skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FBI is known to pick apart spinning disk drives and retrieve data directly from the platter using a scanning tunneling electron microscope. What makes you think the NSA doesn't know how to do the same and perhaps with SSDs?
There is no single glyph for The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, but you can use combining chars to obtain it.

01AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH HOOK
030A COMBINING RING ABOVE
0335 COMBINING SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
032C COMBINING CARON BELOW

http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML...
It doesn't matter if this single drive is unreadable because backups.

Seriously, it's the 21st centuary and everyone should always be making backups.
Your account is 11 hours old and you have 7 comments, each and every one of them extremely hostile.

Are you trying to achieve something here, or are you like this in real life as well? I really don't envy you either way.

In any case, I like that they're blogging about this. Open sourcing "processes" and all that.
There is really no "play to win" in Minecraft, because there is no "winning". You just keep doing things until you get bored and stop playing.

As someone who can run my own server for myself and a few friends (and have on multiple occasions), I don't see how allowing servers to charge for some things is bad... don't want to pay for access to an item -- go play someplace else or host your own.
"And I have examples to support that."

Do give them.

"This is not helping your users, it's pissing them off and making them spend a lot of time hunting for the "desktop version" link on your site."

Not for the site I worked on. When we switched to responsive mobile use skyrocketed on our site.
The quality of life is really great here in Pittsburgh. I have a huge 1 bedroom, back yard, front porch, in a great safe neighborhood, a block from major bus lines. All for $600/month. It'd run me at least triple that in somewhere like SF or NYC. Sure, you can't get some of the things you'd get in those cities, but quite frankly, you can come close. There are dozens of ethic restaurants a block away, 10+ museums and galleries within 5-10 miles, and best of all, it's cheap enough to actually have time to visit them.
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So I recently had a interview with a company wanted to share that and see you guys input.
I had 2 phone call interview both calls were technical interview. And then they decided to fly me out to their companies headquarter. I flew there as I arrived their building elevator wasnt working so had to climb 7 floors. Got there very startup like looks of the place. First of all they were very unorganized with the interview process...they just grabbed 2 people and were like sit and talk with me. Both of them didnt know what to ask. They kept asking me do you have any questions. After that i was suppose to meet with the 2 people that i had the phone interview with. One of them was busy so he didnt join us...they other one started asking me questions about a new implementation that they were doing and wanted my input on it. The other guy finally joined towards the end of the interview and started asking me questions the first interviwer already asked me. After that i went out to lunch with 2 different people. They didnt ask much. once we got back this one guy sat down and asked me if i had any questions and the interview session was over. I flew back to my home place. I got an email from them saying that the company needs doesnt match and you were over-qualified. I really dont get why they spend over 2 grand to fly me out just to say no? is that like a new marketing tactic to interview people and deny them? because i saw bunch of people giving review on glassdoor saying they had interview and were not offered the position. Also the interview guy was leaving the company to join another.

so what you guys think? i think i am only sharing this to vent and somehow i feel discourage in applying for another companies.
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Will somebody here please make a video hosting website to replace YouTube.
>Well, there we have it.

This is a slippery slope argument. We solved the issue with X therefore we can solve it with Y. The problem is when you solve the issues JS browser side crypto has, you render it unnecessary.

If you can.

1) Authenticate the message is unchanged. I.E.: Assures libraries you are using are secure.

2) Authenticate who your talking too. I.E.: Assures the host is the correct host, not a MITM attack.

3) Ensure the message is unreadable in transmission. I.E.: Insure any eaves droppers are not loging you.

What use is there for client side JS crypto?

You just solved every issue with 2 way encrypted communication. Just build it into a tool kit and you render JS clientside crypto unneeded.

:.:.:

Also to outline, compiled JS node.js application level stuff is useful. In Browser JS crypto is bad, completely untrustworthy and broken.
It's straight out of the MS Webdings font, from 1997:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings#mediaviewer/File:Webdi... (top row, 3rd character)
That's exactly what I'm planning on doing, as that seems to be simultaneously correct and relatively easy to program. I'm surprised, though, that I haven't found a "nicely packaged" version of some CRDTs, a server DB, and a client-side DB. I suppose it is probably because everyone's use-cases are so different and that using CRDTs limit the data you can use, to some degree.
“Good. Everyone knows astronauts are at their best when they’re jittery.”

http://www.theonion.com/articles/international-space-station...
The NSA is routinely MITMing connections. How will browser side crypto help if they get to decide what code your browser runs?
"which is when you have a 1,200 page document with hundreds of tables, lists, and pictures"

This is like saying that SQLite is not a good product because you are using it on a Terabyte database having 1,000,000 hits at the same time... It might work but it would have problems because wasn't designed for that scenario.

