skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a good idea. You'd need to include more systems than you mention however. Our company uses a few of the ones you mentioned.
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Always check the chain of links... the sourced article is this:

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/xbox-one-re-overtakes-ps4-on-...

Which simply states that the Xbox One is now above the PS4 in the 'best sellers' list, which implies little to nothing about total preorders.
> There are many people who are allergic to penicillin. That does not make it any less useful to the rest of the population.

There are tons of delicious foods that you can't buy in any restaurant or store no matter how much you're willing to pay, because a small percentage of people are allergic or whatever. So the entire population gets essentially zero use out of them even though they could be useful to the vast majority of people. (In fact, restaurants/stores/farmers markets only carry only a small percentage of the total foods out there.) Similarly a ride at an amusement park that is safe for the vast majority of people is a ride that no one is going to be allowed to go on.

Medicine is just a special case because doctors generally won't lose their license for killing the occasional patient, whereas, say, a restaurateur probably would.
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If the recipient's email client automatically downloads the image the first time and makes it always-available to the user, wouldn't that break GhostMail's promise? While Gmail/Hotmail/etc. may not do this now, is there any technical (even an extension) reason they can't? I simply don't see how, even using a 3rd party, you can prevent somebody from holding on to the message forever. In addition, you cannot assume the content is the most important part of the message; all the email headers will exist in perpetuity, and they'll always know you sent them something (if, in the future, GhostMail wanted to do an Undo Send type feature).
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Since I was asked for my credentials, I believe this should suffice: http://imgur.com/GPYmt3T

Just for the record, I work for startups, not large companies; it just happened that the startup I was at doing design work for was acquired by Oracle.

EDIT: Clarification.
First off, louischatriot kudos to you for building this. Building embedded DB's is fun and worthwhile. The fact I'm not a JS fan doesn't diminish that value to me.

While I understand that packaging motivation; it seems to me to be less relevant due to msi/rpm/deb packages. Those technologies make it pretty easy to package an application built with heterogeneous components.
If you plan on targeting mid-size companies and up to enterprise, you're going to need to have some sort of AD/LDAP integration.

The onboarding/offboarding process is generally initiated from there, and internal apps and services tend to use that as the canonical user store.

Good luck with your project, I hope it works out well for you!
Co-founder
What is the best way to find a skilled hacker co-founder for a non hacker living outside the US ?
Remember when in 2011 May Skype went down for a while (and before that, Vonage, and various other communications providers)? Yea, that was when they added the recording capability. Note that there was no client update, just a mysterious "network outage".
+1 That was my exact thought.

If anything; I think this gives people an impression that they can NSA proof their email-- when in fact they cannot.

The NSA is capturing, and archiving, the data directly from AT&T and Verizon's network. The fact it's set to expire on the OPs servers is of little relevance on theirs (NSA).

Cryptography is the only way to "NSA proof" anything; and only if you do it right.
But if they identify that "Jim English" has visited the MOT description website 10 times in the last month...so what?

Google analytics for a publicly facing government website is akin to someone watching you walk physically into a public municipality.
> specific prohibitions for fourth amendment abuses

Not to be coy, but wouldn't that be the Fourth Amendment itself?

Or do you mean to explicitly expand what the Fourth is believed to cover?
There's nothing wrong with people speaking their mind, so long as they are considerate and are trying to add substance to the discussion.

But there was nothing constructive in goggles99's comment, and its general tone was mean. It doesn't pass the "real life test"; if OP had shown this demo to a group of people face to face, only an asshole would have responded with what goggles99 said.

>Otherwise - let's just keep adding to the noise, shall we?

You might not be aware of it, but what you're doing here is known as "derailing".
Wow, this has to be one of the most annoying mobile styles I've ever seen. There's this big green tab at center left that covers up the beginnings of lines. Right at the place your eyes want to hang out while reading.

Tapping it reveals social buttons. No thanks, I'm not sharing this, I don't want to inflict this mobile style on anyone.
Ordering people to pay money to a government approved set of corporations is not regulating healthcare it's regulating the people and undermining property rights.

