skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Irrelevant for many years? Uhm: http://as-rank.caida.org/?mode0=as-info&mode1=as-table&as=70...
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Life is really short -- there is very little time to leave your thumbprint on this place. If you ever look back, I wager you'll come to wish you could use that time doing something different.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/asianamerican/comments/58oqvk/i_don...
Ceph is more production-ready, and has a lot of things SeaweedFS I believe doesn't yet have (such as consistency checking and rebuilding of failed nodes). It also has FS layer capability. SeaweedFS can use a filer but it currently doesn't support indexing (so you can't do subdirectory lookups for example, you would need to know the full filename).

SeaweedFS is fundamentally trying to do a different thing than Ceph is, and it benefits certain use cases. Reading the Facebook Haystack paper will give you an idea of the differences.

That said, I'm extremely impressed with how simple the interface is. It's very easy to get started.
I too have a private email server, so I feel like I'm making the right choice.
First AOL now ATT. Why are the TW execs always looking to sell out a perfectly viable company.
People like stability.
Hum, no. When you tar a set of files directly into a tape, you don't know the resulting tar size beforehand. Even less if you compress the result.
I troll a little bit, but I've followed the activities of more prolific trolls much more, and agree this essay has very little to do with trolling. I don't have any feelings or expectations at all about the people I interact with on the internet, so certainly nothing remotely approaching hate (an extremely diluted word, anyway). I think exchanging text with anonymous strangers is very far removed from real social interaction.
We are currently in the process of finding ways to implement many formats more quickly. It's certainly on our radars, although I can't promise it will make it into the next release.
This crosses the line into a personal attack, and is not OK on Hacker News. Please don't do this here.
The vast majority of Americans are not libertarian, they are opposed to your notion of free markets and property rights.
The most interesting takeaway is that the US government managed to get their governmental buildings added as no-fly zones to the drones, but the Russian government couldn’t get their no-fly zones added.
> To put it into perspective, consider a US college where there is only a few Chinese or Indian students, chances are they will naturally interact more with locals.

No, they aren't. Your original premise is incorrect. Those Chinese and Indian students are going back to their dorms/apartments and watching TV shows in their own languages and communicating with friends/families back home. The number has nothing to do with it. It's all about culture.
Nah, they'll have checked for that first.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/why...
This is sorta like Verizon buying yahoo. This is not sorta like centurylink buying savvis.
I'm also skeptical but believe it isn't coincidental that when I signed up, it recommended some people from my Gmail account. I had my country and city set as Beijing, China. The only other recommendations were from people in that area, I didn't know, because I'm really in the U.S.
I often find myself reading about 30% of books like "The Lean Startup," and moving on. Not necessarily the first 30%, but overall. Understand the thesis, and move on.

I have yet to find a business book where this doesn't apply. I only finish the ones where I particularly like the writing style or the anecdotes.
Iirc, Android has a setting in the disability/accessibility section to override zoom-blocking.
Who wouldn't like to visit Three Mile Island's own Green Lagoon. For that healthy glow. Makes you positively luminous.
Anybody willing to reverse engineer cheap DVRs?
A few years ago I installed two cheap+chinese+noname DVRs to a customer
shops. They did their job and he was able to bust one of his employees
stealing stuff. When I got to upgrade his XP PCs to Linux a problem arose:
these boxes, as many other similar ones, require a Windows ActiveX to be
installed client side.
While it is possible to make the ActiveX work on newer (tested on W7)
systems, it requires lowering all security options which on Windows is
asking for troubles.
I also tried installing them on Virtualbox XP machines on Linux hosts
to no avail: they install but fail loading, so he's stuck with XP.

I was about to surrender when the news about DVRs being used as botnet
slaves hit the presses; this is a huge problem as there are a huge load
of those boxes out there.
I wonder if someone could create a project aimed at reverse engineering
those unnamed boxes in order to replace their internal OS with a fully
open source and trustworthy one.

Note that all those boxes contain Linux, though they force the user to
install an ActiveX control, therefore requiring a Windows client.
Most of those boxes point for downloading the ActiveX to a long
dead address, but the installer can be found online by looking for
"TSWebClient_EN_SetUp". I could install the same ActiveX to a PC and
connect to 4 different DVRs, so I believe they're just branded and
dressed different but the guts are pretty much the same even if they had
ports placed elsewhere.

By the way, once reverse engineered those boxes can become nice hacking
platforms. They have SATA, HDMI, VGA, USB, some gpio or serial
ports used for PTZ and 4/8 video inputs which means very fast ADCs.
They cost new just like a RasPI 3 but the recent appearance of AHD/hybrid
ones will inevitably bring the used price to a few bucks or less.

