skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I got two different brands to try to minimize the possibilities of them both failing at nearly the same time.

Wow! I forgot to mention but I do this too! Thank you! My wife has called me paranoid of the highest order and now I can point to this comment and feel better that I am not the only one.

>> I've tried online backup services and was really disappointed by the throughput

Yes. I have been disappointed with all of these services.

>> Flickr as photo backup but the retrieval process is brutal.

Yes. I tried apps like Flickery etc but it is just not worth it.

>> I do use Dropbox

Nice idea. I have some files on it but I only use Dropbox (the free version) for files that I need on-the-go for anywhere-access.

>> I do use BitBucket for almost all of my source code and I've been pretty happy with it.

Same here. Bitbucket for some private random experiments and projects, Github for things that I don't care about.

>> I do use Time Machine on an old 1TB

Actually, Time Machine is the only decent backup utility I have ever found. Ever. The ease of use is just mind-blowing. I remember more than a decade ago, when my only chance was to wipe out the system and reinstall the OS or to keep a partition or separate drive for home/data. And with newer OSX, Time Machine can back up to as many drives as you want, which makes it easy for me to take actual direct backups on multiple drives.

On top of it, privacy is such a big concern. Then, it usually becomes a pain. I tried https://www.aerofs.com/ too but then left it because it was too buggy. I will have to try it again.
Love love love the concept. Commutes suck. Employees that live nearby are happier and don't leave. Let's all walk to work.

In reality, if you aren't tapping into the existing job listings (e.g. linkedin or even craigslist), and instead require jobs posters to use your site, you'll never get the critical mass to keep this going.
First printed book in English sold for over £1m
A platform for large-scale neuroscience [video]
If you disagree, give me some proof otherwise. The situation I've described allows for a "global rise in income equality" while enforcing the status quo. But you won't because you can't.

Anyways...
Did you know that if someone rents a airbnb listing in SF for more than 30 days, they can stay there forever , so long as they continue paying the same rate they did from airbnb ?

I bet you didnt. In order to get them out, you would need to ellis act or do a owner move in eviction- Both of which cost well over 25k and can only be done once for the lifetime of the property.
Airbnb as an address to get illegal things shipped and dropped off sounds just too easy. So easy to deny responsibility. Even just for using a courier service.
Seen that thing already on /r/economics a while ago, went in a long discussion with a libertarian sounding guy. Was really disappointed.

I don't like this, because the current argument of inequality talks about developed countries, inside borders. The "global inequality" somewhat argues that inequality per country is irrelevant because what counts is global inequality, which to me is a little fallacious: you don't replace a debate with the same debate at a bigger scope.

If markets are being globalized, nations lose bargaining power, and it's not really a good thing.

It's also a little inadequate/irrelevant to talk about income inequality in developing countries I think. Those countries are developing, so it's not surprising to see their economies improve. If it's done at the expense of other more developed countries, it's natural for those latter countries to complain.
unclear, what does this company do exactly?
> The moment an AirBNB site for cars comes along, you'll see it.

https://relayrides.com/
The article makes it sound like OTAs and airlines are to blame for what goes into a PNR. Note that for decades the PNR was the only record of your requests to buy a ticket, change seats, meals etc. Basically think of it as a database record (in a flat database sort of way). Even in a modern environment the data in SABRE and Amadeus and Travelport (the companies that provide the massive databases for most all airlines in the world) still isn't much better than a PNR. These systems date back to the 60's. What is disturbing that the US Government apparently demanded the entire PNR before the trip. For decades PNR's were routinely deleted soon after the trip happened unless manually extended (to provide for refunds). Apparently HS insisted that the entire PNR be given to them without allowing any kind of scrubbing first. This is what is ridiculous. But people who regard your data as their personal fiefdom could care less about your security or privacy.
It looks like he probably has the monitor on his desk available to connect to that computer also, but they won't both fit on the standing desk.

I have three 24 inch monitors connected to my desktop computer.

The middle one is where I do 99% of my work.

The left one is where I usually have a YouTube or Netflix video up distracting me.

The right one is where I drag a window over for 20 seconds while I rearrange stuff. Most of the time it's 100% empty.

My brain is certainly a single-core processor.

TL,DR: One is surprisingly sufficient.
>The point is people stereotype research economists as corporate shills or something, when they tend to be left-wing

They tend to poll Democrat more than Republican, but that certainly doesn't mean that they're left wing or anti-corporate. Quite the opposite in fact.

There is a near unanimity on the benefits of CAFTA, NAFTA and immigration, for instance. Also against government ownership of enterprise.

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/klein/PdfPapers/KS_PublCh06.pdf
I agree with a lot of what the author says, but I got a little confused at the end when he started talking about fixtures. It didn't seem to tie in with the rest of the article. But I think the underlying thesis of the article could be described as the following: treat testing as an internal tool.

