skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The speed, size and dependability of programming languages (2009)
I just submitted the Calculated Risk article to Hacker News. That is a very good article.
> the current left-right political divide is largely a debate over the point at which government taxation and spending becomes undesirable and inefficient.

Its often presented that way -- almost exclusively by people on the right, however -- but as I see it the left/right debate is less about fact questions (even somewhat fuzzy ones like the efficiency question you propose) and more about the ethical/moral/value issue of what is the purpose of government.
1. Websites hosting services that have no other purpose but to DDoS other computers are absolutely illegal. Many such sites have been taken down by the FBI before, and both users and owners of the sites have been arrested. The problem is that there are many hundreds of such sites and tens of thousands of users, and law enforcement simply can't take down each and every one. Cloudflare is relying on the fact that most people won't be able to get a subpoena or file a lawsuit.

2. You could apply that same argument to any hosting provider. They're just letting people see content that you yourself have uploaded; why should they act as Internet police? And yet every hosting provider has a legal responsibility to take action if someone is using their services to spread malware, launch DDoS attacks, or hack other websites.

Cloudflare is able to weasel itself out of it because it is not actually a hosting provider. However, they won't even let you discover the real hosting provider after showing proof of extremely blatant criminal activity. This is why many criminals flock to them: they know they will be harbored and their botnet command & control / DDoS service / malware distribution network can stay up for longer than it would normally.

I work in the information security field and we're definitely seeing more and more malicious network operators moving to Cloudflare and staying there for a long time.
Esports Startup Battlefy Working with Riot Games
Of Moonshots and Slingshots
I can explain that.

First. Martini uses reflection, it's IMPOSSIBLE to make it as fast as Gin without removing all the reflection. Obviously it would break all the API, it would not be Martini anymore.

Martini is not slow because a bug, it's slow by design.

Second, Gin uses the fastest http router available, HttpRouter. I strongly believe that people should use HttpRouter, it will work perfect for you unless you need regex to validate the URL. The problem is that HttpRouter is not strongly featured, it lacks things like groups, middlwares, error management, control flow, rendering...

One requirement for my startup was high performance, HttpRouter was the best choice, we added a very lightweight system on top of it, so developers are happier.

The final results, from 20x to 40x times the performance.

As I said, if you need performance and productivity Gin is probably a good way to go :)
I hope it was useful.
>The last time they worried me was when "Microsoft shut down a million-strong Tor botnet, by uninstalling Tor from the computers".

>Very few articles mentioned they were uninstalling Tor from the computers the last time around. Most were just churning Microsoft's press release and the hero narrative.

Microsoft's security software did that, that too only stopped it from automatically starting if it was installed by a known virus. So if you install and run a virus scanner, why wouldn't you expect it to block such attacks?

If you didn't want it to do that, I am sure there are ways to opt out from using Microsoft's security tools. Were there any reports of legitimate Tor users getting affected by the action?
Sprint testing LTE cell sites in San Francisco, we pay one a visit (2013)
The Hype Machine team would probably have to be the ones to program in "Now playing", they handle all the last.fm api stuff.

> Another question: Is there a reason why it's not possible to resize the window?

Good question. For now the track name will scroll horizontally like itunes (down at the bottom by the play controls). This is really high up on the to-do list.

Thanks for the notes.
Fair trials are hard, let's go shopping!
I hope so, mostly because it makes it harder to claim that the universe is non-deterministic; it was QM that really pushed that from vague spiritualism into accepted science.
Brainstem: converting ActiveRecord objects into a great JSON API
Getting Started with Python and MySQL – Updated for 2014
Why Startups Like ZenPayroll Can Take On Giant Corporations like ADP And Win
I think we are too far apart on this one. The buried freeway idea seems like a boutique solution for certain niche cases (the big dig in Boston is another example).

But the freeways relevant to me (in LA) are much too large and pervasive to put underground. It's over 100 miles of freeway, 5 lanes each way! And this is only in the most densely built-up core. Undergrounding them is lunacy!

By the time that all got done, we'd be in robotic helicopters or uploaded. Underground trains would be much more realistic (less tunneling for a given throughput), but even so, we have to be content with aboveground light rail.
Building an MVP with the Mike API
This is an interesting move on Y! part. I wonder how their experience has been with long format video content before? Are people watching many shows on yahoo? I didn't even know they offered any.

Was Netflix's picking up arrested development a one and done experiment?
Valid points on the complexity and the ensuing corruption.

I suspect that as real-time data-gathering becomes cheaper and more prevalent, the costs of policing will become trivial. That's certainly some years away though.
Most will go with google docker service or use amazon. Scaling to sustain will be difficult.
When you step back to think about it, a huge amount of CS theory papers rely on this hand-wavy definition of "randomness" to prove something. Oddly, though, if you actually press a CS theory person for a mathematical definition of this concept, they virtually always draw a blank.