What's next? A selected group of 'food providers' that you have to pay because the government decides that they provide a better diet than people would choose from the free market?
No, the relevant issue is how the DRM is designed and executed. The substantive differences between MS's scheme and how Steam does things are too big to simply gloss over. The marketing could have been as slick as you please but they would still have been trying to sell a shit sandwich. It's no surprise that gamers sniffed them out.
Why forcing Microsoft to reverse its policies will hurt the games industry
Thanks! To answer your questions:

a) and b) The database is loosely coupled with the query language implementation, so it could be possible to change the query semantics without breaking it. That said I have other priorities for now (some adaptation for Node Webkit, porting it to the browser).

c) NeDB queries return vanilla objects or array of objects , on which you can use all the underscore functions you want.

d) Depends what you want to do. If you want to write a REPL I think it shouldn't be too difficult, and it may be a good idea to do one. In the meantime, since the API is the same as MongoDB's, you can learn NeDB using MongoDB's REPL :)
Yeah but murder is written into the law directly and so is theft, not some abstract notion of morality that differs from person to person and culture to culture.
Sure they will, coinbase will quite happily turn them back into USD for you.
Which conveniently hides the fact that many state and local governments are cutting hours to do the same business is doing. Wal Mart gets called out because of past activities amongst major unions to denigrate them because of their anti-union stance. The idea being, get the biggest retailer and the rest fall into line.

However they merely reflect what many other type of employers do, they just are more noticeable because of their size.
Changelog here: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0/NEWS

Highlights:

* Opcode cache (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/optimizerplus)

* Generators and coroutines (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators)

* "finally" keyword

* Constant array/string dereferencing

* Optimized access to temporary and compiled VM variables. 8% less memory reads.

* Dropped Windows XP and 2003 support.
$30k/month pre-tax?

Forget the bubble -- what makes a company a "real" company is offering things like health insurance and PTO, which are not cheap. That's one or two folks max.
Why do people opt to talk on the phone or use off-the-record gchat instead of send something over email? In both cases, the conversation can still be stored, but the point is to use a communication method for which there is no automatic storage mechanism. You trust your recipient not to record all your phone calls or copy and paste all of your off-the-record gchats, but you just don't want a copy of your messages sitting in their inbox.

As far as your comment on the headers, you're absolutely right. There will always be a record that you sent some message to your recipient at a particular time with a particular subject. However, the details of the message itself are never contained within the headers.

Also, with GhostMail, you already have the ability to "undo send". You can just go into your "sent" folder and view your message before your recipient views it, rendering the message unreadable.
> silver also kills people

Long before it kills anyone, it may turn them blue. And if that is happening, chances are you are taking way too much. Too much of any good thing is a bad idea.
The Potential of iOS 7 Game Controllers
Silicon Valley/NSA revolving door: Deeper than you think.
Orphaned in US, SOPA finds home in Russia
>> It is a non issue, that's not pretending, it's just putting on a rational hat and taking off the silly rhetoric of paranoia.

I'm glad you're happy to publish all the details of your interactions with government services to an advertising company in another country with far less in the way of data protection law.

I'm not.
I am confident from theoretical argument [1] and experiment [2] that any system for failover between asynchronously replicated Redis nodes (in the absence of a strong external coordinator for requests) is subject to this kind of data loss and inconsistency.

If you read the post carefully, and Antirez's followup [3], I think you'll find Salvatore's claim is not that Redis is robust to partition, but that he doesn't think the risk is significant enough to address. I disagree: partitions are a real challenge for distributed systems at all scales. [4]

[1] http://aphyr.com/posts/287-asynchronous-replication-with-fai...

[2] http://aphyr.com/posts/283-call-me-maybe-redis

[3] http://antirez.com/news/57

[4] http://aphyr.com/posts/288-the-network-is-reliable
> My guess is that much of the relevant laws will be struck down.
> If the Supreme Court strikes down the laws, they will be gone -- out'a here....
> What matters are the laws, not what Presidents ... say.... Instead what matters here is what laws the Supreme Court says are Constitutional.

I wish I shared your optimism.

I sincerely hope that the laws will get struck down, but I also fear that the classified nature of many things that touch this will lead the courts to say that we can't show we have standing, and therefore decline to rule on the constitutionality.

More importantly, what matters is NOT just what the laws say, but whether the government follows them! The core issue here is that we believe the laws and constitution are NOT being followed, and that the government feels that What the King Does Is Legal. That was Nixon's claim, and in effect is what the Bush administration claimed re: treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. This time around, the fact that it's being done by the NSA with the President's permission allows them to claim that the classified nature of nearly everything at stake here means we should trust them.

Getting the laws overturned will be a HUGE first step, though, and you laid out in excellent detail things that we citizens can (and should) do and expect.
I don't know who these reasonable readers are given how few facts are available about PRISM surveillance - so few that it's next to impossible to reasonably conclude much about it.

