skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As people have pointed out, this is similar to S3, GCS, etc. and apparently they've been running it for a bit:

> The first production ready version was built in 2008 and the first massive production of a large scale email system started the year after. Since then, the solution has been used to store 10+ Petabytes, 10+ billions of objects, at 20 Gbps of bandwidth at the peak hour, with low-latency SLAs enforced 24/7.

That's not a bad scale for such a project, but an individual large customer can easily consume that much bandwidth and storage like the guys at Descartes Labs (http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/11/startup-spot...).

It seems like they need a lighthouse customer to really push it. Best of luck gdelaporte and team!
> ignoring soft guidelines

Except we're not talking about "soft guidelines" or simple recommendations but actual laws:

* Executive Order 13526 - https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-...

* 18 U.S. Code § 793 - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793

* The 2009 Federal Records Act

* (probably) The Freedom of Information Act

in addition to a classified information non-disclosure agreement:

* https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRC_NDAS/1/DOC_0C...
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You don't use custom devices, of course; in fact, your phone stays at the front. I've never known of anyone to be able to move IT equipment in and out of classified environments. I'm assuming that they make exceptions just for these top leaders so that they can move about and interface with the world while still keeping connected to classified information.

So, if it's some poor functionary at the bottom of state, his ass is out on the street if his phone comes into the classified area. Some spillage can sometimes be met with a slap on the wrist, but there's very little chance that you'll get off easy after bringing a microphone/GPS/camera/networked/mass storage device in to secure areas.

Most of the NSA people are free to buy Huawei Nexus 6p (although I'll bet there's some statistically significant disinclination) because their phones should never be interfacing with any of the information they use in their work.
You don't even have to go that far. Just let the 'front end' developer write json api's.
A lot of scientific programming still uses Python 2, so that's not particularly surprising.
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I am certainly reactive, but also functional - so thanks for that.
pg sparked the original one. Be sure to read the top comment as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

Edit: that was March 11, 2009. Someone should see if the Internet archive took a snapshot of the all-Erlang front page.

Edit 2: Nope, it fell between snapshots. I wonder if we could reconstruct it from the logs. But here's HN from the day before: https://web.archive.org/web/20090310152751/http://news.ycomb....
This is one of the most interesting and convincing camera reviews – a "field test" – I've read. Six months traveling all over the world, with beautiful, casual results, elegantly displayed.
Oh, sorry. I'm not a native English speaker, sometimes I have parsing issues :-)
As a former H1B the whole system is unfair and a scam.

It is unfair to US workers: Right after I was hired at the very next downturn coworker's were let go but I stayed. I didn't know it at the time but my salary was low.

It is unfair to the H1B worker - you can't switch jobs easily. If you are fired you have to leave the country, it is very stressful. You can't plan your future - why invest for retirement ?

There is a path to a green card but only if employer sponsors at considerable cost.

It only benefits the employers.

If there is a true shortage of tech workers make the system better by allowing full mobility and allowing the workers to directly apply for green card without sponsorship. It could start by demanding employer's pay prevailing wage plus a 25k deposit/bond towards future unemployment or immigration costs of employee + family, and employee is able to switch jobs after 6 months with h1b sponsor
It is interesting how basically all that Craigslist has had to offer in the last 16 years has moved to "CL microservices" as it were...
Think C++ iterators. Those maintain state, but not mutable state.

You have full control over the iteration,. but everything is immutable and thread-safe.
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Some stats on chats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging

Have to scroll down about 4/5 of the way.
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Stay in your lane isn’t helping the situation. Also, while fobbit is funny internally and helps maintain the operator focused hierarchy, calling these names on the outside is distasteful. We need to be supporting each other in our travails in the civilian world and not turning our service into a pissing contest. He didn’t make up his service or lie about the unit he was apart of. If he exaggerated anything, it was building a niche site more than a startup.

I applaud the OP for getting shit done while on deployment and having the courage to talk about it. And if he wants to get a little bit more attention by using the Iraq word, than by all means do it, because he was “deployed to Iraq.” The military beat into us not to self promote and not to bullshit. Both are somewhat a hindrance on the outside, especially in entrepreneurship. Good on the OP for trying to both build things and promote them.
Yeah, this is really Twitter's saving grace, and also why as much as it is a raging dumpster fire, it is still valuable.

Facebook curbs abuse by basically making sure no one can bug you unless you opt-in to it (friending them), and limiting how viral your posts can go. The flip side of this is that this is a really poor way to talk to people you don't already know.

Twitter is the complete opposite - complete strangers can contact you, read your writings, and do whatever. This is wonderful for networking, but obviously has pretty tremendously large downsides. Because of this there are actual "communities" on Twitter in a way that basically doesn't exist on Facebook, because associating with new people is just so easy.

