skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from Brazil, and I think you and I can both agree that that country has was you consider real corruption. Having lived in the US long enough and seeing how things work here, I'd say it's just as corrupt as Brazil, but that it is a very very different flavor of corruption.

Brazilian politicians plunder actively while in office and reap the rewards while in office. Their actions are often downright illegal. The US on the other hand causes the same damage to its citizens, however the politicians don't reap their rewards until they leave office and walk through the revolving door.

Regulatory capture and the revolving door are corruption on par with what happens in Brazil. The difference is that American politicians do exceedingly well at the marshmallow test getting two marshmallows later whereas Brazilian politicians are happy stealing one marshmallow now.
re: UK localization - mind emailing us connect@watsi.org about this? I'm curious to learn more about how the UK handles donations, especially if there is a tax (VAT?) involved. Thanks!
Well, the lesson I took away is that pottery students aren't smart enough to turn in 50 lb of unformed clay if that's all it takes to get the best grade.

(And that made-up anecdotes will take you pretty far.)
This is a great post, an unusually great one on this subject, and I only have this to add: don't charge hourly. You can break your finances down by the hour if you want, but your customer should interface with you on a day-rate basis, or, if you're ambitious, a week-rate.

I'm not sure I've ever talked to someone who moved from hourly to daily and regretted doing so.
Q: What does it mean when you find a tweet that perfectly shows your position?

A: It means that Twitter agrees.
A glimpse into ANCHORY, NSA's intelligence catalog database
How do you prevent fraud?
The compiler is a batch tool, so restarting the process for every run is normal usage.
Russian hackers charged in 'biggest' data breach case
Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere
No doubt the new rates for their dedicated servers are in response to hetzner's new rates. ISPs seem to have this unfortunate ability to retain ridiculous profit margins indefinitely.

I guess the tactic is quite simple: Be extortionate while you have market share. Undercut your opponents when it starts being threatened.

Not that I'm complaining when stuff like this happens, I like OVH, sometimes.
Both. One vanilla server and one FTB Ultimate. Occasionally there's a second vanilla server running for playing maps as a group. The FTB server starts to have mostly cpu usage related issues with 10 people online, especially if some of them are in the Twilight Forest but it's only for a small group of people so that only happens if almost everyone is online. I also had lag when generating chunks, but then I put the world on a ramdisk which helps somewhat, and I have a plugin to back it up every hour.

Vanilla has had 14 people without issue. It's CPU usage is minimal compared to the FTB pack. Could probably go to 20 or 30 with no issue.
I'll never understand the stance that the FSF takes in throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Sure, Ubuntu might ship with some binary blobs. You know why? Because Ubuntu is trying to go mainstream, do something other free desktops/phones have not been able to do. There is a HUGE benefit to open source and Linux if Ubuntu succeeds.

But the FSF doesn't see it that way. It seems the FSF would rather see Ubuntu fail rather than succeed on non-FSF terms. Mind boggling.

If Ubuntu succeeds and is 99% open and 1% closed, is that not better than Apples/MS 1% open and 99% closed?

If/when Ubuntu succeeds, the next generation can work at that last 1%.

A reasonable, pragmatic and realistic approach is better than DOA.
http://status.linode.com/2012/03/manager-security-incident.h... 3/1/12 - 9:43pm, before the article was written.

They didn't acknowledge the amount but if you are expecting them to disclose their customer's information [even things like amounts of Bitcoins stolen] that is in violation of any reasonable privacy policy. :/
Trulia Launches Real Estate App for BlackBerry 10
Yes, let me know when it's available.

I thought you could host your HTML file on firebase too? Why do you need S3?
I'm a customer of both DigitalOcean as well as Linode. I use DigitalOcean for random experiments and side projects and Linode for production sites.

I haven't directly observed any practical differences in ways that affect me in terms of VPS infrastructure itself, but I've found Linode's support to be significantly better and I'm willing to pay a premium for that on "sites that matter". I don't want to imply that DigitalOcean's support is bad -- it's not, but I feel they're average when compared with Linode responses.

