skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laptop being stolen: Certainly for normal users, yes. Don't let that happen. But you can protect yourself by moving funds to new addresses and deleting the old address keys. Poor man's forward secrecy. Since no one will probably do that, yeah .... all bets are off.
PG HA really isn't difficult to set up.

You have to know about your environment and how you use the DB, but if that's limiting factor then I'm really not sure why you'd try to set up HA.
Asking out of curiosity:

What does Tableau offer that I can not quickly set up in either Mondrian coupled with a frontend like Saiku or Pentaho or eg. R and a Shiny server?
once I rented a UHaul and it took the young kid like 5 minutes to type my name. He was hunting and pecking. I don't consider programming completely dependent on how fast people can type, but less than 10 words a minute is not employable. For professions that are completely removed from desks I think learning these skills at an adult age would be very challenging...
A rose by any other name is still a rose, whether it's legal or not.
The thinking person's guide to science fiction cinema
> and I'm surprised that there aren't services yet that offer to do that on scale

How hard have you looked? I don't say that to be snarky, but that sounds like a service with a bit of overhead for startup with little maintenance to run. I don't think it would be openly advertised, however, for fear of legal action from music services.
Asphalt is a product from crude oil; as such it's got finite supply and is likely to go up significantly in costs over time. It's actually used on roofs which are becoming less common for various reasons and breaks down in sunlight.

PS: Nothing says they need to use glass, just a cheap durable and translucent substance.
I'd love to see some of the enthusiasm for science and technology that's prevalent along the west coast spread to the south. I always find it interesting when I read an article about San Francisco locals becoming "annoyed" with the huge number of tech workers taking over the city. Where I live (Knoxville), I find that most people are relatively uninterested in discussing technology.

But I think that's changing. Chattanooga was the first city in the US to offer gigabit internet to its residents, and the city is working hard to incentivize tech companies to locate there — for a startup, high-quality internet and cheap office space are hard to pass up. Also, a lot of the region's natural beauty is attractive to programmers who are able to work remotely. Consider a city like Asheville — hardly any tech there, but there is a great little food scene and the city is surrounded by beautiful mountains. Research Triangle Park in Raleigh-Durham has a fair number of tech companies, but that region is still a little too vanilla/corporate/suburban for my liking. I think that's changing as well though.

The biggest problem is that people are always going to locate where there peers are and where the resources are located, and Appalachia currently has very few tech resources. I read recently that 25% of all the world's venture capital is located in the Bay Area. Like-minded people tend to congregate near each other to share and debate ideas. After SF/SV, the biggest tech cities in the US are New York, LA, Seattle, Boston, and Austin. The southern United States still has a long way to go before they acquire a critical mass of people who are interested in technology, and it's difficult to build momentum. I was speaking to my uncle (who has worked at Georgia's department of economic development), and he said that one of the big problems for technological development in Georgia is that companies that are founded there tend to move to California once they become successful. The question is: how do you make it attractive for them to instead stay in Atlanta?
Wrapper induction library is separated from Scrapy: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely. It is used in Portia under the hood. Portia can be seen as a tool to annotate scrapely templates and define crawling rules and post-processing rules.

I'm not a Portia developer/user myself, but I think it is possible to get script code from Portia; it exports Scrapy spider to some folder. But I don't really know what I'm talking about, it is better to ask at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/portia-scraper or at stackoverflow (use tag 'Portia').
uh, er... no.

The only thing alcohol and weed have in common is that they are both drugs. There is no overlap in the effects they have on me, except in the broadest sense: relaxation.

Alcohol makes you think there's nothing you can't accomplish. Weed makes you wonder how the hell you are gonna accomplish anything. And if you are too impaired to drive under weed, you damn well know it.

Driving while intoxicated is always a bad idea (hell, driving is usually a bad idea). But not all intoxicants leave you with the feeling that you can and should drive.
State of VC by Mark Suster
I guess most of the time being "successful" is not the point.
Are the nicknames created by each follower independently? In other words, would http://bobsplace.xyz/twtxt be bob for me but bobsplace for somebody else? How do @replies work then?

