skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is why I kind of like the CouchDB clone for the browser -- PouchDB

https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb

Since Couch has a master-master replication protocol the database in the browser can just sync with the one on the server. Then the network gets disconnected but that's alright. When it gets re-connected continuous updates pick up where they left off, conflicts are resolved and it sort of works a distributed system. Where a browser is just another node.
For backend nginx instances (we use nginx to balance application servers, and nginx right in front of Unicorn on those application servers) use the Real IP module to have logs transparently show the original request IP not the load balancer's IP.

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRealipModule
Amusing considering that one of their greatest articles (to my recollection) was http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...
MIT Refused To Support Push To Keep Aaron Swartz Out Of Prison
You should go ahead and ask your friend for a copy of his resume, too, because he might be needing it passed around before too long.
This appears to be a sarcastic response by Goldberg to the presence of the advertorial. The book he's talking about is quite critical of Scientology.
TL;DR: We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. We have forged our spirits in the tradition of our ancestors. David Miscavige has our gratitude.
A CS degree has no bearing on one's ability to 'ship software', since that's not what a CS degree is meant for. I see a lot of disappointed second-years want to be taught how to better write software, but they're in a CS degree because it carries higher prestige than a diploma from a technical institute (at least here in Western Canada, and probably elsewhere, but not everywhere)

It would be great if more people understood how the two are different, it would save everyone a lot of headaches and ensure energy is spent where most valuable.
I respect Professor Kerr's expertise and the case he cited is still relevant to my original assertion. In the cited case an employee specifically used a another employee's credentials to gain unlawful access. But in this case, Mr. Swartz didn't falsely impersonate anyone by simply using another publicly available IP that he was rightfully permitted to obtain.
Then why are they deleting any negative comments? If they're trying to distance themselves from the North Korea-level bullshit they're publishing for cash, the best way to strike back would be to allow users to respond without being silenced in the name of their advertisers.
Right, they're still sitting on a LOT of real estate tax-free. They can weather 4chan's disrespect and bide their time until say, loyalist Will Smith decides to "come out" in their favor, gaining a ton of new celeb-obsessed converts.
And a literal terrorist organization.
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Someone has to handle it.
And for the modern day drug sold at every corner a.k.a. coffee
http://xkcd.com/978/

Obligatory xkcd strip.
No its addiction to porn. They are not washing their hands or BS like that.

OCD and addiction each have unique set of brain changes.

Again, its already been established that both behavioral addiction ad drug addictions involves the same basic mechanisms, same brain changes: downregulation of dopamine & D2 receptors, sensitization, hypofronatlity, altered cerebral white matter, altered CRF and stress response, etc. These do not occur in OCD.

Accumulation of One molecule activates the addition process - deltafosb. This does not occur in OCD

Read the START here article on yourbrainonporn and follow all the links. You will find links to articles covering the new DSM-5 which created a behavioral addictions category and to The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). America’s top addiction experts at ASAM released their sweeping new definition of addiction which states that sexual behavior addictions exist and involve the same basic mechanisms as substance addiction.
> Not mentioned in this article is anything about the Erlang GC's interaction with the scheduler and NUMA memory.

Great point. Erlang has one of the best GC implementations. Not because it is fancy or has sophisticated algorithms in it or clever trickery ,it is one of the best because of how the rest of the system was thought out and engineered. The main idea is this, since processes are isolated _and_ there is single assignment, and processes have their own private heap, GC now becomes something elegant, obvious and something that doesn't break the system under load. No need to coordinate a stop the world scenario among 100K running processes serving requests.
The "super power" orgs have beautiful shells but rotten, partially constructed or otherwise unoccupied interiors.
This depends on intent. I don't want to confound exploration with activism, but there are many instances where damaging a company may be the ethical thing to do.

In the long run, avoiding damage is in the hacker's continued interest to be able to maintain a 'beachhead' through stealth; but where privacy and 'fairness' are concerned, avoiding damage isn't always desirable.
Yup. CREEPY.
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Sometimes I think the real problem is that we've lost the viewpoint of "it's better 1000 guilty go free than 1 innocent be imprisoned".

