skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, but it's interesting to ponder how one would detect them if they were. I'd love to see a project to scrape HN comments and try to auto-detect the sockpuppet posts.

It's a bit scary though, since a false positive on that could really hurt someone's reputation... if I wrote something like that, I'd actually be a little bit reluctant to share it. :-(
He could use recaptcha and then diff against an electronic version.
Impressive! OpenWetWare is extremely useful, my supervisors old lab from when she was a post doc uses OpenWetWare to store all their protocols and calculations, it was very useful when she changed institutions for us to get a copy of those, you saved me a lot of time from having to email people for their protocols.

In my opinion lab environments aren't really like start ups in terms of culture, students have their own way of doing things and trying to force them to do things a particular way is detrimental to their performance and attitude. Since students are around for at least 6-7 years there is not really the issue of turnover and the necessity of keeping things uniform so that a replacement can pick up work right away. Whatever system you use a new student will still need several months to adjust and learn the basic skills necessary for research, during that time they can develop a system of their own so it's not really downtime. As a student I think trying to force such a culture is a mistake, you'll develop a reputation if you hardball it. Most PIs take the attitude of we don't care as long as the job gets done and things are labelled for safety sake. That seems to work quite well.
The problem with Internet Explorer is fragmentation and length of life for versions.

IE11 could be the greatest browser in the entire world, and it wouldn't matter until people are able to use it on Windows XP/7.
I was using War and Peace -- now I have to go change my passwords. Thanks!
The cost of a Proton launch reflects the fact that development costs were amortized long ago.
That's been closer to my experience as well. I feel like I have a moral obligation to use my ability to learn and hack on technology, to help people protect their privacy. I'm not necessarily going to be implementing anything new, but at the very least I feel like I should learn Tor, TrueCrypt, I2P, GPG, etc. at a very deep level, then offer to teach other people, and help with advocacy and promotion for this stuff.
How the US (probably) spied on European allies’ encrypted faxes
WordPress core as a gateway to better coding
Scrum: Agile Madness
By the time you would work out how to automate this process in some tool so it adapts to your requirements, you could write your own build script doing exactly all that.
Many users would have seen that as another instance of google trying to shove google+ down their thoats.
Swiftype Explains Their Cloud Stack
"Bonesaw"?? Really? That sounds like a McBain movie from the Simpsons.
I expect their robots.txt blocks it because (a) Reader was useless if you didn't have an account, and (b) Reader was useless without the server-side components.

Why do people ascribe malice to everything?
There's a pretty good article on it here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-oper...
For reference, here's the Steve Yegge talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8

I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Singly pivots to focus on Fitness API Integration Management
Certainly things were far from ideal in the 1950s, but pay equity was still a thing then. The CEO of the biggest corporation weren't be making thousands of times more than the people in the factories assembling the products.

Until around 1980 when things started to get a little crazy, or 1990 when they started to get intensely crazy, CEO pay was around 20-40 times that of the average worker. Now, given that a lot of manufacturing is out-sourced to countries where dollars per day is the norm and a CEO's salary of $50M a year is not abnormal, it may be that the disparity is as high as 50,000x.

It's not that the money isn't out there, it's just being concentrated to a dangerous degree.
In FB you use your wall to publish the info you want to share openly, the other important stuff like private chats, online behavior (clicked links, friends you visit, photos you see, time of login/logout), groups you participate, GPS locations of places you've been or are and etc are not supposed to be open to anyone.
No way, really? According to the article they claim to "encrypt" the passwords (they actually mean hash). Any way you could post the contents of the email (minus the personal details)?
I suspect the effect it has had on you also effects many, perhaps even most, other programmers as well, but I would still wager that their HR departments are particularly busy right now.

Even if only a minority of developers are receptive to working on such systems (and I don't think that, outside the West Coast/Bay Area/Startup/HN bubble, these people are actually a minority. I suspect that we are actually the ones that are outnumbered), that minority suddenly being made to think about these companies has probably given them a boost.
The larger our past gets the smaller our present feels.

The Eagleman Stag is one of my favorite animated shorts.
http://vimeo.com/41756240
Clickable: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1hibzy/i_am_lawrence_l...

This looks really interesting, thanks!
I saw the best minds of my generation write software to surveil and control the other minds of my generation.
Aol prog days - remembering the youth and fun of AOL
Yes! besides the obvious stuff (SMS, notifications, caller-ID, music controls):

- I have a pomodoro app to keep track of time I spend on tasks
- I have a stopwatch/lap counter app for keeping track of my lap swimming
- I use the runkeeper app which displays my pace/time/distance on my Pebble while I run.
- quick calculator for the times I don't want to whip my phone out.
Your right, Shapeways has got it right. I think this idea is more like Bill Gates trying to sell his BASIC to the homebrew computer club.
As mentioned above, this launched in mid 2011:
http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/09/early-look-at-our-f...

