skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is spot-on, and an exceedingly common flaw in human cognition. It drives me crazy when I hear things like "Google wants to _____", "France believes _____", "The government is trying to _____", etc. While sometimes it's a linguistic proxy for something concrete (a specific leader, opinion polls, cultural zeitgeist), it's usually a victim of that insidious Dunbar number, and the brain's attempt to cope by treating a large, complex, heterogeneous institution or culture as though it were a single person.
AT&T invited weev to check their interfaces? Could I see a link with the text of that invitation?
I don't know your cost structure/margins, so I really can't give a specific set of numbers in good faith. In my relatively limited experience in polling/interviewing large numbers of people (a couple projects) I have gotten the impression that my example of engaging 1000-2000ppl/month is unusual. The tools we used seem to have been geared towards 1-2000/day or more (inferred/back of envelope). This makes me think there may be a market for you guys in the much higher volume brackets which might let you subsidize the lower end and draw folks in. First month free definitely cool idea though. I will definitely find a way to use this if possible.
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Should LOPSA "lead the march" to DevOps?
Is everyone really serious saying this is amazing? I really do not understand the price tag being stated and what the product actually does? - Just to be clear this shows a particular business's facebook likes? with an added bonus for real time and turning numbers.
Maybe I just do not get it.
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how about bloomberg ?
Well depends on application you need, spot on instances are cheapest for batch processing.
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I never understood why some people prefer to buy licensed stuff from Oracle or Microsoft. Do you like pain?

"nobody ever got fired for buying IBM equipment"
Have you tried modern ML-style languages? e.g: Haskell, OCaml, F#?

They also combine the nice conciseness of Python, with great concurrency (better than Go) and a lot more safety (less late night crashes).
Thanks for all the feedback - we got caught in the middle of a performance upgrade so the sites code challenge engine isn't working under load right now.
My experience was quite similar, although it took me three tries to get it. I think it was http://learnyousomeerlang.com that finally helped me understand enough to really start to enjoy Erlang.
Speaking of false dichotomies...

So a transparent government is well and good for those who need utmost secrecy. They just contract out to the non-transparent companies!
What is interesting about the article, in its barely-informed conjecture, is the "revelation" that NSA employs people who focus on attacking infrastructure, and that Mr. Snowden may have been one of these people. Instead of destroying his credibility, identifying his role as more active than "a sysadmin" would add credence.

Right now (it's even the top comment on the article) the focus is on his being a "high school dropout with no degrees or credentials," which has been established to be incorrect. "Hacker who was housebound with mono for a year and worked for the NSA as a cyber-sniper-scout," is more difficult to dismiss.

(Off topic: your first link wants me to see,"emacscankill," to which I wish to say: yes, but there's no default keybinding.)
I was interested in a source for these numbers and I might just post them here for anyone wondering :

Percentage of lawyers: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2013/01/Co...

Percentage of millionaires: http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2013/feb/04/rob...
So what's stopping people from making a web app that offers better native app discoverability than the app store?
For general reading, I use a combination of:

- Bloomberg News
- NY Times Dealbook section
- RealClearMarkets.com
- Bloggers like Felix Salmon / Matt Yglesias
- Seeking Alpha to some extent
Yup. dconf-editor* -> org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences has focus-mode (click,sloppy,mouse), auto-raise (true,false), and auto-raise-delay (0-10000) keys, all seem to work fine. (focus-mode is also settable from gnome-tweak-tool's 'window' settings).

* n.b. not to be confused with gconf-editor, which has an equivalent set of settings which won't do anything (it's being deprecated)
Well, I wouldn't say it should be expected during builds. In the past the build architecture was somewhat questionable, i.e. they ran builds synchronously on the UI thread, which works fine if your build takes like 50 ms :) I don't work on the project build team but I believe most languages now build off the UI thread, and any that have long sequences of activities they are doing on the UI thread should still be pumping to prevent UI lockup. That said, running your own pump in an app as complex as VS is...not something to be undertaken lightly, so it is possible their pumps are not correct or their 'in between pump' tasks are taking far longer than they thought/expected. If you can repro it even without repro steps I can give you some instructions on getting a perf trace I could take a look at, they generally point to the culprit pretty clearly.
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Oh no. This reminds me of a girlfriend who thought her parents really did take their old dog to a farm...
Off topic: Where's my Californian's who want .cali
Tons. I mainly use mine while running, but it's really nice to see my notifications without breaking my focus by bringing my phone out.
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Wow that's ridiculously fast. I'm used to seeing long-running spinners and "loading" pages.

