skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you mostly, but let's also consider the value of lowering the bar of entry. Once upon a time "software engineer" meant someone punching cards and running them through one out of a handful machines on Earth to execute a piece of logic. In 10 years from now "software engineer" might mean someone who practically draws something on a touchable, wireless surface that weighs less than a couple of those punch cards that used to hold a single logical instruction, and their software is instantly available to billions of people.

Or to translate to your analogy: there might have been a lot of brilliant writers in the world that simply never learned how to write, or they never had access to distribution so the only person who read their masterpiece was themselves. Today, with the Internet and computers and better access to schools, we have a lot more writers. There might also be more lower quality content because the bar of entry has been lowered, but I'm absolutely sure there will be a lot more high quality content as well.
You are wrong. SELinux does protect adjacent VMs, by putting each VM into its own separate context and controlling which host files/devices are assigned to each context label. VMs cannot access files or devices on the host which are assigned to other VMs.

That is the purpose of the cXXX,cYYY part of the label as seen in the example here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SVirt_Mandatory_Acce...
Previous discussion on the article on hex grid theory:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5809724
>> What about this?

That article was about the US treating a Muslim terribly. That happens, and unfortunately it seems to happen very often, and with little justifying evidence. What I'm saying is that I haven't heard it happening to a friend of a Muslim, which was the original scenario.

>> Okay, thank you very much, I'm staying home then.

My comment was made tongue in cheek. Secret prisons on US soil are near unheard of, but if they do exist I'm assuming only very high profile targets would be sent there. If they are taking low level suspects there for interrogation and releasing them, it wouldn't be secret for very long. My point is, the scenario is bad spy novel material, and doesn't remotely reflect reality.
Either Flipkart is using Myntra to test the waters.

Or their investors have some goal to become profitable ASAP
http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/myntra-ai...

I guess the call was to become profitable no matter what. And if it comes at the cost of shaving off a bit of the Topline (Desktop Revs), then so be it!
Many people have expressed here that EVE takes up an inordinate chunk of your life, to the point where you ignore other things you should be doing. Perhaps OP is assuming we know that, and is making the point that some of the excess should be directed toward something more meaningful? That's my charitable reading of his post, but I could be wrong.
Agile glorifies treading water, which will sometimes save your life, but won't get you anywhere. The problem is that it discourages actually swimming, and people forget how.

To explain: where this sort of project management actually works is in a short-term, time-limited crisis that large companies might call a "Code Red" or (in the original meaning of the word) a Scrum. See my Quora post on the topic: http://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-developers-at-strong-compan...

When you're a small web consultancy that has landed a make-or-break project that (say) must be delivered inside of 4 weeks, and when you have absolutely no leverage and must accept any changes in scope as they come, Agile can work. You can reasonably expect people to set aside their long-term goals (career progress, tech debt reduction) and solve the problem at hand. Moreover, when you're a big company fighting a Code Red (meaning, money is being lost right now in large amounts) and have to assemble a cross-cutting do-nothing-else-for-now team with no clear manager, Scrum can actually make sense.

In a true sprint-- a short-term reorganization necessary to solve an immediate problem-- unsustainable effort is OK because, well, no one's going to be expected to sustain it. You're under a short term emergency. You can ignore whether the assigned work helps peoples' careers, because they're not going to be doing it for long. You can mandate that people work on the "official" top priority (of which there's only one) and most people will do so.

The problem is the perma-Scrum that's been sold (dishonestly) by the Agile industry. This stuff works for a few weeks and people don't mind doing it. In fact, even if the work itself is painful and the hours are bad and status updates are (by necessity) frequently demanded, being tapped for the "elite emergency team" is something that people generally like and, over a span of 2 to 6 weeks, it gets results. However, when you have permanent "sprinting" and frequent status meetings or impose these rules over the whole organization, it starts to hurt morale. It starts to feel less like being on an elite emergency team and more like a culture of permanent juniority/micromanagement... which is what Scrum/Agile has become in many organizations.
Is there a suite of unit tests to verify all of the code listed and that it works in all browsers or is the content opened sourced anywhere? For example if you look at "Empty an elements content" (http://plainjs.com/javascript/manipulation/empty-an-elements...) it shows this code:

var el = document.querySelector('div');

el.innerHTML = '';

Which is fine for a div but won't work in IE for a select (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/276228?wa=wsignin1.0).

Granted that's a weird bug but I'd expect any issues with examples could be logged, updated and tested against a browser suite to ensure correctness.
bubble.js was built with bubble.js- it's bubble.js all the way down.
Whether something is useful is a different question than whether something is Turing complete. Brainfuck is Turing complete and eminently useless. CSS is not Turing complete, and arguably useful. How do I know that CSS is not Turing complete? Because I believe that - without Javascript - any given page render will finish. Presuming that's the case, CSS cannot be Turing complete. Of course it can be part of a larger system which is. A finite state machine is not Turing complete; an infinite tape is not Turing complete; but when you combine them, you get a Turing machine.
Uh oh, The Client is figuring out that Agile isn't a silver bullet for building great software... Time to turn the crank..

