skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've much enjoyed your illustration throughout the group matches. Interestingly, I've shared it with others and they all fell silent. But once I explained it to them they liked it a lot and shared it with others. Who also fell silent. For many people it seems it's too much information/impenetrable. For me it was a puzzle to solve (as I wasn't current on current round-robin protocol). Really good work. Keep it up and see you in 4 years!
I immediately picked up on that as well. Along with the whole "selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities in the late 90s" thing, it makes the article seem rather poorly researched and overly adulatory.
I disagree. It's a perfect example where one of the components is likely to scale differently than the other, and where the components are reusable separately but less reusable together.

As someone constantly wearing my "ops hat", I much prefer to see them treated separately for that reason.
I believe it becomes a bottleneck at the scale of like, 5 servers.

This is a tough problem, Neti is a heck of a lot better than tons of VPN connections everywhere.
I don't know about Mr Holzle but you're wrong about map/reduce. I'm aware of two significant counterexamples. I'm sure there are others.

Teradata's been doing map/reduce in their proprietary DBC 1012 AMP clusters since the 80's, providing analytical data warehousing for some of the world's largest companies[1]. Walmart used them to globally optimize their inventory.

MPI systems have been supporting distributed map/reduce operations since the early 90's (see MPI_REDUCE[2]).

1- http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~rmartin/teaching/fall99/papers/te...

2- http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-1.0/mpi-10.ps
You should not be questioning the patent based on the person but on the contents of the patent. I know some 19 year olds that would absolutely astound you with what they are capable of. One of the things this website has taught me is to completely overlook the age factor.
> Are you saying that Amazon would divide up it's own IPv6 address space and provide a subnet for each customer?

That's what Linode does. Everyone gets a /64 to use as they please.
History has shown that the US has done rather well by many metrics. If history is to be repeated, the US will do rather well again.
So these are government employees, acting in the context of their duties ...as government employees, but records pertaining to their actions, expenditures, etc. are not required because the 501(c)3 owns... what exactly?
Either you're kicking in the door and killing an elderly man in a poorly executed search for 0.2g of marijuana and a man in the backyard as a law enforcement officer, in which case you should be bound by the same requirements every tax-funded police department is, or you're doing it as an employee of a tax-exempt corporation, in which case you should go to jail for B&E, Homicide, possession of an automatic weapon, possession of marijuana, etc.
That depends on your definition of "seriously" I guess. But there is no need to stop at the plastic. Have a look what the guys at chipworks are doing: http://www.chipworks.com

Also the Russians are traditionally quite good at reverse engeneering ;-) and they _did_ have their own domestic chips 20 years ago.
Germany cancels Verizon contract over snooping fear
I'd be happy enough to pay for just the cut cardboard. The other parts and assembly are easy. Cutting the cardboard with a box-cutter is a bit annoying. I've cut everything except for the round/round-ish holes, which I plan to do with small stabbing motions.
Facebook Battles Manhattan D.A. Over Warrants for User Data
The privatization of the police and military is right out of the pages of Snow Crash.
This is getting more interesting.
I've seen companies offer similar deals in Denmark. It can't possibly be a new concept in the US, can it?

Most often they'll ask for 50%-100% of the first paycheck (hopefully after tax, or else nobody can pay that in Denmark!)
Also noting that with the exception of Frist a quick read shows no connection to healthcare.

As others noted these board members appear for another purpose such as government issues or attracting others by the halo of their importance.
"being right isn't a defense to the charge of being an asshole."

So she gets to be wrong and not called on it, just because she can claim you're an a-hole?

You will regret the unwarranted power you're giving her.
Not to be completely contrary - in fact, I much prefer SVG + D3 to canvas - but the canvas actually can support quite complex interaction and be performant if you put the time into it.

Take a look at OpenLayers 3. They have a few examples they use as benchmarks for canvas rendering: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/synthetic-lines.html http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/synthetic-points.html

Granted, these absolutely crush Firefox (Chrome handles them fantastically; IE about average), but they're still great examples to how performant the canvas can be. As far as interactivity goes, all you need are a little bit of extra attention to your events and rendering, and it works just as well, if not better, than SVG in many cases. Look at http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/draw-and-modify-features... for a good example.

And you're right regarding SVG overlays on a canvas - it actually works quite well: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/d3.html

Of course, OL3 is both highly specialized to mapping applications (you know, being mapping library and all), and highly optimized for canvas rendering, but it does serve to show flexible canvas can be.

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I got the same error message - "Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site admin, if the problem persists." Packt also signs me up to 5 newsletters (not that Amazon doesn't, but that's a problem I already had :)).

