skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fears are often not rational, and such fears do play a minor role in feelings against certain structures in California. Talk to some people for a while and it comes up.

Having said that, it's not the main driver preventing development in the Bay Area. Citizens with money, influence, and established interests want lower-density development, and so that's what exists.
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Have you considered cabling loses? There is a reason power lines use very high voltages.
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That was a prediction, not a statement - it's from Stallman's 1997 'right to read' cited above.
Good points, but they don't help much if you're active victim of trolling. E.g. try to sleep at night if they doxxed your children :-(

Technology affects culture (and vice-a-versa). Trolling is/was rampant in blogosphere and Twitter, but I have impression that Facebook and Google+, who both enforce much hated real-names policies, have less of a trolling component.
In the UK it requests a .ac.uk email address instead of .edu which is standard for most/all UK university domains.
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What if I told you I'm a fascist dictatorship and I and I alone uphold the moral authority? Maybe we should find these people and exterminate them, for the good of everyone.
None of these things work at a reasonable enough scale. You can't put a gigawatthour in compressed air or springs; pumped hydro is a possibility if you have a huge enough suitable reservoir. If we'd want to have all our energy coming from renewable resources, then you'd need stations a hundred times bigger (or a hundred times more) than the current pumped hydro reservoirs, and creating them would be an ecological nightmare, most likely requiring a destruction of a major river or lake for each such station.
I don't know what the solution to the troll problem is, but I don't think anti-epilepsy filters are a part of it, any more than I think bulletproof vests are a solution to gun violence.
I didn't see any victim-blaming in that post - the victim is obviously due our full sympathy in each and every case. The question is what to do about it. The OP suggests that we might be able to form better communities, suggesting that the existence of communities in which this kind of thing does not happen proves that it must be possible. The GP appears to disagree, believing that we need technical and legal solutions to the problem instead. That's something about which reasonable people can disagree.
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>> I think it's just the sense of heebie-jeebies

That's the start of most 'war-on-obscenity' arguments, and usually leads to no constructive ideas. I hate the topic (abusive pornography/snuff) as much as you, but that rational is inappropriate given the peoples' wide variety of tastes in this world, if the material is indeed legal for your region of the world.

>> More broadly speaking, I would be very willing to bet that an internet community that places harsher standards on acceptable content would result in a better environment for those involved

historically that has only served to push users to other services. the success of the regionalization of 2channel into what 4chan is now is a good example. 4chan's success is widely attributed to the pseudo-anonymity that it's users enjoy, and the founder of the site spoke at TED a few years back on what exactly the benefits of such a relationship with their userbase is.

http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for...
Pragmatically, if the value of time saved, usefulness is higher the price of the product I would still buy it.
Victim blaming/"they deserve it":

"For the most part, high-profile "targets" from the troll's perspective are already known to the public anyway."
I think there are several points:

1. Most people starting out online are not aware that "Your chances of being harassed increases linearly as your popularity." and most people that haven't been abused online themselves don't think it's a serious problem.

2. The ratio of harassment to popularity is not a universal constant; it can be improved.

3. By shedding light on the issue, there is at least a hope that the situation can be improved. If nobody talks about this, then there's no way things can get better. On the contrary, silence would probably make things worse, as trolls would learn that they can get away with it.
If you read through it, this is a change to the Citus cstore_fdw extension, which stores data outside PostgreSQL and queries it using the PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrapper API (see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers).

So it's impressive, but it isn't a performance improvement for core PostgreSQL, or data stored natively in PostgreSQL (in particular, cstore_fdw is not very flexible - from the README for that project: "Note. We currently don't support updating table using INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE commands.")
See if this helps:
http://filr.io/channel/hackernews/stream

queryparams:
pageSize (no of items to return in one go)
before (takes an epoch timestamp and returns results before that timestamp)

this is a stream of HN stories that have made it to the front page, in order of the time that they made it to the frontapge.
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this is absolute bullshit, if u write/blog/tweet some thing that annoyies some one, they will lash out.
Now that you mention Reddit, I've abandoned it because that cesspool is overflowing. It's no longer just the obscure subs, misogynist thrash from mainstream subs is hitting the front page on a daily basis.
I think it might be a bit of a misrepresentation. They will have their own 3rd party payment service ala paypal but you will be able to use the card to decide which payment method associated with that account gets used.

Just a guess! but it would avoid some pretty massive technical hurdles to international acceptance.
This reminds me of this SO answer. I never understood what the guy was trying to do but people seem to be happy with it?!

http://stackoverflow.com/a/16758230/318557
I wholeheartedly agree that strong moderation does a LOT to foster strong communities, and frankly very positive ones.

