skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, damn. TIL.

Now I'm wondering if there is an interaction between anti-depressants and the pill.
> Sorry, but 64GB of RAM is a LOT..

It's $500. When you consider that bringing in a performance tuning consultant can easily cost thousands of dollars per day, $500 worth of memory isn't much at all.

> for that matter a db install that would need 64GB of memory is probably not something you would call short of "Enterprise" ...

Remember that database servers use memory for at least 4 things: caching data, workspace for running queries, workspace for TempDB, and caching execution plans. If you run DMV queries against sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors, you might be surprised at how little of your memory is being used to cache data. Even a 50GB database can get to a point where it's having to hit the disk in order to satisfy queries.

This is the age of "big data", as much as I hate to use that term. It's the age of 256GB USB thumb drives, laptops with 32GB of memory, and storing files in the database server. 64GB isn't large for databases anymore - in fact, it's a fairly unusual week when I'm dealing with a database that small.
If Adobe decided to discontinue PhoneGap, you could just go straight Cordova :D

I'm trying to figure out what benefit Trigger gives you over phonegap/cordova.
I think I'm going with a bunch of other people from UofM - we'll be filling 1 (or more) tour bus(es)! Thanks for organizing this, and I can't wait to come hack in October!
I wanted to do something like that but it didn't work out very well. Mostly "everything" meant on my computer (audio files are massive!) or phone and I couldn't wear a video camera at work or scan every piece of paper I came into contact with.

But still I find it interesting it's almost possible.
I found this quite interesting as when I was first a ham radio operator, I had many friends that I had not met. In high school, I had a girlfriend who was a Ham who I had not met in person. There is a very famous story about an RCA telegraph operator (very first female employee of RCA) who met someone on the air, and ended up marrying him. He was also a ham radio operator.

The things that many internet users presume are new have actually been going on for some time.
Most servers aren't serving a single large database, but multiple databases with multiple applications. Plus you add some ETL via SSIS, some reporting, a few ad-hoc queries, etc and memory goes like Doritos and beer at Mississippi Super Bowl party. My smallest test SQL Server for development that isn't virtualized has 32GBs and we are considering changing it's role to something less taxing...
> Which Open Source DB does everything that MS Enterprise SQL does

They shouldn't fear a competitor that does everything they do. They should fear a bunch competitors each doing a set of features a given customer needs.

SQL Server is Microsoft's best software product, but why would I even bother with it since both MySQL and PostgreSQL do everything I need from an RDBMS, for a tiny fraction of the TCO and with comparable if not better performance and much better platform support? And why would I even consider it when non-relational datastores are a much better fit for most of my data? It makes sense if you are into Windows, but makes no sense whatsoever if you are not.
Reload is awesome... beyond that ??
yes, that is a generally correct statement.
Sigh, another comment making a strawman about claims made in psychology, then claiming it's not a science.
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I imagine that a great many of us would be fooled by that sequence. It's easy to consider yourself paranoid or careful and then be thrown off-guard by a well-optimised routine.
I don't think that you're being facetious. But I don't care; that's an awesome takeaway. Score one for the Dark Side.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing
Also "[to] speak" in Swedish, and in certain Norwegian dialects, one of the official written forms of Norwegian[1], and in the old Norse language.

[1] it's complicated.
Robin Williams played in The Final Cut[1], which is a film that explores the idea of making a post-death movie called a "Rememory," usually shown at the deceased's memorial service. Williams plays the role of the editor of the Rememory, and he faces the internal and external dilemmas associated with uncovering all of a person's gritty life experiences.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(2004_film)
It was never totally made clear what the people making the threats motives were, but most likely harassment because of her gender is considered the likely reason.

http://onebyonemedia.com/the-sierra-saga-part-3-who-are-the-...
You are way out of line here.
Ah, so in fact the naive concatenating solution I gave, in addition to being just as easy because the attacker only has to break half of it, is actually even easier because the attacker has two targets to collide with.

What about non-concatenative methods? For example, could you do something like "shift and xor". For example, say you have a 4-byte hash function, so that:

hash(salt + input) : 0x3AF9
hash(salt + fixedSalt + input) : 0x8034

then you shift one by a byte and xor like so

3AF90
xor 08034
= 32FA4

And then you could iterate that to extend to as many bytes as you want? And then maybe you'd want to xor the first and last byte together so that nothing from the first hash remains - although now I'm thinking intuitively which generally seems to be a bad idea with crytpography.
I feel like your username makes you an expert on the subject.
I believe his suggestion is to use the dirigible to lift the Slingatron into the high atmosphere where the tremendous atmospheric drag will be substantially reduced, thus making a crazy idea slightly less crazy and at the same time, more crazy.
A simple sanity check would be to run the exact same analysis on different books, and compare the book to the population.

