skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not having to see homelessness sounds harsh.

But what about not having to dodge shit, piss and uncapped needles on the street? What about not having to be asked for money constantly? What about not having to hear people yelling at the top of their lungs at 3am? What about not having to feel unsafe?

If it were just seeing people being unobtrusively homeless, there would be no problem, even if they were plainly visible. His phrasing may seem harsh to people that aren't not exposed to the situation on a daily basis. But let's try to not look for reasons to be offended in this situation and, instead, search for the meaning behind the words. Because there's a serious problem that needs fixing in San Francisco.
Binary Sizes in Go
I'm not a GlusterFS expert, and haven't used it before, but you should know that most consensus algorithms (Paxos, Raft, etc) only function reliably with an odd number of nodes. I have to wonder if your problems were mostly self-inflicted from having 2 nodes. Of course, any network partition in a 2-node cluster has a huge potential for data corruption, as each node now thinks it is the master (split-brain).

In a 3-node cluster, any system with a decent consensus algorithm (to be clear, I'm not sure if GlusterFS has one) would know that during a partition the cluster can only continue to operate if at least 2 nodes can communicate with each other to elect a new master.
It seems like the answer is "yes".

The reason: I just discovered libre.fm. My initial impression is it seems like last.fm was back when I liked it, but it uses Free everything, including Free music from archive.org. It's usable via a browser, but I see that there are also debian clients (zomg (console), vagalume), and support in amarok & gmusicbrowser. This seems sustainable, more than some others.
You're totally right about VC obligations ... but that burden exists with any kind of financing. Let's suppose my grocery store guy has a $300,000 loan from Bank of America, with interest due every month. He needs to meet payroll, buy his supplies and service his debt. He's getting sweated by his financial backers just as much. Maybe more so.
It already happens. My first apartment was a studio in a new downtown building that, with parking, I paid about 1/2 my monthly income for. Then I met my neighbor, who claimed to have been hurt by a city bus ("they closed the door on my arm"). She had a 2-br place with a terrace, and paid less than half of what I was paying.
> that doesn't mean we treat them like sub-humans... we just have less patience with the shit they are inevitably going to give us.

While I have difficulty agreeing that the homeless generally want to be, it seems worth noting that they're not better than normal people, any more than they are worse - they are normal people, with the same charm and/or asshattery as the rest of us. They're just in a situation most of us (or so I think) find singularly undesirable.
Rice is amino-deficient only for rats, it has all 8 essential for human amino-acids. But I should wrote "brown unpolished rice" as that contains much more minerals.
I'm curious as to the use case for this, so was wondering if you could please elaborate. When you use messaging the communication is asynchronous and therefore the applications are decoupled by nature. So when testing a service like this in isolation I would assume you just need to assert that it publishes / consumes messages correctly, not needing to worry about what happens with the services on the other side of the broker. I think I am missing something?
How on earth can they not delete a picture from an iPad?
This doesn't work for me (Windows 7 x64). Am I supposed to do something else besides copying the file?
I also think a violent outcome is the only way for a change to happen, unfortunately. But I don't know how far away it is.

We've already been through a lot and people seem to just go about their daily business like zombies. Wake up, go to the markets to line up to get a handout (if it's your turn that day), repeat.

Things are getting more and more desperate, but I don't see a breaking point. I don't know if people are just waiting for things to sort themselves out or what.

We have frequent power outages, no food , no medicine (I've been looking for an iron supplement for my pregnant wife for over a week now), nothing. And people just keep rolling with it.

Let's see how long the patience lasts. It's not going to be pretty unfortunately.
Welcome to the tech industry. Please enjoy your stay. Every product is made with love ... and divorce ... and mental illness.
AWS vs. Azure Price War, and Nutrition Facts for the Cloud
Of course you can secure your own device yourself.

