skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to go on a limb here and say that the 700-1500 clients limitation is a non-problem for the vast majority. It's like the C10K "problem" all over again. Newsflash: most shops don't have more than a few dozen servers, if that, and the few ones that do must have already done their homework.
FYI to anyone considering: the `window.$` global is assigned to `document` in here. Someone would need to refactor the JS before it's safe to consider including.
I believe the only exception to this rule is Military property. Coronado (off of San Diego) beach is an example. Eventually you hit the navy base...
Honestly, as a non-suicidal person, I find my opinions on the matter are almost always wrong (at least according to people who hopefully are in better positions to know) so I have given up having opinions on the matter.
Personally, I think it's great that Fry has been so forthcoming with his travails. It helps others tremendously to know that they are not alone.

I want to speak to an important question, though: why DO we continue? This is a discussion of the rational justification, independent of brain-chemistry. Hamlet is right for the wrong reasons. These are my beliefs:

The only real reason to continue is because you think that you can contribute, in at least a small way, to the long-term well-being of humanity. You, an individual, are a cell in a vast organism of humanity, and your duty is to find something useful to do. There are many ways to do this, as a (spiritual, physical) healer, as a (artistic, technical) creator, or as a player of (business, political) games (who, by the way, use the output of the first two types in the game).

The "long-term well-being of humanity" itself has many possible expressions. On the largest scale, it means making sure that humanity itself can survive any calamity. That means not only taking care of this planet, making sure that it can sustain life, but it also means reaching and colonizing other places in the solar system and galaxy. Given the incredible work required to build a self-sustaining colony orbiting the Earth (which is the only viable option given our level of technology) maintaining intellectual freedom is paramount. Constructing social/political/economic systems that reward power to those with self-restraint, and engender trust in those who could harm us is also important. On a smaller scale, raising children is crucially important, because the organism of humanity needs new cells to replace the cells that die.

Comedians like Stephen Fry are our philosophers. They perform a remarkable feat of alchemy, taking the banal horrors of political and social life and transmuting them in to something funny, something insightful, something that makes you think. Humor is an effective coping mechanism when we face our own prejudices, our own contradictions and, importantly, the same mistakes we see in others. Too often our leaders, and indeed we ourselves, don't laugh enough at the tragedies of our age - for laughter is more powerful than hate, because it criticizes injustice but mercifully leaves behind the terrible burning that anger creates.

Please, Stephen, continue.
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Thanks
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism#Ultranationalism
That sounds really cool too, and it could be a nice addition later on down the road. It'd definitely make it a little harder to put together, so I'd probably save that for after I got the initial version out into the open. Thanks for the thoughts!
That's understandable. I read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/d... and I felt a lot less guilty after more thoroughly understanding myself and what introversion is (not necessarily the same as misanthropy or social anxiety)
Let me suggest you are not thinking straight. Advertising, like it or not, is what keeps the internet alive. Without this revenue stream it would collapse. The internet doesn't run on idealism, it runs on money. Before making statements like that go start a non-trivial internet-based based business and gain some understanding.
> Lifting barbells allows you to control the weight much more than climbing or punching things.

Ok so that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the explanation.

> Barbells also allow you to start with smaller weights at the beginning of the workout, and then move on to heavier sets when you're warm. AFAIK there's no way to do this with climbing.

So with climbing in general climbing harder problems (smaller holds, further apart, more overhang, etc etc) works muscles more, and the harder you climb, the fitter and stronger you will be.
WildTangent? Aren't they an ex-spyware firm?
Ask HN: Is Github that popular?
Poll: Where do you actually store your non-open source code such as your private websites or phone apps?

Github private repo
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Well, I wish it were more so, and there are still too many non-pdp11 acres left.
Funny how extraordinary people often seem to have extraordinary hobbies:

The irony is that computer science nearly lost Knuth to its ranks because of his love of music (his house is built around a two-storey pipe organ that he designed himself) and says he intends to return to it once he has completed the expected seven volumes of ‘The Art of Computer Science’.
But, maybe it's just part of the ol' "Create a problem, then offer to solve it" con. I mean, Carter only had one term, so this could be part of his re-election bid... ;)
I did not get the impression, from the blog posts, that HOTT was putting forth that CS could or is a super set of math just that it can be used as a foundation for all mathematics, just like set theory or category theory can be.
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"The strange thing is, if you see me in the street and engage in contemplation I will probably freeze into polite fear and smile inanely until I can get away to be on my lonely ownsome."

