skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is correct, I am only attempting to measure the efficiency of the messaging processing engine within the server. I did want to include the network stack and the buffering portion, as well as the framing, protocol parser, and the subject based routing.
I did not get the impression that the GP was implying that the search results are sent.

Even if the data sent is made entirely of the search query, then it is troublesome. (Disclaimer: I haven't used this feature, so I do not have first-hand knowledge of how it works.)
Those communities are interesting. They have subcategories. It means they are like a forum.
If one day Google release an API we would be able to sync a community with a forum.

It would make a forum with superpower with entry point anywhere on the web (via the +1 button)
Well it would a lot more "fair" to simply charge per MB rather than charge extra for tethering, but people don't much like that idea.
Humanity's resources being limited is pretty much a direct function of stopping further exploration--it would make more sense to try and devote resources now, while we still have them, to securing more resources for the future.
It wasn't a good idea to just copy-paste a newsfeed on top of your gmail contacts. Also trying to be everything all at once is usually a bad choice. It might fare better if it had been more private or work-oriented, something like a yammer on top of gmail. Right now the product is unfocused and confusing at best.
That does look pretty good, thanks! I'd heard of fastmail before, but thought they were just a hotmail clone (personal, not business).

EDIT: https://www.zoho.com/mail looks pretty good, too, and is the least expensive of the pack.
Javascript i.e. Ember and jQuery mainly, with some Node.js after work.

A little Obj C in the evenings and weekends.
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Has been intermittent for a little while now.
Godspeed, Veeger. Godspeed.
The solution doesn't have to protect against intercept-in-transit.

For example, suppose that this was implemented on a VPS on some random hosting provider, and I own all of the code on the VPS. The hosting provider could record all email traffic coming into that box, but that problem isn't in scope (and could be addressed with, say, openPGP).
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My sister home schools two kids, cooks three squares a day, and doesn't care if someone knows she googled for "bread pudding recipe." They have an old, aging computer, and when I gave an Ubuntu CD to her husband, they were so incredibly grateful.

I see this feature being excellent for her, because she has a bunch of documents on her computer that contain her recipes, and then maybe she'll see a cookbook she might want to buy. Maybe she'll be looking for the days curriculum, and see a book that might help her youngest figure out her multiplication tables.

These are all relatively impractical use cases for the nerds of Hacker News. Ubuntu will still serve their needs, but Canonical wants to "cross the chasm" and have ordinary muggles using Ubuntu. Those people will find all of these features "valuable" and don't actually want to turn them off.
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According to Wikipedia, Amazon has national sites covering North America, most of Europe, Brazil, Japan & China. That's a pretty substantial slice of the world's population.
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They are almost certainly referring to the use of http://www.shodanhq.com/ to look for SCADA banners.

Try it sometime if you want to gaze upon the gossamer veil twixt normal western life and 28 days later style chaos.
Pray child, please explain further how you have come to this conclusion. I'm not sure I'm following you.
I know it's a small thing, but the URL makes it feel quite ephemeral/impersonal.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10329986720787532658...

Compare to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

Anyway, I joined. Hoping sometime in the future google+ becomes useful for me. Last post from a friend was 3 months ago.
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"Oh noes, somebody hacked our water pump!". A bunch of fear mongering drivel. It doesn't feel like cyber terrorism was ever ignored or neglected.
It is not one big write, but optimizations around msgs/write using buffering are used in clients, with obvious care to balance latency and throughput. In the benchmark, the write buffer is 16k, so it is flushed automatically via Go's bufio when it hits that mark, and then I flush it again when the loop is complete, flushing the remainder of the outbound buffer. I then use a PING/PONG, which is part of the NATS protocol, to only stop timing when the PONG returns, and I know all messages have been processed. NATS does have a verbose protocol flag that has all protocol frames ack'd with either +OK or -ERR.
Maybe I'm missing something important here, but right now it looks like a long list of posts concerning the topics, uncurated and free for everyone ( who is part of the group) to post. Are popular posts put on top or something?
Because utilities are connected across vast geographical areas. Usually, you can get by with local control in isolated stations, but some applications (such as synchrophasors on the power grid) need wide area networks for control. And it is much cheaper to ride the internet in some parts than it is to build your own isolated wide area network infrastructure (which still wouldn't be immune to physical access).

The idea is to encrypt everything, use a firewall, and have user account control. There are standards for how to do this safely (NERC-CIP). And isolate every network from the net unless it's absolutely necessary.

