skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"this irrational overemphasis on frugality i always see on hn just seems like a different form of elitism / pedantry to me. since most of us have money, it's just a covert way of signaling an extra level of self-control and discipline (which are usually required to make money, but since so many of us make money, we've got to find novel ways to signal that extra status)."

I get this sense as well and think the signaling theory is a solid one.

I'm thinking this is a part what frequently turns me off of topic specific forums - people have a tendency to want to sort and differentiate themselves. The higher the baseline - whether it's income or knowledge - the more pedantic the self-sorting.
Oh no worries, what kind of influence could someone as mindless and inflammatory as Ted Cruz possibly have?

> Texas Senator Ted Cruz, another climate denier, may be next-in-line to become chair of the Subcommittee on Science and Space, which oversees agencies like the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.[1]

Shit.

[1] - http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120180/climate-denier-ted...
I am not sure if I agree with your rationale. An agent of a government acts on behalf of his or her government. According to your reasoning, a nation cannot breach a system or wage war because it is an agent that does the hacking or a soldier that does the firing.

Nevertheless, I liked this excerpt by the NSA's general counsel:

> Still, “it’s perfectly appropriate for us to do everything we can to embarrass and punish the Chinese if they’re in our systems, whether or not we’re in theirs,” said former National Security Agency general counsel Stewart A. Baker. “It’s the case that the U.S. and Russia and other countries are much more cautious about getting caught because they think there are going to be consequences. It’s only the Chinese that think there are no consequences to getting caught.”
I agree that the presence of that single qualifier casts an irrevocably ominous shadow over the entire sentiment.

In a purely-hypothetical dystopia it could be the basis of more invasive monitoring and control capabilities over network infrastructure.
To argue that this is purely meritocratic requires you to argue that some individuals are thousands to tens to even hundreds of thousands of times more productive, intelligent, or hard-working than everyone else.

While differences do exist, framing the question that way makes it obvious that the very highest levels of the income ladder are largely a result of network effects and leverage rather than productive activity.

Another way of framing the question: was Mark Zuckerberg's contribution to computer networking more than a million times more valuable than that of Tim Berners-Lee?

I'm starting to see the rise of "market fundamentalism" over the past 35-ish years as part of the general trend toward the naturalistic fallacy over the same time period. If it's "natural," it's by definition good. So if the "natural" free market concentrates >50% of all wealth in <0.1% of hands, well dag nabbit that's what nature obviously intended and who are you to argue with nature? Wealth redistribution or other mitigating strategies are sort of like vaccination and GMO foods-- tampering with nature and "playing God."
>It's a nice concept but I'll start using it as soon as someone creates a FOSS clone.

I like FOSS, and am grateful for the work open source engineers put into software, and I have also contributed, but this attitude right here where you wont even consider something because it's closed source? What's the point of that? Why shouldn't an engineer be paid? It's very difficult to capture value with open source software. Please explain to me how they could monetize this on par with the effort put into developing this and still have it be open source. This isn't a service that runs in a website, this is something you download and run.
If you want to discuss ridiculous stories, he claims he watched this WWII historical stuff on "the history channel" but I checked the schedule for tonight (honest!) and tonight is a three hour "Pawn Stars" marathon, tomorrow has more pawn stars followed by what appears to be a horror-reality crossover called "the curse of oak island" and wednesday night has a marathon of "american pickers" and thursday is, I kid you not, another marathon of "pawn stars". So I suspect he never saw anything other than blue collar workers screaming at each other and at customers on this so called "history channel". Its the same pablum on TLC, discovery, syfy, etc. The only way to tell TV channels apart in 2014 is to check the name, there's really only one channel.

(That said, I'd recommend the 60s era BBC WWII series if you can find it in the usual locations, legal or otherwise)
Amen. This will make the issue more political, even though Rs and more Friedman-minded Ds should be behind net neutrality. Now Rs will be driven toward the other side.
China suspected in US Postal Service hack that exposed data on 800,000 workers
I love the idea of a two part nut that cams itself tight. If weight and corrosion isn't a problem, this could see some good applications. Maybe locating on spinning shafts in high heat, or in blind holes?

Stage 8 and safety wire seem simpler and they should offer more predictable torque for critical applications. Hoping to see some comparisons to existing solutions and failure analysis.
I think most will maintain a healthy cynicism of this until it is shown to be true. Remember 3.0?
Yes, my last job search consisted of posting my resume on one and only one job board. I then received a deluge of phone calls and multiple job offers soon after that.

In the end if you’re depending on people reading a job posting you’re already missing out on a lot of highly qualified applicants. If you then want tailored resumes your mostly excluding the type of people you actually want working for you.

