skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify my previous reply, in a cloud environment, scalability and multi-tenancy is achieved by spawning many instances of minio server, one per tenant. We are also working on a distributed minio server at the moment.
Another great learning experience is taking a code base written in one language and porting it to another. I keep poking around at the old IdTech code and reimplementing parts of it. About the most productive thing I've managed is an extractor for the Wolfenstein 3D graphics files, but I've had fun and reviewed a lot of my C knowledge, along with some dusty corners of the language I was porting into that I don't use much.
Makes sense. I wonder if that could be made a tuneable parameter, so users could choose what sort of tradeoff they preferred. That might impose unacceptable storage costs on the router nodes, at the least.
$10 - $40 a month depending on traffic. Seems to be higher earning than Adsense.
If Denton secured money overseas, collecting will be hard
Weekly, as opposed to Google's biannual system.
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For what, his libertarian values? While backing Palantir and engaging in stuff like this?
Gawker had indemnified Denton before this lawsuit came to pass, agreeing to cover legal costs related to Denton being personally sued in matters that related to Gawker.

I think other comments here implying there's some looting going on are not quite on point.
Short commutes are under 15 minutes, which is not uncommon in much of the US. That's just not possible from cheap housing in the Bay Area.
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The court case has not concluded.

A gay, foreign media magnate known for publishing lurid expose (in addition to a lot of excellent and funny reporting [1]) was never likely to receive sympathetic treatment from a jury of people from Hulk Hogan's hometown.

Let's see how things go on appeal.

[1] http://gawker.com/heres-what-gawker-media-does-1779858799
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I think $5,000 is a lot of money. I'd be pretty happy if they sent that to me. In years past, companies would just give you a nice pat on the back.
FB's first years only get $50k? In Bay Area California??? WTF world am I living in where people actually get compensated properly? The past few days I've seen posts where compensation at very respectable companies is abysmal!

Edit: Apologies for not reading it correctly. I now stand corrected that the parent meant a $50k signing bonus in addition to a more reasonable annual compensation.
I do wonder if the factors that made it so hard for Thumbtack to raise were also the factors that made it succeed in the end (i.e. the VCs were just wrong in their assessment of what the market needed, Thumbtack was right, and that's why Homejoy & Exec's VCs lost millions while Thumbtack is worth a billion).

I've used Thumbtack as a customer for my wedding officiant & photographer. One of things that stands out for me about the local service-provider market is that you really do want to solicit multiple bids, you want to be able to read reviews from other customers, and you want a chance to get to know the providers before committing to them. Thumbtack makes all of these processes super easy. The conventional wisdom in the on-demand market c. 2012-2014 was that customers just wanted convenience, they wanted one-tap order and have someone show up, and sharing-economy workers were basically interchangeable commodities. All of these assumptions are true for Uber and false for basically every other on-demand market; it makes sense that a VC chasing the next Uber would get them wrong.
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Mother Jones won but nearly went bankrupt in the process of defending itself, and bankrupting Gawker by legal fees was always Thiel's plan--that's why he was funding a variety of lawsuits against Gawker, not just Hogan's. If one came home, as Hogan's did, it just hastened the day.
hence, "and"
For anyone reading, this is 1 part of a 4 part series he has on his blog (over around as many days).

And Blow is an animal! I wish this guy was on my team and not an indie developer. His output level (and pragmatism) are insane! Change the fundamental structure of a ~100k loc project in a few days? No problem!
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I assume there's no obligation, and he also agreed to settle, but it would seem to me that there might be argument in that the punitive damages were excessive, if the plaintiffs were willing to accept a settlement of one fiftieth of one percent the amount they sought from the party that actually released the video as they sought from the party that publicized the video (note, "punitive" damages. Of course Gawker had more power to damage character than Bubba Clem, which is why I deliberately used only the $25M, not the $140M, which encapsulated economic and emotional damages).
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Insane how there will be a pool of $6m worth of DAO tokens to be distributed according to the will of trustees.

Maybe I'm not understanding correctly, but that seems to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of in the context of a trustless system of computation.
Easy answer: no.

The US is 81% urbanized.

And here's a comparative chart of PPP per capita vs urbanization: https://theaspiringeconomist.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/urbani...

China's per-capita PPP is about 12-13k, so doing the obvious extrapolation gets you a 65-70% urbanization rate (as opposed to the article's claim that a 60% target is 'too high').
Not Gawker directly, but Gawker Media is certainly a darling of certain (unkind) parts of the left. Jezebel is a Gawker label, and it's been top source for share-on-Facebook level left-journalism for years.
While one might be an annoying waste of your time, the other is not only annoying, but quite possibly illegal as well.

I leave it to you to figure out which is which.
>I think I can edit and navigate through text as fast as Vim users, using the native OS text editing hotkeys.

