skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is indeed true. However I am grateful I am from a country that fell under US influnce than one that fell under USSR influence. YMMV. Still, many of those who are now lauding Russia here will actually be glad they didn't grow up in the former Eastern Bloc, and that strikes me as a somewhat inconsistent viewpoint.
It's the cost of being a global superpower together with open borders.

If you seriously want to reduce surveillance at least one of these must be changed, but probably both. However both are politically impossible to change for any party.

The democrats and republicans act and sound the same because of issues of national security. If the US where to go into isolation mode it could drastically reduce it's threat level against it. However of course isolation would lead to other problems (similar to the one prior to WW2)

However I believe that these changes will not come as a change of policy from either party, rather through a huge crisis and a downfall of the US political system.

The UK has a similar problem as a regional power.

Edit: Added extra paragraph.
I would guess an extremely low percentage. What was the last item you bought that was essentially nothing more than a single piece of some kind of plastic?

3D printing has an arguable use-case (IMO) for 1-off plastic-y parts, but it's far from making anything overly complex or durable. When you think about any object that might have a market need for 1000 or more of the same thing (not a very large number) injection molding turns out better parts at an arguably lower price.

I like the idea of 3D printers, and I've played around in the past with vinyl plotters I've modified to cut wood veneers, and small CNC machines and the like, but I just can't figure out how to justify a current 3D printer beyond a novelty aspect.
perhaps there should be an official group for 'for humans' projects?
Also UI can be a huge part of UX.
No, flexie doesn't realize that, and neither does 99.9% of the rest of the worlds population. Which is exactly why it's such a stupid action.

Politics and diplomacy are all about perception. And the perception of the US throwing a major tantrum over one hacker is the impression that will stick.

Obama has just increased the damage to the image of the US, nothing else.

Also, I don't quite buy the "laundry list". He could have cancelled sooner.
> What concerns me is how highly vulnerable to RF disruption some of those projects relying on WiFi are. This is a serious problem if you are trying to communicate vital information in a country where the government is hell-bent on not letting citizens set up counter-revolt or grass-root movements because it'll actually be very cheap to disturb those signals (I may be wrong but from what I understand of WiFi freq. range it's easy to neutralize a network by flooding it with interference).

Plenty of WIFI networks are sub-optimal because the people implementing them don't know what they're doing with channels and power etc. I'm worried that meshnet activism will attract many people who are keen but not clueful.

See also "IETF Attendees Re-Engineer Hotel WIFI" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3771876) (https://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/032812-ietf-makeover-...)

I agree that it feels like jamming WIFI would be trivially easy for people with even moderate skills and resources.
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The title of this article is typical Americanism...
That's actually is easily fixable. He changed the link to bank's website where copy of the contract's text located. So all "bank people" need to do is to check the link isn't altered. Or ad some other form of text sealing like "The text of this contract includes 2132 words, 4543 letters 'a' ..." and check for that seal only.
"in nearly all of academic engineering the learning materials are much, much better written."

I'm a math major and recently I started studying CS and I couldn't agree more!
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I don't like points 1 or 6 at all. Engineering is more intellectually demanding academically than the vast majority of non science/engineering subjects, and many engineers are rightfully proud of their academic achievements. You wouldn't get away with being this dis-respectful to them in an engineering focused company, which his clearly isn't.

I don't get the feeling he's being disrespectful to engineers. He's just listing qualities that are important for an entrepreneur in his opinion.

Academic achievements are worth respecting, but they're not a necessity for becoming a founder, and can indeed be a liability.
For me, when some people say "design" they mean "style". For example, someone works in the UI layer? That's the visual style of the application. I think in the early days of the web, "design" was co-opted from traditional print graphic designers as a way to draw a distinction from then; a web designer. However, I think its much more important to emphasize the capital D Design that occurs in software development, as in your cake example. So I would adjust your example as such:

"visual style is like the strawberries on the cake, Design is the recipe. UX is how the cake tastes i.e. the culmination of Design and attention to detail during the assembly process"
And you missed the point also. Lock your computer when you're not at it. Like any responsible user. Problem solved.

