skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be surprised if it boiled down to three things:

1) HIV is more easily transmitted man-to-man or woman-to-man than it is man-to-woman or woman-to-woman. Thus, all else being equal, men are more likely than women to get HIV, and therefore AIDS.

2) For various historical and political reasons, race and class are closely correlated in the US. Black men are more likely to be poor than white men.

3) Poor people are much less likely to have access to condoms and be educated about safe sex, and are more likely to use street drugs and share needles. They're also less likely to have good access to health care, meaning than HIV won't be treated properly and is more likely to progress to AIDS and, eventually, death.

Put those three factors together, and you end up with black men having a much higher incidence of AIDS than other groups.
Here's an article with more information from the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-arthuro-solis-reyes-...
Browsing other messages at the submitted link, did OpenBSD just start tearing apart the guts of OpenSSL since Heartbleed? Looks like OpenBSD lost all respect for the OpenSSL devs.

"But apparently the OpenSSL guys could find no objects of lesser value to pass to the pluggable random subsystem, and had to resort to private keys and digests. Classy."

"OPENSSL_DECLARE_EXIT serves no purpose."

"OPENSSL_gmtime() is not a gmtime() wrapper. It is a gmtime_r(). Always trying to confuse people..."

"Change library to use intrinsic memory allocation functions instead of
OPENSSL_foo wrappers. This changes:
OPENSSL_malloc->malloc
OPENSSL_free->free
OPENSSL_relloc->realloc
OPENSSL_freeFunc->free"
Seems like a strategic acquisition to help Carousel grow.
An impressive collection to be sure.
Slightly hyperbolical, the British Pathé archive puts it
thusly:

"This archive is a treasure trove unrivalled in historical and cultural significance that should never be forgotten."[0]

However, I am left wondering why "[u]ploading the films to YouTube seemed like the best way to make sure of that."
Perhaps fittingly, there's no clear indication which
licence, if any, is applicable.

What could've possibly impeded a parallel
upload to the Internet Archive?

[0]
https://britishpathe.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/british-pathe-...
It's just overkill to me to pay $20 a month for this when I expect a non-SSD plan would be half as cheap, if not more.
... and yes, of course you should know JavaScript inside out first. That's why I wrote https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re...
Crucial military satellite systems are vulnerable to hacking, experts say
In that case, their command is exactly as "error prone" to anyone who did not download the patch to the PWD.
Man, how long has it been since MongoDB has supposedly been dying? I swear it's more than 3 or 4 years for sure.
Doesn't hourly billing address that issue? Linode now offers it.
"It still has a huge lead on RDBMS in a very common and useful workload."

There's very little barrier to entry there, though. With 9.4, PostgreSQL will work better on a lot of JSON workloads than MongoDB. And postgres will continue filling in features to cover essentially all of the use cases MongoDB offers now.

MongoDB will have a much harder time supporting things like joins (and normalization which reduces redundancy), new data types, good (and flexible) transaction semantics, sophisticated indexing strategies, cost-based optimizer, useful constraints, etc.

This is one reason why XML databases never went anywhere -- existing SQL database systems just said "we can do that, too" and the XML-only systems were relegated to a small niche. Unless MongoDB really continues to innovate, it will have the same fate. JSON+Sharding is a good combination, but it's just not enough to be a lasting player in my opinion.
I think this is the first time in recent history that a company actually took care of its users after acquisition. Most of the time after the deadline to export your content, it's a big "fuck you" to the customer. At least Loom is making it easy to transfer content to Dropbox and is providing users with the same space on Dropbox as well free for a year. I can respect that.
Sorry...meant Security by Obscurity.
Fixed schemas aren't just about validation but performance and space usage as well.

Consider this long open high priority enhancement to MongoDB: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-863

Without a fixed schema, the schema must be stored with each item. Every "row" not only has the data but the metadata as well, including field names.

