skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sushi bar is a decent analogy.

I use dreamhost as a sort of project sandbox, and for that it works pretty well. If you need a place to do a one-click install of wordpress or some other project, or just a shell to bypass some firewall, upload some large files for a while, it's great.

I would never, ever put anything where I needed real uptime on Dreamhost, because performance varies wildly. If a project was getting serious, I'd use Linode, Rackspace, or Amazon.

I also recommend to everyone that they separate out their domain name purchases from their hosting provider.
The advice in general is reasonably solid but this particular point is absolute madness:

Around 8 people is perfect to interview a candidate

Half that number is perfect for interviewing a candidate. You simply don't need 8 different opinions to get a gauge on technical ability and culture fit.

I wouldn't even dream of jumping through so many hoops for a job. Finding good people is difficult, adding hurdles like an intense or lengthy interview process just makes it more difficult.
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They're an organization that works to end slavery. They're also trying to raise $100m towards their efforts. The bigger they can make the issue, the more support they'll garner.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/100-million-freedom-...
As it is, it looks indeed quite dubious.

But if it had a specification comment added, it may be perfectly justified.

Remember, in programming, there's no problem that can't be solved by one additionnal level of indirection.

Here we have one level of indirection. What's not clear, is what problem it solves. This is what the comment should tell, or better, the name of the method. But perhaps we're in a context where converting things is the natural thing to do, and in this specific case, the convertion of text is a mere upcasing. Probably the conversion of numbers or the conversion of arrays will involve more work. Notice how I imagine (but leave unwritten) some specifications to justify this code. In a program those specifications should not be left unwritten.
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Did have a problem with it still activated when you did the upgrade to 8.1?
>> "Or, the fools who are running away from one threat, US surveillance, right into the arms of a vastly more serious threat, local government censorship."

How do you judge which is more serious? For example you mentioned the UK. The only censorship/filtering here is for two things: piracy and porn. ISP's have to block The Pirate Bay (easy to get around through a proxy) and when you sign up for internet some ISP's ask "do you want us to run our filtering software to protect your children from porn?". You say "no" and they don't filter. Those things don't bother me at all. US surveillance does.
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I am talking on the network level. Connection between client and server.
I was sad to see that the option to swap caps lock and escape was gone (I think I'm blaming GNOME here). But on the other hand I ought to be doing that programaticly in my setup script, so I finally just got around to adding that there.

EDIT: I almost decided to switch to Xubuntu, but then I installed xfce, tried it out, and found that they didn't provide that option either. Besides, using xmonad with xfce is much more complicated than with GNOME.
Thanks!

Agreed and it's on the [todo list](https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn#things-to-do)

I also should have figured out what was wrong with memcache before publishing. Server seems to be taking a beating right now. If it goes down, my apologies — working on it.
Well, whoever doesn't had better start. His empire is huge and just getting started. And he is by all accounts a formidable thinker. I have a lot of respect for him, as opposed to biz-mag dorks like Ballmer.
Using the latest release of anything usually brings some issues, including Windows and Mac. I used to upgrade each time and with 12.04 I've decided to stay on it until 14.04. Skype, Eclipse, Steam, Netflix all work fine on 12.04 and 12.04's performance is great.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Aspelt

Aren't we learning a lot of things today!
ah so you really don't like it? I thought your was a tongue in cheek comment since you just provided a negative critics of something just to prove that negative criticism is easy and painless.
I personally learned about Shamir over a year after I first heard the name RSA. RSA is commonplace; every first-year computer science student knows how it works, and it's the easiest example of how to do public key cryptography. Shamir's other work in secret sharing and linear and differential cryptanalysis is slightly more obscure.
So... can this protect against internal attack, or attack by courts, like the one witnessed in the Lavabit case? I certainly hope so, since it uses TOR, but I don't know enough about TOR to be able to claim that the source remains hidden even if the destination is owned.

Another possibility is that courts would allow journalists to keep their sources hidden, but I wouldn't count on it...
Search engine with AI
Searal is providing you results based on your query. It is using Artificial intelligence to provide you relevant query.

For example - If you search
- "weather" - It will automatically provide you weather details of the local city. Full page details
- "Price of Samsung S4" - It will automatically provide you website ebay (by default ) with results of Samsung S4 .
- "London" - automatically open a website with a maps

Searal is changing the way we search today .

Searal is providing you a platform where you can choose your own search engine.

Mike – Crazy shit, I do not know anything about search engines.

