skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sbepvat crbcyr gb gnxr rkgen fgrcf gb ernq jung lbh'ir jevggra vf fghcvq.
There's maybe a startup idea there: a service like Gigster [1] where the vetted developers also get equity, not just pay.

[1] https://www.trygigster.com
That is not true; at least in my case. I am an extrovert, and I hate reviews, because I personally like quick, immediate and respectful feedback on the spot, if something goes wrong.
Two paragraphs, a screenshot of a tweets, and that's 'content' ?
"From the outside, industry looks to be churning out nothing, but trivial stuff for sale."

I suppose what one chooses to focus on. The stuff I do in industry helps people design houses and infrastructure.
“Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.”
Paul Saffo

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run
and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
Roy Amara

I looks like they have mastered funding the transition to the next generation--yet to be profitable according to the NYT article--by preserving the DVD business as a cash cow. See also

http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2011/10/11/learning-from-netfli...

http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2011/10/14/learning-from-netfli...
The author clearly knows more about the Christian practice than the Hebrew (Jewish) one.

> while Hebraic tradition went bigger, declaring six whole cities as places where criminals could take refuge

This is not true. The only sanctuary offered in those cities was if someone accidentally or via negligence killed someone. The relatives were not able to extract blood vengeance in those cities.

That's it. It was not for criminals. It was a way of discouraging blood vengeance, while also punishing the perpetrator.

The perpetrator would also be required to be tried in court after claiming refuge.

> These early asylums were established under the belief that the gods (or god) were inviolable, and thus their temples and holy sites shared this untouchable aspect.

Absolutely not true. If someone committed murder he could be dragged away from the holy of holies if necessary.
Why would a criminal swap phones but retain the sim?
Indeed an earbud crisis is serious and u are doing the right thing seeking help.
> (or, as far as that goes, any simulation probably)

Yeah, truly. I think of this stuff first and foremost in the context of MC models, as that's what I have the most experience with.
Sadly Ronald Coase' theory of the firm gets us here. The idea is that for a given business process, say designing an engine cylinder, painting a widget, there is a complexity that the free market cannot profitably supply and it's simpler to hire someone and change their job description every day to cope.

The advent of software means more complexity can be codified so we will see smaller firms and more outsourcing (socially beneficial) but, if you need to hire someone, it basically means you cannot find a suitable replacement in the market.

This may of course be your fault - but still :-)
It would probably be OK if all programs have a simple, predictable sequence of malloc and free that they call in a loop, with similar-ish sizes each time.

It's extremely unpleasant to program something with just a few KB of RAM and not know exactly what memory goes where. However, a lot of IoT-related gadgets just gather a buffer of data from an ADC or something, average it and send it over some wireless protocol every 1 minute. The allocation pattern is predictable enough that you don't run into strange cornercases.

I see no reason why anyone would want to use this commercially, but for the enthusiast market (and maybe even for some rapid prototyping) this looks interesting enough.
Python Cheat Sheet for Beginners and Beyond
Ask HN: Trazec claims a 900% GPU boost, is it real?
Trazec is a startup company, they claim the invention of a new algorithm to speed up the GPU based rendering by 900%.
http://trazec.com
Why not just post it here for everyone to read?
I remember there being an article about this font a few years back, perhaps 2010. I, like most would, fantasised about what it would be like if someone actually retrieved the type. Crazy idea that perhaps this Mr Green also read that article and actually got a mudlarkers permit to (literally) get to the bottom of it.

The article doesn't mention if the 150 retrieved pieces together actually constitute a useable font or if there's any essential letters missing or damage from being underwater for almost a hundred years.
I think many people use the term "illegal immigrant" not because it is pejorative but because it seems like a natural way to distinguish from "legal immigrant". And (if true) I wasn't aware that all immigration law is civil. I'd presumed that there was a parallel with "criminal trespass", but perhaps that phrase is itself a misnomer. Could you point to some sources that explain the difference between "unlawful", "illegal", and "criminal" as you understand them?
> At only a minority of restaurants do tips get shared with the cooks.

I think they often do get shared with cooks, but not to the extent to anyhow influence the quality.
I think that WebStorm is decent JavaScript IDE but if we 're talking about editing HTML/CSS/Sass, WebStorm is not any better than plethora of other text editors.

IMO basic problem lies in fact that we're still trying to edit hierarchical tree structures of HTML and CSS/SCSS as a plain text instead of editing underlying tree structure.