Get your team GROWS™ certified today!
The 19th January 2038 is 2^31 seconds after the unix epoch, when 32 bit linux timestamps wrap around. On 16-bit PIC microcontrollers the default implementation of the gmtime function wraps already 0x0x7C55817F seconds after the unix epoch (I forgot why, it was probably about efficiency). That works out to 7th February 2036, likely catching a lot of companies off guard (seemingly everyone focuses on 2038). Some systems also use 1980 as the epoch, so maybe we'll see some problems again in 2048.

Calling it just the Year 2038 problem is misleading because lots of platforms and implementations add their own twist, skewing the crucial date by a few years. Linux is a big platform, but there are countless niche alternatives as processor resources get scarce or realtime requirements get tight.
You could, but you wouldn't compress much.

Encrypted data is supposed to look random, and as a consequence, it tends to compress very poorly.
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle".

Something unfortunately, we all have to keep reminding ourselves off (Yes, I know it's difficult to remember that when dealing with a jerk!).
nice game.
An annoying bug though, most of the times when the game is interrupted (by receiving a phonecall, or simply clicking the home button then opening again) nothing is clickable anymore and you have to kill it and re-run in order to get it to work again.
I deleted it when this happened: https://4d43.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/whatsapp-and-facebook-...
Reporting, reviewing, and responding to harassment on Twitter [pdf]
If you just want to be a code monkey, you probably don't need to go to college. You don't need a college education to build web pages.

If you want to do anything more interesting than that (AI, embedded systems, HPC, etc.), then college may prove useful.

Also, this person's experience of barely programming by senior year is highly atypical. Many CS colleges today don't even have pure theory courses until a few years in.
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Is it just me or has there been a tremendous influx in nautil.us posts making it to the top of the front page with few votes?
Pricing would be helpful.
Techy-Now performing laptop pickups in the Washington DC area
So do you think you might have been a good target for this service? As a new parent, would it have allayed your concerns and been an acceptable alternative to new items? And as a smart parent would this be sufficiently more convenient than sourcing things yourself?
Lots of cellular automata, probably.
In a sellers market, cash transfers areeffectively subsidies -- the landlord consumes all the renter's ability to pay.
Its crap like this that's going to force new federal regulations on us, that will probably be over-reaching and pegged to a bill full of questionable things. Its disheartening to see our energy usage drop because of the move to CFL's over incandescent, targeting vampire power appliances, moving from CRT to LCD, moving towards energy efficient chips, etc only to lose a lot of these gains because of some bitcoin stupidity.

uTorrent just did this by running a background miner bundled with the software. Considering how much extra coal we're going to burn for this, I think its going to become a regulation issue sooner than later. The industry's greed is begging for it.

I'd also be worried about a fire risk from these things. How hot do they get? How much ventilation do they need? How well do they handle a hot day in the American South without A/C? What kind of QA can we expect here considering these will be disposable tchotski's.
Bitcoin is an environmental disaster. What a horrendous waste burning electricity and real, non-renewable natural resources to generate these tokens. For all people complain about the legacy financial system, bitcoin is a real zero-sum game where the more miners join, the harder the block difficulty gets, and the more coal gets burnt.
I laughed a bit when I realized this wasn't Bang With Friends https://www.downapp.com/
How do you know the average age of the people in this thread?

From the linked article - "In 2013, if you were a man between the ages of 20 and 49 who’d died, the most likely cause was not assault nor car crash nor drug abuse nor heart attack, but a decision that you didn’t wish to live any more".

Dismissing the people who try to talk about these issues and branding everyone 'MRAs' seems like an attempt to kill any discussion, normally by those who cannot argue with the statistics.
Is it easy to get an x86 that fast? I thought x86 was limited to only 4 sockets, way less than the biggest POWER machines.
It is discrediting http://bubble.is/, saying it is like Twitter, but much worse.

I couldn't sign up. It took forever.
Well you have to factor in population change. If 1 million people are paying stable rent, and population is growing so 0.5 million new residents pay more, that's not a net failure.
Do you call a carpenter every time you want to put a nail in the wall to hang a picture? Do you call a doctor to put Neosporin and a band aid on your boo-boo? Do you call an accountant to calculate tips?
I wouldn't expect to see a job listing for a Computer Scientist at all. Except maybe at Google? 99% of the market is writing code.

