skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm pretty sure a `opacity = 0`, and an `opacity = 1` in the same run loop should perform fine, but nevertheless very cool!
I was really surprised and impressed not only with their response, but also with how quickly they responded.

I've already spent a few thousand dollars on Fluke equipment this year, and could imagine spending a few thousand more before the year is up. I'm a small customer. It wouldn't take many like me to make up for ~30k worth of stuff.
> Do you think it's morally a-okay for [whoever] to [whatever]?

Morality is not legality. As a webmail provider, spying on your users is obviously very wrong. Thanks to a number of technicalities and loopholes however, it is also perfectly legal.
Sure, for weightlifting, maybe -- but bodyweight exercises like squats and pushups? About the same chance as tearing something when picking up a phone you dropped on the floor. Like anything, just go at a reasonable pace. (I'm not a fitness expert, but exercises like this were the warmup in whatever class I would be in, no "preparation" to do a pushup or squat.)
Money will be back.

Guns, ammo, food, water etc. will become valuable commodities. Natural bartering will lead to money again.
See https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/ for some easy to use Tor apps for Android.
At the time this article was written, AEAD modes were apparently still too new, and their implementations too untrustworthy:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-24-encrypt-then-mac....

At the moment, the best-supported AEAD mode seems to be AES-GCM, which has received a fair bit of attention since then. Alternately, {Salsa20,ChaCha20}-Poly1305 has some good implementations, e.g.

http://nacl.cr.yp.to/

and in TLS:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/27/tlssymmetriccrypto...
I don't think your opponent believes that the US system is a "representative democracy" or a "democracy" or whatever it is that lets N-1 people take arbitrary stuff from 1 person. Your "rally support" solution would not fix the situation.
Net neutrality I can see being a very important topic to Netflix. I could definitely see ISPs charging extra for Netflix services due to "load" or some BS like that (when really it would be to make up the damage to providers cable/satellite offerings).

Net neutrality is good for everyone, all links and all bytes should be equal.
The first Wordpress post paid for with Bitcoin
Instead of destroying them, why not paint them so as not to waste them?
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"If people were truly informed, most would not give consent. "

I strongly disagree. Most would bitch about it, then do it anyway, knowing it may be a shitty deal for them.
That is consent.
Fair point. So it is probably incompatible with workers who have their own families. And probably more 23 year old hackers are unattached than 35 year old ones.
The Reddit front-end is a relatively simple application. It has a page with a list of stories. It has a page with one story and a bunch of comments. It has a page to add comments. It has an endpoint to vote up or down stories, and to vote up or down comments. And maybe a few other less-interesting things, like admin interfaces.

Facebook is surprisingly easy to underestimate even as someone using it a fair bit.

Just try find every single interface in the front-end. For your own profile. Feed is front-and-center, as is timeline. Then look at events, groups, &c.. Look at messaging.

Then look at the interfaces for managing your privacy and permissions. The apps that you're using and information about when last they requested information. Security like login approvals. Then think about the flows involved in reporting content as abusive or inappropriate. For verifying your identity if you've forgotten your password. For adding more security if you log in from a new computer or from a new location.

Then look at pages, including insights and scheduled posts and so forth. Then look at advertising - boosting individual posts, creating campaigns, &c.. Then look at the interfaces for developers. For translators. Interest lists.

The backends for most of this are in C++ and Java. There's a large amount of data processing happening to track hidden things like spam and scam prevention. But the front-end surface area is quite clearly an order of magnitude or maybe two larger than Reddit (at least where it was when this happened).
I was around at that time. I specifically remember lots of people saying the same thing, but PHP came out as the best solution.

PHP: Perl is too much work for web development and C programmers are too expensive.
Netflix blasts Comcast and Verizon on net neutrality
The USPS is answerable to Congress, and that makes it rather more accountable to the public than a firm that's only answerable to its shareholders (who, in the US at least, have virtually no input into the governance of a firm).
Iranian Ship, in Plain View but Shrouded in Mystery, Looks Very Familiar to U.S.
Poor people may not be able to buy expensive equipment. It may be that having worse equipment is better than none. We shouldn't always apply the same level of "if one person gets hurt it is unacceptable" protectionism to other societies.
I tested many of the anti-fatigue mats, but personally prefer the "Imprint CumulusPro Commercial Grade". It's heaven on your feet, and it makes a huge difference once you start standing 6+ hours a day.