I had to add 200 textboxes to a wpf form two weeks ago. Took me 60 seconds to generate the boilerplate with vim. If you can do it in under 5 minutes in notepad I'd be impressed, here's something similar to the data I was given: http://pastebin.com/Y7hyi2by

note: a) you can do this in excel with stringconcat, and b) the project could have been better designed to prevent the boilerplate but that was outside of my control
Mother Jones won on the merits of its journalism, but still nearly went bankrupt defending itself. Winning is the faster version, but Thiel was funding several lawsuits against Gawker to bleed them dry--takes longer, but works just as well.

And remember, a legal victory isn't over until the appeals are complete. Gawker collapsed before exhausting its appeals--again, financial exhaustion, not moral defeat.
I mean, you can make the connection way easier via Jezebel, which is an unabashedly left-wing Gawker Media imprint.
Steam sales and Humble bundles give an incredibly low-cost chance to try out games that you wouldn't ever take a flyer on at full price. I've found a few gems, but there's a lot of stuff that I haven't played, or have put in under an hour on, but hey, it was $2. Cheaper than a cup of coffee.
> and engaging in stuff like this?

Only the left has a problem with his support of Hogan, because it was an attack on your tribe. Stop assuming the rest of us share your outrage. We don't. Thiel essentially insured Hogan's lawsuit, so that Hogan could proceed without fear of losing millions in legal costs. That's it. Billionaire swoops in and enables aggrieved party to sue evil corporation for abominable behaviour. It's practically an Erin Brockovich story.
Out of curiosity, was there any particular reason why you decided to write a blog post about this vulnerability 5 months after the bug was fixed?
I suppose that's part of the reason I've had trouble understanding this phenomenon: the couple of "code of conduct" documents I've read have seemed so inoffensively obvious that it is hard to understand why such a document would be necessary, much less why it would be controversial. It alarms me that people care so much about them that merely expressing confusion about the purpose or utility of such a document acts as an invitation for criticism, and it reinforces my perception that these are not my people, arguing about something that doesn't concern me, and I don't want to get involved. I suspect that this is not what the people promoting codes of conduct are actually trying to do. I'm mentioning it in hopes that becoming aware that the harsh moralistic approach is alienating people who might otherwise support their project will help them do a better job, because it sounds like the overall effort is worthwhile.
He said codes of conduct don't achieve anything. The only way to believe that is to have never felt harassed. So no I don't see the problem.

>Does one need a written down, politically charged, potentially divisive document in legalese to say "I don't want to share my toys with the class bully"?

Apparently yes given the number of abusive people that have been active members of a lot of communities which now have codes of conduct.
It does something similar to c2w if your cursor is at the beginning of a word. But if your cursor is already in the middle of a word c2aw may be faster / more intuitive than doing bc2w.

"a" can mean "append" but in this context (as the argument to a command) it means to change "a word". See :h aw for details.
Do you mean dispersion as in "a pulse gets longer in time due to different length of paths taken by different photons due to scattering"? If not, what do you mean?

My point about seeing a flash was precisely that SNR is high, because I can distinguish the flash from noise.

EDIT: SNR depends on frequency only inasmuch noise level depends on frequency.
Dear smarta$$es, could you please tell me the benefits of serverless architecture (lambda) once again? My monolith app works perfectly fine even when the whole AWS is offline :P
The primary event for "ruining lives" is the gay rival CEO Denton outed (who was married to a woman), not Hogan.
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If that's so then what's spaceX doing? It would seem their code velocity is higher than 1000 lines a year.
Flipped over, if you can invent a reliable neutrino detector and influencer that costs say $150M you have a very risk tolerant market to sell into.
$50-100k signing bonus; not annual compensation.
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> Why do people keep going there?

Because the Bay Area has the best job market in the world for software engineers, by a huge margin. It is home to the headquarters of most of the major tech companies people can name, and contains major satellite campuses for major out-of-state tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon. The scale of the tech industry here is simply unparalleled anywhere else.

Besides, you can pick 1, not 0.
Thank you! I'll look at the guidelines.
If we're being so precise about everything, I'd like to point out that unless there is research that can objectively define and measure what intuitive is (we could still argue even after that) there isn't much of a point in debating the contents of my statement, especially when it acknowledges subjectivity.
I guess the reasoning would be that some hackers probably have found vulnerabilities they'd rather sell on the black market for 50K than sell to Facebook for 5K.
50K signing bonus
Yeah, it's hard to argue that 20% yearly increases in SF rent are fine while property owners get limited to 2% .
$50k signing bonus.

The parent poster was sarcastically pointing out that entry level engineers who are likely not contributing much to Facebook's bottom line are compensated way more than the security researchers finding these potentially costly vulnerabilities.
I can understand why they only allow one read/write transaction at a time.

