skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that modern Python does have workable co-routines

I think its called 'yield from'. Not sure if I'm sold on the name, but surprised nobody has mentioned it yet. From what I've seen, it looks really nice.

A comment on the post has an example of it:

def sync_and_read_bookmarks():
if (yield from sync_bookmarks()) > 0:
return (yield from read_bookmarks())
To see the figure 22%, set "INDIC_IS" to "Internet use: never".

That's interesting. However, it might be more interesting with "Internet use: in the last 3 months". That's at 74%, meaning 26% didn't use it the last 3 months.

Edit: It's also interesting to sort countries by usage. The poorer countries are at around 50% internet usage. I'm surprised to see Italy way down there with 56% usage (last 3 months).
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You shouldn't pull static assets from 3rd party sites like that. Looks like you've fixed it. You should also use W3 TotalCache, WP Minify, or a similar plugin to minify and combine your CSS and JS. You have a lot of files loading which slows the site down.
I guess familiarity is the reason. Most people know how to make a function call, but learning other ways to do concurrency takes time and effort.
> So-called "ordinary people" don't really know or care about this issue.

In one sense, they're right. For the most part, they really don't have anything to hide except maybe a few naughty pictures taken at a less-than-sober moment.

What people don't get (and I do not claim to be an expert, just a cynic) is the ability for others to take two pieces of information and form a previously-unthought-of conclusion. They aren't mean, nasty or suspicious enough to even think that is a possibility.

I still hew to the idea that this isn't a technical issue. We can come up with all kinds of secure protocols and systems until we're drowning in them but it still won't fix the problem that large parts of our society are just plain broken at some fundamental level.

We passed the laws that allowed this. We hired the nosy bastards that are doing this. Hell, we made the terrorists that required us to pass the laws and hire the nosy bastards. Somewhere along the line, we decided it was more profitable to set countries on fire than it was to work on conflict resolution.

We didn't need a computer to do that.

Fix the philosophical issue because all the tech in the world is just a bandaid.
Thanks James. I wish it hadn't been in a panic mode, but it worked out well and the users have told me they really like the new backend. The Mobile Backend Starter was a great starting point, but I needed something optimized for my app and didn't want to disappoint new users. Passionate users really are a great motivator.
I dunno. They seem acquire more than they build. The success stories at Google seem to always be in spite of Google rather than because of them.
There is a distinction between documenting the portions of your app you intend people use, and effectively promising to maintain side effects and accidents of your existing design. mraleph says the public API is documented, which fulfills the obligation an open source project has.

However, the discussion here is about side effects of the V8 implementation, as they relate to performance. That is to say, the V8 team is reluctant to do anything that suggests "if you write javascript using this pattern, your code will/will not run fast, but only because that's just how this week's code branch works out". If the team made those sorts of promises with a project as complex as V8, they effectively become locked in to their existing code, unable to change or improve much of anything because they'd be breaking the promises of performance patterns they previously issued.

The authors who are working with V8, on the other hand, require those promises to be made. It's not enough for the performance patterns to be documented, these authors need them to be fairly stable as well.

It's a tough situation - the V8 authors have made all the promises and documentation that's practical for them to do, but it's not enough to satisfy these other project authors' needs.
Yuck. Why would anyone want that kind of stuff. nanomsg does all its processing in the background threads, same way as TCP does. I doubt anyone would ask to have to call do_background_processing_step() to make TCP work.

Also, that kind of thing compromises internal working of the library, if the user doesn't call do_background_step() fast enough. Timers may be delayed that way etc.
What about the claim that G+ links pass value? Clearly they're no-followed, but has Google prevented them in passing value in some other way (algorithmically, perhaps?), as is widely believed to be the case for affiliate links?
Probably something like this is closer?
http://www.concatnews.com/#hardware,unix
Use node-postgres for the DB piece. If your server is just going to be a REST API then use node-restify. If you want the server to serve a website (html, css, js) then use express. I have not used Angular so I cannot comment.
Sure, no problem.

It relates to D&Y as it's similar in vein.

It was wildly successful in getting European economies rolling again, but the hook was that it ensured penetration into and possession of European markets by American business interests. It also served as a cultural hook, by massively upping the volume of American goods exported to Europe. Either way, it was pretty successful in its publicised goals, but also very successful in the less spoken about goals of US hegemony.

D&Y were overtly intended to make Germany dependent on the US, and the great depression pretty much directly precipitated the fall of the Weimar republic and the rise of National Socialism, as it absolutely buggered their economy and caused huge resentment.

