skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tahoe-lafs, https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs , is "an open source, secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system."

It has the server-level RAID you desire. The FAQ states: ``You know how with RAID-5 you can lose any one drive and still recover? And there is also something called RAID-6 where you can lose any two drives and still recover. Erasure coding is the generalization of this pattern: you get to configure how many drives you could lose and still recover. You can choose how many drives (actually storage servers) will be used in total, from 1 to 256, and how many storage servers are required to recover all the data, from 1 to however many storage servers there are. We call the number of total servers N and the number required K, and we write the parameters as "K-of-N".''

It's a very active open source project, with full-time contributors (I think?), funded by their commercial arm, https://leastauthority.com/ .
fixed income. muni CEFs are trading at a 10% discount to NAV. overall fixed income is under pressure due to fear of rising interest rates and fed tapering, so future interest rate hikes are partially priced in both in NAV terms and in discount. if you don't have any plans on selling your bonds (and hence, don't really care about the day-to-day price fluctuations of bond funds) and just want an income stream you could do worse than loading up on discounted, diversified CEFs that pass the smell test of being able to sustain their distribution.

the main risk here is inflation risk. if inflation in the country takes off your 5% yielding (likely 30% leveraged) bond fund is going to start to see its real return get eaten away quickly.

the alternatives are equities though. and right now the stock market is pretty scary to me.
The self-assured certainty imbedded in the tone of this article belies the pride manifest in such a view that prefers the novel application of modern intellectual enlightenment to the time tested bulwark that is our iterative and flexible legal foundation.

The fact that it sees the pain and dysfunction as symptoms of a systemic/endemic flaws is telling of a mentality similar to seeing children as inconvenient drains on environmental integrity or child-birth as merely some destructive medical condition from which women should be spared any time such is possible.

This kind of pride and double guessing of the 'anti-fragile' system that is emergent from the US Constitution is the very thinking that's going to cause more problems for our nation than the forward thinking policies of the Greenspan era that gave us snapshots of prosperity through propping intellectual ideas RATHER than promoting true progress as it comes with all it's warts and growing pains.

You don't win the future by throwing what's survived into the trash bin on account that it's not pretty or efficient enough for your liking or your intellectual enlightenment.
Rant excused. While some of your points are more or less correct, would you care to elucidate on a few of the others?

1. You mentioned Oren Eini, who is the author of Rhino Mocks and contributed heavily to Castle and NHibernate. Apart from the usual TDD zealotry, how exactly do any of these screw up architecture? Or cost anything? -- they're free. Are you referring to RavenDB? Also, can you seriously name a platform that doesn't have celebrity developers slinging trash ware to line their wallets? Is this strictly a Windows/Dot Net phenomena?

5. & 6. While I agree that there are tons of clueless/mediocre Dot Net devs, I've met many that are exceptionally sharp and just as capable as any hardcore, passionate Java/Python/whatever developer. Passion outside of the Microsoft ecosphere? Are you at all familiar with the entire Alt.Net "movement"? Is your sampling based on the type of "talent" your company attracts? Or maybe the UK?
Orwell has been spinning at the relativistic limit for some time now. He can't spin any faster.
True, but the quoted statement appears to be self-contained. It is that much more interesting that the author of the document seemed to feel the need to add justification beyond the assertion that the documents could endanger people's lives. It is this added justification that strikes me especially problematic.

The definition of terrorism that is implied is so vague and arbitrary that it seems that it can be attributed to almost any political process.
I think everyone comes up with some sort of alternative whitespace syntax when they first see a Lisp. I know I did. Unfortunately, you lose Lisp's most powerful property--homoiconicity.
I wish it wasn't the case, as I'd prefer they make smaller devices too, but it's not a simple minded meme. It's market research.
To be fair, very few languages have type systems as powerful as Haskell's ;)

You're right though -- the .NET CLR type system (specified in ECMA-335) basically supports only a simple form of parametric polymorphism with subtyping constraints, along with co- and contra-variance. The idea is to allow some limited forms of generic programming while keeping the type system simple enough that it doesn't impose significant overhead during JIT compilation. Another advantage, is that it allows the JIT compiler to generate type-specialized code, which offers a significant performance advantage for unboxed value types.

