skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on the location it could very well be true.
I'm waiting for the legal argument. I think we all know the public can be talked into just about anything.
And if your neighbor is bigger and stronger than you? If 100 of your neighbors get together to take your stuff? If 100 of your neighbors independently want your stuff?
There's also a rare chance that a program is statically linked, in which case upgrading glibc won't help, the program would need to be recompiled.
[Edit: I regret this comment. See my reply to Jacques below.]

Jacques regularly posts wonderful material that fits HN perfectly. Let's say for rhetorical purposes that this post happens to be a stinker. Question: is its prominence on HN a failure mode (HN is a filter: alpha geek can overcome the filter to get any crap in front of our eyeballs) or a success mode (HN is a community, and Jacques and his fans are a big part of the community)?
In my experience dealing with bootcamp grads, the transition from bootcamp to full-time offer can be a really tough one, and it sounds like your experience roughly mirrors those I've seen. A combination of persistence, improving your online presence/findability, and working on stuff. Congrats on making it through :)

I wonder if the experience would have been different in the Bay Area due to the sheer number of folks in a similar position?
Since the app is so new there is currently no paid component to it. Signing up allows you to get an API key which you need to include in your Icecomm code.
Great! Glad it helped.
> they is a 3rd person plural pronoun

I don't know why people keep repeating this. The usage of 3rd person singular "they" is older than the modern English language itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they. In other words, it is correct, and has always been correct. If your English teacher told you differently, they were either mistaken or lying.
That movie was cheesy but for some reason I love it. I don't know why.
Ugh. Good luck with that... Maybe you can pull a "Breach" and only use Chrome as your, well, Chrome.

http://breach.cc/
Update: It seems Australia's DSD was likely a better guess in this particular instance - more to come from the authors soon. (Which leaves that Detica module currently unaccounted for. I don't know what that could be yet.) Of course, they're all Five Eyes, and at least US and UK have both used it, so I wouldn't be too surprised to see CAN/AUS/NZ too.

Leaves us back with the "How do we fix this?" problem. And "how do we find what replaced STRAITBIZARRE"?
PfSense and FreeNAS have really made me fall in love with FreeBSD all over again. It was my first foray into the ~*nix world, so lots of fond memories.
Video of Carmack's first two games Shadowforge & Wraith:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7py_FGQ5tU

Along with abandonware links to play 'em on your IIGS emu

Or for the 68kmla guys hiding out here on your original hardware :)
I agree that soldiers and sailors are not particularly productive in a country that's been at peace for quite some time.

Nevertheless, if you've got potential candidates who make stuff that the rest of the world is willing to pay for, maybe you should hire them either way. They'll pay for themselves after all.

And if you're going to hire them either way, why fire the sailor? (Unless of course it's the sailor you want to hire for a more productive endeavor...)
There's one thing I would add to the equation:

((1-p) * s * e) + r < (m-c)*t

r is the additonal compensation package that companies offer to employees of an acquired company.

In an acquihire, the bulk of the proceeds go to the employees, and it's not in the form of equity payments (which are usually not worth the paper they're written on). Instead, companies offer employees other incentives to come on board.
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Those (Linux-based) home routers usually use uclibc, which is not glibc.

Similarly, they usually use busybox ash as a shell and thus weren't vulnerable to shellshock.

Some do use openssl, so might still be affected by heartbleed.
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You did??
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The main reason gethostbyname is deprecated is that it doesn't support IPv6. The implementation of getaddrinfo uses gethostbyname, so you're using it either way.
I wish there were more books about the PC game industry at that time. I grew up with Apogee games and I'd love to read more about the company's history and the creation of Duke Nukem 3D! It's too bad that interest in early console gaming overshadows early PC gaming, especially since there were a lot more "hacker"-types working in PC games in the 90s.

There's a nice collection of interviews[1] that Apogee did with many of the original developers a few years ago, but it's hardly enough!

The poster that Interceptor Entertainment made for the 3D Realms Anthology[2] is like a nostalgia bomb for me. :)

[1]: http://legacy.3drealms.com/legacy.html

[2]: https://3drealms.com/catalog/3d-realms-anthology_50/
* There will continue to be nothing that Bitcoin does better than existing systems, apart from money laundering and purchasing illicit goods.

* No, not remittance. The expensive bit of Western Union is in fact that last mile. http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2ne03g/the_buttcoi...

* It will remain difficult to turn your Bitcoins into conventional currency (which is the only reason there's such a spread between exchanges).

* It will get even harder to turn your conventional currency into Bitcoins, as any exchange not being run by blatant crooks puts you through the anti-money-laundering mill.

