skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to post this here to bring attention to what happens when trusting a cloud backup provider with your data, as well as to spur Backblaze to hopefully pay more attention to this part of their business model.

Again, while I say it in the post, I think it's important to state again that the CEO has been great in allowing a dialog via Twitter. This is not a post meant to diss Backblaze as much as it is to share concerns and put the thought out there for consideration.

As the CEO Mr. Budman notes in the Storify link, they no doubt do hundreds of successful restores every day. But when I have two working systems fail for Backblaze restores but nothing else, it's still a cause of concern for me personally.
How about you just focus on hiring the best developers, regardless of their gender, and making sure that male and female employees are treated the same by all employees of the company? Reverse discrimination is not the answer.
If you're going to go around getting people hooked on highly physically addictive (and quite possibly deadly) substances (cocaine, heroin, meth), not just ganja, My book of business ethics says you're around to pick up the pieces afterwards.

Criminalizing drug usage is the wrong way to go. Making sure the market is very, very, very highly regulated, including producer and retailer liabilities for consequences, is required if you're going to address the tremendous negative externalities of drug use. And yes, I hold tobacco, alcohol, and (lawful) pharmaceutical industries to the same standard, noting that they largely fail to meet it.

Ulbricht's utter hypocrisy regards nonviolence is particularly telling.
What is the old saying... " what is the difference between lies and statistics?" Lies intentionally deceive. I think there is also a statistic I saw that said that the increased hassle caused by the TSA procedures caused more people to drive than fly which ended up killing more people in traffic accidents than were killed on 911. There are a lot of statistics like that. But I think the main point is that the threat of terrorism is vastly over blown, which I think most informed people understand.
I don't see guys complaining "why are nurses mostly females? OMG there must be some discrimination going on, let me find a user group on the internets to complain about that". Some professions have more females than males, and some others the opposite. And some workplaces have about an equal ratio. There isn't a great conspiracy at work going on here. It's fairly obvious that since the beginning of computing, most people interested in computers happened to be male, and therefore you end up with an industry mainly composed by male workers. This is going to evolve as there are more and more schools to learn coding/design/etc... than before, and therefore I expect more women to come in that workforce progressively. Whether it's 50/50, no-one knows, but honestly who cares? It's not as if women are prevented from entering or learning. There are very capable women in many IT-related industries (I know many working in video games), and honestly if a woman has the right skills and the right attitude, I don't see why a company would turn them down. But bear in mind that in terms of employment, men and women are not equal (women tend to want to have kids and maternity leave) and that's also something an employer factors in when they recruit people, especially when they are in a very small structure. Just stating the obvious.
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Lack of stronger cyber security may cost world economy $3 trillion
> Acquaintances state appointee and wife divorced over year ago and have no reason to question moral character of either. Pertinent news articles re appointee set forth including article reporting divorce result of appointee's interest in calculus and African drums and his choking wife and smashing furniture when interrupted by wife.

I kind of have to wonder if Feynman would have been diagnosed with ADD in this day and age. ADD folks tend to hyperfocus on stuff like that, and unfortunately it jars relationships (ADD people have a 50% higher divorce rate)
None of the controls on the document viewer are sufficient to see anything but the two-page cover letter. After several minutes of head-scratching, I figured out that you have to click on the tiny, illegible thumbnails under the viewer to see the actual FBI file.

Fantastic UI here.
That seems crazy to me. Over the air updates will continually make your car safer. You're basically arguing that Windows Update is bad because someone could MITM it to inject an exploit into your computer. Sure, that's possible, but it's much more likely that the delay between availability and installation of an exploit will caused you to be owned.
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=javert+rich

Just read a couple of those and you'll have a good idea about the kind of person you're dealing with here.
>The term 'software engineer' conjures images of pasty-faced young men with poor posture and limited social skills.

I'm really confused. Are we onto third or fourth wave feminism yet? I thought body shaming was bad and the modelling industry was evil.

Aren't we always being appealed to, as nerds, to empathize with groups that are underrepresented in tech, because we too, didn't fit in in high school?
It's not just that. What's the probability that 100K people are killed by terrorists vs. police next year? With fat tails, the number of people killed in the recent past isn't an accurate summary of the true statistics.
Gitcoin.co is Social Philanthropy with Bitcoin.
Learn functional programming, then apply those techniques to your language of choice.
As a customer, I feel unfairly targeted without my participation for the profit of a third party. This makes money, but it does not make the world a better place to want to live in.
For an exchange to transact a trade, it needs buyers and sellers.

What's the mechanism for matching buyers and sellers?

Does HFT provide a benefit to the HF trader? If so, from whom does that advantage accrue?

