skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another sign Microsoft needs smarter people. The bright ones probably have left the building, promoting B team will not solve the problem.
I'm not only ashamed of it, I apologized to the programmers that had to come after and maintain it. Regardless, I don't regret it--it helped me get where I am and ironically, it works well and is quite fast. Too bad no one can figure it out.
Permission to publish is second screen with explicit preview of what the story will look like. You could not have enabled it by a single sign-on.
I see. That MO makes a bit more sense then, though is it not then limited to just Keybase.io and will no longer work if something happens to this service? Or more importantly, is there a way to make this distributed?
I have never in my life fucked with these things except page-load passively. Never placed one, never turned one on, never had a reason to click one. But I don't drink Coca-Cola either. Do these things really make the world go round? I mean, really? I mean do corporate bottom lines really depend on this shit? Or is it just that they absolutely have to wring every possible percentage point?
Ken is amazing for providing this level of detail. Thanks dude.
Go is getting a fully precise GC in the next release apparently: http://talks.golang.org/2014/go1.3.slide#4

Also, the default Go compiler essentially has no optimiser at all, just some weak inlining + a language designed to be easy to compile directly to non-horrible machine code without much effort. GCCGo will be much faster.
/prog/ is for discussions of programming and technology. /d/ is for pornography so abhorrent that the rest of 4chan doesn't want to encounter it.
Screen sharing in google hangouts work pretty well. Can't both type with that, but you both can see the editor with acceptable lag, IMO.
Death by a thousand cuts.

What I hate is moving my mouse to the corner by accident during a DayZ fire fight and windows charms covering up my screen.

What I hate about Windows 8 is having 3 or 4 different settings panes.

What I hate about Windows 8 is having to relearn how to open up settings.

What I hate about Windows 8 is that it has two kinds of applications, from apparently two different universes and they can't interact, or if they can I can't figure it out. I just pretend one of them doesn't exist.

What I hate about Windows 8 is that I have to right click on start button.

What I hate about Windows 8 is that if I want to hit a keyboard short cut that requires the windows key and I make a mistake I'm looking at the Metro screen.

When it comes to Metro I hate everything about it, including the little tiny arrow on the bottom right that brings up a second start menu like thing. The little label-less arrows that take you to some kind of app view that's littered with every exe on the computer and scrolls horizontally. Have you seen the way the windows selection charm works? You drag your mouse into the top corner, then drag down to see all the open applications, this list also includes metro applications. The Windows 8 search thing is not even remotely as good as the old Windows 7 search in the start menu and it's only available in metro.

I can go on but I'm tired of being angry and annoyed.
I wasn't clear, I didn't mean to imply that anarchism has no morality, just that it isn't based on individuals' property rights. (At least, that's my understanding of it.)
Similar experience here. I've got Windows 8 on my main computer. When I first installed it it felt odd but I honestly thought I'd get used to it. Nope, not yet. Every time I go back and boot up my desktop (mostly only used for video games), I'm struck all over again by how much more comfortable it is.

Win 8's UI is just. . . eeech. A year later and I still catch myself repeatedly slapping the cursor against the middle of the right side of the screen wondering why the hell it won't give me the charms bar.
The problem is that our economic structure relies on continuous growth. As opposed to moste living systems, who reach a point of equilibrium somewhere.

You know what living entity also relies on continuous growth? Cancer. We're cancer.
He was the first guy to ever use the term libertarian; so from that point until the late 60's, libertarianism was something Rand was ostensibly against. Most libertarians today embrace the Randian critique of the libertarianism of her day.

In other words, the libertarianism of today is by and large anarcho-capitalism rebranded.
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Reads definitely aren't cheap, not compared to the hyper-optimized write path. Cassandra reads can however be exploited to make a lot of common time-series reads extremely cheap by amortizing the cost of the read over a lot of returned data (think a clustered row with lots of byte-sorted columns). Not that RDBMSes can't do the same thing, but it's a complex challenge to linearly scale and maintain availability.

Cassandra also exploits SSDs quite well by avoiding write-amplification problems, given that all write IO is sequential only.

I'm a huge fan of both traditional RDBMSes and alternative data stores. The most important rule for touring data stores is to be sure not to bring it into work when it's not appropriate and to evaluate the hell out of any solution before you write a single line of code.

Most of the time, PostgreSQL will do 99.9% of what you need and then some.
Man, I love Eisenhower. That guy was such a boss. Easily in my top three POTUS list.
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"People will sometimes reach out and ask for a discount on your product before they took the time to sign up for a trial and use it at all. What do you do when that happens?"

Maybe it's just me or the companies I've worked for, but this has never happened to me.
The people are bloated on Big Macs and television.
Is DynamoDB never a serious option for people in situations like this and already heavily on AWS?
A new kind of fractal
So why can't it be made more user friendly?

