skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You implied that "Normal people" can not handle as much gluten as in bread. And I showed you that not only can they handle the small amount in bread, they can handle way more.

Now you are trying to back up behind "we don't really know", but actually it's only a minority that have a problem with gluten.

The slow experiment has been done: We have been eating gluten for millennia, and only a small number of people had a problem with it. Not eating gluten has become a fad now.
> Cassandra and MongoDB are completely fine as general purpose databases.

Whenever I hear this, I feel that the person saying it either doesn't have enough experience or that every problem to them looks like a nail for their particular flavor of NoSQL. That's like saying a street bike is a general purpose bicycle. I'm sure someone out there can make it work on an outdoor offroad trail, but is it ideal?

Cassandra is really awesome at writes but reads are really expensive. Atomicity at the row level only (unless you want that 30% performance hit) and eventually consistency make this not great at real time. CQL3 is an improvement but it's still not as good as ANSI SQL. I still have to do a lot of extra work.

With Mongodb it does really well with tree based data. The second you try to do join queries outside of that doc tree... major performance hit. (Maybe this has changed knowing the speed mongo evolves.) When data is larger than RAM... major performance hit... not so great for something like logging.

Using an RDBMS for everything isn't great, but the pain you suffer is a lot less especially since these days more and more them have some sort of federation or cluster solution. That said, some NoSQL datastores are better for certain applications than an RDBMS, just not for all of them.
Multi-sig seems like it would prevent these problems of markets scamming their users, and thus far seems to have worked for TMP, but the major issue is that TMP hasn't been very popular because it's harder to use, and so we don't know how robust multi-sig is in practice.
Isn't there an ID requirement when driving a vehicle in NY State? It varies by state, and usually if you're not being a dick even if you don't have it, but give enough information to be looked up, it's fine.

I don't know if bicycles are considered vehicles in NYS/NYC. Clearly you can ride a bicycle without ever having a drivers license (as kids can do it), but it may be the case that if you have had one issued, you'd be required to provide it to them.

This is probably a nuanced enough argument that I wouldn't consider having it with a police officer who had just detained me for a real traffic infraction.
No, there are no proofs based on e-mail addresses, because such proofs are not publicly-auditable. We could ask that maria prove to the server that she controls a given gmail account, but there's no way for the server to prove that to you.

We want the server to be untrusted, ideally just a dumb message router.

If Chloe wants to impersonate maria, she'll need to get control of maria's twitter and github accounts. Just claiming maria's email address won't get her anywhere. (Note that GPG keyservers are susceptible to exactly the attack you describe).
Haha, fair call.
> There should be a marketplace without the ability to have bitcoins stolen!

There is at least one, and it's pretty well-known. You underestimate how much ordinary people don't want to deal with things like m-of-n transactions/multi-sig.
So even if you have a valid crypto implementation baked directly into the browser, and you can call crypto primitives directly from JavaScript, what's the point? I'd just grab whatever you are trying to encrypt before it gets encrypted, or decrypt it myself. Or replace the encryption functions with my own wrappers.

Remember, I can introduce any code I want so long as I control the server which is serving your web page. JavaScript crypto is an attempt to not trust the server serving the data, but if that server, or any other server can inject any code into the web page which is handling the encrypted data, then you have no security. You are still left trusting the server to not screw you. Which is the same as using HTTPS which we already have today.
How does a business like this stay off the FDA's radar? The recent Twenty-Three And Me affair would terrify me if I were going into this kind of business.

They were offering a scientific information service that doesn't even come into contact with living humans but the FDA has been ravaging them by claiming that they're a medical device company.
As a side note I hat the terminology used here and I hate that it's so common.

The internet is the real world. Period.
Minimum wage, even at $10, is low enough that most of us could eat the loss of a couple of months of it out of our own wages easily enough. I find it hard to entertain the idea that it composes a significant portion of the risk for a company with reasonable money coming in.

