skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a good article on HuffPo, exactly about the ongoing practice - and its incentives - of prosecutorial overreach:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/the-power-of-the-pr...

The whole system is flawed; it rewards high-profile convictions, instead of justice. Wrong success metrics -> wrong job description -> wrong outcome.

So, I have a lot of sympathy for those grieving Swartz's death AND fanning their natural anger to vengeance. They are not at odds. That's why I signed both petitions, and really hoping to see them coming through.

Of course none of this will get her (nor Steve "Is he suicidal? Let's lock him down; the jail is safe" Heymann) fired, but hopefully it'll spark the debate within Obama's administration about the (appropriate) role of prosecutors in this country.

Yeah, call me optimistic.
I am totally baffled that copy/pasting an image can be considered legally binding in 2013. Digital signatures with x.509 certificates have existed for ages now and these are rightfully legally binding anywhere in Europe.

Please have a look at European laws about digital signature!
1) Both joins and aggregates are processed in parallel. In short, the larger your cluster, the faster we evaluate a complex query because we can bring more hardware to the problem.

You can get a better idea of how we scale distributed joins from one of my blog posts:

http://www.clustrix.com/blog/bid/242790/Scaling-Distributed-...

Once we complete the join, we will also perform the aggregate SUM operation across multiple nodes, getting individual sums, and then forwarding the results to another node for a final tally.

As a rule of thumb, each node has the throughput of about 70% of MySQL on the same hardware. So if you have a complex query that can take advantage of the cluster (100k rows per table examined qualifies), then you will see a 10x speedup on a 16 node cluster over a single instance.

However, that assumes that your entire data set fits in cache on the single instance box. As soon as that's no longer true, it's more likely that you will see a 100x or more speedup from Clustrix because you will have way more memory available for the buffer cache.

For example, if you have a 32GB single instance MySQL server, but you have more than 64GB of working set size, you're going to be limited by IO.

On Clustrix, if you move this to say a 4 node cluster, you are going to have an effective cache footprint of 128GB. So Clustrix will operate entirely out of cache.

2) We're fully ACID compliant using a two phase commit w/ PAXOS for transaction resolution. Because we're MVCC, readers never have to take out locks. To coordinate WRITE access to the same data, we have a row level distributed lock manager. That means that the entire cluster participates in lock management.

So yes, this has a higher communication overhead over a single server. If you have a small write workload with very little concurrency, you will see better query latencies from a single instance database.

However, as soon as you start getting to more serious write workloads with higher concurrency, Clustrix will distribute your writes across several machines in the cluster. We can handle an aggregate write throughput you can't touch with a single instance database, even with a fancy/expensive storage array.

One of our customers, for example, has a peak throughput of 70,000 transactions/sec. They're about 90/10 read/write, so that breaks down to 10,000 TPS for writes. And they are really fond of multi-row updates, insert .. ignore, insert .. on dup update kind of queries. So it's not exactly a lightweight key-value application. Prior to Clustrix, their MySQL installation peaked out at 5,500 TPS total (read+write). They now have a 15 node Clustrix cluster.

It's true, you can always construct a workload that will not distribute well. But these are generally rare degenerate cases that stem from poor application design, and would perform equally poorly on a single instance database.
Not just ANA and JAL, the FAA has grounded all 787s in the US: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3884428/faa-grounds-all-bo...
Would love to hear insight as to why they choose you guys over others.
> Yes, I'm one isolated opinion

Not really. You're essentially saying the same thing that people have been saying about Google on HN at least as long as I've been a member. (That's two and a half years on this user name, and another I don't know how long on one that wasn't my real name.)
Hacker Finds a Way to Exploit PDF Files Without Vulnerability
It's not me implying it - the article I linked to did, and pretty conclusively too.

