skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read both HN and LW, and enjoy both. I've noticed people on HN describing LW as "cultish" a couple of times now, and am constantly suprised by this. Can you shed any light on why you feel this way?
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Not really. I'd bet the people on your Facebook wall could benefit from learning how to construct a cogent argument. A list of "DO NOT"s rarely benefits anyone.
HN will definitely cause trouble for shared hosting, but I'd move away from HostGator because they're serving a giant ad for their own service on the 500 error page.
OwnCloud did not work for the needs of my friend and I. However, I absolutely love Seafile. It sallows for you to share files based on groups and folders.
Do you have any good references on money transmission and how to operate one? What does and does not qualify, approaches to deal with the regulations as an upstart, etc.
It's not lightweight - the full library is just over 80 KB for 2.x. If you have devs good enough to handle it, it should be avoided as much as possible because jquery is often significantly inefficient.

Not to say there aren't instances where jQuery is fine to use. I use it for some apps as well. I don't feel the need to lie on jQuery as a crux for every problem though, especially having a decent understanding of cross-browser issues.

I think this is something worth considering by people.
I think he means their site is currently crawling under the load - I can't get the home page to come up.
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I've been pretty happy with Space Monkey (http://spacemonkey.com) -- 1TB of local and remote backup, $199 for the device and free first year, remote backup $49 after the first year if you want to keep doing it.

And I have access to the full 1TB as if the files were local, even on my measly 120G macbook air, since the filesystem is backed by the network. It's kinda cool.
I use strace all the time doing ops at Crittercism. Some of the random things it's helped with/taught me:

- allowed exploring forking behavior of daemons, in particular the nitty-gritty of gunicorn's prefork behavior, and understanding the rationale behind single- and double-fork daemons generally (very important to understand for job control e.g. writing upstart/init.d jobs)

- isolated hot reads to memcache in situ, by identifying the socket associated with the memcache connection, and finding which key was read the most by a process (we built better logging after the fact, but sometimes there's no substitute for instrumenting prod during tough perf/stress problems)

- let me explore the behavior of node.js's several threads, and find one of them sending "X" over a socket to the other (still not quite sure what this is, some kind of heartbeat/clock tick?)

- helped understanding "primordial processes" and the exact details of how forking/reparenting work on linux

It's a great tool and one that every ops/infrastructure engineer should be familiar with.
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Typically, because I have to pee.
FYI, small typo on the front page: "dataand"
Can you expand on this? Because the way I'm reading it it sounds like since it "could" be a tool for money laundering the OP shouldn't be doing it. But by that logic a car "could" be used to facilitate a bank robbery and therefore the salesman needs to consider those ethical ramifications.
But then you are paying for the hosting and dealing with the maintenance. At that point is's easier to switch back to Dropbox. (IMHO)
I'm not sure node.js is faster than Java... My experience shows the contrary, but I switched to Node.js nonetheless.
Node is fast... enough.

And socket.io justifies using Node :-)
Getting hostgator HTTP 500. (why the fk in the world someone chooses hostgator as their error page) I am quite suprised how people are so successful at not handling Hacker News load? Even my $5 handled #1 on HN for hours with %0.1 CPU load.
Yeah because the "third world" has better legal protection than the USA....
Why would that be awkward? Your employer gets your expertise in training your replacement and you get enough time to find a new job; this seems rather sensible to me.
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It's the main reason I dislike jQuery. It's hard to debug.

document.getElementById('non-existent').classList; // error

$('#non-existent').addClass('yay'); // hidden bug

I prefer the explicit solution.
I've always read "passionate" in job posts as "excited about learning better methods, technologies, and tools" and "not satisfied with the status quo, and continually making things better." Neither of these require an insane commitment outside work, or necessarily makes you easier to take advantage of.

People who have "paid their dues" by going to school and learning one language, and then never update their skills unless forced to do exist, and working with them sucks. You're always fighting a "but such and such already works!" attitude. Programming by flipping switches on computers made using vacuum tubes worked. Thankfully someone wasn't satisfied and wanted something better.
Zuck said unnamed new apps possibly won't require you to log-in and this is a giant step forward for identity? Wait until they actually do it and then wait until they do it with something important.
> the primary areas of concern are federal money transmission laws and criminal state and federal anti-laundering laws.

Shouldn't that be "federal and state" in both cases, not just the anti-laundering case?
Here comes the faux outrage for attention and feigned apology issued by a lawyer, just like the rest...
Cash IS what people launder.
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whois 185.31.17.133

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descr: Fastly Frankfurt 1 Operations

country: de

admin-c: AB28187-RIPE

tech-c: AB28187-RIPE

status: ASSIGNED PA

mnt-by: FASTLY

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person: Artur Bergman

address: 501 Folsom St.

address: San Francisco CA

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It depends on the people and how flexible they are in what they want to achieve.

