skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you would have to be stupid to self-host email these days. If you're an individual person, it's way too time-consuming to set everything up properly. If you're a company, there is a very high risk that you'll get put on some anti-spam blacklist or other for doing one of 10,000 harmless things (or even not doing anything wrong at all, but just sharing a block of IPs with a bad guy). And then your mails will get silently dropped, and you might never know that it happened. You just... won't get replies from customers or business partners that you were expecting.

The anti-spam zealots ruined email for everyone, and they don't even have the honesty to admit what they did. "Hilarious and infuriating" is right.
Yeah, but they probably aren't getting hacked by someone sending a too-long username. If they were writing in an unsafe language, they'd almost certainly have those issues _in addition_ to everything else.
Consumer SSDs benchmarked to death–and last far longer than rated
Paul Irish Breaks Down JavaScript Performance on CNET, Time, and Wikipedia
Just for clarification: Does Walmart sell an Insulin approved for human use? Animal insulin has been used for human use, and human insulin for use in pets...

Insulin's amino acid sequence varies a little by species, but as far as I recall most mammal's insulins are interchangeable.
For the lazy, Ctrl+F Insights
In my opinion, there is a reason for that. Consider the example above, slightly changed:

public foo(Bar bar) {
bar = baz(bar);
//Lots (10+ lines) of code.
bar = qux(bar);
//Lots (10+ lines) of code.
return finishProcess(bar);
}

It is hard to spot the second reuse of variable bar. This can make code harder to understand; it's a lot easier to just look at the point of definition of a variable and assume it never changes. At least, that is why I tend to use final when writing Java, and val when writing Scala.

Of course, usually when adding final to messy Java code I'm trying to understand, this ends up telling me that the whole piece of code was fragile, hard to understand and in dire need of a refactoring. All of which makes final useful to me.
A Tech Column on Wearable Gadgets Draws Fire as ‘Pseudoscience’
False dichotomy. You said "Monopolies are okay when the the good in question only exists because of the monopolist."

I was asking if, given their existence, it would really be "OK" to have one person control it. You came back with suggesting its better than them not existing, which is fine, but is only relevant to this discussion if you can prove that it wouldn't have existed without the monopoly. I am doubtful of this.

Its easy to see the error in this logic since it basically applies to all things: a monopoly on food production is better than food not existing. A monopoly on housing is better than no houses, etc etc.
The EU antitrust probe is going to put a hurt on Google, and it won't stop with just search. Android is going to be investigated as well.

Also related to this story is the massive amount of lobbying Google did to avoid charges being filed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-google-is-transfo...
I think the problem is actually exactly the opposite. People are horribly afraid of dying and incredibly uncomfortable discussing it. No one accepts death as part of life and everyone wastes a lot of time and money treating terminal illnesses without actually recovering very many QALY's from the effort. People invent religions that posit some sort of afterlife so they can comfort themselves with the belief that they are immortal, and this is such a powerful impulse that even the supposedly non-religious, like de Grey, recreate this belief in the guise of science fiction.

“Don’t look down on death, but welcome it. It too is one of the things required by nature. Like youth and old age. Like growth and maturity. Like a new set of teeth, a beard, the first gray hair. Like sex and pregnancy and childbirth. Like all the other physical changes at each stage of life, our dissolution is no different.

"So this is how a thoughtful person should await death: not with indifference, not with impatience, not with disdain, but simply viewing it as one of the things that happen to us. Now you anticipate the child’s emergence from its mother’s womb; that’s how you should await the hour when your soul will emerge from its compartment.”

Excerpt From: Marcus Aurelius & Gregory Hays. “Meditations.”
But many of these null pointer dereferences would _also_ be a DoS in a memory-safe, exception-free language like Rust. If you think x isn't null then try to access x.y... something's gonna blow up. If it was in Rust and someone used an unwrap() but there was no value, panic would DoS the system in much the same way, right?