However, could they implement multiple concurrent read/write transactions by having the transaction fail if it writes to any key modified by any other concurrent transaction?

Like if writer X modifies a key at time t1, but writer Y opens a transaction at time t0 and tries to modify the same key at time t2, Y is told their transaction is invalid and should restart their operation from the beginning.
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What's so illegal in some dick pics?
> If they are getting work done for the amounts paid, why pay higher?

To incentivize people to tell them and not sell it to hackers? Because these sorts of things are very valuable to Facebook and they have gobs of money? Because a higher total would make more people interested in looking for issues?
>No CoC is ever going to stop a jerk from being a jerk.

Right but it will remove the jerks from the community.

>It will just prompt the jerks to work around it and cause even more headaches for the contributors.

How do you imagine this happening?

>Taking the time to address critiques on a CoC is time taken away from actually developing on a project and building a community who cares about the project, not the CoC.

Spending time complaining about a set of guidelines that say don't be a jerk is time taken away from actually developing on a project. Except the people doing it are complaining about not being allowed to be jerks.
Neat visualization. One of the nicest things about a Bloom Filter is that you'll never get a false negative (saying something is not inside even if it is). I'm not super familiar with Cuckoo filters but since it allows for removal it's possible to get false negatives.

You can replicate that by entering "cat" 5 times and then removing it 4 times. Cuckoo will indicate it's not in the filter despite it still showing up there a single time. I guess that's the "limited counting" aspect of it. Really cool.
Based on some of the quotes from Twitter, I don't think they will be suppressing non-verified users. It seems this is more so that people who would be deserving of verification based on the criteria that previously existed don't need to wait until Twitter notices them to get it.

For example:

> an account may be verified if it is determined to be of public interest.

> We want to make it even easier for people to find creators and influencers on Twitter so it makes sense for us to let people apply for verification
The thing that's so bad about dick pics is people don't like them. And what better reason for something being bad could there be?
Rent, and home prices, in downtown San Jose are lower than they are in the surrounding suburbs such as Cupertino, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara. It's the reverse of the situation near San Francisco.
If you're working on Facebook security, is that a bet you're willing to take?

People might mostly take what they're offered, have it amount to a decent enough hourly rate but there will be that one in ten or one in a hundred unhindered by moral and/or legal considerations.

At that point, it turns into a cost calculation - perhaps it would indeed be cheaper to pay tenfold or more to a hundred people than have just one sell their bug/exploit/whatever to another, more interested buyer?
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It was $55 million for economic harm,$60 million for emotional distress and $25M punitive. That sex tape also revealed racist comments made by Hulk Hogan which costed him losing deals and sponsorship.
You can do TCO relatively simply. You throw a special exception class for nonlocal control flow (eg. tail calls, breaks from loops, continues, etc.) and Graal knows how to optimize the cost away to a normal jump.

http://cesquivias.github.io/blog/2015/01/15/writing-a-langua...

ZipPy (an incomplete Python implementation) supports Python's coroutines, which are faster than any other implementation. In theory these might be directly generalizable to get continuations.

http://thezhangwei.com/documents/oopsla113-zhang.pdf
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The resolution is too low to store even a single stereo FLAC file of a three minute song.

But this isn't really a viable digital storage system. It's a nice novelty, but it's not designed for serialisation in the way that optical ROM systems are.

It might be possible to increase the resolution with a better laser and optics, and make the disks serialisable. But I suspect you still wouldn't get the density you need for practical media storage.
I wonder why San Quentin has not been bulldozed yet. It is a blight sitting on prime Bay-front real estate.
There is an island beach town near where I live. It has a very nice beach and a nice little main street with good, fun restaurants. It used to be a great place to spend the day. Every house on the island is $1M+. Now the residents have gotten the town to remove parking from the island to the point where it is impossible the visit. They literally have a drawbridge, and would love to only let owners onto the island.
I'm definitely not an expert on this, but how the article describes it is you basically implement an AST with "execute" methods on its nodes. So that's just an interpreter that happens to use the Truffle framework to implement that AST. You can then implement continuations or TCO however you see fit. As I understand it, Graal is able to 'magically' turn that into a JIT. Again, I'm not an expert (I just read the article), but that seems very similar to how PyPy does it. The actual optimizations are different; PyPy uses tracing, while Graal uses Hotspot I think.

Now, as you point out, you lose Java interop that way. However, you can imagine using Truffle + Graal to also build a similar interpreter for Java. For interop, your interpreter 'simply' has to merge in the AST for the Java interpreter (with its own 'execute' methods). As I understand it the RubyTruffle project uses a similar trick to do C interop.
>how many hours did you spend researching this?

Two to three hours discovering and writing the initial report, couple more hours (unsuccessfully) trying to escalate it using pre-approved apps.

