skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some, it's a "reality distortion field".

For others, it's a "people distortion field".
LeBron's a two-time champion in what's probably the best NBA, talent-wise, in the league history. He has won multiple MVPs and you could legitimately argue for him as MVP virtually every year he has ever played. There is no legitimate argument that he has not "backed it up".

And the reason you can't tell me how many times he has said or done dumb things off the court is because he really doesn't. He's a dedicated family man and a savvy businessman. He doesn't get in trouble. He got flack for The Decision, but most of that flack was stupid. I hate him as a player; I'm a Bulls fan, and he's owned us forever. But your criticism of him doesn't make any sense.
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It seems that as hardware improves, software degenerates.

This in most part because software keeps being abstracted from the "hardware".

Also, graphics. As bandwidth has gone up we have gone from newline encoded ASCII to video at 1080p or higher.

I "love" it whenever i want to look up something and what i get pointed at is not a simple text document, but a 30+ minute video on Youtube of someone basically reading the same information.
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Yes. There's even something about the "tone" of this piece that screams "spectrum" to me.

As far as I know there's not reliable evidence that smart people have fewer friends. In fact, I would hypothesize just the opposite. This is pretty easily testable.

It sounds like he has a combination of Aspergers and depression. It's telling that he doesn't mention seeking out a mental health care provider. That sounds like the best course of action.

It's noteworthy that he was raised in a Christian household. Frankly, most religions do not do a good job of taking mental health seriously.

I sympathize with this post because I was raised as a conservative Christian and I had little to no exposure to modern mental health ideas when I was growing up.

I ended up struggling massively with depression in my twenties because of it. Finally, therapy and medication helped to change my life for the better, in a way religion* never did (and probably couldn't).

I hope this guy gets good professional help. Apparently, he's a coder so he can probably afford it. That would go a long way to solving his problems. It's also the truly "smart" thing to do.

* This is not meant to disparage religion, there are plenty of good, well-qualified Christian therapist. Whatever your belief system, a trained professional is probably your best bet.
As someone's that maintained deprecated services, I can say that's easier thought than done. Each piece underneath you will eventually ask you to migrate off it, for any number of reasons: It is deprecated itself and being removed, or it has a bug that was fixed in another version, ... Then the replacement / new version won't support all your use cases, so you need to coordinate with them development of that support.

And this is all only about code, not about the cost of keeping the service running with good availability on old infrastructure.

The TL;DR is: Maintenance is never free.
PostgreSQL, or just keep everything in-process on a bigger server. You're looking at a few hundred to a thousand qps, right?
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Fascinating that HN user 'paradite 's personal opinion is exactly the same wording as the official government press release.
Drop back one level of indirection and it looks like houses are more expensive because people want them to be more expensive.

Edit: I've tried to short ( by buying cheap ) this process multiple times and failed. You must be able to control timing of sale of the property or it won't work. And people who have credit now want more expensive property for inscrutable reasons ( like not understanding investment v. expenses ).
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Sounds a little like the Carlyle Group. Stuff your board with political heavy hitters and something good will come out at the end.
The drop of water is not teardrop shaped.

http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/articles/shape-of-a-raindrop

http://water.usgs.gov/edu/raindropshape.html
Having been a member the Dojo until recently, and a fan since they opened, I disagree with a lot of your characterization, and am going to give Ghufran the benefit of the doubt. However, this is important:

>Lesson: Bake your culture into your DNA, or when the good King era ends, the bad king era will begin...

What I see at the fundamental problem with the Dojo is that, baked into its DNA, is the belief that legal compliance and good management are not really important. The Dojo had to leave its old space because they were so in violation of Mountain View building codes that it would have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring them into compliance. A problem that could have been easily avoided if they had bothered to talk to the City about code compliance before moving into that space.

And now they've demonstrated a lack of interest in basic financial governance.

I wish Ghufran, and the new board, the best in terms of turning the Dojo around. But I worry that the disinterest in compliance and management is so integral to Dojo culture that it will have another (completely avoidable) crisis in 3-4 years.
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I'm not sure the analogy holds.

Yep, some people have difficulty building boundaries between their work life and their non-work life, or between their coding life and their non-coding life. (Some people don't want to build those boundaries, and that's fine, but some people do want to build them and yet have a hard time doing so.)

But just because they have a hard time doing something other people find easy doesn't mean we shouldn't make it even easier.

Removing the graph or the streaks metric isn't "giving someone a fish". It is realizing that they have difficulty catching fish when they try, and giving them a net to make it easier.
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It's definitely because of the major botnets being taken down. I remember the McColo bust specifically, spam volumes never recovered to their previous levels after that bust. (PDF) https://www.rsaconference.com/writable/presentations/file_up...
Great stuff! A bit like the old BBS days albeit not as great an interface. Someone with a sniffer should see what traffic size is during article load on Telnet vs web version w/ cache cleared. I'm curious if it's more or less efficient.

On a related note, I was digging up info on old systems. OpenVMS this time. One company that still supports terminal ("green screen") and web apps had interesting things to say.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/openvms_notes_my_OpenV...

In paradigm changes section, they pointed out they had been doing textual apps because they were easy, worked, and ran really fast. They apparently supported tons of users on a few VMS boxes that way. Hardly any company was interested unless they had a web interface. Switching to Web made the services 2-5x slower, necessitating hardware and software upgrades. They also had security troubles. Business is booming, though.

