skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I am describing is a situation in which you have and want to maintain high amounts of granular data that can be queried for specific ranges with varying amounts of detail.

For example look at something like Google Analytics. As simple as page views with timestamps. If you have high traffic data, you can be writing to your database quite a bit. You could bucket that data per second per unique viewer. Then in your YUI you can select to see a line graph with varying degrees of detail. Per hour, per day, per month, per year.

No way would I want to store this in an SQL database. The processing that happens later are the per time period rollups. Creating buckets of minutes, days, etc per user. This can be done when asked for and cached (slow experience for the user), or scheduled and persisted (expensive - consumes more space). Again I would not want to store this in SQL. All the while I maintain my raw data for further processing later.

These kinds of solutions are great for monitoring data, tracking, any kind of high volume, real time statistical data.
Living on the street where this took place (albeit over 50 blocks away), this is definitely not the case in Oakland. New housing generally replaces really poorly constructed old housing that has fallen into dilapidation.

"Improving" the houses in a neighborhood almost always increases the value of other houses in the area.

Whether this creates a class disadvantage through displacement or a reduction of affordable housing is another issue, but blaming conservative property owners is not an accurate motivation. The transfer taxes[1] on housing turnover supplied a great portion of Oakland's revenue during the bubble. Given that Oakland has a weak retail (and therefore, sales tax) market, it really needs real estate to pick up.

[1] http://www.acgov.org/auditor/clerk/transfertax.htm
BTW the original title was about how the example was amusing, even going so far as to call it a "masterpiece".

I don't think the OP meant to recommend this as actual advice for creating a press release.
Index would become bigger than ram. Removing old data would be more difficult. They likely only use todays data. This is probably a trading data system of some kind.
So... any bank website is also 'random'?
Wait she woke up to someone in her bedroom with night vision goggles on? Did she tell them to GTFO?
Perhaps the mechanic is not a servant because he's performing a skilled trade for multiple people.
The numbers in this article don't make sense. The article complains that servants in India receive earn $64-161/month (4-10,000 rs/month). India's median income is only 53,000rs/year. So according to the article, the average servant in India is earning between 1x and 2.5x the median income.

(These numbers are skewed a bit due to the rural/urban divide.)

I have no idea what is "exploitative" about this. The article talks about paying Indian servants low wages by "any objective standard", which I assume means US standards. This is true but silly - it's not just the servants with low income, even the masters are dirt poor by US standards.

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServ...

http://dipeco.uniroma3.it/public/WP%20163%20Liberati%202012....
If I were at Goldman et al. I would expect Bloomberg to treat employees that successfully use underhanded tactics, as business as usual, the same way I would probably have seen such employees (and maybe myself) treated by my own organization: "Job well done boys, but you better cool it for awhile. BWA ha ha ha! Have a cigar and a hooker."
He obviously speaks german now quite fluently

How do you know he wasn't interviewed in English and his answers translated?
> I'm curious though, where does the concept of "servant" actually end? Is my mechanic a servant? Or is he not because I go to his place for him to do the work instead of having him come to mine?

A mechanic is a specialist. You likely can't repair your car so you have to purchase that service. Servants are just a plain time-to-money arbitrage. A maid isn't significantly better at vacuuming than you are, so you are just trading a surplus of your money for more free time.

And yes it is exploitative in that it puts a much higher value on your time than on your servants. Suppose a maid saves you 1 hour/week in household chores which you then use for working, earning you $X. But you only pay your maid $Y, a value likely much smaller than $X. The difference between the values is how much your maid has saved you by doing household chores for you.
According to the story, servants only earn about $64 to $161 per month, which is too little. Author also opines that if someone cannot afford to pay more for domestic help then they shouldn't have domestic help.

That's easy to say. That's like saying it is better to starve than work for $64 to $161 per month. If that's the most the employer can afford to pay you, why wouldn't you take it, as opposed to starving?

Indian salaries are low across the board. A school teacher may get paid around $320 per month. If that school teacher wants to hire domestic help for $160 per month, and the alternative for the would-be servant is starvation, what's wrong with taking that job? What's wrong with the school teacher hiring that help?
No, not at all. I hope I did not sound like I was upset. I was just trying to convey that it may seem easy when you see the answer, but it was a bit tricky to find the answer.
I've noticed this tendency to abuse the crap out of the Air Stewards on-board Singapore Airlines from indians.
Not a single occurrence, but several times on several flights.
> It's not paranoia when it's actually happening.

Totally agreed there: There's no level of security policy measures that would make this guy paranoid.
In the US, when I go to a restaurant, I am being 'served', but after the waiter gets off work he's a full and equal neighbor of mine under both law and custom.

