skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Flash still has limited write cycles. Its for data you probably wont write more than once an hour, but not virtual memory.

You can write data to SSDs a lot more than once an hour, even virtual memory. The drive's firmware (assuming it does its job) will do wear-leveling and spread the logical writes across different physical locations on the drive.

If you write 20GB of data per day to a modern 480GB SSD you can expect 25 years of service. (Realistically, something else will probably fail before then)

Example - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8520/sandisk-ultra-ii-240gb-ss...
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Reminds me of HackThisSite & notpron. I have many happy memories of my peers sweating at the thought of not solving those puzzles. +1 to Google HR department, they know what they're doing.

It'd be amusing if it was a social experiment to see how many devs/wannabe devs frantically searched for Python topics after this foobar site was discovered. Like a contrast MRI to illuminate the people who wanted a job at Google.
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You can get an authenticated Gap's Shirt (from their official tmall) for around $15-20 USD (after discount/coupons, currently $40-50 on gap.com), so the deal is not bad even you compare with the coming US holidays discounts.
How much real-world improvement is there using a DIMM slot instead of PCI-E bus?
We're using Puppet on github.com but GitHub Enterprise didn't warrant the use of either so: nothing.
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I believe the idea is that if I register "Bruiser's Cars", that name doesn't automatically become unavailable to others for hundreds of years. I need to prove that I am still using the trademark somehow. Unfortunately that results in me needing a lawyer, which really sucks for a small business.

Note that the patent system (in theory) works the way you describe, but it hasn't eliminated the need for lawyers.

Finally, in the mall example, what usually happens is the judge finds that the mall saved millions by never cleaning their floors, so the company is punished by losing all the money they made. It is extremely rare for someone to get millions over something small.
See also gmail

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/31/google_looses_tradem...
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26903436/google-could...

"""But those buildings aren't ready for Google to occupy yet, and the first of the Sunnyvale buildings won't be completed until sometime in 2015."""
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I searched and I found no hard evidence for that. There are professions more susceptible to that, but that's usually emergency workers or people in low-wage jobs.

I think it's more a backlash because it was often a topic not spoken about _and_ it has a lot of fear potential for people working with their brains mostly. Some high-profile suicides (aaronsw and others) have probably raised the interest as well.

Also, in my experience, the IT crowd is far more mobile than many other professions. I run multiple meetups and do get the feeling that they are important personal contact points for many. The tech scene as your first personal safety net. So advertising such things into this space directly makes a lot of sense.
This is a well-intentioned project, but the misleading title and vague About section really puts me off. This is not an app/site that makes it easier to send something to "a loved one", it makes it easier to send something to your loved one.

Which is fine, except the site itself remains opaque about how it works or what it does. Are people really supposed to just start entering in things after the "Dear Blake..." prompt and hit send? There's a prominent "About" link, but it's not great UI/UX to force users to navigate your site just to figure out what the purpose of it is. The cynical person in me thinks this is an attempt to astroturf the justice system, so that supporters of Mr. Benthall can tout a media-friendly number of how many people have written on his behalf.

But the cynical UI designer in me thinks that what will happen is that a bunch of "test/asdfjkljks" messages will be sent off to the site's maintainer, who will either just forward them to the prison or be overwhelmed with trying to filter signal from noise...and both scenarios do not seem very beneficial to Mr. Benthall.

I don't want to judge intentions by quality/style of writing, but the About section is not very appealing to me. Telling me that Blake "led a very normal life and was extremely kind, generous, and always willing to help" just screams of an attempted saccharine whitewash. So I looked up what Mr. Benthall is alleged to have done...and really, the allegations aren't particularly ugly for him (e.g. he isn't yet accused of hiring to kill someone). The About section should not be coy about the allegations, it smacks of dishonesty and is an insult to the audience.

However, I do applaud that the OP looked at the letter-sending process itself and found it to be "obtuse". There probably is a need to reduce the friction here, and I would encourage the OP to also write about the steps involved...as it is, just calling it "obtuse" doesn't really generate much sympathy.

