skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The only thing that will get me personally to switch browser at this stage is more security/privacy. But I'm not everyone - I have plenty of friends who are fine with spraying their lives all over the webs. Have forwarded your link.
Can someone tell me what changed? Hasn't this been the climate for a few years? Are people just now starting to get antsy and feel like things can't stay this way? Not because of any real metrics but a group shift in psychology?

Just a few months ago I listened to a principal at a VC firm in NYC talk about how things aren't going to change anytime soon because a bunch of firms just raised new funds. Now he was primarily talking about seed rounds and as far as I can tell the concern about burn rates is targeted more at companies like Uber & Lyft that have raised nine figures. At the very least there appears to be a different climate around seed stage investments than there is around big growth stage C & D & beyond investments. But let's say the big late stage companies go up in smoke and there is a new reluctance to invest at later stages. Is there then an entire generation of companies that received seed funding when the market was hot that are now on quiet death marches? I suppose that's the disaster scenario.
Wow, again a page that messes with the scrolling experience? What's up with that? Terrible user experience.
Startup cofounder here who spends ~20 days/mo on the road - also don't forget about BD meetings, meetups, happy hours, etc. A ton of deals get done over a few drinks, and when you're stacking a meetup, a dinner, cocktails, latenight, and a hotel bar together regularly, it's pretty easy to hit the 15/20 drink figure.

Also, when i'm out drinking with friends, I tend to keep a bit of a mental note of how many i've had because the tab's coming out of my pocket. When i'm on the road i'm on the company's tab, and the moral hazard totally wipes out my concern for how many i've had and instead i'm focused on whatever I'm at that meeting for (close deal, increase client expenditures, lock in investment, whatever).

The solitude also definitely plays a role, and like the top commenter on here it's really easy to be totally oblivious to how much you're drinking as it just becomes part of the routine. I had a mentor once point out that the best salespeople are usually alcoholics with shitty relationships who work too much, so I think there's a lot of parallels between the personality traits that are helpful for an entrepreneur but can be wildly destructive if pointed in a negative direction.

I was a double-major at a party school and in a top fraternity, so over the last decade i've become rather accustomed to being a borderline functioning disaster. However, over the last few months I really peeled it back and have instead spent a ton of time getting back into the gym, running, rowing, and doing crossfit.

Going out all night is fun, but getting up at 5a and cranking out a workout while it's still dark, running back to the office, and having breakfast while most people are just getting out of bed has become my new high to chase.
Do I drink 10 drink every day? Naw. But I drink 1-2 every week night and 6-15 on the weekends. So yea, I can see this averaging out awkwardly...
> This method of fighting one invasive species by introducing a new species always makes me worry a bit.

Reminds me of an old 1998 Simpsons episode:

SKINNER: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.

LISA: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?

SKINNER: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.

LISA: But aren't the snakes even worse?

SKINNER: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

LISA: But then we're stuck with gorillas!

SKINNER: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
> “market something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law.”

One thing the FBI does not realize, or does not care, is that THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES THE BACKDOORS WORK FOR.

A backdoor is a backdoor. Period. When so much private information is on a single device it's not just about being beyond the law (which is a great reason in and of itself because law enforcement is itself beyond the law). It's about being safe.
No- it was replace by the inflationary theory long ago. They are different. You've kind of proved my point.
The was a WaPo article[0] posted on HN a while back:

>If I understand how it works, the only time the new design matters is when the government has a search warrant, signed by a judge, based on a finding of probable cause. Under the old operating system, Apple could execute a lawful warrant and give law enforcement the data on the phone. Under the new operating system, that warrant is a nullity. It’s just a nice piece of paper with a judge’s signature. Because Apple demands a warrant to decrypt a phone when it is capable of doing so, the only time Apple’s inability to do that makes a difference is when the government has a valid warrant. The policy switch doesn’t stop hackers, trespassers, or rogue agents. It only stops lawful investigations with lawful warrants.

0:http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...
Is zero a number?

edit: If they removed a third of people, the average for the top 10% of the nonzero drinkers would probably be a lot more.
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I agree. This worries me.
“I’ve been an investigator for almost 27 years,” Collins said, “It’s concerning that we’re beginning to go backwards with this technology.”

It's concerning that a veteran police investigator considers consumer privacy "backwards."
I'd avoid mechanical keyboards for development work. They simply require more energy expended per keypress which will tire your hands, slow your typing speed, and further worsen RSA-like problems.

Plus SOME of them are super loud. Which will annoy the people around you. However that's less of an issue with modern switches.