Also accompanied by Google Hotel Finder:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/07/google-hotel-finder...
https://www.google.com/hotelfinder
Creep of Rails
That's really good to hear. But why was the non-standard way even an option?
We see them, or what we believe to be them on reddit a lot. Typically, they have a pro-military agenda - often posting "emotional" military pics from accounts that are days old in an attempt to garner a sympathetic response.

Other accounts post pro-government comments again from young accounts.

We ban them pretty quickly. If you look at a users comment history and they are clearly having an agenda to post - they are either misguided, uninformed or sock-puppets.

As a mod of a ~large /r/ I wish I could see the IPs of the people posting. Specifically, if I could see if they are .mil (i.e. Eglin) IPs - so I could ban the whole range.
I don't have a specific example at the moment, except that it's often unresponsive during builds. (I guess this should be expected? Other work I do is in interpreted languages, so there is no "build" step)

Thanks for the link. I'm happy to add it.
I use Ansible for both global and non-global zones. You are correct, both the deploys and the new pieces get new zones (the old are destroy after the migration). The idea of raising entire new zones for simple migrations sounds like a pain in the butt on multiple fronts. In actuality, it is much easier. Zero downtime migrations too.

I personally use USB keys, however it is expected that any one zone and/or server could fail at any moment. Servers are dirt cheap if you do it right. I bet some pay more in RAM costs per month than an entire node costs me with 32GB RAM, E3-1230v3, SSD, etc. There are multiple server types. The E3s are the non-persistent processing nodes... 3RU chassis 8 possible nodes in said chassis... each about 1k with the specs above and they are about 40 ECUs per. Each microcloud is typically around 10RU (1/4 rack). Place at separate datacenters and you get some interesting stuff. I have a whole different approach to the homebase DC. Stuff that REALLY reduce costs.
i hope others might remember such awesome feelings. please excuse if this is not valid for HN, but i assumed many of you could relate.
Here's a few examples of Releases:

https://github.com/reactiveui/reactiveui/releases
https://github.com/github/akavache/releases
https://github.com/xpaulbettsx/splat/releases
Firefox OS Smartphones Debut Tuesday in Spain at $3/mo.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_police
The stock market likes the new Zynga CEO, but it’s wrong. Here is why.
Come to DC sometime and take the subway to the Pentagon stop. Frequently the entire station is plastered top to bottom with giant Palantir banners advertising all the ways they can help Lt. Col. Mid-Level Functionary (who's the person who would be seeing these ads -- his boss has a driver) keep tabs on people.

I wouldn't be amazed that they do business with the national-security complex; I'd be amazed if it wasn't by far their #1 customer.
That's actually what I set out to solve with jspkg.com, at least for JavaScript and CSS based projects. I'd say I've gotten to about 20% done toward that goal. Currently the site allows you to select a git tag from your repo and it will automatically package it up for you and keep track of downloads, archive old releases, etc.
Then how do you inform the browser where a span ends when it is enclosed by text inside a div?

A quick look at HAML and I fail to see how one is more or less verbose than the other. Of course, since I don't use it I suppose I'm not a valid source of comparison.

But to risk negativity, this sounds a great deal like the no semi-colons in Javascript thing a while back.
Does anyone have more info on "cpoll-cppsp"? Hearing about it for the first time, it seems to be smoking all the other frameworks.
These are fine benchmarks for consideration, IFF you are interested in using AWS EC2 instances as a vps. This might not be a terrible endeavor, but it's really not the intended use.

EBS performance is an issue - Yes it is, don't use EBS. Use instance store and push to S3 for persistence. If you need performance I/O for something, there is likely a separate service available that pushes your I/O bottleneck further away (RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, etc.).

AWS costs more for weaker CPU - Indeed, this can be the case. But, it's often cheaper (but not much) to put up an Elastic Load Balancer with an Auto Scaling Group and dynamically support your peak traffic than it is to pay for an enormous VPS that sits idle 60% of the time.

As these benchmarks suggest, I agree that if you're only using one EC2 instance (and you can't get away with a micro), you should probably be investigating other solutions. If you want to architect your app/project/service/whatever to be more distributed and fault-tolerant, AWS can probably make that easier (not necessarily cheaper).
This does seem like a reasonable approach, but would definitely need a rate-limiting system/opt-out to avoid intentional activate-mail DoS to the actual address owner.

