skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are all of you using any npm-based system combined with a continuous integration or clean build environment? It seems that a simple yeoman/grunt setup that just preprocesses some HTML and JS takes... a very long time. A minute or two just for the actual work. Plus 5-15 minutes for npm to make a thousand requests and write 10K+ files to the filesystem.

I hack around it by keeping node_modules around as a special resource on a custom build server and symlinking it in, but that wouldn't work with a proper "start from zero" build system.
"IMHO nuclear reactors should be built to deal with problems of the magnitude of an earthquake or a tsunami as a base line."

No power generation source is built to handle a 9.0 earthquake as a baseline, especially not hydroelectric plants.
This is a good point, but it's a sign of dysfunction. I've seen the case when 50% of the issues are "P1 highest priority" (and most of them forgotten in a week or two). People making requests need to get some idea about what development effort (and maintenance!) costs. I don't know a good way to do this, except to be in a very small company.
How people pay: money, time, and discomfort
Apologies, you're correct. What I was thinking about was dragging folders and files into Open/Save dialogs.
These guys need to take a lot closer look at Silicon Valley. They report that San Francisco has only 526 people with a net worth over $30 million. That's crazy low.

Just for example, Dustin Moscovitz says that employee number 100 made $200M at Facebook[1]. Imagine the number that made $30M, and that's just one company (see slide 14).

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/dustin-moskovitzs-startup-adv...
I almost thought this was an amazing idea. Except most places venues I'm in don't offer HDMI either.
Windows also prevents untrusted code from running as an admin user by default. As you say, the user clicked "Allow"; there's nothing that could prevent that except changing the mindset of the general end user.
Maybe because the younguns today don't know what a "station wagon" is and what "tapes" are... ;-)

(I jest)
I think the gaming analogies make sense. If you invest time and effort in it, it sure will be more useful in your CV than "Level 80 Paladin" under "Other Achievements"; if not, no hiring manager will ever pass on an otherwise great candidate for not being a part of it.

And it allows outliers to get potentially amazing job offers from your partners.

It's exciting to think that with today's easy access to cheap cloud computing and good process isolation you can have instanced "raids" in the same way as an MMO so I can get my very own version of a challenge that can be as realistic as possible.
Any insight why? I'm guessing ad revenue is down, not enough traffic, etc. But more light on why Gigaom shutting down would be of value.
I don't quite understand. Why did the entire truck dance have to be redone when there was a perfectly nice stale copy of the data sitting there? Couldn't the second truck dance have used rsync and been done in under a day?
They're supposed to be priced around $350 or so, at least that's what I see from last year. How is that too expensive? An X series ThinkPad is like $2300+ with a good config. Adding another few hundred so I can have a decent amount of RAM sounds like a no-brainer.

(Or, Lenovo could put IBM engineering in charge and figure out how to get 2 slots back on the X series.)
I don't think you get to trumpet 'fits in your pocket' if it's 8 inches. I don't doubt that in principle, you could persuade one to fit in your pocket (unless you're female) but I don't think it fits most peoples definitions of that.
I certain hope she helps to "blunt the patent troll problem" as suggested in the article. The patent system seems desperately sick right now.
Unlikely and preventable, but I'd be more worried about water and other gack in the connector.
re: SABRE, there's no air in space.
To be fair, the 56kbps rate was only achievable when the transmitting side was digital. Otherwise 33.6kbps was the max.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56_kbit/s_modem
Not at all. I'm using a GPU via ExpressCard with a single lane. 10 GBit/s is plenty enough. The question is whether it DMAs correctly, and whether it's actively disabled by intel again (as with Thunderbolt).
GigaOM (or, Gigaom, given the rebranding following Om's departure) was my first internship in SF. I always really respected Om. While often to the detriment of Gigaom's bottom line and readership numbers, Om was adamant about avoiding controversy and clickbait. I was always proud to say I worked at Gigaom.

Really sad to see it go.
There is a proposal for a manned mission to Ceres using nuclear powered ion engines: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131118-ceres....
"It has run out of money"

https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/575090046572736512
Yes, I'm concerned about performance too but. Scaling on my 15" rMBP from 2012 definitely looks good, I usually keep it at one step lower (more screen space) than reccomended. If your eyes can take it, you won't loose quality.
And I was proud of my API backend processing 70M requests a day... That's suddenly feeling like a lot less traffic and a lot less spectacular.
Nice, there really is a pedant for everything here.
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It is my opinion that traditional poetry will be seen as a proper/strict subset of procedural poetry in time.

You are most definitely not alone in your thinking, your idea was too far ahead of its time for those people you presented it to. Do you have your code anywhere online? This was my attempt: https://github.com/igravious/poetify/tree/clean_raine but it is broken at the moment ... sigh This post makes me want to fix it.
Nobody is going to ask you what your "Starfighter score" is.