Maybe that's broken - more shops could sure use a good designer who understands the complexity of problems. But I don't see designers very often, and I've worked at dozens of places.
Too much social networks.
Is VirtualBox affected? It is not mentionned
RHEL cuts tons of devices compared to upstream qemu. Go and grab the source RPM and see the number of '--disable-XXX' options and the additional patches we add to remove devices. We publish a whitelist of devices we allow [which unfortunately I cannot find now, but it's in the RHEL docs online], and anything else is cut.
Star clusters may harbor dark matter
Or, AWS takes steps to mitigate their exposure, regardless of whether or not they receive embargoed disclosures.

On the Rackspace public cloud I've been through three full-fleet reboot cycles so far. Only one of those affected AWS customers, and AWS handled it in such a way that only a portion of their fleet was affected.

How could AWS do this when Rackspace and others couldn't?

For one, they could stratify guest placement based on instance type and guest OS. (Which I hear they do.) Most recent XSAs have only affected PV or HVM guests, not both. If you keep PV and HVM guests separate ...

AWS seems to be an example of good engineering, not an example of the perils of capitalism.
If one is not prepared to take an active role in identifying their course of study and desired path of education I would suggest that that person should wait to go to college.

Not that anyone does.
Part of the problem is that the field moves faster than colleges. Kids who might be looking for a path to that career that they're aware of, try their best to find a fit. Computer Science is what all the job postings seem to want.
I'm not from the US, and I was lucky because I knew what I was getting into when I started a CS education. However, it's true even in my country that many students commit this mistake (even with other career paths unrelated to CS, it's pretty common for students to drop out because it wasn't what they expected).

I'm not truly blaming the student. It's an honest mistake to make. However, I see this same mistake (CS == programming) propagated online by people who should know better. Whenever someone links to "The Perils of Java Schools" by Spolsky, in relation to a debate about CS, he/she is doing this. Java/C#/C++/${LANGUAGE} doesn't matter in this context because a CS education isn't about learning a particular programming language. And this article, while not written by one of these people who should know better, doesn't help.
Rand Paul: 'We Will Be Filibustering' Renewal of Patriot ACT Provisions
Bloomberg isn't a party rep for rent. He is a billionaire who bought the mayoralty for himself to grow his stature and pursue a fun project.
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And luckily, code compilation tends to be one of those things that can actually be effectively parallelized.

Another thing useful for a programmer is being able to benchmark things - with a multicore machine you can tie off one core (or multiple cores!) exclusively for a benchmark, which can really help reproducibility.
Over on http://growsmethod.com/, when you sign up for the mailing list, the page confirming your subscription is loading in mixed content (JS!). I'm suddenly not inspired.

That said, I don't see the point of "methods", agile, waterfall or otherwise. When I worked building SaaS for school districts, we shipped roughly once a month, so I guess that was waterfall, but some ideas we iterated multiple times within that ship period until we liked one. Now I work with a set of e-commerce websites, and nothing front-end isn't AB tested (which slows down shipping anything), and new backend functionality is iterated almost daily. But I've never called these methods anything other than the right approach based on the situation.
I'm not a security expert by any means, but this seems like an intelligent move to me. And it sounds like this process of accessing corporate applications has the potential to be less onerous for employees.
The reason that BigCo never does capital-A Agile is that their release dates are fixed months ahead of time (to coordinate across the organization), and they want to know what they'll actually be shipping in 6 months (again, to coordinate across the org). This makes the biggest two selling points of Agile - continuous release and rapid change - completely worthless.

The only model I've actually seen in a large organization is for the dev team to throw together a barely-working prototype, then spend the next 6 months fixing all its problems while the Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service departments train up on the new software. And they'll find a way to call this "agile", because otherwise the developers will revolt.
Crying IS a sign of weakness and immaturity. Ever wondered why children cry more than adults?

We're turning into a bunch of sissy, "touchy feely" men in the west - it's enough to drive anyone to suicide. This whole political correctness thing has gone too far - and I say that as a minority myself. Yeah, so I'll get downvoted - so what?! - Newsflash - there are more important things in life than points on HN!
Fantastic. I'll keep an eye on it.
I agree with a lot of what you say. But waiting for someone else to fight your fight never worked for anybody. It's just the way it is, people have a hard time putting themselves in others' shoes, and everyone naturally tends to place greater emphasis on their own problems. And then there's the fact that problems women face still exist.

But for me, the problem with MRAs is not that they are "unmanly". They remind me of something like a slave, who sees another former slave now walking free, and instead of now demanding his own freedom, he fights for the other guy to become a slave again...

You are probably right, MRAs probably will be seen as pussies and belittled, but their response, IMO, should be to embrace it. Yes, I am a pussy. If that's what an intelligent, reflective man is, then let it be - I am a pussy. Kind of like the relationship between feminists and the word "bitch". And that is for some men one hard pill to swallow.