>I think $5,000 is a joke

This is still $5,000 more than I would get reporting a similar bug to 99.999% of companies, and I am OK with the bounty.
Here is good comment on the topic of bug bounty rewards:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11249173
I don't disagree with you that tall towers aren't the only way, but the overall point is the same: density must increase. There's very a fixed amount of land, and a growing population so homes / sqmi must increase to meet demand.

Paris had hundreds of years of wanting high density because it pre-dates the age of cars. America (and Canada) were built assuming everyone would drive everywhere, low-density. If you say "Well, we'll slowly allow slightly taller buildings", you won't solve the problem quickly enough- that will take decades.

Someone needs to have the willpower to tell the NIMBY's "sorry, yes in your back yard" and designate some area of town that is allowed to grow. Make a 5-10 year plan to add 50,000-100,000 residents to a 10x10 block area. Plan it to be a nice area you'd want to live in- the lower 2-3 floors of all buildings must be commercial. The owners who live there now will suddenly find they have good offers from developers who want to buy their homes and tear them down.

And then repeat process until housing prices reflect sanity.
Sometimes this is slower than serialization. In fact, when you’re doing KV-CRUD work on in-memory data, it’s often slower than serialization. Keeping RW-sets is non-trivial overhead compared to the hardest typical part of KV-CRUD, tree or hash lookups.

Many many systems have more parallelism, but less throughput.

Now, if you want to prevent one transaction with a bad-actor blocking the system, then RW-sets, timeouts and OCC/MVCC might be a good idea, it just won’t be faster.
It's because languages are communication tools as well as compilers, and the stdlib is part of the common vocabulary that the rest of the language ecosystem shares.

Without a decent stdlib, you end up with the pre-STL C++ situation, where every library & framework declares its own string, vector, and hashmap classes and you need slow, verbose, and error-prone routines to convert between them. The main benefit of having these in the stdlib isn't that you don't have to re-implement them, it's that every third-party lib knows exactly which class represents the concepts of text, sequences, and dictionaries.

The same goes for many other types, eg. Promises, Paths, URIs, Dates, Input/OutputStreams, Iterators, etc. Indeed, when one of the stdlib types is misdesigned (eg. java.util.Date), you get an utter mess as the community converges on an alternative (eg. JodaTime) and then the alternative API is folded back into the stdlib (Java 8).

Luckily, we're learning just which types need to be in the stdlib and which can be outsourced to a third-party package manager. In particular, a lot of serialization/parsing formats are better off in a package manager, as long as the language defines an annotation system that can be used to define which fields must be saved. And giant systems like webservers, webframeworks, or RPC formats are often better off as a third-party library.
VIM's names for things make a lot more sense when you know TECO [1]

[1] http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/Online-Systems/User-Docu...
There are web based IRC clients. IRC can integrate with other platforms pretty easily. IRC doesn't require setting up your own server.

Being able to setup your own server is a benefit, not a negative. Much like twitter it seems to be another regressions from an open internet to corporate control.

The only positive I can see is rich text, but that has extremely limited value in a chat program. History is nice too but IME too painful to use (scroll, load, scroll, load, scroll, load) to be of any practical benefit.
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Sure, it's possible, but it would be much slower(just for going off chip, not taking synchronization into account) than just letting all triangles through so it has no practical application. Again, even if this had been practical, it does not make DD same as ID. You can draw anything with OpenGl 1.0 but it does not make it the same API as Vulcan, does it?
Most people didn’t know, didn’t care, or couldn’t figure out how to vote. Carbonvote is a poll that weighed user votes by their ether account holdings. Only 5.5% of the total ether holders bothered to vote. A quarter of the DAO-Fork votes came from a single account.

That's wild. It seems like the largest holders of Ether can tie their investments together and agree to "undo" anything that loses money. Am I misunderstanding how the hard fork process works? Why would anyone bet on this being the "killer cryptocurrency" if it already has entrenched interests capable of manipulating it for personal gain? How is this system decentralized beyond the trivial, technical sense?
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You could do a daily backup of the entire Internet to something smaller than a thumb drive. :)
> The only way to believe that is to have never felt harassed.

Try believing that I could have been harassed, but feel that a code of conduct would not have prevented nor resolved the problem.
Can you point to any hard numbers on this?
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If Ethereum is just another way that humans muddle through (and not the dispassionate justice of machines), is it still something different then the legal and political systems that came before it?
Is anyone in a position to appeal? I was under the impression that Gawker had to cough up a huge amount of cash to be able to appeal.
>I have no idea how $55M in economic harm was reached either.
>Bollea's net worth, at it's peak, was $25M

It would include potential losses as well. His net worth is irrelevant.
Not people, just some people. Also there are people who don't like cats.