skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The examples cited all resulted in servers being overloaded due to piracy which is a fault of not authenticating who is connecting to the server. This is one facet where pirated copies can do harm and I will concede that.

Had the pirated copies been sold - the same server issues would have happened. Though they would have had more resources to handle the situation and it would turn out better for everyone (especially the iOS devs who had to go offline for 4 months to deal with the situation).

However, "offline" games (ie. solo campaigns) or distributed servers (ie. minecraft) that do not connect to a centralized server won't take away company resources. The idea behind piracy is that nothing is being stolen or taken, only duplicated. Taking away server resources has a negative impact and although it is also considered "piracy" I would consider it closer to "theft" (the same as stealing a physical server might be!)

Without arguing over semantics of the meanings behind the word 'piracy' - will you agree with me that the shared issue of all of your examples was unpaid server space being 'stolen' by pirates? We may disagree on whether lost sales matter or don't matter in this scenario, but I hope we can both agree that the stolen server space was definitely an issue.

The Gamasutra article where money was spent on making piracy harder doesn't give any metrics for a meaningful conclusion to be drawn.

Did Spyro 2 being cracked in a week actually harm sales at all? Difficult to quantify. How about the profit from the next Spyro? Was it more or less profitable? If it was less profitable - was that a result of spending money on piracy protection? If it was more profitable - was that a result of adding piracy protection or because the Spyro series had surged in popularity after the success of Spyro 2?

The answer is difficult to quantify, especially without relevant metrics given. What was the cost of adding the piracy protection? Can you quantify "popularity growth" between the two games? Can they estimate how many people would have bought the game if they could not pirate it?
I see HBM evolving into an external cache with off substrate RAM eventually working it's way back into cards.
What about "isomorphic javascript" needs to be addressed? That was a term that almost seems invented as a problem for Meteor to solve. The fact that code in completely different environments (browser vs server) needs to look different is not something that needs to be addressed.

A) With financial backing Meteor is an open-source framework which MUST provide an ROI for those backers.

B) Read the comments, the reason Meteor is more hyped is because it is funded. The reason people use to justify the enormous investment in building a production app with Meteor is based on it being funded. Take away the funding and you take away a compelling reason to use it... so if that reason is removed after you have already invested, you have lost on your investment.

Meteor was not the right tool for the job, but good luck trying to have that conversation with a Meteor evangelist. Just like any other evangelist they're pragmatic when it suits their argument and dogmatic whenever it doesn't.

In closing, I'm not against Meteor as a tool. I love tools and I love a lot of the concepts in Meteor (not isomorphism, that is a fools errand).

What I don't love are people/companies that misrepresent themselves and put more money into sounding good than they do into actual being good.

My experience using Meteor was resoundingly negative and yet negative experiences are shouted down while positive ones are lauded. The "maybe it didn't suit your use case" only comes up when I show I'm willing to stick to my guns and articulate myself.

Want to convince me Meteor is really dedicated to being a great and lasting web framework and not just a cash grab? Why don't you put an article to the front page of HN describing the use cases that Meteor ISN'T good for?

You admit they exist, so why not, right? They could learn a ton about their product while being brutally honest about its limitations with the community they want to win over.

Of course, it'll never happen, because Meteor isn't really a community project to build the next best framework. It's an investment vehicle and no investor would ever willingly let doubt be shined on their investment vehicle.
What is a phishing email and what does it look like?
> This is an open source project and hence lacks the resources to document or be as polished.

PostgreSQL is an open source project, and has documentation on par with its commercial alternatives. Open source doesn't have to mean poorly documented.
For those who're looking for a full stack framework, I can't recommend GWT enough. GWT lets you write java for both client & server, and then compiles the client code to javascript. This compiled js is highly optimized and your css / images / html templates are bundled together to minimize HTTP requests. On the server side, this lets you use java which is a lot more performant than javascript is.
6. "Um, paychecks might be a little late this week..." CYAL8R
It has a much better form factor for carrying in a backpack than a quad; it can fit in a water bottle pocket.
Senior Mobile Developer – Native iOS Applications
Do you know how to identify if a Root can issue SGC certs?

I am seeing an OID (2.16.840.1.113730.4.1) in the EKU field for both End-Entity and Intermediate Certs from Thawte, but nothing on the Root.

Was the ability to issue an SGC cert more of a policy thing than an actual flag in the cert?

I BELIEVE that DigiCert used to issue certs with SGC if you specially requested it, but I cant find any sources on that at the moment.
Sifting through Data Scientists – The perils of hiring in a frothy market
Yes, definitely, but scaling volume to carry payload mass becomes inconvenient for casual use quickly.

