skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full title: "Are X-Ray Backscatter Scanners Safe for Airport Passenger Screening? For Most Individuals, Probably Yes, but a Billion Scans per Year Raises Long-Term Public Health Concerns", from body: "for most individuals who travel only a few times each year".
In the context of this post, "out in the open" = spoken or otherwise communicated between individuals. In organizations without formal structure, you still get all the messy emotions and politics, but people don't verbalize them - they just adjust their behavior to avoid things or people that they don't like. The resulting culture can get very passive aggressive. It also often has a very lopsided power dynamic, where people who are naturally comfortable being outspoken or voicing grievances end up setting the agenda, while other people who are quiet but may have better ideas or observations end up being left out.
Big companies try to have career paths for technical people. They claim "Distinguished Engineer" is the equivalent of a VP. However, it's really hard to get promoted to the few coveted DE positions, whereas a fresh batch of VPs are anointed every Monday.
Totally nerd sniped on this one. Will never get those hours back :-)

Meta question: Would it be possible to get 4096?
This may be hypocritical given what we are discussing, but please don't use Tor for this kind of activity.

There are hundreds of proxy vendors, and other curators of open proxies if you have a tight budget, which are designed to spread out the origin of the load and do some minor masking of your traffic.

But it would make me very sad to have an exit node blocked for being involved with this.
There are better online (and without installing anything) alternatives, like http://peliculasio.com/ (spanish)
And yet Valve has the final word on what they allow on their network.
Pretty damning indictment of Newsweek if this is what passes for "investigative journalism" there.
Yeah I have to agree - I'm in my mid-50s and this is my experience - I've changed what I do roughly every decade or so - compilers, chip design, satellite protocols, embedded everything, board design, all round kernel hack - keeping your skills fresh is very important, it stops you getting burned out and bored
Most of the opponents of marijuana legalization are alcohol companies. Their profits are highly threatened indeed.
As part of this article, Sucuri is offering a service to check if your Wordpress site participated in the DDOS. It's possible it was, because the bad guys used XML-RPC (aka pingbacks) reflection to power the attack.

But wait--what is that service really? It's a webform where concerned Wordpress site owners can enter the domain names for their sites. Domain names that probably have real contact information in the whois lookup.

These could also be known, from Sucuri's perspective, as warm leads.

Is that really what's going on here though? I doubt it. But it saddens me that every form now also looks like an opportunity to collect data on me.
> The only solution that allows them to compete with pirates is to have one monopolistic mega-corporation that controls all the content, so it can sell it easily without licensing issues.

Out-of-the-box thinking: what if the tickets to movies were sold in advance of production, like a Kickstarter?
That a serious question or are you making a point? It's often hard to tell on the Internet...

Edit: Oh, I see - you've confused me with the person way up-thread with the $300K income, I'm not the same poster as he. I don't like to reveal my income on the Internet, but I'd describe it as "enough", so, to answer your question:

1.) Be alert to pure, dumb luck when it happens, and willing to take advantage of it - including dropping previous plans - when appropriate. I thought I would always work in small companies or startups, but I applied to Google in the depths of the 2008 recession and somehow was accepted, so I figured I'd give it a try. I've been there 5 years, with a fairly generous option grant, and the stock price has quadrupled in that time.

2.) Always hone your skills so that when an opportunity arises, you can pounce. I learned a lot of Javascript in my previous startup, and in 2008 (and now), that was the hot skill that everybody wanted. Learn things even if you don't know they'll be useful, particularly things outside of your comfort zone; you never can tell what connection will be important in the future.

3.) Be curious about the world around you, and in particular, about what the people around you are doing. Every single job I've had, I've gotten through my network. In some cases, those connections were several years old, but I reached out and asked them what they were up to and it turned out what they were up to needed people.

4.) Don't be afraid to leave when you've outgrown a place.
Does anybody know why the cow's doing that?
FWIW, the distinct proxy business can be solved in one of two ways, depending on how complex your proxy needs are.

First, you can just put ``request.meta["proxy"] = "http://..."`` at any point along the DownloadMiddleware before the request is actually transmitted.

Second, you could also just package up that "more control over requests" you described and make it a DownloadMiddleware. AFAIK, the first one in the chain that returns a populated Response object wins, so you could short-circuit all of the built-in downloading mechanism.
Didn't notice the tool jumping around till you pointed it out; now I can't stop seeing it. Pushing against left and bottom would definitely be better, especially since there isn't much to see there.