As to the 'it's not a democracy, it's a republic' thing - it's just silly. So is taking the fact that some congressperson would not engage in a constitutional law
debate with a reporter as an indication of the country's inexorable drift away from its constitution. Especially when you consider the question was answered - by the Supreme Court.
Readers of this thread should be made aware that there is an actual article following that headline. Here's some of it:

Just for the record, I am not advancing a theory here. I noticed a lot of people who I don’t consider knee-jerk conspiracists were made particularly uncomfortable by Hastings death, especially when details of the accident emerged. Predictably, there was the customarily strong push to belittle these suspicions with talk of tinfoil hats and conspiracy theories and nutjobs.

Though I don’t generally embrace most conspiracy theories, I also don’t find knee-jerk anti-conspiracism any more thoughtful or satisfying if it isn’t predicated on something weightier than the assumed essential decency of the state and its agents, or presumed knowingness about how conspiracies work or don’t. This has always struck me as a form of exceptionalism that ignores both our own domestic history and this country’s foreign policy now and in the past.

I don’t think reflexive, a-historic, exceptionalist defenses of the state are something that radicals should countenance without grounds, particularly when these defenses aim to belittle and stigmatize people who are more suspicious. To me it is far more realistic to credit the state with limitless ruthlessness in maintaining control — even with flawed theories — than to keep insisting that everything wrong is ‘right out in the open.’

I posted this in part as resistance against the silencing aspect of anti-conspiracism and also on the assumption that people are more likely to draw more correct conclusions about the incident if they have the opportunity to discuss it.
So according to Brewster Kahle's estimates for storing all US phone calls (http://blog.archive.org/2013/06/15/cost-to-store-all-us-phon...), it would only take 272 of these theoretical DVDs per year!

Of course there's a big tradeoff in latency (on the order of 10s of seconds to switch DVDs) and throughput (unknown), but properly indexed I'm sure it would still be extremely useful, and extremely cheap.

Imagine fitting all of that data in this little box: http://gizmodo.com/5321357/sony-finally-popping-400+disc-blu...
It's not new. You've got mandatory flood insurance from a selected group of companies, mandatory osha safety training from a selected group of companies, mandated accounting procedures that must be certified by selected people...

If you disagree with the law on principle, that's fine, it's certainly not a perfect solution.

But those are political objections. Based on how the interstate commerce clause has been interpreted for a wide variety of issues, it's not unconstitutional (for most working definitions of constitutional). That's why Pelosi laughed and moved on to the next question.
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Peanuts are fatal to some people, yet we eat them all the time. Here's a counter-example to your first claim. Another one is Fugu fish, which I personally ate at a restaurant, and which are known to be deadly if not prepared correctly.

Rollercoaster is dangerous to anyone with weak skeleton, and can likely induce heart attack as can a horror movie. Here's a counter-example to your other claim.

Do you have any examples that support your claims?
Church of Agile
You should be making kickass diagrams with mscgen
It can be a slang term for "spies", and sometimes by extension, anyone who works for a secretive government organization like the CIA or NSA.
Amazon offers better prices than many wholesalers, and much better service than most, in that lead times are shorter and more predictable. If you guarantee your customers you can always install 10 widgets, and you keep 30 in stock, what happens the day after you install 10 widgets for three different customers? With this sort of setup, you receive another 30 widgets by FedEx. Let Amazon do the floor-planning, and spend those resources on something else.

Of course, there's little to prevent this service from signing up big wholesalers as well, if they're able to meet its service requirements.
Agreed. I see a consistent story here; the formula seems to be 1) identify a current fad that doesn't have a lot of good apps 2) write the app quickly 3) profit.

I'm thinking of that story a couple months back about the Bible app, how there were a few but they all sucked, and people had decided that downloading the bible onto their phones was something they wanted to do.
Someone in another country, not subject to the same laws about how that sort of data is collected and used.

Actually it's not even equivalent then. It's more like them recording the conversation you have with the public services folk. And you haven't actually gone there, just called on the phone.
> 2. But weirdly enough, many operators aren't generic. String concatenation is performed with "++" but addition with "+".

Concatenation and addition don't share the same algebraic properties (concatenation is not commutative). Haskell has a mathy bias (for example see the monoid typeclass, which I guess you can use if you want to use the same operator for concatenation and for addition) so this choice isn't very surprising.

Besides, it seems like Haskell chooses to have more specialized functions/operators in Prelude while their generalizations are reserved for other modules. For example "map" for lists, "composition" (.) for functions, but "fmap" for functors in general.
If you have bitcoins on Mt.Gox, sure, you can get USD for them elsewhere.

The issue I was raising was that if you have USD on Mt.Gox and people don't think USD will be able to be extracted from Mt.Gox, you will have trouble converting your USD to bitcoin to get it off Mt.Gox, because people who have bitcoin on Mt.Gox will be reluctant to convert it to USD on Mt.Gox.
Very interesting autopsy. But there are many uses for a virtual notary besides those times when "sh#t hits the fan."