That graph you posted is messed up (yes I get it's a joke), but the spacing between dots randomly changes from 20 to 40 years. That graph actually demonstrates that there is no correlation, otherwise they would not have tried to mislead people.
I like the embeds, but "dope" seems like terminology from a different domain.
All new planes have their issues. They'll take a few weeks (or hopefully days) to figure out what's ailing it & it'll be back to its beloved skies in no time.
I hope Boeing has enough financial reserves to weather the storm of revenues-lost liabilities sure to hit them...& life goes on.
I would fly that plane tomorrow if I could. I'm sure the FAA is being extra-careful.
Awesome! Noted :)
Thank you so much for your feedback.
By putting https in, you're forcing your browser to authenticate the server before making an HTTP call. At the time that you see that cert error, the server has no idea what you want yet.
> Central banks could burst this bubble easily by selling off their gold reserves

Some central banks already sold their gold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sale_of_UK_gold_reserves,_1999-...
I agree its amazing. Reminds me of svbtle.
You probably won't be doing pointer arithmetic in C#. It's been about 5 years since I wrote any C#, but I don't remember any... mostly I remember it as a Java clone, which would preclude pointer arithmetic.
for free? Source?
Yeah, I was just discussing that with a friend-- such a clever way.
Its true, I wonder if maybe they could make a minute upload cap instead. Hmm...
Thanks for the feedback!
I would agree with Arothfusz, think of it as a hint at a possible future version of Hipache. It might use Nginx/Lua as a runtime instead of Nodejs - but the redis-based architecture will be the same and there will be an upgrade path. It will still be Hipache.
Nothing that happens is artificial. Humans are part of nature, just as enriched plutonium is.
In The Future, Your Clothes Will Be A Power Plant
You will very likely need real time guarantees the JVM does not provide. (The "off the shelf" bit's a hint)
They sure are apples to apples. Violent crime in the US vs violent crime in the UK.

These are not clearly deceptive statistics. Murder is not the only kind of violent crime.

Allowing people to protect themselves is a great deterrent against violent crime of all types. That is what these statistics point to.

Why do you so easily want to give up these hard-won freedoms?
Interesting. A way to leave tags and search through your own tracks- awesome!

And yeah! That is great- it's actually saved as a flash video- that's why!
Thanks for your feedback!
Save the topic of pedantry for another thread my friend ;)
Joey, Art.sy's lead engineer, wrote this brief explanation on Quora a few weeks ago: http://www.quora.com/Balanced/Why-do-you-use-Balanced-for-pa...:

We chose Balanced to support our marketplace at Art.sy for a few reasons:

1. They were highly recommended by other start-ups who had completed the integration.

2. Their focus on marketplaces aligned nicely with our needs (the escrow account they manage on our behalf, the account/identity validation they perform for our merchants, etc.).

3. They provided all the tools we wanted and none (or few) that we didn't: especially a javascript plug-in for seamless payment processing (without unnecessarily triggering PCI compliance), a self-service site for merchant registration, and their robust API in general.

Also, it's worth mentioning that the development support I've received since choosing Balanced has been generous and prompt.
It sounds to me like your experience in a remote team was sub-par, but that doesn't make remote teams bad... just that one.

Culture, chatter, gossip, staying up all night to get a release done... all of this can be done with remote teams if you have the right tools and you build it into your culture.

Of course there are pros and cons for remote teams, but my experience is that the pros far outweigh the cons.

I work in a team that has us spread across 4 countries (Australia, Poland, UK and Brazil) and very clashing time zones. It works amazingly well.

We have much more talented people working in our team than we could have gotten if we restricted our search to the local area only. I am positive having better staff far outweighs any cons of being remote.

My recommendation to anyone but my competitors would be to seriously consider a remote team.
"there's a general engineering issue...": This is quite right. However, that is a general-purpose argument to dismiss any new technology. I don't think the rational response to that is to not develop new technologies that show promise to be significantly better than the old ones, as this one does. While nobody could disagree that we don't know for sure how much it will cost before actually commercialising it, if we want to learn more about whether it is worth a try, the argument has to focus on the specific issues, such as the one you raise in your previous paragraph. (I think it is worth a try, because there are reasons to expect that it will be cheaper and safer.)