There was a great NYT article about "The Cellblocks' Amazon.com"...a startup that navigated the bureaucratic roadblocks of sending gift packages to prisoners...this is what I thought the OP was trying at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/nyregion/sendapackage-bill...

edit: My comment is more harsh than I'm probably feeling... I have no opinion of Mr. Benthall currently, I'm just pointing out that the site's vagueness doesn't really do him favors. If he's being harshly punished by an overreaching justice system, more details/transparency about it is better for generating sympathy. And again, kudos to the OP for trying to navigate the prison-communication system... a writeup of what that involves would also generate some goodwill toward Mr. Benthall (as well as expanding awareness of our justice system in general)
Offering GNOME a bunch of money to use the name in a specific context could be another. That could be a win for the project overall.
There's no software distribution here, so the license doesn't matter. They are collecting money for your work on your behalf but without your permission.
That's basically because Puma uses threads, and threads are way better on Rubinius and JRuby, due to lack of a GIL. It's not due to some kind of incompatibility.
Were there any good deals for Westerners?
Heh this reads like the contents of Hunter S Thompson's gym bag for a long weekend. Of course he would need two sets of a fireman's master key-chain.

This is really interesting though. Maybe after a while they could exclude drugs. I find the most interesting thing about these darknets to be the random and obscure stuff people are selling. Like from the second fireman's key-chain console, where it lists among other things for sale, a "TOP VPN LIST that don't keep logs," an "nba playoff pick," a "BANK DROP ONLY 20% FEE," and a "Request Custom Hotel Booking."
Actually that was yesterday. :) I was confused for a moment, starting to think ESR was due east which is not expected (I'm in Europe).

http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs looks valid although I didn't try cloning.
yeah, no doubt... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/20/google_hiring_proced...
Interestingly https://www.google.com/foobar/ and https://foobar.withgoogle.com/ seem to be the same page, but they have different source codes.
Tradeoffs like these are not a natural law

They are, they're the laws of physics. According to known theories information cannot travel faster than the speed of light, so unless a very very radical new discovery is made sometime in the future, size and speed will basically be inversely proportional to each other.
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Spectators may want to archive this HN thread for posterity, because I suspect nacnud will have the last laugh. (Nacnud's comment is currently sitting at about -3 points.)

It's unlikely that future technological advancements will give malware authors more tools to work with? That seems unlikely, if history is any indication.

Imagine when you have 1TB of non-volatile storage which operates at speeds close to those we currently enjoy for DDR3 memory. Most average consumers won't use all of that space. It seems entirely plausible that a virus will write itself to some area that is never overwritten. It becomes a latent piece of malware, invisible to any filesystem, but activatable on demand by some other hard-to-detect malware. This two-step scheme would be difficult to detect since the second component does nothing except activate the first component (stored in nonvolatile storage) under some specified criteria.

Or, how about key generation or password input? Remember cperciva's post about how it was extremely difficult or even impossible to zero a memory buffer correctly? Now add in the idea that suddenly "everything is nonvolatile" and you get a perfect storm for security concerns: if a program segfaults or is terminated mid-operation, then suddenly any sensitive data it had spit out into memory might be capturable by other programs. Or, since it's nonvolatile, those secrets will persist "forever" (until they're overwritten, which may be a long, long time if storage is plentiful) and you may inadvertently leak secrets when you sell your memristor-backed storage. Whoever buys it can do some digging and uncover whatever was written into that buffer, if it's truly non-volatile storage.

So, while the future is exciting, underestimating the security implications probably isn't a good idea. We can develop new methodologies to combat the new security concerns, but new security concerns will almost certainly come to fruition. Of course, calling the concerns "new" is somewhat unfair, since new concerns are almost always very old concerns manifesting themselves in new domains, but new domains usually enable malware writers with new toolsets to exploit.
At what duty cycle? The MTBF rating means literally nothing without that detail.
The reason that spam exists is the ability to impose costs on the receivers of the spam while the sender pays far less than the total of those costs. From what I can see, tip4commit (and maybe bountysource, with which I'm not familiar) is exactly the opposite of spam: it introduces a way for those shouldering the costs of open source software to be repaid to some degree by the community.
Lawsuits are sometimes filed for competitive rather than legal reasons. I just feel like Google could cause a huge disruption for traditional employment agencies. I mean if this helps in finding future Google employees then this could work for almost any tech company. Imagine finding an employee for a very specific machine learning project: You could just filter all persons which searched for a certain paper. That also puts Google+ into perspective - you get a better chance at actually identifying that person.
A lame duck occurs after the new President has been elected, but before he has been sworn in. Obama will not be a lame duck for two years.
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When you click the login button, the following function is called:
launchPopup=function(){
window.open("/login/","AppLogin","resizable,scrollbars,status,width=600,height=400")}