Without opening up a pointless vein of second-guessing about Patrick's writing: I think the timing of this post has led people to believe that this right here is my answer to The Hiring Post.

No. The Hiring Post itself contains what I believe the answers to The Hiring Post are.

There are two halves of the recruiting problem: OUTREACH and QUALIFICATION.

Companies need to be smarter about qualification. We have a lot of thoughts on how they can be smarter and I am in full-on insane street preacher mode about those thoughts, which are not directly remunerative to our business.

Starfighter is about the OUTREACH side of the recruiting problem. Our goal is to be a credible pipeline of candidates who are not effectively identified by the resume/interview/github process. We are looking for buried talent, and to have fun doing it along the way.

I know HN all too well, and I think the instinct people will have reading this comment is to try to reconcile it with exactly the words Patrick chose to use in his blog post and then object to the perceived discrepancies. Please, no: that's a waste of all our time. Patrick speaks for Erin & I. I speak for Erin & Patrick.
I remember reading REAMDE which has a protagonist who uses a walking desk, and attributes his massive weight loss to it.

Science fiction it would seem, but still a good idea!
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They were quite cool.

From memory, I think one card had some internal startup check that checked to see if its EPROM got marked by the "Black Sunday" countermeasure and then hung itself.

The hackers, having a ROM dump and having knowledge of how many clock cycles each instruction took the CPU, knew that it was at ~clock cycle 525 or so that this internal check happened.

Knowing that the instruction was a "Branch if equals to" (I think), and that instruction took 12 cycles, they figured out which of those 12 caused that branch to happen, figured out the precise time to glitch (whether via voltage or a single rapid clock cycle), and caused the CPU to skip changing the instruction pointer and then continue through its ROM code as if the check had passed.

Within a month or two, hundreds of thousands of receivers had a man-in-the-middle device just to glitch reprogrammed cards every time they were started up.

Apparently the north american provider had tested the same countermeasure in their south american division, so the north americans had advance notice of what they had to do to get back in action.

I recall, for another system, a small memory chip was required for a pre-existing man-in-the-middle card, and overnight every electronics supplier went out-of-stock overnight. Digikey sold out of 50k units overnight.
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/03/10/tech-site-gigaom-is...
I had 24 hours of interviews at a company in Massachusetts, and then they decided to start negotiating salary. I told them what my last job had paid, and then they stopped talking to me.

I'm glad it didn't go further.
And I expect Apple will make sure those don't work, just like they did with generic Lightning cables.
Apple are obviously very concerned about aesthetics and having as little ports breaking the smooth lines of the design hinder that.
However personally I would of thought having an additional type c connector on the opposite side would actually improve the ascetic design by providing more symmetry.
If they added another and let you charge the device from either side, it would also improve usability, I know I get annoyed when my wall charger is on one side and I have to stretch the cable around to the other side of the laptop.
From what I've read, exercising before or after work does NOT negate the negative health effects of sitting all day. It helps, but continuous sitting is still just terrible for us.
Yes, I use that a lot but something I miss from Windows Explorer is that i can actually copy the path. The widespread suggestion is that you can drag and drop the icon in the title but I prefer the other thing.
Hm. Which tools aren't easy to install with homebrew? I find it has pretty broad coverage of most of the command line tools I need, and it's reasonably easy to compile other packages from source if you need them.

Of course your needs are different from mine. Just curious.
Based on what? Your Rolodex?
Getting up to speed on Hacker/Startup culture is more about doing than about reading, so go ahead and do it.
Wow, so a $1300 laptop with no USB ports?

Why does Apple keep making their new products worse -- less features but subjectively more "beautiful" -- than the ones before? Somewhere in the attic at One Infinite Loop, is there a painting of Steve Jobs that slowly gets younger as time passes?
Well, the official Apple mouse does not require a dongle, their logic must be something along the lines of "that's what you get for using third party mice".
GigaOm Reportedly Shutting Down
Twitter, Facebook... Why do you think they would like the dummy accounts removed? As long as they are not overdoing it, they bump the statistics.
I know personally people that run hundreds of thousands accounts on Facebook for marketing etc, yet they say FB does very little difficulties to them as long as they stick to some limits in posting, sharing and liking.

Unfortunately reaching 1 Billion users while closing one eye on bots is very tempting.
Re-IPO twitter was all about growth. There 1.0 API made making a spambot ridiculously easy. 1.1 is only a slight improvement. One problem is that line between real and bot has been blurred. There are many real accounts out there whose owner have attach bots to them. I frequently get bot follows only to see that I have been unfollowed in short order. The obvious hope is that I will reciprocate the follow and not notice the unfollow. But often these are coming from real accounts. One of the downsides of being a programmer and being interested in CS type things is that a the twitter circles I would be interested are loaded with these semi-faux/semi-real accounts. The result is that the spam to signal ratio is much too high.
I mean, if you consider knowing that databases require disk space to be "specialized knowledge" then, I mean, I guess so. Otherwise the installer is rather straightforward in telling you what the paths are for. And creating a new DB also shows you which files will be used. There may be 20 pages, but most of that is ... pretty straightforward, easy stuff.