If you have a lot of repeatable data this can consume very significant amounts of space (regularly on the order of 4x comparing PG rows to BSON docs). This isn't just a disk space issue, this means less caches and more pages to scan when doing any operation. Compression only improves the disk space issue while adding CPU overhead.

Relational DB's like PostgreSQL having a fixed schema need only store it one time, each row has minimal overhead (about 23 bytes in PG) to store only the unique data.

Perhaps Mongo could optimize behind the scenes, detecting a repeating schema and making a fixed schema data structure for it similar to how the V8 javascript engine creates C++ classes for javascripts objects so its not a key-value lookup everywhere limiting performance. I haven't seen any NoSql db attempt that, I don't think any even attempt simple string interning as suggest in Mongos 863 issue.

PG gives me a choice I can go nearly schemaless with the JSON type or I can create a fixed schema when that makes sense, with many optimized data types to choose from. PG having array support give you a nice middle ground between the two as well.
Letter to a Junior Designer
What does sending your local search terms to Canonical and Amazon do to advance technology, exactly? All these desperate attempts at monetization off users' privacy are disgusting, and it's sad to see companies big and small stoop to that level.
"We couldn't be happier."

"We look forward to this transition as the next step."

"As of today, we are no longer enrolling new users. "

"Existing users can continue to use our service until ..."

"We want to do whatever it takes to make any transition as smooth as possible."

"We have worked hard on our product and feel that our vision aligns perfectly with ..."
Did you read the article? They're doing exactly this.
Mozilla has been doing this for a while if you open a developer console on MDN.
Cause there is no CSPRNG anymore: http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/58777eed1cff7c5b34cbc0262...

RAND_status() always returns 1.
My calendar is my todo list. If I don't get the thing done, I drag it forward a couple days.
Why? How likely is `cd /usr/src` to fail?
For what it's worth, if you have Ghostery installed you cannot see the comments. The intent is to block tracking but the added benefit of not seeing comments is a nice plus.
What he achieved should only be relevant in how it demonstrates intent. Deducing the SSL key could be done as a proof-of-concept, and should only matter if it can be used to show that he was planning on impersonating the site in furtherance of some other crime.

I do concede that the proper analogy isn't something so plainly visible to all as an open window, but it does have to incorporate an external motivating factor to try the door (perhaps a rumor floating around town that they tend to leave it unlocked and oh boy you wouldn't believe what's on the other side..)
It's just planting new saplings instead of overgrowing a tree.
There's not much in the way of DJB's documentation other than a conceptual sketch so there's much
room for interpretation.

There are many differences between the two implementations, some quite fundamental. redux uses sha1 checksums instead of timestamps. Timestamps cause all sorts of problems as we know from make.
apenwarr redo has all sorts of extra utilities to ameliorate the problems.
redux has the minimum functionality needed for the task (init, redo, redo-ifchange, redo-ifcreate)
and I don't think it needs any others.

Redux passes most apenwarr tests. The few it does not pass are apenwarr specific.
I've not tried the converse. Might be interesting.

I actually have a task list to add an apenwarr compatibility mode to redux so users can switch easily. At that point, it should pass all the apenwarr tests.

Of course, redux is quite a bit faster too.
engineers/programmers
So... didn't we all have little peak around the internet last week? Are we all in trouble now?
Ryanair drops out of top Google flight search results after website overhaul
Is that the sort of thing that could be fixed by running your own DNS resolver? I mean it all comes down to DNSSEC eventually.
3 Steps to Convert Followers into Users and Customers
Security and reliability on the Mill CPU
Perhaps Russian authorities realized the shock value of helping Snowden had worn off and thought it was about time to leverage their position as asylum-granter to pressure him into lobbing the softball?
The Death of the Web Design Agency?
Also see http://www.reddit.com/r/shutdown/
Do things that don't scale:
http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

http://bondero.com/boost-startup-traffic-free
http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/2014/02/21/83-best-sites-to...
For those who don't know: https://www.carousel.com/
Yep. It is even easier to see the carnage here:

http://freshbsd.org/search?project=openbsd&q=file.name%3Alib...
Simple Way to paint on a Image
There is two types of complexity:

- irreducible complexity, this is inherent to the problem space. For example, tax software cannot be simple because the tax laws are not.

