skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are peer-to-peer sharing options that have tried to do this (now and previously), but aren't widely adopted in the face of bit torrent.

Most private trackers are using the same pretty dismal PHP bit torrent tracker libraries/servers that work with mysql or sqlite. It would of course be possible to replicate these or do something as simple as cron jobs, rsync, etc., but that's not often the real issue.

The larger issue is the legal aspect. Most of the time a big tracker is taken down, the owners are known to authorities or don't want to risk being known, even by association. As such, continuing the same site, even under different management would put them at risk. If I remember in the case of what.cd and a few others, they put out notices saying they intentionally nuked their databases for this among other reasons.

If for example a big site shuts down and one of the members spins up a new instance, the fear is that the original owners would be liable. It doesn't matter if this holds up or not in court or is even a real thing, merely the threat of it is not worth the trouble to many people. Not many people want to sign up to go to jail or deal with financial threats because of sharing movies or music.

Distributing the database doesn't solve the legal aspect. In fact, distributing the database might be seen as more ammunition to threaten the original site admins as being "enablers." So in theory what you are saying makes sense and would be a good idea, but in the face of reality and human behavior, it is much harder and more than a technical issue.
I think you should feel that things are done frequently. So decompose big things you want to do into little, viable things, and do one little thing a time. So you can feel that you are successful every time, it's great, then it's more likely that you can continue.
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Udacity's CS253 "Web Development"[0] taught by Steve Huffman does exactly that. It uses Python on Google App Engine and Jinja for templating.

It starts from the basics. Tackles forms, handling requests and parameters. Cookie handling and authentication. Hashing (on which he even shares a bit of Reddit history: they didn't hash passwords which allowed them to detect spam accounts using the same password, but then Murphy's Law hit and the laptop was stolen and the database with it). Indices, joins, etc..

He discusses Reddit's architecture evolution and why they made the choices they've made given the context, etc. Sometimes, it boils down to "we chose it because that's what we knew". Other times, "we chose it because we hated the other thing". It's fun to hear him talk about this.

The course is pretty cool and the subtitle "How to Build a Blog" is an understatement. There was no stress on writing beautiful code or something, but the message is clear.

Another course I'm looking into is Stanford's Startup Engineering CS184 by Balaji S. Srinivasan and Vijay S. Pande. It has been discontinued. I just did a flyby and it's pretty much what you're talking about (they do both "big picture" with their reading list (Thiel, Graham, Andreessen, etc) but don't shy away from getting down to "viewport" and CSS, setting up stuff on Heroku, talking about tmux. They apparently did a lot of "why" stuff).

In my opinion, much of learning is done as it would be in a physical system with non catastrophic consequences: doing stuff, analyzing phenomena by the changed quantities and state/side effects, deducing the governing laws. You learn much about CSS from inspecting elements and changing stuff then reading MDN, than from the opposite. The first gives you something to anchor new knowledge to as opposed to starting with a setting that is too formal and abstract..

I mean, even doing Physics one can't be so exact not to approximate and neglect the influence of something at some point and just do a basic thought/physical experiment.

[0]: https://www.udacity.com/course/web-development--cs253
can we talk about the action/filter hell, the mess that is wp_query and the hackish way to get structured data integrated in wp (see acf for example)?
digital agencies loves wp, and you will always get to use it in a non blog way with messy plugins and themes, and this is a pain.
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See also: the mess that was Sita Sings the Blues. EDIT: I mean the copyright issues, not the movie itself obviously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sita_Sings_the_Blues#Copyright...

http://sitasingstheblues.com/faq.html
> 1) Where do we have nukes in Europe?

Close enough to "everywhere" to say everywhere.

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1597489/us-now-likely...

"Obama was referring to the roughly 200 B61 nuclear bombs that the US has deployed in five Nato nations stretching from the Netherlands to Turkey - and a Russian arsenal estimated at 2,000 tactical weapons."

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB11...

" ... The same goes for tactical nuclear weapons: compared
to the momentous issues that the East and West have
tackled since the end of the Cold War, the scattering of
hundreds (or in the Russian case, thousands) of battle-field weapons throughout Europe seems to be almost
an afterthought, a detail left behind that should be
easy to tidy up."