But if you buy Apple you won't have to.
... and billions more dollars at stake.
I would wager that the FBI and CIA are technically capable of breaking the security on this phone. This is likely more about setting legal precedent via a case that is very much in the public eye.
Additional problem is that in-kernel latencies of both btrfs and ZFS are on the high end. Essentially a show stopper for professional audio work and maybe some kinds of video streaming.
Trying to completely escape disk IO in those uses is very limiting.

A comparable solution using LVM and/or mdraid with ext4 on top has much better latency behavior.

Sorry for no benches for you, but feel free to run a quick check using latencytop and ftrace. Phoronix has some performance comparisons if you want them.
Yes, that's what it's about: changing the things you're frustrated by. Because the world expects more from the people who build the hardware and software they depend on everyday than some petulant whining. This evisceration is a testament to that. It should be celebrated.

So if you're frustrated, great. Write it in your diary, and then tell us all when you come up with a good solution. But if you have to dehumanize people to get your point across, then yes, to the rest of the world you're just a "tech bro" sitting behind your computer screen who can't handle the realities of human life.

P.S. being offended by the term "tech bro" is like being offended by the word "nerd" or "geek." Come on. We're not being oppressed here.
I was under the impression that emotional intelligence was largely debunked because it didn't correlate with any real meaningful outcome. If this exists as a good correlation it does mean we can use emotional intelligence to weed out the manipulative?
> Wake up.

Please don't. Your comment becomes much better if you simply take out that rude bit.
The 2012's had the second generation CPUs of that class, and they ran cooler than those used in 2011. A lot of people had major heat issues with the 2011, it's quite famous.

Apple was basically in denial about the issue until last year when they issued the repair order.

Having said that, most of the quad core models will get hot pretty fast, especially if you use something like Chrome. If you use Safari, you probably won't have those issues, as it's much more efficient than Chrome, but that's a preference thing.
My plan was to stop being a bitch and run the show myself. Only ... it's waaaay more stressful than being an employee ever was. So, there's that.
You might enjoy this post from Stratechery that discusses how strategy related to startups and regulations might be different for a Zenefits compared to an Uber:

https://stratechery.com/2016/zenefits-and-regulation/
I see SimpliSafe Inc raised $57M in 2014[1]. I imagine there is now a rather intense conference call on today's calendar.

[1] http://www.betaboston.com/news/2014/05/21/simplisafe-raises-...
Zero Rating: What It Is and Why You Should Care
> Something wrong if people don't want to express their opinions because of fear.

Not people—companies.
Crikey... What a world we're living in!
Yes and no.
Yes, obviously for your bank account or something that is very personal.

But as an IT manager, you could enforce people from your company to use their work email address for accounts that are directly linked to your company activity. For instance, We use a online tracker[1] for Use cases management. When someone leave the company, it does not have access to its email account. Consequently, he/she would no longer have access to our tracker by not having access to its email address. This could rather convenient scheme.

[1] Pivotal tracker (who requires password to connect).
Liga Eropa merupakan jalan terbaik Liverpool
Sure.

Edit: I forgot that isomorphic is a trigger word. Took that out.
Project Soli
President Obama is going to Cuba. Here’s why:
> But I'm sure it would make me a magnet for abuse.

Crush them.
Taxemes – voluntary wealth redistribution through natural selection
File storage in 2016? Why not just use S3? If file storage even a problem anymore?
I have been using btrfs for a couple of years. The nicest thing I can say about it is that it is both conceptually elegant and has made my backup practises bulletproof.
And in that case FBI will load their custom OS and open it. The entropy provided by the user in the apple current security solution is just too little for the device to not be vulnerable.

Apple tried to do it by providing also their own key, but that helps little when a dedicated agency has physical access to the device. And legal hammer to compel Apple to spill the beans.
Whether you would like to believe it or not, it's pretty well known that the weapons were moved. There are top-level military leaders that have described it in detail.

I'm really tired of hearing this. We could also blame Bill Clinton for 9/11 because he never took out Bin Laden when he had the chance (which is also documented).

