skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DEA website lists "not less than 5 years" for first time offenders. This guy got three. If you're black they choke you out for selling cigarettes improperly.
I had to look it up.. Holy shit 0_o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
Are you familiar with Rap Genius? If not, they use "meme" as catch-all-word-for-units-of-culture pretty often, too. Interesting phenomenon for sure
>They say it's in the name of reducing spam on your news feed, but something tells me that it's just a ruse to route that type of behavior to paid advertisements and to end the free ride for small businesses.

I hear this a lot from small businesses....but really, I'm not interested in most things posted by pages I "like".

Facebook does a pretty good job of gauging my interest. I'm very interested in 2-3 pages I liked, and Facebook shows me all of their stuff, usually at the top of my feed.

Other stuff is sporadic, usually just the most popular of that pages posts. The rest is stuff from my friends.

Why should it be different? It's not like I have the attention to see every post from pages I've liked.
That's what they were discussing in the emails regarding 409(a)... from what I understand, the taxable-benefit value of options is determined by the IRS's fair market valuation of the company. So the same options contract becomes more valuable (and more taxable) as the company becomes plausibly more valuable. Spiegel's response indicates that he's unconcerned by this, though, so maybe options aren't a huge part of their compensation package.
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It most certainly is a feature.
>and which is probably suboptimal on mobile.

Why is content so often bad on mobile? I tried reading a page by Forbes today on my moto E, and it didn't even scroll right.

I'm guessing complex analytics has something to do with slow page load speed, but why is so much effort put into making an interface that degrades user experience compared to simply displaying the text with formatting? Web sites used to look fine, AND work.

I suspect I'm missing something and that this behavior helps sites somehow. But I'm at a loss to say how that is.
GCC 4.9 does have `-fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow`, and it generates pretty good code for that toy function:

f(int, int):
mov eax, edi
add eax, esi
jo .L8
ret
.L8:
...
Really confused by all the "it was offensive and in bad taste, so nbd" comments on here. I don't even know where to begin.

Related on the margins, if only that it has to do with the 1st amendment, check out Elonis v. United States[1]. Important 1st amendment case dealing with online threats and reasonable perceptions or expectations of harm.

[1] http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/elonis-v-united-s...
Am I the only one thinking this is not new? There are many articles about such trend with Facebook strategy. Companies either starting to pay up for ads or post more meaning posts to make it viral naturally. Anything bait-like or low quality like-me, like-this,... will be dead.
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This is wrong in so many levels.
Have you ever heard about React and the advantage of the virtual DOM. And about famo.us

For toy projects like this, I guess this is fine. But lets get real....
I'm glad I'm not the only one with these problems. I was starting to think I was going crazy with my etcd+btrfs issues.
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Indeed, magazine readers greatly prefer print ads as their most favorite way to be marketed to (61%, Nov 2014). More than twice the percentage as the #2 way which is trade shows, and way more than annoying banner ads (13%).

And why not> Print ads gently invite you to investigate a product on your own terms. Didn't you all look at the ads in Dobbs and every other special interest magazine? It's universal, still is today.

But since online advertising became more measurable than print, print slowly disappeared. In a nutshell.

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This is the main reason I don't trust the mob of people working on Rust to get their act together and make it a good language. You can see some awareness of the value of integer overflow detection among some individuals that work on Rust but despite that, here we are without that feature. Swift, on the other hand, is one language that has put some thought to the matter.
> A bunch of guys with inflated egos cramming tens of kilobytes of js into pages that need zero, all for a worse UX.

LOL

Yeah because that 14.4K modem is a huge problem.
In a time of retina display, 500K is not an issue at all.
Lets talk about micro optimization ...

> Why doesn't it just use a plain ol' HTML form and some CSS?

Have you heard the performance of using React and famo.us ?
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why not gulp ?
The pointlessness of all this effort is just gobsmacking. What was made better? At what cost?
There was a discussion in the Rust mailing list about it a while back. I used that as a basis for looking at overflow detection at compile time in ATS: http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/05/07/ranged-integer-types-and...
The problem with performance-based model is that is it simply a slower race to the bottom (of quality). Publishers will continue to find ways to trick people into responding and advertisers now consider a lead to be a lead to be a lead. Lowest common denominator wins. Quality loses.

Example: HuffPost. You consider any of that eye-ball grabbing stuff to be quality? (not making a political statement)
I've been bitten badly by btrfs before as well.