* The protocol problems will continue not to be fixed, unless Mircea Popescu can be convinced to go along with the Bitcoin Foundation. No 20-meg blocks for you!

* 99% of current hash power came online in 2014; this will be very price-sensitive, and much will go offline as the price drops, maybe coming back next hash adjustment.

* Miners will continue to sell their coins immediately to cover costs: we are near equilibrium, where the cost of mining 1 BTC approaches 1 BTC.

* Transaction irreversibility will remain Bitcoin's sticking point, as speculators who are insufficiently computer-savvy keep getting burnt.

* More exchanges will get hacked and/or just take everyone's money.

* Everyone who bought in the last year and held is a bagholder. Their claims and speculation will get increasingly frenzied. Ask for numbers supporting all claims, particularly the ones in this infographic.

* The bagholders and gambling addicts will continue to be taken by obvious scams, e.g. the two Ponzi scheme sites in just the last month.

* Altcoins will continue to be even scammier than the Bitcoin ecosphere, boggled as I was to realise this.

* The price is presently being held up by speculation and wishful thinking. No new reason will come along.
Ask HN: What would you add to (Larry) Niven's Laws?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niven%27s_laws

Niven's Laws are the hard SF author's ideas of how the Universe seems to work. I was wondering how the HN community would formulate them - what would you add?

- Never fire a laser at a mirror.

- Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naïve.

- It is easier to destroy than to create.

- Ethics change with technology.

- The only universal message in science fiction: There exist minds that think as well as you do, but differently.
I don't think we strictly disagree about the ineffectiveness of austerity. The core reason the economic growth didn't show up from austerity is all the stuff I was complaining about. And it's true, you don't get a stronger economy by having the government spend less: you get it when you tax less, more money stays in the economy and it gets reinvested effectively - which it won't do in a nasty regulatory environment with high taxes, not that Greece is taxing less to begin with.

But what exactly would you have the Germans do? Say "no bailout" and oversee the exit of Greece from the Euro? Still the bad guys, and it wouldn't have made Greece any better off today. Try to demand substantial economic reforms to actually grow the economy? Sure, that's totally going to happen, never mind that pesky "sovereignty" business and upcoming elections (which are now past elections). And they're the bad guys again.

Or maybe they should have just asked German citizens to sacrifice instead, and committed to throwing bad money after good for the next N decades, subsidizing things like a socialist healthcare system where you actually have to bribe the doctor to get an appointment.
I live in India and I suffer from crippling anxiety and the psychiatrists I've met here suck, thanks for making this app.
that is moronic. it is yet another point of failure on the tire!

a rfid label on the inside of the tire would work exactly the same and not compromise the tire structure.
Would it be asking too much to be specific?

I think I covered why what was left on the table after ripping out the heart was less than pretty in the introduction but after being specifically requested to post it anyway (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8846177) I'm surprised at the level of vitriol this post generates.
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Paul Krugman helpfully explains the situation here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/opinion/paul-krugman-endin...

In short, the EU and the IMF demanded savage spending cuts from the Greek government. Turns out that cutting in a depressed economy makes the depression worse (despite the wildly optimistic predictions by EU officials, who decided to ignore textbook economics). As a result, Greece now has enormous unemployment, a vastly shrunken economy, and a debt-to-GDP ratio that is only going up despite the huge spending cuts. This is clearly an unsustainable course, something now recognized by the Greek voters. Unfortunately, there appears zero chance that EC and German politicians are going to acknowledge that austerity doesn't work.
Actually I should correct this - if you access the slow segment at all performance will be degraded, since you cannot also access the fast memory during the same cycle.

Looking at it on a 2-cycle basis, since performance is 7x as high you can either access (7+7) or (7+1) chunks of memory. That's a 43% performance drop if even 1 of the 32 threads in a warp consistently needs to touch the slow segment.

That data being used for control flow will amplify the problem, of course, since latency will double.
Show HN: A Movie Trailer Music Website
The team is great and clearly shows in the product they have built. However, at current pricing I would rate them expensive. Other enterprise offerings which go by per user pricing, like Google Apps, are much affordable for instance.

I hope with time their economics work out and they could offer more affordable plans.
Correct, if you download the src rpm for the latest version of glibc for RHEL 6.5 and compare it with the fix, you will see it is not patched.
Seems like a great book. Just ordered a copy. You should send them a bill for commission, danso ;)
Good point! Hooray for avoidance of software monocultures.

