skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok. So the "hidden service" is not intended to be anonymous then? Just as a check to ensure that the user knows they are on Tor? Because, in order to be the first seed, you will generally leak your IP. If not, what steps have you taken to make sure the first seeder (the host of this service) are anonymous?
His first example is round robin DNS. Sorry, but the terms DNS failover and round robin are often used interchangeably when you're dealing with business continuity.

Yes, certainly there are other options that increase the complexity, but why not start there? While the impact to users on shitty ISPs or behind proxies is unfortunate, it is relatively easy to implement and low-cost.

Going beyond that increases the complexity and cost exponentially and is certainly not easy.
These are all solvable problem, therefore reason to be long on bitcoin.
Complexify: a good measure of password complexity
What laws? Could you please define "unrepentantly boyish"?
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True, but this could be said about every truly anonymous internet service. There's for example a huge amount of incredibly scary and wrong stuff available on the TOR network. Child pornography, black market with every possible commodity, contract killing, you wouldn't believe (I did not when I first saw it).

But there are people's lives depending on this service somewhere in the world and that's why it must not be shut down. We may even need more services like it in case other parts of the world go to hell too...

With this kind of services or protocols we can either have no anonymity at all or we just have to accept the fact that this is what we pay for real and absolute anonymity. (And hope that the dangerous freaks will be hunted down and locked down in real world.)
.loyal domains are all about setting up your own access policies for your own exclusive content.
HTML generally renders any number of spaces as a single space. (Try it!) I often put two spaces in proportional fonts, but I don't usually put two spaces after a period in monospace (which is the font HN uses for editing posts) because it's already pretty wide. I don't complain if people use other styles though. The article is adamant that everyone is wrong. "Why you should never, ever use it" says the title. Except for old publications, or if you're using a monospaced or very irregular font, says the body. Or really any time we feel like it, say the typographers. He derides the opposition as being equally arbitrary, not actually any worse.
In Boston, every listing is contaminated with mentions of every single nearby neighborhood to take advantage of Craigslist's comically broken search functionality. Search "back bay", and you end up with listings in Somerville, since it's "NEAR BACK BAY SOUTH END CAMBRIDGE BROOKLINE" etc etc etc.

Apartment hunting on Craigslist is a total nightmare without Padmapper, and I'm resenting Craigslist more and more for relegating us all to using their horrible UI.
You send your file over Tor. That way no one (not even him) knows who you are. Then he seeds your file for you. You remain anonymous.
promotes innovation, protects patient safety, and avoids regulatory duplication

Yes, the government has an excellent track record at achieving those objectives.
The fact, that MD5 is broken has nothing to do with building database of known-good binaries, because anyone would just use some other hash.

And also, current practical attacks on MD5 (and also on MD4) can be used to find two different strings with same digest (which is not so useful in this case), not string with same digest as some other predetermined string. For this to be exploitable, same organization would have to create two binaries, one trustworthy and one not. There is no reason to do that, as such code is mostly deemed trustworthy on the basis of who published it, not what it does.
Dear Microsoft: fsf.org is not a "gambling site"
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FTC Charges Two Companies With Exposing Data Via P2P Downloads
Worried about RIAA? Don't buy (and don't obtain without purchase) their media.

Worried about Microsoft tech? Don't buy it.

Make them irrelevant.

Tell your friends.
Can anybody claim with a straight face that there's even a problem here? Where's the evidence of harm?

It seems so transparent that this is just a bureaucracy trying to enhance it's own power / relevance / budgetary future.
Utah wildfire forces 9,000 residents out of their homes
And born in 2000?
Target shooters have caused 19 wildfires in Utah this year
How my CSV import went from 12 days to 3 hours in Rails
Http://www.askmefast.com/Facebook-ycat.html
I was asking about whether the installers respect existing virtualenvs or whether they install globally.
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As I understand, this is only about this side experiment with ImageNet data which uses logistic regression on those neurons in some cryptic way; I was trying to comprehend the core work (faces) before that.
Well I know HR are paid in souls, apart from that money or promise of money works for everybody else in various forms.
I actually did that because it was bothering me. https://github.com/ralphsaunders/hacked-news
Apparently we don't care about our reputation. The people who make these rules will probably also benefit from fewer total investigative journalists sticking their noses where they're not welcome.
Your steps sound nice but in reality it doesn't work out this way (speaking from multiple experiences with your reputation system).

