skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The problem is that the more the state moves into simply managing rackets, the greater the temptation to corruption gets, for both the high policy makers and for the low level operatives

Well, that is if you ignore the far larger elephant in the room of the government running an illegal operation. It reminds me of the times I hear of the FBI taking over some TOR server hosting abusive images and continuing to host it as a honeypot. By their own admission, looking at, hosting, sharing, etc. those images constitutes concrete abuse of a child, yet they directly engage in such. It would be like if the FBI busted up a brothel with children and kept running it to catch more criminals. The ends in no way justify the means.
gperftools also uses libunwind and does some nice timing and performance analysis for cpu and heap. https://code.google.com/p/gperftools/
Paper – An educational design project
FTA:

∀x:Add(x,0)=0

Whut? Shouldn't it be

∀x:Add(x,0)=x ?
Im woriking on a collection of links and resources, for people that want to get into Game Development.

Im agregating alot of links, with the objective of being a one stop shop for Gamedevs.

http://gamedevr.com/ - Its my first website, and i would realy apreciate you guys feedback.
Two years tax returns. Don't call yourself a freelancer or even self employed. Say "I work for OP Consulting LLC, here are my pay stubs, this is my salary."
Was acqui-hired a couple years ago, and after that vetted several other acqui-hires on behalf of my new employer. A couple quick points:

Few engineers understand that their interests != the founding team's interests and negotiate hard against the founding team. The engineers that do, do much better for themselves. You need to own the possibility of being the asshole that ruins the deal for everyone, but reframe it. Put that decision in their hands. "I want to play ball, but I am burnt out and I need X for this to be worth all the stress and anguish." If they don't give you X, they're ruining it, not you. This "stress and anguish" argument is not bullshit. You have dealt with stress and anguish already, but realize also that there will be more. Two of the five devs on our team got acqui-hired and never made it to vesting because they got so disheartened. It could easily have been three or four. This is not as uncommon as you'd think.

You are saying that you want to leave early and the sale to be about the product, not the team, but you also want leverage. That makes no sense. You can't have it both ways. If the company is buying the product, you won't have a ton of leverage. If the company is paying you a high price, it's because they're buying you, and you're almost certainly going to have to swallow at least a year of vesting to get anything out of this. And that won't be a one-year vesting program, either -- it will be 3-4 years' worth of vesting and you'll be walking away at a year taking home the first big chunk but leaving a lot of it still on the table. This is stupid but pretty commonplace.

Feel free to e-mail if you want more specific advice. I've been through this recently and know a bunch of other people who have as well.
Sorry you got downvoted. I don't agree with you, but I agree it's a valid point of view to have. But in the end, only the future knows if bitcoins price will rise or fall. Everyone is guessing here.

Let me leave you with this: If I told you 10 years ago, a website where everyone can edit the pages, and were nobody gets paid, will create an encyclopedia that has more content and is more accurate than professional encyclopedia publishers, would be believe me? I definitely wouldn't, that concept is completely absurd to me, but yet, it worked. Bitcoins seems like a way more viable idea to me.

Bitcoin is not competing with gold, it's basically competing with "I owe you" notes, managed by some central entity. You could argue that those "I owe you" notes have value, but maybe so does distributed transactions.

Bitcoin might just keep itself alive: because it has value, you can do transactions with it, and because you can do transactions with it, it has value.
That's my point. Lumping 9-5 in with "not too bright" gives the false association of "working normal hours" with "not being productive". There are plenty of ambitious, bright workers who manage to get it done in normal hours.
Man who 'killed Pluto' has no regrets
It was meant as a sarcastic comment, of course it is inaccurate. :)

IMHO:
Unfortunately democracy doesn't work, in practice, as the theory might suggest. What we have in the majority of countries are people in power focused on either:
- Preserving their power (status quo), or tangentially the power of those who put them in office
- Shifting the power structure, so that they (and their group) can take control

There are few and far between examples of politicians (let alone governments) that act with true altruistic purposes, favoring the interests of "the people". The built-in incentives in our society (and some might argue, our own nature) unfortunately make this a rare occurrence.

