skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some gems:

serves them right for putting up stupid comments like that on a public site where the world can see

At least the yanks have got it right.
If that was here, it would be completly different... they would be welcome even more with a brass band waiting for them at arrivals with hand outs, benefits and housing all sorted for them

Perhaps if they spoke or 'tweeted' to each other in proper English...........................
Or is it just me getting old? : )

No doubt that Twitter has replaced Facebook as THE medium for proving yourself to be a prime CHUMP....

How are Americans supposed to know that its British Slang. They did the right thing by detaining them as they believed they were a threat. The problem is that since Facebook, Twitter etc, people enter their whole lives on the internet, when 99.999999% of people really dont care. Its acutally good to see that America's Security is high that two ordinary brummies saying something on Twitter was picked up and they were questioned about it. Wish Britain had that kind of security.

Twitter/Facebook is not private, its public. Get some common sense people.

serves them right, the bloody idiots. what kind of morons post those kinds of statements ?

After the amount of people who died on 9/11, of course they are twitchy when it comes to intercepting perceived threats. Terrorist don't come with a big sign on their head! So if a couple of idiots who thought it was funny to 'joke' about destroying someone’s country on a 'public' network lose their holiday that's hard luck, but the US probably feel that, better safe than sorry, is the more important option. Not really for us to preach when we can't even deport those we know to be a threat!

This is terrifying. It's like Idiocracy!
I have to say that from the inside, we don't look all that attractive any more, either. Do us a favor and boycott us loudly - money's the only thing our government actually understands.
HTTP wasn't really intended as a file/directory transfer protocol the same though. The problems with FTP means that is fails at its primary function (unless you apply copious work-arounds).

Many moons ago in my younger days I wrote an FTP based file/tree synchronisation tool. I have since vowed to never touch FTP again.
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I suppose I jumped into an example I didn't fully understand--sorry about that :)
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Can't this be run from a 4 usd/mo vps?
The article seems to be more about how Open Source changed Microsoft than how Microsoft changed open source.

I do think Microsoft is doing many things that should be viewed as admirable around open source - they've opened up portions of the .NET framework such as ASP.NET MVC, they (as this article states) contribute back to open source projects, they support projects like Mono, and they started initiatives like the Outercurve Foundation. Most of the negative opinion about Microsoft and Open Source is really outdated. But I'd hesitate to say that Microsoft has had a signficant enough impact to say they've "changed" open source in any substantial way.
Web server is installed for the web control panel, which can be disabled afterwards.

I do like step by step guides as they provide a higher level of control, but after you've performed a setup like that 2-3 times, you start to lean towards more automated installs as iredmail or custom written scripts. So why maintain your own scripts when you can start with a ready made package.
He may have been replying to me by setting up a situation where hosting your own email would be beneficial.
If you're going to list Cuba and the Dominican Republic, you shouldn't leave out Jamaica and all the Lesser Antilles - I highly recommend visits to any of them!
He assumes nature needs to calculate Pi out to a certain number of decimal places. The flaw in that reasoning is base independent.
"I don't trust un-cited quotes on the internet anymore" - Gandhi
> Because a bunch of academics managed to create a collision after 2 weeks of trying on a beefed up machine? Really?

WTF?! Are you out of your mind? MD5 was exploited to falsify a real-world RapidSSL CA certificate... in 2008. MD5's weaknesses haven't been "academic" in years.

People reach for what they know, and most do not have the capacity to determine the security of cryptographic algorithms in any particular context. Getting them to stop using it at all is the surest way to get them to stop using it where it's critical.

> MD5 is much faster than SHA-2.

Largely irrelevant in today's world. Single-threaded, my two year old laptop runs over 125MB/sec through SHA256, and around 100MB/sec through SHA512. SHA-2 is not a major bottleneck.
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Like zero page in the 6502.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, banks team to wipe out phishing via DMARC.org
Memristors have the possibility to perform logic as well.
The evil unit test.
I'm a software guy in DC with friends in different industries, and I don't find myself talking politics any more frequently than when I lived in Boston. Something tells me that would be different if I was a staffer/intern on the hill though.