Open source distributions, for instance, are currently distributed along with a hash, supposedly for protection, but we all know that those hashes are essentially worthless. This is a way to get integrity protection for free.

Employment status is another case where an independent certificate that you were employed at that instant would be valuable for the recipient.

Raffles and so forth are entirely untrustworthy at the moment; participants need to trust the reputation of the raffle holder, and while there are some laws, they are just not enforced.

In all these cases, VN can provide a useful service far before anything hits the fan. CertTime looks like it was a great attempt at a very specific instance of the problem. Virtual Notary is attempting to tackle a more general version of the attestation problem, so I'm hoping that there are more savvy users to draw on.

We've been running the service for many months now, and it costs 0.005 BTC per day, which is a small price to pay for a useful service. Just curious about what caused you to shut the service down.
No, what they're saying is, "How much more in taxes do you want to pay to get them to stop using Google Analytics?"
Exactly, they're allowed to store the email, even if ostensibly they're not allowed to read it. But if it ever becomes relevant, they'll simply go back to their copy of the email.
With the way the article compared it to donating organs, I figured this was a system for releasing information after death. In that case, the de-anonymizing problem is less of an issue. (Informed consent of this problem would still be needed of course)
What research? Perhaps I have poor reading comprehension but I don't see any data. Other than hand-wavey stuff which is branding 101, I don't see any particular insights.
And the answer is "some".

As a proportion of the whole development cost, using either an EU based analytics service or in-house server shouldn't really be significant.

But even before that I'd like to have some indication that someone has actually thought about what they're doing, rather than just stuffed in GA because that's what you do in the private sector.
Your back of the envelope is off by a factor of 1000.
Another suggestion would be to add a little "title edited by: MOD_USERNAME" tag to any edited titles so we could at least keep track of the moderators who are doing it incorrectly.

As it stands, I have no idea if pg himself edited the title or if it was some random user who recently acquired the correct amount of karma.
Perl-style Regexp Matching in Ruby
No sorry the "man pushes his car to a hotel and loses his fortune" question from another comment.
4.7gb * 212 ~= 1000GB. But the article says 1000TB!
When the email is sent, there is no record of the message. There is only an image URI that points to the image that contains the message. So, the NSA won't be able to grab a copy as it's sent. However, if an organization has the ability to intercept all images that are loaded in the browser (through the ISPs, for instance), it can grab a copy of the image containing the message. In that case, some OCR would have to be done in order to extract the message (which, agreed, is not hard to do if you are explicitly looking for messages contained within images).
You must take good care of your CDs, or they made better quality ones back in the 90s as most of them degrade after 10 years or less.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Lifespan
Agreed. I think anyone can be an "A" player under the right conditions. Under different conditions, the same person can be a "D" player. I know I've had jobs were I was the wonderboy who was regarded as an A player all around. I've had other jobs where I was the black sheep "F" player who gets fired after one week of employment.
Distributed data structures with Coq: PN-Counters
France and Spain take action against Google on privacy
"On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart."

A similar equivalent in coding interviews would be "what does obscure function/feature do?"
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I believe the state law is that in any county where the population is under 400,000 residents, prostitution is legal, which rules out the main large cities in Nevada. I live in neighboring Utah, so I learn some interesting factoids about our neighbor once in a while.
Design By Imitation
This guy's comment history is abysmal. Can someone just ban him?
So what the Supreme Court says, goes? You have quite the romantic opinion of them.

Maybe we should ask the Japanese Americans who were put into camps if they feel safe with the Supreme Court protecting us from the legislative and executive branches.
This is a good argument for the constitution meaning essentially nothing since if there are no limits on how the government can control how people spend their money, there are no real limits on how much control the government can exert over the individual.

I'm not saying you're wrong, just that your point isn't really about what is or is not constitutional, but rather that interpretation has rendered the constitution meaningless so anything is constitutional now. Perhaps this is why Pelosi laughed at the idea of something being unconstitutional.
Corona Labs abandons Corona Cloud after 6 months
This ought not to be a surprise to anyone who has read Steve Blank's stuff on the history of SV.
I caved in and started using truecaller after I started getting too many unwanted calls, even though a lot of people say there are privacy issues with using the app.
Yeah, and what do you think would happen to Bitcoin if all the exchanges vanished? How long do you think the Bitcoin economy can survive on its own?

The reality is that for the majority of its users, Bitcoin is not a currency; it is just a way to make payments in other currencies.
Derek, The design and control flow looks very smooth for first version of the site. I have registered and will look to use it, here is a small suggestion, you can probably add something on dashboard to show as initially it shows nothing.