By the way... I might argue that the government doesn't sell our information because there is no buyer. It is the user of this information. It is used to control (mainly to control dissent). ;)
I should not have called the article irrelevant, but instead stated that it needs an update to include modern techniques, practices and risk factors.

One of his examples in 7.3 User Effort is not Free he mentions the users time in input of a 6 digit pin vs an 8 digit password. But he doesn't include the use of a password management system. If you use a password managment system you can actually save time on password input.

Then look at his section on passwords. The same thing applies. And the article is not security advice but it contains security advice from 2009 which is different today.
Congratulations on the new deal, 'antirez! It’s very cool that you’re able to work full time on your own BSD-licensed software.
The main trend for Bitcoin in 2015 is that not much happened. The price is within 10% of where it was at the beginning of the year. Transaction volume in dollars is flat, or down a little. Many of the companies which were accepting Bitcoin no longer are; those that are report low transaction volumes. (There are lots of merchants which "accept Bitcoin" because it's an option in some shopping cart programs, but those just send the Bitcoins to Coinbase, which converts them to dollars and sends the funds to the merchant.)

The big trends in Bitcoin seem to be:

- Amateur hour is over. The remaining exchanges are bigger and seemingly more stable, although none of them are up to bank-level yet. New York's Bitcoin regulation seems to have been accepted.

- Mining is more centralized than ever. Most of the big Bitcoin miners are in cold areas of China with cheap power. China has well over 50% of the hash rate now. This may just be a way to convert yuan to dollars. (China has currency controls, but encourages exports. For a few months, it was legal in China to buy Bitcoins with yuan through regular payment channels, then sell the Bitcoins outside China for dollars. That drove the $1000 Bitcoin bubble, and was shut down by the People's Bank of China last year, causing the Bitcoin crash. Mining Bitcoin in China, and selling it outside China, is considered "exporting" and is a legal way to convert yuan to dollars.)

- Since the shutdown of Silk Road I and Silk Road II and the related arrests, Bitcoin is no longer considered a safe way to buy drugs. This doesn't seem to have affected the price much one way or the other.

- Bitcoin ATMs are disappearing. In the SF bay area, Hacker Dojo and Workshop Cafe got rid of theirs, and Nakamoto's doesn't have theirs working. Hero City (a co-working space) may still have one.

History of Bitcoin:

2013: Wow!
2014: Aargh!
2015: Meh.
That's a great term
> it would be a security nightmare.

It's not so much a security nightmare as it is a maintenance nightmare. The whole reason you pay for services is because you don't have time (or resources) to deal with it.

> security of that box is far below even the worst gmail server

If you use one time passwords and/or SSH key only access - it's probably pretty safe. Also changing SSH to some other port and blocking shodan.io bots - and you have filtered out a majority of the script kiddies. I also have an automated script that also downloads a list of known bad guys and adds them to my hosts.deny.

> Google are experts at this stuff

I wouldn't consider them experts persay - it's just that they have a seemingly infinite number of resources. I'm not saying they don't know what they are doing - but when your only job is to maintain the mail backend servers you could probably do a better job than me.

> would you not agree that your email is more secure at google (or a similar provider) than on your own server (a few experts not included)

Depends. Are you running Exchange or Dovecot? How savvy are you? Is this in the cloud or in your home? Are the drives encrypted? etc

