skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thankfully mke2fs(8) has been changed not to enable enforced fsck intervals some years ago (in 2011), so it's no longer necessary to manually disable it with "tune2fs -i 0 -c 0" on new deployments.
Volcanic sand has been credited with the longevity of Rome’s ancient monuments
I hear artificial sugar is made from chemicals
thanks for liking it guys. i did it while i was preparing for my interviews with Google and Facebook. hope it will help you too.
>4. Make friends/Surround yourself with smart people.: Not extremely practical unless you are a famous VC but even then not trivial.

I think it's quite practical to surround yourself with smart people without being a famous VC. I've done it. it might even be easier without being famous, unless by smart, you mean "Smart, tall and well-spoken" or "Smart, tall, and able to hold the right kind of conflicting ideas in your head without emotional distress" - which is often what VC seem to mean by smart. I mean, don't get me wrong, a lot of the ycombinater kids I've met really seemed pretty smart, but they also had the social bits you need to be good business people, and if you demand those social bits along with the 'smart' - and you should, if you are looking for business people and not just technical people - those people become dramatically more difficult to find, and when you do find them, they're difficult to be friends with, as you said, unless you are very high status, because they are very high status.

If you just want someone with a high G, though, and are okay with people who are short or shy or fat or who have emotional issues, as you should be if you are looking for people who can become good technical people, G alone does not confer much by way of status in this society. I've hired more than one person who tests two standard deviations better than I do by that measure. hell I've dated a few people who test two standard deviations better than I do.

Now, PG, I imagine, when talking about making investment decisions, probably is talking about "vc smart" - people who are smart, but also good looking, who have good attitudes and who have the other business person attributes, so in the context of this article, you're probably right. but I'm just saying, smart people usually aren't high status people. It's not hard to get smart friends, if you are willing to skimp on some of the status-granting attributes.
At Russia's request, Facebook blocks page of Putin's top critic
Nice. I just plotted an image older than myself (/usr/share/doc/plotutils/tek2plot/dmerc.tek.gz)!
Read Running Lean and other related books. They will help you create a project that gets traction before you write any code. Customers before Code prevents project burnout you describe.

Also, start networking. It can take 6-18months (or more) to find your confounders.

While getting paid its a good time to ramp up CustDev and Lean skill sets
BitTorrent's Offer to Sony: Release “The Interview” Safely Online
The Problem with Praising Famous Scientists
Tribler has a very long history of making high profile claims and never being able to follow through with actually usable software, so I'm not really surprised by this.

The entire project is a combination of TU Delft publicity stunt and EU subsidies sinkhole. In 10 years of screwing around with bittorrent it hasn't produced anything that could compete with the side projects of individual hackers.

It's a disgraceful waste of community money.

The code may be fixable (though I doubt they even care), the project however isn't.
Old now '95. That is the an early pre-production version Pentium Pro running at 100 Mhz. The 256k L2 cache was really fast relative to memory because it was in that second die in the same chip.
Have you considered that civilization might be better off if people don't live a long time? Even ignoring resource constraints, old people hold onto outdated ideas and morals while generally also holding the most power and wealth. I don't see how that can be good for future societies.
That wouldn't help. This attack happens long before the OS loads, and EFI explicitly executes code from the option ROM, so DMA isn't even involved.
Using Google’s prettify to add syntax highlighting to code snippets
Argentina's highest paying tech companies hiring, anyone?
I'm currently on a top job for a big company in Argentina. Problem is: pay is not good.

I want to find the highest paying companies in Argentina IT sector, startups or not.

Any hints on that?

I have a top job at a big tech company. Job is great but pay is not good. Would consider both startups and big companies alike.
Looks like this is quite old post, head over to https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/ for updated docs about Python packaging, especially 'Tools Recommendations' section.
So, speculation, then.

You used zero evidence in your statement, just a couple of beliefs.

