skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then businesses would clamor to have the speed limit raised, huh? Here in Michigan, we were taught in drivers training that passing another car can only be done legally at a speed differential greater than 5mph and only if you stay within the speed limit. Such as, if the car in front of you was driving 50 and the speed limit was 55. You could pass at 55.

A lot of the discussions I hear on this fall down to "it's inconvenient to drive the speed limit". Man that sucks, but the speed limit is kind of a legal limit.
I suppose you could consider that a form of insecurity

not really. One of my favorite results from pysch research was that large, physically aggressive men are not in fact covering up insecurity. In general, they tend to have very good self esteem.

Which frankly makes sense. Why? Because few people want to step to a large, physically aggressive guy and tell them they have some stupid ideas. Real life example: any NFL pre-game show. These guys are sling blade level stupid yet they have incredibly high opinions of themselves.
Some of it has to do with cost also. You want a boiler-plate bootstrap site? No problem. You want something new and innovative? That's going to cost you. A lot of customers aren't trying to set web trends, they just want to follow the leaders. And the leaders set trends because they have the time and money to ask "are we doing this right"?
I see they keep trying to portray him as a spy, or worse than spy.
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It would be interesting to know how the process would go - if he just accepted an offer, then Nissan might take him to court saying he was squatting on the name. Or he might be OK if they approached him first. IANAL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting
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I wouldn't use "update" since it imply that there is a modification of the value in the original record. This is possible with mutable field of course, but I think the feature of OCaml (and apparently, SML#) you're talking about is the `with` keyword:

# type foo = { bar: int ; baz: string };;
type foo = { bar : int; baz : string; }
# let a = { bar = 42; baz = "hello" };;
val a : foo = {bar = 42; baz = "hello"}
# let b = {a with baz = "bye"};;
val b : foo = {bar = 42; baz = "bye"}
# a;;
- : foo = {bar = 42; baz = "hello"}
In Britain a pardon doesn't clear your criminal record, it makes you immune from prosecution. This makes a posthumous pardon largely pointless.

However, IIRC there was a lengthy bill passed several years ago that had one item which was to 'symbolically pardon' conscientious objectors during WWII. I imagine this is using that precedent.
All the magic is in the client-side software. It's kind of like all your computers NFS-mount their home dir.

> Just to clarify, the is no synching

I think there is. You can set some files to be "cached locally". In this case, they would be synced between all computers that have local copies.

The server is nothing special, but the client software is quite new.
Show HN: TweetPeek - my first hack
Tweet Peek is my first hack. It pulls the most recent 200 tweets from a user and analyzes them. It displays the words and hashtags the individual most frequently used. In addition, it shows the other twitter handles most often included in their tweets through either a @mention or a retweet.

I would appreciate any feedback.
The design looks nice, but it appears quite thick - I hope that doesn't mean it's using an Atom processor.
I do agree, and I agree with most of the comments here as well - but the point I was making was agnostic of standards, principles or frameworks.

The point I was making was that sameness is a market effect, not a technological one. If everyone in the world started craving for Google Glass tomorrow and nothing else, everything in the world of design or systems architecture would trend in that direction in a reasonable amount of time. Trend in a sense wherein it is easily produced, etc. and other factors.
Other way around. His attitude towards Ghosn/Nissan Motors comes from his problems with Arabs and his feelings on Israel.
Gah! I hope not. Ubuntu has great ARM support, so there's really no excuse not to use one of the many low power SoCs available.
Are YOU an anthropologist? Because the men in many primitive societies had to be taught by the colonists to treat women as inferiors, and that's well-documented by anthropologists. It sounds like you have a single caricature of what "primitive societies" are like, and using that as a basis for a lot of assumptions about the Sentinelese.
So any data storage device that is not under the control of a company covered by PRISM is by definition anti-PRISM?

That makes it meaningless.
Nagios is great if you manage bare metal.

If you have a very dynamic environment (a.k.a. virtualisation, cloud, etc) usually you have to go one level furter and integrate your provisioning tools with the monitoring (and backups) system.

I've never used sensu, but I've write my own monitoring and reporting tools many times. I can recommend you to try to get that skill, learn howto script a protocol and report, etc... probably you will need it to adapt your monitoring tool, whatever you choose.
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Sometimes I would really like to switch from Gmail, but I look around at the alternatives and think "do I trust this to be as reliable as Gmail? as stable? as dependable?"

The answer is always no. I hope I'm believing an illusion, but regardless, I still feel like Google's infrastructure is the only one I'd trust with my emails.

Reliability > privacy for me (for now)
I'm going to take that comment with me to the grave. Well done.
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Also, as you ask for experiences:

In my current and previous job, nagios, with nrpe.