On the other hand, my impressions may be biased since I rarely have to contact support in the first place. I'd be interested in whether or not others have had the same experience in terms of customer support.
Random time, of course.
> You're writing a book in LaTex?!

Yep. It's a long contracts-related book with lots of internal cross-references. MS Word seemed to keep corrupting things, so I went back to my Emacs and Scribe roots. It's all much easier with LaTex and Emacs org-mode, plus the resulting PDF files are very nice.

(I wrote my first book in 1980-81 using Emacs and Scribe on a TOPS-20 system. It was a "for Dummies"-type user guide for my fellow law-review editors on, wait for it, how to use Emacs and Scribe on a TOPS-20 system to produce and edit law-review articles. My second book, on software law, was done in 1986-87 with The Final Word, which was a clone of Emacs and Scribe.)
Using micro instances I've seen it go up to 99% during CPU intensive work (ex: app build). The hang ups waiting for it continue made me decide to switch the build server to an m1.small instance instead. It's idle the vast majority of the time but the extra $$ for it is totally worth it when you're running a build.

The steal % is usually zero on the m1.small instance. I just tried maxing out the cpu and watching "top" this is as high as it got:

Cpu(s): 5.3%us, 39.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 55.7%st

To max out the cpu I ran the following in a separate ssh terminal while watching "top". An m1.small only has a single v-cpu so only a single running copy should be necessary.

while :; do date > /dev/null ; done
For me my primary motivation to move away from Gmail was to leave Google's umbrella (ads/being-a-product-not-a-customer/worse usability as time went on), not to escape the USA/NSA (I moved before the NSA stuff came to light).
I'm a hacker rank member. Cool site.

I'd like OpenHacker to be more about solving real world problems than fun programming challenges though.
Maybe that's because they know how this power can and will be used against them. What's the likelihood of this blackmail power being used against an ordinary citizen? Very low (why bother?). Against a congressman? Well...
It's funny.
Android essentially took the brunt of being raked over the coals by everyone in the open source community for calling itself open source when it had closed firmware/etc.
(yes there are other issues, i'm referring specifically to having closed blobs for some firmware)

Now it seems to be more acceptable.
Completely implausible, unverifiable anecdote obviously chosen to favor a conclusion -> "WOW! How insightful."

"Hey, that doesn't match my experience." -> "Sources. Now."
"This is only true for local hidden variables. It is possible to explain this with hidden variables in broader sense. Which you could also call hidden connections."

Can you explain further?

The reason I ask is that, it would appear quite sound and logical (based on our knowledge of discrete objects in the real world) to say that the electron goes through either slit 1 or slit 2 in all cases, but this is not accurate.

The reason is this:

When an observation is made, then it can be determined which slit the electron went through; in this case, it always goes through one slit or the other.

However, this observation is impossible to make without simultaneously disturbing the electron and destroying the interference pattern; that is to say, the resulting arrival distribution curve is not equal to the arrival distribution curve that is generated when no observations are made.

Therefore, how can it be determined which slit the electron will go through, while at the same time, not destroying the interference pattern?

To me, this is one of the "mystery of mysteries" of our universe.
I would point out that the conception of the state arose "organically", in the sense that basically all of our structures and hierarchies are socially constructed. With that in mind, would you see it as "wrong" if, upon finally ridding ourselves of ingrained hierarchical structures, we find ourselves rebuilding similar structures all over again? Do you find hierarchical structures of authority to be bad because you don't think they're "organic," or because you think there's a better way and you simply don't know what it is? Or perhaps you think our current structures are stale, and even rebuilding them in new ways would be helpful?
Had those who abstained voted yes, it would have been a tie. It would have still failed to pass because the WH would have the final say, but I'm encouraged that it was as close as it was.
Thanks for the answer, I deleted my original question shortly after posting because I thought it was abit disrespectful.

