skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also it's coming from social sciences, a thing most of the people nodding in approval would be extremely skeptical (and rightly so IMO) especially if it was opposing their beleifs - at least that's my impression/my initial reaction. Confirmation bias is bad.

Still I think most of us are also repulsed by the inane "brainstorming sessions", forced "teamwork", etc. and that's an important point, I work best alone/when I'm not getting distracted.
Great. Now I just want to know how did this happen and what measures were taken to prevent this from happening again.
This is just a small data-point, but I was seriously worried about visiting the US based on what I'd heard about customs and immigration there. And this is from a white 'middle-class' male living in London with no beard.

I ended up visiting anyway (I really wanted to research Philly Cheesesteaks, Maine Lobster and see the colours of the New England Autumn/Fall), but I definitely thought long and hard about it and was apprehensive.

I also made sure my medical travel insurance was solid.

Now, maybe I live in a paranoid white-male bubble that reads about this stuff, and that informed my apprehension, but I personally think it would turn off many, many people from visiting.
I wish I’d convince a serious hacker to bring things to the point where
<?d writeln("Hello, world!"); ?>
could be inserted in a web page.

OMG!
That's not a good thing, it's just a cumbersome pressure release-valve to try and stop real change happening.

The public version should be automatic, automated and centralised and available for commercial purposes too. Relying on busy academics to do web admin busywork is crazy.
> Also don't forget that rsync does not overwrite a remote file until it's completely uploaded.

which is really troublesome when you're transferring a big file and the target doesn't have enough space for a second copy of that particular file. I, for one, would prefer that "feature" to be optional.
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For those in Singapore (or neighboring countries), try ExpertVM (http://expertvm.com/).

I have been using them for hosting small Django sites and running SVM classification without any issues. It's cheap if you want to have a VPS to play around with different OS-es (you can reinstall a new OS via the control panel).
Gotta love those "CPU slices" that ensure you'll never dream of touching those "unlimited" limits.
Rackspace UK's cloud offering is pretty much a VPS with a nice API - it works well and is cheap.

Brightbox.com also do good options for UK based VMs
would love to hear your thoughts on this, right here
I am an happy Quickweb (http://quickweb.co.nz) customer.
They are cheaper than Linode and they have some nice micro vps offers too.

They are also providing hosting services to LEB (http://www.lowendbox.com)
If you have trouble imagining possible answers to that question, then only your unfamiliarity with the world is at play, not a lack of responses.
Well, that depends on whether he meant when we gave black people the right to vote on paper (after the Civil War) or when black people effectively got the right to vote (1965). I assumed he meant the latter ;-)
Oh yeah, silly me, I had forgotten about that. However, probably a couple of specialized instructions or storage areas in cache or register may make it a little more easy to use.
What would be a cost efficient way of doing the same? Any ideas?
I would have thought it would be evidence tampering if they did delete the data.
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This Developer's Life is probably the best podcast I've ever came across. I've been listening to it while running for the past 2 months, and yes I listen to it over and over again, because it is just that awesome.
.co.nz (New Zealand) doesn't sound like a reasonable alternative for Europe.
Linode also has London-based servers...
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Reddit now has more credibility than HN.
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This is actually my first post ever on HN. It is in fact not very often that I post anywhere on the interwebs. But I have to speak up.

Can. We. Stop. Posting. About. Fng. Text. Editors.

Please.

Imagine a room where you teleport in computer greats (in no order of importance, and I am probably forgetting tons of worthy people in my pang of internet angst) such as Gates, Torvalds, Ritchie, Thompson, von Neumann, Knuth, Turing, Carmack, ..., Joy, Berners-Lee, Babbage, Stroustrup, Dijkstra, Norvig, Moore, Noyce. I don't think these guys would start talking about text editing, so why should we?
I think this is just changing the way the younger 'facebook' generation think, posting becomes less personal and more about how you like to be perceived. Those of us that grew up without facebook embraced it as a nice way to share personal items with our friends.

Now it seems more of a PR stream, people staging photos for facebook, carefully updating status's knowing that a wider audience can see.

For me timeline represents facebooks focus on a single identity that you control, rather than representing who you actually are.
I've used Gandi for a few years on one project. https://www.gandi.net/hosting/vps

The price was right at the time, and they have a few basic cloud-style features (so not just a barebones VPS provider.)
From one of my Linode 512's in Fremont I get 89.0MB/s running the "test" in this blog post.
The good thing about janus is that it also provides a simple framework for customizing your plugins, even if you change all of the original settings.

