skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect many of us use Git because it was made by Linus Torvalds ( I think everyone agrees that he is a great developer) and is used in the Linux kernel. If it can handle that, then you can be pretty sure it will handle whatever you throw at it (unless you are Facebook, it seems).

Add Github to that mix and you can see why so many developers sleep like babies at night. Of course it's not rigorous, but the choice is not irrational.
That article says that Fastly is not doing Anycast.
Artificial Insemination Nightmare Revealed by DNA Test
China's largest payment provider alipay.com hacked
I almost joined Twitter just to give this guy grief. I cannot believe it.
But what if the vast majority of the population is right?

What if there are no detrimental long term effects to our society when our digital privacy is compromised? What if the majority of the population ignoring the risks and simply being productive in the areas they work best is the best thing for society?

I'm not arguing this point of view, but I think risks are often be exaggerated by the security conscious.
> Are there downsides I am not considering?

Since total resolution is (for all intents and purposes) capped, there's a 1:1 tradeoff between FOV and PPI. Some people already think Oculus has gone too far, and would be better with a narrower FOV and higher PPI.
The best people I've worked with have been recruited by friends. The interviews were perfunctory on both sides.
I'm an average programmer on my best days. Writing the same things over and over used to seem tedious, and boring. Day-in, day-out writing authentication backends, some boring object relationship mapped to an use object, Javascript to disable a button, a test to asset that a page is rendering correctly, etc. But then one thing happened. It took me less time to do each of those many "boring" things. Repetition was forcing me to think about the problem behind user authentication backends. About the most web-compliant way to disable a button. How to automate the work of writing the tests. Little by little. One by one. Line by line I started to become a better. Repetition is not bad. It is good. It forces you to think about the same problem from many different angles. That is why I'm more than happy writing yet another API in Django. And I will be happy in any field with any language. Its the process of growing and developing my skills that keeps me hooked.
Can't wait to see their pricing in Australia. If it's under $1k, I'd like a handful!
That link appears dead. Here is another: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Git-performance-results-on-a...
Just now? I thought all news sites that they can't control are already blocked in some way. Some are keywords-triggered instead of fully blocked though.

There are always ways to "unblock" blocked websites. HTTPS (for anti-keyword-filtering), SSH Tunnels, VPNs, Proxies, Tor, they all had their presence in Chinese Internet history. And then the government are always able to either block or weaken methods that unblock blocked websites. It's an endless battle between the officials and citizens, or between dictatorship and freedom of speech.

I'm getting really bored. Here in HN, I'd love to see some technical article behind GFW[0] instead of yet another piece of news of some site blocked by it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project
There is much that can't be consumed via the browser for the lack of DRM. I fail to see the problem with enabling it because I do believe that content providers have rights and I'll respect them to be able to consume their product. Of course the industry organizations want a say in how that is done.
Glad you liked it :)

It really depends on your use case. I run my personal website, my blog, and a couple of other websites that get decent but not spectacular traffic (think a few K visits a month tops). I think that made Digital Ocean a pretty good choice for me because I take advantage of better (IMO) management tools, better third-party apps, etc. However, if you're running some seriously high-load stuff, Linode has some enterprise-level features that DO lacks, like load balancing. Linode also seems to have somewhat more technically competent support from what I've read; I've never had to use either company's support though.
Sooner than you think.

smile
If you feel like traveling, our Shanghai office is currently recruiting both FT and interns; http://wiredcraft.com/careers.html. We have an SF office with 2 FT staff and me traveling back and forth and are planning to open in Berlin this summer, but aren't yet recruiting tech profiles in the Bay.

Lots of Javascript (AngularJS, node.js), Go and Python. Lots of work on infrastructure, developer tools and data visualization. Projects are either our own products or for our clients (World Bank, UN...).

We have a flat structure and expect our team members to take direction and give a sh*t about what they do.
http://prgmr.com/xen/plans.html has similar pricing, but not even remotely close to the specs.
Thanks. I totally agree and will share so with them. Execution is everything and we were so early that no agreements were made. I also do think it would be wise to get their leave in writing. You don't want a founder to come back later if the venture was in any way successful.
Too bad it failed to gain traction. It was an excellent idea.
haha. you didn't do it!
Founding Team,YOLO*
But it really is good enough for the business offering WiFi.

If Facebook validation causes 90% of their visitors to simply hit the "sign in" button on their default Facebook account, they have probably reduced a significant amount of bad behaviour on their network.

The fact is the vast majority of people are already connected to Facebook under their real names on their mobile device at all times. Taking advantage of that (minimum security through "ease of use") is a good idea.

