skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully they'll at least link to good configuration sites for each service, to give new players at least a fighting chance.

I wonder how long it would take someone to spin up a script to install all of these services...

SMTP, POP, IMAP, FTP, etc., one CMS + specific plugins, 2 different internet browsers, 3 web applications & at least 2 different databases

So...a mail server, file servers, multi-webhost, databases, and CMS with many plugins. I assume that "different databases" means different database stacks on different clusters, not "both MySQL and SQL Server 2012" on the same server, right? (In Windowsville this would all be within an AD domain, I'm not sure what the Linux equivalent is.) Will there be a required volume of photo/social datamass to be stored on the server? Maybe instead of some kind of "flag file", we'll have to store embarrassing photos of ourselves?

Who installs a second browser on a server?
> No surprise they've opted for a binary protocol

Independent of the reasons behind doing so, I too have a problem with that. I you're interested, I've opened an issue on it [0].

[0] https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/169
I do not make this accusation lightly - but this strikes me as a particularly racist thing to say. Your argument boils down to "because the co-pilot was silent during the crash this points to deficiencies in Korean culture".

Which is a wild leap no matter which way you cut it.

But I mean, congrats I guess. You were looking for a conclusion and unsurprisingly you found it.
My observations about teaching and learning programming
Pirate Bay founder announces new private/secure messaging service.
In hindsight, given it's a relatively recent compound and there's so little research on it,

Piracetam is actually well-researched [1], it's been out since the early seventies. It's the most researched of all of the nootropics, AFAIK. I'm unaware of any studies that resulted in health damage from piracetam, but would, of course, love to read any if there are.

[1] Take, for one example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=piracetam[Title]
Why don't the admin's use The Pirate Bay for donations (on their homepage say) to help kickstart a new more secure, encrypted, decentralized file sharing software? I am sure if they offered a $50,000 prize they are far more likely to get results.
littleBits (http://littlebits.cc/) is a great commercial version of this. http://www.ted.com/talks/ayah_bdeir_building_blocks_that_bli...
L-Theanine is amazing stuff, it basically cuts a lot of the side effects away from caffeine and increases the positive effects of caffeine to boot.

To get useful amounts of it I just take it separately whenever I consume a caffeinated beverage. 250mg-500mg suffices (technically you can dose it in relationship to how much caffeine you are dosing, but since there are no side effects to taking too much l-theanine, I just take 2 and call it good)
How to Work Remotely and Still Be the Best
Programming Community Index for July 2013: PHP is regaining ground
Exchanges may also refer to Health Information Exchanges (HIE).

http://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/health-infor...
Off topic, kinda. Recently our company was exhibiting at a conference (of all things geared towards churches) and 3 different people came up to one of our employees and told her to stop drinking the devils drink. Apparently some people think the logo is the "mark of the beast" because each mark looks like a 6 in Hebrew.
I wanted to try to make my own, but whenever I press the big red "Build Your Infographic" button, I get a help text. It seems that the button triggers what's supposed to happen when you click the help button (?) in the top right corner. Does this work for anyone?
What he actually said seems to be more along the lines of "shut it down and replace it with something better." I took the headline to imply that he's turned over some new leaf and is "anti-piracy" now (clearly untrue from the article's content).
> their incentives are different than smaller players

Yes. They are not representing smaller players, i.e. majority. And I think for smaller players speed is not as important as convenience. So this can even hurt smaller players in a long run.
This page explains more clearly what it is and who it's for: http://www.google.com/think/tools/databoard.html
This is a good explanation. At the Upper East Side you have this beautiful buildings with carpets on the sidewalk and a porter and right next to him a pile of black trash bags. A very contrasting picture.
Think of unit testing as auditing the contract between two pieces of code right at the interface by replacing one of the two pieces of code (usually the client or caller but you can replace the code that provides the response just as easily) by a program that exercises the other layer.

