skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > it starts to sound more like math and less like a miracle.

> that applies to all of math. There are no miracles.

Err, what applies to all of math? That it sounds like math?

I do not agree that there are no miracles—plenty of mathematics is miraculous. As a first example off the top of my head, the areas of squares that can be drawn with vertices on the integer lattice in the plane are the integers whose prime factorisations include an even number of times each prime `p` for which `p + 1` is divisible by 4. This is a miraculous relationship between geometry and number theory, and it's just the tip of an iceberg!
Wait, you mean relational databases actually can scale? Say it ain't so! - end sarcasm

Personally, I've always been wowed at what youtube does with mysql. See the entire vitess[1] project for an idea. Thanks github for writing this up though, very neat.

[1] https://github.com/youtube/vitess
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That's certainly what they want you to take away from it, but is it what they actually said?

Failing to rate limit login attempts is a fuzzy sort of failure. I would probably call it a "vulnerability", but I wouldn't call it a "breach" to take advantage of it to figure out someone's password.

To me, this reads as a carefully crafted non-denial that looks like a denial if you don't really pay close attention.
https://twofactorauth.org/#retail ;)
It is certainly helpful for grabbing bits of data that you want quickly, it is also another line of defense for DR.

If we make a change and want to quickly compare against an older version of the data delayed slaves are super handy.

We can also restore to any point in time with binlogs.
Montfort et al described the same thing in the book "10 print chr$(205.5+rnd(1));:goto 10" [0]

[0] http://trope-tank.mit.edu/10_PRINT_121114.pdf
is Apple?
Just a friendly remind of the sites that support 2FA, Apple is on the list: https://twofactorauth.org/
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Is that verification process described somewhere in Google's proposal? I don't understand how it would work with third party Monitors. Would I have to prove my identity with some email-callback or DNS/HTTP token separately to them all?
I believe the intentions were good on both sides, but again, good intentions were not enough.

There needs to be great care addressing company culture. It may be clear what those values are when the team is small and made from people with similar backgrounds and life experiences. But how do you expect those values to be transmitted to others? If you don't clearly state your mission, vision and values, then you are going to have a hard time justifying any decisions based on company culture.
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Got any open source projects that use flux-react that we could take a look at?
But this is exactly what is happening here: Uber tries to get the legal privilege of being exempt from German regulations.

I don't see how; how are they preventing others from doing the same?

I'm not saying what they're doing is okay, but there's no privilege, anyone else (including incumbents) can decide to ignore the law and provide taxi services without the proper licenses.

Cartelization

Well, the you can surely provide an example of a cartel which has achieved monopoly without any help from States, just as the result of market failure.
If you read carefully, it seems that it was 5am Saturday, not through the night, and it looks like it was done by 7:15am. The beer was just labelled with the start of the process.
He's the CEO of DuckDuckGo and promotes to use it instead of Google, so what's to expect?
I switched to fastmail and duckduckgo in lieu of google products a little over a year ago for some of the same reasons. I tried to switch to safari from chrome, and that experiment lasted about 3 months before I got annoyed by how safari handles multiple tabs.

But, as far as most of the criticisms posted here, they're really unfounded. If you want to be a purist about privacy, you really have to just quit using technology. It's not realistic. Yes, you can be an idealist and try to run your own email server, etc. but it's really about balancing tradeoffs. I also use Apple maps and iCloud and dropbox and Evernote and... many other services we should give just as much scrutiny to as Google.

I don't see my choices as being about riding a high-horse, it's about a diversified portfolio of services that helps me avoid total lock-in. The day that google heavily oversteps with the G+ product strategy or twitter completely goes to shit, I've got a series of alternative services that can pick up the slack.
Also from a constructive viewpoint you just can't do it.

Every integer or rational number has a name, and can be specified. You can even specify some transcendental numbers such as Feigenbaum's constant, e-1, pi^2 and such, but the "real" numbers which are mostly nameless and generally cannot be encountered except as part of a range, are "real" in a different way than the integers are.
The first step is itself a monopoly, leveraging it to other products is one of the dangers that an existing monopoly opens up.
I'm fairly sure that this is not possible to enforce via Volksentscheid. Its state legislation, so the details differ, but as far as I understand in most states the referendum can only decide over a proposed law. In some states a general guideline for the parliament can be decided over (Berlin, HH and Schleswig-Holstein) but those are only recommendations.

