skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to pay with BTC. I love how friction-less and easy it is, especially if you get partially paid in BTC as well for your services. I love https://bithost.io and I guess you could ask Scott if he had any problems so far.

He gives you a limit of 2 instances (droplets) on signup. You can then open a ticket and explain what you intend to do and he gives you the desired number of servers. I give him access to the apps I'm working on to remove any doubt and be transparent.

I always think that malicious people find entirely different ways to get what they want without even thinking of payment. Hacking a box for example.
why does OpenGL rule out vector formats? there aren't that many great libraries out there for doing it cross platform, but if you treat them as platform dependencies it should be easier...

you can probably google and find loads, but to get you started a little...

the main one I have experience of is 'cairo' which is quite a powerful library for all kinds of drawing things. there is an android build config (although its a bit old now) here: https://github.com/anoek/android-cairo - it is however not great for iOS or OS X...

i've not used, but heard good things about 'sugar' as well: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libsugar/
The War On General Purpose Computing continues. Far too many people are content to sacrifice their future in exchange for a few shiny beads^H^H^H^H^H"smart" devices.

As for tablets: they may not have been the revolution that some people hoped for, but the lock-in to a walled garden happened anyway with the iphone. Apple has done more long-term damage to the computer industry than anybody else by convincing way to many software authors - who should really know better - that paying to write and publish software is sane.

Instead of fighting this when it was small, we are now faced with a future where even the hardware can work against the user who wants a true General Purpose Computer. We've already seen BIOS lockouts such as the recent thinkpad "boot guard" idiocy. It will get really bad once we start to see Intel "SGX" and the "trusted execution environment" it is intended to enable[1]. So now we get to fight at the hardware level, too.

As for using vulnerabilities to root the device - that is not a strategy to fight this, and merely cedes the fight to the people that are afraid of what it means to be "turing complete".

Unfortunately, I suspect that we are too late. Fighting this trend now requires sacrifice. Stop giving any money to any business that uses these anti-user technologies. Yes, that includes Intel and many others. Stop writing software or making embedded products that rely on these kinds of features. Yes, this might mean quitting a nice job. No, I expect instead that the people that should know better will continue supporting the enemy by buying their products. I expect they will stay on as collaborators.

[1] this should scare anybody that wants a future where that still has general purpose computers: http://www.arm.com/images/GP_Standardization_500.png
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrafinil
Video of the second one: https://archive.org/details/3_do_t1_11h_3-Moglen
Building a Monopoly
I've taken Aniracetam for a while. It didn't make me as nervous as Piracetam.

Went on and off and noticed some memory improvement.
It's all relative.

For a chunk of humanity $5 is their entire discretionary daily spend (and for some it is their entire daily spend).
I found that writing cProfile's profiling data to a file and analysing that with either RunSnakeRun's[1] or KCacheGrind's[2] GUI gave me much more insight than just the tabular display from cProfile.
It gives you a really good visual overview of where your code spends its time and has a really good interface for drilling down into subroutines to pinpoint the exact location of the slow code.

[1] http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/runsnakerun/
[2] http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/html/Home.html
I've never heard of this before. To save you some time:

> Nootropics, also referred to as smart drugs, memory enhancers, neuro enhancers, cognitive enhancers, and intelligence enhancers, are drugs, supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods that improve one or more aspects of mental function, such as working memory, motivation, and attention.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic
People have always said that “now” is the time to be flexible, since “now” we are on a secure footing. Constantly. Since the beginning. You will excuse me if I don’t believe it this time, either.
Princípios de um Vencedor
I wonder if it would be easier building an open source version of btsync 1.4 as 2.0 seems to be a lot more complicated?
Dusting Off a Police Trove of Photographs to Rival Weegee’s
This is the answer I was looking for. Especially point 1.

Wish I could give multiple upvotes.

Organized optimization!
Great point about debugging.
I can't imagine not using Linode as my default option.

They are without doubt my favourite IT company, in 7 years with between 3-4 and a lot more instances I've had to talk to them exactly 3 times (once for a query, once to ask for a bandwidth cap change and once related to billing).

They set the standard for me at this point.
Not a nootropic as such, but fuelling my brain on ketones rather the glucose has made an incredible difference in concentration and cognitive ability.

(Ketogenic = High fat, carb restricted diet)
Great app!

For me Thunderbird didn't trigger any test. K-9 Mail triggered the Meta refresh test (but asked me to choose the browser, perhaps because I have multiple browsers installed).
Tomatoes are so bitter I'd assume they were poisonous if I didn't know about other people eating them.

I can't think of anything else that's even close to tomatoes. I don't touch beer or coffee with a ten-foot pole either, but tomatoes are worse even than that.

