skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks interesting, especially the "lessons learned"-section.

However, the latest version (as of writing this) is Elasticsearch 0.90.7, released November 13, not 0.90.5 as stated in the article, which I guess relates to lessons learned, part 3: "TRY to keep up with releases".

There is a lot of stuff happening right now with Elasticsearch as they're nearing a release of 1.0 (which I'm told we're to expect in H1 2014), and a lot of fixes/features are still showing up in new 0.90.x point releases :)
I doubt people care about picture quality as they watch SD channels when the HD version is available. Norms care about having 1 box that they plug in with the fewest number of cables and works well enough they don't need to buy something else. Geeks want a display, norms want a TV.

Of course I want a new firmware board for my 5 year old HD TV which sends the wrong resolution data to my pc, has a terrible SD UI, and doesn't decode HD OTA signals, but it's not going to be cheaper than buying a new TV
That is a bad logic. Being deported from entering a country because you have been visited any place arounf the world is not getting mobbed by a rude officer. It is mobning at the behest of the whole US citizens.
This whole fiasco reminds me of Ryan Holiday's book "Trust me I'm lying". I can't help but wonder if some "media manipulator" was involved in the possible manufacture of some negative PR for Tesla.
This assumption is not unreasonable since Ralph Nader was attacked by hired gun media (hired by the big three) when he dared challenge the status quo. I'm not that the big three are involved, but the stink caused by the car fires seems a bit "manipulated".
My friend rolled his truck this weekend. He's looking for the new car and when I suggested a Tesla, he gave me a Resounding no, due to fire hazard. While this a heuristic observation, he is a pretty innovative guy and I'm confident he would a picked or even considered a tesla had it not been for the negative press.
Lastly, I wonder if Elon's doing the right thing by repeating this. Maybe he should talk to Ryan Holiday type. I genuinely hope that this blows over and that Tesla & Elon can get back to building awesome cars & changing the world rather than playing PR.
Nope, I thought of the exact same thing you said. It was confusing that the headline differentiated from the subtext.
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It makes it possible to prove that someone didn't forge a chatlog, but that you really said X at some point based on your friend's chat logs.
I have http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitstamp/btcusd open on my second monitor. I'll say one thing about bitcoin: it's certainly entertaining!
Obsessive over details :)
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What makes you think these are isolated experiences? Yes, the article and the parent comment each highlight a specific case, but as someone who's had to re-enter the US multiple times in the past 2 years I can vouch that these are not isolated incidences.
Back in the late 90's the US was fairly high on my list of travel destinations. At the time I didn't have the finances to visit.

Because of stories like this, it's slipping so low on my list that I'll likely never get there.
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You still have "an address" bar. You type `o` and start typing to search for history, bookmarks or enter new URL all in unified list. Usually a few chars + TAB is enough. This unified list pops from the bottom of the browser window and it respects your color scheme as well.

Of course there is `s` command to search any of your installed search providers and you can do all of this in new tab, window etc.

Pentadactyl is what keeps me using Firefox. When that stops working, it will take me back to stone age when it comes to speed of navigating and researching content online.
If you need to store a personal access token in order to pull or push to your own repos, how is two-factor auth any better than a normal account with a secure (ie reasonably long, unique, randomly generated) password?
This is not a logical issue. It's an emotional one. So, it depends on the person. Wouldn't you held anything against a country if that's country's border control detained you, denied the services you paid for, denied the properties you have in the country, treated you like a sub-human? Would you try to enter that country again? Try, just try to be empathetic...
If people start doing that, they'll probably start rejecting people with passports less than half a year old.
There are all sorts of things about immigration laws & policies that violate our sense of correctness or justice. All sorts of basic principles don't apply.

There is no strict rule of law. The border guards' discretionary (arbitrary) power is an example of that. That applies on several levels. Policies & laws are not governed by higher laws/constitutions so the laws & policies themselves are discretionary & arbitrary. Basic principles like habeas corpus (right to be judged by a judge) and presumption of innocence don't apply. This is why 'privilege, not a right' is the approach.

I think most of the rest is what we get when the basics aren't there. Equality before the law doesn't really apply when there is no rule of law so blatant discrimination is the norm with policies for different nationalities & cultural/ethnic/racial groups. Freedoms are profoundly violated by visa restrictions everywhere, almost by definition. If your visa is tied to your job or your profession, you are a lot less free. That kind of limit on freedom would be considered draconian if applied in other cases.

When a country restricts immigrants' permission to work in certain professions or live in certain areas, we don't think twice about it. Up until the modern era Jews in Europe were restricted in such a way. Those were controversially oppressive laws even in the context of 17th center Czarist Russia/Eastern Europe.