I sympathize with you though... since it is not your decision :/
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The human brain can be very susceptible to hacking, especially if its trust channels are open.
I second that. I move from Poland to UK and the service is a lot worse in every way.
I don't care how you slice it, versioning a DB in git is a broken process. If you have to do this to shore up a project, it indicates the project is broken.

This is sold as something for big sites: "70% of WP sites in Alexa Top 1 Million" but I promise you there is no conceivable way the amount of changes we make in our WP DB could not be handled in Git.
> There is a simple solution that would put an end to all this BS, and this is to separate the last mile from the middle mile the same way that the old AT&T was broken up to split local from long distance service

It would be extremely challenging, legally. If we're talking about cable rather than copper, the last mile was built by private companies with private money. BT, in contrast, started out as a government-owned corporation, and when it was privatized, the terms of the separation were written into the prospectus.

> (This is how they do it in the UK and UK people are very happy with their internet service.)

Yet U.K. internet really isn't faster than U.S. internet in areas with comparable density. According to Ookla's Net Index, average broadband speeds in say Pennsylvania, a state with less than half the population density of the U.K. is about the same as in the U.K. (28.3 mbps versus 28.6 mbps). Akamai's data shows the U.S. ahead of the U.K. in average connection speeds.
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The distinction between normal language and graphical representation is the same as what is clipart and what is a official part of a language. Is poo a letter? No. Is A a letter? Yes.

Fonts are not a clipart gallery and not a place for some committee to dump little pictures. If you want to show me a snowmen over the internet, use an image! Certainly people can understand an image of a snowmen.
The overwhelming consensus led to a diabetes type 2 and obesity epidemic. Curious that when this consensus was absent, it wasn't nearly that much of a problem, but only started to become a huge giant problem once consensus was reached. Coincidence? Totally.
Thank you for taking the time to write this inspiring post!
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Hi. I designed most of FlatBuffers, so let me see if I can clarify:

Clearly, FlatBuffers seeks a different design tradeoff than Cap'n Proto. We wanted to retain all the flexibility of Protobufs, while having the advantages of the "zero parsing / zero allocation" approach. That brought us to the vtable design.

In use cases where performance matters, i.e. you are churning through a large amount of data, you will be accessing the same vtable repeatedly, and the cost of the extra indirection (and the code associated with it) will be masked by the memory latency of the main data you're going through. It will be (close to) "for free". Even in cases where that isn't the case, whether or not it is able to match Cap'n Proto's accessor code is less interesting than it being endlessly faster than Protobuf and most other serializers out there, given that it is just as flexible.

vtables are de-duped on the fly during construction. It is typically not expensive.

Note this tiny overhead holds for "tables", we also have naked "structs", which do not have the indirection overhead, but have no forwards/backwards compatability. Useful for things like 2d/3d vector types, colors, and other small POD types that are used a lot.

FlatBuffers also has unions, which you should use instead of optionals when appropriate. We feel optionals have a lot of uses beyond just mere unions and forwards/backwards compatibility, however. Game objects can have a LOT of fields, many of which are often at their default value, and thus not stored on the wire. This gives significant compression. The zero-byte compression in Cap'n Proto is cool, but we prefer to not have to use additional buffers when reading. Optionals also give a lot of design freedom, i.e. you can add a field that you know is only needed for very few instances without fear of bloating your binaries, as an alternative to "subclassing", or indeed unions.

On field declaration order: to each his own, I guess. That said, the omission of explicit field id's is something that's handled at the level of the schema compiler, we could easily allow optional id declarations in the schema for people who want the flexibility of declaring things in an arbitrary order. Noted.

We should clean up the benchmark code, so it can be included, yes. It is not running a noop loop, we made sure of that. I haven't verified what makes Protobuf traversal that much slower, I am guessing it's causing a memory allocation somewhere.
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Bollocks. Users can be educated. Throwing our hands up and saying that users are too stupid to understand crypto so we have to implement it in ways that don't work is advocating wasting everyone's time. Imagine if the car industry had decided that users wouldn't be able to understand car keys?
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In general, I've read that OT tends to be very complicated to get right, which is why only a few libraries implement it. If you can use what's called a CRDT, your life will be easier, but there are fewer data structures that are supported.

Aral Balkan gave a talk on OT vs a CRDT called WOOT for text editing[1] that I found really helpful.