This looks really neat. I'm put off by the python requirement, but this seems simple enough that I might try to put a C client together, or even something in my new language that I've been meaning to add networking libraries to..
You write your own handler and use the combination of the `operationId` field and an additional `x-handler` field to location your function.
You can think of it like this:
`pathHandler = require('${project-root}/handlers/${x-handler}').${operationId}`

The server provides dependency injection so that when you implement your handler-level function it can access several re-usable services to do the "real work".
Generally my handlers are limited to getting the parameters off the request, passing them on to a (chain of) service(s) and getting the response back out to the client.

I hope the wiki has some good additional info if you're interested:
https://github.com/blueoakjs/blueoak-server/wiki
Thanks for the poem. We all need to be reminded about this more often.
Windows 10 console subsystem again supports ANSI and VT100 escape sequences
Not sure I'd want to be in a directory, but wouldn't mind if someone queried based on my email address.

How about a DHT where sha160(emailaddress) would return the URL I use. Could even use the mainline torrent DHT.
Yes, I believe a hosted personal site is better, since it's also under my control. Anyone can search your name online and get that as a top hit.

You can delete LinkedIn, but if your profile was public, good luck getting all the data scrapers to remove your data as well.
Those estimstes assume neurons are all you need to simulate.
In the brain neurons interact with the glia. This is interaction looks pretty important.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-root-of-though...
This humorous answer for fusion is 50 years. Always another 50 years.

Realistically, there has been much more progress recently including several SV style startups with massive funding trying to get things to work. It probably is within 50 years this time with the amount of real money and research going into it.
I recall reading that evidence Assange was being tried in absentia was leaked but not released. I cannot find anything about it now. I'm willing to accept that I am remembering incorrectly or it must have been a bad source.

After all, a few days ago when I heard Santorum's name for the first time this election, I thought "Santorum...but doesnt that mean.....?" Only after looking it up did I remember we made that up. The mind is a frightening thing.
For anyone interested in how Zcash (formely Zerocoin) works and who understands German, I've written my Bachelor thesis about it in 2013: http://www.math.uni-bremen.de/~jhasse/Kryptografische%20Grun... (see Part IV)
There are two checks in the current process, so it's likely this bootleg battery used to work until the second authentication check was added.
CoreOS Overview, Part Two
So, even in a prefect world, it all comes down to whether it's cheaper/better to overgenerate and store or to run peaker plants?

It seems storage has a long way to go as long as gas peaker plants are around 7c/kWh.
Honestly I don't care about stock rhetoric, it's an awesome product I use every week. I evaluated lot's of BI's options because it's a pricey product and I'm super happy with it, Tableau is actually fun (because its so easy yet powerful) and meaningful. The only other decent alternative was Qlik but it was more pricey for the options I needed.
Precisely. Very well put.

If anything, some developers use design patterns as a grab bag when solving a problem... a better approach is to model the solution and then be ready to "back in" to a design pattern upon noticing strong similarity or observing that the design pattern is a bit more abstract way of doing the same thing.

Because of the tendency to pick a pattern first and design for the domain later, many instances of design pattern use in the wild are subtly (or not so subtly) incorrect.

> Beyond that, there's no useful way to reason about abstractions, test them for domain fit, or rate them for elegance and efficiency.

Very true indeed. Looking at a design through the lens of coupling and testability and modularity is a good start and can reveal many problems, but I think the real gotcha has to do with naming: Once we name a concept/abstraction we are likely to reason within that abstraction, and we rarely consider whether we are stretching it too far, or if it is even that thing anymore.
How about hacker news?
The Most Elite, Stagnant Club for Old People: Corporate Boards
"Decentralised"? How is this different from a static site generator and an RSS reader?
When I signed up, I made the mistake of giving LinkedIn access to my Gmail address book. Somehow this meant they actually had access to a list of every person I had ever e-mailed, even if only once.