Lots of lessons to be learned. Old way was fast but harder to use and inflexible. Web is easier interface but slow and insecure. I still think client-server w/ minimal GUI's (eg REBOL) w/ efficient protocol is best middle ground.
Why so much hate against CloudFlare? What's the big deal about being a "company" if you can see the CEO replying to you right here, right now?

On top of that CloudFlare as a free service helped lots of small controversial, hated-by-some-government websites to stay alive. They protect >ANYONE< that is being DDoS-ed usually for free.

If keeping freedom of speech ( as in "being online" ) for all those users they protect, for you is "at the expense of minority", I think you are totally biased.
> The Ford maxim still applies. You have to pay your workforce enough to buy the products that they make for you.

Which is why it's very hard to get access to high-quality manufactured goods at any price point. By directly screwing the bottom third of the workforce, the economy crappyfied itself and screwed all but the very, very top of their members.

Now wonder the retro fashion is all over the place now.
I'm not assuming. He edited his post with a story which has absolutely nothing to do with the kind of thing we're dealing with here.

Being in a high stress job and being able to leave it to get a better one is not the same thing as being in a situation where you cannot lose your job lest you risk your children, your home etc.

And even without such an edit, it's ridiculously easy to tell he hasn't been in that situation. If you go around telling people "pah, they just need a fresh start, new job, new wife", you've not been in a situation where you understand this isn't always an option. Good for you, but you live in one hell of a bubble.
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Hey colinbartlett, OP here.

Definitely a good point. Interestingly, I didn't set out intending to use JS to solve this problem. I wanted to use Rack to intercept the request and check the headers and proceed from there. However, when I was playing around with it in Request Bin, I noticed that Genius actually modifies the URL so that there is no reference to them anywhere in the headers. This is generally poor etiquette and forced me to modify my approach.

Thanks for your comment!
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> didn't understand humans enough

> They're completely ignorant of any perspective that isn't their own.

It's like people commenting on Hacker News have never made a mistake or have something backfire at them.
Click the "reply" link on a comment to reply to that comment.
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> In a system without any real rules or authority, I think "those adversely effected choosing to block the bad actor" is a fairly democratic solution to the problem.

That's the part which is adverse to the rest of your argument. You're not voting off the bad actor, you're voting off everyone in the bad actor's country.

We know how to deal with this problem. You go to a website, you sign up for an account, it can be pseudonymous but to get it you have to put up some collateral. Money/Bitcoin, proof of work, vouching by an existing member, whatever you like. Then if your account misbehaves you forfeit your collateral.

But this isn't a CloudFlare-level problem. They're trying to solve it at the wrong layer of abstraction. Identity isn't a global invariant, it's a relationship between individuals. Endpoints identify each other with persistent pseudonyms. The middle of the network should have nothing to do with it.
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I think CloudFlare's security measures are insane. I use a VPN and I can tell which sites use CloudFlare because I consistently get a Error 520, where it claims the browser and CloudFlare are working, but the website is not responding. Yet I turn of the VPN and magically it works fine. That's dishonest. At least own that you are the one blocking my visit.

I'm also developing with Dwolla's API, and CloudFlare blocks all HTTP requests from my local IP, so I can't develop locally. Thanks CloudFlare.
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Cool. I do think we should stay on offense about this.

The DOJ has said they won't let up seeking legislative and court room power to demand warranted access to encrypted data.

The problem with this is that as a society, we are not all focused on the right ways to keep each other safe. Of course, we as technologists know that no such law is enforceable given the existence of free and open source software. But the rest of society doesn't get that, and some portion of them are simply taking our word for it. Given another terrorist attack in which encrypted communications is somehow shown to be a factor, some of the public could swing the other way.

I believe it is our civil duty as technologists to educate each other about this issue in a respectful manner. We must not assume there is some nefarious government position. That hurts our ability to convince those people who do trust the government. And, those are precisely the folks we want to convince. We're on the winning side of this ride now and we should ride the wave as long as it is carrying us towards greater public understanding of encryption and technology. We'll be safer on balance and have a better IT industry if we do so.
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Agreed. And it appears he agrees to (he mentions it's a six month trial). It sounds like he's been pushed into this by others.

I wonder if something like this happened to Elizabeth Holmes. She became a founder at a very young age. I could easily see people with suspicious agendas supporting a super young CEO because that helps them get what they want.

It's been a disaster for Theranos. I'd take ping-pong playing developers over incompetent or untrustworthy "scientists" any day.
I once did this on an internal app, we had a hotkeys library installed, so I added the GTA cheats to raise and lower your wanted level. It just added a temporary notice in the top right of your screen, nothing major. Turns out that if you mashed the keyboard, the library didn't properly handle 6+ character combinations, and would fire the callback anyways.
I wonder if back then was better than it is now.

The whole VC thing seems to lead to a whole lot of pump and dump schemes. It, and going public, seem to lead to a whole lot of short term thinking.
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They were always impractical, technology is just starting to make the alternatives viable.

But This point isn't correct. Those privacy breaking laws do not help fighting terrorism.
I am simply frightened by this. Dependency freezing is a tenet of reproducible builds, reproducible builds a principle of engineering for any sort of reliability. This varies not a whit between interpreted or compiled languages. To extrapolate that to a massive generalisation like 'not good for web' is Not Even Wrong.
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