Cheating the calcs a bit and using the table here:
http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/lift.html
A 3.5oz (~99gram) Go pro needs at least a 22in diameter spherical ballon filled with Helium. And unless you're ok with tethered use, you need to dedicate some power & mass to pointing & station keeping which increases the volume even more. For every gram of other capability you add, you're adding another liter of gas.
Alleged prostitute sentenced to 6 years in Google exec's death aboard yacht
/bin/sh isn't BASH always ??
I'm on a Debian derived Linux:

$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 19 17:51 /bin/sh -> dash
Riding a company into the ground can be an interesting an educational experience, so I kind of recommend doing it at least once if you're going to stick with the startup world. It isnt' pleasant, but after the first time you'll find your attitude toward work and life will likely be quite different than they were previously.
Just published a post related to this topic. Short answer: Yes. - http://blog.differential.com/scaling-meteor-to-20000-users-i...
> That's still not the kind of speech that needs to be protected and heard

This is the whole point of the discussion, right here. You're discriminating against a certain type of speech because you've judged it to be the wrong kind of speech. Once you've set a precedent that the wrong kind of speech can be infringed, you no longer have free speech - you have a struggle for the power to define allowed speech and disallowed speech.

It seems like you are unnecessarily conflating speech and the consequences of speech.
> "They had this belief that if [officials] did see there was sufficient noncompliance, [the officials] would conclude that the citizens were trying to tell them something," Tsai says.

"Constructive Noncompliance": an alias of passive aggression.

Or, maybe this is collective or conspiratorial passive aggressive behavior, aimed at authority?
This is exciting. Hopefully people will start to create apps that extend existing stuff. First thing I'm doing is working on 2fa. Tired of having to get my phone out for that nonsense.
There's nothing prettier than a pretty ERD!
Given that it's so small, 6k, I'd called the framework based on this Assembly on Alleys.

It could totally implement a DSL... call it "C" for convenience, that generates the required assembly code :-).
Sort of unrelated, but still a question: what is the role of a "developer advocate"? Also, it sounds like job roles transferred over one-to-one?
WordPress' API and its limitations are so annoying that I just can't imagine developing for this platform unless you desperately need money. Ideally they develop some new product that is more competitive than the current combination of WP & WC.
Scaling Meteor to 20,000 Users in 7 days
If they can't convince you it's a good idea do you think they could convince customers or even investors?
How stealthy is this thing if it has a giant laser pointed at it the whole time?
I might use this, because, internet. :-)
No, this is a phallic-looking drone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRslKeT0EmQ

(arguably NSFW)
> The point of these tests is not to see who remembers their CS.

The point of these tests is exactly to see who knows how to program. I've seen too many candidates who couldn't program, which I understand as finding code which solves a stated problem. FizzBuzz is only used as a first pass filter. After they solve it and are deemed normal enough to work, they are hired for limited time to really see if they are worth working with.

If candidates can't solve fizzbuzz with a language they're most comfortable with (yep, we don't require you know any of our technology), they won't solve other problems they will be given. All my current coworkers can solve those kinds of tests in reasonable time without any help, even if it's in a language they don't know, I've also solved tests prepared by them.
Disagree. As the article implies they expected this to be MORE common in democracies than in more authoritarian systems like China but they were surprised that even rural Chinese often disobey laws they disagree with.

There are many examples of laws being widely ignored and the government eventually giving up on enforcement and/or changing the law to conform to popular behavior. Good examples in the U.S. include prohibition, homosexuality, cannabus, speeding, illegal immigration... In all the cases some government decided enforcement or laws should be weakened in the face of popular noncompliance. There are many more examples as this is quite common.
This was posted in the discussion when the Lily was announced:

http://hyperblimp.com/
I get that for some "big corp" jobs could be more rewarding, and I am sure some are. However, my experiences at "big corp" jobs have been nothing but disappointing. For example, I've worked for/with incompetent managers who are good at "gaming" the system to be where they are and totally suck at managing people, incompetent colleagues who create more problems than solving any and do not seem to want to learn new things or correct their mistakes.

Startup jobs are definitely more stressful, and co-founders have enormous impact on the company, but I would always take startup jobs, where I can work with and learn from smart people (as long as there is a good team chemistry and no one is an asshole), over "big corp" jobs.
Congratulations and thanks for going with Automattic and not a VC firm.

From Magnus Jepson's blog: http://jepson.no/we-are-joining-automattic/

> We had talks with potential partners, including VC firms and competing companies. This led us to Automattic, who had previously shown great interest in the popularity of WooCommerce. CEO Matt Mullenweg, who is also the co-founder of WordPress, had built his company in the same distributed manner as WooThemes with a team of over 300. This was our dream partner!

Here's a question: do you have any idea of what the first initial changes might be for developer/firms and how we work with WooCommerce/WooThemes/WooMatic?
Grumpy snark is engineer default half the time.
That's my original post yesterday for this story. No discussion or interest/upvote.

