skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just my rant on schooling:

My Son just recently graduated High School and now is in his first year of college for dual major in Aviation Science (to be an air traffic controller) and Business. His high school (Valhalla High School in El Cajon California) gave him a test to determine his aptitude that said he should go into "building maintenance" (being a Janitor more or less) and wouldn't move up his classes to more difficult ones so he was in classes with kids who didn't really want to be there and were continually disruptive.

Looking for a solution for this problem I found Grossmont Middle College which is a high school on a 2 year college campus. My son was able to get into that and finished high school with about 34 units in college classes most of which transferred to the 4 year university he now attends (University of North Dakota... why he wants to move from California to the freezing cold I have no idea!).

Common Core can't fix the segregation of high schools between the rich high performing kids and everyone else who isn't allowed into the higher level of learning at schools. Every school is essentially 2 schools and if you don't get into the right classes you are screwed big time.

Reading the article, personally I see what is wrong in schools more about getting kids to where they want to be in life. Either college or a trade. For those who want a trade they should get 2 years of High School and 2 years of trade school along with some additional classes.
Dealing McDonald's food is more addictive (look at all the people it hooks compared to meth) and far more physically damaging.
Why Romania's Internet Is So Much Faster Than America's
Could this be (partially) motivated by making Dart-compiled JS run faster in Chrome?
"He didn't violate anyone's rights, defraud anyone, or engage anyone with violence. Who is the victim?"

All of the correspondence about murdering people doesn't look innocent to me.
The trivial way for someone to be watched 24/7 is a system called 'prison'.
Western Spy Agencies secretly rely on hackers for intel and expertise
So you want to be a developer
His Karpeles defense was laughable.

The defense learned during discovery that there was an affidavit from one of the investigators suggesting that Karpeles was a likely SR suspect. That suspicion was based on Karpeles position in the BTC ecosystem and, more damningly, on the fact that a public website promoting Silk Road was running from Karpeles own hardware.

It turns out that Karpeles had hardware with a Silk Road website because he ran a hosting company. Someone paid him to stand up a machine that hosted that site.

That someone? According to the evidence discovered from Ulbricht's laptop: Ross Ulbricht.
My brief experience with browser based rendering was not good. Our dashboard pages often have 40-50+ graphs for a single cluster. I found it brought all browsers to a crawl and turned our laptops into blazing infernos when viewing longer timelines. Granted I didn't try out graphana so it could have been related to badly optimized javascript in the ones I tried.

CPU on the render servers is low. IO on the carbon caches is acceptable (10k IOPS on SSDs that support up to 30k or so). If the CPU Usage Type graph would render it would show very little IO Wait (~5%). Graphs if you're interested: http://i.imgur.com/dCrDynY.png

Anyway thanks for the response. I'll keep digging. Looking forward to that 0.9.13 release!
Can it get through the Great Firewall of China?
I thought, generally, if someone was convicted of numerous charges, time spent would count concurrently for _all_ charges. So all the conspiracy charges would lead to a multi-decade long sentence rather than 200+ years. Could you shed some light on why that's not how it works for this particular case?
Philosophically I agree with you. I wouldn't argue there are no victims, but whatever damage to addicts is caused by making drugs marginally more accessible, I don't think it adds up to 30-life in prison for some guy.

Unfortunately there is a huge distance between what libertarian philosophy argues for and what is actually legal. To me, Silk Road is a no-shit-it's-completely-illegal enterprise given the current war on drugs. Plus, it's a major thumb right into the drug enforcers eyes. Not smart if you care about staying out of jail.

Should we change the laws? Absolutely. But this guy was not doing anything to change those laws. He was just profiting from the situation because he was willing to take the risk (or dumb enough to take the risk). I don't find him especially sympathetic. If he was out there saying 'I run Silk Road, and we are not responsible for what people are doing on it', or even better 'I run Silk Road, and we are eliminating violence from the drug trade, it's a net benefit to society by eliminating gangs', he would be someone worth defending. It would be a lot harder for the state to come down on him. Maybe some people would rally behind him and demand change because he is right. Instead, I'm just seeing a guy that made a lot of money by violating laws, and wants to dodge the consequences right up until he is thrown in jail.
Not to pick on this particular website / product; I've seen too many posts to HN that are just previews, but why:

1: can't you tell us what the product actually does
2: not post this until your actually ready to show the world a product
and 3: pertaining to the first 2, why should I give you my email address?

It's like vaguebooking - if you want to tell the world you've created something you think they might find useful - then just come out and tell them when your ready.

Theres not even enough content on the home page for idea validation.

Nice video though - But if it wasn't for the text on the homepage, I'd have thought it was a new pixar movie.
ArsTechnica's article[0] mentions this:

"To preserve incentives for broadband operators to invest in their networks, my proposal will modernize Title II, tailoring it for the 21st century..."

