skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we are using GNU/OpenBSD too? because of gcc ?

Years ago, I used to joke with friends starting with ubuntu, that they were using really adobe/nvidia/broadcom/micrososoft/oracle/etc/gnu/linux.
> In an example shown by a South Carolina vendor, messages such as “STOLEN,” “EXPIRED,” or something similar could also be displayed on a license plate.

Letting the government label you in public (someday maybe even whenever they want and how they want).

What does that concept make you think of?
Is there even a consumer play in this? Disrupt: Car Registration! Find the pain, and provide a way to kill it.

The real value play here (for citizens) would be for government to simply eliminate the need for registration stickers completely. Nowadays the cops all know if you are up to date on registration or not because they've got real-time access to the database on the back-end. There is simply no need for stickers at all - nobody else cares or needs to know if your registration is up to date.

Unfortunately, dismantling an obsolete system is not an opportunity for any one organization to profit.
Thanks, I didn't expect to ever read anything insightful about this debate.
It kind of sounds like saying: "Why should I learn math, I will never use it anyway." It might be true, but that is not a good excuse for not learning it. And it is not like using semantic HTML is in any way more work or something, it at least has the benefit of being easier to read and thus maintain.
No, we are not overlooking that. Some of us have looked into the evidence and figured out that people who convince themselves that they are "intelligently selecting vaccinations" are in fact making poor choices.

What do you say to someone making poor choices when you know their choices are poor, and they are so convinced they are right that they won't listen?
Unlimitied Cloud storage + stream videos from torrent link..
This is an unlimited cloud service that lets you grab a torrent link from any site, drop the link on the upload panel and have the torrent go straight on to your cloud. You can then stream the video\song from your cloud. It's currently in beta.
> The command to wear padded running shoes, for instance.

Physio's I've spoken to describe the pros and cons of both (barefoot, and padded) and let me decide. What command are you referring to?
6 crazy HTML5 websites that will blow your mind
I remember seeing this at the Box Hackathon a year ago but couldn't find it online. Thought it was neat. Congrats!
"We now know that the Feds and marketing mills are both harvesting massive amounts of personal data without revealing to us what they know, and that the two are actually in cahoots, at least some of the time. This is especially vexing, because the feds should be the ones protecting us from bad actors, rather than bad actors themselves."

This quote nails it for me. The waste involved with universal surveillance.

Further down this discussion, some participants are arguing about terminology ('Linux' or 'GNU/Linux') which is the other side of the free software/open source process...

I was previously unaware of the work of Harry Frankfurt, and the original journal version of the On Bullshit essay is available online as a .pdf. There goes the morning...
well I certainly didn't use gcc (pcc/clang). does that apply to me too?

you GNU terrorists are funny, thinking you can go and claim others ppl work by attaching "GNU" prefix to a projects name and lying to everyone how it _is_ gnu. Unfortunately Linux is only GPL2 (and that too was a mistake as we can see from the above example - Linus said something about it too as I recall).
I read the article, and I don't see what the thesis is.

The article is disorganized. You can't tell where it's going, and when it gets there, you can't tell where you are.

It also seems to contain a lot of pretentious pseudo-intellectual posturing.

Maybe I'm missing something, though. Someone feel free to enlighten me.

EDIT: Also, I should state that I find the scatalogical references to be vulgar, juvenile, and a big turn-off.
It's not enough. However you can't have trustworthy software unless it can be audited. That's the key point.

The source is there. The standards are there. We know that timing attacks may be possible. The rest is just a matter of audits. Questions are good, but they are just questions until someone looks at the code, the implementation, the design, and the rest and says "here's a problem."
Another Australianite here.

You can just bind to localhost if you don't want things to be open to the world, or modify iptables.

Your other issue in Australia is the latency to DO's servers - ~200ms for the US and 350+ for a European droplet. Cloudflare may help there, though.
Thank you! I'll fix the summaries.
> Namely that all of these bullshit marketing techniques create a cognitive load that is not in proportion to any value that I as a customer receive from them.

