skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do the same thing with Firefox if you pass the -ProfileManager argument. This functionality goes back all the way to Netscape: http://www.netfaqs.com/macintosh/mail/Classic/Netscape/4/pro...

It's just been hidden (and there's no need to set up email).
The small states aren't extorting the country, they simply act as the cheapest way to buy Senators for megacorps and rich interests, esp. now with Citizens United court ruling that money==speech.

Why do you think Liz Cheney (with a relative toxic name-recognition but massive political pull and deep pockets) wants to compete against Enzi?

Because it costs much less to nuke the state in advertising, and outright bribes than a big state like CA - and the senator of WY has just as much pull as the senator of CA or TX. There are only ~576k votes in all of WY and if she wins the Republican primary (even smaller than the electorate as a whole), she pretty much wins the race.
I'll believe numbers for 2015-2017 when they arrive. What's the surplus for 2013?
For perspective, California was part of Mexico for all of 10 years, then went thru revolts and independence (republic) then US state. It was part of Spain for many years before that. Just like Louisiana was French before it was a territory and then state.
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Two friends died when I was a student. A guy from the company I was working at died on the Air France flight from Brazil. They were all very young. It's entirely possible this happens to other people I know, or to me.

FWIW, I think it's good and healthy to think about death, perhaps even to think about it often. There used to be a time when people put skulls on their desks to be reminded.
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First, I wouldn't equate those positions with US political parties: consider their views on climate change, for example.

Second, some arguments are about the nature of human nature. If you think it is human nature to give everyone a fair chance, you will conclude that most programmers being male must be because men are generally better at or more interested in programming than are women. If you think it is human nature that there are no great cognitive differences between men and women, at least when it comes to programming, you will conclude that women are being discouraged or otherwise being unfairly held back from becoming programmers.
Hacker News, 2013 - come for the interesting articles, stay for the insane self-righteousness of the commenters.

I'm curious if you're going to reply to the very well written comment by @adventured below.
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Python scales quite fine actually (Disqus and YouTube use it for a majority of core development). It's all about the tech behind the scenes (uWSGI, Tornado, Ngnix, memcache/redis, etc), not the language itself (just as it is with PHP). Try scaling PHP if only using Apache Prefork instead of mod worker + php-fpm or Ngnix + php-fpm and you'll see what I mean.

I have no problem with using either PHP or Python on a particular project, depending on what is involved. I wish PHP threads would show a bit more maturity/pragmatism on both sides of the aisle sometimes.

http://yougov.github.io/pycon/slides/

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/26/7-years-of-youtube...

http://www.slideshare.net/jinaljhaveri/scaling-python-webapp...

http://blog.disqus.com/post/62187806135/scaling-django-to-8-...
It's like an all-inclusive guidebook for how to look down upon others and discredit them internally without any of the messy business of actually communicating with them about "their" issues. Why improve when you can label, isolate, mock, and ostracize?
It is on track to be about $851 million (the fiscal year ends June 30th)
Am I the only one who thinks Matrix can be a reality and answer to all similar questions
Target says 40 million credit cards compromised in data breach
I see it a bit differently myself. All online communities seem to end up the same way, people group together based on shared interests, which tends to lead to a false-consensus bias. Ironically, I think much of reddit has fallen victim to this bias, while simultaneously believing reddit is resistant to these kinds of biases because it is free-speech friendly.

But in actuality, reddit is generally filled with straight, white, English-speaking, college educated, single, 18-25, middle-class males [1] [2]. Reddit sees more of traits, perspectives, problems, etc of these groups and less of others. I see a lot of hostility towards perspectives that come from groups who fall outside the criteria above.