Anyway, for US travel, no Southwest = no deal for me (not that Google or the other searches can do anything about that).
That depends on who's doing it, and under what circumstances. If it's a cop without a warrant, arguably.

My point was just that we respect and enforce limits by means other than technological, and it's correct that we do so.
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I gently agree, except they did qualify their sexist remark. They are saying "This might be wrong; I don't have anything to support it; is there anything to support it?" which is a lot better than saying "Women can't do X because Y. Prove me wrong."

> I suspect that although there is clearly no reason to believe

and

> Is anyone aware of studies conducted on differences (if there are any)

[emphasis added]
> Basically, the relevance of speed is directly related to your margin.

True though the average PHP developper is usually cheaper than the Go or Java one.
Paying people is usually more expensive than buying server instances on Amazon.

High end PHP dev is as hard as Java .. The problem is that the high end PHP frameworks are at the bottom of the list...

> The frameworks towards the top are generally lower level - they do less automatic 'magic' than the more popular frameworks that handle things like validation automatically.

Not really Spring,Struts,etc ... are not really low level.

There is a paradigm shift today. There is more and more demand for realtime apps. And these cannot take advantage of http proxying or caching. So the solutions that perform badely at concurency will not be seen as relevant in the future.
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Given Linode's abysmal security record you might consider swapping the first two.
Palantir, like all too many firms creating innovative software, went to where the demand for innovative software was: preventing terrorist attacks.

New, large scale software never gets adopted in the private sector, because the suits that run them are too myopic to think technology can solve core issues that have never been solved with technology before. They only invest in improving the technology they already have in the segments of the business which are already automated.

Oracle sold its first relational database to the United States Air Force. Nobody else thought they needed it at the time.

Palantir actually offers a very general purpose toolset, but it is the intelligence agencies which were the first to have a giant pile of money and a problem that never goes away.
> Scaling also doesn't come for free and it's harder,

that's a very good point.Scaling definetly doesnt come for free, especially when scaling databases.
Sure and every codebase has documentation , specs and tests that follow it all over the internet..

I think the main difference probably comes down to medicine having more procedures and redundancy built in because you can't let a patient die when a particular doctor is not available.

OTOH my older relatives definitely complain about/praise individual doctors for bedside manor , professionalism and misdiagnosis etc.
It is funny (in a sad kind of way) that citizens have to petition the government to enable government-subsidized enterprise to function.
So this comment really resonated with me because I am competing in a space like this. I have a better product but a better product means making substantially less money.

Do you have any ideas on how to better compete without the same type of margins?
While 0-day vulnerabilities will always get the best of some companies, there are some security breaches that are just due to plain negligence of the company.

I believe I recall Sony getting hacked, and tons of plain-text credit card numbers were hacked. It was discovered that Sony didn't even follow even the most simple of PCI compliance.

It's things like that that deserve the "hall of shame"
This made me remember about the "Visual Node" project[1], which is very similar to this but for node.js. I hope it's still being actively developed.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5873351
Thanks for the thoughtful responses!
Thanks for pointing that out. I edited to have a broader meaning, because I think there is a potential exploitation done by domain squatters in addition.
> I'd be interested to know how large the market for that actually is.

Sure, I don't know. But I bet its bigger than ever. For instance the very popular (rank 2), mainstream German online new page SPON has a DIY Tor router article on the front page today
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
(How about selling those in a way that they work out-of-the-box with a nice housing?)

If someone really wanted to find out, a little marketing study (questionnaire) might be quite revealing. E.g. "Would you pay $100 a year for /a encrypted eMail service/?"

Its true, that you can easily get into a catch-22 with the requirements of security (e.g. open source). But I'm sure the current state could be improved by someone clever. If it was trivial, there would be no startup opportunity.
Hi, rudimentary but interesting results. Please consider including atlantic.net in your testing in the future.
Then they put their business reputation into the hands of strangers.
Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney
Seeking Alpha and Fortune.

Dan Primack's daily VC column is also a great way to get a more broad pulse of things.
$5 isn't a small monthly fee, for a newsreader.
When I was around 3-4, there was a teacher's assistant at the Montessori school I went to that insisted I write with the right hand. Every time I took the pencil to my left hand, she would grab it from me and stick in in the right hand. I never understood why, until I realized she was trying to get me to start on a variation of the Palmer Method.