Which opens https://foobar.withgoogle.com/login

There, an object a:

a = {

message: '<span class="term-red">Error(6): Login unavailable. Try again later.</span>',
logoutUrl: 'https://foobar.withgoogle.com/_ah/logout?continue=https://www.google.com/accounts/Logout%3Fcontinue%3Dhttps://appengine.google.com/_ah/logout%253Fcontinue%253Dhttps://foobar.withgoogle.com/denied/%26service%3Dah',
redirectUrl: '/denied/',

allow: false
}

Is passed to the original window's handleAuth function:

window.handleAuth=function(a){
a.logoutUrl?window.location.href=a.redirectUrl:window.location.reload()}

It seems that the allow property of the object passed is never checked :(
Well said. The tone of that response doesn't match the tone of our previous attempts at discussion. We'll have to see how things go.
"AR 2192 has now rotated onto the other side of the Sun as of early November, and it's unclear if it will still be around when that part of the star rotates back to face us again."

Well apparently AR 2192 might be ending its farside trip as soon as tomorrow or the day after (if it still exists of course).

Also something noteworthy from the youtube video description :
"The animation has been rotated 180 degrees so that south is 'up'."
For more stories, see the hacker news discussion on that SSH packet corruption issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709438
If nanoseconds were seconds

http://umumble.com/blogs/hardware/machine-perception-of-time...
No, the license says everyone can use it, but I'm not aware of anything other than Creative Commons that explicitly transfers ownership in anyway.

At the end of the day, the project creator gets to say how his or her code is used. If this continues to be an issue, then people are going to start coming up with new licenses that explicitly state their wishes that setting up these types of bug bounty systems are not a right that is granted.
Maybe they leave off a certain % to handle "bad blocks" and do remapping?
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That's awesome. Reminds me of the one made for the bitcoin blockchain.
You are seeing companies that use those languages suceeding at a higher rate than those that don't? I bet I can find 10 succeeding that use ruby or node for everyone that uses Erlang.

We could also look at the open source world. For every riak there are 10 java sucesses of a similar kind.

We'd need to do some real statistics but my bet is that we see no benefit from those languages in terms of success of the business.
A little more context here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00...
Assuming you are saying this is how it works now, I did not know that. I'm glad to hear it; that is a smart system.
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Maybe we should all learn to always prepend "Pseudo" to these "quicksorts"?
Ask HN: What relocation benefits did your company offer?
I'm curious what types of relocation benefits tech companies are offering new employees.
I may regret this, but based on this response there's only one conclusion to come to:

You folks (Groupon) are full of shit!
That's pretty cool. They implemented sticky sessions for Nginx .
Quantum gravity
There are a ton of licenses used for Open Source, not just a single blanket one. Not all of them allow for unrestricted use.
Hey, check out this 1-liner HTTP server!

:%s/\n/ /g
I've talked about this with Farmer Markets, one of the problem I found was monetization. They all love the idea but when I talk about money they back out.
Except that was actually good.

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/virtues-ubers-ope...
I've ordered many things (small accessories, cellphone & tablet screens, a cheap Android tablet, etc) from both Aliexpress and Chinese stores on eBay and always got what was announced. The cellphone screen was damaged, and they sent me another one without having to ship the first back or show any proof of the damage.

Besides the long shipping times (1-2 months to my door), it's been more reliable than shopping locally.
That is a cool idea. It would have to be done in a really subtle way to avoid becoming garish, but I hope it gets tried out. Not sure about encouraging reloading the page though.. maybe some kind of AJAX would be better for protecting the server from overload.
why the flares slide back to were they came from as if the video was rewinding instead of falling down back as one would expect from gravity?
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I've never used GitHub Enterprise, but my experience with GitLab is not so great. If GHE is a beefed-up GitHub, it's probably much cleaner.

My major gripe with GitLab is that it's really hard to navigate around. There are lots of links that take you somewhere other than what you'd expect. The landing page for projects is the log, you have to click a tab to see README and file structure, which I've always found clunky.

EDIT: also, GitLab's syntax highlighter gets really confused if a search result snippet starts in the middle of a string. Never seen that problem on GitHub, but it could be there, too.

Just my 2c.
> Why is this even civilly discussed?

Because Bountysource isn't "spamming" anyone, to the best of my knowledge. Have you tried to figure out what they do? What is it that you're calling "spam" anyways?

It's a different situation than with tip4commit.
If the concept works well, I'm considering making the recipient user-definable and running it as a non-profit to help people connect with their loved ones who are behind bars. If spam/test messages become a large problem, I will add some preventative measures. In the meanwhile, nothing gets sent without my seal of approval.