Should a reverse engineering project already exist, I'm willing to donate
some quid plus a working box to the hackers.
It is not formal or face to face communication, even if it were, there is no obligation to participate or oblige someone trying to get a rise out of someone else. On top if it people have more then enough tools to completely remove themselves or the offending party from conversation. Thus medium is relevant.

But if you mean an e-ego has to be defended and proven superior to others in order to maintain e-streetcred... yeah, sure it will amount to nothing but entertainment for someone else.
At the risk of starting a distracting side conversation—whether his language was crass or not is irrelevant. The issue is that he was bragging about committing sexual assault.
That's $7000 per hostage... I mean customer.
Squash merge would be most useful in cases where someone turns in a PR and then there's back and forth which result in them making additional commit such like "Fix typo" and "Change struct name". That's not useful history and it's sometimes easier just to squash merge rather than give the contributor a lesson on reabse every single time. Naturally you shouldn't squash if the history needs to be cleaned up manually but it's rare to have multiple authors on one PR.
Sticking to your language group is the easy thing to do, we realize that very well. But we also know its not the best thing to do, like eating a lot of ice cream.

I've seen family members who integrate and others who treat the new place as enclave and half learn english. The ones who do integrate did much better in life. It really is a waste, short term and long term.
> (Virtually) no one

> And most people are pirates

I'm fairly confident you have a very unrealistic/limited/biased view of reality: most people are not pirates. The virtually extinct magazines can still be seen on millions of points of sale every day around the world and if they're there with new stocks and content every day/week/month then they're still very widely sold.

AT&T is a $226b corporation and time warner productions is a $73b who just got bought for 80.
I still use sz/rz on an almost daily basis, for doing embedded system development. The system I work with is only accessible over UART, so rz/sz is the only way to transfer files to the host PC (well, the only convenient way; the other way is through JTAG, which is a PITA, and only useful for imaging, not just transferring some small data file from the running system).
What makes you so sure? For one thing, it's perfectly legal for non-insiders to figure out which way the wind is blowing on a deal and make a bet in that direction.
We've already asked you to comment civilly and substantively, so we're banning this account. We're glad to unban accounts if you email hn@ycombinator.com and we believe that you won't do this any more.
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There are, of course, race-motivated crimes, as well as, say, anti-Semitism. However, if some newspaper suddenly started publishing something along the lines of "in northern Paris, there are now more than 4.8% Jewish residents, an increase of 0.3% compared to the last year", the Jews would be offended, and rightfully so (perhaps not so much in the US, but definitely in Europe).

There is no need for public knowledge for racial or "country of origin" statistics. There is no need to specifically hide or distort this information, of course, but it is of interest only for law enforcers. Anybody else who asks for it usually have questionable motivations.
A lot of graph theory is implemented as linear algebra, using things like adjacency matrices.
This is correct. There are many Asians here on HN (rightly so) trying to defend their culture. Western (European/American) culture advocates "getting out of your comfort zone" while Asian cultures do not. They discourage it.
I read his blog, never new he had some videos.

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

interesting enough.
Intentionally impeding disruptions to protect quality of life... awesome.
Well, I find text on the internet extremely dismissible, which is why I conclude that it's the reader's choice to some extent.
actually they always merge via -no-ff.
and time tracking in issue's is also a ee only thing.
actually the last releases were pretty much focused on ee-only stuff, it's sad that it will be more closed caused by the money.
"Nobody wants to stream the game tomorrow"
This assumes the sports you like and teams you watch are in your country. This may often (usually?) be true but sometimes isn't. Some sports make it impossible to watch live - F1 racing changes countries for each race for example. Who wants to get up at 3am when they have work the next day. I'd watch more sport if streaming was possible.
The History of Paper Money [video]
I guess this will be helpful: http://www.bagtheweb.com/b/pJ53Qm
When you're a blind web user.
> If you're nearing retirement, you shouldn't be holding risky assets like equities.

That is not quite right. When entering retirement, most people can expect to live for at least 20 more years, which means they should hold a non-insignificant fraction of their wealth in stocks.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Of course people should avoid high crime areas when practical and maintain situational awareness when out in public. This is simple common sense, and although not 100% effective those steps will drastically reduce the risk of getting mugged. Ask any police officer.
Supply generates its own demand; by making captioning even cheaper, it can increase the demand for transcription services and people to check it over. There are a lot of podcasts and YT videos that could benefit from transcriptions but it's too expensive now.
The problem isn't individual greed that keeps reappearing, it's the collective and cultural greed that makes the individual greed short-term attractive.
In previous stories[0] it turned out that LinkedIn was siphoning information via their mobile app. For example, if you're on Android and install LinkedIn you're granting the complete set of permissions the app requires plus automatically granting any new permissions the updated app specifies:

This app has access to:

Identity
-find accounts on the device
-add or remove accounts

Calendar
-read calendar events plus confidential information

Contacts
-find accounts on the device
-read your contacts
-modify your contacts

Location
-precise location (GPS and network-based)

Photos/Media/Files
-read the contents of your USB storage
-modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage
-read the contents of your USB storage
-modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Other
-read sync statistics
-receive data from Internet
-view network connections
-create accounts and set passwords
-full network access
-read sync settings
-control vibration
-prevent device from sleeping
-toggle sync on and off

Updates to LinkedIn may automatically add
additional capabilities within each group.