I think that good HTML/CSS editor should operate on tree and every CSS rule and every property should be object rather than plain text. That would allow to more natural editing and faster code modification/refactoring (I am frontend developer but I hate writing CSS/HTML by hand. It feels like using punch cards... Better editor could allow to do things faster and more effective).

I was looking for structural (and projectional) editor for HTML/CSS and didn't find any. So I started making my own (here is prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRwx09bAT08 )
Please do not be disrespectful of the people who had to suffer through slavery as slaves by comparing their position with whomever you think is a "slave" in a modern western society.
This looks like a fun paper to read but the HN title should have "(2006)" in it.

The author provides a Maple Notebook and a Mathmatica Notebok for this paper here:

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bryan/google.html
Facebook actually does something like that: https://research.facebook.com/blog/879898285375829/fair-open...

They have a patent on it but did open sourced the code. They claim it's up to 24x faster than standard. But that is only true for an extreme use case, its only 2x faster on average.
OK I see. That said the LLVM bytecode is not portable or cross platform. The front-end is responsible for respecting the target ABI for example.
Am i the only one who doesn't get the reference? Where does the name Jerry come from?
Assembly is along the same vein: http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/01/assembly-will-crowdsource-...
Well there is still the amount of parallelism that can be exposed. It just seems that CMake exposes it as well for make than for ninja I guess.
Replying to myself. I am certainly no expert, but both on my own and more so perhaps simply extrapolating from what I hear about, I imagine circumstances that, a few years later, I seem to end up reading about.

But, that's not the point of my reply. That is, that I am not an expert, and I seem to be drifting further and further away from relevance in conversations, these days.

So, I think it is time to unplug myself. Maybe still browse, but enough of my comments.
It's not the Craigslist allegation that makes something criminal; it's the Craigslist interpretation, if accepted by the court.

Have you read the linked brief? That's its concern. It's clear and written by experts who agree with your opinion, as expressed here, that nothing 3Taps did should be considered criminal.

However, if that's your opinion, your defense of the use of the CFAA, upthread, is odd. CFAA (g) is clear: the elements allowing civil damages/relief are a strict subset of those that impose criminal liability. You'll only get damages/relief if you've proven that something that's criminally-prosecutable under the CFAA has taken place.

Of course, the standards-of-proof are lower in a civil case, and it remains unlikely most civil judgements would change a federal prosecutor's priorities. But your casual assurance upthread that CFAA civil actions and CFAA criminal prosecutions are "worlds apart" was misleading.
Here's one I wrote that's been quite successful. Feel free to steal - it's quite flexible, but mostly suitable for an impending deadline. (The story is true.)

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Subject: DECIDE

My friend Bob Etherington flies planes.

He told me what happens when you’re coming in to land:

First, you hear your co-pilot counting down the approach:

* “8 miles, 10,000 feet.”
* “6 miles, 6,000 feet.”
* “4 miles, 2,000 feet.”

Finally, he says:

”2 miles to run, 1,000 feet - DECIDE.”

At this point, the only responses the pilot can give are “LAND” or “GO AROUND” (not “Oo-er, I’m not sure - what do you
think?”)

You have to DECIDE.

Today is your day to decide for Accelerate - the 4 day intensive development program that we’re delivering with the blah blah blah

We have one place left blah blah blah

See if it’s for you and DECIDE.
It goes both ways. Technologists should also look in the mirror, and consider what we might not understand.

Since the OP is criticizing journalists' understanding of tech, we should ask how well we understand journalism. Inside the Collapse of The New Republic (http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-collapse-new-...)

Taking a Tire Iron to Techie Triumphalism (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/us/taking-a-tire-iron-to-t...) and associated HN discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9686577)

Not every solution takes the form of a startup. And there's always the lifehack of asking the working poor what they think, and listening to them. Maybe some of them have the vision we lack. – idlewords (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261431)

And this from MondayNote (http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/10/26/the-two-things-that-cou...):

One: Google’s disconnect from the outside world keeps growing. More than ever, it looks like an insulated community, nurturing its own vision of the digital world, with less and less concern for its users who also happen to be its customers. It looks like Google lives in its own space-time (which is not completely a figure of speech since the company maintains its own set of atomic clocks to synchronize its data centers across the world independently from official time sources).