It is very easy, Searal has already added the best options by default. But everyone has their own best websites. So one can configure Searal their own way.

Mike - Give me an example.

Take a case of Prices -

Like you need to buy Samsung 4s – So if you search in Searal for ”Buy Samsung S4” or ”Cost of Samsung S4” or any such query. By default you see Ebay in the last tab, where you can easily see the live prices on the Samsung 4s + latest news on the Samsung 4s.

Mike – I like to search for price on Amazon.

Sure you can change settings at top header. And then searal will provide you results of prices from Samsung 4s from Amazon. Follow this link to see live

Mike – Great, I like the idea. But can you add more websites.

Yes, please add your favorite websites in the comments and Searal will provide them as an option also.

Mike - I will configure my own search engine. Thanks searal, it is awesome work !!!
Support drops in April 2014.
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Well named short methods lets you read the code on a higher abstraction level. I usually jump into methods to see what they do the first time I encounter them. Later on, the name (if well named) should tell me what it does, so I don't have to wade through the details of how it does it. That's part of what I'm getting at in "7 Ways More Methods Can Improve Your Program" http://henrikwarne.com/2013/08/31/7-ways-more-methods-can-im...
Usually the .04 release is LTS every two years, if they change that it will be a bit confusing, hope they don' do that.
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Agree, this seems like a prototype of Subsonic. Note that I am not knocking this project. It is a great first effort and seems to fit in fit in with the rest of Cozy very well. Speaking of, Cozy looks very nice, and I will explore it later!

Speaking about Subsonic, it has its warts, even the much better Madsonic fork. However, there is no denying it's featureset, which includes

* Album art support
* Fast search
* Video support, although this isn't great...
* Podcast support
* Jukebox mode to play through the server's speakers
* mobile app with real-time transcoding for mobile networks.

Subsonic is the reason I still listen to my collection at all, since I largely listen in my car.
First, lets address your original comments. These are your words "in which they are saying OSS is unsuitable for enterprises, unscalable, untested, insecure, etc.".

Your characterization implies that the main theme of the paper is "OSS is unsuitable for enterprises, unscalable, insecure, etc". Please find me a single line in the PDF YOU linked to that implies "OSS is unsuitable for enterprises, unscalable and insecure".

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> And finally, the biggest one. The VA story.
- https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal

How incredibly dishonest of you. You've presented all your evidence as simply your own assertions, experience and anecdotes. Where is YOUR data?

Lets examine your own words :-

>"There are several open source companies, which stand by their "products", and offer support contracts"

Several? How many? Out of how many in total? What contracts have you looked at? How do they compare to other contracts offered to DoD by non-open source companies?

>I've worked some with Oracle databases. Most organizations are paying through the nose for little benefit;

That is your experience and assertion. Why should anyone care? Are you a well known person in the database domain whose opinion is widely respected?

>I've found the popular OSS licenses quite simple to understand and there are excellent explanations available; Most Open Source apps use one of these, though there might be 100 which are OSI approved.

Okay so YOU have found them simple. Again why is your anectdote and experience so superior? Are you a well known licensing expert?
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See, its rather easy to accuse someone of FUD, its another thing to actually provide evidence beyond some vague arguments. :)
Can someone explain how well is Ubuntu supported on mobile phones (thinking on Samsung Sx series)?
When was the last time that you found a car seat to be uncomfortable?

Summer 1976, when they were vinyl covered?

I just wish Johnson Controls would make seats for the office:

http://www.johnsoncontrols.com/content/us/en/products/automo...

They don't quite have a monopoly when it comes to car seats but it is close. They supply almost everyone, not that you would know unless you were really into the auto trade. Just imagine how good their office line would be if they ever decided to go into that market. The prices would be good too, plus there would be an extensive amount of dealers able to order spare parts.
AFAIK, USA has been a second choice for crypto-related conferences for many years.
If you ever attended one such conference, you will notice there will always some speakers/presenters couldn't attend due to visa issues.
I guess many US people aren't even aware of this, but visa problem has been a huge pain for non US citizens. You can ask about this if you have any friends who are international students or H1B workers.
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Microsoft developer tools are becoming more and more oriented towards "wizard-and-designer-clickety-clickery" type development.

Maybe you are just now noticing, but MS dev tools have always had wizard clicky things. For example, see the original Visual Basics from the 90s.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.”

― George Washington, George Washington's Farewell Address

Even George Washington saw political parties as a great threat to the nation.

