skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love this thread. I've been looking to find answer to this question. I used to get more quality results from Flippa when I wanted to buy sites, back when they were Sitepoint. Now it's more or less for newbies to drop their money.

For sales, Flippa offers a brokerage service as well. They don't charge, unless the site is sold. I've got an extension for a CMS that stably makes 6-figures profit for past 3 years. Last year I wanted to experience the process and test the market, but didn't find the right buyer. This year might try again. If interested, reach me on Twitter: @ugurkaner
I am selling my fashion e-commerce website and app. Check my app at leposha.com
If you're going to succumb to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate then at least own up to it instead of participating without awareness.
Fedora 22 will arrive on time
>The confusion doesn't arise from missing the statement you quoted, but whether this is to be treated as part of the problem statement that you are testing for truth.

You are not supposed to test for truth the problem premises. Just the if "even then blue" statement.

If you also had to test the premises then there would be no question and no asnwer -- because those require premises.
Where do you think all the money comes from due to the huge rise in housing costs between now and 1990? It comes from the next generation paying more of their labour for the same house someone had to work far less for 20 years back.

And this is because banks have financialised housing. Prices are set by available credit.

We all have no choice in a world where land is financialised. You can't float in the air. You either live miles away from the source of most jobs (cities) and pay in commute time or you live nearer in and give someone a huge slice of your wages whilst they cream it in.

And in our current system it will always be like this. Productivity up? More wages to spend on rent!
Developer Brings Netflix to Steam OS: Linux Wrap
Please public your tutorial anywhere for now.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner does this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_air#Bleedless_aircraft
It's sooo limited in what's implemented.
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Yes, but we've seen this in the US also. The whole system totally messed up to bail out the banks from ramping housing up to 2008.
As long as we're assigning blame let's actually blame the people directly encouraging this, the wahhabist/salafi crusaders that are heavily funded and protected by the Saudi government and who have been at it long before Isis.

http://www.cfr.org/world/cultural-terrorism-wahhabi-islam/p5...
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I am reminded of the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I recommend it to everyone who has not read it.
That "if an X" implies ANY X.
You work to get paid. If you are well enough off you don't need to work to get paid you aren't working any more.
I am working on inker, redefining how we code & deliver transactional email

http://inker.position-absolute.com/
d-Threeact: Making d3 and React the Best of Friends
Once Carly Rae Jepson began speaking out about database partitioning, surely it was only a matter of time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8936701

https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard

https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard/issues/92
I have been considering going back to help the Kurds fight ISIS for some time now. I want to say stories like this highlight the urgency of the situation, but in the face of all the murder happening in areas controlled by the dark army of Mordor, it would make me appear to have the wrong priorities. ISIS needs to be destroyed.
Not missing anything. Please see above; I am amused at the naive interpretation of two excerpted sentences. I am not ignorant of matters financial.
It has the sensors framework from 2007, too. :-)
Did you tell him you charge 3x as much? If so, how did the conversation go after that?
This is amazing, thanks for posting. For so much of history it feels like cultures were entirely isolated, and this presents some great evidence of remarkable early cross-polination.
If you like the article, the author Tim Wescott went on to write an entire book on applied control theory for embedded systems:

http://smile.amazon.com/Applied-Control-Embedded-Systems-Tec...
Huh, I was thinking someone could buy up a ton of cheap usb sticks, load this on there, have it autorun, and then have the payload sent to a server over HTTPS in AWS (who is going to block HTTPS traffic to AWS? everyone runs out of there) that would catch it and notify the attacker via webhook.

Then go sprinkle them around the SFBA.
Anyone got a VLC stream?
> People talk and things come out and shit happens, but deliberately going behind someone's back for back-channel references is just plain unprofessional, if not unethical.

It's not unprofessional or unethical.

> The back-channel reference check is an unprofessional show of power-- like waving a gun around at work-- because it takes social access to get any information out of it

For it to be a show of power, such an action would have to involve "showing" something. It's actually an attempt to avoid hiring bad employees -- that's the benefit people get.

> (people don't just offer candid opinions up to complete strangers).

This merely raises the threshold of badness before they might offer negative information. If their coworker was bad enough, they would. And do.

> What's communicated by the back-channel reference check is "your colleagues are more loyal to me than to you".

The miscommunication is on your end.

