skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, I found Orin Kerr's piece to be incredibly uninformed (as to the specifics of the case) because he literally wrote it by taking the complaint at full face value - this was despite the entire controversy being about whether there were facts to support allegations that Aaron was trespassing, broke and entered, stole property, etc...

but that's another topic, it was as you said at least more informed than the average person (but disappointing for a law professor and former CAFA prosecutor/defender).

and just to add to this conversation, I will have my law degree in a month and I'm just now starting to learn programming. I plan to use it in conjunction with things like Latex for building better briefs, building a robust issue bank, etc... - things that will enable me to be a better lawyer in practice.
This seems to be what most of us are thinking :), call off that Alaska trip.
Steve Jobs was an outlier. It's not useful to use him as an example if you are talking about CEOs in a general sense.

Some CEOs might be worth x100 the average salary. A small few are exceptional, many are middle of the road, and some probably drag the company backwards (e.g. Ballmer at Microsoft).
Interesting project. Is it fairly easy to get up and running as a contributor?
The one thing BTC cannot yet replicate is the trust that gold standard has.

Anyone in the world would immediately accept gold standard, but this BTC, despite being a digital gold, will be difficult to overcome the initial fear/mist-trust. It doesn't matter what mathematical proof you provide - the laymen doesn't really understand it. May be one day, it becomes accepted, and BTC will then really be a new gold standard. But i don't see that day coming, because there are people who don't like the gold standard (as it prevents them from leeching money from society - i.e., various parties/entities who hold controlling interests in major central banks etc).
Wow, that really was an overview. Like a rocky planet transiting a blue giant star.
You are a programmer. You can make value by wiggling your fingers. (Stammering is just fine!)

The solution: Build a micro product, turn it into a freedom business, and fire your boss.

http://fourhourworkweek.com

http://lifestylebusinesspodcast.com

http://startupbook.net

Fwiw, self-help products can be gold mines. You might try to develop a product to help other people with stammering, I have paid for "quit nailbiting" and "stop being shy" products.
It was still down when I checked about 22 minutes after your post. Definitely not a good sign.
Do you have a personal brand on the web? Do you blog? Do you publish code on services like github? How influential are you in the digital world - what's your social media presence? These are the strengths that matter!

Also, use this characteristic as a strength, in interviews introduce yourself "Hi, I am ____ - because I stammer, by web work is the best you'll find".
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I'm curious: how is it possible that the lower-latitude route is almost one thousand miles longer than the great-circle one, and still, one plane took just 11 minutes more to get to Paris than the other at almost exactly the same speed? Or maybe I'm miscalculating and the extra 2 knots of average speed make that much difference in 7000+ miles trip.

What other factors not shown by FlightAware should be taken into account in this case?
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There's that, but a plane will use a measurable amount of fuel more for each additional kilogram on board. It's not insignificant, too.
Not so ubiquitous... oh! the irony!
I used to give scotch tape to little kids to keep them occupied.  Now, iPads
We offer completely scalable hosting at UpCloud. You get to choose your CPU, RAM, disk space and bandwidth is billed by the actual traffic.

So I wouldn't call it a technical thing, but more of a strategic decision in how you want to position your company + offering.
Ask HN: How would we build a cost effective fully redudant website?
Our website has been down for 5 hours now. Cloudsigma is the hosting partner. They are having serious issues with their firewalls and API which renders the servers unusable.

This is during business hours in my country and needless to say many of our customers are upset as they depend on our application.

However, we are a small startup and the finances are not as strong as we'd like them to be so the question I am posing is: How would we build a fully redundant website over multiple data centers in a cost efficient way?

Anyone that has done this already and would like to share some insights?
It's a Samoan airline, and apparently over 90% of Samoans over the age of 15 are overweight. I wonder how is that possible?
It would be great if there was an alternative visualization with a polar view or at least a projection where the cylinder is angled so the midpoint of the flight touches the cylinder. Long east-west flights are much easier to understand that way.
As long as they respect the robots.txt, and aren't hitting the site constantly, there shouldn't be a problem technology-wise.

Now, whether this business wants a potential competitor doing this, that's a different story.
His github profile looks certainly good enough to bag a job that pays more than £15k (extreme entry level in the UK, my first web development job was underpaid at £15.5k and that was in 2004).

https://github.com/pattle
The strange thing is that despite this, the author uses Facebook and Amazon and stuff. Weird selective exclusion based on whatever. Each to their own I guess.
I really wish people would test their sites before doing this.

I'm conflicted; whilst ultimately you're right, it's very easy to type those words, and not as easy to test for a realistic load.