To address your specific point about U 232: First, you have 232 and 233 reversed: it's the U 232 and not the U 233 that causes significant gamma emission [1], and the U 233 that is bred from the Th for use as fissile nuclear fuel. U 233 production from Th 232 also unavoidably produces a small amount of U 232. The gamma emissions from the U 232 are a problem for handling of U 233. However, the gamma rays (easy to spot from space) and the tricky handling are both unattractive properties for U 233 as a weapons material. The pro-Th argument goes that this means that it is much easier to enrich U 235 than it is to work with U 233. If that is the case, the proliferation properties of U 233 are arguably not relevant to the LFTR debate (I'm personally not yet convinced that it is the case).

You say that the gamma rays are "really deadly at a distance". Can you cite a reference please? I don't think it is necessary to fully shield the gamma rays, unless you are building a nuclear weapon and don't want it to be seen by a monitoring satellite. Certainly the gamma emitters here don't constitute a nuclear waste issue, because the reaction takes place quickly.

[1] http://www.princeton.edu/sgs/publications/sgs/pdf/9_1kang.pd...
By that logic what hot button political issue wouldn't be suitable for hn?
Thinkfan is one of the packages that I couldn't find in fedora repo or any third party repos. It is available in Ubuntu repo and pretty much every software out there is available in Arch's AUR. Other license ridden packages like MS Core Fonts are included in Ubuntu Partner's repo and again in AUR. You will also have to either write systemd files or borrow and modify from other places. Ubuntu has a huge collection of PPAs and Arch has AUR. But again all of these things can be done using already posted tutorials or community help.
I think it's great that page content is getting more love lately, e.g., this and the recent NYTimes snowfall article [1].

Based on choppiness when scrolling, it does seem however that browsers still have a way to go in performance. I look forward to when scrolling a page like that is as smooth as butter on any device / browser combo.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/
http://xeround.com/ has been around for a while and runs on Rackspace, Amazon and Heroku.
A Tail of Woe: The Trouble with fstat Caching
MA sticks out in first 25k petition signatures to remove Ortiz from office
My pet peeve is that you are interviewed as though you should be God, and you would be so lucky and privileged to work on this pristine, perfect codebase...only to find out that the codebase is not all that perfect, and the development processes are not scrum or agile or XP, but instead "run around like chicken with your head cut off, just get it done!"

Perhaps this is the queue for someone to suggest "that's why we try so hard to prevent bad people from getting hired". :-)
The charge was that they blocked his MAC address, so he changed it with intent to continue accessing a system.

Even if he had changed his MAC address by buying a new laptop / NIC and connecting it, they probably would have still tried to charge him with the same thing.

The wording of what is alleged from the indictment is: "He sought to defraud MIT and JSTOR of rights and property by: ... b. Repeatedly taking steps to change his and his computer's apparent identities and conceal his and his computers' true identities".

For that same argument to be applied to someone else, there would have to be several aspects:

* The change of MAC would have to be repeated (although obviously they could construct a similar argument if you just did it once to clone a white-listed MAC).
* The 'intent' behind changing the MAC address would have to be to obtain something that could not be obtained otherwise. This could be by spoofing a white-listed MAC address, or changing away from your black-listed MAC address that was blacklisted to stop you doing something the network owner doesn't want you to do with their network.

I don't think they are saying the technical means by which the MAC is changed matters, or that changing MAC addresses without the intention to circumvent a technical measure to restrict access are wire fraud.
I tough about your statement for a minute, and I didn't like what I imagined for a single second.
A proper <doctype> wouldn't have any effect here.
Yeah, I didn't like that either. I guess I just don't like having any websites play sound... reminds me of the late 90's.
>Gold isn't really an asset as it's mostly useless.