PS: And no I will not show up to an interview if you don't list a salary range.
If you look below I've made arguments for all these things, but let me try to address them here. Compare

++ add
|= [a=@ b=@]
^- @
?: =(0 a) b
$(a (dec a), b +(b))

to

attribute add {
function(left-operand: atom, right-operand: atom)
produce atom
if equals(0, left-operand) {
right-operand
} else {
recurse(left-operand (decrement left-operand)),
right-operand (increment right-operand))
}
}

As for the variable names, I can think of very few programmers who would insist that "left-operand" and "right-operand" are better names, in this context, then "a" and "b".

Using "a" and "b" accurately expresses the simplicity of the algorithm, and nothing could be easier to read. OLV in "add" says: there is nothing interesting here. "left-operand" and "right-operand" says: there is some semantic meaning here, which you have to trouble your brain to understand. But actually, it's just pointless wordiness - in this case.

As for the syntax, you no doubt can read my wordy example better. But a programming language is a professional tool, not a toy. Anything new demands a genuine investment to learn - this investment has to be paid off by actual productivity.

And people are, as I've said, much better at learning random associations than they think. Again, we've taught this syntax to everyone from Haskell jocks to JS cruft-jockeys to innocent CS 101 victims. The biggest problem - and it is a problem - is not that it it is hard, but that it seems hard.
I have been using OVH for a few years now, and had no issues to report. This is only a few low-mid level dedicated boxes and a half dozen VPS's though, so others may have differing results.
Emo could really scale, I'll advise you keep it and see how far it could grow. If what you're working on is more important to you than this, then you can take the previous advice and scrap it. I love the concept thoough
If there's a question I can answer in 30 seconds as I pass by, then I figure it's worth doing. I've recently been looking at systems to try to capture and make available knowledge bases that can be searched, mined, and possibly automated.

How can we help people to stand on the shoulders of giants ...
I would really like to switch to this to get away from Chrome but there is one thing stopping me. Which is that in Chrome when I'm debugging JS I can see a full list of files in their folders and can open them up to see them and add breakpoints and things. Like this http://derp.co.uk/1ae64
But in Firefox all I get is http://derp.co.uk/3be04 which is of zero use to me and it means I can't use it over Chrome. Am I missing something or is this just not a feature that Firefox has?

Thanks
Just realized how out of date my CV is. Last update 2012.

Written in LaTeX, though I can't find my source at the moment... a little worrying.

http://www.ajford.us/pages/curriculum-vitae.html

EDIT: Forgot I came from US Academia, where CV is a long living document of your research and life work, not what we silly Americans call a Resume. Pardon me if this wasn't the kind of thing you were looking for.
DirectX, at least version 9 for most old games from 2010 and earlier, is almost a solved problem on Gallium drivers.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgxNzU

If there is a working DirectX state tracker, combined with a reimplementation of the Windows API like Wine, you have fully native Windows binary games. All the slowness in Wine today comes from reinterpreting DirectX into OpenGL.
I completely agree that most people are better off now than in 1916, but not everybody is as well off as you're saying.

In the United States today, it's still fairly common for homeless people to freeze to death in the winter because they can't afford or find shelter on cold nights. Much less afford 3 TVs and an XBox.
You get different grades of Loctite. Climbing walls don't get that much vibration but a thread-locking product would provide some reassurance.
My Grandmom's letters are pretty entertaining and I am happy they are getting wider distribution.
What is most important to you in a job/company?
If Mozilla allows tracking in any way by default for this "mode" or whatever it will be, then that will screw up whatever anonymity plans they had.
The Witcher 2 port is a proprietary WIne like wrapper around DirectX that reinterprets it into OpenGL. The Linux performance of Witcher 2 is abyssal, usually half or worse the framerate on Windows.
Well, to be fair, Rambo was tasked with taking photographs and not engaging the enemy at a time when there was supposedly no active military action against Vietnam.
That's the average, but the median is more like $30K. Income inequality, and all that.
Context Dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information (2009)
Ah yes, I only read the top file, didn't realise the demo was split into multiple components.

Do you have a link to the source for the virtual-dom version?
Massive Data Breach Hits Postal Service
"if you aren't able to meet a certain reasonable minimum standard of living, you will be absolutely miserable."

For some people their minimum standard of living dose not require money. Buddhist monks[1] come to mind. There are also people that simply want to live away from society and thus have no real need for money.

[1] http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/layguide.h...
And last year it was scheduled to be released this year, and that got pushed back.
New version of the Raspberry Pi a model, the A+
Wow, after listening to these I have a lot more respect for the cheesy "beeps and boops" sound effects used in so many 1960s and 1970s movies to connote satellite stuff. Turns out they really did sound like that!
Why? Loctite Blue is meant to be disassembled and reassembled: http://www.loctiteproducts.com/p/t_lkr_blue/overview/Loctite...

