skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so (and it shows that you really didn't understand my argument).

You claimed:

> Why wasted tons of resources taking everything to trial

With my sentence I wanted to point out that perhaps the problem is perhaps that part of the problem is that there are too many criminal offences - thus the judicial system is much too expense, which leads to the problem that most cases have to be regulated in the dubious way of plea bargaining.
you can't be good and lawful at the same time

It's so early in the evening to have reached Peak HN already.
Missed that, thanks. Got downvoted anyway...
Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza (2015)
No. Totally vanilla configuration.
Misleading title -- data is actually subject to throttling.
If you're just stressed an anxious, try practicing mindfulness or try practicing taking a bunch of pills beforehand.
> RSUs [] are a super-high-value startup's way of granting very nice bonuses to employees in situations where the very high price of its stock makes it tax-prohibitive to use any other more favorable equity compensation vehicle

Why does the price of the stock influence the choice? By price of the stock, in this situation, do you mean that 10 shares of XYZ at a strike price of $1.00 per share is treated differently than 1 share at $10.00/ea? Or do you refer to the price of the stock in the sense that the dollar amount of the value being given is high? (I.e., the executive is being given a bonus with a dollar value of $10 million as opposed to $100k?)
Each of these projects accept patches from the community (read: me and you). If there is no money attached to it and the community doesn't have time to do it, it ain't getting done.
Should I just burn my CS degree and get a job a burger king?

I have the same problem. It's a numbers game. You just have to interview at 8-12 places until either a.) you find people who understand you or b.) you find a company with lax hiring processes.

Here's a review of my 2013 job search (all rejections): https://matt.sh/searching-2013
MS is too big for any reasonable feedback loop. "Outlook starts up for ~20s while almost every other email client starts up in ~1s.".

Ok... and where do you report it? What are the chances anyone will ever look at it?
Submit your architectural drawing in PDF format and test our application
In my experience, this kind of "SMS gateway" GSM modems are unstable (at least the ones we had). When we deploy these to data center, we annoyed the admin guy for occasionally calling him to go into server room to press the reset button.

Just curious, anyone had better setup?
Also I do as well. Any mention of MIT, first I think of Aaron.
Gentoo and Calculate Linux (which is based on Gentoo). But I think the package manager in Gentoo is awful.

There's also Alpine Linux. And in Debian you can switch to sysvinit or upstart.

If you're really anti-systemd maybe consider FreeBSD, PC-BSD, or OpenBSD.
Unfortunately he picked the wrong unjust laws to break, the wrong targets to go after. The problem with being a true believer... http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/01/noam-ch...
I think it's a legitimate question. Systemd seems more targeted towards desktop environments where things like D-BUS are needed. I'm thinking of bastion server configurations using a distributions like CentOS where less is more. It may be worthwhile to use Sys-V which has less moving parts, fewer configuration options and thus fewer vulnerability points. Not to say that systemd cannot be hardened as well, but having a choice would have been better.
Amazon Finally Renamed Amazon Mom to Amazon Family in US
If you're in SF I'm here until Friday at the CloudFlare office around the corner from one of the Mozilla offices (are there many?!) - down near 2nd and Townsend.

I wouldn't mind getting a brain dump of how you'd do it differently were you to build it now, as well as my sharing what I'm looking for... perhaps a Persona v2 design could rise from the ashes.
Click on the black ball and drag it along the timeline (not annotated, but the ability is there).
That read like a depressing Russian sci-fi novel.
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There's a theory that systemd is a way to make certain flavors of Linux more proprietary/locked-in by exercising absolute control over vital system services though non-standards bodies.
+1. His series on Raw Nerve is still one of the best things that I've found on the internet - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve
You mean "to the left of the Republicans" I assume? He's pro-gun control, pro-abortion, against eminent domain reform, pro-business regulation, and so on. He's historically donated to and endorsed Democrats including the Clintons. Basically he's the asshole version of Michael Bloomberg, who was technically a Republican but wouldn't have passed for one anywhere other than NYC.
> Well done. Really, what would it take to get you to re-phrase your comment into something like:

> "Forgive me for asking because I don't understand how these situations came to pass in the first place?"

