skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great way to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of these videos (and Bill's production process in general) has been to check in on his vimeo accounts ([1] and [2]).

It's not quite what you're looking for (a simulation of the machine, which would be amazing to see in its own right), but according to this video [3], it looks like they've built a neat webapp for the purpose of having a sort of fourier synthesis playground.

Unfortunately, there's just the demo video, with no link to the site itself, and searching turned up nothing. They may plan to release it later on in the series.

[1] http://vimeo.com/engineerguy/videos

[2] http://vimeo.com/user17826495/videos

[3] http://vimeo.com/101539582
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Guns are NOT defensive weapons... You could be standing in the Starbucks line with any weapon of your choosing and I can just walk up to you and pull out a pistol and splatter your brains across the counter. No problem...

EDIT - Why is my off-topic comment with an argument being down-voted in a reply to a off-topic statement with no argument is not? There must be a lot of gun lovers on Hacker News...
I think a succinct way to put it is: on-the-fly "profile-guided optimization". A good JITter will do this automatically (as you said).
For $16.99?! That's more than one of their printer cartridges!
I actually liked the fact that this lecture had just 1 lesson to teach, where Ben Horowitz used the entire time to reinforce the one point. I particularly enjoyed his historical reference to Touissaint L’Ouverture.

Best quote and lesson I picked up: “When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.”

For anyone interested in reviewing the top quotes I picked up (or if you can't wait until the transcript), you can find 21 Quotes from Ben Horowitz's lecture today here: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/21-quotes-from-ben...
I think the point is that college exposes you to unlike-minded people. You can find plenty of people who share your interests on IRC or Hacker News. You can also find people who don't share your interests on the Internet, but realistically, you won't. The true learning experience of college is that it throws you together with people that you would never hang out with by choice, and so forces you to broaden your perspective.

In practical terms, you will probably never hang out with these people after graduation. Most likely, they will be useless for your career (although you never can be sure - I co-founded my first startup with my floormate from sophomore year). But there's something that changes in your brain when you're forced to re-examine your most basic beliefs from the perspective of someone who doesn't share them, and it's a transferrable skill. You may very well decide that you were right the first time (my goals, strengths, and skills are not hugely different from what I believed in high school), but you see a whole new level of nuance that's missing when everyone around you self-selects into the same groups.

It's certainly possible to get this experience outside of college. But it's much, much harder, because you are looking for something outside of your own conscious awareness. I think one of PG's essays once said "Do whatever seems harder", which is pretty good advice. To that, I'd add "become the people you resent most" - not permanently, but long enough to understand their POV and empathize with them.
OK, then, a different kind of problem. One is a problem for many separate individuals, while another is a problem for society (or large groups within it) as a whole.

And I wasn't saying therapists don't have any power. But I think even you will agree that Google, Apple and Facebook have a lot more power over the world than a psychiatrist. Note how in tech, power can be concentrated in a few corporations, while in therapy, power is a lot more distributed. Also, in therapy, teaching, and nursing, most central authorities are often democratically elected, and in any case are a lot more open than private corporations. It's a more diffuse kind of power.

Also, the mention of nursing, education and even psychotherapy (though the last may be different) is a little disingenuous because a major reason for the under-representation of men in those fields is also sexism -- Those professions aren't considered "manly" -- rather than any discrimination against men.

Finally, my talk of power isn't silly, but in line with the humongous body of research done on the subject. In other words, it's informed.
I received a bonus like that at a job once. I stayed there about a month after that. They were upset when I left.

Your bosses will get away with as much as you let them. The 70 hour weeks are on you, but you can certainly approach them to understand why they are giving you that amount. You can explain it away by saying that you'd like to understand where you can further improve. It is, after all, a reflection of your performance.

If you can separate your emotions from the money, just ride it out for a year and get back that $20k you lost by switching to a RoR developer role at another company.
These switches aren't really a secret.

And the crazy expensive switch is guaranteed to be the cheap part. Now add the all the ip required to make that fpga smart enough to place orders, and you're talking huge bills in dev hours and third party licensing.
T-Mobile's Hip CEO Not So Hip with His Status Quo Opposition to Net Neutrality
... email account passwords ...
I suspect this is just a ploy to get to the top post on HN which is surely of more value than this webpage in and of itself...so congrats I guess.
I've been dreaming of a fully rebuilt hacker-friendly OS for a while. Trouble is, it's hard to justify development, even for FOSS, unless you can find some kind of hook for the mainstream, for reasons that may not seem apparent at first.

Chief among these concerns: isn't it a little insular to create an OS that will only be used by people with the utility to write their own software? At some point, the software must be developed on the OS it runs on, and most software will be for mainstream users (outside of server-side code). This is theoretically solved by stuff like POSIX, but now we're talking about abandoning those standards in favor of more modern ideas.