This is me. I feel lonely all the time, yet when people approach me for conversation, I smile and respond with the least amount of words possible, and long for the moment I can be on my own again.
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45 isn't too old! At least I hope not or I'm screwed.
If you're getting downvotes for this one, it's not because you're voicing some controversial opinion, it's because you made a really dumb comment.
Here's the Kickstarter campaign - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/escapeapps/opening-this-...
Sometimes they just need to have a person who lets things be normal - someone who knows what is there, but doesn't let it change the tone of every interaction.

Yes. I'm very glad you said this. Mental illness is bad, but even worse is all the nonsense you have to put up with from people when you try to get your life back together-- the prying questions, the discrimination, the ridiculously long-lasting career-altering properties (due to people in power generally being superficial and mean-spirited) of minor health problems.

It's like a hurricane. A few people die in the storm itself, but then hundreds or thousands die in the human-made chaos and disintegration afterward. Seeing the wreckage that is made of your life after a mental health event (and experiencing the fact that many people want, with glee, to push you back into the hole, because it means less competition) can, for many people, trigger another one that is longer-lasting and harder to break out of.

If you're not a psychiatrist or therapist, often the best thing you can do for a mentally ill person is help that person get back to a normal life.
Advertising is a two-sided market. As a business with a product/service to be advertised, how would I go about acquiring customers without ads? Everyone from credit card companies to the local dentist has the need to market.
I started reading and registered an account on HN very recently (a few weeks ago), because I thought it was about technology, Internet, start-ups, science, etc.

Little did I know, Hacker News actually seems to be about the US Government, NSA, PRISM, cyber-surveillance, secret courts, wiretapping, conspiracies, and other such topics. At least, based on the volume of stories here. Is there a way to filter them out and get back to reading about technology?
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the volition of human rights

Did you mean "violation"?
Isn't that the (pop?) definition of extrovert and introvert, i.e. some recharge when with others, others when alone?

For me that seems to constantly change, that is, when I spent a lot of time alone, people are exciting and refreshing to me, but if I spend many intensive hours with many people, I sometimes actually physically shiver in relief the second that is over: the moment I walk out the door, close the door behind visitors, or put down the phone, I tremble a bit and feel a wave of relaxation wash over me. I like to think that's a sign that my body and mind were looking forward to some alone time, to process things maybe, instead of me being antisocial or socially inept.. but I'm not sure, could be a bit of both.
Nice information, but you don't have to accuse people of lying. Most likely they're misremembering structurally minor details which don't distract from the main point -- which is that he was held under conditions tantamount to torture, and in an abuse process: in particular, a dubious interpretation of the "Prevention of Injury" status.

If you want to go after liars, go after people who pretend to believe that unnecessary solitary confinement (military or civilian) isn't torture. Or that drone (and vanilla) airstrikes aren't killing civilians in large numbers.
Abstractly, perhaps, but I think we can say that there are more concrete reasons why a nation may dislike the USA. I'm not arguing for or against the USA as a power here, just that this just seems too much of an oversimplification of the issue. This isn't a board game with scores and tokens. Mapping the complexities of nations over a 100 years into such an analogy just doesn't fit right in my head.
Errr, as I may have made clearer in a closing sentence I added after you posted your reply, I'm focusing on the style of this; that the bubble needs to be popped is not something I question.

Hmmm, thinking about it, if the new leadership has a clue, they are recognizing that the inevitable crash is going to be very painful, so I wonder if they aren't also planning on a return to old style repression to manage the social fallout. I may indeed be reading too much into the campaign and slogan (I don't follow the PRC all that closely), I guess we'll find out soon enough.
You are truly a delight.
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I significantly doubt the premise of this article is true. If you read into Snowden's background, the job at Booz Allen was quite a lucky gig for him. Having no formal education, to include a high school degree, he managed to climb his way to a 6 figure salary at a big firm, anyway, nonetheless, a defense contractor.

