skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We also have several clusters in DC19 and we have had similar experience to yours. However, it looks like DDOS attacks are becoming a real issue for us now.

Could you recommend a provider that in your opinion has a better DDOS protection than Hetzner? (We also use AWS but are not excited about it for a number of reasons).
So, more anecdotal evidence. If you really trying to say that your personal experience and experience of few other people proves that even trivial filtering is not being used, my arguments won't change anything, you already know everything, it seems.
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Title is not misleading, he wants to spare his life, he does not want him to go out of prision. He thinks prision is a better punishment, as killing the convict only lasts for seconds. He just does not want killing. This is different.
You're right in that there's a mess of openings and endgame theory to know if you want to start competing seriously, but it's also possible to improve your tactical vision - which is the bulk of your practical playing strength - just with daily problem solving. http://chesstempo.com/ is a great site for it (not my site, just one I'm happy to recommend.)
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I don't know what you mean by progress (you may already be at a level that is considered quite strong by a non-chess player), and I'm not a brilliant chess player myself, but my personal experience was that I very quickly progressed at the beginning, just by learning a decent selection of game openings. If you know enough of them to a decent depth, you first 5-6 moves can be made very quickly without sacrificing position. If you're playing against someone that hasn't studied openings, you have a good chance of creating an insurmountable lead in those first 5-6 moves, as well as saving time for thinking later in the game.

If you're playing against a good player, at least you won't immediately cede the game in the opening.

The next step that I found helpful was to play against a computer, but to have a real board set up, where I could play through different options to see where they lead. Here you have no time limit, so you can really take your time. I found that if I forced myself to take a minimum of five minutes of doing this, I could regularly beat the computer (in this respect it seems a bit binary - at a given difficulty setting, the computer beats you every time, until one day you skill edges past the computer, and now you beat it every time - there doesn't seem to be a phase where the outcome is unsure).

These two tactics advanced my game to a point where I could win about 50% of the time on blitz-chess sites - the good players would still thrash me, and I would completely thrash novices. Getting better from that point seems more difficult though, and seems to revolve around sinking massive amounts of time into the habit. Increasing your opening library knowledge gets exponentially expensive. Improving your mid-game analysis speed also seems to be very slow (although this seems to be linear, not like the opening library). I stopped developing chess at this point because I realized that I wasn't prepared to spend the time needed to become a competitive chess player - I'm good enough that I can beat most non-regular chess players, and that's good enough for me...
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People writing compiler optimizations are necessarily language lawyers. Their job is to make the code run as fast as possible given the semantics of the language.
Give it ten years, employers will make their underlings have radio transmitters implanted deep into their heads in order to communicate over great distances.

This is the future of pair programming... Hive programming.
While it probably biases the numbers a bit, I don't fault the study for picking people who were receptive to new practices. Picking people randomly and forcing them to change practices would just cause resentment.

Even though I enjoy pairing, I also doubt I would enjoy working at a place that required people to pair. Rules like that irk me. They're often a symptom of other, bigger problems.
This also quite interesting programming game, which allows several optimizations.
http://aichallenge.org/
I also used to play Omega Tank, but it wasn't as good as it could have been.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_%28video_game%29
20+ years of experience as a prima donna who refuses to work with others and can't even discuss code with another programmer isn't very impressive. With that attitude, the experience wouldn't be enough to qualify someone for an entry-level junior developer position anywhere that I've worked. In my experience, programmers who don't want anyone else to see their code and aren't willing to discuss it have good reason to hide it.
I don’t want to derail this topic any further, but I’m quite familiar with reddit, and I would disagree that “reddit as a whole” is very heterogeneous or representative of the vast diversity of younger Americans. At a minimum, reddit’s mainstream is dominated by people belonging to a certain archetype—under 30, perhaps, but certainly also white and male and textbook brogressive[0]—resulting in thoroughly predictable patterns of discussion and voting.

The problem with smaller subreddits is that even with heavy moderation, they tend to be dominated by the mainstream of the site. For example (at least as of a couple years ago, when I largely quit participating) every new feminist- or woman-friendly subreddit would immediately be invaded by “men’s rights” activists to the point of rendering it useless for discussion. The only subreddit I’m aware of today where this hasn’t happened is /r/shitredditsays, but I suspect you’d agree that SRS’s utility for meaningful discussion is… limited.

Apologies for going offtopic.