To be honest, I don't think anything would.

Simply stated, I have met too many people (friends, family and coworkers) who tell me well-crafted stories about how they came to be in a car accident, or almost-accident. These stories invariably cast the teller as the victim who could do nothing to prevent the accident (aside from driving more slowly or following at a greater distance). When I later ride with them, I find that they tailgate, speed and roll through stop signs.

Perhaps I was too quick to judge. Maybe you're among the 1% of 'attentive drivers' who actually drive well. I'm just so tired of hearing the excuses of the other 99% that I lumped you in with them.

If you really are that 1%, then I have to say I'm truly am sorry. I hope you are. Because if you aren't, you're probably feeling smug about putting me in my place and will feel justified in driving recklessly in the future.
Whenever I visit MIT to work with some researchers there I always manage to sneak in an Aaron reference and love watching their faces. People can justify what happened by citing that he broke the Law™, but this is still a sore thing for many on the campus, that I think those who want to, shouldn't miss the beat to rub salt in MIT's wounds, especially because of the history around hacking at MIT.

People won't think twice about things they don't like unless you make it unavoidable.
Maybe the persona team had better things to do than updating the codebase to each and every node.js release. It looks like node.js will become the new state of the art for crap web platform after PHP over some CGI. It's design changes a lot on a quick cadence, the community is based on coolness and fashion, its users and developers are mostly non-professional, inexperienced persons, and its use of the IO model is obsessive and single-minded.
I completely agree, however I think it would have been worth the effort, even if it where only to appear in Fedora. Definitely non-trivial, but could have been done when first integrating systemd.
It is still a violation of net neutrality because it discriminates by source of packets and application type.

But who cares. Net Neutrality was supposed to be a means to an end (a fair and open internet). What Tmobile is doing isn't a challenge to the end.

In the long fight for net neutrality many proponents have begun to think about net neutrality as the end itself.

Who cares. Leave Tmo alone. They are disrupting the mobile carrier market.
Well oftentimes colleges can and will exercise discretion when it comes to having a student arrested and they will perform their own internal inquiry to determine whether an offense warrants arrest and prosecution. That's just the way it goes. Colleges should do the right thing for their students and protect them when appropriate because all kids do stupid things. MIT would have known pretty well what type of prosecution he would face. Do you think all students who do something illegal on campus get arrested for it?
Doesn't sound like a random example to me. It sounds like one of the most secure examples you could think of.
Awesome that Debian gives you an option. This may be my excuse to finally switch from RHEL/CentOS.
Apple, Amazon, McDonald's...

"Round up the usual suspects!"
On being sane in insane places
The single largest difference is simply the size of the networks. We are tossing billions of times more processing power at the same problems you see progress by simply change some constants.

PS: Of course there are also software / algorithm changes, but often same problem 1,000,000,000x the processing power just works.
If you click on "past" under the article title at the top of the page, it will show you several previous discussions.
BBC story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10881563
The blog is called pricenomics but they don't address who owns the rights to her music? I'm guessing the surviving brother Phil but it would be fun to know who benefits.
I mean "good" in the sense of the values that you honor - and here indeed you can't be good and lawful at the same time (except "being lawful" is your exact definition of good).

I personally believe that the way to go is to turn ethics from a humanity into an empirical science, so that any "false" (in a sense that future people will have to define formally) can indeed be falsified. This would at least solve many problems. But at the moment this all is rather science-fiction, since we don't even understand how our brains works (which such theories will probably have to incorporate as special case).
This logic in the article is so shaky. Because unemployed people also feel sad on M-Thursday is a reason why an employed person doesn't need more free time? It doesn't make sense.
Well there are clips for loading fixed magazines, but I agree with your peeve; drives me nuts too. Of course there are magclips too:

https://www.cryeprecision.com/ProductDetail/accmc100000_magc...
Don't worry too much about the possibility of multicellular life in other planets [0]. This press article is totally overhyped.