This concerns me. What kinds of changes are coming to Title II?

0 - http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/why-the-ex-cable-lob...
In the case of drivers, a lot depends on the specific hardware. Some drivers are written by employees of the hardware manufacturer, some are written by employees of companies using FreeBSD, and some are written by interested volunteers.

Hardware vendors have an interest in supporting whichever FreeBSD versions are of interest to their customers, and often merge to all supported branches.
Nicely put. Not enough people dive to the lower levels.
Running a "Continuing Criminal Enterprise" (one of the charges he was just convicted of) comes with a 20-year mandatory minimum sentence.

http://www.ussc.gov/guidelines-manual/2014/2014-chapter-2-d#...

Depending on how everything else stacks up, he could certainly see 25+ years, but most of the sentences will run concurrently.
> huge page of graphs each with dozens to hundreds of graph lines

From experience that much data on a page makes it quite difficult to comprehend, even for experts. I've seen hundreds of graphs on a single console, which was completely unusable. Another had ~15 graphs, but it took the (few) experts many minutes to interpret them as it was badly presented. A more aggregated form with fewer graphs tends to be easier to grok. See http://prometheus.io/docs/practices/consoles/ for suggestions on consoles that are easier to use.

> It sounds like Prometheus is worse actually since it mentions manual sharding rather than consistent hashing that Graphite does.

The manual sharding is vertical. That means that a single server would monitor the entire of a subsystem (for some possibly very broad definition of subsystem). This has the benefit that all the time series are in the same Prometheus server, you can use the query language to efficiently do arbitrary aggregation and other math for you to make the data easier to understand.
What if DPR believed he was being scammed?
> unless you think there's wholesale fabrication of evidence going on, which is getting into conspiracy theory land

I don't initially think that... but, to play devil's advocate...

After the first "murder" is carried out, there is an image of the dead FriendlyChemist supposedly stripped of XIF data and uploaded to DPR, who then confirms receipt and the job was completed satisfactorily.

Now, earlier in the case it became common knowledge that DPR required anyone who worked with him to send him a lot of personal details (name, address, etc) as well as a scan of their driver's license (as a Photo ID).

The first "murder" was of an ex-insider who had taken with him a lot of confidential information including the identities (and photos) of a huge number of SR insiders.

How would DPR of received and confirmed a "hit" on a person who was never hit and very possibly had nothing to do with this scam? He surely would have recognized the "murdered" individual, or at least seen it wasn't the correct target. Some 3rd party scammer would not of had access to that information or the original target.

Also, at a point DPR sends the supposed Hell's Angel a bunch of personal information for the first target, including full name, address, wife and kids' names, etc. None of the information was able to be traced to real-life people... they don't exist... isn't that a little weird?
Three concepts government can learn from lean startups
Homeschooling is interesting, because it has the potential to be a lot better for children than public school, but it can also be a lot worse. It is a topic close to my heart because I was partly homeschooled, and I have seen firsthand some of the sad deficiencies that can dog homeschooled kids:

1. Lazy teaching – parents being unwilling to devote 4-6 hours each day to education. Homeschooling is a commitment that should be treated with the same gravitas as a full-time working position, but many parents have trouble maintaining this mentality over many years of education. This leads to kids that, although they might be bright, just haven't been taught much, which makes them seem dull.

2. Inherited ignorance – if the parents don’t know or care much about history, unbiased politics, mathematics, literature, etc. then the kids won’t either. Obviously, the parent can make a commitment to learn the field at least to a high school level so they can educate their kids, but often this commitment falls through. Because of that, homeschooled kids can lack a multidimensional perspective of the world.

3. Neuroticism – some parents have a tendency to like to make decisions for their children. This can be very dangerous for homeschooled kids, because they don’t learn how to think for themselves or make mistakes.

4. Social gracelessness – a lot of homeschooled kids have very little interaction with their peers. School can provide social acclimatization that parents often don’t know how to give their kids. Especially if the kid is naturally shy, since parents rarely want to put their kids in a social situation where they are uncomfortable. Unfortunately, this can just exacerbate the issue, to the extent that the kids have nervous breakdowns when they finally do have to engage their peers (yes, I've seen this happen).

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't want to say that it's impossible for one person (usually, it's just one parent that is home during the day) to provide a well-rounded education to their kids, just that it's hard -- very, very hard. You need to help your kids make friends, and you need to let them be independent. You need to be a committed and capable educator, and you need to give them a dynamic education with diverse experience, not just doing workbooks in the house. Some people are good at this -- they are natural teachers. Other people find it much, much harder.
I'm guessing that it implicitly implies Object.seal() on all prototypes.