If you want more of the nitty-gritty on some of the different types of CRDT, there's fairly readable paper on the topic[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTZ4mIv_wk
[2] http://hal.upmc.fr/docs/00/55/55/88/PDF/techreport.pdf
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The biggest potential hangup I could see is something like a hacked-up theme or plugin that breaks in a way that makes the WP backend inaccessible (the infamous "white screen of death": http://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors). In this case VersionPress wouldn't be able to save your bacon, because you wouldn't be able to get to its UI to back the change out.

But on the other hand, you'd have to do the exact same thing if you didn't have something like VersionPress installed, and VersionPress might save you from a host of lesser problems that would otherwise be annoying to deal with.
Unicode is not about what you would like to use, but about what has been used in the past. New characters are avoid as much as possible and old characters are allocated a codepoint only if you can show that they have been extensively used and that they are really different from other similarly looking glyphs that already have a codepoint.

Probably nobody has found enough small alphas used in subscripts and there were no electronic encodings that included it so it has never been considered for inclusion.
I felt a little more sane after reading that article. I understand that a lot of people want to do their art in vibrant cities like NYC, and that makes sense for people pursuing careers like theater that you can't realistically pursue while living alone in a cabin in the woods. (Whether you can even realistically pursue it in NYC is another story, but it's at least theoretically possible)

But a lot of us (though certainly not all of us) writers and programmers and other such types would rather live somewhere cheaper and less claustrophobic. I know it's certainly what I chose. It's not without its downsides but I like the upsides.
So you're in the top 0.001% of WP devs because you use git? OK, sure.
I think you have a typo, it should be 'loose' not 'lose'
As a software engineer, and recent Pittsburgh transplant coming from NYC, I think it's ok here. The only part that's hitting me pretty hard is food... it's pretty much incomparable.

I have been trying to find decent Indian food, for example, but have been coming up short. Pittsburgh does have very good modern-American cuisine, but "ethnic" food is a bit lacking.

Going out drinking is insanely cheap by comparison. You can get a good craft beer draft for as low as $2, whereas in NYC the best I'd find would be around $4 (and that would be pretty lucky). There's plenty to do culturally, and the rent/housing prices are very good.

EDIT: Thanks for all the Indian food recommendations. I've got some eating to do!
I need a CMS that versions media (images/video). Most just version text posts. It looks like this is one of the better options as I haven't found anything good elsewhere.
If you don't want to pay for things you can play on a different server. You don't have to buy things but if it is worth it for you then you should have the option.
My thoughts exactly. I feel the same way about the numerous GUI clients that are supposed to save you ever using git on the command line. Non-developers don't understand/want git, and developers, even ones that don't use the command line often, will find that the basics git commands are really simple.
I've seen a number of responsive designs I like better than the full page of a regular site. Compare the following sites to using this site, HN, on a phone.

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com

http://video.disney.com

For a site that would be much better with a responsive design look at

http://nytimes.com
Let’s spend a minute to think about political language. Do we want to “ban Internet fast lanes” or “ban Internet slow lanes?” I suspect that most would favor the latter.
So much hating.

If they don't meet the goal, then maybe you're right that there's no market for it. If they do, then you're likely wrong. Why not just wait and see rather than declare it a failure?

It's not "dangerous" in a catastrophe because it doesn't take away any options that already exist.

And presumably they're raising money because it costs them money to live and work on a project.
Ooops, thanks. I'll correct it in the next couple of minutes.
I usually add a commit hook to run 'mysqldump'. Then you get a matching database snapshot along with the source code.

TIP: For better diff's use "--skip-extended-insert --skip-dump-date".

A nice gui on top of that is welcome (although I'm not sure about the $30K).
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Love the hacks that turn into something useful. I know it may have been a 'trick' or whatever, but this is an example that proves that "scratch your own itch" to build a great product. He could've used BetaList for his own startup, so he built it.

That it was built quickly, using Tumblr, and then evolved is just being fast on your feet and doing good work.
We will totally version images/albums because we version everything. Glad VersionPress will be useful to you!
this:
“Forget about their philosophy,” he said. “Let’s focus instead on who is really in power.”
Can I start using the integration if I join the Beta program?
At one point, I looked into living in NYC, and the sheer cost of living in that city was intimidating. Salaries are often higher to match, so it balances out somewhat, but I like my space and I don't think I'd be okay with paying $1,800 for a studio apartment no matter how much somebody was paying me.