Right now we're in a state of flux. The industry will mature as younger engineers with computer backgrounds and an understanding of IT (like me) take over.
I slightly agree about CLAs. Contributor Licence Agreements are largely ignored by most small open source projects because they're a pain in the ass and prevent contributors from contributing.

However, I think they could go further than the support discussed here. It would be great to see CLAs tht you could get asked to sign when you make a pull request. You could also make it easy to sign - maybe instead of printing and scanning, you could sign using a PGP key.

If Github incorporated this stuff, every project could seamlessly use CLAs.
This is absolutely right. We are free to vote with our feet/wallet, but that doesn't mean our mouths stop working and we can't voice our opinions about why Ubuntu is going in the wrong direction.
Just a note, you outgrow the free Heroku implementation pretty quickly. Do you need SSL on a custom domain? You're now paying. Do you need more than a small number of DB connections simultaneously? The smallest production psql tier is $50 a month, or the annual fee for one seat on Gmail.
Is `rand` a secure random number in ruby? In many programming languages/implementations the default PRNG is only seeded with the current time, which leads to quite low entropy.
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I've been rather intrigued with the idea of API-first development, building a services oriented backend while moving most of the business logic onto the client-side.

Therefore, front end frameworks like Ember, Backbone and Angular are what I hope to see spread in web development.
Its a very loaded and picturesque description to use, but is it an wrong description?

The goal of book burning is to remove information, private owned books in this case, from the public by destroying them. While one could smash them and disintegrate them through the use of massive force, burning was the practical tool used.

If kindle suddenly create a goal of removing information from the public, in this case some private owned books, and goes through this act by destroying the information from private people own devices, doesn't that act align itself perfectly with book burning, through instead of using fire, they used electronic means.

Sure, its not something I would like to see on Wikipedia. Its not neutral, and there are better, impartial wording one could use to describe, but is it wrong to use in a blog?
From the article:

> T-Mobile will have to explain to customers that they will actually save money over the length of a two-year contract by paying a lower value plan rate.

So it sounds like they're still locking you in to a contract at the start. Yes, once the contract is over then you're off-contract, but if I'm not on Tmo already that doesn't really help.
It is not, but its on my TODO list, and I have also observed similar behavior at times. I have taken care to make sure the synchronization is efficient, but running the test is needed to get the real results.
That was an aggressive dysphemism and perhaps I should retract it. They're more like black-hat trolls than terrorists. They push bad ideas into implementation for amusement, but not out of hatred or coercive intent.

Yes, I do believe that "calibration scores" were injected into Google out of a malicious schadenfreude. These people were not trying to do good for their company. They were trying to hurt Google for their own amusement.

When a company has a reputation of a cultural leader as Google did throughout the 2000s, there are people out there who want nothing more than to "hack" it and make it destroy itself.
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I hate the incantation of "You mad, bro" so incredibly much, but then again, I'm also tired of people who still don't get it. "There's no one on it". Yeah, and if you open a Twitter account and don't follow anyone then it looks like there's no one on it.
Where to email? The email field in the profile is not public.
So you dismiss RMS's arguments just because he doesn't talk and write the way you think he should? Talk about derailment, by this logic you don't have to agree with anyone or anything just as long as you feel they aren't nice or polite or well spoken enough.
The threat of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" is completely unfounded and ridiculous, but frankly that's what I'd expect from Liberman. Hackers are extremely good at taking down specific sites that have specific issues with their security, not disabling entire swaths of networked systems. When some sect of Anonymous decided to attack Israeli computers during Pillar of Defense for instance, they claimed victory because they took down nearly 500 Israeli systems...which were just random Israeli websites with major security flaws, mainly grocery stores, locksmiths, and one government website dealing with economic investment. Such an operation is not difficult, yet accomplishes nothing. Actually attacking large numbers of computers used in the US, especially those used for defensive capabilities, is essentially impossible, because each one requires a different attack, assuming there isn't some massive as hell security hole sitting in the middle of ubiquitous server software, which I'd say is unlikely. Sure you can take down the Texas Water Utility, but you couldn't take down the utilities of every water system in the United States simultaneously without spending a significant amount of time on it and hope nothing changes once you crack one and move on to the next. Nobody, not even China, has the personnel to hit all of our major systems at once.

Hell, Not even taking down the DNS network would do all that much, as most computers that form the backbone of our medical and financial systems use IP addresses, instead of URL's, as their primary method of connecting to other servers. The military doesn't even use the main IP system, they have their own.

