skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe the author of ToneLoc posts here. This blows my mind! Brings up a lot of memories of great times, hanging out at the st. louis galleria food court for 2600 meetings.
My point with #2 is that DDoS protection is included with most dedicated server plans. It doesn't cost "significantly extra" as this guy claims- at least I've never seen that.
Good point. And I'm sure Netflix engineers had a certain amount of internal bureaucracy to deal with as well. The point I was trying make was just that it's easier now to make a change like this than what had to be done in previous iterations.
Java has ByteBuffer, Javascript has TypedArrays, Python has the "struct" module, and other languages have other fine ways of reading raw data in this kind of format. Some languages may lack the ability to inline calls well enough for true zero-copy to be efficient, but the worst case is you fall back to parsing the message upfront like you would with any other encoding. That upfront parse is still going to be faster, because it's just easier to read fixed-width values than variable-width.
So what about all the characters in Unicode that map to different phonemes or words in different languages? For example, Latin letters are sometimes used for different phonemes in different languages (and dialects, and applications like romanization), and Han logograms are sometimes used for different words/morphemes in different languages. How is that different from "picture of crap" mapping to different specific words/phrases in different languages? You can certainly point at a picture of a pile of crap and name it in many normal languages.

But wait - what's a "normal language" and what's a normal graphical representation of it? Is it down to the development process? A lot of writing systems were originally designed/agreed upon by small groups of people, too, for example.

My questions (and other comments in this subthread) aim to get you to think more abstractly about the problem space and define your beef more accurately, because I'm interested in this question (where should Unicode draw the line) as well. Let's brainstorm, basically.
Too bad their 4k content has bitrates that should only be acceptable for 1080p or less. Downscaling their 4k to 1080p would almost look as good as if they just had proper 1080p to begin with. And a proper 1080p upscale to 4k would look better than this poor excuse for 4k.
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> The 100 is a normalized number, it's not the actual number of blocks.

I'm not too sure about that. The only ref I can give is that they use the suffix "Cnt_Tot" which means "total count". When it's a percentage they denote it as such as in "Perc_Rated_Life_Used" and "Workld_Host_Reads_Perc". Don't be surprised by the low count (100).
Very valid point, we have just updated the website. Thanks!
I wonder what this means for shops like digital ocean and now Linode that sell SSD backed VM's. Those things must be constantly writing. Even in a RAID array, the load is even and the drives should fail at the same time, kinda making RAID a little useless. I'm guessing they mix and match different vendors and models.
Can't wait to see what is going to be in CoreOS 1.0! Perhaps fleet integration with libswarm
IANAL (or that experience with copyright) but, it probably depends on the country and how it was translated. A translation of Clash of Kings to Spanish in the US for example would be considered a derivative work. A translator would have been hired by the publisher (or similar party) and created with permission from the original copyright holder who would then retain a copyright over the Spanish copy, although probably the same copyright. Translating without the permission of the copyright holder as far as I'm aware is against US copyright laws. I imagine it's different if you translate something without a current copyright, a translation of Beowulf for example may be eligible for copyright. This is just extrapolation from my limited knowledge on the subject.
I think you also need an assumption that the criminal population is not growing (or is growing sufficiently slowly). Of course, that also seems plausible.
"The FBI hired him because he claimed to be a Vietnam veteran, but Sullivan discovered that this was a lie — during the war Nivette had been a student at UCLA."

This baffles me and lets me question the sincerity of the article. Can this possibly be the case?
I thought Hacker News were the only place of the world where soccer weren't a conversation theme.
>>"It wouldn't give the commission new powers, but the bill — known as the Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act — would give the FCC crucial political cover to prohibit what consumer advocates say would harm startup companies and Internet services by requiring them to pay extra fees to ISPs."

The title seems a bit off. Wouldn't Congress only be the ones that could ban internet slow lanes? Not the FCC.
Oh man I've just remembered my big old mean USRobotics Courier. When I got that, I thought I'd hit the big time.
Thanks for the heads up... Appreciate it
Done that, thanks all for the feedback! wp-cli is something we'll definitely consider.
SolarCity has signed an agreement to acquire Silevo
This has been one of the biggest problems with using WordPress in a professional/team context.

Will you be able to branch everything so multiple people can build on it?
EyeCheck: Mobile phone solution for eye exams in third-world countries
I don't see a disagreement with anything I wrote. Even emotional health is physiological, most especially trauma. The autonomic nervous system impacts every organ in the body. After over a decade as a neuroscientist, I don't know what the mind is. But I do know what the brain is. And therapy, even self-journaling, is shown to change connectivity patterns in the brain.