Still, an ebook this substantial for $10 is awesome. I hope the Packt discount isn't eating into the author's profits :(
Perhaps read the article again; the second paragraph in particular gives some reasons why it's more than just 'being poor'.
Will get in contact soon :)
I read the headline as "Parents are eating the world and hurting innovation."
"Interesting" meaning it would be interesting to see them in a room together. Meaning fun.

I'm not suggesting Boies was anything but neutral in the case against MSFT. Maybe reading too much from my "on the same side" comment, or else maybe I phrased that too ambiguously.
You can always create multiple routing instances (namespaces) for overlapping IPv4 blocks with a VRF-based strategy. This would create separate FIBs and IMHO is a cleaner approach than mangling packets with iptables.
It is fairly obvious they still want to trust. They, meaning the German government, also have not figured out how much actual sovereignty they want Germany to have. In both these cases they probably lag far behind what the people want. That's a long way from "trust nobody" never mind building the tooling to enable that way of working.

If you want to avoid balkaniztion, relying on trust will not work. Trust is dead.
One is often able to inspect beyond that level.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=semiconductor+decapsulation

The fact that these techniques do work fairly well for semiconductor reverse engineering is a reason that recent research on "stealthy dopant-level hardware Trojans" was scary.

http://www.iacr.org/workshops/ches/ches2013/presentations/CH...

Though maybe that's what your reference to the inability to "seriously" inspect chips refers to. :-)

This research produces optically indistinguishable ICs with different electrical properties, which hinders optical reverse engineering.

My impression is that there's still a semiconductor device reverse engineering technique which likely defeats this measure (FIB imaging)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focused_ion_beam

as well as some other microscopy techniques that might conceivably detect these differences, but that it's more difficult and expensive overall compared to optical imaging.
That is because she had little power over you.

Marry her and find out what a nightmare it becomes.
So they're just monitoring honeypots right? I can't think of any other way to do this real-time.
Pascal! First mention I've seen on this thread.
Me too! I was very interested, then very confused.
Baby boy ridin' dirty
> with the exception of Frist a quick read shows no connection to healthcare

Well, there's also Shultz, who was "a director at biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences," according to this article.

But you're right that those people are mainly on the board for their influence in Washington. The importance of that when taking on an entrenched and heavily regulated industry can't be overstated.
How No Man's Sky stole the show at E3
I think that is the base assumption the authors believe their readers already hold. It's something that doesn't surprise anyone- there is no novelty in it, and it's so matter of fact that we've been trying to address it for years.

This article was worth writing because of the idea "going to prison causes so much trouble around you, it makes it more likely for people you know or your family to go to prison, too."

That's a novel idea, not just because it may explain the reasons people go to jail, but because it indicates we might need to reanalyze our whole approach to criminal justice— ostensibly, we jail people not only as a punishment to them, but also as a way to protect or improve society at large. If sending people to jail causes more criminal behavior, our actions may be undermining our goals.
This is an excellent landing page for a technical book. I haven't seen this style before, but the code snippet and details for each chapter gave me a good idea not just of the book's content, but of its emphasis and assumptions.

It suggested that this was a book about solving practical problems (e.g. all the bullet points about file formats, integration points like databases/Twitter/IRC, visualisation), assuming some Haskell knowledge (little time spent on Haskell concepts) but little machine learning knowledge (bullets showed elementary topics like MD5 alongside more advanced topics like perceptual hashing).

Based on this landing page, I bought the book; I probably would not have done so based only on the title and a synopsis.
Pardon a foreigner. I'd like to understand this.

Are you saying that there's law in California (i.e. something you can violate that the justice system has the authority to punish you over) that is not freely (as in freedom) available to any citizen (for whatever purpose, reading, distributing, etc)?
This was mostly spawned from this: http://sabok.org which several LOPSA members have contributed to. Everyone has their own flavor of "What's the best" & "How to do Sysadmin", there's no real definitive list for anything. There's also http://ops-school.readthedocs.org which seems to be more focused on DevOps instead of real Sysadmin.
Not really. It's written in C#; the result of compiling it will be a managed library - a .dll containing a .NET assembly of CIL code. You can then load it into a .NET runtime (looks like they're working to ensure it will run in Mono as well as the Microsoft CLR) and easily call the library from other managed code, which could be C#, VB.NET, F#, C++/CLI etc. Assuming it does get to the stage where it can be run on Mono, you could embed the Mono runtime (http://www.mono-project.com/Embedding_Mono) and call it from any language with a C binding (you would have to write some C, e.g. by building a JNI wrapper for the mono runtime to expose the library to Java code - eugh). On Windows, you should be able to easily wrapper it and expose it via COM, if you wanted to use it from proper C++, or Delphi or FoxPro, perhaps.

