skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CloudFlare is probably not a good choice. They recently blocked access to a similar service, Lantern, per the linked WSJ article.

"CloudFlare, which offers content-delivery network services, said last week it cut off Lantern’s use of the service, saying it was unauthorized. “We don’t do anything to thwart the content restrictions in China or other countries,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “We’re a tech company and we comply with the law.”"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cloud-providers-face-backlas...

I'm not very impressed. Maybe someone from CloudFlare is around to defend that position further.
The legal feud that killed the Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge
It's mainly due to OpenSSL doing exceptionally poor manual memory management. Lot's of the LibreSSL changes have involved removing that.
You're missing a huge part. Get an insurance quote for what it will run you every 6 months. You can also get a tag, title and tax quote as well.

Also 200-300 for DMV is for a $2000 car in CA or a $6000 car in OK. $200-300 sounds extraordinarily low based on my purchases in both the midwest (MO, TX, OK) and west coast (CA 10%+).
Why ‘Dark Web’ drug markets will keep on imploding
Anyone who has ever dealt with Akimai knows that you have to have your Buckets O' cash ready. Cloudflare would probably be the best bang for the buck.
Isn't this title a little sensationalist without specifying who's under attack? I assumed it was a royal we and after clicking the link realized it was just this one site.
I doubt that's actually why, but it is an interesting fact to know.
They wouldn't just be giving in, it would take less than a day to get up and running on CloudFlare. That is probably worth avoiding $30k bill, especially for a non-profit.

As for PR, there absolutely is good will towards organizations that take on censorship. This is the #1 story on HN, so a company stepping in and saying "we got this covered, free of charge" not only shows they are good people, but also gives would be customers an idea of the quick implementation cycle for their CDN + the load it can handle.

Real world use case + helping to stop censorship = great PR
How not to be hacked – tips for REGULAR Humans.. free nuggets from book release
Will you officially support content creators who might want to make something like a Let's Play of Starfighter?

Heck yes. Existence of many Let's Plays is necessary (but not sufficient) to prove we're actually doing our job.

I'm peripherally aware of the mechanics of what I have to do to get Big Daddy G to be OK with this, and it's on my checklist. (Not asked, but the answer to "Are you OK with people monetizing those videos?" is "We have no objection to it but if you are both capable of programming and motivated by Youtube CPMs please let Patrick buy you dinner and explain how many astoundingly better options there are in life.")
Are you based in the Bay Area? Do you work at a large company (Google, Apple, MS)?
Reply to the emails that, maybe once they start respecting employees and hiring developers that respect themselves.
The information that came out in this article is not news. There has been significant discussions about not only the improved performance of the engines, but customers debating whether or not they wanted to be the first to fly on those upgraded engines.

Meanwhile the helium leak problem & reshuffling of schedule is an actual bit of news. We have known about the helium leaks before, but this is the first time it got so bad they had to so dramatically change the launch schedule. If it is a fundamental problem (which is sure seems to be), it might put this years launch schedule in some jeopardy.
Sales of Streaming Music Top CDs in Flat Year for Industry
Seems brilliant to me if you are trying to battle online censorship in China and get your message out. I agree that one of the mitigation services could benefit from some pro-bono services.
Right, yes. I was taking the product of the process of subdividing to not actually include the limit points at all. You are only performing the operation a countable number of times, and at each point you only add a finite number of points, so having an uncountable set pop out at the end seems unlikely.

A bonehead way to formalize this:

The first step outputs {0}, the second, {0, 1/2}, the third {0, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4}, etc.

We drop them all into one big set A. A has countably many elements and they all have a finite size:
A = {{0}, {1/2}, ... }

If B is the union of A, it has to have every point that could ever be output by the process. B is the result of "running the process to infinity." B is obviously countable since it's the union of countably many finite sets.

If you can think of a way to define running the process to infinity and -including- the limit points, I'd be interested, but the most natural interpretation to me is that the process produces a set that doesn't include the limit points at all.
I completely agree, and if you look at my past posts, I am quite cynical with most modern companies precisely because I understand that human primal impulses, such as the insatiable drive for status and wealth accumulation, tend to completely sabotage any potential for innovation.