(Also, your former colleagues don't owe you or some potential employer "loyalty.")
Search for "Amazon" gives me 87 different companies
I don't like personal knowledge questions. I try to give obscure answers and note my answered in my encrypted password file. So there is no benefit: I lose my encrypted file and I lose my obscure answers to these questions.
Fair enough, lol. The only reason I call it breast beating is because it's such a clear departure from his very early work.
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And uBiome wonders why people were a little upset about their initial failing to get IRB approval...
Sorry for that. I don't think anyone can predict how your boss would react to such demand.

That said, it might be that those colleagues making more than you do simply offer more value to the company, or were better negotiators when discussing their job offers.
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I can't speak for the author, but you could take it as an argument against inheritance in general. There are a lot of smart people in that boat -- I think at one point even James Gosling said he might have left inheritance out of java if he had it to do over again.

I probably have no shot of convincing you that inheritance kind of sucks in a short post on a friday night, but I'd just point out that it's not an obscure opinion, there are a sizable number of people that really have no love for the "classic" inheritance model of OOP.
I said it was impressive and I meant it.
Incidentally, what do you think about dynamic favicons [1]? They're a fairly simple feature to implement, but a useful one. In your case, they'd let otherwise-useless favicons be status indicators themselves (which makes sense for anyone opening/refreshing a tab anyway) if they so chose.

Plus, it'd let your users promote their branding (upvote/downvote icons in that specific case) which is a win-win.

At minimum, some custom title text ('[user's main offering] is up'/'down' etc) would make a lot of sense, but I really think the favicons are simple enough (both to implement and to understand) and visible enough to be worth it too - it'd allow for at-a-glance uptime information [2].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/36w2s3/ha...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/Ifyn1PF.png
You'd have to define "slow" before you can answer that. I say this not because Go is the epitome of speed, but merely because I happen to have the number on hand from recent testing: Go can call an interface method with no arguments and no return value in a tight loop in about 5 nanoseconds. Is that fast? Is that slow? Depends on your definition. On the machine in question that's about 15 cycles. That strikes me as pretty good in the broad sense, but certainly 15 cycles slower than an inlined call.

(I'd like to compare it to a static function call but I haven't yet worked out how to write a static function call in such a way that I can run it in the profiler correctly but it doesn't inline down to nothing.)
Report on FBI’s Use of Patriot Act Highlights Need for Intelligence Reform
Having developed in Perl for many years, on a project that required fairly high performance, I learned that the key to getting good performance out of Perl code is to use it idiomatically.

Perl has a lot of built-in functions, keywords, and operators. It's also a bytecode-compiled language (yeah, Perl is compiled when you run it, the compiler is just so fast you don't notice it.) But a lot of those built-ins don't compile to the bytecode equivalent of machine code for a VM like you might expect; they compile to a single instruction that's got an optimized implementation written in C. When you write idiomatic code, you tend to use built-ins in a way that allows those optimized instructions to be used, which gives you near-C level performance.

For example, if you want to loop over every member of a list, perform an operation on each member, and produce a new list based on the results of those operations, you could use a 'for' loop for that. But if you do than the Perl compiler needs to produce bytecode that mirrors the generic for loop and the full code in the body of the loop, pretty much as you wrote it. The compiler can't make any assumptions about the intended behavior. If you instead use the 'map' keyword, the compiler knows that you're transforming one list into another by running a bit of code on each member of the list, and it'll produce much more optimized code to do that.

It's kind of ironic. You can write 'C' style code in Perl but you won't get C-like performance that way, you'll get Perl-like performance. But if you write 'Perl' style code instead, you'll get C-like performance.
After spending some time with Python, I think one of the secrets to Perl's great performance is that nothing ever seems to get "stuck" in Perl like the way certain code patterns can be written in Python or written a different way to make use of some C optimization "behind the scenes". With Perl, it seems like it always just tries to use a C optimization whenever it's supposed to and you don't have to think about it too much.

The other thing is that Perl's built in data structure primitives have somehow hit a magical balance between performance, ease of use and power. Once you get used to the syntax, arbitrarily composing complex data structures is super-easy and they usually perform extremely well.

I think what's surprising is how snappy the language feels in aggregate, even if it benchmarks fairly slow. From execution to runtime, it just feels snappy and I think that may give it a false sense of performance while modern Java and C++ etc. really are faster, they have a clunky feel and lots of the user-facing things seem kind of creaky.

One other problem is that it's really easy to write really slow code in other languages, but even if you only do things mildly "the Perl way" it'll still run reasonably quick.