Before that, in a shop I did have only Debian servers, I did write my own dashboard.

The reason has been always pragmatism.
More accurately: "Identify software used on a website which identifies itself openly somehow". iWeb isn't the most popular editor, but perhaps is the most popular to advertise itself in generated pages.
Related: http://builtwith.com/

Online lookup tool which does not require Chrome or Firefox.
Everyone understand that. Probably even the hypocrites who keep this post popping up here.
To top it off, their password reset for existing users is completely broken now. I don't mean "poorly designed," I mean it is simply not working.

When I tried to reset a password recently, I got "your password is too weak" for every password I tried, including very long randomly-constructed not-previously-used passwords resembling line noise. This after carefully making sure both entries of the password matched. Multiple times. The form simply does not allow the user to proceed, and it gives false reasons. It is broken.
> One could hypothetically argue that the NSA would be less willing or capable to snoop on data that is stored inside hard drives in citizens' houses

No, even the secret FISA court would have a hard time getting access to this device without a warrant:

Courts have ruled that "cloud storage" (not owned or controlled by you) is not in "your possession". Therefore, the 4th amendment protection against "unreasonable searches of your possessions" doesn't apply. So the government can ask MicroSoft/Apple/Google for your files.

But this drive is clearly in your possession. The keys for it are clearly in your possession. The cloud company website does not do security or have access to your files -- it just helps you locate your device.

Technically, this is no different than a NAS in your house. But the client-side software is 100 times better. (client-side caching, revision tracking, etc.)
> "...and haven’t changed EVERY service they used..."

shudder
I suspect it just looks at extensions. .php and .jsp are easy to spot, as is the PHP HTTP header, RoR's utf8 tick is harder, and node.js apps and such are probably impossible.
Hypothetically (I'm not a kernel developer) how is someone on the receiving end of Linus's text/verbal abuse supposed to feel?

Does Linus just assume that people don't take it personally? Is this his way of establishing a "barrier to entry" for kernel developers?

I'm pretty sure that in any case, abuse is toxic... I'm sure that it isn't good for the soul of either the person on the giving end or receiving end. I don't really think Linus is justified - it isn't just about being polite - it is about having respect for fellow human beings and what they bring to the table.
So it's proxy for actual real-life protest against PRISM? If enough people buy these it will force the government to change policy?

Anti-PRISM...
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I teach 5th grade science, and we do a solar system unit that is sometimes remedial for kids already testing/learning at grade level. I'm going to try giving the Isla planets page to students who finish early, and see if they can figure out Isla and create a replica of our solar system (without instruction/help), as a quick brain teaser for them.

Thanks :)
Its a free service. Yahoo's internal decision. They own whatever they offer. This is not stack exchange you* jackass.

*you = rhetorical & not directed at anyone & only to bring in the punch.
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Pretty cool. Interesting too, since Rowling is probably the most imitated author in the world at the moment. I guess not by published authors, though.
Is Oracle still involved in the development of OpenOffice?

I was under the impression they contributed the code to the Apache Foundation because they didn't want to develop it further.
Back in 2002, shortly after GTA3 was released for PC, I started getting involved in its then-fledgling modding community. I created a really basic map mod early on, and then a bit later, I worked on a couple of slightly more advanced things, including a sort of modding tutorial. As the community grew, my stuff started popping up everywhere[1], and a little blurb in some issue of PC Gamer even named me as one of the "pioneers" of GTA3 modding.

Fast forward four or five years, and GTA3 related results still dominated Google searches for my name. I was just about to go to college, and I had an initial phone interview for a part time sysadmin job at a small company close to campus. During the call, the owner of the company happened to google me and suddenly went silent. After a few very long seconds, I piped up:

"...hello?"

"...uh, yeah. So, what's all this about grand theft auto? Were you charged?"

It took me a moment to realize what he was seeing, but once I did, I cracked up. I did my best to explain that it referred to a computer game, not a felony. I even tried to turn it into a selling point, using it as an example of how long I'd been hacking, tweaking, etc. I'm not still not sure he was entirely convinced, but nevertheless, he ended up calling me in for a second interview.

Today, the top results for my name are a bit more professional: my portfolio site, LinkedIn, Facebook, and so on. However, down near the bottom of the first page, you can still find a reference to my stint as a professional carjacker—uh, I mean as a GTA3 modder.

[1] I won't link to them here directly, but if you're curious, it wouldn't take much digging to find my full name and check it out yourself.
Publish your own geocoded web services with CartoDB
This is the third part of a series of articles that shows how to use several really nice tools to play with open data.
First we took our google contacts and used open refine to clean up and geocode our contacts.
Now we will be using CartoDB to quickly upload them to the cloud and expose our data as a web service. We will also have a look at this terrific tool.
Given how much damage this whole incident has done to that law firm I seriously doubt any sane law firm would let themselves be put in that position just for a publicity stunt.