It's not as simple as throwing ab at your website, you need to use a proper tool (e.g. JMeter), make sure you're testing realistic user behaviour (even basics such as whether images and CSS have an impact), and ensure that you're not getting a false sense of security (e.g. how many connections are actually hitting the server at the same time?).

So yeah, whilst I kinda agree with you, I think it's a lot easier to say than to carry out.
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The point tunesmith is making is that if the parents hadn't selected the child to be deaf, that particular child simply wouldn't exist. The parent's child would be a different combination of genetics. The child themselves really couldn't be outraged, because if the parents had made a different choice they would have never developed into anyone.

It is an interesting ethical question. It isn't nearly as simple as the circumcision debate, or the "remove an extra finger" issue discussed elsewhere. In both those cases, the parents make a choice to modify an existing child. The child grows up knowing that had their parents made a different choice, they would have a foreskin/extra finger etc. The deafness debate is profoundly different, because the child simply wouldn't exist had the parents made a different choice.

If the choice for me was between being selected to be deaf and not being selected at all, I'd choose the former.
Have you considered practicing not stammering? I don't think it'll be easy, but it sounds like the obvious course of action.
You're cargo on an airplane. I think it's fair for airlines to charge by weight. My reasoning blurs a bit though when it comes to height. I'm tall and skinny. I'd pay for extra leg room, but I don't cost the airline extra carbon burning and neighbouring passenger discomfort to get me somewhere.

Ideally, we could computer model our desired seating arrangement and pay accordingly. If you don't want to pay for your waist-line, you don't travel.
> Rich people don't get that way without providing something people want.

Thanks for the laugh. So what did the six Walmart billionaire heirs provide?
BMI is a pretty silly measure - a professional rugby player could have a BMI over 30 and be pure muscle - probably the same for American football players.
And the article is talking about Samoa, where about 20% of babies are macrosomal, and about 25% of males are obese by the age of 18 months.
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Splitting up your regex may be faster in JS.
And here is where the decision was made to rename it: https://github.com/karma-runner/karma/issues/376
I understand what you mean. but we have actually tested the site several times before posting it on HN. We are working hard at this and will be back shortly. Thanks.
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I think he's saying OTA was initially not something in the category of "can be taken by theft."
Depending on how you look at it :)

* It does work in the sense of reordering every pair of instructions that could ever run in parallel.

* It doesn't work in the sense that results aren't changed; this is true for a lot of more likely programs - for instance, a+=arr[j], and many others.

Reordering every pair of independent instructions doesn't guarantee that you'll find all the races; that's why checkedthreads has the Valgrind tool. It does find a whole lot of bugs very quickly, and it's also needed for the Valgrind tool to actually cover all the races - but it's not sufficient by itself.

To find all the bugs using just event reordering, you'd need to try something closer to all possible way to interleave independent instructions and that's a boatload of orders...
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So much of this is gibberish there's little to reply to except this: if you think wishing rape and death upon people is just childish internet threats then I certainly am not the only problem here. There's no place for that anywhere.
sure, you (and comparatively a minor number of others) would.

But as a society, bitcoins is still not an accepted form of exchange in general.
This is mentioned everytime BMI is mentioned.

Most people with BMI over 30 are not olympic athletes or professional rugby players.
Looks like I'm not getting anything done today.
This doesnt sound right to me. I know senior dev's in London getting paid at least double of that (and in some cases even more). It is not in the NY or Bay area range, but it's not £35k either.
I'm not an expert, but he's shooting out the right hand side of the aircraft - even on the great circle route, that strikes me as very southern northern lights?
Well there are many host that does this. Dediserve for example. But most of these Host are comparatively more expensive.
What's the maximum distance that my antenna can be from my viewing device before I begin to violate copyright?
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> It is said, conveniently enough mostly by software engineers, that building software is perhaps the most complex activity humans have ever undertaken.

Who says this? Because while I agree that some pieces of software are hugely complicated (writing a compiler, kernels, etc), I think it's massively overstating things to describe web development as the pinnacle of complexity. In fact I'd say it's a little insulting to doctors, physicists, engineers of equipment that get deployed into space, and so on.
What's your stack? Azure offer 10 free sites I believe for the first year. That could be a good first port of call.