Unfortunately I don't have any Mac specific suggestions for you. Most of the people I work with are using Microsoft keyboards (yes, even Mac users). One person had a mechanical but when it broke they too moved to a Microsoft soft-key keyboard. One manager has a Apple Wireless keyboard however.

Few suggestions:

Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic, Sculpt Comfort, Comfort Curve 3000

Also AmazonBasics Wired Keyboard, it is chiclet style which is super nice for a workplace (stays clean, etc), and it has soft touch keys which allow you to type very expediently.

The reason people are suggesting mechanical keyboards are largely because they're in vogue at the moment. They went out of style, and now a lot of younger people think they're cooler than sliced bread (since they weren't around when every keyboard was mechanical). I'd suggest that before you even considered spending $100 on a mechanical keyboard (instead of $10-15 on some of the soft touch ones) you go play with one (e.g. Best Buy, they're in the "gaming section," not keyboards as they're a fashion accessory).
It's a cultural thing. Especially heavy drinkers tend to exist in a bubble where all the people they regularly socialize with are also regular drinkers and enable each other.
Not just the NSA. The regular ol' police gives off the appearance of being at war with the citizens it's supposed to protect sometimes. They are extremely militarized, very technologically advanced, but not always fair and even-keeled.
I wonder what this means for Soldsie, the service that allows users to buy within the comments section. Seems like the best UX should ultimately win and that puts Facebook at a big advantage.
Exactly, that was a nice dramatic story for this piece, but really they had the evidence already.
Should GGC have a major impact on overall execution time? Or is it more about reducing "jank", or whatever they're calling it these days?
I think you're right, but if that's so, then apparently all of the features the OP claims to be bloat in systemd are questionably in systemd at all, and the entire discussion is moot.
What do the watchers think we should do when we can't even have an open rational discussion about constitutional rights especially regarding new technology and information. I am willing to discuss and debate. My data was yours with a warrant. The tools to go beyond that weren't mainstream. By refusing to communicate the internet is working around you. Rightfully so.
Maybe they should have thought about the backlash _before_ they engaged in mass surveillance?
Julian Sanchez wrote a relevant response to Orin Kerr going over the history of the crypto wars and why this is all wrong:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8369963
It doesn't help that splay-latency is literally nonsense (improving what it measures would do nothing to make the browser more responsive). If it wasn't for that benchmark they would be ahead right now.
i bought gatorade once. And it is still perplexing to me how people can drink that and similar synthetic stuff which looks and feels like chemistry plant waste water. If not teeth, it would definitely hit your gastroenterological tract just like "Drano". The power of "magic potions" advertisement is astonishing - "Because electrolytes". Which reminds of the quote from the "Idiocracy" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Q-yNNu-tM ) :

[cabinet has been debating putting water on the plants instead of Brawndo]

Pvt. Joe Bowers: What are these electrolytes? Do you even know?

Secretary of State: They're... what they use to make Brawndo!

Pvt. Joe Bowers: But why do they use them to make Brawndo?

Secretary of Defense: [raises hand after a pause] Because Brawndo's got electrolytes.
Yes, whether or not you make the distinction, neither applies. I take it people on Hacker News don't dig Ellison. For all I know he is a sociopath. The above is not evidence for that.
Often? I'd have to see examples.

We certainly don't claim to apply the rule correctly all the time. We are, however, happy to be corrected. The best way to complain about a title on HN is to suggest a better one.
Big Bang remains the best explanation for existing evidence

No. The universe is too smooth for the Big Bang theory. It has been supplanted by the Inflationary theory.
That's a great idea! Each year, they could choose some number of winners from everyone who gets their return in on time, with no corrections required.

They'd have to sort it carefully enough that it wouldn't be a loophole for abuse (e.g., if you win, could you be hired by a major corporation who will somehow funnel their entire worldwide revenue though you?), and to be sure a Zuck-level taxpayer doesn't win it, but then that'd be a huge motivation for people who do pay taxes to get their paperwork together in time.

Of course, simplifying US tax law would be even better -- "filing your tax" return could be trivial for most people, but it isn't -- but that's proved a hard nut to crack.
ROFLMAO.

If you don't fix the policies, they just hire replacements. You even admit it is how it works.

"The strategy seems to make a lot of TSA employees feel bad, so the turnover there is quite high, but enough people need any job just to make ends meet that the overall effect to their workforce isn't very much."

You also didn't think about the logical result of pushing out the people who would feel bad about bad policies. It means you leave only the desperate & the bad people running the organization. Well done! You've removed everyone with a hint of moral fiber and/or soul from the enforcement role. And then you'll be surprised when no decent person is there to help you when there is an issue.
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Your comment doesn't make much sense. If you don't care about your teeth and ruin them now, how are the genes of people with perfect teeth going to help you? Those genes may make teeth more resilient to different types of stress, but won't recover already damaged teeth.

