skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can decide which indices we have, you know.

The conditions that you state are not by far the only conditions when a multi column index helps you. Even if you do not sort by the index order, and you do not have all the data in the index, the index may still be way more efficient. For example if you have SELECT A WHERE X=3 AND Y=5 ORDER BY B with an index (X,Y).
You might consider a way to add additional value to your news site. One idea I've always thought would be cool would be to algorithmically determine news that is disproportionally more popular in other parts of the globe than where you're located. For example, anti-US news trends at a far higher rate outside the US, and the same is naturally true for any country. Being able to easily see what you could be missing without needing to do a lot of work would be really interesting IMO. And make it harder for governments to suppress negative media.
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That API counter keeps resetting! How can I trust anything?
That is precisely the topic of the article. For a more in-depth view, you can read this tor-talk mailing list thread: http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Sep-2014/msg00091.html

(This is the original source for the Dot article.)

A summary: Raw bandwidth isn't the limiting factor in scaling Tor; before you just plug in traffic to the network, you'd need to optimize Tor's internal protocols to make expansion of the network even possible. However, those hurdles are fairly small, and once they're handled, it's just a matter of funding to pump up more nodes, which is much more simple.

Further, not all Firefox users (if the article's speculation is correct) will be using private browsing at once. So the actual increase is probably 5-10% (at most? anyone know actual statistics about private browsing?) of that number.
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You own the license. Which give you the right to use the software. You don't need to own the software to use it; you need to have a license.

The real problem is that you can't own a license anymore for a lot of software. You can only just rent one.
Ask HN: Experiences running developer machine on EC2?
I'm a iOS/OSX developer using a Mac as my main machine. During this summer I have been doing some work on Windows using Vmware Fusion. I'm working on the Windows-project about a day per week.

The huge disk image takes a good chunk of my quite limited SSD, so I was thinking about migrating the VM to EC2.

My question is if anyone has tried this, and if the lag is unbearable or if it actually works?

I'm just coding on the machine, no graphics etc.
> If you are not going to Stern you are absolutely
> wasting your money.

In light of the tax law program at NYU this is laughable.

Clarification: NYU's tax law program is widely regarded as the best program in the country and has been for some time. I can not imagine anyone with any connection-to/experience-with tax law saying an aspiring tax lawyer would be wasting their money at NYU.
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"compared to Yahoo! Answers"

Setting the bar pretty low there, aren't you?
If they're assigning each domicile its own effective GUID as a post code, this should certainly make delivery unambiguous, but the headache of filling in online order forms would remain, as rural houses would still have no street names nor addresses.
Customers have to pay for dedicated ipv4 address space. There's no way around that.
SNI should be free as they don't require dedicated IPs. But it doesn't look like that was the case for cloudflare
the expectation that you have good internet, and they are targeting the education market

Sadly I don't think I've ever been in an educational institution where the wifi was particularly reliable. Wired ethernet yes, so a computer-lab setup can work well with remote-desktop type stuff. But that's getting increasingly old-fashioned, and everyone connects on wifi now, which seems to often not be up to the task. We have some huge pipe at the university I work at, and my wired office connection is great, but the wifi? Frequent dropouts and latency spikes, especially if a bunch of people in one room are doing network-intensive stuff. I can believe our IT infrastructure isn't among the best, but it's not the only place I've had that trouble either.
> My main concern is that this will be hidden behind an option or an "extreme private" mode

To add to your point, effectively using Tor means disabling JavaScript.
There's a privacy option to disable 3rd party app access (FB apps used by other people) to personal info so nothing as full featured is possible.
Man, this just smacks of entitlement. Software engineers are one of the highest paid professions in the world - FAR more than the average job, and the job is consistently ranked among the best jobs in the world in nearly every list made. Not only do we typically get higher base pay, we often get much nicer perks like catered lunches, remote (telecommute) working, shares of companies to share in the upside etc.

If you are feeling underpaid, there are probably many other companies you could work at who are actively hiring that will probably pay you more. The collusion cases you cited are rare, and have only been discovered at the largest tech firms like Apple and Google - who by the way most certainly have more software engineers on the north side of six figures than not.