The F# type system is a little more powerful, though anything it offers beyond what the CLR officially supports gets erased when the program is compiled (e.g., unit-of-measure types). See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd548046.asp...

One interesting thing I've realized recently is that F# could potentially support GADTs in the future, just like Haskell and OCaml. The hard part -- the GADT type inference -- would take place at compile time, so there shouldn't be any problems encoding the result (the inferred type) in the CLR's type system.

If you're interested in type systems (and as a Haskeller, I imagine you are), there's also F* -- it's a dependently-typed variant of F# which is being used for verification research at MSR: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fstar/
There's no such thing as C# 2.5. You must be referring to 2.0. Anyhow this may be true of financial institutions, but to say that it's a norm... is not my experience at all. > 15 years of experience.
It does, else how else do you explain accesability option.
Besides many small groups make up a karge percentage overall depending on how fine you dice.

Language options being another cavert in your point about small groups. Certainly translate caters for more than 100 languages alone and you can bet this other 10% fit into some of those.

Nothing pleases everybody. Why else do we have exception handerling in programming code :).
Living in Two Worlds
I disagree, big, open spaces force a certain quietness. Think of a big library or an empty theatre. Whereas if everything was filled with clutter or more desks, no one would feel the need to be quiet because everyone is so close it would be pointless to try.
What the Silk Road bitcoin seizure transaction network looks like
In addition to what others said, here's my #1 thought. It gets harder way too slowly. It felt like I was replaying the same level many times in a row, rather than advancing to more difficult levels.

Also, a level becomes exponentially harder the more time you wait before getting started. So wasting 2 seconds at the beginning is going to cost a LOT more than chilling for 2 seconds near the end.
Is there anyone out there that takes these reports and the reported files and sends an email out to all the people informing them that their password is potentially compromised?

I haven't yet received an email from Adobe, but I would imagine that my email address is likely among the accounts that were leaked in this file.
Those are good points. Do you think that the increased encryption of major data processing company networks will increase security of the internet overall? That would be a happy accidental effect.
Exactly. To the extent that he wasn't involved in journalism, he also wasn't involved in the disclosure, or threat of disclosure...".

That is to say, if he wasn't participating in journalism, then how can it be said that he was disclosing, or threatening to disclose, anything?

They really did equate journalism with terrorism. The title, while editorialized, is not an exaggeration.
Probably false? As in you have a better chance claiming the negation of a scientific paper's conclusion than the actual conclusion? I doubt it.
Unfortunately, most of the software engineering literature disagrees. We know few things in software engineering. One of them is more code == more bugs.

Quite so. I wish there were more research into the consequences of this. And more teaching of it too, for that matter. It ought to be a much bigger deal than it is.
A $20 laser? I'm skeptical.
Endangering people's lives is quite abstract. If you happen to do IT security and carry documents about hacking cars with you, then in theory you are endangering people's lives. Still probably your goal is to improve security to safe lives.

If you carry documents that are uncovering a surveillance state you might endanger the lives on a few people relying on it. Still probably your goal is to improve privacy and long-term safety for the general population.

I think we should be way more careful with what we call terrorism. Democracy requires whistleblowing, free speech and critical perspectives on governments actions. Even if that means that this complicates some of the government's operations. The question is not just about safety but about commensurability.
I enjoy having side projects and currently have 4 active ones that could realistically make at least a some money. But as a foreigner in the US (came as student, now on H1B visa) it's the unfortunate reality that it is illegal for me to pursue money-generating side projects. I am curious to hear if other foreigners have found ways to legally pursue their side projects while living in the US.
Meet the Leviton, the Quasiparticle that will change Quantum Computing
kevnixucs. You ran afoul of a mod on a bad day and you've been hellbanned (ie. all your posts are insta marked dead but you can't see)

Turn your aggression dial from 6 down to 2 and make a new account and you'll be fine.
Because Kickstarter.