So ever since then, LinkedIn has been trying to trick me into sending invites to people I've never met who I've briefly inquired about sharing an apartment with, various administrators at the schools I attended, and women who I went on some dates with back in 2009. Having an interface that's designed to funnel me into an inauthentic and embarrassing social gesture means I have to keep a state of anxious vigilance whenever I use it.
I agree that we shouldn't be dismissive. However, I still think you are being somewhat dismissive when you say "The cat is out of the bag, so they're going to have it anyway."

This is binary thinking but crime isn't binary. There are varying levels of crime. New technologies can make criminal behavior easier or more difficult. Just giving up on money laundering isn't something most people are willing to think about, particular for an experimental payment system that they don't care about and probably won't use.

For someone who doesn't understand the benefits of a new technology and is rounding it to zero, the cost/benefit tradeoff isn't hard to decide, and making an analogy to splitting the atom is unlikely to be persuasive.
Who Needs Advanced Math? Not Everybody
This is why you use two providers with two credit cards.

I'm quite serious. Our production environment operates on two cards with different issue & expiration dates from two different merchants and uses 2 different Cloud providers.
Yeah, I was hoping for a roundup of interesting gopherspaces.
Between writing web apps in Java and working in a coal mine, I'd be in doubt for a moment. After that, I'd probably take the mine.
Error 53: Apple bricks phones to punish customers for independent repairs
From Horse Power to Horsepower [pdf]
Twitter Has Cut Off 125,000 Accounts Linked to Extremism
I think the issue is that a fair number of people doing hiring think this is still the 1980s. People worth hiring would like the company to be upfront with them too. If you put the salary range in the posting or mentioned it upfront then problem solved no?
>If we're not at peak computer science already, we're very close to it.

Is there a 'peak' reading/writing ability? Just because the majority can write doesn't mean they can pump out award winning novels. On top of that, these miners are learning to code, which is to computer science like grammar is to linguistics.
Hi Zooko,

There have been some concerns raised about your ability to do a pump-and-dump scheme. You mention on your funding page that you are incentivized to support it for at least 4 years due to the payout scheme. My question is, how can that statement be audited, since the transactions are anonymous. Is it built into the client then?
I think one of the 'problems' in viewing the South as a homogeneous whole is that it is so huge and so sparsely populated. Austin, Dallas, and Atlanta (and to an extent, Houston) are pretty tech-y, but they are all so far apart, unlike the Eastern Seaboard, SF-SV, SoCal, or Portland-Seattle. Mid-west has Raleigh-RTP-type pockets of science/tech in Minneapolis and Chicago, otherwise expanse is a problem in Dakotas, Iowa, etc. too. This expanse should be less and less of a problem as telecommuting becomes more prevalent. But geography is still a pretty big challenge to overcome.
> Batteries are becoming cost-competitive as well.

Can you quantify that?

As far as I can tell the Powerwall is about as cost-competitive as battery storage gets and that's still far more expensive than just using grid power.
Usborne 1980s Computer Books for Free
Show HN: Open Source PaaS for Swift Web Apps
LMAO! Good old days, need that paper to frame it!
Unless you are using synchronous replication (locks up transactions if there is an issue with replication) there's no safe way to do automatic failover with an RDBMS without using shared storage (expensive, pain in the butt).

Corosync and pacemaker make setting up automatic failover with shared storage relatively painless. I don't do it this way personally because shared storage is a giant pain.
The Orange Duke
Yeah, on the gamedev side there's never been proper Collada support from Maya, it's very much low on the support totem despite being a pretty solid standard for tooling interop.
lol peak computer science? comments like this seem like satire at this point... It will be interesting to see what dumb comments try to support this theory.

there are people that break things, and people that dont. I don't ever imagine seeing a world where humans don't try to advance further past any peak you can see now.
ZIRX Drops Its Consumer Valet Service to Focus on the Enterprise
Same experience. Changing the special characters' meanings ruined my google-fu, and starting around ~'08-'09 they seemed to give up fighting linkfarm sites and just stopped ever ranking small sites highly unless you search for something so specific that only one small site could possibly match.

