skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For lots of us using basic CDN services, we enable referrer checks to ensure that folks aren't hotlinking images or direct linking downloads from other sites.

This is actually an interesting problem, because it's already solved but most people aren't using the solution: If you have a large file do distribute to a large number of people without authentication, use BitTorrent. As far as I can see there are two primary impediments to this:

A) Most browsers can't by default download large files P2P. You can actually write a BitTorrent client in javascript using Web Sockets if you really want to, but that's just horrible. What would be really nice is to be able to just e.g. embed a video into a webpage using a magnet link. There is no technical reason why this couldn't be implemented and rightly should be for large files.

B) Images are exactly the wrong size. They're big enough that you can't just ignore hotlinking but not big enough that you want to pay the overhead of connecting to 50 different peers instead of one to get a good transfer rate. But that just requires some adjustments to the protocol; if you're looking for realtime retrieval for display in a webpage you would probably want to use UDP and then use erasure coding to deal with slow/broken peers and packet loss. If you have a 60KB image, you can send a ~50 byte packet to each of a dozen peers and have ten of them each send 6KB (approximately four packets) to the target with 6KB worth of erasure bits from each of the others (which also allows the image to be constructed once 60KB of data is received in total from any collection of peers), and now the image is costing you ~600 bytes instead of 60KB. And if the image hasn't been received in 150ms, add more peers.
It's possible that someone has found a way to speed up scrypt. We could solve for a lower bound on what that speedup must be.
Protip: As a newly registered user, it's obvious you're trying to be someone you're not.
Is it possible that maybe you're jus tnot a GMail power user? Given the choice between Gmail and Outlook, I choose former seven days a week, and twice on Sunday.
An Ideal for which I am prepared to die - 1
Hey, remember last time telephone companies were sued for violating the law in cooperation with the intelligence community? We got the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 [1] out of it. Wonder what we'll get out of this...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillan...
All three of these are valid strategies. The larger question is, what specifically do you wish to achieve?

Assuming you're aiming for "pretty productive and can get a well paid job with any of the languages you know", note that skill in programming is, but one dimension in the employability equation. A handful of others include: domain-specific knowledge (both technical, and those specific to the employer's industry), communication skills, ability to juggle tasks, and ability to sell. Strength, or lack in any one, or combination of these skills can be an overriding factor in your pursuit.

You'll often find on these boards, and in software circles people very noisy about language of choice. This has historical, sunken-cost-fallacy, and mid-carrier-crisis backgrounds; none of which are particularly productive to your goal. You'll also find many posts claiming shiny features achieved in one particular language. This has marketing background, and is also not conductive to employment.

In conclusion, given your stated goals, your question is a red herring -it serves to distract you from what you're trying to achieve. It is possible to be very good in multiple languages. You might even aspire, and reach this goal within 3-5 years. Whether the industry will need those skills, and whether you'll be employable in any of these, are separate questions entirely.
Year on Twitter 2013
Really? Do you remember which store or which brand? I can't think of any current keyboard with Cherry switches and a trackpoint.
Rails? MBP or better, for me. Running unit tests on the Air kicks my fan on and takes many seconds just to start up the harness. You need to think of available RAM also, if you're using a fat IDE like Eclipse or RubyMine.

A way around this is to simply SSH into a bigger box to work on. Then it's GREAT. If you use Fuse w/ SSHFS, it's powerful enough for a fat IDE... but I still use TextMate or Vim over SSH and run my tests on command line remotely on the Air. It saves days of productivity.
You're picking out the positives and purposefully avoiding the negatives.
Yeap. Burner phones all the way. Ship yourself your regular digital devices via reputable non-postal delivery. This would be far less prone to being opened and then being imaged and/or hardware modified.
Yeah, but then everyone will want organic milk baths, so they won't be able to use the milk for that either
I wouldn't count on this:
> Using a native rich application is always going to be superior to building a web app on top of a browser

I firmly believe there would be no "native applications" within 10 years of time.

Outlook is very easily the the application that I hate from bottom of my heart. You are correct that other alternatives are not that good either and that's why Outlook still lives on. Even in 2013, its search feature is laughing stock. It hangs all the time, takes up lots of memory, rules can't be other than presets, its ranking function is sort by date, it can't do spam, TODO list integration is mess, it blocks good attachments, it can't keep conversation togather, it screws HTML and even its spell check is straight from 18th century. If you look at release over release enhancements, it pretty much has remains same, as if there is no one really working on it. Outlook is a shame to human kind considering so many people has to use it despite of it being a pig.
For those who despise the Windows 8 user interface: you can make it behave like Windows 7 by installing "Classic Shell" (it's free):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Shell
As long as the juveniles aren't black, then they get tried as adults.
1. Encrypt all of your backups.

