skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what this person is saying is that under something like the Nazis or Stalin, they would have cruised right along. That is what they are actually saying, and that's all they're saying. Saying "I don't have anything to hide" really translates to "I am so far away from any adult responsibility and intelligence that I don't even realize I should be hiding that.", and anyone over 20 still saying shit like that you can write clean off, as far as I'm concerned.
> in 2016 USA is arguably the most hated country in the world

Let's agree to disagree on this, based on the fact that there are a number of countries with active civil wars and/or genocides.
Quorum reads + writes and applying non-destructive updates only are enough to get linearizabile consistency in Cassandra, even if clocks are not perfectly synchronized.
Does anyone happen to know if any of these petitions have actually stopped a bill or caused it to be amended? Would be disappointed to think it's just a placebo.
> something commonplace like a sphere

How commonplace are spheres exactly? If I take a look around the office, the closest thing that isn't a ball bearing in some chair or whatever that I would find is an apple.
> RT started off as a CTA.

Pardon my ignorance but what is a CTA?
Helsinki becomes first city to provide MaaS (Mobility as a Service)
From https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....:

> As far as we can tell it would be impossible for Google to match the randomly generated Homebrew-only analytics user ID to any other Google Analytics user ID. If Google turned evil the only thing they could do would be to lie about anonymising IP addresses and attempt to match users based on IP addresses.

Look, by now Google knows my whole stack and what I'm doing with each project, and Homebrew using Google Analytics doesn't bother me much. I still disabled it a while ago and after reading "if Google turned evil" put like a remote possibility I won't turn it back on. There are two extremes in tech — paranoia about everything and magical optimism about everything. This is an example of the latter.

A corporation of Google's scale and relevance to different industries simply cannot afford to not be evil.

Doesn't mean they're absolutely evil and just waiting for an opportunity to partner with a hypothetical fascist government — just that you can't assume the best.
Wow that's a good point: in the era of false news, getting someone to visit a site that covertly logs them as having visited suspicious domains would be pretty trivial.

Just publish some really divisive fake news about Brexit and that'll rack up the UK hits on Facebook.

Christ, it's even worse than I thought.
My own personal opinion is embodied in the phrase, "You don't stop playing games because you get old, you get old because you stop playing games."

I'm fairly close to retirement, and have friends who are getting there (or retired already). I really enjoy programming, and intend to continue indefinitely; most of my friends tolerate it as a job, and look forward to not doing it when they retire.

So it's the old "follow your passion" thing, again, I guess... I have that curiosity about such things, they don't.
From my perspective, India always seemed like a better ally to the American people, Pakistan to the American military/intelligence branches.
3 times yes: "The latter is to be preferred when the distribution [...] is corrupted by outliers."

I am working in chemoinformatics, the main methods used by the academics to regress parameters have not changed in the past 40 years even so we went from small carefully assessed data sets (think 200 experimental points) to larger (10000, sometimes millions) with a lot of outliers from data entry errors, experimental errors, etc.

The end results is that when I see models of interest without the raw data, I reregress the parameters using my own datasets because most of the time you can barely trust them (even if coming from well known research centres).
That chart is net volatility over 12 months and ends at 2014. I wonder how more recent and granular data would look.
Looks like NCrunch is now built-in. I happily paid for this extension, which is now redundant. I hope MS paid the developers for their idea!
That's right, and in that statistic it shows that 66% of people arrested for fraud are white, which is not disproportionately low, and only 1% of those arrested are Asian. I mean from the raw numbers provided by the FBI it's impossible to conclude if there is a bias or not, since only a minority of the cases where people are arrested for fraud are high profile.
That will be the ultimate end game: whitelist of sites, all of them large companies controlled by the government. Either do what we require or be eliminated from the list. Even VPNs only work if the connection to the VPN is permitted.
I have come across his quote about convenience in many places, but don't have a specific reference. Perhaps The Google can help.

The other useful resource is "The Unicorn, The Normal Curve, And Other Improbable Creatures"
Satellites Confirm Sinking of San Francisco's Millennium Tower
Panama Papers: Cameron's father was Mossack Fonseca client

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35961422

We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/27/-sp-priva...

Employee is held on suspicion of ‘extracting confidential information’ from law firm at centre of Panama Papers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/15/mossack-fonsec...
The network to build your future
If Google (or any other company) don't know whether they should hire you after 6 interviews, I think that says more about them and their process than you.
>Microsoft you've got clout, make the deal.

