skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FreeBSD jails are like a really mature, full-featured version of LXC as opposed to "just a chroot". In addition to being chroot that provides real filesystem isolation without many of the security issues of a Linux chroot, it also has CPU and memory limits, disk quotas, network isolation, root privilege isolation, all the magical ZFS goodness (provided you're running the jail on ZFS). It's really, really nice.

This is a pretty good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtual...
Why Emulators Do Not Work for Development
Spoken like a true sophist.

So anything that's not mainstream is just as crazy as thinking that the earth is flat, huh?

For example, it's decidedly mainstream to believe that ~2% inflation is a good thing, mostly because governments say so.

But it's plain crazy to disagree, realizing that not a single sane person on earth actually wants his purchasing power to decrease, but that's exactly what the 2% inflation does to us.
Many fine thoughts here, but I was given pause by the statement "Etymologically, the word technology means “a better way of doing things.” I wonder where Horowitz sourced this from.

The OED doesn't have anything resembling this. Neither does etymonline. So I'm curious where this comes from.

The OED defines "technology" and offers references dating to 1615. I'll reproduce the OED's definitions here briefly:

1a: A discourse or treatise on an art or arts; the scientific study of the practical or industrial arts.
1b: Practical arts collectively.
1c: A particular practical or industrial art.

Even looking at the stem techno, you will not find anything approaching Horowitz's value judgment that he has inserted: better. Or worse for that matter. This sort of misappropriation of language is not only lazy, it's dangerous, and unfortunately it is pervasive.
It's a wonder to me how no Verizon competitor has jumped at the opportunity to advertise this on a large scale with a message along the lines "it's evil, we don't do that".

If the users really care about this issue, that's what would happen on a functioning market anyway...
Plus they "forgot" to tell you in that site that taxation is around 55% here in Italy. STAY AWAY!
“[The Dread Pirate Roberts] is someone who studiously avoided revealing his identity to anyone on the site…This same person goes to a public library and uses a public Wifi connection?” Dratel asked the jury. “That Ross is DPR is a contradiction so fundamental that it defies common sense.”

I guess they're hoping the jury and prosecutors don't know what a VPN is, or, you know, Tor...
Couldn't you fake a false UIDH header if you don't use verizon?

If yes, then people could publish their UIDH and have other people use it as well. If many do this, the unique identification aspect of UIDH is lost.

Something like using a random UIDH from a list of published ones every request.
Seems like a bad idea: adding wealth destruction to a currency that is deflationary by design. It is also unnecessary.

Take 2 addresses that you control. Send not one transaction between them, but inside a sequence. Say you want to encode a 512-bit hash, split it into 29-bit chunks. Encode each chunk as the low-order bits of the transaction value so each transaction may cost up to 1BTC.

Send each transaction from address-1 to address-2 and then back to address-1 (no net change in balance).

Treat the entire sequence as an encoding of a hash (looping transactions between addresses with values under 1BTC).
You do understand how a representative government works?
@gruturo la finiamo con sta storia del buon cibo, del tempo, ecc???
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Little Printer is shutting down :(
>> the core problem: namely, that a big or slow request can block you from doing anything else
> Why is that the core problem?

Head of line blocking leaves the network idle, and one of the key factors to good front end performance is to overcome network latency and start using the network / growing the congestion window as soon as possible.
Except that Microsoft tested SPDY against pipelining and found that pipelining was essentially just as good.

Can you point to that?
> You cannot break the 2nd law of thermodynamics

There's a bit more happening than the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Our body does a lot of things.

I understand how comforting it can be to put it in "in -> out" terms, so simple. But it just doesn't reflect in any way the complexity of a living organism, and doesn't reflect the experiences of people trying naively to just eat less for instance.
> This does not affect start ups, but once you grow to more than 15 employees, staff hired full time is basically impossible to fire. This is very slowly getting changed.