Almost 25 years later, I'm still writing with my right hand, but do almost everything else (except cutting with scissors, which was also forced on me) with the left.

The Palmer Method is difficult, pompous, superfluous with motion and overall an unpleasant experience to be imposed on under the best of circumstances.

> Instead of consciously "drawing" letters, you build up and use muscle memory to create letters

You bloody write letters. No one "creates" letters unless it's on stone or wax tablet and no one "draws" it unless it's calligraphy. That's a ridiculous euphemism for forced muscle memory on a medium that requires no such effort to write clearly, efficiently and without pain.

Yes, I'm angry.
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I agree the need to produce a single overall number is nuts. We need a better setup for comparing things, somehow...

That said, if you _do_ need to produce one in a situation like this, then geometric mean is the least bad way to do it because it does not depend on the normalization of the individual tests at all: if you have 'k' tests and change the workload for one of them by a factor of N, then the average will change by a factor of N^{1/k} no matter what the actual numbers are. This is why it's used so commonly in benchmark that want to produce a single number.

Of course this very property is what makes geometric-mean-based benchmarks so gameable: a 20% speedup of an already-fast operation (say eliminating a single instruction) is worth as much for purposes of the benchmark as a 20% speedup in something that's really slow. The result is that browsers keep micro-optimizing already-fast things to win the benchmark game....
I'll be presenting on using Erlang for an authoritative DNS server at StrangeLoop this year (https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/erlang-for-authoritative...). If you can make it hopefully you'll get some good tidbits on why I selected Erlang and what kinds of benefits and drawbacks became evident as the system developed. If not then perhaps the sessions will be recorded (I believe they are supposed to be, but I'm not 100%).
It is such a pity that so many of their awesome products are so windows centered.
Thank you for great response.

But for me all this seems quite biased towards small Frameworks/Platforms. I will hardly ever serve one JSON response form full stack framework. If I just made some C server that would do those tasks very well it would be first in this list but very far of anything of value.

Albert Einstein once wrote, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
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My impression is that the Pastebin'ed CC# example does not provide the charge, but evidence that helps prosecute the fraud through which they were acquired.
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Thanks for updating that. I noticed that the Slick version seems to outperform the regular Anorm version in most tests. Do you have any insight into why that might be? I figured it would've been the other way around.
now, if they add some kind of smoke [non-damaging to birds of course] to visualize airflow or some modernized version using some safe laser of something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_photography
The memory score is pretty relevant on phones, for what it's worth. Precisely because once you're our of memory you crash.
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But that's nothing to do with the file format though right? I mean, it's just the end user has to be honest no?
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Wait, so the entire training program, which is about how to shock and stun your opponents was not thought out or planned? No wonder we spend so much on law enforcement - even their training programs are accidental transmissions of knowledge and tactics.

I do honestly appreciate your point of view though: the mental contortions you are able to go through are quite impressive!
Submitted a hour ago @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5980337
Colonization by whom?
I have a PSN account and indeed had an account during that event. There was tons of wild speculation about what data was breached, but there was no evidence that credit card numbers were included. Sony unfortunately only fueled those rumors by refusing to comment on the specifics, but I can assure you that if they were storing "tons of plain-text credit card numbers" there would have been a legal shitstorm the likes of which we have not seen in many a year, including a class-action lawsuit. I have yet to receive any invitations to participate in any such lawsuit.
It turns out the iOS Facebook app has this feature already under the sidebar > Find Friends > QR Code > Scan Code. The URL is in the form https://www.facebook.com/qr?id=###########. Unfortunately when I scanned codes, the app did nothing even though it said it would bring me to a Facebook page, so the feature does not appear to be working properly.
That was exactly my point. I am well aware of our propensity to biased personal conclusions. Many times I have been contradicted in my beliefs by actual data.
This Palmer Method thing sounded interesting, so I looked into it a bit more, and it doesn't actually look that esoteric, and there are also lefties who can do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfiC8c-f9wk

> I went to Catholic school in the 50's and learned penmanship by the Palmer Method. I am left handed, and to this day, people still say﻿ how beautiful my handwriting is....