I wish it were feasible to get CoreOS (and Docker, for that matter) to add support for ZFS. I use LXC + ZFS every day and it is stable, reasonably fast, and all around wonderful!!!

sigh.
In HTTP/2 (SPDY) the only headers that need to be sent are ones that changed since the last request on the connection. So once that is more common you'll actually be better off just attaching the cookies to all requests since that will mean they only get sent once per TCP connection.
The Post says the malware itself contains sections in Korean and is similar to code found on South Korean networks. But like you, I still remain skeptical
It's not really possible to engage with a comment like this - I feel like it's trolling for a response in order to jump on the replier and attack him/her as a racist. I also don't think it's in good taste to argue the finer points of the circumstances of Garner's death. But I would like to point out that the DEA wasn't responsible for what happened to him.
I'm still using Hyrda with some simple commands, like moving window to the left half, right half, full screen, center.

Haven't tried the new version of Hyrda yet.
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From the article:

So are the volunteers loose cannons who
could potentially embarrass the Kremlin?
Or are they simply useful tools of a policy
that can be officially denied?

Not sure if "useful tools" is as appropriate as the much older phrase "useful idiots".

Sucks to be one of the many ordinary Russians and Ukrainians suffering on account of Putin's megalomania. Yet another counterexample to Friedman's "Golden Arches Theory". [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree#Go...
Yes, but those publishers are getting dimes, nay, pennies, compared to the print ad revenue (should say "were" in terms of print).

Publishers did not burn themselves. They were desperate for survival. If they only ran, say 3 banners through an online article they would have simply been out of business. There was nowhere else to turn for many of them as the advertising disappeared. Evolution.
And it was an amazing phone executed so well that they couldn't keep it on the shelves. /s

Seriously. Are you that dense?
Felix Salmon is no longer at Reuters. The article itself and the link both show as much.
Interestingly, it's part of a broader query posed to many journalist and neatly compiled here: http://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2015/

EVEN better, they follow a sane URL-naming scheme so last year's predictions were easy enough to find:
http://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2014/
ZFS is coming for Docker. This is a natural move. Now that enterprise relies on the cloud they need enterprise-reliable storage -- and ZFS is proven. Looking forward to the ZFS-hosted cloud future.
I was curious to see how you'd react to this, since Spiegel's success has been such a thorn in your side.

I don't care about him, personally. He's boring. I care about frat boys being funded at the expense of people with actual ideas. I care about a generation of technologists that has been sold out because a bunch of smooth-operator, manipulative invaders have come in and outcompeted true technologists for funding and coverage, and the VCs have let it happen. If they were worth their millions per year, they simply wouldn't. If they could actually spot talent sufficiently well to justify their obscene salaries, they wouldn't be funding frat boys. I react strongly because this nonsense is very bad for the world.

If Evan Spiegel wasn't part of something that's setting technology back by decades, I wouldn't give a rat's ass about him or his billions either way.

So let's see, you opened with conspiracy theory nutjob

No, you misunderstand. Obviously, he didn't intend for the Sony hack to happen. My contention is that, after the hack happened, he got quickly to work on figuring out how to use it best to bolster his reputation.

An effective sociopath doesn't expect to control the world, because that's impossible, but only to exploit events as they come for maximal personal benefit. Clearly, Spiegel had nothing to do with the Sony hack. I'm arguing that his PR apparatus engaged shortly afterward.

Given that Snapchat Beliebers (employees?) have come out of the woodwork to downvote me into oblivion, it's not that far fetched. His PR team (which may include the whole company) clearly managed to find my posts on a Wednesday afternoon. This means that they respond quickly to events large and small... and what I say on Hacker News is clearly less newsworthy than the Sony hack.

And you probably spent as more time writing your comment than Spiegel did writing his email.

I see what you're trying to say, and it doesn't work. Emails to investors, because your employees' livelihoods depend on them, deserve more time than Hacker News posts. Writing them quickly, when not well, isn't something to be bragged about. Granted, he's probably going for neoteny to some extent, and I'm sure he uses uptalk when interacting with investors, but even still... he should learn to communicate clearly and professionally.
Never mind how it's pronounced. No developers in their right mind would automate Excel from their web server the way they did in that demo!
I loved the CRUD acronym when I first heard it. Sounds like an insult, and it kind of is one!
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Adsense for publishers worked about 10 years ago. My revenue (sdtimes.com) was about $700/month in 2004-5 or so. Not bad for virtually no work and 100% profit margin. Then $600/mo. Then $400. Then 2-3 years later down to $200/mo - meanwhile we were generating 3x the pageviews! When it got down to $140,mo we said forget it, not worth it. As did many many other publishers.

