skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a strange feeling, to laugh at something that makes you cringe. This whole situation is absurd to me and anyone with conventional views, and reminds me of those 40 year olds Hikikomori living in a fantasy land unable to face reality.

That said it's his life and he's not harming anyone so who minds what he does with his life or his toys. It does seem he has some unresolved back-story, but that's neither for me to judge or care about.
Keepass runs reasonably well using mono. There are some bugs that would cause problems for real power users - for example, opening multiple databases with the same instance of 2.x is bad - but for basic use it's more than good enough. If you're on an ubuntu or debian, I use jtaylor's PPA: https://launchpad.net/~jtaylor/+archive/keepass
clicky: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6327227
VW and Its Workers Explore a Union at a Tennessee Plant
For me, at least.

I run a small blogging network. Linode have upgraded RAM, added cores, added disk space. They've done everything except improve random-access I/O, which is a major bottleneck for Wordpress installations thanks to MySQL's penchant for joining tables on disk regardless of indices.

I moved to DigitalOcean about 8 months ago simply to get access to SSDs. In most other respects I preferred Linode.
Is GPS more accurate than maps?
The Rise of the Developer-Poet
It would cost between 1/30th and 1/15th of a SCAR 17, though.
If the NSA had a long history of auditing and signing good code, in addition to an unmolested and identifiable developer, and combination of known and unknown nyms who also could attest to the security of the specific code I'm running, I'd be quite happy with their incremental approval.
<sarcasm> Yep, definitely relevant and deserves to be on the front page of HN. </sarcasm>
This to me is an example of "individualism" and a self-centered life taken to the extreme. Alas, this may become the norm some day. What very well may be the decline of our civilization is that we stop living as nature meant for us to and all die obsessing over superreleasers, like bugs screwing a beer bottle.

Just because its hi-tech or the latest "innovation" doesnt make it right for our development as a people. First the erosion of the village, then neighborhood and it ends with preferring to have "synthetic" people to interact with rather than real ones. The undoing of our social fabric may be the undoing of us as a whole. (Someone remake idiocracy with fem-bots!)
Let's play a game called "Interesting Startup Opportunity in Article"...

“Large fleet owners do not have any more efficient process for renewing their registration than you and I do for one or two cars,” Lites noted. “The talk has been that the efficiency is to be gained in the fleets and let's start there.

What market do you target? Enterprise market probably has the most cash on hand to spend for this kind of service, so go where the money is. But, enterprise also has a notoriously long and expensive sales cycle. SG&A is likely to be 60%+ if you go enterprise route.

But is there even a product to sell to the lower-to-mid tier? Is there even a consumer play in this? Disrupt: Car Registration!

Find the pain, and provide a way to kill it. It's a proven sales technique, all you need is the value proposition.

In the end every idea comes down to answering one question -- will I save you cost, or will I increase your revenue. The best startups, I have found, drive revenue.

Everything is a revenue driver to someone, you just have to follow the money. In this case, you could be a revenue driver to the state if you could actually prove you increased payments. But now we're creating a startup which is milking every last dollar and cent in car registration fees from hard working Americans. WTF, right?

All things considered, it's all about the startup angle. I think the privacy angle here is just linkbait. Right? right?
Also worth mentioning that for 59€/mo Hetzner is offering a dedicated i7-4770 Haswell with 32GB RAM and dual SSD raid1.

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40ssd
You know, Google really did a great job with the gmail UI. Truly it's awesome.

But I'm starting to think it was a fluke, because holy fuck, browsing their "forums" is so painful.
Complete copy of Star Wars done entirely in ASCII characters [1997]
Try following telnet command:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Related Links:

[1] http://www.asciimation.co.nz/asciimation/ascii_faq.html

[2] http://asciimation.co.nz/
Hmm, $10M/year seems a bit off. This (http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/how_nonprofits_get_r...) says the figure is $50M/year in revenue.
They sure scope creeped with the CFAA, though. Downloading too many PDFs is a felony. Changing your user agent is a felony.

