skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many of those servers are web hosts.

There seems to be a line drawn where those that do web hosting and similar love systemd, while other server admins loath it for introducing needless complexities.

I have taken to thinking about web hosting as "uptime by machine gun". This in that they achieve uptime not by maintaining solid server configs, but by rapidly firing containers and/or VMs at the problem until it goes away.

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/07/08/true-story-fixing-a...
vvvv and vvvv.js is what i work with everyday

here is a showreel of some projects i did with it (little self promo but good examples for anyone interested)

https://vimeo.com/160009182

The power is that you are super quick with setting up your cpu based part of the programm and then you can focus on shaders.

Currently I am developing on a 3d game engine implementation for vvvv.js with webgl. a vvvv server is procuedurally generating tons of assets and data-structures for the engine.

it can compile crossplatform on mobile devices, desktop apps and in browsers of course

for me vvvv -> vvvv.js developement framework and production pipeline is the most mind blowing thing i ever encountered
And a way to avoid cycles in simplex is known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bland%27s_rule
Carbon footprint. Interesting. The Bay Area has worsened one of its externalities.
Look: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845741

This MS story from today also vanished from the frontpage quickly.

I contacted HN (you), I highlighted several vanished posts. You mentioned you see no pattern or unusual activities.

Also this one vanished: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11846199
That's a good question, and I've been trying for weeks to find the answer. 132 columns for printers is way older than video terminals, dating back to the IBM 1403 printer from 1959. I've studied the 1403 printer closely and asked the IBM history experts, but nobody seems to know exactly where 132 columns came from. One theory is IBM wanted to have more columns than competitors with 120 columns, so went to 132, but that's not a completely satisfying answer. I wonder if 132 is a limit due to the (surprisingly complex) timing of the print chain, but haven't been able to nail it down. I've studied the 1403 printer's circuitry in detail, and haven't seen any reason for 132 columns. If the printer had 12 characters per inch, 11 inch wide paper would have 132 characters, but the printer has 10 characters per inch so that doesn't explain it.
Thanks for posting this defense. There are so many detractors that are calling this stupid because it's not fully baked. People voted with their wallets to make this happen and effect change. Let them.

There are risks and unknowns. Will it fail? Probably. But most ideas and ventures fail. So a high likely hood of failure (which is inherent in all novel ideas and ventures) is an intellectually lazy reason to reject it.

It also bothers me that you have these lawyers calling this sloppy and poorly executed. Like the founder had any idea that this would take off as it did. This is a cool project and I think it can self correct. If not, it's a wonderful experiment to eat hand the worlds a better, more interesting, place because of it because it's things like this that could be zero to one events. And that is rare.
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The big thing about this, is that it is perfectly "OK" to store both the algorithm, cost, and salt alongside the hash.

Most people seem to think, and myself included when I was new-to-it, that storing all those things together would compromise the security. The point of the hash is that it is impossible (almost) to get to the hash without the user's password, and there is no way to get to the password with the entire string you posted.
I am thinking that R is the reason why this is happening. Now that Microsoft has supported and invested in R (Smart thing on their part) R will get more Spark features. Having better R connections to Spark's API would be amazing.
Source? It seems much more likely that most accidents happen within some smallish radius from home because one is much much more likely to be driving there as home is the presumably, on aggregate, most frequent starting or ending point for a person (besides, possibly work or a transit hub, etc.) – the other end points are much more dispersed, but home definitely biases the distribution of driving location and therefore one would expect to see more accidents near home even if the moment by moment probability of getting into an accident was uniform.
Acquia is FedRAMP accredited as well. Acquia is optimized for Drupal. Drupal now powers 40% of .gov sites in the US (and growing). It's a fully managed and supported platform, which offers not only the CLI integrations that developers appreciate but accessible, responsive GUI DevOps tools and 24/7/365 application support.

https://www.fedramp.gov/marketplace/compliant-systems/acquia...
But they would though. They would lose out on the quality programmes that could have been made with revenue from outside the UK.
If you like John Oliver, check out Sam Bee's _Full Frontal_ on TBS. I like both shows, but Bee's is the better of the two.
Correct, i have not seen the path issue since 3.x
IME, Waze's journeys down non-primary roads probably aren't making my driving experience less frustrating and probably don't save any time. Invariably it sends me down a series of side streets with stops signs and dumps me back at a busy primary road where I have to make a left across traffic without the aid of a signal. If I was "up" any time by then I'll probably give it all back and then some waiting to make that final turn of Wave's goofy detour.
Recently I had to unsubscribe from Netflix, because it started to block VPNs properly (geoblocking). Sorry guys, but I'm not going to give up privacy just for you. And I can't switch it off on app basis, because VPN is done for my whole home network on router.
HTML5, Canvas and Math (es-MX)
My friends who have sat on juries and grand juries would gag at that thought. The way criminal trials work for the poor is a sham.
Think science vs engineering. The scientific method is to make an observation, hypothesis,validation through experimentation. Even if you prove your hypothesis false it is a win for science. These bleeding edge projects are as much about science as engineering.
This is a garbage fluff piece that borders on being a satire. Maybe it is? Either way the New Yorker should be ashamed for publishing this.