To this day, I'm still amazed at how many little Perl prototype projects I've written that outperformed their compiled rewrite cousins for months until lots of time was spent specifically tuning that rewritten code.

edit sorry for words I'm beer-posting tonight
I started reading the O'Reilly book "Feedback Control for Computer Systems" by Philipp K. Janert about applying feedback control to software systems, and I liked what I read so far a lot: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028970.do

PID is in there, along with lots of other techniques.
That stat is coming from slice.com. They only have a small user base, so I don't trust them.
Yes it's pretty ridiculous how well they've hidden one of the best perks of the subscription. I only know about it because I was enrolled in a previous version of the program that advertised the Azure credits a lot more prominently.

Their marketing in general is sorely lacking seeing as how few of the people who would benefit from it actually know about it.

For anyone else wondering, I managed to find it mentioned on this page (deeply hidden under "Microsoft Action Pack – cloud and on-premises Internal Use Rights licenses" accordion, under the "Management" section in the dropdown, under the "Cloud Services" heading):

https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/us/pages/membership/inter...

"Microsoft Azure

US$100 monthly credit. Microsoft Azure credit is in addition to current on-premises internal-use software licenses."
Are UIs and documents so different?
This library is really useful, especially in updating sets of nested data.
How the new diverse Emoji work – Unicode Standard
I have been looking into both of these technologies recently.

Attic has the most attractive feature set of the backup management tools I have looked at (deduplication and compression, support for remote repos, built in encryption, ability to mount repo as a FUSE file system), with the main downsides being that it is fairly new (and so just doesn't have as much testing as some of the older options) and its development model is not ideal. It is solely maintained by the original developer as a personal project and so when he is busy development stops. Recently, a handful of active community contributors started a fork (https://borgbackup.github.io/) because of this. The original developer still seems committed to working on Attic when time permits, but I'd prefer to see a team of capable developers maintaining something I was relying for the integrity of my data.

CrashPlan was the most attractive offsite backup solution because its price was competitive (similar to several other options, ~$6/month to backup one computer with no data size limit) and it provided cross-platform support for Windows, OS X, and Linux. I also like that it has a few different encryption options, including the option to generate your own encryption key that you do not share with CrashPlan.

I am curious about your decision to encrypt your data before uploading with CrashPlan. Are you trying to avoid storing any unencrypted data on your NAS because it is more exposed to the internet? Or do you not trust CrashPlan with your data? I would think that using CrashPlan with a custom key would be fairly secure. If you don't trust CrashPlan in that case, you probably shouldn't install it on your machine at all. The CEO of CrashPlan has commented on double encrypting data (http://superuser.com/a/589686).

What is the restore process like when combining Attic and CrashPlan? I don't think CrashPlan has any file system mount option, so you would need to restore an entire Attic repo to recover any files from it, correct? I guess this is okay since you have the NAS to restore from for individual file backup and you only need to restore from CrashPlan in the case of catastrophic failure (the NAS dies entirely) when you would need to do a full restore.

My current backup solution is an rsync script backing up to a remote machine I own. I previously used Bitcasa for offsite backup but was unhappy with the service and with the way the company kept changing its business model (shifted away from consumer cloud storage to a business / app market). I'd like to replace my rsync script with something more sophisticated like Attic and use another offsite option like CrashPlan.
Some Linux Iptables Examples
I'm building an entity-component framework[0] in C++. It's not brilliant but ... it's ok probably.

https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/ecsframework

Eventually, that's going into a rebuild of another project, which is Space Invaders[1] in C++. That barely works and yes, it bootstraps through a batch file with the Visual Studio compiler because I saw that on Handmade Hero and I thought it was awesome, because setting SDL up through the visual studio UI is kind of a pain.

[0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/ecsframework

[1]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/spaceinvaders

I make absolutely no guarantees about the quality of anything, because it's all projects and stuff, almost entirely for self-education.
If your argument is the government should be far less involved in housing and stop monkeying with the currency so much, then I'm with you.

But unless you're an absolute dictator you have to live in the environment in which you find yourself. People who buy real assets risk the possibility they'll go down in value, too - a lot of people where I live got wiped out in 2008.
One other thing to think about would be intangibles the startups can offer vs open source:

* how good are you at self-motivating
* what chance is there of being mentored at the start up?
* will the CEO provide a good reference later one: a human reference likely beats pointing out the open source contributions in many jobs in the future

If you are going to work for free anyway on open source then make sure you have the dedication to actually do it.

Being more directly accountable to someone may be a benefit.

