skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am worried a little. Right now I keep an eye on the users who upload the most stuff daily. If I suddenly see one person upload 500 songs in a row (which I did once), I'll investigate.

As the service (hopefully) grows, I may need to come up with other ways to police it. Fortunately Apple and Spotify and Google and Amazon have systems to detect spam as well.
This seems like a very complex alternative to installing Adblock
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You're making a very bold claim that being born into wealth and connections is a prerequisite for VC funding. Do you have any hard evidence to back this up?

Please don't take this the wrong way: Your comments seem to reflect your own track record of professional failure rather than some legitimate trends or observations about the industry as a whole.

If every founder, investor, executive you have met has seemed malicious or incompetent, please consider this: the only common denominator is you.
Cassandra is not schema-less. I covered this in my recent article on Cassandra Myths: http://www.infoq.com/articles/cassandra-mythology
https://pod.orkz.net/uploads/images/scaled_full_c6d736391b3b...
Instead of just driving to some far away place and come back, I'd pick a mailbox that's close to something where you might go sometimes but that's not close to your house either.

For example, you could go to Ikea buy something there (with a credit card to leave a log of a transaction) and mail your letter. Ikea because they aren't that many Ikea stores but it's not out of the ordinary to drive quite a while to go to one.

My point is that if you have reasons to want to send an anonymous letter, you might want to make sure that a drive that doesn't fit your regular patterns can be explained by something reasonable.

edit: I'm not sure the credit card is a good idea. Likely not. It might be better to pay cash, and keep the receipt. This way, you can't be immediately cross-referenced, but if asked, you have an alibi. Yeah, I really don't know. :)
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According to that page, the Mongo test was using unacknowledged writes, so not exactly a useful comparison
The US predilection for writing a sender's details on the outside of mail has always struck me as poor civic hygiene.
There's this: https://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/352489027716386816

but I do not know how Rheingold get the news
> I don't agree that founders deserve as much as
> Spolsky thinks...

I've always read Spolsky's advice like this: "If you literally can't build the business without the other person, make them an equal partner." I agree that founders should think long and hard about this, because there are very few scenarios that require a fifty-fifty partner, and many that require high-skilled, but not unique, people.
The point isn't that there are no enemies. The point is that the cure is worse than the sickness.

Anyway, what are you worrying about? Another 9/11? Car accidents are more probable causes of death, and you could eliminate most of them cheaper and with no ethical issues, boosting economy as a byproduct (build fast railroads, subsidize the tickets). Gun ownership is another low hanging fruit. Hell, even just making flying cheaper and more accessible will probably save more lives than NSA.
of course a C-sharp is equivalent to a D-flat :-)
I strongly agree with you.
I'm really confused. This looks like someone's private notes on various tech subjects. Kind of like the notes I might keep in my notebook. Very little context, and hard for me to make anything out of this. Am I approaching this wrong?
Sorry, I meant to say that the benchmark in the release announcement is misleading (since it doesn't address all relevant issues), not the link in your comment.

We're working on getting authoritative benchmarks out, but unfortunately good benchmarks are extremely time consuming (much like any science experiment).
Well, people getting fed up (with how left-wing and liberal the US was getting) is how we ended up with the Tea Party, which is now apparently enough of a force that it controls the Republicans by proxy, and meanwhile Occupy seems to be so much dust in the wind, so make of that what you will.

I would vote for the Pirate Party. Unfortunately I can't.
Which is why rms and the FSF are careful to distinguish between "free" and "open".
> Union ballots are well regulated

Says who? The unions? What outside observers monitor the ballots?
It's terrifying that people are even forming strong opinions about such things without understanding such basic information.
I'm still surprised this is a surprise to EU citizens or the rest of the world for that matter.

I'm from India and it didn't even give a second thought towards rejecting snowden's request for asylum.

Bottom line is, we're all pretty America's bitch. And I'm fine with that.

From what history tells us, there'll always be someone wielding the ultimate power. I think it better be the US than any other country.
Change history is not required.
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Runs just fine here on a regular mid-2012 MBP15. I can see one thread/core is working full time, but the animation is buttery smooth.
Right now, Facebook is the only good way to know that "Bob Jones" is really my friend named "Bob Jones".

This idea depends on that level social trust. I wouldn't loan out bitcoins to strangers. Just friends who want to learn about bitcoin, as they won't screw me over. Even if they don't return the loan in btc, they might buy me a drink.
What You Can Learn From 6 Months Of Someone's Phone Metadata
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I've always been a fan of Shame-Driven Development.
The debate is partly this: forcing you to produce an encryption key /also/ testifies that the drive belongs to you (or you had access to it).