This means thinking of yourself as the user and optimizing for your needs (avoiding repetitive tasks, minimizing bugs in your project). It means sometimes creating interfaces for creating new tests, like how admin pages are nice interfaces for SQL queries. Conversely, it also means things like not writing overly fine-grained tests in the name of test coverage (this would be like if your admin page had two separate tools for "change user first name" and "change user last name").
Can Meditation Really Slow Ageing?
It's Facebook's 'poke' feature, as nearly as I can tell, without the rest of Facebook.
Oregon geologist says Curiosity's images show Earth-like soils on Mars
Very cool! I'm messing with low bandwidth satellite communication, and well, looks like you're way ahead of me :D
They make an app that says "yo."

Which is a million dollar idea for reasons.
Ah, but an ISP for a consumer, instead of a business,
commonly has a local monopoly so that
I have only one choice for my ISP and can't
"shop around".
Arguably it would be much better to enforce process isolation and priviledge protection statically in the programming language. Currently system calls have a massive performance overhead, which could be eliminated if the compiler could reason about memory access violations and so on. Legacy code and other applications could run in sandboxed virtual machines. Microsoft has done some research in this direction with their Singularity OS and a programming language called M.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=US+Terrorist+Database+Growing+at+R...
Time Machine for main backup (everything)
Dropbox for documents (also nice to be accesible on my iPhone)
Bitbucket (for dotfiles)
Carlos Slim calls for a three-day working week
Well you can't make people read too much during the sign up or they might abandon the process and ruin the metrics.
I agree. I was very confused at first, and almost did not click on the link because I don't see the need for whatever a democracy "OS" could be.

However, this seems like a really neat organization management solution. Voting and discussing formal proposals has never been a sexy proposition; and this is the first tool that I've seen that attempts to improve that.

Now, it's going to require some much more serious security guarantee to be used to govern any important organizations (governments, public corporations, etc.). But as a way to manage smaller communities (e.g. online communities, clubs, anything with smaller-scale voting, even potentially smaller municipalities), I see great potential.
I changed my mail server to listen on port 26 and now I don't get spam anymore
Definitely the most interesting presentation at the Apache Spark Summit 2014
Yes, more than double. I am very fortunate, which I have to remind myself on a daily basis due to my consumption of mass-media and its incessant message of consumer culture.
"Still, for all the publicity Mancini and the Net Party have received, participation on the platform is low—debates on legislation rarely attract more than 100 voters—in a capital city with some 2.5 million eligible voters and an Internet penetration rate of 70 percent'

I just lack faith in technological solutionism. If there is an issue everybody felt important people would've found ways to fight for it. Even take it to the streets.

Sometimes I fear of "Like button" democracy more then I fear corrupted officials.
>Browser support

>We support real browsers and IE10+

Had to laugh at this
Jamaican here. It's not just an accusation. They've definitely done it and admitted it. I don't know if Skype is blocked, but they've accused Viber and other such services of "toll bypass", and blocked them. The Viber CEO said in an interview that Digicel wants them to pay to be allowed to work again.
wow. Didn't expect this much of a response.
Yes, I'm pretty sure I was at 3x median income when I worked at what became a larger startup. Now I'm back to making barely enough to cover my ridiculous rent while getting a new company off the ground.
we do that at work. Found it to painful to make fail2ban to watch to hundreds of vhost log files so we just sniff the requests with ngrep and log them to a file fail2ban watches
A good long-form story (and a true story that is quite gripping) about how changing the classification can change the perception of the person is the book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin,[1] which I read once in childhood and reread a few years ago. Powerful stuff. It's stark to understand that events like the events described in the book happened during the lifetime of a lot of people still living today.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Black-Like-50th-Anniversary-Edition/dp...
But aside from that you have corporations profiting from surveillance, numerous gov't employees and contractors involved, judges receiving perks and legal bribes, existing surveillance legislation and court precedent, state and local employees/contractors (from traffic cops to fusion center workers) whose work is based on surveillance data, foreign governments who do much of the same the US does, a media that has been bought off and consolidated.
Sana'a
Note, the incumbent senator for the 2014 election faces literally zero opposition.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election...
"....The online Beagle library now allows anyone to see the amazing range of visual imagery that Darwin poured over during the voyage..."

I think you mean "pored"
the libertarian POV makes complete abstraction of politics, socio-economics and ground to earth humane sciences. the same blurb of macro economics, like it's the only real relevant thing to measure.