And then against the First; sharing links to websites that stream videos is a crime once we get you extradited here. Writing a tasteless joke online is a felony that warrants half a million for bail. Sharing a link to documents we don't want you to see is a felony.

Maybe they're not always oppressive. But it's reasonable for us to assume the possibility of scope creep. And it's reasonable to not want them to have all our communications stored against the event.
The core ideology of leftism in action...barbaric.
> I wince when I read others trying to cop his style, even if momentarily.

The same is true for me when people try to copy Faulkner, or James Joyce, or Hunter Thompson, or, from another angle, Hemingway.
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> This is so much bigger than just vaccines, encompassing distrust of authorities, misunderstandings about the existence of god, etc.

If you get a horrible strain of the flu, very little of that will matter. Living to see tomorrow will matter.
> say by [tapping] most fiber lines

You realize there are tens of thousands fiber lines in a city, right? Tapping fibers going from ISP cusomers to PoPs isn't scalable.

Hiding the equipment from the people working every day on splicing smaller fiber cables to the trunks would also be a major issue.
> To this day, they have not managed to rollout the new 1Password 4 Cloud Keychain that is supposed to fix these flaws.

The Cloud Keychain format is currently used in 1Password 4 for iOS.

1Password 4 for Mac is also in public beta and will probably be released around the same time as OS X Mavericks.
> "GNU/Linux" is the OS, "Linux" is just the kernel. The GNU project is responsible for many of the crucial parts responsible for making a complete OS

So is X.org, the KDE project, the Mozilla project, and a number of other projects which aren't as well-known. So should it be X.org/KDE/Mozilla/OpenSSH/GNU/Linux? If not, why not?
For me, part of the joy of relationships and being married is sharing life's journey together. Reciprocating feelings and love.

Thinking that you get the same from a doll is simply delusional...
Does not surprise me. I use NGINX in unison with Apache and it allows me to get maximum performance out of my $25 Linode VPS plan without having to scale up and spend more money. Definitely the best thing to happen to the Internet since Apache.
No they don't foot 100% of the bill ... this assumes balanced budget and no additional money creation from the Federal Reserve. It also assumes NSA does not have their own revenue sources.

<conspiracy>
With that much information on hand I could play the foreign stock markets like mad. And also forex. It will be sane for NSA to have capabilities to crash a potential adversaries currency and stock market.
</conspiracy>
Oh yes, only the best literature on Hacker News at 3AM on Friday night. If I don't read the top ten articles about A/B testing my Erlang-based non-profit YC-funded startup in the next five minutes, I WILL DIE!

But seriously, this is an interesting perspective on life. What I take away from it is that if you want 70% sex and 30% companionship (read: silently sitting there while you talk about your boring life) from someone, perhaps you should just shell out the $6000 for a doll and save that hypothetical other human years of therapy.
From my research, people who avoid vaccines are usually afraid of (big) side reactions, like infertility or autism.
I'd rather think his point is precisely that: distrust of authority, misunderstanding about the existence of god are just distractions from reality, and the wrong tools to face it. When disease=reality hits, he says, vaccines are the right weapon.
The argot is what it is. "g'nuu slash linux" is such a horribly awkward thing to say that it will never, ever supplant the two syllable short form.
I recommend quarantining these people in their own communities and refusing public assistance when they inevitably get outbreaks of preventable disease.
Here is an in-browser demonstration of herd immunity[1], which I think shows the importance pretty well. It was posted on HN before[2].

[1] http://op12no2.me/toys/herd/index.php?scenario=intro

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5190234
I think people's own minds provide some of that effect. Firstly, secretly wondering if the numbers aren't being exaggerated for effect and that sort of thinking. Secondly, it's difficult to really wrap your head around a disease that killed a third of the population. It's so ridiculous it's hard to fathom.
Well-implemented integrity checks are much harder to remove compared to nop'ing single conditional jump.
Recognising hand-drawn LaTex Symbols
Symfony..maybe..but Doctrine?