You can trade it to Iran for some oil.
would you mind elaborating? How did using a site like this get you fired?

And what did you really expect them to do?
Another Article TechCrunch stole/copied from HN. That is why I don't read anything but HN.
Holy shit. Fired for interviewing elsewhere?

You can usually negotiate a severance when that happens, since they haven't had time to draw up documentation. Speak to a lawyer.
Will this affect non-US airlines that flight to the U.S.? A 787 from a Polish airline (LOT) is about to land in Chicago. Will it be allowed to fly back to Poland with passengers on board?

http://fr24.com/LOT3
"Kid"?

What is it about people that makes them think a person about to complete a degree and enter a Masters' program, and assumedly old enough to drive, vote, serve in the military, and reproduce, is a "kid"?

George Washington was a major in the Virginia militia at 21. Nat Palmer was the first American to discover Antarctica at 21. Bill Gates was 21 when he founded Micro Soft. Steve Jobs was 21 when he founded Apple.

People who call fully-grown adults "kids" can go stuff themselves.
It's spelled "Emmet" (docs.emmet.io) and it's more widely known as "Zen Coding". (I asked the author about the name change and forgot why now - some sort of trademark dispute).
I imagine that since it's on US soil, no. The FAA has jurisdiction here.
Is there a situation where the belief that abortion should be illegal does not oppose a woman's ability to choose abortion? Of course the central premise of opposition to abortion is not (usually) opposition to choice, but "anti-choice" isn't technically an invalid characterization.
Three Million Users at Github
FeelHN does sntiment analysis for HN posts - I find it a useful indicator that it might be time to step away from a particular discussion or take a break from HN.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/feelhn/hpnealkfodh...
It's impressive! Come on, the white house doing something technologically modern? That's amazing!
Not to get too political, but as a progressive who generally supports gun control, can someone explain to me why an "assault weapons" ban keeps coming back? Based on the metric of political capital:lives saved, it seems like terrible policy.
I just started using CTags for php development. It allows you to move to class and function declarations. Great for large projects and unknown code.

Link to plugin: https://github.com/SublimeText/CTags
What do they mean by "long-lived waste"?

Actinides of half-life 100-100,000 years or so. These have a compounding disadvantage in that they are alpha-emitters, hence disproportionately radiotoxic (e.g. by ingestion) compared to gamma- and beta- emitters like common fission products. Orders of magnitude disproportionate.

The theoretical advantage is huge: (this graph is from a French nuclear research lab which appears to be temporarily offline)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m6Jl1KpnH3E/TiwB5Ppo85I/AAAAAAAAAD...
I'm not so sure. The Apple induced resurgence of paying for software due to lower pricing has resulted in what I feel is a phenomenal leap forward in emphasis on usability and design. Some might argue this is the most important thing we should be optimizing around: how do we get the most usable software for the least money?
I can give you a simple example: I live in the capital of my country during the week, and on weekends I always go to my grandparents house. Mobility is a big issue for me, and since I don't have a car, I can't go moving around my laptop on a public bus. That's it. Instead of having to buy another PC for "my other home", I could simply plug one of these and BAM, problem solved.
Astonishingly annoying.
Deliberate practice is something that really fascinates me, because it never seems like I have enough time. I've picked up "How to Read a Book", but it will have to wait until I'm done with my current non-fiction book (I try to keep focused on one non-fiction book at a time).

Reflection and deep understanding are important, but the mantra of "good enough" is very powerful as well, and perhaps the fastest way to "ingest" something is by pushing yourself, hard, to do something "impossible", well beyond your limits. Some people would say that if you could do it, it's not "well beyond your limits", but how do you know until you try?

For me, I have a tendency both to get distracted easily, and occasionally focus deeply (perhaps too deep) on highly specialized subjects. C++ is my current obsession, and not necessarily because I like it; there's just so many dark corners. I do need to learn and practice more deliberately, but also push myself, hard, out of my comfort zone.