I've made my own fork (https://github.com/darthdeus/janus) and basically removed 90% of the default plugins and settings and repalced them with my own, but I still use it for the Rake task and nice directory structure.
America sucks more every day. It truly amazes me how far it's fallen in the past 20 years.
Don't know about all religions but some began with clear use-cases. To retain (or even achieve) power over people. For example The Old Testament was written/compiled for this very reason[1].

1. http://books.google.com/books?id=iS7rQwAACAAJ
So, aside from the discussion around the journalistic standards of the Sun, now the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring the twitter accounts of British citizens?

Furthermore, how did DHS match up a twitter handle with a passport number?
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What difference does it make to use "sudo su" ?
Their servers are in the US, UK, and Germany. http://quickweb.co.nz/supa-vps-plans.html
I left the country in 2008, and I'm wondering if I'll ever go back. It's only gotten worse since I've been gone. It's almost to the point where I'm not even sure I want to visit any time soon.
yep, being able to jump to a date in the timeline is a good thing, but the weird collapsing and 2-pane layout is much too cumbersome. its actually a lot more usable on the iphone when you just have a single stream of posts.
First of all: I didn't claim that (although, yes, maybe that kind of got implied). [1]

But I even think this practice is useless. They just sent my password in cleartext. It sits now in my inbox and I have to delete it or I store my unprotected password. And - for what exactly? Does that serve any purpose? I just entered it a second ago.

So I question the usefulness of that approach and consider this very first contact unprofessional. YMMV and all.

1: Just tried the 'Forgot my password' dance and it they don't retrieve it at least: Received mail with link to site which sends a mail with auto-generated password to log in. A bit weird, but well..
Where can I get an account on this Tweeter website...?
futureVPS (KVM), based in germany: https://futurevps.de/
People talk about what's important to them. For some it might be proving that SVN is stupid (Torvalds?) and for others it might be proving that one editor is superior to others (SublimeText 2 obviously </sarcasm>).
Yes I use my car weekly and learned how to do basic repairs.

I also learned how a TV works decades ago when reading about Philo Farnsworth.

The other items I don't use so I tend to not know how they work.

I didn't start out to learn how to be a web developer, I just got curious how the web pages I used every day worked. Even yogurt has a list of ingredients on the side but "view source" is essentially gone from modern browsers.
relase?
Ask HN: Is it possible to semantically analyze code for design patterns?
I have been recently introduced to the importance of writing clean, maintainable code.

Even though I have studied Design Patterns and have read books on how to go about it, I find it difficult to recognize patterns in code.

I have been told that this skill improves over time of reading and writing more code. The question is can code be semantically analyzed on the fly to

1) Detect duplicate code

2) Detect design patterns

3) or taking it one step further: Suggest how to go about refactoring

Are there any tools which already do this?
No, but it does mean that anyone who's able to view your traffic or your mail box content could've seen the password (anyone controlling any router or a mail relay between you and them, or your mail service provider, or even someone with tcpdump on your LAN segment).
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I left in 1997, and haven't visited since.

You get used to it.
as mentioned above, futureVPS supports KVM (but they're in germany).
Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/p2vnl/wade_not_in_unkno...
CloudSigma is in Europe, and has a little lower barrier to entry compared to Linode. I'm on the lookout for an even cheaper solution. Virpus seems to be almost too cheap, so where is the catch?
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I know that for me everything I'm hearing has dropped the US quite a bit on my "places to visit" list.

To be fair, I realize my impression is probably slanted because of the origin and type of foreign news I'm exposed to.
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I'm on the EC2 free usage tier and having no problems for my minimal use of a VPS. For just playing around and testing stuff, it's great.
Were you going for irony?
I see this site being used heavily for phone support, and in that case your method - although perfect for email - won't hold up.

What'd be great is a a-z0-9 unique code that's presented on each load. Then the user would only need to read me that code, I could go to the site and enter that, and immediately see all the details that were stored for that user.
Take a look @ VR - http://www.vr.org/lg/ you can ping+trace test etc from 11 locations, including 3 in europe.
Sure they are, they don't like piracy just as much as the movie makers. Their lobby arm, the ESA, was pro SOPA just like the rest. They are a bit more fractured about it, but big budget games are closer to big budget Hollywood than not.
Oops. Sorry, my lack of knowledge of the US history is showing.
Oh yes, I can't imagine a room full of professionals talking about the tools they use to get their job done.
2020 is going to be an amazing decade if we have this before this one ends.

100 cores @ 1.5ghz with only 55watt power draw?