Unfortunately, the CumulusPro is out of stock everywhere, but I found you could order it online at a significant discount on Costco ($69 vs $115). Here's the link.

http://www2.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11762518&w...
Since you've advanced literally no argument, I don't feel a need to respond to this. Sorry I hurt your brain?
I am not saying it's equivalent. I'm just saying it's hypocritical in the extreme.

When it comes to "automated process goes through my email to decide which soda to offer me" ... I am not pleased, but not very worried. My bank does worse.

When it comes to "people go through my and other people's email to decide who to sue for what without legal oversight" that hits an 11 on the WTF scale.

I will NEVER trust Microsoft with one iota of my data again. They proved here that they will use it against me if it serves their business interest, or just snoop through it if they don't understand how something happened. At least the NSA claims they snoop through my email to "protect America". Microsoft clearly goes through my email to improve Microsofts bottom line. It wasn't even an employee's email they went through. It was an external hotmail customer that trusted them with this email.

This is akin to your bank going through the documents in your safe then use the found information to wire money to the Bank's CEO. This is way, way over the red line.

If they did this with physical mail, the minimum punishment for whoever in Microsoft did this would include jail time. We should have the same regulation for email.
> My experience is that it pays to buy the best; and what applies to things applies equally to men.

This is true, but price is a poor indicator of how good something is. You need to understand the product or man, before you can judge which is the best.
During Brendan Eich's Fluentconf presentation of UE4 on asm.js, the file sizes were visible for an instant: 570 megs of assets, 210 megs of js. The code will gzip nicely but we're still talking tens of megabytes. Unity 5 is probably in that ballpark.
Irony: Twitter ban being spread to the world via Twitter itself. A perfect example of how powerful the internet is despite of the governments.
TL;DR: Never use Telnet for anything.
> Even if the vast majority of us die in the process and we're left with a global population of just 1B or 500M, then that is still enough for a decent civilization capable of supporting space flight

This is a side note, but I was actually just looking at population growth over time, and it kinda blew my mind that the estimated global population was only 310m 1000 years ago, and 879m 200 years ago. The idea of losing ~93% of the world's population sounds catastrophic, but given our current medical technology (and a post-apocalyptic "mandate" to reproduce and repopulate the earth) I don't think it would take us very long (relatively speaking) to recover. Kinda crazy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
A no-true-Scotsman argument. Not everyone shares your views about where the boundaries of consent should lie or what conditions they consider acceptable in exchange for free service.
Just added in matchmaking, for those who don't have friends.
The first letter that popped up got me.
Here is an argument, which I have carefully tailored to the level of the arguments you have advanced:

Democracy, augmented with some anti-majoritarian safeguards, is a reasonable way of organizing society on a basis that generally advances overall liberties, and social-contract theory provides a reasonable philosophical basis. Libertarian freedom-of-contract is essentially a right to indentured servitude with only the barest attention paid to anything resembling actual real-world liberty or genuine consent, and only people who are either primitivist hippies living in the woods, or malicious exploiters, promote it as a fundamental good. And also anyone who disagrees with this paragraph is dumb.
Try an orange box of white powder. Or spray an aerosol can with a floral color at it.
Sorry for off-topic.

@kogir

This thread demonstrates a small HN bug: I think the title is being encoded to HTML entities two times.
Ah, blocking twitter, the last refuge of despots[1].

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/twitter-blocked-egypt/
how far away is this?
Let's call it a bubble then, since BTC's intrinsic value is somewhere near zero.
Statically-typed Python would ruin a great number of Python libraries you'd probably want to be using. It'd be a very different language.

Once you have type annotations, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to enforce them statically with a separate tool. You could even go as far as rejecting first-party code if you can't statically determine every single value's type. Pylint's underlying astroid library has a bunch of inference tools you could perhaps build on top of.
There are two sides of the coin.

1) In this day and age shutting down Twitter wholesale is simply a silly and undemocratic move. Information can not be blocked and will find its way around anyway. Like many people I am against it.

2) There is a blatant violation of personal rights of people by fabricated phone-tapes. You take it to the court and court decides that these are illegal, and ask the service provider (in this case Twitter) to take down those specific twits. They don't comply. What do you do?

Say there's a link for a fabricated phone conversation of Obama betraying the country disseminated using Twitter. The administration take it to the court and win the legal battle. Could Twitter afford not to comply? Can this happen?

This is the gist of the problem people are having over there.
The rest of the world tweeting about it doesn't mean that much to Turkish people as they won't be seeing the trend lists, and their government doesn't seem to care that the rest of the world is paying attention.
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After business consulting, I want to get back into development. Where to start?
After doing coding all through university, and then programming professionally for a few years, I decided to make a switch into business consulting.

