look it up. Here's a photo of those first square windows: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/129764-tech-wrecks-lesson...
YikYak killer is here?
Any specific reason why it's iOS 8+ only? I wanted to try the performance on older devices
Very interesting, just wondering but do people think this benefits one company more than the other?

I originally thought Microsoft as its a great reason to keep Word relevant by teaming up with such a used storage platform and not succumbing to Google docs, but is that offset by dropbox being able to enter the enterprise world?
Yes, and yes. Thankfully, there are more choices than "you can choose from these two parties which are all-but-identical, BUT you can pick a RED or a BLUE model."
That's very nice! I am in the process of learning it as well.
When the balls "disappear", do you simply set them as alpha = 0 or actually remove them from the view?
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Ugh. I've done a lot of graphic design in Chinese, English, and bi-lingual documents and I absolutely hate that Roman typeface.

There are just far better fixed-width serif fonts out there and I always have to replace the English characters within Chinese documents with those fonts (I usually try to find one that matches in weight and blends in). Also not to mention a lot of English text within Chinese documents does not need to be in a fixed-width font to look good. There's a reason why there exist separate Unicode points for the fixed-width English characters when you do need them.
It might be a holdover from when I first learned to code, but I can't get into any sort of flow when trying to program on a light background.
Depends if your goal is security or publicity.
If you have arrays/buffers that take up a significant chunk of a 64 bit address space, you might make a 2nd pass to tune those. Otherwise, "just" make plenty of swap space for the idle memory chunks.

And yes, "swap space" is going to be a bit more constrained on a 32 bit mobile app. CPU cache is the real memory, and DRAM is the new swap :-)
Being a manager means actually listening to people
an example that comes to mind, Pony ORM uses it to convert a generator expression to SQL, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16115713/how-pony-orm-do...
" The best products/systems/protocols/algorithms available today have not been the subjects of any contests, and probably never will be."

No? Doesn't this fit the definition of a contest? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard_pr...

Yes, the fairness of the contest plays an important part, and a fair context where only the algorithm is analysed goes a long way.

"Just because no one wins a contest doesn't mean the target is secure...it just means that no one won."

Of course. But the fact that it passed revision by experts means it is (probably) safe today (and for what it is known, it might be trivially breakable "behind closed doors")

"Our Twofish cryptanalysis contest offers a $10K prize for the best negative comments on Twofish that aren't written by the authors. "

Ah ok, so contests suck, except for the ones we throw. Nice.

"There are no arbitrary definitions of what a winning analysis is." No? So what is "best negative comment"? It's still subjective. And the 2nd best gets nothing? Who determines that?
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>It's all you can do to have even the tiniest amount of influence.

That's just the thing, there wouldn't be a tiny or infinitesimal influence. It would be zero influence.

>Sure, your vote might not be worth much now, but that influence accumulates.

This makes no sense.

>Refusing to participate is not going to change anything, it's not going to fix the system.

Of course it won't fix anything, but at least I won't waste most of the day waiting in a line to mark a piece of paper that will change nothing.

>As to your first point: "I don't vote, because not enough people vote for what I want" is a self-defeating argument.

This is not what the parent poster said at all. It was mentioned that it's a 90% dominated by one of a two party system. Voting R would do nothing, since they already have the supermajority. Voting D wouldn't do anything, since one vote, even if it would tip over some kind of rounding mechanism, would still only bring the D vote to 11%.

>If you're unhappy with the current numbers, the very least you can do is make your tiny part of a percentage change.

Utterly pointless and a waste of time.

Don't drink the democracy kool-aid, folks. We're fucked and there's nothing that will stop it until we all get together and do something about it. And that's not happening soon either, so basically fuck everything.
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HTC is selling the Nexus 9 for half price one day after launch
1) By spending the time to do so.

2) Use oracles.
A liver is a vital human organ. A liver that's three times normal size is a sign of a very sick human.
There's definitely geometric differences between male and female faces. The most distinct difference is that the male chin tends to be larger, giving the face a more "square" shape, while female faces have smaller chins, giving the face a slight "almond" shape. And I'm sure there's more subtle differences as well.
They already paid $100,000 for finding flaws in their system before:

https://vk.com/wall-52630202_7858
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It's even counter-productive:

If I find a few small flaws that are problematic, but not enough to claim the prize, I'll definitely keep them to myself until the contest ends. Instead of incentivizing people to share vulnerabilities with them, they incentivize hoarding bugs.
Great work! I was exploring the distributed docker networking space yesterday for an open source project I'm working on (https://github.com/pnegahdar/sporedock) and the ones I have currently found are:

Weave - https://github.com/zettio/weave

Ambassadord - https://github.com/progrium/ambassadord

Warmhole - https://github.com/vishvananda/wormhole

QTunnel (not docker specific) - https://github.com/getqujing/qtunnel

Flannel - https://github.com/coreos/flannel

I'd love a comparison write up if you guys ever get to it.
In UK elections they do announce the number of spoiled ballots, which might give indication of the number of "neither" votes.
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I think you need the pro version to download them back.
According to this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle, posted lower, the feathers aren't under acceleration. Which is pretty cool once you think about it.
Do you want your own rented hardware and not just virtual machines?