The author is a bit over confident in his opinions for me, but a summer schmoozing in SV sure sounds nice.
I wonder why people find this surprising. Groupthink involves substantial compromises so you end up with least-common-denominator solutions. Epics throughout history often talk about the accomplishments of Great (Wo)Men, but not of Great Groups. The idea that groupthink is more valuable is just a hypothesis.

The Nytimes had a similar story recently: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of...
Luckily, my illegal activities will never be discovered--I only use Diaspora, identi.ca, and GNU Social.
The Canadian side of the Falls is by far the better, anyway.
"even soccer moms in Starbucks with their toddlers were talking about the latest apps on their iPhones."

This is happening everywhere. My 64 year old mother in law from Florida loads apps on her iPhone.
Weightlifting. Starting strength, which is generally 3x5 (powercleans are 5x3 and deadlifts are 1x5).

> are you taking long enough breaks between sets?

3 minutes, timed on a watch, which is the recommended time.
Also worth noting that ST2 has a vim emulation mode, called "vintage" mode. IIRC it's just a native ST2 plugin in python.
Actually I am observing this news... and how the licencing for SQL Server will end up panning out.

Some people here still thinks that row oriented databases can compete in aggregation speed, so if I do a MVP it will require a lot of teaching.
I checked kimsufi, the prices look pretty good for the specifications, can you say for how long you have that one?
Selling is not an option for me. This service was offered for free for over 2 years[1]. If you rely on free services things like this happen all the time.

As I've mentioned elsewhere: if time permits I'll have a go at re-launching with a new back-end and subscriptions (hopefully Stripe will be available in Europe soon) for the most heavy users.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886875
The only thing mentioned in the interview is HipHop, which has nothing to do with distributed computing. PHP is slow and they're trying to make it faster because moving to a different platform would be too disruptive. That's how I'm reading it, but maybe you have more information.
The level of comfort using vim for a proficient user is very very high, so much so that it becomes difficult to switch out to other editors. I'm quite sure that textmate, sublime and emacs are perfectly good editors, but there's no way I could ever switch full time.

If you're a touch-typist and you become proficient in vim, the friction between thinking about an edit and it materializing on the screen in front of you is reduced. I think 'whoops, need a comma there', my hands move around a little without thinking and the edits done. Contrast this with move hand to mouse, click where you want to edit, hit backspace, type in new character.

IME this is not necessarily faster, just a lot more comfortable once you get used to it.

A lot of comments will say 'you can have vi-mode in <other editor>' but I've yet to see an implementation that covers the entirety of normal mode _and_ supports custom remaps, and even then the mappings would need an interface to its plugins before it approaches a vim-like environment.
Nice looking site. Keep up the good work. This inspires me to try Twitter's Bootstrap, too.
"A pain point even."

I wonder if that's because of the HR/interview/need-to-network thing.

Those on the more introverted side of whatever social mound you may want to define, are as good as, if not better at actually solving problems and producing results as those who network and team-huddle and facebook etc.

It's a "pain point" precisely because there's no reason a somewhat 'introverted' individual should be organisationally penalised for their personality traits when they 'bring the goods' regardless (or even in excess of requirements).
Yes they are quite schizophrenic and it is funny that you mention Simon Peyton Jones.

There are actually many open source technologies, whose development is done by Microsoft Research employees or mainly funded by Microsoft, Haskell and Ocaml being two of them.

But working for big corporations was taught me that they are quite schizophrenic usually.
I was talking to a friend about it and he was telling me that it is the "Best in the business at what it does." That is a scary thought.

To give more context, my grandparents asked me to help them "figure out" their new car. After a few minutes driving it, I told them I was in no position to offer them guidance.
This has been getting better. The platform-specific knowledge necessary to get a Heroku app running on Cedar is pretty much limited to knowing you need to put "heroku run" in front of your rake tasks or command line utilities, and perhaps 3-4 sets of arguments to back up a database, restore one, and restart your app.

Compared to the amount of knowledge necessary to effectively and reliably run a dedicated server, it's honestly pretty trivial.
I'm fairly proficient with both Vim and Emacs and I can feel it when I'm not using either editor. For example, I'm using a browser on Windows and I want to jump to a line's end. In Emacs (or on OS X which uses Emacs shortcuts), that's Ctrl-E and in Vim that's $. On Windows, I fumble with the arrow keys or start reaching for the mouse.

