skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About hard as setting up any UNIX daemon on a few computers. Reliability is a complex topic, depends on what you need -- for an anecdotal evidence I maintain a microscopic (10-20TB/4-6 desktop hosts) Moose deployment for a distributed home dir use-case over 5 years without any data loss despite two full computer losses, one disk malfunction and numerous network and power outages (it never detected a bit-rot event though). There are many serious success and horror stories one Google query away.
Tom+Brady+still+well-liked:+QB+tops+Pro+Bowl+voting
If your setup can't absorb $30/month, you probably don't need isolated private subnets and highly-available NATs.
It does kinda, according to https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/03/asm-speedups-everywhere/
Ferromagnetic model for electric and magnetic fields in cryopreservation
Try putting Varnish in front and use Redis for DB object caching, it reduce a good amount of pressure off the server.
The US shale companies went trekking in South America
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Thanks. That is a very valuable statement. Something to keep in mind!
Can you explain that one? Does it have something to do with parseInt being able to take more than parameter?
PyMC 3 implements HMC. It is still in beta but quite stable
And home-grown tomatoes.
For the when:

GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="Tue Dec 8 12:33:03 2015 +0000" git commit --date="Tue Dec 8 12:33:03 2015 +0000"

That will change the commit and author dates.
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“Star Wars” tribute by designers on Dribbble
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758191
Deploying a Death Star in the Cloud (AWS vs. OpenStack vs. VMware)
Thank you for the statistics. My point, though, that a gender index should not just look at girls, still stands. "Male" is also a gender.
Qualcomm renames Snapdragon 618,620 to 650,652
Jolla Is Back in Business
Show HN: Birdplane – Bambuser's new live streaming app
Mast Brothers obscure the fact that they originally used remelted chocolate
Are you in the US? Even at the federal levels, politicians' salaries aren't particularly high, relative to what those same people could earn in the private sector.

Congressmen earn $174,000. That's not a huge amount for a group that largely consists of successful lawyers, with a smattering of doctors and other businessmen. Many of them are millionaires before they take office.

The governor of my state (Virginia) is paid $175,000. Again, pretty good money. But, the current governor, Terry McAuliffe, was a successful banker and real estate developer prior to entering politics.

And, as noted in a sibling comment, the real problem isn't corrupt politicians. Corrupt bureaucrats are a much worse problem for an average citizen's day to day life. And those bureaucrats are not paid anywhere near as well as the politicians.
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Oh god, so it's not just me... it really is slower...
> I'm still studying and have never encountered obstacles set up by people with institutional power over me

You'll meet more obstacles set up by people with institutional power over you at school and university than you ever will in the "real world".
Hosting multiple Heroku apps on a single domain
Apparently the two roles aren't perceived as compatible by whoever felt the need to apologize to a fellow engineer for saying something that no engineer would be upset to hear, or for that matter at all unlikely to say. If he has to choose, as apparently he does, between thinking of her as an engineer and thinking of her as a lady, then I'd suggest that the role she's earned should trump the one to which she was born.
Unconscious bias. They think they'll feel more comfortable with people that fit their own stereotype.

It's difficult to add diversity when you're unaware of your own bias, but you shouldn't be mad at the situation (in case you were). Think about it, do you really want to work in that team? You might want to also choose if you want to work in a company/team/project after interviewing - don't just blindly jump because it's Facebook. Their lack of diversity would be a big NO for me.

That's my attitude at life and it works. I live in a different country from where I was born, moved at an adult age so it's easy to tell I'm not native and, well, I look different than the local stereotype.
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Jesus Christ that's invasive!

It boggles my mind how we as a republic can allow for this. Basically, someone attacked us a long time ago, and now politicians just have to say "we're keeping you safe" and we allow them to do ANYTHING they want.

This will not end well for anyone who is not in power.
I grew up and spent most of my life in Madhya Pradesh. I know some of the people mentioned in the article. I never thought things would get out in the open, and arrests will be made. That was a good sign.

There is more to it. I doubt the practices will stop. The cases will be dismissed, and the accused will walk free soon.

Chief Minister's role in the scandal is downplayed.

Corruption in India is worse than what this article wants you to believe.
It's a remarkably broad definition.
Oh, I thought Wireshark was using wxWidgets before, but according to the Wikipedia page you're right.
The Jacob’s Ladder of coding
> There's a sizable minority of HN commenters who deny sexism exists.