Other than that - what are you prepared to spend?
“ Reasons for [obesity being one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the Pacific Rim] include mining operations that have left not much arable land; as a result, much of the local diet is of processed, imported food such as Spam or corned beef, rather than fresh fish, fruit and vegetables. In addition, cultural factors have been blamed, such as associating a large body size with wealth and power, or changing ways of living, with children leading more sedentary lives.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_Pacific
The simple reason why GoodReads is so valuable to Amazon
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... and the deep meaning of Pac-Man: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2736
Not everyone has an iPhone.
Young children do/should not have smartphones.
Paper does not require constant updates, maintenance and bugfixes.
Paper is cheaper.
People want to play physical games without the distraction of devices.
People don't want the hassle of downloading an app before they can play a game.
If the complexity of scoring requires an app, it's too complicated.
Do middle-aged non-ninja developers belong?
I am a developer and currently work for a large American organization that is to remain nameless. I am passing my prime (in the scale of software developers), approaching middle age. Software development is something I love and have loved since I was a kid. However, I've never had a natural talent for it; I would never use the term "ninja" when describing myself (partly because I don't have the skill and partly because I'm too old to use ridiculous terms like that).

It's hard work to gain the understanding that others around me easily have, but I don't and won't stop trying. It's been a journey of education and the education is something I've quite enjoyed. The group in which I work was guided towards learning better design principles and while I did not stand out in the group, I came away with a better understanding and better ability. The group has since gone in a different direction, thus removing my motivation for remaining within it -- the pursuit of mastery (other than the obvious requisite paycheck).

Being 40ish, my "forming" years are behind me, so I'm not one to be "shaped" in the image of another. I've been lucky enough to have fallen into jobs or have "known someone" for most of my professional track. But now I'm wanting to leave a stable job that pays adequately with the goal of finding a position that provides more job and life satisfaction. So I am wondering...is there a job market for a middle-aged developer who isn't among the best, but brings a desire to learn; a constant effort to become better and gain a more thorough understanding? Or is this is a young man's game in which only the elite need apply and I need to consider an exit strategy before it's too late?
We basically use the LAMP stack.

The problem here is CloudSigma is down completely, so we need to span over different providers and data centers. Makes everything more complicated with DNS / Load balancing / Databases etc.

We'd like to spend as little as possible, running on about $100 / month at the moment.
This was dusscissed here a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5476812

HN ought to weed duplicates better.
Interesting it is working for me.
Same for line-height and margin-bottom?
"I don't think there's such a thing as a "right" to view someone's work"

You do not think you have the right to use your eyes without first asking someone's permission? You have that right, and you are also free to listen to almost any radio transmission your equipment receives (the exceptions to this are not copyright related; it is more like restrictions on RADAR detectors).

"It doesn't matter if they make sense or not; I don't think there's anything in copyright law that says the terms of a license have to make sense to any particular person"

There are limits to what we allow licenses to cover. There is no reason we should still allow licenses to cover geographic regions in this day and age (but there is also no reason to continue clinging to copyright either).

"Also, it doesn't seem like geographic restrictions have anything (yet) to do with this; from what I've read, Aereo only works inside the normal broadcasting range of the channels it re-transmits."

They do that because of the law, because the law is so dangerously out of date. It is not as though someone sat down and said, "The Internet allows us to send streams to anyone in the world. Let's limit our service to New York City, and not take advantage of the technology available to us!" This was a decision that was motivated by a backwards, anachronistic legal framework.

"if it had been started by manufacturers of portable TVs who wanted it to be impractical for people to use their non-TV devices"

You seem to have missed the point: Broadcasting is the obsolete industry. We do not need centralized broadcasters with technology that cannot send video more than a couple hundred miles, because we have a decentralized system that can send video anywhere in the world.

"So there's nothing in this whole story to justify stripping content creators and copyright holders of any of their rights."

You don't think there is something wrong with having to build an individual antenna for every user of Aereo's service? You don't think there is something wrong with telling someone in rural Texas that they are not allowed to use Aereo's service because they live in the wrong place? Aereo's technology solves an artificial problem, one that results from a legal framework that now serves only to keep powerful corporations in power.

You speak of copyright as though it was handed down by God. Perhaps you should take a look at its history, before assuming that there is some moral imperative for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing_of_the_Press_Act_166...
I think that's what he's been practically doing all his life, or since whenever the stammer started... Of course professional help may improve some, so if he doesn't have that already he could apply for it, but it's not as easy as "practicing not to stammer".
inflation vs. deflation: I have three points for your consideration

1) High tech sector has been experiencing massive deflation for decades and is thriving. Why? Is deflation really that bad when it comes from productivity? We know deflation due to massive decrease in money supply or velocity is bad, but what is wrong with slow, steady deflation from productivity?

2) With 2-3% steady deflation, won't interest rates adjust? People will lend their money out to earn a better risk adjusted rate than deflation. There isn't some magical number or percentage where people will start or stop lending. It's more like behavioral economics where people have several choices at different risk profiles.