It's not hard to understand where the boundaries are. Also, it's actually up to Apple to fix the broken thing, not Chrome. There should be a settings in the preferences of the keychain to require a password even if it's been unlocked before (or however that works. I don't Mac)
No, they want to work with the PMs, UI designers, marketers, developers, and data analysts, enabling them to have the right tools to make better choices.
What the diff with https://github.com/debasishg/scala-redis ? Almost every scala redis driver supports futures and is easy to wrap it into futures. Also by making all redis call async we have noticed performance issues as redis serves only 1 req every time there was too much time spending in thread-join. We found that the best practice is to have non blocking requests (methods) and all the redis reads in a blocking way. The only way to gain speed it to have N redis CPU's with N threads but that's almost impossible.
You are on to something but it seems that american exceptionalism was there from the very beginning and before it was a global superpower :

From wikipedia:

Jefferson envisaged America becoming the world's great "empire of liberty"--that is, the model for democracy and republicanism. He identified his nation as a beacon to the world, for, he said on departing the presidency in 1809, America was:

"Trusted with the destinies of this solitary republic of the world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and self-government, from hence it is to be lighted up in other regions of the earth, if other regions of the earth shall ever become susceptible of its benign influence."[37]

Off-topic: that wp [1] page states that american decline started at the end of the eighties. It makes an interesting read as I think the mass media put it around 9/11. Happened before 9/11 but that event crystallized that decline.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

Edit:

1. The US declared independence in 1776 and were recognized in 1783. Is 30 years between this and Jefferson statement too much to say "it was there from the beginning ?"

2. What about 1600's and 1700's US religious people and their own beliefs when they established themselves in that new promised land ? How does it relate to "American ideology, "Americanism", based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, republicanism, populism and laissez-faire." (from the first paragraph of that wp page) ?
Those are some pretty solid achievements, so uh, USA! USA! I guess.

But, I think that historical lens you are looking back through time to the War of Independence with might have a little smudge on it obscuring that whole deal with the negroes and the injuns...
>> a surprising number of Americans (also commenters here in Hacker News) seem to lack that kind of sense of symmetry.

Russia is quickly turning away from [Edit: the road to] democracy, the state seems to become integrated with organized crime. And Russia support some of today's worst mass murderers/torturers.

That is a large lack of symmetry... which you are fully aware of, but ignore yourself.

And no, I'm not arguing that USA, or any other place, is perfect. But there are grades of grey.

Subjects like this, where lots of believers have knee reflex reactions and just hate, don't work on HN or on any non-moderated discussion board. (And that is even before the trolls come out to make fun of the fanatics.)
So... no "benefit of the doubt" here? I think I'd rather wait 'till I actually get to read the paper - and let dem articles speak for themselves - before making a statement like "We Already Know What Kind of Newspaper Owner Jeff Bezos Will Be." But, hey, that's just me. And I am totally biased, I mean, I buy things from Amazon so...
Wikileaks really should have slowly leaked out information like the Guardian has with the Snowden documents. Even today people haven't absorbed the important information that Manning shined a light on.

For example, from the Manning leaks we learned that the U.S. railed against a proposed increase in the minimum wage in Hati. It would have raised wages from 24¢ to 61¢ an hour. American corporations that take advantage of Hati for cheap labor couldn't have that. I'm looking at you Hanes and Levi Strauss.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/06/us-haiti-wik...
99.9% of the rest of the world doesn't even know who Snowden is, what he did, or that Russia granted him temporary assylum. On top of that they probably don't even care that this meeting was canceled.
Opinion about someone throwing money out of the window works both ways: the more you dislike how one guy caused others to fight over paper, the more you should dislike fighters for what they do.

Unlike ancient times when a king throwing money around would be the same person who robs his citizens, Durov did not steal from anyone. Everyone who was fighting for money are responsible for their free choice. Durov is responsible only for throwing paper bills out of the window. Anyone who was harmed during that voluntary gathering, was harmed by greedy dudes, not by pieces of paper.

PS. Imagine if Durov set up a charity organization that gave away money to people based on some criteria. This would have some competition among people. Some of them will attempt to eliminate competition by defaming them, or blackmailing, or brutally fighting. Would Durov be responsible for all this fight around "free" money, or would actual fighters be responsible?
I joined a large company as a UI developer and got sent on a UX course due to this misconception. A happy accident I guess as it worked out the best for everyone.
$80k/year would be a high wage in most EU countries. In Malaysia, I would guess the wages are about 1/10 of that.
The RepRap is an attractive investment for the average U.S. household already
I'm well aware of that whole deal. I don't believe the USA is a beneficient entity in any absolute sense. I was making a comparison to Russia.
I was also about to come here & highlight that phrase. It's completely true. I don't regret having a child for one single second because she is amazing. But sitting down in front of a computer late in the evening, after another night of interrupted sleep & trying to solve complex issues is not easy.
The most interesting about this blog post is the references to the U.S. military's book "Think like a Commander"

Available on the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) (although not on my firewall :P )

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDo...
Not sure why you edited your post rather than replying to mine, but ... [EDIT: Perhaps it's because the 'reply' link seems to take a while to appear. If so I always get around that by clicking on 'link' and then replying there!]