There's a chemical(s) in raw tomatoes that most people just aren't able to taste. Cooking alters it in some way; I like tomato soup and stuff, and was very surprised to learn, at 25, that most people find tomatoes and tomato soup taste similar, when they couldn't be more different to me.

Liking tomatoes is basically like being colour blind, except that they're a majority, which makes the non-colour blind people the weird ones.
Let me get this right. You pop this pill and then work for 24 hours straight? How do you feel the following day?
> Hacked Chrome browser in 2 minutes

Does that mean it took 2 minutes for script to finish it's job?
I waste alot of time on self criticism.
Still not exactly great. I'd like to get a flamegraph view of the profile[0] or a chrome-style time series as it provides a much clearer high-level picture, but I'm not sure cProfile records enough information to do so (or that it stores threading informations in the profile, which would be necessary for time series)

[0] http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html
RethinkDB: do you plan on releasing any official benchmarks or projections, especially with regards to how much better at realtime RethinkDB is or could be compared to other realtime database systems built on top of non-realtime databases?
M-F I take one 200mg tablet of caffeine in the morning.

I also quit getting blackout drunk 4-5 nights a week.
The typography isn't bad . . . but for an app whose purpose is to read articles it should be great!

Helvetica/Arial is common enough, and sites like the BBC use it for body text, but there are so many free fonts available that are much readable for running text.

I'm getting 14 px text for article bodies. Usually something closer to 17 px is optimal, and I think zooming the page 120% looks best (14 px · 1.2 = 16.8 px).
Be careful.

A lot of the drugs with strong effects necessarily have long term consequences from repeated use owing to their mechanisms of action.

You risk making yourself 'dumber' over time with prolonged use. Especially, with the amphetamine based crap that US doctors seem okay to use for medical purposes despite most of the developed world not doing so, and using safer alternatives.
Nice update, correction, etc. Thanks.
I've been tinkering with nootropics for several years. I've found over that time some things that work for me, and many things that don't. While not all of the following are strictly speaking nootropics, they all contribute to my overall mental state:

- Aniracetam. Helps a lot with my concentration and working my way through problems logically.

- Caffeine/L-theanine. Caffeine is a no-brainer, but l-theanine is amazing in that at a 2:1 ration of l-theanine to caffeine it removes essentially all the jumpiness of the caffeine.

- Tianeptine. This is an anti-depressant that also helps a bit with my anxiety.

- Noopept. This one helps with my concentration quite a bit, and also makes my vision more vibrant. The vision thing doesn't matter so much, but it's pretty neat.

- Rhodiola. This helps tremendously with my anxiety and stops me from ruminating.

- Taurine. Another one that helps me with my anxiety, and has the added benefit of helping with blood pressure. Though I've had my blood pressure under control for years, it's never bad to have a helping hand.
Sure. Facebook ;)
Isn't syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing, supposed to be an open source alternative to btsync ?
Meh. There are no victims in this story. The pop music business is a lottery. Sometimes you lose some of that easy money,
If no one walks up to me or calls to interrupt me, my everyday routine is that level of focus. No drugs beyond a couple of morning coffee cups needed.

One of my coworkers is normal, not like me. When he works in the office there's a lot more socializing, which is great, but it always makes me feel terribly non-productive.
Great! I had a good chuckle out of most of them. The text was ever so slightly too large for me. Just ever so slightly. And I saw the same quotes often.
> Part of the reason computer systems seemed more secure back then was because there were much fewer people who could attack them and we had a much worse understanding of how to do so.

And because the attack surface was much
smaller: No TCP/IP, DVDs, thumb drives, etc.
I also have very little low-level bittorrent experience, but the static nature of .torrent files would be tricky. You'd need some sort of snapshotting diffs to convert to .torrent equivalents at regular intervals, right?
The point of statistical tests is to assess the accuracy of a prediction. These trials were not designed to predict/test the efficacy of the drug, therefore no conclusion regarding efficacy can be drawn.

It is of course possible that there was a real effect, and that this is reflected in the data gathered, however to determine if that is the case another trial has to be performed.
Also kinda like XBM, a file format that was happily supported in the browser - and you could create the images in JavaScript! http://www.mrspeaker.net/2005/03/27/xmb-images/ - unfortunately, IE was first to discontinue it in 2006 (http://www.mrspeaker.net/2006/09/04/the-end-of-xbm/), and Firefox followed. My guess is it was too obvious of a security hole vector for an image format that no one actually used ;)
Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code by Bill Blunden
Police officer saves a woman from choking
> Weather is complicated, and hard to prove anything about.

Which is why not all people skeptical of AGW are right wing anti-science nutjobs. A great many are I'm sure, but scientific skepticism may well be warranted when the system is so complex.
I've had interesting and unexpected results taking Lecithin supplements. There is a stimulating effect similar to caffeine or a B12 shot, and there is also a focusing effect where I could not stop fixating. I can have a tendency to day dream but not on Lecithin. It makes your train of thought very hard to derail. I still take it sometimes but not regularly. It hurts my stomach and can be a bit too much sometimes.

