skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You keep bringing up huge examples. Millions of credit cards leaked. Guitar center, a company that has 260 locations across the United States. Great clips has over 3,000 locations. Anthem, a company with multiple billions of dollars in revenue that handles extremely sensitive information for millions of people.

I remember as a kid, there was a family owned comic book shop I would visit. I would let them know what comics I'm interested in, and they would call me if they got something in that they thought I would be interested in. So they had good reason to have our phone number. It was probably even stored really insecurely (on a piece of paper). But it was the early 90's. And if someone stole it it might have included 200 phone numbers.

I buy magic the gathering cards from small card shops across the country. They need my address to ship it. Since most of these single store businesses are fairly low tech, I doubt they do too much to protect it.

Also, your initial statement also said handle, not collect. Most brick and mortar stores handle credit card data, although they don't collect it. There's even been instances of thieves affixing devices to ATMs and credit card machines that will scan your card data as you slide or insert it.

You can collect PII by hosting a static webpage (ip addresses). Leaking that PII can cause harm to users (DDOS). This may seem made up but people who make a living off live streaming are fairly regularly DDOS'd by malicious viewers who figure out their IP.

More generally, any leak of data, whether it includes PII or not, will harm a company's reputation.

This is why I called your post insanely irrational. It's all black and white: hire a dedicated security engineer, or you're doing it wrong. Regardless of size. The majority of businesses in the country would go out of business if they had to abide by your rules.
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I'm assuming they allowed <2.7 Python before, which are less compatible with 3.
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Even InfoSeek and Ask apparently still make money

> Ask is more of an 'ads search engine', and they make mainly because of their arbitrage model
c.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9121008
Something like this happened to me last year. I used to feel tired, almost constantly. My doctor eventually recommended a full screen blood test which showed my Vitamin-D level to be severely deficient and testosterone was on the low end.

Get yourself checked, and soon.
Why take a system you know is compromised, shift a few things around, and hope for the best?

Format the drive and install a fresh, non-malicious OS image.
Readers might want to acquaint themselves with the performance issues around buffer bloat:

http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction
they have their own custom panel (better)
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There are suicide prevention hotlines around the world:

http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/ThereIsHelp

(I run this wiki, and this is something that makes me really happy and eager to.)
Aaron Swartz got one as well.
8 million caching plugins is a total exaggeration. As far as I can tell there's only two options: WP Super Cache (which seems to have been abandoned by the author) and W3 Total Cache which is a spammy mess of nag screens to join New Relic and MaxCDN. (No wonder it was banned by WP-Engine.) If I wasn't busy on other projects, I would take on W3 Total Cache--it's the worst UI I have ever seen and it doesn't even work. I had to mostly disable it today because my CPU went from 100% to 600% after installing it.
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The "genetic determinism" thing is just a strawman. No scientists believe that genes alone determine everything about a person. For example the heritability of height in the US is 90%~, and no one says that it's 100%.
> Having to constantly watch your credit because everything an attacker needs to open a new credit card in your name is ruin.

This leads to a ruined life? Talk about a first world problem
Post links and downvote all you want. Drop in the microtimers yourself and see where your PHP apps are really spending time.
I'm pretty happy that they talked about the man instead of turning his death into an anti-smoking commercial.
I don't see how those FAQ entries prove that they anticipated registrations of generic terms for closed use. Before this I'd have read them more as "go ahead and register .google for your own use or .fifa for the use of only the teams associated with you!"
Great Article, Thanks.
Is there anything you find hard?
Screenshot of original robots.txt for when the changes get pushed to production:

http://imgur.com/8zkK8w2
I run the numbers and monitor New Relic charts on large WordPress sites all the time. Yes, some request time is spent doing I/O, but the majority of request time in any healthy PHP (or Ruby, Python, etc.) site is spent in PHP.

(When more time is spent elsewhere, you have a problem that needs to be fixed. For example, waiting for I/O because you've done something silly with a database query or you've pushed it beyond its scaling limits and everyone's waiting for I/O.)
I suspect it was the hosting.
There's a limited amount of space in the yCombinator title thingie. The LA times provided a convenient title. Did I really do something improper here?

This is a fabulous story. And I happen to know about it because I took the trip to that memorial and was very excited to see it make the front page of the LA Times. I can't believe I'm talking with you guys about linkbait rather than this ancient tree that was cut down by an NSF funded expedition.

Here's the wikipedia about Prometheus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28tree%29

There's a lot more to the story but that should get you started.
Edit: EFF has put together an Act Now page to lobby three key representatives for tie-breaking votes in next week's debate: http://boingboing.net/2015/02/27/act-now-congress-wants-to-f...