There are trillions more ad venues (pages) to advertise on vs 10 years ago. Digital advertising may have gone way up, but it's way more spread out.

Ted Bahr, SD Times, still printing!
Welcome to the internet?

HN, in my experience, is one of the better communities online. Trolls seem to be few and far between, and when they do show up, they're downvoted into oblivion. If you think HN is full of assholes, you're going to be sorely disappointed by most other sites too...
Many of O(n) algo for median have one compromise: They either return only the upper or lower median when n is even. In some applications, we might want average of these two instead. Are there any efficient algorithm there? Obviously it can be done with two calls to O(n) algo but can it be done more elegantly, efficiently and in single pass?
Substitute popularity (karma bubbling) for relevance (tags+search). I open HN home page 2-3 times per day (seldom I need to click on more). Of all the results, 3-4 are relevant to me but I still need to quickly read all the titles to find them. Build something smart that lists only what is relevant to me and you have a killer app.
You mean Joyent?[1] Which has existed for quite a while.

1. https://www.joyent.com/
Hi @sah88, we've made some tweaks and I hope the load time has improved on your end :)
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Hi acveilleux, i'm sorry for the slow load times. We've made some tweaks and it should load quicker now :)
Huh, Swift actually does overflow checking and traps by default. That's quite refreshing.
"the average Botswanan today earns more than the average citizen of Finland did in 1955."

http://www.davidbahnsen.com/index.php/2013/11/10/the-rationa...

I read Scott Ridley's book. And I recommend it highly.
I hope optimiztion of integer overflow checking improves in LLVM, since now there is a highly visible project(JavaScriptCore FTL JIT) using the feature. JavaScript semantics pretty much forces you to do integer overflow checking fast.
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What about the cyber defense command ? Couldn't they have done anything to protect the U.S. companies?

This is becoming a security issue.
One thing you might want to check is if you're setting a limit in the driver for the amount of memory ZFS uses for caching. By default it'll use a LOT of memory, so I usually just set to a max of 2GB and don't see any issues.
There is no question mark on the title of the page itself, so why is there one here? And even if it was a question, it violates Betteridge's law of headlines [0] in that if it was a question, then the answer would have been no, but in this article Felix is arguing that will be the case.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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Programmatic Advertising is another way for advertisers to pay virtually nothing.

The reason you see Interop over and over again is that this is a house ad - placed by UBM on a UBM site - in lieu of having any paid advertising.

We run house ads and banners too - free to us - for our conferences on sdtimes.com

Ted Bahr SD Times
You're referring to the optimisation of storing JS Numbers as integers until they get too large, presumably?
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I think of a time slicer as an rtos - a simple one :)
There is an age old word too, scapegoat. It's must be easy to lay blame on something that can't be heard.
LOL, angular get stuck ...
it was not intuitive at all that the date picker supported both departure and arrival dates. might be better to have two date fields :)
> 'Young man,' the professor said, 'in history, we need at least five proofs for any conclusion.' Next day, Kolmogorov switched to mathematics.

Makes sense. In math, you only need one (solid) proof. :)

The relative demand actually makes a lot of sense. When you're constructing a picture by interpolating a story around some points of evidence, overfitting is going to be a hazard, possibly inevitable. And you can't even re-run an experiment. You'd have to be as careful as a scientist, more thorough than a lawyer in discovery, and pretty creative.
Native integer overflow checks can only go so far, there, since there's no 52-bit integer type.
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The First Amendment only protects you from the actions of the government, not from the actions of citizens or corporations. For example, I can legally forbid you from handing out leaflets on my own property, but the government can't forbid you from handing out leaflets on a public street. The First Amendment says:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The Bill of Rights (first ten amendments) originally applied only to the federal government (e.g., "Congress shall make..."), but was later extended to apply to the governments of the states as well.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
I would greatly prefer you make websites that don't require progress bars.
Funny thing is that if ZFS happens in Docker it'll be only because the community demanded it over the opposition of the core Docker maintainers. AFAICT, Aufs is being dropped due to massive opposition from Redhat. (Apparently AUFS code is too horrible to merge/support???) Despite its spotty track record, BTRFS is the only current recommended/supported CoW file system, and OverlayFS looks to be the docker-blessed next-gen Aufs alternative.