The problem is that companies don't exist in a vacuum, and soon as one adopts these marketing techniques, everybody has to adopt to "stay competitive", even though they end up wasting money and bullshitting the customer. It's a prisoner's dilemma.

That's one reason why advertising makes so much money. Advertising is one of the rare industries that generates demand for itself.
Can you show me a "almost no benefit" vaccine that has "significant risks" that is currently in use?

> Here I hear a lot of pro-vaccine chest pounding.

You say that as you pound your chest about "informed opinion" without providing any information... so it's just (uninformed) opinion (right now).
I've been thinking about "Herd immunity" a lot recently, but not with respect to /biology/. The concept that if we easily become overpowered by a threat if do not maintain an active defence against it is true in most political issues, too[1].

In the current NSA drama, for example, we are fortunate enough to HAVE a "vaccine" against many of the problems: encryption. It's not always something that can be used (just like vaccines), but if those are rare enough most of the abuse-of-power problems wouldn't even be attempted.

When a certain critical mass of people start skipping that protection, a tempting target is created and the problems com back, often much faster than expected. If I could just think of a clever epithet similar to "antivaxxers" to use when referring to someone who think they can skip encryption because "they aren't doing anything wrong" ("won't get $DISEASE").

[1]: insert traditional speculation about meme-vs-gene here
Last year the flu vaccine was only about 35% effective in my area and the world didn't end. In a normal year you're in no danger from the flu unless your pulmonary or immune systems are compromised.

Of course that's not true every year.
CONFIRMED US BACKED REBELS KILLING CHRISTIANS
I do not understand the downvotes here,especially with no argumentation. It only illustrates my opinion: people have too extreme opinion on the subject. I maintain that being unconditionally pro or anti vaccines is a bad approach.
You do not need a court if your adversary is in Guantanamo.
I haven't worked enough with node.js. Is this a typical careless style in this community, like you know it from PHP users, or an exception?
You need a cache in front of Wordpress so that it doesn't hit the database on every read, then you can run Wordpress anywhere. I survived close to 3,000 req/sec against a Wordpress entry using a single Linode 360, back when those were available.

wp_supercache, nginx, varnish, etc. Rinse and repeat.
Thanks for the feedback. I considered adding std::make_shared and left it for subsequent articles. I will be revisiting shared_ptr. I did cover 'const' and '&' with auto and I didn't know about std::declval. I'll study it and consider adding it.

Also, I have covered the case of not knowing the type and yet being able to declare it by using 'auto' in the article on 'decltype'.
"Just a whole bunch of inefficiencies in the implementation."

That's a common misconception: what makes a language "faster" than another is not only more or less optimizations in the compiler or efficiencies in the runtime. There are language features that just kill performance. The typical culprits, in descending order of cost:

- dynamic typing

- dynamic dispatch (virtual methods)

- mandated bounds checking

- existence of an "eval" function

- mandated introspection
While it can't use an external xtal, it still has an internal crystal oscillator which can clock it at some MHz, up 16 MHz I think. It's not as accurate but cheaper and more flexible. I did a port of the Contiki OS to the Launchpad, which now comes with the msp430g2452 (16kB flash/256 B RAM) and the 'g2553 (16/512). At home I have them using cc2500-radios (2$ modules from aliexpress) and a radio duty cycling protocol I wrote, with plenty of flash space left for user applications.

You can find the port at https://github.com/msloth/contiki-launchpad and a write-up at http://www.bithappens.se/blog/2013/05/26/contiki-for-ti-msp4... and http://www.bithappens.se/blog/2013/05/26/simple-yet-efficien... with lots of measurements and other crowd pleasers.
So by that reasoning FreeBSD is turning from GNU/FreeBSD to Apple/FreeBSD as they change from gcc to clang?

Don't be ridiculous.