This just changed a lot from January 1st.
Sure it does. If my verizon iphone wasn't 3 months into a locked two year contract I'd just put in a different sim and forget the whole thing.
yup, it's widespread and has become part of the culture in many places, regardless in any part of Italy, in the south to certain extremes.
OMG - that's sad, didn't see it coming. :(
Just to give you an example of the idiocy of our bureaucracy: paying a subscription to the Google Apps (around 3 euros per month per user) is considered like importing physical goods, therefore every 3 months we have to submit a form called 'Intrastat'. Since the bureaucracy is insane you need to pay a professional to handle the madness, so on top of the small Google fee you need to pay an additional ~50 euros every three months. On top of that, the next month you need to submit a form called F24, paying a tax on the 50 euros you just spent for nothing. Oh but the food is great.
Most shareholders today are passive institutions. They don't care as long as the dividends show up on time etc.

In between those you have individuals that are active. Just consider the jockeying between Dell and Icahn when Dell announced plans to take the namesake company private.
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> I don't think our bodies are prepared to that sort of pattern where you stay inactive for 5 hours, while your brain is still very active, and stop to run non stop for 1 hour.

Isn't that pretty similar to the lifestyle of a hunter? Short periods of very intense activity separated by long periods of inactivity?
IMHO Italy is two different countries in one. Similar to Spain.

In both countries the south has nothing to do with the north.

In both countries the south if sunny, happiness and optimism. But also non serious in all areas of life, including business, and friendship influence and favors economy, also called corruption.

I have a German friend that was so happy when he sold so many products to south Italian customers. I asked if he was sure they were going to pay...sure enough he was lucky to get paid at all(after a way longer time than compromised and after lots of problems).

Italy is a beautiful place to live, but not for work. You could get the same access to industry, business friendliness and employment that you get in North of Italy in Switzerland or Austria, but without the tax of having to continuously subsidize the south.
Guess it shows i am no theologian...
Why employee feedback means more than a regular paycheck
I don't get it why the former big social sites don't invest in viable protocols which would allow their userbase to connect to other former walled gardens.

Their users stick to the platform no matter what. Why not give them some incentives and more flexibility?

Why don't they implement oauth, zot and tent et.al.?
The Austrian theory offers some important insights and a lot of it's ideas are valuable. That is why it is widely considered a precursor of modern credit cycle theory, but carrying it's conclusions too far without considering other factors such as savings rates, fiscal and monetary policy.
Let me guess: new 2015 european VAT rules for B2C transactions.

Google similarly refuse non-corporate european customers on its cloud platform sinceJanuary 1st because of taxes. See: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6090602
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Hacking, Data Breaches and Cyber Warfare
1. So far no cloud provider tried to provide reliability at the level of a mainframe.

2. Those conservative customers want to keep their data in-house. So a cloud is probably impossible to sell here.

They can either build their own "in-house cloud" (paradox?!) or buy a mainframe. The later is simpler and proven. Cost savings of the roll-your-own-in-house-cloud are questionable.

You could try to sell an ultra-reliable (maybe distributed) system for in-house use. However, you cannot call it a "mainframe".
> The conversation feature is pretty phenomenal,