That's definitely true. An interesting cultural difference even further in that direction, that I noticed as an American who moved to Denmark, is that in Scandinavia the equality extends even into the restaurant. I'm not really being "served" at a restaurant, but rather the expectation is that we're interacting in a professional setting as equals. Perhaps partly due to culture, partly due to the lack of tipping, and partly due to the fact that the waiter likely has the same socioeconomic position as their customers, there isn't really an obsequious service-oriented relationship, and it's definitely not the case that the customer is always right. It's more like, their job is to take care of business at the restaurant, and they'll aim to do it well but expect respectful treatment in return, like any other professional employee in any other job.

(It's possible things are different at really high-end places that aim to impress international customers, like the $200/plate restaurants and $500/night hotels, but I don't have any personal experience patronizing such establishments.)
Seliger makes strong claims about 'fallacies' in the book, but supports them only by his opinions on what's true and what's not. Example: he's trying to persuade us that global warming introduces a risk of a sudden catastrophe, and it's easy to prevent that. The reality is quite opposite: there's nothing sudden in the warming process (we're discussing it for 20 years and still some people deny it exists), and there is no easy way of preventing it.
> He obviously speaks german now quite fluently

I don't think so, it's probably a translation of an interview conducted in English. Based on what I've seen of him in videos just a couple months ago, he's learning a bit (he did use and mispronounce the word Zersetzung), but probably nowhere near fluency by now.

He applied for a residence permit, but I'm not sure if he has it yet. It's kind of interesting that he and Laura Poitras and a few others have all wound up in Berlin. Obviously it's no perfect sanctuary, but it's probably still one of the safest places to be for people doing this kind of work.
Stephen Fry put it better than I could:

It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?'
> Last week, I watched with bewilderment as India’s most vociferous talk show host, Arnab Goswami, repeatedly asked his guests if they expected an Indian diplomat who is paid $4,180 a month to pay her domestic servant $4,500 a month. Meanwhile an American guest, Lisa Curtis, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, tried to make a point: “If somebody cannot afford to have domestic help, then they don’t have domestic help.”

I am not sure where the figure of $4,500 is coming from. $9.50/h * 60 hours * 4 weeks is $2,280/month. I am using 60 hours a week rather then 40, considering that servants probably work longer hours. The US law was clearly broken in this case because the servant was not part of the diplomatic staff and was brought to this country under false pretenses.

However, to all of you who are now screaming for equality, please remember that in India the solution of "if you can't afford to pay your servant well, you should not have one" is NOT a solution. The simple fact is, there are a lot of middle (and lower middle) class people in India who can not (or will not) pay their servants more than they already do. If the laws pass that require servants to be paid more, some servants will be lucky enough to make more money as a result, others will starve to death because they will go from making $64/month to nothing at all. Unless you first address the issue of people willing to work for such a low wage, because they have no other options, you will only cause further misery.
I reacted strongly to the same point.

It's a completely unfair test, they should have tested only Anti-virus software from 2011 if it would be fair - then i'd guess most softwares would perform just as bad or even worse.

The whole test is biased FUD against Microsoft.
Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but the emphasis on certain languages and frameworks for "rapid prototyping" strikes me as short-sighted.

Sure, if you learn them well, you can build a proof of concept quickly. But unless you currently do everything in C... shouldn't you already be able to do this with whatever technology/ies you're already the most proficient with?
I don't think it's as easy as it seems. Besides being a tough sell politically it's hard to say that an infected person can no longer work anywhere. It's also not clear how to avoid having the system gamed: How do you prove you are actually a sex worker? How do you prove you were a sex worker when you got infected?

Can society even afford to pay to put all of those people on disability for life (and pay for their healthcare)?
It's worth remembering that a large portion of blue-collar criminals are arrested for possession of, say, a small amount of marijuana. There's a big difference between mugging someone and lighting a joint.
Being violent is not a choice, you are just forced to be violent by circumstances. /s
I believe you need to buy the identity cert first ($60/year) and then the org cert ($60/year), so more like $120 a year if you want the org cert, but still a good deal.
HTTPS means PG-13 in the UK's network filter?
Ideally, I think something like this is good, but for prototyping, I think $httpBackend is a good solution. I'm on a mid-sized project currently where I implemented a mock backend with $httpBackend, and use a fetch node script to pull all of the json we want from our daily build for development locally. When we need to compile our assets and prepare it for deploys for testing on the daily server, we have a nice grunt script to do that and test things out on the daily build.

When a frontend dev is rapidly building out features though, he/she shouldn't be concerned with the performance of the backend - having a full stack dev server to accompany a mock backend for local development or some sort of local solution is ideal.
That makes no sense at all, it would mean that they want to be safe from someone physically accessing the computer and no matter what anti-virus/malware you have there is nothing that protects against that.

