skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
has anyone had real-world experience comparing ZooKeeper with consul? Is consul considered production-ready yet?
if you know the centuries old history of that region and in particular of relations between Crimean Tatars and the rest of the population there, Russians included - you wouldn't be that surprised. Of course, Russia has a bunch of territories/ethnicities that wish (and have a lot of valid reasons to) they could go free like Estonia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, ... did. Chechnya would be among the first coming to mind, and if somebody asked me i'd say let them go. Like Eltsin did in 91' - "take as much sovereignty as you can carry away". Well, as you said - Empire. And it is trying to come back. And it isn't a good Empire if there are any. And trying to oppress Russian minority on the border with that Empire - not a smart move by any accounts. Hoping that Western countries would help - not a smart hope as Western countries tend to not like (at least not publicly) oppressions of minorities these days.
Did put in a pull-request with this info to "shellshocker-pocs" repo.

https://github.com/mubix/shellshocker-pocs/pull/14
Note that Apple has not provided updates for older systems. If you have an older system and wish to patch, I have been keeping my blog post [1] updated along with the canonical StackExchange answer [2].

Note that the patch from Apple allows bash functions to be escaped, albeit with a BASH_FUNC prefix - but you can get around this by using:

$ env '__BASH_FUNC<ls>()'="() { echo Game Over; }" bash -c ls

Game Over

[1] http://alblue.bandlem.com/2014/09/bash-remote-vulnerability....

[2] http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/146849/
"Brick" has a negative connotation in the tech world.
There is a reason that many investors are still investing heavily into tobacco companies. They are killing it in the emerging countries in particular around South East Asia. I went through back streets of Phillipines and it's shocking how many cigarette billboards there are.
The next big thing is privacy
"Holy smokin' toledos"
Publisher IDs – Reveal the True Target Audience
This is a good question to think about, especially if it makes you consider more carefully about what software you run!

But there's a lot of spectrum between "i have audited this software" and "i'm just piping this random url off the web to my shell". Many software distribution mechanisms provide varying degrees of curation, reputation, accountability etc.

Also in this case the link was provided in a context that would select for people who are concerned about security updates (= looking after high value systems) and still somewhat naive about security practices, and could get run on systems that have strict rules about installing software on them.
Loggly seems to be all about running In The Cloud, so that seems unlikely.

EC2 instances running haproxy would mitigate a number of the problems they discussed with using ELBs but the inability to use VIPs (with vrrp or ucarp) in AWS means that a failure will always boil down to the same pattern: a key front end instance dies, client traffic keeps being directed to it for 5 minutes (at best), and that's life.
Or trolls being trolls.
I once did a design for this idea. Here!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2v6nq69jk9rw6s/birdcatcher.png?dl...
how does it work ? ad-hoc wifi ?
Restricted App Store rules eg. disallowing external web browsers or interpreters hinder technology much more than web standards.

Talk is cheap - would love to see some of yours "not lame" piece of work.
Good job on quitting, but a word of warning: you've not hit the hard patch yet. From what all of my friends who quit smoking experienced, 1 month is the real test. I've seen many people quit smoking cold turkey and do great for 1 month, and then get back to it with a vengeance. I'm not sure what the psychological / physical reason for that is, but thought I'd warn you to be extra vigilant in 3 weeks - don't feel that you're finally rid of cigarettes and have a last one to celebrate.

I personally smoked about 2 packs a day from 18 to 33 (that's a lot of wasted money) and quit thanks to e-cigarettes. The trick was to become a proper e-cigarette geek: didn't buy pre-manufactured juice but manufactured my own just right, with some essence of pepper for that burning sensation at the back of the throat, some mint for breath-control, and a bit of peppermint because it tastes nice.

The first week was hard (apparently - I felt it wasn't too bad, but my wife later told me I'd been a right pain in the arse), but I successfully swapped tobacco addiction to e-cigarette addiction. Since I manufactured my own e-juice, I was able to reduce the amount of nicotine with each new batch, and quickly got to entirely nicotine-free smoking.

After a while (3 months, if memory serves), making my own juice became too much of a hassle and I just stopped. Since I'd gotten rid of the nicotine addiction by then, I didn't feel any withdrawal and haven't smoked (or wanted to smoke) a cigarette in more than 2 years now.

The conclusion is that if you start craving a last cigarette, go for an electronic one. There's thousands of shops in Paris (that's where you're from, right?) and they've become surprisingly affordable - much more so than a sustained tobacco addition, at any rate.
> ...somewhere diametrically opposite to Krakatoa...

Dang, this was your chance to say the word "antipode" in everyday conversation!
Sound waves can diffract around objects, which is why one can still hear someone calling even when hiding behind a tree. :

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difraction
and down again! would really love to play with this thing. it looks great.
It's not just that. Obviously smoking is a lifestyle. (I don't smoke.) Everyone knows its pure utilitarian benefit is negative. Likewise, who would buy a Big Mac in a plain brown wrapper in an unbranded restaurant with a nondescript "McDonald's" written on it in generic typeface?