[0] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brogressive
There are free services that do this called "Bitcoin tumblers".
I've had nothing buy a joyous experience there. Spam? Don't add spam to your activity feed. Just remove it from your circles, gone. An intern built it? It's one of the most finely crafted, expensive looking pieces of social software that has ever been built.

Excuse me but what the hell is this fantasy about Google plus? I'm not convinced that Reader was shut down and that Google plus was meant to be its replacement, the products are just far too different. I don't know where or why that rumour started other than to suggest maybe it was born of this same ridiculous hate fantasy.

Maybe I'm Google's target demographic but every complaint I've seen stems from absolutely refusing to allow Google to change anything. And a flamboyant hate for a product they refuse to use no matter what, which is a very carefully designed and free social product.
You must have been using a computer from 1960. There is no way that you would ever end up beating a modern chess program for the simple reason that they are now stronger than super GMs.
I'm guessing one factor is increased global media coverage, especially after the whole Silk Road incident. A lot of non-tech people are just now learning about bitcoin.

We'll see if this rally has any legs to stand on, personally I'm sure as hell not buying into anything with this much volatility.
as Troy answered I didnt know that anyone can earn $5901 in a few weeks on the computer. see this site
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> You read two emails, then you're left on your own to figure out how to do stuff.

So, it's just like real life.
Remember the "Structure Sensor" on Kickstarter from just about a month ago[0]? That's basically a repackaged Kinect. Some commenter here on HN expressed his thought that 'this kind of sensor is something that will be definitely integrated with future smartphones, like normal camera'.

Kinect is not only about gestures. It's also a cheap 3D scanner.

[0] - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/occipital/structure-sens...
A nice post about the differences between traditional and modern day clothing production, however, I was expecting to find an answer to 'Why is it so difficult/expensive to make your own clothes (or have them made)?'
It's a very legitimate question since most of the H1-B applicants go through a similar waiting period in between the job offer and start working. However, in my humble opinion this question would have had a longer lifetime and better answers if you had posted in Quora.

I am in a similar situation with a joining date in next October. I decided to finish reading the books I never had time for reading, work on a few community projects and spend more time with my family. I hope it won't get too boring.
https://github.com/al3x/sovereign
honestly. It's not worth discussing here. This is a discussion that can only functionally be carried out when names can be tied to faces, because people are so self righteous about it. I don't want to be targeted. Sorry.
You can. Well at least I could delete all accounts on phone.
What happens when one buys an electronic book from outside France ( http://bookscanner.us ) ? Who pays the tax and when?
If you copy something, and the copy is better than the original in some way, is the copy still a copy?

When do you get to call it innovation?
In a way, the problem is that C dates too much from a time before language lawyers. I can't think of a modern language that is as underspecified as C, because we know better now. If were to be written again today, it would be much better specified (see: Go). I don't even mean this as a criticism of anybody in particular, it was a different time.

"Fixing" C would be creating a new dialect, unfortunately. (Personally, I just consider C a last resort, and I've found that works pretty well.)
I could be wrong, but I think Greame is talking about the concept of Pages to create an pseudonym for individuals, not for (small) companies. Apparently you can create a pseudonym on Google+ with Pages, but Pages are mainly marketed towards brands and companies [1], not individuals. It's confusing even for Google employees [2], let alone users.

A support page on YouTube tries to explain the difference between Google+ Profiles, Google+ Pages and Google Accounts [3]. But the fact that a Page can be managed by up to 50 different people suggests, at least to me, that the use of Pages to create and manage your pseudonym is more incidental than intentional.

[1] https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1710600
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747875
[3] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2848323?hl=en
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You are claiming that most HNers use 4chan? Interesting, but likely impossible to prove. I hope for the sake of our field that's not true, or maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety.
Climate change pledges: rich nations face fury over moves to renege
I'm sure the government will just happily give tax breaks (this need not be VAT...) or contracts to Big Business in a land of flat taxes, really. I think, on average, that I'm pro non-flat taxes. I'd love to see books NOT be taxed 25% here.
the google apps aren't entirely linked to Android a priori. In practice it's always bundled, but they can be seperate.

The Messaging app has always dealt with SMSs, Hangouts replaced the google talk app, which never did SMS integration because it was supposed to be a chat client for google's network. The strategy's changed, and so there's this transition period.
We designed a new version of Zerocoin that reduces proof sizes by 98%
Kissing someone who doesn't want to be kissed is sexual assault

If you assume all kissing is sexual in nature.
There is no mention of Twitter on the report, why presume it's Twitter?