Musk's companies are two of the very few exceptions to this universal empirical reality, and as such underscore the need to try and understand what makes them (SpaceX and Tesla) different, right down to the psychology of the executive team and founders. In my opinion, nothing is more important for the success of a company than the psychological foundations of the executive team and investors. They set the incentive structures, and their subordinates do their best to carry them out.

In most companies, the incentive structure is to get paid as much as possible by playing office politics. Hence, we get golden parachutes, "cost-centers", and an obsession with stock price and quarterly profits.
Mozilla Webmaker: Building a locally relevant web
I've wondered if 401k plans and IRAs have held back small businesses because people could have spent the money to start their own businesses; it is horribly difficult to beat an S&P 500 index fund, but the popularity of those funds mean a lot of people are spraying money at them.
A new test runner for Python - Testmon
I am reminded of the apocryphal saying attributed to an unnamed Russian soldier.

>> "A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine."

[http://thediplomat.com/2013/09/unorthodox-and-chaotic-how-am...]
Indeed that is possibly the main driver for question-type headlines. Any crazy, even libelous, statement can be slipped in if it's worded as a question. The media outlets that rely on them are taking advantage of the biases of their readers, who will, at best, gloss over the text that might say "no", and simply fixate on the question as if it were a valid one. This famously led to the Glenn Beck situation of "We're not saying he's guilty, but he won't deny it!". http://gawker.com/5355901/glenn-beck-pr-genius-spreads-the-f...
Yes, I think Haskell is the right way forward, generally. It does have some significant whitespace which might be an unfortunate necessity. Another option is autoformatting a la Go.
Homomorphic encryption is the solution when you want the server to process the data, if it every becomes efficient.
+1 for the feasible idea
Oh well. We're screwed.
It was nice while it lasted.
Luvit Reborn
Not sure that turning the light off is the first thing you want to do when you're bullied.

Unless your attitude is worth $20 USD per minute to you then yes, that's very much what you want to do.

And pretty certain that there's zero PR value in those stories.

Well, Greatfire seems to be betting a 6 figure stake on the opposite here...
Etcd based PostgreSQL HA cluster
Wow, I haven't done dedicated hosting in a long time, the prices are insane there!

https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/enterprise/2014-MG-...

Thanks for posting :-)

I've been looking for provider possibilities for my next failed startup. I'm not sure how they can deliver for that price but who am I to complain!
Couple of things. Dealers know you're doing this, so they'll try to confuse/bamboozle you to regain their advantage in information asymmetry. You have to be 100% sure of what you want, and why you want it. The slightest hesitation, and they'll have you.

Secondly: this tactic works even better near the end of the month. Salesmen have sales goals; if s/he is a little short of that goal (or the next tier), you bet they'll do everything, including throwing in their grandma, to clinch the deal.
TubeList: A ProductHunt/Reddit for YouTube Channels
LOL yes, fixed. It's pretty nice...it basically means that our entire disk is always cached.
Actually the Prolexic product is one of the most innovative and effective one we've seen to date. DDoS attacks are not a commodity issue, you have to pay to play..Not sure how that makes Akamai horrible..
That's... not true. I may have missed sarcasm here, but do you really think every company at demo day gets $10 mil?
Facebook's Engineering Director Is Headed to the White House
right, that's a good use case, although i'm not sure its terribly important. the slow part of processing a png file is not identifying its contents... although this maybe different with XML and HTML parsers. i'm still not sure i'd call it common, or even desirable.

for lots of chunk based formats using a switch statement on the chunk-ids is clean and gives the optimisation task to the compiler, which tends to do a pretty good job of these things... even if it generates a gigantic conditional statement. since these sorts of things are 4 or 8 bytes long the 'memcmp is slow' argument falls apart

in fact this sort of switch statement usage is such a good optimisation here that it is used by this perfect hash mechanism itself to solve its own problem, effectively offloading some of the cleverness requirement to the compiler...

also, in the context of programming languages this problem falls into the category i described of being beatable at compile-time. usually this is implemented by tokenising (hashing pieces of) all the string input then only ever using the tokens (hashes, indices) outside of that context. whatever lookups need doing can then become indexing into a nice flat array defined at compile-time.

in the other cases where lookups are needed they are for things like variables and constants, which are not known at compile-time, and the perfect hash can not help...