How people can willingly grant device pwnership to apps like this are beyond me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12651448
Cool! What are some possible neat applications that could be built using this—think, hackathon time-frame?
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I would think you could just write the size at the end of the tape?
The Leap is fantastic. Steelcase makes great chairs. It's as well made as the Aeron and much more comfortable. (I've not tried the new Aeron.)
AirBnB is a distributed hotel with a centralized lobby in Albany.
To be honest...I have not thought hard on this. I expected my post to get down voted, as I figured i was taking a frowned upon view. To be more fair, I suspect I am wrong.

In practice, I agree with your point. I'd rather do some small costs up front. I'm curious to explore the designs more. I think in systems where you have independent programs working together, a lot of this solves itself. The trend today is to make things one big program. (Not a new trend.)
But you wouldn't switch cable companies or buy content you don't want to watch.

There is no technical reason preventing anyone from streaming/recording sporting events. It's easy.
Buffett's main argument against the hedge funds was that their fees are too high and services too poor rather than active investment never works. He started running the Buffett Partnership which was basically a hedge fund and did great for his investors and charged modest fees by modern standards - zero on the first 6% of return and 25% above that. Try finding a modern fund that doesn't charge anything if they only make a 5% return. Your typical 2 and 20 fund would charge 3% out of the 5 splitting the real return after inflation approx 100% to the manager and 0% to the investor.
How the fuck do you buy something for $80bn with a plan to make a profit? If only I knew, I'd have gone to my local NatWest and asked for a loan.
Thank you for posting, I really enjoyed this video. What books or videos would you recommend to gain general knowledge about history from the Bronze Age to the fall of the Roman empire?
I'm saying that being fraudulent and deceitful is a bad thing.

Telling jokes isn't fraudulent in general but obviously telling a joke or pranking someone at their expense could be fraudulent and deceitful.

I didn't say "intent" didn't matter, in fact I said the opposite. Intent is important and when you are fraudulent and deceitful in your intent you are being unethical.

I didn't say anything about 'emotion'.
Seems to be a negative response to this deal re competitive implications. Can someone outline their theory of harm? I do some work in competition economics but am not American and don't know a lot about either company?
That's not a "right", that's a power struggle. What protects the brothel owner from being kicked out of town?
> A question is not a leading/suggestive question just because it "leads the comment"

That's a highly conflicted argument which I do not accept.
If you want a modern language with (optional) GC, with seemless FFI to C, and with almost C performance then you should take a closer look at Nim. Rust can learn a lot from Nim regarding productivity.

http://nim-lang.org
Sports is keeping traditional TV alive somewhat, but there are ways to stream sports online without a traditional cable / sat subscription, such as Sling.TV
Your kids might like computer science unplugged activities, they're hands on (no computer required) and can dovetail into some fun CS programming projects down the road:

https://code.org/curriculum/unplugged
I seem to recall a claim that companies no longer issue stock to raise capital. Instead they issue bonds, much the same way as a government or municipality.
Not necessarily. Many buildings including my own have rent-stabilized/controlled units that are still managed by the original owner of the building. The Board of Directors has little influence over these units.

Additionally, some of the people who have been caught AirBnBing are original members of the coop, so no vetting was required 30+ years ago.

Interestingly, instances of Airbnbing went down significantly after all residents were sent reminders that they could lose their proprietary leases if they were caught running hotels out of their respective apartments.
I, for one, am waiting patiently for Amazon Prime Burial ;)
You at least have some semblance of security when handling classified documents, right?

Nothing wrong with having a private email server, but having a private email server and being an idiot with it is a little different.

