skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ + http://orgmode.org/ + https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ + http://www.openssh.com/ + https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.danielrogg... + http://www.orgzly.com/

... with all files sitting on my home server, accessible over SSH via private key authentication only, synchronised with Unison on Linux, FreeBSD and Android.

So it's not perfect. If you broke into my house, you'd have the files. Ditto stealing my phone, or loading malware onto my equipment, etc.

But it's pretty solid; I'm comfortable with the tradeoff between security and convenience it represents.

Plus, org-mode agenda view is to die for :)

https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/GFPTFEF.png
"After a lengthy investigation, lobbyists have determined that neither Glenn Marine nor its CEO "Fat" Leonard Francis have ever given any money to a PAC, super-PAC, campaign, or think tank."

"To bribe a C.O. directly is to ignore the chain of command, and that shit ain't cool."
The Ultimate A/B test: open or closed national internet
The default behavior has to be backwards compatible, so there was only one serious option.
I second this. Wow!
Another weird thing is, the background collection is still using a core (plus somewhat slowing foreground code, with write barriers) when it runs. It's kinda like you have a varying amount of CPU power.

One approach is just to program as if you had less CPU, as if there were always a GC running. I suppose if you have some code that isn't smoothness critical (game AI, say), or CPU-affecting detail settings you can twiddle without looking too glitchy, maybe you can figure out some way to shed work when you start to fall behind.

It'd be really cool to see someone attempt a game or such in Go--boundary pushing's always fun, more so when the boundaries are recently expanded.
My first step was having my genome sequenced. Next step is talking to someone who'll do CRISPR in vivo.

I am, of course, going to wait a few years between the two :)
I think a good thing to assume is that when you work for someone, the product is not your product, but theirs, and the customers are not your customers, but theirs.
> We had inadvertently added a hard dependency on our Redis cluster being available within the boot path of our application code.

I seem to recall a recent post on here about how you shouldn't have such hard dependencies. It's good advice.

Incidentally, this type of dependency is unlikely to happen if you have a shared-nothing model (like PHP has, for instance), because in such a system each request is isolated and tries to connect on its own.
I wish I would have followed this advice. I was part of a very large acquisition that netted me a measly $30k. The retention package was sizable (for me), but it took your quoted 3 years to even begin vesting.

I left at the end of year 2 and was miserable for almost a full year prior to leaving. I didn't even have any financial gain to show from it.
In person, W was apparently very charismatic. I remember seeing an Atlantic article and an article by one of his ghostwriters which spoke to this, but I can't find them quickly. "Journeys With George" shows some of it, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEzTn1khVAM .
> Why aren't stadiums shared multi-use endeavours?

Because nothing about this whole thing is rational. Sharing makes sense if the owners want to split costs and get year-round use out of it, but if every major sports team in the area can strong-arm its own special-purpose stadium from the local government, then they will.

There are exceptions, like sibling comments note. In LA, the Staples Center is actually shared by 3 teams (2 NBA, 1 NHL) and is also a popular concert venue. It works great for the city having the one building in the heart of downtown to build an ecosystem around rather than 3 or 4 similar ones spread out.
Is there such a dialect?

It's pretty hard to describe something so outside the everyday experience with 'normal' words - I try to view such 'mumbo jumbo' as just another metaphor, doesn't have to mean something supernatural is going in.
The End of the Road for Armory
Anyone who puts up something so useful on GitHub and is so nice as to apologise for not commenting their code is pretty awesome and deserves to be thanked. Honestly, showing you my appreciation is the very least I can do. Keep being great!
I thought that was only the M3 numbers (which are broadcasted as official) while the M6 numbers show the entire unemployment picture?

