skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, let's be clear about what's being worked on. The logical replication framework as I understand it is a framework for logical replication frameworks, not for the end user/administrator. I.e. it is there to allow some centralized logic between implementations like Bucardo and Slony, rather than be usable directly.

Logical replication, if you need it, is not some far-off feature from a sysadmin's perspective but something where there are currently at least three major implementations of it to date, namely Slony, Bucardo, and Londiste. Take your pick, set it up, and use it. These three have very different focuses and design decisions associated with them and so what's good for one environment may not be good for another.

So instead of continuing to wait for it, get out and try these solutions.

Just to note, the two main uses of logical replication (as opposed to physical replication which is what the streaming replication offers) is:

1. Live migrations between versions.

2. Replicating only a subset of a database (for example, into a system in a DMZ).

Every major implementation currently supports both of these approaches, but supporting #2 makes using it for #1 significantly harder. It might be nice to see a framework for #1 be built on top of an existing logical replication framework.
The Target hack certainly disrupted the credit card system, by causing a lot of reissued cards.
You go to them and say "You can outsource your billing department to us for less than you're paying now."
> If this happens, we will get borders on the internet. And if there is anything which can wreck the internet, borders are it.

No offense but this is exactly the option I'd be recommending to U.S. policymakers (i.e. having a "Balkanization Button") if it really comes to gutting the NSA.

Yes, the thing that makes the Internet so good for us is the open borders, but it's also the thing that makes it so powerful for countries that don't have to abide by pesky little things like Western cultural morals.

In no other realm does a potential adversary gain access to a military capability and the Western world opts to leave itself defenseless. And make no mistake, cyber is thought to be a military capability for the likes of Russia (just ask Estonia or Georgia), China, and North Korea.

If pacifism is to be the answer in response to this threat, then that simply means that defense will have to come by different means, i.e. by "battening down the hatches" and sealing off foreigners from domestic networks. If we can seek out threats on networks then the second-best option is to try and keep our networks from being used against us.

Similar logic will then apply in the E.U. and other nations.

> The internet was international and neutral from the start, don't bring your territorial thinking here!

It was hardly neutral from the start, the Internet developed from things like NSFNET and MILNET. Don't be silly.

And either way, "we didn't start the fire"... the NSA didn't invent cyber hacking, as they could only have been hacking themselves at first. Go read "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Cliff Stoll if you want to see where the first wave of state-sponsored hacking started.
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"‘Like’ing something on FB is entirely different that endorsing a product for your friends, "

How? What is it to publicly announce that you like something? That's an endorsement. Why else would you be "liking" something on FB? To privately remind yourself that you like it?
Ask HN: How to "defend" against Transaction malleability?
After reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244191
I think my website got affect by this. What's the best way to defend against it?

freedomsponsors.org is a crowdfunding service for
open source software where "sponsors" can send Bitcoins to programmers for
solving issues.

As soon as we confirm we received bitcoins from a sponsor,
we keep a 3% fee send the rest to the programmer, using a Python API.

Sending through the API returns a transaction hash that we store in our
database.

Later FS receives a notification with transaction details.
If that notification contains a transaction hash that doesn't match
anything on the database, freedomsponsors.org sends me an email that
basically says: "HEADS UP: Blockchain is telling me there is an outgoing transaction that I don't know about, here is the transaction details...".

freedomsponsors.org is open source on Github, and the related code is here
http://bit.ly/1bA2eiQ

Today, I got two of those emails and boy did that freak me out!
I thought someone was stealing my coins.
Only later I could investigate and understand what happened:

Transaction created by FS (hash returned by the API):

hash = 18311e095c3d8426025ab87fae87e988e1fbad09ba01db32586d066fc28ba87d

amount = 0.01570000

from = 14LkZoYgcheQCkj1mk6oEKqDsxcKHNAT7q

to = 1LSrAt3Ee1BZrRM2YLxrPaBxSTEqcr8SxW

That hash cannot be found in the blockchain anymore.
Instead there's

hash = a76f239a327e8b61f7c3f942d52066696c58ad13fb19e4ec7f523a342a12db59

amount = 0.01569999

from/to = the same

So... I can't trust transaction hashes anymore, is that it?
Should I verify transactions based on "from" and "to" then?
Or is there any more reliable way of telling whether money I sent has reached the wallet on the other side?

Thanks!
It was 2008 and you were in the Midwest. That pretty clearly explains why, I think.
Thanks – I'm glad you like it!

The pricing model is a discussion in and of itself, but it boils down to us wanting Ding to be as simple and straightforward as possible. If you think the product is worth paying for after 45 free days, you either sign up for the Solo or the Team plan, and that's it. No annoying 'project limits' or anything like that.

