skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny. Signing a big contract with New Relic is one of the best things my company has done in the last few years. With very little work, our application monitoring got about 100 times better. Worth every penny.
By taking the cash, I am sure you are bound by secrecy enforced by jail time. I see these increased payments as hush money to keep researchers quiet while they feed them to the NSA for zero day exploits.
Try a New Relic plugin and you'll find out why ;)

The experience of adding monitoring with a New Relic plugin should be MUCH better than with any other monitoring approach.
I addition to the other extensions that have been mentioned, such as the awesome Tree Style Tab, the Session Manager extension[1] for Firefox is far better than every session extension for Chrome that I evaluated last year. Nothing came close. For example, at this point, I couldn't live without session appending, which is a feature that wasn't included with any session extension for Chrome that I evaluated.

[1] http://sessionmanager.mozdev.org/documentation.html
* Your statement about a monopoly being defined as an entity that lacks economic competition and then clarifying that owning 90% of a market qualifies is an obvious contradiction.

* Legally speaking, you are correct that the government defined Microsoft as a monopoly. The government can use laws and edicts to define "monopoly" in any arbitrary way that it wants to. If the government declared that 80% ownership or even 51% ownership of a market was a monopoly, legally they would consider themselves to be correct. But this fact does not necessarily imply that their definition is objectively correct and based on a proper understanding of economics.
> Agreed, but the question is whether people would be more wasteful with 100% free buses, taking more trips and negating that benefit.

It's worth mentioning that with public transit, more trips does not contribute linearly to more waste because many riders can take a single bus. Sure, it's probably somewhat more expensive to operate a full bus than an empty one, but there's a net benefit when compared to the cost of operating individual vehicles for all those riders instead.
This article makes it sound like free public transportation is a new idea. It pops up in Toronto every so often as if it was the first time it was every thought up(1).

In fact this has been tried numerous (perhaps hundreds) of times, both in the past and ongoing(2,3). You would think that the pluses and minuses would be well understood by now. Why is it so hard for transportation systems to learn from each other?

(1) - http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-transformation-of-urban-lif...

(2) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_public_transport#List_of_t...

(3) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_public_transport_r...
I'm having some trouble parsing your last sentence, but I think I agree. We need to have programs that tackle homelessness, but asking programs that have other mission statements to bear this burden is asking too much. Tackling homelessness itself is not the job of a transit department; their job is providing clean, safe, and effective transportation.
I did find this (now-fixed) bug/enhancement: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2246

Sounds like, with that configuration applied, the in-memory performance difference between Hadoop and Spark should not be nearly as large.
Ask HN: What do you think of a viral ethical investor agreement?
I was inspired and a little agitated by Bruce Sterling's speech here: http://boingboing.net/2013/04/29/bruce-sterling-on-startups-r.html

I asked myself, as a budding entrepreneur, what can I do to actually disrupt things, or at least make sure the world is a significantly better place as a result of what I'm building?

What if I obligated my company with a set of constraints, like a "B corp" but stronger, as a real "do no evil" ethical charter. If a socially beneficial company succeeds, however, the rich still get richer and that money can end up funding anything, even bad stuff. But what if I obligated investors to remain within a set of ethical standards for usage of the profits they make from me? What if we had a viral investor agreement: money made from this can only go into ethical endeavors. And what if those endeavors had to also subscribe to the same viral agreement, like a GPL for ethical investment?

Would this ever work? What could feasibly go into such an agreement with it still being palatable to at least a few like minded investors?
http://www.ivedasolutions.com/files/1713/1420/1507/safety_ac...

"purpose of the Act is to ensure that the threat of liability does not deter potential manufacturers or Sellers of anti-terrorism technologies from developing and commercializing technologies that could save lives. The Act thus creates certain liability limitations for ‘claims arising out of, relating to, or resulting from an act of terrorism’ where qualified antiterrorism technologies have been deployed.

https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/st-safety-act.pdf
> I've used Vimperator before but I now use Vimium on chromium and very much prefer it.

> When you navigate via keyboard (by pressing "f"), Vimperator marks links with numbers, Vimium marks them with letters, from ("a to "zz'). Letters are much nicer when you can touch type and your hands are already on the keys.

I can't get myself to use Vimium. While I agree that it is in some ways a stronger navigation experience, the fact that it goes inert on un-loaded pages is a deal breaker. Not being able to cycle through my tabs all the way is not cool (i.e. as soon as it hits gmail it ceases to respond).