I'm not certain if it would be a valid course to create a law that forces the parliament (or rather the states representatives in the Bundesrat) to propose a law. That might create a legal problem: What if the proposed law gets changed or rejected in the Bundesrat etc. You're free to try, but I doubt that course of action will work.
At what point do tech companies start making two factor authentication mandatory?

It's one thing to say "We tell our users to use two factor authentication - it's their fault if they don't use it" but it's another to say "all user accounts use two factor authentication to ensure security of their data"
"by complaining about the poster ("he was a terrible fit")"

This is not a complaint. I agree that "terrible" may be a bad word, but not being a correct fit is not wrong.

Not all people are great for all jobs. Even if they have the technical qualities.

A basketball player runs a lot on a game, but that doesn't mean he/she would be a great sprinter, as an example.

Culture fit is needed as much as a technical match
Just because a lot of companies are using the system does not make it secure.

Many security conscience people don't answer security questions truthfully because the application of security questions is inherently insecure.
Delayed replicas is a MySQL 5.6 feature (and can be emulated in previous versions).

You are correct in that the main use-case is fast recovery from human error. But as a DBA, I can tell you that accidents like this cover 90% of disasters :)
None yet, sorry.
Yup, start the profiler up, use the application, check the call graph.

At 100 MLOC the code base is probably a complete mess.

Also, simian is probably your friend as it will identify large chunks of duplicate code.

As well source control can be your friend, the older the source is the more likely it is to contain useful code. The files with the most changes will usually be where the bugs are.
After the crowdfund, websites of successful Kickstarter campaigns
You could look into Mithril (a smaller React-like framework). It mixes JS and CSS syntax to achieve terseness, and it does so within the rules of valid javascript:

m(".form-group", [
m("input.form-control[placeholder='Name']")
])
Ok, say someone has a complete database of my location sampled at 10 minute intervals over the past few years. What could they do with that information that would be harmful to me?
That is right, but you have to read at least 5-10 tutorials, before you can start to code ....

Or you are lucky and start at the right place (e.g. you download Python and start with a Python tutorial) ... but when you started with Windows, you might be out of luck, if you did not find some cheap way to access one of the powerful IDEs in existence (many are still very expensive or/and need that you read the same amount of tuts).
Video hosting: https://mediacru.sh

Benefits over Vimeo: FOSS, deployable on your own servers, pro-privacy, also supports audio and images.

I helped make it, so take this with a grain of salt.
Well, at least they have recently stopped tracking of emails in the paid Google Apps for Business to build an ad profile.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/protecting-st...
I am kinda of sick of hearing about how celebs got hacked and how it is such a big deal.

The media over hypes these things and really the celebs involved should of used stronger passwords and/or 2 factor authentication. They should of known better.

People get "hacked" this way tons of times by using weak passwords and/or security questions. You'll never see that appear in the media.

The inequality here is the importance the media places on Kate Upton, Jennifer Lawrence, etc. It a waste of tax payer money to get the "FBI" invoked. I see it also has a waste for the government to chummy up with these "celebs". Some of them are great entertainers no doubt, but what have they done to really deserve the popularity they have.

Have they build something that tremendously improves people lives. Are they key decision makers on items that effect people? Yes Jennifer Lawrence is a great actress but c'mon.

Stop giving importance to celebs by not reading news about them. Radaronline, Tmz, etc.
lol, so true...

Funny thing is, often the users tell you "I used it for XYZ" and it was...

...never been written for XYZ

...never DID XYZ, all the results/numbers were trash, but no one noticed
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Judge mulls contempt charges in Microsoft’s e-mail privacy fight with US
If what you care about is privacy, I really don't think iOS is appreciably better than Android. (Not marginally or theoretically - I mean practically).

If you're looking to be as private as possible[0], you should either use a custom ROM of Android with Privacy Guard and with Google services disabled (or use something like Replicant or FirefoxOS, if you're comfortable straying from the two dominant mobile OSes).

[0] As private as possible while still carrying around a tracking device 24/7, mind you (cell phones constantly report your location to your carriers, who are not at all modest with this data)
The web used to provide text, and allow the user-agent to render it as appropriate for that display/user.