If you are a software developer, now is not the time to unionize. Now is the time to enjoy this while it lasts, as make as much money as possible. It won't last forever.
I am indeed from Baltimore, didn't know it was not widespread.
At least from what I understand about around Palo Alto (this may be incorrect), wealthy chinese buying up houses around the $1 million range in the area is part of what makes it difficult for Americans to compete for houses, especially since those wealthy chinese often do all cash transactions.
It's nice to see TKP pop up on HN. Also met Llewellyn Falco at a conference and I've volunteered to teach their curriculum to kids. Their curriculum great way to get kids started with not only coding, but good development practices, like pair programming and TDD.
I'm afraid you've misunderstood. I said that we cannot even determine more or less:

> There is no way to say that my number one preference has more utility than yours

== Ninja edit in response to clarification ninja edit: ==

That is correct. We have no reason, other than intuition, to believe that a dollar is "worth more" to a poor person than a rich person. I can easily give some counterexamples:

* Poor person is a monk
* Poor person believes in barter rather than purchase
* Poor person has no counterparties that accept dollars
* Poor person has material needs satisfied
* Poor person has wacky preferences

Even if you want to try to hold external circumstances equal, several of these examples show the dollar to be equally worthless to both parties. Separately, the fact of internal circumstances being subjective -- unable to be held equal -- confounds attempts at comparison.
Here's the site for the new system - http://www.eircode.ie/
I was just saying it off the cuff as sort of a comment on giant waterfall departments that never create anything great or effective. I don't really have any hate for Java and there is a lot of great software created with it (J2EE was my intro to IS development), just the kind of culture and staff it attracts in this sector. Everyone is in their cubical doing java never innovating anything with no care in the world to ever break out of the status-quo. When they do hire new staff it is usually someone who has been doing that Java at banks or for the government, for 5-8 years and it just continues. Then these people move up into the more senior positions and help cement the culture. Being on more of the web-side it is just frustrating.
Yes, you're right because that is actually just an animation. What we do is basically gather the real API requests count here http://api.teech.io/rest/total_count - we don't have nothing to hide :) -, we subtract couple of calls from the total and we do the animation. A quick and dirty solution to bring some real-life to website, we'll fix it in the near future but glad you noticed it!
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Great info!!!!!
thanks for the reply. I am not looking for all those features. I just want to update status from the command line this way I can use them in my static generator workflow ;-)
Really addicting!

However, the attack/defend mechanism seems pretty weighted toward slaughtering the fuck out of all my soldiers no matter what the odds are.
My point is that the Big Bang Theory preceded the Inflationary Theory by decades. Inflation came along to explain things that the original theory did not. We now still, however, refer to the big bang- as I am suggesting will happen with Black Holes even if the original Black Hole theories are replaced by something else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8372341
Sounds similar to the Good Judgement Project: https://www.goodjudgmentproject.com/

Related article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/-so-...
> You're telling me that every single change to the US since ~1870 has been from something other than protests?

how many of them ended with gunshots?
At WPI, in 1989, we had 's'- a command line tool (written in ksh!) to send a message to someone or to your friends logged in. You had a .friends file and a .enemies file (to blacklist people from contacting you). We also had "superwho" which gave a graphical map (vt220 graphics) of where everyone was.

Now 25 years later we finally have 'T'! Progress..
I'll second the motion for KiCAD footprints and symbols!

There is not a good central repository for KiCAD parts, and on the client side the process for managing components or creating new ones is very convoluted. KiCAD is tremendously useful, but its creators need to take a serious look at usability. A cloud-based parts library would be a killer feature, along with drop-in public domain circuit "modules" (comprised of several to many connected components).
Yeah but people who book rooms in advance from their desk are called ... Err ... organised :-)

I think the lack of rooms available to scatterbrained too busy people is a major source of negative creativity in the world
Exactly! The problems arise because of the disconnect between what the math is actually saying and what people think the math is saying. Or rather: what people wish it was saying. Frequentist methods give you "if page A performs the same as page B then then the likelihood of observing something at least as extreme as this measurement is less than X%". In practice we never want to know this information. What people actually want to know is "given this measurement, the probability of page A being better than page B is X%", so they interpret whatever number comes out of the frequentist method like that...wishful thinking.

Just give them 2 posterior distributions of the conversion rate of page A and page B. It may look more daunting than a single number at first, but it's much easier to interpret than that single number that comes out of hypothesis testing, and, you know, it's the information they actually need to make a decision whether to pick page A or page B.
> If you run a web service and would like to provide high-security anonymous access, consider running an Exit Enclave -- a Tor exit configured to exit only to your site. If Tor detects that your exit and your site share an IP address, it will automatically extend the normally 3-hop circuit to your node, and the traffic will exit the Tor network on your machine rather than an arbitrary node (which could be malicious).

For what it's worth, DuckDuckGo has done this for the past 4 years[0].

