skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a quick smoke test to see if Tutum passes muster. My smoke test for this kind of tool is if they have a solution for deploying mongodb as a production level service with sharding or at the very least replica sets. Like so many other “let’s do the easy part and stop there” companies, they have a template for starting a single development mongodb node that would be easy enough to do myself. I want a tool that has a repository of templates for making formations of very hard things easy. Openshift is at least working on it: https://github.com/openshift/mongodb Their replica set version is not able to persist data permanently until Kubernetes figures out how to attach separate persistent volumes to pods in the same service. Unfortunately, Amazon is again the only game in town that does exactly what I want: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/mongodb-on-the-aws-cloud-ne....

If I want to run locally, I have to ditch Docker entirely and just use Ansible: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/tree/master/mong...
I'd say SSDs are going down in price pretty dang fast. The technology is advancing far more rapidly than HDDs could ever dream of. The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB is already ~25% cheaper than the equivalent 840 was a year ago, with better performance. Not to mention the high performance NVMe drives we're starting to see, where the price:performance is even better.
Social engineering is, and will always be, the fastest way to compromise a system.

Computers are pretty good at security; humans, especially underpaid and overworked helpdesk jockeys, are not.
How to Get Your SaaS to Profitability in 12 Months
I'm trying to look at this in Firefox 17.0.9 and am not seeing anything.
The worst news here is that the director of the most powerful information gathering agency on the planet uses AOL.
There is a ton of evidence demonstrating the pro-inflammatory and obesegenic properties of saturated fat.

People want to vilify processed foods, but processing isn't inherently bad. Aspirin is basically processed willow bark, and it is more effective, precise and pleasant to consume. Granted, most processed foods haven't been designed with optimal nutrition as a goal, but the potential is there. We shouldn't be anti-processed foods, we should just demand that food manufacturers design "functional foods", rather than just try to create the cheapest, most addictive food possible.

As for the skim vs whole milk debate, a couple points - for starters milk fat is quite poor from a health standpoint, being high in palmitate. Additionally, the single biggest problem most people have is consuming too many calories, so why would you hold up the higher calorie option? It isn't like there are a ton of fat soluble vitamins in milk that you lose switching to a reduced fat option, it's just empty calories.
Ok, here it is on the Guardian.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/21/tesla-auto...

The story has been out for a couple days: http://www.cnet.com/news/tesla-autopilot-fail-videos-nobody-...

The Daily Mail didn't break the story.

Anyway, even if it is the driver's fault, it will be news. Self-driving cars is a hot topic. It's probably a good idea for Tesla owners to watch these to remind them that it really is a limited auto-pilot.

Tesla could collect a lot of driving data from their 60,000+ drivers. Hopefully, they report every warning back to their data centers.
Indeed — just a couple lines of CSS and this page would be so much easier to read, as right now you really have to concentrate on the very act of figuring out what is on the page:

Before:
http://i.imgur.com/usg7GfW.png

After:
http://i.imgur.com/chvY7V5.png
Are Kings poor? They seem pretty well off.

But I digress, that's just a naive interpretation. It seems like the articles are more about issues of boundaries and control of the company.
How to stay motivated when you are self employed
I like the idea and the use of AGPL. This license lets companies release useful software and still keep the door open for selling alternative licenses, if that is what Metabase does. I have been thinking of writing something similar for natural language access (similar to what I used in my first Java AI book fifteen years ago) to relational and RDF/OWL data stores, and Metabase provides a nice example of how to distribute a general purpose standalone query tool.

Also +1 for being a Clojure app. I am going on vacation tomorrow and am loading the code on my tiny travel laptop for reading.
Hmm, what kind of a mechanism do you have in mind for this? :)
> how long should one try to make a new job work?

Depends on your mandate going in. Stick-to-itivness is a desirable leadership quality. Most industries consider business cycles in annual terms. If you can't move the needle in 24-36 months, do everyone a favor and move-on. A 3 week stint however, is not worth putting on your CV.
Based on your clarification, it appears that your comments are opinion based on a couple of brief personal experiences. From your original comment I assumed you were making a broader and more definite statement. Thank you for correcting my assumption.

Regarding the English library system, as JupiterMoon pointed out, the British library provides interlibrary loan services, which is the topic at hand. In fact, I've used it from Sweden.
Glyphs are the hidden heroes of the typography world
Last I heard there were efforts to support the c api in pypy: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/compatibility/wiki/c-api
Plenty of BMW i8 models out there:

http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm?featureID=5360209...

