skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is clear that Reddit is facing some problems with scalability. I often get server errors during peak hours. But I think that politically-based censorship, which is being enforced by many moderators (with the help of Reddit admins), will kill this service sooner than scalability problems. Users will simply left Reddit when they will become censored. Many users I knew already did that. Moreover, moderators of many subreddits want to have more powers, including ability to see user IP address, ban users basing on IP address and ban users globally (not only on subreddit they moderate). Granting them these privileges will accelerate the decay.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Leakeverything/comments/3c0d9e/some_...

It is no coincidence, that /r/europe mods are the ones who ask the most loudly for more powers. They massively ban users on their subreddit, for variety of reasons, but the most common last months is criticizing current EU immigration policy. Some users create new accounts and come back after few days. That's why they want to have the ability to ban IP addresses. It is much harder to change IP address.

Exemplary user stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/3b86ws/mods_of_reur...

https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditcancer/comments/374s5i/thi...
So... more like pressing the "hang-up" button while they talk on their phone, or pulling the plug on their loudspeaker?
Unix dude: Fuck it! I'll spit out the data in text/csv and grovel through it with awk/perl.
Kinda related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
Ha. There's something about asking founders how much money they've made that makes people particularly uncomfortable.
I really like this idea, but honestly, isn't it basically a reformulation of the Socratic method? A really good teacher will naturally use dialectical techniques to engage their students. Is this just some way to structure that in a way that can be measured?
You could make an argument that if they set the SSID to CorpWiFi that they have joined the CorpWiFi network, and it's perfectly okay for other parts of that network to decide what connects to what.

There's probably a way to use the CFAA against someone setting up a fake AP, too.
No, but I can imagine comfortably using a 4S.

The 6 is going to have even longer usability.
How would one compare Elm to ClojureScript? I've been learning Clojure for web development and I really enjoy it. Where does Elm fit into the picture?
This hasn't happened, or you need a citation please.
I've started about 9 years ago, we have only one computer in home used also by my brother and father (diehard EE engineer that started with punched card programming and still writes, albeit great, software for embedded in notepad++(syntax coloring) and copy-paste into IAR IDE) and I was craving for linux but no one would allow me to install some strange OS. In 2006 I finally got mine first PC and I've installed ubuntu. I was enlightened so to speak, ubuntu worked for me for quite a while until gnome3 and unity, then I've switched to Arch and am using it ever since.
Vastly better. OOXML is a bit of a Zeno tarpit http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6772 but LO is significantly better every release.

(And vastly superior to Google Docs, which is simply incompetent with really quite mundane .docx files.)

You probably won't get perfection, but LO is already more compatible than MS Word is with itself between versions.
Practically speaking, that wouldn't happen in the first world. As the article mentions, first world farmers basically never keep their seed anyway.
Where's the dystopia in a world of GM crops? Sounds perfectly fine to me.
I've only once had to keep a WP site up and running, and although the code has a ton of smell, most of my work there consisted of only a few clicks. I'm surprised at how effective Wordpress is as a platform, even if it's slow, and hope that they make a major version move to cleanup some of the cruft in their codebase soon. Dropping PHP4 constructors is a small step in the right direction, forcing plugin developers to do the same would be another. Kudos Wordpress, and thanks for the overview to the author (I'd never have bothered to read it otherwise)
One example that goes in the opposite direction is the difficulties researchers have had in coming up with an animal model for studying the risks of tobacco exposure:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17661225
This is one of those things that I would never use however I think is great for the majority of people out there that I know that probably have not opened up their router's interface since setting it up (years ago). Pushed (forced) updates is a good thing in some cases.

An interesting thought is also what if Google starts making use of that 4gb by prepushing/caching sites that you visit daily down to the device for instantaneous retrieval.

Another interesting idea is that this probably comes with a nice UI for people to see their inbound/outbound traffic for a given timespan. My guess is a lot of people (ie non Y! news readers) don't configure their current routers for this. Once they start seeing an exact number, it will be interesting to see how it compares to their ISP if it is similar to Comcast and has caps and overage fees for metered cities.
I got to see Kerry present this work at UIST last year and it was very cool. The spreadsheet provides a great visual way to interact with both the API you're pulling data from and the web app you're ultimately providing it to. With a bit of hierarchical spreadsheet support (take a look at Eirik Bakke's work from CSAIL), this could easily replace all API documentation with examples you can play with instead of protocol descriptions.
I live in a 200 sq ft studio and I've had issues with interference with 2.4 GHz Ubiquity equipment and various other routers (probably due to having too many neighbors within range) -- switching to a $200 Apple Airport Extreme with "more antennas" made most of my problems go away.