Or "Microsoft, you've got the developers, code a remastered version."
By Jove Blake et Mortimer partent sur les traces du vrai Shakespeare
The length he goes to for this thought exercise yet he stikes fresh air.
Yeah sure, depends on your architecture and the kind of application ... in our case we had one machine scraping data and writing it in the database. One backend machine to organize the scrapers data and to do some organization tasks. And finally the front was two machines.

At first those 4 machines were hitting the database so much that it was the bottleneck, what we did to solve that was to reduce the number of accesses done by the front machines using a memory cache. It can increase the latency when loading the cache but works fine 95% of the time.

Another option for us could be a larger database machine, but we were using Amazon RDS ... believe me you want to keep that machine as small as possible or expend a lot of money :-)
Commodity Trading Advisor [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_trading_advisor
A VIM Cheat Sheet [pdf]
I can't see the video, but if you're referring to continuous testing then yes.

http://comealive.io/Code-Connect-Joins-Microsoft/
Maybe if Apple didn't take 30% cut off SaaS revenue just for signing up on an app, people would go mobile first for serious applications
Meh, I'm still waiting for an argument that is capable of convincing a larger audience. The problem with the threat imposed by privacy invasion is that it is just too hypothetical. It is near the bottom of people's problem lists, even below their "first world" problems.
Yet society somehow protected itself when terrorists learned from books and communicated via mail, meeting in person, and telephone calls.
One way to protect youself is by writing a program that sends random requests every few seconds to an URL of a database of millions of URLs. Then they will have to find out which your actual visits were and which not.
No need for a fork, if someone was willing to put in the time and money to maintain a private anonymous analytics server, the homebrew folks would be happy to use it.

Unless of course you are fundamentally opposed to tracking of any kind, then a fork is required. It is a fairly massive infrastructure to recreate however...
Some resources which were on HN before about Robin-Hood hashing:

About Robin-Hood hashing:
http://www.sebastiansylvan.com/post/robin-hood-hashing-shoul...

Rust's implementation of HashMap: http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/robinhood-part-1/
It defines the IP range of the devices on the VPN to be a subset of the special/reserved "private network" range [0].

More specifically it says that the VPN IP's are over the range of 10.10.10.0 to 10.10.10.255. This can be calculated from taking the binary representation of the specified IP and 'fixing' the first 24 (in this case) bits, the range of possible addresses is the range over which the last 8 (in this case) bits can vary.

It is common to also see a broadcast address, gateway, and network mask specified.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Special-use_addresses
During all history of mankind, wrongdoers were using "words spoken by the mouth" to do all kind of bad things. Yet I miss total surveillance of privately spoken words.

Even without total online surveillance, by the nature of computers you are leaving so many traces that full surveillance is not necessary to at least find something. And in countries without Big-Brother like surveillance, police often got good hints by searching the equipment of a real criminal. It is just not needed to include everyone. And even with encryption, you can often see who talked to who.

The "something" you are talking about is the following: good old police work. You have a reason to be suspicious? Search the guy. Just as police did the last hundred years. Just do not search everyone. Police work should be hard if we still care about citizen rights.
Done. And it's not so much that I care about how much they snoop on me, but more that I know how absolutely useless they are at storing all this data so it can't be abused by malicious parties.
It's undoubtable that [..] groups who would bring great harm to innocent people are using the internet for research and communication

They sure are. But are you proposing to cut off internet access for politicians altogether?
Indeed one way to devalue this information would be to swamp ISP servers with 'fake' data; hide our real activities in the noise. What we need is someone to release a modified versions of Chrome/IE/Firefox that spends all your browsing downtime accessing 'dodgy' sites. If everyone starting using it this information would soon become either impossible to store and pointless as everyone is a criminal according to the data.
Only on mobile devices usually. I had to opt out to look at the thinkpad wiki so you can see how well that works.
One of the greatest joys of my life came from a couple small changes that made huge differences.

I recommend trying these two experiments:

1. For one week buy no food where you have to throw away packaging after. I didn't think I would be able to do it, but it profoundly changed how I eat and view food. Here is my experience: http://joshuaspodek.com/avoiding-food-packaging.

2. For one week, eat no food where fiber has been removed. Again, it seems challenging, but once you do it, you see food differently.

For most of human history, there was no food packaging nor did our ancestors take fiber out of nearly anything. The experiments should be simple. Actually, they are, once you lose the modern view of food being a product.
Billions? Pull the other one. Someone is doing real work, these guys extract it as fiat tokens without adding enough value by a long shot, then they use that to get real things produced with real skill and effort, goods such as meat, wine, cars.