It's always good to have a minority that questions the consensus. Even if this minority is something completely idiotic, like a "flat earth society".
Out of genuine curiosity/confusion, could someone explain how something like this gets "discovered?" It's a two story building that's 66 feet tall according to the article. Is it something that locals have seen but never cared about? Or have people just not been walking around that immediate area for the past several thousand years?

Perhaps because I'm from a super dense urban metro area, I don't fully appreciate how stuff like this works. I'd love to know!
Not to mention the test needs some major usability tweaks. If the point is to test snap judgements, but you have to sit there and think about what button to push to convey a snap judgement, then there's no way the results are going to be accurate.

This study could have really used a UX/UI designer.
Corruption also doesn't have to be about money. Access to power can also have a big payoff for a US politician. Someone with money wants something to be done; help a politician raise huge money to ensure they get elected, in return they get the office and the someone gets a friend in high places. With Citizens United its now easy to do.
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Wireshark University – Get Deep
Among the Linux-users I know, OpenBSD has a reputation for being very cryptic and, well, hardcore.

I am not really certain why. The installer is kind of spartan, yes, but it is not difficult to figure out. And not only is the system pretty simple, the documentation is really good, too.

I recently inherited an old laptop that would have ended up in the trash otherwise, and I installed OpenBSD on it. The battery is busted, unfortunately, but otherwise installing the system and setting up XFCE was pretty straightforward.

The community can be a little tough on newbies at times, but if one plays by their rules, they are a very friendly and helpful bunch.
> I suspect that Google has been trained by a bunch of people who just don't know how to search, and that's why natural language works and the + operator failed. Have a look at Reddit's "Tip of my tongue" subreddit for examples.

I get where you are coming from, but I'm 99% sure it's not just this. I've searched for extremely vague things such as "that movie where there's one guy that shouts funny catchphrase all the time" and was amazed when the first result was the Wikipedia entry for the specific movie I was looking for, even though the Wikipedia entry didn't mention the specific trait being searched. Google really does do natural language processing on the queries.
That's the general theme of public discourse... Americans killing Muslims in Iraq are "soldiers", wherears Muslims killing Americans in the US are "terrorists".

Edit: Looks like I've hit a very sore point...
This is definitely a consequence of charging ridiculous tuition prices. £9,000 is not much compared with US tuition prices, either. Students have become customers, and I think it's absolutely driving grade inflation. If I were paying $30,000+ per year for tuition, I also would feel like a customer. It's a natural reaction and a highly negative outcome for academia, where rigor and curiosity should be main drivers instead of A's-for-pays.

Anecdata from a professor I know: Students' parents also feel like customers, because they are often the ones paying the tuition. So they call the university and complain if their child gets a sub-par grade, citing the cost of tuition. Bad incentives all round.

MOOCs as they evolve will be part of the answer and probably could replace large lectures in a pre-college period before students get on campus. Maybe college should be shorter (2-3 years) and focus on small-group seminars that build on what students learned on their own via MOOCs. It could help lower costs to more reasonable levels. Of course universities will fight this tooth and nail because loss of revenue.
Facebook tries to 'save' Free Basics in India by misleading users
Array.map does not work like map in other languages.

They decided that map shall receive the array index as the second argument, and there's also a third argument that does something else. JS happily mashes these 3 arguments into parseInt's argument list of (stringValue, radix) without error. Hilarity ensues.

(This code also sins against "never call parseInt without the radix argument", see point about too many minefields to remember at once)
TLDR: ScreenOS was backdoored.
Former archaeologist here, can confirm.
Choosing Cloud Foundry for the UK Government's Platform as a Service
It really is. GTK can basically be used with any language, C bindings are extremely common and there are bindings for all my favorite languages, Go, Rust, C#, etc.

But the Windows compatibility of GTK is just horrendous. It seems to work now with the help of some people GTK 3+ can be used on Windows, but the icons sometimes don't work, transparency never works, expander window grippy thing doesn't look right, fonts look terrible, responsiveness is terrible, form fields look terrible and don't function normally, the list goes on and on.
Seems to me like NPEs shouldn't be awarded extra damages for someone bringing the actual thing to market and unknowingly using a patent. Maybe we can call it Bob's Law.
on a side note it would be pretty cool if you could just post an idea on a forum and if enough people agreed it became a law.
Wireshark 2.0 supports 86 new protocols
You remind me of a time when one of my colleagues made a somewhat ribald comment, and my other colleague - the only woman in the room (whom, by the way, we treated in the way the author would have approved: as one of us) - reminded him that there was a lady present.

