skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first two of your paragraphs about your feelings are completely irrelevant to this policy discussion, though I understand they are of great importance to you.

Your last point is interesting because you seem to prioritize elimination of donor influence. I on the other hand, am ambivalent when it comes to the prevalence of donor influence, and would only be inclined to minimize donor influence if it had a negative impact on governance. Caplan makes the point that political 'shirking', and non-voting both improve governmental results. Do you prioritize involvement of the citizenry in poltics over governmental outcomes (i.e. the good of the people)?
In my experience (and that experience is limited, I've only participated as an expert witness in two cases that have gone to trial) looking backward through time on "obviousness" is really hard. Once you know how a magician does his trick, its obvious to you, but before you knew it wasn't. Compare that to multiple people from different places trying to solve the same problem came to implement that solution in exactly (or an infringing) way, speaks to the notion that of non-novelty more strongly. And its something that has already happened prior to disclosure, so you cannot argue that the other people were "taught" by the patent disclosure. (one of the tenets of the patent is that it should teach others skilled in the art how to do what it is you're patenting)

Anyway, I'm not a lawyer, and none of this is legal advice or patent advice. Just my thoughts (or perhaps frustrations) on how hard it is to generate deliberately patent free technology. That difficulty suggests to me a way in which patent law could be improved.
The Language of Modular Design
The best description I've found of why things are the way they are in Russia, by Matthew Maly:

http://russia-as-it-is.ru/en/articles-in-english/

He describes what are actually very tragic, sad circumstances endured by millions in such a way that if you didn't laugh at some of it, you'd weep.
Perhaps your definition of trauma is vastly different than the more commonly accepted definition. IMO, the points you made illustrate that modern education is challenging, definitely not trauma.
For me it was when I started playing Ever Online, for months after I would see endless banner ads for the game screaming "JOIN NOW!".

But I already had joined, and even if I wanted a second account I already know where to go to get it. Ad tech is dumb, real dumb.
Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details
Is Google also contributing to the NetVC effort?
I wonder if there are attacks where you can alter the state of an idle user's terminal (based on what process you see that terminal has running) to trick the user into taking an inappropriate action when the user returns to the terminal. (There's certainly generic social engineering, but I'm wondering more about counterfeiting a situation that could really exist so that even a knowledgeable and skeptical user could be fooled.)
Yea of course. We're basically talking about 10/90 write/read on JSON documents ~100kb in size with very low load, probably no more than 10-20 ops/second at peak. Records now are at 200,000 projected to grow 250k/year.
Right. Cutting-edge military systems are, indeed, risky business, and one has to balance (as you say) more testing against not having those systems when you need them.

This puts a high premium on the efficiency of bug-finding, especially spec bugs of new systems. My intuition is that this could improve by a lot.
This is soooo awesome. I started rewriting SageMathCloud to use RethinkDB when I learned in May about your plans to support high availability. I've been rewriting everything, doing tests (building from sources, then using the beta you kindly provided), and finally after months of work, I'm ready to release the new version of SageMathCloud last night, but RethinkDB 2.1 isn't out yet. So I'm torn about whether to go with 2.1beta and cross my fingers, or just wait, or what. And this! Thank you so much. RethinkDB is, for my use, the first database I've ever actually really loved (and React.js+flux the first web framework). Here's my client code in case anybody is curious: https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/blob/rethinkdb/salvus/ret...
Texas went minority-majority in 2011 yet voted resoundingly Republican in the 2012 presidential and 2014 gubernatorial elections—Davis lost by 20 points in November.
While I have no strong gut feeling as to the total cost/benefit, as someone who has studied marketing and spent quite a bit of time in the sector, I get the impression the cost of advertising itself is very high, perhaps even dwarfing all the rest, comparatively.

And the industry as I've seen it is not particularly efficient/cost-effective or pleasant either. Most of the shoddiest work, unhappiest employees and shittiest bosses/manager that I've encountered were in this sector, by far. The only environment where I got a similar vibe was a bank/insurance company where I worked.
I will stick to building the machines myself. These just seem dangerous. If I am going to use these I should just host on HostGator.
I don't know how to evaluate the fitness of hardware RNGs.

But, I really like their website. It's full of words. Thousands of them. Carefully chosen words.
That's because it's prohibitively expensive and negates the possibility of its inclusion in free products. At least, according to the blog post.
I suspect this depends on what area you work in. If you're making corporate webapps, they'll stick around for a long time (hell, they probably still need to support IE7) but if you're consumer facing, things like mobile would be far more likely to require a rewrite.