It even has a resolution of 0.1pF! A pair of these would be fantastic for fine-tuning crystal loading caps.
I think that is actually a Greenwald quote:

'In an email to Reuters, Greenwald condemned the British government for labeling his partner's actions "terrorism."

"For all the lecturing it doles out to the world about press freedoms, the UK offers virtually none...They are absolutely and explicitly equating terrorism with journalism," he said.'
If it helps any, as someone who's been building Django sites for years, I will say that while all of those are at least handy, absolutely none of them is needed.

On the list, the only one I use with any regularity is South, which I do consider must-have. That said, it seems that the Django core team agrees, as it's being (or maybe is even finished) pulled into Django core.
It's pride that produces the odious forms of American exceptionalism, not the view that the Constitution is divine writ.

Why, praytell, would you prefer the academics give us a replacement? What great thing have the academics gotten right that would have us change such a document outside the conditions it sets forth as being requisite for such change?
This is one of those rare times in which people in countries that are slow to get the Nexus 5 will most likely be able to carry on buying the Nexus 4 longer. Just a thought.

Also I do wonder how many out there waitied for the Nexus 5 and then thought Hmmm not huge jump from Nexus 4 given the nice price the N4 is at currently and now maybe regretting not getting one. Too me for the price difference the Nexus 4 does seem the more appealing, albiet a non option now, at least new.
They're making them bigger b/c that's the cultural preference in much of Asia, not b/c they have some flighty notion of bigger=better.

Same reason iPhone got bigger in a recent major version upgrade. This has been discussed b/f at HN.
Agree. Also, be sure to consider the source - Forbes. Hardly the bastion of unbiased journalism.
I'm no bond expert, but aren't munis discounted in part due to default worries? There's a fear that a second wave of municipalities that survived the first wave of post-crisis bankruptcies may still succumb, since many avoided default by doing miscellaneous stop-gap and accounting tricks that may not be repeatable. Hence a risk premium.
I've always wanted to visit Pixar's office.

http://officesnapshots.com/2012/07/16/pixar-headquarters-and...
> In hindsight, I have to suspect that Google and LG's plans all along was to create a phone with high specs at a low price point but restrict the supply as they "learned" to lower costs for their subsequent models.

Well, unfortunately the price of a nexus 5 is much higher than the price of a nexus 4. (On release - $300 for an 8GB 4, or $350 for 16GB; $350 for a 16GB 5, or $400 for 32GB. I would happily take an 8GB option; I don't make a habit of storing anything other than pictures on my phone. Or, to get really crazy, they could allow for removable media...)
DDoS Attack on Extra-Life.org (A Charity Fundraising Org)
So, the website that hosts this fundraiser I'm participating in (for kids with cancer, no less) has been subject to a DDoS attack. Who would do such a thing? Anyone have any leads? E-mail below.

Dear friends,

We’ve discovered that the Extra Life website experienced a DDoS attack agianst our datacenter. I am not sure what kind of person would DDoS a charitable initiative.

I am so sorry that you are going through this frustration today. Our entire team is purely heartbroken that someone would do this. But it has happened.

As frustrating as this is for everyone involved, it pales in comparison to what the kids we’re trying to save go through. That reality, for me personally, is about the only thing keeping me somewhat calm right now.

I am very angry and very sorry. You deserve better than this. The kids deserve better than this. Extra Life has given a lot of us some of the happiest moments in our lives.

This is not one of those moments.

Please hang with us through this.

It is important that we spread the word. Please get on every form of social media you can and tell your friends what happened. We can overcome this together.

Be ready to make up for lost time and share the news when we go live!

