skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I spent 2 months disassembling CouchDB to see if we could maintain it

I would love to know your thoughts on this.
Snow days turn digital at more schools
'Nobody ' is not quite correct. What you probably mean is not everyone needs reliable messaging.

As a former TIBCO and MQ developer, I could not have done without them when developing trading applications.
Compiler feature matrix: http://perl6.org/compilers/features Note that there is also a JVM target. This is exciting!
Facebook has two scaling problems. One is the code, sure, but one is also the employees. They need to be able to hire and scale out their teams, and have had to do so quite quickly.

It's easier to find C++ people than it is Erlang. That is a consideration.

It's why Facebook chat was originally in Erlang, then switched to PHP. Facebook already had a lot of PHP devs, they are a lot easier to find, so rather than having to bring people up to speed, or keep a dedicated team always slightly free to be able to handle issues for chat, they rewrote it in PHP.

There is no magic bullet, not even Erlang. You have to weigh a variety of considerations, and pick appropriately based on them. But dismissing Erlang because a benchmark showed it to be slower is likely a mistake; dismissing it because you can't hire fast enough for it is a reasonable business decision.
73,000 Security Cameras Viewable Online Due to Use of Default Passwords
If you're interested in work at the south pole, There are a few companies that have contacts down there, such as Scientific Research Corporation, and Lockheed Martin.

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/antarctic-support-...

http://www.scires.com/divisions/ice/index.html
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I've had a lot of issues with MSS not being received.
I think that TOR should no longer be considered secure in the wake of so many busts. Either it isn't secure by some flaw, or it is too easy to fingerprint visitors, or some other work around.
http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/7/71/2011-forum-porting...

Your work on porting KVM to SmartOS is amazing, I don't think this accomplishment can be easily overstated.
i second this. i started rejecting offers from companies that are using php, two years ago. companies using php (in turkey) have high turnover rates which means they have crippled products. i don't want to deal with a company like that and a product like that.
So what's the second button then?
The way things currently are, people are dying without access to drugs that are known to work. The approval process is painfully slow.

As a concrete example, there's a new class of immune therapy drugs used in the treatment of melanoma, among them PD-1 inhibitors and Ipilimumab. The data for these has been around for years, they are known to offer some kind of response in about a quarter of patients. In a small percentage of patients, there has been complete response and they've been disease free for years. This is unheard of in metastatic melanoma (stage IV has a 10% 5-year survival rate).

Dying of melanoma, by the way, is not a pretty death, there's nothing dignified or natural about how melanoma kills. It's something out of a horror movie. Dying early of liver failure would is a walk in the park compared to what a terminal patient has to look forward to.

In any case, the point is moot, because not only are PD-1 and its ilk more effective, but the side effects in trial patients have been minimal compared to the destructive known effects of chemo and radiation (or golf-ball sized bleeding tumors cropping up in your intestines).

I invite you to visit any melanoma forum and read the backlogs. You can read through years of people going through horrific treatments, all of which, again, are known to not be effective (biochemo, interferon, surgeries, whole brain radiation once the cancer spreads to the brain), while desperately applying for studies for drugs that are out there and already showing positive results. Then they suffer. A lot. Then they die.

The boards are filled with stories like these: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/dad-pleading-unapproved-cancer-... - "Dad Pleading for Unapproved Cancer Drug Dies".

Trials often have very strict exclusionary criteria, leaving many people out - often those who need it most:

> Auden said he was told that in order to be accepted into a clinical trial for the anti-PD-1 drug, he would need to have either no brain tumors or brain tumors that were at least no longer growing.

Even once they are approved, they might not be immediately approved as first-line treatment, meaning you still have to go through the old standard of treatment, wait until it doesn't work (meaning: put your body through the wringer, then wait for the cancer to come back again -- hopefully nowhere important like your brain or your lungs), and only then you have access to the new miracle drugs.

It's easy to make internet comments over some theoretical "gotcha" if you've never been on the receiving end of the stick. But the current system is broken and real people are suffering needlessly.

How in any way does it negate the scientific process to allow people who have nothing but months of pain and suffering ahead of them to give an experimental drug a shot?
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Why silicon valley doesn't care about Android
I don't really get why you need to render this on a canvas.
It's text only, you should be able to render this in pure HTML with some CSS.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things in Healthtech, and Investing in Drugs Platforms
No PhD here, but IAMA T1D.

I noticed from the actual study that candidates for the trial must be within 3 months of diagnosis to even be considered; so it seems they are trying to screen and find only those people who have just recently developed diabetes and reverse it early in the process. In a sense this is sort of like catching a soon to be T2D in the pre-diabetic phase and telling them to eat less and run more. (There is no offense intended in that previous statement; with an obese pre-diabetic (type 2) it is possible to stop the disease before things are too late through exercise and diet, this is not the case in with a Type 1).

