skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a somewhat technical founder currently bootstrapping an elearning startup - Tapfun. Although I have a biz dev / marketing background, I wanted to be able to contribute on the product so I rolled up my sleeves and built all of our iOS apps to date. I grew up with computers but was never deeply technical (just building websites for extra income).

We have over 1M downloads on iPad and everyday tens of thousands of young students use our apps. Recently I hired some contractors to help build the next gen of our products with a proper backend. We have our first school client for the platform and they are rolling out an app for all of their grade 1 students using this technology (in place: contract iOS dev, backend, front end).

I've realized that I really need a technical partner so that I can trust someone to really own the technical side of the business and I will focus on raising a seed round and growing the customer base. I'm planning to move from Toronto to the US in the fall (either NYC or San Fran) depending on how my accelerator applications go.

Even though i've been at this for 3+ years i'm open to bringing in a cofounder. Seeking full stack expertise (bonus points for ML experience) with a desire to make a huge impact in the learning space. Drop me a line (email in profile) to chat about how education will change in the future.
You don't have a right to mess with things just because they're "in public". If someone's front gate is open, that doesn't mean that you can just walk in and start chopping up their rosebush.
Avoiding fsck(1) the OpenBSD way.
Handling filesystem checks the OpenBSD Way.
fsck(1)
Handling Unified Buffer Cache the OpenBSD Way.
They don't.
Linux, IRIX and “Posix Capabilities” (1999)
Handling nfs the OpenBSD way.
They don't.
Loading Kernel modules the OpenBSD way.
They don't.
> The [Dunning-Kruger effect] doesn't apply

But how could you tell?
All the atheists will be well advised to become bible experts.
"If STEM talent is expensive, that means there is not enough of it and we should encourage more."

Who gets to determine whether it's expensive or not? The large tech companies can certainly afford to pay more for tech talent. Apple alone is sitting on a couple hundred billion dollars in cash. Google, Facebook and Microsoft also make billions in profits each year. It's not like these companies are in any danger of becoming unprofitable. The fact that we're creating more STEM grads each year than we have jobs for seems to suggest that we already have too many of them, not too few.

And nobody is complaining about how expensive executive-level talent is. Why don't the big tech companies complain that there are so few people qualified to be CEOs that they need to pay them tens of millions of dollars a year?[1]

[1] http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2013/06/18/top-paid-...
I've found it needs the following config. Overall far fewer mystery sync issues than the reference ntpd though, nice software.

initstepslew 300 ntp.server.example.com
I just had a conversation with an IBM Watson engineer. It was the worst professional conversation of my adult/professional life after I asked "is everything Watson has accomplished so far a PR campaign?" It's not they said, "we are moving into oil and gas." Ah, right.
That's a bold claim. But a) criminality and abuse go beyond "things wpietri does't like". And b), you haven't supported the claim, so I suspect it's bold and wrong.
Something that we often recommend is to create a separate email account for just your online purchases and promotions.

If the user would forward things to this account (either manually or automatically) that would work, but few, if any, places make a distinction between your ability to login and the identity you use to receive email, so you couldn't divorce the authentication from the notification. This account would also get password recovery emails, for example, and potentially expose more than just the receipt emails. It would partition the more personal stuff, but is only a partial solution.
Someone like Cloudflare could provide feedback. They could insert a script into their "free" pages that would attempt to send DOS-like traffic to one of their own endpoints. If they come through, then embed a complaint about lack of SAV in the pages sent to that ISP. When enough customers call the ISP bitching that every page they go to complains, the ISP might eventually do something.

I'm not sure what CF's motivation for this would be, but I don't really understand their business model anyway, and they do lots of other nice things.
This Driver in China Explains How He Is Helping Rip Off Uber
Note that these are fairly high end (large, equipment heavy) factories and not necessarily representative of the many smaller factories in the area.

Edit: Guess I got banned, stay ignorant HN.
Depends on the spammers and the scammers, and the strictness of the verification policy. It's relatively easy to verify physical addresses and phone numbers, and quite a number of criminals are not particularly sharp.

No measure eliminates crime, but some do reduce it.
I am also amazed that people seem to want to replace the SpaceX system where the rocket would land itself at an arbitrary location on land, ready for re-fuelling and re-use, automatically, with the existing launch engines and no extra technology required beyond somewhere flat - with a complex system of tracking radars to find the rocket, extra aerodynamic drag devices such as parachutes or balloons to slow it down, and a fleet of manned vehicles to retrieve it, using a dangerous mid air rendeszvous. It's pretty obvious that these systems have none of the useful properties of the SpaceX solution, so it's hard to understand why anyone would think they are superior....
I'm curious because once you have the ability to understand several-hour-per-page materials reading novels should be a breeze?
I tried out Paribus after it was on PH. It connected to my Gmail and Amazon accounts, scanned for a couple hours but didn't show me any opportunities for savings/rebates out of hundreds of transactions. Love the concept but probably won't be coming back.
Currently working on Uber for supercomputers. Would appreciate someone who is also college-aged in the Seattle/ north Puget Sound area.