First of all, EVERY piece of desktop software my company delivers to users is signed via a known and trusted authority. We knew that would be important and took steps before ever releasing our first piece of desktop software.

Secondly, the error message that users are presented with SCARES THEM. It's not clear why the software is being blocked, and in most cases the user just abandons the software instead of calling us to let us know there was an issue.

When we finally did discover the issue, it wasn't clear what to do. It took us quite a while to figure out where that "false positive" link was, and we weren't even sure that it was the right place to send it to. Even worse, you claim that they "should" have the programs whitelisted within a few business days. This is patently false and never happens that quickly. It took a month before the executable we submitted was whitelisted and you know what? It didn't help one bit.

Symantec seems to not take into account the fact that the executable will be updated, so by the time our first submission was whitelisted we had published 2 updates adding features and fixing bugs. Those updates were blocked even after the initial executable was whitelisted.

You may not be "out to squish the little guy" but honestly that doesn't mean you haven't done quite a bit of damage with your lack of clear messages to your users about why a piece of software is being blocked, and not allowing someone to easily choose to ignore your suggestion that something might not be safe just because symantec hasn't seen it before. (By the time our first symantec using user installed our software we had an installed base of over one hundred users)
The comparison between US and European credit worthiness is interesting. I think there might be an even simpler and more logical way to explain it: European countries can only tax future income while the US government can tax income in the past, at least that of those who cannot protect themselves against inflation.

Since the credit worthiness of a country ultimately depends on its ability to tax its citizens you will see a very different market response to the same debt level.
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Now they have to regulate them, will they then become liable for any that slip thru that should in all fairness of been regulated.

Who will regulate the refulator and who regulates them and were does joe public come into the equation. Who gains, who loses, stay tuend to next weeks episode of Soap.
I took the author's hysterics as just a literary tool to make a point in an interesting way. I doubt if he's worried about a two-spaced apocalypse.
http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36448.pdf

"So why doesn’t everyone want wimpy-core systems? Because in many corners of the real world, they’re
prohibited by law—Amdahl’s law. Even though many Internet services benefit from seemingly unbounded
request- and data-level parallelism, such systems aren’t above the law. As the number of parallel threads
increases, reducing serialization and communication overheads can become increasingly difficult. In a limit
case, the amount of inherently serial work performed on behalf of a user request by slow single-threaded
cores will dominate overall execution time."
Pluipotent stem cells are very cool, but they can't make an embryo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_potency
Don’t register your idea as a company
Beat procrastination with Kaizen
This is what highly-connected networks of ridiculously rich and privileged people are actually good for!
That's a fair rejoinder, and I apologize for attributing an agenda to your actions. I can't check the article for that subtitle now, apparently WaPo only lets me look once before putting the article behind a login wall.

But your posting tech is broken. There are lots of reasons to dislike auto-post-to-HN scriptlets. This is one.

WaPo's editorial style is also broken, if they will argue with themselves in title and subtitle.
Complaining or arguing about whether one space or two is correct or the "one true way" is just a little bit silly.

I figure the vast majority will use which ever way they were taught or that which they are most comfortable with. Me, I use the two space way for no other reason than it is a habit from being taught that way.

Some people have far too much time on their hands.
I knew how kaizen gave great result to japan industry, but in this book it tell you how to apply the same concept to your daily life. It's great to beat procrastination and really easy to follow. Give it a try
In turing's time, I believe that is economically correct not to waste computer time in assembler. You can hire two persons to assemble the program and compare the output. The computer should be doing the number crunching which is really the hard part for human. I am afraid the author failed to appreciate Turing's insight at the dawn of computing.
I figured with ucsc you could recruit decent talent and save money while having warmer weather than 20 miles north in sf. Always surprised me to never hear much about the area from tech perspective (I'm in Miami)
The title is also in the URI that was posted.
cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rZNS0A5...
Haha, watched the video for 8 seconds, then: MEGAMAN! :D
That's true when the risks outweigh the benefits, but it's not always true otherwise: we vaccinate everyone against smallpox to -keep- it rare!