In other words, I see plenty of racists on reddit -- just not non-white racists. In my opinion, this is not looking outside my bubble, it's looking in at a smaller part of my own bubble.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/gzb2w/i_made_a_b...
[2] http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-media-stats/2012-soc...
When I first read this, it stung a bit as I know I've fallen into these roles at some point or another in the past. I came to the comments here expecting to feel even worse about myself, but I was pleasantly surprised to see other people noting that they too have fallen prey to these bad habits. In the end, this has actually made me feel a bit more comfortable with my skillset as a programmer, and I now have some goals to strive towards moving forward with my career.
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The more I see about this the more i'd like them to post pictures of the insides of the engine and the transmission.

Looks nice and all, but I'm gonna call shannanigans on this until I see a gearbox/drivetrain
I wonder if the low limits on the number of databases and tables will be fixed in 1.12.

I've seen issue 1648 closed for 1.12 and issue 97 to be completed. Are these two enough to fix the limits?

Will it be possibly to have, say 100K tables in a single database? In 1000 databases? Is it possible to have 10K databases?

I've read @cofeemug's explanation that a table is a heavyweight object requiring a few megs of disk space. But that's just a few TBs for 100K tables which is perfectly fine for a 32 node cluster.

Also, it would be great of you could make a page like Mongos' "Limits and Thresholds". I understand that you have lots of other things to do but that one is key in making a decision to use Rethink vs other options.
US citizens are taxed on world-wide income, so the benefits of the low-tax environment aren't so much of a factor, since you owe the IRS on whatever you earn anywhere on earth (but for a ~$80k exemption).

Most other countries tax based on where you earn (i.e. earn money while resident abroad => don't have to remit tax on those earnings to your birth-country).

AFAIK, Sivers (smartly) had a lot of his exit proceeds put in a trust, so he may be somewhat tax-agnostic.
The majority of chapters use scikit-learn which is python 3 compatible. So I would imagine it's should be easy to convert the examples
There is at least one company doing this. I sat through a pitch a couple of weeks ago from a company touting that as their primary function. They couldn't explain how or if they dealt with users that don't have static ips, use proxies, are NATed or any other technical issue of course but it was a sales guy with a deck so not too surprising. I've asked my partner that was also on the call, and was actively being solicited, for the name and will update this post if he gets back to me tonight.
The median Fischer Random starting position is considerably more boring than normal chess. The minor pieces are often distant and the rooks and pawns get in the way of everything. This isn't just familiarity speaking; in real chess rook-and-pawn positions with inactive minor pieces are considered extremely boring.

Also, there is no such thing as a "solved problem" in the design of complex systems.
I wear clothes largely for the benefit of others, personally. And because it gets cold.
Alas, it will. Hope is never enough.
>> "I’m going to believe it’s a piece of Seattle history until proven otherwise," said Ann Ferguson, the curator of the Seattle Collection at the Seattle Public Library

It is exactly what my biases would lead me to believe it is, without evidence, unless you go to the effort to prove otherwise.
Yes. I'm in Cambodia currently. We pay the maid $170 a month + food/beverages and I let her borrow the kindle and surface when she wants. It's a pretty kooshy gig for her, helps her support the family, doesnt break the bank for us and makes my life a lot easier.
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Ask PG: What do you think of The Lean Startup?
Do you agree with most of it? All of it?

Is it worth reading for someone who read all of your essays?
Because it's the decent thing to do, and your other employees will appreciate it.
This is disingenuous. RSA used it as a default in a commercial crypto library, as you must know. End users won't generally be aware that it's being used in a product, but that doesn't mean it isn't out there.

It is unlikely that most developers changed the default unless it was having a noticeable impact on performance, which wouldn't be the case if it was just used for key generation.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/rsa-advisory-nsa-al...

> In its advisory, RSA said that all versions of RSA BSAFE Toolkits, including all versions of Crypto-C ME, Micro Edition Suite, Crypto-J, Cert-J, SSL-J, Crypto-C, Cert-C, SSL-C were affected.

> In addition, all versions of RSA Data Protection Manager (DPM) server and clients were affected as well.