You can't even find an economist who will get out of his academia and try to look at those parameters, it's the elephant in the room.
The airline companies will be immune to such. That's always part of the racket.
Yes, 3 or 4 times. I am from Argentina.
Get rid of all the boring git commit messages like 'small fix'
If they are using EC2 hosts, I wonder why they don't use AWS SQS/SNS for their queue systems and Dynamo for their materialized views.
> A very simple and obvious example is the administration of taxation, where the government have most of the information already, and the rest is just going through the motions.

IIRC, IRS higher-ups have talked before about wanting to do this (since it would cut down on enforcement/audit costs to just tally up everything in-house and send a bill or refund), but the current laws don't allow them to implement it.
My parents had a friend who used this trick in the early 1950s, to get into restaurants. They told the story to my siblings and me, to illustrate the stupidity of racism.

On the other hand, I had a summer internship during college, where one of the employees was a white guy and wore a turban. He told me that he got searched every time he crossed the border between the US and Canada, during the period before 9-11 when most people just got waved across.
I don't disagree. I just thought your comment, when taken as an individual statement, was obvious enough that it didn't need to be said (at least not again). I chose to interpret it as a refutation, which was my mistake.
How does this compares to Agora Voting[0], already used by 2 of the top 5 spanish political parties? I'm specially concerned about the security/encryption of the system... Agora is a very powerful tool in this regard.

[0] https://github.com/agoravoting/agora-ciudadana
AnimGIFs need a better codec
I would say stick to it! Desire and motivation are much more useful than experience. And I think your persistence should demonstrate that. The experience will come but having the drive to not let anything get in the way of your end goal is not something that everyone possesses. As far as the CISSP or certs in general they are a good gateway to say that you have the foundation and methodology down and if that is what they would like you to have I would get it. Just remember there are continuing education requirements and other things that go along with the CISSP or G-PEN or take your pick. So I would ask if they will be willing to stand behind a commitment to your continuing ed if they are insistent on the CISSP this may reveal their intentions. Good Luck and keep at it!
well china has a huge growth, but after the 2008 crisis I can still raise my eyebrows.

why would americans really care inequality in china ? if american politics want to reduce inequality, they want to do it in their country, not in developing countries.
I live laptop-only, and I buy my disks in triples. I do this even with SSDs because they, despite being solid state, are similarly flawed just like their spinning rust kin. Instead, their exhibited failure modes are less electromechanical and more simply "the universe is doing silly things to my data." (See also: solar flares, etc.)

The other two disks get crammed into USB enclosures, and I use rsync to copy data around in a manner very similar to jwz's http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html. With USB 3.0, this is very fast.

That keeps me from experiencing a catastrophic data loss scenario, which is step one. It also solves a work continuity problem wherein I would otherwise be left now with the problem restoring from backups. Here, restoration is literally a matter of swapping disks and rebooting.

Do I actually lose data? Well, yeah, but I've put an upper bound on it that is livable: I lose at most a week because the disk in my drawer at work gets swapped out every Friday for the one I keep at home.

Some caveats: I don't use encryption at the level of my OS's VFS layer (yet), and I don't use RAID. I also don't use non-standard configurations like HFS+ with case sensitivity, btrfs, ZFS, etc.

I keep most sensitive data (think private keys) elsewhere. Those are backed up by way of dumping to hardcopy and storing with my tax information. I can OCR the ASCII-armored representations later if I need to, and it makes choosing a fire safe easy since I don't need one that's rated for digital data storage.

Now, this unfortunately doesn't solve the problem of storing historical copies of things, and I'm trying to find a way to accomplish that sanely without having to resort to alien technology like Plan 9's venti and fossil or vendor lock-in à la Time Machine, or rsyncing to dated directories.
They've since moved from EC2 to Facebook infrastructure, see their blog post here:

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/89992572022/mig...
No; I'm probably about 15k below the national median and 25k below the state median. This is entirely my own fault. Life is OK, though.
I think "pure" just means that there are raw electrons in contrast to complex molecules with a charge.
No. I am currently $4000 behind the median (Canada, Small startup)
I'm around 1.5 times my countries average wage.

For reference here are some info sources.

Countries by average wage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wa...

Median household income: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income
There's another reason this won't happen: very few users really care.

If users really wanted it and clamored for it and showed a clear market preference for secure and privacy-respecting companies, then you might get somewhere.
These days, you'd be best off contracting it out.
I think one government, or rather something like eu, but for whole planet, will be useful, and it will be possible when live standards for people in different countries becomes the same, and old feuds are forgotten. However that's not something to happen in near future and i do hope that mars will be colonized and become off of the planet entity long before that:)

The problem with one powerful government per country is that different countries still have different powers and they like to meddle with weak ones, like US and Russia did in this case.
It came along... 14 years ago when Zipcar was founded.
Exactly. Most likely a military mistake similar to Iran Air Flight 655.