There is definitely some discussion to be had on the topic of how to build and market a new desktop OS stack in open source. I have a lot of ideas around UI/UX for both hackers and mainstream users, but I'm very conscious of how little I know about system architecture, especially after reading articles by people who have built stuff like Plan9. If people are sufficiently interested, let me know and we can start a listserv or something to bounce around ideas.
I work in a small prop-shop doing HFT. Most of the guys there are manual traders, and I've seen the same guys there for several years making steady money. I don't think this is bs or amateur hour, let me explain why. It is essentially the small (independent) traders that can make a win when the big guys (hedge funds, pension funds) are moving their positions around. Imagine a dude on a surfboard enjoying the wake of an oil tanker and you get the idea. Just don't get too close :-)
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hitthebid.asp - there's one term from the article defined for you. The site has lots more.

If there are still terms you can't find, post them here and I'm sure someone can explain.
Wow, this is awesome. 85kg limit is a bit of a bummer though.
Actually its worse than that - I am loathe to say it, but the author does not understand what he is talking about.

1st read the 2013 IBM annual report's financial section as it relates to this subject. A cursory read will tell you that the following quote is completely false:

"There are two ways of looking at this. The first is that IBM spent $13.859 billion buying back those 73 million shares — an average of $190 per share. But in fact the share count only fell by 50 million shares, which means that IBM actually paid $277 per share by which the share count was reduced. That’s a crazy sum of money, far greater than IBM’s all-time-high share price. (The current price, by the way, is $162.)

The other way of looking at this is that the $13.859 billion didn’t really go entirely to shareholders, as Sorkin implies. Rather, some 50/73 of it went to shareholders — that’s about $9.5 billion — while the rest of it, about $4.4 billion, went, in one way or another, to employees. And especially to senior employees."

Without boring everyone to tears the author makes the completely false assumption that new shares issued are issued at $0 (however employees exercised 5.6m shares at $90 a share, or say the 1.5m shares employees purchased at a 5% discount to market price, there are a whole host of other programs)
I would love FastMail to add tags or labels. That is the one primary feature making me still forward my FastMail email to Gmail. I love having email in my inbox already labeled (or tagged) so I can have context.

For example, one of the companies I work for uses purple in their logo. So I tag all emails from them with their company name, and add make it purple.
Finally, some realistic coverage of t-mobile, after the lipstick-pig routine that had so many fooled.

T-mobile is the same company they always were; desperate and petty.
Does this mean you won't have traditional memory available at all (outside of L1-3 cache)?
Or is it able to mix and match between real DDR3 memory and SSD?
Suggestion: Can you make it so if I just type "weather" it defaults to my current location? Either based on public IP or a user setting maybe?
You should assume any packets going over Tor are monitored anyway - use TLS.
Computer-Intensive Methods in Statistics (1983) [pdf]
What? The standard Clojure vector is like that. Nobody has a problem with it. It has good performance. Why should you care about the memory layout?

If you are not doing math on pointer, it should not matter.
You can use investopedia for almost anything finance/trading related.
Ask HN: Finding Startup Founders in High School?
I'm in high school and looking for a startup founder. Although I have a few friends who are into startups/programming they are doing their own thing and I am helping them out, but I'd prefer to start my own thing.

What is the best way to find programmers/founders in high school? It seems like there are zero people interested in programming/computers at my school.

Edit: for any high school age programmers in Ottawa, my email is in my HN profile.
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What's the benefit of using fastmail if you just forward to gmail?
A Response to Ted Cruz's Net Neutrality Stance
Even without the article, the photo of John Legere at Global Crossing is absolutely priceless. It really says everything that needs to be said about his schtick.
TBH I don't really understand the arguments in the article I was trying to be as charitable as possible to the general premise.

Also I think I am wrong. Stock options are public information so it should be incorporated into the price of the stock any ways. Theoretically at least.
Not a good start. Second and third sentences in:

> The last successful American car startup was founded 111 years ago. It's called Ford.

This isn't remotely true. Ford was founded in 1903. GM was founded in 1908. AMC was a merger of two companies, one founded in 1937 and the other in 1909. Chrysler was founded in 1925. And that's just the big four.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone Using Pangu8 Windows iOS 8.1
Hey Miles, we have Mission Hackers meetup this Wednesday. Come join us tomorrow: https://www.facebook.com/events/1549813885231948/

Everyone else is welcome too! We are a group of hackers and entrepreneurs who get together in Mission District, work on our own projects and have fun.
Certificate Reissues and Revocations in the Wake of Heartbleed
I had forgot about the Sum Some Sines .... that will come out ... it is a program on the processing language that lets you play with adding sines. It isn't a simulation of the machine, but it is fascinating and instructive. We choose not to release it with the machine vids.
What should I do now?
After submitting this, I have yet to receive any replies, any advice?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8590395
If you click through you can look at the numbers:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1113569

(hover over the line graph)

The non vehicle accident death rate in 1900 was around 80, in 1950 around 40 and around 20 between 1980 and 2000.