Politicians seek to remain in office - either out of a drive for personal ambition, the need for public validation, or through bright-eyed idealism to 'change the world'. The best way to stay in office is to align yourself with support - and most get this from their political party. But in order to keep the support of a party, you've got to go along with all of the things your party supports. This leads to group-think ... compromising your personal values for the sake of supporting your fellow politicians. There's no way that the members of the House and Senate agree on all of the issues they vote together on, but their party needs support, so they vote along ... abdicating their responsibility for the sake of party unity. And since their party has an opponent, part of their job as a good party member is to demonize those opponents. Now the media has set themselves up to promote this conflict. One network slants one way ... another slants the other way ... and they'll split their screen down the middle to make sure the yelling from both sides is captured. Lobbyists like career-politicians. It means their campaign contributions can be redeemed over more than one term, and they don't need to start over each election.

What's the solution? I'm not exactly sure, but the list includes term limits, changing gerrymandering, reducing the influence of money in politics, making politics less of a "contact sport" than its being presented as by the media, and probably all sorts of things I haven't mentioned or thought of. The problem is, much of this change cannot happen without the support of either the Supreme Court, or the very people whose careers will be impacted (likely negatively from their perspective) by such a change - and there's the rub. Democracy allows voters to remove a Cancer - but lately the replacement organs are metastasizing upon implantation.
California has nonpartisan redistricting already. Just because it doesn't look good on a map doesn't mean it isn't fair.
I don't know why you were downvoted. I would have reacted just like you, but actually people replying to you raise a good point.

I think it really depends on the type of work you are doing. People in research are used to cite other authors in their paper (and we even call a paper by it's author + conference/journal name, not by its actual title) and are thus more prone to remember the name of people behind technologies. It may very well be the case that in some other types of profession you don't do this association as easily.
I kind of disagree with this sentiment. From my experience the tooling around editing source files (csharp, razor, javascript, css) has gotten a LOT of love in the past 2 years. You're probably correct in that more work has gone into web development use cases over traditional desktop software, but not much seems to have been added in terms of "visual" programming.
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Well, that’s just Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. Also, it’s an article on a website called ‘javaworld’.
But if you limit spending by too much you give the media additional power over elections.
In that regard, people should finally learn to not turn off their computers every day. Sleep takes a second or two at most and with hybrid sleep (has been in windows for ages) it's a non-issue.
Wadsworth constant in full effect. It takes a full two minutes to get to any kind of point.
Are you saying Ubuntu has better driver support than Windows?
This looks amazing - I'd love to back it. Too bad it's not available on Linux. Oh well.
Out of curiosity. Why "Former"?
Yep, let's shut down any minority that chooses to speak out against the status quo. That never causes problems.

1. How is this any different than what we have now? How does this break the two-party system since the Senate you hold up as the example engages in the two-party system just as much as the House? Why is the House the sole problem and no other branches of government are involved in the problems?

2. Government provided funds is not the problem with campaign funds. This would likely increase the amount of money from the private sector which is often the problem. Obama took the ultimate cap on government funds in his first election, he refused all of it. He won handily with a rather large war chest.
nice - I have to use chrome though, no examples seem to work in Firefox. Is that expected?

EDIT: ahh, the http://famo.us/ example doesn't work in FF either, it redirects to a boring splash page. I didn't notice the redirect the first time!
I tried a google search for "shin pointing" and only got pictures of people doing literally this.

I got it from context, obviously, but can you explain this turn of phrase to satisfy my curiosity?
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Exactly. But all of these is easier if the companies/people you want to tax live in your city/country, not halfway around the globe.
Github Link: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/
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My parents and I came to the US in 1981 and landed in Philadelphia. Over the next 32 years, my parents moved roughly every 9 years across state lines.

The mobility which my parents enjoyed was really tied to a reasonable cost of housing across the places they lived and a stable job market. My Dad generally could stay in one company for 9 years without moving. And he's never experienced a layoff. The one time he came close was due to an acquisition where the acquiring company offered every engineer a full relocation package to move to the midwest OR a 1 year severance to find a new job.

I look at the situation today, and I find the picture to be very different. Many housing markets are largely out of reach, many hiring companies are extremely volatile, and the salary differences across state lines are modest when compared to cost of living differences.

When things are like that, it's hard to justify moving and losing a social circle, uprooting kids, and being farther away from family members.
I'm upgrading from 8.1 preview now. See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/update-from-pre...
That is definitely true. Databases are necessary. In fact in-memory data stores that can handle large volumes of data are not all that useful since they usually lack things like backups, etc. Not everyone is writing a RabbitMQ-like system. And of course locking plays a central role in all of this.