The things they can screw up in terms of projects and resources if not managed correctly, it seems to me, represent far greater risks. Someone seriously messes up there, you can stand to lose a lot more than a few thousand pounds.
Sorry, I left my tea leaves and tarot cards at home. But French nobility continued through the Revolution into the 19th century and there about ~230 remaining noble families (present day) of which at least 130 were titled and had their titles officially restored in 1852.

So in the most notable instance of class war at least, not everyone got the axe. The point you're asking me to respond to is a separate discussion entirely.
Read your link. The definition of unemployment didn't change. They just stopped calculating u3 and u4 and relabeled u5 to u3.
Another Tesla Caught On Fire While Sitting In A Toronto Garage This Month
5 Tips For Making More Time For Yourself
What an absolutely wonderful idea for a blog.

I'd beseech you to do Metropolis, but I feel like that'd be a relatively short post, so to speak.
Saying that a violent revolution is better than a 1918-style flu pandemic is hardly endorsing the concept.

Also, the upper class is not "entrepreneurs"-- most of them are well-connected influence peddlers, which makes them the farthest thing from entrepreneurs-- nor is it the same set as "rich people". (Not all upper class are rich, not all rich are upper class.) The upper class is a closed social network that happens to have a stranglehold on most of society's resources, but there are rich people entirely outside of that network, and not all people in that network choose to become rich (although most do, because it doesn't take them much work).

Is overthrowing the upper class, violently, desirable? No. I'd rather see them peacefully and gracefully decline into irrelevance. They even get to stay rich. It's their belligerence-- that they keep taking more each year-- that gives cause to kill them. It's not what they have, it's the risk (likelihood?) that they'll take more each year, leaving less for the rest. Is overthrowing the upper class morally acceptable? Yes. This is a problem for us to solve, and it may come down to our generation. Violence should be a tool of last resort, but they are already using it against us (if you live in the US, you know about our health insurance system) so we'd already be in second-strike territory. I have absolutely no moral problem with the violent overthrow of the global elite-- they've already earned it several times over-- but in terms of practicality, desire, and preference, if a nonviolent solution can be had, I'd rather it be that.
BART Riders Exposed To Potentially Fatal Disease
Yep, once company trains you thoroughly, they have to spend even more money retaining you because you may jump ship.

Good old days of lifetime employment where loyalty was two-way street had its benefits.

Because of this mutual distrust, it's too hard to retain good employees these days. Irony is that, most good employees are completely wasted in corporate environment anyway.
Said trend may be partly explained by Windows 8.
Settling the Dust to Choose Between Zend and Cake PHP
Here, the word privacy is referring to a general concept, not the formal policy of an organization.
AppFog reduce free plan to 512MB RAM, 2 services, 2 instances
I'm not sure you need to go through all that trouble to deduplicate questions, at least while the english SO is so much larger. Its very likely that any question in the PT stackoverflow will already have been asked in the English SO. In fact, I would say that its likely that most simple questions in SO have already been asked before with a different wording.
Much of an improvement that Windows 8 is, this doesn't surprise me - There is no -need- to upgrade to it over Windows 7.
It's not like the difference between XP and 7, where users were upgrading from an ageing buggy mess (or in the case of upgrades from vista, just a buggy mess).
Simply astounding. Wonderfully done. The wealth of typographical research into various movies is almost Limitless. Twelve Monkeys couldn't pull me away from this. Regardless of what Her's got to say about it.
Live video uplink... and they can call all the officers with "malfunctioning" cameras back to the station to get a replacement.
Apple is also selling into the living room. The Apple TV sells 6-7 million of them a year.
I think it's more that there are eccentrics out there, and they by definition do things differently to the usual methods.
So pg should be content to take his chances come the glorious revolution? I still don't get why you'd have a "boner" for indiscriminate killing of the successful, even if it's "merely" a random subset thereof.

