skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think it's a bit odd it's considered obvious that children should avoid putting any information online that could reveal their real identity/location/et c., but when people turn 18 it's suddenly not eyebrow-raising for them to have a bunch of social media accounts and such under their real names.

Mind you, such caution used to be common sense behavior for everyone. Then Facebook[1] happened. The second Eternal September.

It also seems to have become common for professionals to promote themselves under their real names without keeping separate, anonymous accounts for non-business activities.

When it goes well they're growth-hacking (puke) their careers, using all their twitter followers and likes and GitHub projects or whatever to market themselves and/or their services and/or products they're paid to sell. When it goes poorly we get stories like this. Live by the sword, die by the sword. (I don't know that that applies in this case, but it has in others)

The situation in the article is really shitty, of course, and I don't mean to minimize that. I'm just puzzled that throwing your real name on every corner of the Internet stopped drawing derision and advice to cut it out, at some point. It's why the calls for reducing online anonymity to end online harassment by strangers strike me as such a strange approach—the absolutely undisputed solution used to be more anonymity! It's a major cultural shift from the very recent past, but I don't see it brought up very often.

[1] Not just Facebook, obviously, but the timing fits.
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and

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That's exactly what you are looking for. SOHO friendly (fanless, cheap, supports vlans).
one connection takes 5s, but using a stun server means you don't understand peer locality. This means you as the service owner has to map the network to find correct peer placement.

How do you asses the bandwidth available now, and in the future? is the bandwidth between two peers inside and ISP greater than two peers from different ISPs. How do you manage peer re-routing when one disappears. What happens if more than one peer disappears?

webrtc is designed for 1 to 1 mapping, and not 1 to many paid for content delivery. Sure you can do it, but your users arn't going to be happy you chose to engineer your way out of a bad idea. (You don't want buffering during an expensive movie/tv/sports game)
I'm not sure biometric identification is such a great idea... with fingerprint id, it could make the bad guys have an incentive to chop fingers... Also, a fingerprint can be acquired in other ways and then replicated sintetically.

In the same fashion, voice identification doesn't seem to be so secure, since it could also be recorded... and if it were commonly used, there would probably be enough incentive to build on top of current text-to-speech and speech synthetizers, to emulate a voice, given enough sample data.
Easy answer... it's convenient. You show me a people warming/cooling solution as convenient as whole home heating and cooling and then the conversation can begin. It's about creating an environment to live in that is consistent, has nothing to do with a house's feelings.
Ahh, I did not realize that. That makes more sense than 3.5c/kWh. It is really interesting to look at this information and see how it changes from minute to minute.
> I will note that until relatively recently, those who we consider "conservatives" today did exactly that towards "progressives".

And we agree that's bad, right? I thought we had all agreed that was bad. 'Cause it really seems like here you're advocating "well they did it to us, so it's okay if we do it to them."
Perl 6 unifies "regexes" and recursive descent grammars at the syntax level and then compiles them to a hybrid of DFAs, NFAs, and regular code as necessary. The idea is to maintain the simplicity of simple regexes and of parser combinators for the user but retain as much of the performance benefits of true DFA-able regular expressions as is possible.

At least, that's the theory. In practice, while the benefit of syntactic usability is available today, the Perl 6 rules engine is still very slow and it'll likely take years to optimize the heck out of this approach and really harvest the performance benefit.
Hi. Thanks for the comment. There's an option to 'auto scale', which might be worth a look
I'd happily pay for a new version of Windows XP/7, Office, Adobe CC, ______ that was 20% faster/efficient, with the exact same feature set.

Sadly, I don't think the marketing departments realize this. They honestly believe that only new features sell computers.
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Good question, thanks for posting. May be stackoverflow.com is better place to ask this though?
Well, I think she knows that now. I guess you aren't the sort of person to ever make a bad judgement call in public. Like not even a single occasion.
I find it difficult to believe you actually think that – it's not really a self-consistent viewpoint, given that what you describe as 'social justice bullying' is absolutely free speech.
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This is a great idea and something I've searched for in the past when looking for a way to authenticate our own internal apps using Google Apps credentials.
Hackers, What you say about this app discovery site - http://appcrawlr.com/ ?
Will I see the cost saving of handing over my bandwidth?
I think that public shaming can be laid directly at the feet of Social Justice. It would be great if people who want to make things better for minorities chose a different tactic - private communication rather than public ostracism.
Well, there's the first Connection Machine architecture, very roughly contemporaneous with Lisp Machines (I had to regretfully tell my friend Danny Hillis that LMI wouldn't be able to provide Lisp Machines for Thinking Machines Corporation in time (which had to be formed because the project needed 1-2 analog engineers, which MIT was structurally unable to pay, no one gets paid more than a professor). He was really, legitimately pissed off by what Symbolics did with Macsyma, a sleazy licensing deal to keep it out of everyone else's hands (and they tried to get everyone in the world who'd gotten a copy of it to relinquish it). Later neglected, even when it became the Symbolics cash cow.)

