skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's still a useful set of benchmarks. Do you know of something similar that includes F/OSS? I'm assuming tpc.org doesn't include them because open source OLTP isn't as performant. The TPC-C benchmark is particularly interesting to me because I work with high availability systems where eventual consistency isn't something I can consider.
Monday to Friday? About 6.
I highly recommend RescueTime to give you real data on your computer habits, both hours in front of the screen, and a real breakdown of work vs. wasting time vs. entertainment, etc... It has led to a conscious change in how I spend time on the computer.
I wish the slides were more descriptive of how it functioned.

Although I use mac, the lack of linux seems to be something that should be worked on.
How do you implement anonymous peer discovery against someone who can tap the whole internet ?
Current list of attempts:

http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Bounded_...
It's completely infeasible (without quantum computers anyway).

However, in cases where the private key is generated from a hash of a passphrase, like brainwallets, then it is far more feasible. There are people running bruteforcers constantly looking for private keys corresponding to brainwallet passphrases; that's their form of "mining".

To test it, if you make a brainwallet with a password of "password" and then send 0.01 BTC into your account, you'll see it vanish in a few minutes (or a few seconds).
Also used by Roger Waters for inspiration for his album Amused to Death

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amused_to_Death
I have participated in 3 startup weekends. I never started a company with the projects that I worked on, but I never intended to start a company from a startup weekend project. The reason I go to startup weekends are to have fun and network with other like-minded individuals. The people that I met at the events have helped my business. I have seen some neat companies start from startup weekend like Zapier (called snapier at startup weekend), MedSocket, and Nudge.
Sure the technology is great. Happy?

But appreciating the technological wonder of Bitcoin is so double-edged. It's like witnessing the advent of fire but seeing that that the first thing people do with it is to burn down each others houses.

The only reason I've bothered with these discussions is because I think it's interesting and happen to be present to watch its usefulness get perverted. I'm trying to mentally divorce it from the scheme aspect and figure out a way in which it might actually work. Part of that is acknowledging the flaws in the current system & understanding why proponents believe they're actually a boon (cuz from what I've gathered through these discussions Bitcoiners won't admit its anything less than perfect). Is it really theoretically sound or is it just hype? If you go through my arguments a lot of the discussions begin with people defending Bitcoin but ending with why they think it's a viable trading market. But they try to blind people of those intentions at first giving some buzzword speech about the perfection of this technological marvel.

Why should we respect a scheme just because it employs clever technology? I think this is the biggest mistake in the tech community, we love the means & don't care about the end. Or why is the scheme subject to any less scrutiny than the code? In the case of a new currency I would say the dispersement plan and market stabilization tactics are perhaps an even more important technologies than transfer/storage methods.

Plus the buzz around Bitcoin isn't people marvelling at the tech, it's just $$ sign linkbait. If the discussions were instead about how to implement a proper cryptocurrency, I'd be much more intrigued.

It probably seems like I'm bitter but it's actually part of the struggle to understand what this is all about. Somebody needs to call bullshit now & then. It's like having a tech discussion with too many metaphors instead of "Let's go from A to B intelligently" tech plans/specs. I feel like a lot of the Bitcoiners I've argued with obfuscate the logic on purpose & use a lot of concepts borrowed from Wall Street trading but not proven to be in play. Bitcoin is not a stock. But they discuss it like a stock when it's convenient, at other times they deny.

I've learned a lot through these arguments but yeah it's getting boring. Nobody wants to implement a proper cryptocurrency. I have an idea for one but I doubt I'll bother other than a blog post because I don't think the shadow Wall Street is the place for me

And yes HN is probably not the place for me either. It's becoming more like a money/business forum for non-technical startup types. They have some good tech articles now and then but I'm sure there is a more focused forum elsewhere.
there is no option for 25 hrs.
http://jonls.dk/redshift/

http://justgetflux.com/

I started using redshift a few months ago to try and rein in my sleep schedule, but it's also done wonders for eye fatigue. Highly recommended.

For those of you who aren't familiar with these utilities, they basically adjust the color temperature of your display on a schedule with the goal of reducing your exposure to bright blue light before bed. Can be toggled if you need to do work with accurate colors.
it makes no difference if it is Justin Bieber or if they send out a signal and tell you it is Justin Bieber, or if you just turn on the machine and think of Justin Bieber.

There's really nothing social to this particularly.
I tried to produce Debian and Ubuntu builds, it's mostly working. But the GUI framework I'm using (Qt) has serious problems with tray icons on Debian arch (on Debian, a black line appears instead of icon at tray bar, on Ubuntu, the tray icon appears on the left of the top bar, above Ubuntu's main menu) so I am waiting for them to fix their bugs. Otherwise, it's working out of the box.