Both of my favorite subreddits do this very well, as does my favorite forum, and though you get the jokes about 'fascist mods' and the genuine complainers who would rather be able to troll to their hearts content (and who inevitably flame out in a couple months time), they are very enjoyable to be a part of. Rather than having inane comments, stupid back and forths, and, in the case of one more factually based subreddit, misleading comments, you get what the majority of well-intentioned people actually come for.
Disclaimer: I haven't looked at the code, I'm making an educated guess here.

I think it's implemented like this:

function renderPage($stories) {
renderHeaders();
renderStories($stories);
renderMoreLink(storeLink(function() {
renderPage(next30($stories));
}));
}

function handleLinkClicked($id) {
$code = fetchLink($id);
$code();
}

Using storeLink() you save a function, than can be later executed when user clicked a particular link (remember, HN runs as a single process and does not restart itself every time like say, PHP does). This function remembers the context in which it was created - in this case, $stories variable - so all the data required to fulfil the request at later time gets stored with the function.
I'd bet on this.
I only have one story of harassment, but it might be interesting.

When I first started blogging, about 10 years ago, I would also post on slashdot.

I started getting a lot of traffic. Along with that, I started getting harassed.

It was some of the vilest stuff I've ever read in an online forum -- attacking me, my family, my personality, and so on. I found it quite disturbing, as if one of my friends was secretly insane.

I finally had to institute blocks. After about 100 blocks, I was able to bring the blog back under control.

At that point, I stopped promoting my blog so much. I was happier just to write for myself.

They say there's always 2% of folks that you're not going to get along with. There's also probably 0.2% of folks who actively wish you harm. On the internet with 2B folks? Those percentages add up big time.

My point is that gender is important here, but I'm not sure it's anywhere near being the entire story.
I guess the point is that the system is broken by default and we need many, smart, well-motivated people to fix it. This is what she is pointing out. If people don't understand and accept that it is broken, it won't get fixed.
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You are firmly blaming the victim, that's why you are being downvoted. The answer to all this cannot be "there are assholes on the internet so don't go on the internet"
Do they hold a unique token though? Here in the UK, I've definitely gotten "loyalty" offers printed with my receipt even though I've only ever used my debit card there and not a store card.
Unlike the scammers of Coin, these guys might have thought a bit further. Unfortunately this looks too ambitious. We have been making these kind of cards for years (for other companies) and know what kind of things you can cannot do currently; you can actually do this technically, but you'll be in a lot of pain getting this mass-produced. Let alone the things like patents, certification and adding 3rd party cards to it (oh the hell...); all politics & money. Good luck anyway.
Is it just me who finds the latter two far more interesting?

It seems the biggest problem with HN becoming more popular is that it's picked up all of these politically charged topics which were very seldom before (from memory). If anybody could run the numbers on the percentage of topics featuring 'diversity' from 2014 compared to earlier that would be very interesting to me.

There's no shortage of places to discuss diversity and the usual political issues, but far fewer places to discuss difficult business and tech issues and having HN taken over by these 'interesting' topics is very unfortunate. Is this the case though?
> In the digital world, any limitations on copying bits are akin to virtual restraints and locking information away.

Jennifer Lawrence might disagree with your laissez faire attitude.
It's not so much of a surprise for postgres, after all the team only started working on performance in the 7.x or 8.x cycle, before that Postgres was known for a "correctness first, speed… maybe?" approach.
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Sounds Logical to me. I would say, this is going to be a new wave in InfoSec, similar to password changing policy. It took the community several years to realize that changing password often leads to insecurity. The same applies to the Incident Response. In-house folks are often out of practice. The do know their IT infrastructure better though, so I would suggest that an effective IR is a team work.
wtf did u expect, for them to not say something, as u rightly pointed out, they are men and have balls. suck it
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Am I the only one with the feeling like i'm reading the "diary" of Amy Dunne, in Gone Girl? Like i'm in the middle of the movie, and the plot could tip either way.
Indeed, if you come from the assumption that it's evil to limit the sharing of information/software, then DRM is evil, because that's the exact purpose of it. However, in this case, login systems, encryption, etc also evil because they prevent the sharing of information. Speaking of which, why do you lock information away from Adobe? Also, pass me your HN password, please :-)

But even if DRM's purpose is evil, it's still doesn't invalidate my argument: that it's a tool for peaceful enforcement of contracts (something you might not like), the exact opposite of the state's violent enforcement of contracts. The latter is the problem in Stallman's story, not the former.
They're blazing fast. The guy who started facebook's SCUBA is behind this.
see the paper on scuba: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/courses/fall2013/static/papers...
That link is outdated, see http://doc.rust-lang.org/arena/.
Will I be able to export my docs? I'm not really willing to put my docs on readme.io without knowing I can export all my work if you all go under. I'm currently an Apiary for Companies subscriber and value that feature but, prefer your design.
As someone who frequently travels all over Africa, I would want a secure password on this. If this card gets stolen without such a password it would mean the thieves can empty out several of my cc accounts.
I am not who you asked, but if I may step in?

