skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you do this? It throws out one of the major advantages micro-services have over monoliths, that of fine grained small deployments.
That model oversimplifies the question to the point of not having anything to say about the real world.

It doesn't, for instance, counter-balance the trade benefit with an assessment of the societal cost of our production moving overseas.
Ditto - it used to be up-and-down and now it's just down. I still refuse to use Baidu search because its results are awful and irrelevant, but sometimes....
> the fact that the approval rate is 99%

How'd this get from "I read somewhere" to "fact"?
I highly recommend watching Peter Jenning's informative and entertaining documentary "Ecstasy Rising" which outlines much of what this article describes but with a bit more investigatory goodness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNpFqJcJcps
>The first question is whether the government can lawfully compel the telephone’s owner to divulge the passcode. I believe the answer is that yes, a person can in fact face punishment for refusal to enter in the password to decrypt his own phone. If the government obtains a subpoena ordering the person to enter in the passcode, and the person refuses or falsely claims not to know the passcode, a person can be held in contempt for failure to comply.

I thought the exact opposite was true?

That no judge or any court can force you to disclose your password?

ie self incriminating your own person.

Apparently it varies from country to country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
To provide a (small) counterpoint I've shipped code targeting standard mono for OS X, Windows, Linux, and MS's .Net compiler/runtime as source and distributable DLLs and NancyFX based websites and haven't run into any major road blocks aside from minor Xamarin Studio/Visual Studio project file hiccups. Xamarin's .Net runtime/BCL compatibility list has been spot on for my usage.

I can definitely see how chasing Apple, Microsoft, and Google's yearly mobile API revisions can be a task. I don't think that necessarily justifies throwing the entire project out (maybe just some careful evaluation of their mobile oriented offerings). It's akin to throwing all of Java out due to your displeasure with Android development (of which I have a long list of grievances).
But you would presumably find it easier to cooperate with her than a stranger picked at random because you have a shared link.

It's not so much that one thing is better as it is that you are more able to help those closest to you, in roughly the order yourself - family - community - country.

Without some degree of nationalism it is hard to justify things like universal healthcare, the welfare state or even politics on a smaller than global level. We invest in our communities because they invest in us.
Such a well written article. I loved the details with which the incident was described.
So administering meth instead of MDMA was a colossal fuckup, but why is that a "colossal DEA failure"? The fault seems to lie squarely with the researcher in question and/or their supplier, unless you buy into the conspiracy theory that the DEA was behind switching the drugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_A._Ricaurte
This plus cache poisoning via service workers.
His Wikipedia page also relates his career in the DoJ and as a US Attorney, a very different background from the typical libertarian HN reader.

I don't agree with Orin Kerr on this, but I'm willing to accept that he's likely seen things about the day-to-day business of law enforcement that I just don't understand. It's worth us spending at least a few moments entertaining the thought that maybe we are the naive ones.
This paper was just published this year in a reputable journal, and highlighted ongoing misunderstandings about what regressing on residualized variables actually does: http://www.clas.wayne.edu/Multimedia/wurm/files/Wurm%20%26%2...

The problem continues, for sure!
Ask HN: Why have an administration domain?
I've noticed in a number of companies I've worked at, we'll often have a separate domain to host things like graphs, git, ldap, etc, etc.

For example, working at FooBar.com, I see fbsrv.com being used for this stuff, as opposed to FooBar.com.

It's never occurred to me to ask, what are the benefits to this?
If you haven't tried MDMA, I strongly recommend it.[1] I've used it twice in the past six years, and it has completely changed how I interact with others. Rolling on MDMA drastically curbed my social phobias. All of my negative social emotions: my neuroticism, my self-consciousness, even bitter emotions such as envy; all of them disappeared on MDMA. Afterwards, I felt as if I'd been cured of a mental illness. While I'm certainly not as outgoing and selfless as I would be on MDMA, I've moved my typical behavior closer toward that. It has made me a healthier, happier human being. More importantly, my interactions help others much more than they used to.

It is a tragedy that some parts of the US government try so hard to restrict this drug. I fully agree that it is a powerful, dangerous drug. Still, for most purposes, the benefits almost certainly outweigh the harms. I think future generations will look back on this as a moral failing of our time.

1. In moderation, of course, and mega-caveats for anyone who has a family history of schizophrenia. MDMA is not good for your brain. However, I think for many people it may be necessary to use the drug to open a figurative door. I wish better drugs existed, but research in the field has been stifled.
New Developer Tools Features in Firefox 34
Integrated support libraries and such for things that you need to do for almost every project, compare reading contents from a URL in C#: WebRequest.Create("http://www.google.com/").GetResponse()

I can't even think of a way to do it safely in Java without "BufferedBuffer" hell
The DEA is the most likely suspect to have switched the MDMA as they had the biggest interest (motive) to. If it was Ricaurte, it was likely at the behest of the DEA.
I don't know how they can reasonably prove you remember what the code is.
Anecdotal...