Embarrassingly, I'm not sure what the projection is. The data is described as 'estimates of human population for the years 1990, 1995, and 2000 by 30 arc-second (1km) grid cells'. I did some aggregation to reduce the file size and then just converted that grid to pixel values stretched across the screen:

y = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, longitudes.length])
.range([0, height]),

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/grump-v1-populatio...
I don't really disagree, but neither do you want money to feed a sense of insecurity. You want to rationally pursue means that maximize your take-home income and wealth, but usually if you get emotionally attached to money you a.) will be a lot worse at rationally pursuing lucrative opportunities and b.) are in for an unhappy life.
There's certainly been a trend towards optimizing for pageviews and clickbait above all other considerations. That trend has had a horrendous effect on the average quality of journalism in this country, by dint of the brutal economics of pageview advertising. (In recent years, focus has shifted away from pageviews and toward shares, engagement, etc. But it's mostly the same shit, different day: pay writers as little as possible, crank out heavy volume, bait people with headlines, weave vanity metrics into ad dollars.)

But I see a bright spot in all of this. In a sea of crap, good content might glimmer on the surface, wherever it appears. There's been a serious backlash among the tech and journalism communities against content farms and clickbait. People are, once again, experimenting with quality. Whether quality will be able to last depends on whether anyone can figure out how to make money from quality, and that's the unfortunate truth of the matter. Meanwhile, content farming is a gravity well that seems to suck every new publication down into oblivion, slowly but inevitably. A tweak here, an optimization there, a formula plied and followed, and before you know it, you're writing emotionally manipulative headlines and minimizing costs (and quality), like everyone else. But wow, look at those shares and pageviews! :)

I guess I still have hope. Otherwise I wouldn't be involved in journalism right now. For my part: I don't trade in gossip. I don't write clickbait (though typically, and depending on the publication, I don't have editorial control over my headlines or promotional copy). I try to be interesting. I try to be thoughtful. I try to have standards. I have yet to make a serious living as a writer, and until that changes, writing will remain a part-time gig. But I'm an optimist.

I suspect that whoever figures out how to monetize quality writing will do it by reaching back to first principles, rethinking the idea of publishing altogether. Trying to prop up a digital business on the scaffolding of a centuries-old business model makes no sense.
As a 25-year-old developer, this thread is one of the most informative I've seen in a quite a while.

Thank you for this question.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...
> Any sane archiving plan will read old tapes "before it's too late" (yes, I know, I know) and re-archive them.

That's true. In fact, any sane archiving/backup plan REQUIRES that you regularly verify the integrity of the data, preferably by restoring -- and refreshing that data onto new media "before it's too late". That is true for both tapes and drives.
They are often faster (higher ratio of seeders to leechers), and are much less likely to have swarms of bots connecting to their torrents recording all the connected IPs so they can send threatening letters to ISPs/users.
Interesting.

Since it uses BitTorrent, and unlikely anonymously, I'd imagine that the MPAA and their goonsquad are going to have a field day with this.
"First of all we didn't board for twenty minutes, and then we got on the plane and they made us sit there, on the runway, for forty minutes... we had to sit there."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E
The way it should (& DID) work:

1) First ammendment: Anyone can lie, ok?
And, any speech has consequences.

2) THE "COMMONS" / spectrum / FCC:
Anyone that uses part of the shared spectrum (broadcasters) & when calling a program "news"1, must be unbiased, factful, truthful, or at least show "both sides2" to issues*

1Fox News, in Florida, in court, proved that they were in fact entertainment, NOT news, so they could feel free to broadcast outright lies, factual untruths.

But of course, "both sides" is a fallacy to most real issues that have many more sides.

Those wiggle room *'s proved wide enough over time to lead to where we are today.
I would be shocked if that was the cause of any lag - D3 selections are essentially nested wrappers around HTML nodes. .node just grabs the first one in a selection.

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/master/src/selection/nod...

Not sure what else it could be though, unable to duplicate.
See-Also: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-...

$35 lets you buy the movie ahead of time. A bit steep compared with a dvd, but not by much. (plus whatever other bonuses they threw in).
More importantly, OVH doesn't offer anything with ECC RAM until you're near the $100 range.

Do not run anything beyond a throwaway personal blog on a server without ECC RAM.
The unpopular old stuff will still be seeded when you want it a couple of years later, since (almost) everyone that has downloaded it and hasn't thrown it away want's their ratio's up. They won't stop seeding it until they remove the files.

So the main reason to do it is high download speeds on old unpopular torrents.
Curation and organization. Continued seeding of really old stuff.
Tell HN: Comcast says they slow service for late payers
Apparently my autopay wasn't working, I got a bill in the mail, and when I called in the customer service agent told me Comcast was deliberately slowing my access because I was late. I looked through their agreement and nothing jumped out at me that seemed to authorize this, but I'm not a lawyer either. Is this just a line to get me to pay, or is this actually happening?
How about ...for the modern admin?
Private trackers have per-user torrent keys and are often even locked to your IP address, so anyone who is not authorized (MPAA) will not be able to see any peers (a list of who to send scary letters to).
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MongoDB's storage engine is more or less a mmap'd linked list of documents. It has a lot of issues once you actually start doing reads or writes, whether it's because your working set exceeds RAM or you actually want durability. It's a nice term-paper DB implementation but there's a good reason why most of the big single-instance RDBMS's use their own I/O algos instead of delegating to the kernel. Fundamentally the kernel doesn't know your optimal access pattern or your desired tradeoffs.