What's the net effect on a non-HFT buyer with and without the presence of HFT? For market orders? For limit orders?

What's the net effect on a non-HFT seller with and without the presence of HFT? For market orders? For limit orders?
Hey, I've recently begun the interview process at Cloudera, would you mind sending me an email? My address is in my profile, and I'd love to ask you a couple questions.
I wonder whether it's a header or an index on the compressed file, or the data itself that's damaged. Still not something you want from your backups.
Security is just another branch of technology. I'd see nothing wrong with a pacemaker being IP-connected (though the logistics of how you'd do that escape me) as long as the remote side used proper authentication, multifactor, etc.
Did someone promise this guy 15 yrs ago when he started on this journey that he would land in a tenure track job? Did someone tell him that it's not competitive? I don't think so.

I don't know about the humanities, but up to about 2009 with a PhD in the sciences from a second-tier institution you could get a tenure-track job at another second-tier university or four-year college. That was the typical career track, because industry recruits only from top institutions at PhD level.

Then the funding crisis struck, and while universities are increasing enrollment (with the students shooting mostly for pre-med at my state school) they are no longer hiring for tenure-track positions, it's now untenured lecturers or part-time adjuncts.

Universities have found out that they can hire at lower salary levels because of plentiful supply, and they do not mind that quality of instruction is suffering. It is suffering because as a lecturer you are moving around every three years looking for a better deal and the first year is spent getting used to the syllabus at the new place, and if you are teaching three sections at three different places to make ends meet as an adjunct you just can't be good.

It's strange that the students don't mind that they are getting less of an education, but they really don't mind.
I hope I'm not the only one that feels this way, but seriously, who gives a shit?

Look, I'm a 30-something overweight white male programmer. I probably spend equal time, if not more, communicating with people around the world based on their ideas and what they write rather than their physical person. What this means is that I don't care if you're a gay paraplegic cross dressing dolphin, a woman that can't leave her house in the deepest parts of Saudi Arabia, a 12 year old in Australia, or another guy just like me. It. Doesn't. Matter.

I'm sure if you're reading this, you know the old joke that no one knows you're a dog behind a keyboard. If you have good ideas and are willing to talk about them, what your background is just doesn't really matter.

I've been around long enough that I've talked to everyone, from billionaire kids to poor grandparents. People's ideas and thoughts are more important than anything else to me.

I'm glad that this person has had success in multiple areas. Is it remarkable as a news-worthy event? Maybe for CNN, but they aren't exactly a reputable news source these days. For me, and hopefully others, she's just a good programmer.

In the end, all that matters is someone's ability to think. Whether they're a supermodel or a dog doesn't fucking matter.
What Is Real ID?
ok, so once they spend the money and do the work though, we get to take it from them right?
I'm a developer, so I'm no stranger to tasks outside of Metroland.

I don't have any trouble using my desktop or laptop to get things done. Win8.1 is essentially just a better, faster Win7 when I'm focused on using desktop applications.
No one is arguing that this is the only or the most important comparison that can be made. It's just one of many comparisons. That doesn't make it useless. I think a lot of people would be surprised to learn that cops are a much larger threat than terrorists, and I think the comparison can be used to make a much larger point about the utility of counterterrorism measures.
Geek Feminism's page has some useful suggestions: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Recruiting_women
This is indeed the scenario in drug development. Academic research can only take it so far. Someone then has to assume financial risk and bring academic findings to the clinic.
Was going through the summaries too. Problem is the mitigating circumstances stats are useless. An officer literally has their life on the line when writing their report. They'd have to be just about insane to not say they thought the person had a gun, moved their hands towards their waistbands, made a furtive movement, etc. Maybe the data is good for historical trends but that's it.
> Comparing to their chance of death by traffic accident would be more relevant.

The source for this article, which is linked in the third paragraph, does exactly that: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/statistics-you-are-no...

I find it odd that killings by cops are acceptable. We shouldn't settle for anything less than zero when offenders are unarmed.
There was very little content in that article. I've noticed this is becoming a trend with a lot of mainstream news sites like CNN and USA Today.
Brains aside, personally I don't think she's that beautiful.
I know at least 3 female programmers that I consider better looking (2 of them I have worked with).
Many PhD's would probably teach high school, except for the ridiculous credentialing programs / teacher licensing requirements. Basically you have to get a 1.5 year education degree to "qualify" to teach a subject; yes, you can have a PhD in math from Princeton and be unqualified to teach 9th grade math in Trenton. Makes me want to vomit.
Students aren't, for the most part, paying for the instruction. They're paying for the certification.