Read this comment of bmer about the original research article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10884255

[0] [Or to be more precise, IIRC the transition from bacteria to eucariota is more difficult. I'd worry about that step instead.]
The fundamental design of Bolt is the same as LMDB though. The premise behind why LMDB is "uncorruptable" is that all the dirty data pages for a transaction are written out first followed by a write to a double-buffered meta page that points to the new root of the B+tree.

If any data page is partially written then it doesn't matter because the new meta page hasn't been written to point to it. If the new meta page is partially written then it is detected through a checksum and the previous meta page is used (thereby rolling back the transaction). That's how Bolt works as well.

That being said, all code has bugs (yes, even LMDB). Bolt has a large amount of test coverage as well as randomized black box testing that it uses to help minimize those bugs.
They couldn't depict the CRT being recycled, at least?
Behind the Scenes in Oregon, Ammon Bundy Preaches Revolution
> Carmen Ortiz as the prosecutor was the law at that moment

No, she was a prosecutor attempting to apply the law; rather than have his day in court, Aaron chose suicide. It is the judge and jury that are the law and Aaron never saw them.

> so it is a circular reasoning and sophistry to say that killing Aaron Swartz was not unlawful

It is nothing of the sort.

> And it was Carmen Ortiz' choice to bring Aaron into a position where he didn't see any other escape than suicide.

That's still Aaron's fault, not hers, he could have chosen to have his day in court and she could have lost. We'll never know because his will was too weak to even face the possibility of a trial. Committing suicide to avoid a trial is never the prosecutors faults.
I just think it would've been refreshing for him to acknowledge that this is also about saving bandwidth and infrastructure build out cost. Rather than this double-talk about pro-consumer mumbo jumbo.

At least that's what I would've expected for straight-talking CEO that portrayed himself out to be.
For how-to: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=37871
It is very effective at locking up a huge number of people.
Personally, I hope everyone else (not at Trend Micro) learns from this experience. Computer security auditing is a serious expertise, it's hard but made much harder to impossible when you don't have experts on the team and instead consider security expertise as a hobby for the qualifier.

trendmicro.com > About > "Smart, simple, security that fits"

And then second is, "a global leader in IT security" and "25 years of security expertise".

What a crock. I'm supposed to take the company's position statements and products seriously after reading this issue report? This is like finding a sponge in the body cavity of a patient. It's functionally malpractice. The CIO and CTO should be fired. The CEO probably should resign, what else is the purpose of a CEO other than to make sure the main things the company stands for are true, and actually ships products that demonstrate it stands for those things? If they don't resign the board needs to fire them.
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It is worth a read, however.
Right. My toddler knows because she sits in my lap when I'm typing. She has her own spare keyboard to bang on now.

This is going to mirror the helicopter parenting conversation, where other opinions are an attack on the way we were raised.
Not only is the ecosystem better on Android, the fact that it came to market first is a huge positive too. No matter how much money you have, it takes a long time to build a proper OS.

I don't even really use any third party apps but Google Maps, Gmail, Chrome, and Google Voice/Hangouts keep me on Android. At the time (and maybe now?) WP8 didn't even have proper notifications and IE had issues rendering random websites which was annoying.