Redis turned away mmap'd storage some time ago; you can snapshot the DB to disk, but that's done via a fork() and the writes happen in that other process.
Nicely done but I'm not sure the spikes are a better fit for this than an ordinary heat map would be.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.

It has in fact never been easier in the history of time to legally acquire media. It takes approximately 4 mouse clicks in iTunes to purchase and start downloading any movie, TV show, or music. You can start streaming it in after about 30 seconds, or you could let the whole thing download. The quality is also higher than pirated content because they have a fantastic encoding off of source material.

If I gave you an iTunes account with free access to to everything on iTunes it would be far faster and easier to use than even Pirate Bay. Toss in a cheap $99 AppleTV and you can get it in your living room hassle free. The only downside, of course, is that it costs money. Of course renting a movie on iTunes is faster, easier, and cheaper than renting a VHS from the store 15 years ago but when you can pirate it for free who gives a shit?

<insert snarky comment about not all media being available on iTunes or in all countries>
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I agree with you but I have this nagging feeling that it's more complicated than that. I wouldn't be surprised if Valve was nearing dangerous antitrust territory with the dominance of the steam platform.
private trackers usually offer much faster release time than public trackers (shows are available less than a minute after pre on the good trackers, which often is about a few minutes after airing), have tons of good seeders so you can get pretty much all files very fast (even if its a bit old), and content that is otherwise not available elsewhere at all (for content-specific trackers mostly, such as music ones)

also, release groups usually dont have their own trackers, their releases are generally ftp'd to a few topsites and distributed from there (some private trackers get directly from the source thus having a slightly faster pre time and are more desirable/exclusive, others get it further down the chain of distribution)
Sorry, but this is bull.

I used torrents and music blogs a lot to discover new music (and napster/kazaa back then), but nowadays I have a Rdio subscription which is much more convenient.

The point is, Rdio is one of the few streaming providers working in my country. If Spotify / iTunes worked, I would subscribe too, since their catalogues are complementary. If the labels don't want to stream into the 7th world economy for whatever stupid reason, too bad... they are the ones losing money.
How would you remotely shut one off?
Ask HN: How would you change the startup fundraising model?
The emergence of startup development methodologies, especially “lean startup,” brought some predictability to the stages a startup has to go through, from idea to a self sustainable business. Coupled with analytics tools, it was never easier to understand what activities have to be done by the founders, how well are they doing it and where they do need support. And from an external perspective, the meaningful metrics of every stage are a sufficient tool to assess startup performance, just as EBITDA is for an established business.

Do you think the way investments are made to date is lagging behind?
One benefit of many GMO crops is that they allow farmers to use much less in the way of pesticides and fertilizers than they otherwise would have.

For example, BT Cotton kills cotton bollworms on its own, so you don't have to spray it with additional pesticides that would kill lots of other bugs (such as aphids) and might potentially cause harm elsewhere in the food chain. (BT Cotton and BT Corn both reduce insecticide use by about half.)

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jun/13/gm-crops-...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/fewer-pesticides-fa...
So, what does Oracle Enterprise Linux do on an Exadata box running Linux?
The void where people are willing to spend zero dollars to consume media? Damn, can't believe that got missed.

I bet some people would even spend five, perhaps as much as ten, dollars per month for infinite access to all movies ever created ever. With generosity like that they're practically god damned saints.
Private trackers, especially private niche trackers, have far more obscure and interesting content than any single release group or TPB. Private trackers are full of very dedicated users that will go far and beyond to fill even the most absurd and rare requests.

The difference between private and public trackers is quite literally night and day, in terms of both content and security.

Also, there is Usenet which is great for quick release and sometimes rare stuff but had been hammered by the DMCA recently.
I think you mean "criminalize political speech"? As entertainingly mind-blowing an inability to criminalize criminal speech would be...
It's watchmen all the way down...beneath that, soccer moms.
Let's think about the way that transaction would have to happen...

An American company subpeona's a Dutch company to get information about traffic happening at a datacenter in Germany.

They'd need the co-operation of many people from many different countries.

I'd imagine that it's easier to just go after the trackers.
I no longer pirate anything - haven't in 10 years. It was fun while I had no assets, prefer not to risk getting sued these days. That said, there are many times that I can't see a movie I want to see or watch a TV show that I want to see even if I have my wallet out. Sometimes it is locked into HBO GO, sometimes it is not available on Netflix/iTunes/Redbox. In all of those cases I am sure it is available via bittorrent, but literally no one wants to just take my money and let me watch the damn thing.