As a student I remember thinking that this was incredibly alarming. Without a good understanding of this concept, how can we be sure any of what we're saying is even remotely correct?

What Knuth has given us here is the ideal treatment of the subject, essentially putting the question of what randomness is, to rest for good. He starts by taking a comprehensive, entertaining history of the landscape (in short: researchers ping-ponged between having definitions of randomness so strict that nothing was random, and so loose that they were all pathologically predictable) before finally proving a theorem that completely solves the problem.

It is a monumental accomplishment in the field, and it is quite shocking to me that it's still so obscure. It's one of my favorite results in all of CS, anywhere.

If you haven't had the chance, I highly recommend the rest of this volume (Seminumerical Algorithms). It is just stuffed with other surprising, amazing results.
And who exactly, is preventing the city from building a better mousetrap and making a more convenient app for the same thing? That's a win/win/win!
Microsoft is not the police or courts.
I think what is insinuated is that they botched the job, not that they're not technically capable of doing it.
> But they may also assume that more roads cause more travel, and decide to prevent trips by destroying roads.

Politicians in the city I live in are literally doing this, installing "traffic calming measures" (destroying perfectly good road lanes that were just resurfaced)

I believe phase two involves generating clean energy by harnessing the power of Bastiat spinning in his grave.
Wait, how can a company seize the domains of another?
It's a fantastic blog. Lots of data, minimal bloviating.
One way to see how technology can be factored out is to consider a time when it changed more slowly. For instance, technology in ancient Rome hardly changed between, say, 180 A.D. and 400 A.D., at least by 21st century standards, and yet there's no doubt that Roman civilization declined precipitously during that time.

One of Moldbug's claims is that similar declines in the last two centuries or so have been masked by technological improvements. For example, in the 1960s many people routinely left their cars unlocked, often even leaving their keys in the ignition. [1] Meanwhile, technological improvements in the intervening ~50 years have made it much harder to steal cars. The way to factor out technology in this case is to imagine what would happen if modern cars had no alarm systems, no LoJacks, were easy to hot-wire, etc., and if people routinely left keys in the ignition of unlocked cars. It's not even hypothetical—you could actually do this as a real experiment. The result would, I predict, show that (at least in this narrow respect) American civilization has declined in the intervening years.

[1]: http://www.vdare.com/articles/why-hasnt-crime-fallen-further...
FWIW I don't think FRP is a fad, but big companies have lots of projects going on all over the place and it isn't uncommon for an engineering team to be given permission to trail some tech, especially at an OSS shop. Netflix might have some team(s) using some Brand New Library but that isn't sufficient evidence for that tech not being a fad. Switching costs are high at companies that remain in business and are growing so it's not uncommon for a big shop to have some random tech written in fad code that people absolutely despise in the future.
Just finished "The Second Machine Age",not bad for a quick read and some framing of tech trends, but definitely not very technical/thorough.
My own comments about your company are based on what I described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7880514. Would you care to respond to my statements in that post?
Glad you like it noso
"Also (to the parent poster,) I just see the possibility that a migration like this could take place within 25 years just ludicrous."

Why is such a time-frame for this kind of a transition so ludicrous?

In 1989 cell-phones were uncommon and looked like this: http://phoneevolution.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/1.jpg.

In 1899 there were about ~8,000 automobiles in the United States [1]. In 1924 Ford was producing over 2M Model T's per year [2].

In 1903 we saw the powered flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft by the Wright brothers. In 1927 somebody flew an airplane across the Atlantic ocean. [3]

[1] http://web.bryant.edu/~ehu/h364/materials/cars/cars%20_19th....

[2] http://web.bryant.edu/~ehu/h364/materials/cars/cars%20_30.ht...

[3] http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-timeline.html#1903
By not writing bad software. State shouldn't be stored in URLs, it should be stored in cookies.

Spiders have to be robust against sites with unlimited numbers of internal links anyway, or else an attacker could trap a web spider with a malicious site, or a 13 year old writing a buggy PHP add could take down Google's entire spidering system.
I have just made something like that. Contact me at: daniel_salazar @ hotmail
This exactly. This article didn't even try to objectively validate the report. It's also provably false in other areas like already not very busy roads in the high desert in SoCal. Add a new road to Apple Valley and I bet it gets used but very little there's just no demand.

This report was highly biased since I'm sure no one built a road where people didn't need one and looked if demand were the same. Instead this is only about building roads where they were deemed to be critical enough to warrant a ton of spending and where the built out supply probably lags demand.
This looks lovely — great job with the UI.