Do we really need a sudo-sql language for creating object->db table relational mappings?

I used Doctrine extensively at my last job..and I will not be using it for any personal projects. It's bloated and when I need to optimize a sql query, I have to essentially create a hack outside of the main ORM..which kinda defeats the purpose in the first place.

I much prefer Zend or Codeigniter.
Because X, KDE, GNOME etc. were all built using the core tools that GNU project provides. Most notably the gcc compiler.

The Android system uses the Linux kernel, but should people refer to the OS as "Linux" or "Android"? I think even calling that as Linux is fine, as long as people understand its just the kernel that they are calling out. The OS is either GNU/Linux (desktop/server OS) or Android (the mobile phone OS).
> Linux doesn't lie

Until you ask it to allocate some memory.
I've had the fun experience of debating with anti-vaccine people. Outside of the religious 'god will protect us' line, which I can't really argue with as it's a matter of faith, the vaccines cause autism line keeps coming up.

Unfortunately for us a condition that we don't really understand is far more prevalent than the side-effects of preventable diseases. I've never met anyone who's experienced post-polio syndrome or given birth to a child with congenital rubella. Alas I had measles myself, but I was too young to have been vaccinated.

This coupled with our odd perception of risk leads to people abandoning something that demonstrably saves lives because of the minor risk of side-effects. Having done some minor work with autistic children it's certainly not as bad or as certain as the documented outcomes of disease.

I don't think much will change people's minds until the diseases return, but I will be keeping up on the pro-vaccination side.
Here's an example where vaccines cause harm:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/09...

By and large though, vaccines are amazing. Just the fact that we have a vaccine which can protect against influenza is pretty fantastic. Life unfortunately always throws you spanners, so even though I think the people who live in the vaccine autism universe are bat shit crazy, it's still good to have people taking both sides of the issue. This is despite how freaking frustrating it can be when one side is arguing with opinion and the other is arguing with facts.
This seems pretty arbitrary. I'm sure there was a business case discussed, but between this, Reader being discontinued, and the new mega-application in Android for OS updates, I sometimes wonder what direction Google is heading in the near future. 2006-2011ish seemed like such a great era of Google-led innovation (my dates are probably off or rose-colored -- your call).
Please give me an example of one of these. I'm thinking about things like Garmin Connect or Fitbit here.
The ATtiny series do not have USB capability, which is why they are cheaper. The underlying bitbang implementation comes from V-USB [1], which is commonly used to add USB capability in software. Another implementation which may be of interest is LUFA [2].

[1] http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html
[2] http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php
> Finland, like most countries, spends less per student on education than the U.S.

It seems to me that a lot of "education" money in the US is spent on things that benefit students, yet that benefit is indirect and could be done by more efficiently by other agencies.

Lunch programs, nurses, athletics, and bus service come to mind. A welfare state with less hungry kids, universal healthcare, good parks, and good public transportation doesn't need to have schools pay for all of the above and more.
Interesting.

Could you please tell me what you like about it? I have very mixed feelings leaning towards unpleasantness (where the hell is CC and why does it take more than one click?).
Quite frankly I believe there should be a cooldown period between trades, with the effect of eliminating the practice known as High Frequency Trading.
Why would Sweden be neutral during the cold war - putting aside nuance, you're either pro-eastern bloc or not?
I don't know what privacy-friendly law you are talking about.

VPNs in Sweden have always been a bad choice, you have less protection than a regular swedish ISP would give you from a legal perspective.