However, seeing better performance 5 GHz 802.11 n/ac requires you to have both a good router and a good laptop -- my experience is that unless your users/family blindly uses Macbooks, they won't see any improvement from a $200 router because their 2-3 year old $500 Windows laptop only has a 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz-only 1x1.
I also think that with today's CPUs, memory and displays the Newton would be a fantastic device. I sometimes play with my old MessagePad 2000 and really like using it.
The chads was due to yet more voting machines not pencil and paper.
Honest question: who here is using open source XMPP software today in a Slack-like manner? If so, what is your software+config, and how do you like it?

When I last investigated XMPP for this, back in January 2014, I found that open source support by both servers and clients, for Slack-like features such as search and persistent chat history, were at least rough around the edges, if not lacking entirely.
Good link, thanks for sharing it. I gotta say, though, when I saw that wall of text my first thought was that this is going to be a tough sell for some of us. Thinking about it for half a second, I have to say that I would gladly prefer my router to be as dumb as possible. Maybe I just don't understand, at a gut level, how a cloud-connected router will actually improve my life?
here's a JS implementation of Bret Victor's "Learnable Programming" demo
http://www.fullstack.io/choc/
OP here... we would like to hear stories about an over-architected system you had the pleasure to work on.
Engaging your subconscious
> they can afford a bug bounty program too

Maybe they're just being evil, you know, like Oracle.
> People will keep working on AOO, even if not so many as when IBM was contributing.

As noted in the post, this is observably not the case.

See also this article giving the objective numbers: https://lwn.net/Articles/637735/

AOO is a dead project squatting a well-known name, to the detriment of the actual end users.
GO CUBES – Chewable Coffee
“The horse raced past the barn fell” – Garden path sentences
I agree but partially.

We are not talking about some complex interactions between multiple components which lead to a security vulnerability. This is some trivial stuff like "don't give your passwords to anybody" or "don't run everything as root".

The most complex vulnerability mentioned in the article is with proxying. If you have opened /etc/squid/squid.conf at least once you should have noticed the to_localhost ACL and the comments which explain why it is important. So is the Pocket team building a multi-million user service which has a proxying component without trying to configure squid once? Absolutely!

Also I consider too optimistic hoping for the situation to improve - it's moving in the opposite direction for now with steady speed.
Fair point, but the carriers deserve a lot of the blame for old versions of Android on those phones. Google is likely to keep software on their own routers up to date. At least until they lose interest in the product line entirely.
I have been reviewing blogging tools of late and had been coming up short on finding the solution that meets my requirements.

Blot looks very promising. Be sure to watch the entire video, there were many ah-ha moments.

* Manage files via dropbox
* Makes a blog post out of images
* Markdown plus some new tags for layout
* Full access to templates (including RSS, sitemap, etc)
* Use your own domain, and apparently SSL
* The site creator has been very responsive via Twitter.

I am fine with $20 per year. Sure I could throw this on one of my own servers for $0, but it would take more much more than $20 of my time.

There are many nice features all over the place:

* URL's have a good SEO and can easily be shorted example.com/12/my-great-idea to example.com/12
* Private Draft preview with quick auto-reloads
They are optional. You have the option of just buying a different device.
It's the same approach the official Linux Raspberry PI images follow that way you can support all raspberry pi versions with a single images.

There potentially could be an speed up by rebuilding everything for armv7 (specially for NEON-fp) but no one has done it yet.
Everbright: Giant Lite-Brite for the Office
Given I suggested a free solution it doesn't really require much trust.

But hey, go keep trusting the people who already screwed you.
Rails Enum Is a Sharp Knife
If you make a GLSL version you absolutely must add

"t" : push(time);
Yeah, it's kinda sad to see this happen to Reddit... I feel like there is so much potential to create unique revenue driving efforts beyond the standard ad based concepts that Reddit should be exploring..
I wasn't thinking like a kid-style dorm. When I was younger, I worked at a gas station for the summer in a tourist town (Tofino, BC). Gas station attendants aren't usually given free housing, but in this case the company did provide housing because they found it impossible to staff the place otherwise. The town got stuffed so full of tourists that there were no accommodations for the temporary summer staff. So hotel, restaurant, and even retail employers would have some kind of cheap and very rough housing deal for temp staff. Mattresses on the floor kind of thing, and only on an as-needed basis.

Because of the unique housing tension in SF, I'd guess that some employers do that there as well.
Flexible as FedEx (2005)
To those who suggest that paper is better on the eyes than e-ink

Is there anybody who actually knows what e-ink is who suggests this?
I only recommend what I've used personally. :/
Or you could have sex with other people who take care of their sexual health and use another form of contraception.

Then simple penetration with just. feel. better. (for both parties) and getting creative will be a fun thing rather than a requirement.
You can still bring the wifi antennas inside the venue and operate a wifi LAN.