- incidental complexity - this is because programmers like to prove how smart they are in code :-)
My concern about Calico and the other commercial efforts at aging research is, will the tools and data they develop be made public so that others can build on them? Also, supposing they succeed, I find the idea of commercial ownership of a (real) anti-aging drug morally repugnant in the extreme, perhaps even dystopian. But I certainly can't deny that Google has informatics experience.

SENS, as I understand it, can mean (at least) 3 different things:

a) The idea that we should focus on root causes rather than late-stage manifestations. I agree with this.

b) The idea that we should attempt to repair aging-related damage without needing to know what caused the damage. I find this debatable. We have stumbled on to some big treatments (aspirin, penicillin), without knowing how or why they worked. But in general, if you take a broken, complex system (e.g., a car, some source code) and attempt to repair it without understanding how it works, you will fail. With aging, many changes occur. How can you determine which changes are "damage" and which are compensatory regulatory changes without understanding the chain of causation?

c) A specific list of 7 aging-associated markers of damage and proposals to clear that damage, with the implication that if we do so, we will drastically reduce or eliminate age-associated morbidity and mortality. This is the part that is seen as hokum. At best, it is a hypothesis. Let de Grey get a grant and prove it, like everyone else does, rather than publicity-hunting and implying that it is only the stodgy old aging research establishment keeping us from eternal youth. But if you want semi-technical criticisms:

- On what basis are these 7 types of damage chosen and not others?

- One of the proposed treatments for the natural shortening of telomeres over time is the periodic, whole-body addition of telomerase or the equivalent. Considering that telomerase is overexpressed in cancer and is an important ingredient to uncontrolled cell division, do you think this is a good idea?

- On a related note, SENS presupposes that a cure for cancer must be found before the entire program can be made practical. A minor problem.

- The technology for several other of his other proposed interventions does not currently exist; for example, expressing mitochondrial genes only in the nucleus.

Anyway, I actually share SENS' goals but not its unwarranted confidence in its specific proposals to achieve them.
That's a great list! I'll add that they almost always have a story of how they hacked something when young. Maybe hardware, maybe software, but always to get something they were otherwise denied.
Linode does not offer pain-free upgrades - your files are physically copied to another size of box, not just allocated more resources on the existing box. The bigger your files, the longer it'll take (around 30 mins usually).

I agree it would be nice to do upgrades in place but presumably they have very good reasons for not doing so. Are you aware of any provider which does this in a seamless way? I'm not really sure how they'd do it, particularly for RAM.
Alphabetical index of all Nginx variables
Like we really needed any new reasons to eradicate the brazil nut from this earth.
Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
During early prototyping, when I'm still figuring out the problem and how the user thinks, that's when I try not to worry too much about a schema. For me a data model is kinda seductive; of course it's necessary when you know what you're doing, but it draws my attention away from the messy uncontrollable users.
That seems like a pretty reasonable analogy. It raises the question, though: why is the "player character" so important in the real world?
Do you need to register the APIs you use in APItools before doing this?
Some types of sites need disk more than RAM, and that market is really weird right now too.

I run a service that could get away with only 8GB of RAM, but definitely needs at least 2TB of space, plus plenty of room to grow.
Facebook launches Nearby Friends
No, that's not your point, or at least it wasn't. Your original point was that adding housing would make renting in San Francisco more expensive. That point remains false. High rents cause construction, not the other way around. The thing that makes San Francisco more expensive is advertising revenue collected by Google and Facebook or whoever, paid to software engineers and then to landlords.