The existential-scale problem facing Twitter now is that abuse has gotten so out of hand, and that the power-users are far more susceptible to abuse than everyone else due to their visibility. More than that, shutting off abuse in the ways we know how basically means converting to Facebook's social model, which is pretty much the anti-Twitter.

Maybe there are ways to curb abuse while helping Twitter stay Twitter? This is the big outstanding question, clearly I'm pessimistic about it - the two big reasons why Twitter succeeds (vast reach and free interjection) is precisely why it's also a shithole.
In Rocket League it's common to emote "What a save!" after scoring a goal past the defenders, or if the keeper was particularly inept.
i wouldn't sweat it, there's a fair amount of ambiguity in the english grammar D:
To call it an offensive joke seems like you're perverting what was actually said and would require striping out the context.

Mr. Fry did not say: "Shes a bag lady, too poor to receive this award. Just take a look at her clothes"

That could be considered a joke at the expectation of being posh, at a highly honor awards ceremony, and would be considered offensive to the subject and maybe the audience.
It's not exactly helping your case that it isn't at all clear what that sample is actually doing and what kind of practical task it might be used for.

I've been doing C# for years, use and enjoy Linq, and I can't remember the last time I touched the comprehension syntax. IIRC, it does make a few relatively obscure things easier than they would be with method and lambda syntax, while there are a few different obscure things that are easier without it. On balance, I lean against it as being yet another sub-language for you and the rest of your team to learn and understand what it's really doing under the hood.
* Tiksi slaps bdreadz around a bit with a large trout.

I remember reading a study that people laugh more around other people. Anecdotally, I can definitely see this in myself. If I find something funny that isn't shared with other people, I might not outwardly laugh, and it would look like my lol, rofl, hahaha, etc isn't genuine, but with a group of people I'd probably be laughing out loud at the same thing. It might just be expressing the same emotion differently.
It's interesting to compare the results with FreeBSD's cut to the version the author used (which I'm assuming was GNU's cut) :) The results look very different. Left GNU, right FreeBSD: https://imgur.com/unah6NM
I learned that people who need our help are rarely the people we'd _like_ to help — often enough quite the opposite.

That's why they need our help. I don't know a good answer to that problem.
Me too.

Now that I have some experience with this, I'm not so quick to judge others.
When in doubt about which open source project to go with, I typically refer to Google trends.

For example, check out this graph between ffmpeg and libav in terms of Google searches. [0]

The entire world can be wrong, but it's rare.

[0] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=libav%2C%20ffmpeg
I think the implication is that the Chinese government exerts a lot of control over the internet there, and are openly monitoring/intercepting internet traffic. As such, they shouldn't be considered a trusted authority for security related purposes.
I didn't address SAM at all, other than pointing out that the author's figure did not have a separation of code and display.
What about letting people decide whose votes they want to count for them. You can be as meta as you want to be with this.

I don't want to count the votes of anyone my friend considers an idiot.

I don't want to count the vote of anyone whose tagged as a #foo by anyone tagged as a #bar by such and such a group.

Alternatively you want their vote to count double.

Instead of a single score you have as many scores as you have users and its impossible to interfere much in others affairs.

I think that this could be a very important improvement.
I just find it interesting ... I got on this research bent because I have been sailing two carbon fiber New Zealand designed Weta trimarans on the huge sub-Himalayan lakes here in Yunnan, southwest China at about 1800m (5900ft) altitude: great stuff! Latest word is that the local Chinese navy research institute wants to buy them from me, hah! One day I was out sailing and their huge (20m+ long) research submarine surfaced right next to us, that was bloody amazing! For those of you in California, get in to Weta sailing, there's a big scene there: http://www.wetanorthamerica.com/
For those in the Bay Area, there's a full sized version of Senet at the Egyptian museum in San Jose. Not sure where they got there rules from. Also saw Senet on Steam recently. Seems like the game is on a comeback.
Google App Engine is extremely unstable, I have a few 5-year old bugs that are still not fixed. And these bugs are really critical like not functioning backup/restore. And I'm not a fat enterprise customer so there are no chances they will be fixed.
Fine, stop using them. You still trust them. Your visitors browsers still trust them. Being paranoid wrt a Chinese CA really makes no sense. They have as much incentive as a western CA to behave wrt keeping their signing keys secure, and their revocation list sensible, which is all that really matters.
> But really what has happened is that the absence of tension engendered by the undemocratic dissemination of information in the pre-Internet age has been revealed to be a lie: people have been angry for a while and they're angry for reasons. Shocking.