This was done by PlayCanvas, so the goal is marketing of their platform / engine.
I had some fun with fizzbuzz in sed
DDOS on City AM
Looks like City AM is down for everyone - is this a response to their stance on adblockers?
My first PC was a 386 with a 387 floating point co-processor. [1]

Intel chips have only had floating point support as default since 1989 with the 486DX [2] and still had a cheaper non-floating point version in the 486SX [3]

Motorola 68000 was similarly constrained

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X87

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486DX

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486SX
Gene Kim on DevOps benefits
I've been looking forward to this update for it seems like months. Clojure for the brave and true helped me understand core.async, can't wait to go through and read it again
VAX VMS could do it ~30 years ago. IBM's AIX has had high-availability since maybe version 5 so 15-20 years on that. Not only that but every component (DB2, WebSphere) was HA ready out of the box (granted ND licenses were like 100k a server). z/OS could do it as soon as it got TCP (40? 50? years). It's the same wheel being crafted every 10 years, just with a little spackle on top. The only thing that feels new to me is the gradual application (pun not intended) of math as it migrates into CS.
How to survive the great DevOps culture shift
Ironically, the same thing is also a must in the richest country on earth should you wish to actually learn something.
You can still do that with majority ownership (e.g. 51% of shares). The difference with owning 100% is that you have to share dividends with the other 49%, which makes it difficult to move money out of a company.
To me the quote you use from the original post talks about people who move (physically) from the EU to the US. These people remain EU citizens, but can hardly be distinguished from US people, as they have a US address. As EU citizens they have more rights to privacy than their US neighbors.
You wouldn't download a car?
That's what current TLS uses. Modern TLS, Google TLS, uses better crypto than that. In particular, as you know, ECDSA is outmoded.

Also: Cloudflare may use ECDSA, but the roots and TLDs do not. And because DNSSEC is a stupid design, it matters a lot that they don't.
> 'I admit I started to ignore the warning to keep my hands on the wheel so that I could record the moment to share with friends,' YouTube user RockStarTree wrote.

This right here is what I fear about this trickle-down from "autonomous cars" to regular cars. We're quite a ways from having the technical and legal framework for fully self-driving cars (in the sense that you can be drunk/sleeping/whatever while the car drives, and carry no liability), but all this development ends up in "driving assist" systems.

As more and more driving assist systems get integrated into regular cars, people will pay less attention to driving due to risk compensation. And that may cause more accidents than it prevents.

I'm excited about self-driving cars. I'm not in the least excited about sort-of-mostly-self-driving-cars where I have to sit there, not doing anything, but still have to be alert and ready to take over at any moment.
The problem with this is that the majority of your response to a given diet is actually a result of your gut microbial ecosystem. Not only does that mean an order of magnitude more genes are in play, but the microbial ecosystem is dynamic, and adapts to changes in diet, stress levels and a variety of other factors.
I recently applied for homeowners insurance, buying my first house, and one of the optional coverages was "computer insurance" for like 3 bucks a year or something silly. The first thing that crossed my mind was: "Well, does that cover the washer/dryer, microwave, dishwasher, oven, coffeepot" etc.

I didn't ask, but the thought was amusing to me.
> The hackers described how they were able to access sensitive government documents stored as attachments in Brennan’s personal account because the spy chief had forwarded them from his work email.

How is this acceptable? Shouldn't he be held accountable for this kind of stuff?
It's biggest problem was timing -- launching less than a year before the iPhone was a huge problem. The market had moved on from the entire dedicated MP3 player space before the Zune had a chance to find a market and iterate on the product to refine it.
Really. Seagate enterprise highest duty cycle "nearline" drives, 5 year warranty (which I not long ago had to use for one of the 2 I bought back then).

A SAS interface adds $20 currently; models and Newegg prices:

Constellation ES ST32000444SS 2TB $265 7/15/11 SAS
Constellation ES.3 ST4000NM0023 4TB $230 10/21/15 SAS
Constellation ES.3 ST4000NM0033 4TB $210 10/21/15 SATA

ADDED: Samsung magnetic hard drives are going to be bad for historic price comparisons, for Seagate bought their unit in 2011 (http://www.seagate.com/about-seagate/news/seagate-completes-...). Per that press release, "To ease the transition of products and technologies, Seagate will retain certain Samsung HDD products under the Samsung brand name for 12 months";

Your old price might be lower than normal due to that sale, and/or whatever prompted Samsung to get out of the business; the current price is close out inventory of older generation technology.
AOL doesn't support 2-factor authentication for email sign-in. If they did, then this entire debacle would [edit- replace "would" with "could"] have been stopped before it even started.

I'm also surprised that the government doesn't have more stringent guidelines about the private email use of its top officials.
How much battery storage does a solar PV system need?
How do you design a system that's hardened against social engineering but not hardened against innocent mistakes, like losing your password? It seems like the easiest way to access public systems like this is through social engineering techniques around password recovery or phishing.

Of course there are well-known answers that are used to mitigate these problems somewhat, TFA solutions, login images, etc. But I still feel as if social engineering attacks hit a really vulnerable weak spot in many systems.