Add something making it a lot more expensive and something making it a little cheaper, and you still get "quite a bit more expensive", go figure. Apparently I need to spell that out! Truly this thread is a bastion of intellectual excellence.
The CSPRNG has been replaced with arc4random_buf() in the OpenBSD code, and thus can not fail.
STILL no way to keep them from hiding when you move the mouse away -.-
Francis Pelland – Great design and user experience for smiles
Local search terms aren't sent to the web, the Dash is a search box for local and remote sources (it tells you in the description before you type anything in there. The point is for you to be able to search everything in one spot. So you can do `github:docker`, or `wiki:dinosaurs` or whatever.

You can either explicitly search locally by using Super-A, or turn off online search in the dash entirely via the privacy panel.
Awesome site. The text message effect is refreshing
As It Becomes an App Platform, Dropbox Gobbles Up One App Startup Per Month
You're putting far too much importance on the DB, when really, it's an implementation detail. It has nothing to do with your app, really, and letting your app be a slave to a schema is an anti-pattern. In the end, all a schema really is a fancier linter.

This is one of the advantages of Mongo. No schema, no longer an issue.
Off-topic, but related.

Does anyone know of any JS libraries that allow for Excel-like interaction? However I am looking for something that just implements the presentation layer.

The problem I am running into is that the libraries that do exist conflate the presentation and data layers and try to do everything for you. In other words, they make the assumption that all data will be downloaded to the client and then manipulated on the client. These libraries do not fit my use case.
yeah it's not as obvious and simple like DO's REST calls. shame I never discovered this while I Was with linode but it wouldn't have caught my attention any how like how DO did with their simplicity.

now I definitely don't think there's much linode can do further to entice me unless they matched digital ocean's pricing lower than 0.03/hr
A Glitch in the Maptrix
<3 Ghostery. I assume the comments are your typical "all hackers should die! One of them stole my yahoo account once!" stuff?
CVS? Really?
Facebook's News Feed Updates Explained
Interesting that Loom was less expensive than Dropbox, even with the value add photo stuff.
You can go with Digital Ocean or one of the other providers in the $5/mo range if price is your real concern here. That's what they're there for. No need to go through the indirection of talking about SSDs.
Dropbox acquires Hackpad (YC W12)
Nah; then you just set a calendar reminder N days in advance.
A lot of people in this thread are questioning how this adds any new information about time or how it is different/better than a classical explanation of systems (coffee cup reaching equilibrium based on thermodynamic laws).

One way that this result makes sense to me is by considering the properties of light speed and "spooky action at a distance." Particles become entangled with one another at the speed of light -- photons or fields carrying the information between the two. Looking at this from the perspective of light speed, there has been an instantaneous change between the two particles. State A has led directly to a more complicated, entangled State B. Still looking at this from light speed, there is no time between the transition from one state to the next and from that one to the next and so on. The universe has already worked itself out from the initial disentangled state to all the states that are increasingly more entangled.

Thanks to Einstein, we know that all objects try to move at light speed, but that the more massive they are the slower they become. Because we are massive objects, we don't experience time instantaneously like the photons do. We see the propagation of entanglement and see the state transitions. Our massiveness has given rise to a direction of time, the order that we understand the states of the universe to be proceeding in. Unlike light, we have to experience all the intermediate states in the order of less entangled -> more entangled. Thus an arrow of time.

This is already subtly bundled up in the classical explanations. Coffee cools off because it reaches equilibrium. Classical physics says this is because the particles in the coffee are hotter than the surrounding air, so it is more likely for those particles to break free of the coffee, thereby reducing its average kinetic motion. Consider though how those particles are interacting with one another. They don't just "know" the direction they're supposed to go, they bump into each other's fields and communicate at light speed. Each particle informs the next and as they become more entangled and learn more about where they are, they progress from state to state.
Can anyone talk about how well a Macbook Pro copes with the UEFI version of Ubuntu?