The CNN report[0] says they mentioned 2 sites that allow anonymous drug abuse reporting. It's of my personal opinion that these people didn't even bad mouth the drug cartel via these sites or Twitter, but are instead being used as examples.

[0]http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/09/14/mexico.viol...
For C++ lovers I find that http://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/ always has pretty good content.
And those taxes will get passed on to the customer, guaranteed.
Wait, what?

"[...] I have never come face-to-face with Franklin. I would love an hour in a room with him and a pair of wire-cutters and pliers, so I could inflict the same damage on him that he inflicted on me. But, I do not want to kill him, nor do I want to see him die."

He is basically saying that death is the easy way out and that torturing is a better punishment. This is why victims don't get to pick the punishments. They are way too emotionally impaired.
That's an intellectually lazy excuse: humans are social creatures – completely ignoring that (and the existence of birth-control) to rely on biological determinism ignores most of the things which make us human.

(Put another way: your explanation would cover our closest relatives: chimps, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos – given the huge differences in behavior, a simple reproductive cost model is obviously incomplete)
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People are complicated and can have opposing views on what should be essentially the same thing. For example, I find it curious that someone could be opposed against abortion but support the death penalty. I also know people who claim to be against gun control because it violates their constitutional rights but who also have no problem with the government's unconstitutional surveillance programs.
This is off-topic, but it pains me to see that they shred and recycle the books rather than donating them to schools/libraries.
Moto G: A True Game Changer in the Mobile Industry
Its funny; imagining the folks oppose PP because they've never tried it. Like we've been in some sort of cocoon or glass jar all our lives.

Sure, I've had to endure somebody trying to 'help' when I have a hard problem to find. I spend my time explaining to the other guy, bringing them up to speed. And they spend their time suggesting things that have already been done, or suggesting using some buzzword toolchain like it will solve all the problems.

If I were churning out web logic or designing dialogs or some such it can be useful I suppose - "You forgot a brace. Remember we have to try all these on the proto server first." etc.

But I spend my time on tricky problems in the core IP of our company. I've always had that job, wherever I work. And let me tell you, having someone in the same room is a no-go for the hours of mental model-building it takes to diagnose or design these kind components.

Now, let admit there are different kinds of programming jobs. Maybe the bulk of web design etc is amenable to having two shovels in the same ditch - of course you'd get more done, its obvious! But for other tasks it is absolutely not going to help.
Most people don't care about anonymity as much as you do.
Meanwhile the tech industry is funding American politicians who oppose climate change regulations.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/14/facebook-micros...
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The term minority has a specific meaning in sociology not the same that it means in statistics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_(sociology)

Rather than a relational "social group", as the term would indicate, the term refers to a category that is differentiated and defined by the social majority, that is, those who hold the majority of positions of social power in a society. The differentiation can be based on one or more observable human characteristics, including, for example, ethnicity, race, gender, wealth, health or sexual orientation. Usage of the term is applied to various situations and civilizations within history, despite its popular mis-association with a numerical, statistical minority.

Blacks were still the minority in apartheid South Africa, just not the statistical minority.
I would say Carlsen's stamina is what bringing him the victories. Anand is not being able to keep his concentration on high level after 5 hours of battle. Clearly shows the age difference.
Here's a live retransmission from the official website of the match: http://chennai2013.fide.com/anand-carsen-game-1-live-analysi...
But, don't you think that there is room for improvement on the humand side? probably with creativity.
Since Bitcoin is a grassroots effort, still in its infancy and most importantly has a lower entry barrier, it attracts a lot of unskilled people, con artists and similar.

The kind who don't use prepared SQL queries, who use floating point numbers in finance, disregard their home laws and who simply get into everything just to cash out at their users' expense.

Not to say there aren't countless ways to scam people with fiat currency, but it's still a relatively low barrier to opening a business that deals with cryptocurrency.
One thing facebook has taught me is that some people will retaliate over trivial disagreements or trivial personal differences. I've been un-friended or yelled at for everything from providing context for a Bible quote ("read the next paragraph or two; here's the larger point it's making") to being a Broncos fan. I've had long-time friends decide not to talk to me any more over the one and only political disagreement we ever had.

I'm not ashamed of any of my opinions or ideas, but I certainly don't want to make it easy for people to go quote-mining or to discover that I disagree with them on some issue where they're unwilling to tolerate disagreement.
So you're saying that by pairing Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds in the same cube we'd get amazing software?
There is a great guide about using varnish with nginx to make WordPress fly on perfplanet blog. I recently blogged about this. http://serenecode.org/2013/11/nginx-php-fpm-5-5-zend-opcache...
Fossils are the nodes; dung are the arcs
nothing about this situation is causing anonymity to cease to be possible on the internet. It just makes it more difficult on a single video-sharing site, one run by a single for-profit company.

