skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you look at these numbers? Where do you think minimum wage applies here?
The only takeaway is that his power usage shouldn't be that high with Dropbox idling/paused. But given that he's
* surprised at it using a lot of power when doing the initial sync
* decided to have a git repo inside Dropbox (just don't do it, you will run into trouble; and it will cause heavy sync activity, thus waking CPU and wifi)
* using a unit of capacity to express power consumption

I'm not sure I trust his methods.

I regularly turn off Dropbox on and off when switching between mobile broadband and wifi, and haven't seen any difference in power consumption. That's on Ubuntu 13.04 @ Thinkpad T530.
It's funny how this story goes international.

From Hong Kong/Peking to Moskow, to Austria/France, to Venezuela.
Not exactly a cool graph but it shows the distribution of those salaries.
http://i.imgur.com/ljZtghU.jpg
Check the right tail, that's where "all the money are", literally speaking!
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I sincerely doubt that this is all about selection bias. Rather, it sounds to me as public outrage is the only viable method in dealing with spying from a suspected NSA.

It used to be that when you found out that a country was using embassies for spying, there was diplomatic actions available to discourage it. You could deport diplomats from that country. You could refuse entering into political discussion with them. in worst case, you could close down diplomatic relations with them. All in all, such retaliation keeps the spying at a low key rather than public. It keeps it at a respectable level.

The big problem happens when its a large country like the U.S. doing the spying. The previous stories has all been about the NSA (which this one clearly relate to). As a country, the diplomatic relations against spying is quite limited. It is unlikely you want throw out the U.S. diplomats or close down their embassy. Its not very practical to close down diplomatic relations with the U.S.

So whats left is public outrage.
I'll check it out soon.

My i ask, what do you use asp.net mvc for?

Myself (@Belgium):

ASP.Net MVC mostly for:
- Ecommerce
- Invoicing application (SMB development) - DDD application
No need really. Bitbucket offers an unlimited number of private repos, it's ideal for this stuff.
I thought it was interesting when Microsoft bought Skype. Skype built their whole backend on postgresql and were one of the major contributors to the clustering and hot failover features as well as putting up some nice management utilities. that's why o think the Skype purchase was so strategic. they not only got cross platform messaging with video and phone, they got the primary developers who were adding top end features to an open source project.
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There is, however, a sidebar with Editor's Picks - presently topped by "Facebook vs Sperm."
AWS has gained huge popularity I think on two counts: one is where GoDaddy suffered quite a backlash in the media. And two, it has launched fantastic services for a whole host of entrepreneurs who get the service at no cost for the first year.

That could potentially have fueled the use of the service, but lower revenues.

It may make sense to see the revenues a year post these number to actually assess the contribution of AWS to Amazon's overall revenues.
> the plane forced to land

Forced how? I doubt anybody would be willing to shoot a civilian plane down to get Snowden, especially if the plane in question was also carrying a president or other high ranking people. So the pilot could relatively safely ignore any demands to land.
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> US-Polish relations are generally pretty good.

Are they that good? I got an impression they were pretty good while Poland was still promised things like joining the visa waiver program. Now I think many people are quite annoyed at the outcome / delaying for years. The whole project of rocket interception sites is also bringing up some interesting questions lately.
It does add something: users can use any password they want. Any unicode string. You just UTF-8 encode then locally hash into a constant size. This alleviates the issue mentioned in the grandparent that supporting arbitrary length passwords introduces a DoS vector, especially when a slow hash is used on the server.
> Unions are unions OF WORKERS.

But there's still someone in charge. Who polices them?

> A unions political power comes from the combined power of its members, who are citizens of the state and can thus be considered an accurate reflection of the citizens wishes.

By this argument, we don't need anyone watching the government because it is elected by the people and so represents the will of the people.
Snowden’s father signals frustration with WikiLeaks, issues broad defense of son
Calm down, the letter speaks of paying homage to the sacrifice of Omaha Beach. As in, if we don't act now and stop the injustice, we aren't worthy. He's talking about you and me, not Edward.
What?! Why would he be obligated or in any way suggested that he donate the sum Lodsys are asking for, isn't that the whole point of this: it's a ridiculous claim and he isn't required to pay the money.
Well comment tree deletion is a harder operation than post creation or comment creation or liking.

Each of the steps in building up the tree of comments, likes, etc. is a a couple writes at most. If that fails, you're left in a safe state. You tell the user it failed and carry on.