> As a Western European, I can relate. I am just pointing that picking WW2 intervention is not the best way to crown US over URSS.

It's not the intervention per se, but the spirit of the intervention, what its aims were and what it led to. Those of the US were far superior to those of the USSR from my point of view.
For the sake of argument, I'll answer this with s/wife/friends/

Yes, if I'm not besides it, I will switch user accounts. And if I walk away from my computer for a bit, I lock it (except when there are no untrusted people around, like at home). I have "Lock Screen" bound to Ctrl-Alt-L, so it's trivial to do.
By buggy, do you mean a white page with p and ul tags inside the head?
http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.alexhudson....

Just a better way to read the article.
> Russia is quickly turning away from democracy

You're very generous to suggest they've ever been anything like a democracy.

> Subjects like this, where lots of believers have knee reflex reactions and just hate, don't work on HN or on any non-moderated discussion board

Indeed.
This is the closest blog post I can find, is this the one you mean? http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/04/24/marketing-for-people-who...
> Russia is far worse than the US when it comes to rights

To be fair year after year the US fails to cover itself in glory when it comes to rights itself.

Abuse of PoW's in Iraq, extraordinary rendition, seemingly indefinite imprisonment without charge in Guantanamo, access to call records and internet usage of citizens without a warrant. I wonder about these Drone strikes which the US seems to able to do in any non-western sovereign country.

It has reached a point where you wonder what will happen next.

The mystifying thing is how passionate US citizens are about their right to vote. The massive rally's etc etc. And yet it seems politicians are almost always guided by big campaign contributors than the need's of the people they represent.

I am somewhat stumped by the faux-rage of the press and politicians. It seems that the US shitting over civil liberties isn't even a story. Instead it is all about Snowden and Russia. Realistically if a Russian named Snowdenoff fled to the US after doing something similar to Russia there is no way the US would have handed him over.
Having an undergrad CS degree is enough to self-study math, I believe. But having no formal education in the sciences/maths is not (unless you are a genius).

For me, merely pushing myself through a theoretical CS curriculum made me see (and write) hundreds of proofs, hear them explained by professors, and see non-trivial exercises solved during recitations. I don't think you can get the same kind of experience by just reading a textbook, even if it does offer full solutions to problems.

Maybe when there will be full video lectures for both lectures and recitations for the basic math (or theoretical CS) curriculum you could self-study by watching those and solving problem sets. Right now, the math courses offered by Coursera don't seem to match college level, and their platform doesn't really work for proof-based courses like Analysis, Linear Algebra (not the applied kind), etc...
Excuse me for anarchistic correction here.

None of them is a man in charge. Both of them think of themselves as being "in charge". And maybe some "voters" even support that idea. But that does not change matters for those who didn't vote for or support them (including all foreign citizens). For them, Putin/Obama are just bullies from high school. Most of the time they don't have to do anything with your life, but sometimes their associates in form of judges/cops/army/etc are coming to you and forcing you to do things you don't approve. E.g. sponsoring a war, or "national project", or having your money diluted by inflation or something else.
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What exactly does "hardly any" mean?
Russia's just put a dead lawyers on trial to cover up government corruption.

Like to admit it or not but the USA still has a functioning system of laws and an independent judiciary. Disagreeing with those laws or the judiciary is very different from living in a state like Russia.

Aaron Swartz, Eric Snowden, Bradley Manning et al all knew the laws they were breaking and the likely consequences. Those laws are harsh yes, but they chose to fight them by breaking them - they didn't have to. There are legal avenues for whistleblowing, regular criminal prosecutions of government corruption etc.

It's also blissfully ironic that this article praises Russia "following the law" when it comes to refugee status, yet the UK's similar stance re Assange and why he's being kept inside the embassy is lambasted on here.
But this particular fraud costs them money.
Ever since I first read about docker I wondered: How are you dealing with application data and updates of containers? Let's say you package everything you need for your web application together as one container: Web Server, Database-Server and Application Server: Where would the data go that the users of that web applications generate?

In the container? That would means that the data goes away as the container gets updated (if you just replace the old container with a new one). Or do you just never replace the whole container but just update what's inside? Or would you mount a device of the host? Does the container get access to device nodes of the parent? I would assume not. Or can you provide a container with something it can mount? Or are you stuck with some network based storage solution? That would rule out running databases in containers once the load raises.

Yes. I could just read up on all of this, but I have a feeling that other people have the same question, so by asking here, I might help them too.
stallman.org may not train you with all the skills you need to do investigative journalism and uncover conspiracy, but it _does_ cover the bare minimum you should do before you get started.

rms has been telling us for decades that hackers needed to get our act together politically, and it seems like this is the last "I told you so" he needs to finally get us to start looking.
>Mastery is more important than passing grades.