Of course, I doubt both show underemployment.
As someone who is a few years older than 33, I am also hoping I live long enough to realize this :)
Oh, yeah, it could also be counterfeit. I shouldn't have edited that out of my comment.
Exploiting the Diffie-Hellman bug in socat
haha for some reason, i love this idea
This is Thai Duong, co-discoverer of the TLS BEAST, CRIME, and POODLE flaws.
Google is an advertising company and this is an attack on their business model.
And I don't recall the details of the deal to build the Staples Center, but as a city LA has been pretty steadfast about not providing public money for sports venues. This may have pushed the incentives to make sharing much more sensible.
Most SIP aware firewalls utilize SIP Application Level Gateway (ALG) architecture.

Verizon Wireless does this in the US, and it completely breaks most SIP applications, unless you connect to your server over a VPN:

https://www.onsip.com/blog/in-depth-verizon-blocks-sip-traff...
He also ascribes all progress made over time to Capitalism ignoring that science and technology improvements have occurred everywhere throughout time with and without Capitalism. Very shoddy argument.
not a facebook employee, but maybe that means in contrast to 'people managing and wasting time over things that don't matter'
For 'highschoolers'...my computer science class in high school was learning autocad :O(.
Do you have a reading suggestion on understanding the economics of IPPs and effects of regulation/deregulation? I am also curious about more in-depth reading of Texas situation.

Understood that a natural monopoly exists precisely because we don't want to run 5 competitive grids, but it also doesn't prevent a city (or county, or township, or HOA) from owning their last-mile distribution network (and having servicing/maintenance done by a contractor).
It seems fair enough to talk about SENS in connection with a long awaited research success that is in the SENS portfolio, and has been since the beginning.

http://sens.org/research/introduction-to-sens-research/death...

The SENS Research Foundation has for some years funded work on clearing senescent cells at the Campisi lab, and Judith Campisi is one of the people involved in Union Biotechnology, the company commercializing therapies created from the study discussed here. Senescent cell clearance was advocated and funded by SENS advocates and organizations long before the rest of the scientific community caught up. It has been a long slog to get to the tipping point, and here we are, being proved right.

So, you know, slightly relevant.
Do you have an alternative ranking you prefer?
> There's no mention of why they don't have redundant systems in more than one datacenter

sometimes reading comments on hn makes me laugh out loud.

there's only one reason to not do this, and that's cost. what do you expect them to say about that? i mean really, you think they're going to put that in a blog post:

"Well, the reason we don't have an entire replica of our entire installation is because it costs way too much. In fact, more than double! And so far our uptime is actually 99.99% so there's no way it's worth it! You can forget about that spend! Sorry bros."
Some NFL stadiums are also used for soccer, as well as concerts and such.
Replicating this idea with a raspberry PI would be a fun project.
Is a credit system for the Bottom Up economy feasible and beneficial?
I'll be travelling to my home country of Kenya to build out my company www.5group.co . While there, I want to research trends in credit and lending especially with regards to those earning less than $3000/year (apx. bottom of the pyramid). Would a FICO like agency for Sub-Sharan Africa open up new lending frontiers and thus lead to upward mobility for the masses? What considerations might need to be made?
NYT fluffs Dennis Crowley and his wife
For the record, they're active in entrepreneurship which is great, and while behind the scenes content is something I seek out, I can't decipher the point of this article besides the writer wanting dinner party invites...

A passage:

“I do my makeup in the bedroom, while he’s laying in bed, reading,” Ms. Crowley said.

Mr. Crowley shook his head. “I go through my emails,” he said. “I’m working.”

“He’s reading his book,” Ms. Crowley said.

“No, I’m not,” he said, and paused. “Maybe a little bit.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/fashion/dennis-chelsa-crowley-power-couple-silicon-alley.html?curator=TechREDEF&_r=0
> having manufacturers handle deployment of critical updates, meaning they simply don't;

The consequences for a manufacturer of failing to deploy a critical update for self-driving cars is substantially different than failing to deploy a critical update to a mobile handset. So even with a similar set of formal, contractual requirements, there are reasons to expect that the resulting behavior could be quite different.
The difference is that you can upgrade each Go application to Go 1.6 separately, whereas with Java, once you upgrade the JVM, all of your applications get upgraded at once. While you could technically have two different JVMs installed side-by-side, in practice nobody actually does this because of the operational complexity and the way that Java handles dependencies. Perhaps this will become an issue for Go if people start using the new shared library feature. For Java, _everything_ is a shared library (sort of), so this is an omnipresent issue.

