skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend running to anyone.

Unless you have severe joint problems, in which I case I think non-impact activities like swimming and flat cycling are a better alternatives.
The article here seems to pretty clearly lay out usage consideration in selection between the types at issue (neither of which is really "unstructured".)
that's a quote from the person I was replying to.

"However none of this should deny that people are motivated by self-interest most of the time."

Sure, but that doesn't mean we should build a philosophy and our institutions around the idea that it's good! This is very different than "simply making an observation about human nature".

And the biggest flaw in libertarianism is the idea that humans make logical decisions, which is one of the most egregious denials of human nature I've ever seen.
They can by proxy. Basically there should be noone or entity with overwhelming force such that they are above the law.

* By proxy I mean a sychophantic gov official in their pocket.
All of you links but the last one are to committee comments on bills, not the bills themselves. Here are some bills discussed in the past days:

http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0067.html

http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0046.html

http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0040.html

http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0020.html

http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0007.html

http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0006.html

http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0005.html
That's an old truth that your name is the sweetest word in the World to you. Apart from this method, Associations(Mr Z looks like my Maths teacher and Ms B sounds like my neighbour) and Impressions help a lot(you usually spot something bright or suprising about the person you meet for the first time: e.g. like Mr Green is the guy with the wig, and Ms Blue is the lady who talks too fast etc. ). The best thing is to combine these 2 methods with the Repeatition and polish them with making up a Story about the group -but that's more to remember the people for lifetime:).
Sometimes I feel like everyone else took a history class where the pages of the textbooks were filled with change brought about without violence being done unto someone.

It would seem Twitter and FB have figured out a way to monetize that.
Literally it says billions of billions, but in context it most likely means billions upon billions.
That would be incredibly difficult to put a figure to without a product to work with. For example, I would want less equity for a web application because they are generally less taxing and can be done in shorter time and therefore the contracted hours would be less. An iphone app would probably come in slightly more due to the complexities of development, testing and launch, but it really would depend on how much involvement the founder needed, the requirements of the individual project and the complexities involved. By a small percentage, I mean a small percentage :)
Except that they don't actually need that data to do the following:

* Being able to retrieve a stolen car
* Not being blown up by terrorists
* Practice any religion I choose
* Fly safely between 5 states and 5 different countries
* Drive hundreds even thousands of miles safely
* Buy and sell what I please, without fear of jail

They've either been able to do these things, or simply failed to do it even with the data.

Until we have evidence that all this data mining is actually useful and essential to government function - and that the /improvements/ to the job they do at those things actually merits the risk we're taking by arming them with the tools to easily take political prisoners or implement a highly repressive regime, your argument is critically flawed.

Just because I can buy a candy bar with $500 doesn't mean I need $500 to buy it - I might be able to with $1 - and you should probably check that the money is actually going where it should.

Similarly, privacy.

tl;dr: Your argument misses the point, because it's not the spying they're doing that enables most of those things, and they were doing a pretty good job of all of those before the mass surveillance.
Instead of thinking of it as an ongoing subscription model, it could be structured as equity in lieu of cash for whatever services are rendered. Lawyers and advisors will sometimes do this.

This should be reviewed with a lawyer, because I believe it adds tax/accounting complexity for both sides (but maybe not in UK?). Also, if we're talking common stock, this would force an early startup to balance keeping their share price low and thus paying a lot more stock for the value provided, or raising the share price (possibly too high, too soon) in order to pay less.

Edit: Saw your reply to the OP, below. I do agree that an experienced, rational entrepreneur would likely steer clear of any arrangement like this, to have a clean cap table and to avoid dilution. But of course "the right way" to do things changes over time, and there is a real shortage of technical talent. So I don't think it's crazy to see something like this become a trend.
I'm really failing to understand obsession with deriding people for solving problems that you personally don't have.

But yes, for some people it can be difficult to do this. It slows development, it makes programmers have to do sysadmin work (which in a two-person company without a specialised sysadmin can be difficult).

As another use-case, there was a point at which Twitter would take days or weeks to implement even minor schema changes across their entire MySQL cluster without impacting production.

And some people are solving problems that just do have unstructured or semi-structured data, rather than your assumption here that it's just a proxy for avoiding schema changes
I guess you're getting more hits than anticipated! :) Can't seem to load it.
You're right, there is no mens rea, and that's why I think prosecuting the kid is massively stupid as well as wrong. But I just don't think it's a "thought crime." He didn't just have this thought, or say it in private, or even make a private aside to a friend. He posted it on Facebook where some uptight lady in Canada read it.

