skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also just "google" for the headline to read the entire story....
Code for America and Philadelphia launch Textizen - Citizen feedback via SMS
Uhoh. Dan Shipper's web-based business (http://www.airtimehq.com/) has run into a serious namespace collision.
Israel has an excellent Supreme Court which has stopped behavior like this in the past. From wikipedia:

The Court has ruled on numerous issues relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the rights of Arab citizens of Israel, and on discrimination between Jewish groups in Israel. It is unique in that its rulings can intervene in Israel Defense Forces military operations.

Most Israelis are equally ashamed of this. This isn't what your tax dollars support.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Israel
I didn't find that, with the PC version. It decided to reorganise everything automatically after an iTunes update. I couldn't trust it again after that.
Open Garden: Share bandwidth; reduce network congestion—if carriers don't revolt
I came up with a simple idea that will demonstrate when web-apps can compete with native apps.

Replace notepad.exe with a webapp. Let it launch by double clicking on a .txt file. Let you edit,open..., save, save as..., print, exit etc.

If you can't do everything notepad.exe does, your platform is crippled.

By all means allow protections so that this behaviour isn't available to every app, but without those basics I'm not interested in using them, and it is certainly a blocker for me to be developing them.
It would be great if people could speak from experience, rather than citing "Pool.com, Namejet.com, Snapnames.com"
GOD BLESS AMERICA.flv
Yes!, but you realize that, ONLY once you have the money to make those problems go away.
The catch is that when you can control every pixel, you have to control every pixel if you don't want things to look crummy. Scrollkit is going to have to overcome that in some way if they don't want it to get stuck as the MS Paint of the web.
This just sounds like an attempt to keep individuals of certain backgrounds out of a country. Ask a lot of invasive information and then refuse them entry. Entry information such as this should be aggregated in to travel warnings given about a particular country to minimize wasting a citizen time & money.

Stories on how foreign countries treat privacy are important. American companies, in some part, have turned places like China in to zero-privacy zones that would have left George Orwell's head spinning.

The post-FB generation of start ups should take very hard lines on privacy and build tools that employ obfuscation & client side decryption. For example, when logging in from an unverified sources (or foreign IP), the email account could reveal only commercial email.

Sadly that isn't what is happening. Just today I got a pop up for Dropbox containing a pre-checked box to "Automatically import when removable devices are connected." Import what? All photos. Sorry if I don't want to store pictures of my girlfriends naked in my Dropbox account.

By the way, what country is known for harassing Americans at their border: Canada. I'd rather travel to Mexico in the middle of a drug war.
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So you're saying if someone were pointing a gun at your family, and you also had a gun pointed at them, you would refuse to use it out of a belief that you occupy some moral high ground?
My point is more that the directory structure on Unix is seperated from the physical disks.

For example, you have a computer with 1 HDD and you upgrade it so that there is now 2. On a Windows computer you are going to have to explain to the user that their "my documents" folder is now on the D drive whereas on Unix you just map the second disk to /home and they can be none the wiser.

The next logical step is to have a system whereby you don't even need to wrangle fstab, you just throw hard disks and cloud storage at a computer and let the OS decide how to balance it all.
Hard to say. Maybe not much, due to the environment and the skin affect- high frequency electricity tends to flow near the surface of a material. This isn't a van der graff generator though, it can still produce a significant current, and is potentially (probably) lethal. It probably won't hurt, again due to the high frequency. The aftereffects would definitely hurt though.
Probably. I think Airtime originally came about just from seeing Chatroulette's initial wild success and traction. He and Fanning saw an opportunity to do it better. Then that idea got some validation as Chatroulette filled up with pervs and imploded. Which is the big problem Airtime solves.

But beside that, it's a pretty obvious next step for the world's largest social network and I'm sure he saw that early on. As did Google with hangouts.
Doesn't grounding the networks essentially return the atmospheric charge to the state it would be in if there were no networks?
I don't mean to appear to be playing fast and loose with the facts. Certainly, the NSA tapping exchanges is a different issue than whatever restrictions the government has placed on itself when issuing NSLs for message metadata.

The fact is, message metadata is enough. I have friends and acquaintances that have been harassed and detained by officials based on their names appearing in contact lists of other suspected-but-not-charged-with-anything individuals. We're not even talking about evidence of actual communications such as message headers or metadata.

The fact that they can (and do) pull thousands of people's message headers and have access to the communications graph and traffic frequency without ANY JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT WHATSOEVER means that their ability to conduct state-sponsored extrajudicial harassment is way out of control.

It truly doesn't matter if NSLs allow them to get the body of the messages or not. If you're on the radar, you and everyone you communicate with regularly is a target. There are no legal remedies for this sort of stuff anymore.