I can see from the Hype Machine blog [1] that Plug was developed with the approval and assistance of Hype Machine. Nevertheless, it's unfortunate that the client requires the end user's username and password credentials rather than using an authorization framework like OAuth 2.

[1] http://blog.hypem.com/2014/04/we-are-9/
Would be even worse if it was proven that molecule actually have this kind of memory.
The Last Generation of Metalworkers
Hey pktgen: I'm new at CloudFlare, but I'd be really interested in chatting with you (or grabbing a beer) to hear if there's something we could do better. Contact info in my profile. I'll be at Defcon and HOPE too if that's easier.

(Free speech vs. keeping the overall network safe is a hard decision. I think all pro-privacy and pro-liberty services have had to answer this question -- same thing happened with cypherpunks list, HavenCo, Freenet, various payment systems, etc.)
microsoft now spying legitimate no-ip trafic based on non applicable us laws?

fuck you microsoft!
Leap seconds should be replaced with a leap hour or day or something. Then we could just ignore this forever and hopefully people eons in the future will realise having time sync'd with the sun is ... rather useless.
Appears as though Level 3's dns servers are still pointing where they should.

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I agree, it's a bit troublesome that one private company can do this to another, vs. the government doing so.
You would continue to use the IERS as the authority on what the true solar time is. They would continue to declare when leap seconds are, but instead of inserting them as a discontinuity, you would simply amortize them slowly over a long period.

Like I said, if you demand high accuracy, use a timescale like TAI where seconds are really SI seconds. But very few people need that kind of accuracy. My computer clock probably already drifts more than 2ms a day. Anyone tracking time for civil purposes is just syncing from a more authoritative source anyway. My computer talks to upstream ntp servers. They could/should hide the fact that leap seconds exist from me entirely. Some of Google's ntp servers already do this.
That's fair. If the change is too big or you can't agree on the changes, there's not much to do. It may have still been possible to do a big rework of Martini or even just deprecate Martini and move to Gin...idk.

I just hate "yet another xxx in yyy" projects, but I'm not downplaying the work involved.
"No, you do NOT have the right to [ask me a question] and [tell others] [my reply] that I [later decided to retract.]"
So, are you saying Rx is the superset and CEP is a subset of Rx functionality? What can you do in Rx that you can't do in CEP?
CoreOS Linux does away with the upgrade cycle
No it isn't, but I would expect him to have patented anything he could get away with and have his shell companies lying in wait for anyone who builds an infringing oven.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100217/1853298215.shtml - and plenty more if you look further.
Yeah I think people aren't pushing art styles in sidescrollers way hard enough. They're all weird vague pixel art things.
If you just need something to deal with converting urls to scopes that's somewhat more configurable and not AR specific: https://github.com/claco/muster
By convincing a judge that it was necessary?

Actual detail here: http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com/index.htm
So based on Microsoft's ingenious logic someone could get a court order and take over part of their business because they have so many infected Windows XP machines out there. Right?
This is America. With enough money, you can do whatever you want.
Oh, this lot don't just take care of time.

Seriously, check the heading on that memo. You know how people say "money makes the world go round", or sometimes "love makes the world go round"? False. Why do you think they're called the International Earth Rotation Service?
Danielle, really appreciate the honesty. Great post.

Although...I don't understand how $1.5M in annual revenue makes a company with 21 employees "massively profitable."
Court documents in the Microsoft/ No-IP civil case
Looks good but I think you meant to submit this as a link :/ I wonder if the mods can correct this.
Thanks, I'm also interested in having a chat with you about it, so I'll take you up on that offer in a bit. :)
This seems to be common problem. Watzlawick describes an experiment where two people (A and B) are given the task to classify tissue samples as "healthy" or "sick".

There is an initial training session where a light tells them whether their answer was correct, with one little caveat: only A gets real feedback. B's light just duplicates A's, so the answers that B receives are essentially random (I think they get different picture as well).

Since the task is not very difficult (on purpose), the As learn the task in 80% of the cases. The Bs have a much more difficult task, they are required to try and find order in a random world. They form very complex theories to account for this.

However, that's not the experiment quite yet. The real experiment is that As and Bs are then put together to discuss their results. What happens then is stunning: instead of rejecting the B's theories as unnecessarily complex, the As are usually so impressed with the subtle complexity and detailed brilliance of the B's theories, that they change their mind and accept the B theories!

When asked who will improve in the next round, all the Bs and most of the As pick the Bs. And they are right, because the As will have accepted at least some of the Bs ideas and thus perform more poorly.

Reference: http://omg.pytalhost.net/dls/ebk_wwidw.pdf (German)
Summer reading: Novels that get Linux
Looking for some open source summer reading? How about leaving a comment below with the author and title of a book in which Linux plays a role. My suggestion is Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
Not exactly.