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nuclear+weapons+in+europe
Lisp is awesome, but I think you're doing it a disservice by comparing it to XML, which is a technology that was derived straight from Satan's bottom. Lisp is elegant. XML, not so much.
That's because Saudi Arabia isn't an adversary of the United States that seeks to undermine our democracy. It's not an issue to people who grasp the fact that not all Arabs and Muslims are our enemies.
We ran into this at our house. Queen box-spring went up the stairs fine. A year or so later, we re-build the stairs in wood, including the bannisters. A few years later, we bought a new bed, and the old one wouldn't come back down, so out the 2nd level window it went.
No idea but from the one time I've looked into the code base I'd say that if it takes any modification of the source: very dificult unless one of the code maintainers is interested. Honestly, go take a look it was very scary. That's why I switched away from WordPress. A friend and I got attacked by some bots that did some emailing through our sites. After that I switched off and he did some intense web-admin work to make sure "it was never going to happen again" (tm).

NibbleBlog was drag and drop. My friend went to hell and back to fix these exploits. WordPress has more features but also more ins-and-outs to learn. The choice is up to you if it's worth it.

Also from what I remember NibbleBlog stores JSON files and doesn't use SQLite in flat-file mode. Very handy.
Yes, that would have been even better. It would be nice if every person had the resolve to react like this.

"She didn't do anything to defuse the situation" implies that she could have handled the situation better. As per the story she was shocked, intimidated, and looking for somebody to help her. It's not her duty to "defuse the situation". She was not the one escalating it in the first place.
Can I ask if you run a business yourself?
This is exactly the reason why I'm building Pragma (it's a static site builder with client focused UX) http://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/
Why not: one crew builds great P2P software, another uses it?

I mean, I do feel like we're ready to start jailing/extrajudicially punishing people just for writing software that the copyright lobby/intelligence community doesn't like, because it makes piracy/privacy more accessible, but it'd be a first for someone not involved in actually commiting piracy to wind up in the sights of the copyright lobby.

In the Netherlands everyone has to pay a premium on CD's and DVD's, "for rightsholders", which goes to some shady copyright organization which distributes part of the money to top-40 artists. I don't think "copyright tax" on all storage media is a much larger step, nor do I think government-mandated DRM is. Not having "the right to tinker" like we do now already comes pretty close.
> How do you proof that you didn't get a spot to speak at a conference because your equivalent work was valued slightly lower by some organizers, especially when the organizer was not aware they were making gendered assessments?

The way I read what ESR wrote, if you have someone that has a demonstrable history of technical contributions (or per his second point, other interesting factors that make the person notable), then it's objective information that can be used when saying "wait, why isn't Person on the schedule?" Evidence is strong and interesting; identity politics or accusations, far less so.

> How do you measure people who decided not to engage with a particular community due to unnecessarily adversarial technical discussions. Especially before the background of women not interrupting men at nearly the rate as men interrupt women. This has nothing to do with the technical merits of what is said and everything with who gets to speak.

This is back in the realm of anecdotes. Men interrupt men. Women interrupt women. Vice versa. Some people are jerks, often on accident. ESR is talking about open source culture and, for most participation in it, people only know about your physical identity what you offer.

> Whenever you measure these things using science you find that gendered behaviour is absolutely pervasive.

If you can link provide actual evidence and not the kind of poor-method pseudo-science that comes out of gender studies, then I suspect this would fall into ESR's:

> If you pass all these filters, maybe you have something to teach me, and maybe you’ll get to see what I’m like when I am righteously pissed off because hacker norms have been violated in a serious way.

> This is an important achievement by the way. The fact that overt blatant sexism is almost universally condemned is after all what makes the charge: "That's sexist!" so problematic.

Speaking from my perspective, and not ESR's (or speaking from/to his article), this is where I think evidence and dispatching of witch hunts in tech is important -- give evidence of _real_ sexism in tech and we can fight it together. If it's constantly trying to blow something out of proportion for personal gain or is something entirely without evidence, "that's sexist!" is going to start falling on deaf ears.
This comment was in reply to a now-deleted comment which ended with the statement: "The bigger problem is figuring out how to curate all of this which is more widely published than every before. Also, it's not crazy to think that today's copyright laws see some major revisions in the next few decades. The Internet has changed everything since just 1980 or so, and these are old laws that need reworking."

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Unfortunately I'm not sure I can feel the same optimism. Copyright law has long been beholden to corporate interests. For them, it's only fine if it keeps getting expanded indefinitely. The more restrictive the terms, the more likely that others will have to license their works and the more they can bludgeon any offenders.