When you really know a fundamental text editor, that sensation of helplessness gets worse and worse when you can't use the shortcuts that are burned into your fingers.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, I suggest reading the StackOverflow answer "Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi."

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118
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And the webmail...
Ask HN: Vim Pro Tips?
Lots of HN users use Vim, does anybody have an pro-tips for the average Vim user they can share, to help boost everybody's productivity
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In an interview with Anthony Bourdain (Vice Guide to Travel) he mentioned that even in North Korea he is less worried about being picked up by authorities (than criminals). It usually just ends in deportation.

It's very easy to blow off incidents like this with a 'not much harm done' attitude. The truth is that a paranoia and senselessness from authority is what makes a regime like Russia or China and the US is quickly going in that direction.
OK, I'm the grandparent post and I'll say it. You can have a vi-mode in Emacs and it is called evil-mode.

Vim plugins obviously don't work, but there is a world of Emacs libraries and you can now extend your editor in lisp.

There are still some inconstancies that bother me (e.g. special buffers that don't respect vim shortcuts), but overall I'm happy.
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More like 9 20 USD/mo VPSes for the amount of sites I had and frequency of checking (and double-checking on failure). Some optimizations could have been done with regards to the implementation (moving from Python to Go/C which I have a POC of).
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I'm guessing you are being dowvoted because people think you are joking?

I am going to assume you are not American and that this is an honest question.

There is real culture difference between the large areas of America, north vs south, east vs west, etc. Now speaking as someone form the old world, America's cultural differences are still very small compared to differences between old world neighbors. Never the less, cultural differences in America do exist.

I'd say north/south is a bigger deal than east/west. And when ever I hear east coast Americans talk about California, it sounds a lot like how Europeans talk about Americans in general - optimistic, the world is my oyster, etc.
Has anyone else experienced the slowness the author described with Vim? I think it's possible he may be experiencing slow terminal update time (the OS X terminal is really slow in the scenario he described) instead of Vim being the culprit. MacVim, for example, doesn't have this problem, in my experience.
Yes, we'd all love to hire only geniuses, but what do you do when you put out a job req and no geniuses apply? Refuse to hire anyone?

Easiest: upgrade your language. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/how-any-softw...

Harder: expand your "social surface area" by going to conferences, because the best programmers find jobs (just as the best jobs are filled) through social connections before anything is "posted". You actually have to network a lot harder when you're hiring than when you're looking for a job.
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Some people often feel that the drawbacks of social interaction outweigh the benefits. Some other people feel the opposite. At one point both choose to believe that social interactions are or are not of high value, and through daily social friction it soon becomes a permanent pattern of behaviour in their lives. Usually all this happens unconsciously in early life, but as time goes on it becomes conscious why they choose this or that. So i believe in most cases it's a voluntarily accepted pattern, and it has binary qualities.

By the way, introverted people should not be stereotyped as living with their mothers, they are successful enough not to and, indeed most of them value their independence above all.
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For personal projects I set up Google apps to handle inbound/outbound email for an admin email. Then postfix on the server in a null client configuration for outbound email only (eg. no-reply) type registration emails and so forth.
I think he means there's SF, and there's SV, both high-density hubs, and inbetween there's a long commute of low-density areas (San Mateo? Don't know anything about it). Which is kinda true if you define Silicon Valley as the S.Clara / Mountain View / Cupertino area, they're about one hour apart from downtown SF and in rush-hour it will be more than that. Apparently he feels that NYC has an overall higher density over a larger area, i.e. they're more equally distributed.
As I mentioned in a tweet to raganwald the problem with this approach is that the object becomes opaque and can no longer be manipulated. ClojureScript allows you to preserve the dual use.
> My point is to remove the distinction between the register file and the main memory so that the entire CPU's working set is linear and no copies are required, therefore drastically increasing speed.

That has been tried several times before. As long as small is "enough faster", small&fast+large+overhead beats large. (In really fast processors, active register values are lots of places, so they don't even access the register file except for values that haven't been used for a while.)

