skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GB is less than 10% urban. A lot less. You could build another city the size of Birmingham in GB and not notice. The problem GB has with land isn't not having enough; it's a regulatory problem of planning permission and associated issues.
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Let us use a CS analogy. There is a critical bug A and solution B does not completely fix the problem. What do you do?

1. Throw your hands up and remove the imperfect solution.

2. Leave it alone because solution B partially fixes the problem.

3. Find solution C which completely solves the problem.

I hope you would pick #3 like all great engineers would.
Yes, I was thinking that too...there really is no "perfect" solution, just a thoughtful consideration of the tradeoffs...my inclination is that this particular "feature" hadn't been discussed enough. To be fair, this is a product that's probably hard to user test, due to the limited number of users and the black box nature of most proprietary military software.

Another thing I wonder about: this happened in 2001, an era that IIRC, portable devices were few and sleep/power-down modes were not as well-executed as they are today. Yes, today, if I were to power off my mobile device, then replace its battery, and power it back on...I would expect things to be more or less how I left them (which is a little unrealistic, depending on the application)...but back then, I could see how a developer would think: "Well of course everyone knows system state gets reset when the device is powered down for any reason"
It returns movies that have the same or greater levels as the ones you chose. So if you pick a minimum level, it will just ignore that axis.
The bigger issue, IMHO, is quality of advertising rather than its presence. People pay $15 for a theater ticket and sit through 10 minutes of ads, buy Vogue magazine and have 30%+ of pages be ads, buy The New York Times and be hit with ads all over the place, watch the Superbowl specifically to see the ads, and more. What people seem to really want are better ads or even ads that are entertainment or content in their own right (which is why native advertising has taken off).
Its very much not hard to find triangular graph paper today. It may be hard to walk into a brick-and-mortar retail store and find it (though I wouldn't be surprised if campus bookstores in places where it was used in courses carried it), but its quite easy to find online, both printable and pre-printed.

So there's really no real reason anyone should be relying on "badly photocopied versions of an ancient sheet of triangular graph paper" (that's not saying that there aren't people doing it, just that there's no good reason for them to be doing it.)
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> Allegedly they were hacking into news services and reading news before it was publicly released, which means their investing time frame was measured in hours and minutes.

Contrary to an economist's default assumptions, information doesn't travel instantaneously, and not all actors are immediately logical. To put it another way, there's a delay where profitable arbitrage is possible with widely-distributed information because many large players are slow-to-move.

In short, there is reaction time - sometimes a 2-4 day window - between when news is released and share prices get where they're going. So those hackers had even more lead time in executing.
> Except I've never once seen such a claim actually made by any politician. So at the very least it seems likely to stand out.

Marco Rubio made a claim like that on Meet The Press two days ago.

> I intentionally have no access to the donor list

That would require doing away with the $50,000 per plate fundraising dinners.
Yeah, they could've hit Monad Transformer Hell, or they could've wasted all their time learning how to write practical applications in Haskell and end up bankrupt in a very lovely ivory tower.

I've heard this argument over and over again and it never is good advice. It ignores the context completely as well as whether the developers know Haskell or not.

You can screw things up in any language, especially if a large part of your business model involves stuff not related to code, like shipping perishable food.
I learned to write on Seyès grid paper (exactly like this: https://wonderpens.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/how-to-use-seyes...).

There's a lot more than square grid. Though all my note books are 5x5mm grid papers these days (and usually square: http://rhodiapads.com/collections_orange_le_carre.php)
I said "this guy is going to criticize the addition of resources to help handle stress". Not "this guy wants to stop suicide counseling!!!".
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You are right it is difficult to keep self-managed installations secure vs. just using a SaaS provider, especially when some of the users only have basic admin skills. Having said that, we do our best to have secure settings by default, respond promptly to security issues (typically we release new images within hours of a new version being announced) and in particular in the case of WordPress we pre-configure everything out so automatic updates are enabled out of the box (which the user can also manage from the admin panel without touching the command line).
Er, sorry, you're right, that was a bad assertion. The submarine patent risk is pretty much the same in both cases - RF does not make it better. Early declarations to discourage use are more likely towards RF codecs, but are also easier to deal with.

I think Daala's development process (and IPR disclosure policies at the IETF) reduce the risk substantially. However, this is not automatically true of any RF codec.
We’re struggling to get traction with SSL because it’s still a “premium service”
@nicolewhite algebra.js looks really interesting. I hadn't seen it before. Maybe we can somehow join forces (I'm the author or math.js). If you're interested just drop me a mail or open a discussion on github.
To be clear, because some forget this part of patent law, the encouragement towards innovation was to encourage people to share and build on a communal set of ideas. The temporary monopoly on ideas was the carrot to get people to register their ideas in a central location (patent office) rather than lock ideas behind closed doors and secrecy.