If your goals require you to drill a hole and you don't have access a drill your options are fairly limited!
Actually they may be starting to back away, they haven't done anything to aide anonymity yet.
This looks interesting thanks!.
I think it is more like 20/20/60. 20% chance that either person is right and 60% chance that both solutions will work.

I agree that a minority partner is also a good solution. I'm not arguing against 45/45/10.

I am arguing against any proportion of initial equity that could lead to a 50/50 deadlock (which includes 25/25/25/25 with 4 founders).
Wow that's amazing! Can I have strace launch the program? Or does it already have to be running?
> Those words sound like the tell-tale signs of the short-sightedness that drives some of these decisions.

Not really. The West has been colonized for centuries. We have a pretty good idea of what is valuable out there and what isn't, and for the most part, extractive is what is valuable out there.

> Not to mention it could become even less costly to access it in the future.

Talk about one-sided reasoning - and there could be even less reason to ever want to access it in the future too. Rural areas in the plains have been depopulating for decades.
I find your post interesting because I never said anything about "frat-house crazy-hours." I only suggested that certain jobs might want more of this amorphous "passion" and that many jobs don't require it at all, and you're the one who concluded this must mean "crazy-hours."

To me, it means exactly what you described: people who put in unbelievable effort at work, who probably love what they do, and who are extremely talented and take pride in that talent. None of that necessarily translates to extra hours. None of that translates into loving work more than family. None of that translates into not going home home to a family and the rest of life after work. But, to me, it does translate to passion.
> it's interesting how often the tendency to 'well-actually' minor, irrelevant factoids and the tendency to reduce conversations to axiomatic systems appear together.

Simplicity is seductive, especially when you're convinced that the minor factoid you're harping on is something you're absolutely sure is correct. If you take a situation and reduce it down to the abstract axiom that you know is true, you can assure yourself that your interpretation of the situation is correct regardless of any nuances in the reality. Because "facts".

This is the definition of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is named from the effort to get the fundamentals right. In doing so, they completely isolated and cut themselves off from reality.
Amazon might have worse safety and backup resources that you might've been led to think.
Ask HN: How do you guys manage your photos?
Simple as dropbox, google drive?

Or do you have external hard drives in Raid 1 config?

Something different?
TTC vs Xio involved a direct clone. The judge ruled in his ruling that the game rules and gameplay were not copyrightable. Indeed, the judge noted that games like Dr. Mario (a tetris-like) would not have violated TTC's copyright.

Xio's clone went beyond just rules and gameplay--it copied the dimensions, colors, and various art assets. Comparing screenshots of Tetris and Xio's clone, it would have been very difficult for most people, even those familiar with Tetris, to identify which was the original.
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"I'm not arguing against 45/45/10."

What about abstentions?
I don't have the time to audit and analyze the entire django framework and every third party app I touch. I am only using a few apps too that are popular in the community.

Realistically I'm a web app developer who wants to be productive. It's insane that I need to even consider doing that just to not have to wait 5 seconds for runserver to reload in development mode on a trivial app. It should be on the shoulders of the django core team to make sure their platform makes developers happy.

P.S., if you want to give me $100,000 I will quit my job and spend the next half a decade learning advanced python, audit the entire django code. You would probably laugh and call me insane right, but this seems like what the django core devs are forcing us to do because they don't want to address the problems with the framework.
In short : There's 11 players on the field, the fans represent the 12th player.
I like _The Art of Software Security Assessment_ for this.
The client was rewritten on top of Eclipse, not the server.
Thank you for this link ... it was an epic reading, a true classic indeed.
Let's face it, the developer is probably already using jQuery, so why not just depend on it?
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Struggling to find any examples of start-ups that pre-emptively open accounts for their customers. Why don't they launch with billions of facebooker and twitters users?
I might stay up late coding for something like a CTF, but I'm fully aware that what I'm pushing out is something that just barely qualifies in one metric ("it runs!"), and it will be totally unmaintainable even by me the next day.

But I limit my professional work hours because it demands a long-term quality. Some other poor guy might come by and need to figure out what I did.
More than a few people requested Github and Bitbucket to support more than RSA keys but they've both ignored the request for ECDSA for the last few years. The changes in 6.5 should inspire them to skip ECDSA and add Ed25519 as an option. Please Github and Bitbucket do everyone a favor and support modern keys. Next step is to save cpu cycles by using Curve25519 when available in the client. It's illogical not to.
There's a huge difference between this and a car salesman.