I believe, too, but I'm not willing to assert it as fact.
> For example, a study that sought to show that conservatives reach their beliefs only through denying reality achieved that result by describing ideological liberal beliefs as "reality," surveying people on whether they agreed with them, and then concluding that those who disagree with them are in denial of reality — and lo, people in that group are much more likely to be conservative!

Do we refer to such ideological liberal beliefs as, "Was the President born in the United States or Kenya?" "Is global warming real?" "What is the age of the earth?"? I'd like to know what "ideological liberal beliefs" are being referred to here. Because a Kenyan imposter president, global warming the "greatest hoax" ever perpetrated (http://www.abebooks.com/Greatest-Hoax-Global-Warming-Conspir... written by current US Senator James Inhofe), and a 6000-year-old earth are currently mainstream conservative beliefs.
Entrepreneur builds a sleek ship, but will anyone buy it?
Alternatively, you could try to address the things that make them want to leave instead of writing them off as misanthropes?

Once my living expenses went up and a 15% raise would've absolutely kept me with the company if I'd been given it when I asked, because it was the difference between making ends meet and not. I left the company because I had no other choice when I found a higher paying position.

In every other position, it's been cultural. If you can't make your employees happy with money, maybe you should think about your management style, your communication with said employees, and the culture as a whole.
But, but, there is no industry left in the US!

(Or so the internet tells me. Meanwhile I drive past half a dozen bustling factories every day on my way to work at an electronics manufacturer.)
This is the right answer. The best stack for a JS beginner to learn is JS, HTML, and CSS. Throw in some localStorage if you need persistence. The OP is definitely coming at this from the wrong perspective (the need to pick a framework). Instead, learn the core fundamentals and perhaps the nuances of a few different libraries, before you have to pick a stack. Otherwise, you won't even know the pros/cons of the stack you've chosen.
From the lead author:

(1) The book is not finished yet. But it will appear with MIT Press, and I expect it to appear over the next year and a half or so.

(2) Realm is best read after HtDP [1e or 2e] or some other course on plain programming (not necessarily program design). It teaches (simple) programming in Racket.

(3) HtDP [2e] does NOT teach programming in Racket. It uses several teaching languages, each matching a stage in the convex hull of the design recipes (tactics) of a certain part of the book. HtDP's design tactics do away with the usual "everything is a Turing machine so learn by coping me" approach.
I don't understand why some caricature of a gay man has to be used when the actual Turing is so much more lively, complete, and interesting. One-dimensional characters might work great in a light comedy or something, but I expect something greater from a work purporting to be a biopic of an important historical figure (and important not just to the war but also for computing, in my opinion his greater contribution to the world).
I agree - I definitely think its worth exploring a few. A good first framework to try is Backbone.. Backbone would not be my choice if I were starting a serious new project today, but because it is small, simple, and has very approachable and well annotated source code it is an easy framework to pick up and understand deeply. I would recommend reading through and then implementing a simple example like a to-do list, and then taking an hour to read through the annotated source.

After doing a small project with backbone, other frameworks like react + flux / angular or ember will be easier to pick up, and the tradeoffs they make will be easier to understand.
No, don't ask yourself why. Just learn. It's one human activity that never requires a reason
They definitely are, and there shouldn't be anything wrong with having beliefs (per se). What matters is how you react when you receive new information that challenges those beliefs.

Do you adjust your beliefs or do you staunchly adhere to them?
Have been on similar boat and started my own ~7 mos back. Here are couple of points:
1. Be prepared for your savings to Last >1yr, unless you can get seed funding now
2. Is your gf/spouse ready for this
3. A start-up will not eat into your somewhat of social life, unless you want it to. IMHO I would say please hold on to it. You need that support.
4. PG talks about the weekend project thing .. didn't work for me coz they just loose steam
5. For the leaving NOW decision I would also consider if you have someone with somewhat of complementary skills ready to jump ship, If not I will spend the next 6 months finding that person and then quit [together]
Open source elaborate murder mystery party
I'd say we've pretty much gone full circle.