Also, while I do like the alphabetic link highlights, I dislike the size. Particularly here on HN, the links can overlap making it difficult to determine what the second letter in the sequence is.
In Texas we have a taxpayer subsidized program to incentivize employers to hire ex-convicts and otherwise help ex-convicts get jobs called Project RIO. I shouldn't imply that the problem is with Project RIO, but rather with some of the unscrupulous employers who participate. The worst problem that I am aware of is that sometimes employers will illegally withhold pay, and basically the program allows unethical employers to pay below minimum or at least below market wages to parolees, force them to work overtime uncompensated, etc. The close relationship between company and parole officer puts the employer in a position to induce a lot of undue influence on a parolee-employee.

Anecdote/heresay: There is just such an employer in my town. They treat regular employees pretty badly, and Project RIO types, even worse. These poor guys don't make enough to support themselves, and thus have low/no job mobility. They all live in a gov't housing thing, on the wrong side of the tracks. They are pretty much destined to fail.
U give me a Cialis generic that I never seen before
Adverse events associated with taking tadalafil were usually mild or moderate in severity, transient and decreased with continued use of the medication.
Other common Cialis effects include back pain, myalgia, nasal congestion and hot flashes.
Other - swelling of the eyelids, eye pain, redness of the conjunctiva, and dizziness.
Don't underestimate the importance of aesthetics...
I am curious about "but not remain so." You don't think that increased adoption of DNSSEC will make dns spoofing less practical for zones that are signed (assuming properly configured local resolvers eg unbound on 127.0.0.1:53)?

Side note:† In the past I recall you supporting developers "pinning" certificates by rolling their own CAs and bundling the keys with their applications. I have always thought that DANE/TLSA records are an application layer agnostic method for certificate pinning. Do you think I have placed too much trust in DANE?

Given widespread adoption of DNSSEC, DANE records seem like an easier way to manage "certificate pinning" than having to push application updates. Plus I can use the same DANE records that my mobile app uses to protect the third party API for my service. Whereas embedding keys into apps leaves the API unprotected.

I realize "Assuming widespread adoption of DNSSEC" is the big "if" when speaking about the public in general. However for controlled environments (I'm thinking of anything ending in .gov/.mil) DANE records seem like an easy win.

† In this section I am shoveling words into your mouth so I apologize if I have misconstrued/misremembered previous posts.
No, only what I have heard claimed, which is mainly that homeless shelters are seen as an absolute last resort because they are typically less safe than the streets.

edit: http://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166666265/why-some-homeless-ch...
You just ruined my hopes of making an annual salary in an evening.

> The work required to build reliable exploits against hardened Windows can take months.
Correct, this is a new feature, in addition to all our existing features. This feature is available at all plan levels, but some other New Relic features require a paid plan.
Ask HN: Patents and Patenting - should I stop now?
Ask HN: Patents and Patenting - should I stop now?

Dear HN: I've been working on a weekend project where it involves generating a schedule and ultimately printing out a calendar for the client to take home.

When trying to find competitors for this I could not find anyone else doing this specialized calendar (doesn't mean they don't exist of course)

After not finding results I then searched patents, and couldn't find any related (again I realize it is not 100% not out there)

However I did come across a generic 'calendar generator' patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US20050257176

Does this mean I would need to license calendar generation in order to continue (or hope sales are never much such that I'm never a target)?
Cumulus Networks Releases Linux OS for Networking
How I think Java code should be written and why.
It's time to post up the Theory of the Second Best (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_second_best)

It's a radical old theory (from 1956), which is still ignored by most of the people who talk about economics. It states, in HN terms, that economic systems can have local optima; and that if the global optimum can't be reached then doing stupid things can actually be smart.

In theory a free market is best. But if a market can't be made completely free (for whatever reason) then making the market freer may actually make things worse, because you're moving away from the local optimal point into a trough.

When you consider any aspect of the system, you can make it more like a free market, or less like a free market. Maybe the internet libertarians are usually right, when they say "make it more like a free market". Or maybe real systems have been optimised towards that local optimum point, then driven away from it by free market advice, and the internet libertarians are usually wrong. But I don't think there's a hard and fast rule.

Whatever the case, imperfect economic systems are a little bit complicated, and there's not always a simple answer.

So it's not a free market. Cities subsidise buses. They subsidise cars. Payments for buses are so annoying that they may outweigh the amount of money changing hands. Unions want to protect their turf. Poor people like buses, while rich people like cars. And buses are much more useful when they are full. Its complicated, so figuring out what the locally optimal solution is isn't really easy.
I'm personally favoring things going more like a slow-motion version of C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength (the interesting half of which is what Orwell kinda ripped off writing 1984 - it's sort of a spiritual prequel).

To wit: launching a grand patriotic endeavor with much fanfare and overwhelming public support (exploiting a sense of national unity and purpose fostered by the recent war), having that endeavor set up a secret parallel justice system answerable to nobody, indefinite detentions...

oh, and the ensuing clashes between the wronged and the merely indifferent... the lowly everyday employees in the terrible scheme for world domination who wish they could get out of it, or do something about it, but fear for their lives and their futures...

