skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're being unfair and you know it. Lavabit, the RSA fiasco, Apple's imessage crypto, etc. are all perfectly mainstream examples of closed-source crypto done wrong. As you said yourself, the only thing that conclusively makes a difference is if the crypto is "well vetted," having the source available is simply a means of making this easier. Classifying the quality of crypto-implementations based on the source model alone ("The track record of open source cryptography is bad.")is just disingenuous.
I read the phrase "modern slaves" as an accurate description for a sadly large number of sex workers worldwide.

See http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hookers-in-the-holy-land-an-u... for an example of something that qualifies for that description.
> We are sick of the fed and banks inflating money.

Actually, I quite like it. It has advantages like stabilising the economy and encouraging investment. I've never heard a serious economist suggest that moderate inflation is anything but good for the economy, and I've heard plenty tell me why deflation is dangerous.

Inflation is important because economics is all about creating incentives. We have property rights because it gives people an incentive to work hard and takes risks. We have patents because they give people an incentive to explain how their invention works. We have a market economy because it means that if a company wants to gain market share, it has to create value for the consumer. In the same way, central banks try to maintain low levels of inflation (~3%) because it encourages people to invest their money in profitable ventures, rather than just leaving it under the mattress. Investment is the way wealth is created, so it should be pretty obvious that deflation is bad for the economy.

Notice that I'm talking about the economic health of the country, not the individual citizen. If you're only concerned about immediate short term benefits, you should push for zero taxes, high deflation, and the gold standard. But that's penny wise and pound foolish. You're shooting yourself in the foot. Better by far is to support actions which improve the economy, because a rising tide lifts all boats.
The TextSecure server never has access to message bodies. However, the government could force the server admins to provide timestamps and metadata for all messages. The TextSecure server knows who* and when you talk to someone, but not the contents of the conversation.

* The who in this case is a hash of the recipient's phone number. I'm not sure how difficult it is to turn this value into a real phone number.
So the gist of this is:

"I found a recent post in a fairly inactive subreddit and downvoted it, bringing its total vote score negative. Sure enough, that post not only dropped off the first page (a first page which contained month-old submissions), but it was effectively banished from the “Hot” ranking entirely. I felt bad and removed my downvote, but that post never really recovered...

While testing, I noticed a number of odd phenomena surounding Reddit’s vote scores. Scores would often fluctuate each time I refreshed the page, even on old posts in low-activity subreddits. I suspect they have something more going on, perhaps at the infrastructure level – a load balancer, perhaps, or caching issues."

This is partially due to vote fuzzing. More to the point, votes go into a queue and the removal of the downvote might not cancel out the previous action for some time.

As a result, this suggested flaw will supposedly let somebody successfully snipe puffins from the new page of a small sized birdwatching subreddit before they ever get a fair shake. I think if somebody would attempt this sort of manipulation further they would find it an ineffective strategy, there have been (probably constantly are) attempts to game Reddit before and this seems like an excellent honeypot.

Beyond the narrow set of circumstances during a very small time window the flaw disappears, yet if you try to abuse this you'll stick out like a sore thumb.

The true horror expressed in the OP is that the ordering of posts in the purgatory is not strictly logical - the post ranked 10042 should really be ranked 10041. Gasp. Twitch.

This is a very lovable brand of OCD to my eyes. :)
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To summarize quickly for those that didn't read the article, this focuses mostly on the new "clustering" aspect not on the "classic" single Redis server (if you wish).

I think it is important to be honest with the users and make it clear how and what happens behind the scenes, how data could be lost. And Salvatore has done most of this, maybe just make it a bit more explicit, as there still seems to be some confusion around.

All this is in light of 2 things -- 1) With the popularity and amount of talks and churn around distributed systems these days, people sort of expect a point on the map in the CAP triangle. So just saying we kind of do this and we provide some C, a little A and a dash HA was probably ok 5 years ago, now it needs a bit more definition, 2) In light of other database systems misleading users about what it could provides (you know which one I am talking about) and having resulted in lost data, there is a bit of apprehension and a higher bar that needs to be met in order for a db product to be accepted.

One good thing that came out recently is NoSQL database writers/vendors pushing for more rigorous tests. Tests that run for weeks and months. Consistency tests, network partition tests as run by Aphyr. It is a very good idea those things are talked about and defined better.
Good startup founders are continously hiring once their product has some market acceptance. When a really good candidate shows up, they snatch them up, regardless of whether they have an immediate need or plan. This is why many startups that are "not hiring" technically are, they're just waiting for the right candidate to show up.