But what do you expect? Multi-language interop for libraries is hard, though. Frankly the fact that it's natively accessible from every CLR language is pretty impressive - most Python libraries can't really be used from anything but Python, for example. Generally the approach with an open source library like this would be for someone to take on porting it to, e.g., Java.
This is why cops and prosecutors should be bonded. Bonding would track and price individuals' risk. It would pay for settlements up front, and not rape the taxpayer for cops' misdeeds, and it would enable liability to function as it should.
It's always left out, and this I will get bashed again for
agreeing. I think what she is doing is great. I sometimes
think doctors prescribe medication and just hope for the best? Actually, they do just hope for the best! I know they
shy away from any technology that could be used againt them
in a malpractice suit. As, to getting better if you are sick--just believing you will get better is so important.
Yes, follow doctors orders, and believe you will get better.
This effect, called the Placebo Effect is too often left out. I've seen people run to the Internet when they are diagnosed with a disease--and they just get worse. Back on topic--I hope her company helps patients, and brings down
the cost of medicine, and not another investment story?
A lot of server-side virus scanners can unzip .lzo attachments in email by default. And nobody likes updating mail servers.
The point is that the list itself is open source, e.g. anyone can add resources to it.
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Yes, the reality is that "baseball" is a bad password, and ssh as root is a bad idea but getting auth.log spammed into oblivion is also a bummer. It feels like a web GUI would help less experienced sysadmins not just apt-get remove fail2ban when they get themselves locked out for the first time.
>Yes it's only 99 cents, but there's a tremendous amount of hesitancy to buy an app when there's such a strong expectation of getting for free.

99 cents may make some hesitate but it's also low enough that I'll sometimes buy an app just to support a developer even if I don't intend to use the app.

Anything we can do to help uncondition the public that everything should be ad supported the better.

Congrats to the OP on shipping!
It's not at all unique to CA, though as I understand it this is on its way out (thankfully).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/07/s...
That's basically what a ULA is for though - see RFC 4193. If I'm not big enough to acquire my own allocations from ARIN, I'd prefer not to have to renumber every piece of equipment (even those not externally accessible) when changing ISPs.
Grok the inner loop and don't work with timezones. Brilliant!
Can't be sure this could be treated as an official statement, but https://github.com/Eugeny/ajenti-v/blob/efcee75286418fbbd25e... has a mention of LGPLv3.

If that's real terms the software's distributed under and not some mistake, then it's a proper Free Software project and I don't see any reason why one can't or won't use AGPL/LGPL software commercially. Adding any "secret sauce" seems nearly pointless for web hosting solutions, and even if that's truly necessary it probably could be easily hidden beneath "xGPL software merely writes a config file, and doesn't link with the proprietary bits" waiver.
I just clicked through to Packt and the ebook was $26.39. Dynamic pricing?
There's already documentation for how to do that in a zillion other places though, I don't think every project needs to regurgitate those instructions.
3 16 oz mugs of drip coffee, which equates to 6 standard 8 oz cups. I was assuming 150 mg/cup, which is about average for drip coffee.
it is as "contagious" as education. Seriously, according "Discipline and Punishment" that was known since the first prison systems
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Those other factors that increase incarceration rates may be true (and many of them probably are)... however, what they were showing is that EVEN IF everything else was equal, longer sentences for one group over another will have a major effect on incarceration rates for those two groups.

This doesn't mean that what they were testing is the ONLY factor (or even the only major factor) in determining incarceration rates. By using a computer simulation where they could keep everything else EXACTLY the same, they demonstrated that a small change in sentence length can cause a large change in incarceration rate.
This site could implement an ACL though github accounts and provide centralized, recipe-like plugin and *rc file mashups like alias.sh with an ifttt.com twist.
The government has gotten really good at making access to the law impracticable for anyone except those who have already read it (lawyers). The law is the most expensive set of books you will ever memorize yet never own and never read. See my other comment on why.
Bike Fit: Optimise your bike position for high performance and injury avoidance
I believe their argument is the LECs are private non-profit corporations that merely provide coordination and equipment to law enforcement agencies. The police officers are never working for the LEC, and I'm sure any police-only equipment is only ever 'in possession' by member departments. The LEC is basically a more formalized mutual aid agreement among multiple agencies.

I would assume you could query each individual agency as to how often their officers participate in swat operations, but without knowing how often the LEC was called, I don't see how you could get an accurate count of the total raids. Perhaps each jurisdiction would have to report how often they called the LEC into their jurisdiction.

They may be actually be legally right due to basically a technicality. Perfect for time for the state legislature to reign in the LECs and make open records apply to mutual aid agencies/agreements. I'm sure their representatives are jumping on that right now...
Mike from IG here. VPC was barely a thing when we got on AWS (2010) and at the time not the default. I would definitely have done VPC from day 1 in hindsight, though.
This is so, so true. And it is so sad, given that KDE 3 was a very usable, somewhat well-structured (considering the many configuration options) desktop that ran reasonably well on hardware from the previous century.