You say in another comment that you're just being "cheeky", but frankly I find your and michaelochurch's comments deeply disturbing. If it's just dorm room BS, perhaps you could find a more appropriate forum.
I think these numbers are a testament to how good Windows 7 is. There was definitely a compelling reason to upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista, but, with Windows 7 being so good, Windows 8 is a tough sell for some consumers.

In my experience, Windows 7 has been more stable than Windows 8. For average users, there's no real reason to upgrade.
> edit: I noticed I just wrote "de" instead of "the". Stupidest mistake I often make.

I've worked with a lot of developers from China, who themselves work with developers in India. On a conference call the China sysadmin announces they've verified the C Jia Jia environment and the India developer totally knows what they mean.

C++ in Mandarin is pronounced C Jia Jia.

Don't sweat it.
Obama passed this law in Illinois, it launched his career to the Presidency.

In jurisdictions that have this law, the cameras are amazingly unreliable. The failure rate is just huge..
"...Microsoft made significant improvements to their security model by showing (by default) UAC prompts..."

I wouldn't call nag prompts that people learned to reflexively say ok to a significant increase in security. I don't know of any hard data (couldn't find any), but anecdotally, I see people just pressing "Allow" without any thought because it comes up so often.

Yes, it's similar to the unix model, but people using unix probably have a much better idea of what security means and what the risks are going in.

EDIT: I just realized that you may have said that sarcastically...
Never worked in an office before?
"literally everyone agrees that 'government should be as small as possible". Coming from Europe, that strikes me as a fascinating American (I presume) statement. From countless conversations I (Libertarian leaning - something which I just discovered in the last few years, did not even know that such a thing existed before that) had in the past in various European countries I found that the size of government was usually completely irrelevant for most people and in fact the majority was in favor of laws, ideas, concepts, movements etc, that de facto would lead to more government and more laws. Sorry for the OT, just fascinated :-)
Hold on. First, GPG servers are susceptible to the same type of attack, except they would never be used that way. You never look up a person by email, the send them an encrypted message using the key you get. Instead, you verify their key and email address out of band: you meet them, check their credentials, then sign the key. Keybase is trying to get rid of the in-person verification, an effort I applaud, but in favor of a much weaker check: whether a few centralized accounts had been compromised.

The other part, where you check Maria's Twitter and GitHub accounts, means that a few things like Twitter, and GitHub are impervious to Chloe: a tall order and a centralized one at that.

Once again, is the point here for me to get a tuple of (email address, public GPG key) so I can email Maria securely? If so, then someone somewhere has to prove that this tuple fetched from the public key servers is valid.

If the point is to only communicate via keybase.io, then the service is centralized, and useless once actual sensitive info is exchanged, the US government takes notice and shuts it down at the DNS level.
This article caught my interest as I've been reading into Cassandra. But some previous research had me thinking that Cassandra works best with under a TB/node. Is SQL still better when you have really large nodes (16-32TB) and only really want to scale out for more storage?

I'm currently humming along happily with Postgres, but some of the distributed features, and availability of Cassandra look really nice.
I also think I should point out that I think your comment points out a couple of biases both about this community and who we think are the wealthy elite in this country.

I think those that have struck rich through entrepreneurship are the extreme minority and the numbers we've seen back it up. In fact most founders lately seem to be either the working-poor or at parity with salaried developers working for established business. Regardless, as a group, they are in no way the kings and policy makers in our society and are barely significant stakeholders.

I think it's much more likely that the "rich and powerful" who influence the direction of our society all engage in primarily rent-seeking activity.
sounds like a bug in Ghostery?
I wouldn't say Esperanto is 100% optimal, but it was created from scratch by linguists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
You are allowed to use either. Kind of like how in the English SO or in Wikipedia you can use either the American or British dialect.
You are far too easily offended if that's being an ass.
XP sold 120 million in the same time period. Care to explain your view?
Very tense atmosphere at a Google Bus stop in San Francisco
It's their belligerence-- that they keep taking more each year-- that gives cause to kill them.