But why bother? We need to focus on the present and the future, not the past.
True. But the way Github has designed their interface is also not too bad, especially considering that it is supposed to be used by both laymen as well as programmers.
Note that the article doesn't say "Legendary programmer", it says "Founder of one of the most deployed piece of software in the world". It speaks to people who aren't tech-savvy, who may be interested in who's behind (part of) the software in their smartphone or in their TV (even though it isn't mentioned in the article, people may have heard of that project more than the man)
Wonder what the NYT's headline would be if it was Google that has gone out strongly.
Well most HPC installation I know are just running RHEL6/7 (except for NERSC which is using Cray linux based on SUSE still I think?) which I wouldn't peg as particularly exotic. The HA thing is know, typically Lustre is just a piece of the file system, along with local disks and GPFS (and now towards Ceph), and HPSS/tape (which can be a tier of GPFS).

I'm not so sure the hope for "one filesystem to rule them all" will ever really work out, but Ceph is the best positioned.
Petition: Halt efforts that compel Apple and others to create a “backdoor”
Can you write more about how you reversed the RF protocol? I'd really like to hear more about it. I've noticed that virtually all major published vuln research targeting RF systems like this starts by hijacking and endpoint and turning it into a modem.

I think there are a lot of people interested in learning more about the process of attacking RF systems from an SDR.
This just made me realise that Apple is a true "do no evil" company and not Google, for all its technology powress and fancy marketing. A sad realisation as I have been using Google products for almost everything-- they pitch up everything under the F/OSS banner and it's so tempting.

I think I should consider moving to iOS pretty seriously. I had been dismissing it for being over-priced and not being OSS. But the true fact of the matter is, the extra cost might be worth it, because frankly, Android without Google Apps and the Google Play Services is absolutely useless.
HN is just a forum. I think this article is referring to official PR statements from major tech firms.
I feel like this argument boils down to 'The poor will hold us hostage to unsustainable government spending'. Which seems like a very dark view of humanity.
I would definitely pay for a WordPress plugin that uses this as I manually tag photos on my site with a lot of standard things this could probably just knock out in a flash.
The goal of that kind of tool is not to be the future of social network but to provide data that can be consummed without any effort. There are plenty of tools that provide data that are absolutly not related to any social network like weather service, movie store , and so on. For example http://weboob.org/. And i made this one because i like Python and launching challenge to myself. I just provide this project in case someone find it usefull for himself too. Nothing more.
Agreed. Github has a nice interface and helped me to make sense of git when I was getting started programming.
No, all are equally prone to errors if a bit in RAM is unexpectedly flipped. My understanding is that ZFS requires more RAM and possibly more CPU than other filesystems and those costs aren't worth it if you're going to use RAM that can't detect errors anyway.
I would respectfully state that you have it backwards - the real problem is that "techies" are becoming ever more powerful as a group, this power is acknowledged, but we have not evolved an understanding of how to wield that power in the broader society, as have the more established professions like lawyers.

I know of no lawyer, personally, that I think would be capable of writing a blog post as insensitive and lacking in subtlety as the one referenced by this article. They know better. I know plenty of tech people who I think are perfectly capable of doing so.

If we don't learn, and quickly, our reputation will soon be no better than that of Wall Street bankers.
Oh cry me a river. There is a theme evolving, and the media have latched onto it. Are lawyers and school teachers continually writing these self-righteous 'open letters'? Are lawyers and teachers of a growing, sufficient mass in a city that is struggling to serve a great proportion of it's population (for various, complicated reasons)? No.

Life is easier for 'us' than the mentally ill, the addicts, and those with less luck in life. When a self aggrandizing 20 something white guy working in a prosperous industry starts complaining like this, with the intent of attracting attention, it promotes a stereotype of a lack of sensitivity, and compassion for those around us.