Gyms clearly don't use loctite, but I think it's just because the problem doesn't warrant the slight increase in mess and hassle.
I had this issue, reset your network settings and turn off and on iMessage. Maybe try without resetting first.
So 2/3s have had $200 once? http://www.amazon.com/RCA-Class-720p-60Hz-Rear/dp/B00LUZ91D6
Thanks! They seem to have replaced the linear regulator with a switching regulator (which is more efficient) on the A+ & B+ models.

I agree though, doing only one transformation would be more efficient - but I'm not sure which USB devices would work on 3.3V - it depends on the individual use-case I guess.
> I would prefer to live in a society that was 100% supervised, if the laws of the society were sensible.

Don't forget the enforcement of laws. In my estimation, the entire legal system of a 100% supervised society would have to be significantly better than any legal system that has ever existed for the advantages of surveillance to outweigh the disadvantages.
That was not so much a problem in Windows 8 as it was Windows 8 being a foreshadowing of things to come. That still has not changed, unless Valve has done back room negotiations with MS to guarantee their continued functioning despite whatever circus Microsoft puts future versions of Windows though.
Imagine the frontend and backend teams are large and do not work closely. This allows the frontend to easily test their code without waiting for the backend team to implement the specific api. Even better that it allows them to test with actual http request/responses instead of just hardcoding data.
The origins of multicellular life
Really good idea. I'm not too sure about GIF, why not use a proper video format that will use less bandwidth. You could always use GIF as a failover.
End-user programming with ConceptJS
The world's first smart developer device for IoT
A surprising number of devices offer data acquisition over TCP/IP either in telnet, or HTTP get requests.
We launch next month. Just wait :)
> Let me explain a few things about the American government. The most important thing to understand is that the ability of the executive to influence the direction of the government is limited.

Compared to most other parliamentary democracies the president in USA is nearly a dictator. So Obama has exceptionally broad abilities in that direction.
is this a joke? net neutrality has nothing to do with the NSA, or government control of the internet. Its regulation of a utility, to prevent a monopoly.
These aren't new rules; this has been the Firefox release process since Firefox 5 was released (3.5 years ago).
Less 2.0 Released
I've found that the best way to fix this is to get everyone who participates in the group conversation to delete the conversation from their phones. Then once everyone's done that, one person can send a message to everyone else and it should use SMS.

In my experience, it looks like iMessage stores metadata about the chat medium for a given conversation, and that's determined upon creating the conversation.

When sending individual messages, iMessage doesn't seem to attempt to determine whether conversation partner has gone dark from iMessage and fall back to MMS going forward. So everyone else gets the message, but not the person without an iPhone.
The franchise agreement you linked, for the city of Louisville, Colorado, exemplifies the claim I'm making.

Section 2.4 - franchise is non-exclusive.

Section 2.2(B) - non-discriminatory requirements to access rights of way.

Section 2.6 - city reserves right to grant other franchises, so long as if it does so on more favorable terms than the existing franchise, then the existing franchise can be modified.

The FAQ on the page you linked has the most interesting information, however:

> Comcast's Franchise with City of Louisville:

> Comcast - the nation's largest cable television provider - is currently the primary source of cable television services in Louisville, serving approximately 4,500 subscribers. They currently operate in Louisville under a non-exclusive franchise agreement [Footnote] effective since April 2006. The agreement allows Comcast to use the City's ROW in return for the payment of certain rental fees - known as franchise fees - and other benefits for Louisville and its residents.

> Footnote: Should another cable provider want to offer cable service in Louisville the City would offer that company the same franchise opportunity that Comcast now has. To date, no other service providers have asked for a franshise.
Independent Contracting: How to Get There
Some personal numbers, from 4 years at a SV startup (now at a larger company, couldn't take it anymore)

Over four years:

Total compensation: 80K (10-99)
Debt: 8K Credit Card, 25K IRS
Equity: ~1% (worthless probably, at most 50K)

Not worth it.
Blown head gaskets have a lot less to do with bolt torque and a lot more to do with a lot of stuff all going on at roughly the same place. If they didn't separate combustion from coolant and both of those from oil, they would fail a lot less.

Yes the bolts must be torqued properly but that has more to do with ensuring that even pressure is applied across a huge gasket face than anything to do with the bolts self-loosening. If the heads on an engine were steel and much thicker you could do the same job with a couple of bolts instead of a dozen.