Sorry, but I don't buy it. It seems much more likely that he really needed the job and was fortunate to have it, but felt guilty about what he saw there, or just got pissed off and decided to leak.
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Anyone have any recommendations for the best software for creating screencasts like these in Windows and Linux?
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When did this trend start to refer to things as a "story"?
But it certainly is possible to do. People in contemporary society are allocated some division of material resources, and most people get by, though at the edges there's some suffering. And disruptive automation and investment inherently increase material production, so it's not a lack of goods that is killing us. It's just a question of how to get those goods to people who can't provide value in the production chain of them in the most economically efficient way possible.
Yup, Broad Beach at one location has a gate requiring a key.
Try https://rvm.io if you're having difficulty getting Ruby somewhere.
I can relate to this at times. Although I would be perfectly capable of doing working at home, I don't. Instead I sit in public places so that I am not alone. But, I would note, those places are not social. In the library of my university is a large open room, which often has several people in it; however, is a designated quiet area so talking is kept to a minimum. This way I am not alone, but I am left alone. It is the presence of other's I enjoy, not necessarily their attention.
Ah yes, but the series came much later in history

Only on the 18th century the series were discovered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_trigonometric_functi...
I'm absolutely certain that a number of secret societies exist that call themselves Illuminati. Similar to the "Knights Templar" who surfaced in the 18th century, despite having no connection to the actual Templars.
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From a software engineering perspective, this is entirely backwards.

Databases offer a great way of looking at your data.

However they have very poor stories around version control, rollout, rollback, separating metadata from data, and creating multiple parallel environments for production, qa, and every dev engineer. Yes, I know that database vendors claim otherwise, but compared to what is standard for most programming environments these days, it is a major limitation.

But it doesn't stop there. If you are lucky enough to get a busy site, you will find that the database is the inevitable bottleneck that can't simply be scaled by putting machines in parallel. The more work you push down to that, the sooner you'll hit that bottleneck, and the harder it is to fix once you do. When you've experienced, as I have, the joys of periodic outages because the database choked at a million dynamic pages/day, you'll value moving logic out of the database, the ability to put caching in front of it, etc.

Now to all of this the database vendors have a trump card, what happens if multiple applications access the database? If your business logic is there, then you're fine, otherwise you're reimplementing that logic multiple times! The thing is that in the 15 years that I've seen people making that argument, I've not encountered a lot of organizations opening up a business critical transactional database for random applications. And in practice it is easier and saner to put an RPC layer on top of of your existing app, in which case you get the business logic that way.

I guess I should somewhere note that I spent several years of my life with my primary job being to write fancy SQL. I was also the go to person on the software development side for "get us to scale the database better". I do not criticize databases out of a lack of knowledge of how to use them. I criticize them based on a large amount of experience with how to make the most effective use of their capabilities.
You are right, I just wanted to emphasize the single-sidedness of the US whenever it suits them and the 'oh-people-you-have-to-abide-by-the-law' when not.

The ICC was one of the BIG things as far as 'International Law' goes. The US did not enter because 'we do not want our military to be judged by foreigners' (in G.W. Bush's words), just as they did with the Germans after WWII.

You are right, my point is just tangential.

But there it goes.
I'm not much of a Linux user (I only check out some distros once in a while), but I found Linux Mint Cinnamon to be extremely intuitive, and I "got it" right away. I actually thought it was easier to use than Windows 7, and I use Windows 7 all the time.

I also think Zorin OS is looking great, and it seems like a very nice OS for those moving from Windows 7, especially.

http://zorin-os.com/
Only for that particular GPU he tested: Geforce 660Ti

Let's see if there is any noticeable improvement on lesser or older GPUs.
Doesn't such a validation system place a model for censoring in the very architecture of the system?
They aren't. I think you should reread my comment.
I saw the picture of Susan Cain (the author) on that page and I thought she was awfully familiar. It was then that I realized she was the lady who gave this talk http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts.... a while back.

Enjoyed the talk, I will be looking to buy this book once I'm done with my current reading schedule.
Yeah you're probably right - I've probably been conditioned to think some are private because the access is restricted.
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Sorry, I downvoted you by mistake, meant to upvote.
> isn't a cleaner solution, this is almost the solution you get when you use Puppet

The difference betwen deploying an instance of a stored environment and generating that environment from some prior state is the generative process, which can fail or change in unexpected ways due to network conditions and other factors.

More importantly, PFCTs enable and to some extent encourage modification of generated environments remotely, en-masse, without any significant capacity to ensure that individual instances within a group have not subtly shifted in configuration. This is what I meant by configuration drift.

CSIEs, by contrast, are essentially the complete product of the entire generation process, thus ensuring that future instantiations are identical. A subtle difference, but an important one.
You're absolutely right to question and confirm when people use such terms. They're almost always used by liars.

