skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the question, curiousDog.

Disclosure: I am a founder and the CEO of Luminal.

In a distributed, and therefore often largely stateless system at the instance level, the system boundary is now outside the individual instance. The performer (a series of instances over time in Fugue) is roughly analogous to a process on an individual computer. Truth and trust are maintained by knowing and controlling the state of the instances themselves with Fugue. Think of the Conductor as analogous to the kernel in a traditional OS, where providing processes CPU time and resources is a regular course of business.

As for unnecessary work, we've found that maintaining systems in place, with all the failure, complexity and configuration drift that's inevitable is much more expensive than using some of the excess capacity of a given performer. Most systems target 70% or so utilization - we use some of that excess to lifecycle.

I hope this answers the question and we're really excited to get feedback on what we're doing so it's relevant to your work.
My brief story to add to the general theme is:

* I knew personally that a regionally important corporate lobbying group was funding a ballot measure. (For the moment assume I am correct: this was not a 'secret': everyone in local politics knew this. It just wasn't 'official')

* I edited the organizations wikipedia page to state that the group was promoting the ballot measure.

The edit was reverted.

Was I going to spend time trying to track down obscure articles on local newspaper websites to prove this to wikipedia? No.

It just wasn't worth it.

I have come to the conclusion that the really interesting information is still in peoples heads.

I rarely find wikipedia turning up in my searches any more - in particular anything "controversial" or anything where there is moneyed interests involved who are interested in suppressing the other side.

I actually don't see a solution for Wikipedia. It is trying for some sort of 'objective' encyclopedia. This is well and good for questions like what is an atom in the 21st century. However, lets pretend that it is a 1901. "What is an atom?" was controversial and the back and forth that would have been interesting to know as a 1901 reader would be edited out of the 1901 version of Wikipedia.

Quite simply for me:

* something is interesting if it is "controversial" (global warming, health care, etc.)

* I am not interested in an "objective" sanitized view. I have a bias and I am not interested in hearing about the "controversy about global warming". Therefore I am biased toward sites predisposed to my perspective.

* Others have different preferred bias.

* Trying to come to a group decision where both sides are convinced that their side is correct is impossible ( in particular if one side is paid to not change their mind )

* If something is really important (i.e. job critical) I want to go to a source expert that I trust irregardless of what the 'crowd' thinks. I know what the standards I am applying to determine who I regard as the expert.

* rarely search for important things and find the wikipedia article interesting

Therefore:

* Wikipedia as a common community encyclopedia only works for the uninteresting 'factoids' that are not important

* I filter out wikipedia when looking at the google results when I am looking for something I really care about getting correct.
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You're inventing all of that.

1) American workers don't work 60+ hours to earn 50% less than what people in Switzerland do.

2) The median income in the US is barely below that of Switzerland.

3) The average American worker does not work more than 45 hours per week for the median income.

4) If you compare people of a similar qualification + education + demographic, Americans earn more than people in Switzerland per hour worked, and have more disposable income thanks to a lower cost of living and lower taxes. The US has a very real poverty problem that is especially bad in the black community, and it substantially alters the stats on incomes / standard of living. The asian median household income for example is 100% higher than the median black household income.
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Any plans for https in the future?
Windows 7 is just as easy to pirate so the logic is not solid there.
You mean the ability to instantly and virally let people all over the world know about events happening in your country/region/neighborhood? Yeah thanks, we'll keep it.
In fact it would drop Switzerland below the US. The cost of living in Switzerland is substantially higher than most of the US.
Cows. No one suspects something so docile and they outweigh us as a species by about 50%. We bred them to be tasty, but they were the ones using us.
absolutely curious- ive thought about trying to build some kind of models that help create interesting "melodies" by jumbling things around for maximum novelty. maybe someone knows of some experiements like that too?
Yes. And 'catching up' with the blockchain is much faster before, with this set of changes (only a couple of hours on my machine): https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterpartyd/pull/409
Taylor Swift's Shake It Off for Movember
Wedding Photographers Matt and Carissa Kennedy made a music video with their kids in support of Movember. Taylor Swift's "Shake it off" is now "SHAVE it off"!
The reason I call STARTTLS "stupid" is because it superceded a perfectly good, fully encrypted, transport layer protocol: SMTP over SSL/TLS on port 465.