Like that you build your confidence layer by layer and with every set of tests you verify that you are still building on solid ground instead of quicksand.

That's why you test at the interface level, it allows you to swap out the implementation without having to re-work all the test code.
Idiotic/stupid moves can be anything; there is a significant difference between for example paying too low wages/overworking employees and intentionally fudging medical research data or such things.
If you are a suspect I don't care if you encrypt your internet surfing habits because I have a lot of tools at my disposal, that was my simple point.

Threads like this are silly because actual suspects already know this, and average joe is getting a false sense of security.
Freemium - Is it the Right Model for Your Business? | VentureStab
Everything I've read about solar panels is that they aren't nearly efficient enough just yet to offset the long term costs. Although there is hope that they are getting better.

But the biggest factor is that for a large number of people they will likely never be viable simply because they do not receive enough sunlight on a daily basis. The solutions for them is either importing the energy from the closest region that has ample sunlight or put the panels above the weather.
Node.js is notably absent.
Reading the account of that crash was scary. One pilot diving, one pulling up. and as a result the plane crashed.
I'm not in the US, but it's great that people are feeling passionate enough to get together and help each other out like this towards a worthy common cause.

I know I'm dreaming, but I like to think that activities like this may become more common and become so important, perhaps more important than street demonstrations, that the people in power must take notice. E.g. next target -> a "free market capitilism" that mainly works for the rich.

Another free take away from this story is: if you want/hope/expect your site to get lots of visitors, make sure beforehand that you can quickly enable services like CloudFlare should you need to.
Why Israel should reconsider too much high-fiving over Waze
For those who want to read the story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/9231855/Air-France-Fli...
Florida Accidentally Banned All Computers, Smart Phones
Hmm. That's good to hear. For some reason I was under the impression it was more recent.
I'd like to see increased adoption of SCTP to get multiplexing benefits for all protocols including HTTP.
Nice landing page but (and I know you didn't ask for this) I would stay as far away from the deals space (especially SMS based) as you possibly can.

I was part of a startup that PAID people to receive texts with deals in them and people still really disliked giving out their mobile details.

Just a heads up!
If you just need simple subdivisions of time, like

group by date(col)

or

group by date(col), hour(col), floor(minute(col)/5)

an index on col is enough, or at least the last time I checked for my specific queries it was. If you need something like group by hour-of-day you'll need to create an indexed column of course. (this is with mariadb but I think basic mysql handles it too)
You can always `curl`, then `cat | sh` if you don't trust me :)
PostgreSQL and MySQL? Where is the Hive version? :)
An Interview with Bowyer: UIDesign + Device + Funware + Luxury
http://rlab.org.uk/
If people are well treated and compensated, I think they are much less likely to turn whistleblower. They are more likely to turn whistleblower if they feel wronged by the agency/company. Its my belief that there are MANY people with damning information on their employer (goings on they know to be wrong or very wrong), but due to good work situation, reliance on income, others, are not likely to ever turn whistleblower.
It is definitely amazing how brilliant and successful every decision on a project turns out to be when you only interview the people who made those decisions!
If pointers are sent between Erlang processes, how does the per-process GC work without stopping the world?
These are the cool practical reasons to switch from MySQL to Postgres that I so rarely see (usually the reasons are more ad hominem and handwavy).
Unblock Design Tasks using Standard Styles
Medium, a better place to read things…that show up in the bathroom stalls at the Onion? And, on the HN frontpage, apparently.
Storage is getting so cheap so quickly that this is a disappearing problem. Also, glossing over the barriers to implementation, your solution to the stated issue makes the overall fidelity of files on the network much less predictable, particularly for those with fewer up-votes. To compensate, the minimum number of copies of each part of each file that the network would have to cache to be reasonably certain of its ability to completely deliver to new downloaders the files riding the minimum up-vote threshold would have to go up. This would in turn push the minimum up-vote threshold up and make it more difficult for obscure content to survive on the network.
Two new Facebook ad units you must start using.
If it's a publicly traded company, it has a fiduciary responsibility to make money for its investors; so I'd have to agree with you. It's purpose is to make money. It might spend money to buy goodwill to earn loyalty, but at the end of the business day, its a business.
The Hard Lifestyle of Living With a Web App
Precise atomic clock lays the groundwork for a new second
Your argument is quite plausible. Android has indeed accumulated several APIs: ANSI C, POSIX, various Khronos APIs (OpenGL ES, OpenMAX), a subset of J2SE, and Android APIs (both Java and native, with some overlap between the two). I can accept that offering only web APIs leaves much more room for streamlining the lower layers of the stack. Maybe a future Firefox OS phone will run a new processor that was specifically designed to execute JavaScript.