People know it's bad. It's a lifestyle.
Actual publication of anyone’s chat logs is not what anyone is reasonably concerned about – it is a diversion. The real thing which Facebook does is total information analysis of everything about everybody, storing this analysis internally, and making the results available to unknown numbers of external parties, or alternatively allowing external parties to specify analysis algorithms to be specified, run them internally, and report the results to external entities. None of these things involve publication of any actual content provided to Facebook.

Also, the idea that the danger is that Facebook employees should read any chat logs is also a straw man argument – a distraction. Nobody except straw men actually puts forth this as a major problem. You would have been right to dismiss it, except that nobody made that argument. To be fair, it might happen, but the scale at which it even could happen is by definition limited, since Facebook cannot have that many employees with the time and inclination to do it. The real issue is the above procedure of eternal storage and analysis – on behalf of external parties and/or for internal use.

Your arguments are highly diversionary, and seem to be aimed at confusing the issue.
I find it interesting that here in Berlin (and other cities in Europe, mostly in Germany), we have this for many years - not just for protesters, but for anyone. However, it's not a smartphone app (the network predates smartphones), but a mesh network of WLAN access points. The name of this project is Freifunk: http://freifunk.net/en/
Show HN: Automatic Mileage Tracking
Everyone should use hosted services for everything. Soon we'll have hosted services for hosted services. (I actually worked at a company that was a hosted service running mainly off of another hosted service + AWS.)
I'm glad to hear you agree that we should stop subsidizing fossil fuels, to the tune of half a trillion dollars per year or so worldwide. That sounds like a fantastic idea.

...Or, were you only suggesting we stop subsidizing the things you don't like?

edit: you edited your comment while I was writing my reply. Had your comment had the phrase "the greens" in it to begin with, I wouldn't've bothered replying to either of your comments.
I'd probably go even further than that - you can have, by all accounts, a reasonably healthy lifestyle while still eating mcdonalds, the same isn't true of cigarettes. There's still SOME utilitarian benefit of fast food, even if marginal. Cigarettes are basically the only consumer product that, if used as intended, cause you intrinsic harm. (That I can think of)
Here's another interesting tidbit about plain packaging: the Australian government has been sued by big tobacco over this, under the terms of a trade agreement similar to the TPPA that is currently being negotiated in secret. These agreements allow large multinationals to sue governments who are party to them if they feel that legislation enacted by that government unfairly prejudices their business. The tobacco companies couldn't sue under the terms of the US-Aus trade agreement so Phillip Morris rearranged their affairs so they appeared as a Hong Kong company and then sued under the terms of that agreement instead.

I live in New Zealand, which will unfortunately almost certainly be party to the TPPA before long. This will affect our ability to introduce plain cigarette packaging, resist meddling in our copyright laws and to continue using generic drugs to lower the cost of healthcare for all New Zealanders.

The only small glimmer of common sense in all this is that the Australian High Court ruled against the tobacco companies. But we'll inevitably end up spending a large amount of our tax dollars on expensive legal battles with companies whose revenue approaches our GDP if we implement legislation that favours our citizens over international big business. It's a travesty.
Skinny jeans bend iPhone?
I live in Berlin since 8 years but never heard about it. Thanks!
The problem with SQLite is that there's no official RFC, it's a pseudo database.

When you're weighing up what to implement, it certainly helps when there is an agreed upon technical specification.
You means the standards where each browser version has its own view of the world, or the standards where the applications get executed behind a HTTP(S) key hole?
I've wanted that tech for years since wifi was being used.

serval use long range wifi to do it, but what's the range ?
Yeah, but usually that is not the case with proper desktop applications.
Why You Shouldn’t Register Domains with Your Web Host
It's hard to say more without knowing what you're buying a white label of, but:
Licensing/volume fees
Support structures - what are they responsible for?
Documentation - what have they got?
System specification - details!
Hosting - are they providing it, or are you installing it yourself! Whois responsible for the rebranding and design?

That's some of the stuff that bit us when we were white labelling a crowd funding platform.m
I'm 100% sure they will. It's just a learning process on the gov side, kicked of by recent events.
Normally around 20, but I had much more. Then I've discovered One Tab - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo... - but actually I'm ending always with lots of tabs anyway!
Does the general population in HK still has access to FB/Twitter etc?
What It's Like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class
I would be careful using Australian packaging laws as evidence that plain packaging has an effect on rates of smoking. There has been a lot of controversy about whether it has had an effect or not. There has been a secular decline in smoking in Australia so a continued decrease in smoking is not necessarily evidence of an effective policy.