But my favorite comment is this one:

> Just the sight of this nearly makes me vomit with nervous revulsion......the Palmer Method, Catholic school.....I started in a catholic school in 1960. I endured 6 years of shear hell on earth. Like Holocaust victims I will never forget.....and I will tell my story﻿ to all who will listen....catholic school...slapped in the face by nuns, public ridicule was the nuns trademark, told that my Protestant mother could not enter the gates of heaven,....I still have nightmares 50 years later

Finally, I do think that the idea of writing from your arm, shoulder, and back makes intuitive sense. There is a school of piano playing technique that encourages the same thing, and even good typing technique embraces this. Same for many sports.
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True. EC2 for example has 17 different instance types, but only one was benchmarked in the post.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/instance-details/
Fundamentally it's the same.
There is no evidence that Einstein ever wrote or said that [1].

[1] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/
I got to the final one then it just refreshes when I submit my solution (Note: I have to click JS rather than Submit or I get "Unknown Error").
The beta channel updates more frequently and is less stable than the Release channel, it would stand to reason that the Beta channel would require users to restart their browser more frequently regardless of their preference, just like Aurora channel would need to restart even more frequently than the beta users.

From a non-power user's perspective, whenever I am fixing my family or non-technical friends' computers their browsers are regularly left open with an ungodly amount of tabs, often with multiple instances of their webmail client of choice. I'm sure some of them have no idea how to close the browser even if they wanted to, short of rebooting. I know my girlfriend likes her tab count to closely match her unread email count, alright that's an exaggeration, but I often joke to her that she has a hoarding problem and get her to throw away some of her tabs/unread emails.
On a similar note, my PC's hard drive starts making crazy noises as soon as Windows 7 goes into screensaver mode. I've turned off every disk-related option I can find and it's still doing... something. Maddeningly it stops as soon as the screensaver is interrupted.

Linux is a lot more predictable in that regard...
Most of the complex HTTP infrastructure exists to support a the complex HTTP protocol.

Get rid of HTTP, and pretty much all of the complexity of the HTTP stack evaporates.
To be clear he was a monk for a number of years in a Monastery in Switzerland, and he did tell the story (as I am sure many former monks tell the same when reflecting on their experience); however, many people in the thread are drawing similarities between themselves and the unknown scribes, thinking the scribe's work sounds similar to their own as a coder, or that the both put hidden messages in their work. Simply the biggest similarity is human nature, humor and complaining are good examples. In other words I did not see to many people making the point that they too know what it is like to be cold like some scribes mentioned.

Although you make a great point it would be great if one of these margin notes had a second note underneath saying, "its really not that cold in here" or "given a few hundred years the paper softened up quite nicely" a la HN.

Edit: Sorry it must not have come thru, I know this is not my Godfather's actual experience...what made it great is that it was told to me by a former monk in the first person
I don't believe it's the norm, but it is what I choose my browser for. I generally have about 4 windows running with anywhere from 5-30 tabs apiece, in some rare cases 50+. Chrome simply can't handle that gracefully. Firefox, meanwhile, has built-in tab grouping that deals with a hefty number of tabs with no issue.
It seems intuitive enough to me. Solid fuel is basically "pre-mixed". That's why this Proton rocket didn't blow up until it slammed into the ground, even though it was rapidly falling apart and completely consumed in fire. The speed at which it burns is basically the extent to which that fuel and oxidizer is mixed.

Consider a bucket of kerosene. Gasoline doesn't have it's own oxidizer, it uses the air for that. If you light the bucket on fire then it will burn slowly for quite a while, but if you then grab the bucket and fling it into the air then the fuel and oxidizer will mix and you'll have a rather decent fireball on your hands.

If you mix the fuel with an oxidizer first (say, ammonium nitrate....^), then you are going to have a bad situation the moment it catches; no need to shake it up.

The other major sort of engine, a hybrid engine, is even safer than either solid or liquid rockets. This is because the fuel and the oxidizer are separated and unmixed like in liquid fuel rockets but additionally the fuel is not going to be able to rapidly mix with the oxidizer if it hits the ground or something (since it is a giant chunk of basically rubber or paraffin or whatever.)

^ ...and now I'm on a watchlist.
I can't see why anyone in their right mind would be downvoting this comment. You can't down vote the truth.
To me, that's an infrastructure smell.
I did not quite get the example with the bets. It is not clear what kind of problem the fat tails bring compared to normal as long as the distribution is symmetrical.

There is a term for dealing with actual distributions that differ from the one you put as basis in your theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_statistics

Regression analysis and particulary ANOVA are sensitive to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroscedasticity but may be less sensitive to fat tails as long as the standard deviation is independent from the mean.
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