It bothers me for the same reason it bothers me that those things exist. They are terrible, and should not be given a platform. I don't feel that we, as a society, should tolerate terrible things in general, much less let them prosper.
Would you elaborate on the drastic failure modes you think are inevitable?
I was tempted to respond after your first comment, but this followup provoked me to action. When you wrote your post several years ago, modelling with Cachegrind may still have been a defensible approach. But the divergence between its generic processor simulation and actual real world performance continues to diverge. As you note, this divergence first became very apparent with the cache and branch predictions. Currently, I'd argue that your time will almost always be better spent checking the CPU's built-in performance monitors rather than using Cachegrind. For the cases where Cachegrind used to be useful, 'perf' is a joy!
I'd argue that Jennifer Lawrence's sensitive bits shouldn't have been given to someone else (Apple) in the first place.
Ask HN: Canadian developer looking for the American dream
I've had it with Vancouver. I've lived here all my life. It is home but now I feel like there's nothing really left to justify working just enough for a roof over my head. The job market here for tech job is horrible, underpaid, long working hours, developers competing to see who can work the longest for the least amount of money. Housing affordability is a big issue here because of real estate speculation from overseas, and the salary has not changed since the 1980.

I'm set on to find the American dream. Higher salary, bigger malls, bigger portions, better women. I'm sick of the classic Vancouver propaganda, "suck it up because you are living in the most beautiful city in the wor-", I'd like to punch the person who says it.

And a testament of the American dream, there's literally no one who went to work in the States end up coming back here. It's like once they go south, they don't come back. Many of my friends have disappeared into jobs in America or talk about how much they miss Vancouver.

I want to know how I can get started to make my American dream come true, because I'm fed up with having to work long and hard for a salary that barely keeps one afloat. I'm fed up with employers who give you a hard time for wanting to take a vacation. I'm tired of co-workers who will compete on the amount of overtime as badge of honor.
Indeed. The article's suggestion does not really make any sense.
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Nice comment Barmental. Good point.
Creator of apiDoc here.... really nice that you use apiDoc :-)

I really like your nice and clean template.

A similar project was in my mind since i create apiDoc, but due the lack of time i am happy now that you create such a project.

Will link to your site soon, so that apiDoc users can see your good alternative for creating and hosting a documentation.
> Serious question: why does this even bother you?

Not the person you aimed the question at, but…

I worked as a volunteer counsellor for a few years in my twenties. Some of the stuff I encountered during those years was folk who were going through horrific, long-term abuse.

One of the patterns that you notice is that abusers go to a lot of effort at times to show that their behaviour as normal. Both as a tool to justify it to themselves (this is normal — everybody does it — I'm not a bad person or doing anything bad), and as a tool to further control the abused (this is normal — this is what you should expect — you won't get any better elsewhere).

Anecdotally the ones who can find or create an active "community" of abusers — where two best friends both hit their partners and acknowledge it to each other, where everybody in an extended family beats on their kids, etc. — the abuse is worse because there is little or no sense of shame in what's done.

It's normal.

Now this was the 90s. Before subreddits were around. But this is why it bothers me. Yes, it's just words. But those words are probably making the lives of other people worse.
Or photos of the very much intact skyscrapers in downtown San Francisco after the 1989 earthquake.
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The problem there is that the range of what people consider "terrible" is quite broad.

Who decides?
When was the karma value of a post hidden? I can remember it happening but tried a few search phrases and couldn't track down the announcement and resulting discussion.
Is it known how doxers are able to get information like social security numbers? I can understand a determined party being able to find, say, your phone number and home address, but certain information just shouldn't be available to the public.
In the anarcho-capitalist community we call it slave labor. It is a bit of a stretch to say as much, but it get's clumped under the same umbrella as conscription. i.e. Government compelling you to do labor (usually for free), which is just a bit away from "government compelling you to enforce it's laws/regulation/process/bureaucracy/tax enforcement on it's behalf, at your own personal business cost". Assuming that's what you mean with bureaucratic integration? i.e. Government getting businesses to help them enforce their bureaucracy.
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My take away from this article is simply raise your standards of people. Esteem should not be so fickle, it should mean something.

