skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unfortunate that PSD files don't work with git because so much of the development and release process ends up being built around git (e.g. merging code into trunk triggers the continuous integration tests). If designers don't use git, they can end up out of sync with their engineering peers. As the author said, designers who code are at a big advantage, even if they spend most of their time designing.

As a compromise, we had some luck syncing the PSD files with Box and checking in the exported static assets to git, but it was more of a patch than a solution.
i cant stand disqus, i leave articles more than not because i dont like to be forced to comment using the system. it blows and needs to die... i thing webmasters use it because they are lazy, not because it is good.
Other women snubbed me until I made it big
Data protection legislation is, and always has been, about your ability to control information that's about you. Winston Smith's job was about controlling information that's about other people. Do you really think that's a distinction without a difference?
The Emerging Science of Superspreaders (And How to Tell If You're One Of Them)
I'll be disappointed in the NSA if they're not selling their access to hedge funds and other major corporations. This'd be great to front run mergers and other similar events. C'mon, guys -- let's not be small time with the corruption here. Go big or go home.

Now, how exactly do these companies think that this sort of collaboration will not utterly destroy the trust that non-US companies have had for American IT services? You can only lie so much until people stop listening to anything that you have to say, even if some of it is true.

I also appreciated the clear explanation of the CDN loophole. Good presentation, guys! Good job!

Also, despite increased access to 'intelligence,' the US continues to make poor strategic decisions, blunder into wars that it loses, lurch from financial crisis to crisis, and lose the trust of both its domestic citizens and important foreign allies. Tons and tons of 'data' but negligible intelligence.
Buddhist Massacre: Look up the end of the Civil War in Sri Lanka, where the Buddhist government pushed hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees onto the Jaffna peninsula, and then bombed it to smithereens.

Hindus denying rights to women and allowing atrocities like rape and honor killings? Basically the BJP platform in India. Oh, and mass killings of Moslems in the 80s thrown in for good measure.

There is no Zoroastrian or Taoist state, but I'm sure if there was, there would be atrocities there.

Oh, and before anyone says that this is just an anti-religious rant: Pol Pot killed millions, and he was a nominal atheist.

People can and will kill and subjugate people for pretty much any reason. Usually they call it "The Greater Good"
I don't get it. API (i.e. standardization; XKCD #927 issues aside) part is understandable - except it's not really a standard at this point. But… why would one need an intermediate party who would merely act as a proxy? Or I'm not understanding what kind of service Crownest provides? Intro pages are quite scarce on real technical details on how the whole thing works under the hood.

Sorry for skepticism, but I'd say it's certainly a better to invest the same money in making the same RPi (or alike device(s)) globally-addressable and accessible from the Internet. Indeed, this approach loses all fancy cloud buzzwords, but it brings much more practical value.
I could and would argue that there are times in which a person should have the right to not be found.

An example scenario: Alice is a victim of a crime, reports the crime and Bob is arrested and goes on trial. Bob pleads not guilty and Alice participates in the trial as a witness. Bob is sentenced, the court record is made. The Daily News (fictional paper) reports on the court records of the day and has a reporter who attends the more interesting cases, and mentions Bob's sentence and gives some of Alice's statements as quotes.

In that scenario, the court record should always be a matter of public record, a statement of fact. The newspaper certainly has the right to access public record and to make a news story of the set of facts that are in the public record.

But, here starts the problems... Alice applies for a job and the employer Googles her name and comes across the news article. There are many types of crimes in which the public have great difficulty accepting a victim is a victim. For example, rape. It isn't too much of a stretch to say that the culture of victim blaming means that a matter of public record has just had the effect of defaming Alice.

Alice as a victim is never given the opportunity to move on with her life when every person that ever searches for her will find the story very quickly. She has been sentenced too by participating in the justice system, which is an open book.

The newspaper, just as in this case, will argue this is public record and cannot be silenced. Sure, I agree... but that doesn't mean that it's in the victims interest that the information be extraordinarily easy to find.

And Google are a better place in which to attempt to stop the information being found, given that they (and only 1 or 2 other search engines) cover the vast majority of searches made about someone.

Alice certainly does have the right to make information that she didn't explicitly choose to make public and that can cause her harm not be found so easily, even when that information is a matter of fact and public record.

She has the right to not be found (by that method - Google).