And sorry to continue the free association (see how I get distracted easily?), but I feel that perhaps rejection therapy wouldn't be needed if people took more challenging opportunities, with the inevitable failures being all the rejection therapy they need.
I've always believed that working remote is the future. The next step in the evolution of how we as humans do work. It's still early and the next decade will bring improved tools.
I'm the developer and I did the design myself! (I'm not much of a designer, but I try to stick to the essentials. Typography, contrast, and direction)
Fixed the typo, thanks for hint ;)
"constitution of the united states that has guided us and has never steered us wrong"

Slavery?
Your $600,000 per office is suprisingly close to our numbers. However, this will cover over head, 1 doctor, 1 nurse practicioner, and 1-2 office staff. Now the profit is not giant, but what if we can replicate this 50 or 100 times it adds up, and most importantly we will have provided improved access to low cost quality care, which we are currently doing on a small scale and members are loving it.
I must be the only person in the world who hates autoplaying video and particularly audio. At least the President's voice is normal and inoffensive, not like some of the preroll ads which run on other sites and autoplay.
I disagree with the blanket statement that for anything non-trivial, IB is more of a hindrance.

I've worked on a number of large iOS projects over the last four years — I tend to select whether or not to use IB on a per-project basis. About 60% of our projects end up using IB for the majority of their UI layout.

Recently we built a very large educational app for teachers. IB was great — we had a number of key storyboards, most of the design happened very fast. We developed strict standards by which we developed further styling in code (for things that IB couldn't handle like pattern images, and stretchable images).

Merging Storyboards was a bit of a pain — which was exacerbated by the fact that it's much easier for multiple developers to touch a single storyboard than to touch a single xib. But using DiffMerge as our default git mergetool makes things better.

There are definitely times when IB is not suitable — especially if you want to develop reusable dynamic layouts or controls.

But when you have strict specs, designers working on the project in advance, and clients signing off on particular designs, IB is great.
Yes, but they are in-memory only. I think the largest database they support is 50GB.

It's the kind of solution that works really well if you have key-value store problem where you want really low latencies. Telco call session state and session state for gaming comes to mind.

But beyond those use cases, you start running into a lot of architectural limitations...
SideBar Enhancements is on my "avoid" list. If I remove it, even after restarting Sublime, the context menu for the sidebar is permanently empty.
Related http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/05/what-if-drivers-were-hired-li...
Indian Thorium Breeding Technology: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2011/ph241/bhattacharyya1/ Since we don't have enough Uranium and no one would sell us, It's pretty much our only strategy.
To Future CopyCats: Please don't use the same cover letter for your internship job application. This guy kept it real, you do the same!
The potential of Nuclear technology is huge, unfortunately so is the associated need for a large government intensive, multi-billion, long-term investment. That's is one of the key problems with nuclear in general having an only tangential relation with the technology itself.

Compared to an equal size total investment, broken up into multiple smaller R&D areas, the the big nuclear bet is likely at a opportunity cost disadvantage. The strategy of equivalent smaller investments in other renewable technology has multiple outlet points where private industry can take and run the results into production. Although one couldn't prove that one approach would yield better than another, my feel is that the multiple smaller bets yields earlier with the potential to scale better overall.
White house increases petition signature requirement
So you think the Germans are just really angry with the US FED and wanted to make a political statement at their great personal expense?

I don't know what really happened, but I think it is worth considering that the recent audit by the Buba may have revealed more about the FED than anyone wants admit publicly.
The videos should delay starting until they are most of the way on the screen already, otherwise they are a distraction as I finish reading the text above them and they are just peeking out from the bottom of the screen. Stopping when they leave the screen works nicely though.
A nice selection (for me (i.e.: I use): Package Manager, SublimeLinter, SublimeCodeIntel, Git).

Additionally, as a scientist, I use a lot (and like a lot) https://github.com/SublimeText/LaTeXTools.