As most people who actually work within this world know, the primary way of gaining access to systems are social engineering, system defaults, and insecure handling of access information. The world has gotten smart enough now where practically all of our important infrastructure are very well guarded against these attacks. That isn't to say they don't happen, but it's rare, too rare for the possibilities of a full-scale "cyber-attack."
This is giving us a ~40% reduction in our file sizes.
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I wonder if they were using Pingdom to monitor the Pingdom service?
... is anyone actually saying Stallman shouldn't have written this?
The test is specific to a new NATS server written in GO (gnatsd). I described in more detail above the tests and what they do, but suffice it to say that it does test the message processing overhead of the server.
It is a Dutch thing, they've been learning it from 7 years old or something for decades and a lot of the movies and shows were always subtitled, not overdubbed. The Dutch were far ahead of everyone learning English on the continent, even before English was considered the modern lingua-franca, which personally I think really gathered steam with the adoption of the internet in the mid-90s. I can remember the French desperately trying to cling on to the delusion that French was still relevant.

I'm half-dutch and can only vaguely follow conversations in it, even 20 years ago when I'd go over as a kid everyone spoke it near fluently.

One of my professors at Uni complained that he'd tried to learn Dutch but found it nearly impossible because when he visited there as soon as they found out you were English they'd just speak to you in English.

My friend worked in banking over there for 2 years in Amsterdam, never learnt anything but basic hello/thanks/goodbye.
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What browser are you using? Not a problem on this mid grade laptop.
'Facebook is completely undreamt of even by the worst spying nation'
It's strange that I hear that from a lot of G+ users. I personally find that when I try to visit even links from HN pointing toward G+ posts, I am forced (well, prompted) to log in. For that reason alone I've never actually seen a post on google plus.
If the additional safety benefits worked well enough, you might find discounts to your insurance premiums covering the $5k cost pretty quickly.
I agree that "better UX" is entirely subjective, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. My point was that this is a UX-centric discussion and a mini-rant about advertising and marketing isn't really germane.
You can add attchements to issues - please look at my
https://github.com/lifeisstillgood/githubkoolaid

(it has one helper script - ghgrab.sh that, well, fires off xwd, and then uploads the resulting screenshot through the github API (mediuated by the excellent ghi)

I have no idea if it works outside of FreeBSD - drop me an issue on github if it does :-) WIth a screenshot!
I think the important question is what the users expect. Existing Ubuntu users are used to that box searching only local files and applications, so are annoyed that it now does remote searches as well. For new users, it's quite clear from the first time they use it that that box does a local+remote search. It's not tricking them. Of course, they may still wish that local-only search was more convenient. But they might also find it a useful default, especially as more kinds of results are integrated.

The 'poisonous food' analogy isn't quite right, because it's not as simple as selling something bad as something good. Done right, remote search results could be a useful feature, it's just not the feature many of us would expect in that place.
Wow. You're laying out some powerful and candid stuff here, and in a very casual fashion.

What the fuck. TGIF.

Thanks for saving the economy, by the way.
and when we wake up we go nuclear on innocents

step 1 fear mongering like this
step 2 an attack that makes good headlines
step 3 legislation requiring registration of computers (pick a means)
I think he disputing the author's assertion that "being unable to distinguish the millions of colors in 24-bit sRGB can't be true" is necessarily true given the conclusion. It's important to get the fine details right even if you agree with the overall point (though I'm not sure who's actually right here).
Put a switch on the break light so that you can activate it without activating the breaks.

Next time anybody gets too close, flip the light. Watch the idiot increase the distance between you rather fast.
The # magic, details about shebang/hashbang on various Unix flavours
Given the choice between following or friending Mark Zuckerberg or Julian Assange, I sure as hell know which I'd pick.
> he uses such over the top language that it makes much of his writing seem like a parody

Seriously. I read the first paragraph or two and was thinking "who the fuck wrote this, RMS? Oh... yeah, I guess so."
It scares me too. What happens when this car is 15 years old and the third owner is to broke to fix things when they go wrong? Will they be driving blind, or blinding everybody else?
It's always only good enough. Who actually has a literally perfect life?
> However, confining ourselves to one language makes us all think the same way

I have prior knowledge in the area so pardon me if what I'm saying is nonsene, but learning a programming language doesn't have the same benefits of learning any other language in this case?

I mean, if you are used to something like C, learning Haskell or Lisp or Brainfuck is a big mind shift.
Just did this and was able to create 10 users
Eat your own dog food right :-)
You are referring to 35% growth in 2.5 months as "glacial"?