So half of the decline was before manufacturing really hit it's stride in the US, and the decline slackened off as capacity really started moving overseas.
I'm aware of the word, I chose to say something different.

Why is competition a "lens" I must see through?
1. I have heard that Brightroll does have many talented individuals , few even joined from Google. How do they see this acquisition ? Anyone from Brightroll also on HN can comment ? Excited , nervous ? Worried about culture change ?

2. Yahoo does have long history of getting acquihires and then shutting down the application. Now brightroll is quite big acquisition ( 400 employees ) to shut it down completely. Yahoo might consider re-org though.

Does anyone have number how many employees Yahoo has laid off this year (2014 )? I am getting business insider article saying Yahoo has laid off at least 1000 since MM took over as CEO [0] ?

3. I am interested in knowing how No Work from Home policy is going to be seen by Brightroll ?

4. Do you think MM have some strategy she is following or is this just let's spend all money we got from $BABA ?

Do surface painting to please investors , acquire another company, lay off few more followed by rinse and repeat until
cash is spent or something concrete happens ?

I have invested in Yahoo for 4 years now but considering whether I should hold or sell by stock. I would love to hear what others think about Brightroll . In general is this acquisition good or bad ?

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-quietly-cut-100...
He exercised options and bought his stock. Private companies still have stock, just not publicly traded.
anonabox reaches funding goal (again)
This is wonderful. Could you please elaborate on what kind of stochastic processes were used?
JavaScript for C# Developers [video]
To drop Gmail in the future when Fastmail reaches feature parity.
You should also make it so that when you search for something on pirate bay it orders the results by the top seed results. IE: not having to manually click on "Seeds" to order it this way.
This might be illegal under the anti-circumvention provisions of section 1201 of the the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

See: "http://copyright.gov/title17/92chap12.html"

"(1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." That's one of the sections the RIAA and MPAA like, and it's written to favor the copyright holder. It seems to apply here.

- Is your email copyrighted? Yes, under the "born copyrighted" provisions of the Copyright Term Extension Act.

- Was it protected by a "technological measure"? Yes.

- Was that technical measure circumvented? Yes.

- Can you bring a suit yourself? Yes.

- What are the damages? Minimum of $200 per circumvention.

- Can they be aggregated? Yes.
I didn't want to bring that up on HN for fear of facing some backlash, but my wife and I were having that very same discussion just now.

I won't dismiss whatever risks he took to get to where he is. That said, I am guessing he can still get that free education through his parents employment if he ever needed to and it must make things a lot less stressful knowing that the risk is not quite so great.

I always reflect back on my interviews. Whenever I went for an interview, but had a decent job that I could stay at, I KILLED. Then, those few times when I was dying to get out of my situation, I lost some of my confidence and charm and bravado and those were the times I didn't get the job. It honestly helps (me) to take risks when there is a cushy landing if you fail.
White males were the most encouraged demographic to go into tech when their age group was young. The fact that there are a lot more white males in that group just demonstrates what society was like in the past.

If I was throwing a convention, I would want the best and the brightest 30+ year olds for wisdom/experience reasons. And since everyone agrees that males dominated the space in the last 15 years, why would it even make sense for there to be a higher percentage of females presenting?

Should we punish these brilliant people (it's quite the collection of intelligence) because they were born in a certain era? I mean we could, but that would just bring us in another equally bad direction.
I don't know if you should give up, but if you don't like the product redo it. Save the old version just in case, though. That's the benefit of startup culture, being lean. Ruby/Python sounds like a good base, I would at least give it a try.
Just commented on the post. Hope it helps.
They aged out.
On value-driven career advice
Thanks. Since this is cash acquisition I would assume parent commentator would get same price agreed in t&c of acquisition ?
Is 2FA only sign in with app password (google like) support coming anytime soon? This is the only reason why I haven't switched yet.
Nowadays we call them rent-seekers.
I've seen lots of schematics in old consumer manuals, but not PCB layouts.
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txt

December 1998

It's hardly your ISP's fault that you are 16 years behind best practice.

Could you be so kind as to point to the relevant section of RFC2476?
...while another is a problem for society (or large groups within it) as a whole.

Unless you can articulate why something is actually bad for human beings, as opposed to "society" or "large groups", it'll be pretty hard to convince thinking people that there is any reason to care.