Here are some alternative points of view:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/health/labo...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepac...
“cat” will display all bytes unescaped – that’s its job. The correct command in this case would be “less” (or any other pager, or possibly editor).
> It should be noted that the current system is working pretty damn well. More content is being created in just about every medium than ever before, and more people are consuming it.

I don't think that either of these (more content created, and more content consumed) is because the system is working well, but despite the system being horrible. The Internet and digital media enabled many more producers, many more consumers, and it stole power from the intermediaries/distributors . Before the Internet, the distributors of media, you know, actually distributed the content. Nowadays, they only act as gatekeepers and (copyright-enabled) rent-seekers.
Would you prefer it any other way? Instead of going to the High Court your government can just say "what we say goes, and if you happened to be in business X that we no longer like, you're out of luck", I'd rather see them fight in courts. A dying business fighting tooth and nail for their survival is understandable and expected whatever poison they happen to be selling.
Seeing 404's on Parse
Hm... am I correct that the brick-action component is actually their way of setting up a listener, like Backbone's obj.listenTo(anotherObj, 'event', callback)?
Well, in that case it's one hell of an overhead, imagine creating an actual DOM element for every single event listener.
How to Develop an App Business
I don't understand why someone would think that "T" is good name for something like this.
My uncle from Russia told me, that they sell cigarettes in natural brown packages. When you want to purchase a package in a supermarket you get list of all the brands they offer. But there are no logos anywhere in the market. It is also forbidden to smoke in any public place.
I currently live in Germany. It is strange to see how the government tries to stop people from smoking by only raising a higher tax on tobacco. Non of my friends quiet because of that. But some friends quieted when it was forbidden to smoke at restaurants and bars.
Ok, I'll change it to "environmentalists," but somehow I don't think that'll help much.
There are definitely some like Logentries or Sumologic. But the best I have seen so far is logmatic.io - to be honest I am working for them :). Our objective is to get one tool for all by allying the power of search with true business intelligence. Here is a video of our product as it was 6 months ago: http://bit.ly/logsjava. We are still in private beta and our prices are similar to Loggly and we already have tens of customers.
Of course I'd prefer it another way. Whether you like it or not, businesses are subject to all sorts of regulations from governments. Maybe you're a believer in the free market; I'm not. I'd like businesses that make their living exploiting people to be regulated.
The recent icloud celebrity hack reveals darker problems on the cloud
I would be more careful trusting The Australian on anything to do with smoking (and a few other issues) given their writers' links to the tobacco-funded IPA. Media Watch put it a lot better than I could, with sources:

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4026465.htm
> we can make people believe anything

Only if readers rely purely on words. It's more efficient to triage by social identity, then decide whether to interpret words.

Here's a defensive browser extension that many HN readers could build: right-click on a username gives a list of user-defined categories and colors. Putting a name in a category/color will cause that name to be colorized on all future posts. Whitelist/blacklist of partisans or astroturfers, reducing cost of future triage. Since the list is local and the categories are unique to each person, it can't be manipulated. I've used this type of extension in another online community, it worked well.

Another fun project: sentiment analysis on HN posts, cross-referencing article subjects and company names with sentiment and timezone.
Your choice of languages leaves room for improvement.
Your own/free software will run on your Raspberry Pi at home, or your independent hosting provider in Island etc.

It just doesn't happen that much on the desktop any more. It's still up to you if you want to use the software from adobe.com or the "Gimp cloud" on your home server.

This could even be an opportunity, because giving a link to non-technical users is easier than installing software locally. In that sense it could close a gap that existed previously.
Are there any MOOCs about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency?
'Progressive Reduction' Swift module
This seems to be a valid comment, but I'm not sure I understand it. Can you show some examples from other databases? How are they doing it right?
How/why are they illegal?
Are we ready for the next 3 scientific revolutions?
Now I see what you are saying.

You are saying to communicate complex ideas one tends to need words a 5th grader wouldn't know.

I was saying to communicate an idea one should fit it an a single sentence.

Unless I missed something, we are not in disagreement. You are arguing for word quality, I'm arguing for word quantity. You don't disagree that boiling an idea to a single sentence is good, and I learned something new from you. The cognitive miser theory is fascinating.