PS: I know a girl experiencing almost exactly that scenario, who cannot get a news story off of the front page results for her name. This isn't even a stretch scenario. The local newspaper just hasn't bothered responding to requests.
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The environment in high finance companies is extremely competitive. As long as your number is bigger than everyone else's, you're succeeding. If your number is smaller, you're failing. Never mind if the number is still in the billions, or if you had to destroy the economy to get on top.
"Handing to one other organisation in confidence" != "public"

The answer is potentially yes, if you're handling people's information then they have a right to (a) correct it and (b) delete it. You can't just maintain dossiers on people forever without their consent. However, it may be exempt if it's administratively necessary to keep.

http://ico.org.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_guid...

(Really you have to look in the caselaw which is harder to find)
> Without the ability to forget our past mistakes, we are forever defined by them.

On the other hand, it will never be possible for all such people to cover-up all such information about them. So the real solution (a societal recognition that no one is perfect) is still required.

If anything it would be easier for the truly crooked to pass off as "reformed".
Probably nice and all, but that website is empty.
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Interesting, especially the part of making it mobile-only. Seems odd to me but I'm sure they have a reason behind it.

Also, part of the reason why Costco and Sams are so expensive is the fact that they have no signs, which forces people to search for things and come across things they need. Also is this startup planning on charging a membership fee?
Yup, same here. Upvoted.
Online Gaming with AWS: Taking Golden Manager to the next level
Or a natural monopoly.
It's a shortened link (because the true link is so long, as you discovered), maybe you have a browser extension that expands them?
yep, speak my peace or not, have no voice or use their crap system. victim is about right imho.
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Political blogs also have terrible monetization even with high view counts. Developer blogs generally get the odd pity click on an ad.

Really the only way to be a "professional blogger" is to be an otherwise famous writer or to convince a business that they need a professional blog post writer.
Annotate.js parses data annotations added to JSON objects
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This might be a really dumb question, but you are using Chrome, right?
DHH: Drive development with budgets not estimates
Singapore is a very diverse country, whether it be ethnically, linguistically, or culturally.
> I was wondering about similarities to the old "ting" in Scandinavia, which regulated clan feuds, etc.

Is this related to the "farthings" of the Icelandic Commonwealth?

Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth#Court_sy...
Then your understanding is incorrect (sorry; not trying to be flippant). Interconnects are the entire story here.

The media has framed a lot of the congestion issues in the context of "fast/slow lane" but what they come down to are business disagreements between the transit providers and the ISPs. The solution to these disagreements from the viewpoint of a large service provider is to purchase an interconnect directly to the ISPs. If you are a small service provider, the solution is to purchase delivery through a CDN. Netflix used to purchase delivery through CDNs until it got too expensive for their business model; so they started building their own CDN that they called "OpenConnect". They used their positive brand image in conjunction with the ISP's poor brand image to launch a PR campaign with the goal of knocking down the price they would have to pay for interconnect service. It worked; they knew they were always going to have to pay the Comcasts and Verizons of the world but they were able to talk the ISPs down a significant amount.

Strategically, it's a bad position to be in for a service provider because the ISPs can raise the price at any time (which is why Netflix has continued complaining about it). But realistically, the ISPs sit on such a strong market control point that nothing can really stop them from setting prices (common carrier status just means they have to offer the same price structure to everyone; not that they can't arbitrarily raise prices).
Franklin was a privileged person to have these sorts of hours.
GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow
Ah, thanks!

Using MAP_POPULATE, I'm seeing this go from 104,276 page faults down to 130 page faults. However, I'm only seeing a modest increase in overall performance, goes from 160 ms to 130 ms for my ~500 MB test file. MAP_POPULATE + MAP_NONBLOCK is as bad as not using MAP_POPULATE (same number of page faults).

Could the number of TLB misses from using huge pages be a major factor too? Page faults alone do not explain the huge perf difference. (edit: perf stat tells me I'm only missing 0.19% of TLB lookups and only 3% dcache misses)

I also tried with a 4 GB file and I see two interesting effects. First of all, using MAP_POPULATE is slower, which I presume is because physical memory is exhausted (6 G memory total). Secondly, I see less than 100k page faults which suggests that bigger pages (2M or 1G?) are being used (10x bigger file, a little less page faults).
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In Defense of Broadband Fast Lanes
Scraping is clearly covered by robots.txt, one of the earliest conventions on the web. In their case (http://www.leboncoin.fr/robots.txt) they allow the spiders from most commercial search engine, but disallow all others.