It would of course not be definitive, but, for example, if I had seen that only 1% of the books on amazon have this many people mentioning professions on reviews, I'd get suspicious.
This is the first exposure to programming & computation class, anything superfluous such as semicolons or the keywords just trips people up and gets in the way of learning. You have to tell people to ignore all of the extra magic words just to get started, even though they would really like to know what it all means.

Look at Java:

public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello, World");
}
}

C:

#import <stdio.h>

int main() {
printf("hello");
return 0;
}

Python:

print "Hello"
Or you could head down to Detroit and help reinvent government in Michigan. The state is releasing API's on five themes: jobs, tourism, safety, veterans and foster kids.

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The comments here seem to miss Taleb's central idea that harm is non-binary. You need to consider not just whether something occurs, but how much impact it has.

I don't care whether a bank earns a financial gain or a loss. I care how big the gain or loss is. One hundred years of small profits can be wiped out in one bad quarter.

I do not believe Taleb is proposing punishing all risk taking. He's advocated aggressively taking risks where the downside is known.

The problem we face is that many are now in a position to get a limited, positive upside if things go well, but they face no downside. And the potential harm in such situations has no upper bound.

Skin in the game ought to be proportional to harm. Many comments mention medicine as a profession that should not have skin in the game.

Rubbish. Doctors are very liable if things go wrong. But it depends how wrong. We don't hold doctors accountable for small errors, or random errors.

We hold them accountable for big errors. The bigger the error, the worse the punishment.
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I like to think having to send my card so they can inspect it would of been a huge red flag. What is there to inspect?
Chances are you are not dealing with banking, insurance or medical data while running on Azure. After the last several weeks, we had to assure clients, that none of the data is stored on Azure. Plus with the standard version of SQL Server or Azure you don't get full auditing or encryption.
Michael Crowley's a great professor and a swell dude. His Operating Systems class is also a great crash course that forces you into C programming competence.
Apparently you don't make much of an effort yourself ;)
Re. the flame front, they say that the payload will be supported from the rail by a plasma bearing. You mean an air bearing? No.

A plasma bearing.

You have to admire their chutzpah.
Apophenia - seeing false patterns in complex data
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All I can say is I love the kind of crazy going on in this thread and all of you should buy kerbal space program.
Except I don't see an email from DO or a notification when I log in to the admin panel. So if I didn't check HN at this exact time and saw this article, I would have no idea.

It's not a huge deal to me, but if Linode did the same thing, you all would be foaming at the mouth. Just thought I would point this out.
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Actually TCP is a problem for IRC because there's no (standard) way to query how much data has been received (well, acknowledged) by the other end. This is why if you're unexpectedly disconnected from an IRC bouncer while in a busy channel, the replay can still be incomplete.

Lag is also a pig sometimes.

Datagram protocols are just more natural for message-oriented communication.
It's hard to imagine scaling this up to be able to throw a ton at a time.

If you want to throw something that heavy, you'll have a much easier time using explosives to do it -- and we've been able to do that for quite a long time now (multi-ton shells were fired in WWI).
I ran into this issue as well. As the person below mentioned, make this part of your teardown script. You can use ssh-keygen -R hostname to remove host from ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
I've noticed that you can roughly date logical proofs for God's existence by looking at how complicated and confusing they are: the newer the proof, the more epicycles get added.
You're 22 and you think you know anything you piece of shit. Just fucking kill yourself you fat french fuck, you deserve to die so just do it or else I'm gonna find you wherever in france you are and I'm gonna rape your family and make you watch, then kill you slowly.