At the very least it shouldn't be so easy to, for example, drum up 35 years worth of charges on excessive downloading.
> (whole lot of tangents with no actual response)

Pragmatically, you do seem to be in the right industry.
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But aren't those addresses only routed within Hamachi itself?
What you are arguing for there is quite common-sense. Who would advocate the "throw up your hands, you're screwed if they're in the DB" approach?
Hrm, I'll be fascinated to know whether there's a COS employee of the Atlantic or whether they give moderator accounts to their advertisers, HuffPo-style.
According to the WSJ, about 6-7 months, which is what the prosecutor actually sought against Swartz. 35 years was the maximum potential prison sentence allowed by the law; it was not the prison sentence that the prosecutors were seeking.
"a fairly concurrent GC at the per-thread level combined with global collections that maintain locality"

Each Erlang process gets its own independent little memory space. GC is trivial to run per-Erlang-process as a result. The downside is, no sharing between processes, even if you want it for some reason. There is some sharing of binaries with reference counting, though, with the usual problems of potentially accidentally holding on to megabytes of memory because one process is holding on to a four-byte slice. (Though you can make copies in advance if you know that's going to happen, and usually you have or can get a pretty good idea.)

I don't know anything about specific NUMA support. A quick Google turns up little to nothing. It is possible that just by the way it is structured it tends to work out reasonably well; less well than perhaps it could with deep integration, but better than a program written in most languages with no thought given to it. Processes and the RAM they use to end up tightly bound together in small contiguous memory arenas just by the way Erlang works. (It is not uncommon to have a system with thousands and thousands of processes that each may only be holding on to a few hundred bytes of data that actually belongs to them.)

I've been learning Go lately. I so badly want a decent Erlang replacement whose syntax and basic libraries are so much more friendly. And I respect Go and think it has a future, perhaps even a bright one. But I have to admit it has only deepened my respect for Erlang. Erlang is the shy librarian of computer languages; the outside may be superficially unappealing, socially awkward, not like the other glitzier girls, but at the end of the movie she takes her glasses off, lets her hair down, and dazzles the audience by being the best dancer there is... if you stuck with her long enough to get to the end of the movie.
He doesn't need a lawyer, he can write response himself. It just seems it is hard to apologize, much harder then being a witty soundbite commenter.
Actually, gmail keeps your spam for 30 days. If it's so low-value that it was recognized as spam and I didn't go looking for it for 30 days, the odds are high that I'll never want to see it again.
The facts are ~usually~ pretty good, but I'll cop that the language and phrasing is very preach-to-the-choir unnecessary. That's somewhat The Exiled's shtick, though. I just roll my eyes, they often have interesting things amid the shrillness.
They got some of the particulars of the inherited IRA wrong. There are two options:

* take at least the required minimum distribution starting in the tax year following the transfer, or

* draw down the entire account within 5 years

This applies to any inherited Ira that is not from your spouse, even if you are married. I.e., my inherited Ira (I'm married) is treated no differently from my sister's (she's not).

Distributions from inherited iras are taxed like ordinary income, no matter when they happen or by how much you take, unless you're unlucky enough to have not done your red, in which case there's a crazy penalty.
Is that a stack of greenbacks they are flipping through? :)
I think they're trying to solve the same problems other discussion-related services have by approaching the problems from a different perspective: discussions are private by default, and therefore the participants have greater control of signal:noise. They're trying to build from the bottom up instead of top down and hopefully that solves the problems most people associate with discussion services (e.g., comments), particularly people who abuse the the system in various ways such as trolls, griefers, and spammers.
I think I finally see where you're going with this -- that's very interesting and clever (in a good way). I might suggest that you need better documentation/examples -- it took me a while to see what was going on.
Hey Zack

Great to see you are on board with 3GoodThings!
I've been doing it since 18.6.12 and can attest to the MASSIVE difference its made to my headspace, experience of life and overall positivity. You might be interested in the wee community that's grown up around my daily posting on FB - https://www.facebook.com/thehappinessexperiment

Keep up the great work and inspire others through your practice.

KateB
It's also impossible, we have all "done" the same amount in the same amount of time (that's how existence works). We just do different things, some of which society rewards more than others.
Your problem is highlighted in the title of your thread. "I read... a lot". Build things, try stuff, and don't make excuses. New Zealand is small, but it is a unique market (New Zealander here). You don't need money to bang out a bit of code. It seems like you are afraid to try because building a startup seems so difficult, but you don't have to build a "startup", just build something. Things will flow from there. Good luck!
I haven't read all these comments, but this could not be a big deal at all.

We had a "sponsored" story written about FamilyLeaf for The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/bank-of-america/archive...

I'm pretty sure the author was just a freelance writer that BofA was sponsoring to write about startups, and we didn't pay a cent or do anything weird to get the piece.
The chained ?: idiom is very common in some C codebases. Having experienced it there, I find it highly readable, but it can sometimes benefit from parentheses to clarify precedence.
The most interesting part of the story, to me, is that none of the links have rel="nofollow." I wonder how much of this is motivated by SEO.
I bought two Polaroids of JFK in an antique store. Here's their story.
I liked the part where it said:

Under ecclesiastical leader David Miscavige, the Scientology religion expanded more in 2012 than in any 12 months of its 60-year history.