A car salesman goes through all sorts of paperwork and meets with the person they are selling the car too, and they hand the keys over.

This is much more similar to the service where you take a photo of a Key and you get mailed a copy of it for 5$; except it's semi-anonymous with bitcoin.
I just went to viclone.com on my Nexus 5 via Tmobile LTE and it connected fine.... https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5s5pw4ydohhr4g/Screenshot_2014-01...
This is great! I just finished reading Masters of Doom so this could not have come at a better time.
Ask HN: How do I get people to look at my (Mac OS X, but not Mac App Store) app?
First of all, hi! I'm Mathew, and I'm very new to HN. "All of you" seem to really care about software, and I do too, so I think I'm in the right place.

I make quite a bit of software in a few different contexts, but recently I'm concerned with just one piece. It's my baby, and it's name is Gestr. I've been working on it on and off for about a year and a half, but recently it's reached the point where I use it constantly, and I'd like other people to as well.

"WHAT'S IT DO??" The patient audience screams.

Well, borrowing from concepts pretty well accepted on mobile devices, it tries to replace something typically done with menus or icons, with gestures. This thing is multitasking (app launching and switching). But instead of mobile devices with touch screens, it targets Macs (either laptops with multitouch trackpads, or desktops with an attached Magic Trackpad).

That is, Gestr lets a Mac OS X user assign any kind of swipe, shape, or... anything they can draw on a trackpad to get you to any particular application (or browser bookmark). Check it out on my website (http://mhuusko5.com/#gestr), or look at this video for a tutorial/demo: https://vimeo.com/85040520 (jump to https://vimeo.com/85040520#t=1m49s for just the demo part).

I can't publish on the Mac App Store because to get Gestr so smoothly integrated with the OS, I had to use private frameworks. So I'm at a loss as to how I get Gestr "out there," get people to try it. For a while I didn't want to, because I thought people would have a hard time understanding it, but with the video I recently (had) made, I think it's pretty clear. I'm ready. I'm hyped. And I have no idea what to do...

... help?
if you read all the way to the end, he didn't really use strace. He used truss on Solaris.
Being anonymous on the Internet? Who woulda thunk?

In other words, back to the good old days.

Now if we could just cut the cord between these companies and our identities permanently.
I wrote my comment with your last paragraph in mind, which directly attaches hours to compensation and "lifestyle jobs."
Here you go:

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=d5570d7646c5...

[(5) Money transmitter (i) In general. (A) A person that provides money transmission services. The term “money transmission services” means the acceptance of currency, funds, or other value that substitutes for currency from one person and the transmission of currency, funds, or other value that substitutes for currency to another location or person by any means. “Any means” includes, but is not limited to, through a financial agency or institution; a Federal Reserve Bank or other facility of one or more Federal Reserve Banks, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or both; an electronic funds transfer network; or an informal value transfer system; or

(B) Any other person engaged in the transfer of funds.]

You unambiguously accept other value which substitutes for currency from one person. You equally unambiguously transfer value to another location or person, under multiple legal theories: a) the Starbucks card is one location, the Bitcoin account is another, b) the person holding the card and the bitcoin account may be different parties, c) your business operates as a transport layer between your customers and the company which you are unloading thousands of dollars of Starbucks cards on, and as those are different persons, that means you are transmitting that value.

You might think "But wait, FinCEN narrowed the regulations a bit for 'sellers of prepaid access' specifically to avoid overburdening them." Great news for Starbucks, bad news for you. You are not a seller of prepaid access, which you can verify by reading pg 45403 on of the Federal Register.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-29/pdf/2011-19116.pd...

You are, instead, using Starbucks cards and Bitcoins as a transport layer for value. The government is astoundingly non-neutral about that choice of business.
I only use jQuery on Websites, mostly because it comes bundled with Rails. But most of my JavaScript code runs either in specific WebViews, on the server or special OSes like Firefox OS. Especially on mobile I found that jQuery (mobile) slows down everything significantly.
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The link points to the third page of the article for some reason. Here it is on one page-- http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/181135-facebook...
At that scale you could make errors of several hundred feet at each corner and they wouldn't be visible from such a zoomed out overview.
Re (2): That error message is a tad terse; the majority of Bootstrap is pure CSS and doesn't require any JS.
A new competitor I see? ;)

I developed the same code base to do the same thing a month ago. It also front paged on Hackernews (http://www.earthbit.net ).