I've got a website and a working prototype. If interested, email chroem@uw.edu .
The original blog entry which we modified into the letter to the AMS:

http://ethanheilman.tumblr.com/post/108115952435/a-response-...
SpaceX Rocket Falls Apart on Way to Space Station
>Who gets to determine whether it's expensive or not?

The real test is: are there people who could be doing this job, but aren't (and are making less money because of this). If this is true, then the market is not in equilibrium and it is appropriate to label STEM employees as "expensive".

High wages are not good in themselves, and neither are low wages. What is good is when markets operate properly and resources (including human resources) are allocated in the most efficient way. That might involve more people going into STEM fields, and tech salaries going down as a result. In other fields, like medicine, people would come up with all sorts of excuses to protect the benefits that their in-group receive, to the detriment of other potential workers. I think that in tech we are uniquely able to go beyond this flawed thinking.
According to [1] R "will be run inside a sandbox process within SQL Server itself". If that's correct then there's not much to it. MS includes a link somewhere saying "Go here for the R source code."

As far as CRAN goes, the licenses of the packages there have nothing to do with the license of the R implementations they run on. Even if MS has their own implementation of R, it should be able to download and run packages from CRAN without MS having to worry about it.

[1] http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/05/r-in-sql-server....
Alleged $7.5B fraud in online advertising
They gave their customers a whole day to replace their products ... This should be a reminder to everyone to abstract their service interfaces.
I don't think it's a matter of natural selection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
OK, but that is entertainment, not charity of philanthropy.
"Keep the money for yourself, and spend 100 hours of your time talking to a poor person."

The rich have been telling the poor what to do since bibibical times, and before."

I don't think I have ever heard much value in any of their quips? Sure, they offer advice, but it's always advice that helped them in their unique situation.

They always leave out the important stuff; like just how much
help, support(including emotional) they received from family. The school tuition, business advice, the garage in order to tinker in, money, attorneys that don't advertise , trust funds, good medical care when needed, the rehab, the pat on the back when the world decides to treat them like the poor, etc.)

I was in Barnes & Noble the other night(my exciting Friday nights). There was a guy who obviously had a lot of problems(from the looks of it--a mental disorder, and a lack of money) from my twisted perspective. A lady decided she was going to help him. Help him loudly--so everyone sipping their $4 drinks, and coffee cake--could hear her "helpful" sentiments. She loudly offered him $10, but "only use it for food?" She then asked him "What's the problem?"

He walked away in embarrassment. I will never forget the pain on his face.

So give money without strings. Give advice if the poor person asks for it. In my county(Marin County); I can honestly say that if not from the early support these rich kids received, many would be homeless, or stuck in nowhere jobs.
These rich people are trying to do something impactful and sustainable, not just personally entertaining "poverty porn"
I'm working on vrcollab.com. We are trying to create a HTML like 3d standard and editor for virtual reality. How do you represent <table> in 3d? A 3d table.

We are located in sunny Singapore. We just got our first seed funding.

We are looking for another developer that is fluent in Javascript and interested in Webgl and WebVR. Or, Graphic (opengl) guy that is interested in bringing 3d to web.

It is an interesting project, the project will be open source (good career boost) and we got the funding! We will be providing Singapore working visa.

My email is jia@vrcollab.com
Currently working on a new type of design course at http://designflicks.com which aims to teach good visual design to coders, startups, beginners who basically start crying when it comes to designing nice things.

People who can build things but not nice looking things is our target market. The videos are creating using a inhouse animation engine which provides some cool effects right in the browser which is then screencasted for production.

Based in India, feel free to contact me @ rubyontails@gmail.com

I am looking to team up with designers who can design good looking things with a logical explaination. Also looking for people who can market and sell the course. Location isn't a problem since remote work is pretty good for me.
I'm sure you can live in many places with even less than that, but claiming that you were not merely surviving with 3,000 RMB/month is delusional.

Costs in the large Chinese cities (which includes Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen) has been steadily increasing over the past couple decades. It can still be seen as cheaper to live depending on what you compare it to (e.g. SF) but to give a point of reference, Shenzhen is on par with Berlin in terms of cost of living (http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/shenzhen...). Shanghai is actually more expensive than Berlin too, Beijing is slightly cheaper.