I think both Go and Java have been good about avoiding backwards incompatible changes in the standard library. Both languages have an explicit policy of avoiding these whenever it is at all possible.

Frankly, the Go standard library is a lot better written than the Java one. For example, I dare you to figure out how to call statvfs from Java, or figure out how many hardlinks there are to a specific file inode. Or make an asynchronous DNS lookup. Even simple things like creating a socket without doing a DNS lookup are very difficult to achieve in the Java standard library.
Maybe it's the way someone who never breathed fresh air doesn't miss fresh air. That is, if we knew what we're missing, even if it's just in relation to "how things could be", we'd care more, I think. And we really are missing out. We have the know-how, technology and morally, for everybody on the world to have a great and dignified life. We just don't have the culture.

I often wish I had been born as some kind of genius film maker or author, because I think creating a realistic "utopian" (read: less dystopian) world which is a direct continuation of a realistic rendition of reality could do a lot to inspire us, and overcome our short attention spans and short-sightedness a bit. Then again, I don't know any examples of art really changing much, so I'm not sure. But I do wish there were more such movies and books.. we know about the problems, we need solutions, or at least constructive steps to take, and bigger perspectives than this year or decade.

"Stuff is much worse than you think, but I don't have any good ideas how to fix it" is simply too hard a sell. We need to extend helping hands and encouragement, and be good examples. That is banal and easy to say I know, in the end organizing is important, too. I don't mean this in an Alex Jones way, but we need to help each other to wake up. Which reminds me of a slashdot comment I kept around because it struck a chord:

> It takes foolhardy vigilance to combat the complacency that leads to a slow lead poison death. We have to bark at each other and raise the dander [danger?] level so that we don't fall asleep at the wheel.

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3016847&cid=4083632...
As usual this kind of articles has no info on base size, effect size and whether the findings are totally significant or not. Science reporting at its best.
Mate, you live and learn. Whilst the experience might have been horrible, I'd say you've probably had positives come from it. For me, the positives were that I learned that I must commit 100% effort into any place I work, but I've got to be able to move on when necessary.

I'm afraid I'm still learning how to do this, but it has helped me get out of my last job before I completely burned out.
I mean, yeah, it makes sense. You can reasonably expect chargers/cables not to be quite this jacked up, and in turn, you save space in a space-constrained device. It's just a hard pill to swallow thinking that a stray cable could ruin my device like that.

(Power dissipation aside, I did manage to find some smaller Schottky power diodes that could easily handle the current. There's also the possibility of using a MOSFET, which would turn into Rds(on) * Iavg, so something like 0.15W for Rds(on)=50mOhm, which is much more manageable. I'm just a shade tree electronics guy, so I realize there was probably enough data to make a decision to forego said protection.)
"Some people have fun playing Farmville."

Do they? I had this in mind when I made that comment:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cleverest-explanation-as-...

Makes an interesting argument about Farmville's success being based more on creating social obligations, than on being inherently enjoyable. I was wondering if some of football's continuing popularity also rests on social obligations, like people in your municipality talking about the team, wearing the jerseys, posting messages on social media, participating in fantasy leagues, and using support of the team as a proxy for civic pride.

I suspect there are those, like yourself, who actually like watching the games. But I also suspect there are a large number of people who watch for social reasons.
The HTTPS connection of the website (aoeus.com) uses SHA-1.
I had the same thought when I read it. As unfortunate as it is to bring up, it still seems valid to me.
A Rebuttle of the C++ FQA
https://tip.golang.org/src/crypto/tls/cipher_suites.go#L75
Maître – The ultimate Growth Hacking tool
I focused more on getting another job than suing because I had a family and a mortgage to pay to keep the house.