Fedora 20 on a 2009 13" MBP is an unfun experience. Using the UEFI boot means you get broken graphics drivers. Using the regular boot means you have to hold boot to get the image boot menu every time you power on. (I think - I could easily be wrong). You have to make sure the disk is blessed otherwise there's a large boot delay. (Fedora 20 doesn't use the right Broadcom drivers which means some interesti g catch22 about needing to connect to the internet to get WIFI drivers but not being able to because lol no drivers.)

I don't want to rant about Fedora when most of this is my lack of knowledge. But the combination of Gnome3 and this kind of fiddling around was odd and reminded me of a much older install experience. (Having said all that, Fedora 20 is nice and does have some really nice features.)
Awesome. Loom should consider changing that landing video image though on their homepage. It just...something seems...not right. Or maybe make that iPad more prominent.

I don't know.
What about Snapjoy? This is not the first photo related sight that Dropbox has picked up. So far I have not been impressed with Dropbox's photo efforts. Why should we think this will be different?
Ray Bradbury (and the Disney Channel) predicted the modern-day smart home
Thanks. I read this guy's blog some years ago. Looks like a useful book!
Shaun Inman interview – Indieverse.co
Shaun Inman is a talented designer, developer, and composer from New England currently living in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is best known for making video games like The Last Rocket and Retro Game Crunch, web-based apps like Mint and Fever, and even for writing his own music and game soundtracks.
Thanks! Both great insights, and and the self-polinating/asexual reproduction bits seem like they'll occupy the rest of my afternoon in a wikipedia-hole.
IDEO's Nicole Kahn on Giving Presentations
I have no idea, thankfully.
Yes they can.

However it is far more profitable to increase the executive's pay so that it dwarfs their own obscene compensation. That is extremely common in public companies.
congrats to the entire Loom team
Very interesting, wasn't aware that ETCD is strongly consistent. This makes alot of sense in terms of Brewster's theorem. Thanks for clarifying!
It usually means Java :(
It's Dropbox startupageddon today or something:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604809

Also:

http://recode.net/2014/04/17/as-it-becomes-an-app-platform-d...
After all the NSA leaks and then Heartbleed, being anonymous anywhere really seems like a pipe dream to me.
Any recommendations on Google Glass?
If someone has experienced Google Glass, Pl provide feedback. Wondering if I should buy now or wait

How is it?
I think the photo management space is like blog platforms. They die so rapidly, I don't want to invest the considerable time to try out a new startup. Dropbox bought out Snapjoy and now Loom. Everpix is gone. I guess Picturelife is still around.
Tear Apart My Consulting Page, Part 2
Chiming in with shameless me too self promotion...

I have a similar feature on http://tuned.io/ - it's a soundcloud search with autocomplete; you can play any of the search results instantly, etc.

The music makes for good coding background.
How to get stuff done, automatically
Where would you date Google's front page? Don't judge a book by its cover.
Huh? Containers are quite lightweight; you can run several of them in 2 GB of RAM.
It's entirely possible he didn't even know he had any numbers and perhaps never even saved it to disk.
For those interested in comparing, here are the respective pricing pages for each:

https://loom.com/plans

https://www.dropbox.com/upgrade (consumer plans)
Ha! Charlie left the software industry and moved to bigger and better things (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/faq.html). He does have some good stories about his days at SCO on his website (e.g. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/06/how_i_go...).
Facebook Launches “Nearby Friends” With Opt-In Real-Time Location Sharing
It's rivalled by http://blog.flickr.net/en/2013/12/16/welcome-the-british-lib...

And the same argument applies - why flickr? Or at least, why only flickr? Executives not willing to give up control is the answer. It's difficult for people who generally make a living from renting access to the public to imagine releasing something in a way that they couldn't revoke later. It's a major break from that possessive thinking to even release the stuff to a third party rather than commission some monstrous UI for their own site.

If you want it in the public domain, give it to archive.org or make torrents. The public will do the uploading to youtube and flickr.