Now the web is a (bad) application platform, where the content designers demand full control of interactivity.

As a user you are not well-served by the modern web. It's not the devices per se it's also the content that is different than ~10 years ago.
tl;dr: give your data to Apple instead of Google because...?
Particle detectors in daily life
As a Scala enthusiast, it's neat to see one of my pet languages get press, but...a "software engineering technology called Scala"? Did you mean "programming language"?
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Large projects tend to accumulate lots of unused cruft.
Coverage tools like emma/jacoco but I have successfully used UCDetector [1]. It's not bullet proof but it helped me lot when analyzing code to remove the unused parts, even if there are false positives sometimes.
[1] http://www.ucdetector.org/
Just to give you another data point: I don't get any spam on fastmail, it works well for me.
Because not everyone has an iPhone.
If I was in Hollywood right now I'd be offering high-price security consultation services to teach celeb's how to use 2FA.
Not to mention that even if it's OK for people to not go surfing, there are still other issues that can arise from it. Like, say the surfing trips are because the CEO loves surfing, and part of the team goes on them and the other part doesn't. Now the CEO has to be extra vigilant about not giving preferential treatment to those that do go, because of having good feelings about them as his "surfing buddies."
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The recently fixed "find my phone" feature doesn't support two-factor auth because, presumably, you can't find your phone to get the second factor.
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In the face of nefarious agencies and companies that track, I don't think there's a 'best' option to switch to, per se, only a harder (to be tracked) option. Tracking, in my belief, still goes on, in one way or another.

So what are we left with? Trying as hard as possible to use online services for work (assuming that's your bread and butter) and to be in the real world for leisure, etc. Not always possible, and less possible as the years go on, but a lot better than thinking one (popular) online service will be a safe haven from another.
2FA is no panacea. My yahoo account (only used for flickr) was compromised with 2FA & 20+ character password.
It's not even XML — it's JavaScript. The problems with for/class/etc. problems aren't because of XML, but exist because the preprocessor just translates everything to React.DOM element declarations, and of course "class" et al are reserved words in JS.

I agree that's it super awkward. I have no idea why they don't let the preprocessor be HTML-aware and translates class into className directly. I can't see how something like "class" would clash with the surrounding JS syntax given that it's specific to the local tag syntax. <Foo> isn't valid JS, after all, so why should "class" not be valid JSX?

It creates a maintenance problem, too, because React has to play catch up with every HTML tag and attribute and every CSS property.
Okay. The Cyber 180 for instance had 48-bit addressing.
Where tech isn't integral to what the company produces it usually can nevertheless significantly boost areas that usually are: "operations" or "marketing". The person who introduces the system that gets customers from Google to the right regional sales rep and can produce neat little charts to prove it works is the sort of person that gets consulted on strategic marketing and sales operations decisions even at the sort of organization that thinks "growth hacking" is a type of computer crime.

Ultimately it boils down more to people than positions or market. Do management perceive any ideas you have about tech projects that could improve the company's efficiency or sales as a sign you're a rising star or that they haven't given you enough instructions on how you should be spending your time?
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Wow thanks for the link, I didn't know half of these had 2 Factor Authentication. Time to enable them all!
I sleep comfortably at night knowing my private photos are stored safely on iCloud.
Libc++ has quadratic std::sort
Not all 2FA requires an iPhone. Any phone with SMS will do.
Seriously? Now I know everyone with whom you associate. I know everything you like to do. I know how fast you drive. Because you "associated" with several serious felons (you were in the same bar/diner/club as them several times), I can make a case for conspiracy. I have you in the same area as several serious crimes. Perhaps the data source (phone?) isn't exact all the time (it never is), so I have you as being at some places you weren't at. The scene of crimes? I know everyplace you've been for years, so forget running.