Only problem is that like any Poisson process, your good hires will not be evenly distributed. Sometimes you'll get bursts and sometimes there will be long dry spells.
Thanks to all of you :)
It means they will control the root nameservers. They have the ability to choose who gets it and to what. In theory, they have no obligation to charge anyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge%E2%80%93response_spam...

Further reading if anyone is interested in challenge-response systems.
Agreed — if anything, this just emphasizes how secondary are speed and design if your content is good.

That said, I like both the new and old designs, and as someone who's spent a lot of time on MDN recently, I've personally never noticed it to be slow.
This case was actually embarrassingly simple -- a keyboard macro script. Arrow down, tab, ctrl-a, ctrl-c, alt-tab, ctrl-v, alt-tab, tab, repeat. I had never written such a script before, I just saw her hand motions were repetitive and figured it could be automated. Time spent was 1 minute looking at the keys entered, 15 minutes searching how to send keystrokes, and a few minutes deploying.

If admin people had some familiarity with coding and such, they'd be more quick to realise "wait, I'm acting like a mindless robot - this has to be scriptable somehow". Yet I've seen this kind of manual repetition (copying parts of an Excel sheet, concatenating files, etc.) plenty of times. It's often surprising to the admin people that some things are automatable, and some things are so obvious to programmers, that sometimes neither side realises there's a problem that can be fixed.
Yes, speculation is useless. Remove the speculation and let drivers know that any incident will be recorded then everyone will stay away from cyclists.
So is SquareOne supposed to replace my email, or work alongside it?
There's a difference between being coerced to have sex with someone that you don't want to have sex with and doing photocopying.
The very fact that such a a place like SF has such a high cost of living is the problem.
I recently just came back from Tokyo, truly a world class city with multiple times the population density of SF and the highest city GDP in the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP
You know what? Cost of living there is actually CHEAPER than here, food, transportation, hell, even housing is cheaper than the joke that is SF.
>In the U.S., lots of tax advantaged accounts have withdrawal penalties.

What's the penalty?

Lots of people think that of tax-free retirement savings (and people keep warning me of it) but in fact, the only penalty I've ever heard of is you must pay tax on that money along with other income.. so if you do it in a regular earning year, you pay lots of income tax. Do it in a year when you earn nothing else, and you pay none or very little. That's not a penalty
Not sure I agree that this is a narrative for raising taxes... if being "rich" is so transitory, it's harder to vilify "the rich" as some permanent class deserving of limitless soaking.
Reddit is designed for SEO gaming.

The point is to have your bots/friends downvote everything but your submission.

It works every time.
I wouldn't use the term "error" because some people might take that to mean there was a way to avoid these problems.

over-constraining your model space means having too few parameters in your model But fixing your data size, the "power" of your search goes down when you increase the number of parameters.

So it is no so much an issue of avoiding errors, but of choosing the right number of parameters for your model.
I hate to say it, but I think the overwhelming majority of consumers don't care whether their money supply is manipulated by the fed and banks or not. They might dislike the long-terms negative effects of it on the economy (if you believe such effects are caused by a non-limited money supply), but they don't blame them on that.

What people who are not bitcoin enthusiasts want, and might go for, is a currency that is easy, cheap, and looks safe. Credit cards without all the hassle. Payments without all the overhead cost. Transfers without waiting several days. International transfers without all red tape and fees.

Bitcoin provides these things, but with a few major (albeit hopefully transient) flaws: it's a pain in the ass to get bitcoins, they don't feel safe to most people, and they're super-volatile.

If a bank comes along and creates a centralized digital currency, it could deliver everything that the average person might like about bitcoin (ease-of-use, lack of overhead, etc) without the current growing pains of bitcoin. It won't have the things we techies like (a solid crypotographic foundation, limited money supply, decentralization, etc), but it'll gain adoption much faster because most people don't care about that.
"How is any of that Facebooks fault?"

As repeated by resonator several posts up.
Politicians putting their kids in private schools is hypocritical because they are in charge of the public education system. Google has no responsibility whatsoever for the public transportation system and would probably prefer one (since they wouldn't have to pay for and deal with their private bus system.)

Your argument applies to anyone who has ever solved any problem for themselves rather than the common good.
If my post came across as a generic "men's rights" post, rather than a direct response to the parent, then I didn't do a good enough job of tying it together.

Western culture's hypersensitivity toward women's issues, combined with its blindness toward men's issues, create an environment in which it's socially acceptable (even socially rewarded) to propose draconian measures that further throw young men under the bus that's carrying young women.

We should aim to help people who are suffering in society, rather than aim to help people with vaginas. And we absolutely shouldn't continue obsessing about leveling evening every single predominately male field without doing something to help the young men who are increasingly being left behind.
Some pro-gun organizations were supportive of the bill, including the NSSF (a lobby group of gun retailers and gun manufacturers ... not hard to see why they were pro the bill).