As long as they get almost the same done in a clock cycle as arm or atom cpu, this is going to be mind blowing.
a lot of europe.
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Yeah, but I think most of their work "around PHP" is more like "distributing computation to a larger scale than before". So the language doesn't matter that much, they've hit and overcame many fundamental problems that no other stack would have solved for them.
Interesting link. However it doesn't solve the security issues caused by non-volatile unencrypted system memory. I guess custom hardware could encrypt/decrypt the data going trough the memory controller on the fly.
It depends on how intense the workout is for me. Did I just completely exhaust myself? Then no, I can't really think on that level. Did I just do a light to moderate workout? Sure, I can code and perhaps even better than before.

I also find that my hydration + carb levels prior to workouts matter immensely. If I'm somewhat dehydrated and I do a heavy cardio session, I'm a mess afterwards - I can't focus, can't think. Same with carbs - if I am carb depleted, I'm just no good.

Protein after a workout always seems to help me recover faster.
I tried it. It is good. It supports lists, with checkboxes, and completion ([1/3]). It supports some links.

It does not support tables. You can not reorder entries. It does not support code blocks. You can fold, but you can not narrow (i.e. all headlines stay there, but content is folded away). Your favorite keyboard shortcuts are not there (though you can change that easily).

As much as I like Sublime Text, I am more productive in Emacs.
I really liked wasitup, so thanks for providing the service for this long.
And if you want to reverse engineer Chuck, have at it.

Not being facetious -- this is what streaming aggregators like Netflix and Hulu are doing by buying and producing their own content.
http://alertfox.com/free-website-monitoring/ (free 5-min monitoring)

Disclosure: I am the founder (on the other hand, this means I can assure you that the free plan is really free and we have no plans to change that).
Take a look at rsync's "--inplace" option. I think this does what you want.
Learning a new tool is learning a new way to think. It always pays off.
>So, you'd redistribute power in a way similar to the way taxes (are supposed to) redistribute wealth.

Is that really what taxes are supposed to be? (Genuine question) I thought they were a levy on businesses and personal income in a sovereign region used to fund the governance, infrastructure and societal needs of that sovereign region?
As if anyone read the ToS.
You can do it at home. For me and other hardgainers it's actually recommended that you do short, intense workouts, where you can scream and gasp without worrying that you are being ridiculous. It takes up very little time and the feeling is incredible. If you need to lose weight, i would recommend biking.

Think about it as a way to improve blood circulation to your most valuable organ: your brain.

You might find this guys' videos fun: http://www.youtube.com/user/scooby1961?blend=1&ob=4 ; He sounds geeky enough to be trusted
Hear, hear.

It also bears mentioning that virtually nobody understands what it actually means to be "introverted" or "extroverted." Introversion does not necessarily imply social awkwardness, nerdiness, or even shyness, per se. Rather, to be introverted is simply to prefer fewer or smaller social activities -- not out of a sense of being unable to handle such things, but out of a general preference for less social stimulation.

Popular (mis)usage, especially in the US, presents introverts as somehow flawed or unwhole, while extroverts are properly adjusted -- as if the standard is set by the extroverts, and everyone who falls short of that mark lands somewhere on the Autism spectrum. (It's reached the point where many people these days are afraid even to describe themselves as "introverted," lest others assume they're somehow damaged).

It's time to do away with such nonsense.
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single-system-image too!
If your threat model includes hostile mail relays, you probably shouldn't be using bargain basement VPS providers.

Password-reset emails are also easy for an attacker to generate, and no harder for them to intercept than the welcome email.
The US spend a very large portion of the 20th century being significantly freer than most other places on earth.

Certainly not perfect (especially not if you were black, Japanese, gay or communist), that would be a silly claim, but freer.
The site seems very fast, so good job. Without being able to see a non-obscured application.js, the javascript gurus here can't be of much help. The cloudfront is doing a good job with the caching, but you could shave off 10 HTTP requests by doing a sprite of the background images (just like you did with sprite.png, although the download.gif could be moved in there too.)

I love seeing developers raise their hand on HN and say "I did this!" And kudos to you the project so far!
You may want to look at some static code analysis tools for 1 and 2:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_static_code_a...

From my very limited understanding, the powerful ones are seemingly only in reach for large enterprises [1].

With regard to number 3, In C# and Java, resharper/IntelliJ has partially automated refactoring tools. I'm sure similar tools exist for other languages.

However, I think going down this route is substantially more work unless you are inheriting a code base. I would aim to learn some of the design patterns basics[2], perhaps read "The Algorithm Design Manual" [3], and aim to have a clear idea of how to design your latest algorithm from the offset.

[1] - http://semmle.com/solutions/what-we-do/index.html

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns

[3] - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skien...
If you are refused entry to the US, they take a statement and give you a copy. It looks like this is that statement.
Why is SPYW default? Why does Google anti-competitively fill it's search with preferred results for it's own services?