[edit]: spelling
in a few years there will be an outbreak of something preventable

There's an outbreak of preventable childhood measles in England at this very moment
AgileBits is a Canadian company, not a US company. This is also stated in the article.
Luckily OsmAnd+ (cost £5, there's a free version) is brilliant, and having all of the maps loaded into the phone at once is so much better than having to download bits of maps as you go along. It navigated me around Japan faultlessly last January.
I appreciate the advice, but I knew this already. I've been using WP Supercache since it was released. Nginx for I think 4 years at this point. I have it configured to the point that nginx serves the gzipped pages WPSC writes out to disk without ever hitting PHP.

I have three words for you:

Recent.

Comments.

Widget.
>Part of the (sexual) appeal of synthetics is how much they look like their organic counterparts. If you have a robot shaped like a refrigerator, that won't have as much draw as a robot in the shape of a human; people will be more willing to interact with the human-shaped one.

>However, that 1 percent of unfulfillment? That's only there because neither Sidore nor Elena are Gynoids. Once that technology becomes affordable, I'll have one made in my wife's likeness, and that'll be the final piece of the puzzle. She'd be able to hug me back whenever I embrace her, we'd be able to attend films and concerts together, and do all manner of things besides. There would be genuine interaction.

>I'm not interested in having someone in my life who may bail at any time, or who transforms into someone unpleasant.

According to the above quotes it seems he does indeed want a relationship with a real person, but he just wants that person to be submissive and totally devoted to his whims; in other words, the perfect slave. The problem here isn't the dolls. He's entitled to own them and enjoy their presence. But he's not entitled to compare them to real persons or claim that they are more than objects.

So yes, I am going to judge him. It's clear to me he has a really unhealthy and controlling attitude towards others.
> the new mega-application in Android for OS updates

Sorry, what are you talking about?
Thanks for the feedback.

I've divided the features into "high priority", "medium priority" and "low priority" categories. I am covering the "high priority" ones first in what I felt was decreasing order of priority. Also, I am doing one article one core language feature, then one on the library and continue alternating in that fashion.

I like your idea on when we should use certain features and when it would be good to avoid them. I'll consider doing a few examples of that kind too. I think I'll do a few of those once I am done with a few samples form the "high priority" set that I mentioned in an earlier comment in this thread.
It's a blog network. Latency matters, but not so much that I can justify paying the ruinous bandwidth rates Australian hosts want. I'd be looking at several hundred extra dollars per month for what is really a quite modest operation.
On the other hand, as I read the specs...

> 100 GB Google Drive Cloud Storage with 16GB Solid State Drive

...I see Google's strategy is to own your data. Do you really trust them now that you know they work with the NSA?
SigFig - a website to monitor (but not change) your financials.

I e-mailed them asking them to make the default unchecked, but I just got a canned response:

"Thank you for the suggestion. We currently do not offer that feature, but we are always open to new feedback. We have added this to our list of feature requests and ideas."
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add search. I'm very new to anything related to web. So, anything that is not "content", tends to get pushed aside but I'll add it soon.
Uhh, "classical OOP". Like Smalltalk. What C++ calls "OOP" has its place, but it's not the same thing.
Lessons From Linux: How to Foster Collaboration at Meetings and Conferences
UK censorwall bans VPNs
That's a mistake. Good find. I intended to write auto only and must have typed int just out of muscle memory! Thanks for pointing it out. I'll fix it. It may compile and run as intended but it's not the code I intended to write.
certain jobs.
It wasn't intended to be that however. I mistakenly typed both.
Apple Shows China the Respect It Deserves
That's why Varnish is more effective, because you can configure it to cache the results of things that WP Supercache misses by design including the Recent Comments Widget and its data. If you need SSDs to run Wordpress, there's a flaw somewhere. Every time I've scaled Wordpress, caching has been the answer. Apply liberally.

WP Supercache is a hack anyway, for folks running WP on shared hosts without root. If you have root, there's a plethora of better things for caching, even as ancient as Squid as a reverse. You can get your MySQL traffic down to <1 QPS fairly trivially, no matter what kind of traffic is hitting the frontend.