The cage may block avenues for that LAN's access to the Internet, but in the worst case scenario, someone could operate a sneakernet bridge by shuttling large storage devices between the wifi LAN inside the doors and the WAN access point outside them. Latency would be terrible, but you could get the packets through eventually.
It isn't just specific to home automation. The same paranoia should apply to all data and will once people understand the gaping holes in existing cloud centric/data funneling architectures. In the meantime, a new approach to the problem is worth looking into. As the speed of technological innovation increases more and more, so will the disruptive paradigm shifts.. and this cloud model is long overdue for one.
Well, it’s the default router that ISPs give you for free if you sign a one-year contract here. (Yes, you can keep it even after the contract ends).

So, it’s pretty much in every house in Germany.

If OnHub has to compete against this (for the consumer free) router, then it’ll have a hard time.
The words "I am here representing your bank, please give me your money to deposit" are not illegal, but particular uses of those words are illegal.
I think the parent is referring to the fact that some browsers warn about your blog including unsafe scripts (try to load your link in Chrome or Firefox for e.g.). While this is concerning, I wouldn't go as far as qualifying the article as blogspam though.
This is awesome. Any plans to support other JS based languages (like Clojure via. planck)?
There's wide variation in hardware quality, but consumer-oriented stuff is a lot more likely to have thermal issues and crappy power supplies.

For software, things are more uniformly bad. Almost every commercial router uses the drivers provided by the chipset vendor, and those are always bad. Even the poster child for open-source drivers (Atheros ath9k 802.11n) still had some nasty lockup bugs this year (eg. https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/kernel/mac8021...). The closed-source drivers get much less maintenance.

And then the router vendors have a team of morons slap together a web interface where all the priorities are on branding, and none on actually exposing the right functionality of the underlying Linux system in a secure manner. And that's if they're even using Linux.

OpenWRT makes an extremely powerful argument that the problems is the fragmentation of development instead of a single ongoing centralized project.

The jury's still out on where this effort from Google will fall. They've got some people who definitely know what they're doing (eg. Avery Pennarun, though I don't know if he's involved with this). On the other hand, core networking performance and stability clearly isn't what they're emphasizing, and they appear to be using the same ath10k hardware and drivers as everyone else.
Basically "Engineer hire #1" (or similar) that was on board super early but wasn't part of the founding team when the team itself was formed.

I am guessing the distinction is to delineate the fact that the engineer did not join 1+ year from company founding, which is often the case for Engineer #1.
Pre/Post Increment Operators and Performance Differences
The Fritz!Box 7490 has 3 radios, for exactly this purpose. That’s how it supports automated channel search without disconnecting users, and how it is able to provide 1.3Gbps via WiFi.
Slack is really useful but it really bothers me that it's hosted off-site. I would rather my communications with my team stay within the team, and not with slack.com.
I once had this client with a system backed by SQL, and whenever they took great care of logging any system error they had... into the same SQL DB.

I did suggest they use files on disk and then logstash / fluentd / whatever, but they just said it wouldn't hold...

Go figure
Yes, by OP I meant the original poster of content. You're a submitter.

So all my comments are directed to the author of that post, obviously. :)
The whole tradeshow thing is something of a racket--speaking as someone who has been involved with tech tradeshows in various contexts for more years than I care to admit. As you suggest, there are lots of cities and lots of convention centers, at least until you get above a certain size in which case your options drop dramatically. But I suspect that moving most tech conferences to $RANDOM_MIDWEST_CITY wouldn't be a popular choice among potential attendees. (Not that I'm personally a particular fan of certain popular venues like Vegas but many are.)
Are you able to ask for software?
"Our clients are real people and include some of the world’s largest public and corporate pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, research institutions, educational endowments, healthcare systems and foundations."

http://www.twosigma.com/impact
Sorry, I had hoped the rest of my comment would make my intention clear. I see it didn't.
Cardinals and sin are the realm of religion. Not sure why it's being brought up here.

Choosing a hypothesis after the experiment is run is perfectly valid as long as your experiment is valid for that hypothesis. Besides, you would always run a new experiment again anyway.
Exactly, which is why it's so fun!
Nope, but...
My chances are only 0.001%. I sent an unfinished project that I did on the last day of registration. I recorded the video in the last half hour.

But I found it fantastic and I am very grateful to the whole team of YCombinator. If before I could not stay an hour without thinking of my project, today is just one second. Everything I see, read and hear on the Internet or in any other situation, makes me think of a way to improve the app.

YC fellowship was like a inception, planted a seed in my brain and now she will only grow. Hope that give some fruits really soon.