EDIT: before downvoting...read it again. :-)
"But that's also true of looking at gender equality from the male perspective, yet whenever someone attempts that the old MRA strawman stereotypes get thrown around."

Generally, it's because MRAs tend to find gains for women zero-sum. There are issues with regards to divorce, child support, and custody that can be discussed, but all these can be addressed as a feminist and do not require "masculinism" as some sort of a counter. There is a difference between discussion of gender and the movement's adherents.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/br...
Here's what helped me get through hard times and poverty: meditation and Zen Buddhism. It simplifies life, puts strife in its proper context, and makes poverty beautiful.

Now is the time to pull back a little. Same with your friend. Meditate. Seriously.
I'm always looking to trim my RRS feeds. This is a pretty good reason to drop The Atlantic. Such as a shame as I loved their journalism.
Yeah, from looking at it (I haven't installed it yet), the Logmein purchase and adaptation seems to make it a lot more interesting (I think I do vaguely remember it as a gaming thing back in the day when IPX was a thing)

I wonder if Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft Azure, etc. would be likely to do some kind of virtual/software defined network thing in the future. It's an obvious choice for an IaaS provider, but being able to put your SaaS or PaaS on a customer-defined network makes a lot of sense too. Would love to talk to those guys.
Dells xps line is almost directly comparable (almost t1 to 1) with Apples current products.

xps 13 = macbook air
xps 10 = ipad
xps 14/15 = macbook pro.

the only additional model from Dell in the xps is the xps 12 convertable (macbook air 11 inch?).

Dell just has cheaper product lines available... unfortunately the marketing clouds things -- to me, it looks they don't want the cheap models to sound bad, so they end up not being able to promote the high end models as "premium" as they should be.
It's basically just an advertisement that has been allowed to parade itself as an article

Yeah, and since the advertisement is for Scientology, punishment needs to be swift, precise und merciless. You can call a lot of things "just an ad", including NSDAP propaganda.
My sister-in-law is a Japanese school teacher. I showed this too her and she said she does not recognize it at all. My mom has a master's in math education and teaches at the local junior college. I'll let you know if she has any comment on this.
> The Atlantic supposedly became profitable couple of years ago

Things change fast.
Now I regret wording the title this way. Hope it doesn't confuse too many people.
Stephen Gordon doesn't know what he's talking about. Take this, for example:

In a market economy, the excess demand for venture capital would be closed by a price adjustment: entrepreneurs would be obliged to accept smaller injections of capital, would have to offer more control of their firms, or some combination of the two.

This is only true if entrepreneurs have to stay entrepreneurs, have to stay in the Canadian market, and have to take venture capital, no matter how crap the deal. Since none of these things are particularly true, Canada ends up with fewer entrepreneurs, emigrating entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs who simply do without and grow their companies more slowly - and none of those are particularly great for the Canadian economy.
Teachers in the U.S. who expect students to struggle with math problems instead of just giving them answers after the student puts in the most minimal effort can get in big trouble for doing so. (Source: My math teaching career.)
Ah, then my statement wouldn't apply. My mistake.
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Personally, I'd be fine handing over all journal publishing responsibilities to Google. The one great thing that Google has going for it is that many many many of the engineers there came from academia and understand the value of open access to information. I don't care if they run ads while they do so. It would be orders of magnitude better than the status quo.
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"He does not condemn porn. He questions what it means to have a natural sexuality when "Sexiness is always constructed — it used to be normatively hot to be fat and pale! " His problem is not that he has "demons", but that "I feel estranged from my sexuality, like it’s somebody else’s.""

He's projecting his other issues on pornography, though. All of these issues will continue to exist unanswered long after he abandons porno.
A Catholic look at Aaron Swartz
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> Implement backpressure throughout your system.

This is perhaps a point one cannot get to theoretically just sort of thinking about. This realization comes after observing the effects in practice. It is interesting to observe distributed systems, especially the ones that rely on asynchronous messages, thing go wrong and queues start filling up. Or even weirder machines start to synchronize for some reason. Like the size of the queues will oscillate in resonance of some sorts.

One way out is to reduce asynchronicity but that comes with serious performance penalties.
It seems the problem with interpreting wire fraud with his cited precedent comes down to an IP address versus an identity. The cited case contained two employees with specific usernames to denote their identities. When one uses the other's identity it's an impersonation -- or a false pretense. This case contains publicly available IP addresses and network-wide access and with that comes access to JSTOR. Rotating the IP to gain continued access might be immoral or tortious conduct at best, but as long as he didn't impersonate another user (possibly by spoofing an active IP address even) the court wouldn't be right in interpreting with the cited precedent.