Too many people think the carrot of the temporary monopoly was the point of the patent office.

In other words, we know that the community of ideas gets better with more sharing and building off of other people's ideas. As a society we decided to make laws to encourage this sharing. As a result, technological progress was immense.

Sadly, the current situation seems to strongly suggest that we may need to find better ways to encourage sharing (Open Source has been great for much of software).
I'm evaluating a move from CouchDB to another system purely as an easily sharded/replicated KV document store. Do you recommend Rethink for that specific use-case or is it overkill? Your docs seem to convey that this isn't really in Rethink's wheelhouse (in that RDB is more suited for querying or real-time updating).
* this is far from something that should prevent a platform swap*

When I started Android development, the quality of documentation was so far below what I was used to from Microsoft that it hurt. If not for StackOverflow I would probably have given up and switched to Microsoft's mobile platform.

Besides that, I'm not impressed by IntelliJ. Not even a little bit. I am however, vastly impressed by Visual Studio and all the IDE's that are based on it.
I understand that Chinese parents are sending their parents to school in the US specifically so Chinese kids can learn to innovate.

At some point this will pay off, but I expect that we have not yet educated enough Chinese students to make a real difference to their economy.
RC4 (arcfour) should not be used, because it's broken. It has biases in its output (which is XOR-ed with the plaintext), which given enough cyphertext allows one to recover the plaintext (see http://www.rc4nomore.com/ for the most recent result).

OpenSSH since the 6.5 release (http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-6.5) has a better alternative, ChaCha20. It's even faster than RC4, and has no known weaknesses AFAIK. Some more information: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/46812/what-does...
If these costs are not borne evenly, and some people are paying for the consumption of more disciplined people, it's probably contributing to terrible cycles of poverty

C'mon, that isn't the only alternative.

I saw an ad for some slippers on Facebook the other day. They looked nice. I remembered I wanted some slippers for the office. I bought the slippers. I'm happy, the advertiser is happy, Facebook is happy.

Advertising is not always about unhappy or annoying endings, even if sometimes it is. In many cases it works, is ethical, and can even provide a service. In these situations, it's a great way to fund things without forcing end users to pay evenly.
I'm not sure if you just have a problem with organic food, or if this is just another reiteration of the tired old "if you're not trying to solve world hunger..." argument that gets used to criticize business ideas, but none of your points are really relevant to a company whose goal is to conveniently supply food to some of the richest cities in the world.
I never said "we should return to kingdoms", I am merely making the case that more direct democracy will not lead to better results. Please avoid making a straw-man of my position.
I had never heard of cucumbertown before, so i did a 3 second lookover.

Quick question. It looks like you guys are trying to build a community of bloggers, who will probably be building a database of recipes.

If you're not doing it already... can you PLEASE have your bloggers add ingredients in a structured form. That would allow you to build an API later.

Imagine how much traffic you can drive to your customers sites if outside apps had an easy way to search through recipes.
I'm talking about mental health, with one of the most tragic outcomes being suicide.

> in many cases no degree of counseling would help

In many cases? Really?

> for counseling to help it needs to address the root causes of the problem for that person,

That just isn't true. There are cognitive, behavioral and a combination of both that help people all the time. Therapy that focuses on changing behavior patterns (ie CBT) and not on your root causes are often most effective. Many therapists also use therapy dogs because they're so effective, something this guy railed against like it was turning students into children.

> I'm more concerned over the suicide rates of soldiers.

How is that related?
To my knowledge Marco doesn't run an ad service.

> Also note that "sponsored posts" that look like regular posts violate the FTC's rule that ads must be distinguished from non-ad content.

I assume that's why he wrote "ethically and tastefully presented native advertising".
I would imagine that your service can be turned into a SaaS. For example: a free service that allows x pages per ip address a day and a premium service with an "unlimited" amount of conversions.
I'll disagree there. After spending hours trying to make sense of the Win32 API documentation in msdn. Often failing to make sense of it, finding the answer in Raymond Chen blog a long with a few lines pointing out that the msdn documentation doesn't cover some important cases/caveats.
The Bitnami images for GitLab are impossible to upgrade automatically and are a worse experience than our Omnibus packages. I hope Bitnami addresses this soon.
This thread probably has one of the longest and least valuable comments in this site
Or they could pay the people who invented it already.

oh that's right. The whole point is they don't want to.
Organic food is fine. But it is, fundamentally, an anti-technology approach to growing food. You should be free to eat it if you want.