For those who are curious, the question was: is "for Hackers" a new way of saying for those who don't feel like actually studying the math, going through the proofs and working through the problem sets?
It's on the features list on GitHub.
I'm not accusing Redis of losing data, I'm correcting a factual error about the reliability of MySQL and Postgres.
I wondered why you don't store the reciprocal w/ the hash table object. Obviously it wastes some space, but it wouldn't be any slower than your specific checks for 4 and 31, I think. (If most of the tables have size 4 or 31, then I'd use your code).
How long did it take you to land your first gig? This definitely seems like the way to go, but as you can imagine there is a heavy amount of luck involved with your process (i.e. if all of your friends are not associated with companies that need your skills, then you probably aren't going to find many offers).

I am currently on a sabbatical of sorts, and am keeping the option of doing freelance work as a way to extend it, but so far, all of the 'dude, this would be great for you' opportunities from friends haven't panned out. Part of the problem might be that I don't really need the work, so I haven't been following up too aggressively, but it still feels like I would probably have to go outside my network to land the first gig.
Sadly, YubiHSM is a pretty useless single-purpose device only really useful for OATH. It doesn't do public key crypto at all, and more importantly, doesn't let you run real code on it (which only nCipher (now Thales) and IBM 4758/4764 ever really did). that is what will make HSMs super awesome.

Proof of concept can be done with a regular dev board or even a cellphone; it's volume production which requires VC.
In the USA, the doctors, nurses, and admin staff all live a more expensive life than their colleagues in less developed countries (and not in strictly bad ways). I'd also suspect that your $215 wouldn't cover, say, an emergency caesarian, or an epidural and similar drugs.
Eh? They did say the attacker got access to the database which holds the encrypted copies of the credit card info [and other information]

https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/
Details on NSA/FBI Eavesdropping
Considering that Apple has rejected books for containing links to competing websites, this isn't really a stretch.
I just wanted to say that we do far more dangerous stuff with the radiation and nobody demands we should isolate those until we understand what is going on. But when it comes to GMO people suddenly are terrified, that is what confuses me.
It's also equally and totally plasuible that Monsanto will never sue another farmer, ever, for any reason.

Please don't use hypotheticals to rationalize a bias if you're not going to also consider the entire set of all possibility.

You don't get to just say "they could be evil; therefore they are evil". That's absurd. They could be good, too.
Mono 3.2 isn't mobile specific. Sure, mobile has become a very important part of the focus, but a huge portion of the development is useful beyond mobile.
Darn it, my "anti-procrastination" parameters set in when I was writing an EDIT to my comment above, sorry for creating a secondary account but wanted to leave this here before I forget and maybe round up some other good HN ideas:

1) People won't click what they can't see - I've now encountered the watsi blog a few times via media. Link to Watsi.com from the header of the blog. Stick a call to action on the right side that links directly to "Donate Now". The "Donate Bitcoins" is cool, but that goes to Watsi opps vs your core biz. Ideally dynamically pull down the "closest to being funded" profile and stick it there w/a big button.

2) In checkout I used PayPal and I almost I clicked off before I saw there was another step required in the "You're about to confirm your donation" and then "Complete Donation". I'd test a little bit of a bolder statement there, would be interested to see abandons there but glad to see that you are storing the session.

3) Improve visibility of after-checkout links / actions - After funding you provide social links to share the message, get those higher up / directly under the top paragraph of text. Also include your "View Other Profiles"

4) I was compelled to donate a second time when I realized that I could be the "Final funder" to close out a campaign - that seems like a really solid way to drive a secondary call to action in the email that you send and gives immediacy that is otherwise lacking.

5) Your instant email is great, but with more and more email clients blocking images by default (1) it's a lost opportunity - this is what I saw in my gmail client http://imgur.com/u9AifHM - get some basic ALT tags in there as a quick fix, as a longer term fix shrink your logo way down, put block text in the top image quadrant along with a call to action eg "Thank you for funding [NAME]'s medical treatment - click here to meet other new patients on Watsi!"