For those who do enjoy the biggest cities, I'm not knocking your choices. A lot of people are energized by living in such a hustling and bustling place. I totally get it.
Yes, for example, check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7904673 for news of two recent worker deaths at Amazon.
Well, we'll just have to rely on our experience then. I haven't dealt with dedicated servers plans, but my impression of "DDoS" protection in that regard is that your traffic will get blackholed if it's bad enough.

Vendors like Cloudflare, Akamai and Prolexic sell plans where all your traffic is routed through their networks first, filtered based on various DDoS-detecting algorithms, then sent to you. $$$$
Margarine has a more interesting history than that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine#History

It was mostly about making a fat spread that was cheaper than butter. Relatively recent marketing probably made lots of health claims.

I suppose that makes the development a closer parallel with golden rice (or bananas), but I think you are underestimating the understanding that the developers of these organisms have.
For the same reason that the elderly will call their web browser "the Googles", children will also tend to think of the first implementation of a concept they find as the definitive one. The idea will never occur to them that there's any other Minecraft server than Bob's Private MineCraft Capitalism Extravaganza that their friend introduced them to and plays on.
>The problem with getting specific is that it ties you in to a specific solution.

Agreed -- would Google have the same incentive to roll out Google Fiber if they could just use (slower) existing coax/cable lines as a middleman? It could limit innovation from that perspective, although it depends if a company like Google has alternative reasons for rolling out their own last-mile fiber (not just data collection en masse).
No, that's not really "the real question". Kids are smart. The know how to get what they want and parents can't be everywhere at any moment. SOME percentage of kids are going to figure out how to pay for goods with very little understanding of their relative value. Preying on kids in this position skirts the borders of what's ethical. I'm not saying all server owners are guilty of this, but Mojang has their position for a reason and it's not just the profit motive.
The fucktards fail to realize that science has been applied to equally complex things before.

Consider newtonian physics vs. relativistic light equations.

Anyway, the only thing you have for understanding the things is science after all. There's fair amount of evidence that carbohydrate restriction works.

Good thing I won't have to listen hacker news on this subject anymore, I have solved what my diet should be.
Rust does have unsafe direct memory access and a work-in-progress port of Cap'n Proto (https://github.com/dwrensha/capnproto-rust).
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Hangout with extrovert people. It worked for me!!
The concept via Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx45rg8Q-Cw&feature=youtu.be
I have some serious sea legs and almost never get motion sickness. The fullscreen youtube vid got me. Great experiment.
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I live close to Pittsburgh but in the middle of nowhere, OH. I Work in Squirrel Hill sometimes but mostly from home. I have a 4bedroom 3bath house with a 2 car garage on 15 acres that costs me ~900 per month. You couldn't rent a small apartment in some cities for that. However, you give up the convenience of being in the city and all the activities if that's the lifestyle you want to live. I personally love my fortress of solitude.
> For instance a waste of time of font designers

No more so than right now.

> selecting a reasonable subset of bazyllion random, singular pictures to draw and test is a major headache.

Right, because there[0] were[1] no[2] "bazyllion[3] random[4], singular[5] pictures[6] to[7] draw[8] and[9] test[10]" dating back to Unicode 1.0[11] before and Unicode 7.0 changes everything.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_alphanumeric_symbo...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong#Unicode

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominoes#Dominoes_in_Unicode

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_Cards_(Unicode_block)

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Symbols_(Unicode_block)

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(symbol)#Arrows_in_Unicod...

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Character_Recognition_(...

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Dingbats

[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_Extensions

[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Technical_(Unicod...

[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing_(Unicode_block)
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I used to use something similar to this to install my packages.

(mapc (lambda (package) (package-install package)) '(dired+ zenburn-theme))

Until I saw this emacs config https://github.com/larstvei/dot-emacs/#package after which I just rm -rvf'ed my whole ~/.emacs.d and stole that.
I really think this is a bad idea. If you're a business and depend on a certain type of traffic (say Skype, or maybe email) why wouldn't you consider the option of trying to ensure faster and more reliable delivery of some type of data that is absolutely critical? Maybe as a business, you actually want something like Netflix throttled to some extent so that Skype chats that you depend on are 100% rock solid. Why restrict the possibility for new types of services to emerge from actual needs?

The real issue with this isn't the lack of network neutrality, but all kinds of local and other types of regulations that make it extremely difficult for all but a few connected big companies to take part in. This is why each region has maybe 1 or 2 really shitty ISPs rather than a decent array of choices.
Not true, depending somewhat on your attacker, but there are plenty of ways to read emissions from networks which give you no opportunity to modify the traffic.

On the other hand, plenty of people who can modify the traffic exist. Starting with every employee at your ISP and the Amazon picker who shipped your router.
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