skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me this would be easy enough to code yourself.... What am I missing?
Near as I can tell this and Hadoop Streaming are very similar. In fact, you could probably take their open source CLI and wrap it around streaming without too much trouble.

http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/streaming.html

That would at least avoid lock-in to Joyent's infrastructure.
Wow, if you're being downvoted for saying that, I guess there must be a lot of Tea Party supporters here who are misusing downvotes to express disagreement.

Or maybe they don't get that political organizations should not ever be charitable "social welfare" organizations, on the left or the right.

In any case, it seems to me that you've got an excellent point. And the fact is that there's tons of evidence that the IRS was just being slow, not partisan, INCLUDING the linked article.

"Tea Party", being a politically based category, seems like a natural red flag for the IRS, just as "Progressive" or "Libertarian" would be. It's really hard to believe that most of these organizations WOULD have qualified. If someone created a non-profit named "Democrats for Social Justice," I would equally expect the IRS to think twice about approving "charitable" status.
The United States has experienced large scale terrorist acts(9/11) and has stopped other terrorist plots since then. Terrorism has claimed significantly more lives than bedbugs, and has also cause tremendous damage to United States infrastructure. I'd also argue that comparing the deaths of folks involved in 9/11 to the deaths that have(n't) been experienced by bedbugs to be both absurd and disrespectful, but that's beside the point.

It's hard for me to believe that you're actually trying to make this argument.
FUDfest
Not really. You know there was a time when people didn't wear glasses or sunglasses at all, then people started doing it, and now it's normal.
Zagat: How A Great Google Workplace Turned Into A 'Nightmare'
Sounds interesting. Needs a demo.

Pretty sure I'm not alone in being unwilling to give up my email without seeing what's on offer.
Just trying to save some lives here. As might as well wrap your lips around a cow's butt hole.
The risk from terrorism is, most greatly, the fear of terrorism and the effort a society will expend on trying to stop future terrorism, which in itself generates fear and adds to the likelihood of spending more on preventing terrorism...

In short, it's all too easy to let it become a vicious cycle that simply is not justified based on the actual damage done by terrorism.

To circle back to your analogy to floods – I'm not sure about what you're suggesting. Are you saying we need to look at a larger timeframe? If so, I would point out that I was considering precisely the timeframe you suggested. But, beyond that, looking over the last 100 years, SIDS and choking have certainly killed more... and I would expect they'd continue to do so over the next 100, even if the current anti-terrorism measures were never enacted.
Sure, but even so I would expect a competing American company to be concerned about that... there's no reason for the NSA to care, since it probably doesn't affect national security.
wow, hidingmyname, if nothing else, you've inspired one of the most positive and supportive threads I've seen on HN (don't bother checking, I'm still a pseudo-noob).

I can only echo what many others have said in one way or another: be at integrity with yourself, do what you can to support your team and maintain your honour, and I believe that you will look back at this, in 6 months, with some kind of gratitude.

You lived it. :)
This is complete speculation. As of last check, no one is able to confirm that Snowden was even on the flight to Russia from HK.
We're talking about startups in the Silicon Valley Business vernacular,

Are we? I'm not in Silicon Valley, and what happens there is of little consequence to me. I, for one, only care what startup means in my vernacular.

For what it's worth, I consider a "startup" any business that's intended to grow into a very large business, where the definition of "very large" is somewhat fuzzy. But I don't think you have to have intent to achieve that in any certain period of time, in order to qualify as a startup.
Apple: Settled $100 million class-action lawsuit
Ask HN: Best practices on autoscaled deployment on AWS?
We've been starting to use AWS more, but we're hitting a bit of a wall on how to handle code deployments, particularly in an autoscaling group that isn't done with Elastic Beanstalk.

The main options I see are to either have a script that periodically runs git pull, or to rebuild our AMIs with every deployment and have that push out into the autoscale group. Neither seems particularly ideal. I think I read somewhere that it's possible to do this with CloudFormation, but I don't see how that could work.

For reference, we do development in PHP, nodejs, and Python, and it seems like each instance would require something a bit specialized. And all of our code is in git repos.

Anyway, any advice would be much appreciated. Articles, walkthroughs, that sort of thing. I'll try to answer any questions that there might be. Thanks!
A lot of CEO's get taken hostage in China
>> Anon analytics make better apps.

> Highly debatable.

How can that be debatable? If you see 45% of crashes happen on the photo-upload screen, isn't that some kind of clue where to look? I really don't think anyone can argue that analytics are not helpful in improving app quality. Please, if anyone can even play devil's advocate on that... please do. But you better make a throwaway account 'cuz I suspect you'll be buried into oblivion and ghost-banned.
Nothing in your second paragraph refutes the fact that the Stack Exchange network of sites was never meant to be a repository for all answerable questions.
He's trying to explain that there's also the "small business" route where you just bootstrap and fund your business from customer revenue.