2. Test your backups, or they are not backups (99% of people never test their backups.)
There are all sorts of legal acts which reporters write about and which others might like to keep hidden. For example, consider "secretive rich guy is a racist" or "person I disagree with took money from Koch". As a tech related example, consider assorted hit jobs on peter thiel, pax Dickinson, etc.

An act doesn't need to be criminal to be of journalistic interest. And a public figure is just a person that reporters take an interest in.
How to get the best results out of Mturk?
Does anyone have decent experience using Mturk as a requester? YouTube has traditionally been a great resource, but there is really very little information that I could find that is for "requesters" (i.e., not "workers).

I've run several batches, but only seem to get responders that have previously only had 0% acceptance rates.

If anyone has tips or a link with a tutorial to share that would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul
If the NSA wants your data they already have it, or can get it anytime they want from you or your service providers. It could change in the future, but at the moment we're all pwned.

The problem for an essentially law abiding individual crossing a border is having access to their own data after crossing. Hardware fetishes notwithstanding, the hardware and its possible loss doesn't matter at all, it's the data held by the hardware or that the hardware gives access to.

So:

- If you can, stop buying expensive hardware. It doesn't matter.

- Don't carry hardware across borders that you can't emotionally or economically walk away from forever.

- The only copy of data that you depend on should not be on hardware that you cross a border with. Have it accessible on a server, the cloud, or with a colleague that can ship it to you electronically or physically after safely crossing borders.

- Accept that you may have to buy cheap disposable hardware after exiting border checkpoints.

- Worst case, plan for not having access to any hardware or data after exiting border checkpoints; you may not have your own hardware, you may not be able to buy any, and you may not have access to your data at all. Plan C, if you will.
What stands out most about this issue is the open-mindedness of the Video Games Industry. The fact that they've stood up for someone's ability to not only record their gameplay, but on top of that, make money from it just shows how understanding they are (unlike neighboring industries that take down amateur remixes from Soundcloud and YouTube).

They're one of the few industries that generally:

● Don't Sue Pirates

● Don't claim copyright infringement on uploaded video game soundtracks to YouTube or gh.ffshrine.org (except Square Enix because their Final Fantasy OST still sells big)

● Don't send DMCA notices to people who remix their content (make mods)

● Allow unofficial communities to sprout up using their IP's name in the domain name url

I'd say they're going above and beyond to support fair use & infringement in order to please customers, grow communities, and grow their fan base through crowdsourced content infringement. Genius I'd say.
To play devil's advocate - isn't the reason you're sorting so that you can find information more easily? Aren't you manually performing search yourself?

While not perfect, I think searching for "from:sender" is more efficient than sort by sender.
I'd also recommend Froont: http://www.froont.com
I see some interesting parts in the dsl, but at the same time, I see some warts that would rather be shaved off. For example, requiring (sha256 (base32 "hash")) just adds cruft in my opinion. I'd say exposing a function that handles all that for you, like what nix does, would be better -- something like (hash-sha256 "hash").

Though personally, the licensing section leads a real sour taste in my mouth. Nix's licensing system is much simpler, much less politicized. Simply link to the license directly, leave the commentary elsewhere. Linking to the FSF's reasonings for every license just makes me much less inclined to experiment with it.
The "yelling fire in a crowded theater" standard is pretty clearly applicable here:

Here are photos of someone naked vs here are photos of someone naked along with workplace, home address, home phone, etc.

Yelling fire isn't protected as it insights panic.

Doxing/revenge porn should be protected as it insights harassment.
Sony releases USB flash drive for Smartphones
Why Life Expectancy is Misleading
I mean, disgust aside, technically NSA is doing some seriously cool shit. I wonder what you could do if you had access to a de-identified data dump from the NSA.
You really have no idea what you're talking about. Condoms break. Relationships end. Men abandon their children. Husbands become alcoholics and start hitting people. A million things can lead to a woman being single with child, and needing public assistance. That's what it's there for. Raising a child in these circumstances is one of the hardest things a person can do. If you think running hackathons makes someone better than a woman raising a child alone, you have a seriously backward set of priorities.
With the kind of data the various agencies are amassing, that'd be childs play, if they were made available to them.
Part of the problem, Luke, is that you're thinking about containers in terms of a hosting provider. That's not your fault. You're a hosting provider. To you, cotenancy is not only a security concern but also performance and SLA. For almost everyone else, efficiency is way paramount.

I still think right now the best way forward is:

- Hosting provider: Xen/etc

- Internal clusters: containers

Containers merely bring commodity computing closer to HPC operational techniques. Containers are not useful for you at prgmr. Using every drop of RAM on the machine for page cache is a positive for my use case, not a negative.