Though then again I kinda like more government transparency, so…thanks, HRC, in the weirdest way.
From what I could tell, it took a long time for the academic tradition of making the source available to work its way into the non-academic world. The academics were using UNIX and other mainframe/minicomputer systems, but non-academics at home didn't have much access to this stuff unless they got themselves an account somewhere they could access through modem. So everyone else was "raised" in the PC tradition, which came from MS-DOS and the 8-bit micros before it. There, there was a bunch of "shareware" and a bunch of freeware available on BBSes, but the whole idea of passing around source code so everyone could benefit or make modifications just hadn't even come up. I grew up on BBSes and the idea of having source code just never even occurred to me honestly, until I started hearing about it when Linux became popular in the early 90s. The first real open-source stuff (which was really Free software), which pushed it as a philosophy, had to be from RMS and his GNU project, but I never even heard of that until Linux came along, and I think it was mostly confined to the insular academic world before this. When Linux came along, the GNU project finally had a kernel and could be put together into an actual working OS, and at the very same time, the internet was really catching on outside the academic world (this is about 1992 remember), and the WWW was only a couple years away. I'd say it was the perfect trifecta: the already-existing GNU software and tools (glibc, gcc, etc. are really important for having a working OS and building stuff), the Linux kernel, and the new-found accessibility of the internet allowing global communication and collaboration.
I heard it resides in RAM and reboot clears it.
Car fan? I myself am a big fan of Porsche Doppelkuppplung.
Comcast had content via NBC Universal.
Thanks. I didn't expect this particular tool would work. I am diagnosing a performance issue on hosts using HVM virtualization (where instead of being better than paravirtualization, it is actually markedly worse); if there was a tool for a guest to on some level provide debug information for itself, I thought it may aid my investigation. Sadly, I suspect even if any such tools exist, Amazon will have disabled their use for all the obvious, managed, multi-tenant reasons.
Every IPO is a company issuing stock to raise capital.
Everyone has endorsed Clinton.
This is not a telecom merger.

Trump has many more businesses than just real-estate and his content competes with the content factory that AT&T wishes to procure (Time Warner, not time warner Cable the ISP).

Though he's already had a run-in with TWC (not involved in this deal but I highly doubt that would matter much to Trump).

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/lat-hh16-donald-...
I've seen this happen too. I'm actually under the impression that LinkedIn will log in to your email account if they can. They keep asking me to "confirm" an email address by giving them the password. Sorry, not gonna happen. I believe (without hard proof) that if Alice send Bob an email talking about Cindy, all three will be suggested as people they may know even if none of them have explicitly indicated such to LikedIn. Facebook apparently does some similar things, but LinkedIn is creepy in this regard. And remember, it could be that they didn't rifle through your email, but someone whose contacts include you. Oh, and I'm sure their "app" requires access to your phone contacts for the same reasons.
The problem with this idea is that it is illegal, and federal agents are much better at tracking people down on the Internet than they were even 5 years ago. So while I think a lot of us would cheer the vigilantes on, they would be taking a serious personal risk.
If, as suggested by the article, it's acrively telling you you're somewhere else, that's an order of magnitude more sophisticated than the alibaba jammers which truckers use to just stop their trackers.
Pretty ingenious workaround. Just a note to skip some of the first 'blind' section (installing openssh server through the desktop environment with no screen visible):

Ctrl+Alt+F1 still works in many distros to switch VTs to a text-mode terminal tty1, and likely also works without logging into the desktop. Ctrl-Alt-F7 to switch back.

From here, you should be able to login blind, then sudo apt install openssh-server (assuming Internet connectivity,) or kill whatever misbehaving process, or even restart the whole DE or computer.
Yea, but it's also plaintext. Super easy to tap, if I understand correctly.

Still, I prefer it to isps snooping.
We are heading towards a world ruled by Global Corporate Council[1] and we don't have Liber8 to resist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(TV_series)#Plot
> Campaign promises are more difficult to implement than candidates imagine.

Oh, the candidates know it damn well. But they know the electorate doesn't know it. So they lie their asses off because it's how you win when all the other candidates are lying their asses off.

Bernie supporters actually believed he could usher in universal healthcare, free college, etc. Trump supporters think he's going to build a giant wall. Johnson supporters think they're going to get legalized weed in the entire US. As if the presidency was a monarchy and the legislative and judicial branches didn't exist. (Clinton supporters ... well they're just terrified of Trump winning.)

We don't have the candidates we need, but we sure have the candidates we deserve.
Yep. :) Different usecase from what I'm working on; helix is for embedding Rust inside of a Ruby program, my library is for writing an HTTP service in Rust; so it will sit on top of tokio + hyper.
I remember the "porn" images from the BBS days. They were pretty laughable really, usually just pictures of naked women, frequently showing only their bare breasts and obscuring the rest. I think they were frequently just scans from Playboy, which was rather tame.

Compare to these days, where there's all kinds of crazy hard-core stuff available for free with a quick Bing search, in both still-photo and video.
> Nobody wants to stream the game tomorrow; the outcome is already known which makes it unexciting to watch.

Startup idea: neural-network-based filter for social media applications to hide any discussion of the results of a particular game until after you watch it. Bonus if it can also hide movie spoilers.
I've just updated the details with a couple examples. The goal isn't to tell people what to build, but to make it easier for them to build things. I figure, lower barriers to entry and watch the possibilities unfold.
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