Prestige and respect? Earn it, as a person. Compassion is part of that equation. You don't earn it by becoming a programmer or working in tech.
I feel like this is some really compelling tech. It would be so amazing to build stuff with this in mind. I wouldn't be comfortable doing it, though. This sort of API is available only until Google decide that they don't want it to be available. There's not really anything close to equivalent that you could drop in to replace it if it were being shut down, the price were being hiked, or you had some sort of other issue with it.

I'm not trying to pick on Google for shutting things down; I would feel similarly if this API were from Microsoft or Facebook. It's not the first time there's been an API that I think is really cool, but was very apprehensive about actually using for anything serious.
My experience was not as bad as yours, but the problems I saw at a similarly small scale (6 servers, 3 2X replica sets) make me glad I'm not having to scale up a GlusterFS infrastructure. The biggest problem I saw was with absolutely atrocious performance when healing after a temporary node loss. Even if it was just a loss of a minute or two (server reboot), it wouldn't lose availability or corrupt files, but performance would get so bad for the next 2 hours that it might as well have been down.

If I had to make a comparison, I'd say GlusterFS reminds me a lot of MongoDB in the beginning. It wins a lot of kudos at the outset based on ease of setup, management and CLI UI, plus it has a good "story" on ability to scale up that gradually begins to fray when pushed. Hopefully there have been big improvements.
shitty silverlight drm, doesn't even work in a vm.

I've had good success with pipelight[0], including DRM'd sites (Netflix, etc). The biggest issue being user-agent sniffing (so I just set it as IE9 and leave it).

[0] - http://pipelight.net/cms/installation.html
The sidebar icons are extremely confusing. GitHub has the upperhand on UX.
They have the same free speech rights as people, so companies arguably do have opinions.
The Ruby Community Conduct Guideline
We don't give a shit if you swear. We care about how people treat each other.
I desperately wanted to use Atlassian products across the entire workflow at my last job, but it's just too much. Like you said, separately-built products implementing identical functionality, sort-of-similar-but-still-different UIs, it's maddening.
> it's a myth that the only way to solve these problems is with government.

Do you have examples of effective non-government solutions? Looking at my own country my impression is that government is far more effective than charities (in America or elsewhere) on this issue.
DC has hundreds of traffic cameras, so someone made a feed to tweet out images
Google CEO Comments on Apple FBI Case
In case of Linux specifically, Linus voted on the practice to provide so-called GPL entrypoints and symbols. (MODULE_SYMBOL vs MODULE_SYMBOL_GPL)
This is explicitly allowed in GPL as a clause about relaxing provisions. (exception clauses such as one in Glibc or GCC)

If ZFS kernel module uses only those permitted symbols, it's likely fine from legal standpoint. If not, there is a problem.
Thanks for the feedback. We've been listening. Expect to hear from us soon.
If you are interested in this, take a look at Mondo: https://getmondo.co.uk/docs/

Some news coverage here:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jun/29/digital-banking...

http://www.thememo.com/2015/06/25/meet-mondo-the-app-thats-g...

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/24/mondo/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-18/mondo-s-ce...
If you are interested in this, take a look at Mondo: https://getmondo.co.uk/

They are launching soon and will have an API:
https://getmondo.co.uk/docs/

Some news coverage here:
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jun/29/digital-banking...
http://www.thememo.com/2015/06/25/meet-mondo-the-app-thats-g...
http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/24/mondo/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-18/mondo-s-ce...
I know I'm walking right into the fire with this one.
As soon as you realize 'destroy' means 'give to an officer's kids' you'll understand why they can't delete the image.

As always talk to a lawyer, HN is the wrong place to ask legal advice.
As Ransomware Crisis Explodes, Hollywood Hospital Coughs Up $17,000 in Bitcoin
I think you grossly misunderstood my point.