Marketplace initiates the transaction, and all you have to do is sign it with your bitcoin client.
Reverse Network Effects: How Internet startups lose value with greater traction
It affects performance more on old, register poor, slow CPUs. Memory latency dominates processing time now, but it used to be a real issue.
It's a redesign, but not really a re-think. Check out Bret Victor's "Magic Ink" for a completely new interface for the task: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#p227

(and if you like it, read the whole article; it's fantastic).
Agreed. The music companies seem really odd about what they'll license, and to who. Is it a control issue? That is, when they license to All Access or Spotify, the music companies perceive that they have more control than with Pandora.
Sounds like there is one major thing you did NOT learn: STFU!!! Why the heck would you engage in some much conversation with all the other random officers??
From TFA:

We were a young startup and made a few crucial mistakes. MongoDB was not a mistake. It let us iterate rapidly and scaled reasonably well.

A good solution for X scale might not be so good for 10X scale. But by the same token, a 10X scale solution for a 1X scale problem isn't a good idea either.
You need to watch this: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

Once you're in custody you're in a system built to treat psychopaths and killers. The system isn't built to recognize your unique and brilliant capabilities. It's there to treat the lowest common denominator.

Reduce your surface area. Recognize that you are dealing with a system built to function by 1700s timescales.

This guy admits he screamed over and over that he wanted to see a doctor. He not only made himself a problem to be dealt with, he acted in such a way that they could defensibly put him in the psych ward. "he was screaming the same phrase over and over."

Reduce your surface area and remember the system is built to deliver eventual justice as often as possible, not immediate justice in your case.
As Chris said, we would like to publish everything, just haven't found the time yet. We have bits and pieces in wikis in our various github repositories (almost all of which are open source and public).

The high bits are: all crypto is with GPG/RSA as per RFC4880. There are of course problems here, but we wanted backwards-compatibility and well-tested, well-used clients.

We encrypt server-stored GPG private keys (if you choose to use that option) with TripleSec (see https://keybase.io/triplesec).

Users use GPG to sign a series of JSON objects, of the form "I'm maxtaco on twitter", or "I checked Chris's proofs as of 2014/2/14 and they look good to me." All JSON objects that a user signs are chained together with SHA-2 hashes. So a user can sign the whole group of JSON statements by just signing the most recent one.

Here's an example (click on "Show the Proof")
https://keybase.io/max/sigs/ZnBizHMA8RKSB598TaDtjlPlLKSEu1Wu...

There's a fair amount of engineering that went into the software distribution system. We rely first on npm to get the initial client out there, but after that, exclusively GPG for code-signing. That's documented here:

https://github.com/keybase/node-installer/wiki/Update-Archit...

We hope to have better documentation soon, and we value feedback, we just haven't had the time to put it together yet.
How is the trackpad? Is it Macbook quality? I'm asking this as someone who is really looking to buy a Yoga 2.
If you're doing it during debugging, you might want to turn on source maps instead.
"Well, as you can see, it sucks as it cuts!"

"It certainly does suck!"
As you just said, users must trust the JS coming from Keybase. It might be compromised at any time.

Next, people usually mumble about auditing it, downloading a copy, signing it, etc. At the end of the day, you arrive to code installed on the client - which you already have.

The web version just weakens your story.
> He was the first guy to ever use the term libertarian

The word has multiple meanings. He used a different one. How is that relevant? It's like you cited the first use of the word "mouse" (animal) when we were talking about computer mice.

And your comments don't make sense. Rand strongly criticized anarcho-capitalism, you say libertarians today are largely anarcho-capitalists, and yet you seem to be disagreeing with the Objectivism/libertarianism divide (though it's hard to tell what your position is).
Europe is declining even faster than the USA. The worst part is that Europe is emulating the USA. Although I did find the recent Swiss immigration decision to be interesting.
> Libertarians don't necessarily not believe in laws, they simply don't believe in a monopoly of laws and law enforcers.

But based on my understanding this either ends up fully reinventing the public sphere under some (weird) definition of private sector (not-for-profit, incorporated, resident-owned cities) or else it cedes power to rich, powerful corporations. After all the limits of what a contract may cover is a social, and therefore political decision, right?

As a Distributist, I see Libertarians as seeing a real problem and coming up with a weird solution to it. The problem is not to reduce the subject-matter scope of government (I actually think this should be expanded slightly to include running of infrastructure that is physical-monopoly territory provided that services are not provided by the government), but to reduce the geographic and demographic scale of government entities. I.e. rather than move government into the "private sector" (which becomes an empty formalism), bring government back close to the people. Empower local government and shrink central government.
He states that he is pretty clearly.
There are many ways talking can help. It can help you avoid the police officer's discretionary punishments. It can help you avoid increased scrutiny that turns up something incriminating. It's less probable that it will help you avoid being punished due to a baldfaced lie on the part of the officer, since presumably the courts are good at filtering those out, but it's not impossible.