you might also want hash collisions in cases where languages have aliases for keywords

sure, you could lift some of the performance cost of the tokenisation itself outside of run-time with that, but tokenising programming language input is not the dominant cost of compiling code.
Biologists Call for Halt to Gene Editing Techniques
The transaction is implict - in fact, I don't know of a way to do this outside the scope of a transaction. Is there?
Its going well and we're pretty close to doing a show HN on it. Have a few companies using it production with hundreds of thousands of users and we're really close to opening it up to anyone.
US hopes reward offers can help net foreign cyber criminals
There is one piece of received wisdom in this article which is particularly problematic: "But managing a multinational firm such as Walmart requires a different—and much rarer—set of skills than that required to run a corner store."

This is simply not true. Executive skill is very highly overrated. There is no "magic" these overpaid executives have that uniquely enables them to run large companies. This received wisdom probably comes from the efficient-market hypothesis, in the sense that if executives are paid so highly it must be that there skills are amazing and valuable. This need not be true. It may very well be due to a mix of cronyism, posturing, and self-promotion.

Let's end this nonsense of executives being the crème de la crème of intellectual superiority.
JOBS Act Title III and Crowdfunding: What We Know So Far
You're making an interesting argument:

Is profit from IP necessarily rent? The problem is that "rent" is defined as "profits earned above what would be earned in a competitive market," but "competitive market" isn't well-defined until you define a system of rights (namely property rights).

First comes the existence of "intellectual property" in property rights. To avoid the dependence of the right to property on the state or the monarch, John Locke and others argued for the concept of "natural rights" - the right to physical property and land property I think are included in this while intellectual property such as copy rights have not been.

After all, if property is merely an administrative system established by the state for some purpose, such a system can be changed if it happens to not serve that purpose. The assumption of natural property is that (land and mobile) property rights are a prerequisite for the existence of a just state rather than the result of the state. So-called intellectual property is always the product of a state, indeed intellectual property is always a monopoly of activity granted by the state (with the "natural rights" argument being aimed to claim natural property rights are more than that).

Now, a purely formal, economic definition only judges the structure of a market in question. So it simply gives what difference between what a competitive market would charge for a good and what a non-competitive market actually charges. Since "intellectual property" is a monopoly granted by the state, the degree of rent they allow is most easily calculated. If anything, the trickier thing is calculating how much rent simpler property rights involve.
Is it possible to create a man-made process to convert carbon into oxygen? Do we need to rely on plants?
If they mean clients, they already posted the same thing two days ago.
I agree with this. Silently allowing a bully/attacker do as they want is never acceptable. I find GreatFire.org's work commendable and hope they get the help they need.
Point taken. Education is of course a valuable thing - but a year's worth of instruction on entrepreneurship after you've already got a degree?
i think if i worked with more C++ devs I'd call it "cpp" but since I don't "c plus plus" is better for clarity
The best way to buy a car is from Tesla. Configure your car exactly as you want it online. See the exact price you will pay. When you're ready, click the button and put down a deposit using a credit card on their web site. When the car is delivered, pay the balance with an ACH transfer. Drive it home.

You certainly can do well with traditional dealers if you're prepared. It's just crazy that you even have to worry about it.
I looked at the Tesla S this morning, now that they'll be available for sale in NJ. It would cost over $90k for a car that, on a long trip, requires a 20 minute stop every four hours or so. That doesn't make much sense. My Mini Clubmsn has a similar range, only needs a five-munute stop to refuel (about $60 for premium gas, granted), but it cost a third as much. I can refill my tank many times for $60k.

And the Mini is still an overpriced premium car, not a sensible cost-effective choice.
Really surprised Safari accounts for 20% of the visitors on Gov sites but MacOS only 9.1%. Means 10.9% of those are Windows Safari users.
OpenSSL is just bad code. You can keep a reference around to memory in every garbage collected code.

What OpenSSL needs to do is to throw away all the extra code that makes it run on a billion obsolete platforms, remove support for things that aren't needed (renegociating encryption algorithms? Really if a client supported it before it can support them now), wrap the internal parts of the library and port it to C++ so that they can use smart pointers, then ban malloc.

