skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use celery pretty extensively. It's nice because you get the flexibility of multiprocessing, but also the ability to distribute tasks across many machines.

There is definitely an overhead to get it going. Using redis as your messaging backend reduces this cost somewhat.. rabbitmq is overkill for most of the cases we've used celery.

Have a look at rq if you're looking for something more lightweight: https://github.com/nvie/rq
Ah, OK. Yeah, the drone program is run by the CIA, although on May 20, just a month ago, Obama said that he was thinking about giving "some" control of it to the Pentagon - apparently for the first time. That was a surprise to most people who assumed the Pentagon had some sort of control over it before the announcement last month.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/21/us-usa-drones-idUS...

"President Barack Obama's administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA, several U.S. government sources said on Monday."

The article suggests that the Yemen assassination program will be transferred to the Pentagon, but the CIA will retain total control over the Pakistan assassination program to "maintain deniability for both the United States and Pakistan", which seems pretty Orwellian a statement given that they are obviously acknowledging it by saying they want to maintain deniability.

There's tons of articles on the drone program, the Stanford study I linked to above (Living Under Drones) is a very good intro.

There's also lots of coverage about the random nature of the assassinations. We're not at war with these countries so it can't be considered a military act of defense, at best it is an assassination. I'm not sure we should even call them assasinations though when the target is not known at all and some guy is just shooting people at random for fun. I believe the accurate term there is "genocide", "murder", and "psychopathic spree killing". Rather than a crazed individual though, it is a "normal" person, who has undergone some training, is working for a contractor who pays him, and the entire thing is managed by a state. Is a state running such programs a legitimate entity at this point? A pretty reasonable argument can be made for "no". It's interesting and disturbing from a psychological standpoint that after all the genocide in the 20th century and the talk against that genocide, that these sorts of state run programs still exist, and the sorts of countries that run them and what sort of values they claim to represent and defend.

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/06/cia_often_doesnt_know_who_it...
This is some hate I can get behind. Is there an online petition or something I can sign?
No encryption
What about ftps?

two connections
Not a problem if you're only occasionally updating one site at a time, though I'd agree it doesn't scale up the way git would.

nat issues, no standard
valid points. I've never had issues with either but I don't work on the kind of projects a lot of HN users do, so I really tend to only care if it stripped the line breaks or not.

it doesn't work on "all of the servers" either. All of my servers have ssh/scp available and will never have ftp.
I stand corrected.

It is good to actually see the arguments against FTP at least.
You might be interested in checking out git-deploy. It's a tool we wrote to manage tag creation and completely pluggable rollouts/rollbacks with sync hooks you write: https://github.com/git-deploy/git-deploy

It's basically a more advanced version of what you're doing.
Most Android browsers actually reflow text to fit the screen, just like mobile browsers should. I don't think this website could simulate that.
I experienced this as well but you know what, my driving experience is much less stressful on the whole and it's kind of amusing seeing people try to fill that gap by speeding past you only to slam on the brakes as second later.
Thanks for the link, though I find the information about the project a bit sparse. For example, I'd be interested to know what the expected/intended use cases are for such a database and what exactly does "embedded" mean in this context.

This is the closest I could find: https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/
1998. Mission Yuppie Eradication Project.

http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Mission_Yuppie_Eradicatio...
That raises the question: who is US after all? Is it the officials or is it the people?
At the very least, some people should apply a bit more critical thinking.
Snowden was a civilian contractor. If caught, do you think he would be treated more like Ellsberg or Manning?

I know how I'd place my bet.
Creencias de Odio.
I'm hoping that this will all act as an incitement point to finally open up transparency on the aspects of the court and NSL/FISA warrants in general that don't actually contribute to national security.

I understand and agree completely with the need for secrecy and OPSEC but that's no reason to make these kinds of gag orders essentially permanent. Even the Navy lets their sailors discuss ship movements in/out of homeports once they've occurred.

Likewise it makes sense to keep detailed classifications on what's interceptable secret. But if a portion of the underlying law is Unconstitutional then that needs to be public. Yes, it makes it more difficult to do the job but that's the price we pay for living in a free society.
Only the state of California may issue phony currency, apparently.
مشاهدة مباراة اسبانيا ونيجيريا بث مباشر
Apple gets tough on medication dosage apps
I'm not trusting any "sources" that claim to know his final destination, as various ones have claimed Venezuela, Norway, and now Ecuador. I guess we'll have to wait a couple days to know what'll really happen.
No, IP addresses are a private matter. The identities behind pseudonyms should never be exposed unless the affected person decides to do so.
> Perhaps it's also asking too much, but - IMO - if he really wanted to make a statement with full moral authority he could have just pulled a Socrates and stood trial here in the US.