I couldn't have comfortably lived in Shanghai back in 2005 with 3,000 RMB, and I'm extremely frugal (I don't drink, don't smoke, don't go out and my main hobbies include working out and reading).
Sorry for the late reply. You can basically set up to send yourself an SMS with codes that you can use offline I think. Actually, I am not quite sure if they would work offline. So I think you are right. Sorry.
They gave their customers a whole day to replace their products

https://twitter.com/shoplocket/status/598624569654513664

We're announcing today that we'll be shutting down the ShopLocket ecommerce
plugin as of June 30, 2015. Read more: https://www.shoplocket.com/

4:03 PM - 13 May 2015
What seems to be the worst part of this is that his( Tim's ) University ousted him immediately, based on no real evidence.
arcades just draw lots of juvenile deliquents with their leather jackets and slicked-back ducktails.
http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/

I will post more soon.
Givewell.org. basically does what you propose.
Tile
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The best solution depends entirely on your optimization conditions.

If transaction time is important, hard drives are high bandwidth. Ten 1TB hard drives are $500. Two 6TB hard drives are also $500, but you have fewer drives to worry about shipping. Five 2TB hard drives are about $370, if drive price is more important. Using ten 1TB drives is only best if we're optimizing for load / unload time and have that degree of parallelism in the pipeline. Otherwise, one of the other two will be better, depending on price sensitivity vs. other factors.

If it's not as time-sensitive, something like BitTorrent Sync will get the job done. This doesn't require shipments, additional hardware, or mucking about with hardware at either end, so it's very nice if "get it there ASAP" isn't a constraint.

Regardless, don't ship the only copy.
Who are they and why would they do that to innocent people?

Perhaps more importantly, how can they even tell when the data is inaccurate? I have a hard time believing that domain contacts are inclined to respond to unsolicited unprovoked third party "offers" to verify their address. Hi, can you let me know that someone is reading this so I can start sending you an unending stream of spam? Meanwhile just because you have a third party whois privacy service doesn't mean they don't faithfully forward your mail.
If you aren't giving enough to overpower the standard deduction, perhaps you aren't giving enough.
Two things are wrong, neither of which, however, make daemonize appropriate. First, and trivially, there's a missing /bin/java (-: Second, that's a potential readiness protocol and a main PID mismatch. See http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/200365/5132 for details. And then http://askubuntu.com/a/624871/43344 . Remembering to exec is another lesson to bring along from the daemontools world.
It depends on the startup, but most of the unique advantages derive from having a huge portion of the world's greatest technical people and smartest investors gathered together in one area, tacitly working together as one industry.
What is "Uber for supercomputers?" I can't think of any interpretation that makes any sense to me.
I'm piggybacking off your comment, but has no one else had issues with github pages and custom domain names? I put up a static site on github pages and checked in a couple months later (it was a personal site that wasn't terribly important) only to find that it was down. No changes in the source or configuration. I moved the page pretty much immediately because I couldn't be bothered to figure out what happened.
Linear Hash Functions (1999) [pdf]
+1 for being awesome - but the OP mentioned 'across the Pacific' - if he's got to transfer 10TB to, say, Sydney or Beijing, I'd bet your upstream won't be the limiting factor, it'll be the congested peering ports and high latency links between the States and APAC providers.

That said, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Maybe try a speed test between the hacker house and the intended AS before anyone ships a drive anywhere, and see if the other end can keep up with you?
I'm the founder of Shaxpir, a word-processor in the cloud for fiction authors. I have a software engineering background, so I build the MVP myself. After two years of prototyping, I just launched the beta 2 months ago, and by now there are about 100 people using the beta. It's a desktop app built with web technologies (like Slack or Atom) and a Java backend on AWS with Elasticsearch.

Anyhow, I'm getting ready to start raising money in a few months, after the beta ends and we launch the product publicly. I've already recruited two co-founders, but I'm looking for a VP of Engineering. I'm based in Portland, OR, so somebody in the PNW would be ideal.