Most of this experience was all through linux using Java, C, C++ and some 4GL work for mining companies.

I'm starting to get hungry for coding again, and am wondering what some of the better starting points would be for the type of modern web development employers are looking for these days.

This is not necessarily for moving out of consulting, but skilling up in areas that are relevant these days.

Would it be correct to say these are the areas I should be looking into?

JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3
Python, Django, and PostgreSQL

The link below seems to cover the technologies:

http://www.codeproject.com/Reference/597538/Modern-Web-Development

But are there any recommended learning resources/tutorials to get into this?

Thanks in advance.
Honest question: do you have a criticism of "charity" besides your own negative psychological reaction to derogatory uses of the term? I believe charity can be an empowering force if it helps people break out of the cycle of poverty. If anything, your criticism indicates that we need to work to reframe charity as compassion rather than some kind of condescending pity. But that seems like a problem to fix, not a reason to view charity as likely to fail.

> I don't think we help people that much when we first have to write them off as losers before we do anything for them.

I'm not really sure how to respond to this. Who's writing them off as "losers"? I'm pretty sure charitable organizations don't consider the people they help to be losers. If you're complaining that people look down on the poor, that's certainly an unfair stigma, but why does this mean charity isn't helpful?
Why an app you've never heard of could be the next Facebook
The Apple doomsday clock.
Also, at the time of it constituting 12 people, it wasn't a great organisation. That would come centuries, perhaps a millenia later. When it was only 12 strong, they didn't even have enough influence to make the local law look the other way.
> For the record, I'm NOT comparing Microsoft to Big Brother.

I will: Microsoft is a big corporation who spies on its users to protect its interests. Incidentally, there are many other Big Brothers like them: Facebook, Google…

People should read some cyberpunk literature. Read William Gibson's Neuromancer, or play Android Netrunner. We're halfway there.
Awesome to see another great nonprofit in YC!
Ditto. They've actually been pissing me off since it seems like Threes is getting shorted by 2048.

But this was great. I managed to get 11032 before I lost. Just making a rules engine that could deduce Numberwang along is an incredible accomplishment.
What a stupid sensationalistic article. How about the Time Magazine doomsday clock?
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Hi - I figured you know what you're doing based on the details you picked on. I suspect you'd have way more fun reading the raw logs, but that would make for a post that is incredibly hard to parse. I will try to figure out a venue for them.

It was 100M keys per loader, so 30x100M for the low latency cluster and 45x100M for the high latency cluster. I sized to keep running long enough to go over half dozen major compactions, not necessarily to eat storage space.

Most of the IO is sequential, which really makes no difference for our backend (sorry, I have to leave it at that). Read performance ends up affecting the performance when the system reaches its limits of pending compactions, which I limited in the config. I could probably get a higher number without it, but it looked more realistic to set limits and I'd not deploy a server without the limits.

I had to make the fsyncs more frequent, not less, to reduce the odds of an operation sitting behind a long flush. This was a counter-intuitive finding for me, but it makes sense considering Persistent Disks throttle both IO sizes and IOPS. We do that to make sure a noisy neighbouring VM won't affect yours. So I turned on trickle_fsync and tuned the size of the maximum syncs to never have a slow flush, but a lot of smaller flushes.

Tuning the Java GC was for the same reason - I did not want long GC cycles. The settings I used were based on the guidance from Java memory ergonomics. The DataStax distribution has tips and hints in the cassandra-env.sh file itself, which I read it and followed through. I also read more about Java memory than I ever want to read again from various vendors. As the joke goes "I did even the things that contradicted the other things" before getting to the settings you saw.

I hope you appreciate the fact I set limits on some of the most dangerous knobs, for instance limiting the RPC server and using HSHA as opposed to unbounded sync.

I understand the limitations of the benchmark I used, and the limitations of the post. I tried to stay within recommended settings for all subsystems, have safe limits for everything I found dangerous, and I picked the workload because that is what our customers do. I don't advocate one storage solution over another, we love everyone that buys our solutions :)

BTW, while we do not sell Cassandra as a service, we do sell Cloud SQL (https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/). Maybe the sales guys will give me a cut :)

Sharing the config was more work, but I suspected I was going to learn something by doing it. Thank you for the feedback!

PS: sorry for the delay replying - Y Combinator says I am posting too much. I am not quite sure at what point I will hit my daily quota of replies.
It all depends on what you want to do. If you search HN, you can find a presentation called "Taking PHP Seriously" from one of the guys at Facebook, discussing the enhancements that Facebook has done with a PHP virtual machine, and making the case for PHP as a tool.