The person who goes to the store and uses a fake Facebook account to use their free WiFi maliciously is almost non-existent. People will just take the path of least resistance to get what they want now.

Stop thinking of their security in terms of how to circumvent it — that's easy — think of security in terms of which path most users will flow along. Then look at the tradeoffs of increased security to handle the remaining users, you generally find it's not worth bothering with them.
this is a bloated minunit :)

just the short of thing a QA dev would do to keep his job.

i kid. kid. It is nice, but overkill in my humble opinion. Failing on the first error for unittest is a feature. because you are not supposed to even commit it if it is failing, so no need to fancy graphics and reports. It either passed, or not.
I think somethings being missed here. Interesting problems come out of the problems no one else is willing to solve or tackle because they're looking for something sexier.

The most interesting and random work of my life so far has come from never saying no, and instead a "let me think about it" and finding a way to get it done. This, in turn gets you a track record, and reputation for interesting conversations and problems.

Be a student of problems as a whole and the small boring problems you solve all become part of interesting solutions later.
The Tuesday boy problem, in under 300 words
Yes, Facebook home would benefit the most. But, as mentioned by msahil, Parse will also hugely benefit. Parse has an Android SDK and a custom Push Notification implementation as part of it which runs as a background job in the phone. So, resource optimization becomes key here.
Both sites have their pricing on their front page.
Reminded of the time my VW's trans-axle froze up in -27 degree weather and couldn't be started by pushing it (it just skidded down the road) I was wondering what the hell a fiber transmission is.
The bit about how Feynman organized his life is particularly interesting. He was quite the character, and became extremely successful because he was able to thrive in his academic environment. I wonder if a personality like Feynman would flourish today?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(programmer_subculture)

"A hacker is someone who loves to program or who enjoys playful cleverness, or a combination of the two. The act of engaging in activities (such as programming or other media) in a spirit of playfulness and exploration is termed hacking. However the defining characteristic of a hacker is not the activities performed themselves (e.g. programming), but the manner in which it is done: Hacking entails some form of excellence, for example exploring the limits of what is possible, thereby doing something exciting and meaningful."

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html

"Hacking might be characterized as ‘an appropriate application of ingenuity’. Whether the result is a quick-and-dirty patchwork job or a carefully crafted work of art, you have to admire the cleverness that went into it."

Although it is popular to call just about anyone creating products in IT a hacker nowadays, the term did have a meaning once and more people should know about it.
I don't really see your point, because the kernel does plenty of other things on your behalf.

You don't control the process switching to memcached either. It's possible memcached will get descheduled, its data removed from L* caches, and your web server process will have to wait for it to be run again. With the FS cache solution you don't have that issue.

You could tune it (e.g. try to pin memcache to a dedicated core and pin web servers to other cores), but there are settings to tune FS cache behavior as well.

Same with mmap. The kernel can swap pages back to disk in that case too. It seems to boil down to the same thing, so not sure why people are so negative about using the file system. I bet you can write a test comparing serving data via mmap() vs via the file system and they will behave nearly identically.
I can't consider either of these because of the security issues they had and they ways in which they handle them.
If there's not, that'd be a red flag to me. It's amazing how long a hosting company can keep up appearances before simply vanishing; a couple do every year if you follow WebHostingTalk. The last time I chose a hosting company based on price, probably around 10 years ago now, everything was glorious (hardware/network/reliability/support) up until the moment the server dropped off the internet. Then it slowly came out that the company wasn't actually making any money while undercutting everyone else, and was several months behind in their power bills with the data center. The DC finally gave up and simply turned off their racks. Customers like myself were just screwed -- we never got even temporary access to recover data, and the company had no money to go after in court.
> I would think dense wireless networks in urban areas could work

You've basically described mesh networks. There are a number in cities across America, but are normally run by enthusiasts.

The trouble is, in dense urban environments, there's a lot of noise to overcome, and if you don't work around that, your network will fall apart. Especially a problem with the coming 802.11ac routers which will crowd up the 5 GHz band that is current the target for backbone links in the wireless networks.
That was what struck me too, the scale is what is most impressive.
Where are you located? I hear Matasano Security is a great place to work at. In fact, I sent Thomas an email earlier if there were openings for an internship. No response yet.
Asking the clerk to verify the photo ID in place of a Facebook account was a bit strange.

You'd probably have an inkling that their authentication is based on Facebook, so the photo ID thing is highly unlikely to work. (It seemed to be said more to counter the clerk's statement of not being able to validate users than a proposal of a real solution).