Unfortunately, the cost of removing this sort of security theater as a deterrent is invisible and hypothetical, whereas the benefits are obvious.
The article didn't open, but just in case, it's not only Europe that's headed off a cliff. It's the whole Western world.
I have an extremely, extremely, extremely healthy level of skepticism. We do substantial business with AWS. When they went down and came back up, some of our data was damaged. I called my Amazon rep, who put me in contact with Amazon engineers, who helped us recover. Amazon can do that -- they're a service organization, and they're used to working with customers and making them happy.

Google's customer service, in contrast, has a raison d'etre of avoiding customers. As a customer, the feeling you get is mild disdain. This is necessary -- one support call for Google.com can wipe out the profits from thousands of people. This translate into how they handle the enterprise market. I use Google Apps for my organization. I needed to enable Google+ for a social presence. This required applying into a black hole which, for a long time, did nothing. Support e-mails went to someone who clearly was in the business of neither having nor giving out information.

Here's an experiment for you: Pretend you want to try Google App Engine, but your cell is not on one of the providers Google supports (I've been there). You just a credit card, and a willingness to spend a bit of cash. Try to buy some service. See how far you get.

I use Google internal to my organization for things like Google Apps; if it has issues, employees will deal, and it saves a big chunk of work and cash. For anything customer-facing, I really do want a partner whom I can talk to if there are issues, not a black box designed to reject support requests.
I don't know, I'm the first technical employee of a healthcare startup and I feel like I might have gotten less than I should have but who knows (I got 5%, and I'm literally developing the entire product from the ground up).. It's all meaningless at such an early stage anyway since we're still developing and have very few users and aren't live to everyone
You don't need to be a monopoly to be a racketeer. They're completely different.
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can't agree more!
I won't even use C++ without Qt.
memcached is not persistent, redis is, therefore, redis is more persistent than memcached.

The framework the example app is built in provides a (poor) database library, and that is the method for building SQL queries (I've since moved on to PDO's parameterized queries).
But if I decided to create, for example, a voice-recognition API, I wouldn't be copying your method, I'd be creating my own, better method.

I think the issue is that your patent wouldn't cover your algorithm, it would cover "service which translates audio into text."
Critical Reviews? The Right Way to Respond to Your Haters
This is just plain wrong, if you watch the documentary "the human family tree" the first people with less pigment were southeast asians as in towards China, and there is genetic evidence for it.

I think it is sad the more I watch these genetic documentaries the more I see the mixing of gene pools the more you know humans are very much the same but we also have a massive innate disposition to see people with different physical traits or culture as different from ourselves.
The article is pretty much a few pages agreeing with your first paragraph, that AR phone apps aren't useful, but one day AR will be much cooler.
I agree that equipment and settings do not make the photographer.

But I will point out that, back in the film age -- and more so in the pre-automated-settings age -- being able to manually set them and get them right was much more important.

- You had (stock 35 mm film rolls) 12, 24, or 36 shots to a roll of film. Particularly as a amateur photographer, developing and printing that film was a significant expense.

- Unless you had a dark room -- or, more recently, "quickie" development shops and kiosks -- you typically had at least a day between the shot and visual feedback of what you'd accomplished with it. (In "yea olden days", perhaps more like a week if you didn't want to pay "rush" fees.)

And... I guess much instruction has carried forward with a lot of inertia from those earlier times.

It seems a lot like much computer and programming instruction, when I think about it. Starting off with a lot of minutia that can be very offsetting and demotivating to many attempting to learn the art (and thereby, but for them -- thinking again of photographers -- actually secondary, the craft).

The digital age has changed this significantly. In my own circle of friends, I've observed at least two people develop from "average" snapshooters (well, one had from the start a very good natural eye) into very good amateur photographers. I don't think they would have done so starting from the perspective of shutter speed, f-stops, and tweaking exposure. But as they've learned to see and frame, they've added some of this in order to further accomplish and replicate aspects of their successes.