The system imbues certain players with monetary tokens far exceeding value added.
As long as the site uses https (reddit does), then the path is encrypted, the only part of the URL thing they'll have access to is the host.
How does it find which tests are relevant? How big can the solutions and test suites be before it starts to...not work?

I have a decent sized project (100 projects, 10k+ tests, different suites with longer running smoke tests that take hours and so on). How does it know which tests it can run, and how does it know which will cover a certain line?
Next time someone says they have nothing to hide, ask them for their bank code, or why they're wearing clothes.
> It's a hard thing to solve too, the darker and colder it is the more energy people need (light and heating).

I believe peak electricity use is during the bright, hot summer when everyone needs to run the A/C.
I'm not so sure.

There's a lot of gov.uk stuff running on non-gvt gear these days thanks to GDS; (aws, skyscape, others on gcloud) -- the problem with how that's gone though is while they're actually running in "the cloud" and tryig to do things more 'modern' the architecture has to be accredited by a bunch of GCHQ folks who apparently are totally insane yet you can never actually talk to. And so you end up only being able to build what looks like a 2000's datacentre arch with 500 /28 vlans and weird IDS appliances and so on, otherwise CESG won't let you hook up to any of the data-sources you probably need.

In that style arch, where you can't just provision things and changing even a netmask requires your whole architecture to be re-accredited otherwise you'll lose access to the PSN; what possible benefits are there of running in the cloud?

It's more expensive, needs constant oversight from accreditors and generally sucks.

The legacy gov DCs are a shitshow too; but that's down to people like capgemini and ibm or whoever and well, fuck them.
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I thought the same, bit of an NCrunch killer there. Code style looks good - both welcome additions to the IDE.
To correct him on one point, the UK will have access to the common market(no one disputes this)

What he is actually talking about is MEMBERSHIP of the common market(which likely requires free movement of people).

Currently it is unlikely the UK will keep membership as it seems a trade agreement is the preferred option.

Everything is up in the air and anyone who is sure of anything is either lying, misinformed, or deluded.
What happened to integrating the Alive extension? MS bought them, shut it down, and now they're not adding it to VS?
I don't understand why every single discussion about China has to touch this issue and this is the first thing people do when they visit China.

Do you talk to Germans by starting off discussing how Hitler killed millions of people? Do you talk to Japanese people about WW2 and how was the experience being bombed by nukes after saying hello? Do you expect non-US citizens to start talking to you about the massacres of indigenous peoples of the Americas during the first meeting?

You don't go to a country just to re-visit their dark history. Regardless of how bad the censorship is, that is just rude behavior. Show some respect first, if you are really interested, make friends with them, then talk about it, they'd be happy to discuss it with a friend but not a stranger.
Collecting all that data is harmful simply because it can be assumed to be hacked at one point or another. Massive potential for misuse by criminals or authoritarian governments.
That is always the danger of building a business around filling in holes in other people's products.

NCrunch is far from the only continuous testing runner. I've been using the one built into ReSharper lately.
Thanks @alexdumitru for pointing me this. I implemented a basic flood control (https://github.com/josephernest/talktalktalk/commit/43877bd1...), and now such a script doesn't work anymore. Of course you can then do another script that would automatically reconnect after being kicked out, etc.
Is there a tl;dw (too long didn't watch)? 12 minutes can probably be combined into a few bullet points which is far closer to my attention span.
We were bought out by investors and this is their major initiative. I assume it is to reduce long term operating costs.
For http sites they have access to whole url and everything that is submitted, for example all commments you write.

For https sites (green lock icon) they only know domain name, for example reddit.com
NCrunch is a different product, though. It also does continuous testing, but Remco Mulder hasn't been acquired by MS, as far as I know.
I quite agree - that doesn't stop it from being an emotionally exhausting experience.
> Why do the Food Standards Agency need access?

Here's a nasty example of where this is going. Agencies will be able to compile "watches" on searches across the UK.

The Food Standards Agency will have a trigger for anyone that searches for "Salmonella" for example. They then cross reference the source IP address to any restaurants. Then they march in there and close it down.
What a ridiculous comment. The Chinese Communist Party has not found an "equilibrium" - it imposes it at gunpoint. Freedom of speech does not interfere with economic growth, it underpins it!
Buying only food without packaging seems to exclude a lot of things to which our ancestors had access. Eggs and dairy, meat, noodles (unless you want to make your own flour from bulk wheat), any liquids...
There is no technical solution to such a problem. There is only a political solution. Either force government to change politics, or change government.