Anyway, to make lemonade from these experiences I think this should remind us how important basic principles of justice are. We need to protect them and make sure they don't lose ground. It's a horrible, naked feeling when you realize that they don't apply and the guy in the stupid hat has arbitrary power over you.
I don't have any kind of relationship with this project. Just sharing because I find it relevant for HN and I heard the guys behind it are asking to be introduced to people related to Dropbox.
Well, as I said, I teach to Engineers. I should have said 'Civil/Mechanical...'

They need discrete mathematics very seldom and (I should have said this as well) I prefer their grasping the derivative well rather than being able to understand graphs etc.

So, yes, I try to focus more on what you call 'just calculus' which, as I see it, is what made modern physics possible.

Not that I despise Topology, Algebra or whatever (I am an Algebraic Geometer) but (I insist, I teach to Civil/Mechanical Engineers) I understand they need to know what a derivative is much more than graph theory, groups or Topology.

And not only Engineers but most people (apart from those, which are a singularity, needing discrete mathematics) only need to know arithmetic and the notion of relative increment and cumulative addition (derivative & integral). Graphs etc. are cool but mostly useless in real ordinary life.

I love Bourbaki's Topology, Grothendieck's Scheme Theory and the like. However, I tend not to inflict them on anyone who does not require them.

"Just" calculus would make Newton, Leibniz, Gauss and Einstein smile (I am not trying to be paternalistic, only realistic).

Edit: I have just read your profile. I understand you know much more about discrete maths than I do (and obviously, its applications). However, it is difficult to find a real need for discrete maths in people who shall mostly deal with mechanical and electrical problems.

Of course, it would be rather different if I taught to CS undergrads. But then, the question has many aspects. I dealt with my present environment.
Seems kind of like a giant "fuck you" to the non-mentally strong (mentally weak?). Kind of like a "Look at all the things you can't do!"
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The border patrol knew he was part Jewish, and that being the case, asked him why he went to country that was hostile to Jews, and he denied being Jewish. It's not about ethnicity, it's about telling the agents something they know is not accurate.

This part, like the whole story, was a miscommunication. A better answer would be something like "Well I only have Jewish ancestry from one grandparent so I didn't think that would be a problem".
A good chunk of AdBlock blacklists is scripts.
>hard to update

Usually intentionally impossible to increase sales.
Unfortunately, his napkin doesn't have the right calculations! See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Succession
So you didn't read the article. It had nothing to do with scripts invading privacy. The issue was Ghostery's fault. They admitted to it.
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>it's an image that's been hard to get rid of.

Maybe because Perl 6 adds even more obscure and magical operators?

http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/periodic/
The US has a higher per capita net migration rate than every major European country other than Italy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migrat...

More than three times that of France, for example.
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All Python objects do get destructed at the end of the scope. The only exception are reference cycles, which get broken by a simple GC. Perl doesn't even have a cycle detector, so cyclic references will never get destructed.

Python has a __del__ method that will be called on destruction, but is not guaranteed to be called in the case of cycles. That's what the with statement solves, guaranteeing destruction at the end of the block. It's common to have both __del__ and __exit__ call the same thing.
Someone started (the excel one?) and people followed along.

Because it's fun.
it is great to see the reflections upon reflections.
I use 2FA with GMail and the same question could be asked. The answer is that an application password does not have admin rights to the account. It can be revoked at any time. It traces the breach directly back to a particular application. They are not meant to be memorized but rather to be set and remembered in a particular application which means they can be extremely complex and are by default. I have to think that at least some of this is applicable to GitHub's 2FA.
But in this case, the plugin was breaking his website. Not because of JavaScript or a 3rd party, but because they had a bug.
There's a difference between Google "knowing" you sent a message and third parties being able to verify that you sent a specific message.

Whether Google stores your message when you turn on "Off-the-Record" is of course something we can never know. But if your contact says you said "X", and you say you never said "X", Google could still prove you said "X" at some point. That does not fit the idea of "Off-the-Record".
No, the logic goes like this: in "country X", this type of arrogant behavior is supported by the political background, while in "Sweden", there's no polical support for policeman rudeness. This is therefore a perfectly valid reason not to visit "country X".
Talk about a rollercoaster :)

Ps ^^ handy link, thanks
There is of course some degree of mutual intelligibility.