I think StartPage is still the default for the Tor browser bundle, but I'm not sure if they have an exit enclave as well.

[0] http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/08/duckduckgo-now-o...
Gilbertville: A Billionaire's Drive To Rebuild The Motor City
I may be wrong, but I doubt the initial laws were setup to protect the cab industry. It solved a problem of safety, reliability, and set prices with cabs. See third world countries where a cab ride can easily mean a kidnapping or robbery at worst, or a fleecing at best. I'm sure once the basic infrastructure was in place cab companies used their lobbies to further entrench, but the basic laws are there for consumer protection.
Well, it's not really on Mac. (not unless you count running the Windows version in VirtualBox of course)

This is the most promising installer at this point but it's still not very usable: http://discuss.wayneandlayne.com/t/new-os-x-builder/73/18
It's great to see this finally happening.

I grew up in Ireland and always found the lack of postcodes to be puzzling, with the address of a house often being no more specific than "go back the road there about two mile and hang left".
This has nothing to do with interpersonal utility comparisons. It has everything to do with the very real, undebatable fact that ratios with smaller denominators are larger than ratios with larger denominators provided that the numerators are the same.
Thanks. Yes, we are rebuilding the site and in the next version maps use ArcGIS.
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This is an unbelievably incoherent newspaper story. It doesn't say what the "electromagnetic radiation" is, what frequencies, power levels, beam patterns, or purpose. It reads like a press release by someone who hasn't visited Earth yet.

Quote: "Extended close exposure to electromagnetic radiation could be a health hazard."

Yes, and (1) sitting outside too long can get you sunburned (sunlight is electromagnetic radiation), and (2) defeating the safety interlocks on a microwave oven is a very bad idea. Which degree of threat is the reporter telling us about?
Except that didn't really make much of a difference in the case of heartbleed. The information was still in memory decrypted, before it was encrypted by the front end, so an attacker could get the decrypted content, which may include users usernames/passwords and all that fun stuff.
Kevin Mitnick selling 0day exploits is a good idea
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The concurrency aspects of this seem a bit tricky. How do we ensure that a bloated index does not screw our results too much?
You're right that teachers are a bad example. Their pay is heavily affected by our culture through politics (although our political system responds to many other incentives too). Private tutors make great money.
Opposing sentiment for this is usually seen in cities where the proportion of foreign real estate investment is significantly higher than the national level. For example, Toronto (or Vancouver) as a market has a much higher percentage of Asian owned real estate than Canada as a whole.

This laser focus on one specific area for investment raises the value of real estate in that area to out of reach for most of its native residents. This is where the "emphasis on it [foreign investment] being bad" comes from.

It's good for those who already own real estate, bad for those who want to.
At that point, whatever you put in the form that ends up on the envelope is pretty much going to be irrelevant, since people will just look at the person's name and postcode.
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Sure, but that is only helpful if you remember that the site had previously worked before. Otherwise, it's just like your first time visiting it.
I think this question is a lot like asking if an obese person wants to eat themselves to death, should we let them?

You can debate whether or not it is morally justifiable to allow this to happen, but you can't really argue that it is healthy behavior.
Mary Jo Foley is a well-known Microsoft reporter and has been for a lonnnnnng time (I would bet on 15 years without Googling). She's also sharp and plugged into the tech scene, with the usual savviness to develop sources inside corps. I've met her at a couple conferences. She's probably read a few Asimov books.

What I think the quote shows is not a lack of awareness about other uses of "Asimov" but that much of her stories are copy-pasted from emails with Microsoft marketers. Someone in Microsoft (Azure?) wants you to know about "Asimov"... perhaps an announcement next week? This way Mary Jo looks like she is relevant and you are primed to want to learn more...

Edit: I agree with the facepalm, just for different reasons
This article is yet another thread in a long line of people complaining about NYU's rise. My personal favorite comes from the local rap group, Ratking:

Seems random, like Stanford transplanted to the fountain and the arch
Infecting the apple, a cancer in its heart
Why'd you make a campus out the park?
If it keeps spreading, It'll be deaded
Panting and parched.

(http://rap.genius.com/Ratking-snow-beach-lyrics)
Is there an ELI5 explanation of what are Deep links? And in the context of an app, what does a "link" to a place in an app means?

"We’re indexing the top apps with deep link tags and building a knowledge graph that organizes apps by their content and by the actions they allow users to take." - whats the advantage for a developer to allow their app to be indexed?