>>That life style isn’t for me. Maybe I’m just a crazy dreamer who also gets a monthly no-strings-attached sixty-thousand dollars deposited into my checking account, but I won’t be tied down so easily.

edit: Realize this is satire now - still think the piece sucks.
How we run Spark and Sqoop in production
> and my enormous trust fund.

Almost lost my shit until I read further and realized it was satire. What a great line.
Survivors of Applebaum's Harassment and Sexual Assault Share Their Stories
"Poor Economics" is a good book about that topic, based on field studies of the authors. I found the investigation of economics at those margins very interesting. Most concepts of small business etc as people who have grown up in the West don't work anymore at those margins, because people have to pay enormous interest rates, shops can't really buy stock etc.

http://www.pooreconomics.com/ and http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Economics-Radical-Rethinking-Pove...
Tor Developer Jacob Appelbaum Resigns Amid Sex Abuse Claims
There's no good reason not to be relatively anonymous when buying or selling on craigslist.
What's your skill set? I'm CTO of a startup in Honolulu and we will be hiring a Rails developer soon. If you don't do Rails, I'm connected with other startups here.
Hahaha, Here you go. It CAN be done, just with some...minor..sacrifices.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/2uhnhd/as_a_hobo_that_...
i totally laughed out loud when i read that line, how would he have any evidence for further cases? i guess he did though...
Swift has a special category of “starter bugs” for newcomers
Under a sensible legal system, this is a crime. It's called "barratry": filing baseless lawsuits in order to harass or to extract a settlement. In most US jurisdictions, however, it's not legally recognized as a crime, and so it's widespread. From a defendant's point of view, however, it's basically equivalent to getting mugged.
Sounds tasty. Just be careful of hyperthyroidism from iodine.
Why not use 'ssh -i key_file user@domain'?

Should only use the specified key file then, AFAIK, without doing the cycling you mentioned.
I've been trying to follow things pretty closely too, and to me it looks like that is (partially) the next step. Disclosure: I'm definitely a supporter, and think it's a cool project.

Right now it seems like the big things are building out the network and tools, to make the next stage easier. Their release schedule states that the next major release (what they call Metropolis) will happen when they have 1.0 stable release of the native wallet/browser. A couple of IDEs are also in the works, built to work with developing smart contracts for Ethereum. Even Microsoft has added Solidity (essentially a DSL for Ethereum, for those who don't know) support to the latest preview of Visual Studio.

Also, from everything I've been seeing so far is that the dev community forming around Ethereum is very passionate and is grow faster than most expected. If it continues at this pace, and the tools continue to improve with it, Ethereum could continue to become a very robust platform.

All this said, things could still not work out and the project could fail. I would hope it doesn't, because it really is a cool experiment thus far.
Daily Shouts is a humor column... it's definitely satire.
My editor definitely puts tabstops at 4. Weird.
PDF..? Yikes, no waaaay! I'd prefer webcomics over pesky little business documents any day. Any day!

Thanks for liking the artwork :-)
Hello,

I recently launched CloudyBox and I would be tankful if I got from you any feedback. Also I'm here to answer any question...
Default in court is just broken. Facts matter more then did someone show up. This is just broken.
I see it the other way. We should encourage the rich to become more idle. Give their jobs to people who actually need them. So don't insult them. Laugh at their jokes and encourage them to fly to Ghana to commune with the trees. Once they are out the door, nail it shut.
There's always the possibility that they will make you an offer you can't refuse. There may be inside information which changes the game. And it might be that the only way to know this is to meet with them.
So it sounds like everything worked out.
> Node works fantastically on Windows.

I beg to differ

1. npm install gulp

2. try to delete the node_modules folder

3. waste time fighting windows' legacy stuff (260 max path length in almost everything: explorer, cmd, git bash, etc.)

4. come across rimraf eventually

I wouldn't describe that flow as "fantastically" unless you mean "fantastically broken".
https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/PUBLAW/HTML/PUBLAW/0-0-0...

Relevant part:

SEC. 103. SPECIAL RULE FOR UNIVERSITIES, RESEARCH FACILITIES, AND GRADUATE DEGREE RECIPIENTS; COUNTING RULES.

