skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sure don't know - I've been using it for a while on my desktop system without any problem, but my usage is pretty light (compress/autodefrag enabled, snapshots with snapper before and after every system update, beside that I just use it as a normal filesystem).

For what it's worth, it's considered production quality by SuSE with SLES.
Group the requests by second and randomize their order. Boom.
15-year-old prodigy builds India’s first 3D printer using DIY kit
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Stop trying to fight a language, then? Just learn those few unfamiliar constructs the language is build upon and start using it. Actually, in J there is not that much of what you need to learn, here is the full list: http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm

And here is a bit more involved explanation of what those words mean: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/HenryRich?action=AttachFile&d...

If there is one thing I learned as a polyglot it's that language usage patterns differ and trying to use one language as if it was another is counterproductive. My advice is to learn more and practice more - at some point you'll start seeing higher-level patterns in language design and will be able to cope with many, now unfamiliar, features and design decisions.
"I suggest that ‘Big Data’ analyses are no more prone to this kind of problem than any other kind of analysis."

To an extent, large data volumes make it more difficult for the statistician to be as nimble. Trying different algorithms, different specifications, different ways to approach the data is part of the statistical workflow; not everything can be easily parallelized and run on a Hadoop cluster.

There are insights a statistician can quickly obtain (few hours) from a carefully selected random sample of a few million observations, in memory, in a single R or Python process. The same analysis for the complete, multi-terabyte data would be rather more painful or costly to obtain.

Of course data scientists such as Martin Goodson know that (though their bosses do not always) and are used to doing exploratory analysis or prototyping on sample that fit in RAM.
The 3 Myths of Penetration Testing
Show HN: I've compiled an EDM playlist for HN. It's also collaborative.
Thanks for the link on the CDG wing - I did not know that. Any ideas why it was not given a go? It seems vastly more in the spirit of racing than the 'push to pass' DRS that has not been exactly popular with the dedicated fan. I don't think the Pirelli tyres have been that popular with fans either. The CDG wing appears a lot more true to the spirit of what racing is about.
he's apparently thinking its tablets and mobiles all the way down? - The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
I remembered odd versions were unstable, but looking at the kernel info, 3.13 is a stable version. So I'm guessing they'll stick with that.
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Calculating capital gains is done with the Schedule D form (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040sd.pdf) - not a 1099.
I see where your coming from a lot of people don't seem to understand the meaning of permanently and irrecoverably deleted.

My suggestion is to remove the secure delete flag/option there's little reason not to securely delete things and make the default behavior on both websites and the API as delete with 24h-48h backups.

However add a flag/option that does permanently and irrecoverably delete the droplet without making any backups.

This flag/option should require active input from the user so there are no excuses or misunderstandings once checked it's gone for good.
Exactly. The default behavior is exactly as it should be-- scrub the VM itself but keep a snapshot for 48 hours in case it was deleted accidentally.

There is no security concern here but if some users are still upset with this default behavior then they should be manually scrubbing their sensitive data prior to deleting the droplet or, better yet, they should be using their own hardware.

Frankly, I'm shocked at a lot of the responses here. When I first came across this article it was immediately obvious to me that this was not an actual security concern but rather a mixture of misunderstanding and skepticism. So I came here to hackernews feeling entirely confident that this article would have been efficiently debunked and instead I find all manner of ill-informed arguments. The people that don't understand the original article, its fallacies, and the reality of how Digital Ocean is handling droplet destroys, should not be running servers IMO. This stuff should be obvious to you and furthermore, if your data is particularly sensitive, you should have already been under the assumption that the host could not be trusted and that data scrubbing must be done manually.
Or they could work for an existing larger company that own everything they think up anyway. And which hides behind the myth of the "little inventor" every time it buys laws that favor it.
In which case you should be manually scrubbing your data on your own. Problem solved.
Maybe this isn't the right place for it, but do you have any advice for developers wanting to move to Japan?
I was surprised to see that their decision was further influenced by talent being attracted to startups. Not sure that a 10% raise will do enough to prevent people leaving Google with the intent of joining a startup, wouldn't change things for me at least. You could even argue that increased financial independence from raised wages could lower the psychological barrier to joining a relatively low-pay high-risk company such as a startup.
Yes, as a country they are still catching up.

They need to copy the west for a while yet to become more equal then they can start thinking about innovation.