Once you require the services of a trial lawyer, the benefits of talking are off the table and the price of silence looks like pocket change. That's why you hear the advice "never talk to the police." Not because it's a good idea in general (try it next time you get a traffic ticket and tell me how it goes), but because it's a very bad idea in certain very specific cases, which happen to be precisely the cases seen by those giving the advice. Your prior probabilities are different, and your behavior should reflect that.
I don't see what this has to do with the Internet. Just because a business uses a web site or app in place of the telephone doesn't imply it needs more or less regulation.
Remember web counters? It's like that.
In your desire to complain about cyclists (rightly or wrongly) you are blind to the abuse of a citizen that happened here.
Really? That's what this is about? Whether Yelp reviews can substitute for government regulation?
I think part of the lesson learned from reading the post is MongoDB is best when you start sharding from the git-go, especially if you know you're going to have pounds of data.
And is there such thing as "Stalinist Trotskyists"?

Also that some similar groups dislike each other does not imply that all groups which dislike each other are similar.
Could you effectively add an online "in person" check by having keybase.io send the person a large uniquely watermarked placard with a unique OCRable pin that the person holds up while taking of photo of themselves mugshot-style that must be sent in as a lossy image type (where image tampering is detectable). With this image publicly published online, it would be easy to visually verify the person yet another way. Obviously for people with pseudonym identities that are online only, these check would be irrelevant.
And yet, having been owner and operator of businesses in both the US and UK, the UK government is far friendlier to small businesses than the US government is. Part of the US problem is that government has scaled up so far demographically and geographically that the government does need to be as small as possible at least on a federal level.

A way to look at this from a European perspective might be the role of the European Union: should the EU government be as powerful as possible? Or should virtually all of the lawmaking power reside with the member states?
Glowing art grown from bacteria
Your comment is a perfect example of non-constructive negative verbal diarrhea on HN.

This course has a clear purpose: How can I photoshop to design UI?

There's no need to belittle people who actually create content to share.
In the sense that they're on everything, but serve a real purpose to almost no one?
Why We Don't Want To Be "The Next Red Hat"
> Anyway, the long-term social effect was (from where I'm sitting) positive

The positive social effects of...the Reign of Terror? You might as well throw in the Holodomor, the Khmer Rouge's Killing Fields, The Great Leap Forward, etc etc etc as everything's much better now than it was then. Post hoc ergo propter hoc, amirite?
but are those true scotish ?
If the site went away tomorrow, you'd still have keys in your GPG keychain. You'd also have a local cache of the server-side data relevant to you.

All public server-side data is available as a dump (https://keybase.io/__/api-docs/1.0#call-dump-all). Private data like encrypted public keys and password hashes we of course will keep under wraps.

We don't have immediate plans to make the system distributed, but if someone did it, we'd find it very cool. It's just too much for us to do right now.
Science and engineering are already "balkanized" by language -- at least with respect to Mandarin, Russian, and German.

I remember in uni taking "German for technical and scientific reading" courses just for that purpose. It make much more grow the communities than shut most people out because they don't speak English.
Weird, I work in China and have never heard C++ referred to as C加加.

Many of my coworkers feel uncomfortable using English sometimes, but I never have a problem understanding them. The Indians speak English at work (in India at least) out of habit.
No, they can still set cookies for their domain. These got loaded on every request to a button. It's probably not too far fetched to assume that they can correlate that data to your identity through various means. http://www.nikcub.com/posts/facebook-re-enables-controversia...
I worked my way through school as a police dispatcher. I remember the officers had a saying about otherwise innocent people who they took to jail after they gave the officers a hard time: "You may beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride."
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> That doesn't do anything to answer my question about where libertarians stand on the question. I still don't get what a civilization without a "monopoly on laws and law enforcement" would look like.

Not a libertarian here, but one example regarding this might be medieval Iceland where such shopping around was encouraged and even the basis of the system, as was taking things into one's own hands and perpetrating blood feuds.

Interestingly the difference between "murder" and "manslaughter" in Iceland had nothing to do with intent but rather that if you killed someone that was manslaughter, but if you failed to report it to the family of the victim properly in a timely manner, or you tried to hide the fact, then it was murder (and a far, far more serious crime).