Your view is really tied to the present day, but what about all these works that aren't available on computers that need to be desperately digitized? I think we already have a natural curation mechanism: something popular and important gets reproduced in some way; it gets quoted, adapted, tweaked. Those are the works that need to be prioritized, but in doing so we might miss out on undiscovered gems or things whose importance will only be apparent in hindsight. Also, storage is cheap nowadays, we can easily just keep everything, index it, and let others sift through it later. (one example is the Internet Archive, we won't know what role these stored websites could play in a few decades like the Geocities archive)
And you even made a new account to post this, how cute.
Right up until the Capitalism Über Alles Republican government gets around to repealing it, probably in six months or less.
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The whole picture of the Internet, this is hard to get. Technologies are good to learn, but abstractions of the real world, this comes from one's experiences.
Are you just complaining about a lack of introspection to get around access controls? Friend classes are better for encapsulation than introspection is.
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New to this space...I have too many passwords to manage, and I'm no longer comfortable using the same password for multiple services.

I know in order to sync my set of passwords, they'll have to be stored centrally on another entity's server. Is this the usual case? Are these passwords going to be decrypted on the client only?
Looks a little bit an ASCII-art Deathstar. I think I see where a direct hit could set off a chain reaction....
Sure. It doesn't mean you shouldn't be aware of the calorie density of all of your food. 100 calories of olive oil looks very different from 10o calories of carrots.
It's best not to try and draw metaphysical analogies from s completely unrelated system of laws.
Volume denominated in what? If you are looking at volume denominated in BTC then in an environment of rising prices that means your volume is actually going up if the volume stays the same.
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What you're describing is block coverage, which is only one of many types of code coverage that exist. By itself, it is rather limited in the types of issues it can discover.

There are many other types of code coverage, including branch/conditional coverage, state coverage and so forth that provide much greater depth of coverage that developers should look into using where possible. The Wikipedia article has a good introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_coverage.
I personally prefer to pull that type of functionality out into a private function. I think it makes the code easier to read.
Don't basically all genetic algorithms rely on "random chance," or some simulation of random chance, to simulate a mutation rate?

And haven't biologists, in recent years, emphasized the degree to which evolution relies on mutations and genetic drift? That was my understanding of the way the field has been going, anyway.

Saying that evolution as a whole is just "random chance" seems reductionist, but randomness does appear to be involved.
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A strike would not be limited to not working, right? They could block the roads and so on.
No, actually the Ulam Spiral is something else, a simpler spiral to create. Still, I too recommend the Wikipedia page.
I'm not a fan of PHP as a language, but anyone who denies it hits a sweet spot for deploying applications is seriously confused.
This was the main reason What being shut down was so distressing. Only source for a lot of music in FLAC.
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You can make a perfectly stable IR from that Kaleidoscope example in no time and still avoid tying yourself to C++ish LLVM. I'm not sure how big of a deal that stability thing is though, you still have to cover everything with tests, so who cares if it breaks a bit in future releases?
One of the great things about WordPress is the plugin ecosystem. This is also a something of an achilles heel, especially when it comes to security. WordPress seems to attract a lot of lowest-common-denominator coders who create plugins. So while the WordPress core is now pretty solid when it comes to security, the various plugins are almost never coded to the same standard.

I have to wonder if WordPress added a small cost and verification system at front, similar to the app store, if third-party code would be of higher quality.
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What are the effects of eating that many apples in a day?
Good drone.
Get bar staff/security.
I learned Chinese at my best pace by watching Chinese TV streams while practicing calligraphy over and over, as well as studying vocabulary and grammar with the streams of Chinese TV in the background.

Chinese TV sucks. I paid no attention to the ctl+c-ctl+v plots. However it did help me learn tonality in a way that the butchered American classmate pronunciations could never do. Subtitles also helped with learning characters.

I have found that learning works best with as much immersion as possible. It is never as casual as a subway commute crossword puzzle.
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Awesome. Signed up for the beta.
An alternative would be for plugin authors to achieve a Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Badge, which is free and shows a commitment to secure coding.

https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org

Disclosure: I'm the co-author of the badge at the Linux Foundation.
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Yup, I'm aware of this and should have mentioned it in my comment. Thanks for the follow up.

As an aside, how often do the tz databases for each language get released? Are they usually responsive to notices 3 days out?

Edit: I went looking into the pytz release for the Cairo example from parent.

Olson Timezone Database:

Release 2016f - 2016-07-05 16:26:51 +0200

https://github.com/stub42/pytz/commit/03a4e9b31dd90f3dace1eb...