Yeah, it is. I had pretty much the same idea a few years back, and called it "SpaceChat". I ended up dropping the project because I was too busy with other things. Smh.
This is the reason why I no longer have VPSes at DigitalOcean, sometimes I couldn't update my CentOS kernels when important updates were available because DO lagged for a few days in making them available.
$> diff <(node --v8-options | grep harmony) <(./iojs --v8-options | grep harmony)
1,6c1,18
< --harmony_typeof (enable harmony semantics for typeof)
< --harmony_scoping (enable harmony block scoping)
< --harmony_modules (enable harmony modules (implies block scoping))
< --harmony_proxies (enable harmony proxies)
< --harmony_collections (enable harmony collections (sets, maps, and weak maps))
< --harmony (enable all harmony features (except typeof))
---
> --es_staging (enable all completed harmony features)
> --harmony (enable all completed harmony features)
> --harmony_shipping (enable all shipped harmony fetaures)
> --harmony_modules (enable "harmony modules (implies block scoping)" (in progress))
> --harmony_arrays (enable "harmony array methods" (in progress))
> --harmony_array_includes (enable "harmony Array.prototype.includes" (in progress))
> --harmony_regexps (enable "harmony regular expression extensions" (in progress))
> --harmony_arrow_functions (enable "harmony arrow functions" (in progress))
> --harmony_proxies (enable "harmony proxies" (in progress))
> --harmony_sloppy (enable "harmony features in sloppy mode" (in progress))
> --harmony_unicode (enable "harmony unicode escapes" (in progress))
> --harmony_tostring (enable "harmony toString")
> --harmony_numeric_literals (enable "harmony numeric literals")
> --harmony_strings (enable "harmony string methods")
> --harmony_scoping (enable "harmony block scoping")
> --harmony_classes (enable "harmony classes (implies block scoping & object literal extension)")
> --harmony_object_literals (enable "harmony object literal extensions")
> --harmony_templates (enable "harmony template literals")
The App Graveyard: The Depressing Side of App Development
WordLens works offline without any additional downloads, at least for the languages I tried (Spanish, French, English).

Audio translation and TTS works offline if you have the proper languages downloaded, but being able to detect what language is being spoken seems to be an online-only feature.
so taxes haven't been introduced by (corrupted) politicians, to counter balance what corrupted people were doing for way too much time?

Corruption, together with bureaucracy, is amongst the most severe problems that Italy has. The fact that now it's almost impossible to tell the difference and there a mixture of bad behaviour at any level of any position of power.
The problem results from too many people falling for this way of thinking ... and acting accordingly.

And btw, "bureaucracy" is not a bad thing per se!
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy

[edit: added link]
It's something of a default. Rule of law is hardly a natural state; it's a boulder at the top of a hill which requires effort to get and keep it there. The real question is "how did impartial business cultures develop and how can they be transitioned to?"

The books of Hernando de Soto have some good background on doing this in Peru. A key element of it is recognising which rules are unenforceable and repealing them, so instead of a thicket of unobeyable, intermittently enforced law you get a small robust core of law that's actually enforced fairly.
Solving the #1 Flaw in TLS
It seems you are talking about Brazil.
Seems like a bad idea: adding wealth destruction to a currency that is deflationary by design.

Meh, we're talking about a tiny fraction of Bitcoin. Plus since Bitcoins are essentially infinitely divisible if you destroy a Bitcoin you're essentially just increasing the value of everyone elses' Bitcoins very slightly.

Your solution requires numerous transactions, which a) bloats the blockchain unnecessarily, increasing costs for everyone else, b) also costs you Bitcoins in the form of transaction fees, c) takes a long time to complete.

The OP_RETURN Script opcode allows you to include arbitrary data in a transaction, and that's exactly what an existing solution, Proof of Existence, does: http://www.proofofexistence.com/about
What if the text wasn't a sentence?
Pretty cool. How do you get other weapons? Maybe I've just missed it, but I've played two levels and have been picking up ammo for other guns but am unable to switch to them with the numeric keys.

Movement system is good and the music & sound effects have grown on me, but the shooting speed is pretty slow. (Again, I still only have the basic pistol though.)

Edit: Never mind, just found a shotgun on the third map. I maintain that the pistol is a bit slow considering the pace of the game otherwise.
Although this is interesting, I feel like Sergey is glossing over the thing that hurt their reputation the most — the way they handled the negative response to the game. Reading here, you'd think they were sort of oblivious to the negativity, but instead they developed a reputation for being overly defensive. Criticizing the game would reportedly get you banned on The War Z's Steam forum. And when people started calling attention to the inaccurate description, rather than saying, "Oh, shoot, we messed up," Sergey went and did an interview with GameSpy where he basically defended many of the inaccurate statements, said that people "imagined" and "misread" the description, and kept trying to argue with the interviewer over things like whether "up to 50" is the same as "up to 100." Most likely he was just stressed and didn't really know what to say, but it really came across badly.