That was 16 years ago. Even back then, plenty of people seem to have been on the right track when it comes to how to encrypt a stream. People back then were also aware of the difference between the needs of mail transport and the needs of mail submission; the distinction was codified in RFC 2476 in 1998. Despite all of this, some people went ahead and implemented an "if available" encrypted protocol in the name of compatibility, deprecated the fully encrypted and widely supported alternative, and even went so far as to revoke port 465.

Two years ago, it may have sounded crazy to suggest that some three-letter agency was behind this. Now, I'm not so sure.
What a hackneyed line. The USA is a democratic republic aka a form of democracy where the people elect their representatives; I'm pretty sure Winston Churchil understood the difference.
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> Oh wait, let me guess your friends get nervous when a "black" person walks near them so they have to "reveal" they are armed.

What the hell is wrong with you?

This is shockingly presumptuous and divisive.
I doubt. It should be a year of Linux desktop, haha. Wayland with drivers from Nvidia, KDE 5 and Mozilla Shumway are supposed to be coming. And also Daala video codec and Steam Machines / SteamOS. Quite a number of breakthrough developments for 2015.
Cool post! I think as technologists seeking to build tools for music creation, browsing, etc. there are some high level points to take from Professor Berger's article. As we deploy machine learning to match listeners and songs, we're often blindly satisfying expectations, when the entire essence of musical experience seems wrapped up in upsetting expectations.
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There is no reason to bring up bitcoin. It doesn't help your argument.
Aren't all three bad choices?

- Windows: proprietary, hard(ish?) to scale. BizSpark.

- Linux: Finicky, spend time & money getting it working right. Scales well.

- Apple: Expensive. Nice.

I'm not a startup guy, but I can easily picture a world in which Apple is chosen by the massively-funded, Linux is chosen by the scaling-is-our-business-model, and Windows is chosen by the get-off-the-ground-first lean (curiously enough) thanks to BizSpark.

FWIW my terminal is Windows, and my datacenter is *nix.
Expenses in Switzerland are very high but taxes are much lower than in the u.s. and wages are significantly higher than in the u.s. I can't help but feel like I was sold a lie when I lived in the u.s.

I'm not sure how other parts of Europe compare.
> Do you realize that it was Democrats, the "left" in US politics, who were opposed to MLK's message of equality and freedom for all? that the battle for Civil Rights was won thanks to Republicans, against Democrats?

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

In the House:

- Southern Democrats voted 94% against it -- but Southern Republicans voted 100% against it.

- Northern Democrats voted 94% for it -- but Northern Republicans voted only 85% for it.

In the Senate:

- Southern Democrats voted 95% against it -- but Southern Republicans voted 100% against it.

- Northern Democrats voted 98% for it -- but Northern Republicans voted only 84% for it.

So, the strongest split wasn't party, but region -- the South was against it and the North was for it. But by party within either region, North or South, the Democrats were more for (or less against) it, while the Republicans were less for (or more against) it.
It's fair enough to characterize King's work as part religious ministry, and I think it's also fair to consider what it means that King's walk didn't live up to all of the standards one would assume would come with his apparent Christianity.

I'm not sure it is in fact fair "to use those moral standards against him", though, unless you're working with a conception of moral standards as a game in which the point is to cast your team into The Good Guys and the other team as The Bad Guys. And sure, some people play that exact game (the FBI is doing it here), but you can also approach moral standards as ideals which would make the world better if we could adhere to them. The latter conception still means that people who fail to keep standards can suffer natural consequences (as well as artificial ones of standing) if they don't adhere, but it's not much of an attack on the moral authority of the standard.

There's also a question of a sort of standards severability. King is known for agitating for racial equality and social justice, not for being a crusader for the virtues of chastity and fidelity. If he'd been known to privately abuse and privilege based on apparent race, or inclined to acquire wealth at the expense of others, that'd seem be a bigger deal.

Finally, a little bit of C.S. Lewis:

"The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred. For there are two things inside me, competing with the human self which I must try to become. They are the Animal self, and the Diabolical self. The Diabolical self is the worse of the two. That is why a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither."

Again, none of this is to discount the value it might have to consider an MLK with weaknesses and some questionable behavior. Or, for that matter, the value of fidelity.
And if you want something open source which you can install on your own machines, Odoo[1] is a nice alternative (disclaimer: I work for a partner company). It works in a similar way; you just define the model with its fields (as a Python class), add a view where you just indicate which fields to expose and where, and then a menu entry to point to that model, and done! You can even skip the view if you don't mind it generating a basic one for you.