The alternative - surfing the net without any updates, why the hell would someone even do that?
Your best bet is to find out what books high school US history classes use and read those.
My understanding is that they were outside the bedroom window and she, terrified, tried to pretend she was still sleeping until they left.
"under no circumstances does RSA bla bla ..."

"Does." Present tense. Doesn't say anything about what happened in the past. Maybe their contract even included NSA services to launder language to be plausibly deniable, since that has also emerged as one of the NSA's core competencies.
I think, to say that they don't belong in the same prison together, would require a certain acceptance of the current state of things as "natural". One would have to accept that the violent conditions of maximum security prisons are an unavoidable situation. And one would also have to accept that even minimum security prison is as equal deterrent to crime as maximum security prison.

Given what we know about prison guard misconduct and how countries like Norway handle their most violent offenders, I don't think it is the case that prison has to be terrible, violent, places. In every case I've ever heard of, compassion and rehabilitation for criminals of all types is the best way to reduce recidivism. Punishment turns out to not be that much of a deterrent for desperate people who think they screwed either way.

And given that minimum security federal penitentiaries have the nickname "Club Fed", it would seem that they don't serve as a very significant deterrent.

The full, correct answer is that the entire prison industrial complex needs to be torn down and rebuilt. Unfortunately, there is too much money in it for that to happen anytime soon in America.
So, do you call the hotels/restaurants and try to sell banners/ads?
The problem with doing freelance PHP work is that there is a lot of competition unless you specialize. Pay tends to be lower for PHP generalists too. If you become very good at something specific like one of the frameworks you mentioned you're much better off.
Don't forget to disable TLS compression and HTTP compression for pages containing session ids or CSRF tokens.

Basically you need a cookie-less HTTPS subdomain for your static media, and a www.example.com HTTPS domain for your content.
installed via pip, made a runserver.py like suggested as quick start. Result on /admin:

AttributeError
AttributeError: 'Flask' object has no attribute 'endpoint_classes'
There's also the Google SEO Stater Guide https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35291?hl=en
tl;dr liberal intellectual claims criticism about liberal intellectuals and their friends are invalid.
It's not. The US naval research lab still helps develop it.
Think of it this way: You use your favorite social site, interact with friends, colleagues, acquaintances, or family members through it, and to a large extent it determines what interactions happen between you. Somebody saw how people previously interacted and how (or where) they wanted them to interact, came up with this system, and promoted it until it became popular. Things we've taken for granted at various points in history--moral systems, religions, monarchy, democracy, the nuclear family--were invented in the same way, by people who saw the system as an object to be manipulated, rather than reality itself.
The F/A-18 has an old airframe, and is outclassed by every modern Russian and European plane... The only reason any of them sell is the US' political clout.
I was a regular reader of BYTE magazine and Creative Computing. Nibble, not so much since I did not have Apple II class PCs.
I believe that the TV series you refer to was Whiz_Kids:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_%28TV_series%29
I bought cheap, catastrophic health insurance during my past year of funemployment. I eventually got a letter that the plan would not be offered in the future because it does not meet all provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Personally, it doesn't matter because I've got insurance through a job again, but it struck me as funny (or sad) that the law was strangling the cheapest plans. I have friends who are basically going without insurance now because the cheap bare-bone plans are drying up.
haha impressively well
Quick question,
I'm in the same middle class, and am self employed.
I'm thinking of not having an insurance at all, and if I get really sick long term, I'll switch to an Obama care insurance. Is this something possible ? (now that they can't check for preexisting conditions). Or will I get screwed somehow.

I'm 26 so I went to the doctor maybe twice in 6 years, I only want coverage in case of emergency.

PS: I can pay 5000$ out of pocket if needed.
Stellated rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb
I use HxD (http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/); it's freeware and doesn't suck.

(Previously I used XVI32 (http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.h...) and frhed (http://frhed.sourceforge.net/en/), which are both usable. They both have somewhat non-standard UI though.
i don't see the problem. crime -> prison. it seems classist to me to not throw them all into the same place
It doesn't say he said he thinks they were looking for the Snowden documents, does it. Why wouldn't the USG be interested in what he might have on his computer? You think it's more likely that Iran or some drug cartel is behind stuff like, uhh, hiring 2 German speaking women to pretend they received keys to his apartment, etc.? GMAFB indeed.
Sending Email with Laravel, SendGrid, Beanstalkd and Go
Low average income, but extremely low median income. There's nothing obvious or inevitable about that.
Alternatively -

int send_fd(int conn, int fd_to_send)
{
struct msghdr msg = { 0 };
struct cmsghdr * hdr;
char buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))];

msg.msg_control = buf;
msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(buf);