In the digital age, they can first "accomplish shots" and then "learn to refine". One could do that pre-digital (optionally including digital metering and exposure control), but the feedback loop was a lot slower and perhaps more circumspect.
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Understanding blocking vs non-blocking code in nodejs
I like the idea of this project, but how long do you think it will take before your seedbox host gets complaints and shuts down your server? Especially if you'd charge for this service, you can expect a storm of legal action.
Clicked the headline link expecting to be uninterested, but this is an impressive student effort; I think it's quite brilliant.
How LulzSec’s Sabu Became the Most Influential Hacker in the World
i'd ask: did anyone see this machine in real? it's funny they're still promoting with unpopulated PCBs :) http://www.calxeda.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Capture387...
How is that not feasible? What makes Java innately more capable of handling varying form factors than C++ and Qt?
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Another thing to consider beyond simply the fact that your particular benchmark ran into a network bandwidth bottleneck: web server benchmarks should not be conducted using ApacheBench until Apache makes AB multi-threaded.

Use a multithreaded benchmark tool such as WeigHTTP ( http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki ). WeigHTTP is essentially identical in behavior to ApacheBench, but with a -t argument to specify the number of threads.

You can approximate the same behavior in ApacheBench by kicking off multiple AB instances in parallel, but then it is up to you to aggregate the results.
Ask HN: Facebook vanity urls and page usernames seem broken. Any tip what to do?
Today I've been setting up my FB user and FB page.

When setting up the username for my user, by mistake I have typed the brand name, which would result in

www.facebook/my_brand_name

Then I created the FB page for the brand. However, when I was setting username for my FB page, I was unable to set it up, because it was unavailable.

I realised that I mixed up those two and changed my user's username to the correct one, which would result

www.facebook/my_personal_name

and thus releasing the username ``my_brand_name``.

OK, now the bug.

When I returned back to FB page, and tried again to set-up the correct username for FB Page, it was still unavailable.

I checked availability half an hour later, still unavailable.

Any idea what to do?

P.S. I was unable to find any kind of human support.
Actually I don't think WaPo really has anything to do with this piece. It's credited to VentureBeat.com rather than a Post reporter. It looks like they're just syndicating an article that originally ran here:

http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/22/microsoft-betrays-the-trus...

VentureBeat's headline for the piece is "Microsoft betrays the trust of customers and partners in the name of progress". So the more pointed headline that the article was submitted under is the original one, written by VentureBeat; the Post then changed the title to the softer "Why Microsoft is for once the cool kid in the technology world" before running the syndicated article. The Post's CMS must have kept the original headline to use in the TITLE element, permalink, etc.
who cares about bad developers. Do their apps sell?

Plus, I'd rather figure out a segfault bug than improve a laggy java program.
The first two or three few paragraphs of this article is something that everybody needs to understand. The US debt is just another form of money, and is completely risk free because the US government is monetarily sovereign.

The same does not hold for Eurozone governments, hence the debt crisis. In fact, Eurozone governments are more akin to US state governments, and the debt-to-GDP ratios of US states are much lower than those of Eurozone members. The debt crisis should not have been a surprise to anyone, and the fact that it was shows how little the monetary system is understood even by most economists.

That said, I disagree with the last statement made in the article. There is in fact a very good reason for governments to go into debt at least under current institutional arrangements. (Monetarily sovereign) government debt is just another form of money, and in fact money is a debt of the government (via the central bank, which is really just a branch of the executive when push comes to shove). And the private sector really likes holding on to money.

Private entities that are economically successful like to collect those shiny numbers in their bank accounts, and hence they accumulate monetary assets without spending them. They have lots of income, but spend only a part of that income. This means they effectively act as a money sink. The money that is kept out of circulation needs to be refilled somehow, and government is the only entity that can do so.

So there are really three options:
1) Accept that, under current institutional arrangements, the private sector accumulating monetary assets means that the government has to go into debt; and accept that this is not a bad thing.

2) Change the institutional arrangement so that the government can just finance its deficit by creating money outright (and use taxes to control inflation).

3) Raise taxes on wealth to the extent that the accumulation of assets in the private sector simply is not possible anymore.

Personally, I believe 1) and 2) are the best options. 2) has the added benefits that it eliminates interest payments by the government; I consider this a benefit, because those interest payments tend to be a hidden subsidy of the rich.