The clerk actually provided a real, practical solution (fake account) that the author does not seem to think very highly of.
We're trying to make sure that Healthcare.gov never happens again.

dobt.co
The full story behind our "chinese democracy" leak
Estonia's Svipe does NFC Payments with a Twist
Etta's island?
Here's the theme I'm using in case you didn't find the link: http://shashankmehta.in/archive/2012/greyshade.html

Good luck!
I can't agree. Instead of taking everyone's advice of either switching to perforce (less user-friendly/frustrating repo) or splitting their repo into parts, facebook built a solution where they don't have to make either compromise.

Just because their solution is complex doesn't mean they're using the technology wrong. They set out their requirements and they met all of them. All their engineers are more efficient now and all this complexity happens behind the scenes.
Linode is a disgraceful company IMHO.

Companies that deliberately withhold key information from their users during security incidents don't deserve to be hosting other people's services. In fact they really shouldn't be in business. Transparency is that paramount. And Linode has done it not once but twice. I will never forget learning that my entire Production Linode stack could have been hacked through a Reddit post rather than from the company itself.
Ten Bitcoin Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction
It is insane, but it never comes all at once. I have been at a company that had this type of internal insanity, and it is a bit of a "boil the frog" thing.

Each individual step seems resonable and sane thing -- but when you look at the result of all those steps -- you stand back and just stare in awe at the horror you have created... it hits you just how far you have drifted.

In a recent meeting, we had a corporate redirection a bit -- and a co-worker simply asked the question "Is this a sane approach to what our actual problem is?" -- glad to be working with a crew who askes those kinds of questions.
To the best of my knowledge it is not "illegal to dress as a Muslim" anywhere in Europe. In France it is prohibited to cover one's face while in public. The argument for this law is not grounded in any religious objection, as I understand it, but rather in the fact that face coverings make identification difficult and do not fit in with the expected norms for social interaction in that country.

France also has a ban on the display of religious symbols in public schools. The ban is applied wholesale and does not discriminate against any one particular group. This law, as I understand it, is motivated by a strong desire for secularism in the public education system.
Intel announces all its chips are "conflict-free" beginning 2014
What RSS feeds are available on stackexchange?
The NSA != the government. It can't dictate how the economy works. It just has to deal with what's there.
But the thing is authenticating through Facebook probably does verify the vast majority of their customers' identities.

Even if they put big signs out the front of their shop saying : "You can make a fake account and use our WiFi if you care about your privacy." Most people would not go through the trouble of making a fake account and just login with their real account.

The fact that the clerk was in conversation with this guy probably put him in the "non troublemaker" category in the clerk's mind anyway. And thus the whole identity verification thing was irrelevant, he was just suggesting a practical solution to the customer's problem.
Every time a market collapse is hanging over the finance world, they know their customers will do what a prior employer does/did: put support on 1 of 1000 servers.

It's sad, but this wasn't at a .com rev3 company, this was an old-school hedge fund with billions under management. IT support is just something that gets neglected if there isn't a contract that is enforceable. Clearly the company could afford a thousand systems worth of support, and could make it worth the money (autofs bugs galore!). There is a something missing in making the social contract of open source pay for the people needed to maintain open source.
This is a great start for the Indian Start up Scenario.
India needed this boost for long time.
Manufacturers of ITAR controlled devices typically have to enforce compliance by their customers. If there's a method to enforce compliance and it isn't present, the manufacturer can be held responsible for the export. Some things (such as mirrors for lasers) can't really be enforced while others (large machines, aircraft) can be.
Mercurial won't push new branches unless you specify -f or --new-branch. You can selectively push only the branches you want with hg push -r branch_or_revision (hg push -r . for the current revision). You can also hide branches using phases, so they won't be pushed even with -f or --new-branch.
Really? There was a security issue revealed just a week or two ago about DigitalOcean, where they don't scrub accounts so you leak all your data. Read the thread over at Github and see how dismissive DigitalOcean representatives are of the whole issue. According to them, a security hole is an intended feature which you can opt out of. Pretty disgraceful if you ask me.
Any idea how new of a macbook you would need to power this? I'm guessing my 2012 13" air can't run it right?
Thanks! I hope everything is going well for you!
OK, to begin with, Australia still bans things. This is something the USA grew out of decades ago:

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

It's insane.

Also, there are the defamation laws:

https://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/defamation.html

> In theory, the objective of defamation laws is to balance protection of individual reputation with freedom of expression. In practice, defamation laws are frequently used as a means of chilling speech. A threat of (costly) defamation proceedings and damages, whether or not a plaintiff's claim is likely to be upheld by a court, is often used to silence criticism not only by a particular person or group but also as a threat to others.