> “Every product that we as RSA make, if it has a crypto function, we may or may not ourselves have decided to use this algorithm,” said Sam Curry, chief technical officer for RSA Security. “So we’re also going to go through and make sure that we ourselves follow our own advice and aren’t using this algorithm.”

Here's someone who has dug up a decent amount of real-world products:

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/43164/which-prod...
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I am the only one seeing the paywall?
For me, the non-idiomatic compiled JavaScript and Google's library that's stopping me. Wisp seems like a good solution with it being a Clojure dialect that provides super clean JavaScript that you can work with.
I think the proposed splits recognize this: of the 6, only the northernmost two are horizontal bands; the other frous are east-west splits.

I have a hunch the LA-to-Orange-County split might be awkward, or the meshing of three states in the Contra Costa-Sacramento-San Joaquin area. And though Alameda and Contra Costa might be comfortable with SF-San Mateo-Santa Clara-Santa Cruz-Monterrey-San Benito, they'd hate being in a state called 'Silicon Valley.
1. The article:

http://www.businessinsider.com/11-surprising-things-you-didn...

The apparent incorruptibility of Mormons' moral righteousness make them ideal candidates for the nation's law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Mormons are disproportionately represented in the CIA. A recruiter told the Salt Lake Tribune that returned Mormon missionaries are valued for their foreign language skills, abstinence from drugs and alcohol, and respect for authority.

>See why it's offensive?

Why should I be so sensitive to what offends you when I am simply referring to something someone else wrote?

I can think of far better ways to offend you.
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Science works best when it studies the here and now, the observable. That's the basis for confidence in empiricism, and that's where solid empiricism ends. Belief in a designer motivated many great men of science to understand this marvelous design, Newton himself being one of many. There's an unlimited world to be studied in the present, all with a high degree of confidence because it can be subject to strictly empirical testing. Quantum theory, understanding DNA, figuring out sleep, curing diseases, the list is really infinite.

When science tries to take what it knows in the here-and-now and extrapolate those present-knowns billions of years into the past, that's where confidence should drop. At that point it's trying to take a hard-won confidence in present observations and borrow it for explaining the past. But it's not justified there.

It's like trying to say you could observe a stock for 40 years and extrapolate that tiny slice of price history billions of years into the future -- and then proceed to claim to confidently know not only what the price was at the end of those billions of years, but also the price action along the entire way.
It's s wonder you keep buying Apple kit - my experience has been almost polar opposite - still have a 2003 iBook, 2006 MB with SSD that is decent at browsing, 2008 MB Unibody running Mavericks, 2010 MB Air that's still quite snappy, a 2010 MBP with SSD upgrade running great and a Mac Mini that I just recently donated to a disadvantaged friend after upgrading to SSD.

Only failure I had was a 2004 iMac G5 that died in 2007 - that SOB was heavy, and was not missed. Personally moved to all-laptops after that.
Question: If this were to actually pass in the State of California, would the only thing necessary after that be for the US Congress to accept six new states into the Union?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Four_of_the_United_Sta...
For fresh 2013 Carnegie Mellon CS graduates, mean salary was $94k, median was $100k.

http://www.cmu.edu/career/salaries-and-destinations/2013-sur...
Large TBMs like this generally allow access to what is called the face (the area being excavated) via a double bulkhead system. The ground conditions in Seattle require that the machine be able to control the rate of excavation at all times such that a large sink hole does not form due to uncontrolled loss of ground. This is done by keeping pressure on the face.

The pressures required to keep the face stable are a function of the soil properties, lithology, and groundwater. The typical way for someone to access the face is to pressurize ahead of the machine head with gas and have workers enter under pressure (known as a dive or an intervention). Workers generally are limited in how long they can be under pressure and must go through decompression.