Normally intentionally "leaks" are just "anonymous sources" etc. They're very rarely if ever named.

Plus she doesn't need the money, she is one of the richest women in the world. I suspect she wrote under a different name to see if the book would stand on its own without her big name boosting sales.
Who is the bully? Squatters are just taking advantage of their advantage of the internet to loot someone else's brand, similar to patent trolls. Two sides to every story.
Are these symbolic apologies, pardons any good practically? They keep coming up especially in the colonial setting where governments apologize for what happened a few decades ago. It feels like a zero cost (apart from parliament costs i.e.) way to absolve their own personal guilt.

In the real world, does it actually help the oppressed?

(Who wants to place bets on an official apology to the families of Snowden/Manning coming up in a few decades after they have been caught and "justice delivered" to them.)
I think they represent a government that is willing to look at its past and say "we were wrong". Too often we've seen "Mistakes were made", which is a way of skirting responsibility. At least this shows a society willing to acknowledge its faults and publically address them.
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I wrote a comedy book in the style of a blog. Let me know if you have any questions.
http://www.amazon.com/First-World-Problems-Terrorists-ebook/...

Things I've learned:
- The cover is very important. Don't design it yourself. When thinking about the book design, make sure it looks good small. Half of the time your cover will be seen as a thumbnail online.
- Pay someone trustworthy to edit your book. I paid a guy on Craigslist as first and got what I paid for...
- Submitting to the Kindle store and paperback through Createspace is fairly easy.
- The program Scrivener is amazing. Besides being a great writing tool, it outputs to the Kindle format (as well as every other format).

I wrote out the step by step process here:
http://bennesvig.com/how-i-wrote-a-book-step-by-step/
I would reply, but I don't care for the insults from some one with your karma weight. I'll probably run in to problems replying.

Just know that I wouldn't insult you in the same way you have me.
There's at least one real physicist turned rock performer out there.
It just seems very inefficient to store stuff on a hard drive for 9 months, no? If it's important enough to snoop, shouldn't you want to get the word out sooner?
Perhaps OCaml gets a lot of use in that community because a lot of that community is French -- that was my experience, anyway. And a lot of the folks in that community don't seem as vocal (to this side of computing) only because they are using different channels and complaining about different stuff!

It was actually surprising (and somewhat annoying) that Twelf is written in SML.
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Wow - that a tear jerker that's hard to respond to. Glad to hear he is well!
The owner of sex.com got it by taking it over with a nasty lawsuit, not just by paying gazillions.

Their lawyer was Charles Carreon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carreon), who would later be disgraced and make enemies of the entire Internet by personally suing The Oatmeal, then IndieGoGo, the National Wildlife Federation, and the American Cancer Society.
Despite all the hubbub about spying by the NSA and Huawei, an Israeli company would be the absolute last* one that I would trust with my company's security.

Alas, SSL, along with the DNS system, is just a massive internet racket.

(*) Of course I exaggerate, but only slightly.
I picked up the mail from my yahoo address through forwarding, so have now lost that account. Am not going to bother setting up another.
I put encrypted files in Dropbox using encfs. I imagine the same would work for this. It does require one tiny extra step tho. But not enough of a burden for me to care.
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I am very happy for you! It's amazing what a community can do when its focus is directed towards a single goal.
Could someone please explain why people are getting so worked up about this issue?

Because having your identity stolen can pretty much destroy your life, or at the very least cause you a great deal of suffering for many months. This change would mean a tiny oversight from many years ago could allow those things to happen.

It's also a paradise for fraudsters and charlatans, who will have a bountiful source of new identities to build on if they can just find someone who has since died or can otherwise be assumed not to need an old account any more.
Does it really? It seems like more of a "I apologized, now hurry up and accept it" kind of gig. A true apology is one where people learn from it.
Well done to HN. You cared.
We use:

* SPM for monitoring and alerting for our ElasticSearch, Solr, Hadoop, and HBase clusters, as well as Java (web)apps + the usual server metrics + custom business and performance metrics

* Sensu for server metrics monitoring + alerting

URLs:

* http://sematext.com/spm

* https://github.com/sensu
and don't forget: access to yahoo's amazing webmail client, IMAP and SSL/TLS support, free mail forwarding, and much more!
Reply to eeky (you're hellbanned): no, this does not make transactions anonymous, these are still pseudonymous. The difference is that you won't reveal your IP this way while using the client. Using the regular Bitcoin-Qt client with Tor has the same result. The novel thing here is that this uses the I2P network.
If 'kickstart fund the Plug, to obtain cloud-like secure home storage' is code-speak for 'kickstart fund the purchase of some blackmarket nukes, and vaporize the NSA datacenters' then this just might work.