Unbundling these two things would solve all kinds of problems. That's a pretty big challenge though.
I try to, but that's beside the point. What passes for 'easy to understand' when you move past 'flat text files as a representation of code' and how is it better?
And waiting a couple of generations won't matter re:

>Massive environmental destruction, humanitarian disasters.

Right?
HP promotes Windows 7 PCs
thank God, I'm only watching the game, controlling it
Correct. They appear to basically zip the data using 7-zip and then transfer it, but I'm not sure what sort of hashing/checking they do to make sure the file makes it to me successfully.

Very possible that the next time I download the 6GB file it will work. But given how long it takes to do that, 1) I'd like to know it will work and 2) tougher for me to consider utilizing the free option of doing this for all ~400 GB of data.
If you're not tied to the idea of running native, I'm running various linuxes in VMWare Fusion on my MPB and full-screen mode works perfectly. The only thing you might find annoying is the lack of middle-click for pasting selections when using the touchpad.
I actually think it's borderline impossible to inflation adjust $10M 197x (for any value of x) dollars to today's money in any reasonable way, given the dramatic changes in lifestyle and how they affect any plausible representative basket of goods. So I profoundly disagree with you. If anything, there should be much more uncertainty than my $30M, that sort of implies between $25 and $35M (approx), still too precise for me. Your suggestions of $28M or $28.4M I feel are absurd. Although not nearly as absurd as using 10 full figures of significance. Finance is the only field where that occurs routinely, and I can never understand why nobody gets called on it (hence my original comment). I agree with you on the number Woz chose. Basically he was choosing a round number that was a "whole lot of money", and no doubt today he would choose an even bigger round number that's still "a whole lot of money".
Wow, this was the textbook for the OS class I took in college in 1981. Brings back memories...
I hear people get executed in Bart stations for no reason, but not by terrorists.
But why would you? An IP-addressable pacemaker serves what purpose, exactly?

Two-factor or not, you are introducing risk, complexity, and power consumption for what?
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Google is loosing his trust more and more !!
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negative stereotypes exist for both models (eg cocaine snorting anorexic bimbos) and computer nerds (antisocial smelly boring men who refuse to grow up while living in their mother's basement).

who cares? I get the points about the stereotypes in the article, which was pretty shallow. though there did exist the point that people don't always conform to stereotypes. models can be smart, nerds can be attractive.
Or just charge by the hour.
Loop unrolling is actually becoming somewhat of an outdated technique for modern processors:

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=142
"It is so important to economize the use of the micro-op cache that I would give the advice never to unroll loops."

I don't know how AMD compares.
"we reserve the right to take action where we see abuse."
With that option on the table, and Googles broad and subjective discretion, I don't see any reason to ever Do Follow a link again.

It seems like all the legit reasons to link out have nothing to do with search rankings, so why risk Google's Ire?

More importantly, if No Follow becomes the default, wont that be a net negative for Google's index?
True, but what is the fundamental problem in allowing academics to patent their drug development research? Without a system like that drugs like Lyrica wouldn't exist.
The article makes it sound like the SSH brute-forcing requests were part of the attack, but it's unlikely - they are very common. My servers get several of these attacks a day.

I don't like changing my default SSH port, but I don't like people trying to brute-force my SSH passwords either. Instead I use iptables to drop SSH connections from any IP address that attempts to connect overly frequently. This is highly efficient (compared to scripts like fail2ban) and very simple to implement:

# SSH daemon - tcp Port 22 - drop any more than 3 new connections from one address every 5 mins
$IPTABLES -I INPUT -p tcp -i eth+ --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set
$IPTABLES -I INPUT -p tcp -i eth+ --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 300 --hitcount 3 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth+ --dport 22 -j ACCEPT

Enjoy!
I gave Mr. Adams a 2600 shirt that had been inadvertently printed backwards and he was amused (only a dozen of those existed!). It was after a reading in Charlotte, NC, 20 something years ago. I miss him a lot.
No, he's arguing that a machine that consumes Windows Update is by very nature less secure than a machine with no network connection. Not because Windows Update is insecure, but because you've added an attack vector (network) and the software can be modified (e.g. EEPROM instead of ROM like in 80's cars). More difficult to permanently PWN a ROM, donchaknow.
Pick a project that has a smaller scope. Frameworks, libraries, or languages are never "finished" as much as they are no longer maintained, or becomes obsolete.

Make a 5 level game. Build a browser plugin that logs and visualizes browsing behavior. Pick something you can define easily. The impact of the delivery of awesome into the real world will help you see past design flaws to the bigger picture of why you build in the first place.
Academic institutions used to have most of their teaching done by tenured faculty, now they don't, and there is such an oversupply of PhD's (myself included) that they don't have to have to offer shit to get someone to take a class.