As far as I understand, lecithin breaks down/converts to choline an inositol, and it's these which are causing the mental effect. Since it's a food, the effects aren't as immediate. You'll notice it more on day two.
It's like caffeine without side effects. Front end of the 24 hours you can be productive with detailed tasks but towards the latter part you're best with menial tasks, like cleaning.
Can't understand why there's no good SVG implementation in Objective-C / Swift. SVG makes Web-Dev or even C# / XAML so much easier.
> Although the length of your post worries me that you might actually believe what you are saying.

> Please do not post such comments again, there are people on here that will not realize you're joking.

What is so dangerous about someone having the opinion that HTML shouldn't get more features? This "be careful what you say"-tone is so weird to me, on this topic.

> Bananabread

A 3D shooter in the browser. So what? Yes there are advantages to having this power, but not everyone is going to agree that it is worth it.
I haven't seen this comment yet. Thank you for answering our questions. I have read through all of them! Thanks Sam :)
Is Your Child Ready for First Grade: 1979 Edition (2011)
http://www1.american.edu/ted/cigar.htm
But independently from your selected location linode is routing through the US. That's a bummer for way too many possible customers with sensitive data.
TPM /could/ be nice, if you personally would control it, instead of some company burning the signing keys into the processor – because then you would be able to make a safe system.
Every day I take a significant dose of one of the ones that you've heard of, for "ADD". I started doing so because of non-coding reasons but reading the Wikipedia article it is listed on that page.

I'm concerned about the long term effects of taking a psychoactive substance every day. However the one that I take has been used for a while so the long term effects are probably more well known that some of the new ones like Modafinil.

I would be extremely careful and think twice about going down this road unless you absolutely need to. I have a lot of experience fiddling with my body chemistry and usually I decide to stop after a while.

IIRC Sigmund Freud had a similar experience, where he injected himself with cocaine 3 times a day for ten years and wrote about it... then after he stopped came to the conclusion that the cocaine was distorting his perception and that he was actually full of shit. Cocaine is not too different from many of these substances.

Enjoy and be safe!

EDIT: bonus reading for the weekend: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html
L-theanine has been a miracle drug for me. Took away a lot of my depression/energy issues.
Out of curiosity, have you heard of any negative long term side effects from Modafinil and it's derivatives? (I don't think they are based on 'amphetamine')
I tried that.

But either the provider doesn't support wildcards or it is filtering it anyways.
I basically agree with the judge throwing out the verdict.

However, I don't like the usage of the word "thoughtcrime" here. This was not "thoughtcrime." It was a very creepy freak who wrote online, at length, about performing some extremely disgusting violent crimes. Such behavior outside of the right context is going to raise alarm and cause people to start snooping around. And of course getting identified should rightfully trigger termination for a police officer.
NO!

I investigated nootropics extensively. If you want to know the fruits of my research:

* anything that "works" has a very pronounced psychoactive effect on the brain. Which is scary in the long-term.

* by far the biggest cognitive boost you can get is SLEEPING WELL! Do this FIRST! It's easy to fix and gives a huge boost in output.

* caffeine works as well as many nootropics, with little to no side-effects if taken sensibly. Also combine with Theanine if wanting to venture into the world of "probably works and has harmless side-effects".
Discussion of the antirez's post/reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9176800 (130 points, 11 days ago, 41 comments)
What is it that amounts to effective prohibition? I did not find it.
If you watch the the ruBSD 2013 interview video with Theo de Raadt[1] at the 6:36, he states that they should take a shot at dealing with modern x86 VMs. That gives me quite a bit of hope along with the work on vmware related drivers in each release.

I use VMware at work, seems to do ok.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXS8ljif9b8
This is the best repo on Github.
I took piracetam years ago when I was considering a career change and prepping for the LSAT exam. I believe that its legal history is somewhat similar to ephedra... 10-15 years ago you could buy it over-the-counter or online, but since then it's been taken off the market in the U.S.

Regardless, my experience was that its only value is the placebo effect. If a substance actually does anything real, and there is potential for a pharmaceutical company to patent and profit from it, then you can generally rest assured that it will be scheduled to require a doctor's prescription. For just about everything, the over-the-counter options consist of vitamins and quackery. So either blatantly break the law, or don't.

As an aside, what is the point of taking a serious nootropic for software development? Typically, a coder's problem isn't failure to get into a groove once they have uninterrupted time. The typical problem is not having uninterrupted time in the first place. Like most people here, probably, I work in an open floor plan environment. I'm subject to constant "drive-by" interruptions that could have been handled better via email, and a neverending roar all around me as colleagues literally scream at each other about Reddit memes or video games or the latest superhero movie.