You are not necessarily obligated to testify to that fact for the police, and unless they can demonstrate that the drive belonged to you (or you had access) through some other means, the production of an encryption key is tantamount to forcing that confession.

It's much like if there were a lock on a gun they found on the street: if they can't link the gun to you already, they can't demand you turn over the combination for the lock, because knowing such a combination would be a tacit admission to knowing about the gun.
Paper. Many of the designers I sometimes work with who do not know code, design really bad web products..
Cache getting out of control and the server getting OOM killed needs to be fixed before I'd consider the database production-ready for large sets of data.

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/97

It's a little disappointing that it has not been resolved for several releases now.

Is there a target milestone for a production-ready release of RethinkDB? Is it 1.8 or 1.9?
> The union members vote on union matters.

And who monitors the ballots?

> Why are you talking as if you're an authority on unions when you don't even know this stuff?

I'm not. I'm asking questions and being downvoted for it. Worse, none of my questions are being answered.

> The point is that a democratic organisation of workers exercising the collective political will of those members using the collective funds of those members, is quite clearly compatible with democracy

Only if the ballots are free and fair. Otherwise, it's just the union bosses dictating terms. So who monitors the ballots?
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After working for a start up for a while, a couple of other things that would make equity far more attractive compared to Google paying $80k/yr more in total compensation:

1. Non-expiring options on leaving the company. Many SV companies have options expire in a couple of months after leaving. Some have them expire immediately upon firing.

This does remove some of the Schrödinger's golden handcuffs effects of equity, but start up equity is not liquid. It can be tough to expect someone to put a significant chunk of their savings into a company and deal with the tax BS just to purchase equity so they can move on. Much of the stress of start up equity I've realized comes from the non-liquid nature of the stock and the fact you don't have control over the company. Many companies want to completely control second market behavior when private, which removes even more liquidity. Much of the stress will just go away if I could keep the options.

2. A consistent pattern in working for various companies is giving the stock & employment contracts after hiring. From now on I'm making it a condition of accepting an offer to receive all contracts, stock contracts, proxy agreements, etc that I would be asked to sign. If you have a surprise call option on purchased stock, no way I will work for that company.
This is very well built.

Now we just need this for iOS. Mobile development is what all the kids want to learn and build for these days.
Mainstream America is ok with the spying, lying, indefinite detention, and assassinations (even of their own underage citizens if they have funny sounding names). And, those who dont agree, well, we're still tax payers.
That is: people who have already made them a shitload of money.

Also: people they owe favors, kids of Senators whose votes they need to sway, and people they did embarrassing stuff with in MBA school who are now getting the EIR job as a form of hush fee.

The whole world runs on extortion, influence peddling, and favor trading. That's thousands of years old and hasn't changed much. But technology was supposed to be different and maybe, at some point a long-ass time ago, it was.
Well there's ways to pull the paper out without disturbing the envelope if they really wanted to go that far.

As it stands what you're suggesting is at least already illegal, FWIW.
It doesn't have a ranged attack (as far as I can remember), so bolas should really help.
Multiprocessing is touted to work around the GIL. I too have run into the wall trying to get big problems solved in Python. And when I went multiprocessing, I ran into limitations in its internals e.g. using `select()` that really surprised me too.
Ansible is licensed as GPLv3. But it sounds like AnsibleWorks-awx is a commercial-only product? Are future 'pro' features going to only be released and maintained in commercial variants of AnsibleWorks or separate related projects? Would love more transparency about the relationship between open and closed-source products at AnsibleWorks.

I made a similar clarifying request on the Ansible user group forum a few weeks ago but my message was not approved. I believe that these are fair requests and deserve clarification.
At the risk of second guessing the parent, they're considering the classical 'enterprisey' stuff as mainstream. If you look at what people use in most companies of a reasonable size, IIS is surprisingly common and Apache tends to only turn up when Java or PHP is involved, with appropriate nods to Oracle and IBM for their relative technologies.

Outside on the open Internet I absolutely agree that Apache and Nginx are the default HTTP servers. I switched from Apache to Nginx years ago (with a few exceptions) as it just seemed as though I could do more with less with it and it made sense for me to standardise.
from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838131

'...but every time I see "Schemaless" in MongoDB, I think "oh, so you're implementing schema in your application?"'
As a Euro myself I hew to the more expansive version of privacy, in which you have a right to know what data others (private) actors store about you (not unlike an FOIA request to a public body in the US), and to have that data expunged. In general, EU citizens enjoy much more robust privacy protections, even when arrested (no perp walks or publication of mugshots, for example).