If the court decided this way: Say my dhcp-obtained cable IP becomes banned from JSTOR, when it changes and I simply check if I can access JSTOR again, I'd be in violation. Furthermore, a reasonable person wouldn't know that an IP address could be an identity similar to a username and that changing it would be a crime.
I used to hold the Economist in similar high regard in the early 2000's. In 2004 they hired a new editor-in-chief and the quality of their articles began to suffer immediately. Their perceived thoughtfulness (as a function of independence and novelty, at least in my mind) took an abrupt turn for the worse right after the resignation of a single man. I can't remember the name of the editor, but I can remember lamenting his resignation to my friends.
Without sounding like a shill, Echostar's hardware has gotten better and better over the years. I've been through a couple of their DVRs and they're really solid.
Just like I couldn't take a hint from aaronsw and suggest the Progress Party due to cultural biases against Progressivism, anarcho-anything suffers the same.
You most definitely are not. I'm disgusted as well by this. The concept of advertorials is reprehensible.
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Assertive and risky comments are more likely to lead to learning than watered down versions.
Yeah, their style is off-putting to some at first glance, but the Exiled (and now nsfwcorp.com, where a bunch of exiled contributors continue to write) is pretty solid with the investigative journalism.
For anyone else who wants to do this too:

theatlantic.com 38.118.71.170

</tongue in cheek>
Afaict JSTOR makes public-domain works available on pretty similar terms as Google Books. They both make the works available free to the public (see http://about.jstor.org/service/early-journal-content), but they: 1) request that you don't remove their watermark/attribution; and 2) block mass downloading. I'd prefer a fully open, mass-download-ok option, but Google Books doesn't allow that either, and I don't see people railing against Google Books's lack of openness.

JSTOR's non-public-domain works are a different story, but the journals are the most to blame for that; JSTOR is just a licensee. Pretty similar to Google Books in that case, too (Google will only let you see a "restricted preview" or "snippet view", depending on the work, because they don't own the copyright).
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If I were to read something on there ever again, I now feel that I need to first look to see if it is a sponsored story or not every time.
+1

With upcoming replacement for ga.js (tracker for Google Analytics) is called analytics.js as well, this confusion is about to get messier.
I would think it's pretty common that news sites don't nofollow links (indeed, a quick scan of some other Atlantic pages says they don't).

If they don't do it normally, why would they do it especially if the point is to advertise Scientology?
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"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."

via http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I found this advertorial (common in newstand rags) to be incredibly informative. First, Scientology is expanding around the world. Second, I thought Scientology was banned in Germany but they opened a Church in Hamburg. Perhaps I'm just ignorant, but that was a surprise to me given their problems in the EU. They have clearly figured out how to "manage" there. Third, politicians from both parties, federal and local officials attended these events. They are becoming more and more "mainstream"

Finally, this expansion and the choice of buildings means they have a lot of money. They also have a very good taste when it comes to architecture (IMO) - they didn't build giant $100M sun temples or edifices, they've found what appear to be amazing examples of local architecture and have adapted it to their purposes.

Would that most "real" editorials were so informative.
Doing "private label" editions for people who are willing to pay you a premium.
Apple shares fall below $500 on reports of cuts to iPhone parts orders
It doesn't have to be "complete" public funding. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that many, many of the universities that may have partially funded the research also receive tax dollars. This last part is such a huge issue here, I think. "Well it wasn't very many tax dollars..." Yeah, well let's have our share then. One download of each document that tax dollars helped pay for seems fair to me.
Number 20 describes much of the world.
can you please show me a repository of R graphs that look half as polished/nice as graphs made in d3? I am not challenging or being confrontational I am actually curious why you think ggplot2 produces great vizes. I am new to data visualization, but I've worked in bit in R before and understand it's power to handle large data sets. Do you mean that they are great as in they are very functional for producing basic static charts like in Tableau? Or dynamic/creative vizes too?

In my line of work, clients are more concerned about "out-vizzing" the competition by creating mind-blowing "Wow!" vizes. Doesn't this rule ggplot2 out for the most part?
it's hardly practical. Yes, interesting, but I would not use it at all. The way I know how to do multiplication "manually" is superior than this. You line up numbers on top of each other. Then you start multiplying first digit of the bottom number with all the digits of above number, from right to left and adding any carry over. You start writing the result on the same column you are multiplying. Then you add them all.

123
123
x______
369
246
123

+________

15129

That's what I learned in elementary school and have been using since then. It's interesting to know how others to do it.