The reason VPNs became popular in Sweden is because of the FRA and the IPRED law (giving content producers the right to ask an ISP (via a court) for information about who is behind an IP address so that they can build a case and sue).
The Breakthrough of Instant Diagnosis
The folks who skip out on vaccination are (consciously or not) doing one or both of the following:

1) Counting on the herd immunity provided by everyone else to keep them safe

2) Pretending that the diseases which are being vaccinated against "really weren't all that bad" or maybe "didn't happen often"
Oh please...is Sweden so socialist that there's an ambivalence of western vs eastern bloc ideology?
Sadly, Google+ seems to be dominating their current direction.
Worse, some people can't get certain vaccines, due to health/immune issues. They actually need herd immunity to stay alive. By refusing to get vaccinated, you're putting already sick people at risk.
From your previous anti-American POV, I doubt you actually care about true freedom and you're more interested in anti-americanism
I'm curious - have you tried this in real life? The mediocrity of consensus has doomed any such attempt I've seen in a real company.

If so, could you share the details as it sounds interesting, if unorthodox and counterintuitive.

If not, what makes you so confident it would work?
> Would it be better to say back to the government "no thank you" and accept a higher risk of terrorist attack if it means not living in a society of entitled spies?

Of course it would be better, b/c:

Right after the argument for the right to privacy comes the fact that there literally IS no terrorism (in western countries, anyway - I'm not about places like Iraq after the invasion etc.). We've been brainwashed by our media to think there is. Just take a look at some numbers: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/fear-of-terror-makes-...

Conclusion (as an example): If we know that "You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist", then we'd first need to fight the police officers before pouring billions into a surveillance state.
0 A.D. Has made enormous progress toward the 14th Alpha, it's already incredibly engaging. They have my buck, and hopefully they can get consistent gloss on this gem.
I am not against vaccines, it saves lives, but sometimes i have the feeling we may not get sick anymore, with all proposals for inefficient vaccines against benign affections.
Sadly both camps (pro and anti vaccines) have too extreme positions to have a constructive debate.
The paper saying that the MMR vaccine causes autism (which is where the whole concept came from) was fraudulent, so it's not just "well, a side effect is better than the disease", it's total misguidance.

Also, here's an amusing Penn & Teller clip that shares your view. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo
There are Keepass ports for every major OS.

Since it's open source, anybody can implement the client.
I believe the sense here is: the imprisonment is based on the whims and arbitrary power of the regime, without basis in settled laws and due process.
This is really awesome! I did not realize it was so easy to audit data changes and get diffs. In 9.3, they added triggers for create, alter, and drop which should mean that all CRUD operations can be tracked using triggers and hstore.
If you know anything about research into Tor then you should be aware of the insecurities of Tor with regards to passive traffic analysis.

Here's just one such paper.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland05torta.pdf

You don't need backdoors in the program to make Tor less anonymous. You work with traffic patterns & other information gleaned from the network. You can also congest the network & find out more information that way.

Tor is useful but you're kidding yourself if you think it protects you from the NSA. And please, shut up about conspiracy theories. Many of these theories have become verified fact, and the rest are up to bayesian judgement. You should brush up on your history starting circa WWII & learn to what extent the intelligence communities go to have an upper hand. Tor is low hanging fruit compared to breaking certain cryptographic primitives.
Hey fellow Australianite.

I've been looking at using DO instead of Amazon, the main stumbling block for me is I cannot seem to figure out if they offer any configurable firewal. Ie I want to modify port rules, blocking them mostly.

Does DO offer this, and how have you found them so far?

My use case is similar to yours - hosting for multiple shopping carts running on MySQL, hence the appeal of SSDs.
I used the Wikipedia layer extensively during a road trip around Scotland. It was a great way to find nearby places of interest - I daresay the trip wouldn't have been anywhere as interesting without it. More recently I was in France, hoping to do the same thing. To say I was disappointed to find the feature had been removed is a massive understatement.

I don't really understand how Google gets away with this sort of thing, I thought it was Software 101 to never remove features. It's sort-of understandable if the feature has very few users, but it sounds like this one is used by quite a lot of people.
What I like about google forums? Almost nothing.

I don't know what CC is.

edit: OH, I get it

I like Gmail because of the threaded view. It's old hat nowadays but the fact remains that the threaded view is quite simply leagues better than old-school email inbox views.