(On a mostly unrelated note, can we get rid of security questions forever? I've taken to just giving nonsense answers for them and storing my answers somewhere secure. I sure don't want my passwords being reset because somebody knows my mom's maiden name...)
Economists Ted Bergstrom and Preston McAfee (currently at Microsoft) have long studied journal pricing. Here is Ted's page on the matter: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/%7Etedb/Journals/jpricing.html

His table of particularly overpriced journals in economics is dominated by Elsevier journals: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Journals/roguejournals02.html

Hopefully we see more academics collectively abandoning such journals like Knuth and the Journal of Algorithms board and these other examples from Ted's website: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/%7Etedb/Journals/alternatives.html
I find it interesting how Verizon didn't notice that they used a fake employee id. I wonder if they just made up one that looked like it could pass or if they had to generate one that passed a verification, and if so, how.
Now your low HP engine is lugging around a giant empty battery. :-)

There may be trade offs to be had, but it seems to me that it's too easy to think "electric good" and not examine the tradeoffs carefully. I think that's why the original Prius did not have a plug-in option: it made no sense to people who analyzed the trade-offs. It was introduced simply because there was a market for "electric good".

I think the right trade-off is either all electric, or small-battery hybrid. It also might make sense to have a five-mile battery for people who make a lot of sub-five mile trips, but still regularly go further.
I don't like inlining styles as objects in React so I went looking for a solution that would work with the toolchain I'm using for my current project.

I'm working on a project now that is using a combination of react-css-modules, webpack, and an ExtractText plugin for webpack that means each React component I write can have an associated CSS file.

Each class in the CSS file gets mangled so that it doesn't affect things globally by react-css-modules. Then the ExtractText plugin for webpack pulls all those CSS files out into one, global styles.css file.

Ultimately, that means that my CSS file might actually, over the life of the project, shrink! Unheard of.

In the same project I'm using redux and redux-router. The router consists of declarative components, like "<ReduxRouter />" and "<Route />".
I agree, it also does a lot of little things right that other platforms mess up. For example, it's the only platform that doesn't penalize a team's defense for scores that occur when they're not on the field (e.g. an interception returned for a touchdown). It is, unfortunately though, an unholy browser memory hog as well.
I'd say that when it comes to nutrition, the burden of proof is on anyone making a claim. I think it's a good thing to require proof from anyone trying to tell you that eating or not eating something will be beneficial.
Ubuntu Phone File Manager
>It's profits that get taxed, not revenues.

Can I get taxed on my profits and not just revenues? It would be nice if I wasn't paying so many taxes just for having a place to live.
OSM nominally assigns the "name" tag to the name locally used, and there are also "name:en", "name:fr" tags, etc. Presumably you could search through all of them, using an inverted index and a Bayesian prior for how likely words like "CEP" are to occur in addresses. Bag-of-words should do just about everything except distinguish ZIP codes from street numbers, and possibly distinguish between street and city.

OsmAnd~'s interface for this is absolutely terrible.

A corpus of address searches to test against would be really helpful for this kind of development.

I suspect there is a good book or web site or FAQ about geographic name matching, but you have to be a Googler to see it.
I haven't used Thrift myself, but I just took a quick look at the docs. My initial reaction is that Thrift seems to be a bit heavier. WebRPC doesn't require any intermediate interface definitions and doesn't create language-specific client proxies. Method invocations are all dynamic (although you could easily wrap the invocation API in a statically typed adapter if you wanted to).

WebRPC isn't meant to be a replacement for REST - just an alternative. Sometimes it's simply more convenient to think in terms of "methods" than "resources".
I've played with it and hacked together a very generic app just to see how it was...so I can say that I think it has much potential and an exciting future...but...

1. Amazon is still pushing out it's own ideas and features for it...they haven't fully released it to the wild west of developers (many have learned to wait until the dust settles before wasting time/energy on potential features that will be blocked or taken over by the powers-that-be).

2. The speaker bit is cool, but really it's just Siri in a speaker instead of a phone (very cool but not a "wow" out of the box)...it's the next gen. that I think everyone is really excited about and waiting for (when the SDK, and api access, is baked into more than just one stand alone speaker - that is, if/when it becomes the voice interaction for the internet of things; that becomes super exciting and interesting)

3. Not an adoption limitation, but I can say that having worked with the v1 of the tools for building on this stuff...it's still pretty clunky and painful. I think they (AWS) are adopting and upgrading that quickly...but there are some hurdles there as well before "anyone can build a voice powered/interactive thing" can become a reality (and that's the HUGE sensation IMHO)...
Is there a way to increase sales growth by 29% in a matter of several month?
Are you a shill for the NSA or just Amazon? A device that is "always listening" is a huge sensation but is is not amazing. It is awful. Why would anyone want an always on microphone letting people eavesdrop, literally, on everything they say?
Thanks for the kind words!