Suffocating levels of political correctness alongside a self-obsessed victim culture have made a lot of people sympathetic to the trope of the outrageous, out of touch savant.
You wanted a more fulfilling job, but what you got was a goat. Bummer!
Yep, eliza is still useful, especially if your day job involves a lot of C++ code :)
Title is a bit misleading this seams mainly like a form of shell, comparing it to Torvals linux kernel or unix seams wierd.

As a shell however i feel it is a interesting change of perspective.
Bias in the social sciences? 'In one survey they conducted of academic social psychologists, "82 percent admitted that they would be at least a little bit prejudiced against a conservative [job] candidate.". Plenty more examples in the paper.

I guess some conservatives might suggest that the 'social sciences' form a kind of club for leftwing liberals, funded by the taxpayer.
Set aside "RSA without blinding"; this is RSA without padding.

I lost patience trying to find where they're using Diffie-Hellman but you can bet that they're not checking parameters well, too.
There is a lot of strong criticism of systemd in that thread. I was actually considering posting it as sympathetic to my point. It simultaneously expresses what both of us are saying. (You can read the command line, but don't do it for stupid shit.) From your link:

> But the problem appears when system services seem to think that they
own those flags, and nothing else matters, and they don't do
something "sane" any more.

Then later:

> It does become a problem when you have a system service developer who
thinks the universe revolves around him, and nobody else matters, and
people sending him bug-reports are annoyances that should be ignored
rather than acknowledged and fixed. At that point, it's a problem.

Next paragraph indicates the rant is directed at Kay Sievers, udev and systemd developer, and his "continued bad behavior".

It does ring true for me as a user, I have noticed systemd-based systems spam a lot of things that used to be "for the kernel" and a bit more sacred, like dmesg and command line.
That link you posted is dead
ECB with chosen-plaintext also allows you to decrypt whatever you want.
Same for XFS and Btrfs, both of which should have fstab fs_passno set to 0, both of which have place holder fsck that don't actually do a file system check. The actual check is done from user space on an unmounted file system.

Strictly speaking ext4 doesn't require it either, it's just highly recommended that there be a periodic e2fsck -f (i.e. check even if the journal is consistent and says the file system is clean), by default this is 180 days but the user can modify or disable this with tune2fs. It's possible to make it mount-count or time-dependent. See tune2fs -i.
Being able to detect duplicate blocks is usually game-over for an encrypted transport. ECB is fatally broken in real applications.
What Was the Job?
lebron is the only stack -- http://lebron.technology/
The Fine Art of Deception
By this logic I might as well say everything in /proc is an API that I can use for any purpose, rotten or not. "It's ok because I read it from /proc/1276/mem". No sir, nothing bad about that design!
I would learn Ember. The documentation is really good and it has the same philosophy as Rails (convention over configuration). It is as close to Rails for JS as you are going to get. Ember-cli is also amazing.

For the backend I would stick with Rails. I see no benefit of moving to Node for a general application when you already know Rails.

Ember, Ember Data and Rails works incredibly well together.
Show HN: Hardware pomodoro timer reporting to an API for tracking pomodori
That scenario is a fake one, it doesn't exist in reality, and it's a straw-man. Nowhere on earth, at any point in time, has it been common for a 24 or 26 year old to own a home.

Among 30-34 year olds, the home ownership rate is above 50%. Among 25-29 year olds, it's still 37%, which is substantial.

The stats say the vast majority of sub 30 adults are renting, not living at home with their parents. That group is the only majority renter group and has been for decades.

208 million people in the US live in a home that is owner occupied, and that represents 79.5 million homes. Those 79.5 million homes have a mere 2.6 people per home. It's blatantly obvious the 'common man' owns a home.

74 million of the US population are non-adults and can't qualify for home ownership typically. That leaves 240 million people.

Just the fact that there are nearly 80 million homes that are owner occupied, proves my point. You can't have 80 million owner occupied homes, and pretend it's the minority, when the total sum of all households in the US is 123 million.