I think it's a terrible idea from Schibsted (the Norwegian owners of the company) to react like this; but then again, lawyers...
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As long as the set of search engines that do have 99% marketshare are fairly few and reachable through EU courts in this fashion, then it won't matter what the market share of #1 is.
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I'd absolutely love "Show HN" being a link on the top bar. Many of us are here because we love making things, because we want to get inspired and because we want to learn.

- It might increase the quality of discussion here since these are likely to be more technical. Even more so if the "Show HN" work comes with source code.

- I don't think a separate app on another domain will work. There will be no community around it.

- In the long run, maybe YC will fund a few startups which started life as a link on Show HN.

sama, pg and others, please do consider this.
Google Loses Landmark EU Privacy Case
Is there a good reason to assume this would only be used defensively?

It's Apple, so no.
I'm working on this browser-based interaction prototyping tool. The goal is to provide a a simple workspace where you can brainstorm and build clickable prototypes quickly and easily.

I'd love to get some feedback/suggestions.
Flip HTML5, the HTML5 page turn software released with great compatibility
Apple CEO Dares to be Different from Steve Jobs
It depends on how you're defining "public information." If you define it tautologically as 'information available to the public' then yes, because Google is crawling public datasets, and Facebook serves information to the public. If you define it legally, then it depends on the jurisdiction.

Public information isn't something established by nature, it's something created by statute.
Totally reddit style comment, destined for downvote oblivion, but I like this Brunel related Steampunk song so much I can't resist linking to it just this once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21QqXumEWFU
Don't just pick a random project to contribute to.

Learn software that you need to use, for example, if you're a web developer, learn one of the popular frameworks. Once you've mastered it you'll see where the problems are and what you can do to improve it, and then contribute patches.

Basically just find and fix problems with things that you actually use.
Indeed. Somehow a story about NSA tampering with devices after manufacture is being twisted into "all commercial products are deliberately backdoored". If you actually use logic, these are separate issues.

Actually, if anything, the story is proof that the routers are not backdoored from the start, otherwise why would they have to intercept shipments?
The enjoyment of creating it, often my projects are small demos exploring a new method or idea I've discovered. Sharing them would be great but I don't think it's worth crashing my site or paying extra for. I'm happy to share within friends or have the odd stranger stumble across them.
>I use his name because I'm tired of seeing well-heeled individuals throw their weight around in the court system.

Are you comparing the resources of a single individual against that of Google? Is the guy a billionaire?

>Had he said nothing, I doubt anyone, even in his hometown would have cared all that much about the issue.

Well, it would've been present for anyone to google. How much faith do you have in your capacity to defend well page-ranked libellous information against yourself? Part of rehabilitation is also not being permanently associated with your mistakes.
You might also be interested in Lex Mercatoria. It's a system of common law used between merchants in medievil Europe for dispute resolution, particularly in a time when the largest truly effective government was at the level of the nation-state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_mercatoria

I really wish I had more time and energy to devote to the study of polycentric law. It's something I feel very strongly about, and where I know enough to realize my understanding is incomplete :)
Just because it is written in D doesn't automatically make it fast. If you were to run that program on an underpowered host with a database system that has to constantly swap, with not enough CPU time available it would be slow too.

And that is the bigger problem, people are running their websites on underpowered hardware in the first place. The limit should be the network connection, not the page rendering time... but unfortunately that isn't always the case.
> It would be ethical to have it removed from Scribd until Glenn decides to release this to the public.

Is this sarcasm? Has Poe's Law struck me again?
In contrast to Syncthing, Hive2Hive is more a library, providing an API for any kind of program that requires file synchronization.
Another major difference is that Hive2Hive is written in Java and not in Go.
My iOS app doesn't necessarily aggregate them into one area, but it highlights them in the main list. I believe that the Show HN posts are actually the best part of this community, so I wanted to visually distinguish and highlight those within the app. It's free, so you can check it out if you have an iPhone.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id592893508?mt=8

ShowHN Highlighting screenshot:

http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/8e/8e/cc/8e8ecc01-c1...
Do you know of any books or reading material that accurately describes its use today, or just deals with the modern realities of life in Somalia?
1.) Graduated from a top engineering school with little debt ( ~$10k ) thanks to wonderful parents who planned from day one to send my sisters and I to our top choice colleges.