Sincerely,
Doc
In my view, the US Constitution has been too successful. If it were more definitively broken, it could be repaired more easily. But there is no political will right now to make any amendments at all, outside of noodling on the Internet and in wonkish circles. As it is, the longevity of the Constitution has led to its being imbued with an almost mystical character, where it's viewed as the most important force preventing anarchy and/or tyranny, and as something incredibly fragile.
People here is not really happy, just drunk.

About half the people I know without a degree drink all their wage the very day they get it.

It is very usual for them to be very drunk the next day (if the payday is Monday, they will be drunk Tuesday). Also, their wives will fight with them for that very reason.

It is not luck that the most powerful private company from Colombia is Bavaria.
I wonder if battery life is related as well. Nexus 4 battery life is poor compared to iPhone even though the Nexus is much bigger and hence carries a bigger battery. Having a larger form factor can mask some of this power efficiency deficiency.
Who knows? All I am doing is working from the data available.

I've tried to be clear about the methodology. My guess is that most users just reuse a small number of passwords. Anecdotal evidence supports this.

If you have a suggestion for how to derive a better _estimate_ from available data I'd be very interested to hear it.
I'd like to see things like some hours of face-to-face mentoring per week (via skype or hangouts) and extra exercises and reviews in the Premium plans. There are almost no online resources providing such features, and I find them extremely important when teaching to beginners as I explained in a recent post: http://bit.ly/HjiCpm
Still pretty common if you contribute to repos which you don't have commit privileges to. Workflow is:

1. Clone library's master branch, begin using software.
2. Discover problem and commit a fix.
3. Use the Github webui to create a fork of the original repo.
4. git remote rename origin upstream
5. git remote add origin https://github.com/me/awesome-library
6. git push origin master:my-bug-fix
7. Use Github webui to create a pull request from your
my-bug-fix branch into the upstream master.

Having both remotes is necessary, though, when the thing you forked is being actively developed. If there's a review period of a few days, you may need to rebase from the upstream—you want to be doing this from the command line, not bumbling around in the Github webui trying to manage it there.
Poor DHH eating lunch alone.
ShortUUID looks like fun. I usually just get a UUID4 and grab the last section of the generated UID.

Something like
str(uuid.uuid4()).split("-")[4]

I'd like to say that I then do a duplicate check, but I don't think I've ever had a collision, so I'm not actually 100% true that I do.

Best case, you've saved me a database query, worst case, you've saved me a potentially painful Exception.

Danke.
Pretty fun but real repetitive. I had a peek at your javascript to find out where the words were coming from and discovered the game can be beat with one simple line of javascript:

window.setInterval(function() {ig.game.entities = [];}, 1000);

hehe :)
He said approximately this when Git was about 4 days old:

http://lwn.net/Articles/131312/

I don't think it really applies to Git as we know it today, though.
Dropbox is hands down one of my favorite offices
For some values of "they", not including (yet) the court where this document was read out, right?

Because at the moment that value of "they" includes (from the article) Scotland Yard, and (from outside the article) a few other similar organisations (maybe GCHQ, MI5, MI6, etc)

But certainly not "the UK". So the title, as well as being editorialized, is an exaggeration.

EDIT: But let's see what happens with the court case, I guess.
The complete guide to not being that idiot who got the company hacked
Kyle, you're kind of a badass. This could be an important project for Bitcoin usability. I'll be sending you some satoshis in the next few days for a bounty to hand out.
> The fact that it sees the pain and dysfunction as symptoms of a systemic/endemic flaws is telling

Indeed.

One of the greatest strengths of the US Constitution, one of the reasons it is the oldest constitution in use to date, is the fact that it stemies government.

That dysfunction is what has led to the extraordinary prosperity experienced by the United States.
Thanks for the kind words, everyone - this brings back a lot of memories for me too. You know, I wrote everything in that book either late at night or on weekends, and I never really knew if it much mattered to anyone (feedback was a lot harder to come by in pre-Internet days); reading these comments goes a long way to making all that work worthwhile.