Still, I find French to be lexically closer to Italian, despite the phonetical differences.
I see. I think I missed your target and point somewhere in "for what he felt was an unreasonable position" and "It may shock people on Hacker News to learn this". Sorry.
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Typically insurance would cover this anyway.
Perl 6 has nothing whatsoever to do with Perl 5 v18. Perl 6 cannot even execute code written for Perl 5 v18 (or any previous versions of Perl 5). It's a different language.

However, people don't care to look and judge books by their cover, so you're probably right that it's a part of the reason.
looks like it had sufficient support at $400... that's over 40% volatility. I guarantee some well funded technical traders are making a motza out of this.
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Someone should call the wahmbulance¹ for this guy! In contrast, here is how another company responded much more professionally when I informed them of an issue caused by Ghostery:

I believe I fixed this issue.

Looks like the Ghostery plugin not only deletes the LinkedIN script tag, but every
sibling element around it (just to be safe?), which includes our entire blog
content. I've wrapped the LinkedIN script tag in its own span so Ghostery stays
away from our content. :)

Please let me know if you can read our blog now.

¹ http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wahmbulance
Can you build a gaming PC better than the PS4 for $400?
I wonder how easy it would be to manipulate the market of bitcoin. If a few people were selling between each other would they be able to inflate the price ? It's below $500 now, and it peaked at over $900 on mtgox a few hours ago.
Sounds cool. Does it scale well? Has anyone used it for a large-ish amount of data (gigs)?
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So an extension breaks a site, and the web developer is to blame for sloppy coding? How can he ever predict all extensions and different versions of extension visitors might have on their systems?

Taking Google Analytics as an example, it guarantees the availability of `window._gaq = []`, even if the external resource fails to load. If an extension were to just detect and remove the script block, it'd kill the site.

This is an innocent and unlikely example, because no extension actually does this. But extensions do other bad things much like it, and this post points out exactly one of those very bad things. It simply looks for a specific DOM element, then goes and deletes its parent from the page.

But yes, websites that have an abundance of trackers are crap. Remember that it may also not have been the developers decision.
> Because, while I don't share their belief system I recognize their request comes from only one place: love and caring

This is true for some religious people, but not for others. Some religious people use their religion to tell you that you are in the wrong, and are going to pay for it if you don't come over to their views. For such people, their good wishes are a thinly disguised religious attack. And it can be annoying being their target.
Ghostery is a kind of fallacy. Whenever I see talk on the web about tracking and privacy, someone jumps in with "Just use Ghostery!". It's almost cult-like.

If you use it or think you might, consider: Ghostery is closed-source; it's in bed with advertisers; it reports to the mothership; and its blocking is based on criteria set by someone other than the user. Oh, and in case that's not enough, it breaks pages as described.

The better alternative in my opinion is Request Policy. It simply prevents requests to third-party domains by default, and lets the user whitelist selectively, each permission being either for the session or persistent, your choice. Or you can reconfigure it as a blacklist. And it's open source and non-commercial. (But please support the dev, if you like it.)

IMHO this functionality should be a default part of a browser in the first place. Now I will shut up before I start ranting about how web developers give away their site's data, and compromise user privacy by throwing in unlimited numbers of third-party requests for functionality they could easily source from own-domain.
Actually I traveled to Japan with a blank passport and was selected for additional checks. Nothing aggressive or in any way impolite, but I would guess a blank passport would be regarded suspicious in many instances.
Yay! When my laptop gets back from being fixed it's going on (now is a good time to get the ISO over bittorrent - there will be many, many seeders). Download link (wrong in article?!) - http://software.opensuse.org/131

(Incidentally, do X series thinkpads still have the plug at the back? It switched from the side somewhere between X60 and X220, and if it's at the back it gets bent every time you pick the laptop up from the front - mine failed last week...)
> Once my site grew larger than 50 mb of text queries started slowing things down. Indexing (python, single threaded) took a while and the larger the index the slower the queries were returned.

I think this makes it pretty clear. Not sure how much more explanation you need.
You made a stupid comment and proved unable to justify it. Your loss.
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Problem there is that the US loudly and fundamentally claims to be a democracy. If we are to accept that, then we have to accept that the government embodies the will of its people. Or, seriously consider that the US is genuinely no longer a real democracy.

It is a real shame, as you imply. American people have done incredible things which contribute to the world in general in a positive way, and the country its self is undoubtedly spectacular and beautiful. But the political atmosphere, the general fear, and the resulting attitudes are a total bar to me. These days I even worry about using US internet services since merely doing so can put me in the sights of US authorities and their insane legal system and laws. Worse still, my own government literally bend over for the US government.

In short, a great people are strangling them selves.
If anyone didn't see the price changes over the last few days and think "bubble" then....