2.) Consulted, tutored, did odd jobs throughout school to help pay for living costs and continued this for my first year out of college while I worked at a large engineering company ( one year out and I had saved ~$40k, which > than a year's expenses at the time ).

3.) The $40k allowed me to take a risk and join a smaller company in the financial/software space that was offering half the salary other companies were offering, but with very good upside potential.

4.) Company has been doing very well -- much better than I anticipated. I invested my earnings well ( avg'd just over 20% return per year since I started investing during the turmoil in 2008 --- took very little, IMHO, investing risk --- turns out obsessive-compulsive tendencies can be put to good use digging into and understanding 10k reports ). I made my first million before I turned 30 and have multiplied that a few times over in the next few years doing pretty much the same thing. There was no one event that dropped a bunch of cash in my lap. I accumulated ( and continue to accumulate ) cash ( at an increasing rate --- snowball effects are amazing ) over time. Still cranking away.....

Best advice I can give for those who want to accumulate wealth. Find something you enjoy, can reward you well financially, and then grind it out for a decade. The last part isn't talked about that much because, well its generally not all that glamorous --- but I enjoyed it.
And yet they can do this because it's first to file now in the U.S., not first to invent.
> We can save much more of a user's time by creating simple, intuitive interfaces than we can checking cache misses (in most modern development).

And at least for regularly-used software, you can save even more user time by not optimising for the first five minutes of usage but for the long-term usage. Keyboard shortcuts are a good example for this: They are mostly not simple and certainly not intuitive per se (why does Alt+Tab switch windows in particular?), yet once you know them, they do save a lot of time.
We need to speak to one language to understand each other right? The meetup is at 4 :)
What's about Bob? Should employer be able to Google Bob?
As a recommendation to the author, it would make sense to show the example/demo area the whole time, not only once I scroll down. It confused me. A lot.
Different integer wrapping semantics I assume.
> That gets us up to 14.5 GB/s, which is more reasonable for a a single stream read on a single core.

If you want to see roughly the limit of memory speed on your machine, try booting into memtest86+; in addition to testing memory, it benchmarks memory.
You can attack an idea without attacking a person. As long as people realize they are distinct from the code they write, you can be direct and brutal about code, without devolving into ad hominem. The problem is fostering a culture where people don't feel as if they are socially defined solely by the code they write.
"But it is Columbus the discoverer and explorer whom we truly celebrate and honor, not Columbus the civil governor..."

– Warren H. Carroll, Ph.D. Honoring Christopher Columbus. Faith & Reason, Summer 1992.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/homelibr/columbus.htm
How much fossils fuels will be consumed building (and then operating) the thousands of clipper ships need to replace one massive cargo ship?
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How is your CUs website? My biggest observation that smaller CUs have a low IT budget, so even though the Chase's of the world have very annoying websites, CU's tend to be even worse. I guess for most people just checking balance and transactions online is enough, but I do enjoy some fancy stuff from the bank like deposit check via smartphone.
Every news source has a bias. It is the job of the consumer to understand what that bias is. An informed consumer observes the perspectives of many news sources with an understanding of their bias and forms an opinion of the truth based on that data.
The Dangers of Personalization
I'm not going to speak for the parent poster, but on one hand you have: leaking details of controversial secret actions from a powerful government organization to a journalist. On the other hand you have leaking from a journalist "his" scoop that was already in the pipeline to get published without any indication there is an immediate time pressure justifying it.

These two immediately strike me as very qualitatively different, and if we assume that the parent poster is actually talking about ethics it would follow that they do not have an absolutist view on leaking and that the context matters.
Great post. I recently started a project using reactjs, and I have nothing but good things to say. The unidirectional data flow, the declarative nature, and the virtual DOM makes it powerful and very easy to like.

The best resource is to follow the tutorial (link below). The tutorial explains everything you may have a question about when comparing it to Backbone, Angular, or Ember.

http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html

I also found the IRC channel to be very, very helpful.

The only downside is that you still have to rely on other tools to make a true SPA like routing.
Git doesn’t handle image files well at all, because it wasn’t designed for it. That said, I think the OP is talking more about designers using Git for code, not images. Designers don’t just make images, etc.
I was really surprised to see it barely using only a fraction of my CPU on my MBP in Aurora (was expecting to see it max out one of my cores). Very cool stuff.
Apparently there is a related game where battles are decided without revealing the identities of the pieces involved.