I agree that technology rather than competing philosophies of law or governance is the main driver here - witness the threads I linked to above where some people consider the work of EU-nation data commissioners to be an unwarranted intrusion on the private business relationships of internet entrepreneurs.

It's too bad we live on opposite coasts, as I feel we could enjoy a long conversation on this issue.
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You can always change the destination directory. I usually store my project dependencies locally, so this command works fine:

npm install sails

This command would store the libs in ./node_modules directory [1].

[1] http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/03/23/npm-1-0-global-vs-local-in...
Ooops - s/Facebook/eBay.
This is actually solved with the Android app Ministro. It downloads and installs qt libraries in shared locations on demand for whatever apps need them, letting you distribute just the app binary, and it will invoke Ministro to get its necessary libraries.
Shame to hear that about V2, I didn't know it existed. My D-Link Boxee box is frustrating, but lovely. There's a huge list of things I'd change about it if I was creating it (from a software point of view that is), but overall I prefer it to any of the alternatives I've seen, the remote is great, and I'll keep using it for a while. But sad to think that it most likely won't be seeing new software updates (I presume).
So you're exchanging targeted ads for identity theft?
That it will drown the readers of those cookies, the advertisers, into a sea of fake data, forever fauling up their ability to know who is who.
The author appears to not be aware of where the big leagues are. Additionally, as is becoming a recurring theme here, he doesn't know about PyPy nor Twisted. This is continually disappointing.
The magic string doesn't need to be private, each user gets a randomly generated string. Either they can place it into their own profile or not.
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It says "Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5." but it didin't work on my iPhone 4.
You still using coldfusion for everything?
We lost a great one (Doug Engelbart)
It's a 2 megabit stream at 854x480.
I'm a zionist, and a jew. And I think that hating zionism, and hating Israel is hating the jews. Hating the policies of an individual Israeli government is politics. I can tell the difference.

Interestingly, I'm also a [naturalised] american living in the UK. I wrote to my MP the last time there was public debate about electronic surveillance and I voted against the last government because they were so consistently in favour of more spying with less oversight. But feel free to hate me too. Perhaps I'm the wrong kind of jewish, american, resident of Britain.
The amount of effort to decouple Reader from Google's internal infrastructure is not trivial.

I'm an engineer and not a business person but I imagine that finding someone to buy Reader and then executing the deal would also be non-trivial.
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The Reuters stream is live and crystal clear: http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_News

Not sure if this has been posted in another thread, so I apologize if this is already out there.
The Dwarf Fotress Headshoots LP is from 2009, but it is a 3D version of Dwarf Fortress. I have seen it mentioned as equivalent to the Boatmurdered.
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My comment is specifically about founders of VC funded startups. It might be different outside Silicon Valley. But in my experience in SV, I know the founders of about 20 venture funded startups socially. One of them is what you would call a "rich kid". The rest bootstrapped for many months, paying themselves virtually nothing, getting deep in debt, before their Series A. Even after raising an A round, they pay themselves subsistence wages, just enough to eat so that they can pay market rate six figure salaries to the engineers on their team.

This might be unique to the West Coast. But around here, social/country club connections mean nothing for raising money. Anyone can get a meeting with a top tier VC pretty easily, even if you are a complete nobody. Having a well connected family might help with other things, but it has absolutely zero effect on fundraising.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/30/us/30postal-ma...

Section I B - allows the contents of unsealed classes of mail "as allowed by law"

Section II B - "...Mail Covers do not authorize the search, seizure, or opening of any class of mail."

Section III B 6 - addresses attorney-client privilege.
You write comments like this and I worry about your mental health.

Not because I think EIR positions are fairly allocated among deserving people, but because you've clearly fixated on something as petty and irrelevant as EIR positions at venture capital firms.

What in the world could possibly matter less to young entrepreneurs than EIR positions?

And yet here you are with stories about EIRs used to hush up things that happened at business school or bribing Senators. You've taken the time to actually tell yourself stories about them. About EIRs. The most boring feature of a VC firm. The guy they bring into the room to screen you when you're not compelling enough to get a meeting with an associate.

If I'd been offered an EIR position at a VC firm, I'd worry about what I'd done wrong, shortly after checking my hairline and hair color to make sure I hadn't suddenly gone grey and bald.
> So, under this definition, the GPL isn't an open-source license.