> allowing us to identify and route all known bad traffic to the Microsoft sinkhole and classify the identified threats.

According to MSFT, they are only looking at known "bad" traffic. You can take their word for it... or not.
Why Meteor – Slideshow to convince your boss to go with Meteor
And without your usual comment of "the attack traffic is not from our network, so it's not our problem".
Ask HN: What is your favorite diff tool?
Looking for a some summer reading? How about leaving a comment below with the author and title of a book in which Linux plays a significant role.
In defence of certain sub-fields of philosophy
> Your parent just claimed the public has more control over government, than a company operating as a pseudo-government serving similar functions.

And I think the claim that public has more control over government needs to be backed up by some sort of data. Of course, you'd need to define the term "pseudo-government" as well.

> Well, if that isn't a convincing argument...

It's not meant to be a convincing argument. That's why I explicitly said that I don't have any data, and that I simply suspect something. Do you have any data? There are plenty of studies on whether the public approves of the general behavior of its government, and at least in the USA the numbers aren't great. My suspicion is that the numbers wouldn't be better when it comes to roads, based on the frequent mismanagement of roads and the number of complaints I here about roads. Again, not data, just suspicion.
p4merge for showing 3-way diffs.
Epic reply! Thank you so much for taking the time to put that down. Will review each of the points you mentioned with the team first thing tomorrow and have the site updated.
How a password changed my life.
The comments here are surprisingly pro-Microsoft. I'd personally rather deal with spam and botnets over a corporation legally being able to take over the DNS of other companies due to the actions of users of a service. Despite pretty clear slippery-slope arguments, I recognize this isn't a universal opinion. There are many people who would like to curb cyber-bullying at the expense of freedom of speech or curb terrorism at the expense of privacy and civil liberties. It takes all kinds, I guess.
Just work with a car company from a different country that isn't so backwards.

I'm sure Volvo would be interested with their focus on safety.
Allow me to not agree with your classification of the top article as "garbage." I've got from it more than from the text you linked to and I'm even less satisfied with your explanations whereas Natalie Wolchover did a rather good article. Please tell me if you have any background in physics, or what is your background?

The major thing missing from the article for me is that she didn't mention that the co-author of the most recent paper on the topic is much more known as the security researcher than as somebody who does anything related to quantum physics:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4356

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_J._Anderson

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/

He's author of (to me) very useful book "Security Engineering":

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
I feel like there's a cause and effect relationship being presented here that isn't necessarily true, even if the correlation is true.
The complete guide to transactional email
(Offer is open to anyone who ever has security/privacy/etc. issues w.r.t. CloudFlare. I like talking to people about security and "Internet politics", either at conferences or at home.)
Surely this is going to be prone to bias, even if it's only subconscious?
Burning Love was a hilarious mocumentary type show that originally aired on Yahoo. I believe season 1 later appeared on E!

https://screen.yahoo.com/burning-love/
I don't know how you can qualify this as growth. The transition to renewable energy should be applauded, but at the end of the day it is a displacement of the fossil fuel industry, which is massive. It seems less like a wealth creation engine and more like a "we will destroy the earth otherwise" necessity.
Just finished "Contagious: Why Things Catch On" which is great for understanding the triggers you can build into your product to build an inbound gravitational pull for potential and current customers.

Now I'm about to tackle "Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love"
Or just install cell-phone jammers in the restrooms...
British Airways misplaces the priceless Sarod of Indian Maestro Amjad Ali Khan
This:

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/british-airways-misplaces-amjad-ali-khans-45-year-old-sarod/

only confirms that British Airways should just shut-shop and go home.

Interestingly.. this Sarod was made by the same artist who made a guitar for George Harrison as well.

This is not the first time, British Airways has been subject of utter failure in its Indian operations.

Few weeks back .. this topic.. made it to the front page of HN:

http://getsetandgo.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/indians-comfort-and-loss-of-time-is-of-no-value-to-british-airways/
> [* Dearest Netflix: Want to make up for missing this one? You could always bring back Firefly and/or Pushing Daisies... Please?]

Netflix might be able to make a space based sci-fi show, the Netflix audience is probably young enough and won't torrent the show since it will be on Netflix commercial free all at once. There hasn't been one of these kind of sci-fi shows since SG-U was canceled. Firefly, SG, I don't care, can we just have something? :(
I just finished reading The Signal and The Noise by Nate Silver. It was an interesting read, but it felt a bit shallow in it's analysis.

I was feeling the need for some fiction, so I picked up Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin. Not sure what to think about it yet, but it's interesting reading Nabokov's analysis and seeing into his mindset a little. Sheds some light on his work as well.