Virt overhead makes no sense in internal clusters, in my opinion. I've worked in an all virt environment and an all container environment. The latter is way better, and these are scales where Puppet burning a core for several seconds across the fleet has a demonstrable impact on Opex.
"That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."

(David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest)

(But this isn't to disagree with the grandparent post, either. Just a statement on perspective.)
I missed this issue when I read the article, and you are right that it makes this particular case more clear cut.

But I'm not seeing other issues you mention as being relevant, stolen material in particular. Weren't the pentagon papers, wikileaks and snowdens NSA files all stolen material?
Yeah, we call out governments for abusing the terror excuse, but we seem prone to applying the term inappropriately ourselves.

Maybe we should be using the term "oppression."
Except that your new idea (entirely distinct from your first idea where the autonomous driver could schedule its arrival to coincide with the consumer's whims) also is flawed. It is entirely common for an entire day's worth of fuel to be 1-3x the cost of the driver...especially so urban operations. Driving a minimal distance maximizes the driver's productivity, true...but it also minimizes the distance traveled, which minimizes the fuel consumed and the associated maintenance (which hovers around 40% of fuel costs). What you are now proposing isn't much better...instead of an autonomous vehicle running around catering to the scheduled whims of consumers, you have much more of them (which is a capital cost that scales linearly with peak usage during peak delivery times, while most sit idle for most of the day), running full round trips to a depot for every single delivery.

I'm all for creative solutions to problems. Your solutions just aren't creative enough. Operations Research scientists have been working on this exact problem for well over four decades...UPS probably employs 1/3 of the logistics-specialized OR professionals in the entire world. Saying these solutions are simple, or just require a little bit more thought, is not much different from saying that proving P=NP is simple and requires just a little bit more thought. In fact, it is exactly like that.
But the double standard remains, since the same could be said about high frequency trading, currency trading, etc.
The industry does have some of the nastiest DRM we've ever seen though.
India Re-criminalizes Homosexuality
Regarding 2. 'add item button is too small' - I'd personally try a large-ish grey plus icon in the middle of a column, that is only visible when that column is hovered.
Don't remember the brand. It was in the "LABI Shibuya" store in Tokyo (Shibuya of course), in the keyboard section:

https://goo.gl/maps/o4wm1

I noticed that the shelf tags for keyboards in this store all made a point of mentioning the key-switches used, so it's clearly a selling point even in a relatively mass-market store...
what about gigabit net connections? When you run into the limit of a single worker's capability, you employ a second worker! (that's the reasoning behind modern processors btw). And thus, speed of light isn't an issue....
A small correction there, Buddha WAS from India :)
I do make no distinction, because the only meaningful distinction I see is "do reporters care about person x".

Is pax dickinson a public figure? How about joe the plumber? Both have been the subject of journalistic investigation.
Right on. I literally believe the United States government is doing more harm to the United States than the terrorists are, but they are not themselves terrorists by any stretch of the imagination.
What's Wrong With the N.S.A. Tracking Cell-phone Locations?
I agree that the Pope is powerful & very influential. But that's always true, or at least generally true, not specific to 2013.
we do matrix inversion by hand in mathematics :D
As if they trully only collect on foreigners and the other stuff is "accidental". That's for small children who also believe in Santa.
It contradicts it because there is no terror involved. They heavy handedly stole his stuff. No one was terrorised.
Are we not willing to accept a certain number of false positives if the net effect is good?
Maybe you are being too skeptical, maybe he is just feeling proud? Is it fanatical to feel proud of your nation, don't you guys love yours?
I fail to see how that fact changes anything. Ruby is literally so easy in terms of syntax, that you can teach the concepts in ruby, and "port" them back to js.
Really ? Even the Occulus Rift co-founder mentioned they are far away from where they need to be.

WHen you want to do virtual reality, you need constant 60 fps (or more, ideally) in order to give a good impression of movement in all directions. XBone and PS4 are already struggling to display a SINGLE 1080p screen at 60 fps already, let's not dream too much. They are massively underpowered, and the AMD APU is notorious for being mid-range in terms of performance at best in 2013. Give it one more year and even the cheapest gaming PCs will be more powerful than them.
Mostly through referrals from existing clients. Also, got a few clients from various blogs and forums.
Lets all just remember that he is at this stage the first for this to happen to. I'm a kiwi and on a New Zealand watch list for other reasons and this has never happened to me. No need to get scared, thousands upon thousands of people fly through nz airports all the time and this never happens. I follow this sort of thing and its the first I've heard.
I don't understand, can video game companies really claim copyright over gameplay videos? Or is this just a Youtube-specific thing?
Time's Top Exciting Startups 2013
That's a big let down. I had the impression Germany basically as a whole was against the NSA stuff all along. Thanks for informing me, I'd rather be disappointed than wrong.
Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel Split Up
Literally, WALL-E.
I look at some of the prototype and I don't know how exactly how i'm going to place my hands on that.