For more information, here's a totally non-polished, detailed text about how it works.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5815330/aether.spec.v0.2...
That's why you split the coins repeatedly as you mix them. You don't want more than 0.1% of someone's "dirty" history. Client-side statistical analysis allows each node to decide which coins are good for them personally. (So that all coins are "far" away from each other.)
Since you were a Flex developer and are now a javascript, I'd love to talk to you further about it. I work at famo.us in tooling and think your feedback could be pretty useful. Are you in SF? My email is in my profile.
"[Police] insisted that the Massachusetts police systems were now clear of infection, and that essential operational computers were not affected, nor was there any data stolen."

How the hell would they even know?
The last time I used RescueTime, it also gave me a nice breakdown on my porn habits as well, and there was no way to filter out that data without remembering to disable the data gatherer each time. So I stopped using it.

There's probably a way to do it, but the general creepiness of giving them my intimate data made me not want to use it. (I personally trust them, so this is me being illogical.)

EDIT: I just realized, this was 2-3 years ago. That's an eternity, so it's unfair of me to even be telling this story.
Can't unions' opponents also lobby the government? The Fraternal Order of Police does lobby the government on criminal-justice issues, but so do large organizations like the ACLU, NAACP, National Lawyers' Guild, etc. on the other side. The difference seems to be that more voters and politicians side with the FOP's policy recommendations, than with those that their opponents propose.

In a democratic system, whether a major crackdown on police abuses happens depends to a large extent on whether there is actually public support for such a crackdown. Is the current situation that there is strong public support for a crackdown, but FOP lobbying is keeping it from happening? I don't think that's the case; my read is that the majority of people actually think the police are basically good guys who shouldn't be hassled more. The dissenters are a mixture of left-wing/minority-activist groups who are suspicious of racial profiling and police abuse directed mainly at minorities, plus some libertarian groups wary of increasingly militarized policing. But afaict by far the majority opinion thinks those concerns are overblown and supports the cops.
If you are in front of a screen after dark, http://justgetflux.com is invaluable.
Basic Data Structures and Algorithms in the Linux Kernel
Well, I did represent that record prime number, which would take 7,235,646 bytes to write to disk, in 14 bytes, so it's either joking or sorcery.
I'd like to see HN stats on this vs your average 12-35yr old American.
Its a tough one to estimate. There's the 8 hour job in there, but does one really spend those entire 8 hours looking at the screen? What about breaks? Lunch? Meetings?

Taking out sleep, cooking/eats (assuming not eating looking at the screen), reading (assuming not read from a screen), physical activities, hobbies, holidays, travel, etc and the number should go down a bit.

Of course, if you watch TV, use a tablet, a kindle, and don't do anything else, then the number suddenly goes up.

I settled on 10. 8 hour job. Don't watch TV, prefer real books, but end up programming on the bus and a few hours after work. Which is probably too much for a physically healthy human life. Need to do something about that...
It is kind of ridiculous how the police manage to damage their computers. As people in positions of power, they really need better training on security and handling equipment. I've seen Toughbooks with severe physical damage... and those things are REALLY hard to damage. At the very least, they need to be taught not to open email attachments from people they don't know.
It would be interesting to have a programming language with an integrated OO DBMS.
That's right -- I was focussed on what the issue was, but it is important to note that it hasn't passed in any case.
Tor works somehow and NSA admits that it's a pain in the ass even for them. When someone targets you specifically, you have little chances, but when the whole network routinely mixes coins it's much easier to hide in the woods.
Self-Fulfilling Unemployment
Surely doing a scan on his family and himself is a huge no-no?
I have recently started using flux and have found the effects to be significantly positive. The sleep schedule wasn't something I was worried about, but I have found it to be fantastic for eye fatigue.
There's Tor. In addition, your ISP never sees transactions coming to you. You can later spend your newly received coins from some other network.
Can you explain how imagination figures into it? I don't see the link. Sure, if they couldn't imagine an alternative, that would make escape tricky, but just thinking of an alternative doesn't necessarily make it attractive or achievable.

Also, looking at our history, I think we're not that good at thinking of alternatives. We've currently convinced ourselves (for instance) that democracy and capitalism are the one true way, but not too long ago there were people who quite seriously believed in communism. And there are lots of people who live(d) in monarchies, religious fundamentalist states, single-party power, or even dual-party power. What "the others" are doing feels so obviously wrong, the only reason you'd consider the alternative is because you're forced by it's actual existance to consider it - certainly not because of our intrinsic imagination.

And when we do imagine alternatives (such as BNW), they don't really matter much because they aren't serious alternatives, if only because society is so large that it's almost impossible to imagine effecting such change. Also, that kind of thought doesn't come out of a vacuum - Huxley almost certainly built on the ideas of others, and "merely" crystallized it into a novel, including his own twist.