(Same for Java, or C#, or what have you, though each connection would probably be in a try/catch so no real harm done, most likely.)
I am actually surprised that ecosystems on Earth somehow are in an equilibrium, with plants converting as much carbon back into oxygen as animals convert back, on a global scale.

I mean, how does evolution explain that? We once had a near exinction for anaerobic bacteria, because of all the oxygen they produced, at least that's the theory. But the feedback mechanism is through such a global thing (amount of CO2 in the atmosphere) that it is a wonder to me how the populations don't just enter a tragedy of the commons.
> of course you may view all of those are insanely expensive

Maybe I'm just cheap, but I do think those are all insanely expensive. Even $64k is more than twice the median annual income in the US, and $78-180k will buy you a decent house in most places that aren't SF/LA/DC/NY.

I can't imagine ever wanting to spend that much money on a depreciating asset that's only major benefit over a $10k Honda Civic is as a status symbol.

I do hope that Tesla succeeds in eventually creating affordable, mass-market electric cars, but it's hard for me to get that excited by their current lineup which serves mainly to help rich dudes feel smug about helping the environment.
Scraping page titles and snippets to create a list of websites is one thing, but scraping unique content from the pages that keeps people on Google instead of going to the source site is a problem. Say a bunch of restaurants are given star ratings by Yelp. If Google adds those ratings to its search listings then users don't need to go to Yelp. Google gets a double benefit: Yelp's content enhances the Google brand, and it stops them going to external sites. Yelp suffers a double loss: It loses unique content and loses traffic.

Google's Knowledge Graph is where Google scrapes facts that other sites have compiled, most notably from Wikipedia, and presents it as its own data. This devalues all the sites that have compiled the facts, but greatly enhances Google.

When Google acts as a content site in its own right it inevitably comes into competition with the sites it ranks on the search engine, hence the (inevitable) anti-competitive behavior seen in the report.
We're not modern day gods.
Why will the US government send all their traffic stats to Google? Why not use piwik? http://piwik.org/

Im I being too paranoid? This is after all third party software served by the government.
How actively is this being maintained? I noticed that the last commits were a few months ago. Maybe it's in a pretty stable place and doesn't need much work these days, but I like seeing Ruby used for more than just Rails so I'd love to see this stick around.
On the performance point, you're quite right on 0-60 speeds. Electric motors, all-wheel drive, and smart launch control will give you excellent times.

On a track, though, where weight and handling matter so much, I wonder what the performance would be. The Tesla Model S (Performance Model) and the Tesla Roadster have essentially the same lap time around Laguna Seca as a humble VW Golf and Ford Focus -- and all four are comfortably beaten by a $30K Subaru WRX STi. Source: http://my.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/model-s-laguna-seca-l...

Now that was likely not the P85D, but that model's extra performance will be offset by the extra 300lbs and curb weight of approximately 5000(!) lbs. It may be helped by a more even front/rear weight distribution and AWD. (I admit I've spent the last three days on the track at Laguna Seca, so I may be overly fixated on lap times...)

This is not to take away from Tesla's remarkable accomplishments in such a short time. The P85D is an amazing car.
And Zip2. He's at least 4 for 4 and maybe 5 for 5. And these aren't little web sites or mobile apps. Payments ($1.5b), automobiles ($25b), rockets ($10b), solar power ($5b).
Great idea. I loved Microcorruption. But please please don't call it video game! Average person reading this would think this is some sort of World Of Warcraft type game and stuff like that but this is more of a programming competition.
Can I guess that a 1910 telephone map perfectly overlaps on top of a 1910 railway map?
Cognos Framework Manager Introduction
Why isn't the persistent data put onto an EBS volume?

If ephemeral storage is a drive local to the virtual machine's host (which I think is the case) then having a cool down period would mean holding the hardware that used to be used by you in reserve until the grace period expired.

It's possible but it's a lot of work to solve a problem that can be better solved by not relying on ephemeral storage persisting.
Goat Simulator – Jodo Do Cabralho
His original point was that people are crediting Musk with what is actually the success of the engineers working there. The public loves to give credit to figureheads. Naturally, this upsets the people actually doing the innovation who get ignored.
Do you work at STS Travel? This sounds far too familiar.
> But it also feels increasingly unlikely that it will escape the Rails ecosystem to any significant extent.