How's that? That's pretty difficult for me to write, but about sums it up what these people have to deal with several times a day. I do not blame Phil Fish for lashing out, if people weren't on him like flies in the first place he probably be less agitated.
Not correct that they were probably copied from the image itself. See other posts about cloud-init.
This is fascinating. For those that are interested, Daniel Kahneman discusses this in 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow

What I would like to know is how can we grow this limited resource?
I don't necessarily agree with the OP but here's how I see it. Yes, releasing this information would be harmful to both the company and the customers. But the principle is: "there is no safety net". And in the long run it will incentivize building higher quality products.

e.g. When I golf, I refuse to take mulligans because it keeps me in a state of mind of, "this is my only chance". Whenever I break this rule, the rest of the day my golfing is worse.
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True enough, but how many high social class actors got life-changing bad consequences from the financial crisis? Did any of them end up in prison?
That's correct. I actually used to work for a company which built health information systems for hospitals so I'm aware of the hurdles there. They were .NET based too. Hospital network contracts pay very well but they are absolutely the worst customers.
You're continually making very frustrating assumptions about the situation, assumptions that paint your argument in the best possible light, even though they are not IMO reasonable.

I repeat for the third time: it is highly unlikely that there is no temporary workaround. Clip a wire, pop a fuse, remove a module, or whatever, one of these will get the job done for the moment.

Finally, even if these cars must be disabled in the interim, it's hardly "wholesale", since it's just one brand of many. Alternatives exist.

Security research is important. Does this paper hold the solution to free energy? No, but the precedent set will discourage further research in this area, which could result in leaving the power grid vulnerable to black hats.

You say I'm overstating the significance of this paper. I say you're vastly overstating the significance of this paper, in terms of what would happen to VW, to VW owners, and to society in general, if the information got out.

The chilling effect on security research of these kinds of actions is fairly well established. There are real-world examples of security researchers deciding not to work on a particular project because they fear persecution. That's a loss to society.

On the other hand, there are no real-world examples of chaos resulting from disclosures of automobile security vulnerabilities, even though car security is, in general, quite lax.

So kindly please, stop with the hyperbole and hysteria.
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Yes, with even a basic understanding of assembly all the pain of pointers disappears.

I taught myself assembly from the output of Borland C because I needed more speed (for a platform game). I was hand-optimizing compiler output and turned out to be an amazing way to learn.

> C is a systems language whose intended audience is people familiar with assembly but in need of something a bit easier to manage.

A larger part of that is portability, which is a lot easier to manage.
Normally the merchants are on the hook.
I seem to remember a case, possibly in Sweden in the late 90's or early 00's, where a woman was unable to call an ambulance for her husband who was having a heart attack, because of an incoming caller who had not hung up properly (or something along those lines). After some panic I think she ran to a neighbours house where she was able to make the call.

If I remember the story correctly, this resulted in some debate followed by a law change, such that now if the called party hangs up, you have only a few seconds before the connection is broken.

I don't know how it went for the husband though...
I don't know that it matters. When you think about it, it's actually kind of a silly notion that we don't name them because we don't want to give them free advertising.

Like there are a bunch of guys itching to participate in jihad and strap themselves up as suicide bombers, but just can't figure out where to sign up?

I think that's unlikely. And, I would agree with the professor's other point that the bigger risk is these secret wars and the fact that Americans don't know what's being done in our names. That's extraordinarily detrimental to a democracy, to say the least.
The EFF has tried to do so, but had trouble proving damages:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/after-five-years-...
>>I could have easily paid from my own pocket - it cost just over $2K USD - not a big amount for middle class Indians for life threatening surgery.

You could have, sure easily! Besides a person who has traveled to US doesn't fall under middle class category anymore. Sorry you don't. In a country where kids die of hunger and where parts of the country manage to barely eat two rotis a day with salt- traveling and working in the US is a rich man's luxury.

Sorry to be putting it this bluntly, but in India anybody apart from Mukesh Ambani thinks he belongs to the middle class.

Most people(The middle class- People who make around 10/15K rupees a month) can't pay for expensive medical treatments, medication, post-op follow ups etc and that's a fact.

>> If you dont have a good experience with a hospital you can choose to write a review on Mouthshut.com and have them get less business.

Yeah right. I find it hilarious when techies offer solutions like these to common people who don't even know how to turn on a computer.
I do not like comparisons between Manning and Snowden. Two very different cases and fact patterns.
Nope, not being facetious, it's a perfectly valid monetization strategy to test and pursue, in some ways, it's similar to a gaming mechanic... spend energy doing things that interest you, then pay to replenish energy, except the energy your depleting is cognitive.
Why do you tourists choose Barcelona? Spain has many places to go, but Barcelona seems to be the first choice... while it isn't even the capital city!
ACLs as in allow/deny? What if I'm using a dynamic IP on my client? In that case, should I just be using a "trusted" SSH gateway?
The immediate question that popped up when I first see their project's homepage is "How is it different from Bootstrap? Why should I use it?" I looked around and they don't offer an explanation, so I left and continue to use what I'm using.