Now that feminism has won a lot of victories, men are in a position that they are still burdened by patriarchic expectations, but no longer enjoy the corresponding privileges. The right answer is to fight the expectations, IMO.
This has got to be the worst written article I've seen all year. I've seen high school essays written with more skill.
>A person can be found innocent of all charges but still be wiped out financially from defending themselves. That's called "justice".

And say the false charge was one with a social stigma, say child molestation. Now not only are you financially wiped out, not only have you lost your job, but your name is now tied with a crime which people will often not care if you were found not guilty (or even found innocent). And the only thing you can do to stop it is to say a prayer that you aren't going to be the next one wrongly charged.
This is exactly how I feel. I spent much of my senior year of high school talking with everyone I knew about what options I had to go into website development (which I already had a job doing). The answer from everyone was basically "Get a CS degree, but don't use it. Otherwise nobody will take you seriously". In the end I dropped out since I realized that spending 3 years doing GE and taking classes on things I already understood was a huge waste, even if the last year would have been very useful.
The idea has been around for a long while. Google "data furnace".

The crux seems to be Moore's Law. We buy heaters and use them for decades, but any compute device has a useful lifetime of a few years before it's surpassed. If we ever see Moore's Law come to an end, expect to see a lot of highly-distributed computing.
Radley Balko has written extensively about stories just like this one; look him up.
Perhaps.

The same is true of anything for some people though.
This is an interesting mix.

> Google Lunar XPRIZE $20,000,000 Successfully launch, land, and operate a rover on the lunar surface.

That almost reads like a joke. It's going to take an awful lot more than $20,000,000 to accomplish that. The prize money is nearly irrelevant.

> ALS Treatment Prize $1,000,000 Develop a therapy that extends the life of ALS mice by 25%.

I surprised this one hasn't been taken yet.
Poll: Do you make money in the “sharing economy”?
Mostly on HN I read about experiences using Uber or AirBnB, but I figure the HN community has to have a number of people on the other side of the coin.

Please leave comments about your experience(s), what got you involved, does it make you happy, is it a living or supplemental income, what you would change, ect...
Social perfectionism? Maybe just having a spouse like Livvy was enough to do it... geez. People who are evil, uncaring, and selfish can also cause others to feel depressed.

I remember reading a strange question on Quora once. A woman was trying to figure out why her husband was always drunk and suicidal. "He used to be the perfect man! I don't understand why he's acting like this now." Of course, in the next paragraph, she mentions that it all started right after she had cheated on him. The disconnect between her behavior and her failure to recognize its consequences was staggering.
The difference is that for most goods, the marginal cost of production falls with increasing economies of scale. Bitcoin is the exact opposite: The block difficulty will continue to escalate as more miners enter the market. It's like running on a treadmill that keeps getting faster and faster. Oh, and instead of making you healthier, your treadmill pumps more and more soot into the air around you.
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LibreBoard is back on GitHub
Huh? It sounds like you're engaging in the same kind of wishful thinking about HTTP2 now, rather than programming languages. What you are describing will never happen.
I think I've read an identical copy of your comment on other threads from this domain.
Should You Build or Acquire?
How-to-secure-ssh-with-Google-authenticators-two-factor-authentication/
90's return, but with Android and iOS apps instead of Windows clients written in Delphi and Visual Basic.
Where does it say open source?
I see where it says they have an open API and protocol, but nothing about source code.
It's funny, I'm a senior software developer at Temple University, and I started working here just to be able to take classes at the college (I have my MSc in Comp Sci from Stevens Institute of Technology).

I don't understand what people want from computer science - no thinking? Computer science is awesome because it's hard and you can't just solve problems by beating them up with brute force combinations of things you can find on stackoverflow. Computer science is all thinking.

I'm also female, and this is one of the places I've been where I don't feel like an outsider all the time. I don't know what it's like around the students and professors as a general population. But plenty of my coworkers are students, and some are professors and some have gone off to be full time professors, so... just throwing in a perspective from the other side.
The 8 in the 8800 means it can do 8 sockets.

http://ark.intel.com/products/84685/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-...

>Package Specifications
>Max CPU Configuration	8

So 18 cores * 8 = 144 cores / 288 threads per board. Not too shabby.
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I think being always right in this context means being less open to consensus and taking up more responsibility of execution. This could be very crucial in a fight or flight situation. Most of the time this is a very natural response to adverse situations. Like I said such a response has a very short shelf life. But being persistently in the same state long after the crunch time has passed is definitely not ok.
Something like shh?
What happens at these retrospectives?

I've only been at ones that work. I don't see how you could ask these questions and have it be a time sink: https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2014/april/...