Don't forget wordpress.com is a huge MU installation, and they've existed since before SSDs became popular. The disk is not your issue here.
Morgan Stanley CEO: The probability of another financial crisis is close to zero
Like me, I'm allergic to most vaccines. So I can't have them, and require herd immunity to keep me OK. Thankfully I've been fine thus far.
Thanks for the feedback.

I have received this feedback regarding shared_ptr from multiple people - to show bare pointer version vs shared_ptr example. I'll add that soon.

Also, you are the second person to mention that there may need to be more content regarding auto with 'const' and '&'. I'll consider elaborating upon that too.
License plates go right into the middle of the strike zone for inter-vehicle collisions. Current license plates will survive more compression than the cars they're attached to, so this currently isn't a problem.

Will these plates survive a 25MPH fender-bender?
wow, that's assom!
+1 for Bad Science, that book is amazing! Not only in this respect; it covers many topics really, really well. Everyone should have read it.
From the linked article, "We have developers in four separate countries: Canada (AgileBits is a Canadian company), the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands."

... reading comprehension …

There are good password managers, then there's KeyPass. :/
Preferably with my own server (owncloud?) as a central keychain?
No he's talking about Taboola or Outbrain. Taboola shows up everywhere now. It's those little images at the bottom of pages like on VentureBeat that have nothing the fuck to do with anything and are just noisy bullshit that make the internet worse. There's usually some kind of cleavage or weird picture to get you to notice and click. It's bullshit and no self-respecting sites would never add such a thing.
>Nginx has taken over some of Apache's market because it's lighter on resources, i.e. with the same amount of resources it can process & deliver more stuff.

That's precisely why we moved to Nginx. We do mostly Java so Apache was not the problem there, as it was simply proxying over to Jettys.

But the blog is wordpress that means PHP, so we had to use modphp modules with Apache. That was Okay initially, but as we scaled, we saw some 50 instances of Apache and each taking 25 Mb memory. And note, most of the bloat in memory was due to modphp being loaded in-memory in each instance.

We moved to Nginx with an external php-fpm for PHP, and just 4 Nginx instances take up the entire load and each uses some 2.5 Mb of memory.

And at the same time Google webmaster shows a significant drop in average latency.

So that's our experience of why we moved to Nginx.

Edit: typo
See also http://shapecatcher.com/, which applies the same concept to Unicode characters.
> Electric cars have fumbled at the hands of traditional car manufacturers who have just tried to swap out the engine and think that's it.

Actually if car manufacturers take an existing, good looking car and swap the engine with a battery bank it would be something I would be interested in driving. But instead they somehow make their hybrids and EVs as ugly as possible.
Thanks for the feedback.

The first two points you mention are already on my mind for another article on shared_ptr when I revisit it (after doing a simple introduction to unique_ptr and weak_ptr). The third one I never considered to mention since I never considered using a reference to a shared_ptr but I realise that folks might consider it and should be warned against it. I'll make sure I point that out in the next one on shared_ptr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass
https://www.keepassx.org/
http://keepass.info/
> Sure there are anti-vaccine myths just as their are pro-vaccine myths. Some vaccines provide almost no benefit and entail fairly significant risks.

Can you provide some examples (three or four would be ok, that should count as "some") of these vaccines, backing your results with real, reputable research?
Vaccines save lives. Millions of lives. Pro-vaccine is not an extreme position, it is the sane position.

I downvoted you because I think you are presenting a false compromise. An "argument to moderation": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
Exactly the kind of attitude which can hurt people. Even kill them.
Agreed. KeyPass was terrible the last time I used it. Once I used 1Password I never looked back.

There are other good password managers (e.g. LastPass), but KeyPass is not one of them.
A Shot of Java to Send Accelerators Mainstream
I like the organisation and formatting on that site. I haven't seen it earlier.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if I can do something like that once I have a lot more content.
Varnish is not effective in the face of Recent Comments because that widget breaks whole-page caching fatally. Every time anyone leaves a comment anywhere, the entire cache for the entire site is invalid.