It already did, with Puppet, Chef and Vagrant.

Also, mruby is gaining adoption and Rubymotion seems to be in an interesting niche.

There's a lot of new projects currently (like Lotus), so I wouldn't as negative as this.

Also, don't ignore the foothold that Ruby has in the asian markets.
> And for larger codebases I think opt-in typing a-la
Typescript is a huge win.

You can have static typing with InfraRuby (at http://infraruby.com/live), and it's opt-in in the sense that InfraRuby code runs on Ruby interpreters without modification, but (un)fortunately InfraRuby doesn't support reflection so it doesn't run Rails.
>Tap water tastes funny

In Australia the tap water has very strict monitoring and is tested often. The water here tastes fine.

What is absolutely staggering is that bottled water is not monitored as strictly as tap water, yet costs about 1000x more. All those pictures of pristine waterfalls and bubbling springs are absolute bullshit. You are far more likely to get a hefty dose of chlorine or other containment from bottled water.

They are downright evil but kudos to the Coke marketing department. Who was the genius that pitched the idea of selling sub-standard water at 1000x the price of what we get from the tap? I'd have said its a ridiculous idea. Clearly I was wrong.

Personally, I use a soda-stream at home if I get a soda craving. Cheap, no health concerns, convenient and less impact on the environment. If I really feel I need some sugar I'll squeeze an orange into a litre of fizzy water. Still a bit of sugar but nothing compared to a coke.
Japanese GDP (PPP) per capita is only about 70% of US GDP per capita. If they have the world's second-highest GDP, that is mostly because they have the developed world's second-highest population.
I kind of agree about presenting Yelp ratings and only giving them the option of that or not being indexed, but you go too far in the other direction.

Snippets in search have long been held to be fair use and, quite honestly, I see the Wikipedia thing as an SEO crank red flag: even beyond the fair use argument, Wikipedia is explicitly licensed to enable that sort of transformative use. Remix culture and all that.
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback.

Getting more mileage out of the initial wizard is definitely a really interesting idea. We've thought about that a lot and it's potentially the direction we might go.

Part of what worries us is whether users would feel overwhelmed by too many steps upfront without seeing their progress. Another idea that is similar that we are playing around with is replacing the current sidebar (that has instructional videos) with a sidebar that acts like a wizard, but with many more steps.
There is nothing that physically prevents you from building three separate water networks, it's just a stupid idea because it costs three times as much for the same result. And so it is with internet.
I think that, in spite of some pro-aging/death views, society acts to prevent aging and death by treating disease.

You seem to want a radical solution, but I think the main reason that there are few people trying to directly prevent aging/death, is because the medical profession doesn't consider this possible at this time.
REST API for Order Fulfillment
For the amount of *nix people I see showing out on here, I'm surprised that it's only 10% - although for the Web in general, that's an absurdly high number, still!
Will we ever speak faster than light speed?
One of China’s Most-Wanted Tries to Make a Final Deal
US approves Amazon drone trial
That's exactly what I mean. Why state the incredibly obvious? Is there anyone who actually thinks Musk sat there and built the Tesla in his basement? Am I supposed to reach out and personally shake the hands of each engineer?

The engineers "thank you" comes in many forms. The fulfillment of the job. The privilege to work on cutting edge tech. The satisfaction of their customers. Their salary and so on and so forth.
What examples are there of FDA corruption (such as in the movie Burzynski)?
Yes, ideas behind Alma-0 look similar to the ones behind Picat.

Loops in Picat are compiled to recursive calls. And there is automatic backtracking, like in Prolog.
> it's not a natural monopoly. I know because...

You're lucky. I only have Cable and (crappy) DSL. My cable is good, but the DSL is so awful that if my cable provider decided to triple their rates I would have no choice but to acquiesce and pay up. I think that's the very definition of a natural monopoly.