There certainly were many things Microsoft did better though, like their keyboard, copy paste, and the speed of the UI. It's too bad they seem to have given up on it.
Video startup quits T-Mobile’s Binge on over net neutrality concern
Not quite. You can just move your hardware if something goes south. There is no proprietary magic sauce you are depending on from the colo. That's similar to saying everyone that uses electricity from the grid is sharecropping.
Meh, humanity is pretty good at producing more humans.
I feel as though your story has more to it than simply flubbing code tests. Are there other factors beyond coding skills that an employer would see as a negative? Are you applying only for positions in a particularly competitive region, skill niche or business vertical? etc
BingeOn in it's current implementation is, just throttling everything to 1.5Mbps isn't. And it would have the same effect, essentially.
Potentially relevant sidenote:

Using VirtualGL (http://www.virtualgl.org/About/Introduction) and TurboVNC (http://www.turbovnc.org/About/Introduction), you can drop a GPU in a server and serve up OpenGL applications rendered using the GPU in the server via VNC over the network.

VGL pools the GPU(s) between multiple VNC displays, allowing for excellent performance.
You can also do fairly normal programming using cloud hosted services like c9.io
This topic came up with a friend's uncle once, who was an older Sicilian fellow with lots of first hand underworld exposure. He laughed at us as naive and claimed that the main purpose of the US justice system is to prevent vigilanteism.
Persona and Diaspora* are two projects the free-software/open-source community should have gotten behind in a very serious way. Myself included. These are two projects I've felt very pulled towards in the sense that I _ought_ to contribute, I _ought_ to help out because that's the kind of world I want to build because that's the kind of world I want to live in.

This shit is _important_.

GNU gave us the tool-chain, Linus+co. (and BSD!) gave us the kernel, Mozilla gave us the web client, Apace gave us the web server and so much more. For a few years there I thought that FOSS had delivered the software world I could live in.

But then came the era of the internet and my data and identity in the cloud. And tracking. And surveillance. And social everything. And why? Because of shiny pretty interfaces and convenience and humans being human.

Surely this is our `Stallman and the printer' moment for our generation. I know the FSF and EFF and others do a great job. But we're losing these battles.

I think the hard part about this current iteration is that, say, with GNU C there's the C language standard, with Linux there's UNIX. There's something you can strive to be compatible with. Where is the online identity management standard? There is none, because that's the whole point. Same with social.

These corporations are behemoths. Facebook/Twitter/Google/Microsoft, the list goes on and on. Before it was really just Microsoft on the desktop and a load of ageing UNIX vendors -- we've never seen the like of these new businesses. This is a sector that briefly had the most valuable corporation on the planet. This is an immense task. But it's doable. FOSS has won the server wars, has a viable desktop, has transitioned to mobile. But identity and social, you know, the stuff that makes us human, not so much.

Time to act I reckon.
This text misses two very important sub-areas of statistical learning, so much so that I can't believe they gave their textbook such a broad name ("statistical learning", more like a subset of it. The whole book doesn't have a single mention of the word "markov". Seriously disappointed.).

- Graphical models

- Probabilistic logic, probabilistic programming, bayesian data analysis, etc, etc.

Can anyone point to good introductory texts?

I know for the first, Koller's text is highly recommmended but I'm not sure if it's at the introductory level.
Cuban “It’s OK to spend 2 dollars for entertainment value,” he said via email. “If you have 10 dollars go to a Mavs game.”

Based on prices, my $10 won't cover parking, much less seeing a game. So we spent the $10 on Powerball and talked about how we would open up Makerspaces in a 3 hour radius from Philly. Lots of 10,000 sqft spaces we can outfit and keep running with $670 million in after tax dollars.

We decided to build metal, wood, fabric, electronic and music "pods". Each space would have primary pod (ie metal) that are decked out, with two smaller pods. Group them in 15 mile clusters, so that you are "close" to all types of of the spaces. So you might have a metal one in your town, but 15 miles from a wood and electronics primary pods.

It was a fun time, always good to have dreams. We got our $10 worth.
In other words, we'd use an always-connected device (like a phone or a watch) to help us comply with micro-directives. I can totally see some folks rebelling against that. There's already fear related to strong AIs.