OK. Name some names. Who has cause to be killed by your standard solely because they "keep taking more"?
To your point #1:

We get this ALL the time in my business (which is much more expensive and a brick-and-mortar service). My answer is generally along the lines of (in a much less snarky way):

"Great, if you become a regular customer we'll give you a discount on your 3rd visit."

The ones who are serious go for it. The ones who are not (which is most people) say something like:

"Well, I don't know that I'm going to be back 3 times."

Well, then I don't know that I want to give you a discount.
"indiscriminate killing" means both the successful and the unsuccessful. You're confusing a lot of things here. I mention this in another comment but in no way is anything that I'm saying targeted specifically at people involved in tech startups, in fact, despite how I think many would think of themselves they've all got the same lot as the rest of us.

tl;dr: tech entrepreneurs are not the 1%.
The haircut machine in Moon blew my mind, I can't believe it actually exists, and on such a prestigious domain name!

www.haircut.com
The performance on Mono is a bit less but I imagine it can do pure things just fine.
This is an astounding comment post-2008.
Ask HN. Why the $150+ Bitcoin exchange spreads?
We're not big fans of browser PKI either, but we're using it as scaffolding that hopefully one day can be torn down.

`keybase-installer` needs an initial install over https from npm. We unfortunately saw no way around this.

Assuming that install succeeds with integrity, then all future upgrades of the installer and client are verified with PGP keys stored locally on the client.

Once the client is installed, it speaks HTTPS to the server, but we're not trusting the root CA. Rather, we sign with our own CA that we ship with the client.

The proofs themselves, on twitter and github, all can be verified in the clear, as FiloSottile points out, but of course relying upon the HTTPS certificates of twitter and github to make sure the proofs weren't corrupted in transit between those services and the client.
> Between 10 million deaths, no correlation between dying and deserving it, and chaos and no reason to believe in political progress, versus 200,000 deaths, a high correlation between dying and deserving it (i.e. higher death rates among the current elite) and the likely deposition of the corporate upper class, I know which one I'd pick.

While the most famous people executed during the French Revolution were from the aristocracy, the vast majority of people executed were not. Inciting rebellion and food hoarding were the common accusations.

This source[1] puts it as 6.25% "nobles", 2% noblesse de robe, 14% upper-middle class, 10.5% lower-middle class, 6.5% clergy, 31.25% working class, 28% peasants, and 1% unidentified.

I know you say "if it comes to that", but anyone wishing for a real revolution to enable some kind of social justice is deeply misguided. The poor and downtrodden may not be the first against the wall, but they will be there in much, much larger numbers.

[1] http://www.jstor.org/stable/1881548
tl;dr: tech entrepreneurs are not the 1%.

Again, how do you expect the "class war" for which you have a "boner" to distinguish between entrepreneurs and "rent seekers"?
How slavery flourished at one plantation
> Carrying ID may not be required by law, but it will save you a lot of hassle and explaining if you ever do have a run in with the law.

Thanks for pointing this out. I have always been told that this was required in NYC, and I'm pleasantly surprised to learn that it is not[0][1]

[0] http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAW...

[1] http://www.nyclu.org/oped/column-showing-id-nypd-our-times
As a customer, SendWithUs has great customer service.

I signed up for SendWithUs and had a problem integrating it with my email sender. They helped me fix the issue and were really fast to respond. I'd recommend every startup try out SendWithUs.

I haven't used it for that long yet, so I can't really review the product itself, but so far it's great.
Ubuntu uses the packages that have been maintained and integrated by Debian, but they don't necessarily take the binaries. They compile it themselves, and that means they can specify whatever compile options they want.
Yes, though it might be broken right now. Our plan is to allow this, for sure.
You are correct that some wars have helped economies improve. Protip: it's the massive economic reorganization rather than the death that does that.