A very large number of Americans have no, or only one high speed internet provider - and that was by the 2010 standard of "high speed": http://broadbandnow.com/report/2013-underserved/

( Relevant YC discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9044719 )
Silicon valley may not be fixable
This is (currently) the thinnest smartphone in the world
Playing with kids and watching porn especially japanese milf
20 minutes.
TL;DR is "we just used AWS in a completely unexciting way".
The result is Uber getting sanctionned over their predatory behavior in Europe. I don't care what Uber does since it's mostly illegal in France.

A private corporation does not get to make the laws. If they want to change the law they need to respect it at first place then join the democratic process ,end of story.
Trust comes back to a trust anchor.

If you could create e.g. a publicly available AMI of your application and prevent further runtime modifications to it (e.g. disallow SSH access), then maybe Amazon could offer an interface to verify that your application was running based on the trusted AMI.

Essentially Amazon would issue a statement connecting a certain IP address to a certain application.

Substitute AMI and Amazon for your choice of other technology as appropriate (docker container and docker hosting provider - this sounds like a competitive advantage for hosting providers hint hint)
So an outdated technology was replaced by a cheaper solution that served the exact same purpose. Sounds like we should be cheering for the the LED signs.
What happens when you page align everything
Is it a common opinion that these signs are ugly? I certainly don't consider them aesthetically pleasing, but they are so ubiquitous, functional, and necessary that it never even crossed my mind to think of them as either ugly or attractive, in the same way that I've never pondered the aesthetic merits of stop signs.
I've been working with both Go and Rust recently and enjoy both languages. Any reason why Go was chosen over Rust for this project?
Can we create new senses for humans?
Three Miles
> It's only relatively recently that travelers could visit
> Myanmar (legally)

That is simply incorrect.
So, to not take a job I don't want I have to take another (small) job. Sounds pretty much like "you either have some job or you die" to me. And not exactly voluntary.
> any sort of data was unavailable on AT&T roaming

Telenor SIM cards are cheap and have data
That's a small chip and three normal discrete LEDs packed up in a single box.
Certificate Attestation
I am not telling anyone to GTFO, nor, I believe, Amazon does. It depends on a DDOS, there are a lot of smaller-scale DDOSes are just absorbed. Some are stupid filtered easy enough that no one is notified, some are serious enough. My first oncall at Amazon I got ddosed from 3 VPS machines, easy enough, a month after same attacker started to shift machines inside VPS, then a month after attacker started to spoof ips within narrow range of ips, in just a half a year (yes! they can last THAT long) attack was coming from a range of spoofed IPs with a traffic that followed no pattern except for destination they wanted to go down at many gigabits per second.

In this case - 700k QPS (gigabits of ingress) of well engineered HTTP/HTTPS DDOS traffic is not something an average colo can or even will be willing to handle at all. I'm assuming a hot-potato DDOS, when a customer comes along with a long tail of colos and providers that already booted him. All that traffic, servers and ultra expensive engineer time. Everyone wants it for free, but ALAS.
Well, actually we don't use determenistic encryption, and the server knows nothing about ordering. It merely stores the trees and returns requested pieces (w/o knowing which piece is that or is it a piece of a tree at all).

I find some ideas in MIT mOPE paper similar though
If product revenue doesn't grow faster or even along with traffic (expenses) it will eventually knock itself out of business one way or another.
Amen. We're actually very flawed, ordinary people who just happen to enjoy programming/computers.
It looks specifically like cURL's exit value and the downloaded page size varied on some requests. It would be interesting to know what the contradictory download size was, and what the curl exit value was.
I imagine the 1910 railway network would be much more extensive: http://cprr.org/Museum/Official_Rail_Guide_1910.html
That's the reason there are books, so you can profit from the experience of those that are dead now.
More like kingmakers: http://thenewkingmakers.com/
Software engineer, I am pretty easy trackable in internets too :]
Suppose we cure aging. If there is such a "culture" of pro-aging, then supposedly you expect them to refuse the treatment?