On the other hand, this is _exactly_ the same class of problems Google and other self-driving car makers face when it comes to questions of ethics and morality. There were several recent articles on HN about that. The question posed was: should your self-driving car swerve to avoid those kids who just got off the school bus, sacrificing you and the passengers?

That leads to an implicit question: should Google and other engineers be responsible for writing such algorithms?

What these two law professors are proposing gives a different option. Change the way policy is made. Such micro-directives (which requires a computing device to execute) would include the behavior of self-driving cars as a general case, rather than a special case. The paper might talk about getting the benefits of rules and standards without the cost, but we're really talking about making our legislation legible for machines to follow.

On an even bigger scale: how do micro-directives change how we conceive of and think of a democracy or a republic? Are policy makers sufficiently versed in engineering to reason through the impact of the laws? But then again, the idea was to use Big Data methods to collect that. Does that require specialists to design and deploy that system? Wasn't the original idea behind the American form of democracy, a literate voting public that can reason and discuss the impact of policy and make informed votes for those that represent them? Are Big Data methods more accurate representation of the will of the people? Or less?

Now, I've only read the first few pages, but I kinda wonder know if the paper will mention any this (and in particular the self-driving car example). Gonna have something to talk with my law geek buddies for a while.
To me, this app is perfect. Here is why:

Social to me today is very scary and over commercialized. It feels like more people are trying to convince everyone else to buy something or watch them eventually parade products in their posts than being social. Great for them, but I'm not really using social media for that. I post my life, but posting my life has serious implications if made public. "Oh hey I'm traveling" could get my home broken in to. OR I say something as a joke, but just like with texting, gets misread and now I'm an asshole to people who don't know me. Worse, all this can happen years after with little to no warning.

The chilling effect on sharing and keeping up with your friends who are hard to keep up with, the supposed point of social media, is enormous.

I like it. I love the magic words, I think they're cute and everyone thinks that is the killer feature of the app, but I don't think it is.

I think the killer features are:

* The snapchat like single-button camera and easy photo sharing (personally, the only reason I use snapchat is the camera and save the photos)

* The individual snapchat-story-like feeds you post to (also nice, love they go away)

* The lack of a central feed or RTs or easy way to get viral that can happen in places like twitter.

Obviously, I'm not going to be sharing ssh private keys or passwords over it, but for the most part it's secure against the casual online lurker. It's a great mix of the point of snapchat with the power of slack and twitter. I can come up with so many more ways I love the idea, but I can tell I'm already not doing it justice so I'll stop, but I think this is something worth looking at if nothing else as a launching point for someone else. I'm not saying it'll be the next snapchat/facebook/instagram/twitter, and I'm comfortable knowing its more gonna be like Ello and Merkat, but I like the possibilities with it for doing what I always imagined social media could and should be after seeing the exodus of quality content from friends being replaced with fake updates and perfectly posed photos.

Anything that inspires spontaneity like this, snapchat, or beme is in my opinion what social media needs to deliver for me to use it and feel comfortable sharing.
> Eventually I found Gorillas and Snake in gw-basic, but it wasn't the same.

Pointing this out because (from this comment) you seem like the kind of person who'd want to be correct: Gorillas and Snake were qbasic (and they were DOS programs, even though you could run them in a window on Win 3.x (from MS-DOS 5.x or 6.x)). gw-basic was the old, numbered-line interpreter that ran on DOS 3.x (or maybe even earlier).

Again, no trying to be "well-actually guy"; just trying to help preserve some nostalgia. (-:
Indeed. Why Spotify, when it's available DRM-free and in FLAC on Bandcamp...
Oh, is that new? I don't recall seeing it before, but I like it.
I noticed this a few minutes ago, but seems fixed by now.
Yep, either IBM says ok thanks we'll move this hardware to somewhere else. Or the other odd thing about mainframes, they ship them out fully loaded, and make it so they can turn on the hardware you want if you need it.

Yeah, it is a weird environment. The i/o on them is nice though, but everything else is so wackadoo I never want to touch it.