The problem is simply shown by the vast array of medical professions trained to treat the brain: neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, neuropsychologists, brain surgeons, and neuroscientists. By contrast, cardiologists treat the heart.

To put into practical terms, increasing evidence is showing how sleep disorders precede brain health concerns. The role of sleep appears to be critical for trash collection at the cellular level in the brain. Yet, few on the mental health "side" treat sleep problems. You see one specialist for sleep, another for therapy, and a third for medications. The whole paradigm is stuck in a dualistic paradigm of the 19th century. Then we used to drill a hole in the head to let the evil spirits out.
Quantum Math Could Explain Irrationality
I wonder which lobbying group will kill this at the eleventh hour this time? Will it be the trial lawyers again? Hollywood? Hollywood lawyers? Will it be the NSA, who claim they can not comply with the directive?

Whatever the outcome, rest assured that this Congress is at its most creative when finding a reason to kill any bill that has the support of the American people.
This site is so cute. Half the time it's the Ed Snowden show, all about how to use PGP to thwart the NSA. Half of the time it's complaining about privacy protections in SSDs.

Think about it. If the SSD fails to erase, do you want that to mean it's readable forever? Would you be happy if the NSA was snooping around and your SSD refused to do anything other than disgorge secrets? This feature is good privacyware. If the drive can't be erased it also can't be read.
I think the table on the Wikipedia page is misleading. The first paragraph states:

"Food consumption refers to the amount of food available for human consumption as estimated by the FAO Food Balance Sheets. However the actual food consumption may be lower than the quantity shown as food availability depending on the magnitude of wastage and losses of food in the household, e.g. during storage, in preparation and cooking, as plate-waste or quantities fed to domestic animals and pets, thrown or given away."

This is the amount of food available for consumption per person, not the amount consumed. Waste at the grocery store, waste at home, and uneaten food left on the plate are not taken into account, and I would guess that all three are important factors.
This plugin seems to solve a problem and target a market that doesn't exist. It is also dangerous since it relies on WordPress itself being reachable in the event of catastrophe.

WordPress users that aren't developers don't use VMs or update their site's code frequently. Typically they either use simple hosts like Dreamhost/Media Temple or managed hosts like Pressable/WP Engine that already integrate forms of easy backup. If they don't there are a [plethora of backup plugins](http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/free-wordpress-backup-plugin...) and [services](http://vaultpress.com/) that not only cover code but also the DB. And since these novice users rarely change their site's code, they have no reason to use version control in the first place.

At the other end of the spectrum, WordPress developers don't need this either. Git is pre-installed on most VMs and integrated into almost all the major cloud providers and staging sites take 10 minutes to set up. And most importantly they are abstracted from WordPress itself making them way more secure. For example, what if the admin becomes unreachable after a hack? Doesn't this defeat the entire purpose of Versionpress since you won't be able to access the plugin page to revert back? Combining backup and version control together in the WordPress admin is a recipe for disaster.

Lastly, whats the point of raising $30K since this is a premium plugin that's almost done anyway? If the picture isn't a rendering, then it seems like the plugin is already well under development. Isn't this more like a presale?
Scariest part about this interview is where they talk about the future where employees will all be assigned a ranking according to their insider threat.
I've been thinking that it's time this article make it to the front page. If this was an old school forum, I'd ask the mods to pin it at the top. There are just too many damn discussions of JS crypto on here. It's like flowing glass all over again.
And you consider Wingdings a good thing in the first place?! It's an abomination that should never have happened.
As someone who went through almost the same exact process, these are my tips for getting coverage:

-Keep your email brief (three sentences, tops).

-Tell a story. Many of the stories on publications like TechCrunch are as much about the founders as they are about the startups. Look for an interesting angle related to yours and pitch it accordingly.

-Bloggers have to create several stories a week. Do as much of their job for them as you can by framing the outline of the story they will write in your pitch for coverage (related to previous point). If you started it as a side-project while in college, great, mention that. If your startup is in the same space as [hot trendy startup], great, mention that. Just make sure the whole thing is less than four sentences.

All that said- don't waste your time trying to get covered if you don't have a regular user base. Yes it is true, if you are covered it will result in an enormous spike in traffic. That spike will quickly diminish and you will be back to trying to find more users. I'm very happy for the author that BetaList turned into a profitable business, but getting covered and hatching a profitable, sustainable business because of it is the exception, not the norm.