I hope you hold yourself to such standards. Otherwise you are just a hypocrite[1].

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrite

Definition: 1. :a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion. 2. : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.

p.s. He is an imperfect human being. His life is already destroyed and yet you demand that he puts himself to nothing less than the same mistreatment as Bradley Manning (or worse) else you dismiss him? Aren't you full of yourself.

I hope you realize that I'm giving you the exact same treatment that you are giving Snowden so the irony is not lost in me. How does it feel?
"Everyone knows" is the exact opposite of evidence. What I was asking for was proof, not a blanket assertion of facts.
Running your Flask application with uWSGI could allow you to do just that by way of the spool and other related decorators: http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/PythonDecorators...
By all means, let's do that.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130623/1...

Is this it? He's about to enter US airspace, if so.
It was rare before SWAT, before the LAPD carried AR-15s in their patrol cars, and before it occurred. It is just a rare crime, even in a large city. I think the theory that there would be copycats is easily disproved: this was their third bank robbery, yet there were no copycats following the first two, nor following their successful armored truck robberies. Those crimes occurred over a period of several years, more than enough time for a copycat to get the guns and armor.

On the other hand, paramilitary police teams targeting the wrong house or killing innocent people happens with frequency. It happens every year. Even if only 1/1000th of the raids that occur each year were done in error, you would expect about 40 such mistakes to occur per year. SWAT teams do not need to hide their existence, they are rarely punished for attacking innocent people, and they exist even in small towns.
> How many times in the last year did you start a trip with a full tank and need to refuel before you reached your destination?

Well, there was that time in the last year that I drove from New York to Jackson, Wyoming and back (~2000 miles each way). If I did that in a Tesla I'd want to battery-swap once or twice a day. Um, it looks like that might be possible sometime in the next year or two. Hurray!

(right now there aren't even any supercharger stations along that route, much less battery-swapping ones. There's an interactive map of stations here: http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger )

Though there's another question about that: How do you charge overnight at a hotel? Do you stay at motels and run an extension cord out the window? Is there a special database somewhere of hotels with convenient charging stations?
Bah. I call BS. You sound like a San Francisco real estate speculator or developer. "High density infill" projects are loved by the people who make money off the development of the property but no matter how much you weaken zoning protections to get there they somehow never manage to swing prices when demand, like it is now, is just so much greater. What you do accomplish with these projects, typically, is building very high-end price units, often of compromised quality (cheap materials, absurd square footage, etc.) Of course this does have the effect of reducing gentrification. On the contrary it steps up the pace while simultaneously leaving the city with a less desirable housing stock in the long run.
You're worried about malware on a OS X install? I'm not saying it isn't possible but I'd consider that overkill.
What is there to see? Celery is great, but has been around for ages. Anything new I'm missing?
I mean that instead of concentrating technology that the new economy depends on in places that have already reached their carrying capacity like SF, NYC, Boston, existing companies expand in smaller cities and towns, that telecommuting and the attendant improvements in management of distributed teams is encouraged, etc.

There are plenty of smart and creative people that want to live in "flyover country" that have to move to the coasts for any sort of opportunity to work in cutting edge tech, and its mostly because of the biases of executives, management, venture capitalists, investment bankers, etc.

This would take pressure off the unrealistic housing and cost-of-living in places like SF and the East Coast and would help lead to more prosperity in the rest of the country. You know, the part that gets continually glossed over by the media, government, and the "tech" industry in general.
This would be much more interesting as a heatmap normalized for population and/or crime. As is, it's hard to read anything much into it, as many of the points are too tightly clustered (NY & Chicago) to tell if there is actually any significant difference between the failed raid rates of the different population centers.
I believe conde nast owns reddit & imgur.
Despite the drawbacks mentioned here, it's a very neat idea.

Also - kudos for making it happen. I know how hard it could be to have a nice idea and find some time to make it happen.
They shouldn't be angry at techies, who, after all, are helping fund the city with their taxes.

They have good reason to be angry, at the city itself. It's comically mismanaged. San Francisco spends more than 2x per capita than Chicago does, and something like 3.5x what Los Angeles spends. Its outcomes across the board are poorer.

Moreover, the city is infected with NIMBYism that prevents it from employing the rational response to a housing crunch, which would be building more freaking housing. San Francisco is small, and, more importantly, locked in geographically. It's a metro area that can't afford irrational density restrictions; it's a Manhattan that zones like it's Des Moines.