On the other hand, I shall now work hard to stop worrying about undiscovered vulnerabilities in uclibc.
Yeah, that's a good point, and definitely worth mentioning, but obviously rebooting isn't going to help in that case either. The parent was asking about how they would know if they need to reboot or not.
Yeah, "I would have written it right."
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Clickable link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niven%27s_laws
I'd love to get your thoughts on a site I just finished that will be used to audition and market music for movie trailers. I've been writing trailer music through a few different companies over the years and decided to start doing my own publishing. I'm really new to web development, but am excited about how it's turned out so far.

I'd really appreciate any tips on design and functionality.

Thanks!

Kyle
Are you kidding?? :) The two John' starting out as friends. Chaos Romero vs order Carmar. The rise of a small indie developer to super stardom. The ensuing split with Romero going full hubris with Ion Storm (Heck with the amount of drama and dirt available a movie on ion storm alone would make a great movie). Scenes with an battle axe breaching an office door, a gamer winning a ferrari. An underlying theme of "everyone's expendable".

It would make for one epic movie in the right hands.
> Remember the effort us lifers put into making tools that allowed "the masses" access to programming, like BASIC, Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal and all of that? How can we now, with any credibility, bemoan the very future so many of us tried to build?

I think the problem I see is that the future we tried to build hasn't come to fruition. The future I was trying to build around the turn of the millennium was one in which people had information to make educated decisions and to achieve their goals. The actuality that has come about is that more than ever people are falling for hype and being sidetracked from their goals.

It used to be that if you wanted to become a more educated voter, going online would result in you landing on a few political-science related resources and you'd end up reading some pretty hardcore theory: Bob Black, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx. Maybe it was a bit extremist but you would actually have a theoretical understanding of the issues. Now it's more likely you'll come across carefully-crafted "grassroots" political blogs that hype one side or the other without actually encouraging you to make an educated decision.

It used to be that if you wanted to bike across the country, Sheldon Brown's webpage[1] would help you figure out how to do it. Now it's more likely that you'll get distracted by Reddit and Facebook while your bike rusts.

I, for one, didn't work for this future. I don't give a fuck about cat pictures and I'm actively against the advertising, astroturfing, and distraction that social media results in. I think that while the internet allows us to potentially make our lives better, the majority of people aren't using it that way, and the future we have built makes most people's lives worse.

[1] http://sheldonbrown.com/tires.html
What does this do? I've browsed through the site for a few minutes, and still have no idea what kind of tools you could build with this that you couldn't build before.

Is this for cross-language doc generation? Refactoring tools? Something else?

Are there any concrete examples of a tool built on top of this that would otherwise be impossible / very difficult?
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This really, really reads like an advertisement. It's not a short article, but the little useful information in it is buried amongst a lot of self-congratulatory quotes.

Slack is just one of many team chat apps. Maybe the secret to their traction is that they can get so many fluffy articles written about them?
and you are probably being downvoted for the kiddies that grew up with mac books pro that think it is beautiful to pay for an overpriced IRC server with a nice web interface. well, let me join a fellow slacker. let the downvotes rain :)
Yes yes the Government was corrupt. What the parent is saying is: the lender should have checked to make sure that the debtor (Greek Govt.) was actually capable of paying back what it borrowed. But the lenders didn't, because Governments are excellent debtors: they represent the nation! Governments are excellent credit risks: because they will most likely want access to more capital in the future, they cannot tarnish their image in the international community. One of the first thing the Soviets did when they came to power was to repudiate all foreign loans owed by the Tsarist government (which incidentally led to a crisis in France, which had been the biggest lender).
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I've been using React for a while and love it. Every time I tried to look at Flux I got put off by something or other. I get the main concept, Actions coming from your React Views are Dispatched. But the first tutorial starts with writing your own dispatcher from scratch which I think was the thing that threw me. Flux.js does have a dispatcher you can use out of the box, so why not just use that when starting off.
Good, but I hesitate to call this a victory, with the government's "private draft" yet sight unseen.

Let's see it - and see what the Lib Dems make of it - but in the current climate, and with the current timing, I'm rather worried that it's essentially the exact same thing with minor changes, but not going to get the same careful scrutiny and opposition it got the last time.

I'm committed to do everything I reasonably can to throw a wrench in surveillance and censorship, and that it's probably a step in the wrong direction, even after Snowden, is chilling (in every sense).
That sounds like an interesting approach.

Would mind posting an example?

(I was wondering what something like Flow.js would make of the code. i.e. Could it make catching those errors easier)

Cheers.
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> I'm not in his target audience either. I enjoy interacting with people and ideas more than getting a computer to do what I want. This is why in my teens I spent more time reading math books than playing with computers.

