skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These companies exist, but they don't get hyped that much by the VC marketing machine and are probably funded outside of it. In a way, those companies are like Walmart, MVNOs like republic wireless and apps that are popular, but you don't hear about because they don't target that lucrative market with disposable income. How much do you hear about coupons.com?
Fast forward to 2014, and we have Exchange crashing the all system with a BSD on purpose as a final solution to recover from a I/O stuck situation:
the Microsoft Exchange Replication service (MSExchangeRepl.exe) will detect those failure events and intentionally cause a bugcheck of Windows by terminating the wininit.exe process. [1]

In the article they say it's an improvement, I'm not 100% sure about it

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/scottschnoll/archive/2011/04/13/e...
About $150 I think from the shop page:

apu1c - $136

case1d2u - $8.7

ac18vus - $4.5
1	APU.1D4 system board 4GB	USD155.00	USD155.00	8471.5000	TW	235g
1	Enclosure 3 LAN, alu, USB	USD8.70	USD8.70	8473.3000	CN	241g
1	SSD M-Sata 16GB MLC Phison	USD22.00	USD22.00	8523.5100	TW	10g
1	Compex WLE200NX miniPCI express card	USD18.70	USD18.70	8517.7000	CN	10g
Shipping + handling	USD42.40
Total	USD246.80	496g

Assuming 4GB RAM, SSD, Wifi N, enclosure... oops add $5 for the AC adapter.
If it truly was only 10GB of data, something was seriously wrong with your table, schema, or query.
Just because something isn't currently happening doesn't mean that it won't. You're ignoring the fact that the data isn't transient. It persists into the future, at which point these things can (and probably will) happen.

It's like arguing in favor of a monarchy just because the current ruler is just, competent and benevolent; while ignoring the possibility that the next ruler will be violent and vicious.
My last several laptops have been System76, and I've been increasingly pleased with them (and satisfied from the outset).
The only way the NSA will ever be shut down would be as a result of the total collapse of the US federal government.

While I'm steadfastly rooting for this to happen, I also fear that whatever replaces it will be much worse.
In the US, getting involved with or simply persuasively discussing politics (usually) won't get you harassed, intimidated [1], thrown in jail, or "disappeared". It's quite possible people in Russia refrain from such activities because they're either smart or afraid.

[1] unless your name is Catherine Engelbrecht: https://www.google.com/search?q=catherine+engelbrecht
Normalization is also a logical concept (and merely a suggestion when it comes to the relational model, not a requirement) orthogonal to physical scalability concerns. Sometimes people use it loosely, assuming a one-to-one correspondence between a relation and a physical file.

These are important distinctions, because a misconception here leads to entirely the wrong solution.

One thing that does have inherent physical constraints is consistency. That's usually what people mean when they say that the relational model doesn't scale, but it would be much less confusing to just say that. Then there would be no reason to dismiss a relational language when designing scalable systems.
The Hobby-Eberly and SALT telescopes have (slightly) non-round mirrors that operate at fixed altitude: http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/het/het_gen_01.html

You might also find the Large Zenith Telescope interesting: it has a spinning liquid mirror! http://www.astro.ubc.ca/LMT/lzt/index.html
Actually, in the begining, the API was named "color" , I decided to go for "colour" because the CIE is using "colour" and not "color": http://eilv.cie.co.at/termlist?field_term_search_value_op=co...
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See my comment for the reason why it was named "colour": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261668
Like how "gay" can mean "stupid" in some contexts, and fighting it is like sweeping back the tide, right?
Another problem with teaching introductory programming in a Real Language, I think, is the temptation to also teach more software engineering-like things as well.

When you start measuring your experience with programming in decades rather than years, it's hard to remember learning how to program is actually kinda hard. Thus, adding things like version control and IDEs to the mix gives you less time on teaching what should be the core of an introductory programming class: how to solve problems in code. Anything else is fluff that can be ignored until the foundations have been laid.

An additional reason I think using something "weird" like Haskell or Scheme is that it's a very good equalizer (Haskell in particular). IME, this kind of class will have two kinds of student: those who already know how to program, and those who've never programmed. Those who already know how to program are mostly going to ignore the class, simply because it's known to them already; and this is a problem because the interactions between strong students and weaker ones is massively helpful, to both parties. Teaching things is, somewhat ironically, perhaps the very best way of focussing your knowledge of it. When you're explaining stuff to yourself (as it were), you can fudge the details you're a bit vague on (which is generally thue tricky bits), but if you're explaining it any vagueness is painfully obvious (I suspect this is also the reason simply explaining a problem to someone can be so helpful).
Safari has 3rd party cookies turned off by default. And how many iAds have you seen?

Also iAds have quite strict requirements as to what kind of identifying information they receive from the device.