Dawes of course got the Nobel Peace Prize, even though his work would ultimately set the stage for the bloodiest conflict the world has ever known.
This mashup is what a typical investors walks out with from a Demo Day. How many more of the same hockey-stick presentations will be enough, and does anyone really believe them anymore?
Both parties knew there were copies elsewhere. The act was a demonstration of compliance which has reinforced a relationship of subservience to the government.
Physical mail, at least in the US, enjoys privacy due to specific law. As I understand, a court order/warrant is needed to open a USPS letter.

With private carriers like FedEx (which aren't allowed to offer normal letter service in the US) there's no such restrictions. FedEx directly states "We may, at our sole discretion, open and inspect any shipment without notice."[1]

1: http://www.fedex.com/us/service-guide/terms/express-ground/i...
Why is it a hack job?

I would say it’s patching a hole, and it’s the feasible way to make email secure, rather than throw it all out and convince the world to switch to a new system.

Most (internet) standards evolve this way. That’s the curse of evolving a standard that is already in widespread use.
Total overreaction. E-mail is not insecure now because the NSA is scooping up all the traffic or making backroom deals with e-mail providers. It is, and always was, sent over the wire in plaintext. You're writing postcards.

Read Phil Zimmermann's comments 22 years ago that seem especially relevant:
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

Don't let the government intimidate you.
Interesting how temporary Twitter winds up being... most of the links on the Hacker News discussion are now dead!
17.5% of EU's population is in the 65+ age bracket

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....
Conspiracy theory has become conspiracy fact.
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PS: i don't always agree with everything i say, either ;)
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A basic sanity test of Java's AES key length.
Can I have an example here?
Who gives a fuck?

Seriously, if a company I interview at is genuinely threatened by me talking about my interview and questions, maybe they should reconsider their viability as a business--things being so precarious and all.

NDAs for employees generally seem to be bad signs for places worth doing business at.
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The Paris metro did have 1st and 2nd class sections, but ended them in 1991 [1]

The London underground did as well, but ended them in 1940 during/because of the war [2]

In Paris, it seems that demand fell to non-sustainable levels. This was after enforcement stopped though, which seems like it could be a rather classic example of the free-rider problem!

1: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-05-12/travel/9102110...

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_O_and_P_Stoc...
Ask PG: How would you react if the NSA asked you to open up your HN database?
Would you close HN down, like Lavabit, Secure Circle and now Groklaw? Would you fight it legally?
I've always liked Russ Cox's solution [1]

[1]: http://swtch.com/libtask/
The two are equivalent. The only difference is that in ZMQ the global state is created upon zmq_init() call. In nanomsg it's created upon first nn_socket() call.
Perhaps "fast" is a relative term. But nothing starts until a decision is made. So! Let's make the decision and move forward.
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Absolutely, I bet someone in the govt is thinking about giving each citizen say 10GB of free space that is secure from: hackers, identity theft, foreign espionage etc.

All the ones that won't use this offer can then be even more meticulously monitored.
How exactly are you charging clients for work not done? Do they pay? How do you know they pay? How do you know they Re not getting rebates and apologies ? Over-billing hours is a serious crime but hardly unheard of. Claiming to have done deliverables is just foolish. Which is happening?
No, but yesterday a friend of mine asked me how to back up her pictures from her computer. I told her to use a removable drive. My wife said: "Just store them on Facebook". I said: "The US government makes a copy of anything you upload to the internet." My wife was shocked. Our friend said: "I don't want that." (She's from Hungary). We settled on 32 GB flash drives.

Moral of the story: Just like Groklaw, the ordinary people will stop trusting the internet because people in the know (in her case lavabit founder) say not to trust it.

Ordinary people, for the most part, trust the geeks they know to guide them through the computing landscape.
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If you think this is just an American problem you are deceiving yourself.
"Aside from being terrible at communication, Google implicitly rejected, without appeal, someone with offers for a PhD and someone who owns two checks from Knuth. "

I'm glad that Google doesn't just blindly look at credentials alone. If you got a PhD, and got featured in a CS publication, but couldn't answer their questions, then you probably shouldn't be accepted. That said, OP just had bad bad luck. My phone screen question was FAR easier (I still messed up on it, and got to the on-site too).

Disclaimer: I went to a Google interview last week (got rejected)
From those questions, it sure seems like their interview process is aimed at choosing among recent grads whose resumes are all essentially the same "B.S. Computer Science from School X".
You're saying that Apple's 30 pin connector, introduced in 2003, was a copy of a "industry standard" that was designed in 2010?

Maybe that's why you're struggling to find a source that "directly confirms it".
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I understand that they can, and sometimes may, force you to divulge your key, but it's not a consistent thing in the United States. There are judgments that require the divulgence, and judgments that claim such forced divulgence is precluded by the Fifth Amendment.