I have two co-workers who are extremely overweight. I don't care, nor do I judge. I do however scratch my head when they both come in with 44 ounce full sugar sodas at least once, and sometimes twice a day.

I couldn't drink one of those even once without my body feeling like absolute poop. I guess I'm just kind of amazed at their fortitude.
Passive Earnings
(IANAL.) From the three last options proposed in the article:

- Option 1 doesn't make sense to me because, if you assume that private crypto is lawful, the phone's data could be encrypted using the passcode, so that it would be technically impossible to bypass the passcode.

- Option 2 seems like a bad idea to me. The central premise is that there is one passcode which you must know, so you can be forced to provide it. However, if you are using deniable encryption you could have multiple passcodes, an "everyday" passcode, a "secondary" passcode for sensitive data, a "duress" passcode, etc., and there would be no way for you to prove that you have provided everything. Under this interpretation, forcing users to hand in "all available passcodes" sounds too much like asking the accused to help the investigation make sense of their encrypted data.

- Option 3 seems more reasonable (although I think it is undesirable). In fact, I am surprised that retention of text messages is not yet an obligation under the law (though maybe they are already retained, just not lawfully). Of course this would make a lot less sense if people (or their phones) encrypted texts...

Yes, telephony is stuck with historical ad-hoc messaging protocols (SMS), proprietary devices, OSes and applications, with strong dependencies to their manufacturers and mobile providers, and people do not often use serious crypto on them. But mobile phones with a mobile connection are essentially computers on a network, and one should be wary of special bypass mechanisms on passcodes or texts that would make no sense with computers.
There wasn't an "Internet" in the 1960s, or at least, not until the very end. The various components: TCP/IP networking, BGP, ethernet, ATM, protocols, Unix, etc., simply didn't exist.

There were some computers which could communicate over modems at 300 - 9600 baud or so, at distance.

The technologies which enabled the Internet were being developed in the 1960s. As of 1977, this was the entire ARPANET, about 53 nodes by my count: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arpanet_logical_map,_march...

The real guts started filling in during the 1980s, particularly BSD Unix (with a TCP/IP stack), Perl, and by the end of the decade, the first Web server and clients.

The difference between technological developments of the latter half of the 20th century and those from 1800 - 1950, is that the former involved new sources of energy, new means of producing and distributing it, and exceptional advances in materials. From 1950 onward most major advances have been in information processing and communications, though the Green Revolution likely also counts. Nothing to sneeze at, but limited all the same: information processing lets you change how you manage matter, but the overall impact is still restricted to the theoretical maximum efficiency of those physical processes.

Faith that technology will provide us with an unlimited future is ... wishful thinking.
More and more I feel like this is pure protectionism and not internal security or censorship.

The Chinese government already has a vice-like grip on the internet and has no qualms about locking up dissidents. We know from the Harvard social network study that they really only care about activism and not criticism. Most of the population has been through the Chinese education system and they are generally speaking apathetic and passive when it comes to politics or the possibility of change. And, don't forget, just like most Western netizens, users are mostly interested in non-political aspects of the web - chatting to friends, getting work done, watching movies online....

The only sense for this blanket ban/slowdown/disruption of big foreign online services seems to be to shelter Chinese companies from foreign competition.
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I'm not sure why someone downvoted you.

Just wishing for something doesn't make it come true. The battery technology needed is non-existent. The article says that batteries "will improve so much over the next two decades that homes won’t be dependent on the utility companies" isn't just wishful thinking. It's wishful thinking unsupported by known science. Similarly, in 1973 just as I entered college, nuclear fusion for power was also just around the corner. 40+ years later it's further away than ever.

Germany, one of the leaders in solar (even though they don't have the climate for it) is learning the hard way that just wishing for good outcomes doesn't make them magically happen. Here's [1] an article just from today that shows that they are burning more dirty coal than ever in their quest to be green.

Solar power doesn't work at night. In parts of Oregon and Washington it doesn't really work very well for about half the year, even in "daylight" (which is in quotes because it's often heavily overcast or raining here for much of that time).

Anyone who wants "unlimited" and "free" energy should get to work on figuring out how to store all that solar energy for when "the sun don't shine". Otherwise this article is about as useful as something pulled out from where "the sun don't shine"!

However, I'm not anti-solar, I'd love to see the deserts in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas dotted with solar installations. I'd love to see HVDC used to transport all that energy to where it could be put to good use. But none of that infrastructure will ever be close to "free".