It's made the web feel way, way smaller than it used to, and probably has made it smaller by starving small-but-relevant sites of traffic. Meanwhile any content site (news sites and such) that appears on the first page of results is now virtually indistinguishable from the horrible old link farms, in terms of screen real estate devoted to scummy ads.

The Old Web had popups and such, but even so the modern web feels way dirtier, somehow.
I want to believe... But I suspect this will not be a winning approach for most displaced coal miners.

What's interesting to me is that we have many reasonably well-paid trade skills in America: plumbers, carpenters, masons, electricians, landscapers, arborists, mechanics, etc.

Last year I paid $2,000 for a new lawn and another $1,500 to have a dying tree removed. Both took a few hours for two people to complete. It wouldn't surprise me if these guys are making more money than your average programmer. I think we should try and promote these good jobs to both young people in depressed areas, but also to adults looking for a new trade. Not everyone needs to work in a cubical...
Iran Appears to Have Taken Over an Arrested Journalist’s Telegram Account
> drug-dealers

People profiting off the illegality of drugs who are drawn to high-risk/high-reward work.

> money-launderers

People who want to keep ANY of their income sources private. Also see: Anyone who uses cash.

> terrorists

"There is neither an academic nor an accurate legal consensus regarding the definition of terrorism." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_terrorism
This makes it a "weasel word" (or "appeal to anonymous authority" fallacy) pure and simple, like "treason" from back in the day.

> pedophiles

Most aren't active and suffer in silence. The rest can be managed. As the grain of truth of Louis CK's infamous "Most Offensive Joke Ever," if pedophilia wasn't as demonized as it is now, then most people would get their kids back after being abused, instead of them ending up dead in a ditch. The former being arguably not as bad as the latter.
Run your own VPN in your favorite cloud provider. This is an "oldie but goodie" http://envyandroid.com/setup-free-private-vpn-on-amazon-ec2/
1. Pure web tech on phone OS is simply not a choice, Facebook did it and failed too.
2. It's better to use new tech (pure web) in new market such as IoT. If using in existing market (iOS and Android), customers will ask: is the user experience better than the existing ones? And that's why they decide to end the development: "However, we weren't able to offer the best user experience possible and so we will stop offering Firefox OS smartphones..."
Landlord here. Rent control will be required in markets where there is a limited supply of low income housing, and the government is not providing enough low income housing to meet the demand.

Society needs to have a way of housing low income workers because they are the ones which do the the manual labour and other tasks that educated people refuse to so.
I use a few IoT devices, and have them on a non-internet network. Unfortunately it requires me looking into each product first to see if it phones home, and deciding which features I want to give up by blocking that.
They have posted a small loss ($8mn) in the fourth quarter.
But if you ignore a number of costs you can easily convert a $166 million loss into a $373 million gain. See the last table in the press release:

http://investors.linkedin.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=95...
According to the 2012 Gallup International survey, the number of atheists is on the rise across the world, with religiosity generally declining.[12]

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0815/Atheism...

The least religious nations, according to the poll, are China (14 percent saying they are religious), Japan (16 percent), Czech Republic (20 percent), Turkey (23 percent), Sweden (29 percent), Vietnam (30 percent), Australia (37 percent),

So, the EU is still fairly religious compared to much of the world.

Though the most religious countries are not really a list you want to join:

Ghana (96 percent of the participants that they are religious), Nigeria (93 percent), Armenia (92 percent), Fiji (92 percent), Macedonia (90 percent), Romania (89 percent), Iraq (88 percent), Kenya (88 percent), Peru (86 percent), and Brazil (85 percent).
Very cool! I'm stongly in the TikZ camp for creating vector diagrams, but with tools like this, SVG is starting to look very attractive...

link to demo: http://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/releases/index.ht... (click on v0.4 link)
Why not tell them an imaginary salary then?
Am I missing something or is the writing on why OS X doesn't lend itself well to a laptop missing?