Google/Android doesn't have any qualms about giving every bit of information they can get to the advertisers, that's the main source of income for Google. Also, 3rd party cookies will not be turned off by default in any Google product ever.
The main problem I have with the PCEngines APU is that it has Realtek 8111/8169 NICs, while the Soekris net6501 has e1000 Intels... Realtek NICs tend, from my experience, to behave erratically under high load on Linux, and sometimes simply not work on FreeBSD and OpenBSD

The full-sized PCIe slot is also a nice touch.

(disclaimer: possible bias, am running a OpenBSD/net6501 as an edge router for a hackerspace)
Not quite drop in. We have had a couple particularly wonky update statements with nested subqueries that ran on mysql, but only produced an error on mariadb.
This is the future we all need, and if the timelines are correct, it will be released this year, so very soon. Note that Apple should be releasing NFC soon, so it would probably work with this. Everyone wants to stop phishing, as Apple knows very well, and this is the solution. Apple will hopefully jump on board after what just happened. Nudge, nudge.
I learned programming with Pascal in high school, and it definitely didn't stink. It's way easier than C and lets you focus on the actual programming, not the idiosyncrasies of the language. It's very much like Python in this regard, but I think it's even better as a first languge. It's more explicit and to someone completely new to programming, that really pays off IMO.
I'm most sympathetic to your argument, but one part is factually incorrect. There are a few examples of people working on the great problems of the day and succeeding, among them:

Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, who developed the method to produce ammonia for fertilizer still essential today, probably essential for feeding our billions.

And the Wright Brothers, of course.

That said, under appreciated problems are surely worth working on.
I've written and spoken a lot about the early days. Just one example:

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001808/pr02.htm...

See also my blog and quora.com. And HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1905155
I don't think so, like stated in the below comments, there are already quite a few implementation.
Apple's business model doesn't rely on storing personal information, they get their money from devices and apps and services made for those devices sold through their store.

They are the one company that has the ability to really push for user privacy, it's a route Google cannot follow - it would hurt their core business (advertising) too much.
I think this post that recently hit the front page of Hacker News could be such an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8255128
http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/10/in-praise-of-budweiser-c...
Deeply left of my politics, but I like the market orientation of the solution. Very well written to get me to agree with a point of view I wasn't inclined to like. :-)
Economic success 'drives language extinction'
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Free as in beer is a reason to be more distrustful of the software. Sure it's more convenient, but this seems to be an area where it's really worth investing money in getting the more reliable solution.
Not only that but the format of the file is fully documented, so even if they were to shut down tomorrow and the application itself self-destruct, someone can still write a new app to decrypt the password "keychain" without much difficulty.
I think the move to safer languages for CS education is more to encourage people to think about the CS lessons at hand, rather than software engineering.

Learning about various list types is much easier if you don't have to worry about randomly crashing things. Learning about recursion is better in a language suited for it.

My CS education was founded around Scheme in part because it was a good language for showing how things worked. I thought the school went a little too far in that direction because outside of SQL, I had to teach myself every language I worked with thereafter. But... It did prepare me to learn those languages.
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Pascal was my 2nd language after Apple IIe BASIC. I also found it to be a great language to learn. I have some bad memories involving Delphi, though...
Sometimes it's hard to tell if someone on this site is parodying an out of touch techie or actually is one. It's a lot easier and cheaper to just eat fresh, healthy foods than it is to try to invent a new food alternative.
Good points. And I would also observe that email's share of electronic communication is going down with the rise of Facebook and other messaging services.
I've used 1Password for years, and password access in Safari on iOS has indeed been a pain point, but still been manageable. iOS 8 will make it much nicer, with the 1Password extension.
I looked into these when I was shopping for a laptop, in hopes of avoiding problems with hardware compatibility. Between lackluster display specs on a couple of models, some very mixed reviews of build quality, and no way to check one out in person, I had to reluctantly move onto other options. Since my purchase, it looks like the specs have improved on the Linux vendor laptops, but at the time it was just too much of a risk to take on a +$1000 purchase that was at that a compromise. You state the sweaty neckbeard case well, but pragmatically the lack of MS tax didn't make them any cheaper than comparable Windows machines and making it less risky to buy one site unseen would likely help, too.
Color.jl is excellent! They have a few stuff we don't support like DIN99 colourspace related computations and colour deficiency support, on an other hand I think we have one of the largest dataset around, the features pages will give you a nice overview: http://colour-science.org/features.php
E.g. the fellow in this photo from 1940: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01347ff60cea...
Meh, Soekris was so 2006. Their designs are IMO a bit tacky. And since they use Atom and intel network chipsets, the question needs to be asked... do we trust intel hardware anymore ? I agree intel nics are a bit more reliable.
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The Blockchain.
I don't like this that much. It's expensive.