Pytz:

Release 2016.6 - 2016-07-13

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/2016.6

So even if the tz database is up to date, there's no guarantee that various library usages of the tz database will be correct for these kinds of changes. Interesting.
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They sexually harassed someone? That's violence.
This. I had programmed on and off for awhile, never anything big, until I started doing it everyday. Now it's part of who I am and the way I think, kinda crazy.
Excellent movie, btw, for anyone interested in animation/myth/music and intersection thereof.
This isn't exactly relevant to the OP, but, what's wrong with XML?
My one paragraph comment was simply pointing out,
something you failed to address in the grandparent's
comment, that power structures once enacted tend to stick

I don't know what point you are trying to make. I really don't think you do either. Yes power structures attempt to keep themselves in place (which is indeed towards their own ends).

But this isn't just true of a union.

It is true of any government, company, VC firm, bank, school, sports team, etc. This isn't an attack on a unions. It is a condemnation of the entire system of organization the human race uses. Which I point out by relating this to the work of Max Strirner as he does levy this full criticism in a logically consistent fashion.

I am addressing the point the parent-N poster is making. Their point is moot.

Either they're stating there is a fundamental issue with all human organizations. Or they're just being biased towards unions making a No True Scotsman logical fallacy to support their argument. As are you as well.

:.:.:

they've structured their rules in such a way that you can't vote, then
it should be fairly obvious that they're structurally not interested in
representing you

This criticism is out of scope. And logically inconsistent.

It can be applied to any representational democracy where the majority of members do not vote (USA for example).

This is the exact same logic the DNC uses to explain why the RNC is racist (it suppresses the voting rights of minorities, QED it is not structurally interested in representing them).

I literally addressed this issue in my unions are flawed statement. Yes I admit they aren't prefect. They aren't always interested in representing all of their members. But the company is interested in far less.

You are also refusing to qualify all members.

The main restriction is to prevent part time uber drivers (those who Uber driving isn't their sole source of income). And very new Uber drivers (if Uber paid people to manipulate union voting).

This makes complete sense. Why would a full time person who depends on Uber be interested in helping a guy who only drives 2-3 hours a month?
Is that a rhetorical question? Of course yes! More seriously, international tribunals always present a difficulty from the law standpoint. "Presidents" always arrange their country to not sign international treaties and dodge international penalties (e.g. Singapore has never signed treaties against torture). Of course Nuremberg and Tokyo trials could be viewed as a farce by exaggerating the doubts, but they're extremely widely legitimate. Legality without legitimacy also happens: The Hague tribunal is legal but its legitimacy is criticized because it only attacks African presidents. Being legal is the bonus that brings a mathematical proof to a decision, but being legitimate is even more important.

In a parallel fashion, WWII's Prisoners Of War (POWs) were renamed DEF by the US ("Disarmed Enemy Forces"), to dodge the Geneva convention about POWs, and some were badly treated (The Wikipedia page has a discussion on the numbers – see "Other Losses").

There is no such thing as black and white.
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Yeah, solr- the UI is custom. The real work is getting metadata that gives good signals for quality :)
That or they wanted to privately short a lot of stocks...

Note that their promise not to push for an injunction holds little meaning, since if a transcript or recording was passed on to some corporation not so pledged, that corporation could still press for the injunction. The way to be discreet is to be discreet.
They could if they wanted to. Do they want to? If they get him to the U.S., they'd have to deal with him.

I don't think they want to get him because it'd dramatically limit their options and possibly set a precedent with far-reaching consequences (is he a traitor? is he a hero? what does it mean to be either? is the public ready? how well would a pardon be received? if they pardon him, who else would they have to pardon? what does it mean to leak sensitive information? what does that mean for cases of espionage?)

Why address the elephant in the room when you shouldn't have brought an elephant in the room in the first place? Just let the elephant where he is.
i liked Pi a lot, but the thing that nagged me is how any name that could ever hope to be spoken be represented by 216 digits :/
Uber breaks the law in mnay countries in Europe, I guess the fines for breaking it are not expensive enough for them.

Maybe we should set the fines according to company assets.
I am not saying it is a golden goose. I am saying it has potential to be. If he wants to work at his own pace, then all the power to him but this path most likey wont lead to anything but a hobby project.

He can't expect others to not want to push for greater git mindshare. Gogs is licensed under mit and he has absolutely no say in how others want to evovle it. This is how permissive licenses work.
I have to do another post on this.
http://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.1974668
This has been a pet theory of mine monkeys hearing is not very good below 8khz, down as much as 60db in the 4khz and below range where human speech primarily resides. Maybe they are basically hard of hearing in our spectral range? I wonder if anyone ever thought about making a special hearing aid for them to boost the low frequencies. Or maybe move the human speech up to their range (they can hears as high as 45Khz while humans cut off at 20khz). Maybe you could teach them to speak but it would be super high pitched and another device could shift it back down. Like a frequency up and down converter.