Untrue. The GPL does not "insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be" licensed in any particular way. [1] And the GPL has been reviewed and is an OSi approved license, which means its been found to be consistent with the definition by the people that wrote the definition. [2]

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation

[2] http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license
Email here: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg80472.h...
It is possible in Arizona to create "charter towns" that can largely override state law with their established charter. As a thought experiment I have toyed around with the idea of a town with a charter based on radical transparency in government and an assumption of a right to privacy.
This might be a good time to remind the angry mob that other nations spy just as much, or more so, than the US.

The US just got caught.

This is like the secret of the atom bomb. Once it's out, it's out. No pretending that it doesn't exist any more. Guess what? What you put on the wire is fair game for any of scores of different intelligence agencies. No, not usually the criminal law enforcement folks, but the spy guys.

And most of the politicians in these countries don't know. In fact, for a program like this to be effective, very few people should know.

You can't put that genie back in the bottle by getting mad at the US and pulling your data out. (Not that I blame you. Might make a fine protest. It just does nothing to ensure your privacy and anonymity) In fact, you could actually be opening your data up to even more abuse. Who knows?

The world needs to decide once and for all whether to make this data completely transparent and accessible to all, or an international crime to collect. Pretending this is a USA-only problem is just another way of sticking your head in the sand.
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You are absolutely right. FYI, the rationale for this decision is that people are rapidly adopting Rethink and writing applications on top of it, so we decided to allocate most development resources to nailing down ReQL as quickly as possible so people won't have to rewrite their apps. Some operations issues (like #97) unfortunately had to temporarily take a backseat. I suspect we'll be able to resolve #97 in the 1.8 release.

RethinkDB will be marked production ready when it hits 2.0, though it will be ready for useful work way before that. (A huge number of people are already using it in their daily work and building important software on top of Rethink)
I'm not VC-funded, either (hopefully I can avoid that entirely, but at the moment I've barely started working on angel funding).

I was born into a poor family, with no connections to speak of. I simply did not know anyone who was wealthy or successful when I was a kid. I've made a comfortable middle-class life for myself through lots of hard work. Starting a software company is something I'm doing because I see a valuable problem to solve, and something I believe I can do because I'm smart and determined - not because I was born into privilege.
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Boston University seeks ban on Apple, Amazon, and Samsung products over patents
-l does not mean "local". -l means "--long" and has no relevance to the install command.

Local is the default state. If you want to force non-globalness, you can do `--no-global`
Poor people need prosthetics too.

Here's a cheap utility arm built from discarded soda bottles.

(http://makezine.com/2009/02/05/plastic-soda-bottle-prosthesi...)

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvev6shNvSg)
I bet if you `s/box-shadow/text-shadow/` a lot more people will find ways to use it.
Your comments seem to reflect your own track record of professional failure rather than some legitimate trends or observations about the industry as a whole.

You know nothing about about me, what I have seen, or where I have been. It's true that I've picked some terrible startups, but hundreds of people have had similar experiences to corroborate. If I were the only one who held these opinions or had that category of experience, I'd think differently about the whole thing.

I'm pretty good at picking out genuine problems (i.e. the persistent low status, mistreatment, and mediocre compensation of software engineers in this industry) from noise (transient bad luck that happens to all of us).

If every founder, investor, executive you have met has seemed malicious or incompetent, please consider this: the only common denominator is you.

That is far from what I said. Not even close. Not every one is bad. However, I do think that the social class distance between VCs and petitioners is vast and is already at, if not beyond, the point of being the most important factor in the interaction.

This game has already been worked out, and we should leave it to the people who won it and go build something new. They don't have much without us, so what are we waiting for?
I've been trying to find an email to contact you or Leafly since I saw your job posting. Any help?
Will you still go to East Coast Hackathons (PennApps, HackPrinceton etc)? I enjoyed your demos and appreciated your help.
> This might be a good time to remind the angry mob that other nations spy just as much, or more so, than the US.

Probably not "as much"; quantity of spying is limited by quantity of resources available for spying, and the US probably outspends most other nations (quite likely, as with military spending more generally, at or near the amount of all other nations combined) on spying.
It runs entirely in the browser? Then why not put it in a gh-pages branch so it can be played too?

I did this for my ludum dare text adventure:

http://williame.github.io/ludum_dare_23_tiny_world/
The main backend code is ColdFusion. There's a lot of Javascript in the front end, and some PHP also in the backend. And some Applescript (seriously). And some Bash scripts.
/dev/null: 0m0.001s

/dev/null is clearly the best database.

(If your performance numbers are too good to be true, they might not be true.)