Basically, defamation laws in the USA are much more defendant-friendly compared to their equivalents in Commonwealth countries. Australia deserves much praise for apparently being much better in this regard compared to the UK, for example: Australian law recognizes truth to be an absolute defense, which is not generally the case in Commonwealth libel laws.

Canada deserves special approbation for its insane hate speech laws:

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

Which are similar to the insane laws against denying the Holocaust or even using certain images in parts of Europe:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_%C2%A7_86a

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_legal...

There have been just as many substantial fascist parties in places with those laws as there are in places without them: Zero. They're an attack on free expression, a universal human right, and they're an absurd over-reaction, an example of terrified cowering at a few worthless fools. What's worse, they do nothing to solve any of the real problems modern Europe has with anti-Roma and anti-Muslim racism.
Porn. No joke. Been working as a developer for tube and premium porn sites the past two years -- by far the best work experience I've ever had. Easy work environment, make my own schedule, low stress and high profitability. Worldwide travel with a bunch of partyers. Comfort may depend on your opinion of the industry, but the benefits are real.
I think that was salient's point -- he's already creating crypto standards and he's likely better suited to that than simply reviewing other's proposals.
Wait until you see the real "support" from DO.
Rejection Via Advice
Yes. But I also found clicking on "link" doesn't always pop up the reply button, either.
No GPS inside of a metal box (like a shipping container). You can also spoof GPS since it's a one-way passive signal.
It's like using Outlook to respond to mail on a mailing list. Sure, it's theoretically possible to use some combination of manual configuration and extra work to construct a post that won't violate social norms, but the tool doesn't encourage it, so mailing lists with a significant number of Outlook users on them tend to fail to follow the standard mailing list conventions of other lists, and develop their own conventions.

The same holds for any tool used in a workflow that involves anyone other than yourself: any tool with a default workflow tends to encourage people to follow that default workflow.
I just don't know if I'm feeling sad or amused after reading this. I've read 3 full books about just Feynman (one of them twice) and still today I keep coming across new factoids and quotes about him every now and than I hadn't known before. If aliens came down tomorrow and asked me to pick the finest sample of humanity across space and time, I would pick Feynman. Without a doubt.

And here is Wolfram, a burned out prodigy busy managing a commercial company and doing classic Cargo Cult science part time with little respect from peers and with a seminal work called New "Kind" Of Science. He should be thankful that he actually met living and breathing Feynman and even had opportunity to work with him (although Feynman never seem to have mentioned Wolfram anywhere). Instead he goes on to put quotes likes these whose only purpose seems to show how limited Feynman was and how Wolfram didn't had those limitations:

What mattered to him was the process of finding it. And he was often quite competitive about it.

Really Wolfram? Where is your Nobel prize? Oh, I know you are waiting for the one on new "kind" of science.

Some scientists (myself probably included) are driven by the ambition to build grand intellectual edifices. I think Feynman—at least in the years I knew him—was much more driven by the pure pleasure of actually doing the science.

No Mr. Wolfram. You are driven by egoistic desire to leave your name everywhere and people worshiping you for your intellect on their knees.

And he was a great calculator. All around perhaps the best human calculator there's ever been.

Yeah, he calculated some of the greatest mysteries in known physics.

The ego of Wolfram dribbles all over:

And one day he calls me and says: "OK, Wolfram, I can't crack it. I think you're onto something." Which was very encouraging.

And it was nice of him to write such nice things about me.
I'm a non-technical co-founder and typically have had similar problems finding a technical individual. I'd suggest firstly establishing some criteria for what you want out of your co-founder and then poaching someone who isn't currently an entrepreneur, but wants to make the jump. I'd be cautious about the seasoned start up 'business guy' promising all kinds of connections; lots of wolves out there. Look for someone who will grind.
Companies don't have this, because it's very rare for a company to define their core purpose, to understand how it relates to employee motivation, and to communicate it clearly both ways. They generally don't understand that what people want in "culture" is not foosball tables and free snacks, but the opportunity to do work that matters and be truly valued for it. It would be a huge cultural shift for most companies to align their values in this way, but it would be immeasurably beneficial.

Companies: get on that.
Well, it was very much about his relationship with Feynman, rather than Feynman in a vacuum. Maybe Wolfram writes this as much for himself as for you?
You might look into posthaven. Its a pretty nice blogging platform, and only costs $5 a month.
For me, I have a few reasons I am staying with linode. The one not listed in this article is location. Linode had more data centers and has one that is half the ping to than any DO server. This is really only an issue for gaming related stuff I do with my server where ping matters.
So is this limited just to commenters or to people submitting new products as well? I just noticed you do not have a submit product option either.
Okay ? My point applies to every VPS provider.

You really only have one obligation to your customer. Don't hide things from them.