War creates demand for labor which means that people doing the work have leverage. (See: my note about dividing the 1000 richest people artificially into "Red" and "Blue" teams and putting them into war.) Without it, the world seems to be run by yes-men and visionless cost cutters (do the same damn mediocre thing with less resources) than people with the leadership and creativity to actually advance the world.

It seems to be a pretty dismal fact of humanity that the only thing that prevents social cancer (i.e. the emergence of a parasitic, non-producing, and aggressively self-enriching elite that causes increasing dysfunction in the society, while labor's leverage approaches zero) is the existential threat to a society posed by major war. I wish it were otherwise. I wish we were a species that could mobilize around solving cancer or clean water in the way we are able to mobilize around killing people.

The problem is that, during peace time, the good seem to become complacent and bad peoples' superior ability at social ascendency and ingratiation puts them into positions of leadership (see: the rightward lurch of American politics after 1980, and the increasing mean-spiritedness of Corporate America beginning around that time). Eventually, the social rot reaches an "overflow" point where the dysfunction of one society or more causes violent conflict. Then there's war, which makes good and bad people warlike both.

Wars don't always make economies improve, of course, and war is pretty much the worst thing imaginable. However, to this point, humanity hasn't come up with anything else that gives the disenfranchised enough leverage to shock society out of a cancerous state.

I really hoped that Silicon Valley would show the world a way out of that idiotic cycle, but the actual behavior that is in it, thanks to the VCs turning it into Hollywood for Ugly People, has rendered that impossible.
Mtgox and Bitstamp suspended withdrawals due to a vulnerability. People have to sell in order to withdraw funds.
Fedora for my desktop. It's cutting edge and has sane package naming. I've also been using RPM based distros since the origin RedHat 4.

CentOS on servers. Rock solid, long support.

I had an Ubuntu phase when it was first released. Even helped 2 companies standardize on it while moving developers off windows machines to Linux. But ditched it for personal use when Fedora 7 came out.

The only other distro that interests me is Arch. It's definitely the tweakers distro, and if I were younger and had more time to tinker with Linux I'd run it on my desktop.

I guess the main reason why is familiarity - 17 years with RPM based distros.
F# has a huge following on macs. The Xamarin guys drive it, and practically every major open source .Net library is available for mono.

I haven't tested it on linux, but I've found it works pretty well on macs.
Objectivism doesn't preach that there should be no government, no judicial, and or no police. You clearly don't understand Objectivism. First it has absolutely nothing to do with libertarianism, Ayn Rand was specifically clear about that, and wrote a lot on the subject. It has nothing to do with anarchy; it argues strongly in favor of a government that enforces ethical laws, including property rights (the war on drugs being as far away from ethical as you could possibly get).
Unfuddle users how will you respond to the recent price increase?
Personally, I'll move. I've been happily paying $9 a month for the Micro plan for years now. Private, remote subversion hosting is all I need. I don't use any of the other features of the site, just the remote svn. Now the micro plan is going from $9 to $15 a month, quiet a drastic increase, one I can't justify.

Certainly they deserve to charge a fair price for the services, but for someone not using the extra's, it just doesn't make sense.

Do you use Unfuddle? What are your thoughts?
I think they meant that they neither found evidence that he was a lunatic, nor any guns (i.e. not only did he not have the mental state for carrying out a shooting, he did not even have the means). I think either in his speech or during editing the conjunction was accidentally dropped. At least, that was my reading of it.
While they're both the low-hanging fruit and not even remotely on the same "level" we're talking about here, slumlords would be a pretty good trial run.

In fact, some folks in New York have recently gotten the ball rolling on that one.
I think some things like null terminated strings etc are not inevitable in a fast language like C. There were definitely design mistakes that cost security and don't directly affect performance significantly.
Social media buttons allow the parent org to track your online movements as they're loaded for various things.