But seriously, there's some fundamental reality denial going on here. You're going to try and solve this problem with a gadget? Uh... and that problem would be that the Rule of Law has broken down, fascist criminals have taken control of the government, and seriously intend to impose a total information surveillance regime by whatever methods are required. Including, apparently, several hundred million rounds of hollow point ammunition.

Yeah, with gadgets like this you might make the process slightly more tedious for them. Assuming they don't enjoy simply dragging people off to indefinite secret detention and crushing fingers until encryption keys are given up. But that's a very shaky assumption. At best.

Also, closed source. Ha ha ha...
Plot twist: Cloud Guys Corp are really NSA, preparing a backup plan in case their major net service provider taps go sour due to current temporary difficulties.
While it is funny that they make more on android, they are hardly "getting rich" off it. 100 mil for msft is peanuts. It doesn't move the needle.
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What's with all the extra periods in the title?
She doesn't need the money, so this is probably from the publisher.
The Companion Web: The Internet And How We Use It Is Evolving
The Companion Web describes experiences that move seamlessly across the many screens in our lives - such as smartphones, tablets, computers, and televisions. The web today is built one device at a time, but in the near future, our experiences will be seamlessly linked together across our devices, creating a single shared experience, regardless of what device you use - or even who makes it.
Aren't these numbers ignoring the possibility that some of those Windows Phone revenues are from app/game purchases on the Windows Phone store?
"It's a valid scenario, but I was starting to think quite unlikely. If I get a a new jrandom@yahoo.com address, I would have to know who that account used to belong to and on which online services it might have been used. If I'm in Boston and the old "jrandom" was in Atlanta, I'd have to first figure that out and then figure out what bank he used, and be lucky enough that he had not updated his email there. And websites like banks and other financial services require more than just an email address to get a password reset. You need to answer some "secret questions" etc."

It's not that hard, actually, considering that most websites you sign up for send periodic marketing emails. You're the new owner, you get a marketing email addressed at the old owner, hit the "forgot my password" link, and you have ownership of the account.
It's email, not a Volvo. email is one of the most fault tolerant things on the Internet. Start hosting it yourself. You'll be okay (plus, procmail!).
ah those are under promotions tab anyway, how does this affect?
I've heard this many times. Especially of late, as my designs have become very minimalist.

I can only hope this is a good thing, here is the latest.
http://i.imgur.com/4h57azv.jpg
Is this how Tinder is going to monetize?
VMware Fusion is much faster than VirtualBox: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=vmware_vi...
Thanks for posting this. I've got several accounts on autopay attached to my yahoo address, but nothing else of note. Re-captured my account after 2 years away.

This would not have been good if it had been given away.
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Gay marriage has this week been legalised in the UK. I'm really not sure what else they can do.
Short answer: no. This guy dumped a boatload of money into a silly idea, like many other people.
A similar post popped up a couple weeks ago, and one comment suggested https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher. I was using ack at the time, but I'm really liking ag as I've found to be quite a bit faster. The one thing I wish it had was being able to restrict searches by file type.
Also, don't forget that USB 2.0 support is closed source and subject to a special license.
NetBeans is far from perfect but it is a pretty good development environment, so I'm glad to see things are happening on that front.

For 2014, I predict that Java will make a comeback in so called trendy circles, and it will also get more attention on HN.

Java 8 will bring less boiler plate code and more expressive code, and hopefully the general development cycle will get shorter. Java EE 7 is quite interesting for the type of development I do.
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I have two Nest thermostats (one upstairs, one down) and they're one of the best things I've done to my home. Beyond easy programmability and learning, I can easily put it to away via the phone app from anywhere. The AirWave feature has saved me some money too. I have had nothing but a great experience.
I wish I was in the rubber stamp business. Clearly a lot of profit potential there.
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"she doesn't need the money, she is one of the richest women in the world."

Never underestimate what the rich and super rich will do to get more money.

Does Warran Buffet need more money? Yet he's still trying to make himself richer.

Do all the top CEO's, VCs, and board members in the world "need" more millions and billions? Maybe not. But it hasn't stopped them from trying to further enrich themselves.

Besides, there could be other motivations for this stunt, such as fame or wanting to be talked about or thought of as a certain type of author.
I honestly thought this was going to be a SEO success story when I saw the white hat vs black hat picture.
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>"The point I was making was that sameness is a market effect, not a technological one."

The market desire you describe is for clear, convertible content, not sameness.

Sameness isn't the value, it's a follow-on symptom of many, many developers taking the same short road to clear, convertible content via frameworks.

A case could be made for value in sameness, familiarity, but that's not the case you're presenting.
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