Thank you for having put the effort to follow up.
Interestingly, I'm using GNOME on Linux partly because they use the same Alt-Tab behavior as OS X. As a power user with many windows per app the default Windows behavior is less efficient
It's refreshing to see that it works with Python 3 as well. Thanks.
The Past, Present and Future of the Internet of Things
Of course, but those regulations come from somewhere, they come from court cases, from subject matter experts' testimonials, from balanced review of views and facts on both sides. We don't want a random politician with questionable morals and unknown contributors banning products or whole sectors of the market bypassing courts and due process.
to the tune of half a trillion dollars per year or so worldwide

Which works out to what per kWh? And what's the comparable number for wind? Solar? Or even wind and solar combined?
It will be open sourced.
We download whole database at beginning and put it to datascript (https://github.com/tonsky/datascript). We don't make any additional requests to render user/repo profile.
i wonder what has happened to her. I remember how in childhood it was frequently mentioned about the first dog in space, yet nobody mentioned (and i never even asked about) the ending of the story, nor planned, nor what really happened - the "Layka" dog succumbed pretty torturously to heat due to failed equipment instead of the planned "happy end" - poisoned pill that should have been fed automatically to her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
So it's like SoundCloud, but for videos?
People Specific – Happy Birthday Messages
Visual Revolution of the Vanishing of Ethan Carter
I live in Berlin and it's not that uncommon to smoke inside bars, actually I'm not sure how legislation is, but there are more than a couple of clubs that you can actually smoke inside. I'm a smoker and I agree that it might be a little better if they change the cigarette box to something else.
Command-line file sharing
How the flashbulb changed the face of urban poverty
if done on large scale, collecting water instead of letting it cycle naturally is extremely dangerous for the environment.
Would you call it an Indian (builder) and a Tipi (structure)?
Media watch has some interesting quoting.

"Do the figures mean more people are smoking?

Well, no ... the industry admits , the number of smokers fell in 2013 by 1.4%. "

and they link to: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/1420_bata.pdf

“From 2008 to 2012 smoking incidence, or the number of people smoking, was declining at an
average rate of -3.3 per cent a year. Since plain packaging was introduced, that decline rate
slowed to -1.4 per cent,” Mr McIntyre said.

“Over the five years in the lead-up to the introduction of plain packaging, total tobacco industry
volumes were declining at an average rate of -4.1 per cent.

So the source material appears to support the case that plain packaging has not been an effective policy and may have slowed the decline in smoking.

The plain packaging policy looks a lot like rainmaking. Propose a policy that sounds like it might bring a decrease in smoking in an environment where smoking is already decreasing and then when smoking continues to decrease claim that it was a success.
It is coming with the regular update for me.
Ello Is No Facebook Killer
I like your ideas.

> Here's a defensive browser extension that many HN readers could build: right-click on a username gives a list of user-defined categories and colors. Putting a name in a category/color will cause that name to be colorized on all future posts.

I actually thought a bit about that, I really want to have such feature. I'm about to start writing myself a tool for browsing HN from my favourite editor, and on my TODO list is a feature for "taking notes about users". I didn't think about it as a counter-propaganda device though - I just felt that being able to easily take and recall notes about what a particular user seems to know well about, what he/she likes, where he/she works, etc. would help string more interesting and constructive conversations.

> Another fun project: sentiment analysis on HN posts, cross-referencing article subjects and company names with sentiment and timezone.

Nice idea.
I would be interested to see the numbers behind the case for always deploying to iPhones first, especially around the point made on rich people having iPhones and poor people not having them.
Here's the problem with the power analogy: While you can replace power with batteries to truly get it everywhere, being online truly everywhere with a high enough bandwidth to work (consistent >= 3 MBit) is still a long way out. Overbooked base stations, airplanes, train lines with tunnels, inconsistent coverage - these are all hard problems to solve and it will take at least another 10 years to get there. Until then, I hope that your vision doesn't become true too soon, because it would mean a loss of mobility compared to what we have now.
Actually, having the government having the power to dismantle the kind of businesses they don't like is actually a neat idea.

I know our representative governments aren't democratic (despite elections and stuff). But big capitalist corporations are even worse. So, before we get rid of governments and their ludicrously concentrated power, why don't we look at the elephant in the room first: corporations and their even more ludicrously concentrated power?

> A dying business fighting tooth and nail for their survival is understandable and expected whatever poison they happen to be selling.

This analogy (fighting for survival) doesn't really hold: corporations aren't persons. We don't care about corporations, we care about the people affected by them (both inside and outside). A corporation fighting for survival doesn't have the same moral right as a person fighting for survival, despite most laws treating them as "moral persons". Human death is horrible. The end of a business, frankly, is no big deal. (What is a big deal is the subsequent unemployment —but that can be mitigated.)
21 Steps I took to start my entrepreneurial journey
I'm not a smoker, but I wonder: is there a downside to just continue using an e-cigarette? It's the smoke that kills you (and those around you) after all, not the nicotine.
Astonishingly, here in Ireland, we're being lobbied by our friends in Virginia - http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/us-governor-urges-go...
If somebody is, like I was, interested to start reading about the N-1 and Energia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_%28rocket%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia
Looks like an IPython replacement with syntax highlighting as you type. Couldn't this be something that could be added to IPython itself?
Machine Learning – What If I’m Not Good at Mathematics
Url changed from http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2014/08/a-brief-history-of..., which points to this.
Yea, it took a few hours to show up there. Wasn't showing up when the patch was released.
Beware of Joy