skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We wanted to make tech be ever more awesome, we told everyone we knew how cool it is, regardless of whether they were interested.

We asked for this, whether we like it or not :)
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Please explain. I am still on the fence about Stuxnet, but the conventional wisdom is that it did exactly what I suggested that it did: it forestalled a military attack on Iran's nuclear program. And "forestall" is all it did; we're presumably a phone call and double-digit seconds away from that attack today.
What that means, though, is you can only determine if code is readable after it's written, and read by other people. And I agree with you. But that also means that, while you're writing code, or thinking about the code you're going to write, or trying to decide between two possibilities, 'readability' doesn't mean anything. So you can't use it to guide you towards more readable code; instead it can merely be used to decide which code should be replaced / refactored / rewritten. And you can't use it to teach new developers how to write better code.
AMD is still quite competitive in the GPU market, but their major progress lately is in their HSA[0]. A big problem with GPU computing is that you have two distinct memory spaces, so whatever is being done on the GPU needs to be loaded into VRAM, worked upon, and then returned to system RAM.

The goal of HSA is to break this down. If you have GPU and CPU on one chip with a single pool of RAM that both can access a lot of communications complexity and overhead goes away.

All of this is still very new tech, so what I am saying is conjecture and possibility, but there is a lot of potential in this area.

I am not able to say whether the magnitude of this is similar, but you might think of it analogously to AMD64 architecture. AMD was first to the table with 64 bit processors. They are also first to the table with this. Intel may catch up and blow them away, as has now happened with 64 bit processors, but right now AMDs integrated graphics far beyond Intel's offerings.

[0]http://developer.amd.com/resources/heterogeneous-computing/w...
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1password - its expensive, but i am very happy with it...
Do you specifically want the swinging bar slamming the paper, or is it more about the sound? If it's just the sound, you might look into a daisy-wheel printer of some kind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_wheel_printing

Brother had a series of word processor machines that were basically DOS PCs with an extremely simple icon-based UI, an amber CRT (or later a B&W LCD), and a keyboard/printer housing that included a floppy disk drive. I bet you could hack one of the data buses on one of those things without too much effort.
German Silkroad clone Shiny-Flakes got busted
The largest German drug dealer on Tor, shiny-flakes.to got busted last week, police officials revealed this Wednesday, 11.03.2015. The main dailer was caught with more than 320kg (705lbs) of Cocaine. Several other flats were raided, there will be a press conference on Thursday.

There are no details about how exactly police found the main actors, probably he was too easy going with his personal data.

Shiny-Flakes had a clearweb address (shiny-flakes.to), which was hosted in Tonga - and now links to a police recruitment campaign.

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There are no english reports on this yet. This is my summary based on the following newspaper report. Here's the english translation:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.l-iz.de%2Fleben%2Ffaelle-unfaelle%2F2015%2F03%2Fleipziger-ermittler-nehmen-drogenversand-shiny-flakes-hoch-78227&edit-text=&act=url
Yev from Backblaze here -> we're working on the restore process. It can DEFINITELY be smoother, and we're hoping to address that in the near (hopefully) future! As for the tracking pixels, a lot of those aren't actually in use anymore but are remnants of advertising that we've run in the past, but that could use some cleaning up as well. I'll chat with the team to see if we can expunge the one's we're no longer using!
Interesting.

So it might be a Linux issue. I have reported it anyway.
An article on relatively when the island formed.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/underwater-volcano-cre...

Plus, wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunga_Tonga
How I Got 6.2M Pageviews and 144,920 Followers
The Real Politics of a Virtual Society
check out zennioptical.com, you can find frames with lenses included for 10-30 dollars.
Nice to see someone else remember what Russ Tice said. He wasn't even a Senator yet when Russ said the papers came across his desk. That means that they are targeting any potential political candidate of any note.

I would just like to remind everyone that surveillance is about control, not security. Some may claim it's security through control, but that's not the social contract I was taught to understand my country worked under.
She got a man fired over a private conversation. One of the rules of civilized behavior is that you don't do that.

Briefly ignoring both that she did not "get [him] fired" and that your definition of "private conversation" apparently extends to "conversation in a public place that others can easily hear", there are plenty of obvious situations in which a private conversation can and should result in consequences (sexual harassment and threats being clear examples).

Your position on the rules of civilized behavior is incoherent.
> If there was a planning process that was consistently reliable for new, complex software I think people would use it. And I think the adoption of agile methodologies in software development is an example of people trying to implement an improved planning process.