Some background of why I believe this. I grew up in communist East Germany (GDR) and lived there for 27 years, until - yes - we changed the government. Trying to change politics beforehand was not so successful after all. As you may know or may not know, that state was based to a good extent on the soft terror of broad surveillance. In the 70s and 80s of the last century, to achieve this a lot of human power was needed. Nowadays, surveillance can mostly be based on technology. I'm much concerned - given my life experience - about the trend over the last years to undermine democracy in the name of saving it - all over the (yet) free world. At least I know how a society looks like, that is no longer democratic.

The technical solutions like VPN or whatever are similiar to what we called "inner emigration" back in the past. It was a widespread phenomenon in that society. But only once many people have stopped this kind of hiding, and have publicly stripped off their fear, the system began to tumble. In the end, all the surveillance could not save it. They did know what happened and they could not stop it, simply because the people did not play their game anymore.

That petition mentioned here elsewhere is the right way. Sign it if you are a UK citizen. I'm unfortunately not, but I would do it now.
There are a bunch of companies with memristor based products, HP is just the loudest about it.
True. Anyone know if this new IP law allows the gov to do this? I.e. if they tried to prosecute and it came to light that the logs were obtained using a MITM attack, would the evidence be nullified?
MarketplaceStack is a collection of tools for online marketplaces.

We found that many marketplaces are facing the same problems. Instead of building everything from scratch, there are a lot of solutions available to put to use. So you can focus on what’s core to your business.

Made to shamelessly plug TalkJS without you noticing :)
> Or you could become a junior sysadmin right from the start and treat music production as a hobby with no intention of turning it into a career.

I know a couple of people who did just that. ;-)

I was slightly shocked how much money they invested in synthesizers and other equipment, but it was clear they did this for the fun without any intention to make a living from it. And other people have expensive hobbies, too.

Incidentally, most of them were actually sysadmins or programmers. ;-)
Okay, then. Sign the petition and do something else.
While I expect this issue to blow over, you are right that defending the CEO's actions by saying he was "frustrated" or it was a prank or whatever else is ridiculous. Imagine the CEO of Google editing YouTube comments.

I don't know if these analogies are totally apt or not, though; it sounds like the CEO here is also a moderator of a forum and may have edit privileges by virtue of that; it's
not like he's executing SQL queries to rewrite the comments in place, I assume, he's just abusing "editorial" powers in pretty much the worst way possible (quietly changing content to say the opposite).
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I know, I said continuous testing not NCrunch.
I didn't know about this.

Serves me right for running it via cron I guess.
Disclaimer: I won't claim to have read the law or even caring about what happens in the UK.

From reading related articles, I get the idea its requirements can be implemented in terms of a browsing history, which could point to a date in the internet archive for all the legislator cares. Hint: that's how you compress browsing habits for > quadrillions of requests.

I don't see why one would need complete packet traces of the whole thing.
Also, complexity is hard. And even harder to do substantially better than competitors.

Maybe I'm biased, but I can count far more company fortunes that were made doing a simple thing (at the right time) than a complex thing.
It's been wild following Andrew for so long. What's really interesting about him is that his blog gained recognition quite early and he was already featured on HN[0] before graduating college. Watching his growth has been fascinating as readers of his blog "grew up" with him.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5085915
I love this!

We all come from different backgrounds and may never have had the chance to brush up on the best-practices of the updated code. I just bought a book that's about 1,600 pages long on the latest ASP.Net framework. Interesting stuff there, but it can be daunting to learn.

I love how Visual Studio is moving towards suggesting best practices for their languages with these new features. Not only are you going to write more solid code, but you'll also can improve and update your skill-set in C#.

I think C# is a fantastic language, and the more I learn about it the more I want to code in it. Its beginning to be less of a "means to an end" and more of a very solid tool for productivity code. I can't wait to use this new version of VS.
Create 291 days ago | parent | on: UC Berkeley profs lambast new “black box” network ...

Transparent monitoring for your protection

In keeping with this spirit, here is a reminder of how we monitor (your) CERN activities. We monitor all network Traffic coming into and going out of CERN.

Our new analysis infrastructure will be able to cope with the automatic live analysis of about one terabyte of data every day. All this data is stored for one year.

http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2016/05/News%20Artic...
Oh I wonder what will be on here other than climate change, bio-engineered plagues, and... oh, it's just a left wing fluff piece.
The next step is obviously for machine to go search for their data themselves.

You could have an app in smartphones that would detect criminal activity, so they could collect global data on actual criminal activity (bias: by people having smartphones with them).

So you'd need to have little autonomous robots following and watching every human being, and detecting automatically criminal activity, and then they could share their data and now machines could learn unbiased.