I am super intrigued by the tech. But just want to understand by what it can do for an app.
Wow. Impressive overview

One more thing - is there much movement on automated minute taking (speech to text as it were?). In terrible meetings my mind occasionally wonders ...
Please enter your shipping information: A65 F4E2

Not very charming or easy to remember, but that sounds pretty convenient as far as filling out the form goes.

Kind of like sending mail to your license plate.
Or the server/client both implement custom compression on top of VNC.
Not sure about that, was talking undergrad only. I can't speak for the quality of education at Stern undergrad, but I can certainly say it is good for your career, whereas going to Courant doesn't really mean shit for a career in tech.

Certainly not surprised to hear tax law program is bad too.

Edit: I thought you meant the opposite. Regardless, still only talking about undergrad.
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> Scientists say it will happen within ...

1. The submitter managed to leave a few key words off the title.

2. When I read a sentence that begins, "Scientists say ...", I know I'm being misinformed. The article's author relies on the imagined authority of a scientist, but scientists reject authority.

A real scientist wouldn't say, "It will happen within 30 years," he would say, "Leave me alone so I can do some science."
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I have a much bigger problem with MS. It has to do with a fundamental aspect of the Windows architecture: The OS holds your applications hostage.

In the DOS era applications had a huge degree of independence from the OS. You could nuke the OS, upgrade it, modify it and move machines and your apps worked just the same.

Today things are different. The OS, by means of such "features" as te registry, holds applications hostage.

Say I have a five year old machine. I want to purchase (or more than likely, build) a new machine. In the past this was relativley painless. Once the machine is up you move your apps and off you go. Today this requires full re-installation of apps from scratch. It's a nightmare and it is one I contend has significant economic consequences. Whereas someone like me might consider upgrading hardware every year or two, the financial math now includes the non trivial time and expense of reinstalling everything.

We've done this a few times. With typical high end engineering workstations full of software it can easily take a month of installing and configuring software to get back to the setup you had before he upgrade. This isn't pallatable at all from more than one perspective. And so machines continue to be used as long as possible before upgrading anything that might trigger a reinstallation event.

To me this is a major flaw in the design of Windows. OS, applications and data ought to be fully separable independent entities. I get all the advantages of DLL reuse and centralized settings, etc. I still contend that this could be achieved at the cost of additional storage and some more smarts. A one terabyte hard drive is about $60 today. I could not care less if DLL's need to be duplicated for each software installation in order to break lose from the OS and registry as much as possible.

The point is, if they are smart they ought to be able to figure it out. I ought to be able to install all my apps on a portable USB drive, walk up to any machine in the world, plug in and have my tools and files available for use instantly. That's the way it should work.
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It's a new way for artists to distribute online. Check out the site and the kickstarter, still raising money to release the beta.
Somewhat relatedly, has Firefox ever considering having a built-in ad blocker?

That would really set it apart, in my opinion.
Right now our data management API is very similar to Parse and other BAAS indeed, I agree. What we offer that you won't find in Parse are the assignments, assessments and submissions endpoints that basically allow you to register students submissions to quizzes for example and automatically tracking the students performance.
This week we're releasing our data analysis API that is really core and will allow to perform analysis on the data that devs gather using teech.io to power their apps. So let's say for example that you want to build a custom dashboard for teachers and show the students performance level over the time or show a sunburst chart with performance of your classroom grouped by a bunch of different properties. Well, using our API you will be able to this with just one API request querying your teech.io backend data.
If that were true, Americans could simply vote for a local government that increased density allowing new units to be built.

Foreigners can't vote and therefore ultimately do not control that part of the process.
If you can work from home, where should home be?
I think piracy is one motivation, but I suspect it'd be going in this direction even without it: a yearly recurring revenue stream is just more attractive than selling software. Companies in many industries prefer the "license/rent you something" model to the "sell you something" model, and it's mostly a question of whether culture/economics/technology/competition/law makes that practical.

In the enterprise space it's long been standard: IBM won't sell you a mainframe outright, but rather rents you computing services. In the consumer space it's traditionally been harder, because it wasn't obvious why someone should pay you a subscription fee for a CD-ROM; though some companies did try to sell subscriptions to yearly updates. With a software delivery model more like a classic mainframe+terminal, it's easier to pitch the software-rental approach to consumers, so unsurprisingly they're doing so.
Awesome!

I was working on a similar concept and then put it on the side burner. Had some serious incubator support but set it aside due to circumstances. Would be interested in sharing thoughts if you're open to it. Feel free to drop me an email: me[at]kartikkumar.com