Do you have a drug that would allow me to completely shut off my hearing, peripheral vision, and other sensory input? So that I can work without having to blast music through $300 noise-canceling headphones (which itself impairs focus, but is the lesser of all evils)? If so, then I would gladly break the law to find a pharmaceutical escape from contemporary office plans that sacrifice productivity for the ability to squeeze headcount into the smallest possible space.
Virtualization is much older than that - it was invented in the late 1960s, I believe at IBM.
It lacks some features (public shares for example) but works pretty well for personal syncing. It does not use torrents.
> strlcat() and strlcpy()
> - Solves the problem of unterminated C strings

Handling truncation correctly with those is just as much work as handling strcat and strcpy correctly. The only difference is that wrong handling of strcat and strcpy have worse effects usually.
Subjective experience does not always match with scientific fact.
Well, if you start pitching this to everybody and their mom too, people will start to measure you up based on this.

At first it was pretty rational to present yourself in a way that gets you that 15 minutes. Now, I don't know, but HN is full of startups trying to revolutionize something instead of incrementally "disrupting" a set of incumbents.
Terminal.com is writing next generation virtualization. This includes live-migration without hypervisors (already in production) and live-resizing (also in production).

I think we'd like to think we're working on the ugly bits of infrastructure people don't care about.

This includes a distributed file system optimized for speed and storing machine state like Github, software defined networking for IP migration across metal, and other abstractions for making devops easier.

We're looking for people who want to think about hard computer science problems like managing stateful systems more intelligently (think auto-failure detection and recovery and less I/O intensive WAN replication strategies).
Dissing Track Records
Infographic: Sketch vs. Photoshop
http://www.openbgpd.org/users.html

Also, most large service providers don't tend to talk about their internal implementations.

Many in the networking field have been indoctrinated in a Cisco-only philosophy, and then get hired into that monoculture over and over to the point they don't know about anything else, other than if it's something viewed as a Cisco competitor.
The comic book battles behind the big screen
No worry, and no offense taken!
Thank you for bringing it in: I've been looking for a pure Python analogue of QuickCheck.
Graphics files are not both self-describing and inline.

For some applications, having something be both can be helpful.
I remember on one of the Erlang User Conferences there was an [impressive] presentation of testing C code with an erlang "driver".
The last thing I remember reading about Light Table is that the founders were moving on to work on their new project, Eve: http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/10/01/beyond-light-table/
You seem to contradict yourself, because caffeine is a nootropic.
I agree with you about sleep, it's very underrated for cognitive ability and memory development.

Did your research turn up anything negative about Modafinil?

I find Modafinil to be much more powerful than caffeine, however I do worry about long term side effects, even though my research suggests they are safe to use.
That is true, it something is needed in the language
Automated discovery and exploitation of architectural flaws is merely the next step in the evolution of software. For the past few years we have been witness to a 'whack-a-mole' type of dynamic in the field of computational security. Exploits are published, a day later they become a Metasploit module, and a day after that anybody in the world can use it on everyone else in the world at the click of a mouse. If you are a full time sys-admin plugged into all the advisory mechanisms you may, for a time, be able to keep your systems patched, but the machines never sleep, they never blink, they never forget, and apparently, they never die.

In the race against time, it is fair to say at this point that the machines have won. It may not be completely obvious yet, in the way that a tidal wave out at sea is only a small hump under your individual ship, but when it comes ashore, when the confluence of terrain and massive liquid power becomes manifest, then, of course, it is obvious.

What appears to be happening is a kind of terra-forming activity, a new software layer is spreading, one that has the keys to everything - our social lives, our morning cup of coffee, our cars.. our nukes.

This has an end condition, of course - and that is the total loss of control over our technological infrastructure.
Any Sherlock Holmes adventure book. Technique is good. Attitude is better.
Gister: Manage your gists from the command-line
How large a difference? I'm willing to try anything that gives me the focus of Modafinil without actually taking drugs.
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See my article on the topic for more detailed, in-depth view of modafinil and start-ups:

http://swombat.com/2012/2/27/modafinil-and-startups
You are making some broad statements that could benefit from link to a study. And what would you consider safer alternatives?
Good sleep and exercise will do that for you (speaking from experience).
I take Modafinil every now and then. It's very powerful and can give me an amazing level of focus.

Even though research suggests that they have little negative long term side effects I do worry about taking them and would prefer a more natural method to get the same result.

Basically it's like this; If I get home from a 10 hour workday almost falling asleep, I can take one pill and suddenly it's like the day starts over again as my focus has returned. At the moment I feel like I need to do it as I have projects I work on in the evening that are important for my career progression.
Also for continents. E.g. I'm interested in a server in Europe, don't care if it's in France, Germany, Netherlands, or wherever.