Anyway, if you're not talking ccNUMA, the limitations of which has got me looking hard at Barrelfish (http://www.barrelfish.org/), e.g. if you're talking stuff in the land of MPI, again it's going to be very hard to beat commodity CPUs.

Although in that dreaming, look at lowRISC: http://www.lowrisc.org/ looking at things now, they propose taping out production silicon as soon as 2016, and say 48 and 28nm processes look good. From the site:

What level of performance will it have?

To run Linux "well". The clock rate achieved will depend on the technology node and particular process selected. As a rough guide we would expect ~500-1GHz at 40nm and ~1.0-1.5GHz at 28nm.

Is volume fabrication feasible?

Yes. There are a number of routes open to us. Early production runs are likely to be done in batches of ~25 wafers. This would yield around 100-200K good chips per batch. We expect to produce packaged chips for less than $10 each.

And with a little quality time with Google, the numbers look good. Ignoring the minor detail of NRE like making masks, a single and very big wafer really doesn't cost all that much, like quite a bit less than $10K.

And we now have tools to organize these sorts of efforts, e.g. crowdsourcing. But it's not trivial, e.g. one of the things that makes this messy is modern chips have DRAM controllers, and that gets you heavily into analog land. But it's now conceivable, which hasn't been true for a very long time, say starting somewhere in the range between when the 68000 and 386 shipped in the '80s.
> we applaud the CEO and designers

Who is this "we" you talk about? Any time I hear "growth hacking", I reinterpret to "whitewashed term for scummy SEO and/or spam."
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Let's build an Internet. People can connect. They can share their feelings. It'll make the world better place.

Had no one seen what mobs of angry people do?

This is getting worse, not better. We will see this kind of anger junkie mob mentality explode into real violence. And then the violence will escalate.

Good news. We are seeing the end of the nation state. Just like they said. It is being replaced with niche mobs of worldwide scope.
but that takes time, which means depleting cache. As most domestic connections are limited by upload, its not like you can get that cache back.

Especially if you are at the edge of the the p2p chain. Your cache might be dependent on three other people refreshing their cache first.
Smartphone batteries could easily last a week right now, with current technology. The reason they don't is because manufacturers prefer smaller size and lower weight to longer battery life, presumably because their customers do.

Size and weight are much less of a concern for fixed installation grid storage, of course.
I'm surprised to haven't seen this mentioned yet, but based on the article and skimming the emails linked to, the woman was very religious, and the guy not at all (but went along with it anyway).

I'd argue that if you're an atheistic person, then the worst case scenario of dating a very religious person is something like that story. The amount of cognitive dissonance and self-imposed guilt and shame in religious people, especially when they're still young, is very likely to lead to messy situations like the one described. Young people are full of hormones and impulses that they want to act on, but the religion in their head tells them to feel bad about it. This can lead to absolutely absurd situations, where they're very happy to have sexual relationships but feel very guilty after them.

I dated a religious girl, and the emails exchanged by those 2 reminded me of my own relationship 7 or so years ago. Fortunately my story wasn't as messy as this one, but there were definitely a couple of hard earned lessons and very uncomfortable moments. Some of the stories that girl told me about her earlier life were quite unreal to me- for example, she and her ex boyfriend would have sex, then she'd feel guilty and go confess at church, and a day later they'd have sex again, etc. (if you're a priests, you must get to hear a lot of intimate stories from impressionable confused young people. And of course all priests are men... connect the dots as you will)

It's hard to draw any conclusions based on the article and material available - but to people that have found themselves in similar relationships, some of the interactions described aren't surprising. The lesson for me was, date people with world views similar to yours.
Of course, just like your fingerprints, your voice is your username and not your password.
> By mistake my skin is white (so I've never been the victim of racist jokes/looks ...

Are you serious?

That white people couldn't be victims of racism? That only white people can be racist? You've never met even just funny looks? Then you haven't been out to the world too much.

I'm a big, white European, and when I was in China, I could hear myself being referred to as "laowai" "or dabizi". I could have gotten mad, because yes indeed by nose is big by Chinese standards and this is a reference to my racial features, but I chose to carry on. The people mostly meant nothing bad. Even the ones that actually maybe thought bad of me - possibly associating me with Western colonialism, of which I or my country were quite innocent - did nothing bad to me, so I let it be.