Section 214(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:

(5) The numerical limitations contained in paragraph (1)(A) shall not apply to any nonimmigrant alien issued a visa or otherwise provided status under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) who is employed (or has received an offer of employment) at--

(A) an institution of higher education (as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a))), or a related or affiliated nonprofit entity; or

(B) a nonprofit research organization or a governmental research organization.
The point still stands that the immigrants are getting paid at least what citizens are getting paid, which means wages are not going to get driven down.
Florida has a "vexatious litigant" law that allows a defendant to require a plaintiff to post a deposit with the court under certain circumstances (ostensibly to pay defendants court costs should the defendant prevail). I would bet this guy would qualify
Email, Maps, Android - those are all in existence to feed data to Google's core product - ads.
The american dream is everyone having their own cul de sac :)
> this is banning bell towers not banning churches.

Would a ban on bell towers become part of the Constitution? I seriously doubt it. A ban on minarets, one that actually made sense and didn't look like religious intolerance, would belong in construction codes or zoning laws.
From what I understand, salting prevents computing the tables ahead of time and the ability to cross-reference a single password hash against all other password hashes. It doesn't prevent people who have access to both the salt and the hash from performing the same attack against individual passwords.
"No Thru Traffic" signs are enforceable!? What law does that fall under?
Basic income advocates lost the battle in Switzerland. They're winning the war
This line killed me:

As a citizen of the world, I rarely get lonely. Everywhere I go, I meet such diverse groups of people. In hostels, I’ve shared beers with friendly British and Australian twenty-somethings. In hotels, I’ve sipped wine with friendly British and Australian forty-somethings. We all became lifelong friends, despite the language barriers.
You should also never walk on a sidewalk, for fear of bumping into someone who trips and falls and sues you for personal negligence. You may be safe if you insure for this, though. Ask your Attorney.
Had this been me, at some point I'd have driven to the bar, and asked the biggest guys I could find if they'd take $500 to show up at the guy's house and scare the living crap out of him. Escalate accordingly. There aren't that many situations left in this country that call for intimidation / violence, but malicious litigation is one of them.
Once Waze integrates that law into their dataset the problem is solved. No sign required.

I suppose they can't crowdsource that information or people would lie.

There must be a system for getting traffic information from municipalities to the road databases. Apple Maps told me there was no way to drive home a couple days ago, on examination the street in front of my house was marked as closed for the day, they were paving. That is essentially a zero traffic street in a grid area but bisected by rail road tracks without a crossing, so no one uses it except the people who live on it.
I assume you mean "as their salt"

Yes, thanks for clarifying what I meant to type.

why the half-measure? Just laziness? Sure, a guessable/computable salt is better than no salt, but it's not nearly as good as a random salt.

But isn't the salt essentially safe to make public anyway? That being the case, how does it matter what value you use, so long as it differs between users?
We're referring to what it would cost for bad actors to abuse the system. Someone was saying that switching to a biddable H1B visa would solve problems because it's just like the EB5.
Is it a coincidence that none of the authors has a prestigious academic position?
Majorities decided for Nazism and we can all see it was a stupid decision. Having massive popular support only makes an idea popular, not right.
With respect, I don't think that's saying much. ETH is pretty much the only crypto platform [anyone has ever heard of] specifically built to support on-chain app development so they kind of win "the fastest growing" category by default, don't they?
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That's correct. The Republican party has been trying to pass a loser pays system since the early 1990s at least, when they included it in their so called "Contract with America."

The fear mongering has been going on ever since:

http://reason.com/archives/1995/06/01/civil-suits
I have a question:

Isn't the real reason that these debt-buying companies(and the evils that come with it) exist because of bad-lending and in this case, an overpriced, inefficient health-care system?
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From observation, people on HN tend to discourage small replies that say nothing (such as this). It is likely that you would not have got downvoted if you had said what evidence you have to the contrary, given your opinion on it and why you think that, or even made an effort to debunk or state why you think a few common arguments for the line length being 80 chars are incorrect.

Hacker News keeps clean discourse by downvoting comments that are not relevant or do not stimulate debate.
At $500k+. Surely you don't believe that H1B visas should cost that much for skilled talent to come to the U.S.
I dunno, man, as cathartic as that sounds, it reminds me of the old schoolyard bully tactic: pick on a kid until they punch you, then show the teacher your bloody nose.
I'm so sick of being linked to slide shows. Slideshows are worthless on their own. They either need a presentation to go with them or be presented in a different format.
That's assuming Zavodnik sent the requests via certified, registered mail. Zavodnik could have easily scribbled the address in unreadable gibberish and slapped a simple 1st class stamp on, in which case they would never have actually been delivered. Costello claims he never received anything.
Oh wow really? That's really bad - you must have worked with some really poor ops teams in the past. Last year we measured less than 97% uptime on AWS Sydney, and a shocking 96% uptime for Office 365 exchange online. Most of the problems when we investigated them out of interest were due to either internet network routing issues within their networks (or first ISP hop), or they just had hosts outright fail. The 'cloud' is just outsourced hardware with a provided toolset (APIs etc...), Amazon itself claims that you must have your hosts across various zones to get decent uptime - that's like saying "oh yes - the Toyota Carolla is really reliable, it works 99.99% of the time... As long as you buy a second one for when it's not available".