I'd recommend looking into data-centres then.

I'm not sure what you mean by "managed" though. "Managed" (to me) normally means that they take care of the SysAdmin stuff for you.

As far as up-time and making sure the hardware works, that should be included in your rental price.
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I would buy Woz's improved Apple ][ if he started selling them.
They're just counter-reddit. Even though it's something a hacker would do. Ironic.

Bit of Office, bit of war-criminal-Dropbox. Top of HN. Awesome.
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For anyone looking at Hubot who'd prefer to write modules in Ruby instead of Coffeescript, there's Lita.

https://www.lita.io
Its an iterative process that approaches code. The more abstract the language, the closer the spec resembles the code.
No, you're playing a semantic game with the word "contest" here. The AES competition was a tournament designed to select the best candidate from a collection of ciphers submitted by the world's best cryptographers.

The Twofish bounty was a bounty that guaranteed payment to the best technical critique of a very specific, well-defined cryptographic primitive.
The managed file transfer sector is hot and there is no winner yet. Even a YC company called WireOver [1] is working in this space.

A little bit precient, my company developed a free Outlook add-on to send dropbox files as attachments [2] in 2012.

- [1] http://www.wireover.com/

- [2] http://blog.nektra.com/main/2012/05/23/integrating-dropbox-w...
I multiply by three. My justification for this is that coders think only of coding time, and that the rest of the time is taken up with communication etc.

I tested this against an expert management estimate once. The difference was less than ten hours over several months.
According to http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... it supports several raw and lossless formats, up to 2GB.
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The problem with many companies is that they're too focused in profits that they disregard other areas. Their inflexibility can reach ridiculous levels, and they will understand what they want from development philosophies like "Release Early, Release Often".

But I completely agree that a shitty culture leads to a shitty product.
https://raweb.inria.fr/rapportsactivite/RA2013/dice/uid32.ht...

It's even called, "BitBallot."

[edit] Upon further searching, it's not clear what, if any, work is being done on this.
Moxie is right. I barely know him and have no stake in TextSecure.
this is super cool, i have an old rotary phone in my basement that i was looking to update
Serious question: why do we keep repeating this experiment? Not that I mind, I just am curious why do we keep building bigger and bigger vacuum chambers just to drop a feather and a hammer over and over.
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> Every vote makes a difference iff you believe your decision of whether or not to vote is correlated with that of other people.

No. Correlation =/= Causation.

Every vote (of yours) would obviously makes a difference if it caused a (sufficient number) of votes (for the same candidates/propositions) of other people, but it merely correlates with but does not cause other votes, then it doesn't make any difference other than the impact your vote alone has on the final decision.
If you were UK I'd plug Bytemark - they provide bare-metal servers where they look after the hardware, you look after the OS/software (https://www.bytemark.co.uk/hosting/dedicated/)

I've been a customer of Bytemark for 10+ years now with different products over time, and I'm continually impressed with the service (and what they give back to the community) time after time
Does people still use RSS?
I've been wondering lately if people are still using RSS? Somehow email always prevail other communication and notification platforms.

Do you still use RSS?
To address my claim you would need an explanation of why that trend will continue, including for the several new projects. Btw, Apollo used a novel alloy.
In a sense. But a video file also stores things like sound which is one of the things that make the file size larger.
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Well, consider it in the context of a web browser or other generic desktop application.

If you have (say) 4G memory, and you have to process 2G, then you more or less accept that things are going to be slow. (Unless you are in some kind of embedded system, but then I assume you actually measure exactly how many bytes you need anyway...) And if it really bothers you, you would probably add more RAM to your machine and the problem will go away.

If you extend arrays by constant amount, you instead end up with a 4MB data that takes five minute to process. Your users won't like it a bit. What is worse, this problem can't be solved by adding more RAM.
Twitter also killed it with their new API.

The v1.0 API used to allow you to fetch tweets without authentication, which allowed you to effectively use it as an RSS feed, convert it to a feed in whatever format you wanted, or build converters and visualization methods for other people.

I guess they want to control the ecosystem of what people do with Twitter data, which is completely contrary to the notion of RSS which is precisely to NOT control the ecosystem.
A demo application or even a video would help.
I am genuinely curious if you are unable to open any link or is the restriction specific to Dropbox? And what is the reason for this restriction?
"If voting changed anything, it would be illegal."

Yes, I'll be voting today, but primarily because there are some contentious local candidates and local issues. Like most voters I'm pretty disillusioned by the state of politics at the state and federal levels.