I guess the main difference is you're using your own proxy for the queries, which is sturdier than a third party. A worthwhile improvement as mine crashed under the load last time = )
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The best TEDTalks compiled into one. Lol at first I thought, I watched all the best ones, but not until I bought this :)
Two points:

1) Dropbox has many thousands of their own servers, alongside the Amazon. It's not like they're just using raw S3 and nothing else.

2) Dropbox has a history of egregious mistakes which they try to sweep under the rug. Only a very silly person would believe that Arash has suddenly decided to be open and honest with the customers.

Remember, when you talk about Dropbox, you're talking about a company that flat-out lied, claiming that they encrypted your data so they couldn't read it, and didn't stop lying until the FTC got involved.

So yeah... when somebody says Dropbox is better than X, I tend to think that person is deluding themselves.
Facebook messenger is indeed clever. I recognized Facebook as addictive, and blocked it. But people still communicate with me on there, so I installed the messenger app.

So I'm still in the ecosystem. And when I message someone, I draw them in. FB messenger keeps me from sending messages by email, text, whatever other method.
Ask HN: How do you share photos ?
Storage/cloud is not a problem anymore. We can store tons of stuff at places like Dropbox etc. When it comes to photos, we can add them to dropbox etc.

How do you actually "share" the pictures with your friends/family ? Possible options are adding to facebook but then those ppl need to be on fb, sending a share link through dropbox (how is this btw), uploading on flickr etc

I feel there is too much work still to share photos especially when there are 10s-100s of them. How do you do this for yourself ? Specifically, I want to share with people how are not tech savvy at all. What are some of the easiest ways ?
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I mostly agree with this, but "if your language is successful, it will wind up being used for large systems" assumes somewhat particular definitions of "success". The Logo language was successful in providing room for experimenting with programming at a time that was comparatively inaccessible. It was also successful in that it ran on quite a few machines and people paid money for implementations. I would be mildly surprised if it has ever been used for a large system, and tremendously surprised if this was prevalent.
If your very first reason for not using ownCloud is "because it's written in PHP" then I'm probably not going to read the rest of your comment.
Agreed on the janky-ness of it all. If you are switching to ownCloud because you want to control your date, I'd suggest Transporter.

http://www.filetransporter.com/
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Cars are probably one of the worst possible examples, since most transactions require the title.
That statistic is compiled by the census bureau, and last I checked, unemployed people are part of the census and likely part of the statistic, especially since it can indicate when one person has all the income.

What I find odd is the article mentions 0.0 as the 'one person has all the income', where the wikipedia article on the Gini coefficient says 'A Gini coefficient of one (or 100%) expresses maximal inequality among values (for example where only one person has all the income).'
The API looks sweet. Looking forward to trying it out this weekend.
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This was a private API endpoint. typeahead is a client-side library for a fancy autocomplete textbox from Twitter. It needs a lot of clueless to somehow connect the two things as if they were one and the same.
It's still no dtrace. Something that I hope enters osx soon.
> Really? 93kb of code is lightweight? Yeah I know it gzips smaller, but that's still not what I'd call "ligthweight". It's not bloated, but it's certainly not a micro-lib.

use a cdn, anyway most browsers support gzipped requests.

> Especially if you're only using a small portion of that 93kb of jQuery, and could just "do it yourself".

"do it yourself" if you can be sure it will work on as many browsers as jquery.

Do you think most people have the capability to test their DOM related code on as much browsers ? or are you telling people to ship broken code ?

jQuery is one of the only library that is tested on a wide range of devices. But you dont care ,you are not responsible for people's failure to deliver code that works everywhere.

And it's not just a IE8 issue. Some mobile browsers have serious DOM issues that will never be fixed ( Android 2.3, safari ), and these cases are handled by jquery. Can you fix people's "diy" code? no, so dont give developpers bad advices.

My advice is, if you dont have the capability to test on a wide range of devices , dont "DIY" , your code will be break for sure.
It's like awk, except that you match entry/exit of syscalls, function calls, method invocations (in ObjC/Java), and give code to execute with access to arguments, return values, stack trace, etc.

It can be used to write tools like strace (see "dtruss" on OSX), iotop, topsyscall, etc.
It still does. Microsoft also banned a lot of C functions from usage internally [1]. For codebases that need to build in VC and other compilers I'm not yet sure how to really solve this apart from _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS.

[1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/bb288454.aspx
The first level up on java is being able to tell useful things about it via simply straceing it. Once again another win for dtrace.
Fine, I'll bite.

How do you figure "it does not include army of unemployed people"? Census data should reflect members of the population regardless of employment status.
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If you install OwnCloud on one server, it's not a cloud, but just remote file storage. IMHO cloud implies redundancy and reliability, not just "on a server on the internet"