[1] https://www.odoo.com/
I think almost every group is a hivemind. And HN certainly shares characteristics of groupthink.
Sure. Unexpected things do happen though, even to people who value punctuality and make serious efforts to be on time. You have to give people an out. (Yes, even when they are being rude and selfish.)

His behavior at the dentist is particularly bad. Who is being rude, and who is being selfish?
Comparisons are not a red herring when the parent comment specifies a particular government.

In fact, that implicitly invites comparison.
Here's something I've witnessed:
Those that understand trading do it. Those that don't, swear that nobody else is making money doing it either. They are convinced of that and will argue their point endlessly.

I find it strange.

(Caveat: of course I don't mean absolutely everyone, but it's a phenomena you can witness whenever it gets discussed here.)
This is a great point. If you have more detail or insight about how we might go about this (or precedent around it) , definitely let me know!
I haven't dug through the paper yet, but this seems like a really nice result: both theoretically elegant and practically useful. Looking forward to working through the details.
Anarchy => no rulers

not

Anarchy => no rules
Good article and actually having audio to illustrate the things the author talks about is helpful. For people interested in diving into this concept more deeply, there's a whole theoretical/analytical approach around musical expectation that was developed back in the 90s by Eugene Narmour: The Implication-Realization model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implication-Realization). Interestingly enough, it looks like the predictive power of the model holds up pretty well when tested in the real world: http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3psygs/SchellenbergCognition.p...

I've been out of the music theory game for a while, so I don't know if anyone's doing much with the I-R model anymore, but it's a fascinating approach to music analysis.
Tell me what country isn't by your standards? Show me a list of democratic countries and I have no doubt I could dig up some really evil stuff on every single one of them.

Don't take my comment as an excuse or an argument that's it's OK. Governments are run by humans which regularly mess up despite their high hopes.
Absolutely. I even think this, or something like it, will catch on in enterprise development shops for those fringe projects that are done in like a week. Especially if it can be deployed on the same tech stack as that other random thing we built. We use ASP.NET MVC for a lot of this stuff, which combined with ADO.NET and SignalR and a good JS framework, gets you 75% of the way there.

I will tell you what I would like it to be. Maybe it gives you a Visual Studio-style editor for websites, which let you easily lay out a page, edit CSS, add event handlers to elements, link to other pages, and make and use data bindings (which could be configurable: persistent to DB, associated with user account, validated with this function, etc.)

Then you could use the data model created by the bindings, modify it if you want (data model specification is probably integral to everything), add and configure whatever extra stuff is supported (accounts, websockets, whatever).

A cross between Weebly and Visual Studio. It would be great for demo apps and internal utilities.
20% is "just slightly" more expensive?
GPUs love hashing things, do you think ArrayFire would make that easy to do? I would LOVE to use the library to create an opensource GPU cracking program. Hashcat is amazing but is closed source. I am giddy with excitement at the prospect. Thanks!
It is free. For three years.

Free is not so rigorous a word it can only be applied to things which are free in perpetuity.
That's already quite accurate. However, you can also bind against external APIs and deploy Docker applications to fill the skeleton application.

The structure can be written in a JSON or XML format or alternatively be constructed using one of our libs, which are planned to be written in D, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP and possibly/almost certainly others.

We generate client & server side code and you can get the source code out in one of the supported stacks. Alternatively, we can host for you on a scalable stack, so you wouldn't need to care about setting up your own environments. If you deploy on your own stack, you obviously can have full control, if you deploy with us, we'll provide a number of configuration options, but generally it's a compiled server app running on a auto-scaling stack.
The piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQzUx3QW2Y

Too right, too right.
That's what hg-git is for. :-)
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Also I never said that it has so much potential, I'm curious to know where you found this in my comment.

What. The first two sentences of your comment:

> Does space exploration has the potential to transform civilization? Yeah it actually does.
Does this use extended public keys?
> For starters, it encourages a bad habit: using the Microsoft stack and deploying on Windows.

Or, you know, just using the Azure portion of the program and deploying in any language with any database implementation to linux VMs with docker.
Rules come from somewhere.

That somewhere is rulers.

Therefore, no rulers => no rules.

Therefore, (Anarchy => no rulers) => (Anarchy => no rules).
The Slur market: Anonymously auction secrets, zero-days or blackmail for Bitcoin
I'm talking about IT workers. Average wages are 2x-3x of the u.s. Taxes are 11% to 21% depending in the canton vs the u.s which can be up to 40% in CA. Expenses are 2x in Switzerland but if you live in s.f. probably comparable.