(1) http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/image-...
Ironically, android engineers who were ideological about it have spent a lot of time making open non-blob drivers for various pieces of phones over the years before various AOSP releases.
I also dropped Linode after my credit card was stolen in the recent hack.
What Comes with Google Chromecast (with Unboxing Video)
I am failing to see the advantage to open source if Ubuntu succeeds. It will just be another Android, but with an uglier UI. Canonical contribute virtually no useful code back to the wider community. Their own projects are difficult to consume (if they're not already poorly duplicating functionality).

Unlocking all functionality of a device is extremely difficult while binary blobs are shipped, something I would have thought appealed to _hackers_.
Read my comment and then his. He's implying causation. Not that it even matters to prove this point.
Micro instances only provide "burst" CPU usage - if you keep above a certain threshold for long enough, it will throttle you by stealing CPU time (hence the 99%).
Seriously, your goal is awesome and I love it. Aside from donations (which I've done) is there anything else that we can do to help?
I think DigitalOcean is next shiny hosting thing :), even without this security thing everyone keeps reminding me.
I'm always surprised with just how much traction IE has lost in the developer/tech community. Across the couple of open source projects I maintain, only 62 of 4,847 visits have been from IE (mostly 9 and 10). I think everyone knows that most in this community don't use IE - but only 1% usage? That's crazy. Curious if this trend will ever change or if too many bridges have already been burned.
Thanks. Now stop being distracted.
This is one of the reasons why I have a bad feeling about Mono (see my other comment).

In another HN discussion, a person from Xamarin said they didn't have the resources to keep Linux package management up-to-date.

However, they scored $16 million in funding this month, so going forward they certainly do have the resources.
What's more dangerous: manipulating genetics of crops or spraying roundup onto the food crops?

Isn't the most common genetic modification the one that makes the plants immune to roundup?

Wikipedia seems to say that glyphosate is harmless to humans in small doses, but the talk page references the combination of glyphosate and TN-20 which is included in roundup and this link is about the human toxicity of that combination: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23099315
That is where I was thinking of putting the link to download the dynamically generated .ICS file, but I'm stuck on where to get the data for their reelection dates :S (Sunglight labs supposedly has "term_start"and "term_end" fields, but a test call to their api shows nothing and even if those returned, I don't know how well that correlates to when the election is).
I would like to get an official statement by either company before I jump to conclusions. I seem to recall someone at google claiming that Apple had not yet approved the Maps app and it wasn't even submitted yet. Apple used to do a lot of sketchy stuff like this, so we all assume it's true. But until I see something official, then I'll hold judgement.
The Mono project leaves it up to the packagers for each specific Linux distro do the packaging (just like nearly 100% of all other open source projects) because they are more knowledgable about the various packaging subtleties of their own distros.

GTK# is what is used to develop Xamarin Studio / MonoDevelop, so it is pretty well supported.
I believe Linode used to have the option to attach extra storage but you'd still need to reformat, merge, etc.

Personally, for high diskspace growth needs, I just use a dedicated where I can just get them to throw additional disks in with little to no downtime.
Representatives up for election in 2013 [EDIT: 2014] should be flagged. Ones in competitive states should be at the top, with donation links for those who voted Aye. If they voted Nay and their competitor is anti-NSA, their competitor gets a donation link by the incumbent's name.
Ah, but I was a budding geneticist from 1977-1989 (even "practicing" in the summer of 1977), and based on what I observed of the field then you are seriously overstating your case. My comment about Nature is not based on an "assumption" but on what people in the field learned during that period. Very conveniently the period started just after the Asilomar Conference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar_conference_on_recombin...), and I studied all this in detail before finances forced me into a sordid, initially on and off career of programming.