I'm starting to think of low voter turnouts as a quiet protest against a broken and corrupt political process, and seen that way, I really can't in good conscience encourage anyone else to vote.
I spent (I think) about two years walking by a sign in the south loop that said something like "coming in October of 2005, Target" and I thought, well, that's a pretty bold estimate for completing a building. Damn if that isn't exactly when they finished. Maybe they were changing the sign periodically and I failed to notice.
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And, for reference, top fuel dragsters can do 0-100 km/h in like ~0.3s.
It's not a 'startup'. It's a project by the founders of VK, and they surely have deep pockets.
> I want to write code that runs on a rocket or in a component of the LHC, etc.

A masters in physics might help, but for these specifics (which looks like you want to write code for embedded systems), these alternate degrees might also be worth it:

Engineering: mechanical, electronic or computer

Undergrad or postgrad? I'm not sure, as your education system may work differently. Embedded systems need the electronic background to it, so electronic engineering (or it may be called "electrical - light current" in your country) will be your best bet.

Check out the coursework available from the colleges and speak to admin/lecturers/someone-who-knows-something.
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And closest paramedic in case of heatstroke .
> That's, at best, misleading.

I don't think so. Talking about engagement and participation is very well, those are indeed important aspects of a citizen's life, but they can also happen in regimes which are not democracies.

Democracy means the sovereignty of the people. This sovereignty is embodied at decision time, which is elections/votes. Most certainly freedom of speech, good education, political debate, etc. are requirements for a democracy to be healthy, but these traits can be found in other regimes.

> you realize your vote very rarely makes any meaningful difference

It all depends on how you define meaningful, I guess.
Yeah everybody is all about 'job creation' etc. I've never had a job that existed before I had it. You find a problem to be solved, you can start solving it for money.

I live in a small community. Most of the families are self-employed. Who created their job? They did. Didn't wait for some company to decide they were worth paying.

So I have a problem with folks that wait for somebody to make a place for them. That's no way to run your life.
I don't really know that this is true.

Sublime is a zillion times faster than Atom, and brackets isn't something that enters into the same league as either. I don't see how open-sourcing will help it.
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Makes the text hard to read (both by changing contrast and by distracting the viewer). If that's the point, go for it.

On the other hand, if there's some actual content on the page that you want the user to see, avoid this like the plague - until now, I have seen nothing more annoying than the MARQUEE tag; this beats it, hands down.
I find that Google Drive just doesn't work as well. We routinely get files that are "unable to sync" but manually retrying them works. I've seen it happen on OS X and Windows. I think it just doesn't handle locked files as well. Dropbox "just works."
As far as flannel goes, the comparison can be boiled down to that Weave doesn't rely on etcd or anything other to store the sate.
You misunderstood. Some aircraft carriers have swapped to electrical propusion systesm vs steam to launch craft. While a rocket sled is no net gain you could launch a rocket to Mach 4+ using rail / coil gun etc which is fairly significant fuel savings. Pushing past that has major issues, but a potential advantage is you can build a air breathing scram jet without needing design your engine for lower speeds.

I agree that: http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2014/10/rise-of-electric-ai... is just aboit pointless for rockets.

Building the 32km of track to hit mach 4 at 3g's of acceleration would one of many issues, but my point is simply building another rocket does not really change much. There actually fairly close to the limits of what you can do with a chemical roket.
Trying to pit the two against each other misses the underlying issue that none of them really solve.

They are both nothing but feeds and I still can only read one feed item at the time. The actual curation done by others still don't satisfy me deep underlying need to have done the curation myself.

In the end we don't know what we don't know but we know there are things we don't know. Thats what keeps us going and keeps us plowing through the various feeds, curated or not.

Think about it like a bottleneck problem where I am the bottleneck because I am the slow interpreter:

http://000fff.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/model_01.png

From:

http://000fff.org/slaves-of-the-feed-this-is-not-the-realtim...
And that used price will most definitely be increasing as a 918 recently burnt up.

http://ca.autoblog.com/2014/09/29/porsche-918-spdyer-update-...
You'd be amazed how a simple experiement can be fun. These guys work on this enormous vacuum chamber to build space ship things, and that's their day job. As in, at some point, it gets routine and a bit dull. (Ever find high power lasers boring? You will after your safety training...)

Now, they are recreating an experiment last performed at this scale on the moon. It's an unusual break from the norm, and I'm sure half of their grins were the phenomenal waste of power to perform such a silly experiment. (Seriously, that chamber was hauled down to a couple torr in three zarking hours!) Professionally goofing off is immensely fun.

(Tiddlywinks with a forklift would be another, and there was a guy who used the armor coating a Blackbird uses in a robot wars competition.)
Dropping feather and hammer isn't the only use of vacuum chamber
It's less tiresome for your eyes, eventually your eyes will demand you to use dark color schemes.
About a half billion pounds per passenger. Whatever liquid fuel is actually in the rocket, it is produced via hydrocarbon.
Considering the scale of impact this kind of technology has the potential to have, I'm surprised at how little news there is out there on it. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out when the public figures out just how ubiquitous this little toys are going to be ...