So is it simply that the average HN'er is around 28 years old and just doesn't care about aging or stem cell research that is mostly aimed at fixing 'old people'? Is everyone just assuming this stuff will get sorted out in the next 20 years by time the average HN'er actually needs to worry about it?

Or is it because the stem cell medical centers that provided Mr. Howe with the treatments are outside the US? Aka, not invented here so must be BS?

It's puzzling, I mean we all have parents that are aging and having gone through watching a parent lose a lot of their capabilities from a stroke last year (and eventually dying from the strokes fallout a few months later), all I can say is this stuff can become front and center to your personal interest very rapidly when it hits home.
> Is it uncouth to bring this offer to my current boss before deciding? I don't want it to seem like I'm just leveraging the offer to get a raise.

If not leveraging the offer to get a raise, what benefit would this action have?

> If I decide to leave, how much notice should I give?

On the low end, 2 weeks. On the high end, "enough time (reasonably) to allow them to ensure a smooth transition".
Streamlining both logging and monitoring to a single SaaS provider
You never were under contract. Someone who uploaded it probably was. Thus with them lies the breach of contract and penalties owed.
I hate how certs have become this SEO-like snake oil, promoted in equally devious ways. This is pretty much free advertising for certsimple and an attack on some outdated Symantec webpage.

Today its x cipher with y bits. Tomorrow its something else. Picking on old marketing and sales pages isn't the big scoop HN thinks it is.

>It'd also be nice if HackerNews wasn't quite so populated with thinly veiled ads for companies disguised as blog posts.

Have we had our weekly Cloudflare lovefest yet?
>> I could give you a very simple example of cultural similarity across Europe. Religion. Pretty much the majority of European countries are Christians.

>> 72% of Europeans are Christians.

There are no "Christians" in Europe. You actually have Catholics, Protestants, Orthodoxs and a bunch of others. And those guys have been killing each other for very long time.
The "Christianity-Version" of each region is actually a very fundamental property explaining those many differences (political parties, welfare systems, work ethics etc.) in Europe (which you claim don't exist).
> Its not the number of parties, its the freedom and autonomy to challenge the incumbent party.

Without effective choice, which arguably is substantially lacking when the structural features that preserve duopoly is in place, there may be theoretical freedom to challenge the incumbent party, but there isn't necessarily real practical choice. This is evident when there are numerous policies that remain in place despite large majorities opposed (or which are not adopted despite large majorities in favor), which are frequently seen in the US system.

Duopoly results from structural features which obstruct effective democratic accountability, and which therefore produce a government which is not effectively accountable to the nominal electorate.

> A two party state is as free as a 10 party state.

No, its not, which is why "democracies" which few effective competitive parties also have measurably poorer satisfaction with their governments than those with more effective competitive parties: a state with only two viable parties is, while likely freer than one-party state, one with a government less accountable to the people -- and therefore one which is less ruled by and more ruling over the people -- than is the case in one which supports a multiplicity of competitive parties.
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>> don't you think they would sponsor this sort of activity

whether or not they would doesn't mean they did

Plausible or not, implying that it's true because there's an incentive only promotes a biased opinion.
This is sort of similar to the Dremel tool used internally at Google, right? They might mention this on their web site.
write() syscall writes a sequence of bytes (not string) therefore cannot use zero-terminated convention.
I'm basically lost in life without a constant reminder of my impending doom.
Please don't make usernames that attack another user. It's uncivil and distracts from the topic.
Everyone reading this thread - you will absolutely love (or at least like) a book called "Who moved my cheese?"

It's sort of a must read for anyone who ever worked any job ever.
You could try reading Leo Babuta's free 'Focus' book (http://zenhabits.net/focus-book/). It has all the elements mentioned in other comments here - e.g. Browser blockers and trying to split your time 50/10 etc. I certainly managed to wean myself off Twitter and Facebook from it.

I try allowing myself smaller 'pleasures' e.g. The XKCD and the Daily WTF RSS feeds in my email client. Kind of like nicotine patches.

Also if you're going to waste you're time it's best to make sure you waste it on sites that are genuinely useful. It's one of the great things of Hacker News that amongst all the time wasting you're acutally learning useful things.

So if you're going to time waste make sure its on specific topics that you're genuinely interested in. For one there isn't a bottomless pit of content (as opposed to Twitter) and what you are reading might actually be useful.
The Massive Potential of Verizon Mapquest
I can see the benefit of collapsibility. But does it fly better (or worse)?
Download link didn't work for me in firefox for some reason, had to paste the link:

https://download.clearlinux.org/
If I would be a startup I would love that kind of publicity.
Control and cost.