There's 18 months of updates on ComputerWorld's UK blog about the EU TTIP agreement, http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/ttip-up... but I haven't seen a similarly consistent US reporting effort on TPP. The EFF has covered some copyright topics, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/white-house-doesnt-wan... . Twitter has activity, including lobbying of Sen. Ron Wyden on fast-track, https://twitter.com/search?q=%23tpp
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Tcl is perfect for rapid application development and proof of concept algorithm innovations. Used it to develop search engines, pattern matchers and other analytics related to text mining and knowledge discovery. The R&D100 award was won with it too in addition to the development of a few machine learning methods with Michael I. Jordan and David Blei: "Statistical modeling of biomedical corpora: mining the Caenorhabditis Genetic Center Bibliography for genes related to life span" - Blei DM1, Franks K, Jordan MI, Mian IS. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1533868 - . http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2008/07/09/berkeley-... Hey, everything's a string!
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I did some server engineering for a large media property based on WordPress. The New Relic graph normally indicated > 80% of request turnaround was spent in PHP. An average request (there was a frontend caching layer in place) that hit the app would normally take ~700ms, of which ~550 would be spent in WordPress. I attributed it mostly to WordPress being WordPress though. A lean PHP API can turn a typical request around on similar machinery in 1/10 the time.

That doesn't discount that the database is ridiculously ugly, though.
Well put. It is quite different now.
Here is the thing, in the 90's people would look at Amazon.com and be amused, mystified and scandalized by what the company was valued at, when compared to giants like Borders or Radio Shack, with so many more employees/stores/etc. Turned out that intuition was wrong, and Amazon's way of doing things completely overtook the brick and mortar way not only in books and electronics, but for pretty much every product category.

Then again, people probably thought the same way about Webvan vs say Safeway, and they were absolutely right in that case.

So, here is the question, is AirBnB an Amazon or a Webvan? Is Marriott a Borders or a Safeway?
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Link to the benchmark in question:
https://gist.github.com/dstogov/12323ad13d3240aee8f1
While the other guy mentioned fructose, I'll mention the ethanol thing. The fatty liver disease mentioned has nothing to do with ethanol, in fact it is called Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD.

There are no confirmed causes for it but it varies. In certain population, it's a generic mutation, for some it's from fructose, and so on.
Tried searching for "BYU" and "UW" and got everything except the universities' main websites. Do you just not crawl .edu addresses?
Apparently Maven is uniquely suited for writing a LISP!
I agree. And that's just fine for 99% of the bloggers that will never reach 1 million pageviews/month. Most of those queries are unnecessary. But rather than fix the root of the problem, we put the whole database in memory. Run out of memory? No problem, move to a solid state drive! LOL.
Id just say after juggling family, new startup incubation and day job & surviving this, here are some takeaways:

1. Stay Really Hydrated. A lot of tiredness is thirst and muscles being sore from not having enough water. A good way to determine this is to do about 30 jumping jacks next to your desk and about 20 high-knees (I Kid you not). If your muscles burn, you havent had enough water and that probably also led to sleep problems.

2. Take power naps which remove mental stress. Here's a technique: Start counting down from 100 very slowly.
After each number, repeat to yourself quietly SLOW DOWN. Dont say "RELAX" or "I NEED TO SLEEP" or any of that crap. Just say SLOW DOWN. All the brain needs to do is to slow down.

3. Cut out the caffeine and Start EXERCISING. Download the "7 minute workout" app on Android. Its a great uncomfortable routine which'll have your heart pumping in 7 minutes. You'll suddenly feel hungrier about 30 min after this and itll get the habit started

4. Increase circulation at home - stale air is tiring

5. Eat the right food. Also have an Organic protein supplement (like Orgain) from Costco.

This worked for me.
In my opinion site-wide caching (like Cloudfront) is the best answer. The fewer plugins the better. Ideally WP is just the publishing backend for whatever CDN-type solution you use.
You won't be able to use it internally unless you get split DNS and mangle your dns lookup configuration. Everything .dev resolves to 127.0.53.53 now. That ip address is a shot across the bow to warn you of the impending TLD registration.

$ host blahflurgle.dev
blahflurgle.dev has address 127.0.53.53
blahflurgle.dev mail is handled by 10 your-dns-needs-immediate-attention.dev.
You could take a look at gun.io https://gun.io/
Why does Australia play such a large role?
Article says they're raising a billion dollars. The question isn't whether $1 billion is a good price for 5% of the company, it's whether $1 billion is a good price for 5% of the company, liquidation preferences, and any other special rights.
Exactly, it is more complicated than calories-in-calories-out.
I use wp-cli pretty much every day at work
This would be such a bless for lonely people like me, even if I get rejected by one team you could always try next time with different people.