I don't want this to get sidetracked to be a conversation about Switzerland though. In general life is better in Europe than the u.s. - less desperate. At least you have obamacare now.
Yes. Likewise, it doesn't make sense that just because you spend money on entertainment, you can't oppose (what you see as) frivolous projects by the State.

I was just using a similar argument, to show that they're both flawed.
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It helped OS X ;-)

OS X benefited from the labor savings of forking somebody else's existing project, dramatically reducing cost & time compared to a) continuing to support OS9 b) starting from scratch.

The technical nature of its status as a Unix derivative is, to my knowledge, basically nothing to do with its current market success.

The Navy's practice of stripping old ships and building a new ship with the old hull comes to mind.
I think you're right that an open attitude towards security breaches is essential for a healthy security ecosystem. However,
in practice, fessing up in public during an investigation will rarely happen. Security incident responses are some of the most-hushed processes, even inside otherwise open organizations.

That's because you want to find and close the vulnerabilities before publicizing them. Otherwise, by publicizing, you invite attacks that will (a) multiply the noise you have to sift through to complete the investigation and (b) potentially create new incidents, at a time when you are already in a crisis (the current attack & investigation).

So most security departments will only talk about what happened after the fact, when it's all been tidied up again. But even then, the habit of secrecy has already been established. It's a constant struggle to bring openness to a process where secrecy is a short-term advantage. If you want an informative accounting of what happened, I think you need to add it to the incident response process.

For example (simplified for illustration)

1. Notice an intrusion

2. Capture information (logs, vulnerabilities used, etc)

3. Secure systems that have been compromised

4. Prevent future intrusions within the organization

Need to modify 4 (or add 5)

5. Publish to help other orgs also prevent intrusions.

But other orgs may hate you for that, because in the process of publishing, you have exposed their lax practices that (in hindsight) used to be your lax practices ...
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This is quite accurately describing what we're trying to do on the front-end side. :) In addition to just creating RESTful APIs and backend and persistence code, we allow you to design your UI in a GUI (or using code). Views are data-driven, so you can essentially bind data from your models using drag&drop (or in code). However, instead of just using XY positioning, we focus on relative positioning of subviews (representing lower level parts of your application) to create working, well-designed interfaces (again, based on your design settings/parameters).
I think the down votes to this are unfair, think you cor posting an enlightening response to someone who appears to be very ill informed :)
The only super legit argument I've heard in favor of _not_ using templates or avoiding them in general is because of the code generation bloat - which is an issue on the consoles I worked on (every K counted on our wii app - we really did run down to the meg in memory usages). That and not all compilers at the time (even as recent as 2007 when I was working on wii) would compile templates well. Now it's much more mature and more widely supported (at least on x86).
It's an embedded ordered key value store, like LevelDB. It's actually configurable to either LSM or BTree. Everything I read says it's much faster than LevelDB, but I never tested it myself.
>Rulers want subjects because they benefit from them. Subjects are resources, like human livestock to be milked. And oh boy, milk us they do.

If only they understood that! That would not be the worst case( http://unqualifiedreservations.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/the-...)

>That's it. Political power implies intervention in what people would otherwise do in their mutually beneficial, voluntary exchanges and arrangements.

Remember, though, that not all voluntary exchanges and agreements are mutually beneficial (paycheck advances); or if they are, there may be an unknowing third party suffering some nasty externalities (I will sell you an extra-polluting car for only $1000!). Is this not a non-exploitive use case?
This is my main grudge with .NET development, a culture of preferring The One True Way. It (among other things) leads to a lack of .NET FOSS diversity.
I don't understand why this was directed at me.
Thank you. Reread your article, got to the end, found it far more readable.

On your point about semicolons, I can see why it might be confusing. It would suggest all Rust expressions return a value. Perhaps the trick is to think about whether you'll need to use the return value from an expression or not.

Interested in reading future Rust articles as you get deeper into it.
Indeed this is one of the most verbose and rambling exploit descriptions I've seen... apparently you can inject some script/HTML code into a field in your profile, but I don't see how that could lead to this:

but can also remotly execute arbitrary codes to access local web-server files or configs
The URL was changed to the NY Times article that originally broke the story, but this post originally linked to an EFF interpretation of the article:

FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr...
The unicode inputs was just a bad idea. Like you said, there is no convenient way to input unicode characters.