(for the record, I'm not 20 years old either. However, an decade old C# desktop app I wrote back when I was is still in use at an old corporate workplace)
I meant "prohibited by the license agreement".
It means that an HN moderator squashed its appearance on the top list. Why? They felt it wasn't constructive perhaps, considering the other thread against the original article is still live.
Why assume there would be less overhead without the ads?

With ads, there is also probably less friction visiting unknown sites; clicking to a site with too many ads and then just closing it is probably a better experience than knowing you blew $0.05 on crap content (I'm not saying getting frustrated about $0.05 makes sense, I'm saying it will probably happen).
I think folks underestimate how much agricultural science and technology there is that doesn't fall under the very narrow categories of genetic engineering and chemical pesticides.

Modern society is built on top of the massive productivity improvements in agriculture that occurred before those were introduced, and there is plenty of room to innovate without using those methods.

GMO crops are limited[1] in Europe, yet they continue to be a leader in agricultural innovation.

[1] edited, see dragonwriter's correction
Have you Jepsen-tested the new 2.1 release? If so, what were its results?
That's funny, I just installed that over the weekend and was testing it out. It's really good but what sort of through me off was the high $/node licensing fee if you want the Enterprise edition. It basically starts at $5k/year/node and that's just too oppressive.

Do you use the Community Edition and if so is it generally stable / suits your needs? I didn't read your article but I'll check it out tonight.
like many others, i too have never heard of cucumbertown, although i cook frequently based on downloaded recipes. i google for random recipes often, and not once have i come across this site. SEO and SEM might be something to think about, if this is truly world's only food blogging platform.
> frameworks lose some of their significance

no they wont, see server side languages. There will be dozens of frameworks for ES6/7 ... why do you think AngularJS and co get rewritten from scratch using some ES6/7 dialect ? You can argue AngularJS will be a set of decoupled libs, that wont be the case for what matters, the view.

> There's of course still some work to be done on reusability of UI components — seeing as Angular, React, and Aurelia are each building their own Material Design implementation.

Not sure why you're talking about material design, and why it matters when it's some vague UX spec produced by Google. Did you mean webcomponents ?
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Everything still reduces to the lowest common denominator, HTTP.

It doesn't really. Both native apps and webapps use HTTP, but you'd struggle to find too many similarity in those implementations that you could reduce down.
haha you sound like a pussy
And a washing machine, and a family of satellites, and a ramjet engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_%28disambiguation%29 . Not listed there, also a special purpose DBMS for small molecule chemistry data.
The assembly / bandwidth / cpu / etc argument really shines for limited platforms. E.g. if you're on metered internet, loading ads costs you money. If you're on a small device, playing ads costs you power, meaning you have to find a charger sooner.

Computer ads aren't free for the people subjected to them, since we're the ones that have to do the work of displaying them. Compare that to paper / magazine ads add a few grams of weight and a bit of volume, but rarely in noticeable amounts, and billboard ads that don't cost the recipient any resources by being there (except maybe having to step around them).
I'm having trouble imagining any outcome other than drawing votes away from Sanders. Even if he were to win the primary and the general election, congress is very unlikely to budge.

> "Even if she did say exactly the right things, I don’t think it’s credible that she could achieve it because she – and the same thing with Bernie – would be coming to office with a mandate that’s divided among five or six different issues," Lessig said. "The plausibility of creating the kind of mandate necessary to take on the most powerful forces inside of Washington is zero. This is what led me to recognize that we have to find a different way of doing this.”

I don't agree with this logic, that "policital capitol" is split among multiple mandates, and that having more mandates makes you less likely to achieve any of them. Having a position on many issues just means that more voters have a reason to vote for (or against) you. Many of those positions are expected of someone running for office under a certain party, and not stating a clear policy preference doesn't usually win you votes from the other party, it loses you votes from your own party.

I think Lessig's efforts are better spent continuing to advocate for an article V convention and influencing congressional elections via the Mayday PAC.
(I think your parent was being satirical)
That might break some links.
> Mozilla Research puts the entire web's advertising revenue at $12.70/month per users[1]. This means that is the most we'd have to pay on average if could just pay directly (and in fact less if because all the overhead and externalities go away).

Direct payments have overhead and externalities (aide from simply payment processing overhad, consider that instead of providing content to all comers with accompanying ads, content providers have to have paywalls -- to stop the content from getting taken for free -- and find some way of promoting content to those who haven't yet paid to convince them to pay for it.) Neither the paywalls nor the promotional efforts are free of cost.
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The MP4 patent situation needs another close look. MP4, which was first standardized in 1998, ought to come out of patent soon, if it hasn't already. There are a few remaining patents in the MPEG-LA package, but they're mostly for stuff you don't need on the Internet, such as interlaced video, font loading, error tolerance for broadcast, and VRML. This hasn't been looked at hard since 2011[1] and it's time for a new look. Some of the key patents related to motion compensation expired last April.[2]

It looks like the last patent on MP3 audio decoding expires next month.