In any case, you buy yourself a very large amount of time if you don't just leave all your communiques out for them to read in plaintext. If you're encrypted, you have a lot of due process to exhaust before they ultimatley MAY order you to divulge the key. They have to go through your lawyer. He can file motions and appeals. The accused may incidentally forget the password. There are a lot of options. With plaintext, there are no options; there is only the government with all your content, and you with no control over anything.

See this here, with reference to the conflicting case law in the U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Stat...
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I think this is very unfortunate. I've seen a lot of good candidates get rejected for no obvious reasons. The lack of communication seems driven I think by the sheer deluge of the number of resumes/interviews going on at Google, and what appears to be, a reliance on temps and contractors as part of the process.

I had a friend who interviewed at Google, who is an excellent software engineer I've worked with for years, but who got rejected with extreme prejudice because he was interviewed for the wrong position. He was going for software engineer, they interviewed him for networking/systems reliability, and asked him all of these sysadmin/network-admin style questions. Even after he told them they had set him up with the wrong set of interviewers, they still kept the schedule.

Given the sheer size of Google however, I'd expect lots of false positives and negatives in their filters.

Also recognize that regular Googlers are selected to do these interviews, and some of them have little training in giving interviews. If you're unlucky, you might get a bad interviewer. I consider myself a relatively poor interviewer and I usually decline to do them unless they intersect my subject area (compilers, GWT, etc)
The blog post was wirtten by Armin Ronacher. Here's today's tweet from Armin: "Oh wow. Looks like nanomsg fixes all my problems I have with ZeroMQ."
> Groklaw's main work wasn't revealing how broken tech IP law was, it was revealing how stupid one company was for trying to manipulate the system.

That was its founding purpose, to be sure, but its main work had moved on from the "how stupid one company was" thing for quite some time.

> Coverage of which didn't really include much (any?) help from confidential sources.

I'm not sure why this is in your response to my comment, since it is completely irrelevant to it.
Of course, history, credentials, and current technical know-how should be balanced.
I think Google prefers false negatives over false positives. I know a few extremely smart people who didn't "pass" their Google interviews. Most likely because they didn't have that "totally positive effortlessly nice and socially easy" vibe.
I can say that pj has always been protective of her privacy, even when Groklaw was essentially focused only on the SCO vs. IBM drama playing out. She's also a paralegal by training with a tech interest (which explains her comments about the rule of law), but she was not necessarily an expert in technical infrastructure, protocols, etc. Typically she relied on experts and other collaborators for things which needed a hefty dose of technical know-how on her site.

So with that in mind I was quite shocked to read this morning that pj has abandoned the site, for the reasons you mention. But I can say that from what I've read of her over the years (I've had Groklaw on RSS for years now), it does kind of make sense if you look at it from her worldview; she values her privacy, geeks everywhere are saying that the NSA is literally reading every piece of mail sent by anyone to anyone, and the result is then not completely surprising...
Cyrus here (the author)

Thanks Matt, I think we both agree that Google doesn't use +1's directly in your algorithm. But are you implying there are no SEO benefits to posting popular content on Google+? Google does use PageRank and anchor text, 2 things present in Google+ posts that aren't passed as easily in Facebook and Twitter. It seems to me that a popular post on Google+, shared and linked to by well known authorities, is just like earning a high authority editorial link - and this is a bit different than most other social media platforms.

Now, if you tell me you treat Google+ differently in a way that blocks link juice, blocks anchor text and doesn't pass link equity, then I think I would have to rethink my thesis. Regardless, I think we're both on the same page here. The goal is not to accumulate a massive amounts of +1's (and I'll amend my post to make that clear) but to share high quality content on Google+ and build your influence through this channel, and this can lead to real world success.

My argument is that Google+ as a platform passes actual SEO value, and I don't think this is a bad thing or something that needs to be debunked. Feel free to disagree if I'm way off base here.
22% of European don't use ATM machines and don't have a credit card ?
I don't think so.
The way they are winning is the problem - which is that they get tax money. People need to be able to directly agree what their tax is spent on - on a per-item basis. New road? Fix up a certain road? Etc..
> 1)Groklaw doesnt' depend on anonymous tips. The site could simply put up a huge disclosure statement on a web form that THE NSA might get what you say. Or not accept tips except via public comments but still operate.

I dont think Groklaw claimed it dependes on anonymous tips. The Groklaw fair well did indicate that they valued the privacy of their communications however just as they value not having anyone riffle through their underwear drawer.

> 2)Most of the people Groklaw corresponds with don't need anonymity either. Those that do presumably know it and hence, will not correspond with them absent secure means (once made aware of the need for them)

The need for anonymity was not claimed. No one siad lives or livelihoods were at direct risk. It was claimed that in general people act differently when they know they are being watched, recorded, or when it could be used against them in the future.