Might also help whoever has foo@bar.com and similar, too.
That, hmmm, that actually sounds like fun.
RSS apps face teething troubles post-Google Reader
Whoops. File a support ticket (e-mail support@github.com), please! That'd be uber helpful.
The only safe place for Snowden
I think he's misunderstanding the email:

>As a result, we are recommending that you change the password for your account: dclowd9901

All I see is the plaintext representation of my username.
... and every IT department is forced to deploy a Group Policy which disables them.
Webflow appears to be a tool that would help bridge the gap between Photoshop and handcoding designs in HTML/CSS. Just finished watching their video where they build a responsive website with it: https://vimeo.com/69534373
Pretty sure HN is under their radar for the most part.
Not at all. The exercise is trivially extended to allow for selecting 1,000 or 1,000,000 items from the set. This can be useful if you want a reprsentative sample from the stream, but require a well-defined and limited number of samples.
I'm with you. I've been an aficionado of WPF and WCF since day 1, and am always hoping that with every version WPF would get enhanced just a little closer to the DirectX wire, not completely replaced by that stunted Windows 8 XAML junk.
I think I said all that in a much shorter amount of text.
Begs me to ask the question, how does most of HN search for flights?

I'm pretty addicted to the kayak +/- 3 day matrix.
Link form:

https://github.com/reactiveui/reactiveui/releases

https://github.com/github/akavache/releases

https://github.com/xpaulbettsx/splat/releases
QWERTY Left-Hand Word List
For perspective on pricing and different plan information, I built the following tool last week:

http://cloudpricegrid.com/
Building a TCP API: How we built our realtime app, Filmgrain, part 2
Well, I was referring to the text editor and not the WYSIWYG editor since that'll likely create bloated code no matter how recent the version. I didn't dispute that there are better choices, it's just that it could be done if one wanted to.
The SDK, the ridiculous delays and lack of decent communication, followed by the stamp.
Any news on if/when an API for this is coming? Could be super useful.
Thanks for the comparison.

My first impression? graphs are better :)
Nice, Some solutions are quite fast , but as soon as the database needs to perform heavy stuffs , well the perfs decrease dramatically. The really bottleneck seems to be the database in most cases. However ,some frameworks are basically quite slow.
But, but... this is clearly some Orwellian scheme by Big Brother Google to rewrite history!
It's more than the matching scales.

The way the scales adjust on-the-fly means that once each graph (inevitably) either hits the near-top or near-bottom of the graph, the line stays there, and doesn't appear to move as the scale adjusts around it - the scale adjusts to keep the line close to the "adjustment point" near the edge of the graph.
;) The PTVS guys said they are going to add support for Flask and Bottle soon.
Wonderful, thanks for the continuous updates. I hope you will keep gaining momentum around this initiative; having a solid community-supported set of benchmarks which routinely improves would be a true asset.

By the way, I would like to offer a UX suggestion: it would be nice if you could select one or more frameworks and have them highlighted in the result listings, so as to be able to notice their relative position at a glance.
Is there any way I can see the beta content before signing up? It does sound useful - and interesting - but I'd really like to see something more than this landing page before paying anything.

EDIT: I checked the blog to see if there was any old content there, I didn't find any but I did notice you mentioned the signup discount would be mailed separately. Maybe I'm a particularly fickle customer, but I didn't even submit the form before realising that because the copy to me implied I'd be sent to a payment form.
PRISM scandal: Internet exchange points as targets for surveillance
This is a good idea. However, one thing I have learned from unsuccessfully pitching good ideas to very successful people/businesses is that the more successful they are, the less their decisions will make sense to outside observers. This is largely because their resources allow them to have different motivations for doing or not doing things than virtually anyone else.

Telling a wealthy person that you can make them alot of money, or in this case, telling a business that has hundreds of millions of users how to save a few million of them, isn't necessarily compelling to them. A company like Google has the luxury of deciding that a few million users aren't worth keeping for whatever reason, even though dismissing that number of users for any reason sounds absurd to most of us.
Introducing the Python Bee
> We see them, or what we believe to be them on reddit a lot. Typically, they have a pro-military agenda - often posting "emotional" military pics from accounts that are days old in an attempt to garner a sympathetic response.