That said this is pretty far ahead of the west. I'd love to invest in directors I believe in, giving them full freedom and profiting from it if it succeeds.
I'm not convinced about the success of their mega battery factory; after all, wasn't there a big problem with getting rare earth materials for things like batteries a while ago? Is there enough raw material to keep it supplied?
Definitely the amount of effort Tesla is devoting to ensure the safety of passengers is highly appreciated. I was awaiting for their Cars to be launched in my country. Definitely I would buy one :) Keep rocking Tesla!
With gdb you have "py-bt" etc: https://docs.python.org/devguide/gdb.html
Does anyone have a source that defines "intellectual property" to exclude patents and trademarks? Here are a few definitions that do include patents and trademarks:

http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/intel1_e.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/intellectualproperty.asp

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/intellectual_property

http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/
AMY POEHLER meets ASSHOLE
yes. This has a well known positive effect on mood, psychic energy and morale. Of course one should not over do it. As anything, in excess it can harm.
the only thing i want to say is, why rush? why do you sound stressed?

the majority of successful people start doing big things after 35 years old when you have the experience and network, you still have 12 years to get there. Take baby steps, and you will succeed.

I'm 23 years old as well, working at a dev house as software engineer. Just keep going and take it easy bro.
The week mum and dad turned into Kanye and Jay-Z and turned France ''Cray''
>Big Data is a lot like teen sex.

LOL.
As others have said there are lies and then there are lies, and it also depends on who tells them.

PR people for example are basically trained to lie, but with subtlety. They wont outright lie but rather deviate the conversation by pointing out other facts which are actually irrelevant but serve the purpose to steer looks away and do some damage control.

A lot of founders lie but they avoid the examples given in the article and instead choose to overhype the context in which their product works by using weaselwords and also try to downplay the obstacles or don't even mention them.

I was in a pitch event once and this guy who could sell ice in Siberia went from salesman supreme to sweating bullets when someone in the audience destroyed the RDF he built around himself and the product by pointing out a simple fact that turned to be the achilles heel of the app.

I'm sure a lot of people were thinking about the same, but most weren't, so if the pitch guy didn't mention it, was he lying? or was he expecting you to know it and be okay with it?

At the end it depends on who you are and where you are standing, for example how do the snapchat founders fit into this? the oust of the third member was one thing but after that the remaining two lied openly and abundantly about everything from the "story" of the idea to how it came to be, the involvement of the ex-cofounder and even about the logo he created which is why they had to modify it.

Then again when you are a company with the momentum to reject a 3 billion dollar acquisition offer its a whole different position from that of the guy in the pitch event above.
I think the sale would still have gone though. For a lot of people putting in a small amount of money and getting a HUGE return on it is reward enough in it's own. So if some people put in 500-1000 and ended up getting 10x or more their investment back during an acquisition, unless they had some huge personal investment, it'd be hard to turn down that kind of money in the bank. I think this would be especially true if things went to scale. The big players would call the shots though and do the same thing as they do at the board now, choose the option that makes them the most $.
Why Data Quality Is of Utmost Importance in Information-Centric Organisations
Show HN: Wireframing Mock-ups
He was chairman of the board from month 7, and personalty won two design awards for his work leading the engineering team on the first car. Bottom line, he deserves all the credit he gets.
Good read. Except I drink coffee in the morning so I can look at what I've programmed in the afternoon and not wonder what the heck I was doing. i.e. Not to avoid an 'uncomfortable' state of mind, just to increase performance. Maybe that's just the same thing though? idk.
Only to find themselves empty-handend
The ocean is mostly fish pee.
Android is the most stable mobile OS, says new report
Loud speakers and an amplifier to make the cars sound better?
It's also a self reinforcing loop. In other words, even if Musk would _try_ to give credit to the team, much of that would be ignored in the reporting about Tesla/SpaceX/...
Another great step along the way towards a compacting GC.

I wonder how much more memory can actually be saved in Firefox.
I have to work all day just to put a roof over our heads. She wants to travel and damn I want to take her so bad, but I can't. I hate what my life has become.

Why don't you try freelancing? You can make money, travel with your girlfriend, and work on your own projects in between gigs.
When an explanation (as opposed to an opinion) gets downvotes, it warrants a reply...
> Get a 9 to 5 six figure job.

> Next, live like a pauper, saving 60-70+% of that income.

I had a job in San Francisco with a baseline salary of $90k and total cashlike compensation (stocks / annual bonus) raising it just over $100k. Low end, but that's six figures.

Largest single item on my budget: taxes, at roughly 35% of my pay. Saving 70% of my nominal "income" would have been grossly illegal.
I agree with you temp images are good however that check box text is not phrased right it should either say that it takes up to 48h to happen or specify that it only happens on the hypervisor and give you the option to not make temporary backups as well.
Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks will Inherit the Earth (Book Review)
While I don't agree with you, it's sad to see that HN is no different from, let's say, reddit in this regard - downvoting people because you don't like their opinion.
A six-figure job is shooting a bit high (although tbph I have no clue what the average wage is in the Valley or wherever your point of reference comes from), but besides that, this is pretty much what I was going to say.