Our culture has a very short attention spans and we exalt the wrong people. It creates a weird tension. Being a bad actor is an equal opportunity field and the doubt this creates grows until reasonable people are swallowed.

We have no willingness to forgive and this puritanism has in the end soiled us.
In Portugal, there's an "availability factor" line on the the electricity bill, which is dependent not on consumption, but on the defined consumption limit. I imagine this gets distributed to fast start/stop power plants.
There are some other interesting PostgreSQL FDW extensions targeting speed.

PGStrom uses the GPU: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom

PGOpenCL: http://wiki.postgresql.org/images/6/65/Pgopencl.pdf

PostgreSQL excels at heavy OLTP-type workloads; the MVCC architecture means that readers don't block writers, and writers don't block readers. But there is quite a lot of overhead for every row, and the query architecture is tuple-at-a-time, with lots of function calls. This means that OLAP workloads can be slow, compared to column store DBs like Vertica, MonetDB etc.
The cstore_fdw extension uses the Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) format, which seems to be PAX in your nomenclature. The improvements he accomplished seems to be related just to the first "fact" that you listed, which applies to all column stores.
HN runs on a single core. Arc is implemented in Racket, which has green threads, so requests don't block on I/O. Whether that counts as concurrent is sort of definitional, but the CPU isn't processing two requests at once.
A bit bold, but it does highlight that insidious tension that leads good people to doom.
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Awesome! I looked at a lot of "standards" (Blueprint, RAML, etc), and yours was the first that felt right.

I'd love to talk more! My email is greg@readme.io. Awesome work on apiDoc; it's been great.
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Like the picture :-)
I read that differently from you.

I think the author was simply pointing out that well-known people are well known, so their privacy is, almost by definition, limited anyway.
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As someone who studyied Polyani intensively, I was surprised by that too.

Protip: do not read what he wrote if you have strong libertarian view.
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May I ask where you are from? Free speech - bigoted, hateful, maybe untrue, or otherwise, is perhaps the one enduring (sacred) tenet of American society.
Freedom of speech mean that these ideas can be challenged in the public sphere. Anything else is the department of arm chair theorist.

Freedom ain't free. It calls for noble labour.
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"to the best developer tools" - a bit far-fetched for very many of those.
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If they don't mess up the implementation then it would appear to be more secure than traditional cards. Especially in places like Africa (I assume) and the US where Chip and Pin has yet to be rolled out.

I appreciate the point you're making in that stealing this one card is equivalent to stealing a whole wallet-full. But isn't it usually the case that you lose the whole wallet in one go?
> Edit: It's actually interesting, that the upvote/downvote ability wasn't considered impactful, since you mentioned it further down in the article.

In retrospect, I should have mentioned the downvote threshold. However, it wouldn't be helpful since I don't have access to the karma values of the upvoters/downvotes (e.g. are the majority of upvoters people who are under the karma threshold? are the majority of downvotes those at the karma threshold or far above?), so I wouldn't be able to make an accurate inference.
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>If our autopilot software decides that a pilot is trying to land an A320 when he's trying to climb and the plane crashes into a forest, the pilot goes to prison, not the programmers!

Prison is probably the least of the pilot's problems!
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It seems like virtualization is about to become useless in the future and CPU-emulating+jit compiling systems are the future, because SGX can't be virtualized.
Furthermore mobs are much easier to rile up than to disperse. I'd suspect the problem is even worse online where the mob is distributed and whose only coordination is around mutually inciting each other.

Literary evidence from Shakespeare, when a mob wishes to avenge Caeser's death, from Julius Caeser, Act 3 Scene 3:

Third Citizen
Your name, sir, truly.
CINNA THE POET
Truly, my name is Cinna.
First Citizen
Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.
CINNA THE POET
I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.
Fourth Citizen
Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.
Ask HN: How long after going global do you institute global support?
I'm wondering, after you launch your product to a global market, how long is it before you start implementing support agents in different timezones to handle support tickets from users in those areas?
I guess it's because Facebook and Google+ are built mostly around reinforcing meatspace relationships. It's harder to be an asshole if your family, friends and cow-orkers read your comments.
Doesn't this simply illustrate that as science advances, education of the general population must keep up to raise awareness of what's possible?

We've failed to educate people about many risks associated with the use of computers, but "photoshopped" images are a well-known phenomenon (though doing this to the extent described in the article, without anyone being aware of it, is a bit of a novelty).
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