You can actually feel it when hanging around its vast campus, where large luxury buses coming from San Francisco pour out scores of young people, mostly male (70%) mostly white (61%), produced by the same set of top universities (in that order: Stanford, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, UCLA…). They are pampered in the best possible way, with free food, on location dental care, etc. They see the world through the mirrored glass of their office, their computer screen and the reams of data that constitute their daily reality.
I am sorry that I gave you the wrong impression. I wish I could share more details publicly as I am really excited about our startup, we are working on something really cool, but if you are really interested to learn more about us, feel free to email me at vedad.me@gmail.com and I will passionately introduce you to Skillogie.
What was the advantage of directing your requests through ssh and Squid, as opposed to just ssh? Squid page talks about reducing bandwidth, was that it?
666 lines, is this the definitive guide?
This is pretty neat research that replaces prior SFI work with a mechanism that enforces a stronger, verified security claim. I especially endorsed the segment method as it was less likely to have an easy bypass. I posted it on Schneier's blog and elsewhere as an example of good research that tries to solve a root problem (i.e. enforcing invariant) rather than tactically countering every manifestation of it. I'd like to see more review of and enhancements to it by the types of people that broke prior, SFI schemes.

Remember that this method can be combined with other techniques to reduce overall risk. For instance, this combined with interface protection for input and a separation kernel approach for small TCB would give the attackers less to work with. Critical algorithms on data pointers might be proven with Astree. And so on.
I somewhat want to read this, but I can't. The formatting is just impossible.

I have text that is cut off, too narrow, white on white.

Just make a normal webpage please.
The Internet of Things That Do What You Tell Them
In the USSR of 60s - 70s senior scientists/profs were upper middle class, and had high social status.
How to Hire Engineers at the Seed Stage
seems like bullshit to me.

site says nothing about their secret sauce
Scott+Disick+Breaks+Silence+on+Kourtney+Kardashian+Split:+Gotta+Stay+Positive
The ESP8266 may be a good candidate. tmrmr already said in these comments that some other company had ported another JS engine to the thing. And the world isn't just Arduinos, Raspberry Pis and other nicely-packaged "hacking" solutions.
Maybe it's a way to reduce head count without having a have a layoff? If you just have to "make your numbers" (and you don't care the best will leave first) it might be a viable strategy in the short term ...
Maker.js create and share modular line drawings for CNC and laser cutters
Find It's mostly mental and possibly the m-word is what follows this.

I didn't flag this.

But I do object to the suggestion that Thomas learn to think like an attacker. I am pretty sure that he does this as well as anyone.

But this approach seems dismissive of a lot of work that addresses the real world, whereas the approach advocated in this post and other posts reminds me strongly of back when I believed that it was worthwhile to prove programs correct. Very few outfits can do this, and perhaps most rails programmers and Java programmers don't expect to be able to prove their programs correct.

It seems to boil down to "We need to build programs in a fundamentally different way". With that sentiment I agree, but I am not seeing much in the way of actionable advice in your many posts here.
Oh, outstanding! And who decides how much jewelry is too much?
Not true - AMD GCN also has bitselect, which does

dst = (A & B) | (~A & C).

This is equivalent to the SHA-256 Ch "Choose" function.

It also can be used to compose the SHA-256 Maj "Majority" function with an additional XOR.

Additionally, the AMD ISA doesn't have a "rotate" instruction per-se, BFI_INT is "bitfield insert", which can be used to compose arbitrary length rotates, but is not strictly a rotate in and of itself.

AMD ISA also has instructions for computing integer add with carry, which is great for crushing elliptic curves.

NVidia really, really, sucks for integer compute. Friends don't let friends buy NVidia!
When the boss is wrong:  How speaking out can save lives
Show HN: Podcast/RSS feed processor finds missing entries via archive.org API
The difference, of course, being that employees (even the fractional kind) will not get the preferential stock treatment that VCs have, and many will not have the legal resources or expertise to protect themselves throughout the ongoing life of the company.
This is all really hypothetical. Show me a DB that can do tries first.
All at the same time? The context switch you have to do will end up being a counterproductive factor. I'll guess the burnout rate would be high too (few weeks down the line and you'd focus on only one or two)
I started to make simple Android apps about a year ago. I have 8 apps, 1 makes 50% of the income, and 4 make the other half. The other 3 do nothing. They make ~$250 a month, so nothing crazy, but it's 100% passive. Once I release the apps, I rarely touch them again.
In my personal experience (at a top humanities PhD program in the US), everyone started out with the explicit goal of becoming a professor. One or two did, and everybody else recalibrated their goals along the way.

We all knew the statistics, but every single one of us assumed those numbers were about other people.
Their home page say "GPU speed increase of 66%."
Did it change since you looked at it?
Does google even use this still?

I was under the impression that people started to "game" this system (SEO) so much that the Markov-chain approach essentially got useless.