Here's a teaser video introducing the product:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFG8fpYkDxA

And the product website is here:

http://www.shaxpir.com

You can email at benji@shaxpir.com if you're interested.
I don't see any medical research charities:

http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
People don't like their lifestyle called into question. When they and their peers each consume 10-100x average per capita consumption, there are some uncomfortable truths.
Online Lenders Offer New Competition for Banks
Translation to English please so I can implement the algorithm...
Two 6 TB or three 4 TB is probably a better choice than ten 1 TB. Although you may want to have an extra disk so one could totally fail in transit; so maybe six 2 TB. Build a big parity archive (par2 or similar) first. If you have 1gbps end to end, it would take most of a day (make sure you have big TCP windows)
That is very cool. Congrats on a great project - it looks awesome.
ML as in MatLab or OCaml/Standard ML?
Are killer whales persons?
Levitron – Anti-gravity top
For anyone curious about this:

Finally, if you are one of the exceedingly
few people for whom the clock being off by
a second actually matters, then I'm pretty
sure you also know how to deal with it.

One alternative to NTP is PTP.[1] Quoting:

IEEE 1588 is designed to fill a niche not well
served by either of the two dominant protocols,
NTP and GPS. IEEE 1588 is designed for local
systems requiring accuracies beyond those
attainable using NTP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol
"The Cloud"
I have a fashion-media startup called FutureClaw - it's both a print magazine and a website - that I bootstrapped and work on part-time over the last several years:

http://www.futureclaw.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureClaw

We've been featured in E!, Vanity Fair, Style.com, etc.

I do all aspects of the business myself, including graphic design, editing, writing, publicity, as well as full-stack web development in Django.

I also deal with hundreds/thousands of the worlds top fashion brands, creatives, publicists, etc., that I've carefully built relationships with over the years.

I'm looking for people that would like to create the next top fashion media brand. I'm open to ideas and also have a lot of original ideas in this space, from basic web-tech, to high-end e-commerce, advertising, photography, and more. All this could be based on what I've done and the relationships I've built.

These brand relationships are so important. I've seen so many fashion startups go under because they don't have work with the top brands or creative people, or are just out-of-touch stylistically and don't know the market.

Anyways my background is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mozumder

I'm in the Washington, DC area if you want to meet. You can contact me at: info@futureclaw.com
Rolling Stone has less than zero credibility at this point.
2003 - 12 years ago

For fun some stupid and simple calculations:

300 CPUs*287 = 86.100 (Passmark Score for the Xeon)

86.100/11981 = 7.2 (Passmark Score for Intel Xeon E5-2660 @ 2.20GHz)

So only _one_ 8-socket 4U rack machine with e.g. 1TB memory and a few SSDs will be faster than this cluster... likely a lot faster because no need for network...

If you look at the energy it's even more clear:

TDP:

300x65W = 19.5kW

8x95W = 0.76kW

25x more energy efficient only considering the CPUs while having the same or better speed. Crazy.

If you take into account everything else it's likely an even wider gap:

150machinesx300W = 40kW (considering DDR1/DDR2 FB ECC RAM is energy hungry)

1machinex1200W = 1.2kW

So... so the same power even faster at 1/33 of the energy consumption.. in 10 years. Crazy.

If you choose better CPUs e.g. 12cores it's even better.. at least in theory...
It is always a good idea to NOT have the word "welcome" your login banner as that can be used to argue that access was invited. So instead of:

Welcome to foo.example.com

Have something like:

foo.example.com
For authorized use only.
Would they? Or would they assume that a VNC server was left open either through malice or incompetence, and it's presence therefore not an invitation to be accessed?

This is the difference between a storefront being left unlocked, versus a private home being left unlocked. An unlocked storefront is likely to be open for business, so entering is reasonable. An unlocked house is a security mistake, and entering is trespassing.
It is similar to the lack of oversight where people leave security cameras open to the internet. Sometimes it is even possible to control the cameras.
Yes. That seems to work for all other news websites.
I've built a working prototype of an intelligent system that can act as a virtual assistant for a narrow set of tasks. Think what clara labs or magic try to do - they are partly human and partly automated. Here's my earlier post [1] with more details. I'm looking for a cofounder with,

* A CS background (algorithms/ml)

* (Some) experience in implementing machine learning systems

* (Some) experience in low latency web services

* Generalist coding skills

In case you're into product stuff - lets chat as well!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9565645
iOS uses a case-sensitive file system, so that's one reason to keep it working if you already support the other OS in the family.
Describing China as "communist" is like describing the US as a "democracy".
Unlikely unless significant financial fraud is involved. Nobody is going to get extradited over poking around an unsecured server.
It guarantees that the value read was some value that was in the variable at some point. e.g. it prevents a value that toggles from 3 to 5 being read as 117. It also prevents writes from being eaten (e.g. an increment always actually occurs).

This necessitates some level of synchronization.
"Just because I'm not following the true path, doesn't mean I can't get it to work."

I have to ask: Is that basically self-targeted snark about how you're not doing this with Lisp?

I hope so, because I got a good belly laugh out of that interpretation.