Ultimately, the bill would have significantly increased manufacturing costs, banned many existing products and have done absolutely nothing for national security.

Guns require metal parts. A gun with a polymer barrel is at worst a very inaccurate single shot device, more likely it is a hand grenade.

Currently manufacturers of polymer framed guns dope the polymer with a substance (I forget what it is) that makes them visible in xray scanners.
That's one of the very few messages Obama has made that I agree with.
So -10 is higher than -5 now?
Link bait. This is about as much a Bitcoin competitor as Paypal is.
I've always been bothered by what I call this 'life-perspective problem", and of course, I'm always bothered more when something horrible like this happens. (The preceding statement has its own problem buried in it- because something horrible is always happening, at every second.)

I've spoken about it in other forms- "procrastination should be solved by lighting fires, not filling buckets" and so on. There is powerful emotional energy to be harnessed, but a lot of us (maybe just me, but clearly others too) have no idea how to manipulate it effectively, so we typically go without it. When we do get a flash of inspiration, the energy needs to go into a system where it generates something lasting- otherwise we just get the one-off blogpost or product that doesn't go anywhere. We get tired and everyday life dehumanizes us again.

It's the same central idea: Can we modify our circumstances and environment such that they remind us of the things that matter, in a way that disrupts us from settling into sub-optimal comfort zones?

I used to think that maybe this was a self-indulgent problem that I had, simply romanticizing the moping around, but clearly it afflicts even highly productive and accomplished persons like Mr. Sivers. Clearly this is a broader human problem- our inability to contextualize things, to see the bigger broader picture except when it's too late, or when we're unexpectedly inspired.

Is meditation the solution? I think meditation is a practice that encourages the broadening of perspective, but I'm sure there are other ways to reach the same destination- I'm sure we could design for it into our media, into our daily lives.

There is some very meaningful work to be done in this "perspective/reminder" space, but I don't know what exactly, and I don't know how to do it. But I'd like to get involved in it somehow, someday, before it's too late.

I hope this is helpful to someone. Thanks for sharing, and thanks for reading.
In order to make it tractable, you pick a finite model space, train it on finite data, and use a finite algorithm to find the best choice inside of that space. That means you can fail in three ways---you can over-constrain your model space so that the true model cannot be found, you can underpower your search so that you have less an ability to discern the best model in your chosen model space, and you can terminate your search early and fail to reach that point entirely.

It seems like you can "mis-power" your model also.

For example, the Ptolemaic system could approximate the movement of the planets to any degree if you added enough "wheels within wheels" but since these were "the wrong wheels", the necessary wheels grew without bounds to achieve reasonable approximation over time.
Maybe this flaw is, through some strange and circuitous social mechanism, the precise thing that has made Reddit so popular in the first place.
Exactly, the people who are against building new housing are the people who already own houses, and there is obvious "I've got mine, so fuck you" attitude at work here. It's wonderful for them that the housing price gets artificially inflated and they can then rent out their 2 bedroom small condo for $5k a month.
Sounds like an easy way for University to use an incentive to encourage more people into a degree path that might yield dividends for them, and move people away from majors that don't lead into employment.
Those GTLDs are applied by Google[1], so Google have full control on them.
[1] https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applications...
It's a problem when only a very privileged minority have access to a vital service.
Very interesting writeup because I see shades of that in my own personality. So how are you overcoming this?
Medical software. :(

And yeah, that's an option that I've considered it in the past, but never been able to validate it because it'd take me less time to just transcribe it (or I can find a glob pattern from their screenshot, etc.).
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Not helping.
I agree that traveling more or less is a difference in degree not kind. But 'chongli suggested forgoing having kids so you can save money and travel. That's a difference in kind, and it's a prole sort of thing to do. At least assuming you'd otherwise have kids if you had more money.
There's a Reddit thread between various users and keltranis, (one of the more senior coders Reddit ever had) explaining the code here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/td4tz/reddits_a...

And a quotation for those not wanting to click:

*ProfDrMorph* 2 points 1 year ago
So that means all posts in all subreddits (when browsing
'hot') are sorted this way:
1. all posts with more upvotes than downvotes with the
order determined by age (newer posts are preferred) and
popularity
2. all posts with the same number of up- and downvotes in
whatever order the database returns them
3. all posts with less upvotes than downvotes with the
order determined by age (older posts are preferred) and
popularity (posts with a lot more downvotes are preferred)
Because that's what the _hot() function implies if the
sorting algorithm uses it as a 'key'.