Not to say PR isn't useful (and surprisingly easy to game), but that should come after you've grown a reliable customer base.
Not So Much ‘New York Poor’ as ‘Pittsburgh Rich’
I did this recently when trying to get tickets to a sold out Cloud Nothings show. I'd scrape Craiglist for postings every 10 minutes, and then send myself a text if any of the posts were new. I ended up getting tickets the day before the show.

Since the show was at a very small venue (capacity of maybe 500), I didn't have to worry about a constant stream of false positives. I would have needed to handle these if I were searching for tickets to a sold out <popular band> show, since ticket brokers just spam Craigslist constantly with popular terms.
I hadn't seen the merge / fill idea before. Worth reading to get more ideas on this subject.

OT but seems like a good time to ask, does anyone have any experience with Operational Transformations for dealing with syncing in web apps? I've started throwing the idea around for a web app I'm building and it seems like a really interesting pattern. The only real implementation I can find is in sharejs [1]. I work with python on the backend and I can't really find an implementation of it (though for my constrained use-case I can generate good enough code to do it myself).

It seems like a good approach but there's very little in the way of libraries implementing it, so I was wondering if it's somehow problematic.

[1] http://sharejs.org/
> Your beliefs are wrong, as we have been shown that this mass surveillance has failed to prevent even one terrorist attack since its inception.

We don't actually know this. Mass surveillance may have led to 'extrajudicial' methods of thwarting terrorist attacks, i.e. death squads or drone killings. Or when cases of terrorist plots have been taken to trial, its use could have been masked by parallel construction of evidence.

This level of underhandedness seems to be increasing in recent times. For example, there is a terrorist conspiracy trial currently ongoing in the UK that is being held almost entirely in secret - the public and media are not permitted to know the evidence or the sources of evidence against the suspects. In fact up until recently even the existence of the trial and the identities of the suspects were under a gag order, for reasons unknown[1].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/12/secret-terror-tri...
Which means eat real food not supplement to manage ratios?
> yes and no. Standard white paper Diffie-Hellman yes. But implementations can fix that. As you point out.

Well, there we have it. I happen to have worked on a project
where plain Diffie-Hellman was used not long ago. The active attacker model was genuinely not a threat/solved by other methods in this particular context, and simple confidentiality provided by a plain Diffie-Hellman key exchange was enough. As another example, plain Diffie-Hellman is also used in SSH sessions without predistributed keys [1]. Clearly, the presence of active attackers is not always a problem in the real world! If that is the case, then there also exist legitimate uses for JS crypto [2].

As a sidenote nitpick, no implementation of plain Diffie-Hellman can fix the authentication issue. There are instead variations built upon plain Diffie-Hellman (notably authenticated Diffie-Hellman) that solve the authentication issue. But these protocols are not the same as plain Diffie-Hellman.

[1] RFC 4253, section 8

[2] I feel that I should stress again that although this is true for these particular use cases, JS crypto should not be trusted in general.
I've spent time at Amazon, I suspect:
- Amazon persistently strives for efficiency and frugality over all else: applies in FC and HQs. I think this culture could turn off many people
- Kiva will reduce human usage/energy (not sure if that's where you were headed though)
- Inevitably, optimization means reducing the cost (inc human effort) required to store and fulfill products
- Having visited FCs, the ones I saw had fine working conditions though I understand the reality of publicity in the past
"Distribution", in this case, doesn't mean taking from the rich and giving to the poor, it means a combination of logistic and political issues.

Often times, there is enough food already being donated to address the immediate food crisis, but it's being intercepted by warlords who sell it back on the open market and pocket the cash. Or just the mechanics of getting the food out into remote areas without it getting spoiled or rotten or whatever.

So, distribution, in this case, is an Amazon-type distribution issue, not a political wealth-distribution issue.
I really like Spotify and I love that they're making this API available. But we just saw netflix shutting down their API. Are Spotify committed to keeping this around, or will they just shut it off in a few months when it becomes too much of a pain to manage?
Mobile Savings App Ibotta Raises $20 Million From Netscape Founder and Others
Nice, but how freaking long is it going to take to get this to show up in software anywhere? We can't currently reliably use a large swath of interesting glyphs in the current version.
Yes, there is generally a separate copyright in the translation. I'm not aware whether/how common exceptions from that apply depending on jurisdiction. But most places you should be able to do a new translation from the original and be ok.
UCLA as an ROTC student? 'Veteran' implies in the popular mind 'served in theatre' but couldn't it also mean 'was a soldier'?
Is the thermometer symbol used widely? No idea. Is emoji used widely? Yes, In Japan 🇯🇵 (and Korea? 🇰🇷) and has been for > 15 years. A common email/msg composed by a Japanese woman 👧 age 15 to 35 uses many emoji.