Oh, and laichzeit0 - my apologies to your dad for the weight of the book. There have been a few times when I was lugging one around and wishing I had been more sparing with the words :)

--Michael
A good opportunity for mentioning Benford's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Scientific_frau...
On that note, I have to wonder if the buyers of these super-sized Android phones are like 80% male or what. Women have much smaller hands than men. This hit home for me when I bought winter gloves in a "women's extra-large", because the store was out of "men's small". They're two different labels for the same size! For me, the Nexus 4 works fine, but if it were any bigger, or my hands any smaller, it'd be awful hard to use one-handed. Five inch phones seem to be excluding half the market.
Yes! Thats it! Thanks, this is now bookmarked.
I love F#, and greatly prefer it to C# for most tasks, but I think you're overreaching a bit. C#'s dynamic feature is also extensible (via IDynamicMetaObjectProvider) and much more complete than F#'s (e.g. F# probably ought to have (?[]) and (?[]<-) operators for dynamic indexed properties). Likewise, there are several real benefits to having built-in support for async/await, such as the improved performance of a state-machine-based approach and a far better debugging story (e.g. call stacks that are async-aware).

C# is truly a great language; it was just created by people who have different priorities than you (or I) do.
If you move from Stripe to another payment gateway, you will not lose all your users. Microsoft has monopoly access control to the other users, who are needed to make your skype extension useful to the user using your extension. That is why Microsoft control over such user directory is unacceptable.
Firefox 25 tabs will look like Chrome
I agree, I've never heard that phrase and I have a degree in Mathematics.
Introduction - Philips hue API
The most successful, most praised by clients, most robust, most stable and most financially profitable applications I took part at were written by professionals using "waterfall" methods.
This were absolutely not a test-driven development but rather strategies i personally developed that resulted in the most stable and bug free deployments.

These were security applications, real time data backup and mirroring services.

Agile in the wrong hands (or heads) doesn't work and in many cases is just a buzzword.
Office 2010 finally restored the file menu.
Huh? I do not think the parent was suggesting changing the Constitution outside of the mechanism it prescribes for doing so.
Ha. I just got a ZTE Open, mostly to hack on. It's cool, but not ready to be my primary phone yet.
I think what feels more relaxed depends on the person in question. Many introverts like myself feel a lot more comfortable in an enclosed workspace, and thus, productivity is also increased.
We don't need a new Constitution. The one we have isn't working only to the extent that the size and scope of the federal government is far larger than it should be. We need a new federal government. The Constitution is fine.
I just skimmed through the Improvely website; it looks great. I'd never guess that there was a single passive developer behind it. Can I ask what your investment was in building it?
Sorry, 2.5 was me being sarcastic, so I put it in quotes. It basically means you code mostly in C# 2 with a few C# 3 features cherry-picked (Like null coalesce, maybe implicit typing with var) but avoid anything LINQ-related.
HN & Comments (I was wrong)
32 Days ago, I grumpily posted "Avoid HN if your thinking of launching here" [1] and I was wrong on both parts. Today I posted something and even with just 1 up vote, I had nice small number of visitors to an article I wrote. HN is still a place for validity. It is just noisier now.

The second part of my "Avoid HN" self post I was seeing a lot of negative, cynical comments and it got to me but I'm actually finding now, more and more that commenting being up voted and moderating has improved. An example being https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661256 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6660895 Both good comments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6479992

PS It doesn't help to be negative. It just poisons the atmosphere.
Not a designer? You should paper prototype
Why Buy a Book when the Docs are Free?
I used to play a similar game years and years ago[1]. It's very easy in the beginning, but you quickly reach a point where it becomes very, very hard. I think I never reached level 20, but it doesn't matter, it's addictive, it's challenging, even if you don't go so far in the game you replay and replay until you beat one more level.

[1] http://www.play4traffic.com/game.php