And perhaps my earlier point about HTML+CSS and web layout engines being designed for documents, not UIs, was too handwavy. One might argue that there is a sort of Greenspun's tenth rule of UI toolkits: Any sufficiently complex UI toolkit contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of HTML and CSS -- and then probably contains a full Web browsing engine, too.

It seems to me that the Web technology stack has plenty of inelegance of its own. But no platform is perfect. Maybe the Web platform, exposed to developers on its own without making the lower layers available, really is the best we've got.

Can you explain why you think the Java storage APIs are ill-suited to mobile devices?
Show HN: I wrote a book about startups. And dragons. NBD.
I think that those firms failing is an example of the intent of the comment.

Just to be clear, I'm not agreeing as I feel that the State investing in the private economy can lead to good things if done responsibly. The problem is often that the people doing the investing have no idea of what they are investing in, which can lead to economic damages. Thankfully in these cases it just appears that we lost taxpayer dollars in those failings.

Personally I feel that many of those firms, not all mind you, were simple pump-and-dump schemes that had no intentions of succeeding at anything.
Not only does it add nothing to the original (amazing) content, but what it does try to add is kind of a mess: the "cue" of C? Try to catch her "sleight" against copyright?

EDIT to add: I wouldn't call any article that summarizes or comments on other content "blogspam", although this one probably qualifies. It would seem to depend on whether the commentary actually adds anything. Also, HN's guidelines recommend doing this kind of thing if one wants to include some commentary with a link.
Princess Juliana International Airport
It is very cool, great work! Monster should call this out as showing how involved with the brand their consumers are.
I'm sure I'm a neophyte at this, but can someone explain to me why we would want to store functions in a database? It fragments the logic, adds another layer of complexity when trouble shooting, as well as adding another talent required when on-boarding new talent.

I've recently looked at a project where there were a number of postgres functions floating around and it seemed terribly difficult to set breakpoints, profile, and troubleshoot.

Maybe I'm missing something?
Where did i imply racism? Culture has not only to do with nationality, its also part of education, training, and skills when interacting with others. This kind of accidents can happen in all cockpits where there is no open critique and communication.
the snail one is uh, amazing, too.
Confessions of a cyber warrior
I really disliked the following part: A client MAY immediately send HTTP/2.0 frames to a server that is known to support HTTP/2.0, after the connection header. [..] Prior support for HTTP/2.0 is not a strong signal that a given server will support HTTP/2.0 for future connections. (Section 3.4)

That means, whenever you open a new TCP connection to a http2 server, you must start with HTTP/1.1 and perform the Upgrade negotiation anew.

Making the spec require HTTP2 support on all servers of a cluster if at least one server supports it would have been much better, performance-wise. The only reason I see why they kept it is transparent proxies (if your browser is using an explicit proxy, it should be able to figure out if the proxy supports HTTP2).
The patent thing, the licensing uncertainty, the use of public libraries and the somewhat overly enthusiastic comments here on HN (most from <300 accounts) give me a very weird taste in my mouth.
You are on Hacker News. Go fix it then or write a better one. Just keep in mind that you must make it open and non-proprietary, or else it will suffer the same fate as Skype. You see the conundrum here?