People have written about the mismanagement and quality of life problems in San Francisco for a decade and a half. It shouldn't surprise anyone that people on the streets in San Francisco are happy to look for scapegoats, since it's a lot easier to beat up a pinata of a Google bus than it is to make new housing happen, or get libraries and hospitals built, or ensure that quality public transportion is universally available in all parts of the city, or mitigate crime.
Why am I getting downvoted? Nothing I said was offensive.
1986 is not 2013.

The fact this is not going off the top news makes it much harder - in all aspects (the tactic operation is just one aspect to such act).
Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
Has anyone used Stackless Python in production yet?
Stop using APC and switch to the "new" Zend Opcache.

It can serve 10-30% more requests per second than APC and has several layers of optimization.

It's bundled with PHP 5.5 but will work just fine with PHP 5.3 and 5.4

ps. also turn off file stat in the opcache on production servers

pps. make sure you are using PHP-FPM
Ask HN: Rent servers with slow CPU, low mem, cheap bandwidth but big disk.
I'm looking for something as awesome as Linode but that does something like a small 1G instance with huge disks e.g. 1 to 5 terabyte of disk space and really cheap bandwidth.

I want to use it as a backup server that has a shell so I can schedule jobs, run scripts to trigger and fetch backups etc.

Cost is a big concern of mine. So for example if I was billed using 95th percentile instead of for transfer, that would be awesome.

Any input appreciated!!
Ah, but that could create its own signature, if you're otherwise identifiably from groups that use them.
You can retake exams in China, but they are offered only once a year.
http://i.imgur.com/Xhs5jOC.png

I was really excited about react, until I heard the loss of #id selectors. To me this comes off as extremely dirty, since this limits your actual CSS (id's are useful for layout-based static elements (#big-logo), or containers for similar layers (#modals)). QA departments that test web apps also love #id selectors, since they don't have to waste their lives unwinding proper nested selector syntax, which is brittle anyways. Otherwise react seems like a perfect complement to Backbone. I ended up using Backbone.Marionette, which is a lot of boilerplate but solves the nesting problem in a flexible and thought-out way.

I assume React wants to optimize its subqueries for instant DOM lookup (I believe they calculate the ID based on ancestry, and ID-based lookups are O(1)). Why not use a better technique like maintain your own lookup hash, and store data on the actual JS objects representing each DOM element. I prefer not to cringe anytime I look at my markup :(
English law is common law. For further reading I recommend the following two Wikipedia links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)

It seems that at least in the United States there's quite a broad range of things that courts consider as "conspiracy". For example, a few years ago Reinhard Berkau (a German lawyer) was sentenced to prison in the US, because of a crime one of his clients did. He also published a book on his experiences (unfortunately in German only) in case you're interested in the background.
Surveillance, in a Search for Safety
We do the exact same thing. Up until 5 or so years ago, we used a separate computer under each desk to run Linux on, it's so nice to be able to run both on the same machine. It's also portable, where previously you'd have to drag two laptops on the road with you.
Looks like we've got our work cut out for us then.
Some handful of us voted for any particular policy-maker (except the President, where it's more like a whopping 20% of us), but yes.
> _why_ you would want to use git-push

Many of us like to have some recent past releases sitting on the production servers in order to make instant rollbacks if we discover a bug after the code has been deployed. Git provides that for free.
I wonder if anyone is doing something similar for the UK?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menez...)

Including information for Northern Ireland would be problematic.
The dilemma here is that admission quota is by province, so there is incentive for municipalities to go easy so that local students gain more seats at the prestigious schools. In other words the local education bureaus administering the tests are not disinterested parties.
Two wrongs don't make a right. He can criticize the US all he wants. We all can. And we all can criticize whichever leaders we want for being assholes. It may be unfair but Snowden had no choice given the reaction of the US.

Don't look at it as separate points. You have to understand the situation as a whole and that if you prized the US and had been in his situation and didn't want to rot in jail forever, you'd have done the exact same.

EDIT: Or, you know what? Perhaps you're smarter than me. What would you have done different? It's easy to criticize but you'll have to come up with solutions. For the US, they could've just obeyed their own law and requested warrants wherever there was probable cause. But for Snowden? What could he have done different while preserving his own life?
Newer versions of PyPy also support a subset of numpy.
Just think...this could happen to any one of us (here in the US, at least). Sad.
Ask HN: What would you like to know about A/B testing?
I'm a developer at a CRO agency and I'm thinking about writing a small ebook about A/B testing and Conversion Rate Optimization. I've worked with over 30 clients, mostly in the eCommerce space and I'd like to get more ideas from the HN crowd which I suspect is skewed more into the start-up/SaaS side of things.

I'm wondering how many of you are A/B testing. And by that I mean, do you have a clearly defined strategy or is it more like "we installed A/B testing software and are just randomly testing things"?