hdr = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg);
hdr->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int));
hdr->cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET;
hdr->cmsg_type = SCM_RIGHTS;
*(int*)CMSG_DATA(hdr) = fd_to_send;

return sendmsg(conn, &msg, 0);
}

To those wondering why and when this is needed - it is useful for cases when your primary process lacks rights required to open a file or a device (!). So another, privileged process does the open on its behalf and sends the resulting file descriptor to the primary process for processing.
So, he had 4 alarms and not a single camera that streams video to an offsite server? I am not saying he is lying or anything like that, just find my self saying "WTF" when I read that.
The point is not that face tattooed people shouldn't have a hard time getting a job. The point is that transsexual people have a /harder/ time, and that this is clear evidence that transsexuals can't just go and get a job as a waitress, shopping mall sweeper, store attendant, cashier, "you name it" as sergiotapia proposes.
Where did you read he doesn't have such a camera/stream?
Leopold and Loeb? How about Bonnie and Clyde? Probably both couples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb
I'm definitely not trolling. I truly thought you would understand the basic difference.

Big integer support in Dart is not an issue of writing a bignum library. That's already been done. The difficulty is in supporting the single integer type in a way that's performant for numbers < 2^53

Java has fixed width ints, Dart has infinite precision ints. In Java when dealing with ints, you're always in the int domain, and when dealing with BigIntegers you're always in the BigInteger domain. In Java operations on ints can overflow. In Dart operations on ints don't overflow - internally, if the result doesn't fit in an machine int a bigint is returned.

In JavaScript you have a few choices when implementing infinite precision ints: 1) Use a single bigint type for all ints, which will be incredibly slow. 2) Use two types for ints, the built-in number and a BigInteger class. This means a lot of expensive type and overflow checks that slow down basic numeric operations. 3) Don't implement infinite precision ints.

Compile-to-JS languages can use static analysis to do better. dart2js already uses type inferencing extensively to eliminate type checks where it can, but eliminating the checks for ints would require range propagation which is much trickier, and doesn't work in a lot of cases.
Yes there was, people refused to use a crappy script language but now they pretty much have too :(.
155 Years Before the GIF: Looping Animations Created for the Phenakistoscope
I don't think this is a good model. F'rinstance you can have something delivered or drive to the store yourself. Are you "exploiting" the postman? Do you think he feels exploited?
I think what you may not be considering here is that there's a broader point being made about what constitutes a "living wage." Of course it's better to get some money rather than nothing. But if the money is below the minimum wage and/or below a living wage, it forces the "servant" to either live close to poverty or work multiple jobs.

Also, what's being touched on is a notion of entitlement. For instance, I hire somebody to periodically come and clean my house every few weeks. I pay well, way above what they asked for - both because they do a good job and because I know it's a hard way to make a living. When I made less money, I cleaned my house myself, and I never felt a sense of entitlement or right to that help.
I guess rather than what could be wrong with it, why do you think or feel it's necessary to have them separately placed? Is it that you believe non-violent offenders shouldn't be at risk to violence from violent ones? Do you find there to be a societal benefit to this? To the inmates? I honestly just want to know your take on this.
It does not work like that because there is plenty of crime which is non-violent as well as not financial.
What do you consider violent criminals?

Thieves? Drug users? Fences? Smugglers? Forgers? Vandals? Illegal immigrants? Heck, do you think being an arsonist makes you particularly likely to stab a guy in prison?
StartSSL seem technically competent, but at the $100+ per year they no longer become the cheapest and I don't have to put up with their dodgy-as-hell website.

Comodo via Namecheap seem to have better pricing and less weirdness: https://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/multi-doma...

Edit: I take that back. The above link is deceptive and the price charged is for the default number of domains that come with the package. Any additional domains cost extra. This is such a headache already. Lets not devolve this thread into price comparisons and end it here.
Probably US agents were trying to get access to some of Snowden's archive. I'm not sure harassment was intended either.

I'm keen to say thought, that Snowden is winning this as the time goes by and NSA is loosing ground time and again. I just don't know how this whole surveillance thing, will work out on the next elections. You have the Obama administration clearly embarrassed but ultimately unwilling making any substantial change in the patriot act or it's powers. On the other hand, Republicans are the ones usually advocating greater surveillance, more police state, etc. It's a full-frontal battle of central authority (Congress vs Population) vs democracy.

Accepting the fact that NSA is wrong would be admitting that Snowden's ultimate sacrifice[1] was justified and welcomed, and that's even more expensive than putting an end on NSA's surveillance for a political team, government or party.

[1] IMHO The guy did a huge sacrifice. I understand the controversy by some overzealous patriots to treat him as a traitor, but in my view he screwed his life over something he believed.