Maybe help project Tox? https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core/blob/master/do...
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The article consistently fails to take into account inflation. For example, they don't want to bet on 2%/year appreciation--even though the long-term inflation rate is 3%.

They also cite the "myth" that costs go down over time as the principal is paid. In fact the real reason home ownership costs go down over time is that your income is subject to inflation but a fixed-rate mortgage payment is not. Having a fixed-rate mortgage is like getting a 3% cut in your rent every year.
Maximizing Shareholder Value: When Will 'The World's Dumbest Idea' Die?
Medium offering up satire?

What's next? "Obama Goes 'All the Way' to Prove to Americans Just How Wrong the Bush Administration's War on Terror Is: NSA Scandal a Lesson in Absurdity".
I also found another relation to "hacker""ism" in the story of how George Warring put his sanitation workers in white (to associate them with hygiene) and helmets (to give them authority). Think of it as User Experience design for the city dwellers in the late 19th century.
Really? I can't imagine anything they might do putting this out of the reach of say a sophomore C-S student or a motivated independent learner.
1080p "HD" Oculus Rift Demoed
It's an https request to GitHub, which has about a million more subtle ways to own your machine if they really wanted to.

Figuring out how to solve the TOCTOU problem for a small script in a source control repo is should not be difficult for anyone actually qualified to tell if a script is evil or not by looking at it.
>> A few thousand Americans are currently enrolled in a beta phase version of the program that would successfully backup all of their data.

That beta program went live in 2006. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/05/mark_klein_docu/
Interesting example of how not having the title in the url hurts share-ability (even though that was originally done for seo). I pasted this link to friends, but had to provide a followup paste of the title.
Just a pull request away :)
There are a large number of Google employees and stock holders on HN, and it would not be at all surprising if they leapt to Google's defense for non-technical reasons.

It would be enlightening to see the defenders of Google disclosing whether they have any financial or other interest in Google.

To complement that disclosure, any attackers of Google should likewise disclose whether they have any financial or other interests in Google's competitors.
Now if only they put 14" fullHD IPS display into T430 so I can do that as well.
QUIC is a very new, experimental protocol that runs on UDP.
Their (relevant) basis is that TCP's algorithms are completely controlled by the OSes and the routers and all. Using UDP, QUIC can quickly deploy new algorithms without requiring a major part of the world's infrastructure changed.
Trash? With those clear bags and all that cardboard, looks like recycling to me.
Cute, yes. I'm honestly confused on why some others are complaining about the satirical nature of the piece. Seems just what some people might need at this point...
It just won't go away and always comes back - just like herpes but not as pleasant.

disclaimer - PHP developer with 3 years of experience.
Surviving in the current situation, will require a radical change in attitude and education - you know, effort - not just switching out bits of software.
JavaScript is listed there, though I don't understand it's relatively low ranking given that virtually every website uses it.
See TCP Fast Open, MPTCP, ObsTCP, TCPCrypt, CurveCP, QUIC, MinimaLT, etc.

I also get the impression that TLS SNI/Snap Start/False Start/Ludicrous Start were also hampered by browsers that used the Windows SSL stack, although I never understood why they would do that.
I too have unreserved respect for PHK as an implementor. I'm not sure I find his critique compelling. It seems to me that it distills to a couple simple points:

* SPDY depends on Deflate compression, and will require middleboxes to implement deflate to route requests. I think the "IETF school of design" has an irrational fear of good compression and I think it's harmed other protocols, most notably DNS. I may be poisoned into this viewpoint by Bernstein.

* There are protocol constants that PHK doesn't know the background of, which strikes me as the kind of documentation bug that something like an HTTP 2.0 would address.

* SPDY might have required another WKP, which isn't really a SPDY problem.

* There's DoS potential in SPDY --- but of course, there's DoS potential in HTTP too; look at chunked encoding, for instance. For that matter, modern HTTP 1.1 also accommodates compression; when it comes to attack surface, in for a penny, in for a pound.