[1] http://www.osnews.com/story/24954/US_Patent_Expiration_for_M...
[2] http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/MPEG_patent_lists#MPEG-1_Au...
MS15-085 Vulnerability in Mount Manager Could Allow Elevation of Privilege
The barrier to entry is huge - getting people to download your app and getting drivers to drive those users around is not a simple process. That's why numerous apps have already left the market.
Learning a functional language (and way of thinking) was pretty enlightening to me.

I've also been looking into learning a bit about machine learning and data science via https://www.kaggle.com/. They run contests with some very interesting problems.

I don't know if these are the next 'big things' but i certainly don't regret learning them.
>The presumption of stupidity[2]

That's an interesting post.

I notice the presumption of stupidity on Hacker News is very strong in the fields of auto manufacturing and banking.
Thanks! I'd definitely give RethinkDB a try, I think you'd be pleasantly surprised at how nice it can be for this. You'll also find that you might want to run ad-hoc queries on JSON documents (e.g. for analytics/exploratory analysis, etc.) and having ReQL at your disposal will be great for that.

IMO picking a KV store makes the most sense if you have insane performance requirements (e.g. millions of ops/second) where you need to squeeze every last drop of performance and the query layer gets in the way.

(Also if you have any questions and don't want to share more info publicly, feel free to shoot me an email -- slava@rethinkdb.com)
We're seeing serious memory leaks in 2.0.4~trusty.

http://glui.me/?i=uu1gqb3son0sbnn/2015-08-11_at_11.33_AM.png...

You can see where the memory sets itself during the rethink process restart, and then it slowly climbs back up to ~3gb, despite no new data being written to the system (all our RethinkDB data is generated during deploy time).

Any pointers? I'd be happy to provide any diagnostics.
I guess thats when you build the client with good UX and charge for it. But it would have to be code under a license that is friendly to that kind of extension.
Britain has a 100% english speaking population and ridiculously high education and cultural standards. How many British CEO's run powerful companies?

The fact that middle/lower class Indian-born and educated individuals are now running corporations with the size and impact of Google, Adobe, Nokia, Deutche bank, Pepsi, Microsoft and the likes is just down right stunning. They've broken through cultural, racial, societal, stereotypical, psychological and economical barriers at an extreme level to do so. This needs to be academically investigated.
Some sites do this already. Either with a locally hosted snippet or by doing a CNAME in their DNS that points to the third party so it looks like it's from the same domain.
Timely considering PG's post earlier in the week http://paulgraham.com/name.html
So, plugging in a malicious USB storage device can not only execute malicious code, but can do it with elevated privileges.

Can it be done on a locked PC or must a user be actively logged in? I presume the former, as I don't believe the mounting process requires the PC to be unlocked.
I bet Linux distros will have this in a day or two, while most BSDs will have to wait months or years to get OpenSSH 7.0.
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Still seems stupid to not at least try to buy the facebook+domain name and the twitter handle @alphabet. I bet the twitter owner would love to part with it for a few million. Even BMW might be amenable to enough scratch.
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Yeah, it does make sense that a Presidential debate is a major platform for affecting state and House elections. I just didn't see how it could possibly affect the Presidential election itself.
Microsoft: Vulnerability in Mount Manager Could Allow Elevation of Privilege
>Do you have a list of these introductory textbooks you refer to?

Not really. I just Google things like, "best textbook on <subject>", and you'll end up on some Amazon reviews or SO thread that will at least get you started.

This is where tablets shine, being able to put a literal ton equivalent of paper on a single, portable device.
Yes. We did months of internal tests, and 2.1 passes Jepsen tests. We'd love for Kyle to do his own analysis once he gets some free time. In the meantime there is a bit more info on this in the blog post under "testing" headline.
The comparison would be more accurate if most of those 14 competing standards are stated to be proprietary and burdened with patents galore; the stated goal of Thor isn't to try to unify a bunch of standards, but instead to actually create a proper non-proprietary standard.
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Am I dating myself to say that at my right hand is a pad of graph paper? I take my notes on it; it's wonderful to have both horizontal and vertical guides.
Touché, snark notwithstanding ;)

It's an unfortunate fact of life that most large enterprises require the ability to quickly grant and revoke permissions across the enterprise. Some enterprises literally have no formal user deprovisioning process (even manual) across Linux/UNIX servers. Given that the only real alternative out there right now is LDAP, we think Userify is a pretty cool fix.