Our internal uptime is 99.985 in production, we are fast moving and roll out changes every day, we run mainline kernels and all of our 350 odd servers and 800~ containers are running on completely vendor independent, open source software.

I'm not saying it's easy, but the middle man is there to help you if you can't find or afford up front good operational engineers, or to take your money because their advertising has made you believe that they are always the best decision.

We perform an in-detail yearly cross-cost comparison between AWS and our operated datacentre, the cost to run and maintain the same uptime, processing power (and yes we take into account spinning down instances at night etc...), bandwidth between zones, backups and customers and it really hasn't improve at all over the past 3 years. This year the review came back that our yearly expenditure on operational expenses would increase from approximately $500,000 (including human resources) to well over $3,000,000 a year. (Not kidding), the margin of error was approximated at between 10-20%.
Why do they have to make money? The infrastructure is only non-trivial because it's being centralized; if we ran this sort of thing as a distributed network, it could be done "for free".
The facts you cite are true, of course, but it does not follow that the H-card was the cause of 80-character lines. We've had plenty of opportunities to ditch that standard if we wanted to. The Apple II had 40 characters per line. That went by the wayside not because there was a compelling reason to be backwards-comatible with H-cards, but simply because 40 characters is too short. When longer lines were enabled by technology we went to 80 rather than (say) 132 because 132 is too long. We can quibble over 80 vs 90 or 96 (or 72), but it's pretty clear that the sweet spot is right in there somewhere. It is not at all like (say) electrical outlets where we really do have to do deal with all kinds of crazy incompatibilities when traveling for no reason other than historical accident.
Indeed, you can see this in the Dallas area. The major roads have run out of room to expand and according to the old timers traffic is no better than it was in 1990. All the road expansion did was let people move to ever more distant suburbs.
A someone who believes proper non-abbreviated naming is essential to maintainable code I think the 80 char/line practice should be dead already.

A couple 14 char class names and some indentation and suddenly everything is a formatting contortion, even if the average content length of a line is well under 80, occasional outliers and moderate indentation (at least 3 or 4 indentation levels are common in object oriented languages from class declaration to control flow) and it's well worth it to use 120 char lines.

(And if you write Java you probably need even more space to handle stuff since class names are often a ridiculous number of words long...)

Outside of programming languages, I also think the 80 char limit is terrible for readable html or html templates.
You could run Firefox in a Docker container. It wouldn't protect between tabs, but would help isolate from the rest of the system.
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There seems to be energy conservative alternatives for lettuce via a vertical greenhouse system at Singapore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nFQOkzEjxQ
http://www.skygreens.com/

This is the country that fined a Tesla owner for indirect emissions.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/news/a28417/singapore-g...
If Trump was president this guy would never have gotten into this country in the first place.
"Then I reserved a business-class seat, sent a quick text message to my girlfriend telling her that I was leaving the country forever, and was off."

Brilliant.
I see no problem with that. There's no scenario I can think of where I want the car locked but don't want the alarm engaged.

Part of the problem is just plain oversensitivity (alarms being set off by passing trucks and such), and part of it is bad design. For example, my alarm will go off if you close the trunk. That's completely nonsensical: when the car is secure, the truck will already be closed, and opening it would be the appropriate trigger. But it does mean that I occasionally set it off in my garage because I left the trunk open, locked the car, then came back and closed it.
The problem with 'loser pays' is that it can actually encourage frivolous litigation like this. Often there are civil suits where the defendant and plaintiff agree that there are some valid claims, but they disagree on the specifics and amount of the damages. If the plaintiff knows that eventually they will 'win' their fees and costs regardless, they have an incentive to disagree with settlement offers.

It looks like this:

You sell me a broken printer for $30 and I hire a lawyer to sue you for $30,000. I refuse to settle for less and tie things up as long as possible in court. Eventually I 'win' with a court finding of $30 in damages. Then you pay my attorney $50,000 in fees and costs because you 'lost'.

Edit: Possible improvement would be to pay based on the distance between the award and settlement offers?
Depends: are judges supposed to spot-check claims for whether they're reasonable? Or do they leave that entirely as "the defense's job"? Remember, these were default judgments.
It effectively limits all functions that return a value to 2 parameters. I rarely go over that, but it would seem a bit arbitrary to bump into.
If you can avoid adverse judgements by just not showing up for court, you incentivize people to not show up. That's not any more fair. There has to be something to lose for not showing up and default is what the legal system has chosen.
Here is a video of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlLvWif0Dng