Interesting perspective, and similar to mine. I gravitated towards this industry because of the problems to solve, not the means of solving them. I have been taking things apart to figure out how they work since I was 6 or so. I didn't even have a computer until I was 17, but I was already dead set on becoming some sort of engineer because I loved those sorts of challenges. In fact, I ended up going electrical because in undergrad I decided I hated programming but loved physical electronics and electrical wiring. I came back to programming after I had been working for a few years and discovered that real-world programming was not like the classes I hated.

I don't know where that puts me in Jacques' eyes. I like using knowledge and technology to solve problems, but I don't care what particular technology it is. Sometimes I feel like an outsider in this industry, because I interact with so many people who love programming in itself and tend to look down on those who do not. I don't feel attacked by this post but I do feel he is drawing up a false dichotomy between those who "[l]earned to program as a kid" and "totally fell in love with it", and those who are in this industry for the money, have little or no technical knowledge, and no desire to gain any more than the bare minimum of technical knowledge required to achieve their financial goals.
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A common thread:

When someone starts this way, I break in and say as politely as I can, “What’s on your mind?”

From the Comments:

Question: do you in any way prepare people before they meet with you for the first time, with guidelines for how you like meetings to go?

Answer:
It varies. I used to send out a "how to meet with me" note but there's now so much on the web that it should be easy for the person to prepare by just doing a quick search on Brad Feld Meeting"

This is pretty haughty and I see this type of junk a lot with the VC/Angel investors out there. They are implicitly saying, "clearly my time it too valuable to waste it with courtesy or respect." Yes, I see that he said "as politely as I can" however the whole idea that I need to google how to meet with someone ahead of time is insane. These people aren't holy figures.

Maybe a better option is to not schedule time with people that you don't plan on being courteous to.
While this article mentions that the GFS model was more accurate than the others (ECMWF & NAM), it neglects to give the backstory as to why it was more accurate and less trusted. For years the GFS has been made fun of because of its poor performance when compared to the Euro - and it just got the major upgrades it needed this month! New supercomputers, new high-res models, all went online just before the storm arrived. So, very few trusted the model even though it was in the best spot to get everything right.

In an unexpected move, The Weather Channel was much more accurate than the US NWS / AccuWeather / etc because of their use of the GFS as a trusted model. More info in this article: http://www.alternet.org/environment/why-almost-everyone-got-...

Edit: And of course, it's my opinion that all the models are currently suffering from a lack of input data. The "...and what should be done" part of the headline, in my opinion, should be answered with, "everyone download PressureNet and contribute your phone's sensor data to weather models", so that we can better predict difficult quantities like heavy snowfall and severe thunderstorms: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu... ;)
Could you expand on your BT stack problems?
The post on LinkedIn's engineering blog has additional info.

https://engineering.linkedin.com/samza/apache-samza-graduate...
May I suggest Hackers by Steven Levy [0]. It was a phenomenal and inspirational read for me. Having born during the turn of the century, I'd missed the evolution of computers and programming. This book helped me fill that gap.

Incidentally, Hackers was what I read after I read Masters of Doom. Here's a quote from Masters of Doom:

"
Overnight, it seemed, Carmack was in a strange house, with a strange family and going to a strange school, a junior high with no gifted program or computer’s. He’d never felt so alone. Then one day he realized he wasn’t. The book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution was a revelation.
"

Edit:
Donald Knuth heartily recommends it too[1].

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Anniversar...

[1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/retd.html
This seems a much clearer overview: http://www.kythe.io/docs/kythe-overview.html
FYI: I downvoted you because your reply seemed to be a weirdly hostile response to an innocent comment.
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Big deal. A retired General, who was head of the DIA, rants and raves in front of "the crowd at the annual National Defense Industry Association’s special-operations meeting."

I'm cynical enough about the US defense establishment to see this as someone telling pigs at the trough that they need more swill from the government. General Flynn is a product of the "deep state", he's definitely going to advocate it's continued existence.

What really tickles me is the recycled anti-communist rhetoric: "fueled by a vision for worldwide domination", "committed to the destruction of freedom and the American way of life". Ha ha! I remember those phrases! You're just trying to scare me again! Fool me once, shame on me and all that. "Al Queda" replaced "Russkies" as the bogey man, now we're working towards replacing "Al Queda" with "ISIS". Just more pork for the defense companies and "IC" TLAs, is what I say it is.
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A general practitioner is a good place to start. If the symptoms are clear cut, they can work with you right then and there to get you started on a treatment plan, and can recommend a counselor or psychiatrist to discuss more individualized treatment options.

And if the symptoms are not clear cut, they will still give you a recommendation to someone who can identify what is going on and give you the help you need.

The GP also has the advantage of being relatively cheap.