If you do anything of import non-anonymously, you can expect to have your hardware stolen and never returned (under the guise of a search), your travel impeded, your accounts inaccessible (google "civil asset forfeiture"), your social network harassed and detained similarly, and your access to legal remedies hindered in every conceivable way.

A half-dozen examples known to me personally come to mind immediately. I'm sure there are more that I don't know about.

The threat is very real, and trying to split hairs about whether or not "reading your email" means message bodies or just headers is not productive.
You don't have to play with your friends all the time. Might as well go 50%/50%.
Good info. Did percona fix the load nulls ticket?

(LOAD DATA INFILE has this ticket from 2006, that,sometime during the 2000's was converted to a feature request

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=23212

I think that's why my load does

FIELDS ESCAPED BY '\\'

but it's been so long i can't remember (at this point a lot fo folks would mention Postgres, but i'll refrain
How CSS Handles Errors
You assume that people agree with me. Most people are far more interested in security than freedom. Which a valid choice so long as that choice is made for them alone, and they don't make it for me.

I don't have the speaking skills to convince the world of this, but coming of age after 9/11, I have seen first-hand the awesome power of fear.
I'm not a "meater" and yet I like imitation meat. Maybe a fake hot dog on the rare occasion. I concur with everything else you said though.
If this data is primarily archival and there are multiple backups of the same dataset out there, why not use MyISAM? In my mind the only reasons to use InnoDB are integrity-related, things like real foreign keys and a more ACIDy commit method. If the dataset is read-only and copied in several places, surely this stuff does not matter too much and MyISAM is much more performant. Maybe I misread the use case?
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TBH my general health has improved after I stopped giving a crap about rules and regulations and just eat when I need to not when I want to. Determining between want and need is the hard bit.
The file system is basically a simple abstraction: store data in a tree structure.

The broader topic is how the tree structure can be 'disrupted' by less structured data organization and what are the territories where the tree structure (or at least a very strong (hierarchical?) structure) seems to be the right abstraction for most people.

For example let's take written communication: A Word document, a non-fiction book, is a tree structure. A wiki, or the web of tweets is not. The web itself is not a tree (web directories did not work out) while some parts of it (some websites, some webpages) are tree structured.
I don't even know my e-mail password (1password) and I don't take my laptop with me on trips, so I guess I'd be in really big trouble.
TBL's proposal reminds me of OLPC Bitfrost, which blew me away in 2006 (?) when I first read about it (and OLPC was still hot.)

I don't actually know what became of it--unfortunately, I didn't yet get a chance to play with an OLPC device, and after they forfeit large parts of their vision in favor of a Microsoft-based solution I admittedly lost some of my interest--but at any rate, looking over the Bitfrost spec again today I think it is still relevant, and fairly close to what TBL has in mind:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bitfrost
You can also just click on the icon in the top right corner of the page to disable it.
This is probably the reason I will never buy an idevice. The very first app I downloaded on my Android phone was a file explorer.

I can't imagine any other way to interact with data than as individual files in some kind of hierarchy. What is iTunes but a specialized file browser that happens to have a built in music player?

The need for a single, general purpose program for performing actions that are generic for all files just makes sense to me. Say I have a bunch of pictures, a few albums, a movie and an ebook I'd like to share with my mom. Do you really think it would be easier to open four different applications, which probably have four different sets of "sharing" features and four distinct user interfaces? Or to just copy and paste from my hard drive into her thumb drive?

Speaking of which, is this actually a problem? I don't know anybody who has difficulty with the file/folder metaphor. And it isn't like I just hang around technical folks. I know lots of people who could use a "computers for dummies" book.

Which makes me think the real "problem" with file system behavior is that it facilitates file sharing. If people forget they have a disk drive filled with files, and think instead of their "iTunes multimedia blob", then the FBIAA can just lean on MS and Apple to "program out the piracy". Brilliantly evil.
Absolutely yes we will. This is tech we are talking about, it just yings and yangs endlessly.
The PKI is broken, and I bet a lot of client SMTP plays fast and loose with certificate checking anyway, even if it wasn't. DNSSEC can't come fast enough.

It helps against passive adversaries, but if someone's got access to the sending mailserver's network there are active MITM attacks that will probably defeat this.

Option 1: Try doing MITM and sending a self-signed cert for Google. The client smtpd may accept it anyway. (Cost: free)

Option 2: Spend resources to obtain a legitimate intermediate CA cert, and issue a valid cert for Google's mailserver, and MITM with that. (Cost: ca $25k-$100k, maybe less with proper connections.)

The only thing worse than self-censorship after assuming an insecure channel is a false sense of security.
And Diablo 1 was nowhere near as addictive as Angband.

Which I'm playing right now on my Android phone...
Be honest about your skills. Don't try to over-inflate your skillset, the interviewer will be able to tell.