My netgear router takes 11W.

I have a mini-itx amd c60, takes 25W without wifi.
If it's randomly generated, it's impossible to remember to fill in on your phone. Unless you have it on a piece of paper in your wallet.
It strains credulity to believe that we do in fact have time travelers living among us and 100% of them have managed to completely escape detection. For what it's worth, there actually have been serious attempts at determining whether there are time travelers living among us, including at least one study[1] looking at Twitter for evidence of time travelers tweeting

[1]: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/03/tech/innovation/time-travel-tw...
The issue under debate is not profit but rather the use of private data. Americans do not begrudge anyone their right to free enterprise. But many (including the OP) do care about the uses of their personal data. Google's activities are all oriented toward using and learning from personal data.

In the hypothetical doctor's office with attached coffee bar to which I was responding, we can see how it would be money-making but there's no good reason to assume that there would be a misappropriation of personal data between the two parts of the business. In Google's case it's the opposite: by default everything they do is oriented toward collecting and using data, as personal as possible. Sensible people would assume that if Google hasn't yet used the driverless car to find a way to better target advertising, they've got top minds thinking about how to do it.
> "It is not about class, it is about solving a want or a need in a sustainable way."

Of course it's about class. YC (and everyone else in this industry) is very good at solving a want that they understand, and very bad at solving wants they don't understand.

And our industry is consisted almost exclusively of upper-middle class white urban men. In fact, this demographic is even more prominent in the entrepreneur class than it is in the general tech worker population.

So quelle surprise when the only wants we seem capable of solving are the wants of upper-middle class white urban men: instant deliver-anything, means of private transport, outsourcing household chores, newfangled ways to display conspicuous consumption...

Deliberately or not, this is all about class.
> some problems aren't best solved through technology, or through "people caring", but simply through better governance.

And here you run up against a religious belief named "The Government Is The Problem", which is utterly intractable and ineradicable in someone with an advanced case, and will never die off because it's founded on either blatant self-interest (A regulatory body is harming my profits!) or soured optimism (I thought everything was perfect until the scales fell from my eyes! Now I think everything is perfectly horrible!).

It's related to cynicism, which has posed as maturity for so long some people honestly cannot tell the difference.
I remember first learning Pascal and hated it. It felt very restricted and difficult to get real work done. The type checks that are worshiped nowadays felt like a straitjacket in Pascal. C was a totally different experience. It was so open and free of restriction that I could hack anything with it. Pascal was a beginner learning language but C was hacker's language.
No, I've tried that, was expensive and didn't work. YMMV.
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> Yes, unless unpublished studies are included in the analysis, after which the effect falls below that required to make a claim of clinical effectiveness. That distinction is perfectly clear in the post to which you replied.

I think you are not reading carefully. Even WITH the unpublished studies included, the placebo effect far exceeds the required effect size to be considered clinically effective which means that the combination (placebo effect+treatment effect) also far exceeds the required effect size.

And the claims you make are pretty clearly rebutted in the first link I provided, which gives precise numbers to the different "clinical effectiveness" strengths.

(Regarding the correlation between serotonin and depression, if it bears up it will likely establish that there is some OTHER reason that Paxil is a moderately effective antidepressant.)

Here's a relevant quote from that link I gave before:

( http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo... )
"They also note that Kirsch’s study lumps all antidepressants together. This isn’t necessarily wrong. But it isn’t necessarily right, either. For example, his study used both Serzone (believed to be a weak antidepressant, rarely used) and Paxil (believed to be a stronger antidepressant, commonly used). And in fact, by his study, Paxil showed an effect size of 0.47, compared to Serzone’s 0.21. But since the difference was not statistically significant, he averaged them together and said that “antidepressants are ineffective”. In fact, his study showed that Paxil was effective, but when you average it together with a very ineffective drug, the effect disappears. He can get away with this because of the arcana of statistical significance, but by the same arcana I can get away with not doing that.
So right now we have three different effect sizes. 1.2 for placebo + drug, 0.5 for drug alone if we’re being statistically merciful, 0.3 for drug alone if we’re being harsh and letting the harshest critic of antidepressants pull out all his statistical tricks."
Nice fake picture :)
that's interesting. google me to get in touch.
Well if you really care about security you should run OpenBSD not linux. And it installs secure by default. Just grab the book of pf and write out your firewall rules.
Are you a millionaire real estate speculator? Knowing something about it, your scenario strikes me as neither low-risk nor guaranteed. If it were low-risk and guaranteed, it would be profitably scaled -- capital is available in abundance.

why so much money is flowing into blockchains

It's an asset bubble backed by an extraordinarily sophisticated emergent P2P Internet marketing operation which is a quantum leap improvement over a boiler room. Like many asset bubbles, it is snaring both the rich/savvy and the non-wealthy/non-savvy.
If it's true that 1 in 10 Americans are war veterans, they could literally revolt. They probably have the numbers and potential support from the military needed to succeed.