I still keep in touch with her, so I'll be sure to pass on the message that she's both sexist and condescending.
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Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation
Usually buildings that old are under big piles of dirt.
Maybe slightly off topic but wouldn't it be nice to have something like WSQL (Web Search Query Language) such as:

"Select text from *.co.uk where page contains = XXXX and page.popularity > YY".

We then could have different implementations as we do with SQL (mariadb, postgres...) name them Google, Duckduckgo, Bing...

I did a quick search on my default search engine (DDG) and couldn't find anything related...
Great. Dropbox has also open-sourced their common Go libraries - https://github.com/dropbox/godropbox
It's interesting to me, seeing how many people are so deeply dissatisfied with the results. I switched a couple of years ago, and only had a very small (two-three week) period where I'd check back on the mighty GOOG, only to confirm that they didn't have any better results either.

Might it be due to the way I format my queries?
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Firefighting. Facial hair can interfere with the seal of the SCBA mask.
Safety in traffic depends, among other things, on the relative speed between you and the cars around you. When this relative speed gets out of a certain range, you and/or those around you are forced to make dangerous maneuvers increasing the risk of collision.

With this in mind, think about scenarios where the average speed is above the legal limit: highways, rural roads with no known speed cams, etc. Now imagine heavy traffic and only one participant slowing down to the legal limit.

Here's one US citizen's experience driving on highways in Italy, where I live, describing what safe driving looks like here: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-drive-above-the-speed-li...
Strap a laser to my cats back * ziptie milk cartons together for modular shelving * outdoor kitty condos out of storage tubs wrapped in Styrofoam and a garbage bag with a hole cut in the front * adding salsa to taco mix, best decision I've ever made * burlap + light egg crates + stilts for hydroponics growing platform * shower curtain rod put vertically in a window and use hardware to cups to it for a movable/hardwareless growing apparatus * stuff last night's left overs into a pita for a meal on the go * use clear static vinyl sheet on oven backsplash for an easily removable surface to clean, some can even be put in the dishwasher * drive around on towns bulk garbage night and look for things of good quality to resell (pingpong table, computers, sports equipment, commercial equipment) * buy cheap electronics from dollar store for cheap components such as leds, solar panels, battery holders, switches, motors, easy-to-cut plastic * dollar store 18in square rug tiles are great to line your trunk with * static vinyl sheets on windows or walls for a portable marker board * sift thin steel cable through purse or satchel lanyard when going to foreign countries(or for anywhere) so thieves can't easily cut the strap and run away with the bag * use Mechanical it electrical timing switch for bedroom light to turn light on same time as alarm, use florescent bulb if possible so it starts out dim and will progressively get brighter to wake you up, might be good to turn on light a minute before your alarm * throw left over beef and vegetables that are in their way out into scrambled eggs in the morning so they're not wasted * if wearing athletic shorts with no pockets, you can use the waist string to make a knot on your Keychain loop so you don't have to carry it, works better if you don't have a bunch of attachments on your Keychain

All I can get in during my commute, enjoy folks
I meant that the implication seems to be the code got there not by an authorised committer adding bad code, but by external party adjusting the SCM - the conversation seemed to be heading off into wilds of "code review practises"
I doubt it does much to prevent corruption. You see multi-billionaires working hard to influence tax laws to keep a few more percent of their income despite having more money than they could ever possibly spend.
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I hate to put the blame on to any "one" reason for Southern Europe doing badly, but I came across an article that probably gave a better reason why there was so much difference between North and South Europe, and the theory it presents is religious difference between Protestantism and Catholicism. Protestant (read the bible) & Catholic (follow the pope). This gave the north literary rise, and literary history, and advanced them above their southern neighbors.

Corruption could be fallout of illiteracy, or maybe, lack of corruption could be a fallout of advancing literacy.
wait, random example for CYBERHAWK - "Takes 4-10 mins for download; Saved and dialed numbers, missed calls, SMS data, pictures, calendar, sound files all consolidated into one report" - how is it possible?
Ah good, I've been waiting on a fix for one nasty bug in particular: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3665

I'm also interested in the vendoring support. I've been using godep and I haven't really taken a look at the vendoring in 1.5 yet (being experimental and all).
I've been using DDG for almost 2 years, and have never, ever had this issue, unless you consider that when I search for something, I may not find it on the first query, I revise my search query, and search again. This revision process happens with Google searches too, and I'm not convinced I do it any more often, on average with DDG, than I did with Google. I also do lots of technical searches to find programming related information, which other commenters here mentioned was one area DDG was lacking.
As some folks have mentioned we're constantly improving our results but one of the best things is when we have a specific results case.