But one word of caution: it's important to keep in mind that you need to confirm by default, not simply ignore by default. For example, one of the dangers of ignoring by default is that the same advice could be pointed at itself. Just because the statement uses such a wide ranging word doesn't make it false by default. It's just the unfortunate circumstance of the modern world that so many people who use such terms don't actually know anything.
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But the problem that all of the configuration managers have and also why they all suck is that the state you specify has no guarantee of being the end state. A much better alternative would be to manage state in chunks and test those chunks, e.g an http-server transaction would require responding on port 80 if not fail or roll it back. Rolling back could be using namespaces, jails, etc.
Although note that they're only putting the link in the app, not on a website, from what I can tell. So, not really buying a link in the traditional sense.
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Not only do I not doubt it, but the premise has been my own assumption every since I figured out how short of a time Snowden actually worked at NSA. As a guy with a clearance and prior intel community experience he was never likely to be in much danger of remaining unemployed unless he wished to be.

As it stands it smells of a digital "grab and dash".
I see your reasoning, but the "wider America" of which you speak - or at least a large portion of it - would still be calling for him to be tossed in prison (or worse) for being a "traitor" after he turned himself in. IOW I don't think it would help him much in the court of public opinion.

Further, the distinction between indiscriminately leaking and selective/targeted leaking is a real one but I don't think it will result in him being spared in any sense. I can't blame him for wanting to prolong media exposure instead of being locked up awaiting trial for "espionage" while the story quickly disappears from the headlines and from the national and global consciousness.
Your actual objective seems to be:
1. The current version of MyApplication must be deployed and running.

If you're interested in trying out Chef - which seems like a good fit from your comment - read on.

For tomcat you could take a look at this community-provided cookbook, which contains resources that make it simple:

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/application_java

If you explicitly need to stop/start tomcat beforehand (I believe this resource does a restart after deploying your app) you can do that with the "service" resource built into Chef - though doing so may mean that you're restarting every time you converge the node, which is probably not what you're looking for.
I see distinct parallels with your comments of "What can I really do in this situation?" as I do with people espousing "Rape culture".

Someone says stupid at X convention, and they are 'MALE opperssers!' We all seem to be colored with this brush, simply because we are male.

What can I do about men whom say rude things? Honestly, I think the answer is similar to your response... "I'm sorry?"
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Pallet is a library and thus it is serverless.

http://palletops.com

edit: link
So, it's like Copyright trolls, but for property
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+1 This is exactly my question in a different reply. I wish I could have been a liberator of slaves or an advocate for native Americans' rights a long time ago, but now it seems that all I can do is live a moral and cognizant life, and give back when I can. Far from miracle working and not likely to cause a major change. :\
I want to speak to an important question, though: why DO we continue?

I don't see death as innately undesirable (though the period immediately before it can be painful) but I think that karma is real (not the loopy, Westernized kind; it occurs over millennia and its only continuation is through the mind itself-- nothing supernatural other than reincarnation, if that qualifies) and that rebirth is true.

Choosing to die isn't necessary karmically negative-- and euthanasia goes into a different category-- but killing anyone (including oneself) in anger or out of a negative emotion probably is karmically negative, and the moment between lives is one of the most powerful/karmically charged points that one faces. So, for me, it just seems like a risk I don't want to take. Even when life seems horrible, I don't kid myself into believing for a second that I couldn't be born again much worse off, facing all the same karmic problems but with less in the way of resources.

(No, I'm not saying "suicides go to hell" because I'm not sure I believe in a hell; but I am saying that I think an afterlife is, although certainly not proven, more likely than not and I don't want to go there on bad terms.)
As somebody who has cancer, mentioned in the article and mentioned right next to diabetes (cringe), I look at the people complaining about how human interaction is complicated and life is difficult and I am left speechless.

Fuck people, make an effort. Do it for the dying ones.
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I think this is where terminology breaks down a bit, but my reading of "basis of" is taken as being loosely equivalent to saying a superset of. In this same sense, logic can be seen as the basis for all mathematics. Anything that is math is also strictly logic, hence math is a subset of logic.
That's a rather dogmatic way of thinking about karma.

'I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.' Anguttara Nikaya 5.57 (translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu)

Lesson to self: practice noble habits and refrain from ignoble ones.
This a great project. Living on the east end of Long Island, we tend to have similar (although seemingly less extreme) situations with public beaches and waterways. I'd love to see something like this here too, so when I'm getting yelled at I can point out that I am in fact on a public beach.
Why not let me run my own server then, for me and my friends?