Would love to hear what you think of the codebase.
>"If an infinite set can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers (N) it is called a countable set. Otherwise it is uncountable."[1]

This paradox hinges on the strange notion of cardinality of infinite sets. Specifically, the set of all even integers, the set of all odd integers, and the set of all integers(!) have the same cardinality, and therefore the same "size".

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[1]http://www.math.ups.edu/~bryans/Current/Journal_Spring_1999/...
Personally, I actually prefer the 16:9 aspect ratio for any screen that has sufficient raw vertical resolution to not hinder productivity.

I feel that once a device gets past the point where the lack of vertical resolution limits productivity, the marginal utility offered by even more vertical resolution becomes rather insignificant, to the point where I'd probably benefit more from having more horizontal resolution for things like snapping windows side-by-side and not having black bars on 16:9 video.
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I've never heard this from any university.
How Let’s Encrypt Is Making the Web More Secure
Why is this even a story?

Has there been any confirmation that this account even actually belonged to the CIA director? If yes, has there been any evidence that there was actually anything sensitive on the account? (I seriously doubt the latter)

If there was nothing on the account how is this different from any of the other tens of thousands of aols that have been hijacked since the 90s?
I like this paradox for it's simplicity, but there's just one aspect that cracked me up.

>Suppose the hotel is next to an ocean, and an infinite number of aircraft carriers arrive, each bearing an infinite number of coaches, each with an infinite number of passengers.

hahaha.

How would we extend that?

suppose we have an infinite number of passengers, carried by an infinite number of coaches, transported by an infinite number of aircraft carriers, shoved in by an infinite number of tsunamis, which occur on an infinite number of continents, on an infinite number of Dyson spheres...
I'm getting a 503 error.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/20/city-am-ban-ad-...
It's Back to the Future Day
The daily mail is trash, but this is nonetheless newsworthy. This is a classic case of risk compensation[0].

As we get more of these kind of driving assist systems, people will be less careful about driving. The better they work, the less attention people will pay to driving until we hit that magic bar where the car is fully self-driving with no possible situation where the user has to intervene.

EDIT: seriously, this article got flagged off the frontpage? I know I'm replying in a vacuum now, but this is just sad. This was newsworthy, interesting and could have led to a good discussion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
> Stick-to-itivness

Tenacity.
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> It eventually took Newton, few decades later, to basically sort things out by providing a) an actual explanation for why stuff would orbit other stuff

I'm not sure how you got here. By the standards you're applying to Galileo, Newton did nothing of the kind. The limit of Newton's explanation for why stuff orbits other stuff is "because it's stuff" (you might say "because the stuff has mass"... but all stuff has mass). That's not much of an explanation.

You can make a judgment call about the relative merits of "new theory, doesn't make numeric predictions well" and "very old theory, makes numeric predictions almost flawlessly, additionally predicts things that we know to be false".
This topic was on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10413563

In that article the hacker claims he found sensitive material, and even flagrantly taunted the CIA director with it...
> I sure don't want my passwords being reset because somebody knows my mom's maiden name...

Not only that, any site that used that question and all those that got hacked know your mom's maiden name if that question was ever answered seriously. That's the main reason such 'secret questions' suck because there apparently is a fairly small set of commonly used questions like that (first school, first pet, favorite pet, moms maiden name, street where you were born and so on).
Yes and there is zero evidence of any sensitive material.
Prosecuted Galileo, resulting in him spending the rest of his life under house arrest?
> Has there been any confirmation that this account even actually belonged to the CIA director?

Yes

> If yes, has there been any evidence that there was actually anything sensitive on the account?

Yes

Go Google for 5 minutes.
Clearly you've never experienced the joy and wonder of Yahoo Answers
Any such open source tools are welcome.

How does it compare to re:dash? https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash

Metabase seems to have a GUI to construct SQL queries which re:dash doesn't. What else is different?
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Well I guess I don't see free and open as being opposing to each other. Now there is the option of being Free as in Beer but I really believe with the Internet we can have free and open. IF someone takes grant money from the government the research should be both free from fees and not behind a paid wall.
Earning profits is good for society. It demonstrates that the seller is providing a needed product. And it triggers others to innovate, to find ways to provide that product too, and get in on the racket. This innovation then drives down costs.

And that's exactly what you see happening here. The linguists are saying that they'll be able to provide the product for a lesser price, but being nice and offering to let Elsevier continue to compete. If Elsevier refuses, and the linguists go ahead and start their own journal, then the free market has triumphed.
Yup. I end up just storing the questions in my password vault along with the generated answers I used for them. Not exactly helpful.
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