So... I don't think imagination would affect the outcome, and I think the notion that we are very imaginative is deceitfully flattering, but not true. People are good at taking existing ideas and making small changes, and they're good at identifying the important bits of good ideas of others and then making them their own - so that in the end a little bit of imagination goes a long way.
Loneliness, it turns out, is as bad for your health as smoking, or being obese. The research that Prof. Cacioppo has done with colleagues also adds to the growing body of work that shows how bad loneliness can be for your health. It shows that loneliness suppresses the immune system and cardiovascular function, and increases the amount of stress hormone the body produces. It causes wear and tear on a cellular level, and impairs sleep. As he writes in his book Loneliness, "these changes in physiology are compounded in ways that may be hastening millions of people to an early grave."

Can anyone link to any research supporting these claims?
Wow, simply an inspiring tale of a daring man who also happens to be a great musician.
Users (not issuers) abandon the currency as a currency until the measures are taken to assure that some measure of value stability will be restored.

Doing what amounts to a a "reverse split" on the currency is a measure issuers take to get the unit value of currency to a usable value.
I wouldn't be so quick to judge their lack of ability - it seems pretty hard to prevent spearphising among a broad set of non-technical users.

Training would ideally involve the organization testing by spearphishing their own employees internally like a lot of security companies often do:

http://www.darkreading.com/end-user/how-lockheed-martin-phis...
Thanks! This should satisfy my interest.
Everything Was Made
Wipebook: Wipeable Notebook
how does it know who else to talk to?

it seems that by saying things are anonymous you punt on all questions of identity? so there's no way to know that you are joining the forum you expect?

another way of saying the above - despite the encryption there's no protection against mitm, right?

it uses tls so it's just direct connections? so you're identified by your ip?

you say (iirc) that keys are automatically regenerated and not verified. so it's really anonymous (not pseudonymous). so there's no way to be sure two comments are by the same person? even in the same discussion?

since the encryption is useless (mitm) yet you're not actually anonymous to an attacker (ip) it seems to combine the worst parts of insecure software with the worst parts of forums (no reliable identities).

[edit: sorry, updated the above slightly. ok, so there's some forwarding of messages which makes people more anonymous if an attacker doesn't see all the network. pre-snowden that might have seemed worth something.]
At the current state, Stash is better than GitLab

Yes.

GitLab, on the other hand, has two advantages over Stash ... GitLab is under active development and there is a new release with reasonable amount of content every month.

No.

Stash 2.9 was just released [1] about seven weeks after Stash 2.8 [2] about seven weeks after Stash 2.7 [3].

[1] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Stash+2.9+rel...

[2] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Stash+2.8+rel...

[3] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Stash+2.7+rel...
Does tor conceal the fact that you're using TOR, i.e. peer discovery ? because i got the impression it didn't , that it only did conceal end to end links.
does it provide closures?
Yes I'm not sure that I need or want the shared secret system. I like that BT sync has mobile support but Aero is really good on the platforms I use it the most on -- Win/Mac/Linux.

Also, it seems BT sync still requires a centrally controlled tracker/relay for discovering peers similar to Aero and also isn't open source so not sure I want to bother moving all my systems and setting up the the shared secret keys just for mobile support yet.
Show HN: Write code, earn Bitcoins
I think this would work better as ranges or less granular options, few people are going to check 13 and other odd numbers since it's an imprecise guess.
When you apply, try contacting some of the CS professors directly showing your work, like this Github project. If you impress a professor at a department at a university you'd like to attend, you may be able to get a recommendation letter from them. If you do, you can then ask to get in contact with the people in the career center for their College/School at that university, who may be able to advise you on scholarship opportunities specific to that School/College.

You'd be surprised what's out there if you ask the right people instead of going through the normal "big pearly gates" known as standard university admissions.

The other option is to go apply to companies you'd like to work with now. Many workplaces with lots of young people in a major city with disposable income can give you a lot of the same positive experiences that you'd get at college? Would you be interested in this? I know we just hired a brilliant guy who dropped out after his first year of CS because industry had better problems to work on. My email is in my profile. I'm at Famo.us and we're doing some RTOS and scenegraph work across DOM, Canvas and WebGL in case that interests you.
This reminds me of when actual users were identified from the "anonymous" AOL search logs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html?page...

Anonymity is not privacy.
I found the book an interesting and compelling critique of democracy, which I grew up without questioning, but I'm not a monarchist.

I'm fairly agnostic about the best way to organize politically, beyond coming to the conclusion that if a government is to meaningfully derive its powers from the consent of the governed, then, depending on how strong a culture there is, there can't be very many governed.
Even if you'd have spilled all of the mercury on the carpet (and most of it will possibly have stuck on the inside of the bulb and been disposed of with the shards), it will have evaporated (and hence, left the room in gaseous phase) a long time ago.