It's really easy to forget in Facebook, especially commenting on peoples' wall posts, that what you're doing is putting a statement in writing readable by potentially hundreds of people, not making a private comment directly to your friend. If he had said it to his friend in the lady's presence, and got prosecuted for that, it still would have been wrong to prosecute him, but I don't think anybody would be calling it a "thought crime."
It seems that the original software http://www2.research.att.com/~kfisher/hancock/ is no more available. Any recent mirror?
Icelandic parliament has a bill that would give Snoweden Icelandic citizenship
Show HN: Beautiful project management software for doers
I think it's interesting that in this time of fancy collaborative tools like github, the trend no longer seems to be collaboration but to reinvent everything as a "one man show". And it becomes apparent with new technologies like Go and redis where there are like 10 different implementations of the same database libraries at any given time, but they are all gone within a month...
> Okay. Great. Our rulers are going to allow us to protest. They're not even going to constrain us to a free speech zone. Thanks!

If "our rulers" were not going to allow protest, or to restrict the time place and manner, the vehicle for those restrictions wouldn't likely be the NSA anyway, so a statement that the NSA doesn't object is somewhat tangential.
No. The correct translation is "billions of billions"
> That modern screensharing is in several ways worse than a demo that came out decades ago is frankly amazing.

It's even more amazing when you phrase it as 'half a century' (2013-1968=45).
The site is down for me, but the cached version features the tagline "The medicine you need to make the centralized Internet go down."

It however never explains what makes Bitters decentralized. Any insights?
I used hstore in an existing database for metrics. It allowed me to add different metrics in the code, rather than having to update the database for new metrics, then a metrics to hstore layer that more or less "streamed" them into the database. I find it quite awesome for that case.

Sometimes there is a need to unstructured data, and if you are already using Postgres, hstore is a great alternative to adding another database backend to your stack.
Yes, that stood out to me, too, because it is surprising and should be easily verifiable. Any Mailchimp users or employees care to comment?
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To be fair, though, the US never recognized the Baltic States incorporation into the USSR, neither de jure, nor de facto, therefore they had no restoration of independence to recognize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_continuity_of_the_Baltic...
If one's goal is to be anonymous, why publicly associate an old site with a new identity? Doesn't that defeat the point? Now, nothing done under the name "Ven Portman" will be anonymous because that name is forever linked to the author's previous identity of Ev Bogue.
I know it just isn't possible in many situations, but transparent support goes a long way in avoiding situations like this. Zendesk has tried this out with fully visible support chat, and it's worked well for them.
>The problems of "black box voting" are not.

Really? Man made problems surrounding "black box voting" and voting online aren't surmountable, but only proposed solutions to the archaic nature of the status quo that aren't being implemented (or not effectively in the case part of what you listed is being used), suffice as such? That's laughable.
>are basically the exact opposite of the type of employment arrangement startup founders are probably interested in.

That all depends. For example, if I'm an average Joe with an idea for a web-app, I sure would like someone to build it for me for 10%-20% stake. Makes sense for me, not so much for the contractor. On the other hand, a mature startup with investors, option-pools, and technical talent, wouldn't really go for something like that. Too much hassle and not enough reward.

Between those two extremes I'm sure there's some middle-ground where it makes sense for both parties.
Hey Evan,

I keep reading how Puma is meant for be run multi-threaded on JRuby or Rubinius.

Would it be non-sense to run it in "cluster" mode (multi-process) under MRI 2.0? Similar to how we'd run Unicorn, for example. Any benefits doing that versus just running Unicorn?

EDIT: we have plenty of ram so that's not really a concern
Chrome supports public-key pinning via HTTP responses: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=78369. I'm not sure about the other browsers.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-06...
AT&T to sell users’ anonymous usage and location data to advertisers
I was initially very skeptical of this idea but then I thought: "Well, some of the money that investors would put into a startup would just go employees and other service providers - why not skip a step?"

There are definitely alignment issues and other landmines that may make this a bad idea, but at the same time, the best way to find out what's wrong with this model, how it can be improved, or how it could work in some form, is to try it out.

It'd be great if you posted a follow up in a month or two after you've gotten some traction.
I've being using double ROT13 for most of my transmissions, but I'm paranoid.
I went to the Restore the Fourth rally in NYC. It was, by a long shot, the most cohesive march I have ever been on.

It helps that the context was threefold: NSA spying, NYPD Stop & Frisk, and NYPD unlawful surveillance of Muslims throughout the tri-state area. All clear 4th Amendment issues. We had a diverse crowd, with a mix of geeks, Occupy-types, Tea Partiers, and members of the Muslim community.