There's a lot of theory on this subject matter, but we prefer to stick with what we think is a clean approach. At least for the time being.
I've been a happy subscriber of Toggl for some time now (2+ years). I find Ding's pricing to be higher, and I don't see any integration with other services (like FreshBooks, etc..). I see I can export data, but does anyone know if they plan to integrate with other services?
You're right U.S. companies would not be happy, but in fairness to the Europeans this is exactly the direction that I'd said they need to head in if they truly want no possibility of their data being handled in ways unsupported by European law.

Anything else would be like Google opening an office in France and expecting to comply with American labor laws instead of French ones.
Perhaps the digital stadiometer eliminates service calls simply by giving a stable reading that you can write down whether it's accurate or not. This is a psychological advantage of digital readouts, but one that is not lost on the makers of measurement instruments.
Thus, any recursive simulations would get smaller and smaller in terms of the number of thinking entities in them.

I'm glad this flaw in the simulation argument is well known. The simulation argument reminds me of Anselm's ontological argument in a way.

I wonder if anyone has tried to create a set of "Laws of Simulation" analogous to the laws of thermodynamics, which would define a limit to how much pseudoreality can be simulated by a given amount of "true" reality.
Correct. The thresholds are here:
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/tax...

For reference, the threshold for Denmark is about 38k Euros, so you (the UK-based bookseller) wouldn't deal with this until your sales _to Denmark_ topped that amount annually.
you're forgetting that a lot of games use the individual server model. for example battlefield 4 has 70 player max on any given server. meaning a DDOS will only cause problems for that many
Mail selection with Yahoo is tricky, but it's mostly usable. The current iteration is way better than it has been. (They've fixed back button integration. )

Google use a lot of buttons without text, using icons instead, which a lot of the time are background images. This lends to a lot of mystery meat navigation. Google+ is a bit of nightmare on that front for me.

I don't think my setup is that exotic, all I'm doing is trying to use consistent background and foreground colours, font and text size.

It's amazing how many sites seem to gloss over accessibility.

An instagram page:
http://instagram.com/p/ieluJhv-V7/

How it looks to me:
http://postimg.org/image/an1jbvf65/

Yup, pretty useless. I've never been able to use/see Instagram pictures without flipping between browsers!
I'm still not sure what's the best way to defend against that, so I posted a "Ask HN" here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7246381

Any help is appreciated
Just downloaded, it looks great. Great design, really pleasing to use and look at. Lots of small attention to detail that makes it feel nice (eg, calendar picker with large trailing dates into future and past selected month).

One note: I'm interested in just using for time tracking for personal productivity, but it feels more like it's built around use cases for consultants / free lancers (eg, client name being required when creating project). Not sure if my use case is your target, but if it is might be nice to have a global setting to turn off the 'client / freelancing' features so i get something a little more streamlined and limited to better capture how I want to use it. Might diverge from what you're going for, but wanted to pass along how I planned on using.
Golden Rice – Syngenta’s golden hope – a win, hands down
Agreed, with a solid regime there will be an initial cost (DOMS and fatigue) but that only lasts for a week or so, then the benefits start to rack up very soon after. The best part is the order- the very first thing you earn is feeling better, which is the most important benefit to me!

FWIW, I'm on the "stronglifts" program, plus chunks of 30-min medium-high intensity cardio where I can fit it.
It also depends on the exercise. I will bench to failure any day if I have a spot, but I really don't like squat to failure.
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Although I and my Disciples may encounter various Difficulties, if we do not harbor doubt in our hearts, we will as a matter of course attain Buddhahood and Enlightment.
Do not have Doubts simply because the Heavens does not Lend you Protection.. Do not be discouraged because you do not enjoy an easy and secure existence in this Life. This is what i have thought my Disciples morning and evening and yet they began to harbor Doubts and Abandon their faith. Foolish men are likely to forget the Promises they have made when the crucial moment comes..
Thanks for the link, I will probably read it. Are you familiar with Bjarke Ingels over at BIG, I thought his TED was super interesting, http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_3_warp_speed_architec...
UK Roars Ahead In Expanding Porn Filters To Include 'Extremist' Content
good job! now you have to do it with http://corpsmoderne.itch.io/flappy-space-program and deal with the complications
One observation: it's totally feasible for a UK citizen with simple tax affairs (income only from employment, bank interest, shares) to file their tax return using a form supplied by HMRC (IRS equiv.). My understanding is that individuals in the USA have to use software made by Intuit and others, as the calculations are too complex to allow an average Joe to do it themselves.

Is this the case?

(I admit that 'ease of compliance' and 'tax code being complicated' are not the same)
Fascism is a fairly specific thing. The UK has many problems, but I do not think you could reasonably claim that it is a fascist state. While there are some extreme nationalists in the UK, most people seem to regard them as a joke. Most people in Britain don't take its leaders and institutions seriously enough to give fascism ground to flourish. Fascism requires keeping a level of serious respect of the state and it's representatives, that leaves its supporters wide open for general piss taking.