Any answers/questions/thoughts are welcome. I'd like to get a better understanding of the gaps in the public knowledge of A/B testing.
Obviously the SF nimbys are in action on HN :-)
Well let's get our dystopias straight. That's precrime, not thoughtcrime. :)

Seriously though, I am not a lawyer - isn't that what injunctions are for? To get a judge (or in this case, the A-G) to put the brakes on something that might cause irreparable harms, in advance of a final ruling?
The point is that paramilitary police teams are not harmless. These soldiers are being deployed to serve basic search-and-arrest warrants; their use is not limited to emergencies or to suspects that are believed to be heavily armed (if there were so many suspects so heavily armed, our cities would literally be war zones). The real question is this: are paramilitary police teams actually necessary in the tens of thousands of raids they conduct each year?
I call "math". Manhattan is 34 square miles and houses 1.6MM people. San Francisco is 49 square miles --- 1.5x bigger! --- and houses just 810k.

Working class people in SF aren't just upset that they're losing apartments they've lived in for years; they're upset that they can't predict where they're going to have to move to and where their kids are going to school; the whole city is crunched.
Conde Nast purchased reddit in 2006, then in 2011 (maybe 2012) it became "independent" again with the parent company of Conde Nast, Advance Publications, retaining an ownership stake of the newly formed reddit, inc. [1][2]

Imgur is a totally separate entity, the company was founded by Alan Schaaf using reddit as a place to "launch" it[3], they've never announced outside funding and there has never been any talk of reddit (or Advance Publications, or Conde Nast) having any ownership stake.[4]

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/14unl6/reddi...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/lounge/comments/1g73ec/whats_reddits... (screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/ZoQKmOh.png)

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imgur
Picture of the graffiti mentioned http://instagram.com/p/aSl87rK-IR/ edit: someone registered www.fuckyourstartup.com
According to Wikipedia, at least the Eve Online MMO uses it quite heavily, as well as an IronPython Mail client thingy. For whatever that's worth.
Yeah, Python and other technologies are also 90's or even older - what is your point? Proven technologies that work are belittled to promote today's agenda?

I would tend to dismiss this kind of articles and suggestions even if they are OK - only because they promote by appeal to a fashion.
> The radiation you receive during a flight also has no benefit

Of course not, it is a cost. The point is that it doesn't matter how little the additional radiation is, only that it is additional pointless radiation. Save lives by taking all of the money wasted on violating our dignity with the nudie scanners and put it towards extra shielding.
Alternative adventure idea: Instead of travelling the world for a year, spend that year travelling within 50 miles of your home (or, if you're starting in Silicon Valley, like this author, anywhere that Bart reaches). Get to know the immigrant communities spread throughout your area (the Thai community, the Cambodian community, Peruvian, Bolivian, etc…) They are all there, practically in your back yard (maybe literally in your back yard—ask your gardener where he's from), living in ways that are culturally different from yours, and yet when you get to know them, hang with them, drink and dance with them, you'll learn that we're all people and we're all fundamentally the same living, loving, learning, lonely scared human beings.

You need only travel 1, 5, 10, 15 miles from wherever you are right now to find entire communities that are outside your techy echo chamber. Meet them, and you will get some perspective.

Best of all is with this alternative plan is what you won't do. You won't waste many many days (weeks? a month?) of your life either in airports, flying between airports, travelling to and from airports, or recovering from jet lag. Most importantly, in my opinion, you won't be burning 250 to 500 gallons of gasoline, and releasing 2.5 to 5 tons of carbon into the atmosphere.
"If your data is on the net, the potential is there for it to be spied on. Deal with it."

The most important lesson of all this, IMO. Add NSA to the list of people and organizations in your Mallory set that you're already defending against and move on with your life.

Everyone is worried about the government but they are the figurative "plane accident" compared to all of the other online threats we face every day (which would be the "car crash"). These are threats we already should have been protecting ourselves against, especially because they are still more likely to actually happen.

Even if you think you got rid of the NSA (and you never will) there's still all the other black hats automatically penetrating systems all over the Internet, and they have no reason to limit themselves to nation-states or military organizations.
Nice idea, but I don't really like the in-call style header visible everywhere. I believe there is no way to make it work without it without jailbreaking?
Just wondering: What would be the appeals process if he were actually kidnapped by the US government in a foreign country. Is there some court by the United Nations that is mediating such cases even if there is an extreme power imbalance between both nations?
gnuplot (http://www.gnuplot.info/)

dia (https://live.gnome.org/Dia)
You can combine this approach with updating the code with a git pull to get all the benefits of git. Capistrano, the conventional Ruby deploy script, does this by default.