In hindsight I should have sued but I let 180 days go by.
Amsterdam's 'Night Mayor' Job Has Spread to Paris, Zurich, and Other Euro Cities
> It's starting to all seem like Farmville. Something terribly boring, that somehow the general public has convinced itself is a lot of fun.

"boring" and "fun" are subjective. That you find something boring doesn't mean that it is objectively boring and that those who find it fun have deluded themselves. It just means that people have different entertainment preferences. Which is, decidedly, not news.
The alternative is to change a majority of people's minds that this is something morally wrong with the world, make cases to supreme court and/or lobby congress and eventually turn the tide in your favor. Not really sure which way is easier.
I'm in Halifax Street (Adelaide 5000). It showed a hotline, two local options and then the rest were over a week's walk away.
costs to demolish have been estimated between $30m-$60m
I recently stepped into a role with a devops component, and one of my first surprises was just how slow status.aws.amazon.com was to update about ongoing issues. I had to scramble to find twitter and external forums confirmation for the client.
Link to result https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=aoeus.com
> Not everyone needs to be huge

But we are specifically talking about dropbox here.

I am sure they were not exactly aiming to "be small" raising million of dollars in multiple investment rounds.
In the U.S. what finally ended child labor was that adults were out of work during the great depression. Child labor was made illegal so adults could finally get jobs because child wages simply cost companies less. So yes it absolutely was about exploitation. The dreadful working conditions for children were also true and that got the non-industrial elite behind the effort to make it illegal.

Voluntary charity has not solved the problem of poverty. That's old Ayn Rand nonsense, and she was wrong about a great many things. In the end, she cashed her Social Security checks. And good for her, she was entitled to them.

It's becoming fashionable on the right to deny the "veil of ignorance" and instead embrace inheritance of class as if it's a genetic trait. I sometimes wonder if the right pines for the great old days of primogeniture too. For now, it still takes a sovereign to get some people who have enough marbles to share their toys so others can live.
Enjoy your free service, but I would avoid paying for Digital Ocean for any serious project.

No custom kernel support

1. Digital Ocean does not allow you to run your own kernel natively.

2. Digital Ocean droplet kernels are infrequently updated.

3. These kernels often contain relevant security vulnerabilities.

4. This has been a known issue since 2013.

5. You can kexec a kernel, but this is an annoying workaround.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-can-i-b...

Private networking is a joke

1. Your private IP addresses are accessible by everyone in the same datacenter.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-isol...

IPv6 support

1. Took forever to implement, and the timetable broke promises to customers.

2. Inferior. Digital Ocean still won't give you a /64 per standards.
This seems precisely wrong. Some reading:

http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...

https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

[thanks for the hint 'thinkpad20! I don't know what I was thinking.]
College Students Sue Google for Scanning School-Issued Gmail Accounts
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Haha glad it was recommended for you and hope you like it!
Wasn't that just to bank and cash out employee stock? They could hand that back if need be.
This is a bit late, so just in case you don't check your discussions ('threads' link), I sent you an email. This might help:

Computer Science Field Guide (canterbury.ac.nz)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11030532

Specifically, this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11030861

adpirz 28 minutes ago

Same folks did this for younger grades:
http://csunplugged.org/
I think you mean damp squid.
As I said in another comment, the fact that they found an 8 minute delay from outage to status page update to be unacceptable speaks volumes to how much they value their relationship with their customers.

as an aside I feel that I'm quite fortunate to work in the EST timezone, as their outage apparently started at about 7pm my time. We have a general rule at my company to not deploy after 6pm unless an emergency fix absolutely needs to go up.