But funding from customer revenue does not automatically imply "small business". If you manage to generate a reasonable margin off that revenue, but you reinvest the profit back into the company, you can grow that way, as opposed to growing by taking outside money.
There's absolutely no evidence that's true. People are just speculating that the Russians might want to do that. As far as anyone knows, Snowden is still sitting in the transit area of the Moscow airport and has never left that location so far.
The Plain View Exception Should Be Applied More Narrowly to Digital Searches
The skill with which it is crafted, and the extent to which it matches its platonic prototype.

Think of dog shows. Regardless of how you think your dog looks best, the judges are still looking for a defined perfection that may not be to their choosing.

The problem enters when people start adopting the language of subjectivity and opinion to describe these things. That is when people start calling them "snobs".
> I couldn't get cable where I lived in upstate NY because I was in a remote area. Should the cable company have been forced to provide service to my house to make things fair?

In fact many municipalities grant cable monopolies for precisely that purpose. Do I think this is a good idea? No, I don't think it's that valuable to service people outside dense urban areas. If they want services, they should move closer to the city. However, I don't think its fair to decry a cable monopoly for invoking the protection it receives as part of such a bargain against a competitor.
Ask HN: Architecture question for internal/external apps
We are trying to setup the infrastructure for all our web developments...

We will be building web apps, mobile apps, other plugins for outlook and so on

All these apps will be using the same "data"...

We were thinking for web apps we would use single-page angular apps that talk to an API... Some of these apps are external and some internal...

The question is do we build ONE API that every single app talks to (internal and external)?

If we do so what is this API talking to? Should it talk to the database directly or talk to internal web services that talk to the database directly?

Or in other words...
Design 1 = apps > API > web services > database
Design 2 = apps > API > database

The next question is that my boss wants an API for each app which is puzzling me a little and we have been arguing it back and forth... Does it make sense to have
app 1 > API for app 1 > web services > database
mobile app 1 > API for mobile app 1 > web services > database

Personally, I am leaning towards:

app 1 > API > database
app 2 > API > database
etc...

What are your thoughts?
SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow
When you say "walk the projected pattern", do you mean following the path on the touchscreen with a finger, or actually walking around with a guide on the screen that tells you how to move?
It's getting much harder to discern authentic imbecility from carefully crafted satire.
A respectful hiring process
Same sources as those promoting the US intelligence agencies agendas: "officals," always unnamed, and usually "former."

Why post this garbage, James?
I think his username gives a tip. He failed to parse the context :)
I don't know. I guess I've just always viewed bootstrapping as choosing revenue for financing rather than investors. I don't think boostrapping is the same as what some like to call a'lifestyle business.'

Exactly.

My company is bootstrapped, but we're still very focused on growth.

Same here. We intend to build a billion dollar business, but we are (so far) bootstrapping. That doesn't, however, mean we'll never take outside money, but there's no need to right now. Once we prove the model and get some initial traction, it might make sense to do it just to fund expansion, but that's a decision for another day.
"The quality of cheap wine has increased markedly in the last 30 years"

That's true in the US, but not necessarily worldwide.
Right now we don't have user accounts or anything mission critical to store. (Everything we use Redis for right now is essentially app state and we use it to managing cross-machine communications.)

When we have user accounts and other things like that, we'll have to think about how to do that the most reliable way as well, which may be Redis or may mean bringing Postgres into the mix. I think there's a lot of benefits to keeping the variety of technologies down so if we were to bring in another, it would need to offer something compelling that our current mix doesn't offer.

The major theme we were trying to highlight in this post is just how far Redis can take you if you're trying to build a component-based backend and need a way to handle the communication as well as the state of the system.
What It's Really Like To Work At Fab
Well, he's definitely IN Russia - http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/25/politics/nsa-leak/index.html?h...

I think the flight you're referring to was the one from Russia --> Cuba.
Q&A and discussions are not the same.
You get all of the auto-analysis, reporting, segmentation, etc that's part of Google Surveys's other market research product.
Here's the original source from your article:

http://www.propublica.org/article/irs-office-that-targeted-t...

I'm not convinced it's a targeting of opposing political groups by the white house though. If Propublica requested papers, and got them even if they shouldn't have, that's a bureaucratic error.
I will also miss https://www.google.com/reader/i/#sub-tree/0

That iPhone-focused mobile view served me well for many years. I vastly preferred it to all iterations of the Android app and often use it on my desktop too. Showing only 15 items and being able to mark just them as read was a great workflow for me.
Not only that, but the company negotiates future salary increases knowing the bonus exists, so you can't be guaranteed that it will actually be on top of what you would otherwise get paid.
I was just thinking about how intrusive popup surveys are. Thanks for mentioning this.
I basically owe a large proportion of how I earn money today to Michael Hartl - spending $100 on his screencast a few years ago was the best investment I could have made.