> 3) Groklaw isn't an email service provider, it's a legal blog/online magazine. As such, likely none of the NSA's mechanisms for getting information from email providers apply. Compelling individuals to hand over their own correspondence is, as far as we know, hard. It can get worse with freedom of the press issues.

I would assume that all of the email in question is likely to go through a email service provider and the NSA's normal mechanisms will work against that email provider. My understanding is that is uncommon for the NSA to compel "individuals to hand over their own correspondence" and that is normally happens at the email provider level.

> So post a PGP key and say, if you really want anonymity, use this.(Edit) and use a mixnet or Pond, or something to send the message. PGP encrypted email from a new account just deals with the NSA's email intercept capability. If you are worried about their other abilities, you need something stronger then Tor since it fails for global passive adversary.

What percentage of interested customers are lost when you add one more confirmation button in-between them and buying a product? I am sure a high percentage of people, interested in maintaing their privacy, are lost when GPG is required.
The hack job comes from the fact that it's not universal, nor does it provide a holistic solution. It is literally a sticky plaster.

The problem is that sometimes standards are no longer fit for purpose on multiple levels. At this point, migration is required to new standards.

This does happen quite regularly. Look at IPv4 to IPv6. The change should be of the same magnitude.

We've done this before. First UUCP, then SMTP, then XYZ.
It's not that they hate our freedom, it's that they fear we will "bring" freedom to them. Unions, human rights (especially women's rights), and some other cornerstones of Western society are absolutely foreign to them, and some relish in the fact that foreigners don't want to live in their lands.

They fear the breaking down of cultural and economic barriers.
Agreed. If you cannot rely on the people you elect to not be blackmailed then the system is essentially worthless.
Exactly. The problem is so far beyond partisan now that people still framing it in terms of "Bush" or "Obama" have the blinders on.

The problem is systemic and cultural, the federal bureaucracy is more influential on elected officials than elected officials are on the federal bureaucracy, at least in matters of intelligence and national security.

Every politician elected into this system faces extraordinary forces of compliance, and only a few on both the left and right (Wyden, Paul, etc) seem able to resist.
That's exactly why it's interesting. Out of a hardward feature on Galaxy S4 they made an iOS app.
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PS: @leokun: FWIW, i up-voted you. Your suggestion about the change of tone from frustration to information is something i will definitely keep in mind for the next time (no, there's no sarcasm there!). Unfortunately, i didn't have that insight in advance this time (which would have made it foresight, i guess, which you have now armed me with :-).
There is nothing weird or surprising about it: they are fighting over who will rule the country now that the old government is gone. The government we set up is not what the Kurds had in mind, nor is it what the Shiites had in mind.
Actually, it wasn't inspired. The first time I ever heard about the Dual Shot (sorry I don't pay enough attention to Samsung) was two weeks before we submitted to the App Store.
That's what they tell people too. It's great if you just graduated from a formal CS program because the algorithms stuff is fresh in your brain. Whereas working 5-10 years in a boring bigcorp, doing CRUD apps will kinda make you more "dumb"
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I had a very similar experience with Google London and Google Zurich. It took them longer than a year to arrange an interview. Quite disappointing -- I'm actually glad I decided not to join them.
1) there was a claim by her that some sources are anonymous
2) always leave avenues of information open
3) Who is the press? Congress currently is trying to define who is the press and who is not. They seem to forget the 1st applies mentions speech and press separately. As for the PGP key, I am quite sure when they want it a FISA court will force you to give them your private key and not to say that you did.

The government cannot be trusted with the information they are gathering. I don't care how many promises of "it won't be used", "it is private", "and it will be deleted". If anything the "leaks" from the IRS of people's personal information prove that no information is safe in the hands of government because they cannot keep their own people from misusing it.

Who is to say that someone decides something posted to Groklaw gets some politicians panties in a wad? All the privacy rules in the world won't amount to jack if he has friends who accidentally find and leak it. Its been done in other organizations, it will occur with the NSA data. Most likely it will start showing up during election season.
When you're married, your wife plays a big part in a lot of decisions you make vs when you're single.

Disclaimer: 30. Married for 5 years.
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Groklaw never claimed it depended on anonymous tips. They claimed that it in general changes how people communicate and that the author is just as uncomfortable with an unauthorized person going through their email as if they were going through their underwear drawer.
I would think the percentage of people who don't use ATM machines and don't have a credit card is likely higher than 22%, actually. Using only cash is much more common in Europe than in the US.
He is talking about the height of the doors, hence the reference to the Countach. http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-1980-1989/1985-Lamborghini...
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