There are such processes. But they require understanding of the problem, which takes time. I am not sure "agile" is really attempt at an improved planning process, it's at best not doing planning and just marching onto the problem, seeing what happens at regular intervals in the hope of better understanding it, and at worst, things like "planning poker" where you put a bunch of people into a room and let everybody make a (possibly educated but usually not very much) guess from the top of their heads.
What happens if a new volcanic island forms in the middle of the ocean, outside of any nation's borders? Could someone theoretically claim it and start their own sovereign nation?
I would recommend going through the CalTech Course - Learning from Data run by Yasir Abu Mustafa as the first step. https://www.edx.org/course/learning-data-caltechx-cs1156x#.V...

It is one of the best places to start. Please see that the course will require you to spend considerable time. If you find this challenging, you can also look at the Machine Learning class by Andrew Ng on Coursera.

Once you have undergone these courses, you can take up Coursera course on Neural Nets or look at tutorials on deeplearning.net
But, given the traditional understanding of markets, one wonders how the cartel (really, this appears to be more of a monopoly) is able to sustain itself. There does not appear to be very high barriers to entry, and with obvious online sales channels available... This seems like a great industry to disrupt.
Thanks! I thought we were at about the same level as US so this was interesting to me as well.
I use and recommend 1Password.
I've been buying my glasses at a certain website that is very cheap and has great promo codes. All you have to know is your prescription. They are sort of cheap feeling, but they work and have stylish shapes. Also can buy 4 pairs for less than half of what I'd pay at LenseCrafters.
Yev from Backblaze here -> we're working on it!
If he still has an opportunity to go to MIT, he should do that. It's great that he was able to get into the industry, but not many people have the opportunity to get an education at MIT. He will get to learn a lot of topics(Physics, EE, theoretical CS) that he wouldn't get exposed to in industry. He will probably make some of his lifetime friends there too. This network will be great for his social and professional life.

... and if he doesn't like it, he can go back and get another software developer job.
FWIW I'd apply a "does it affect how they behave at work?" test.

If I had a very good developer who was perfectly courteous and professional at work but in his spare time was (say) a member of the Westborough Baptist Church or the Socialist Workers Party I'd not be concerned.
You know, I was a military wife for many years. I have lived in places with big, ugly-assed spiders and poisonous snakes and scorpions and fun stuff like that. I grew up with a knife collection and my daddy taught me to shoot a gun by, say, age 8. I was a damn good shot as a kid. When I lived in Germany, I walked everywhere with an infant strapped to my chest and a backpack (often full of groceries) and a toddler often on my shoulders for the walk home. I had the respect of the soldiers, who knew what it was like to hike with a 60 lb. rucksack. A couple of years later, at a different duty station on another continent, I ran into a guy on base. I had no clue who he was, but he sure as hell remembered me hiking everywhere, doing the macho mom routine.

And I would scream like a little girl if I had to be faced with these tree lobsters -- just like I do when faced with flying, giant roaches in godforsaken swampy Georgia.

Give me a big assed spider or snake any day.

You can keep all your conjecture about what wusses little girls are supposed to be. I'm no wuss. Scream like a little girl conveys an evocative image of someone being shrill. The big difference between little girls and little boys is that little girls have the world's permission to express their feelings. Little boys are supposed to "not cry" and shit like that.

Also, while we are having this conversation: The correct interpretation of "Fights like a girl" is "So, they fight dirty?" Have you ever seen a cat fight in junior high? Gebus. Claws in your face and hair being torn out.

FYI: Statistically speaking, if you get into a knife fight with a man, you are highly likely to come away with minor defensive wounds on your arms because men are aggressive and will attack overhanded. Women don't want to cut you. They hold it low down, in a defensive position, and only cut you if you push them into the position of a cornered rat. The result: They gut you or stick it up under your ribs into a vital organ, like your heart. You are much more likely to die from being knifed by a woman than a man.

So maybe you should educate yourself a bit more about what really goes on in this world before you lecture people about promoting gender stereotypes. Because your bias is showing and it isn't pretty at all.
That is not uncommon at all and not unsafe if done right. Hard realtime systems are there for exactly that reason. Since you need to dimension everything to worst case scenarios, gains tend to not be as big as with soft realtime systems but there you have it: Dynamically shared resources in critical systems.
What about buying out the competition? The "consolidation" in the industry is what has led to a decrease in competition.
I agree, the title was shortened after I shared the link here.
Typical privileged male trying to talk over a woman in tech's lived experience. Instead of screaming at her that she's wrong about everything, how about listening for once?
Here's a nice explanation of how ZFS does triple parity raid with reed-solomon:

http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/zfs_doxygenation/html/da/dc...