If growth is proportional to the number of users (exponential growth) that would lead to more than tripling in size each year.

If growth is linear, it is still easily more than doubling each year.

What growth rate were you expecting in order to be faster than "glacial."
What was "over the top" about the linked piece?

Calling a search function "surveillance" for one. RMS is no stranger to stretching really evil-sounding words to fit things they really don't.
I don't get it - What am I missing?
That was also my reaction. Google thinks emulating the Yahoo finance board format is a good idea? Srsly?
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I ran my own email server at home for many years, but in the end I switched to Gmail/Google Apps about two years ago since

- I kept a mostly "if it works don't break it" approach, but about once a year there'd be some alert about security issues with some specific software and I'd run a "aptitude update". Invariably it'd update the packages out of order, libc would get screwed up, and I'd have to reinstall the whole server.

- I could never get the spam filtering up to snuff. I had daily auto-training spam+ham folders etc set up, the works, but I'd always get a a few spam messages in my inbox, and a handful of false positives. Used SPF but it had to be softfail since someone I visit friends/relatives who's ISPs have blocked SMTP ports aside from their own relay.

- My fault, but I ran a forwarding address for a friend, and I got blocked by my ISP since it forwarded some spam messages that got flagged.

- I don't feel properly equipped to deal with backups. (sure you can set up an rsync to somewhere else [that you have to pay for], but you also want to keep monitoring that they're good, test restores, etc)

Easily worth $50/year for me to not have to think about it.

edit: forgot the biggest reason I switched: I got an iPhone, and iOS doesn't do push email over IMAP. Gmail supports Exchange, and there's no way I'm going to be hosting that myself...
Great, I look forward to your future posts.

I suspect the way to 'thinking like Rich Hickey' (vs specific ideas etc) goes, at least partly, through Polya's "How to Solve It". He seemed to be very influenced by it ( I forget which talk he mentioned it in).
These attacks did not have to be initiated from within the United States or even a few miles offshore. Cybersecurity experts believe Iran is the likely culprit in both attacks, and we fear this is just the beginning.

The headlines before the attack on Pearl Harbor turned out to be delusional. No one can reasonably entertain such a delusion about our adversaries’ capacity to attack us in cyberspace today.

Time has almost run out in this session of Congress, and President Obama will soon issue an executive order that will establish cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure according to the statements of his top cabinet officials.

For the most part, I was along for the ride on this op ed piece. However, when the authors started suggesting Iran might in some way be behind a Pearl Harbor event, I lost interest. When they suggested new legislation that might hinder my ability to use computers without actually improving security for the US, they lost me completely.
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I believe you're wrong. The vast majority of "linux users" don't buy into RMS's particular ideology. RMS proactively describes the differences between the OpenSource and "Free Software" philosophies.
Could you re-enable it for a little bit and test that slow-typing thing? We did a bit of work to make it a little bit better at that.
Very funny. Vanilla Ubuntu is #1 on the list.
When HTC EVO does it, a TINY focused number of people get to play with it.

When apple puts it into their one premiere phone, millions of people will have it and interesting 3rd party software is worth making then.
>Free? That's being being pretty disingenuous

Yes, free. As in 0$. The same way that Facebook is free and that most startup web services have a free usage tier. Knock it off with the pedantry.
Are you really trying to suggest that the difference between the 24-bit color that we already can't reliably reproduce on current monitors and the 30-bit of the author, is the same order of magnitude as between 24-bit and 2-bit monochrome?
>Twitter's coverage of the Arab Spring was better than any Western media in the early days... food for thought.

I would disagree. First of all, my parents dont know how to use twitter. But lets say thats just a generational problem which will solve itself over time. There is still another issue:

The signal to noise ratio on twitter is very low. To get a good information on, lets say the arab spring, I have to spend quite some time digging through many tweets to distill the relevant information. A not dismissible overhead. And even if I managed to find out all relevant tweets and managed to form a coherent image from those splinters of information (which could be hard because I may be missing relevant background information) I still dont know if I based my model on legitimate sources. Regimes knows just as well which power lies in the social media and are eager to spread false information and propaganda.

Of course, false information is a problem also existent with classical journalism, but to a much lesser degree. They build their reputation as a reliable source of information (especially abroad in very intransparent situations like the arab spring) over many years with a network of trusted correspondents.

Thats something which is very difficult to replace with social news mechanisms.
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Seems to be back to semi functional.
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