I've purchased a lifetime license for iredadmin and it's worked pretty well. I'm currently hosting it on gandi and thought about offering email hosting.
Stop Everything: You Might Actually Want a New iPod Touch
podcast speaker here: the problem with releasing content ahead of a finished product is that when you first contact the media about the launch announcement, this is your startup's introduction to the market. a journalist will google search your company to see if there has been any prior coverage. if, for example, a small blog covers your company, and 3 weeks later you reach out to TechCrunch, a journalist there will see the earlier coverage and may pass on covering the announcement (as the "launch" of the company was earlier covered). i am 100% for content marketing, but prior to the launch this is something a company should be more careful about. i hope the above makes sense.
Let's set aside the college degree requirement then. Can they succeed if their entire business is based on the idea of actively discriminating against a certain race of people (despite the arguments that its reverse discrimination)? That question isn't rhetorical; I'm not an employment/labor attorney, so I don't know.
U.S. Program Will Connect Public Housing Residents to Web
$15,000 a year for insurance ... plus all the taxes we already pay. Wow. Is this in NY? I'm guessing it's a low deductible plan.
Freebase is dead, long live :BaseKB
After reading the article and these links, I have no feel for what any of these people are criticizing. It feels like they've firmly locked themselves into a circlejerk, safely isolated from the real world.
> "Running it in reverse" would be claiming that you didn't actively discriminate in favor of the majority, it just so happened to happen because you did something else.

Again, that's not the reverse of the logic here.

> This has been tested over and over again... for instance, it is the reason why IQ tests are de facto illegal to use for hiring.

IQ tests are neither de facto nor de jure illegal for hiring; they are used in hiring for a number of jobs, and have survived legal challenges in several of those uses.

> Yes, but again, de facto it's not safe to use things that would be discriminatory as even part of the hiring process if it were going the other direction.

Sure it is. Lots of individual components of company's funnels are discriminatory in "the other direction" taken separately.

Person-to-person contact from a manager to a particular potential candidate letting them know of an opening is a frequent component of a companies recruiting system (obviously not the sole component!) and it frequently does discriminate, because of the way human social circles work, in favor of whatever groups are already overrepresented at that firm. Yet its pretty clearly not illegal in practice to have that be part of the hiring system.
Why I had to buy my wife's inhaler on the dark web
You're still not making clear how this is different from e.g. setting up a booth at a job fair at an exclusive event.
I don't think it was the front page - I think it began to show up on /r/all due to the number of upvotes things got once the sub had a lot of subscribers
Pew: if you use Facebook or Twitter, you probably get news there
Couple of things I see often in online language learning is that they (a) assume everyone is a n00b programmer and doesn't know much programming; and (b) often don't highlight the idiomatic way to write code for that language.
Criminal hacking bazaar Darkode is dismantled and 70 members are busted
Aww, that's sweet.
The .NEWS domain extension launched today
Matthew Garrett: Canonical's Ubuntu IP Policy Is Garbage
> ...but that doesn't make it practical...

If I had a dime for every penny of damage caused when people downplay the practicality of attacks against deployed crypto...

75 hours is enough time to attack a laptop left plugged in at the office over a 3-day weekend, and there's no reason why you'd have to attack only one laptop at a time.

The paper also says, "capturing traffic for 52 hours already proved to be sufficient", so it's not like 75 hours is some hard minimum.

Also:

"Our attack is not limited to decrypting cookies. Any data or information that is repeatedly encrypted can be recovered."

"We can break a WPA-TKIP network within an hour."

RC4 is dead, dead, dead. As with MD5, the writing's been on the wall for a while now, and attacks are only going to get better.
Not a good idea, I'm afraid. Your ad-hoc will cause the caching to stutter and the job queues to stagger. Redis is a single-threaded server and shared databases, well, share the same process. The common practice is to use dedicated Redis servers, one for each database. This also has the nice side benefit of allowing you config each as needed (e.g. LRU eviction for cache, persistency for jobs, etc...)
Yes, but inactive, doing nothing, not using a single cycle.
Why downvote him for asking a totally legitimate question?

I cannot infer that they lack diversity based on a sample of 5, though they do appear to be very similar... Which makes sense as they are obviously a small startup and likely have plans to hire a more diverse team as they grow.