Have you been speeding in the past few years? A lot? Have you done anything private? Seen doctors/specialists about private medical issues? Have you had an abusive spouse or stalker in your life? I bet they'd love the data.
Because Apple's free services are a value add to increase their device sales off which they make a ton of money, while Google's free services are typically monetized with targeted advertising based on a profile built off your private data, so they tend to collect and retain a lot of it.
The PRISM break list is far more comprehensive: https://prism-break.org
There is a jsx-mode on elpa that seems to work pretty well. At least it does for me.
Yeah, the LOCs in one of the biggest banks in the world is close to 10M (including: Trading[eq & ficc] , Credit, Mortgages, Wholesale, Wealth Management, Quant, Risk, and also UIs, tests , reports , recons, interfaces) , I don't think a task like that was given to single person, usually with that base of code a big IT consulting company is hired.
People have become so close with their smartphones that they entrust it with more information than their friends know.
In addition no brand is more loved than Apple, with many celebrities being ambassadors to the brand. The brand is planning to introduce new payment and health services next week.

For the average consumer two-factor-authentication means nothing, but they will start distrusting Apple more and will be more careful with data. This does not mean they will use more and better security. The average consumer will just stop using some of these services.
They come in to work and they do what? What service is it?
Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
Would you be interested in a site that lists books that have been recommended by public figures like PG, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Obama, etc? I've been kicking this idea around for a while.
You might want to have a look at notmuch (http://notmuchmail.org/). Said abruptly, it's a wrapper on top of Xapian (the search engine) that you feed with your email, after which you can query using mail-related queries:

$ notmuch search from:linus crap

and, most usefully, tag:

$ notmuch tag +rant from:linus crap

Tags work exactly how you would expect them to:

$ notmuch count tag:rant

There are myriads of frontends (even a web-based one [0]) if you want to go further than cli.

You're gonna have to transform everything to maildir or mh though (unless you can somehow iterate over your mails from the formats you have), but I guess that's not too unreasonable to do anyway.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/wuzzeb/notmuch-web
Apple wasn't hacked in any sense by the definition of what non-pedants go by.
Can we please stop calling them backlinks?
Uber vs. Regulation? It's not that simple
Google and Yahoo both had 2FA holes in their mobile authentication entry points. No data to back this up other than my own experience and seeing the last logins coming from mobile devices in another country.
Radpad doesn't do any of that....
No, I'm suggesting that a company like Netflix pays to deliver traffic directly to a company like Comcast. Netflix only pays once (they're paying Comcast instead of paying Level3/Cogent, at least for delivering to Comcast customers).

I think our big difference of opinion comes in the understanding of the industry. Content and distribution have always been intimately linked. In fact, that's the whole disagreement: Netflix is performing content distribution but is not paying for the full cost of that distribution. Inexplicably, a lot of people feel those costs should be pushed to the consumer (i.e. "I already pay once for Internet! Netflix shouldn't have to pay because I already do!") rather than to the company making the profit off the specific act of a user watching a video (who will inevitably push those costs to the consumer, but only to THEIR consumers).

Netflix's business model is nearly identical to HBO's. The only difference is that HBO bills through the cable companies and Netflix does not. But the cable companies take a cut of HBO's earnings for distribution. Netflix wasn't paying that until recently.
Have you tried Zoho? I have used both and it comes pretty close to Google Apps and additionally they still offer a free option.
Not very creative, eh?

1) The computer never lies and the false positive rate is 0%. So if you walked past a shop that sells weed grow lights enough times, you'll be on a list and some night at 2am they'll smash open your door, shoot your dog, and throw a grenade into your babies crib. This is "OK" because it usually only happens to poor minorities and the computer never lies and there is no such thing as a false positive. Even just street crime is an issue.

2) Times change. Being on a list as living as a Jew in Germany in 1923 not a huge problem. In 1943 being on that old list is not so good. Walk past a mosque on a daily basis in '90 no big deal, in '10 maybe not so good when they look at the historical records to Keep Us Safe From Terror (tm). Its almost unpredictable who we'll be punishing / torturing in a couple decades. Probably not reasonably well off white men, but everyone else is either nervous or ignorantly not nervous.
Even aside from major issues like hitting cars or people, delays are not "exceptional" when it comes to Caltrain -- it is the norm. An exception is Caltrain arriving on time.
Cool, I'll have to check it out. One thing we've struggled with is fresh seafood. I think that's going to be tricky to find although I would definitely order from some overnight rush delivery if there was such a thing.
A WSJ article that is pay walled and has no comments is on the HN second page, approaching HN front page. Something is wrong with this.
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