The point is simply that firms that reject technology should not be described as "tech" companies simply because they use the Internet in some way.

I'm not suggesting in any way that companies should not exist if they don't solve planet-scale problems.
RethinkDB can definitely act as a distributed key-value store (and a pretty good one). But I think the choice is highly dependent on your use-case and requirements. Could you go into a little more depth wrt your workload? (e.g. number of records, average record size, read/write ratio, expected ops/second, etc.)
This refers to the fact that the bitstream format of VP9 has not been standardized anywhere, whereas the NETVC group intends to produce a standard.
I'm curious about "We chose to only store cluster metadata in Raft due to performance limitations imposed by distributed consensus"

I would naively assume that since you need to replicate your database to the slave servers, you need to send the WAL or changes somehow anyway. Could you elaborate on what was the problem there? I'd be surprised if it is because of a fundamental limitation of Raft (but could easily be a limitation of a Raft library!)
Anyone notice their handwriting speed and clarity goes up when writing on graph paper?
Does not seem to be a correct email. Am I missing something? mail me at sourabh86 at google mail?
Why you and your team should be using pull requests
How different is it from a normal mist shower head? I found those infuriating, but they do perform better than a normal shower head if you have low water pressure.

I personally like the idea of recycling water better. Which potentially gives you even temperature, better pressure and water savings.

http://www.amazon.com/Watersaving-Experience-7-setting-Hands...
Good point. I'm sure I could order it from Amazon/whatever and have it here day-after-tomorrow.

My memory of "very hard to find" meant that 15 years ago the campus bookstore didn't carry it.

I'd still bet that badly-photocopied sheets of ternpaper are being handed out on a daily basis in Petrology classrooms around the globe, though :)
Some media flack must've clapped eyes on that and had a VERY bad morning. The post has since been taken down, but here's a copy:
http://pastebin.com/RQA90EEb
Shameless plugs like this were at one time OK on HN.

Also, it does add value to the discussion. At my company we've been using Cumulus Linux on white box switches to be able to build huge Clos networks at a fraction of the cost of traditional vendors like Juniper or Cisco. Such white box solutions are essential for building networks like this because traditional vendors are far too cost prohibitive.

Also, if you still doubt the relevance of Cumulus, the top comment on HN's previous thread specifically mentioned Cumulus, and that comment was from someone involved in building the first three generations of network:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9979035
First of all, that comment is mixed with a bit of rant. But seriously, the issue is so much more than mere access to Facebook. The connection to GitHub, Google Code, or anything via ssh or HTTPS in general is slow, flaky and frustrating. This poses a cost on acquiring latest news and technology, collaborating and deploying. AS for the walled garden, there's a Chinese saying of 闭门造车, which says if you build a cart with a closed door without any exchange of ideas, you can't make much progress. (Though that's not what the phrase originally meant, but the meaning when the phrase evolved)
Well no, I don't have a "pet issue". And it's ridiculous to compare inhaling cigarette smoke to pouring beer down someone's throat or feeding gluten to a gluten-intolerant person. They're all wildly different examples with completely different consequences.

If you force beer down an alcoholic's throat they may relapse. If they're gluten-intolerant they could have a severe reaction. And obviously feeding bread to a gluten-intolerant person will have a serious negative reaction. Inhaling cigarette smoke isn't going to put you in the hospital or send you on a cigarette-smoking binge, nor affect your health any worse than walking around downtown LA would.
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We are not building a community of food bloggers. We are a food blogging platform. Think of us like Tumblr, specific to food blogging.

Some of the blogs on the platform:
http://indugetscooking.com/
http://sousvidelife.com/
http://richagupta.cucumbertown.com/ etc.

And all the recipes are in hrecipe format [1][2]. And yes, we have an API that opens to cookbook companies.

[1] https://magazine.cucumbertown.com/taming-google-rich-snippet...

[2] https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool?u...
Does slur exist? Their GitHub repo is just a license and near-empty readme.
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Lenovo reveals ThinkPad P50 and P70 mobile workstations
I had a guestbook/guestmap site for almost 10 years. Ads never made me more than $200/month, whereas donations (you donate whatever you want to remove ads from your guestmap) really picked up some times of the year (I got a $150 donation on thanksgiving, among almost $2k in random donations on the same month - best month in the entire lifetime of the site). Ad revenue tapered off during the years, stabilizing at under $5/month in 2013, donations averaged $200/month until the end (average $12)
Spacial frequency in images
This sounds just like the already released hp streams, except with slower processors (stream has 2.16Ghz, article says Acer will have 1.6Ghz). I understand Acer may be a more desirable brand, but the stream computers have been out since 2014. Granted, they are Windows 8.1, but they have a Windows 10 upgrade.
That might be the dumbest thing I've ever read on HN.