However, any powerful authorization framework can be dangerous, and the more power, the more danger. It's definitely a fair point.
Are you kidding? Donation? This is worth real money: sell it.
Of course there are other aspects to agricultural science and technology. However, there is nothing in this company that indicates they are advancing technology in any sense.

This is not to say they are not providing a worthwhile service. Even my local farmer's market provides a worthwhile service to me, but I don't call it a "tech market" just because some of the vendors have an online presence.
I really liked Good Eggs, and their customer support always seemed great. Unfortunately, my last order came an item short so they gave me a $5 credit on my next order. A day or two later, they close down in NY and now I won't be able to redeem the credit.

Not a big deal, but it was a bit annoying coming from a company I'd always used specifically for their great customer service.
You should open an issue on GitHub, so we can track it down: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues

It helps if you include information on your setup in the issue (for a list of helpful details, read "How to submit a bug report" here: http://rethinkdb.com/docs/crashes/).
Man, I don't want to derail this conversation, but I have so many feelings about this issue. And they often conflict.

As someone raised in a very traditional religious environment, I am not a big fan of the market economy approach of quantifying and anonymizing roles (including that of my local grocer or 'fishmonger', to name an example).

But on the other hand, we live where we live, and in this world I figure if we don't respect mothers because their role is difficult to express in money, we should at the very least fix that and give them all the support they need, monetary, paid leave, or otherwise.
>It's that sweet spot where it's not as dry as a textbook but not full of fluff like some pop psychology book.

It does look interesting, and I think I may give it a spin. That said, some of the most valuable lessons in an MBA are technical (finance, marketing, operations).
> Unless you're so big that your reputation precedes you...
Flockport provides something similar but with containers https://www.flockport.com/store We have a fledgling app store with over 30 apps that can be deployed on any Linux server in minutes. It's completely free.

The advantage with using containers as opposed to VMs is containers are portable so you are not stuck to any server or cloud provider. Your apps are portable, and cloning, snapshots and backups become simpler.

The advantage of using LXC is the entire stack can be in one container and the environment is more like an OS that users are familiar with. Users can use the flockport utility to pull the app and then directly get to the App dashboard, without all the installation and configuration hassles of a typical stack. And Flockport apps should work with nspawn and other container managers.
There's already an Ars Technica article.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/oracle...
They do use static analysis. However, they do not let third parties analyze their source code. Which shows even more hubris, because they're all but saying, "only we're smart enough to analyze our code."
It's hard to reply without sarcasm, but I'll try.

I 100% support the right of advertisers' content to be handled with the same diligence and priority as any other source on the Internet, without blocking or throttling at the ISP layer.

I 100% support my right to choose, filter, and select what legally-entitled content I download from the Internet, using whatever mechanism I see fit. If a page redirects me to a freely distributable copy of "Pixels", I'm not going to use my network resources to fetch it just because I can. That content doesn't interest me and I don't want it. Well, same with invasive advertising: I wish not to use my paid network resources to download it.

Your statement is the equivalent of "how can you support telephone companies acting as common carriers, but still think it's OK to hang up on telemarketers?" It's a non-sequitur.
Thanks for reporting this!

The image doesn't seem to load for me. Would you mind opening a GitHub issue (https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/new) with as many details as possible? We need to know a bit more about the infrastructure/workload to replicate this; once we get the info we'll get to the bottom of it ASAP.

Also feel free to e-mail me at slava@rethinkdb.com if you need urgent/critical support.
No, it's more a matter of the problem not being their ideals, but what they're willing to do in pursuit of those ideals. I mean, you can find plenty of commonality between Nazi ideals and plenty of other beliefs, but most of them aren't trying to carry out mass murder. And of the few groups that are trying to commit mass murder, like Isis, I think we all agree that they're terrible.
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Is it actually important for the holding company to be well branded ?
I would imagine it's at least somewhat rare. The indicators for espionage and insider trading are quite similar: most spies are caught because of sudden affluence. Making a ton of money off insider trading is going to set off a lot of red flags and likely trigger an investigation.
FWIW, don't login as root or su to root. Force yourself to always have to type in sudo. That half second is a good sanity check on whatever you're about to do. Plus, figuring out how to do crazy pipe things or here-docs as root is part of the fun :)
The Android docs and Java docs are actually quite good though IMO. Is there somewhere in particular you felt they were lacking?

You want to see some poorly documented stuff, check out BouncyCastle's "lightweight API" or OpenSceneGraph. Great libraries, but figuring them out is a serious investment.
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