If they'd responded with the maturity shown in this piece, I think things would have gone very differently for The War Z. The game already had its troubles, but it probably could have gotten past that. But nobody wants to buy a troubled game from a developer with a reputation like that.
NW.js has both the Browser JavaScript API's and the Node.js API's. It is bleeding edge technology witch enable you to make desktop applications the same way you make web apps.

It can be weird if you are used to HTTP server > client as it's possible within a script tag to use Node.js API's.

An advantage with going desktop instead of browser is that you can do much more and it's easier to sell your application. There are for example already games on Steam that are just web apps, but using NW and run "natively" on the desktop.

You do not need an SDK, or full blown IDE, just use your usual tools. I program in Notepad myself. Just write html and JS files and treat NW as just another browser.
Then package and distribute your app and the user wont notice or care that they are using a "browser".
FriendsReunited?
What are the differences between the versions ?

Also, is Google legally allowed to only release the app for android ?
And Croatia.
What if you could 3D-print your next car?
This is an interesting illustration of correlation vs causality. By "causality", I mean links which remain even after you change the composition of your inputs. See the do calculus, which is one of the better attempts to codify it:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.5506v1.pdf

http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r402.pdf

The do calculus attempts to describe causality as the correlations which remain present when you change the underlying composition of the sample set. In a certain sense, that's equivalent to saying it's the correlations which are not caused by Simpson's paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

So an interesting (but more difficult) question is whether the effects described here are causal or merely correlative. Personally I consider a causal link to be problematic, while a correlative one is completely innocuous. But regardless, it's important to distinguish the two.
What kind of a weasel word is "everyday" browsing?

Tor has way more latency. It's been a while since I measured bandwidth, but relatively high bandwidth transfers like videos are everyday browsing nowadays. I, for one, frequently use Youtube playlists as ad-hoc background music, for example.
This is the most balanced comment that I have read amongst all the others. Italian people have this very bad attitude of blaming continuosly everything and everybody. This energy would be better spent elsewhere. The VISA is a good initiative. One of the many things that should be done to improve our country , but it's a plus not a minus. Let's now try to change all the other factors that impede further groth and innovation. You have at least an arrow at your arch: your vote. Study the parties' program and inform yourself before voting.
> Fortnightly doesn't mean anything outside of the Commonwealth

Really? I live and learn. I thought that was commonplace.
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Why is "numbers per 10,000 people" meaningfully different than taking the percentage and multiplying it by 100?
It currently takes me around 35-40 minutes by public transport to get to work.

Luckily It is just one buss stop then the same subway line all the way, so at least it is reasonably hassle free commuting.

I would prefer a shorter commute but it is not too bad.
That's kind of how it works in the UK, with BT being that last-mile provider for every UK ISP.

Let me tell you: BT sucks. They are technically a private company, but operating with all the ills that a large governmental monolith has accumulated over decades. With the system you're proposing, you're basically creating a BT. Hopefully it's a small, city-specific BT so at least if one city has a very shitty infrastructure you can move to another city to avoid it... but still. Caveat emptor...
If the text is not a whole sentence or paragraph, it cannot be accurately translated anymore into a number of languages with different word order.

As a programmer with i18n responsibilities, you learn to identify and fix fragmented text problems first.
I'm wondering how they're going to explain that when he was arrested he had an open chat window where he was having a discussion as DPR with an undercover agent and was logged in SR as an admin.