Even if the site doesn't go viral, I'm sure many people would love for it to stay alive, it can have more impact than most startups out there that's for sure.

It has the chicken and egg problem but surely you can figure it out. Best luck.
Perl is thoroughly alive, large and not excessively corporate sponsored. Then again it's largely on the backchannel at the moment.
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On an unrelated note - does anyone want to be a co-founder of an uber competitior?

I got 50k drivers ready to drive for us. :P
In that example, I bet WordPress on its own would have spent less than 550ms without having to replenish your cache layer. Also how much of that time was actually PHP vs. PHP waiting for MySQL? I bet if you scattered microtimers throughout WordPress, you would see 99% of your 550ms would be waiting for the disk and MySQL.
Interesting. Can you tell me what you think of Quassel as a protocol?
I think many companies use .dev internally.
I would MUCH rather Google be the registrar than almost anyone else. And you can be sure that someone would try make it a TLD.

You can blame ICANN as much as anyone. Though if you are going to make many ludicrous TLDs you may as well allow so many as to make .com meaningless.
Except that W3 Total Cache trades I/O time for PHP time. In most cases, you can fix I/O time. You can't fix PHP time by adding more PHP. :-)
Thanks, this explanation is about 10-100 times better than the one in the submitted article.
I wish you luck, but the App Store is a poor place to explain any concept. I'd link to a proper site.
This is pretty funny, for many Europeans ISDS is one of the main reasons why they oppose TTIP [1]. They fear US companies suing European countries because of stricter regulations, with food and environmental standards being popular examples.

[1] https://stop-ttip.org/
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http://to./ used to be a url shortener. Now it's just an apache default index.html, but it still works. :)
direct link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy/status/569762773204217857
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What is the hypothesis?
Sorry, I was unclear. I meant Cloudfront.
And how are they going to do that exactly? Threaten firefox and IE devs with guns if they resolve them?

Are you the kind of person who yells random nonsensical crap whenever you see something related to someone you don't like?
The question is not when do you do development offline? The question is when have you ever needed the ENTIRE history of the repository offline?

Have you? Maybe. Do you constantly need to? Very very unlikely for the vast majority of people
Wouldn't using kpatch remove the need to reboot instances ?
Calling German national socialism fascism shows already from whose palm this guy is eating.
http://www.stopfasttrack.com — organizations lending their logo and giving a reason why they oppose, include Reddit, ACLU, boingboing, Free Software Foundation, EFF, Sierra Club & others.

Edit: illustrated video (2:27) by MoveOn, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3O_Sbbeqfdw

"Mind boggling in its complexity (the US takes 80 specialists to each negotiation, Japan 120, and Australia 22) the negotiating text is secret. Robb says even most of the negotiators don't know what's in the whole thing. Each knows about little more than the chapter they are working on and there are more than 20 chapters.", http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/trans-...
You should consider the Nim language. It "feels" like Python but has seemless integration with C, and native performance like C.

http://nim-lang.org
So, signed-message history is purely for integrity, not privacy. The problem is that if all your rooms are completely decentralised, how do you stop a rogue server injecting false information about the past? All servers have a keypair that they use to sign messages they originate, and this signature includes pointers to the 'parent' message(s) that immediately precede them in the conversation. Thus every message asserts the integrity of the graph of messages in a room up to that point, and means that a rogue server can't start censoring history, or claiming its users have privileges, or whatever in retrospect. The full details for signing message history can be found at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/specifi....

End-to-end crypto is another matter. It can make sense both for private and public chat rooms (if you define public rooms as ones which any member of the public can be invited into by an existing member), as if you use perfectly forward secrecy even a public room ends up being a secure distribution channel for the members - each message has a unique key which can be discarded by the clients after that message is downloaded and decrypted, meaning that the history cannot be replayed by an attacker. However, there's obviously a compromise between deliberately replayable history (after all, Matrix is all about synchronised conversation history) and PFS. So we've tried to be pragmatic and give the user a choice per-room to decide how secure the history should be.

At one end of the spectrum, you can pick a single key for the room which never changes - killing any PFS but meaning that any new client or device can read infinite scrollback for the room. At the other end of the spectrum you have pure PFS. In the middle, you have the ability to re-key the room for different criteria - e.g. changing the key whenever the membership state of a room changes, or applying different keys for different types of messages. This allows clients to cache as many keys as they need in order to replay the different classes of data (and for PFS, a client could chose to cache keys too to allow limited re-synchronisation from the server). The actual ratchet we're using to evolve the keys is a axolotl. All of the end-to-end crypto is currently in development, but we're just finishing the C++ axolotl implementation currently which will then be the reference implementation for all the various Matrix clients out there. And all of end-to-end crypto is optional: you can't join an encrypted room if your client doesn't do encryption, but we don't force clients or rooms to be encrypted if their users don't want them to be. There's a longer (high level) explanation of all this on http://lwn.net/Articles/634144/.
I wouldn't trust New Relic charts. Maybe that is the source of all this disinformation. Get in the actual code and time everything yourself. If PHP is actually slow, you should be able to isolate the problem, like a loop within a loop that's just bad coding. You can make any language go slow with bad code. Check out my blog post on this subject:

http://pjbrunet.com/microtimers-on-hooks-to-measure-wordpres...
> generic code is definitely more complicated