* A similar argument addresses PHK's concerns about the (theoretic) security of the push model, which is also something that modern HTTP accommodates.

Later:

Oh oh also: PHK sees HTTP 2.0 as an opportunity to correct the session management problem, which has led to the "bass ackwards" design of heavyweight signed cookies in web applications. I sympathize with him on this point, but it's not HTTP's fault that this happens. HTTP 1.1 cookies also used to be simple opaque session IDs; heavyweight signed cookies are a consequence of server app architecture, not the underlying protocol.

Even if HTTP 2.0 had built-in robust session management, Rails apps would still be shoving several kbytes of encrypted state out to web browsers.
I will give you mine: at least the industry sector in my region is plagged by inefficient factories, subpar products at premium prices and a severe lack of innovation. Siemens is extremely beurocratic, in part thanks to regulations imposed because of corruption cases. At least in the Industry sector, innovation seems to come due to aquisitions rather than true R&D.

Regarding turbines, I've only heard excellent things about the ones manufactured in the US, stay away from the brazilian ones though.
> "...this type of activity definitely will break terms of service for internet service and hosting providers, as well as potentially several laws."

How so? Is the activity itself inherently against TOS or laws? It seems to me that by running the competition, ctf365 intends to have users purposefully exploit sandboxed systems.
I take 1.5g of piracetam in the morning with a choline supplement. When I remember to, I take another 750mg around lunch to keep blood levels up. The half life of piracetam is reported to be around 4 hrs. It is one of those things that you don't realize is there until you notice that you've been focused and on task for hours without drifting off. It has also helped me expand my ability to hold larger object models in my head while coding. Also, it staves off that thing where you lose track of a word or thing you've been trying to remember. Great stuff.

For particularly taxing times, I have a bottle of oxiracetam that I use in conjunction with the piracetam. It reminds me of the heightened focus I used to get when I had prescriptions for Ritalin/Adderall growing up, yet without all of the nasty side effects. It was great a couple of hours before an exam during my masters program, or in the mornings right after my daughter was born.

I tried pramiracetam once. I got nothing but a bad headache from that.

I have a few samples of noopept around somewhere, but I don't think I've been brave enough to try them yet after the pramiracetam disaster.

Oh, and I've recently added 200mg of huperzine A to my morning regimen. Not sure how much it helps. Seems to be a decent replacement on the weekends when I don't want to take the full cocktail.
what "binary encoded html" did you use? I would be interested in seeing this as my initial thought would be that the both would gzip to almost exactly the same size?
The first two criticisms of SPDY sound like "doesn't solve every known problem with HTTP at once", which was never a design goal; that doesn't make SPDY bad, it just means that further room for improvement still exists.

The third criticism, that SPDY makes life more difficult for routers, makes me wonder: would this get easier if SPDY just said "forget the Host header, SPDY requires SNI"? Seems like that would help.
Not bad, not bad.
This makes no sense whatsoever. Since the N64, nintendo consoles have always been for those who didn't want the more hardcore consoles, or wanted one in addition to. They are in no more "trouble" from the coming next gen xbox and ps than they were any previous generation. Excluding Wii they have been a niche console for generations. Absolutely no one (in the statistical sense) is thinking "should I get the wii-u or the xbox/ps4". As long as they are not competing for the hardcore market, what Sony and MS do are irrelevant to Nintendo's financials.
Happens in finance quite a lot
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a3ee84fe-1df7-11e2-8e1d-00144...

May or may not be ignored.
I've been wondering why hard drive prices haven't gone down to pre-flood prices.

Apparently the NSA has been buying every platter available via unlimited taxpayer dollars.

Sounds like a joke but think about it...
Unicode, meh. Nobody will ever need more than 128 characters.
I've been using this service for a while now, but haven't been able to get a restore to work. My data comes back with large parts of it blacked out -- no idea why. Has anyone else been able to do a successful restore?