This makes me question if this is an effective treatment ONLY when caught early; or if it could be useful for long time diabetics like myself.

Also this treatment addresses beta cell replacement which is one side, but it doesn't address the autoimmune side which is actually causing the beta cell destruction in the first place. So would this be a lifetime pill that is taken to continuously build new beta cells? As I see it in the autoimmune T1D case as the beta cells remain under attack this would not be a "cure" per se, but rather an ongoing treatment that would result in an overall better outcome and quality of life for a diabetic (given it works at all).
Agreed. From this point forward Tor is considered harmful.

But the same time, it seems like they're using workarounds, attacking the browser etc. I still believe the underlying network remains unbroken.
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It is very much a kluge but you can use pipe(2); it will give you two fds both of which you control. Then you can read/write from the "local" end and serialise the traffic however you wish.
Down vote = I don't agree with your statement normally here. Not that it might be a starting point on a conversation?
One to rule them all?
I think that the feds having found and exploited a Tor vulnerability is much less likely than them having violated the law in the process of their investigation and then covered it up with parallel construction.
We might be discussing semantics, but try to see staging as a pre-production environment. You want to test the changes prior to deployment in an environment that is as close to production as possible, clean and accurate, while develop stays lean and dirty.

For some projects though this is a bit overkill and if you don't think this is important chances are you can get away with something more akin to the branching model rorykoehein posted.
I work with PHP professionally, but I do have to agree that the strange tendency to want to make PHP look like something that it isn't works against it far more often than it helps.
The influx of new Berliners in Mitte, Neukölln, Schöneberg etc is not totally unexpected. A lot of new residents moved there in the past 4-5 years and they're much sought after.

What's interesting here is the influx of new Berliners in areas like Lichtenberg and Marzahn. These were traditionally perceived as DDR remnants and full of neo-nazis.

Also what's happening in Tegeler Forst kiez?
No, it would be 8 times harder.
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It's a high profile tech magazine with mainstream credibility. It would be silly for them not to have FBI sources.
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Want to read a horror story of a non-experimental drug that is still on the market today?

Well, read this: [1]

[1] http://www.pfsfoundation.org/
Does your employer not have periodic internal needs, things that are basically "hey, we really need something that Xs", that isn't really directly funded, but which they'd be willing to let you take a week on?

What about devops? Are there any areas where you either aren't collecting data you might want, or you are collecting it but only recovering it after it's caused an issue? Maybe a small utility there will, while nibbling a bit at your productive hours (few hours a week), lead to enough gains over the long term as to offset it.

Sure, if your employer prevents you from touching anything outside your dev box without a TPS report signed by the head of engineering, the head of QA, legal, and Gryphon (the mythical animal one), and any code that passes always has to be in Java, you're out of luck, but that seems like the kind of environment to flee.
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"What's the message? If you see a problem, you will go fix it, nobody stops you, you can actually make a change, don't waste your time complaining."¹

When it's about public space, isn't it actually your place to demand such changes from the the public institutions that actually have the authority and responsibility for its maintenance? ...and also to complain when the institutions in question don't do their job? The filth is just a symptom, not a cause. The message quoted above calls for a kind of civic action that will only detract the needed attention from addressing the real problems of the system.

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tf...

EDIT: Adding the link to the quoted message.
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Ask HN: How do you meditate?
I've seen and heard a lot on meditation helping your concentration and creativity, as well as happiness. I'm interested in learning to increase my mental and emotional performance, but not too interested in the spiritual side of things. Does anyone recommend a favorite tutorial for meditation that's not going to send me directly to a spiritual guru?
Even so, imho on a staging environment everything should be ready to deploy barring either functional acceptance or very, very unforeseen technical issues that didn't show up systems that mimic production just a tad less closely.

Staging = "ready to roll", not "still needs testing to see if things break". Things shouldn't break on staging.

Of course you can forgo manual QA if your automated testing is so perfect that staging is just a formality. I'm guessing ZenPayroll has that covered, given that they deploy to production "several times a week".

So I assume "trying their best to break things" is just a flippant description of final acceptance, not QA testing.
It is, but acting as if the current "now" is the only thing that matters leads to very short term thinking, which often ends up with bad long term consequences.
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Hm, is it normal in Berlin to live at some place for many years and still renting the apartment? Instead of buying/owning it...
but this happened yesterday and there were lots of posts from various sites about it, the criminal complaint has been posted online, I dont see how wired were frist with anything here.
From a strict evolutionary fitness perspective, depression is very nearly catastrophic. But, that framing doesn't make sense in the first place, nor is it necessary in order to assess the "natural state" of humans.