RailsTutorial is holistic, practical, and very well paced for total beginners.
Doing what you love
I say the following in all seriousness and with no sarcasm: Feel free to create your own Q&A site that invites discussion. If it becomes more useful than Quora or Yahoo! Answers, please let me know.
No one is making an argument that Uber should be allowed to "operate in any way they decide".

Currently the problem is that they are forbidden from operating at all. The reason are usually violations of stupid laws (e.g. Uber collects payments via an app but the law of a given city says you can't do that) or because new laws (that didn't exist yesterday) are introduced to specifically kill Uber business model.

Uber, as a business, is already subject to many laws and regulations, just like any other business. It also complies with town car service laws specific to transportation companies.

The battle today is about nullifying stupid laws that serve no other purpose than to protect taxi companies from competition from Uber.

Finally, saying "the new way is better today, but who know if it's going to be better tomorrow", without even hinting at what possible problem can be, is fear mongering, not an argument.
Autonomous Data Machines from Knightscope
Personally - These surveys drive me nuts. Especially from companies like DELL / HP - where all I want is a driver I can't find. Has anyone discovered a better way (uservoice maybe?) to collect feedback from users that want to contribute, while not hassling those who don't?
The JavaScript Cookbook
Google has a very simple business strategy: make sure the web is more useful. As more people use the web's many services and as businesses build better websites, Google will make more money because of all of the search and display ads people will undoubtedly see and/or click. Almost every Google product and service has been around encouraging consumer use of the web, or fostering growth of web businesses.

This tool is just an extension of how Google Analytics fits into their strategy: by making website owners smarter, they will be more willing to build better websites and spend ad dollars driving traffic. If you have no idea what your website is doing, you have no incentive to acquire traffic. Make a better website, grow your visits? Google still profits. This explains why GA is free -- you can better measure the ROI of your ad spend and will likely spend even more.
The Myth of the Cool Office
The conservative non-profit groups were not under that status they were under the one for political action groups.
I'm sorry, but it's not appropriate for a project manager to promote his paid project on HN without some sort of disclosure, especially when using a custom title for submission.
Also, completely impossible to follow. If I ask a question and there's only one answer: then its not opinion based. If there's two possible answers: then the question is opinion based.

Of course, I don't know if it has one answer or two answers. That's why I asked the question!
The walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise

Transistor radio? Panasonic portable cassette[1]?

The Walkman had three things: size, stereo and marketing. Maybe you had a need for portable stereo playback in 1981, but for me and my friends it was the size and the marketing. Then again I never had a transistor radio, so I had no opportunity to be pre-jaded.

[1] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TjQbHKV2Vuc/S59ezmCHH7I/AAAAAAAAA3...
Surprisingly well-written response actually. Not too hard to figure out what they're talking about.
His donation to Oxford funded some of my early postgraduate work back in 2009.

I actually had an opportunity to meet with him a couple of weeks after I began the work, but not knowing who he was (or being particularly computer-history savy at the time) I didn't push it. In hindsight (not just today, but generally) I've always regretted not realizing who he was at the time.
The testimony states only that documents originated within the IRS. There isn't any indication of the means in which they were released. What would be the political sense in releasing the names of donors? A rogue leaker seems more likely to me.

Testimony: http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/eastman_testimon...
And who determines which answer is an "opinion answer"? Any attempt at labeling answers as "opinion answers" via machine learning will inevitably have false positives.
"the difference between good wines and bad wines is the complexity of the flavor"

Most people like simple wines better, which is in part why less expensive wines usually do better in these studies. Similar studies show that people like McDonalds-esque food more than anything else, because it's mostly just fat and salt, but that doesn't mean that the entire food industry is a conspiracy either.
I'm not sure if it is precision. I think it is a fundamental limitation of the technique, since it involves inducing currents in the brain using a magnet located outside it.

Another two interesting stimulation techniques are ultrasound and infrared. I was very, very surprised when I learned this, but infra red can penetrate skull and people are busy making stimulators using infrared.
Even accepting your biased wording ("deliberately blurring"), you failed to state what exactly is wrong with Uber competing with taxi companies (in my corner of economics, competition is good).

Is this a Bruce Lee thing, an argument without an argument?
This entire thing reads as a smear job which is quite a shame.
Agreed.
Can we start making a list of alternative services to google? I love search and gmail, but don't want to use G+ etc. Youtube is also annoying, by asking you to enter full name, link accounts etc.

Also, is there any alternative to gmail, that also has two factor auth?
Data Security Is a Classroom Worry, Too
Snowden, Through the Eyes of a Spy Novelist
I'm trying to find the article, but reporters apparently showed photos of Snowden to passengers disembarking from the original HK flight and no one could confirm they saw him on that flight.