Try to make mention of the fact that you are loving every moment of the learning process that you started a few months ago. Generally, people who consider hiring novice programmers are looking to help grow that person into a lean, mean coding machine, so if you appeal to that fact and tell them you're in it to learn, they'll love it and you should have a higher chance of getting the job.

Otherwise if the company is looking for someone with the know-how from the get-go, your only chance would be to nail the technical aspects of the interview, so study your ass off!
I started eating vegetables without salt many years ago, and once I got used to it, they don't taste bland to me at all. Even the regular grocery store ones. Of course, if you get homegrown organic ones, they are way better - but even the grocery store ones still have a lot of taste, unless your taste is ruined by years of training it that vegetables should taste like salt. I actually hate when more than a trace of salt is added to the vegetable salad - then only thing I can taste is the salt, it overwhelms everything else.
"MySQL Partitioning. We decided against it because it seemed likely that it wouldn’t be much faster than our current solution."

What if you partition by HASH(user_id) instead of partitioning by month (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/partitioning-hash.htm...)?
>it can instead mean being allowed to take more time on a test

And is also widely abused for the same reason. In 2010 OFSTED (the UK govt school inspection agency) found that nearly 1/2 of the 1.6M pupils that were assessed by schools as ADD/Dyslexic/special-needs showed no sign at all of any condition. But did allow the school to either ignore their poor exam results in performance tables or claim extra funds for teaching them.

Similarly there is a statistically odd large increase in the number of children suddenly diagnosed as dyslexic/ADD in their final year at UK `public schools` (= private fee paying) - just before they take final exams - allowing them extra time, the assistance of a teacher or to use a laptop to write essay answers.
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I've never customized it so I have no idea whether it's a scary mess that sort of works but not really because you're taking it outside its comfort zone, or whether it's all pretty easy. I guess I'll have to play around with it some when the time comes.

Thanks!
New Willow Glass is rollable and paper-thin
Stuff that has to do with Israel, Microsoft and vulnerable internet systems doesn't really go well with titles like "Coolest Thing to Happen"
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Poorly drawn US map detracts greatly from your excellent effort.

For example here's how the state of Michigan should look:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NvbQgmBVvV4/TyGBIIw0a5I/AAAAAAAAA5...
Chad - thank u for writing this up - ITS GRAND!

Congrats on the newest member of your family.

MLK talked of the need to have the "spiritual audacity to assert our somebodyness" and that is what u have done beautifully here - thank u

best wishes with love, life, work, and doing good

peace

patti
If there is a 10% chance that carpenter ants are destroying the structural integrity of my house I am double fisting the raid cans...
DAU, from their Form S-1:

Daily Active Users (DAUs). We define a daily active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or took an action to share content or activity with his or her Facebook friends or connections via a third-party website that is integrated with Facebook, on a given day. We view DAUs, and DAUs as a percentage of MAUs, as measures of user engagement.

Source: http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/00011931251203451...

When I first heard the stat, it was before FB Connect and Like Buttons had launched, and it seems to remain consistent today. The data seems to suggest that most users who use Facebook Connect or Like buttons will also visit Facebook.com (web or mobile) that same day. They do have a note saying that there may be mobile applications that drive daily activity automatically without active user intervention, and it may impact their measurement by up to 5%.
True, which is precisely why Color was able to raise what it raised.
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The option was disabled by default in Firefox 12 and earlier; it is enabled by default starting with Firefox 13.
Rarher, I think they were saying that it would be prudent to be skeptical and cautious of anyone attempting to impose draconian laws or practices under the thinly veiled guise of "the british are coming" -- er sorry, "the baddies are coming".
I can't downvote so I cannot say.

But my theory is that while you provide some good information both your format and tone are not really in line with people here.

I took no offense coming from a hacking perspective, as it's normal to be fairly caustic. But this is merely called hacker news, it's mostly for startups related to the tech industry.

I only come here for the occasional papers and such, but little programmatically is learned. I even asked for employment advice at one point and it was probably the slowest and least visited ASK HN that day, despite some person of "i need handout" quality having a very popular one the same day.
Your observation is insightful - the article is a blow by blow sportscaster-style rehashing of the "action" in a blog post. I think you may have discovered a new literary form.
No, you didn't, but we all knew you were talking about Hetzner. One company, selling consumer-grade desktop parts unfit for use in a production server, in one country, does not lend credibility to statements like you made. Neither does the NYC site with no info, no SLA, and again, desktop parts. It's something like saying salary isn't important to startups because labor costs in China are pennies per hour.