I realize this message will not render correctly in Chrome because Chrome, at least Desktop Chrome, does not yet support emoji 😭
>'But it's hard to use your brain rather than react to your emotions when this kind of thing gets written up.'

No doubt.

I've seen more than a few otherwise measured people lose it when it comes to this topic.

It's fascinating that the same people who seemingly recognize the folly of hasty generalizations about everything from brands to race or religion will vehemently defend the same with regard to income.

I wonder if it's simply lack of exposure?

Where I grew up around DC there's certainly far less personal interaction across classes than there is among different ethnicities, faiths or automobiles.

If someone's primary exposure to an entire class of people happens through the 'news' with a peppering of half heard conversations in the few instances of mixing (public transit, DMV, sometimes grade school) it's easy to see how they could end up with strongly felt yet thinly supported views.
To the extent that I'm right, I don't think this is enough. You can respond to criticisms about blackmail exploits or watching your kids with layers of laws, bureaucracy and compromises. You can deny it or call it isolated incidences.

To fight something like this, we need something that makes people draw a line. An uncrossable one. The main item a politician can identify with.

Otherwise, this is a negotiation. One we'll lose.
A year after Snowden, DEF CON and government agencies are friends again
One of my main fears about space travel was the coffee, so this is really good news.
This sounds great, indeed. With a listening history on last.fm that reaches back to early 2009, I always thought it would be great to have a service to use the last.fm data to build dynamic playlists for spotify.
mysqldump daily into the git repo folder?
> There are plenty of historical examples of societies that got eaten from within when they couldn't maintain their culture in the face of aggressive foreign ones.

There's an implicit valuation of culture in this statement. Most cultures throughout history melded and adapted to other cultures, both in little and big ways. Xenophobia about cultural invasion is also throughout history, but the reality is that dominant cultures are never "pure" and diversity of culture was actively censored and/or ignored by some historians for a long time.
> Forgive my ignorance, but how do these actually enter the real world? Do browsers adopt these new characters?

Browsers don't add characters, fonts do.
Whatever the outcome, rest assured that this Congress is at its most creative when finding a reason to kill any bill that has the support of the American people.

Phone call works, but we are too distracted to care or that we don't care in the first place.
I wonder when I'll be able to buy SSDs that heat their cells to increase life expectancy.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/nand-flash-gets-baked...
This happens all the time. There's a whole bunch of people who lead VA boards and testify in congress and things who later get discovered to have never served.

Then they move off and make up a new story and start it all over again.
They are in Unicode for compatibility with other encodings, to make it easier to switch to Unicode. Most of the emoji comes from Japanese mobile phone carriers or fonts like Wingdings.
A court held that when a defendant purchased old copies of National Geographic magazine, tore out articles, and bound them together for sale with articles relating to a common subject matter, it had infringed on the owner’s exclusive right to prepare derivative works. Nat’l Geographic Soc’y v. Classiﬁed Geographic, Inc., 27 F. Supp. 655 (D. Mass. 1939).

Even if you do not do any copying, you can still infringe under copyright law. The theory is that the copyright owner has exclusively power to decide who should compile, adapt or arrange a copyrighted work.

I recommend further reading at: http://digitalcommons.law.wne.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
"will unveil a piece of bicameral legislation Tuesday"

Is the text of the actual bill up yet? I cannot find it.
Is it just me or does the structure (and I use that term loosely) supporting the front tires look sketchy?
Which circles back to the "Javascript is hostile to cryptography" point the article makes; I welcome any expert-audited JS libraries that can accomplish secure file encryption, for example. But even assuming this blocker is overcome, any illusions are shattered by the F5 key.

As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, there are few attacks that allow you to listen in on an SSL connection's content without also allowing you to modify that content - say, with a version that pastebins your keys.

Hence my argument that JS cannot provide anything SSL lacks, plus or minus some wishful thinking. Combine this with the fact that it's impossible to protect against a MITM-modified JS payload (see the "chicken-egg problem" portion), and you have a rather uphill battle here.