http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/zfs_doxygenation/html/d1/d7...
Do you know anyone else who has one/uses silent circle? on the communications side I'm not sure i know anyone with whom i could communicate "securely." The product seems to make a lot more sense when done as a corporate deployment...
Extremely small probabilities
I use a combination of the free tier of 1password on the phone and iCloud Keychain for Safari on everything. The canonical password is in iCloud, but if it's a random/nonstandard password I also put it into 1password (often by hand) since (a) TouchID makes 1password infinitely easier to unlock and (b) it's easier to browse/view saved passwords in 1password versus opening Settings then Safari then... you get the idea.
What was your experience like getting your prescription details from LensCrafters? I've heard they don't like give up the details to allow customers to easily work with a competitor.
I also recommend this. I use it on my phone too. The downside is it's not targeted towards linux users. That said you can hack together access via Dropbox if you need access to your vault on linux.
There's actually more to it than that. There are some accessibility benefits to allowing the OS to foreshorten it, rather than doing it manually.

Rest assured that if the option to dynamically update the app icon becomes available, we'll be all over it.
Motherlover – new website idea
1password on iOS/OSX. There was a big discount on both a while back and I jumped on it. Even today, I'd consider paying for it. I've tried all the open source options, none of them worked nearly as well as 1pwd.
What is the website if you don't mind me asking?
Students are fleeing US law schools and pouring into engineering
It's harder in practice than you make it out to be. Because our insecurity hinders our ability to say "your code is too complicated for me to understand".

Plus, some code is supposed to be more complicated than others, you can't always solve difficult problems with simple solutions. So unless you can understand the code and come up with a simpler solution, just complaining that it's too complicated is not gonna help anyone.
Ask HN: How can I deal with self-entitlement, job-hopping and boredom?
I've begun the process of looking for a new job after only 11 months into my current position. It started off well, but we've had 2 solid employees move on due to frustration with the way the company operates. Everyone else feels the same way.

Development-wise, things aren't terrible. There’s no pressure which makes me bored if anything. I've gone about 4 months without doing any significant work.

On the plus side, the company is more ‘agile’ than others I've worked at - we use a CI system, pair program and when I started we did do retros, but that dropped off after a few months.

Some things are worrying though. The loss of key staff, the increasing amount of work which is passed over to our offshore consultancy, the slow decline of the company (no growth), company departments that don't talk to each other, departments that don't care.

I know some of you might say - “Stay! Fix the place. It might get better” but there are people that have been here for 10+ years who say that it’s always been like this.

Looking around there are some interesting companies, but nothing that’s captivating me. This makes me worried that I'm just going to repeat the cycle. Should I just need to suck it up?

I'd love to develop a side-project to the point where it can support me but I'm simply not motivated enough. I feel my ideas are bad.

I applied to move to Canada from the UK and was accepted, so any move now would only be for 18 months before I leave to go there.

I'm conscious of being labelled a job hopper (see link below). I'm also conscious that by acting this way, I'm a ‘Gen Y trophy kid’ as the author puts it.

I get itchy feet. I get bored easily. I want a ‘better thing’. I want to use new tech I find interesting. I’m looking for a perfect job which probably doesn't exist. I'm not being professional. I’m ‘flakey’.

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job-hoppers-never-they-make-terrible-employees/
Standardized? yes, assembly-like? No.

Essentially I am saying expose a layer even closer to the metal in the browser so that these optimization problems can be moved to front end development.
Thanks from the team. Google Calendar loves you too ;-)
I think he means that the configuration file is on the library path is read using an import statement rather than parsed explicitly from a standard path like etc/.
Ask HN: Hillary Clinton's Home Email Setup - What does it look like?
1. What do you all think it looks like/consists of? do you think she was running her own blackberry enterprise server etc.?

2. If you were going to do it for her, how would you have done it right?
PasswordSafe (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/) for password storage + encryption. I sync the .psafe3 file using Bittorrent Sync (Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iOS clients). Works really well and I own my data.
keepass. I don't trust a service to store my passwords.

I use a key file and a passphrase to secure my keepass database. The database is stored on dropbox, the keyfile is stored elsewhere.
Bitcoin is probably not a currency. It is however, a wonderfully efficient payment mechanism. So, when a large institution receives payment via Bitcoin, it's immediately converted into a stable unit of account, such as USD (typically via coinbase or bitpay). Similarly, when a company receives a warrant of payment from an American express customer, they convert that warrant into USD on a 7 day term.
First photographs emerge of new Pacific island off Tonga
http://supergenpass.com/

I use a chrome extension and an android app most of the time, and the "mobile" browser version when neither of those are handy.

I like the fact that nothing is ever stored anywhere. Feels clean.
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>Mind showing evidence that these numbers are highly inflated?