It didn't try so hard to be pretty. Actually, I always thought KDE 2/3 did have a pragmatic, technical elegance. KDE 4 (sorry: KDE-SC-Plasma-something 4) just looks like an early alpha preview uniting all the bad ideas of Windows Vista.

> I don't understand Plasma at all - I don't use "activities" I tried it but found it useless. I don't care about widgets.

This stuff constantly gets in your way. Because it is a solution in frantic search of a problem. Unworldly and counter-intuitive to the greatest extent.
If they're private corporations, shouldn't they be open to competition from other private corporations? I.e., shouldn't any organization that wants to be able to incorporate as a 501(c)(3) and have the same law enforcement privileges they do?

If their answer to that is "well, we have this special contract from the government...", then they are agents of the government and can't hide behind the "private corporation" shield for activities they undertake as such agents. Certainly that's how it works for Federal government contractors: if the GAO audits a Federal program, the contractors who implement it can't hide their records from the auditors with the excuse "oh, we're private corporations".
Well, yeah, by the same logic you could could power it with a high gain antenna as well and boost your distance. The falloff is still 1/R^4 without a third power source, you've just multiplied it by a constant.
Mike from IG here. Some early wins are integrations with spam fighting systems, logging infrastructure, and FB's Hive infrastructure.
The chart in the article, showing patent suits filed as a function of time, is a little misleading. It appears to hockey stick in 2011 (after a long upward trend). It's worth noting that in 2011, the rules on how many defendants you can group in a suit changed, causing what used to be a single suit to spawn multiple separate suits, even though the number of companies affected didn't necessarily change. I think a better chart would lists defendants as a function of time.
"A week of coding saved me 30 minutes of planning."

That's one of my favorite sayings.

>I sweat the edge cases when I'm writing the code in the first place because I'm incredibly lazy

I like to front-load any problem solving and make sure I understand what I am getting myself into. What that looks like in practice is that, when designing architecture, I will write up a list of every scenario I can think of (within reason of course, also including future plans), and verbally test each scenario against my ideas. Essentially I try to build up the largest image I can of all the moving parts, and then narrow the scope back down to the present problem. Initially expanding the scope to include edge cases and potentially fictitious scenarios not only helps me isolate concerns, but I consequently understand the limitations of my implementation (which of those scenarios failed my verbal testing) and I have my notes for when/if I return. It's how I sate my natural desire to be overly-comprehensive without actually over-engineering everything; I am confident that what I build today is flexible and extensible enough to grow as it needs to. Sometimes I open a file I haven't opened in ages and I read a comment saying, "You're welcome to my future self", and I can't help but be thankful.
If you really want to optimize data cache usage, use a bitvector and (either through compiler intrinsics or inline assembly) your CPU's bit-scanning instructions. This can reduce the storage requirement to 1 bit per object and skip up to 32 or 64 not-alive objects in a single instruction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6176091
I don't really disagree with you, but think about it in reverse. If those responsible for sentencing are in a sense racist, wouldn't we expect them to eventually tune their actions to obtain racist outcomes?
Hindsight is 20/20.

I think you guys did an exceptional job to tackling a really difficult problem (I've been in the same position, migrating EC2 to Datacenters) and we determined that EC2 -> VPC -> Datacenters is really the only way, and Neti solves it surprisingly well.

Going forward, hope that acquired companies opened their AWS accounts late enough that Amazon forced them to use VPC.
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Where did you find that price listed for velcro? Was it a velcro kit for consumers that included pre-cut squares?

McMaster-Carr sells five foot by one inch lengths for only a dollar or two more than your list price, and that would be enough to produce many units..

When dealing with such a low cost item to begin with isn't some accuracy required to fully understand the margins of producing the thing?
Very good list. I do wish some of the entries had a more to their description than "written in Blub." Knowing the language is interesting but not really helpful if I just want to know functionality.

Of all the things I think this list is missing, I think the #1 is the backup software lsyncd: watches a local directory tree for changes, then uses rsync to copy the changes. Great for when your data become so large that you can't complete your periodic backup job in a reasonable period of time.
Some of my fav unix/bash commands.
Explaining it by comparison to something the target audience already knows about is just practical
The IRS may not consider an LLC a corporation for tax purposes, but this has nothing to do with whether a court will consider the LLC as an entity that provides its owners with liability protection. Courts do not give IRS classification any weight. Tax liability and liability for other corporate debts are not the same thing. (It is a common misperception, though.)

However, that is not the issue here. The ACLU is arguing (rightly) that even though these entities are corporations, they are acting as agents of the government, and thus should be required to follow laws pertaining to government agencies.
Oh man, that's awesome! I see I'm not the only one with an addiction to d3 and knockout. I've actually just recently gotten around to playing with the two of them at once: http://jsbijn.com/gitufejo/3/edit?html,js,output