Freedom of choice has never before been more relevant. You as an individual in a free web (which Google advocates for strongly) have the choice to move to any number of other platforms if you prefer anonymity while sharing/viewing videos online. If enough people believe in anonymity, traffic and users will migrate to another site, and Google/YT will become less relevant and/or be forced to policy backtrack.

Whether you are for or against the new commenting policy, we should all try not to exaggerate what it means for society at large.
The argument that there is a filter set up to block spam can be disproved by a single comment that would have been blocked by such a filter. I'm not sure what kind of evidence would actually sway you, but it seems fine to me: 1. widespread spam exists, 2. a week later it's still happening 3. therefore any filter is not set up in a way that blocks spam.
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I would definitely recommend using Virtualmin, its a hosting control panel that can control mail/websites/dns in one via a simple control panel.

All works like Plesk, but without breaking everything.

They've got a script that sets up dovecot, postfix, apache, bind, clamav, spamassassin, Mysql, and loads of other hosting software and then you configure every thing via a web interface.

Linux install script is at http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh, instructions at http://virtualmin.com/download
It really isn't. It is a testament to how many people don't want to learn anything, and just want to follow a list of directions. Setting up your own mail server is trivial, it is a 5 minute job.
I suspect they're probably at work right now.
Anand should retire and pass on the baton to younger generation.
Nice article, except I disagree on one point: Forget about a general Github account. Even having a Github account/or a Github project used by a billion users - does not prove that one is a great programmer according to me. Perhaps this a Github advertisement? (Python lover + mercurial user + No Github Account = bad programmer :-)
Marginal Thinking vs. Full Value Thinking
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So you think its fine for a news site to only cover the ~10 topics covered by the various 4chan complaints? Do you blog on a node.js powered meteor ported to go with beatz by dre too?
Wow. A library to wrap setinterval or settimeout? Given the use of "this" in his answer is painful, core JavaScript is already loaded and in IMO more maintainable than 3rd party libraries. In this thread alone there are arguments about what to use from the library. If I were the interviewer I wouldn't hire that answer either. I want a developer who can code his way out of a box, not ignore the box.
The creator of Houdini 3 (one of the strongest chess solvers) was interviewed about it recently, he said the software is so good that it would probably win 8 times out of 10 (2 draws) against someone of Carlsen's strength. Carlsen on the other hand says that he doesn't care, it's not something he even thinks about.. And it's natural I guess, think back to the early days of any technology, people would do stuff faster, then after a while it doesn't even matter, nobody thinks about it. The days of chess man vs machine was back in the days of Deep Blue.

There is a really young chinese kid that's a real rising chess-whiz, give him a few more years and he will give Carlsen a real challenge. It's time for the new generation of chess players indeed :)
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Women Gain in Some STEM Fields, but Not Computer Science
I'd take location out of it. Just as good developers learn to communicate over distance (e.g. over IRC), so do journalists. I know remarkably few tech journalists who still live in the Bay Area.
This is a gross overgeneralization, which does no justice to the subject of online anonymity.

If you are going to take the generalization this far, at least inlude the group in the middle: Those who don't want to abuse anyone but aren't at risk of getting "abused" and just want the privacy and advantages of being able to debate or express their opinions without their friends, family, employers or random nutjobs interfering.
The market capitalization of US dollars is (correct if I'm wrong) $3 trillion.

The current market capitalization of BitCoin is above $5 billion.

There will only be around 21 million BitCoins.

If the market capitlization of BitCoin even gets close to a national currency like the US dollar, each BitCoin will be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

We are about to be at $500. Unless governments crack down on BitCoin(possible) I don't foresee this stopping anytime soon.

To me government intervention to the point of banning BitCoin seems like it would be, at this point, somewhat pointless. The Federal Government has known about BitCoin for some time and has yet to take any major regulatory action against it. I think if they wanted to shut it down they would have long before millions of people started using it, and long before major backers like Peter Thiel and the Winklevi had time to establish BitCoin-based companies and lobbying groups. You want to nip something like this in the bud before it becomes an entrenched interest - and they haven't done that yet.

I'd say it's not too late to invest.
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I have never understood what such statements mean. I mean, he is not holding people back by saying, "hey! you don't get to play till I am here!"