So basically the weekly "Check out my dog! He served with me in Afghanistan!" posts on Reddit from hour-old accounts?
How a Pasta Chain Called Noodles & Co. Punked Wall Street
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My Godfather lived as a monk in a monastery in Switzerland for a number of years, and aside from chanting and prayer, the monks otherwise took a vow of silence. However, once a year the monks were allowed to utter a single word to the "head monk"...my Godfather chose the following year 1: "Bed", year 2: "is" and year 3: "Hard". At which the "head monk" replied "you complain to much". After time my Godfather did leave the monastery and one of his sons became a VP/General Counsel of Yahoo (retired).
I make use of polyglot persistence. Graph, columnar, document, relational, key-value... each used when they are the right tool for the job. Each scaling horizontally. It gets easy to blow them away. :)
Aren't you able to get warranty for it?
James Clapper Apologizes For 'Clearly Erroneous' Congressional Testimony
Searching online won't help...
Over Half of Apple's Worth Is Intangible (Visualization)
Apparently there is also NixOps for network/cluster deployment: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/5426864/download/1/manual/manua...
I can only speak to my own experiences, but at least in my case the news has really turned me off to these companies. A year or so ago I turned down an offer from Palantir due largely to privacy and ethical concerns, and since that time every single instance of Palantir showing up in the news has made me think to myself "Man I'm glad I didn't take that offer." I suspect I am not alone in my desire to make the world a better place through hacking and technology. Then again I also suspect that there is some set of less scrupulous engineers out there following the dollars. In that case I would guess that the effect of this kind of publicity is polarizing, but not in a single direction.
How to get away from everyday technology
fwiw, i had a similar experience as well. i tried prgmr too, and linode was just much better and more consistent than all the others.
Responsive Web Design with Webflow(Beta Sneak Peek Video)
It would be amazing to have public Releases from a private repo.
> That quickly drains the entropy from PRNGs.

If you're worrying about the entropy in your PRNG, you are (probably) doing it wrong—just use Fortuna and be done with it.

> Also, for some sampling applications, the calls to the PRNG are the slowest part of the algorithm.

That's a valid concern. Of course, how often do you need cryptographic security and performance in a sampling application?
jenkins or any other of the continuous integration solutions
Peter Theil is the founder of Palantir. He also happens to be the original investor in Facebook. I think that's where the connection between the two companies stops.

If you want to know whether Facebook is getting revenue from the government, look at their financial returns. I'm sure you will find that most of their revenue comes from advertising, and they are not bidding on federal government contracts.

These Daily Kos articles play it pretty loose with how they connect the dots together and make it out to be some large conspiracy.
I particularly enjoyed the use of the word "holistic" in the sentence "a holistic approach to target discovery".
I would like to add a big BUT though - if home or even in-store 3D printers take off and "just works" I believe there will be a huge opportunity for a marketplace like this. So maybe this will be a prime buy candidate for Makerbot/3D systems or Shapeways some time in the future.
Another way to get millions of google+ users, stop plastering ads for it all over Google properties and instead make it useful.

No I don't want to use + on Youtube, no I don't want my search Google+ enabled. On the average week I probably get 5 or 6 requests to do something related to Google+. Worst of all most of the requests are modal dialogues that interrupt the flow of what I wanted to do.
Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life
From: http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/what-the-n-s-a-knows-about-you/
Pirated Apps in the App Store
Maybe not the same people, but the same type of person.

In the business world, they are the guy that will adopt your product if you add this one feature. And when you add it, it's perfect! Well, except it's missing this one feature, and if you add that...

On the web, it's fan boys. Product X is better than Product Y because of this! Oh, Product Y is now better than Product X in that area? Well... Product X has this! And who cares that Product Y has that other features "no one ever needs that."

Or when reading reviews. They'll tell you how great the product is, how much they use it, but mark it failing marks because they also want it to have a new feature. Or this book is excellent, but I had to wait more time to get it in e-book format, so I'm going to mark it as a 1-star review before the actual book is released.

One could argue these people all make valid points. You can say they balance out the people that never complain or are always happy.

But over time, I've learned to take what these type of people say with a grain of salt. They'll always poke holes. They'll always find reasons. They'll never be happy.

Obviously, this is all my own experience. Make of it what you will.
I had not named it uniquely. I've changed its name to "play-slick." Thanks for pointing that out!
Indeed, mono performance isn't great. That is the problem with C#, you need ultimately to run it on IIS for web platform deployment, sadly under anything else it is rather slow.

Also these tests are a bit unfair, as I think they give benefit in some areas to frameworks that cache by default, rather than by request.

Ultimately, what I want to know is total cost, that means hardware, licenses / support agreements, development time, developer ease of hiring.

That isn't to say these aren't interesting, but they are rather apples to oranges. As I posted in the other flamebate thread about MS stack > *, I have set a note in my calandar to help improve the example for MVC.Net (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5976540). Hopefully I will be able to come then when not in an exclusive agreement, they suck I know, but it pays my mortgage!
I've heard the term ODM used for this purpose [0].

[0] - https://github.com/jmkgreen/morphia
Even then it tends to run behind Go and Node.js in most tests. Once Round 7 includes MSSQL we'll see a more accurate picture.
Skyscanner has not let me down yet.
What a useless article. Jury found weev guilty already, and now they're filing an appeal. No word on when the appeal will be heard, just 1,000 words to fill up that lack of information, combined with linkbait headline.
Done and done. Thanks!
Yes...clearly:

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/this_man_is_still_lying_to_a...