I think it is time for tenure to go -- give teachers and professors a three year contract, good pay, and the same basic working protections as everybody else. Fire the losers, promote the achievers, and (probably) eliminate a bunch of the imbalance.
Jon Skeet is impressive. But thanks for the link tho.
This article is about a show that's owned by Amazon. For other shows I imagine that they have to report numbers to the owner for licensing purposes.
Forget being a challenge, is it even possible? Isn't the certification's only value that it certifies that you've received the instruction?
A quick check shows that CUNY charges NY resident students around $5700 per year.

For the same money:

- This guy could teach on a dozen students for a year. 20 hours per week class time and 20 hours of smaller groups or 1 on 1.

- The University or some external organisation could administer exams or otherwise check he was up to standard.

- The Students would get a lot better education that they would have from being in a class of hundreds.
Just curious - any particular reasons you dislike Unity?
And thirty times more likely if you are a minority.
I thought third wave feminism "took back" modelling and porn?

Edit: this isn't a joke, it's something I actually heard from a few sources.
I personally think it's university administration and large recurring service contracts.
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"Rule 613: People either grow into big jobs, or swell into them"

I don't understand this at all.
I used to have a newsletter project where I signed people up through a single optin - it was kind of a daily deals newsletter. I grew to 1000 subscribers in no time. Yet, whenever I sent a mailer, there used to be a 2-3% bounce and a 3% open rate - remember, this is from a newsletter that people voluntarily signed up for. I didn't get them from a spam list.

Recently, I started a newsletter for entrepreneurs - this time, I was careful to have double optin. The growth is definitely slower. But with nearly 50% open rate for each of my newsletter, I think I am talking to the right people.

It costs money to send a newsletter out. I use MailChimp and it's not free. What's the point in paying for people who are half hearted subscribers who have bouncing emails? I would rather pay double for people who are genuinely interested in reading from me.
Unbundling doesn't mean that you haven't gotten the instruction. It just means that the institution that does the instructing doesn't have to be the same institution that grants the certification.

If somehow Harvard could start certifying extra 22 year olds as "just as good as any other Harvard grad" even if they never took a single class there then lots of interesting things might happen.
Not sure how that goes against what I said.
Turing Complete Instructionless Computation
Administration makes sense. I saw something else in this thread indicating that the administrators :: student ratio has exploded in the last 30 years.

What do you mean by "large recurring service contracts" ?
The entire system of modern "research" and PhDs strikes me as an unsuccessful attempt to mass-produce the kind of scientific thinkers that made our modern world.

PhDs are basically people who occupied the "student" role as long as they could. Based on my experience, they often lack the fundamentals to make use of their education. They are not clever enough, curious enough or brave enough.

We have expensively overeducated an ordinary person in the hope of producing a Newton or Galileo.

No doubt there are many exceptions, but I have noticed this tendency.
How to maintain a pristine copy of your configuration files
Neutron Builder: Less compiler app for Chrome
Nope, there's still no clear consensus between sex-positive, sex-negative and lipstick feminist theorists.
[Nintendo] Iwata : Hubris vs Western Culture (2013)
This is Carlos Cardona the creator and project lead of gitcoin.co.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding gitcoin, our choice of building on the coinbase api, our goals, or anything else.

Thanks Hacker News community!
Cool, so in the meantime I will just assume they are all right :)
I don't think quoting one thing from the article out of context is "disagree and rather than derail the discussion" as you say in your other comment.
Yeah, but think how many times an office kettle boils compared to a household one.
Content Security Policy 101
not really new but learned the basics of CSP
Ask HN: What would make Google Analytics better?
I am a long time HNer (posting with a throwaway) and I am building a tool to compete with Google Analytics. I strongly value the opinion of this community and would love to get your feedback.

What do you think would make Google Analytics better?

Some of the things I've personally struggled with -

- Arbitrary restrictions on how data can be compared. Want to see which products are being purchased on an iPad vs Desktop? Not possible.

- No access to raw data.

- Events and funnels are awful.

Why not Mixpanel?

- I find myself often using the Data Export API for information that should be accessible on the web.

- Doesn't integrate with online marketing.

Any thoughts appreciated.
In terms of math skills, sure. But a senior in high school should have enough mastery of the material to explain things to a 9th grader, so that's a bad argument. As anyone who's taken an undergraduate class in the hard sciences knows, a PhD does not indicate anything about teaching ability (in my experience, it's anti-correlated with it if anything).

I'm sure the credentialing process has its own unique failings, but it is trying to act as a real value add.