For starters, look at recent CDC studies in the last 5 years. Pay extra attention to how most cases of a woman forcing a man to have sex are not classified as rape (which means the summaries about rape are way off). There are other resources that I don't currently have on hand about how they are over inflated, but one recent story was about how over inflated they are on college campuses. Another, especially for attempted rape, is to look into the use of date rape drugs and how rare they actually are used compared to how often women think they have been used.
I use 'pass', a simple shell script which uses gpg. http://www.passwordstore.org/
Single material. Customized for each client.

This looks like a good place for 3D printing to start chipping away at traditional manufacturing.

[Edit] I am talking specifically about printing the overpriced frames sold by Luxottica. Not the lenses.
> Yes, power corrupts, and the US government is exceptionally powerful and exceptionally corrupt.

So if someone, say Europe, became more powerful than the US they would be extremely corrupt. Where does that tautology leave us?
Appew on Product Hunt
That's why I moved to "maker" if I absolutely have to pick a one-word label. So it goes.
The Sad Truth About Developing Executives
Will cable operators embrace SDN and NFV?
Hi, Google Calendar developer here. Do all of the colour options not work for you? What could we do to make it better?
Same here. KeePass2 on Linux, KeePassX on OSX, and KeePassDroid.
Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong?
That's a good point, though it is different consideration from the response time issue imposed by physical limits of communications round-trip time.
I'm not sure what he or she used, but I've been using Zenni Optical for at least half a decade now, and have always been satisfied.

Some optometrists are a little hesitant to give you your prescription data, but it's yours. When in doubt, ask them up front whether they're willing to give it to you after the exam; if not, walk away.
Keepass (Win/Linux) and MacPass (Mac). Certainly not as polished as 1password, but it's Open Source and cross platform.

And it has plugins for FF and Chrome for auto entry on websites (Win only so far).

What I often use and enjoy a lot is it's import and export functionality. For example if I want to add URLs to get auto completion working and I want to do that in batch, I export a CSV, edit this in LibreOffice and import it back into Keepass.
Process isn't wearing a suit to work. Process is having to fill out paperwork and present to a change review board to do things like modify a DNS record or install a service. Process is to keep morons from breaking what everyone else is doing correctly. If you have a team of people who know how to manage DNS in a way that won't explode, the request process be pared down to an email asking them to do it and trusting they will, them trusting you're not asking for no reason, and management trusting it won't jeopardize the system.
Passpack https://www.passpack.com/
OpenStack Public Cloud on 64-bit ARM Servers
I use lastpass because it's been mentioned. It's been almost 2 years now and I like it. It's pretty cheap and works on mobile, pretty convenient. I haven't tried anything else.
What would be interesting to me is an in-depth look at how this company is able to sustain its near monopoly on the business. They do not appear to be leaning on government intervention, and the product can be delivered via e-commerce (zappos, etc.) so they can't control the sales channel that much. The product is not that complicated to manufacture, has huge and recurring volume and, as of right now, preposterous margins.

Are they that good at taking advantage of positional goods and marketing? Are they litigious? Do they use kickbacks effectively? Are they buying out competition, and, if so, how are they doing it and why is new competition not emerging?

A situation like this appears to be a complete affront to nearly any economic model I can think of, and demands attention.

Additionally, we in the startup community should all be sitting around and thinking: "Wait, high margins, simple product and I can sell it online... Wait, what?"
Taco Out
While this isn't nearly as bad as companies like Valve which go around claiming not even to have any managers, let alone any policies, it still means you're going to run into this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessnes...
I feel like I go against the grain, I use OS X Keychain.
Why I'm joining Cozy Cloud – hint: personal cloud matters
Sounds like Warby Parker
How about the reverse? It's SJW types that shout and don't listen. Everything has a good solution when two sides are willing to listen to one another.
"People (or even robots) disagreeing with you on an internet forum is so far from effective that it's almost insulting to accuse them of it."

The evidence and movement of the "cyber war department" says otherwise. Within the last 5 years or so there has been an explosion of government requests for bids for persona management and other sock puppetry accounts, and quite a few companies have been making quite a bit of money off it, very quietly of course.

Now, lets not be hasty and call anyone who disagrees with a thing a "shill", but also lets not bury our head in the sand and pretend it's not happening and a very real threat to the normal evolution of discussion on the internet.

Instead of dumping a ton of RFB links I'll just give you a guardian article.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...
KeepassX is a good option.
Enough people have wanted them that Jack had to raise his prices several times to try to lower demand enough that he could fulfill it himself. He actually only ever wanted to sell the kit, but people kept throwing money at him to make the full conversion that he couldn't say no. He told me once even he didn't understand why people would pay so much for the things.
It's really impossible to use that number in a meaningful way, since you also have to take into account that most instances of file loss on their end will be unnoticed anyway (you'll still have a local copy that will simply be uploaded again).
Sure, but the typical logic applies: margins get high enough and new competitors come in.