Because the VA, and by extension the federal government and the American people, treat them like absolute garbage, and this is not going to get fixed in the current system.

Wouldn't be the first time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
For me "visual proof" was a java program I wrote in 2005 that used genetic algorithms to evolve a neural network checker AI. It beat me every time:

https://github.com/mkoryak/Evolutionary-Neural-Net-Checker-A...
Cost control is actually one of the ACA's stronger points, and since it was passed the increase in health costs has been cut by a third.

The limited expansion of health care is the main problem with the ACA, but a big part of that can be blamed on the Supreme Court.
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Yeah, fanless/low power draw is a must for me. I'm willing to pay a bit more for it too. But since I also want to run a transparent proxy it needs a bit of beef.
Need to distinguish between legislators and administrators. Selling a solution to latter is a losing proposition, because they are usually struggling to accommodate all the spending mandated by former.
Sounds little like the pro-biotic movement, to me.
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CA wants a Professional Opinion letter completed by a Lawyer or CPA before they assign EV SSL. What is the easiest/ cheapest way to get it? Company is registered in Washington, US.
Consensus seems to be that the photo is actually real, just not so out of place. From the Wikipedia page "Time travel urban legends" [1]:

> Further research suggests that the modern appearance of the man may not have been so modern. The style of sunglasses first appeared in the 1920s. On first glance the man is taken by many to be wearing a modern printed T-shirt, but on closer inspection it seems to be a sweater with a sewn-on emblem, the kind of clothing often worn by sports teams of the period.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_urban_legends#Moder...
The section on using metaphor to visualize and control anxiety was of particular interest:

> If a patient describes his anxious thoughts as a monkey on his back, McGuinty will ask, "What does it look like, is it your friend, does it have a name? Could we train it? ... Could it become a pet in some ways? Are there any good things about it?" This kind of approach, says Lynne Angus, a psychologist at York University who has studied the use of metaphor in clinical psychology, can be really effective: "Instead of having something attacking you, you then start to befriend it. It starts giving you agency over the experience."
No true. I sync using BT Sync and it works fine. It's just not interpreted with 1Password like Dropbox is.
Unit testing elasticsearch with Node.js
I wrote a quick blog post about a unit testing problem I faced at my internship at npmjs. I didn't find any sensible solutions online, so I decided to share this with y'all!
Slightly off-topic, I'm an Emacs user and interested in learning Lisp for not-just-Emacs reasons. Can anyone suggest a good learning resource? It doesn't really matter what Lisp it's for, as long as the concepts apply to all implementations of my brackety confusion.
A lot of sites don't allow more than 12 chars. Of the top of my head, Nintendo's rewards scheme has a limit on the number of characters, it lets you use more but actually truncates the password to 12 or so. Some sites truncate it on the sly then say "incorrect username or password!" when you enter your stored 16+ character password.

Other sites silently break if you use characters outside A-Za-z0-9. e.g. you set a password with } or @ in it, then can't log back in again.

Ebay wouldn't let me paste a password into the password field recently, I had to type it out, and the keepassx "autotype" feature was thwarted by their focus-altering javascript code on the form. I also think they silently dropped special characters - I know it took me 4 or 5 password reset emails to get the new stored pw to stick.

Paypal requires that you enter a credit card number to change the password, so rotating it is tricky if you don't have the card on hand. I'm undecided if this is good or bad, since this sort of 2 factor makes it harder for someone to hijack your account.

There are a lot of ways that sites try and make life hard if you are doing things the right way and using a pw manager. It feels like there's this big conspiracy driving us to use the same "Monkey123" password everywhere.
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Why would you ever expose the sync folder publicly?

Just keep a copy on a local computer with Dropbox if need be.
Thanks, I confused the "availability > 500" value with "minimum order size", as the USD 8.70 price for case seemed very low.
Brendan I respect all of your work on creating a framework that gives at least thousands of people a job every day but I don't quite understand this article and it's purpose. I agree that you were under duress when creating but what are we getting at here?
Back in the mid-to-late 90s there were no home routers as they exist today. Just threw Openbsd on a machine with multiple interfaces and it worked just fine.
CSS Shapes are still on the horizon, but not far off. Blink added the intent to ship them in May [0], and Apple called them out as one of the new web standards that will be in Safari 8 [1].

There's also a polyfill, incidentally:
http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2014/05/12/css-shapes-pol...

[0]: http://bit.ly/blinkintents

[1]: http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screenshot-2014-0...