I see him complain about form factor, ok sure, it's not an iPad but it does way more than an iPad... I'm failing to see real criticism of WHY OS X is so bad on a laptop vs desktop...
I don't understand - I thought non-competes were unenforceable in CA?
The end of El Dorado
Actually, I got disappointed that 'case' ends with 'esac', 'try' with 'yrt', 'if' with 'fi', and there's also ''elif'! The binary 'b_and' and 'b_or' also disappoint a bit. Oh, well, there's no perfect language... except Rust?

Also, why some keywords have underscore ('unsafely_as') and others such as 'classOf' don't? Now I'm really disappointed! Totally inconsistent is 'instanceof', 'typedef', 'norec', too!

I wish I can undo my upvotes!
I miss that little "drawer" function. Y'know, the icon that you could hide other icons in, so you could have your shortcuts inside a single drawer instead of plastered all over your status bar.
This is a great tool. Any copyright issues? I tried it, "but it disappeared into 'fat air'."
This is low key some of the most profound research I've ever seen. It flies in the face of cold war era paranoid politics but: "the meek shall inherit the earth."
I really like the "single source of truth" too.

How much does Ramses integrate with the data source "automatically"?
Is it like StrongLoop/LoopBack?

We've found that for most of our projects we're not connecting directly to a database, but instead trying to present an (mobile or web) app-specific API that abstracts/unifies/focusses the many data sources and services that may be needed.

For example, one recent project involved data coming from some old SOAP services, new HTTP (but not exactly RESTful) endpoints, and several public APIs too.
If he said something along the lines of "I was told X, I'm not sure what it means", that's different from "I was told X, but I believe X to be wrong", or "I was told X, but X is wrong".
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I've literally never experienced any negative repercussions from not having a LinkedIn account. I deleted it years ago and switched jobs twice since. In all of my applications or interviews, I just say that I dislike the way LinkedIn captures personal data and everyone understands and doesn't care. I also offer to share my Stack Overflow Careers page with them and they are perfectly happy with it, in fact some have even commented about how much more useful that is.

I really don't understand what value regular users are getting (let alone people paying for Premium). Part of me believes people will realize this and delete accounts en masse, but then I remember how status obsessed everyone is and I have my doubts. LinkedIn is sort of like Zynga for career status, so I suspect there is a lot of user psychology they can manipulate.
So, can we build enough hydro to make a difference and how much will it cost to beef up the grid to handle all the power going into and out of pumped hydro?
A lot of people hating on LNKD here, but this isn't really company-specific. This is a macro shift. LNKD being down by 40% by only guiding down 8% below estimates is a big warning of how the market is about to treat all bloated growth stocks. In 2013, if they reported the same results, the stock would have been flat or slightly down. It's a major shift in investor sentiment.

Bubble bursts always start in the public markets. Next, VC-backed "unicorns" with ludicrous multiples will soon find themselves unable to raise cash at even half their previous valuations. Then those companies will have to tighten their spending which means layoffs and smaller revenue growth which is a vicious cycle towards even lower valuations, bankruptcies and ultimately a much worse job market for tech workers.

I'm expecting a 30-40% decline in S&P 500, 30% decline in bay area real estate values, 30% of bay area "well-funded" startups going bust, and 25% reduction in market rate pay for software engineers over the next 2 years. Hopefully that will turn out to be a gloomy forecast, but it's best to prepare for the worst.
Yeah, it's just "my tablet is easier to use than a laptop" despite "I can't use my ipad for X"

Well, I can't ride my horse in bed either so I have to make do with a picture. But I can't ride pictures so I have to go to the stable. FML