For now I just wanted to get something up and running that made it as easy as possible for our friends to reach out to Blake. A number of them have already thanked me because they didn't know how to contact him.
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I wonder if launchpad.net still bazaar only? Anyone knows?
1) Its behind a paywall
2) Its a hack piece.
Do you have any more resources to read up more on these effects? After working in a windowless office I've started to notice some psychological issues with the lack of sunlight, especially during the winter, and with what you're saying I'm starting to wonder if the problems are worse than I'm even realizing.
If it's a free license, it allows you to sell the software. In particular, it allows you to charge money for improving it. All of them do this. Otherwise OSI wouldn't approve the license. Neither would the FSF.
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A couple of characters less in C ( I didn't count whitespace in both ):

void qs( int* a , int z )

{

if(z > 1){ ; int p = a[z/2], s = 0, e = z-1, t; while(s <= e) {

for(;a[s] < p; s++); for(;a[e] > p; e--); if(s <= e) { t = a[s];

a[s++] = a[e]; a[e--] = t; } } qs( a , e+1 ); qs( a+s , z-s ); }

}
GHE is (minus the things coming in this v2) the same as using public Github, so in my view is the superior experience to using GL (in most ways I can think of).

The issue I have ALWAYS had with GHE isn't with GHE itself but with how organisations use it, there are usually dozens of organisations that make little sense and 1000's of repos that are often empty or abandoned. It becomes a black box of repos that no one really knows the ends of.

The real improvements GitHub could make to GHE is improve the discoverability experience, it's UI/UX is inherited from public Github where people work in small(ish) groups on single projects within individual orgs. This, for me, is not the paradigm people employ in GHE.
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You are right. My examples were not valid counter examples.

I think of a property right as something which is transferable. The two examples I gave were of rights that were not transferable. However, if "Personal Property" also includes non-transferable rights, then there's no conflict.

As a clear counter-counter-example of why my counter-example is wrong, tenancy rights are part of real property law, and may or may not include succession rights.

My comment then transforms to the (trivial) observation that intellectual property ⊄ real property.
There are some especially idiotic comments on that article.
Which small innovative competitors are being hampered?
Where else do developers hang out?
Where else, apart from HN, do developers tend to hang, to get news, etc.? Are Reddit and StackExchange good places? Can anyone suggest other places?
They should be. Amazon makes no profits and operates in dollars. Those are two things you don't want to get caught doing right now.
That's a very insightful article you linked. I had always wondered why Airbnb reviews were so uniformly high, even when not merited. I'd found some explanations involving Airbnb hiding negative reviews, but never quite connected the fact that I personally felt uncomfortable leaving negative reviews with the fact that other people generally didn't.
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IIRC a single DDR3 slot can address max 8GBytes. So the driver will have to map the 400GB Flash into this window.
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Why is this irritating? Google won't hire you iff you solve the puzzle, this is nothing more than a very popular way for institutions to generate free PR.
IRC? :)
> ~1000 satellites @ 100kg each that's about 2 saturn V launches so not crazy launch economics.

Unless you have a couple Saturn V's tucked away somewhere no one knows about, it's more likely they'll be launched on SpaceX vehicles.

Assuming Falcon Heavy ever flies, and has performance characteristics similar to those listed on spacex.com, they could launch 1000ish 100kg sats in 2-3 FH launches.

It might be more likely that they'll simply fit as many as they can as secondary payloads in their normal launch schedule. Slower deployment, but effectively 'free'.
I saw that too, and it drove me crazy.

My theory is that either it's an artifact of the lens system on the camera, or more likely, what we're actually seeing is not the flair, but a reflection of the flair on the ball of the sun.

Think what it would look like if you had a shiny ball (a Christmas tree ornament), and there were flairs coming off of that. As the flair went out from the ball and fell back, you would see it's reflection in the surface of the ball, and I think it would look a lot like those flairs look.
I thought it was a bug in my install. You can't even close the top-most tour window, because of the covered prompt.

Apparently, the wide button where all the text is hidden sets Firefox as default browser. I accidentally clicked it when trying to give the prompt focus. Thankfully, OS X asked me to confirm that I wanted to do this.

I'm not sure what's worse, purposefully tricking me into setting default browser by hiding the text of the prompt, or starting with such a buggy first-run experience!
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I didn't mean they'd hire good people, I just meant they know how to reach people.
No: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
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I e-mailed Groupon directly about it, they sent me the same response, word-for-word. It's clearly a canned text their PR firm gave them to paste.
I am curious what you would be using this for
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>Besides that, i'm becoming skeptical on Elon's announcements since hyperloop.

Why? He was quite clear in stating that he wouldn't actively pursue hyperloop.