> When you do this, you lose all the cache control latency and context switch overhead, resulting in a much smaller and faster core,

Huh? Context switch overhead is time, not space. Cache control is negligible space.

> leaving plenty of space for 32Gb on die :)

Not yet you don't. None of this stuff is as dense as dram and DRAM is just now hitting 4Gbit. Since fast processors do take some space....
While looking for the GNU true source code I found that raganwald has blogged about this earlier. His conclusion seems sound: http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/02/recursive-implementation...

The source code is in this Daily WTF thread: http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/3779.aspx
I would assume that there is a lag between when people invest in R&D and when people see results.

In 10 years if we see Microsoft and Nokia get there groove back, it will probably be a result of such heavy spending.

Additionally, 2% of Apple's income is far more than 10% of many other companies
Ok, it is hourly. At least according to this: http://serverfault.com/questions/197379/amazon-ebs-charges-c...

Sorry for the bother.
You keep saying that I've misunderstood that you didn't say anything that your words are implying but still failing to say what you did mean. This doesn't exactly help get your point across.

"I'm sure all those 300-byte images have the 37signals servers at melting point."

If that's not about stealing bandwidth then what is it? It's clearly sarcastic, by ordinary reading the point of the sarcasm is to downplay the idea that taking a small image from 37signals server is wrong; the justification in the sentence is that it won't cause a large harm to the 37signals server.

So, go on, what are you saying here?

FWIW arresting people for minor offences has long been a technique of law enforcement personnel when gathering evidence on more major crimes.

The "arsonist" that also stole a candy bar gives you an insight in to the psychology. They're not a person, for example, only driven by an overbearing desire to see things burn; they're also a thief besides. This moves to suggest the character of the person is to disregard other's property. You can make a claim of temporary insanity (or in the current case that there is no copyright infringement in using 37signals site as inspiration) but then you also have to address the question of the theft (or in this case the hotlinking).

I said:

"Your argument is basically the shoplifter's manifesto - the store is rich, I only took some of their stuff, it's barely a drop compared to their profits, etc.."

Which is almost exactly what you've said here. The arson [copyright infringement] is almost entirely orthogonal to the theft [hotlinking]. The actions have very little co-dependency except in the moral decrepitude of the perpetrator.
This isn't the first time the government has seen push back against draconian copyright legislation. Yet the MPAA pushes for more. So no they don't listen to what their customers want, and haven't for a while now.
Close call for open data policy in Ottawa
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I've actively avoided the US because of its immigration policy </anecdotal evidence>.
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Reminds me of Oracle licensing the Java Hello World: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/applicatio...
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Off topic: I hate noreply email addresses. Why not send it from yourself or customer services?
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We're professionals paid 6 figures or more. It's reasonable to expect we 'work' (study, learn) outside of the office.

The extra time, 10 - 15 hours a week, keeps you current. Would you want to visit a doctor that only put in 40 hours a week seeing patients, and never studies recent medical advances? Or a lawyer whose case law knowledge did not extend beyond their own experience?

If you work in tech and honestly expect to only put in 40 hour weeks for your profession, as you get older you will end up in a dreary IT department -- not a software company -- and eventually be laid off.
It'd be an incredibly interesting project to make desktop OSs and software run well on processors like this or Sun's T4...

My netbook pretends to have 2 cores, my notebook, 4 and the servers I deploy to have 40 cores pretending to be 80... Core count won't go down anytime soon.
Not understanding the mechanism makes this kind of research very haphazard. For example, his tennis example reflects something that many players already believe, namely that active interference from the conscious mind detracts from learning. (This dates at least back to the 1970s and Timothy Gallwey's "Inner Game of Tennis*.) What strikes me is that the author's mixture of activities would certainly serve the same goal of diverting conscious attention away from the skill being learned. Furthermore, constant conscious attention and reliance on short-term memory would always go hand-in-hand. So the article's observation about mixing activities, your observation about short-term memory, and the widespread folklore about avoiding conscious interference with learning could all have the same mechanism. Until we find the mechanism, we're stuck trying to recreate superficial aspects of these scenarios without understanding why they sometimes produce results. It's the very definition of cargo cult learning.