In Haskell at least this is usually not correct. A sorting algorithm with type

Ord a => [a] -> [a]

(i.e. a generic one) is likely to be more neatly implemented than one of type

[Int] -> [Int]

because the former can't use irrelevant properties of the type of the values contained in the list.

Perhaps you meant something different by "generic" though. There are a few subtly different uses of that word. One of them means a very neat and powerful generality as seen is Haskell's parametric polymophism. Another is a convoluted run-time tag-based dispatch mechanism which is often under-specified. I can imagine that programmers who have only ever seen "generic" code in the Python object oriented style (to take one example) think this style of "generic" code is more messy than "specific" code.
yeah, this will be fixed
I'm working on a algo-trading system and thinking of moving my tick data to kdb+, however I see no price on their site, care to enlight? Also, do you know what are the limits of the free evaluation/32-bit version?
Thanks
Responsive meant that before the graphics design crowd took it over.
Same concept as Spontacts (https://www.spontacts.com) which had trouble receiving a critical mass and thus was sold by Deutsche Telekoms Scout24 to Jochen Schweizer about a year ago.
It's easy to spot a smoker, because it also has a terrible effect on the skin -- even before it strikes you down dead of cancer, heart and lung disease, and chronic halitosis.

It's so nice to see that all the money and propaganda that was going into covering scientifically proven facts like that up is now going into global warming denial instead. We've come a long was, baby!

http://dermnetnz.org/reactions/smoking.html

Beyond its known links to cancer, lung and heart disease, smoking is now thought to be associated with premature skin ageing and delayed wound healing, as well as a number of skin disorders, particularly psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa and cutaneous lupus erythematosus.

Smoking can accelerate the skin ageing process in the skin. Ageing of the skin means that it droops, develops wrinkles and lines and can become dry and coarse with uneven skin colouring and broken blood vessels (telangiectasia). Smokers can appear gaunt and develop an orange or grey complexion.

Since the 1970's studies have shown that smoking results in more premature facial wrinkling than sun exposure. Lines around the eyes called “crow's feet” can develop at an earlier age. Multiple vertical lines around the mouth also occur and are called “smoker's lines”. These effects continue into old age. By the age of 70 years, smoking 30 cigarettes a day could lead to the equivalent of an extra 14 years of skin ageing.

http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/ss/slideshow-ways-smo...

Maybe there is no fountain of youth, but there is a surefire way to make yourself look older. Smoking changes the skin, teeth, and hair in ways that can add years to your looks. It also affects everything from your fertility to the strength of your heart, lungs, and bones. Take a look at these side-by-side photos. Can you pick out the smoker? Check your pick and get a closer look on the next slide.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19675554

Molecular basis of tobacco smoke-induced premature skin aging.

Although it is now widely recognized that tobacco smoke has negative effects on the skin, the molecular mechanisms underlying its skin-aging effects remain uncertain.
We want to hear the answer too.
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Fair well, Spock; I have been, and always shall be, your friend.

Star Trek: The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise - Saturday Night Live

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Phoronix have a section on compiler news [1]. They do comparisons between compilers, such as llvm vs gcc [2].

I would imagine that with the release of llvm there will be a comparison with gcc5 in the near future.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_topic&q=Compiler
[2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgzMzQ
>Your database is just about the worst place in the world to be strict about DRY.

There are no places in any code base at all where it doesn't pay to be rigorous about DRY.

>It turns out, your model and validations don't actually prevent broken data.

A) DRY isn't about preventing broken data.

B) Validations are for preventing broken data. That's what they do.
thanks for your thoughts! i just relocated from germany to the bay area to start a new job and have exactly the problem you've described. Finding people with similar interests was easy at college, but after graduating it gets a bit more complicated. thats the problem i want to solve for me personally for example. =)
Best,
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It's very specialized and last time I looked at it, it was based on Qt types and other ugly things. It would not be realistic as an alternative protocol for IRC itself.
"I wouldn't trust New Relic charts."

Good for you.

Putting microtimers throughout your code is like using printf for "debugging": It's banging rocks together. Use xdebug, xhprof, New Relic, something sensible. You'll learn much more about your stack.