I won't even mention how unlikely such a procedure is or how the US dental lobby is trying to block all scientific/technological progress in the field by any legal, PR and other means.
I came across this and found it interesting but please don't actually do this.
"A policeman's job is only easy in a police state." — Mike Vargas, from Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil"
I find it weird that >15 drinks a week is 80%ile, given that that's a pretty standard moderate level of drinking in many parts of the world and is significantly healthier than not drinking at all.

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/truth-wo...
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Ah, good point. The article says "adults" not "drinkers". Thanks!
Most stereotypes are actually true, most of the time.
That's a very open question, but RRD tool offers many modes of operation for data consolidation:

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Data Acquisition

When monitoring the state of a system, it is convenient to have the data available at a constant time interval. Unfortunately, you may not always be able to fetch data at exactly the time you want to. Therefore RRDtool lets you update the log file at any time you want. It will automatically interpolate the value of the data-source (DS) at the latest official time-slot (interval) and write this interpolated value to the log. The original value you have supplied is stored as well and is also taken into account when interpolating the next log entry.

Consolidation

You may log data at a 1 minute interval, but you might also be interested to know the development of the data over the last year. You could do this by simply storing the data in 1 minute intervals for the whole year. While this would take considerable disk space it would also take a lot of time to analyze the data when you wanted to create a graph covering the whole year. RRDtool offers a solution to this problem through its data consolidation feature. When setting up an Round Robin Database (RRD), you can define at which interval this consolidation should occur, and what consolidation function (CF) (average, minimum, maximum, last) should be used to build the consolidated values (see rrdcreate). You can define any number of different consolidation setups within one RRD. They will all be maintained on the fly when new data is loaded into the RRD.

Round Robin Archives

Data values of the same consolidation setup are stored into Round Robin Archives (RRA). This is a very efficient manner to store data for a certain amount of time, while using a known and constant amount of storage space.

It works like this: If you want to store 1000 values in 5 minute interval, RRDtool will allocate space for 1000 data values and a header area. In the header it will store a pointer telling which slots (value) in the storage area was last written to. New values are written to the Round Robin Archive in, you guessed it, a round robin manner. This automatically limits the history to the last 1000 values (in our example). Because you can define several RRAs within a single RRD, you can setup another one, for storing 750 data values at a 2 hour interval, for example, and thus keep a log for the last two months at a lower resolution.

The use of RRAs guarantees that the RRD does not grow over time and that old data is automatically eliminated. By using the consolidation feature, you can still keep data for a very long time, while gradually reducing the resolution of the data along the time axis.

Using different consolidation functions (CF) allows you to store exactly the type of information that actually interests you: the maximum one minute traffic on the LAN, the minimum temperature of your wine cellar, ... etc.
That was a great, and sadly under-watched movie.
"group shift in psychology" is a nice phrase.
I work at Datadog - we're only using ElasticSearch for full-text structured events, not time-series, which represent 10,000 - 100,000 times more data in volume.

We had to build our own Time-Series streaming / storage / query so we could handle millions of points per second and years of retention.

(we love ElasticSearch, though)
Been happily consuming up to 1 alcoholic drink per week for years now, still manage to go out and have a great time in bars and clubs, don't have to deal with being useless the next day or destroying my health.
Sorry, I forgot to put the previous title in a comment. It was "20% of US Adults consume more than 15 drinks a day".
Or, you know, running Rails with Passenger.
Exactly. The FBI's argument is basically:

"Leave your front door unlocked. Just in case we want to search you for drugs/obscene material/weapons/etc."

I don't know about you, but I don't want to leave my house unlocked 24/7 "just in case" the FBI wants to serve me with a warrant.
The "cartel", if it really was that, fell apart in a few years.

Personally, I'd consider 15+ years a pretty good run. And yes, it really was a cartel.
that averages out awkwardly to what? 6 drinks? 10 seems like another level no matter how you distribute it.
Does NetworkManager completely obviate the need for the DHCP binary to call shell scripts?

Those scripts often exist because if the sysadmin needs something special to happen on DHCP, this is where he sets it. It's not "DHCP scripts get run by/are shell scripts," it's "DHCP binaries are prepared to call out to external scripts."

I've had to write these shell scripts (using ksh, since OpenBSD, so those are safe).
It is definitely something I forget to think about and when seen at the scale of the BBC it's an amazing thing. Might have to start thinking about URL structure a little more now and this is a great resource to get me going!
I might be alone in this but I found it easy to navigate. I'm on a laptop but I expect this would be really nice on a tablet.
RavenDB - they recently switched to a new engine and did some time series related work. Send them an email and you'll probably get a few free licenses. It's a very well selling commercial product, so the risk of deprecation minimal.