Like this one

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3666/11330346296_f2c62e4250_c.jpg
Why do people angry? It's Time person of the year, they have their own criteria, they can choose anyone they want, they don't need to justify it. If you want, you can also publish your own person of the year.
I am taking as a given that most people here don't want further restrictions on newspapers, and generally support free speech as it currently exists. My argument is simply attacking the distinction between newspapers and revenge porn.

If you oppose contemporary journalism as well and favor a more Chinese approach to free speech, I will be unpersuasive.
> Is NSA on Hacker News?

Yes. CNE (computer network exploitation) and information warfare (formerly cryptology) people. They're into the same stuff as the rest of us, of course.

> I would be naive to think that there are not NSA agents attempting to sway opinion on this site in general.

I dunno. The NSA folks I'm aware of are just geeks looking for news and discussion, the same as everyone else.

What you were talking about I believe would fall under "psychological operations" and I do not believe that is a mission goal of NSA/CSS.

Disclaimer: I am not NSA, nor associated with the government currently :)
A properly informed and angry citizenry.
I wish there was a link to a live example. The repository comes with an example but I'd have to check out the repository to see it. Unless there's a trick to loading html files in a repo on Github to be rendered in the browser (I know, security nightmare).
Thank you for the added context.
Sadly, it appears that DUI is treated rather lightly in Florida, it's not just in cases of juveniles.
For example:
[1]Person driving with BAC greater than twice the legal limit kills a pedestrian. They got 1 year house arrest and then probation.
[1]http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/pedestrian-deaths-...
Fiction is so huge and is something that captivates readers of every age. Other genres are more limiting in this respect. Fiction is the genre that appeals to us the most so we decide to focus on just great fiction.
Do you get searched by the TSA even when you're using the US airport as a hub, and not visiting US? Because I was already thinking of avoiding US as a hub if possible, but I wasn't sure if it was necessary or not.
>At no point does the author mention the government and at no point does he mention making every aspect of your life public.

No, but others in this discussion did (mention both) -- a discussion is not constrained by exactly what served to start it, it explores other tangents. Especially in this case, it was inevitable that TFA's advice, while meant for personal use, also had to be considered in relation with the current privacy issues in general.

>"Be the change you want to see in the world" I didn't think anyone actually believe that literally till now. You want everyone to picks and chooses what laws to abide by?

No, I want everyone to fight against injustice and for his principles, instead of self-identifying as an "average Joe" (only concerned with his personal affairs).

>In this case I'm okay with having my right infringed, because I realize that it's not just my world to live in, and we as a society agree on some rules - some of which I don't like.

Perhaps, but there's still a huge part of life, involving perhaps 100% of the population, that's against some law or another. From a 19-yo drinking beer with his friends, to a guy ripping of a DVD using DeCSS, to Kerouac using his drugs and America getting a literary masterpiece out of it. And to millions of gays, for example, having sex besides sodomy being a crime back in the day ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_State... ).

What makes society tolerable is that not all those laws are (or can) be 100% enforced all the time. A total lack of privacy brings any of those "offenses" towards being discoverable and punishable, which is a dystopia in itself.
Don't claim copyright infringement on uploaded video game soundtracks to YouTube (except Square Enix because their Final Fantasy OST still sells big)

Because most video game music is crap, really. Of course, there are exceptions, but nothing that would really sell anyway if they were marketing it.

Don't send DMCA notices to people who remix their content (make mods)

Huh... you haven't heard about Nintendo I guess? They just closed the site of someone who made a Mario clone (a 20+ years old game) in the browser, and they also sued Great Giana Sisters in the 80s because it was too similar to Mario.

Allow unofficial communities to sprout up using their IP's name in the domain name url

I can't remember which site right now, but I clearly remember Sony or other big players making it difficult to use some of their brands as domain names.

It's clearly not as nice an industry as you seem to be considering it.
I haven't done one because a. what are they going to give me that I don't already suspect b. it's another data point for them to use in modeling.

I don't turn on DNT in browsers either but I still run AdBlock and restrict third-party requests by a lot.
I am looking forward work with XFS....how is possible to migrate XFS from ext4 if i want to update RHEL 6.x to RHEL 7....
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6886136

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6887709
"directly from you web browser"
NSA spying on Online Gaming Worlds
That's what happens when you select a president based on a cult of personality combined with a practice of labeling critics as "racists". If the president were still GWB when all this stuff came to light there would be a constant drum beat of news coverage rolling into the next congressional and presidential elections where it would have a huge impact. Instead it'll take months and months of hedging around with the idea that maybe, kinda, sorta, perhaps Obama isn't the second coming and is actually responsible for instituting or retaining a lot of horrible government policies.