Thanks for the opportunity.
Really cool! One of those times I'm happy about how readable Go is
Awesome, that is exactly what GitLab Mattermost will enable.
Keep your spirits up ..... we will all find out by today's end!
We have lots of views ..... but 90% of them were ourselves!
:)
https://tox.im/ does that.
I've searched a little, found "Myths Of Genetically Modified Seeds, Busted," obviously something that can be considered a pro-GMO article for the way how the specific "myth" is formulated, but it's good enough to find out what's being claimed:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top...

In short, if the farmer would select only the plants that survive the herbicide (effectively only those that over cross-pollination get "Monsanto" genes), they could sue him, and they did sue Schmeiser (and the farmer would probably lose as in the given example "The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that Schmeiser had violated Monsanto's patent" and the farmer lost).

But if the farmer has just the "trace amounts of GMOs" in his crops they wouldn't (and they "will pay to remove any of its GMOs from fields where they don't belong."(!))

The myth as stated in the article is "Monsanto will sue you for growing their patented GMOs if traces of those GMOs entered your fields through wind-blown pollen." Note "traces". Only that is a myth.

But that they sue when somebody sows the seeds with the genes from their seed that he hasn't bought from them, even if he obtained them by cross-pollination, it happened, they sued, and they won the case.
See the other answer in this thread :)
That would require committing a crime (in the US at least).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking#Unite...

This is too funny - why would you admit, to a cop, what you are doing??? You just say you are sitting in your car enjoying a nice day - and it wouldn't be a lie because technically you are. It just so happens you are doing other things as well.

> He had been accessing the Internet through a nonprofit agency's network from a car parked nearby and chatted with the police officer about it.

If you are thinking "but surely the legal system should understand this concept, right?"

> "I had a feeling a law was being broken, but I didn't know exactly what"

Or how about the library who didn't mind a patron was using their wireless system - but the police still wanted to press charges:

> The library director said that Tanner had not broken any rules, and local citizens criticized police for their actions.

From one of the news articles:

> The police officer confiscated Tanner's laptop in order to inspect what he may have been downloading,

That is a big NO. If a police officer ripped my laptop from my hands - I guarantee it would be a decision we would both regret.
I'm sorry you've got totally the wrong end of the concept here.

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction#Dry_friction
I agree, in the earlier days of chrome I was not a fan because of the performance it had with the flash player. Now is kinda the same story with unity... this plugin is heavy, well lets cut it. We should protect unity and stop using Chrome I say.
So can I correct the grammar on your website and then send you an invoice?

If you want to get paid for your security work, you should convince someone to hire you, not work on spec for someone who did not hire you.
Finally taking a leaf from apple's playbook.
Curation works and saves customers hundreds of hours.
I wonder if the SQL hold the insert traffic, because if it did... I would guess one could argue file->logstash->redis->ES would be overarchitecting it :)
Well, it did say "example entry" — not actual entry. (Though, it could be real and just extracted for demo... it's not specified.)

Startups in and around SF generate between 500 and 1,000 new millionaires per year on average over the past 5 years. The big dump of Twitter (~1,000) and FB millionaires (~3,000?) all at once during some years skew the averages.

All the excess liquid wealth adds up after a while (and now you can't afford a one bedroom apartment unless you make over $200k per year because everybody else is so individually wealthy and practically insensitive to prices.)
And as another long-time user of Firefox, I'm grateful that you keep adding useful things like Pocket. Any news on when the integration ships in non-US locales? That one had me stumped for a bit where I got Pocket on one box but not the other :)
1M? great
Now have a look at:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...
I have the same set up as you do. EdgeRouter Lite with an old Linksys E2000 acting solely as an access point. OnHub might be a good replacement, but I’m wondering if it supports VLAN tagging as I’d like to separate my private network from the guest network.
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> Is IRC really so hard to use?

Yes it is.

I've successfully had the following classes of people use Slack (across 4 teams):

* Wife (Engineering PhD)

* Dentist

* Martial Arts Instructor/Gym Owner

* EVP of Engineering

* Business Owner

* Student Loan Coordinator

No way I could get them all use IRC, and enjoy it. Also, Slack has much more capabilities than just a chat server. For me personally, the fact that you can easily upload documents directly and collect them in "channels" cuts down on the email volume I get.

It also works pretty great on my desktop, browser, and my iPhone.
So, is the primary model here to be an IDS / IPS vendor? It seems like that? http://traversalnetworks.com/product

What kinda tech are you using?
It's not the DevOps philosophy that's to blame. That philosophy is primarily about the utilization of automation to drive deployments. This is a great way to get better security, but you still have to prioritize security when you're writing your automation. The problem is that investors, managers, and developers all prioritize features. People are graded and rated on bullet points not on attack surface.
Choosing “The Right” PHP Framework for SaaS