Are you aware that Larry Lessig was Eldred's lead counsel, and argued the case before the Supreme Court?

Are you aware that he was arguing in support of the First Amendment in that case, and his opponents were arguing against it?
Yes, sourabh86 at google mail
True, but do you think that sort of analysis has stopped people from buying a Prius?
You should doublecheck this with wireshark yourself before finding yourself in a potentially bad situation. Kali is not so silent as advertised.
It's this kind of awesome attitude that makes me so happy whenever I look into a Xiph project. I certainly did not mean to imply that the efforts of the org in OP should be moved to Daala and that competing projects are a bad thing; far from it! Rather, I was just voicing my support for a similar project that has had some great progress so far.

You all have done a great job in the past and I'm always on the edge of my seat to see what incredible things you will do. Keep up the rockin' work!
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I use Visual studio to write c# apps for my day job(love it). My Linux development had been polar opposites of spending days getting a embedded arm toolchain to compile and using vim to make a .c file an typing gcc main.c -o HelloWorld. There is also the whole make file strangeness. Where would you point me to make me like linux development more?
> open source is not always the solution

Perhaps, but this article appears to be very strong evidence to the contrary.
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OpenSSH + Userify = authtopia.
Disclaimer: I am founder of Userify.

FTFY.
Seeing that they just added Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support I find ironic that Windows has the disadvantage on drivers and Linux has the upper hand.
This App Uses Kids' Own Unintelligible Texts to Teach Them Grammar
I notice a conspicuous lack of battery life information in the article; between the GPU and the screen, these seem likely to draw a lot of power.

Also, the (lack of) choice of GPU seems unfortunate.
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If you like the general style of CouchDB but want scale and availability that's been proven in mission critical user facing deployments for years, we just did a blog post about moving to Couchbase http://blog.couchbase.com/2015/august/moving-couch
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It's almost as if the entire purpose of testing is to create a proxy for discrimination based on ability.
JSON-pure API? Do you mean SOAP but with JSON instead of XML?
Suppose you configure RethinkDB to store three copies of the data. When you do a write, RethinkDB will replicate the data to three nodes; that operation is roughly a matter of sending three messages to the appropriate nodes, getting the acks, and sending the ack back to the client.

If we used Raft to replicate the document, in many cases it would be a lot more chatty. If you look at the Raft paper and track all the messages that would have to go back and forth, it would dramatically increase the latency for each write. This is inherent to Raft (and any distributed consensus protocol). Unfortunately distributed consensus isn't free; you have to pay pretty heavy latency costs which would be unacceptable in production, so we couldn't just uniformly apply that to every write.
If only the US had a STV system where I could satisfy both my idealism and my pragmatism, in order.
That would matter if the US had unlimited presidency terms but it doesn't and there's 0 threat of that happening.

The only prior example of this in America is when George Washington stepped down as Commander and Chief when he felt his service was finished.
Its been tried, and I don't think the evidence supports spending less in favors to secure the support of the wealthy interests that are needed to win campaigns with complete deregulation (perhaps less time, when its not uncommon for a politician to simply be a client of a particular wealthy sponsor.)
> Google’s proprietary VP9 codec

That's an odd choice of phrase; it's unfortunate that a press release chooses to disparage alternatives without explanation.
Mozilla Research put the entire web's advertising revenue at $12.70/month per user[1]. In other words, if they are right we are living with the consequences of advertising for a mere $13/month, $13 dollar they still get from us anyway because it's baked into the prices of the advertised products.

> You solve the micropayment problem

We hackers and technologists here at HN are the "You".

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." – Jeff Hammerbacher, fmr. Manager of Facebook Data Team, founder of Cloudera

As I put it here a couple of weeks ago[2]:

You're putting all the responsibility on the consumer, and none on us, the technologists, the so-called innovators. Where are our innovative powers to come up with alternate busniness models? Where are our backbones to stand up against selling out the internet so that we can get rich quick?

Because that is what the advertising business model is: a get rich quick scheme. Undercut the straight up competitors that charge for their product by fooling consumers into thinking you're offering what the other guy is offering, but for free. Come on, who could turn down that?

The saddest thing about Hacker News is that we all get behind radical things like FOSS (Bill Gates called it un-American) and Snowden, and fight SOPA and NSA violations of privacy, but because too many of our salaries depend on advertising revenue, our cognitive dissonance blinders go up lightning fast.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8586294

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961761
I'm excited to work with RethinkDB on my pet projects. Glad to hear you guys beefed up failovers, that's a big deal in a lot of places. ;)
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