Deleting a post and the comments on it is harder. First, you have a potentially unbounded amount of DB rows to delete across an unknown number of shards. Second, you now have to worry about the order in which you delete things, else you risk being unable to retry in case one of these deletes fails. Third, unlike the inserts and updates, you can't just give up partway, as that's not a safe state to end in.
They are not allowed to forcibly enter. But of course that does not stop bullying like this where they the "request" permission to enter while making it clear they won't allow him to fly through their airspace if he doesn't.
This was actually briefly discussed between the UK and US in the 70s: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wilson-wanted-uk-to-be-us-...
> The percentage of members of the two BART unions that voted for the strike is also public. It was not close.

Those numbers (upwards of 90%) look like the numbers won by dictators in rigged elections. Who monitors the union voting process?
> With Google Reader, you were locked in Google's ecosystem. Without Google Reader, you are free to use whatever RSS client you can find.

This is (or was) a false dilemma. You could, with Google Reader, use a vast multitude of RSS clients: you didn't have to use Google Reader proper. And, because nearly everyone supported Google Reader as a common sync API, you could switch between clients without losing your place or your data. Want to try X flavor-of-the-month RSS app? No problem: just log in with your Google account. Don't like it? No problem either: switch back to your other RSS client and everything—even what articles you've read and starred—are right where you left off.

Now, there's at least a half dozen competing and incompatible sync APIs and numerous perfectly-adequate RSS clients rendered obsolete because they haven't been updated to support other sync services. Because of the lack of a common and ubiquitous sync API, choosing an RSS client now that Google Reader is gone will be more locked down than before, at least for the foreseeable future.

Which is Marco's point: companies don't want you to be able to freely move your data around. They want you to use their service. Yes, there's more choice, but choosing one service over another winds up making it harder to make a different choice down the line.
Haven't been following much of Dwarf Fortress, either, but according to the post, I'm confident that they care. For instance, the 1.0 version should have a more consistent interface, tutorials and context-sensitive help menus.

It's probably just that there are plenty more things that they care more about than revamping totally the UI.
That's a fair point. That being said, a feed reader seems like a relatively simple product to build and there seems to be a lot of alternatives out there. What made Google Reader so special? (I'm asking genuinely, I have never used it before)
If you work for Google, and you have a neat idea for an online service, resist the temptation to do it within Google.
This happens to me as well.

The Dropbox daemon wakes up every 10-15 seconds, uses 15% of the CPU then goes back to sleep. All this without any files changed or the index being affected. On 10.8, 10.9 with official versions and betas. Noticeable because I am on an older C2D MacBook Pro.

Wondering whether it's a side effect of something else installed e.g. iStat Menus.
Dropbox behaves very differently on OSX versus Linux I've found.
Yeah tell that to Kim Dotcom. The US seemingly have no respect for sovereignty or foreign process.
NodeJS + Express.

I've had some good mileage out of SailsJS ( http://sailsjs.com/ ) recently, essentially it is a NodeJS + Express stack with Socket.io and prebuilt ORM/blueprints. Up and running in a matter of minutes and behind the scenes it is still just NodeJS/Express
> Elsewhere it is posted when people begin school in the US. The rest is arithmetic.

This is true, you know. Or are you saying only Americans can do arithmetic?
How we got users from 50+ countries on 6 continents with no marketing spending
It's not the ASCII interface. I love ASCII art, and they managed to pull a high information density. You have graphic tile sets too. Although fan-made, these have a great quality.

The problem is the inconsistent input system. The same task uses different shortcuts in each menu, which makes it hard to remember. Even selecting rectangular regions of the world is done in a particular way depending on what you are doing.

Inconsistency is awful for users.
They don't seem to be handling this very intelligently, more like a bully than anything else.
It would be much easier to let Snowden get to a country in southamerica and then after some weeks press under the table to get him arrested. Now doing all this pressing all they get is Snowden in China or Russia's arms.
In his first book, he said he crashed a Buick while drunk at the age of 19.
He also had mentioned in a few columns about being a former addict. He said he'd been sober since (10+ years?), but until there are conclusive results on the toxicology report, it's all really speculative.
In either case, yes, he has displayed this type of behaviour before.
I am not very familiar with USA's legal system, but is there no way to sue the troll after winning the trial so that they pay your legal expenses? I know this is possible in some European countries.
Also, is there no way to file criminal charges for harassment (or something similar) against this kinds of companies?
Well, there is making money and making money. What's particularly frustrating and different about this one is that they used to be smart about it, but now they have deliberately destroyed a useful service with a fanatical following in favor of corporate buzzword dream that so far appears to be dead on arrival just like its two predecessors. A few years before that, they made a name making money off of something that actually was useful and disruptive.
Which part of that comment looked to you like a complaint?
> for not considering Google+ a smashing success.