PWM motors can control their rotation very precisely unlike IC motors. That is one reason you see multicopter designs nowadays. You can quickly alter the torque. I didn't see how this design alters pitch or roll, but I know there were some coaxial experimental designs that can alter the torque in a single rotation to affect those axis. That is simply not possible with something powered by burning fuel. It might be possible to have a mixed system, using an internal combustion engine for primary lift and electronically controlled steering, but that would be a more complex system and the benefit isn't abundantly clear.
> Also, it sounds like job roles transferred over one-to-one?

Usually when a company merges like this, there's a period just after acquisition where both companies still operate independently while the higher-ups try to figure out the integration plan. That doesn't mean titles/roles won't change, but the same day as the announcement? It'd be business as usual at both companies.
>If you think it does: what's the name of your startup? Your bio is empty, and I think most of HN would be interested in knowing the name of a business that thinks this is OK.

So much for the recent initiative of a calmer more respectful discourse here at HN. Now its "criticize my company? Fuck you, who do you work for so I can criticize you!"
What I liked most about seeing this is it added a whole new dimension. As it states so much about what we see in film and writing is about how once the USA (We) got there how were all super altruistic and what-not. Coming upon a scene of 40,000 corpses and near death it's obvious the clear right answer is to help. But the amount of anger and hatred I would have had for the germans when I got there that to me helping would be to kill every SS officer I could find... This man went through hell and still spent his life as a doctor after. Amazing.
This is a great list -- thanks for posting it. FYI it looks like the IRIS+ is now $599, and the IRIS Solo is $999 and is scheduled to ship next month: https://store.3drobotics.com/products/iris

For general use, is there a compelling reason to wait until this fall or next year instead of buying the current IRIS now or the new one next month? The SPRITE looks nicely ruggedized and compact, but that's not a big a concern for me.

(I have no affiliation with any of the autonomous camera drone makers. But unless there's a compelling reason I prefer to avoid the risk of having a promised project fail to ship.)
Which means "do system administration".

Not really, to me I mean code reuse. The article is CoreOS, so lets look at that context. Right now if a performance bottleneck is fixed in the network subsystem of the linux kernel, CoreOS feels that benefit. But micro-kernel-deisnged-for-running-containers-on-top-of-Xen-OS won't share that benefit. Of course one could argue that MK-X-OS doesn't have the bottleneck in the first place, and maybe it doesn't, that's not my point. I'm saying it's duplicated effort.

I don't know what you're on about with too much machinery underneath, I'm not saying to keep libfoo and interactive logins around if you don't need them. Just that nobody has to reinvent the libbar wheel.
I prefer the term "schema-on-read" to "schema-free" or "schema-less". One needs to correctly understand the implications of the fact that all data has SOME schema and that if it changes you need to be able to read the old and new.
Why not hybrid? Have an onboard gas generator to recharge the batteries. As soon as the gas runs out, the drone has X min of battery flight time left to get back to solid ground. No need for mechanical complexity.
The thousands of developers making a living mostly off of WordPress development would probably disagree with you.

It's low hanging fruit, not a lot of effort for decent return.
Leading in the (very) small business segment.
You should offer discounts to all who kickstarted your product. I'm also disappointed and don't look at the app anymore as it's missing trips and because we share a car with my wife, trips either get registered to her or my phone when we're in the car together. Haven't you thought about this basic use case?
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/features.html#controlchart

A couple useful shortcuts there depending on what you're trying to do.
Utah researchers make light-speed computing breakthrough
This seems (http://www.chilliant.com/rgb2hsv.html) to have a few implementations of color space conversions (in HLSL but that shouldn't be a difficult translation). They're not perfect but they're a good starting point.

With some inlining and algebraic simplification (the kind that, unfortunately, can't safely be done by a compiler most of the time) you can get even simpler than the ones linked. For example, I've used something similar to the following for hsl to rgb before.

l + (1.0 - abs(2.0 * l - 1.0)) * s * (clamp(abs(mod(h + vec3(0.0, 4.0, 2.0), 6.0) - 3.0) - 1.0, 0.0, 1.0) - 0.5)
Sure, I was surprised to see the $70B value. I think I spent $10 at most on lottery tickets last year, and those were stocking-stuffers at Christmas. I have no trouble believing that some people spend a lot more on lottery tickets than I do, but...."shame"?

Methinks somebody had a hard deadline at the Atlantic and resorted to some good old hand-wringing.

What's the author's point? That lotteries are evil because poor people spend a disproportionate amount of their income on them, effectively wasting their money? How does that differ from any other vice or form of entertainment?

Conveniently ignored are how some of the state revenues are spent: in New York alone, the state lottery contributed over $3B to education. I find it hard to believe that none of that benefited the same communities that supposedly spent "too much" on lottery tickets.

This article is fluff.
This a good site, and can help to guide you. Probably even give you templates to store your info in, but what about sharing?
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