Any legal program that uses 'stricter' and depends on sealed prototypes would be a legal program on a VM that ignores stricter, except in the case of bugs where code was modifying prototypes when it shouldn't, but those would presumably be caught during testing on VMs which did use it.

Presumably, "use stricter" on a codebase that contained attempted prototype modifications would generate errors instead of silent failures.

I don't know the full reasoning behind this, but it might be more about startup time than runtime speed. If you assume early-bound classes, snapshotting becomes a lot easier, you can ahead-of-time trivially compile hidden classes without having to discover them after the fact, and without having to put in code to revert the assumptions later.

Seems like this would be a startup and memory win mobile web, especially if you can easily snapshot a previously loaded app.
Interesting to see Bitcoin use almost the same principle. Essentially it's "if there is a hash with enough leading zeroes, we can assume a lot of CPU time has been put into the network."

Of course that's just an artifact of what's really happening, which is pseudo-random values + laws of probability.
Keep in mind that isn't necessarily how news works. If the FBI estimated $1.2 billion, that is a news-worthy fact in of itself. If an expert witness tallied a lower number it would never "replace" the FBI number unless the FBI amended their estimate publicly.
That's really just a mismatch between classical Microsoft thinking and your expectations. Exchange is supposed to be a server-only product, invisible to end users. Outlook is the main full-fledged client to Exchange. Office 365 comes with a free Outlook 2013 installation (not sure if on other platforms than Windows), and Outlook has options to export/import/mess up everything you can put in Exchange.

This was never a problem historically because nearly every user of Exchange also had a Windows computer with Outlook on it. With the 365 cloud stuff, however, it means that certain key features aren't available to you unless you first install a slow and bloated desktop email client. I'm a happy office 365 customer yet I only have Outlook for the kinds of features you mention.

I hope they catch up and simply make Outlook.com (and the Office 365 webmail, which is basically the same thing) have all those features too.
Badly implemented apps are badly implemented, native apps aren't immune to this phenomenon.
So 2 lines of Go and ~5 for the struct. Is your argument that the schema is defined outside of Ruby and therefore doesn't count as LOC?
He was not dealing IIRC. Also the people bought the stuff on their own free will.

So he made a website. I would have preferred to see him convicted on the stuff he was not charged with - trying to organize hits.
"how do you feel about the government neglecting to charge him with those crimes?"

I understand that the government will try Ulbricht for those crimes. How do you feel about being informed of the facts?
What Happens When There’s No Growth to Manage
If there isn't difference in ability (which I think there probably is), there is certainly difference in inclination.

I work with a couple of guys that want to learn to program. They try. Sort of. They took the same online classes I did. But the content never transformed from theory into "hey, look what I could do with that!" They also just don't have whatever it is (fanaticism? lunacy? lack of better things to do?) that made me sit in front of a terminal for days and nights running together on end, barely eating, hardly sleeping, dreaming about it, trying again, beating on until it worked. There is something different about productive programmers, and no, I don't think everyone has it or has the capacity to become that.

I'm not going to claim it's a virtue... it really is almost more like a vice. An addiction. An ability to tune out the rest of the world (which sometimes is more important in reality) and focus intently on organizing abstraction.

I'll also say... long periods of this are not so great for your relationships and personal life. At least in my experience. So maybe they are better off truth be told.
I agree that lengthy imprisonment should be very rare, certainly for a much smaller proportion of crimes than it is currently used in the US. The current US sentencing system is geared towards very high sentences though (anomalously high by just about any standards except perhaps China's). So it would require a fairly major reform to fix. Right now if anyone is convicted of a felony in a federal court it's really easy for the sentencing range to be decades, which is made worse by the fact that there are really a lot of federal felonies (and some of them are broadly written).

One of the political/philosophical reasons is that the U.S. seems fonder than many countries of a retribution-based model of justice, where the goal of imprisoning someone is not only to protect society and dissuade future would-be criminals, but to "punish" them in a metaphysical sense. Many European countries have shifted in the past half-century to a more utilitarian model, in which the goal of the prison system is seen as almost purely targeted at reducing crimes. From that perspective, imprisoning people for particularly long periods of time often doesn't end up as a very appealing solution, admittedly depending strongly on how you weight factors.
Load various profiling/sampling results to Chrome DevTools
Haha that paper was published today! Are you the author?