(Postscript. Then there's a bunch of Christian allegory tacked on inelegantly, which, as Orwell pointed out, undermines the dystopian horror - c.f. http://www.lewisiana.nl/orwell/ )
Isn't the story of VC over the last decade the mediocre return from the industry?
Those regular expressions desperately need refactored. Maybe like this:

c = r"[-!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{}|~0-9A-Z]"
dot_atom = r"{c}+(\.{c}+)*".format(c=c)

c1 = r"[\001-\010\013\014\016-\037!#-\[\]-\177]"
c2 = r"[\001-\011\013\014\016-\177]"
quoted_string = r"'({c1}|\\{c2})*'".format(c1=c1, c2=c2)

c = r"[A-Z0-9]"
dash_something = r"(?:-*{c}+)".format(c=c)
domain = r"(?:{c}+{dash_something}\.)+{c}{{2,6}}".format(c=c, dash_something=dash_something)

email = "^({dot_atom}|{quoted_string})@{domain}$"

There's a typo in the original, which I fixed: \001-011 should be \001-\011.
Fully agreed. I've tried both Vimium and Vrome. Neither were adequate, IMHO. Had I never touched Vimperator, Vimium would have been perfectly fine - but my bar is now set much higher.
>Don't forget the subsidies on the other side of the equation: As the poster above mentioned, building larger roads to handle increased traffic is very expensive

And the users of those roads pay tens of billions of dollars per year by paying or the Federal Gas Tax on every gallon of gas they buy:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/00gastax.pdf

They also pay local and state tax that pay for the maintenance of local and state roads. They also pay tolls which make so much money that they pay for roads, bridges and a sizable portion of many state's general funds.

Car drivers are more than self-sufficient. Bus riders rely on subsidies or they wouldn't be able to afford bus travel.

I'm not passing a value judgement on this, but let's at least acknowledge reality.
Those things are already against the law. Enforce those laws instead.
Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street in 1973
Ask HN: What's a good tutorial/online course for starting Web Design?
My wife has a lot of free time lately and decided she wants to learn how to design for the web. She already has a degree in graphic design so the Photoshop stuff are not an issue. I guess she needs something that will take a Graphic Designer through the web basics and then show to go from static image to HTML/CSS. Do you have any suggestions?
Microsoft can't jail anybody.
I think the massive piles of money coming in may have been a contributing factor...
Thanks - a nice explanation of Spark's benefits. The programming & execution models sound like big improvements - I'll check it out!
How to build a project
If you're talking about PV/wind vs. nuclear, you're not really "fighting" nuclear. Everyone thinks this even after being reminded about energy storage, the wild fluctuation in capacity factor, etc., and I don't understand why.
It isn't the job of transit to tackle homelessness itself. Their priority is transit... because they are transit. Their job is to provide clean, safe, effective transportation, not rolling makeshift homeless shelters.
> Agreed, but the question is whether people would be more wasteful with 100% free buses, taking more trips and negating that benefit.

Generally this isn't how bus systems operate. Bus lines will run for a dedicated period of time and constantly run the line. The only way for more buses to be introduced is to expand the hours of operation or introduce more lines. That then becomes a question of capacity and how many people are using those lines. As bus lines become saturated and need to be expanded, we already have an idea of how many riders are using that system and we can directly measure that against changes in density of other forms of transit (car, rail, pedestrian, etc.). To that end, the buses are least wasteful when saturated, so its simply about measuring against cars to determine if there is more resources spent on bus systems compared to the number of cars that would exist without said bus system. We know that buses carry many more people per trip than cars do reducing car volume in favor of bus volume means we are being more efficient per vehicle, which is a bonus for things like more environmentally friendly bus tech while avoiding the externality cost that individual people and families pay when having to purchase and operate/maintain a car.

> Sorry, I don't have the citations right now, but much has been written about cities especially in Latin America where new subway systems were built that showed a strong negative impact on efficiency and expenses.

It is totally possible that a mass transit system will fail to provide any benefit. Its up to each city and locality to determine what transit will for that area. However, in the US we do know that car transit wasn't really considered this way and was expanded without a lot of thought going into density issues.

> All I'm saying is that we have to be careful with subsidies. Subsidies are MONEY and as a general rule spending more money causes more energy use and waste. Saying "We'll save energy by spending money" is always a tenuous argument that needs to made with care.

Owners and drivers of cars are spending money already to obtain and maintain those vehicles. Those drivers are also subsidized in a variety of ways. Spending money in general doesn't guarantee an increase in energy use w.r.t. transit, certain forms of transit are much more energy efficient in comparison to other forms.
I know who works there and believe my statement to be accurate; remember, we're talking about the total volume of all vulnerabilities discovered in Microsoft products.
I'm not sure I get your point. Are you saying that we shouldn't be discussing problems of scientific methodology, since it strengthens the people who claim there are problems with scientific methodology?
Where is the "Works better on Google Chrome" badge?
I guess I have 6 months to figure out what to do. This kind of sucks for me.