Good luck ... it's a tough call!
AFAIK letsencrypt won't offer wildcard certs
wow I really massacred that sentence...sorry guys. It was supposed to read:

>these types of experiments aimed at pushing kids in a certain beneficial direction ---interest me---
I never saw it that way, but it does kinda make sense. Thanks for putting it down!
Ramit Sethi[1] focuses almost exclusively on increasing income. He thinks the "latte factor" is bullshit, since you can just bring in more money.

Personally, I think that increasing income and reducing expenses are two sides of the same coin. You're either changing the numerator or the denominator in the time-to-FI equation. The really powerful stuff happens when you do both at the same time.

[1]: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com
"Wait, I think you and I are having very different conversations."

So it would seem.

"It's not like Microsoft engineers put that bug in there thinking it would be OK."

You say that now. But the reason my strident response was triggered was because of what you said in your original post that I replied to:

"I don't know what contract these operations have, but it may very well be the case that the user was violating the contract. If Microsoft responded with "don't do that", this may be the case."

That is quite absurd on it's face. I replied with how the contract was nothing more or less than the syscall API and there was no margin for negotiation on kernel's part when it comes to corrupting data when a user program calls those APIs in whatever order it pleases.

Subsequently, your arguments seem to have become more elaborate with a lot more caveats added. I think it has stopped being fruitful for me to respond at this point.
This is awesome! I've been building an app with a grid that scrolls horizontally and this is the best solution! Getting this pattern in html is really hard:

1 4 7 10
2 5 8 11
3 6 9 12

Other than than columns, which dont respond the screen size that well, this is the only good option. Thanks for educating me!
We got IRB approval before we recruited patients or collected any samples. As planned, and is typical of many studies, we waited until after fundraising to start the IRB process.

We have had IRB approval now for over 2 years.

Happy to answer any questions you have about this.
he appears to be referring to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle . Generally type systems don't enforce the invariants that subclasses have the power to break. It is the usually the duty of the programmer to ensure that subclasses don't break these invariants.

Invariants aren't things like whether methods are overidden or not, it's things like whether area for a shape can be computed by just knowing a side, exemplified with the familiar case of whether a rectangle should be a subclass of a square, or the other way around
neal stephensons anathem is a novel addressing this (among other things): practically, is the brain at least partially a quantum computer.
My father have friends working in the IDP camps. There are plenty of Kurdish doctors from Sweden going there, doing abortions on 9 year olds. Some don't survive.

The thing ISIS did to the Yezidis.. the children, the female ones. It would kill your insides and want to set the world on fire.

In fact, it wasn't just ISIS, but their Sunni muslim neighbours. As soon as they heard ISIS were nearby, they started killing their Yezidi neighbours, raping their daughters on the streets. There were mattresses and used condoms lying on the streets when the HPG (Yezidi militia) came back to Sinjar... grim scenes.

It wasn't 3 or 4, but systematic abuse on thousands.

Christians (Assyrians) weren't spared either, but not as many as 7000 Yezidis females captive since last summer. The male children are being used as human shields and sucide bombers. The female (down to the age of 6) are being sold on sex-slave markets.

Edit:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/05/22...

"They commit rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution and other acts of extreme brutality. We heard one case of a 20-year-old girl who was burned alive because she refused to perform an extreme sex act. We learned of many other sadistic sexual acts. We struggled to understand the mentality of people who commit such crimes."

Set the world on fire.
Written by Richard Stallman.

He makes many good points, but also says:

I developed the GNU operating system,
which is often called Linux

Wow. He just can't let that go, can he?
It's the opposite situation here - I have the technical and business skills but am looking to buy the idea.
Maliki and the Shia put some insane pressure, sure.
But you're not giving credit to Islamism world-wide.
FreeBSD has supported a git mirror for years, although the primary VCS (the "source of truth") is still Subversion. A number of downstream consumers of FreeBSD use the git mirror though, and we have brought in patches from submitted pull requests.
>I suspect that having a nudger around who cares enough to do that kind of nudging is what really matters.

That too. I'm proud to say that my dad was a true class act - he swore both his kids would walk into life with a varsity education and no debt come hell or high water.

That being said I still think its the small practical things that count. All those small things accumulate towards one massive social edge that is hard to quantify. Suppose you need to pick an engineer to build a bridge...the one grew up with legos the other grew up without. Who do you pick? Trivial childhood detail?
it's a completely legit invocation for awakening cthulhu.
Could you give an example of such unwanted attention?
Why buy another company (as opposing to focusing on your existing business)?
I seem to recall that burning propane generates a lot of water, which is detrimental to barbecue.
SSL Labs: Increased Penalty When TLS 1.2 Is Not Supported
I love the fact that you guys are using that spreadsheet.
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