This is pretty interesting. I'd love to read the paper but it looks like I can't download the article yet since its not finished uploading to the site.
Looks like they already have designers on standby, so you don't have to sort through submissions and all that.
Ross Ulbricht got a fair trial (but not a fair investigation)
I think one thing that's understated is the amount of time we spend in ethics classes. I felt that there was always a semester where I was in some form of ethics or engineering history class.
I just finished a run of pro hormones designed to increase T. See my twitter as proof. Within a week my shoulders got bigger and I dropped 6lbs. I had no other change in diet and swam (my workout) less because I'm developing swimmer's shoulder. The downside? I just couldn't take it any more. My mind raced about sex (complete with random boners) and raged about everything else. It was like being 18 again. I realize now why I did so many crazy stupid things when I was 18-24. I ended the supplements and can again focus on work without getting pissed off at everything. Although I must say random boners at 36 came as an oddly pleasant surprise, also my wife enjoyed the extra attention.
Probably places like Somalia and other countries where there is no functioning civil government.
> For me I almost always drop 20lbs on T and am much leaner than I am off or on clomid. On clomid I generally gain weight.

Were you working out? Taking test isn't a panacea, you still need to be active to get significant body composition changes.

> You can counteract this by taking ancillaries while on T. There are drugs that can restore the LH and FSH that get suppressed by testosterone but this is a valid concern. 100mg of T per week made me basically infertile but clomid brought me back to normal after a few weeks.

The body's endocrine system is closed, it has a tight feedback loop. It sounds like you're referring to cycling on / off which is different than taking it continuously long term.
Colossal Impacts of having a “slow” website
Something that should keep you all shivering
scared in the corner is that multiple
studies done by amazon.com and
google.com have found that a < 1
second decrease in page load time
had a significant ( for them ) impact
on their conversion rates and
therefore profit.
Therefore performance matters a lot,
even for small sites. The question is
how much will it matter. Losing .1%
of sales doesn't really matter when
your doing 100 uniques a day, but
when your doing 10 million then all
of a sudden that .1% costs you a lot
of money.
Even small changes in response
times can have significant
effects. Google found that
moving from a 10-result page
loading in 0.4 seconds to a 30-
result page loading in 0.9
seconds decreased traffic and
ad revenues by 20% (Linden
2006). When the home page of
Google Maps was reduced from
100KB to 70-80KB, traffic went
up 10% in the first week, and an
additional 25% in the following
three weeks (Farber 2006).
Tests at Amazon revealed
similar results: every 100 ms
increase in load time of
Amazon.com decreased sales
by 1% (Kohavi and Longbotham
2007). Experiments at Microsoft
on Live Search showed that
when search results pages were
slowed by 1 second: (Kohavi
2007)
* Queries per user
declined by 1.0%, and
* Ad clicks per user
declined by 1.5%
After slowing the search results
page by 2 seconds:
* Queries per user
declined by 2.5%, and
* Ad clicks per user
declined by 4.4%
http://
www.websiteoptimization.com/
speed/tweak/psychology-web-
performance/
The problem with the article is that it calls the finding of the server "blatantly illegal", when that hasn't come to trial.

The government says https://ia600603.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.4...

>In any event, even if the FBI had somehow “hacked” into the SR Server in order to identify its IP address, such an investigative measure would not have run afoul of the Fourth Amendment. Because the SR Server was located outside the United States, the Fourth Amendment would not have required a warrant to search the server, whether for its IP address or otherwise. See United States v. Vilar, 729 F.3d 62, 86 (2d Cir. 2013) (Fourth Amendment warrant requirement does not apply extraterritorially); In re Terrorist Bombings of U.S. Embassies in East Africa, 552 F.3d 157, 167 (2d Cir. 2008) (same). At most, any search of the SR Server needed only to be “reasonable” – that is, justified by “legitimate governmental interests.” Vilar, 729 F.3d at 86. Given that the SR Server was hosting a blatantly criminal website, it would have been reasonable for the FBI to “hack” into it in order to search it, as any such “hack” would simply have constituted a search of foreign property known to contain criminal evidence, for which a warrant was not necessary.

which seems reasonable.
Using is a self-harm. Why is this legislated?
Despite what others are saying about why he was not charged with these crimes, the real reason is because he is being indicted with these crimes, federally, in Maryland on those charges. He will face that trial next.

Now, to be fair, these allegations (not lies, allegations) could be just that. Allegations. The prosecution will need to prove them to get a conviction. The reason he is facing these separately could be that these attempted murder of a federal witness charges are much harder to prove and thus convict on.
http://akka.io/
So, not Dart, not Go.
7 Sins of Social Media Marketing
Agreed. I feel for the first time that Microsoft is bringing something unique and even innovative to the tech industry
Yeah, I'm inclined to be skeptical about that claim.

I'm more inclined to believe that the union of "drug dealers regularly involved in violence" and "drug dealers who reign in their violent ways to instead spend time on the computer filling SR orders" is near zero.
Source is I worked there for eight years. Left two years ago. There was a push around the time I left to standardize more on TFS, but historically, VS was regarded internally as a bit non-hardcore.
Man Behind Silk Road Website Is Convicted on All Counts
No, with Windows 10 they should have this ability