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-21/merkel-s-taste-for-...
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I often wonder if our civilization is in some sort of false vacuum.

While it's true our lives are better than in the Middle Ages, stories like this and the myriad of misconceptions and outright lies that follow cannabis really demonstrate, superstition still rules law. We've clothed ourselves in technology, but not wisdom.
This is an excellent point. The reason why the opposite view seems to make sense with smartphones is because in the current state of affairs they are not designed to be used without further manufacturer involvement (in fact they are actively designed to discourage any other party from acting like the manufacturer). But this is not a necessity, just the sad current state of the market, given consumers' present expectations.
The Long Now Foundation considers the Passenger Pigeon a (strong) candidate for de-extinction [1]. There is also a recent reflection on the passing of Martha from them at that link.

[1] http://longnow.org/revive/what-we-do/passenger-pigeon/
> Apple’s new policy seems to thumb its nose at that great tradition.

Tradition is not law.

I like Apple's approach. It's not their job to do the government's job for them nor is it their job to make the government's job easier. It's their job to develop the best product they can and not be hindered by tradition or whatever other albatrosses they don't wish to accept.

The government is now free to develop the best methods they can to retrieve information, within the law.
Hmmm... 8GB max? That doesn't cut it for the amount of claims data I generally deal with. Any rationale behind that limit?
I'm guessing this is the first DEA failure:

"in 1985 ... the Drug Enforcement Administration declared MDMA a
Schedule I drug — a drug with a high potential for abuse and no
medical use. A Schedule I designation made MDMA use criminal and
research into its therapeutic potential virtually impossible."

That, and:

"As Mithoefer told Doblin in an email, 'When I asked him if he
could tell me anything about what the concerns were, he would
say only that they had to do with ‘safety.’'

Which was odd, and disturbing. It was the job of the FDA and
the IRB to determine if the study was safe, not the DEA. The
role of the DEA in approving a Schedule I license was solely
to ascertain that the drug could be secured from theft and
distributed in accordance with the research protocol."

The DEA overstepped their mandate in interfering with the approval process for use of the Schedule I drug when they questioned its safety, which is the role of the FDA and the review board.
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Then it's even more odd. You mean to tell me there are a significant number of people who have only called one other person in 15 months? Seems fishy to me.
I feel nauseated by the higher than thou attitude of Apple.

While Apple is pointing fingers at Google about collecting user data, let's see what kinds of business Apple and Google are in.

Apple's main strength is designing product, farm them out to contractors for assembly, market the products and sell them.

When it comes to child labor or near slavery like working condition that the Chinese assembly line workers labor in, Apple's defense is that they are not Apple employees. Well, that doesn't fly with me. They are still paying (or not paying enough) for the tough condition.

And what business is Google in? Their business is in collecting user data and selling them for ad. They don't farm out assembly work to contractors that force employees to work in slavery like condition.

So what do like less?
1) Supporting a company that condones slavery like working condition?
2) Supporting a company that collects data but does not pay contractors who put workers into slavery like working condition?

So I'd say it's even. Apple is not any better than Google. And frankly, looking at me.com and other cloud platform that Apple has tried to prop up and failed so far, I'd say Apple is better off staying in their line of business.
Interesting implications (which I'm sure people who've been thinking about it for longer than me have already considered) for the development and evolution of Friendly Superintelligent AI.

The way this is presented, personhood (which involves behaviours that we'd like a friendly AI to display) is an adaptation based on mutual benefit. We're not nice to other people because kindness and empathy is an unavoidable consequence of intelligence - rather we're nice because we're better off in a society in which we're known to be nice. And that's because we've got fairly limited personal capabilities so are heavily dependent on efficient cooperation with other people.

An intelligent entity without this constraint (e.g. a superintelligence that had access to advanced nanotech and could do pretty much whatever it wanted) w.r.t interactions with humans might not (probably wouldn't?) have any evolutionary pressure towards achieving and maintaining personhood. Which would mean we shouldn't take the approach of "Let's just make an advanced intelligence, because its intelligence will surely mean it behaves with empathy towards us".
That's kind of silly.

XP was at least as buggy as iOS, probably more so, and that didn't stop very many enterprise customers from buying it. And then they upgraded to Vista and Windows 7, which were just as buggy.

"Upgrade to the next version to get bug fixes" will work for Apple just as well as it worked for Microsoft.
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What makes you think the signal is stronger than the noise?
reread the second sentence in my post
I can't imagine being overweight.
But I don't consider this some sort of virtue. I think I just don't have the appetite some people do. Sometimes I get tired and worn out and then consciously realize it's because I haven't eaten. And this before I actually feel hunger. I assume some people just feel hunger more than others. Maybe this is because I don't eat a lot of junk. Who knows.... but we do vary. Why the epidemic? Maybe junk?
I support the Apple stand. All new iPhones have fingerprint based authentication which stores the info in a crypted way inside the phone itself. Let the government force the accused to unlock via fingerprint.
Hearing about the C64 always gets me humming "Hey Hey 16k" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28
I also recommend this video... about recent studies about using mdma to treat ptsd.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/29/5664700/ecstatic-states-md...