A stable life and supporting yourself, your mental status and your family or whatever is, imho, more important than trying to live some fairy tale where you build a chat app and get bought out by Facebook.

The startup success stories are all basically lottery winners, probably with similar odds.
Who downvoted me responding to a comment in my own thread?
I'm not sure if I follow you, this seems a lot like attacking Iraq to me.
"The webs we weave when we learn to deceive"
I love the memory of 'recalling' balls. Mainly footballs. Terraced by terraced houses, it was not unusual to scale a 10 foot brick wall (leg-up from friends) - getting back was the hard part.

Exiting the school gates to walk up the road (because the particular wall was unscalable, or there were dogs) was uncomfortable: "Ding-dong [at the front door of the neighbouring house]. Please Sir, may we have our ball back?" where a usually polite person would visit their back garden to return a football'.

And climbing on the roof of a Victorian structure where sand-brick was weathered sufficiently over a century of school children climbing up it to provide nice pockets and footholds.

Is this seriously not the case today? I'm only in my 30s...
"Films similar to X" is definitly a good use case. But sometimes you can just go to the Amazon page for a DVD, and look at "people who bought this also bought that" ;)
Suure, from a website called 'Crittercism', whose investors include Google Ventures. I'm usually not skeptical, but I had a weird feeling.
Yeah, times have changed.

I went to school in the UK, Germany, Hong Kong, Chicago - mostly boarding school in the UK.

When I was a kid (5-13), our principal form of entertainment was "go outside, do whatever". This usually entailed building fortresses out of junk, which usually involved deep excavations, traps that could actually kill (sash weights suspended in a tree, with tripwires, anyone?), and construction high up fir trees with "found" supplies. We used to go boating (on this neat lake full of totally lethal floating islands of rotted vegetation), unattended, and nobody thought anything of us taking a pile of unexploded mortars from the school fireworks show and sticking them in a bonfire. 7 year olds. Smart enough to know to run like hell and lie behind a dip in the land.

People got hurt all the time, with everything from broken bones to cuts and grazes to the occasional airgun pellet in an unfortunate place. The school matron was a very busy woman.

Once a year, the school had an organised "paddock war", in which everyone would arm themselves with whatever they could lay their hands on (cricket bats, improvised clubs, slingshots, etc.), and go beat each other senseless. Not sure this is quite the same picture, but it was a very effective way to get the pent-up aggression of 250 7-13 year old boys out in a single sitting, and not something that would happen today.

The headmaster, an old submarine captain, used to take a group of the older (10+) boys out on a ramble into the woods, always to a new spot, and would then just either leave us there, with our task being to get all of us back unscathed, or play hunter-killer games. Retrospectively I have a feeling he was actually sneaking off to have a drink in the woods, but it was a great experience.

Every single person with whom I played at that school is an entrepreneur. Every single one takes risks, wins, loses, and while their weltanschauungs vary hugely, from liberal to authoritarian to conservative to socialist, there's a common thread of willingness to try anything - that anything can be done - so long as one is willing to attempt it.

The same school is now co-ed (no bad thing, but has been used as the "reason" for change) and has done away with the outdoor play, having replaced it with a sterile, monitored, playground.

And we wonder why people are increasingly sheltered and closeted, with increasingly small worlds, with increasingly small sets of symbols with which to associate, and increasingly small ranges of thought.

We took away childhood and replaced it with a life of infantilism.
Embracing Command Line Tooling with Backbone Applications
I have also been using this for a while, it also has an excellent tablet interface.
Why Linux Mint is a worthwhile Windows XP replacement
Does it matter? At first we wanted GGC, or CGGC because we want Firefox to be Snappy. We wanted Project Async because we want it to be Snappy.

But after all the bugfixes and everything Firefox is still no snappy. And they landed that Hideous Australis UI.
Could they use a homomorphic encryption scheme where it's still possible to verify a hash without getting access to the encrypted data?
> I remembered odd versions were unstable

this stopped being true very long ago (with the beginning of the 2.6 series)
Worth reading to the end. It's not just about coffee, but really about dependence on things which distract us from uncomfortable moments, and why it might be worth trying to reduce dependence on these things.
Earlier using DigitalOcean I also noticed that in the .bash_history there would be a wget for a script on the website of a DigitalOcean employee which had all kinds of clean-instructions.
One step forward, two steps back
That can be easily fixed, :p
You nailed why I like playing with CoffeeScript: it makes me a better JavaScript programmer. Thinking about each line, the variable names, etc. It's definitely not something I would want to use in a rush.
Demonoid returns, website now back online
Self regulation is so much more powerful than externally applied regulation. The law of natural consequences is a very effective teacher.