There are languages I prefer. Perl does a number of things better than PHP, so does Python. But it is possible to write cogent, maintainable PHP, and there can be sound reasons to do so.

If you wish to find out why the HN crowd tends to look down on PHP, I'd suggest that you put some time into experimenting with other languages. But I'd suggest you put time into learning how to do PHP well first.
Wonder if the listed personal phone number still works.
WHAT IS THIS SHIT HAVE WE ALL LOST OUR MINDS
> Given that that's not anything remotely like the common use of the term (which is about functions), maybe you should use a more appropriate term to avoid confusion.

On the contrary. I think my definition describes what most people think of as a government. If I show up at your door with 5 tough guys, explain to you that your neighborhood has voted to instigate a 25% income tax in order to maintain the roads of the neighborhood, would you consider me to be government? Would you comply? According to what you just claimed, since I would be performing a function generally associated with government, acquiring funds the same way as government, and using a similar justification (the vote) as government, it sounds like you would consider me to be government. And yet, I do not think most people would agree.
Forget Mars. Elon's best move would be to go "Dr. Strangelove": build a bunker and hire a harem.
What do you do with higher-order functions (which PHP has I believe)?

If I write a typed map : (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
and then it's called with an untyped function as input, but it returns a something that's not a b. Do you place some kind of barrier around it so that that's stopped immediately?
My setup is similar. I've wall-mounted my screen and a keyboard shelf at standing height, then I pull up a tall drafting chair when I want to sit. When it takes only a couple of seconds to switch between sitting and standing, you don't even have to think about the change. Cheap and simple, very space efficient.
The lowest tier of being hypocritical is criticising all of google's failings when they have related but different failings.

The medium tier is criticising all of google's failings does except for what they also do.

The highest tier is criticising google for something they also do.

I thought they were at the low tier, but they're actually at the medium tier. So 'more'.
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> "People must have the right to review the terms of contract, decide to sign or not"

You are describing a universe which only exist in an imaginary island where all the Galts are living. "Freedom of Contract" works when there are one or two similar-sized parties involved, but it does not scale well beyond that. Try renting a car with a customer agreement tailored for your liking; or try negotiating custom EULA with vendor of whatever browser you are using to post your comments.
Edit: I know you were talking more about legality than morality. However, as the physical mail scenario shows, there is already a legal precedent for an actor being prohibited by law from acting in a way that is analogous to what Microsoft has done;

You don't enter into a contractual relationship with the USPS when you mail or receive a letter. When you sign up for a webmail account, you're doing so on the providing party's terms, and you can't really complain if said webmail provider chooses to enforce the contract that you signed up to.

and ultimately, the law should follow moral considerations, so those are the more interesting questions anyway.

Whose moral considerations would these be?
This is the best, but I'm still waiting on someone to translate the Numberwang board game :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmiEODmYNmI
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The 2^53 is missing.
Note that it is possible to lose, eventually: http://i.imgur.com/kKsjG2u.png
It's worth noting that as of yesterday the Docker index (https://index.docker.io) now offers github-style paid features. You can host private docker images, tie them to your source repo so that they are automatically rebuilt from source, trigger web hooks on new versions, etc.

http://blog.docker.io/2014/03/introducing-private-repos-webh...
eBay made approx 1.4 billion net gain from buying then selling Skype - see http://investor.ebayinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=8296...

"In May 2011, all of the equity in Skype was sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. Due to eBay's 30% stake at the time of sale, the company realized a net gain of $1.4 billion on its original investment in Skype."
Needs more fish numbers.
Wow, there are a lot of TLDs and 2048 clones.
> Additionally, I find that the key problem with bloated models stems from missing domain models (often has-many-through models). Not from moving the logic of the existing models into more noun classes.

When I first started learning Rails 4 years ago, I watched a video of a talk you gave where you refactored a kludgy piece of code to use an additional resource/model. The code unraveled before our eyes.

I still remember that as a Neo moment.
I kind of feel like .gif's as a format need to die, and this really demonstrates why, in my opinion. this page demonstrates a way to add stop/start abilities to a gif, as well as syncronized audio, which is literally what a video is but without all the ability for compression and support for more than 256 colors.
A $500 dollar PC can match/outperform both the Xbone and the PS4 depending on the game. In 2014.
You're forgetting that that 1 person is also getting stuff from N-1 others - his freedom, safety, absence of famine/war/disease, ... It is simply illusionary to expect a person to be really well-off if everybody else around him is dirt poor. Yes, there were rich people throughout history, but today the average US/European citizen has better healthcare than anyone 20 years ago.