*ketralnis* 2 points 1 year ago
Yes that's accurate
Conspiracy theorists really drive me nuts for so many reasons. We invaded Iraq after spending months trumpeting it in the press and the perpretators used it as a plank in elections. The worst crimes are just not secret. They do it in our faces and there are many, many people who think it's great. A secret trade deal may let companies sue for something or other in foreign countries? There are people getting elected on a platform of denying evolution and climate change!
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What the hell?

> “There’s no way that (sexual assault) will not happen,” assistant city attorney Jennifer Zilavy said. “No offense to men, but I don’t know any man who wants to just snuggle.”
So how do I control a root nameserver for a TLD?
I don't buy it.

Commuting by company bus rather than private car or public transit doesn't somehow make a person unaware of the world around them. If anything, I'd wager that the average Google Bus passenger is more attuned to the sorry state of public transit in this city than the average city resident, since not driving to work often goes hand-in-hand with not owning a car.

And no one's experience of the city is "a seamless parade of hip restaurants and privately funded transportation." Regardless of where they work, people who live in the city spend time here. We walk around the neighborhoods, shop at the grocery stores, and play with our dogs (or watch people play with theirs) in the park. We're also aware of the less pleasant aspects of the city: we step over the poop on the sidewalk, we hear the gunshots, our stuff gets stolen. The only aspect of urban life that shuttle commuters are relatively immune from is the snarl of rush hour traffic, but on that front, they're part of the solution more than they're part of the problem.

(And regarding the specific incident in the article that set the writer off, I don't doubt that there are people on the Google bus who push past people as they disembark. But stand next to a Muni bus as it's disgorging passengers, and you'll see the same thing. A significant chunk of the SF population, rich and poor alike, has zero regard for anyone else standing near them.)

The resentment isn't about the "technology industry's lack of civic and community engagement." It's about the rich displacing everyone else. There are more people who want to live in the city than there is housing, so no matter what schemes are in place to assist low income residents, incumbent residents, or people in particular fields, someone will be squeezed out. The rich squeeze out everyone else with their wallet, so some people feel it's appropriate to try and squeeze out the rich by making their lives unpleasant.
> In the same way, central banks try to maintain low levels of inflation (~3%)

You must be joking. The way the inflation is officially calculated is totally biased (they don't even take in account energy costs properly) and 3% is basically the best number they can get by tweaking it like crazy. The actual inflation is way higher.
> At the end of the month, after taxes and FICA and health insurance and Medicare and retirement are withheld, and after paying for housing, food, transportation, insurance, utilities, sundry expenses, and student loans--there's not a whole lot of that $100K/12 left!

You're an ignorant idiot.

Hundreds of millions of your countrymen would give anything to be able to pay for the things you're paying for, and you have money left over!

Open your eyes man, millions of people are struggling to survive around you.

You summed up everything that's wrong in one little post.
Uncanny Valley doesn't really happen with AI on the internet.

People are already used to people saying and doing dumb things online, so something that is nearly "smart human like" is a big advance (on average).
Depends how you count. Per mile, cycling is safer than walking. http://road.cc/content/news/68212-dft-casualty-statistics-ra...
Terrorism is pretty scary stuff, it's intended to be scary.

I'm not scared of acts of terrorism. I am much more concerned about vehicles killing cyclists and, really, the brain dead response the non terrorists will/have had when it comes to terrorism, like taking away our freedoms, wasting my tax dollars, and general stupid panic.
I can imagine many scenarios where a single shot is entirely sufficient, such as assassinations and airplane hijacking.
More that if the first vote a submission gets is negative it can't recover and vanishes.
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No they aren't. It's a shame.
The bill was passed, and the amendment was introduced just before the bill was to be voted on. Passing that amendment could have put the law in jeopardy of not passing as there was already the clean bill from the House. Schumer should have introduced that amendment weeks ago. He and Grassley have agreed to address that problem later, together.

It is important to note that the bill as passed does make it illegal to have an undetectable firearm, so a firearm with a removeable metal pin is still illegal. Schumer's amendment really only adds an additional crime--which is certainly a good thing but.
Good synopsis. Check out the discussion on Reddit itself:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1si31j/reddits_...
I'm an avid reader of your blog, and though I would agree much of your content can be ultimately summed down to "unoriginal, but important" content, it's you sharing your own experience & perspective that makes it meaningful. Same reasons facts don't persuade as well as stories.

Sad & happy to hear you will continue to crank out words.
I don;t think anyone really cares how submissions are ranked once they are obviously net negative. The concern is for the first few votes; a submissions should not be effectively discarded because the first person to look at it did not like it.
I didn't know this. Thanks for elaborating. I always enjoyed Germany, but I liked France too.
http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/sean-par...

How dare he donate millions of dollars to conserve and restore Big Sur.
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