When our family went to the zoo, we were looking at the pandas, and a hundred people were looking at us (Look! Three white kids!). Very slow looks. It may be a bit awkward, but needs to be tolerated. I was just as much in awe when I saw the first black person in my life.

But perhaps I can do this because there was nothing I could gain by acquiring a victim identity. I'll leave getting mad to a time when someone actually tries to insult me.
I have hopped between three companies and two different industries. I think in majority of cases, I have been acknowledged to be incredibly talented both technically and practically. As for myself, I know I studied hard enough and solved some pretty difficult problems to be quite competent at whatever is thrown at me.

And similar to your case, I have also sought challenging work where I could be utilized 100%. But I have convinced myself that such environments don't exist. Why? Because there are two ways to tackle every problem: the simple but laborious way OR the complex but quicker way. How you perceive your work is up to you. You can see it as challenging and breaking new boundaries and work in similar manner to solve those challenges or you can see it as simple and boring and "ask for the solution to a similar problem."

For example, my first project had a highly revered boss who made me think that the project I was working on was significant and amazing. When he was assigned a second project, I was not going to come along, but the way he described it to other people made it seem the second project was just as challenging. In a turn of events, his assignment changed and I took on the assignment instead. I found it to be very simple and mundane. I learned at that point, the challenge in a project is the challenge you highlight and the challenge you CHOOSE to tackle.

Every project has challenges and every project has its ups and downs. How you perceive a project is up to you.
> We don’t read pages. We scan them.

Had a good chuckle as I scanned to this headline. For me at least, it's very true
> I rotate my online username on forums and online comment systems every few months

You might want to rotate your current one a little sooner ;-)
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Any idea on how to deal with downsampling from graphite? IE don't send such high resolution to the browser because it can quickly cripple older machines. Now I know that with graphite I can specify different granularity but I don't know if there is an easy way to switch between them when looking at a day vs a week of events.
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Humans are sexually dimorphic primates. Primates form status hierarchies spontaneously. Status is zero sum. Higher status males mate with the majority of females. Low status males do not reproduce at all.

We are descendants of 40% of males and 80% of females. As religious and legally enforced monogamy decline across all societies, we will see increasingly vicious status wars across all human societies.

This writer is double dipping for his status points, as not only did he specialize in attacking the status of others, but is now acting as the merciful lord who has chosen to forgive those sinful peasants. Clever.

Monogamy was an aberration and an affront to nature, because it forced average females to mate with average males, robbing them of their desire for the highest status male's genetic material. In the past, male resource provisioning was important, but the state has nullified that variable by providing for all.

Status reigns supreme. Defend yours at all costs. Oh, and the best defense is a great offense. Ah homo sapiens...such a fascinating species.
Holy crap, I haven't been there in awhile. It's almost torture to see such trash on the front page. Soon I will go there to get my TMZ updates about the hollywood stars or rappers who did something, maybe, possibly tangentially related to tech?
Social media has taken the power formerly belonging only to politicians and famous actors and distributed it statistically over the masses. For normal people suddenly getting famous over something is a lot like electrons in a lower orbit jumping to a higher one - it's completely based on chance (incidentally, there is also a sort of uncertainty principle for social media: if you know what you're saying, then you don't know how famous you are becoming, and if you know how famous you're becoming, you don't know what you're saying). So anytime you say something on social media, you run the risk of getting infamous over something really dumb. This is all the more reason to learn to talk to one's friends using email, phone, real-life communication, or other "defunct" methods of interaction such as AIM, and use social media only professionally.

If you think about it, this rather makes sense. Why should centralized agencies like Facebook, Twitter, or Google determine how I interact with my personal friends?
My main hope for vastly improved batteries (desperately needed) is that it'll be possible to combine a bunch of them and store the power for a small community (however it may be generated) thus decentralizing power supply. A localized grid would have major benefits imo
There is one problem with this approach.

I have a pretty severe cold today. My voice is unrecognizable. But I can still remember a password.
The comments weren't awful. It was really a bad judgement call because it violated the principle "don't be disruptive to make a point", which I really didn't consider very clearly before doing it.

The reason I was annoyed about it was because signatures are the way you see who is saying something in a conversation thread. Back then you'd click on the person's username and get easy access to their pages, talk page, block links, contributions, etc. it also made it really hard to see what they had contributed. I was also concerned that someone would go what I in essence did - which was a really dumb move on my part, like I say.
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It's already happening with tiny cloud-based computing images. MirageOS gets you a web server that's less than one megabyte.
I sure as hell have. Many times. And every time, no matter how much I hated it, I had to face the music and deal with the mess I had created, regardless of whether it was my original intent.
I just want to say, I remember the account name "Ta bu shi da yu" from when I was active on Wikipedia (it's been about 10 years) and you seemed cool. I missed whatever drama this was, but my only association with that name is that it was someone who was active on Wikipedia and doing useful things.