There are 43 million households that are renter occupied, representing 104 million people. By definition these people are the uncommon, the minority.
I haven't seen that. Prosecutorial abuse is better understood around HN than most of society, that I've seen. YMMV.
Link needs a trailing slash: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/
I just realized I overthought the caching scheme, and removing one check made it 3x faster :)

function getLongestPathCached(nodes, nodeid, visited, depth) {
var idx;
visited |= 1 << nodeid;
idx = (visited * 32) + nodeid;
if (visitCache[idx]) {
return visitCache[idx];
}
var neighbours = nodes[nodeid];
var max = 0
for(var i=0;i<neighbours.length;i++) {
if (!(visited & (1 << neighbours[i].dst))) {
var dist = neighbours[i].cost + getLongestPathCached(nodes, neighbours[i].dst, visited, depth+1);
if (dist > max) {
max = dist
}
}
}
visitCache[idx] = max;
return max;
}
From PG's article

"In practice "sufficiently expert" doesn't require one to be recognized as an expert—which is a trailing indicator in any case. In many fields a year of focused work plus caring a lot would be enough."
That's a solid point. I agree with you when it comes to small pay raises - usually the pay is not the problem, if the person is leaving for extra 15% or so.

>>> very short term relief from the real reasons

Unless the real reason is that the employee believes that he is being strongly underpaid. I'd define strongly underpaid as a situation, when an employee is certain that he could get (or already got) multiple job offers with 20%+ higher compensation.

Because at the end of the day, vast majority of people work to earn money. Some employers try to make you feel that you are changing the world and what not, trying to say that it's not all about money, but well, it largely is about money. Some jobs are enjoyable where compensation is not extremely important (meaning that an employee would leave only for a significantly better deal), but I'd say that it's a rather rear case.

At the end of the day, it's a free market. We all have a price tag :)
vanilla.js
From a British point of view this reads as "How academia's bias against the far-right is killing social science". A thoroughly ridiculous premise.

"Liberal" and "conservative" are not natural categories. Anybody can be right or left from anybody else's perspective. The US democratic party does seem to be more conservative than the UK conservative party, so from that we could say that 98% of Americans are conservative.

It is unsurprising to me that the involvement of the far-right would lead to starkly different conclusions in any science.
Is_computer_on_fire() (2000)
Possibly. But that's a different issue. The owners of the company, unlike the employees, have invested their personal hard-earned savings in the venture. It's their responsibility to be monitoring management to make sure that funds are spent appropriately.
Sony needed to have basic digital protection. It failed
Science and Conservatism are partially exclusive. Science includes questioning knowledge, while conservatism means to keep (conserve) the current.

I still don't like how the article values that in a negative way.
What's rude is granting a license and then trying to take it back after people have relied on it.
[unnoficial] Live APT Source Mirror on GitHub
According to the USPTO, his patent is abandoned after he failed to respond to a non-final rejection back in 2011.
This doesn't refer to conspiracy theories or extremist views. If any group is made up of people who think the same way, look at the world the same way or experience the world in similar ways, they tend as a group to ignore other points of view which may be valid. It's why we need diversity in all its forms.
Would love to see the stats on underrepresentation and which group they are sampling to ascertain the truthful population representation. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of 'conservatives' - whatever/whoever that is, is actually smaller than one might perceive via US politics.

Its funny how narrow minded this perspective feels in general. One it assumes that people belong to one of two camps, and two, it assumes that there are two relevant camps.
Forgive me, but I firmly believe that the social sciences are very little more than ideology and power struggle dressed up in the scant bit of data and successful experimental prediction available, leavened with lots of faulty a priori reasoning. This goes for both economics, which toes a rightist capitalist line consistently, and for the leftist weanie disciplines of sociology and anthropology. Everybody is tied up in maintaining business power or getting funding for questionable social programs, respectively. Yuck.
Yes, why on earth would there be a bias in academia against a political movement who's representatives loudly and repeatedly makes anti-science, anti-academia, anti-intellectual and simply downright moronic statements?