I saw the title of the story and said to myself, what outage? :P
Managing Go dependencies with git-subtree
Does anyone have a mirror to this that's not behind the WSJ paywall? Thanks.
"Now when I watch football again, I am painfully aware of [...] the incessant commercials"

You are not their target audience, I'm afraid
Stabilize carbon, ocean temperatures and acidity levels, forest depletion, and species collapse -- within our current generation, please.

Then you can chide people for being overly moralistic.
Could someone explain why isn't it an issue that socat hardcodes any `p` at all? I mean, isn't the negotiation insecure if the person who generated `p` eavesdrops on the connection?

Edit: stupid post - just realised p was supposed to be prime, which kind of is the answer (no factors)
I guess this is worth a punt: I'm in Sydney and currently out of work. I've got experience with a lot of languages and I learn pretty quickly, in fact I'm currently working on refactoring the Libreoffice codebase.

I'm looking for part time work, and frankly a lower salary doesn't worry me even slightly as I want to focus on looking after my kids and spend more time with my wife... You wouldn't have any part time work going? I'm a dedicated worker who values quality code and practices.

Hopefully this isn't too inappropriate asking on HN!
Thanks for your clarifying where you're coming from. I read comments like

> All good things eventually come to an end, and you need to be ready for the inevitable.

> You're just not in a position to be able to change how people think about things. Your skillset is not with people, it's with code.

> You're still getting paid the same, but are having your responsibilities taken away. Most other people are overworked and underpaid, you're getting underworked and overpaid. So why complain?

and it sounds like 'The professional world sucks. Deal with it.'

But with a bit of context I think they can be read in a way that should resonate with more people here, perhaps 'The professional world sucks. If you think you're ready to go out and tackle that problem then get out there and do it.'
The new YC: As it tries to scale from 200 to 2,000 companies
Yuck. Support nightmare.

In enterprise, about a dozen vendors do it already.
What's even worse is that when Amazon finally updates their status page it's usually still a green icon with a little i tick for "information" even if it was a partial outage. It takes a lot for the icons to go red which is what you'd look for if you're experiencing issues.

I do the same thing, often searching Twitter for "aws" or "outage" and find people complaining about the problem which confirms my suspicions. It's a sad state of affairs when you have to do this and Amazon doesn't seem interested in fixing it.
In my experience, the first thing to do is to build yourself a little fortress out of binders and printouts. If it looks like you're going to get fired, pretend to be mentally handicapped so that they are afraid of a discrimination lawsuit. Then switch to whatever team has the best donuts, and spend the rest of your time at BigCo playing bullshit bingo with the pointy-haired ones.
There's a [dead] comment below this complaining about the term 'extrajudicial'. The thing is that 'extrajudicial' means 'without benefit of legal process'. We don't really know what process might or might not have been followed had Snowden been captured. Given that forcing the plane down was both highly irregular and against treaties, however, it's hard to make a case that compliance with such things was seen as mandatory. But yes, to be fair, we don't actually know, we simply have evidence that points a certain direction.
They are in the catering industry and serve some of the best food in SOMA!
The first batch of YC founders photo is a bit heartbreaking. Aaron next to Sam next to pg and Jessica on the left. The latter batches benefited from the learnings, but this batch must have been so much more personal.
I actually like that since I've always thought like that, it's nice to see in reading (and better explained). However it has its downside, it's easy to fall into pitfalls where you can't decide which path to take. As opposite of having a vision, basically means you know where to go and what to do. I am constantly suffering from making decisions that seem important and of similar value.
Hit web under the article title.
I just tried to view the site, but getting a blank page :-( but do you accept pull requests?
I used my good income job to rent a three room bedroom apartment, and rent out 2 of the rooms. I pay < $100 a week on bills and housing, and I live in a city where the median house price is > $1m.
Do you have a git repository?
What bunk.

We cannot ask for employees that are engaged, purposeful, passionate, and committed without also expecting negative feelings to happen when things don't work out. If you ask people to care about their company and their colleagues, fucking own it when they actually do.
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