How many startups are started by a couple of white guys who then hire other people that happen to be white or partially white because those are the qualified candidates that are nearby/referred by other white friends/colleagues/sites?

The whole issue is artificial and ignorant: Hire other races to meet a contrived quota even though these companies are not setting out to not hire other races on purpose. At Google/FB/MS/Twitter a good portion of the workforce is Indian and Asian...but that's not diverse enough as, paraphrasing from the article: "all Black workers at those companies combined could fit in a Jumbo Jet". How many Black workers are being denied jobs at those companies because of their race? Why aren't the Black applicants filing anti-discrimination lawsuits against these companies? If there are repeated discrimination issues at these companies then the company is or might be perceived as racist. Racism and Discrimination cannot be inferred solely based on the number of ,or ratio of, white employees vs all other races or vs one other race. If the same company moved to Africa, India, or Asia and mostly hired white people would that seem racist and unfair or would that be nearly impossible in those areas?
I have a project that is currently private/subscription only. In some sense, it goes back a lot of years. It is currently going well and I have hopes it will become something commercially successful at some point. I think I finally have the right idea/packaging for what I want to do.

In early June, I launched a food blog. That is also getting more notice than projects of mine have historically gotten.
"Scam? You can count on us! We will back you up if there is an issue, if any."

This isn't the most reassuring statement I've ever seen.
Totally in for the balancing act. And additionally in an open source project it's possible to refactor for code beauty, because you can choose so for other reasons than resource management.
Charon's Surprising, Youthful, and Varied Terrain
Do you think that there should be less Asian people in tech since they are over represented? Less Jewish people?
I sometimes watch How Its Made (well, more so it is a show my father loves so it is what is playing when I'm visiting my parents). There is a lot of automation, but there is almost always someone doing some part of the job that looks really repetitive and boring. I get a bit saddened reflecting on what it is like doing something so repetitive for so much of one's life.
This is a brilliant idea and an astonishingly bad function signature.
This is a terrible, terrible comment. These guys are a recruiting service, and do not make hiring decisions.

Companies can continue to source candidates from wherever they want -- local high school, boat docks, Facebook, friends and family, whatever. Discrimination would theoretically happen if Facebook chose to ONLY source from Jopwell and ignore all resumes from anywhere else.

Since that's not going to happen in any universe, please keep the pearl-clutching to yourself.
The alert box ruins your website.
Email is simply not a conversation medium, and rarely even a discussion medium. It's a medium mostly useful to propagate information and meeting requests (where discussion happens).
Love how "plug and play" some of these are! This is a great selection of packages. I didn't even know they existed.
In that case why would it make a request with "key=no-google-api-key" then why not use the IceWeasel key right from the start?
Ask HN: Funding, Loans, and Equity
Hello all,

I have a funding proposal for my new startup based out of Toronto, Canada. I'm unaware on what I should accept as an offer but here is the deal:

I have a really hot software startup that is extremely unique and has potential to be something very big. We've had investors approach us, and interested in keeping communication.
We need about $500,000 for startup costs for the next 2 years.

A particular investor approached me with the deal: for 30% of my company, they will LOAN me $500,000. I am not personally guaranteed for the loan, but if I cant repay, I will lose my equity in the company. They have not provided specifics for a loan, and how soon it should be repaid. What should I be asking for? If I give up equity, should I be aiming for funding that I do not need to pay back? Is 30% for a repayable loan high? Should I ask for an interest rate of 0% and a longer repay?

The guy/his family seem really great. Very ultraistic and well known in their local community.

What would you do? What should I negotiate?
Infusing Technology into the Revenue Lifecycle
For anyone that is concerned about these sorts of services the answer is simple - self identify as a mix of diverse backgrounds.