Depression is a mental health issue. Unhealthiness is not a natural state.

You are also profoundly misguided in your understanding that depression is the opposite of happiness. Most of your argument seems to rest on that confusion.
Larry is very involved in Perl 6[1]. I'm not sure what grondilu was thinking there. While as far as I know Larry sprang that on the rest of us, the general reaction I've seen has been that the gauntlet has been thrown down, and we've got to live up to it.

[1] https://github.com/TimToady
I don't think it's the character limit, it's the fact that the stream moves so quickly that unless you tweet loudly more than likely no one will read what you write (unless you happen to be a celebrity).
When rust becomes stable, this probably would be a good candidate.
So, how long until someone turns this into a sex robot?
Strengthening Dropbox through diversity
Using Docker in your development environment
That may very well be true, but in the absence of supporting evidence, prudence would suggest caution (with respect to tor) is not a bad idea.
When you're rare and in demand (in your case people who are reliable and finishers, and in the previous case idea guys who need technical people), you don't just go with the first bloke that makes an offer. You need to offer something compelling that they can't get elsewhere.

You raise a valid point. But I am hardly ever naive. I live a pretty frugal life and saved up quite a bit of money ($xx,000). I usually hire people from codementor.io/airpair/railshotline (this is free) and pair program. This was the secret to finishing my last two products on time and landing my first paying customer for the last product.

Please don't apologize for stating your opinion. I always seek feedback and I am not easily discouraged.
That's some crazy stuff. I wish you all the best when you re-apply!
They didn't sleep under their desk, but they may well have spend 80% of their nights in hotels, which is worse (imho).
That I believe is called Gentrification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification
Shameless plug for my app. http://slotted.co

Many people use it for one-on-one meetings like office hours. But you can make any kind of signup sheet you can imagine. Very geek friendly UI.
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British Spies Are Free To Target Lawyers And Journalists
The best path is the middle.

I learned this in some book about Buddhism. We must have a balanced life. Life is a long trip. The end is the objective and, of course, very important, but we also need to enjoy the travel.
Here are my thoughts ( VC @ Balderton ) on why we invested, for what it's worth: https://medium.com/@jp_wise/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things...
Me too, I just can't bother with digging through php code
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> We merge feature into dev when we want to show a feature to a fellow developer.

Wouldn't you just show them the feature branch?
Every time I read something on The Intercept I come away thinking it's time to do everything in my power to move off the grid and live in a hole somewhere.
Does it still matter? My last line of Perl at work was back in 2005.

Since then, our clients have been using Python, Groovy and Powershell code for the same set of tasks.
We are heavily using it in production on http://casinorpg.com (not a common use-case, but it works well for us). Basically, when a player creates a new character, they are able to customize out of millions of unique possibilities. Since the game is HTML5, we must generate a unique PNG sprite for their character. We run Manta jobs to do this by generating the image, compressing it and then storing it directly in Manta (where it then gets picked up by a CDN).
If there is a fibre to the building type network in place it will be pretty hard to justify paying the money to maintain ugly old hacks like DSL and cable internet. You might as well add 56k modems to the list of competitive services. Such things are simply not competitive to fibre.

In terms of simple economic efficiency having multiple redundant last mile networks doesn't really make any sense. That's why no city has multiple competitive sewer and water systems.

You don't need multiple last mile systems to have a competitive ISP/TV/phone market. You just need good policies to allow entities that want to sell data services to get access to the last mile infrastructure. You can even bill for the LM infrastructure separately if you want to prevent bundling.
We have a similar process it allows for more releases. imo there are things that require more testing then others, and they shouldn't hold up the process of releasing code.
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The Score takes care of itself
The kernel sure. User space, not really.
Thanks for an eyeopener. I didn't realize depression could be such dreadful illness.

Frankly, I have never seen anyone go through it in my social circle. I apologize for my ignorance.
Yeah, well, history is gonna change.
You mean INsecure: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegra...
"Mindfulness" is basically a rebranding of meditation, stripped of the religious aspect.
Note that this is all about .onion hosted servers. Any flaws might be about locating the servers inside the TOR network and not about identifying individual users.
Is there any way to read this without wasting time clicking through things Quora wants you to click through?

I'm interested in this answer, but not in setting up accounts and interests just to read it.
Both those questions work on ok google btw
> The downside of the emphasis on practicality was that the language always suffered from incoherence

IMHO, it was coherent. But the syntax is wierd (may be usage of symbols $%@{}[] ) for people unfamiliar with it.