3) The biggest proponent for an inflationary system is the banking system and economists who are funded/trained/selected by the banking system. This casts a lot of doubt on 'inflation is bad for lenders' statement. In a deflationary system, productivity gains go to the consumers (via lower prices). In an inflationary system, productivity gains go to capital owners (via debt and higher prices).

The US experienced very strong but volatile economic growth under a capitalistic fixed currency system (gold standard) that had periods of deflation and inflation in the 19th century. There is no historical basis that shows that capitalism needs inflation.
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Wow. My humor is pretty crude but I'd never made the connection to testicles before. I'd just assumed it was a portmanteau of "test" and "spectacular" but I am British and the latter word still sees some usage ;-)
1) Yes, you are vastly underpaid. (Unless it's 3 years with FrontPage Pro!)

2) Apply for big companies / public sector. They have massive HR departments who will send you an equal opportunities form. Disclose your disability and ask for support during the interview. That should help them prepare for you - they will also have the budget to support you if you do get the job and require extra help.

3) Build a portfolio. If your CV and Portfolio are good, then your interview is basically "can we work with this person." If people are sufficiently impressed with your work, it won't matter whether you stammer, have dreadful BO, and have a hobby of murdering kittens on the weekend.

4) Speak to your GP and see if you can get help. Speech therapy isn't perfect, but it can help.

Good luck!
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"Tsunami" of bandwidth demand pushes IEEE into 400G Ethernet standards process
Additionally: the author does not support O'Reilly's (or any "Randian" for that matter) politics.

That the author (a great writer) would use Rand (an awful writer) as the strawman here indicates he's never read her work (it sucks, fyi) and is only reacting to what he thinks it is.

Say what you want about Rand's political views, it's clear that the author doesn't understand them... implying that he doesn't understand O'Reilly's either.

The first half of the article was an interesting historic lesson for me. The last half of the article, less so.
> Now, can you explain this BS about "first-order observations" (as if nobody besides you can be a first-order observer of the same phenomenon)? We are all on the same social news site. He can all observe the same first-order things.

Fair point. What I should have said was that the hellbanned comments I saw could not have been interpreted the way you did.

> Let me put it this way: wishing rape/death on the net is 4-chan, hi-school bully level shit. Censorship on the other hand is actual dictatorship level shit. Censorship has been historically associated with the very worst in societies and regimes. Immature threats from anonymous cowards on the other hand, have not.

Here's where you and I disagree. It's not for men to say that wishing rape and death on women is just high-school-level shit, just like it's not for white people to say that black people need to lighten up about the whole race thing. You just don't have any moral basis to make light of those things, regardless of how correct you might be about the ultimate effects of a given attitude.

Hellbanning would be dictatorship-level if it somehow extended beyond a single private internet site. But the thing is, hellbanning, cruel though it may seem, is entirely proportional to the problem of internet trolling which is extremely intractable via more "humane" methods due to disposable nature of online identity.
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I didn't imply that they were - just meant that a simple rule that says "BMI over 30 -> obese" needs to allow for the fact that there are a small number of cases where this isn't true.

[NB A couple of hours ago I was watching professional rugby players train - so that's my excuse for mentioning this] :-)
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I totally agree, and if I tried to do it I'd probably botch it myself. I wouldn't even know where to start as I've ever built anything that needs to be under this kind of load where the deployment isn't handled by people better at it than I.
Wow, that's interesting. Cheers man.
Why wouldn't it? In terms of pure merit, NOBODY deserves ANY prize except THE single best competitor.

Physical limits and other regulations even things out but, particularly in computer and digital products and services, physical limitations are less and less important.
Use a SIP (Sub Irrigated Planter) you can make one with a couple 5 gallon buckets http://www.globalbuckets.org

I've tried plane terra cotta pots in the past any during the height of summer they dry out too quickly. Glazed pots are much better but also more expensive.
Agreed about recursion being taught the wrong way. Recursion is implicitly fundamental to learning basic arithmetic (what is 5? it's just (1 + (1 + (1 + (1 + (1 + 0))))). Reasoning by induction is just recursion. I think children have a recursive intuition for counting (at least from watching my 3 year old) that quickly gets squashed when they start learning 'math' in school.
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Its a bit like the situation over abortion. The parents are allowed to act selfishly until a number of weeks into pregnancy. At which point the parents are required by law to act in the best interest of the child, which undoubtedly wants to survive. This is only ethically challenging is you believe that parents should act in a wholly unselfish manner, which is an unreasonable expectation. Doctors should do what is in the best interest of the parents, until such a point that the interest of the child is legally identified.