Furthermore, entire social theories are built on the idea that selfishness is the driving force behind all human behavior. I could quote Nietzsche or Schopenhauer, but there are also contemporary examples (Dawkins and Singer, to name a few). I don't know if I agree with them or not, but there's plenty of conceptual drilling to do before dismissing them as "sociopaths."
Especially when misinformation is so easy to spread.
Better don't tell 'em about iCloud backups.
No, no one is saying that ZFS is more prone to defects without ECC. Lack of ECC increases the risk of corruption for any filesystem. The reason you hear more about ECC in the context of ZFS is that data integrity is a key feature for many who choose to use ZFS.
Thanks for you reply. It is indeed RSA that I used (from .NET framework).

There's no argument from me regarding undesirability of keeping the passwords. But we also have a different concern - we don't want to be in the business of authentication at all - our goal is to have a third party service or appliance performing authentication and forwarding us already authenticated sessions with the user name as a header, for instance. Our desired end-state - is when we do not have any knowledge of or access to credentials used by the end-user.

To enable us to make this transition possible - for the time being we store the passwords, since as i explained in another reply, we must make this transition transparent to the users and we have legitimate users that login once a year (think credit report, just an example, not our business), so we can't intercept the credentials within a reasonable time period.

What i try to get out of the replies - is whether there's nothing immediately broken about using asymmetric encryption that endangers us aside from the understandable but not immediate concern about liability.

P.S: Earlier i mentioned "intercepting credentials" in our code - and wanted to highlight that the ease of doing that is precisely the reason why we really want to separate ourselves from handling credentials in any form.
Off topic, but I feel terrible every time I see him referenced given his very tragic suicide as a result of the endless humiliation he suffered from his one youthful indiscretion.
Ha, maybe I just used this as an opportunity to complain about licensure; it's true that if Zenefits had cheated in order to get a certification it would still be illegal, and Zenefits would still have had a (smaller) incentive to do so.

On the other hand, Zenefits might not have bothered with certification since it wouldn't have been legally required, or the requirements might have been less silly if certified professionals had to compete with non-certified.
And more explanation here https://medium.com/@resilience_me/using-a-genetic-algorithm-...

And an example here

https://gist.github.com/resilience-me/6978c76da05436b2a2c6
A Black Police Officer’s Fight Against the N.Y.P.D
There's a nice opinion on this from CloudTP:

http://www.cloudtp.com/2016/01/21/dont-let-vendor-lock-in-fe...

TL;DR: You don't get the girl if you don't ask for a dance :)
Minorities and women largely shut out of encryption debate
One of the best things I've read in a long time. Paul Graham is God!
In the original thread, a guy said that you could get 16-bit DOS applications to run on 64-bit Windows systems by copying ntvdm.exe from C:\Windows\System32 on ReactOS to the corresponding directory in Windows.

Anyway, I tried this on Windows 7 x64 and I am still not able to run DOS executables directly (that is, without resorting to DOSBox etc).

Here's the sub-thread discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11118427

Any ideas what could be wrong?
So? For one, I live in California, where those clauses are not enforceable. If they want to put illegal stuff in their contracts, that's not my fault.
How NOT to Start a Startup
His post was incredibly tone-deaf, and he comes across as an entitled jerk. That said, there's a big difference between being reminded of other peoples' suffering and being assaulted. Leaning on someone's car, yelling at someone, and interrupting a theater are all acts of aggression. It's understandable that he's upset. Nobody should be subjected to this kind of behavior.

Honestly you come across as kind of callous by not seeming able to empathize with why he might be upset.

Of course saying that just sweeping people away is an acceptable solution is incredibly heartless. That's where he lost my sympathy. At the same time, embracing the status and also kinda heartless. It doesn't help anyone, except for people who are neither living on the street nor being confronted by people living on the street.

People often seem to think we should give the homeless and drug addicts and mentally ill free reign to do whatever they want as some sort of act of kindness. I think that's belittling and infantalizing. Nobody should punished harshly for acting a little obscene in public from time to time, but we should do something so that people actually can get help while also enforcing laws that ensure public space can be shared and enjoyed by everyone.