When I looked at where the slow runtimes were occurring on Linode, it was always jammed on disk I/O and it was always on PHP functions that are reaching into MySQL.

In my experience the MySQL query cache + an object cache do more for sites with a Recent Comments widget than whole page caching.

As it happens, I do all of the above. And I was doing all of the above. And still getting jammed on I/O. Because MySQL likes to join on disk. Whole page caching is useful only if you prevent that from happening. It's useless if the cache is rendered invalid every few seconds on a chatty site.
We are working on Shyahi - Your Social Resume (http://shyahi.com).

It all started as a discussion with my co-founder Sapan. We wanted a way to highlight our activity on StackOverflow, Github, Twitter and our blog posts while looking for jobs but couldn't find a good way to list them on our resumes or on our LinkedIn profiles. Even if we list them there, there is no way I could update it every time I do something on these sites. That's when we decided to build Shyahi.

Shyahi is a new way to build a profile to showcase your developer contributions and social activity. Its free, easy to set up and pulls in stats directly from Dribbble, Github, Stackoverflow, Twitter and your blog feed which means that the Shyahi profile is always up to date.
For those who don't want to deal with a .xls spreadsheet, I grabbed it, added a couple helpful columns (accounts per request and requests per 100m population), took a screen capture, and uploaded the PNG to imgur.com.

You can see it at: http://i.imgur.com/xhZIG6C.png

The US has the most total requests, by far, but is only 5th when population is considered. Here are requests per 100m population:

11869 Hong Kong
8434 Taiwan
5234 Germany
4386 Italy
4030 United States
3273 Australia
2864 France
2853 Singapore
2761 United Kingdom
1584 Spain
457 Argentina
370 Ireland
209 New Zealand
158 Brazil
136 Mexico
123 India
86 Canada
It is one of the best C++ reference sites out there.
Probably Google Play Services

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/balky-carriers-and-sl...
Tool to find a programmer to work with (for sale)
I upvoted this because I want it to kickstart a movement among companies, so everyone increases their security, end to end.

But at least on my part, this doesn't begin to "impress me". So far they're only talking about encrypting data between servers and they've also recently talked about encrypting Drive storage data (why wasn't it encrypted in the first place?!)

They need to implement OTR or some form of end to end encryption with PFS for Hangouts, and it would be nice if they at least gave the option to have encrypted calls and voice calls with ZRTP in Hangouts. The button should be right there and obvious for everyone who wants to use it. But I'm saying it's optional only because I'm not sure how it could impact what they're trying to do with Hangouts, and if ZRTP works with multiple people at once. But if they can do that, then it should be by default for everyone.

I'm also not sure exactly what kind of forward secrecy they are using for Google search - is it really a new key being generated per session - or is it like a few weeks? Because I think I read something about "a few weeks".

I think all SSL/TLS encryption is almost useless without PFS so everyone should use it, when we're talking about the government. A single order from them and they could get your key for everything. That's just completely unacceptable! So every service should be using PFS.

If I were them I'd also seriously evaluate whether RSA 2048 bits is enough, and if there's any doubt that it is, then they should move to more bits, or if the whole RSA algorithm is in danger, then they should be looking for alternatives quickly.

When Google and others start doing that, then I will begin to have some trust in them again. All of these press releases so far, and the lawsuit to fight to only disclose (not stop) the mass requests aren't fooling me, and I hope they aren't fooling many others either.

Until then I'll be on the lookout for any new great service that promises that type of security, and I'll switch to them as soon as they're available, and recommend others to do it, too, both offline and online.

I hope Google and Microsoft and others aren't thinking that because I haven't "ragequit" their services yet, it means the whole NSA thing doesn't bother me. It just means I'm anxiously waiting for the alternatives to appear - which will appear. There is a crypto war (again), and I do believe the security community will win again, so it's only a matter of time.
The seasonal flu isn't like H1N1, the latter put some young healthy people under so bad that they had to be hospitalized for weeks and needed equipment to breathe.

Those who suffer that bad from the seasonal flu are very old, very young or have a very weakened immune system.