Edit: real quick calculation on my phone puts them at about 70 psi or 4.5 atm of pressure to do a manned intervention, possibly higher for safety

Disclosure: underground tunneling is my profession.
This rant is so bad it makes Charlie Stross' rant seem convincing. And Charlie Stross' rant was really unconvincing.
I appreciate your comment. I just wanted to clear the air and put an end to that assumption. I know there are a few members here that are annoyed that I utilized HN as a means to my end, but it was my last option before contacting lawyers.

I am happy that Brian was able to resolve my case, but it is frustrating to see others dealing with similar issues here.
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> I get it, you're for immigration reform so you think it's a stupid law and you don't care if they break it.

Not at all.

I'm for allowing people to assemble, peacefully protest and have their voice heard.

I'm for not escalating unrelated charges to people trying to do so.

Once you let that happen, you'll very quickly find every single person is breaking some obscure law or other, and every single person will be arrested when they even talk about voting for the other party.
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Gandhi implored the british to not defend their country, their homes, their families, or themselves. It's a stance against self-defense, something that is almost universally considered an acceptable time for violence.
"Subterranean Seattle Drilling Engineers Use This ..."

(wait for it)

"... One Weird Trick ..."

(ah, there it is)

"... To Conquer Ancient Mega Boulder Behemoth"

Yep. That's a headline.
And if you care more about real estate than perfectly smoothing your fonts, still better than pixel-doubled displays.
Unfortunately relevant: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525584/Copywriter-d...

Obviously not a common thing, but it is a scary thought to think it's quite possible to work yourself to death in an office based environment. I'm sure many of us (including myself) can think of similar times in our lives when we worked this hard, heavily intoxicated with the energy poison of your choice, working multiple all nighters in a row. Even when you're young you're not invincible.
Rough estimate: you could get 80% of the value in 1% of the time.
Agreed, but the title should be "Post-mortem of my first talk" or "What I learned from my first talk" rather than "How to give a talk", imho. Otherwise it's just misleading and disrespectful to readers. Maybe I'm oversensitive about these things.
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Well, that's what we tell everybody, but it's really just a bunch of Perl scripts running on an old Sun box hidden in the janitor's closet.
Note that the post was written in 2012, not 2013. Despite not having external binary downloads support anymore, you can now upload binaries with releases. Read more at https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
> How does the employer have less control when he is unilaterally deciding what the formula is and he can stonewall any request to discuss salary by hiding behind that formula?

Once everyone knows the employer is doing that kind of BS, they will go elsewhere, and the employer will be left with no employees.

Employment is not some kind of privilege we should be thankful for. Remember that.
So basically it's as fast as using PHP with an opcode cache?
"God and his punishments" == "bad things that happen, life being unfair" etc.?

I read this as someone trying to give their condolences the best way they know how, according to their beliefs, in a language that is not their native tongue.
If you don't have anything to say, why even reply?
> On the other hand, California gains an enormous amount of power every four years due to the huge number of electoral college votes it commands.

You mean, loses power because of the combination of its low number of electoral votes per voter and non-swing status, which makes it a very low priority in Presidential elections, as effort expended in California is low return on investment.
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In Seattle, you can get similar money and rent is cheaper.
Lance Armstrong? I drink 64oz of Diet Pepsi every one-and-a-half to two hours. Normally, I stay awake 32 hours and sleep 16. At the moment, I'm kinda depressed and sleep because nothing keeps me awake. God makes my back have horrible pain if I sleep too much. It hurts.

What do You want to do, God? I just browse the Internet and talk with God all day. Sigh. Depressing.

God says...
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not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer petty hi fabulous
now_you_tell_me hotel fer_sure talk_to_my_lawyer drama
do_I_have_to ahh arrogant I_don't_care well_golly why_do_I_put_up_with_this
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After your $97,600 foreign-earned income exclusion (2013), you can at least deduct the taxes you pay to another foreign government. I don't even bother with the FEIE anymore, I just deduct my higher Chinese taxes. But to each his own.
"Happiness hero"! I can't think of anything more cheesy. Seriously.
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Interesting. The "doping" attack seems to be aimed specifically at random number generating circuits. Presumably such attacks could be definitively detected by using the RNG to generate a long sequence and checking that the distribution of probabilities is as expected [1]? Is my understanding correct?