How would we tell the difference between "people have always been angry, this just exposes it" and "the pathological design of social networks like Twitter makes people angry when they wouldn't have otherwise been"?
Note that I don't think there's really a better story out there for async exceptions - which are necessarily able to interrupt (almost) any bit of your computation. Ideally we may be able to make assertions about stack or heap overflow (especially for a non-Turing complete fragment of the language), but I'm not sure whether Idris is able to provide that. "ThreadKilled" and "UserInterrupt" are inherently unrelated to local program flow.

For synchronous exceptions Haskell is sort of middle-of-the-road, differing from other languages mostly in providing other options that are substantially better for many use cases.
Does anyone doubt a grand that a Grand Jury would indict based on this evidence alone? I would like to see a Judge or Jury hear evidence and render a verdict here.
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I'm going more pragmatic and I think most of the bugs were/ are NullPointerException the kind that today's IDE(due to their maturity of working for years and years with the language) can now even warn you about, compared to obscure ones that force you to do resets.
On the other hand I don't see why the concepts of immutable values cannot be adopted in OOP languages. There is http://javaslang.com/ and immutable collections were long time present in Guava library. Sure immutability might not be enforceable in the language itself but you can do it. Java8 has streams for a functional approach to collections. Hell you can even use Akka if you cannot do without an actor framework in java.

But suggesting we need to start from scratch with new untested 3rd party libraries(that other people take for granted) and rewriting some of them. Even the simpler stuff like suffering the quirks of the extra tooling(build tools, IDEs) for a new language and all because of the death and doom we are supposedly seeing today(which I dont and I've yet to see people doing nightly restarts of web servers for some years). Unless you do consultancy for that language(or are seeking employment in a niche market) I think it's a little mad.

For me to declare the defeat of OOP and win of a FP language I first need to hear the voice of people having to do maintenance work on legacy code in that language as I'm too old to only believe there is such a thing as panaceea or there are only upsides to an alternative.
I don't see anything surprising about those searches. E.g. "thug" gets "gangster" which seems pretty fitting. "girls" gets "female friends", which is semantically very close.
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I do have a perspective on how things work better. How to better debug programs. How to make ADO recordsets work faster. How to make Crystal Reports generate reports faster. How to cache an ASP website using a text file and using the system time to update it every day at midnight to update the data and load the HTML from a text file.

I'm sure these things can work in modern languages as well in theory. I might be able to mentor other programmers as well and manage them.
You see similar things in the military as a tension between enlisted service members and officers. It's a common belief that officers can get away with murder while the enlisted are given severe punishments for minor infractions. There's plenty of truth to it, but also a less visible component; it's far easier to get rid of officers than enlisted because enlistment confers rights, whereas officers serve at the pleasure of the President. So while officers aren't being made to stand in front of everyone while being berated for showing up late, I've known officers to be kicked out for things as minor as poorly-timed kidney stones (right before they were supposed to start a school.)

Anyway, all that is to say that the underlings are subjected to the rules, but up at the top it's more a matter of shuffling people away, often with minimal fanfare.
There's also https://trashnothing.com, which is friendly UI over freecycle/etc..
> I'd probably be in a less than charitable mood concerning the entire enterprise.

I don't blame him for his mood but I do for his actions. He's a general running a major operation; millions of lives and the welfare of nations depend on him; those are the responsibilities and stakes. He can't undermine the enterprise because he feels like complaining to a reporter.
You will probably not find it hard to believe that Nest made it sound impossible. :)
Is that necessarily a bad thing? Maybe if you're transcribing text for dictation, but for many voice recognition uses, you would be happy with text conveying the semantic content of the spoken text.
Reusing my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11106078 (is duplicate detection broken?):

Under the heading "Video": "I think the Q does video."

That's it. I love his writing style.
Let's all stop shitting on academia
I tried and could not find any and ended up on disability as a result of my mental illness.

I went back to college to study business management to get a job with any business and combine it with my computer skills. I could do Excel or MS-Access work and VBA programming if I had to, but no company wants to hire me for a 9 to 5 job because I am mentally ill.
The DDE calls to progman still work at least on XP. Various installers (even for recent, but niche, software) still use these DDE calls for creation of program groups. One tell-tale (and annoying) sign of installer using DDE is that the created program group gets shown as explorer window.

Also, non-NT windows supported multiple user profiles at least since 3.1. At first only thing that was per-user was password store for networking, and with W95 essentially everything that is per-user today. (I suspect that the common myth that there were no user profiles in w95 comes from the fact that by default there was no prominent "log off" entry in start menu). Obviously, there was no FS-level security, so only thing that was protected by profile password was the aforementioned password store for SMB.
Oh oh I see. Well, you might be right that "I'm human and have biases" is political suicide, but if that's true, then our system is far more messed up than I even wanted to consider. However, maybe you actually mean that the specific case of someone who has taken huge donations from Wall Street saying "Yes, I'm influenced by my Wall Street donors" would be political suicide. If that's the point, then, I suppose you're quite right.