Regarding Bryan Cantrill, never forget this post (a one-line reply at the bottom):

http://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html

Which I link not to shame him for what he wrote as a recent college grad 20 years ago, but to say that everyone does dumb, borderline offensive things sometimes, and what matters is that you are not obstinate in your dumbness.

Maybe Bryan would have fired the person he was then; that's fine. We need both effective, meaningful punishment, and also effective rehabilitation. It should be possible to go from Bryan Cantrill in Sun to Bryan Cantrill in Joyent. It should be possible to go from Ben Noordhuis in Node to Ben Noordhuis in io, or Justine Sacco in IAC to Justine Sacco wherever she is now, or Sam Biddle to chastened empathetic Sam Biddle, or whatever.
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> Really hard to feel sympathy for her.

I'm sorry you can't feel sympathy for her for the bad things that happened to her. None of us are perfect, we all act badly sometimes—but we're not comic book supervillains, either. Even bad people deserve sympathy when bad things happen to them.
One indication is that Azul, after 3 generations of ccNUMA systems with zillions of custom chips and a memory infrastructure that gives each one "mediocre" access speed to all the system's memory for running Java with gonzo GC ("generic" 64 bit RISC chips with things like a custom read barrier instruction), has given up and is doing their thing on x86-64 systems with their Zing product, albeit at least initially with tricks like kernel extensions to do bulk MMU operations before a single TLB invalidation. Look up their papers on the Pauseless and C4 GCs. The former was done in time to make it into the 2nd edition of sorts of the book on GC: http://www.amazon.com/Garbage-Collection-Handbook-Management...

Or to put it another way, without exhausting my bank account I could build from parts I can purchase today on Newegg a many CPUs 3/4ths TiB DRAM Supermicro system. Supermicro has standard boards with more memory, and has a monster you can only buy complete that'll hold 4 CPU chips and up to 6 TiB DRAM on daughter boards; I think based on some Googling that has a starting price of less than $35K.

Moore's Law is our friend. But its economics is not the friend of custom CPUs in competition with commodity ones.
Not a talk specific tip, but just for presentations in general, the more you want the talk to come off as casual and not rehearsed the more you need to rehearse. Don't just read it over and over, but give the talk to the mirror, a chair, your dog, etc.

Best of luck. I've found that the lead up is actual worse than actually presenting. 10 to 20 seconds in, you'll feel fine.
>less economically privileged.

wow
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In general, I agree, but I get the impression that the OP is spending a lot of time on small sales, rather than figuring out how to automate or delegate those.
> HN isn't completely made up of MRA types, but if you've been noticing there are a lot of them here (along with your more typical "SJWs out to get us" types).

This much is true.

> HN is in general no longer held with the same regard it was a couple of years ago.

This may be true in some circles, but I don't think its generally true. Its probably true that HN is seen by some who participated in it earlier as less of an exclusive club of like-interested folk as it has gained popularity, but that's going to happen with any narrow forum over time that doesn't have an exclusionary wall for membership (and exclusive walls of membership have their own problems which will can erode the image of a forum over time in different ways.)

> Note the number of progressive, well-respected regulars who've left this place behind.

Such as...?

> There are other avenues to discuss tech and tech issues without ancaps, MRAs, and anti-SJW crusaders trying to internet-fight you at every turn.

Well, I suppose you could have a forum with a political litmus test for membership or heavy-handed pre-publication moderation of comments, but given how much the tech community overlaps with the ancap, MRA, and anti-SJW crusader communities -- and, perhaps more importantly, the reaction many outside those communities would have to the kind of approaches necessary to eradicate the unwanted comments -- you'd probably lose some value for actual tech and, particularly, tech issues discussions.

But where do you see those better alternatives?
It's worth saying that this does seem to be something distinct to twitter (maybe tumblr has some elements of it). It doesn't seem to happen in the same way on facebook or less social-oriented web fora.

(That's my impression anyway; I don't have statistics)
I agree with you that there was an overreaction. But that's a risk each of us runs when we publish something via a public medium. Any time I want to publish something, whether it's a private SMS, a tweet, a comment on HN, or something else, I'm obliged to consider its content, and make a judgment call on whether it's appropriate. If I'm wrong, I have to deal with it.
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