[1] http://www.johndcook.com/Beautiful_Testing_ch10.pdf
> The Senators aren't supposed to represent the people

Yes, they are. That's why they are directly elected.

> they are supposed to represent the State's interests

They were supposed to, originally.

> (though that seems to have been forgotten)

No, it was reconsidered and the design changed.
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Oh yes I so agree! These guys are a key mechanism for how a simple program that used to read a csv file ended up depending on a multi-site replicated database managed by an external team of DBAs, burdened with a 6 month release cycle. Rallying cry: "but that's not fault tolerant!"
"By meditating on death, we can experience the shock of being alive." -- Stephen Batchelor
IMHO, Reddit is just too big a community, there's no shared interest. Just too many people. I'm speaking about large subreddits like the one discussed here, /politics, etc.

Also, there's no problem "seeing" plenty of racists on Reddit or whereever, but I was talking real life.
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Calling each and every criticism of the language you like as "frothing hatred" (as I've seen PHP folks do quite a lot lately) reeks of cognitive dissonance. Perhaps you should get over it.

Also, the end users of a programming language are the programmers, not the users of the application. 99% of users could not care less what's under the hood just as long as it works.
Twitter + self deleting posts= amazing freedom and privacy
I am really confused and frustrated. I sent my first ever BUY through Coinbase. I got my checking all set up. Made my purchase on 12-16-2013(an earth shattering .12 coins $100 bucks) No biggie. On 12-17-2013 the US funds left my bank account and off to coinbase. Alas... All I need to do is wait now until the 20th to spend my now 30 dollar loss due to market. Well here it is. The 20th of December somewhere in the world so I go to look at my account and there are no coins. Further inspection of this I find my transaction was canceled. No explanation. Just a big red canceled. Wheres my money now? I really want to be an advocate and intend to move WAY more than $100.00 into the bitcoin market place but seriously? Just a hundred dollar transaction that made one of their customers slightly irritated? Im glad I DIDN'T trust them with serious cash like the originator of this post!
Come on... GUYS! Don't take the fun out of all this! Figure it out! (Because if its not fun... It certainly wont be VIABLE!)
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Has anybody outside of the company ever used one of these? They've only just launched preorders, and they haven't even shipped out developer prototypes yet.
Or "Shrub". God bless you Molly Ivans.
I like these guys - they are totally unfit for programmers but make awesome admins.
COINBASE Crap Can you say you need to communicate?
I am really confused and frustrated. I sent my first ever BUY through Coinbase. I got my checking all set up. Made my purchase on 12-16-2013(an earth shattering .12 coins $100 bucks) No biggie. On 12-17-2013 the US funds left my bank account and off to coinbase. Alas... All I need to do is wait now until the 20th to spend my now 30 dollar loss due to market. Well here it is. The 20th of December somewhere in the world so I go to look at my account and there are no coins. Further inspection of this I find my transaction was canceled. No explanation. Just a big red canceled. Wheres my money now? I really want to be an advocate and intend to move WAY more than $100.00 into the bitcoin market place but seriously? Just a hundred dollar transaction that made one of their customers slightly irritated? Im glad I DIDN'T trust them with serious cash like the person who this happened to with $35,000.00 last week!
Come on... GUYS! Don't take the fun out of all this! Figure it out! (Because if its not fun... It certainly wont be VIABLE!)
I think a lot of these 'eliminate the boss' people ought to read The Tyranny of Structurelessness (http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm). It's an article whose basic premise is that if you eliminate explicit hierarchies, social groups will tend to instead develop implicit ones, which are more difficult to challenge because they ostensibly don't exist.
You can certainly delete the webcam from T-series Thinkpads, which also have hardware switches for the wireless network. No ability to delete the microphone, alas.