We marched, we chanted, we even took some streets in lower Manhattan. Hard to say how big, but probably about a thousand there. The farthest anyone got off-topic was "Free Bradley Manning." Very rare to see that kind of discipline in a diverse crowd. I was very impressed.
Yes, this is a valid point. It will require management and careful planning on my side. By many pies, this will initially probably be around 1-2 maybe 3 projects, and I do have a lot of time / flexitime from work. If this begins to get traction, I would consider making this more of a full time thing.
> You too can go fuck yourself.

You know, a lot of people here look up to you. When you write stuff like that it has a lot more influence than when some newbie account does. I would probably say that the influence is negative, assuming HN is a thing that you care about.

After submitting I see that you changed your post. The link is not much better.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5992358

> I'm glad you approve. No, wait, I don't give a shit.

So someone asked if you've done work for the NSA. Who cares? Clearly you have the ability, it's not the most offensive thing in the world even if it's a bit naive. The person doesn't necessarily know that it's totally against your values, assuming that this is the source of the offense.
Let's take the most generous interpretation of what you could want to do as a contractor.

I keep reading "percentage" and that word makes me nervous.
Yep. It's hardly usable (e.g. Done button at the top, keeping finger crossed when doing partitioning thanks to the confusing UI, asking to select the tiny city where I am on a world map...)

I've been using Fedora since... RedHat 4.2. The drop that filled the glass last week (using a nightly compose) was the new gnome3 behavior when coming back from turned off monitor to save power. Even though I disabled lock/screen saver/password, rather than just letting me continue where I was now I have to "slide" with my mouse the screen.

So I switched to Ubuntu. My first ever Ubuntu install. When asking about local time, it recognized the city where I was. Because, gee, I'm connected to the network. I learned how to use apt* stuff instead of yum&rpm, and I don't miss Fedora.
There's a note in the margin that MailChimp is concerned that ISPs may filter emails that contain 'bitcoin' in them.
Happy 24th spam account techvibes!
I agree that this may not be intentional. ALG is the cancer of SIP. I never saw one that actually works. Petty much every documentation that describes home network configuration for VoIP will start with "if your router advertises SIP ALG capabilities, turn it off". They're at best behaving in silly ways with simple traffic and mess up pretty much everything in more interesting scenarios (hold+transfer can be broken in so many ways...)
You can restart puma pretty easy too with
sudo kill -SIGUSR2 `cat tmp/puma/pid`
>A better plan for an offer like this is deferred compensation.

Oh I'm sure the startup would prefer deferred compensation, but it makes no sense for the contractor. He'd be taking all the risk.
Ask HN: What's your go to app (or site) while in restroom?
twitter, FB, instagram, vine, HN...
> * Not being blown up by terrorists

Disregarding the fact that most of those items have nothing to do with government surveillance, this particular item has more to do with the fact that attempted (and competent) acts of terrorism are an extremely rare event.

The CIA and FBI failed to stop 9/11 when they failed to exchange relevant information [1]. Lack of actionable data was not the problem then, and I have a hard time believing it's a problem now.

[1] http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/wall.pdf
The SF event was fantastic, and I am proud to have been a part. Even in the face of the BART strike, we had a reasonable turnout.

One thing that was going through my head during the march: much ado has been made about Obama's statement that "you can't have 100% security and also have 100% privacy." I think it deserves rebuttal, but a more careful one than a simple statement that it is false. It is not false; if Obama had stopped before the "and" it would have still been true: you can't have 100% security. What bothers me about it is that it ignores the fact that liberty itself - while valuable in its own right - is also an essential part of security against some threats. It is also unreasonable that "there are tradeoffs" be used as an excuse to avoid discussion of whether the decisions being made are appropriate.
So I'm using both types in a current personal project and I have to agree with the comment on the blog post

"[...] I use JSON for external application data that doesn’t need to be interpreted by say, an SQL function or a trigger. Basically storage-only data..."

Basically I use hstore's as meta columns, for say a one off attribute of a model that I dont want to have as another column and have to do a migration. It is leaps and bounds better than using a text column because you can query.

JSON I use for basically caching api calls. For instance I save off the json from the itunes api for all of the albums of an artist or all of their songs.

It will be awesome when 9.3 comes out and you can query that though. That will be something.
I would add, please use a known and widely-used license (IMO, preferably a 2-clause BSDL variant or LGPLv2, depending on your attitude towards derived works). Don't make up your own or just state that it's public domain. Public domain is actually not a well-defined concept internationally, and means different things in different countries.
Ah, so what you are saying is do your best to ensure young idealistic minds do not join the NSA, to ensure the old guard stays entrenched as long as possible. Yes, I see how that addresses the problem.
Since no U.S. secret court has the power to try anybody for anything, I fail to see how your statement makes any sense.
"IRC. Everyone who wants to make sure their messages land use IRC as a backchannel now."