What I am saying is that when you accept that synchronization is going to be handled by your database of choice, it becomes somewhat less important how you actually structure your application in terms of performance. There are reasons not to use callbacks, but if you go with threads, actors, processes, etc. is now a choice between how you want to utilize memory and to an extent which technology your runtime supports best.
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I often see claims that "purpose only comes from work" (or its logical inverse, that "no work means no purpose"), but I cannot tell you how strongly I disagree with you.

:) However, I believe there is a world possible for both of us, as you can do the work while I relax, and we are both happy.
Nobody said there's malice.
But you still can't move without having a new job lined up in the new place then. As someone who has recently moved to a new place by getting a remote job offer first, I'll tell you that it's a heck of a lot harder than getting a job in person.

Not saying it's not possible to move somewhere sight unseen and without health insurance (since that's presumably what older generations did) but it's still much higher risk than staying put.
I thought that was a known fact. I often hear about people who can't attend security-related conferences because of visa problems. Last year at the CRYPTO/CHES/FDTC/PROOFS week in Santa Barbara at least three researchers (from India IIRC) couldn't make it because of visa problems, while they had accepted papers at one of the conference!

In many lab outside of the US, we are told not to be to verbose about the type of conferences we are going to attend in the US. Words such as "security", "cryptography", "side-channel attacks", "fault injection attacks", etc. must be banned from the application. Instead we just say that we are going to a "computer science conference" or "information processing conference" for instance.
With respect, I wonder if pragmatists are really what we want. A pragmatist is someone who, as you say, seeks to compromise on principles in order to achieve some outcome. I want politicians who will refuse to compromise on principles, and I want those principles to be about protecting the rights of the individual.

Just my two cents. Thanks for an interesting comment.
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That's a rather bold statement to make. Windows users, for instance, see a tremendous speed bump in going to 5.5 (http://blog.syntaxc4.net/post/2013/06/20/php-5-5-0-for-windo...).

Obviously going the "there is/isn't performance gains" flamewar route alone is a conversation nobody would win. So I would through this out there: If you have the capability to move to PHP 5.5, because there aren't performance penalties, you should - if for no other reason than it'll help you stay ahead of the PHP EOL sythe.
Many of the founding fathers feared such things. That's why they attempted to design a government that avoided centralized power. Granted, there were many of the founders that liked the idea of centralized power, it was sometimes a bitter dispute.

In the end, many of their intentions have been ignored or corrupted, even demonized, and many of their decisions have been reversed over the years. It's a matter of debate over whether these changes from the original vision made things better or worse.
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It sounds like they're doing more than simply determining ones suitability for entry.
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Ask HN: Any upcoming Startup/Developer events or conferences?
I know DevBeat is approaching soon mid next month, but I was wondering if there were any other conferences or hackathons in the West Coast would be great events to attend.
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Thanks for posting this here! Highly appreciated and relevant. I'll check this out, but why a Facebook Group?? Can't you just open an IRC Channel? I would definitely join and contribute back. I don't have a Facebook account and won't use it and I'm still very social. hmm, I guess many hackers don't have a FB account and hate using the Facebook Oauth Login on 3rd party sites.
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Microsoft REALLY wants you use a Microsoft account over a Local account. The link to chose a Local account during install is gone. It only shows up if you get the Microsoft account login wrong, and there is no indication that a Local account is even possible until this happens.
Today, IE users are not using TogetherJS. And if TogetherJS doesn't get it's act together they won't be using it tomorrow either. I have four browsers installed on my computer and everything I develop has to work on all four; one of them happens to be IE 10.
I'm excited that this is happening, but I do wish they would have shown more than just concept art and the vague intro to the video. I can't tell from the Kickstarter page whether they've put significant effort into this yet or not (I hope that they have).
Misleading title! For a moment, I thought a giant marine octopus is attacking Seattle.

Joking aside, I'm very surprised that the teenager was able to escape a nine foot giant octopus. I'm sure he'll have a great story to tell for the rest of his life.
I think a possible HN title for this should have been, "Hoosier tried to Hack Math."

I spent most of my life in Indiana and we used to mock this situation in math class. Nice to see more of the details on what happened. Reminds me of Ted "the Internet is a series if tubes" Stevens.
Awesome, thank you for the info (Glassdoor), that's helpful!