So if you have a result that didn't work for you - share the specific case in our feedback tool or by shooting our team an email (mine is adam@duckduckgo.com). One thing that separates us is the fact that you can get involved in our community, build out instant answers, give us feedback on searches that actually gets integrated and shape a great search experience.

Thanks for the feedback though!
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Everywhere in Northern Europe getting labelled as corrupt would be a huge stigma, too. Just not something that can be done.

This applies to direct corruption. There are different, structural kinds of corruption though, like "old boy networks" where business may get handled via personal relations. While still damaging for the society, it probably isn't even illegal in most cases.
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I sincerely believe that living and working in Switzerland is nicer than anywhere else in Europe.

With my comments I raise awareness for my side-income but primarily I try adding value to HN discussions.
For almost 10 years, the router at my parents' was my first PC (a Pentium 75 MHz with 16 MB of RAM and a 1 GB hard drive) running OpenBSD 3.0 or 3.1; I installed it, configured it, put it in a closet in the basement and didn't have to touch it until it died.
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A lot: the whole random projections thing.
A lot of us have. And fuck that, I'm not letting some asshole change my behavior or outlook. I'm still going to follow my beliefs, even if he violates them and makes me want to tell him to fuck off. The notion of a golden rule wasn't thought up with people who smile at me and wish me well in mind - it was designed for the pathological asshole.
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A society where only police have access to everyone's data is a police state.

A society where everyone has access to everyone else's data is free, but uncomfortable.

A society where everyone has privacy is either behind us, or in front of us, as we choose.
Facebook doesn't have to "pursue" criminal charges, however. It's the Government that brings criminal charges. In this case, Alex would just be a witness (willing or otherwise) the Government used to produce evidence of the researcher's crime. There is a mistaken understanding that if the "victim" of a crime doesn't "press charges", then there is no criminal liability. However, the "victim" is really only a witness to the actual crime in the eyes of the law. Here, the researcher has arguably confessed to a number of computer crimes, and if a DA/USAO or the DOJ were interested in making a statement, they might have enough evidence to indict the researcher on the strength of this post alone. Facebook, while perhaps not interested in "pressing charges", would have to comply with a criminal investigation here.
> The installer is kind of spartan, yes, but it is not difficult to figure out.

In fact, it asks the same questions as a typical Ubuntu install: keyboard language, timezone, username + password, partitioning, network. They throw in a couple more questions about enabling NTP and SSH.

> And not only is the system pretty simple, the documentation is really good, too.

I think that newer users of Linux are not used to searching for documentation in man pages, instead they go look for an answer they can copy-paste off of Stack Overflow.
The idiots do not realise they're paying for a chance to learn, not for a product to be delivered to them no matter what.
The Google Drive link to linux seems to be the same as the one for the mac version. The OneDrive link works, though :)
+1

Italian here. It's not just corruption here but almost every social interaction is built as an exchange of favours. From having a job to not getting screwed from the auto shop, you live off a network of people owing you and you get in their circles by owing them back. It's a very powerful system because everyone understands the honour it's based on, you can't track it because it's immaterial and it's so widespread that you get huge pressure to cave in and become part of the system.
A wonderful OS!

As a student I installed our faculty's firewalls based on PF, CARP (for failovers), Snort etc.

I wrote even a few articles on BGPD, Spam-Greylisting, Snort Intrusion Detection for a (now defunct) IT magazine from Germany :)

Those were the times, indeed....now back to JavaScript ;)
Hi Trymas,

Thanks for the feedback - I'd be interested in hearing what language you're searching in. We've taken huge strides this past year in international language, and this is something that will continue to improve, but we always love to know where our weak points are!

As far as the 'python' example, the reason you are experiencing this is two fold. Part of it stems from our approach to not filter bubbling users (http://dontbubble.us/) and of course from the fact we don't record anything about you.

You're totally right that if you search 'python' on Google you'd get info about the programming language, and if my biologist friend searched it on Google she'd see the snake.

On DuckDuckGo that wouldn't be the case (in fact if you search python on DuckDuckGo you get the programming language and nothing about the snake) but a search like 'python food' would return results about the snake.

When we remove filter bubbles and user profiles, search relies a lot more on context, and may expose additional results - it is a different style of searching and one we are trying to continue to improve - and we're really thankful for people who continue to give us a try and give feedback.

We also know that sometimes other varieties of search are what you need and that's why we let you use !Bangs (https://duckduckgo.com/bang) via both our search bar and the URL bar if we're you're default, that re-direct your search to over 7000 different sites!

Thanks for your continued support!