But then I suspect there's a reason why at that time, Iceland didn't have cities.
Each of those events happens 1 time per year.

kids attend their friends birthdays. candy occasions can work out to several times a month between halloween and new years.
> IANAL but I'm reasonably confident that a restraining order he received as a minor would not be admissible as evidence in this case, and thus should be irrelevant to the prosecution.

And yet it might be relevant to the reason he was arrested, if the quotation in the message above yours (which is unsourced) is true.

Kid gets arrested for Facebook talk: "INJUSTICE!"

...but he had a previous restraining order for similar threats: "They might have a point."

What's ridiculous about this case is that they kept at it.
One of the key detractors for us was the 64KB limit.

"The total size of an item, including attribute names and attribute values, cannot exceed 64KB."

While we don't often have values over 64KB, it's possible. We didn't want to have to store profiles separate from their metadata.
Unlike the common lexicon we are used to, there's no one single unified "music industry". It is composed of many individuals, companies, and government bodies and they all have goals and interests of own which do not coincide with each other all the time. Deals with internet music companies are made on individual basis at different times in different financial circumstances etc.
I recall hearing old NT hands saying that in the early versions of NT, it was more of a micro-kernel -- eg. the video driver ran in user space. So if the video-driver crashed (obviously leaving the screen in an unusable state) -- it was still possible to restart the driver via the keyboard -- no OS reboot needed. But at the time, they couldn't get the performance they wanted, so moved the stuff into the kernel -- the rest is a long history of blue screens of death...
if you're a child of the 80s you'll also recognize:

http://www.flowbee.com
Human Brain Visualized with WebGL
This merg will be the worst thing that could happen,
1) Prices of the packages will go up what will that do with the people who already have a package with TWC. Will it make there prices go up?
2) Who would trust comcast will all the talk of them throttling internet. Its will casue full chaos and they would end up losing more money then they would gain from the merg.
I can confirm this. All web projects I worked on which were minimalistic, clean and well designed had less stickiness (page impression count to visits) compared to sites stuffed with content, pics, links, extra widgets here and there.
moon was a great movie. it was the movie oblivion could have been.
Well, they do:

show . read
Link Bait: Mapping the Spread of the Epic Twitter Link Chain
Gahh so sorry, but this is prime tl;dr material

As a rule, don't mouth off to cops
Too late: http://www.tableforsix.com/
I'm not a big fan of this approach at all. Two reasons why:

i) Company is actively, publicly, positioning itself as a discounter "Check it out and if you dig it I'm sure we can work something out" So now don't be surprised when you get more requests for discounts!
ii) At the end of the day they're stating something they believe to be not true We don't intend to take care of you. We think you'll qualify out and if you stick around or you'll like it so much you won't want a discount.

Why not just say "Hey, I tell you what. Sign up for a trial and if at the end of that time you really want to buy it and you have a good reason why you shouldn't pay our actual price we'll listen to you." It's closer to what you're really thinking.
I wouldn’t really say that the OP thought he was smarter than the police officers. He believed could clear up a misunderstanding just by talking – and that may be naive, but it’s not arrogant. Now, if he knew that he had done something wrong and thought he could argue his way out of trouble, that might be thinking he was smarter than those who would get him in trouble. But he was just trying to clear up a misunderstanding – he wasn’t trying to fool anyone using cleverness. If anything, the OP was assuming that the police officers were equally smart as him, and thus intelligent enough to distinguish a threat from a misunderstood bystander.
Except, of course, when he talked about gender identity, the transgender "agenda", how he refers to the gender of other people, and his construction of what somebody "really" is.
Let's say I have a 10,000 mile long extension cord.
Hey, another React team member here.

Yes, some compatibility code exists, but it's mostly just part of the default config which you can change. Additionally we don't inject things like the tap plugin by default so you aren't getting those extra bytes.

You can see what I mean about React's modularity by looking at this file https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/src/browser/Re...
So, as a person who decided to put the banner up on a couple of the sites that I run/co-run, I'm curious if I actually made an impact, and which sites have more politically actionable users.

Did you collect analytics about calls and which domains they came from? I would be curious to see what sites generated the most calls/emails or the best call/email ratio or the best action/view ratio. Is that possible, or would that be too… privacy violate-y?
The main reason why they are done:

- Facebook is not viral anymore and share or likes hardly bring extra traffic

- Twitter is mixed: in general you do not get decent traffic from them; but from time to time a +100K follower user either shares or retweets your thing and you get extra traffic or he/she initiate kind of virality (again this happens even for high traffic sites not very often)

- and of course they are just ugly
This may seem like exaggeration, but you exist in a shared open space with 7 billion talking wild animals. You really can get anything, for anything.
Australian government considers crackdown on illegal downloading
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Even if you don't assert your rights, you are subject to a militarized police state's rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928424

Keep your powder dry!
How does HM get in the way of mutable assignment?