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/research/mercury-bulbs.pdf
It is probably the only completely untarnished utopia in all of literature. Or possibly one of the only, and I simply haven't heard of a few of the rest. I'm told Le Guin's The Dispossessed deals with similar issues.

Certainly it's one of the only cases where, if someone said they were buying real-estate there, I wouldn't actually look at them funny.
In my local craigslist, there are 9 results.

One was an email address, so false result, and 3 more were not real goods, rather offers to buy/sell bitcoin itself.
Zapier co-founder here, we started it during the weekend and just kept it alive! ;-)

It is helpful to work with people you know and are comfortable with (because if you do keep it alive, you'll basically be married to them). Plus, it helps to have a real business under the hood (not that weekend hacks are bad, but they usually die almost immediately).
> how does it know who else to talk to?

There is a bootstrap node, which you connect to at the beginning of your first boot. Connecting to that node gets you a list of posts and a a list of nodes, like every other sync with any other node. You can opt out of connecting to boostrap node if you have a friend you know to be currently online, and putting his / her ip:port at the settings page of the onboarding.

>it seems that by saying things are anonymous you punt on all questions of identity? so there's no way to know that you are joining the forum you expect?

The forums only exist as names, there is no way to have two forums with the same name, they will automatically be merged. (There is two bitcoin topics currently, that's a corner case I'm fixing now)

But there is no way to know who you are actually talking to, yes. I'm planning to add public key authentication in the future at the point I am reasonably confident the core stack is working reliably and there is sufficient interest.

> it uses tls so it's just direct connections? so you're identified by your ip?

Yes, it's only direct connections, but when you connect to someone, it also gives you posts from other people the guy you connected to have upvoted. You're identified by your node id, which can hold multiple users. It's probably more correct to say it identifies computers, rather than people. But it's easy to change, just delete the userprofile.json and you'll automatically produce a new one.
It's not really an either or: they both identified bad habits modern society is falling into. But whereas Orwell may have more recognizable details, the in the broader strokes it's Huxley that seems more apropos: people are choosing for this life. In Orwell's world dissent and choice were suppressed; in Huxleys they were voluntarily discarded.

No matter how nasty the scandals surrounding the NSA are or how overblown the rhetoric in the neverending "war on terror", I don't think anybody (sane) is suggesting we cannot end them. Sure, some dissent is punished harshly (manning, snowden), but for society at large the current state of affairs is entirely by choice.
How long ago was that? It ignores adult sites by default, plus you can tell it to ignore any specific activity that shows up in your reports.
Raspberry pi + barcode scanner - Auto-Adding Groceries To Your Grocery List
If all you want to do is execute your own js on a certain web page, you can just use greasemonkey or another userscript extension for your browser instead of writing a whole new extension each for each script.

Greasemonkey also appears to provide an interface for peristent local storage as well. [1]

[1] http://wiki.greasespot.net/GM_setValue
It's generally weird to me that newspapers articles seem to be exempt from the expectation to cite their sources.
Proving a claim about one particular person is necessarily going to cite anecdotes about them.
Island is amazing. I wish I had one of it's parrots.
I might have missed something, but how can we be sure that malicious nodes do not just steal your money?
Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto
Wake up, check email on iPhone in bed.

Check Facebook, blogs, etc. while I'm eating breakfast.

Start work, staring at a screen all day.

Go home, probably work more there. Watch some Netflix.

Go to bed, read a book on my Kindle until I fall asleep.

Essentially, except for the time when I driving or at the grocery story, if I'm awake, I'm looking at a screen.
What the heck did I just read?
What does "HREF" stand for? (2008)
I have thought about a similar service but was dissuaded by various sources warning against the idea of using javascript with cryptography, e.g. http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/. That's not to say a reasonable solution cannot be found, but there are a good number of issues that need to be addressed. The one that seems crippling to me is that the strength of javascript crypto libraries is questionable at best - nevermind the various other javscript attack vectors. A browser plugin could address some issues, but then that limits users to browsers with the plugin installed. Might as well have a native application where the quality of the cryptographic algorithms are more thoroughly tested at that point. Still, I like the idea and wish you the best of luck.
“Economics basically says you should be concerned about your own short-term interests. There’s more division in society, more segmentation; there’s less identity with a national or global persona, but rather on the family or the individual. People aren’t as loyal to their employers, and employers are certainly not as loyal to their workers.”

I thought that mainstream economics has been moving towards the other direction. More socialized policies, more emphasis on the collective that individual property right and rights in general, ever expanding role of goverent in the name of greater good for the society at the cost of individuals etc.
Killers aren't heroes. That's the most stupid thing I've read on HN. Please stop.