Hillary is indeed in a position where she has to claim to be super-human and immune to influence because the ramifications of acknowledging her influences are too problematic. But I want people to be more offended and distrusting over her claims of super-human objectivity than over her (still quite troubling) Wall Street connections. But I'll admit that isn't likely the case. I hope we'll keep working to educate the general public about basic science of human psychology and conflicts-of-interest…

Anyway, apologies for misconstruing your comment.
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Well as long as the campaign is your source, you should definitely believe them. They're much better informed than the FBI, State Department, and Senate Select Intelligence Committee investigators.
> People who do that think they're saying something that someone needs to hear

... but usually they're saying something that they want to hear themselves say.
I can understand your response - that was the way I used to think as well.

Its harder when its real life, you are getting a paycheck literally from this person, and you are usually surrounded by sycophants who think this is perfectly normal.
Pretty soon truck driver might fit on that list (at least until they're no longer legally required to be present, as with lighthouse keepers).
Exhibit #637 for why your employer should have nothing to do with your health care or insurance.
Using lots of "the same domain" with different TLDs is also a form of "domain sitting".
I once had my two-way pager destroyed because I forgot to check it in one day. I had to pay for the new one myself. :(
Looks nice. Being super-specific about model is really more useful to sellers than buyers, now I have a good idea of what my early Model S might be worth as a trade-in. As a buyer, I'm more likely to be a bit open-minded about the various battery sizes and options, but not necessarily as open-minded as "everything" or "just 1 thing". For example, I might be open to any kind of 19" wheel, but I'd have to do 3 separate searches in the current interface.
Subtitle formats specify the time during which a subtitle should appear on screen; this coincides only very weakly with the time during which it's voiced (and contains no information at all at a granularity smaller than "whatever fit on screen at the time").

And for reasons that have always escaped me, subtitles frequently just don't say the same thing the soundtrack does.

It's a lot better than nothing, but subtitles make for a pretty low-quality dataset.
What is classified after the fact? It's pretty straight forward in that letter. The emails contained info derived from classified info. Info derived from classified info is itself classified. There is no classified after the fact. It was all classified from the get go.
I'd use something like Curbit if it matched my stuff with charities that want it.

I believe (on faith) that local charities make better use of my stuff. My "go to" charity is the local services for the blind, because an ex-gf works for eye surgeons.

Though it'd be more convenient, I'm loathe to give to Goodwill (greedy execs, bad labor relations), Salvation Army (homophobes, jesus freaks), Red Cross (misrepresenting how donations are used).

I'm cool with Habitat for Humanity.

[I live in the USA.]
This is a good point. I am mid career so I was able to find a great job somewhere else in literally days because I (ironically) worked at Google before Nest. Not everyone has that experience or personal network to be able to do that - I was profoundly lucky and I realize that.
From my experience you are correct...

Most of my clients are "afloat" because they have a viable product..."big data" is something far down the road to them...
Your concern is well placed but the linked post really missed the point. Signing authorities in X509 don't have access to private keys and they don't really need domain owner's input to sign a MITM cert.

Most software that uses TLS nowadays ships with a number of CA root certs sponsored by various nation states including China. On desktop they can be disabled but iOS drvices are out of luck (or perpetually compromised in a sense)

http://slashdot.org/story/266739
When >25% of government workers respond that private emails were used at least some of the time, that's an institutional problem.

http://www.govexec.com/insights/state-internal-workplace-com...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-experience-...
I would as well. Sarcasm is a problem though. I don't like sarcasm over text. People tend to type their messages and perform gestures as they do so as if they were speaking to the recipient in person. Of course this causes all sorts of problems.

Personally I had a minor cultural clash over someone saying "whatever" to me in professional conversation over text. It turned out that as it was very offensive to me meant nothing of the sort them.

Text is read in the voice of the reader, its meaning is relative to the reader, and should aim to be as clear as possible whenever possible.
That's all fair, but, as I've said elsewhere, I want people to be that much more offended about claims to be immune from bias than about the other sorts of corruption. Basically, I think Hillary's particular corruptions are less outrageous and dangerous than the message that people can be objective and immune to influence.

I think the number one most important lesson we can teach people in life overall is to understand the ways in which we all, as humans, are susceptible to bias. So I see Hillary's claims as an attack on this most fundamentally important principle and thus worse than any of her political dealings otherwise.
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