These things can happen. When political leaders seize on these types of events to promote their agendas however, some people understandably become more suspicious that a conspiracy is afoot.
Landlord ends up in jail, and property ends up destroyed. Since the landlord probably doesn't have insurance, or has voided that insurance several different ways, it's an expensive method to achieve nothing. And that's if the tenents decide to leave, because they could just stay.
> I would even prefer it if people thought, "math? yeah I have no idea what goes on in that subject" to what you describe. Because distinguishing between "math" and "post-Calculus math" (the latter of which is almost all of math) won't help anyone.

Why not?

Most educated Americans did "math" for a minimum of 13 years of their lives. It would be immensely useful if people who control gates like employment and admission understood that the math relevant to computer science and they math they did/can measure about candidates are different things.

The fact that most mathematicians are bad at computing things by hand is the key takeaway. Hand computation skill doesn't mean you should be a mathematician or programmer. Lack of hand computation skill doesn't mean you shouldn't.
Not very accurate with respect to recent cpus. But decent overview of cache coherency.

EDIT: apologies for the harsh comment. I'm not aware of public information regarding recent cpus. I tried to give some more technical details in an answer below.
Sillycon Valley
That is optional. (Source: Me, administers over 100 Apple devices with Configuration in day-to-day operations.) The software is so-so, but asynchronously managing USB connected devices is annoying, even with a shiny Apple interface.
From the Contributing doc:

> "Do not make a pull request withouth having run the app on your own. This means, you have to manually test (at least) that everything works."

Lack of automated testing for large projects makes it difficult for others to contribute and it slows the development process down if manual testing is required. I don't even see a document that outlines specifically what "everything" is. How would you know what to test?
That's what insurance is for. And the court system so you can get the tenant to pay back damages. Either that, or filter your tenants a little better.

Disclaimer: I know people that got burned by "tenants", and they're resolving it just fine through the legal system.
In San Antonio, TX I was surprised to find the shotgun-wielding landlady telling me to get out before midnight exactly the day before my rent was due... turns out she wanted to kick out a delinquent tenant in the unit with the same letter but one civic number over, but I can't blame her for taking direct action. Scared the piss out of me though! At least I got a free month out of it.
Thank you. This is what I was trying to say, but better articulated.

I would say that math done by mathematicians would be more indicative of skill, but most people who are/are trying to be programmers haven't really tried that, so it's impossible to assess them based on it.
It would work well for some people, but there are easily 5-7% who would get screwed due to errors, special circumstances or other things.

Even a 1% error affects over 3M people.
Wow, these are the insights we are looking at.
Minor nitpick, though with this caveat the article is great:

> At the time, ideas of race in America were quite literally black and white.

Not so much America as specifically the south, where white vs. black was the dividing line, and anyone nonblack was "close enough" to white, at least for the purposes of politics and segregation. In the north, where the white-vs.-black line wasn't as front-and-center, dynamics were different, and there was a higher bar for just how white you had to be to really be white. During some parts of the 20th century, Arabs, Jews, Greeks, Italians, Indians, etc. wouldn't be allowed entry to "whites-only" establishments in New York, even though they were white enough for a "whites-only" restaurant in Atlanta.

edit: Although now that I think of it, this would probably be true for some things even in the north. For example the "no selling to negroes" deed restrictions in Chicago, as far as I can find, really meant you could sell to anyone except a black person, including some people with quite dark skin. Race is complex, I guess.
> "just in case" you might one day become a suspect. :/

And as the definition of suspect continues to shift, slowly, you're becoming a target.
The title was "U.K. Intelligence Agency's Ability to Manipulate Online Polls, Etc.", which notably doesn't include words that would trigger automated alerts if someone with an agenda that involved flagging surveillance stories had set them up somehow.
Disclaimer: I, and others I know, have been burned by tenants as well. We attempted to resolve it through the legal system. If the tenants have no assets, and no income (which they did have at time of lease execution), you have little to no recourse.

A judgement against a stone is useless.
I work with Yemeni dudes. It is pretty ballsy to travel into Yemen for the last two years. This is coming from a dude who has travelled to some weird and shitty places in the Middle East. When I first came here to work, said Yemeni dudes withs lots of friendly tribal connects said "yeah, you can come visit with me." As of two years ago, they dread going home. If it not the militias, and inter-village tribal warfare (a constant), gas shortages are choking the country to death.

I have always wanted to go. Yemen is the source of all Arabic languages (Proto-Arabic) and Semitic dialects that only really receive mention in the Bible. Whether or not Sana'a is the oldest inhabited city (people also compare to Damascus in this race to proven the unprovable), it is a source of history stemming back farther than any of us can image.

And the drug shrubs! What else could you ask for.