Maybe in their next move they'll try saying the FBI helped the real DPR in framing him.
Just in case people are wondering about the horror story: use ngettext which is a function in the gettext library.
Seeing as “turn” is also a verb, this is a great example of a headline that would have been less confusing in sentence case:

“How Verizon and Turn defeat browser privacy protections.”
Or just get everyone to use the same UIDH, making it useless for whatever tracking purposes.
The new design of the homepage [0] is very nice and clean.

I like how you can see multiple comics at a glance. The idea to intersperse blog posts is interesting.

0. http://dilbert.com/
In Germany you go to a bar and say "look, I have not paid the takes that I must, and got away with it." and the next day you will have a police officer in your door.

In Italy you say the same thing and you are a hero, someone to admire and imitate.

It actually makes a lot of sense too when you see where taxes go in both countries.
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Font hinting is relative, and there’s many levels of font hinting. To simplify (a lot), the main levels are:
1) Absolutely no hinting information present
2) Auto-hinting process used to create hinting information
3) Manual hinting process used to create hinting information

Our typefaces for the web are auto-hinted, the only realistic possibility for smaller foundries. We hint them with all possible auto-hinting tools and then decide which one looks best (per style) across all rendering environments. The results will never be perfect, but absolutely acceptable across a large number of rendering environments and type sizes used.

No auto-hinted font is going to look perfect at 8px sizes, for that you absolutely need hand-hinted fonts (and even then they look like crap). But hand-hinting a font costs thousands of dollars per style – or about $50 per character, more or less. Only big foundries and operating system providers like Microsoft can do that. GT Sectra for example contains around 900 glyphs per style, across 30 styles.

Additionally, the whole industry is moving away from manual hinting, as more and more high-dpi devices are on the market, and operating systems’ rendering of typefaces becomes less and less dependent on hinting information (OS X ignores it completely, for example). It’s just not an investment that’s really worth it going forward.

You can see GT Sectra in small use for example in use on http://reportagen.com – and it holds up pretty decently in my opinion. Or don’t you think?
I'm from Italy as well. As everyone else, I am dissatisfied with how Italy is run, but it's _disgusting_ to see how many Italians living abroad claim the right to hurl mud at Italy. I think the real challenge is to stay here, not to run away abroad.

As a proof, here we ended up talking of mafia and corruption, following common stereotypes and therefore giving a distorted idea of Italy. I think most of the people that are saying "run away" are implicitly trying to justify themselves for their decision to go away from their country and family.

Sadly, more than in culture, food and wine, Italians are the first for the most destructive self-criticism in the world. I have rarely heard a non-Italian speaking so low of his own country, as only Italians can do.
Is this an older regulation or is it the result of Italy being the target of more and more immigrants in recent years?

[edit: typo]
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Hey! Yes, every element of this typeface was labored over and discussed in detail again and again throughout its three year design process.

On page 6 of the specimen PDF (http://grillitype.com/sites/default/files/specimen/GT-Sectra...) you can read about some of the design elements and why we chose them. The ink trap in the lowercase y is one of the stylistic ink traps, designed to create a higher contrast and add visual sharpness to the typeface.
Is this an older regulation or is it the result of Italy being more and more pressured by the EU to fix their household in recent years?
It's not just lazy, it's plain wrong.

"Technical" refers to industry, machines, science. Sticking "ology" on the end means the study of that. There is no value judgement about it implying better or worse.

There's a pretty awful explanation here that references the same 'better' phrase (http://becocapital.tumblr.com/post/64275006972/did-you-know-...):

The word technology comes from two Greek words, transliterated techne and logos. Techne means art, skill, craft, or the way, manner, or means by which a thing is gained. Logos means word, the utterance by which inward thought is expressed, a saying, or an expression. So, literally, technology means words or discourse about the way things are gained.

... but again, no implication at all that craft or skill implies better. I think there is a fundamental confusion somewhere along the way between 'technology' and 'innovation' which does imply better or improved. Google for Horowitz and the 'better way of doing things' and you find he's using it on a regular basis. Maybe it makes him feel better about things?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="a%20better%20way%20of%20d...