No, damnit. IRC is logged, double logged, and then has all of the logs shipped offsite to be engraved in bedrock. IRC servers, because of their history in pirated content, are very heavily controlled by law enforcement. A huge number of raids have been carried out around the world based off what people have said on IRC.

IRC is very much not the solution to the widespread monitoring of facebook.
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Author complains "I learned that it means nothing when I hear it is open source and peer reviewed." Yet his article wonderfully illustrates the opposite.
> You just called him insane

No, I didn't. I called a hypothetical and clearly homicidal person who I doubt was ever participating in this thread insane.
This, definitely. Of course the said sports are a good addition to us runners too. I personally find it actually even more rewarding to do the longer aerobic workouts by swimming or cycling than always running. Mixing things up is hardly ever a bad thing.
Hard to have capabilities without free will.

And since we don't, it's all about managing outcomes by using data to intelligently adjust variables.
The Next Big Thing for Exploring the Distant Universe: Balloons
I don't really have a recommendation but I will try to shed some light on your situation based on my previous experience.

If you are a programmer, sysadmin, or in any other IT related field, the opportunity cost of leaving the industry is higher right now because of the numerous opportunities available.

I did leave the industry 3 years ago to get a Masters degree. My return on investment was higher, though, as it gave me the opportunity to switch job markets from a developing country to a US job market (graduates of STEM [1] programs are offered incentives to stick around).

Would I do it again if you don't factor in the changing job markets? Possibly. I was lucky enough to go to a program where I was allowed to take courses from other schools. I took difficult courses and did miserably on some of them in a program where everyone around me was obsessed about grades. And I enjoyed those throughly.

As for the opportunities available after graduating, I'm not sure there is a significant benefit. In fact, you may be at a disadvantage since some companies that come to colleges for recruiting often don't differentiate between a graduate with experience vs. one who has none. You may all be grouped into the 'college hire' category. This means you get a standard offer that every other college hire gets and not one based on your previous experience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields#Immigration_policy
In general, I like your idea :) and I've tried this route myself. Here's how it failed for me:

Outside people can rarely judge the quality of your work. If you're willing to work for free, they'll assume that your work is worthless. At least I was treated quite bad by the startup that I tried to help...
Many people end up with nothing from SS even with significant contributions. EX: You can hit the earnings cap for 9 years mix in some state and federal work outside the system and you get nothing dispite an expencive and well compensated work history in the US and over 100k paid into SS. Or you can have some competing pension which is 2/3 of which is subtracted from SS income dropping you to next to nothing even with 20 years of SS taxes.
The closest present-day analog to Engelbart's collaborative editing demo (edit: I mean specifically the document-editing portion, not the video etc.) is not screen-sharing, but modern collaborative editors (Google Docs, Etherpad), which do provide multiple cursors. Thus the screen-sharing analogy is a straw man, and the author hasn't really made his case against "drawing correspondences to our present-day systems" from Engelbart's visionary work. He may still be right, but I'd like to know why.
Seems very insecure - the keys are sent over the same channel as the messages? Anybody who gets access to the server can log all keys and decrypt all messages passing through.
No, American citizenship does not great a blanket protection against being killed by the military while waging war against the U.S. It guarantees you nothing more and nothing less than "due process." What process is "due" (literally, "warranted") is an inherently context-sensitive question. What process is "due" to someone who spent a decade waging war against the U.S. while refusing to submit to the justice system of any country?
My subjective experience is a little different.

I never did marathons, but I consistently ran 4miles a day ~7:30min/mile pace for 2 years rarely missing a day.

Never got sick and definitely had no trouble sleeping, but I would get knee pain, leg pain and foot pain randomly that wouldn't go away. Mentally things seemed good, but I did notice being more tired in general and unless you run early in the morning it does take up a decent amount of time.
"But even then, if the startup is considering remote workers, this is far less appealing than a full-time, M-F, salary based employee."

That depends on who is managing the remote workers :-)
agreed! I will add a note on this
Ok, I admit my comment is a little overboard.

Comparing Mysql migration to Postgres is not really helping this discussion. Postgres has transaction DDL with many schema change operations being O(1).

Most of the time your data has structure. Only parts of it are usually semi-structured.
And yeah, I had this problem too, until I automated it and don't have it anymore. So I guess I'm a little annoyed when I see that schema change automation didn't really took off and people accepted JSON as a storage medium.
God, I've lost count of the times where the SIP ALG on my WNR3500L's stock firmware just caused my softphone for work to behave in the strangest ways, normally causing one-way audio. The worst part is we have well defined ways for handling NAT traversal for SIP without need for an ALG, but router manufacturers still include them?