I donated money to this mdma study. You get a copy of the book this article was excerpted from for some donations.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/legalizing-psychedelic-th...
Where do you draw the line? 1 year? 10 years? 100 years? Some argue that MS was too soon to stop XP support, as it is still being widely used. Even MSDOS is still being used by some companies.

> Enterprise customers need time to validate corporate applications with a new OS version.

Isn't it strange that most of the apps I have installed had a new version at the iOS8 launch date or a day later, but 'enterprise' developers need years to 'validate' a new OS version?
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I wonder if you could fix this by writing a binary patch that redirected the copyseg routine to a version that zeroed the last 2 bytes of the destination instead of copying them from the source.
Besides JVM tuning hell? Tooling. Eclipse is a disaster ( out of the box). Intellij IDEA isn't much better, although it is better than anything Xamarin produces by a mile. As far as Java vs C#; the gap is definitely closing with anonymous functions in J8. But C# has had lamdbas and LINQ for a while, and I don't see anything close to LINQ in java.

Overall I like Java quite a bit, it's the first thing I reached for when I migrated away from .NET development, but Eclipse/Java dev still doesn't feel as snappy on my Macbook Air with 4Gs of ram as dev with VSExpress 2005 was on my old Dell. Le Sigh.
Apple is an international company, while I trust my government I do not trust the Chinese.
This is great! Firefox Aurora has been my main browser for over 6 months and now these great improvements will keep the status quo for me!
I don't have a good source for my 99% comment for the general case, that's just something I ran across a while ago. However, Wikipedia makes the same claim for FISA warrants.[1] Of course, there is also some discussion that these are only "final" requests to that court.

Just using the FISA numbers as a starting point for discussion, I'm not ready to believe that 11 requests denied and 33,942 warrants issued is something that makes sense. I'd bet that the Russian Parliament is less of a rubber stamp on Putin. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...
i'm complaining because the UI tricks me into "couple days" mode by not turning off radio when i tell it to update my library while the radio was off.

it would be perfect if radio off, i press update, it turns radio, update, turns radio off again.

i would get my journals and week long battery.

as it is, if i wont watch it update to the end (which is slow as hell, couple minutes often) and do the boring procedure to turn radio off manually again (menu > options > etc) i will have a few days instead of a couple weeks.
Though I've never really played with it, .net is usually preferred for non-cross platform desktop apps, so that would be something.
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> Further, "forking processes" is actually not incredibly expensive on Linux, and in fact, pthreads on Linux are implemented by the same code (clone() with varying levels of sharing). Forked applications on Linux are pretty much just as fast as threaded applications. It is a myth based on extremely outdated knowledge (fork on Solaris, for instance, and some other UNIX variants, had a history of being slow; but, Linux has always had a very fast fork).

I think you are referring to vfork vs. fork. While not terribly expensive, forking certainly is more expensive than the alternatives. (There is a reason why none of the Apache MPM's do that unless you give them a very messed up config.)

However, you are right that the real issue isn't the cost of the fork (which, duh, if it were Apache would totally have you covered!!). It's more about the address space used up by each process/thread. That becomes a limiting factor for high levels of concurrency, though below levels where it may be a limiting factor the model tends to execute very efficiently (arguably more efficiently).

Apache's "event" MPM isn't really quite the same as engines light nginx & lighttpd... it works quite well, but it even describes itself as a "hybrid multi-process/mutli-threaded server".

As for sites "propagating" this information, there is certainly the ol' traditional: http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

You can also fight some pretty well established companies in the web hosting business that really ought to know of what they speak, like say DreamHost: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Web_Server_Performance_Comparison
Are you kidding me? LSD/Acid lodges itself in fatty tissue and can cause people to re-experience acid trips at random when those acid crystals dislodge themselves years later...

If you want to really fuck up your life then go ahead and take LSD. Can you imagine years after taking a drug and driving down the interstate and having a flashback and getting into an accident? What about holding your 3-month old and dropping them because you just had an acid flashback?!

This is total BS. People who are stressed out need better nutrition, sleep, and to get people who are stressing them out off their backs. What they DON'T need is an acid trip.
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"non-DRMed ebook" you mean the 4 or 5 that exists and is not RPG or fanfic?

you have to give that this is not a very usual demographic. for example, try to find one academic paper/journal that you can read comfortably.