I've run SQL Server in life-critical production systems (911 call routing) and found it to be very straightforward. Just make sure the alarms are turned on and enabled for replication.

I've run it in HA clusters, both with a shared DAS and with the new shared-nothing system. A walk in the park. The only difficult thing I've personally run into with SQL Server was figuring out the Broker Service stuff and dealing with replication outside of a domain. And that was probably mostly networking configuration issues - the config wizards are pretty amazing.

I'm not implying that there is no specialized knowledge, and many SQL Server installs are probably suboptimal. But it's far from necessary to know much to go very far with SQL Server.

Compare to Postgres, where doing anything correctly requires mucking around with the config file, and, last time I used it, logging into the shell with a special user. And HA, well, good luck.
I'm not too surprised. I feel as if they've fallen off the radar in the past couple of years.
About Gigaom
Typically the people who find these sorts of bugs have jobs penetration testing and auditing applications. Some of those applications are important to people's lives and wellbeing. And if you don't work for the NSA or similar, you're actively helping the application owners to find and remediate those bugs, which improves security for the creators and the users.

For example, if you're an application security analyst at Google and you find a security flaw that could result in users' personal information being leaked, aren't you making the world a better place by finding and repairing that bug?
https://gigaom.com/2015/03/09/about-gigaom/
It was my understanding that if you're largely sedentary, no amount of exercise can "make up" for that, and that the correlation with increased morbidity and mortality remains.
So they should increase the price of the laptop by $80 for everyone so that you don't feel nickel and dimed? Why do you care if your receipt has that $80 listed a separate item or not?
Modular devices make a lot of theoretical sense. Practically, it is almost impossible to achieve cohesion between large corporate players. Just look at the power tools market.

Also, I stopped reading after "revolutionary."
That's one problem naming a business after a person. Still the domain is worth something. No sense "parking" a domain like that.
Seems to be mentioned on this Electronic Literature Organisation blog post waaaaay down the page: http://eliterature.org/2014/06/announcing-winners-of-1st-coo... :)
VGA has lower quality at high resolutions than something like DVI, DisplayPort, or HDMI. Then again, if the place still has a VGA connector, it's unlikely the projector is high-resolution.
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Well I mean I asked in that thread, and MS replied stating they simply do not need ECC. I quoted a line from Google's study on memory errors, and Azure replied: "In our scenario, we have not seen bit error rates that align with the quote you mention".

I suppose I could just spin up a 56GB instance and let it run a memtest for a week and see, right?
My wife and I both have Moto G's and they are amazing value. I couldn't imagine spending the kind of money some people do on smartphones when great options like the Moto G are around.
Your right, we have much better standard in HDMI, because every laptop has that now. Oh wait, except the Macbook Air which has display port. So HDMI and displayport, oh wait, USB type C. So that's it just three connections to replace VGA.

Oh, forgot about iPads, 2 different ones for that, and android phones at least 2 MHL connectors and whatever google does in their phones. We haven't even got onto mini and micro HDMI.

At least 10 different connectors on recent devices then? Don't you just love standards?
Thanks for relating your experiences.

> As someone who's much better off as a person having a B.A. in Computer Science in five years than their intended B.S./B.F.A. in four

In fairness, you don't know what would have happened if you took the other path. (Not that I have any idea myself.)
You could make one port a USB 3.0 port.
Diversity doesn't bring anything, law or finance got more diversity than tech and yet they are one of the most stagnant and extortionist fields ever. The tech industry on the other hand is the most innovative and value creating industry of the last 50 years, all done by mostly man. So no, diversity doesn't magically create any "valuable perspective", the evidence is overwhelmingly to the opposite.

The reason there are no women in tech is because it's hard and they don't want to do it, same in physical jobs and in general in any value creating jobs as opposed to caring/service/value transfer jobs, basically the same things women used to do at home in the traditional family. Blaming the man in that industry as if they are worst than say lawyers or financiers or doctors is just bullshit and got no evidence. Women have made their choice, it is up to them to invest in studying tech and do something in the industry, stop shaming other people for women problems.
However, there are people who have lost a lot of weight by making their video-games dependent on continuing to pedal/walk. I think there is even a sub for it, but I can't think of the name.
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My personal take is that Gigaom will be sorely missed. They've had some top notch writers and they've put out a lot of great stuff lately. But.. they've also had several funding rounds over the past 8 years and when you take $20m+ over 8 years and you can't hit a crazy level of growth, the VC grim reaper rears its ugly head.
Whether or not to report harassment incidents to management or HR at a company. From the devil's advocate position, if you don't report something and the company is completely unaware of it, how could it ever be dealt with?
Ask HN: Have you made a movie?
Hey HN. I'm producing my second feature, called At Sunrise, right now. The first one we crowdfunded for about $10K. Does anyone have experience in producing along more conventional routes?