Huh? Does _anyone_ consider Google+ a smashing success? On what basis?
What we need is a user owned facebook. We need to find a way to shrink the whole Facebook functionality to run on a system the size of a router.
Silicon Valley Can’t Be Copied
RSS users were always a tiny minority, and have become more tiny with social networks (especially Twitter).
If it was such a clear-cut then why did you need to meet them in person to show them?
easy tiger
Which Dropbox client version are we talking about?
Well, IE10 which shipped with Windows 8 eventually made its' way to Windows 7. And from what I've read, IE11 will also make it to Windows 7.

Support for XP is ending on April 8th, 2014 at Microsoft. So there's no chance at all that IE11 will be ported on XP.
The only problem is that Apple could retaliate and block the developer from using the app store in the future. In the end, Apple's store is Apple's, and they decide when a developer is more a nuisance than a boon for Apple's businesses.
> I hate bad UIs

You hate UIs you don't like. Which is a tautology. The interesting part here is that you've managed to convince yourself that UIs you don't like are objectively bad, and that anyone who does like such UIs is wrong in some factual way, as opposed to being 'wrong' in the purely subjective way everyone who disagrees with us on a matter of taste is.

Go too far in this direction and you end up with Jef Raskin, who disdained configurability because he thought he knew better than the people actually using the software how software should work.
I like it a lot :)
One question though:
Will there be graphs about the number of downloads of those release files?
... Which is not used or supported by Google+. PubSubHubbub was very much part of a different era.
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Tumblr is more of a pics-form twitter. Other types of content don't get much love there.

I don't know what social network would qualify as long-form twitter, to be honest.
Being offered a job through one of Ovid's previous Who's Hiring posts, I would say it did not seem to me like going through your normal agency routine.
So, +1 from me aswell.

BTW, he wrote this too: http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781118013847/
Know any other recruiters that do that ? :)
Freebase images upload lost in transition?
Does anyone have refutations to these points, or are union people going to disagree by downvoting?
That bronzemurder story is fantastic, I started playing DF the other week and although I move and plan quite slowly, it's very fun.

I'm actually building on a pregenerated world right now where there are 2 cliff faces and waterfalls across from each other. Aquifer's are really annoying though.

Do you know of any texture packs that don't make the map 'zoom' level extremely high? Most of the texture packs seem to be made for large and specific resolutions, I play a smaller window mode on mba (1366x768).
As it is a fresh install, the last one.
It already exists, it's called git annex. It uses git to keep track of where files are (but doesn't check them in), so you can just do:

$ git annex add myfile
$ git annex copy --to=NAS myfile
$ git annex get myotherfile
$ git annex drop --from=NAS myotherfile

If the NAS has rsync support, you can add it with a single command:

$ git annex initremote NAS type=rsync \
rsyncurl=rsync://example.com/myrsync encryption=<gpg-email>

http://git-annex.branchable.com/
Firebase added bindings for Angular a few months ago.
A lot less than you would think. The majority of Netflix outbound traffic (the movie bits) comes from the CDN -- AWS is only the control plane.
You may be cranky, but you're obviously not that old. In ye olden times IE was actually the decent browser (that you didn't have to pay for). It's just that they won the browser wars and let things stagnate. Once they stopped leading they became followers (when they moved at all). This is not recent history. It is lore. But lore that the elder devs should know.

As an ex-'softie I can tell you that the engineers from IE were generally not happy with this situation. Or with all of the acrobatics to support non-standard crap. But I have yet to meet anyone who really understands how the winds of decision-making at Microsoft get their first breaths. Basically, it was situation == nobody happy, even most folks at the borg.

I apologize if my response isn't full of data. I don't understand how a troll post hit the top of the discussion page and thought it deserved a response, even a fluffy one full of hearsay.
>Another possibility is that he had a nervous breakdown or substance abuse episode, leading to both the paranoid emails and the irrational vehicle operations.

Something very plausible and easy to think -- even in cases where it is not the case. Which reminds me: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137363/

He was a seasoned journalist. Working on a very dangerous case (as he has done in the past, annoying many).

He might have feared and feel intimidated -- and that might have led to erratic driving and crash.

But he sure knew when and if the FBI talked to his friends and colleagues. And it's not like it's the first time a journalist is crashed (either literally or figuratively) for his work. Gary Webb comes to mind. Ruben Salazar too. And those were more innocent times.
> about:permissions

Interesting, thanks. But while it's open, the list of sites keeps growing for me, apparently various shady/malware sites get added at the bottom continuously. I haven't managed to find it why this happens, but I'm guessing that it may have something to do with the "safe browsing" feature, perhaps all sites in the blacklist get added to about:permissions for some obscure reason. Any ideas?
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Thanks, but why would Releases solve this?
My First Exit
Thanks a lot for clarification. I never used Google Reader and it wasn't clear to me that the whole fuss was about the syncing API.
Dropbox is terrible with CPU usage. This is something I reported to them several times, but it seems they don't really care.