More than likely, you won't notice the change in what you're working on.

You're presuming you'll find something inexcusable, but it never works that way.

You boil the frog by starting with room temperature water.
People should have control over their creations long enough to make it worth the effort. I might as well go do something more profitable if I can't make a living from my own creations in the way that's most efficient (licensing). Encouraging creation is the point of copyright. We shouldn't throw the whole system out just because a few rogue organizations are abusing it.
Folks lets remember something, unlike some regimes the USA admits it makes mistakes and corrects them.. sometimes you have to wait along time..but in contrast to a non-democratic republic there is no equal in terms of a gov/democracy that changes to become better.
I've thought this myself before. My rationalization is that most of the commenters are also regular readers - probably disproportionately regular, as they return to read replies to their comments - and so generate a disproportionately large numbers of page views. The sites are scared to turn them off lest the commenters stop returning, hurting ad revenue.

Would be nice to hear from anyone who can confirm or deny this hypothesis.
You have reminded me of the guy in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, who got struck by lightning for 7 times. Pessimism never helps.
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The article only touches briefly on the flaws of brainstorming and group work, but there was a recent article in the New Yorker by Jonah Lehrer that delved deeper into this issue and some of the research behind it. (unfortunately only available to subscribers http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_...) Surprisingly there is decent amount of research indicating that brainstorming is actually less productive than everyone thinks, however the article diverges slightly and explores the history of a few places like Building 20 at MIT where many people from different backgrounds were forced to mix due to the adhoc nature of the offices, etc. Of course I think he referenced another HN favorite, Richard Hamming's classic "You and your research."

It seems that balancing "quiet brilliance" and "keeping your door open" is probably something worth keeping in mind.
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This could be my story, even though in the end (after Textmate, then Vim), Emacs tempted me more than Sublime Text and I eventually switched back to it from Sublime Text 2.

There is too much accredited awesomeness in Emacs (and to a somewhat lesser extent, Vim), to be overthrown by a newcomer. That said, Sublime Text is very worthy competition and given a few years, it might actually live up to those two dinosaurs.
I cannot agree more. I deleted my facebook account.
'Ucas chief executive, Mary Curnock Cook, highlighted that this year's application figures were against a background of a demographic dip in school leaver numbers. When this is taken into account, she says it shows a fall of 1% in the application rate in England, "with little change across the rest of the UK".'
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No way to chroot users to their home, generally finicky configuration (way too easy to give users shell-access by accident), no bandwidth throttling or other advanced ftp features, rather limited logging/auditing.
Can only speak for their dedicated servers. We have one there for almost two years now. Excellent price for the hardware you get. Had a few support requests (nothing hardware-related), all answered in a few minutes. Very good control panel too.
Know a few people using their dedicated boxes for quite some time too. All happy. :)

Recently we leased a Kimsufi/OVH dedicated box with ProxMox installed. Similar price (without setup fee) and it's been running without an hiccup. Had to make a phone call to support about a billing issue (my mistake) and it was immediately resolved.

From my experience, it doesn't get much better quality/price wise than these two, in Europe.
They do. SPARC64 has hardware contexts. Technically, the architecture wouldn't require this. A process's state would be a mapped linear segment of memory so you can have as many contexts as you can fit in RAM. There is no need then for traditional "save everything" context switching. You just move the CPU's execution context to a different area in RAM and the context is there.
I think even more importantly than using a VPN in some foreign country, I would start by not joking about 'destroying America' so they wouldn't have a reason to bother me. Then again I have no intention of ever visiting the States again. It is sad that as a Canadian I feel threatened by our proximity to our neighbors to the South.
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This headline is misleading. Article is about, "How Bill Gates changed Microsoft's perspective about opensource software.".
Well, clearly titles like this one sell a lot more..
Best part of the documents is that they say he posted these things on his "tweeter" account.

Worst part is that these documents exist in the first place.
I've used their cheapest monthly VPS for about 18 months. Provisioning was excellent, uptime also. On the one occasion I needed support they were responsive and my problem was solved promptly. Web-based console access a nice feature.

They experienced a break-in a few months back. Communication to customers was clear, timely and reassuring. (All companies experience problems at some point, it's how they react to those problems that is important. Hetzner's response was very good).

Some small amount of their site/documentation is in German. That's not a big deal (google translate or whatever) and generally it is only the more obscure corners.

Disk size might be limiting on the cheaper offerings (20GB / 7.90 EUR).

I have not experienced the "heavy firewalling" mentioned elsewhere in this thread but I haven't tried putting any serious traffic through it.

Overall very positive.
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Do you think this will be a driving impetus for the move from SATA to PCI Express connected backing stores in consumer hardware?
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