We've raised about $70K of in-kind contributions and $15K of cash but need $30K more. There aren't a lot of film angels in my state (Michigan). We've built a great ROI case for the movie, assembled the cast, begun rehearsals, secured a location, but we're still struggling to close our financing. Any advice?

If you'd like to see a reel from our first movie, you can email me at jordan at birnholtz dot com. I'd be happy to show it to you! I'd post but it but we're keeping it (more or less) private until this festival season is over.

Thanks a bunch, HN.
I usually just use the Terminal, but when I need to open the current directory in the Finder I just type `open .`, one of the most useful (and unknown) shortcut of OSX.
Yes while gulp > grunt, in many cases npm by itself is what you want. gulp.watch(), in particular, seems more difficult to use than the watch facility built into many (but not all) node modules. Also something like Browserify must be somewhat shoehorned into gulp. It might be worth it to look at what gulp has that npm run is missing? Maybe it doesn't need to worry about streaming files, but the notion of some tasks depending on arbitrary sets of other tasks (a generalization of npm's "pre-" and "post-") seems pretty handy.
Yeah, I think Unity is the most productive desktop environment in existence and I especially like how good it is at handling huge amounts of windows but I manually installed the newest nvidia drivers and now it can't be started. KDE and GNOME Shell work just fine. Installing drivers is not a fringe use case. GNOME Shell is close in usability, except for its clumsy multi-monitor support. Also any Ubuntu update can break your computer. Happened to me. It actually makes me want to get a Mac.

Linux in general has problems with graphics, Wi-Fi and printers. I know this is not Linux's fault, but that doesn't fix it.
As long as the machine is on, can't the attacker ask the YubiKey to generate signatures on their behalf?

This is similar to standard SSH agent forwarding attacks. A sysadmin connects to a malicious server via SSH. If the sysadmin turns on agent forwarding, then "malicious root" can remotely ask the sysadmin's agent (running on the sysadmin's laptop) to authenticate to any other machine that accepts the sysadmin's public key. The malicious root can log in to any other server the sysadmin has access to, as long as the sysadmin still stays connected.
Further confirmation: http://recode.net/2015/03/09/techs-pioneering-tech-blog-giga...
He actually does make that same conclusion regarding the Premium Shitphone:

> It is one-quarter the price of an iPhone 6 and feels like at least two-thirds the phone.
$30 million is a high bar. If someone's making it in tech, with investors and other stockholders you'd have to have a $100 million+ exit as a founder. There are more in SV than anywhere else, but still few in an absolute sense.

The other option is that they were somewhat early in something that took off like Google/Facebook, that's still probably not more than a few dozen over the $30 million mark each. So the number makes sense to me at least.
While some of the podcasts seemed to be a bit fluffy, I always appreciated the Structure Show as a survey of where infrastructure software was. Any suggestions of similarly aimed content to subscribe to?
There are about 98 pesticides (of those 10 are herbicides) in bee pollen:

"The 98 pesticides and metabolites detected in mixtures up to 214 ppm in bee pollen alone represents a remarkably high level for toxicants in the brood and adult food of this primary pollinator. "

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
How often do you put a wireless mouse or keyboard somewhere you wouldn't also put a wired mouse or keyboard? It seems to me the ergonomics are likely to be the same for most cases.

Fair enough if you think wireless is advantageous in this case but I personally don't. Or if it is, it doesn't outweigh the disadvantage of having a mouse that can run out of juice.
Gotcha..

I wonder if this can help: http://nuitka.net/pages/overview.html?
Gigaom is shutting down
I have no inside knowledge (other than being in publishing generally) but they're in a hot space with relatively good advertising opportunities right now, they also run events which should, in theory, be quite profitable.

My totally unfounded theory/opinion is they were overfunded and the investors wanted to get out after not seeing the growth levels they wanted (which in publishing is not a big surprise, you almost never see SaaS or consumer app levels of growth there).
Yeah, it'll look good. I scale my 15" MBP to 1920x1200 and it looks good.
Splenda does have a version of the product specifically for cooking - it seems to have a lot of 'filler' to get it to the similar consistency and volume of regular sugar (1 cup of sugar being as sweet as 1 cup of the cooking Splenda). That being said, it's best to just avoid the stuff when you can. I've found eating things with tons of Splenda in it can be pretty gross - I experimented with it a bit years ago when I first started going low carb and had bad sugar cravings, but wouldn't touch that stuff nowadays.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9175290
see comment above
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