Last I tested, Dropbox consumed CPU for ANY changes ANYWHERE in your filesystem, not just within the Dropbox folder. So its (slow) code processed changes even when you untarred a large set of files somewhere in /tmp.

I also stopped using Dropbox for storing my code because of that — it's nearly useless, as it consumes so much CPU and eats so much battery life, that it simply isn't worth the effort.

Another problem with Dropbox is that upon login it indexes the entire Dropbox, which if you have an HDD basically kills the machine for several minutes, e.g. you can't do anything else. That happens to me on a Mac Pro. On an SSD-equipped MacBook things are better, but it's still a monstrous operation.

And to everyone that says you should not store code in dropbox: a) there are good and legitimate reasons for doing so, b) dropbox could work a little more on optimizing CPU usage instead of adding "save your photos to Dropbox" features.
Gary Webb used to be one.
Sounds like an amazing adventure. I've been planning to do the journey the other way up for some years, but haven't made it happen yet.

I did drive the whole coast of Australia over the course of six months a couple of years back, that was an amazing time, and I'm determined to throw things like that into life as often as possible.
That's funny, going from wanting to be the US' "51st state" to not even wanting to be a full EU member, which I think makes a lot more sense (to be one).
So, time to start disinfo on all plausible channels indicating that he is leaving via diplomatic channel X and;

A) fuck with the states of the worland
B) provide cover for the real escape when it comes.
My method is not scientific at all, I agree with that BUT the facts remain: without dropbox on (even after full sync and supposedly idle), my battery life is multiplied by nearly 3.

As a side note, Dropbox behaves differently on OS X. I've never noticed this issue on Windows 8 machines.
It's good that just like with the Wikileaks scandal, it exposes which countries are vassals to US.
>It is a huge leap from the revelations of late and a world where the government goes around killing journalists.

Really how? How is it out of order for a government that goes around jailing foreign citizens without trial abroad to avoid local laws?
If you assume the goal of all this is to deter future leaks, I'd say they are doing a pretty good job. Snowden has so much uncertainty and risk in the next few weeks that I bet borderline whistle-blowers are rethinking their plan.

Arresting him quietly without the media gets them Snowden, but not the deterrent.
The future! I can't imagine how anyone could say that. I started out with Smalltalk, then started doing C# professionally and eventually started doing CL in emacs. CL/SLIME/Emacs was by far the worst of that trilogy. I can't think of one single thing that the emacs combo did better or even as good.

Both Smalltalk and VS+Resharper have great refactoring tools. Both have great debugging tools (and in Smalltalk I can even do a lot of development right inside the debugger and watch how the code is reacting while I'm writing it). In the CL/Emacs setup debugging is so bad most people recommend not to even bother; just use tracing. And I can't understand why it needs to be like this, CL is closer to Smalltalk than it is C# (that is, CL is a "live" language as Smalltalk is or at least it very much can be. Even a compile-only CL like SBCL).

The other issue is project management. In Smalltalk it doesn't really come into play as much since the image is your "exe", but despite this Smalltalk has great tools for organizing classes, methods and so on (and Dolphin's way of letting your image be a "solution" and you make individual exes from that that drop everything they didn't use was absolutely brilliant). In VS, I create my assemblies, make dependencies and so on and the IDE just handles all this for me.

Contrast that with CL/Emacs: CL has ASDF files that can manage all your dependencies for you (people complain about it, but I've used them for several years and never had any problems) but you have to manage all this stuff manually. If you want a nice way of saying "create new package" or "create a new file that is in this package" you'll need to write all that handling, UI, etc. yourself. And after you write it all, what will you have? The interface will be hideous no matter how you do it because you're restricted to just text. In Visual Studio you can have the disapearable side bars approach, the "old school mac" approach of different info windows floating all over the desktop, etc. With emacs you'd be restricted to doing that stuff via ascii art or popping up more windows with ugly ascii art in them.

The only way I could see CL/Emacs as the future is if we're talking post-apocalyptic.
yeah, I'm going to have to ask you for a citation there.
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It's a good article and seeing Google there was a bit of a surprise.

Maybe it's overlooked by people but I guess can be handy.
How do they transmit and store the intercepted data?
Thanks! I'm taking a look at this now.
I think it was a matter of them not having actually checked the apps themselves, and that their process was just to shovel everything off to the legal dept.

Someone else made a comment here about Apple not wanting to get in the middle of copyright disputes (particularly for cases that aren't so obvious). So that's probably why they don't have a process in place to have someone actually look at the apps. Developers have to chase it up themselves, which is annoying.