Gimme a break.
Weak sauce. The paper seems to be looking for non-objective liberally biased judgements. The problem with that is that discriminating between objective measures and value judgements can be done without descending into conspiracy theories. It's appropriate to question objectivity, please continue to do so. But start by first building a strong evidence base and methods to identify problems independent of politics.
>>> But if someone came to me with another offer in hand, I would be extremely unlikely to make a counter offer. At that point it is just too late.

Exactly. I don't understand asking for a counter offer at all. Even if you get one, you will be tagged as someone who's looking to leave and chances are, you will be replaced pretty soon.

Probably the only exception would be if you have some skills and knowledge which makes you very hard and expensive to replace, and both you and the employer know it.
"... I think this meta-expertise really is a new thing. A new kind of paradigm of thinking that really had little analog in the past. Even the idea of a Renaissance Man, being an expert in multiple fields simultaneously, isn't quite the same thing."

I think it's existed as long as there has been a large hierarchy. I know people inside every corporation I work with that do this job, including myself.

At some level, every executive needs someone like this. The new paradigm is how much this person can be expected to possibly know. That's what's changed.

Learning has been accelerated so much that you can become fairly adept at most topics in a week or 2.
Often i see recommendations for NaCl(and maybe curveCP) as simple robust way to do crypt by non experts.
Such as...?

A hypothetically perfect immutable system does not need to
be testable, maintainable, or understandable. It becomes a black box.
Download iTools for iOS 8.1.2
There's certainly no bias inherent in your categorization of "most Americans" because clearly you aren't just pulling numbers that fit your worldview out of your ass, right?

Or maybe I misread and you're going for a super gooey layer of irony.
Do we have reason to believe that non-Apple implementations are any better?

Most non-Apple computers don't have an external PCI bus, so there's that.
But all the intermediate steps suffer from the same n=1 problem. In fact, those difficult hoops themselves cannot be identified when there's just one experiment.

How are we to know that our experiment is not just an outlier in some way?

I guess there will be more data when we have a closer look at some of these exoplanets.
Ask HN: Choosing the right 4k display and GPU
I'm looking at options for upgrading to 4k on my desktop but it seems like a minefield out there. I definitely want a panel that can drive 60Hz via a single stream (not MTS, or dual-dual DVI).

Key features I'm after:

- Single stream @ 60Hz (I think that means Display Port 1.2 or HDMI 2.0)

- 28-32" panel

- Good colour reproduction / fast response

- VESA mountable

- Ideally something I can also hook up to a current generation Macbook Pro Retina and get 4K @ 60Hz too

- A suitable desktop GPU to go with it (my preference is NVidia)

- I mix between Windows 7/Ubuntu/Mac OSX

- I'm also quite interested in NVidia G-Sync - but it's not a deal breaker

My budget is ~£1000GBP for one panel and GPU, I'd probably like to add a second panel in the near future.

For reference my current setup is a 460GTX with two Dell Ultrasharp U2713H monitors, and I'd like something of similar quality.

It seems like right now the manufacturers and vendors are making it harder than it needs to be to get the full information you need - often the inputs are listed without versions, and use of MST isn't mentioned at all.

I guess I'm looking for advice really - what other people are using and enjoying. One that is potentially standing out is the Acer Predator 4k2k XB280HK 28".
There is one point in this demonstration where it looks like TempleOS is monitoring the registers in "real-time".

It looked like in one column he had the names of the registers and in the other column the memory addresses stored in them, updating on the screen as he worked.

Is this what I was seeing or am I mistaken?

The OS also seems to track what each CPU is doing in the scrolling banners; and there was a brief view of a screen that showed detailed swap statistics, again changing in "real-time".
Rust needs LLVM for code generation.
Realistically they could only trust an interpreted language like (non-jit) Lua.

Or they could adopt ZeroVM/NaCl, which would shift the balance towards compiled languages again.
There are alternate theories though http://xkcd.com/312/