Based on past experiences, I don't see Docker-blessed ZFS support coming anytime soon, but I hope I'm wrong. Maybe someone over at Joyent or Oracle can grease the wheels here? :-)
I've worked extensively with both grunt and gulp for the past couple of years (I've even written gulp plugins![1][2]), and I'm still shocked at how bad the tooling is compared to ruby (rails asset pipeline / sprockets) and clojure (leiningen, chestnut, etc.).

For example, here is a simple gulpfile for a livereload environment that compiles sass and coffeescript [3]. It's over 500 lines long, and it requires extensive knowledge of at least 20 plugins. And half of those plugins are there to address the shortcomings of other plugins, or of gulp itself [4].

But really the worst part is that every time some dependency of a dependency pushes a point release, it breaks the entire build. My team has resorted to passing around a stable `node_modules` dropbox folder. I'm literally terrified to run npm update!

Anyway boot looks cool, I can't wait to try it out :)

[1] https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/gulp-rev-replace-stream

[2] https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/generator-gulp-of-drano

[3] https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/generator-gulp-of-drano/b...

[4] https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-buffer
Popularity is an outcome. It may arise due to a combination of features (e.g. adding viral 'share this' buttons, or having karma to encourage participation from existing users) but it's not a feature in the sense of 'a piece of functionality you can build'.

It's an important outcome, and the OP will need to figure out what features will encourage/support popularity.
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"Terrorist" is probably the most destructive word in modern American vernacular. It means both anything and nothing; its only purpose is to (ironically) evoke fear in the listener and handwave away people and ideas you don't like with no evidence and no grounds for further discussion.

Forget motives and social constructs. Forget thinking about real solutions. Are they "cyberterrorists"? Are we being "terrorized"?

The answer to the latter question is of course yes, but not by the "terrorists" but by sensationalist articles like this.
As noted elsewhere, Sony is a Japanese corp. The release - in any country - under their watch can cause retaliation against Japan and sour already touchy relations between them and North Korea, not to mention the physical proximity, smaller country size, etc.
Because sun decided to sabotage it when they released it and oracle haven't stepped back yet.
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Hacker News's list of features is, let's be honest, spartan. Yet it still manages to pull in considerable viewership precisely because it's popular. Circular reasoning, I know. That's the way it works.

Popularity isn't just a feature - it's the single most important feature in any community-driven website.
hrm... what's the failure scenario here? Are there any good btrfs management utils that can help with running btrfs in prod?
Eh. This misses a couple of things.

One, the FBI told the theater chains that if they screen the movie, they could be targets for the hackers. I'm pretty doubtful that theater chains have good security, and they probably know it. They also don't want their internal emails spread all over the media and their business disrupted. As no company does. So I can't blame them once the FBI has scaremongered them.

Two, once the theaters said they won't screen it, Sony would lose money releasing it. It's not free to send out prints and continue advertising. If they have no hope to make money, why lose more money? And why piss off the hackers further? Where's the win?

It's nice to sit back and say Sony should release it, but honestly, what's in it for them at this point?
I also "love" how the only thing scarier than a terrorist, is a cyberterrorist.
The license for ZFS is still CDDL
Sabotage? How, exactly? I have heard of no major corruption or performance bugs in ZFS, what am I missing?
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What? JavaScript engines check for 32-bit integer overflow and promote to double.
>Putting files in a directory is semantically equivalent to applying a tag.

Yes, equivalent to a single tag. Not multiple tags.
It was still initially Sony's call to let the theaters out of their contractural obligation to air it.

Once they all took them up on the free pass, yes - canceling the release may have been the sensible move.
this is cool, but you can do the same with beautifulsoup and textblob in far fewer lines of code and you wouldn't need any web services. if textblob isn't your thing there's plenty of svm implementations out there.

for more interesting sentiment analysis approaches check out sentence vectors, that's the current bleeding edge of research in this area.

most sentiment analysis systems need to use an ensemble classifier because the domain of the text is very important. identifying the domain and using the appropriate domain specific model is important.
There's an emerging standard for specifying a hash for a resource, and potentially loading it from one of several locations, so long as it matches the given hash: http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
I'd certainly like a good personal finance site, but there's one challenging aspect: personal finance works differently depending on which country you are located. Example: Where I'm from, we don't have 401k's, we have something called the EPF. Overcome this, and the world is your oyster.

Also, why limit this to engineers? Is there something about the way we engineers handle our finances that's different from the general population?
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