There is no way to prove that you are not 1/8th Black, 1/8th Asian, 1/4 Native American and the rest hispanic.
Actually the choice is more ambiguous than you make it sound.
That is a very good point. A lot of Americans have this romanticized notion of fighting the man, but at the end of the day, our nation's wealth and power (and the stability they require) simply wouldn't be there if our government wasn't so committed to keeping things under its control.
Vault 0.2
*dwarf planet
Until they explain what their plans are tomorrow, we are all just guessing what the future will be
I spend a fair amount of time offering electronics/firmware assistance online on various forums. You'd be amazed at how many people have problems just doing this. Seeing a circuit, collecting the parts from a variety of sources, and putting it together is trivial for those of us who have been doing it since we were teenagers. For those completely new to electronics, there are many little hurdles among the way that can eventually cause them to just give up.

Yes, these guys are monetizing a simple concept, but they are providing value. Value is worth paying for.
Actually, best case is you'd have code that still works, but faster, with fewer bugs, and less likelyhood of breaking with future changes. Code working is not the only metric by which code is judged. How WELL it works is more important, for example.
I've just realized that Vim never exited with an error in my whole life, while pretty much all the other editors I've ever used did. While his code is old, it's certainly resilient.
Can you provide a cite for the unwritten rule (e.g. 15 points)? Just want to know what expectations are and how they are grounded. I couldn't find any relevant cites or discussion with a search. The FAQ entry sounds like a moderator policy, not a submitter guideline.

Also, I'm curious what work gets created by such dupes (presuming they're moderately low-volume). The vast majority of submissions go quietly to the 1-point grave, it looks like to me; as such, it would seem like there's little to no moderation problem with (some moderate load of) reposts that people have no interest in.

And if people are interested, presumably it's new to them? Not sure why their votes would be less relevant than votes for novel content of similar net interest. IMO, existing dedup'ing and moderating discretion is probably sufficient to keep things clean.

If anything, it would seem like HN should merge dup'ed submissions (so we don't have comments across a dozen different entries) while resetting the time to give them a new shot at the front page. And if people care about Internet Points, figuring out a way to share the karma.
And to think you are using a measurement system that is so archaic and suboptimal that the vast majority of the planet uses something better :-) Pluto is 4.7 billion kilometres distant at the moment.
That's why it's nice to have multiple web browsers installed, or have multiple accounts or VMs with their own browser configurations, leaving your main personal browser config exactly how you'd prefer to have it.
The jumps would be pretty radical for sure.
If the compiler emits instructions that don't trample on registers used in the special section, couldn't the restart handler just be a nop just before the start of the section? No cleanup/prep necessary. I suppose that would severely limit the size of the special section.
Servers as Microservices with Node.js at Yieldbot
Unhealthy Fixation: the war on GMOs is full of fearmongering, errors, and fraud
Sometimes I can't tell what's on the pop overs because they don't work properly on my phone. So I start reading an article and then the whole thing is overlaid with dark grey and I can't scroll...
Amazing. Crater-less mountains, and we have no idea how they were formed (or are forming!). Lots of exciting science ahead!
PHP cups for charity
At 44K (-380 F), I'd say it's more like next century's coldest snowboarding destination
Non-commercial does not meet the OSI definition of open source.
Replacing the site with a takedown image seems almost comically stupid. Why announce it to anyone? Why not keep the site running indefinitely under your own control to track and catch the people who continue to use it?
> What happens in the near future when White is a minority in the US

The whole focus on minority/majority in these discussions is sort of a reflection of the fact that the overrepresented, dominant, advantaged class at the time the issues became a focus of discussion happened to be a majority; but the real substantial difference is advantage, not minority/majority status.

> Hiring from a club that excludes one or more races is bad juju.

Sure, but supplementing the pool of candidates that substantially underrepresents certain race/ethnicities with additional candidates from a dedicated funnel which only includes those race/ethnicities and then making a race/ethnicity-neutral hiring decision from that expanded pool of candidates is different from just hiring from the exclusive pool.
Oh lord, a units of measurement flamewar is exactly what this thread does not need.

(seriously, if you're thinking about extolling the virtues of miles vs km, please, stop)