Note that the political theory that society should unify and govern to benefit the "corporates" (power groups) and that the individual is irrelevant went out of fashion a long time ago. I'm deliberately not using the name of this theory since it provokes strong emotional reactions in people.

For any reasonable definition of power (which you haven't provided), Google has more power than an individual therapist. So what? You might as well say that any individual Google engineer has less power than than the AMA or other medical lobbying groups. That's also a true statement.

If you really believe tech companies have power comparable to the medical establishment, can you name the last time tech orchestrated a giveaway of other people's money comparable in scale to "mental health parity" (to name one example coming out of medicine)?
I dropped out of a teaching track to switch to hard math and CS because of the cliquish behavior and their constant negative comments about men creating a hostile environment - much the same complaints women make about the tech sector.

Saying that the fields are recruiting men is no more to the point than saying CS departments are recruiting women: it doesn't matter if you don't address the toxic social environment as well.
Did your ISP make an illegal copy of your email?
Larry Page asks a Java question in 1996
Physics Book Face Off: Hyperspace vs. The Elegant Universe
> Edit: it doesn't seem to me that using the valid string would leak its length unless the attacker knew quite a lot about the target machine.

It sounds like you are skeptical that timing attacks can be practically exploited. This is a reasonable skepticism that most people go through on initially learning about them. Unfortunately, there are in fact working exploits for this sort of thing.
Every Company Will Be a Software Company
I'm not a he.
The DMCA is so biased that it doesn't matter.
Thanks, I appreciate the support :)
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And that's still easily able to be optimized to non-constant time by a "sufficiently evil compiler".
>Since management both holds lots of options and makes the decision to do buybacks

yep, sounds like a nice reason for otherwise completely stupid action - willfully spending best asset, cash, [thus in particular worsening the company's asset structure] to buy the worst asset - the company's own stock - as the stock once bought back loses all the value to the company.
The FCC weighs breaking with Obama over the future of the Internet
Death by worms sounds particularly unpleasant. Nice to see that one has gone down.
I don't know. I'd definitely sign up for a "Meetup with 3-4 random people at coffeehouse in Seattle" thing.
I want to be clear up front that this isn't really a comment for you, but a more general comment for any students reading it. FWIW, I teach at a university, but this is just my own opinion and others might disagree.

> My perspective is that as a student, I don't stand out. My grades/ECs/etc are not very exceptional. However, as a "rogue" (for lack of a better term) developer, I do stand out.

It is easy to stand out as a student: attend lecture every day, show up early and sit in the front row, prepare for the lectures by reading the assigned and optional readings in advance, ask questions that help you deepen your understanding of the material (not questions that are designed to "show off," if your understanding of the material is much deeper than what the class covers, don't be an asshole, but do ask questions before and after lecture), and use the resources the class has made available to you to understand the subject as well as you can.

I've had students "stand out" despite getting Cs on all the tests, because they've clearly busted their ass to get a C and had a good attitude about it. I've also had completely anonymous students get As.

If you work hard at the class and are also any good at the subject, you'll stand out even more. And, just in case you need this advice later (this is actually for you, Miles), you can actually pull this off without being enrolled at the university and can probably hustle/charm your way into enrollment at Berkeley if you ever decide you need it. The same thing applies: take classes you're interested in (through UC's extension education program), show up, work hard, and engage with the Prof. Undergrad enrollment numbers can make that tricky, but that's literally how I got into grad school. (UC extension program and all...)

But Berkeley's great. Have fun!
I don't think I will ever understand how a Business Insider article can get 45 points.
How I hacked online dating
President Obama's Statement on Keeping the Internet Open and Free
Nope, pretty basic server side validation in PHP:

filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL)
Mozilla, Virtual Reality, and the Dawn of the Metaverse?
Ask HN: What would happened if an operator of a gTLD went out of business?
With all these new gTLDs everywhere, I am wondering what would happened if I bought a domain and the operator of the gTLD behind it went out of business. Will the entire gTLD and all the second-level domains registered under it disappear? If this is what is going to happened, then I guess these new gTLDs are not reliable for any serious project. I am interested in reading your opinion about this.
smart kids because of the misconception that college is about learning as opposed to being about thinking

when you are solving a problem in a startup , you are thinking.. more than you do in a college.
What is an actual attack scenario where leaking string length mattered?
As you say, it depends very much on what the code is doing.

In particular, anything requiring manipulating unsigned values all over the place will be a lot slower.

Also, see this[1] for talk about JGit. An actual project with direct comparisons.

[1] http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124111702609723
#4 is the only one which I would say does not hold. I'd be very surprised if a firm of manual traders could consistently outperform the market (or beat a Sharpe of 1).