Of course the UK does have some appalling bigots, some of them in positions of power, and it also has some appalling history, especially in connection to empire, but that does not make it a fascist state.
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Why would you expect it to save you much money not getting the cable TV service? Most of the basic cable programming is paid for via advertising. The cost of the pipe is the same whether you get television or just internet.
What about the hunter gatherers that don't have access to as many non-meat options? Inuits, for example, ate mostly meat (with up to 75% of their calories coming from fat) because they were limited in what plants they could gather.

I think the more likely answer is that humans are capable of surviving on all sorts of foods, not "there is one hunter gatherer diet and it contained very little meat."
Sixty hours is fine when you enjoy your work.

Sixty hours a week was a short week in the old days, the conveniences of a modern society allow us to choose more free time should we want it, all you have to do is venture outside of our comfortable environments and you will find people wishing 60 was the max.

Having grown up on a farm all I can say is, you don't notice it unless the wrong stuff keeps piling up. Its amazing how energized you feel when you enjoy the work and don't have idle time to worry.
On FB, Likes and Friends are basically forced-public, even though there is an obvious use case for having these relationships private.
That we could all be considering a concept that has, even if true, a statistically insignificant measurable signature?

God: Oh yes, yes! Souls... I remember those. Great idea at the time. Yeah, I wrote those a loooong time ago. They're causally insignificant now, I'm pretty sure. Obviously it's all automated by now.

Or something Stephensonian, like the protofestering of a fledgling clan of digital spiritalists secretly brooding over the core belief-set of Hackerdom as it is scripted?
How funny is it that I find this post by searching for monkeyrunner and opencv? When I was looking into this for the same silly reason.
Yes, that is reqsonaw behavior -- to customize the ads FB shows me.
There's some comedy in referring to China as though it weren't one of the top countries when it comes to digital crime sponsored by the state. The only debate to be had is whether the NSA or the Chinese Government is worse in that regard, and that would be a pointless debate, they're both vile.
Well, it's not so much a flaw as something that bears empirical testing, someday. If we find that we can easily simulate a perceptual volume of the universe in a relatively smaller amount of physical space, this part of the argument will be sound.
The UI tries very hard to give the false impression that the Liker Likes the ad, not the brand actually Liked.
Our industry is very weird indeed. When I talk to people in other fields and tell them about what it's like to interview for a programming job they're really surprised. I tell them that I need to actually study for a few days before the interview because it's kind of like a final exam where you have absolutely no idea what's going to be asked.
Not sure if he's stripping it, but serving a 'canonical' meta tag would solve that if he's not,
I agree that A&E is stretched, but:

- A&E is meant to cover accidents and emergencies. Spraining an ankle is (usually) an accident.

- Is there an argument (based on efficiency or something else) for schools to have their own medical staff, over and above some proportion of teachers trained in first aid, and maybe a full-time person to make decisions on next steps for more complicated cases?
You must be unfamiliar with crack.
Fire destroys bank archives; 3rd such fire in Iron Mountain warehouses
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for me it's not really anxiety. in a way it's similar to what you describe.

for me for example it's similar things others consider impressive, i consider so trivial that when i was asked that question the last time. i just looked at them and said i dunno. there was a name for this that i can't remember, but it had something to do with underselling yourself.

another problem i noticed is that i think a bunch of problem solution, and scalability pairs in my head after getting asked an interview question. the guy who's looking at me doesn't know what's going on in my head the only thing he sees is some dude staring in the room. i heard that this is actually very common.

a friend of mine at facebook advised me to actually speak out what i'm thinking, as i try to solve the problem, but to me it almost seemed like i would insult the guy by saying a solution i know only works in certain corner cases.

in summary it's very rare that people don't get a really good impression of me after having worked with me. but exactly that is the problem. in open source you can work with anyone, but in the job world you might never even get the chance to.
I haven't had the opportunity to try it myself yet, but it seems like this is the problem PouchDB (http://pouchdb.com/) is designed to solve.
(author of the article here) Probably you're right, but knowing people in the psych field and having read several books on the topic ("Monkey Brain" comes to mind) it's also a very hit-or-miss process. Often you can go to a therapist for years without much improvement.
lobste.rs is lovely as a platform and as a community...but my appreciation for it is somewhat limited by my inability to get an account there.