In those cases I simply don't watch it. It's not that important to me. But I'm sure others at that point just say screw it I'm going to pirate it. Either way - the industry makes no money off the viewer when they easily could have.
flexd, Htop or conky? http://conky.sourceforge.net/

acl...nice job. Your site looks nice and works nice.
You're absolutely right. The situation on Linux sounds bad, and it sounds like work's being done to improve that. Some other systems handle this case fine, though, and the problem isn't with the fsync() interface.

Aside: I worked on one of those filers, and I've seen some shit too. :) Firmware, especially disk firmware, was the worst.
Wow this looks cool. I appreciate you sharing this. I've been looking around for something affordable for my startup and this should be helpful for us.

Did you by chance hire someone to do the illustrations/drawings on your site? I really like those and am needing some as well.
goxed.
Private trackers have much more carefully curated content than public trackers. It makes for a much smoother download experience. Not to mention that the downloads happen as fast as your connection can support.

I haven't used public torrent sites in years - the private option is so much more attractive.
And then there's the good old 'Australia Tax', where Australians pay considerably more for software because 'fuck you'. No localisation work done at all. In the old days of bricks and mortar, you could almost believe the excuse that price was nearly double because of shipping costs. But in the modern era of pushing bits?
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But in high demand, the start is copied many times by peers, who can reupload the start of the movie to each other.
theopolismewiki@gmail.com - finally stopped lurking for this :)
Hate to be a dissenter, but none of the pics in the linked article look good to me. ???
That seems like an odd statement considering that one of the biggest draws of Steam is the cheap prices and sales. I find it unlikely that there would be so many $5 games were they not facing competition from the pirates.
Quality control, and speed. This may not be as big of a problem as it used to be a few years ago, but private trackers give you quite a bit more assurance that what you're downloading is what is advertised. Also, since to be part of a private tracker you have to maintain the ratio, many users set up seedboxes and just leave their torrents on, while this doesn't seem to happen quite as much on public trackers.
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> And if you believe a lot of people lie in this context, it would seem that the law would be sorely needed.

can you explain why a law against lying would stop people from lying? Feel free to use examples such as the wildly successful america experiment with prohibition, or perhaps the ongoing wars on drug and terrorism to prove your point.
I've been using PACE for page loading bars (http://github.hubspot.com/pace/docs/welcome/), but will definitely check this out!
>>> <insert snarky comment about not all media being available on iTunes or in all countries>

Oooh, I like this new feature where poorly-thought-out comments include their own rebuttal. Can't wait 'til it rolls out to the rest of HN.
My math teacher in high school (this was before Wikipedia) told our calculus class at the beginning of the year if we could prove how to only use four colors on a map without any similar colors touching, he'd give us a 4.0 for the class.

Years later and long after I had forgotten most of the math I learned, I saw the four color theorem on Wikipedia and got such a kick out of the absurdity of my teacher's offer.

Brought it up with him when I randomly bumped into him a little bit ago, he got quite a kick out of it.
Any good Perl programmer should be able to adapt to many other languages.
Robot vs Human ping pong match on March 11 2014
a North Korea or Iran type of situation

What would that be? Iran has a semi-independent press, open elections, publishing and popular culture export and import, and industrial work outside government blacklists. North Korea is more like one giant concentration camp than a country in the usual sense. They have little in common.
I believe nlawalker's point was that if a paid service is identical in functionality to a free "pirate" alternative, there's still an incentive to use the free one. Even if the paid service is better than the free one, many people would opt to stream illegally over, say, purchasing region-free non-drm DVDs.
It's just as easy to pay a monthly fee for Netflix, etc.... than it is to pay for a VPN (and properly use it, a small mistake outs your IP) to avoid being sued for torrenting.

Now... back in the Megaupload's heyday, things were a bit different. Lots of content, little danger.

Personally I buy most of my content :) especially any program that I actually make money using.
>Was in response to your blanket assertion that technology changes so fast current knowledge will be useless in 15 years.

What I meant was that some of what is useful now won't be useful in years to come not absolutely all technology ever. Some people choose to specialize in company specific technology which wouldn't be at all useful outside of it.
I believe politicians will claim that unfavorable facts are lies, placing the burden of proofs and costs of defense on me, even though they're the ones lying.
oh yeah? what happens if you want to watch that video on your nexus 7 tablet in bed?
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I'm paying $170/mo for 500gb on Telecom fibre. I never seem to go over 300gb even when I try so it suits me. I always see people complaining about international speeds on Orcon unlimited. I can max out 11mb/s with torrents on a Sunday night no problem.

I have Netflix setup as well, super convenient but you never seem to get HD.