I have to wonder, as regulations and laws and state surveillance increase, does our ability to control ourselves atrophy?
This is not inherent in the process. What you're seeing is the confluence of several factors:

(1) Scheme is dynamically typed, not statically, so some operations need to operate on objects whose properties are not known at compile time and which need to be constructed/wrapped. The same does not necessarily hold for a statically typed language.

(2) C is not really designed to be the target language of a compilation process. In particular, there's no portable access to stack frames, so any mechanism that inspects the stack (in this case, for precise garbage collection) needs to recreate the necessary machinery. If you target a representation that is actually designed for this purpose (such as LLVM), a lot of these problems go away. Likewise, C does not have native support for continuations, tail calls, or a number of other mechanisms that more sophisticated backends do support.

(3) The compiler does not need to generate human readable code; code generation that targets C is generally not concerned with producing minimal output, since the C optimizer will strip away superfluous stuff, so the focus is more on keeping the backend simple.
I think it was ultimately concluded that it wouldn't work in practice as well as the preliminary CFD results suggested. It was an interesting study none the less.
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Someone's trying to sell a book.
I thought the definition in the article was actually really insightful: big data is when you start to behave as if you have N=all for a non-trivial sample.
No, you are the one who is confused here. A like for a page, similar to a like on a single post, is not permission to spam my news feed. If I wanted to subscribe to your updates I would actually, you know, subscribe. A like is a coarse-granularity indication that I have some interest in your page, but just like everything else I opted to "like" it is one indicator among many that should be used to build my feed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

Humans are moving even stronger toward the K. People used to have many more children than they do now, and infant mortality was worse.

On top of that (for the child) taking a risk was worth it - if you didn't do really well, you did really badly.

These days things are more "even", a basic level of survival can be had easily, there is no reason to take big risks. The rewards for risk taking are more in terms of luxury than basic life.
I get that, but Pulseaudio has also ruined my day more times than ALSA has... so as far as my specific requirements go, I'm not sure what exactly it's supposed to achieve. It's just sort of foisted on me if I pick the wrong distro.
I think protected methods are just a bad idea in every case. They don't really offer protection (because a subclass can expose them) and they prevent other forms of composition even where they're more appropriate.

If you're open to inheritance, you're necessarily open to composition - making that messy serves no purpose.

As to this example:

// Replace superclass method
A.prototype.bar = function() {
return "my own thing"; // obviously fine
}

This is NOT fine - it's really quite nasty. You're breaking encapsulation by affecting how the internals of B work - calls from B's code to bar() will now fail to work as expected. What you want is to use your bar to outside code, but not affect the encapsulation of the superclass.

And note that none of this mitigates the pit-of-complexity that inheritance encourages as described in the post you replied to (i.e. bloated, hard-to-wrap API's). There are inheritance-like techniques that work better and don't have the downsides.
Sure, but I didn't mean insane overreactions on blogs, twitter, and hackernews. I meant actual credible threats from real crazy people.
I thought I'd mention ASAN [1] for this. It's built in in the most recent version of gcc and clang (just pass -fsanitize=address), and enjoy the nice reporting when you do something silly with a buffer.

We use this extensively at Mozilla when working on Firefox, and I know Google folks use it a lot on Chromium as well.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/
There were cheaper alternatives, especially for light rockets (Soyuz, Dnepr, PSLV, Vega, etc). Financing him has been a political choice.
This is what happens currently anyway, no?

The only people who can afford to deal with patent/IP law properly are existing, larger companies.

I claim the opposite of you: that current law exclusively helps the existing, larger companies.
You Got Your Web Browser in my Compiler
Yesterday was down, but now I see its up.
Operators are probably written using special characters in order to provide a suitable level of terseness. I feel it really can make things more compact and easy to understand.

Of course, I'm very much of a C programmer, and C is kind of good too at using operators in a terse manner.

If C required

foo >>= 4;

to be written as

foo = foo shift_right 4;

then it just wouldn't be as nice and fun to program in. Even more so when using the pointer-dereferencing and pre/post-increment operators, or combinations.
I agree, morning coffee doesn't seem to apply here. Smoking would be a better example.
Right, even you personally for example (manicdee) might well become so emotionally attached to something that you might literally type what amounts to a death threat were certain things to transpire. Even your name is "manicdee", which doesn't exactly scream mental stability. On the other hand that wouldn't be a credible death threat or anything to be afraid of. You're just some normal guy (in my estimation.)
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