I do not see that happening in the long-term. Maybe a few fringe sects, but never the majority.

Instead, as soon as some people use such treatment, most everyone else will as well.

What this conjecture tells me, is that this "culture" is probably just based on the belief that anyone who refuses to accept aging, must be a fool.

If however a cure is demonstrated, this belief will be disproven, and people will quite immediately embrace longevity.

Or.. do you expect otherwise?
This is a completely disingenuous argument. My point is that a sincerely interested maintenance coder could easily accidentally use the wrong variable. This was the GP's point as well.

This is not something that is not at all difficult to understand... for anyone who has ever actually worked on shipping code.
A complete lack of clear disclosure that this is not a concept video makes me believe that this must be just concept video. If that's the case it's too bad. When startups starts shipping concept videos instead of a product, their days are usually numbered.
It just takes 4.5 days to bruteforce unlock your iPhone PIN
Some percentage of Windows visits could be browsing at work, maybe?
No. But there are actually 6 sensory inputs to the brain. The standard 5 of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste plus the often forgotten sense of balance or orientation from the inner ear. Note it is the only one that is not (directly) dependent on E/M interaction but gravity.
>> nobody innovates because, without IP, you pay for the cost of R&D but "copycats" can steal the idea without paying.
>
> This just isn't true. It's human nature to innovate, just as it is human nature to sing, play music and dance.

Straw man fallacy.

The OP wasn't suggesting that literally nobody would innovate, just that innovation, particularly innovation paid for by private parties of the sort of thing which is expensive and easily copied, would significantly decline.

If you have ever paid to see someone sing, play music, or dance, you have participated in an activity which likely would not have occurred without there being a monetary incentive for that person to partake of the activity you paid to enjoy.
People? No. IP/AS numbers. Where traffic lands first, on which POPs... Its pretty obvious.
You can. If you want to write immutable C++ simply declare every single variable const. Done.

The only difference between C++ and "immutable by design" languages is that in C++ you'd have to write your own little processor to ensure that your rule is followed (this is no big deal, and I've written much more complex processors to enforce C++ coding standards as part of the build.)
Right at the moment, we don't. The prototype is a proof-of-principle. And the first version will probably have index on pre-computed properties used instead of joins.

But I think proper joins can be implemented with this idea
https://cdn.sparkfun.com//assets/parts/8/0/3/7/11821-02.jpg

I'm quite aware. LED normally refers to the packaged die, not the die itself when people are talking about it like this. Having the controller inside makes absolute sense, the alternative is running hundreds of rows of PWM from your driver chips out everywhere.
In my experience Amazon will most probably write off their bill if they refuse to pay, but will refuse further service as well.
There were giant UNIX networks before there were giant Windows networks, using things with names like NIS/YP and NFS. IMO building custom deployment tools is kind of the point of using not-Windows, but I'd wager Canonical, RedHat, and/or Oracle have something for central management and deployment of Linux systems.
I got a Mercedes E350 with the same thing last year. I got used to those features so fast, it feels like easy-mode driving when the car just wants to stay in the lane and keep the distance of the car in front of.

It does shut off the self-steering after a pretty short while if you don't move the steering wheel, and it doesn't work very well at high speeds, but a traffic jam on the highway is what it's made for.
Honestly a bit confused on the downvotes, was just trying to provide additional information for people who aren't familiar with working with CF. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Sorry for the lack of reply.

We started by assuming most of what we saw on paper lack credibility. We questioned their abilities, in a friendly way, and made sure they proved to us what they claimed. We also cast a wide net - we didn't just assume because we liked someone at first that we should just wrap things up. That candidate was the best of maybe 3-4 people we brought in for in-person interviews. Instead of 1 intern candidate whom we felt we knew.
It seems cult-like from the inside too.
I think it's a reasonable question and I'm a big fan of piwik, but running it at this kind of scale is very hard. We get about 10k hits/day on the piwik instance we run and it's consistently taking more resources than the application it's tracking.