Whatever you might think about the long term future, prices going up exponentially in the course of a week does not look like sustainable growth to me.
I don't think there's a conspiracy. The Tesla has been hyped to the the 9s by its founder and enthusiasts in the tech press. When you seek the spotlight, don't be surprised to find yourself in it.

Lots of other rare automobile faults have made big headlines, because the press likes drama. See: uncontrolled acceleration problems in Audi and Toyota vehicles.
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So the noun is encoded after the verb. I've seen scheme libraries like this, and makes me wonder there really are some non trivial purely verb libraries out there for functional languages?
Thanks. I don't know this existed. Can you control the width of the tabs? Right now the URL in the tab is clipped, which can be dangerous and makes you susceptible to fishing attacks when you browse casually.
I use Privoxy, which is frankly more of a pain b/c there's no simple browser tool to toggle on/off when it breaks a site (I have to occasionally turn the proxy off in my Mac network settings).

But you know what? It's worth it. I'm not being tracked all over the web, I'm not being served re-targeted ads, etc. I'll never go back.
Yeah and look what happened last time a wave of immigrants showed up. No wonder we're scared!
For instance (just a quick idea): because if you make a mistake and enter your gmail password instead of your github password, now your gmail password is stored in clear text in their database, opening another can of worms etc.
I guess the point is that these auth failures were rare. I've seen 5 failed login attempts in the past 3 days, on an account that had none in its previous two years.
weak article for the front page of HN. No real insight, only a somewhat desirable list of qualities we all have bits of to varying degrees.

And it's a bit black and white, I'm sure you'll find cases of people benefiting from resenting other success and using to propel themselves or by expecting immediate results they don't dwell on failing ventures... if you hit the comment first I wouldn't recommend reading this.
Well, lets rephrase it, is there anything interesting an outside doesn't know about javascript interpreters and lines of code?

I could imagine the existence of a JIT compiler engine that caches everything smaller than 64 lines, or maybe less than 1K compiled. Imagining doesn't make it so, but it would explain a heck of a lot.

Is there anything other than competitiveness like obfuscated C contests?
I don't even think it is about being denied entry. Its about how one is denied entry and the conduct of the officials.
This is almost entirely a list of tautologies and over generalizations, I can't imagine it being useful or actionable for anyone.

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"Pravda" never means justice in Russian (saying this as a native speaker), it means "truth". Btw there was a famous communist newspaper named Pravda, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda.
I don't think it goes both ways, though. Romanian is rather obscure to me. Possibly because of slavic influence?
Well, I always open a private window if that's the case.
Add Luxembourg, Spain, and a few others to that list.
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If you are using it for Django, take a look on Haystack [1]. It supports Whoosh as well as Solr, Elasticsearch, etc...

For example, you could use Whoosh for development environment and Elasticsearch for production if you need something more robust.

[1] http://haystacksearch.org/
Coming from Romania, I also had to face some extra control in US airports + we also need visa which is given also after an interview. Romania is a country with zero terrorism.

I only wish US people to be treated in EU the same way they treat EU people in US.
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Agree. It seems to me that the guy is just a poor communicator at this type of thing. He didn't lie, but he could have had better answers.
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Solr is just so easy to get up and running, so powerful with so many options for scaling, I don't see the benefit of "pure Python" here. (To be fair, despite living and breathing Python most days, I've never thought "pure Python" is a selling point.)
Guess who google's paying customer is?

Hint: its not you.
If you want a better email service then pay for it.
Breakout IN Excel. =p
US immigration is broken on so many levels. A lot of our immigration problems stem from a political desire to increase voter rolls for one particular party.

The Democrat party benefits greatly from illegal immigration from Mexico, so they refuse to do anything whatsoever to control that flow. That's great for Democrats to win elections and all, but it creates a backlash against immigration in general. Ironically, the most controllable area of immigration, that of those actually following the visa process suffer the most from that backlash.
You're right of course. I should have included Spain. Luxembourg and Cyprus don't have two million people between them.
Thank you!

I'd noticed repeated reports of Tesla fires, but wasn't sure if it was because they were more flammable, or just more likely to be reported on if they do catch fire.

This is the first thing I've read that actually gives any statistics.
It should be noted there is a woman with such a photographic memory, you can show her 2 of the pictures and she can tell you what they look like combined. If a human can do this, I doubt this would prevent any protection to hackers.
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Total window switches: 32768

How very neat and appropriate for a programmer.
I was somewhat disappointed by the articles inherent bias towards the US. There is no reason why the US should place its strong IP laws and history of pharmaceutical innovation in jeopardy during the opening salvos of an international treaty negotiations.
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