Edit: Thanks for the invitation! I retract the above.
You shouldn't think about backups as paying for $/GB. You should think of it has paying for the ability to restore correctly instantly when you want to restore. That's where the value really lies.
You already pay 1-3% extra to the credit card processor; a bill consolidation service could take a cut of that (perhaps by acting as a credit card themselves) without affecting the price you see.
Here’s How Google’s New Search Results Will Look Under EU Antitrust Settlement
Just so you know after introductory prices a few years ago it was cheaper to have the "basic" cable + internet than just internet from comcast. It may have changed since I don't live in their service area anymore.
It's a relevant point she brings forth - albeit a false one. Microsoft just as Google is much too biased in this debate and so is Danah Boyd. It is not just the parents fault, the upbringing and social life of a child is composed of many factors. It is not unreasonable to assume that most regular children at the age of ten are in possession of a smartphone and have working parents. At least half of the kids' days will be spent outside of parental jurisdiction and under the influence of other players. These players are - from most real to most virtual: Geolocation, Government, School, Teacher, Classmates/Clique, [...], Mobile device, Software company (Google, Microsoft et al). It is not just a mistake to blame parents, it is the deliberate attempt to throw off any kind of debate that needs to be had about the responsibility of tech companies. If kids learn that likes matter, they will behave accordingly.
This is a great approach.

I'd also recommend only borking SOME of the data - an intermittent bug is harder to fix than a consistent one!
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There is a bit of misinformation in your post. The practice of granting exclusive cable franchises has been illegal since 1992. Many places still have one franchise simply because its not desirable to compete against the incumbent cable company.
Okay short version..

Our physical world is complicated that any math system is incomplete as far as modeling the real world..

Since we use math to understand the world..its simulation is somewhat a true statement from our in precise mathematical model of it...
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It happened a lot in smaller towns because without the carrot of the monopoly grant, it would've been undesirable for companies to wire up those little towns at all.
By that logic, my house is a computer as it contains many systems that are Turing complete.
Your spray had better kill 100% of the mosquitos it's sprayed on, though. And 100% of humans have been "sprayed with" life.
Yeah, just look at what CoinThief does to Chrome ;-)
He mentions the timing of the MtGox announcement being odd. What happened at MtGox was somewhat different. MtGox was submitting transactions that were being rejected due to being malformed according to the latest Bitcoin client software. What some users discovered is that they could correct the malformation issues in the MtGox transactions causing them to go through, but they could also change the hash transaction id, so that meant that not only could they make the transfer go through, but they could do so while making MtGox's software believe that it in fact had not gone through since MtGox was using the transaction id hash to verify a transaction.

When a transaction was rejected by the Bitcoin network that MtGox sent, the MtGox software would detect the rejection and immediately re-credit your account for the attempted transfer amount. MtGox also had an api that allowed you to see the exact contents of the transactions that they sent to the Bitcoin network. This meant that what someone could do is just grab the rejected transaction, fix the malformed portion, modify the transaction id hash and resend the transaction, causing it to go through, but MtGox was unaware of the successful transfer and would re-credit the account. The user could then rinse and repeat over and over.

The interesting twist of this is that it means MtGox knows which user accounts were used to steal coins from them since the malformed transaction could be modified to change the transaction id hash, but the receiving bitcoin address could not be modified without invalidating the transaction.
Agreed, this is really well designed and beautiful. I would love to use that for my personal timekeeping.
Seriously. I write all my critical software in assembly so that my super-fast disks and networks aren't bottlenecked by unnecessary CPU instructions! Backup software always values speed over correctness!
I've read it - it does not support the idea that only extremely rare individuals can productively work 40+ hours.
It's a hard problem, because the market and regulatory frameworks are very different for me, in San Francisco, than for my dad, on the Big Island of Hawai'i, and both in turn are very different from people in Manhattan, or Montana, or in Nome. A national solution might not be workable; but then again, the Federal government is probably the only entity that can treat with companies like Comcast and actually force their hand.

I personally think that divestiture of the physical cabling from the content provision business is the ideal solution, but I have no (0) illusions about the likelihood of that ever happening. Whether you chalk that up to regulatory capture or the growing pains of a changing business model at the end of the day really makes no matter.
Problem is contacting him first tips him off. If you build a technological solution, you can reuse it if this ever happens again.
> Yes, you can! As I said earlier, sufficiently above the sun's north pole, you would see a classic Newtonian orbit, because of the choice of reference frame.

No you would not. Here I assume a correct reference frame : the start point is above the sun's north pole, but it is in gravitational freefall, not artificially accelerated to the same relative position above the sun. If you looked at the earth moving and describe it's movement as an equation in relativistic space you'd get p = k * s + c (with k a real number, p s and c vectors).

This is not a rotation, obviously.

Intuitive observation would show rotation, but that's wrong, or at least that's not really what's happening. Note that your position "above the sun's north pole" is actually an accelerated movement at a point in time. As such it is not a reference frame that is at rest, and as such is not the type of reference frame you'd want to use for anything, unless of course you're using newtonian physics.