If an auto manufacturer was enterprising they could probably move some of the oil passages away from the coolant and combustion (which by their nature need to be close to one another) and they could make cavities for o-rings and seal the oil from the coolant a lot more effectively. But the failure rate for head gaskets is fairly low already and that would be adding a fair amount of cost and fiddly-ness to a not-that-big problem. When I say "fairly low" what I mean is that it might comprise 10% of engine failures but engine failures are already pretty rare, so 10% of 1% isn't all that big of a deal. Those are made-up numbers, btw, so don't crucify me if they're wrong.
My 6 step secret weapon for detecting objects, faces, and beer bottles in images
Agree. ISP owner here. Not all web sites or IP addresses contain 100% illegal material. Virtual hosting (hosting more than one web site from same IP address) poses problems as does content among sub-domains. I don't have the resources to monitor and track such things and if I were forced into it, I would either go out of business or try to become a search engine.
This reminds me of a great story:
http://totalfratmove.com/guy-goes-to-mexico-to-kill-himself-...

There are no NSFW pictures just a text...
Imagine moar, at least three

http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/linuxemu/

As well as Mothra and Abaco.
This reminds me of a great story:
http://totalfratmove.com/guy-goes-to-mexico-to-kill-himself-...

There are no NSFW pictures just a great story...
This is huge. The head of the executive branch just telegraphed one of his appointees that nothing less than Title II would meet his mark, at a time when the rule making process is in full swing. I think people need to dial back the cynicism a few notches. Call me overly optimistic,We could have true net neutrality within the next few years.
Ted Cruz is an extreme outlier. Everyone else in the Republican party hates him. Please don't take his dumb remarks as representative of anyone else.

Here is a quote [1] referring to how Mitch McConnell (Republican Senate Minority Leader, soon to be Majority Leader) handles nut-jobs like Ted Cruz:

"Mitch has very carefully, very methodically, very much under the radar, isolated Ted Cruz. He's kind of sealed him off like the body puts a sack around some foreign matter"

I believe that's how most Republicans feel about him. Cruz echoes the idiotic thoughts of a very very small minority. But, since they sound like such bizarre nut-jobs, they get media coverage.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/1...
Going from the court decisions, they would know that traffic is illegal if a court tells them it's illegal. Again, refer to People v. Brophy: the common carrier is not "authorized or required" to investigate. Probably meaning they can aid in investigation (e.g., supply information to police) but not perform an investigation (analyze said information themselves).

In addition, Title II would probably put internet traffic on the same level as wiretaps in terms of (non-DHS) data snooping. If anything, it would give internet users more protection for this sort of thing than they are granted now.
Good writeup. Kaspersky performs good malware campaign analysis without sensationalism.

Also what a novel idea, just wait on the porous hotel network for your execs to come in. I wonder what country's work this is.
Ask HN: How good is YC doing for hardware companies?
YC hardware alums -- how has YC fared in helping you with the specific problems you faced in bringing your physical product to market?

As compared to a hardware-specific accelerator, did you feel like you needed on-premises prototyping facilities, or a staff engineer to review your models/schematics/...?

Did you have access to people that have brought physical products to market before, and were they able to help you get there?

(Backstory: we're considering various accelerators in the near future. YC is awesome, but it definitely has a software reputation. Since a few hardware companies have come through YC now, I'm curious how much a hardware-specific accelerator really adds to the process, or vice versa, how generally applicable the lessons of starting a software startup are to other types of business)
> but a stable linux distribution, with a low technical entry barrier might.

Also known as pretty much any consumer Linux distro preinstalled on a computer.

I have clients who have had Ubuntu running flawlessly for over five years. Whenever a new LTS comes around it gives a popup notification and shows up in the software options to upgrade, and they do so whenever they get around to it. They have five years of security updates coming in automatically anyway, no reason to worry about that.

If you do not want to get into the guts, you do not have to, unless you start out there by trying to install an OS by hand. And even in that use case, assuming you properly research your hardware support, Linux is a much more friendly experience to install and get running than buying a Windows CD and trying to install it, and then get the system into a usable state.

The answer is not complicated - preinstalls. Machines running Linux, probably Ubuntu, in stores, in front of your grandmother. If she buys it (and even Unity is much easier to understand than The Windows 8 Start Menu) then she should expect it to work out of the box fine forever, updating itself in the background, with the default programs providing 99% of her needs. And that is what happens now assuming you buy from a Linux boutique like System76, Zareason, Thinkpenguin, or the redistributors of Dells / HP notebooks or Llenovo stuff in Germany and other countries that mandate an OS choice option.
I will admit that I initially thought this was a Wireshark plugin or related to Wireshark in some fashion, based on the name and the appearance of the GUI on the page.

You may want to put a little disclaimer at the top saying it's not associated or competing with Wireshark.

Pretty cool tool either way.
If I could have a (semi-realistic) super power, it'd be never having to sleep. Sleep is very important to me, I sleep for 7-9 hours every night, with almost no exceptions. But if I could get those same health benefits, and no downsides, with a 15-minute power nap, I'd take that pill every day. I'd love to have an extra eight hours per day to learn, work, and play.