I hear this statement a lot, and I think it's very suspicious. Everyone wants to believe this, because if they fail a class, they can use "learning is more important than grades" as an easy excuse to avoid taking responsibility for their own failings. In reality though, if you've actually mastered what the class is trying to teach, you should be able to get passing grades.
This. I can wait for the week myself but it's the only thing with decent technical content out there.
That isn't true. Part of what makes the Snowden story so significant is that a huge, huge number of people do know who he is and (at least very generally) what he did and why he is being hunted by the USA.

I don't think anybody has the numbers, but I'd bet close to one in ten adult humans alive today know who he is. Certainly hundreds of millions have heard of him, at least; the story's been on prime time TV and prominently positioned in textual news sources across Japan, Europe, Canada, and most of the democratic world, and also in totalitarian states like China and Russia.
Also, the Graham family wasn't exactly poor.
I'm sorry to tell you, Snowden has been big news on the rest of the world.

I'm from Uruguay, and I can personally attest that people in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil are fully aware of Snowden (and rooting for him and against the U.S. government in this case).

It has been front page news on almost every country I know of, including all the big ones (friends and family in most countries of Europe, India and China and the UAE have confirmed this).

The person on the street here knows who Snowden is, how the U.S. spies on everybody (well, most suspected already, but it's now confirmed), etc...
A fixed time zone doesn't shift for DST, otherwise it wouldn't be fixed - by definition. All you need is a fixed reference point. There's nothing sacrosanct about UTC.
Maybe you're right. Now I'm curious as to how he bought his shares back from his ex-partners.

"Dumb mistakes that cost me close to $5 million dollars when it came time to buying out ex-partners."

If it's just affiliate revenue there is no way, the company had $5 million dollars in cash. He couldn't have sold shares since he said he has "total 100% ownership" of the company. He also mentions he never got a loan or an investment. Maybe it's just a missed business opportunity.
They are equally oppressive, only difference is that Russia is oppressive inwards, while USA is more oppressive outwards (i.e. Russia commits most of its atrocities inside borders, while USA commits them outside its borders).
besides the "can of worms" mentioned by using scanners to replicate items, how is UPS going to avoid the issue of people have design files that infringe on someones IP?
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> if you're close to 50/50, say 45/55, you need to just make it 50/50, come on.

and when there is a disagreement, the whole company is stuck.
Cool, what sort of stack are you running this on?
Given what China has done to Tibet over the past few decades it is safe to say the difference is night and day between the levels of "bullying" that occur.
Couldn't find the reply button (new account, first post, after two years as a leacher)

With my limited knowledge in history, I can't objectively compare the spirit/motivations of USA/URSS intervention.

Also, being raised in Western europe, I may be prejudicied, because of the "winners write history" stuff.
How? I don't see how academic achievement can be a liability.

If everyone went around proclaiming real entrepreneurs quit school, sure, I see why it would be a liability.

Otherwise, academic achievement can't really harm. (Coming from someone who does horribly in school.)
You can mount a shared folder on the host and put things there (this is recent, AFAIK).
The same is true of arithmetic coding, which separates the probability model from the encoding process. Feed an arithmetic coder a stream of random bits and it will efficiently sample from your model. See section 6.3: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/ps/105.124....
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It'd be nice if there was support for multiple versions of characters and ligature support. But still, pretty damn cool.

Edit: Seems like they have a new version of the tool on PaintFont.com which does have support for ligatures!

Edit2: Just tried it in my lunch break. Worked perfectly :) Doesn't look much like my real handwriting due to the uniform spacing, but definitely fun to use.
I was just thinking about 2600hz the other day! I've recently started learning Erlang and you're one of the few startups I can think of that uses it (I'm sure there are some others, though).
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America has done some really crappy things over the years, but you know about them, they come out and get reported.

In Russia the journalists who report these things get killed, those who speak out get assassinated overseas or put on trial for things they haven't done (as opposed to the act of leaking). Political opponents of the regime who announce their intention to run for office get hounded into exile.

America it at least a democracy, the public just don't care enough to change it. In Russia the people can't change it.
Really useful and concise - thank you. It makes me think how useful a 'guide to ethtool' might be, showing the various tunables in the kernel network stack.

Another subtopic is '10G vs 1G NICs'. Settings from the MTU to the queue sizes are all different and buffers are often on the cards themselves.

This is a great topic and I wish I could find more like it. I stumble across articles like this but rarely find them on my own - thanks HN.
I simply don't understand this, I don't think I have the right background. Any good starting places for finding more about this topic?
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