I guess, though, that Putin would know if Snowden was in the airport area or not and would not lie about it.
I really hate submission titles like this. Can you please provide some information about what you're actually linking to? This title is just a dressed up version of "Click Here! Act now!"

I understand you're going for linkbait. And it worked -- it got me to click on something that I otherwise would have realized I was not interested in. And that's the irritating part.
Ubuntu is a far better option for RoR development.
- apt-get is far better than homebrew
- many things just work better in linux land (especially if you are into emacs and the like).
- development on a system more closely resembling production

the only thing OSX does better (for RoR) is development with GUI programs and fonts... which most ubuntu-friendly developers are willing to do without.
The insidious SRP
Again: the taxi companies Uber is competing with are bound by regulations that Uber isn't bound by; for instance, Uber's business model is based on a 20% surcharge which taxi companies are forbidden by law to apply.
Please do - don't need to know your company, but I'm wondering what the heck I've overlooked that would have growth like that :) You make me feel old!
We actually have a system like this, except it involves someone creating a company and bringing in some H1-B's for 5 years while they work for a Green Card, then skim 50-70% off their rate. I guess one of the differences between our arrangement and the article is the quality isn't as high.
Why Snowden Asked Visitors in Hong Kong to Refrigerate Their Phones
Imagine the President as an irrelevant figurehead doing the bidding of the NSA/Military.

Or the bidding of J. Edgar Hoover.
They are not. Take a look at: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/
Oh, you completely missed the numbers on the effects of conversion of the US of A into a police state. It was a good move on your part, since democracy and freedom are such an important part of American culture that the loss is not quantifiable.

It was Thomas Jefferson who said something along the lines of "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots". Americans are, today, scared so shitless by Bin Laden that they prefer surrendering freedom instead of committing some blood to the cause of freedom.

Pre 9/11 this NSA case would be a second Watergate. Today, it's yesterday's news. Bin Laden, for all intents and purposes, won.
It's a great holistic intro to Rails, but you won't finish it in an evening.

I think Rails For Zombies is great for 'instant gratification' in the same way as the old 5 Minute Blog Tutorial used to.
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Just...no. Please no
I wouldn't call it speculation. If Snowden didn't understand that he's too valuable a target for any country with a halfway functioning intelligence service, he's naiveté must be completely unbounded.

Intelligence services spend YEARS and FORTUNES trying to recruit and develop sources like Snowden. To have one drop in your lap? With detailed knowledge of the most secret org of your primary geopolitical adversary?

C'MON MAN.

You do understand that people sometimes are killed to get this kind of information, right?
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A workable variant of this system is to assign bounties based on the value of different roles; instead of bonusing precisely 120k, you can assign a 100k bounty to the role; the bounty doesn't have to have any direct relationship with the salary.

The core idea is to make the recruiting bonus recurring.

Similarly, I'm not sure that the 100% over 10 years rule isn't arbitrary. Someone who stays with a company for ten years is incredibly valuable. Why not pay in year 11, and year 12?
Imagining is fun because it doesn't require facts or logic. Pasting Nixon on to the current situation, while mildly amusing, does not clarify what is actually occuring. It is still far from clear. Is there a solid piece of evidence that Snowden is holding back for dramatic effect? Not releasing it, if he has it, lets the story become a mockery of itself because without any facts all you are left with is your imagination.
If the taste is in your head, then could we expect to see blindfolded people hopelessly unable to tell the difference between red wine and white?
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And then, despite being clever enough to launch a nuclear attack, they're somehow stopped because they Skype'd each other "hey Bill, when are we launching that nuke?" That despite the financing and coordination behind a nuclear strike, they can't figure out any sort of way to communicate in a covert manner.
This isn't an announcement of future plans; open-source XenCenter 6.2 was released today. This is a pleasant surprise, because I'm actually early in the process of deploying some servers running Xen Cloud Platform (XCP). Now that XenCenter is open source there won't be any more XCP releases, but upgrading from XCP to XenCenter is supported.

This and other questions I had were answered at http://xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/q-and-a/categori...
Also very cheap to produce and compensated accordingly. Let's not get stuck comparing the value of one bag of pennies to another. Of course there's a range and some poetry will be cheaper to produce than some music and vice versa.
Sure it is. You just have to have more reasonable expectations. A million bucks can easily generate 30-50k a year in dividends, and without a mortgage, that is enough to live a comfortable lifestyle. You can't go on permanent vacation, but you can live and work on whatever you want to without needing a job.

200k is a silly number to use in this calculation. Most studies show that "happiness" stops having big returns past something like 70-80k. Could I spend 200k a year? Sure no problem. Do I need to? No way.