The developers put reasonable efforts in building the website, introducing the project so that people will adopt it, so I think an article comparing their project with Bootstrap definitely helps with adoption.
Brent, to which db flavor do you recommend people migrate? Thoughts on Postgres? Btw, loved your vlog post on scaling SO's db layer.
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> Ah, so in fact the naive concatenating solution I gave, in addition to being just as easy because the attacker only has to break half of it, is actually even easier because the attacker has two targets to collide with.

I wouldn't say it's easier. Remember that we need to find a single message that generates a collision under both hash functions. So our strategy is to generate a massive number of collisions for the shorter function and hope that there's one pair of messages in there that collide under the longer function.

> What about non-concatenative methods?

I think this will again boil down to finding a single message that generates a collision under both hash functions. It won't matter too much whether you XOR the hashes or concatenate them.
You would, i assume, build the real thing on an equatorial mountain.
I did not discuss the morality of addictive game mechanics. I was responding to the assertion that people regret making in app purchases. The author was operating under the assumption that users are being misled or tricked into making purchases that they would later regret. I was merely explaining why most successful IAP-driven games could not reach success this way.
I've ended up in this situation too. We migrate between datacenters with duplicate hosts fairly frequently at my primary place of employment, and best practice is to use the cname of the service to access the server currently acting as the primary for it (e.g. foo.bar.com as opposed to foo.datacenter.bar.com). That leaves me with a lot of foo.bar.com entries to clean out of known_hosts, or a lot of spurious MITM errors.

What I've done is added a whitelist to my .ssh/config to disable the alerts only for those hosts. The foo.datacenter.bar.com address (which I use often enough, usually when migrating it between datacenters) still alerts.

And yes, I know I'm living in the 90s what with my datacenters and whatnot. They're kind of like regions... what? Oh... why, you... You kids, get off my lawn!
> Brent, to which db flavor do you recommend people migrate? Thoughts on Postgres?

I'm not the right guy to ask on that one - I just don't have enough experience with alternative platforms. You're in the right forum though - as long as you follow the news on HN, you'll do a good job of choosing the right data storage platform for your needs.
Microsoft does it, Adobe does it, Apple does it. It's not illegal but that may change [1]

[1] http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/056753...
Here I was, thinking I was the only one who did that.
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This may have some appeal, though I much prefer this implementation [1][2] even if it might be less accessible

[1] http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/
[2] https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/
First, rude is not fine. Further, his comment had nothing of value in it at all. I found it completely racist and arrogant.
Ask HN: Tools to achieve your goals?
Are there any apps that allow you to set goals at a certain due date, and then let you subdivide the goals into smaller subgoals and set due dates for those as well?
Start programming using object pascal
But for subject matter to be patentable, the patent must be sufficient to reduce to practice. In the movie it was just special effects, which is not sufficient to meet the reduce to practice threshold.
If the SHA-2 family have weaknesses, and SHA-2 is used for generating Bitcoin blocks, whoever breaks this first will be an overnight millionaire, just make sure you break them slowly (about 20 a day max) to avoid suspicion that the hashing is compromised. Sell as much as possible and then release your paper.
Code Michigan should sponsor a prize at MHacks!
People taking advantage of people is why legal systems emerged. If they didnt the law would be redundant. And who can even imagine such a world...
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I know a lot of people flying out of Toronto...there's also the Michigan buses that may be passing through canada.
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The first thing that struck me was that curved ramp at the end of the track. So, that curve is going to deflect masses going at 7km/s. Really. (And this thing is 100m-1km in diameter and built to the tolerances of a watch...)
I'm thinking your post would benefit from a recommendation as far as the "next closest thing" to MSSQL, since you're exhorting DBAs to make a transition, and minimizing friction would be an important aspect of it.
Shipping it may be lighter on resources than your going to pick it up. Plus, resources aren't everything—your time is valuable, too.
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Thanks for the recommendation, in fact I am doing it now :)
I wonder if that was sarcasm :)

If you spend too much time on HN, you'll end porting your RDBMS to Mongo DB or Voldemort.