I haven't done big projects with perl in the last 12 years. But when I need it, it is like riding a bike.
Dedicated QA team? Person? Feels like they are missing a crucial piece of non-devs testing and accepting features. Only my opinion but in my experience developers have a different definition of done then non developers so having both QA and even some user acceptance testing goes a long way.
I sincerely hope this was done not through Tor backdoors but through traditional police techniques. It would be a great piece of evidence in support of anonymity if they were able to do all of this without finding/creating exploits.

Hopefully we'll eventually know the truth.
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I am curious how a .onion domain seizure works. Does this mean the various law enforcement agencies are in possession of the private keys of the services they shut down?
I wonder whether you wouldn't find the same pattern in many other metropoles.

Yeah I'd be interested in seeing similar stats for other cities.

Related interesting links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_born#Miscellaneous_regi...

http://randomlylondon.com/map-other-english-borough/
They somehow find the physical location of the hidden service and then are able to take control (e.g. via a letter to the webhost). After that they have full control over the server and thereby also the key behind the .onion address.

How do they find the physical location? This could be by plenty of technical methods, which is really too elaborate to expand on here, but it's almost certainly not a flaw in Tor itself. It's just very hard to do it all correctly from A through Z, one mistake and you're busted, so that's why so many services can be taken down.
When I mentioned "depressed", i did mean the former meaning you gave as that is what I only knew.

Yes, definitely, people do get touchy.

I apologize to smt88 if I offended him, though it was never my intention.
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But Tor should protect against illegal actions as much as against legal ones. Unless, of course, they hacked into the servers (using flaws unrelated to Tor), but the problem is how these servers were even located!
LG webOS based TVs are basically Linux. And it's great.
Also this article is a year old. Can we get a title change? and maybe someone from ZenPayroll can chime in how their process has changed, if it has?
$200 is an awful lot to spend to keep from having to look for your phone while in just one room of your house.
Only at 90% ;)
It's simple. Sit down in silence and focus on your breathing. When getting started I used to think 'iiiinnnnn' and 'ooouuuutttt' as I inhaled and exhaled. It helps focus your mind. When you find yourself thinking of something else don't get upset, just bring your focus back. It takes a while before you notice it get easier (2-4 weeks of 10 minute sessions once per day) but you will eventually notice you don't need to think anything anymore and your mind just focuses.

I learnt this technique online and it's worked well for me. I also tried guided meditations on apps from Headspace and Calm but found that the guides just interrupted me and pulled me out of focus.

Just set a 5-10 min timer on your phone, close your eyes, and try what I've explained above.
So I'll stop to pretend to "be at the office" now and actually go home to see my kids. No joke.
It's interesting to see the small air bubbles inside the giant water drop.

[Spoiler alert: The bubbles don't rise to the surface and disappear because there is no [apparent] gravity!]
The speaker is Larry Wall but I interpreted timotimo's quote as meaning that the abstract on the FOSDEM page, along with the pseudo-announcement, has not been written by Larry himself.
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Pants is bad, yeah.
After a terrible first experience I usually reject anything JSP related. Java is a great language but whoever decided to combine it with web servers created a monster. I actually really enjoy PHP and Ruby projects, even Python with a good framework.
I agree! Current drugs aren't very effective, and there is a lot of room for upside in future therapies.
Why your code is so hard to understand
I refuse to believe that the FBI is privy to a funamental TOR break that's completely eluded the cryptographic community, and they're risking revealing it with some darknet busts.

If TOR was broken, they'd be encouraging its use while secretly mining it for parallel construction opportunities across the board. Instead, we get warning shots.

TOR is fine, but now that we know that the FBI has its tendrils everywhere perhaps we should be a lot more cautious about trusting people we meet online. At the very least we shouldn't be granting administrator privileges to people we don't know the identities of, which is a mistake some of these operators seemingly made.
Yes, that's one of the primary ways my startup sells ad space :)

It also means we have time to really look at each ad to make sure it's a fit for the audience or if there are ways to make it better.
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It's probably still early to be using this, unless it's of particular interest (interest is encouraged, of course!). There's a reason the server API isn't documented, for example.
My very biased opinion is that you get what you pay for.
This was an infomercial in the form of a blog... dissapointing
I don't understand how a startup will help here. The problem is regulatory hurdles (good or bad): there are laws that prevent patients from buying medicine before it's been thoroughly vetted. Will this company lobby to change those laws? Or is this an Uber situation where the fact that it's a VC-funded startup means that regulations magically don't apply.