Or at least as view your "accidental" vs. "necessary with the design" concept; I don't give much credence to the latter, and I think it doesn't affect the argument that Nature has proved this to be generally safe.

Final note: if I and the others who believe this are correct, it's not merely a "lines our pockets", it's also a "X fewer people stave to death or suffer from malnutrition".
There was a better link posted earlier today with all the information you are requesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6103149
Breaking Development: Build on the present to develop for the future
A few tens of k's is remarkable. There's a fallacy of thinking "people aren't doing anything about it, therefore they don't care".

In fact, people don't "do something" because they estimate, rightly or wrongly, that they can't do anything that would make a difference. Millions worldwide protested the current US wars when they were getting started, but they went ahead on schedule. What, exactly, can citizens do to effectively influence their government anymore? If people perceive that rule of law is gone, the rational reaction is to "lie low" and hope to get thru these times unnoticed. Those still contacting congress may be old enough to remember a different USA and naive enough to not realize it is gone.
ovh.ie (Ireland) shows €2.99 for KS2G with VAT at 23%.
It was a bitcoin trading platform. Many bitcoins had to be accessible by a sever.

It wasn't the platform's fault that they lost the bitcoins. Linode's admin interface was the attack vector. This is roughly equivalent to getting robbed because your landlord left your apartment's master key under a doormat.
http://buyvm.net/ - Their storage VMs are pretty good, I only use it for backups tho. I'm not sure if that helps you at all.
They aren't related. Steal is the ratio of how many CPU cycles were promised to your system, but that your system didn't get. User is how much CPU (of the promised maximum) your programs are using directly (i.e. not time which is spent doing system calls (IO being the big one), which falls under the system bucket).
They are standing on a principle. Principle is not about figuring out how to gain mass acceptance, it's about drawing a line in the sand.

Personally I don't always agree with them, but I'm glad they exist, just for the reason that by doing so they move the Overton Window (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window) on the subject. By staking out a position on one extreme end of the spectrum, they create room for others to be seen as "reasonable" and "moderate" just by being willing to make small compromises. Those others can then play for the mass acceptance you're looking for without having to deal with arguments that they're extremists.
This thread reminds me of webhostingtalk.com.
I wrote this a while back: http://www.welton.it/articles/webhosting_market_lemons

Part of the problem is that it's very easy to compare on price, but difficult to compare on service. I think my conclusions may not be quite as valid today, because news gets around so quickly, but I think the concept is a worthwhile one to think about.

Anecdotally, I've been very happy with Linode's service: a few months ago, I had some kind of problem and things weren't booting. Panic! I sent in a support ticket, and went to their IRC channel right away. I started describing the problem, and one of the guys in the channel says "oh, I think I just answered that", and indeed, the support ticket had already been answered with real, helpful information.

My interaction with them has usually been quite positive.
Most of the groups who take on poverty in Kenya are religious organizations. I guess they are the private sector but I often wonder if that's what people have in mind when they make comments like yours.
Vast costs of Arctic change
Awesome.

HackerNews: here's your challenge. Who knows someone who produces at one of those programs?

(Watsi, can one of your investors hook you up? I have to imagine Conway, PG, et al have the right connections. I wish there was something we could do with technology, like start a twitter campaign or something that would get you noticed... speaking of which, you guys would be the only place where I would actually click on a "share what you just did on facebook" button, after donating. Don't really care to share what book I purchased on Amazon, but I'd definitely be happy to share that I helped fund Phillip's treatment for cleft lip.)
Kimusufi.com did not have this offer and kimsufi.us is something else entirely, but kimsufi.ie seems to accept Americans.
Still capable of occurring, but I don't know how Windows would report it (haven't run Windows in a VM in a long time).
This is dominating the discussion at our fund right now.

They should have traded commodities, at least with commodities, most forms of insider trading are legal:)

It will be interesting to see if the fund lives on from this . I find this unfortunate, Steve Cohen is one of the people in this industry I enjoyed following.