It's 2012 for god's sake, and 32GB RAM servers are still hundreds of dollars a month to rent from any first class data center.
The paywall wasn't up when it was posted.
The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz)

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596516178.do

Know the fundamentals.
Cloud and IT are not mutually exclusive. The roles they provide are so different I can't at all see why anyone bothers to makes this apples and oranges argument.
That's funny, I'm the opposite. I'm generally unlikely to sign up for any site or service that makes me create and record yet another username/password combo.
Gas and oil are very slow to be regenerated. wood takes significantly less time. I wasn't clear enough originally; I really meant neutral with a short cycle duration.
OrangeSoda: About that AMEX ‘Debacle’
Ask HN: Building a new web app, lots of content, what to use for database?
I expect the site-traffic will be fairly high, decent amount of db writes, medium amount of reads (most pages will end up cached). I have experience in SQL but not in setting up the infrastructure to build scalable SQL database architectures.

I am considering Redis and MySQL. Not too keen on Mongo or Couch and Cassandra seems overblown for my needs. Currently planning on using MySQL and figuring out the optimization stuff as necessary. What are the cost/benefits as you see them? If you were approaching a new project such as this what would you consider?
Did you give a tech preview here? I remember seeing a similar site that used CDs and other similar items for calibration ...?
I would love to be dis-intermediated, but everytime I've tried committing to "cloud" technology (and other innovations) I've loved it and the people I work with have hated it. Here's a list of things people don't get:

1. Cloud-based backup. It's insecure, bound to be hacked - never mind the encryption, teh haxxors can get around that stuff! So we're back to tapes and DVDs before you know it.

2. Virtual machines, but only if I make the mistake of telling them. It gives some people the willies for the same reason as (1) above, plus the supposed problems of a "shared" server. Also, if a server is outside our firewall they think it's less secure.

3. Google mail. They prefer Exchange for reasons which remain a mystery to me. I hate Exchange, love Google Mail and everything that comes with it. Even using Gmail via Outlook is mysteriously deficient for my colleagues.

4. Google Docs. Being able to collaborate on-line is not a very big benefit. The familiarity of MS Office is.

Things which do work:

1. iPads. This is the machine which will put me, an IT tech, out of work. Hasten the day.

2. Dropbox. Simple paradigm and works with the iPad.

3. All the clunky, difficult-to-manage, badly-designed software they've been using for years and have come to love in all their ugliness. It makes me weep.

The thing which will change this is the arrival of younger, more IT-literate people in the workplace. I have no problems at all with the under-30s; all the problems in the world with people older than that (not all of them but enough to be a permanent drag on progress). The simple fact is that these people will even shy away from something as superb as MailChimp's or Google's admin interfaces: too many buttons! They always get me to do it for them, and I will have a job in IT for as long as I want it.
That was what was great about Diablo 2. The storyline was fairly subtle, but the whole time I felt like I was really a hero struggling against the forces of evil, following this path of destruction and being scared of actually finding hat I was looking for.

Yes I read the D3 storyline, and I think you're a bit mistaken in how it happens.

The humans (nephalem) are offpsring between angels and demons, but their potential power was too much, so the Worldstone was used so that each new generation of humans would be progressively weaker. Since you killed the Worldstone in D2, and some time has passed, some humans have regained nephalem powers.

The question becomes: how does every minor character know what a nephalem is? how do they know it's all powerful? why does everyone have so much faith in me to defeat the evil that has pretty much been uncontested forever?

D3's story makes me feel like I'm Superman, born to save the world and everyone knows.

a good read: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/10/diablo-3-the-story-so-far/
No. Low-carber thesis is that raising intake of fats suppresses appetite so you can eat what you like until you are full. The idea is carbs keep you hungry because of energy partiioning and so you over consume calories because you feel hungrier than you should. Taubes explains this very well in What Makes us Fat.

His main claim is that the energy balance problem is a consequence of getting fat, not the cause.
> small

That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
(I've heard people say "My dad would be offended if I cooked him dinner and there wasn't any meat in it").

I love meat but I wouldn't be offended if somebody cooked me a meal and there wasn't any meat in it. But I might be a little offended if somebody cooked me a meal and there was fake meat in it.

Fake meat is like wearing a mask with my mother's face on it and expecting me to pretend you're her. It's not that simple.
Ha! I don't think its your English that failed, its mine...

Now that I agree with. The ui tools are not first class though they're improving slowly. There's a ton of power in there but one hits a lot of speedbumps on the way to building good layouts that work on many devices.
I see that "non sequitor straw man analogy" is the special on the menu today.

So, to be clear, I'm not saying anything about guns pointed my families. I'm talking about people's natural right to privacy and the overreach of government. These two things have nothing to do with each other and your attempt to connect them is both misleading and disingenuous.
Regulation on Poker On line
Who knows what should be or not should be included in a national regulation for Poker On line in a South America Country
This. There are no real advantages for Apple to do so and it would only lead to a less than ideal (or great) product.
Is this perhaps VC Vinod Khosla's stealth meat startup?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/09/13/vinod-khos...