I have personally seen millions of records saved per minute on a top end SSD server.
Because it limits the socket options you can use.

"Only a subset of the TCP/IP socket options are supported when the SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH IOCTL is used to enable the loopback fast path on a socket"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/jj84...
It has some impact on overall execution time (throughput), mostly through being able to bump allocate. The benchmark I used in the article shows a large gain, though the real-world effect is much less.

But GGC is mostly about reducing pause times (latency). (And yes, people have taken to calling that "jank". I still resist the term when I can, since it's no more precise than anything that came before but people seem to think it must mean something specific.)
Unless they know that the owner has the password, and can recall it, this potentially infringes on the 5th amendment. This has been tested repeatedly in court, although not always with the same result.
Because some folks think that laws only apply to people who can't afford good lawyers.

Often enough they're right, in practice, but not this time.
From a linked article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/28/t...

> After Prohibition, beer makers were actually forbidden from putting alcohol content information on their labels. They finally sued for the right to do so in 1987.

That's amazing. I come from a country where content labeling is mandatory. When I'm in the US I tend to prefer beer that is labelled for its content (or styles I know are closer to 5% than 9%), because I like to know how much I'm drinking. It seems strange to me that the conclusion about labeling is "people will use labels to buy more alcohol for the same money" and not "people will use labels to help them make responsible decisions".
I'm in the top 15% probably. Maybe top 10 actually.
Aren't all developers? It's the Balmer peak I try for.
This is a good initial view of a github project, with a few videos.

The issue for AGI in my mind is model building, and this seems to be the focus of this blog entry.
I think even just using DHCP put your Mac at risk: https://www.trustedsec.com/september-2014/shellshock-dhcp-rc...
I use the ES-87 Keyed Up Labs mechanical keyboard with MX Brown switches. It has a hardware switch for Mac compatibility. I am happy with it. http://www.keyeduplabs.com/es-87.html

The ES-87 is not ergonomic, but since I suffered from RSI a couple of months ago, my personal opinion is that there is no better prevention or cure of keyboard-related health issues than just reducing the time spent at the keyboard. Pen and paper help a lot to reduce the amount of throwaway code that should not have been written in first place.
> “Our ability to act on data that does exist . . . is critical to our success,” Hosko said. He suggested that it would take a major event, such as a terrorist attack, to cause the pendulum to swing back toward giving authorities access to a broad range of digital information. - related article ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2014/09/17... )

USA, get ready for a "foreign terrorist attack" in the next few days (;
Thank you making a go driver, I've played with it a bit and the first thing that jumped out at me is the documents passed to and from the database use a special "gorethink" tag instead of the built-in "json" tags. I thought this was odd since rethinkdb is a JSON database.
with RRDtool the older your data is the less of it you have. You might be logging at 1s period, and you get a nice graph for the last year, but if you want to look back at a 1 minute period from a year ago your 60 samples are gone and have been aggregated.

Historians like Pi etc will 'compress' time series by only storing data points where data has changed by some threshold. If you look back 5 years all the resolution is still there.
How to Check If Your Mac or Linux Machine Is Vulnerable to Shellshock
I have times when I drink every day two or three drinks per day (mainly cocktails and I don't think I will ever be alcoholic), have only normal brands at home, but I don't think I would switch to cheaper brands if I ever increase my consumption.
Apple Support Will Inspect Bent iPhones for Replacement
So, an exploit using off-the-shelf software. Just awesome.
Congrats! I often question my incline of drinking between 1 and 2 glasses of beer, wine or whisky a night. At this point I've become so used to it that I feel like it's part of my normal routine, which is a bit scary.
How to Protect Your Mac Against Shellshock
Sure, tell that to the lawyer that got eaten by the T-rex. Though what you say is probably the answer to why the threat of violence doesn't stop Mitnick. He seems to have good social skills or the knowledge of how to interact with people. He's probably selling shellshocked as a 0 day right now (though it's been out there a day or more already).
I once owned a Remington electric razor that just died for no reason one day. I decided to take it apart and see if there was anything obviously wrong with it. There was - the electrical contact with the motor was made by a piece of graphite, and it had worn down to nothing. At that moment I decided to switch to another brand on the hope that it did not practice planned obsolescence, and I've been happy ever since.
If you're a Lisp programmer, and you're so horrified by C++ that you would need libraries to make it as Lispy as possible before you would even touch it, here's an idea -- stay away from C++.