Also, how does user-specific ranking get into the mix? Google is storing our data for a reason, right?
They grow up fast: Apple quietly bulks up Swift and Xcode in year two
Looks like they have pivoted -- assembly.com has the heading "Simple Changelogs for happy teams", with no mention of crowdsourcing project ideas for equity.
Ask HN: What's the most basic technical knowledge every NTF must have?
NTF: Non-technical Founder.

Let's assume a person who either has a technical co-founder or has enough cash to outsource his development.

What are the areas that this person has to master to run his business successfully?

- Should he know the basics of every technology? (e.g how does internet work, what does TDD mean etc.)
- Should he know how to code?
- Should he know about the technology trends?

I am trying to find the fine line where the technical co-founder should aim to reach with minimal effort. Thanks for helping!
I think what actually happens now in SV is more realistic - employees switch jobs every 12-18 months.
Trespass is a good example. The law is split into civil and criminal law and depending on jurisdiction and sometimes the status of the land owner (i.e. military, etc), trespass can fall into either camp.

If you break criminal law, you are committing a crime and can be prosecuted and punished for that, on the other hand civil law is characterized as a dispute between two parties and the only crime you can then commit is to flout a court ruling on the matter, which may then progress into criminal law if it is serious enough, or may be referred back for yet more civil proceedings. However even if you do flout a court ruling, and the process becomes criminal, what you originally did remains civil, it is your subsequent conduct towards the court that can be judged as criminal.

Here's a good source regarding migration law in the US http://blog.chron.com/immigration/2008/04/being-undocumented...
At one point, most of the research focused on the memory safety property as a whole or many tactics for protecting memory/pointeres in narrow ways. The first had too much of a performance hit or required different hardware. The second wasn't good enough because, like you said, a whole umbrella of attacks existed that achieved same goal. Eventually, this paper [1] coined "Control Flow Integrity" as the property of protecting control flow rather than all memory issues. It cites lots of other work that specifically tries to protect control flow. The general idea seems to be that stopping code injection is highest priority and methods that focus just on that might have less performance hit than full memory safety. Plus, if you focus on preserving a property in all situations, then the individual ways to exploit a lack of that property no longer matter. Unless they're things that destroy your whole model. ;)

At least, that's the impression I received from reading most of the papers. A few were clever enough to use segments like the old high assurance A1 systems did. CPI enforces a similar property on pointers with an interesting design and segments in its strongest form. Resulting performance penalty is negligible despite a large number of attacks stopped by it. This field is rife with failures so it wouldn't surprise me if more issues are found. Yet, combined with the bug bounty, the weaker SFI model used in Chrome has worked well enough. The stronger, CPI might deliver after enough analysis and fixes.

Note: While looking that up, I found a recent CFI scheme [2] by Criswell et al that builds on their SVA-OS scheme. It supports my assertion about why CFI exists with this claim:

"Where comparable numbers are available, the overheads of KCoFI are far lower than heavyweight memory-safety techniques."

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/64250/ccs05.pdf

[2] http://sva.cs.illinois.edu/pubs/KCoFI-Oakland-2014.pdf
I find the lack of implicit conversion from void * really annoying. Any time I see someone cast the return type of malloc in a .c file, I curse C++ and die a little. This sounds like a trivial thing but it very much changes the feel of the language, namely into one where you need to insert pointless casts to satisfy a whiney compiler.
There are plenty of people who strongly disagree with you (Linus Torvalds being the most famous example), so you are stating a matter of personal taste, not of objective fact.
Black South Carolina Trooper Explains Why He Helped a White Supremacist
When I moved to Palo Alto in 2011, I had this weird sense that their was a hidden secret behind every term used. I've learned since that it's just a BS game built by lawyers & VC's in the name of "protecting the company & investment". In reality, it's a power game won somewhere in the knowledge gap. The more you know and understand the less likely you are to lose the game.
> I haven't seen a mechanism a nice in elm like the virtual dom.

It's not quite clear what you mean, the "view" function of a standard Elm application is a virtual dom, elm.html is implemented on top of the virtual-dom library[0]. If you mean component, as far as I understand in Elm you'd use separate models and sub-functions in separate modules for each concern ("component")[1]. Elm subscribes to the "single point of truth" philosophy[2] so there isn't really a sense of component-local state or lifecycle.

[0] https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom

[1] https://gist.github.com/evancz/2b2ba366cae1887fe621#nesting

[2] like Om except more so
>googleFinalVersionFixed.pdf
The True Cost – A Documentary Film