I'm not saying it can't be improved, but it's a very good ux. I even like the new compose, once I got used to it.

As for CC... why do you need it? Just add the address to the "To:" field. The result is the same. The only time you need to put it in a different field is for BCCs, and quite frankly I imagine most don't use that feature.
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DO NOT USE 1Password.

If you care about security, there's absolutely no reason to use 1Password over an open source solution like KeePass.

Even if 1Password doesn't have a backdoor now, nothing would stop NSA from inserting one and keep the owners quiet about it with a gag order.

AgileBits is a US company, and so you cannot trust their security. Thank the US government for that.
It's just a nice showcase of the emerging technologies, kind of like these guys did it (even better IMHO) months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keHXjidUmC0
There is also other side of vaccination when pharma industry pushes untested and ineffective serum. Mostly it is for viruses (hint: virus mutates too fast and vaccination is practically useless).

Great example is bird/pig flu, serum was untested and used only thanks to massive hype. More people died from vaccination than actual flu. And best part are doctors which refused to have themselves vaccinated :-)

disclaimer: I am well educated and my children got full vaccination.
Unless the backdoor is inserted right before the compilation.
> "GNU/Linux" is the OS, "Linux" is just the kernel.

It's great we're talking about the kernel codebase then!
I saw a kid with polio deformed legs a few months ago. Something that I have never seen while the immunization calendar was state mandated and I was young.

I have also never seen a case of autism.

In a few years we will have outbreak of something preventable. I just feel poor for all the kids that had real reasons not to get the shots.

A friend of mine after very bad Hodgkin was with compromised immune system for 10 years. He was constantly sick and popping antibiotics like tic-tacs. If the herd immunity was not so strong he would have been dead.

The stuff we vaccinate against is not harmless.

I would also recommend Ben Goldacre's "bad science" where he makes one of the best analysis of the MMR scare insanity and its origins and development. It is mostly the media's fault.
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I don't think you are familiar with what Top Gear is... You don't think there is any trickery going on here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbpgZ2Dt0A ?

Sometimes they fabricate things to make an awesome car look awful, sometimes they fabricate to make a mediocre car look awesome.

The common denominator is that they fabricate for the sake of entertainment. Anybody who actually watches the show would know and embrace that.
So I guess, maybe, Eric doesn't have a high enough security clearance to know what is really being done then?
Stephen King? How about Ira Levin?
Facepalm. The insecurity of Tor against NSA surveillance has nothing to do with backdoors.
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I noticed the WP layer missing (on the public web maps) quite a long time ago. Very disappointing. (I heard there was a disagreement between WP and Google that may have precipitated that.) Along with that, I believe that the amount of information detail on Google's (public web) maps has been dropping steadily. I've assumed that's because of increased mobile usage necessitating bandwidth-trimming measures. (No hard examples, based on expectations created by prior experience.)

Similar things seem to have been happening at OpenStreetMap ... the gradual fade of a certain kinds of detail. Zoom in on a region and see what kind of luck you have identifying bodies of water. (Same problem at Google.) I've had to switch to the MapQuest version for that.
I don't think DigitalOcean themselves offer a firewall. You'd need to block ports at your server.
I don't think there's any truth to your notion that deletes are somehow worse for a solid state drive than other kinds of writes. Overwriting a sector has the same effect on longevity as erasing it and filling it up again, but in the latter case, you can use the ATA TRIM command to defer the flash block erase latency (which is significantly higher than the flash program latency). The only way in which deletes are "bad" is if you're comparing to a workload that fills the drive once and then moves on to fill a different drive - but that's not a fair comparison against doing all the writes to the same drive.

Different workloads can somewhat affect how much write amplification results from the wear leveling, but the best-case there actually is to have no long-lived data on the drive, ie. lots of deletes.
Recent changes in Google+'s GUI (shortening messages and centering everything) have made its information density unbearably small. I stopped using it after the GUI changes.