I really like intercom. But i guess I am not the target customer for my startup because the economics don't make as much sense unless I can change my conversion dynamics before January.

The new pricing punishes small, bootstrapped businesses who have a free tier in their product, because of how they've defined an "active" user.

"An active user is defined as having used your product in the last 30 days"

https://www.intercom.io/pricing

Let's say you have 1% conversion from free to paid. Some larger percent use your free tier.

Because these free users are "active users", you have to pay effectively 4.4 cents a month ($11 / 250) per user.

The problem here is that if you got a big push of "free tier" users who may not be qualified, it can cost you a lot of money. Ie, 1000 users signup because of some promotion, but let's say they came from TechCrunch and didn't convert. You still have to pay $40 to intercom for the privilege of hosting these free users.

This also happens with email announcements (new product features, content, etc) that can drive some percentage of users back to the site. So, if I activate a few hundred dormant users with an email (who use the site, but don't upgrade), it will cost me a lot of money.

So, unless you have a big enough premium user base to subsidize the free users, this is going to be prohibitive.
I've heard that some police forces in Canada have been using small helicopters for emergencies and SWAT-type situations. I don't think that counts as surveillance, though.
If your ok with a static blog that you need to put a little work into you can use GitHub Pages and Jekyll. You have to push updates yourself but its completely free.

http://jekyllrb.com/
http://pages.github.com/
I thought that before re-reading the appendix. But take a look at this line: "It was expected that Newspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak...by about the year 2050."

Why not just "It was expected that Newspeak would finally supersede Oldspeak..."? The author seems to go out of his way with the tense he uses to convey the future interpretation.

One could argue against the article writer's conclusion, but after re-reading the appendix, I think there's some compelling evidence for it.

EDIT: At least for the bit about it being written from an Ingsoc-free future.
You may be one of the geologists he is referring to :)
A 6% difference between the 35+ crowd and milennials seems rather insignificant, especially when the data clearly shows that 56% of milennials and 62% of 35+ respondents are "not outraged" by the existence of PRISM.

Furthermore, cherrypicking some comments regarding PRISM to support a 'point' that milennials care more than the 35+ crowd doesn't really provide accurate support to statements like "milennials are among the angriest" about PRISM.

Finally, the poll question itself is worded badly: I'm certainly interested in PRISM and curious about the extent of its reach, but 'outraged' would never be a word that would describe my feelings about the program. 'Outraged', in my book, certainly isn't synonymous with 'giving a damn'.
Instead of jumping on another similar host try optimizing your website first, installing caching plugin like W3 Total Cache would make a lot of difference. Of course, the best way to handle traffic would be with flat html files, converting your blog to Jekyll/Octopress or similar, like the sibling comments are suggesting.
I am by no means an expert on prostitution, but I don't think it's the illegality of prostitution that keeps many women from entering the market.
I believe he pierced each finger with a different electrode.
Homelessness is a problem for the homeless. Homeless people sleeping on the buses are a problem for commuters. Sometimes you're just looking to get to work without having to put on a show of saving the world.
This is a funny illustration of the Cobra effect [1].

It's not obvious that people not writing the software can contribute to the problem, but I suppose this program will test the hypothesis. What I mean is that, in this Dilbert strip, the programmers get paid to fix bugs that they create, incenting the creation of bugs. Paying the townspeople to let the company know about bugs would not obviously (to me) lead to more bugs being created (except in contrived scenarios that involve collusion).

1 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
This was my point but I was leaving open the possibility that I was completely oblivious to something. The only situation where I can think of DNS privacy having any impact is with an overlay (VPN/Tor) that leaks DNS requests at the client endpoint.
> do not tie them to an individual

Just knowing the transit pattern for any particular ID would be a huge indicator of who the individual is.

Imagine the consequences if you looked at my Clipper (SF Bay Area) card. I almost always get on or off at one of two specific transit stops but not any others (which would pinpoint me down to a pretty specific 1-2 block radius if you assume I use the closest stops to my home), if I take the train from downtown SF it's either to the airport or to an East Bay stop, if it's an East Bay stop I take a specific bus that goes to only so many stops...and I chose that particular bus route over others from that train station. You would be able to guess where I live and where I'm going all the time at the bare minimum.

While I'm fine with this data aggregation right now since it's used for payment and proof of payment, in conjunction with your idea of selling ads and maybe a corrupt politician who wants to monetize that data for a free system... I shudder to think about super targeted ads as a result.
I sincerely apologize for the distraction from the central thesis of the article. I brought up the point about their use of the word monopoly being incorrect because bad economics is a pet peeve of mine.