Manual memory management isn't dangerous, malloc and low level primitives are (e.g you should never manually append strings, other than in your string library, which should automatically resize the strings as needed).
I guess money and a degree from MIT makes the code look/smell better?
If you click on the day in the calendar to look at the details, the "Contradictory" status is when some of their test servers work and others don't. For this site in particular, there are several servers showing a timeout and no data received. So it's possible that HN is being partially blocked.
No I haven't been DDoSed at OVH (as far as I know), and I don't think they null-route customers any more. Here is some info about their system:

http://www.ovh.com/ca/en/a1171.protection-anti-ddos-service-...

I moved from iweb because they null-routed my server during a DDoS attack that happened for no apparent reason. (My guess is that it was a user upset at some user-generated content, so they decided to DDoS my server rather than notifying me).
NSFW also images of deliberate self harm

Interesting that they mention goatsac. He helps moderate /r/cuttersgonewild - a sub reddit that reposts images from /r/selfharmpics and adds sexual language. Admins have been told, many times. They don't care. On Reddit it is fine to take a vulnerable person's image, add sexualising language, and repost it to a different sub.

To view /r/selfharmpics you need to change your settings to stop subs showing you custom CSS. For some reason /r/selfharmpics blanks the display.

See this example:

Original post to /r/selfharmpics

http://www.reddit.com/r/selfharmpics/comments/2zbipf/nsfw_br...

Repost to /r/cuttersgonewild

http://www.reddit.com/r/CuttersGoneWild/comments/2zef7c/dadd...

(The Imgur header text is confusing. It's a bug[1] caused by /r/selfharmpics blanking the display in CSS.)

I've seen users send multiple PMs to suicidal young people telling them to just kill themselves. The users report the PMs; they block the account; they take screenshots and message the admins -- nothing happens, even if that account has messaged multiple people telling them to kill themselves.

Ask someone to upvote a post in a different thread? Fucking instaban.
LOL. Booters (that carry out DDoS attacks which are illegal in CloudFlare's own country)? No problem for CloudFlare. Trying to circumvent Chinese content restrictions? Nope, that's unauthorized!
Forgive my outburst, and maybe this sentiment won't be well received given the context, but I just find it to be downright unpatriotic for a US company like CloudFlare to stand there saying things like what Matt Prince says in your quote, when someone comes under attack by an opposing nation state.

Again, I realize this place isn't exactly a bastion for this kind of sentiment, but have some thought for freedom here, CloudFlare. The US may suck at helping a lot of the time, but if you've got a group of folks trying to deliver some good ol' freedom to a country like this, and that country is trying to shut them up, maybe put out a helping hand, or at least don't shut off service.

Come on...
Mobile safari?
This is actually pretty eye opening to me considering they tout themselves as a top notch defense against DDoS attacks.

I might have to reconsider mine and my clients choice of providers for this very purpose.
A look at Apples ResearchKit
Mining Twitter Data with Python (Term Frequencies)
What you're describing is just smart business. Producing a desirable product that people choose to buy is not rent-seeking, it is the free market fulfilling a need/want at price people are willing to pay.

An example of rent-seeking however would be if Apple set up deals with schools and colleges to roll the cost of devices into their tuition, which is really mostly malinvestment paid with student loan debt. If the amount of student loans were to reach $1 trillion for example, the government might start talking about forgiving those loans or making them eligible for bankruptcy... if that happens, Apple doesn't have their profits clawed back, even though they actively contributed to the problem. That would be rent-seeking.
I am a little surprised that somebody wrote a blog post over this. Shouldn't it be obvious?

(Okay, as far as I remember, the volatile keyword in Java, when applied to primitive types, will cause access to those variables to be atomic. But then again, Java is not C/C++.)
> the pixels aren't arbitrary subsets.

Doesn't matter. They are the set of all subsets of a countably infinite set (the set of rationals of the form k / 2^n in the 2d example), and any such set of subsets is uncountable. There is a theorem in set theory to this effect.

> There is a dead-obvious 1:1 correspondence between pixels and lines

Yes, but that in itself doesn't show the cardinality of the set of pixels/lines. Nor does it show that the cardinality of the set of pixels/lines when an infinite number of divisions have been made, is the same as the cardinality of the set of pixels/lines when only a finite number of divisions have been made. Assuming that they must be the same is the equivalent of assuming that the cardinality of the reals is the same as the cardinality of the rationals, which is obviously false.

> it's also possible to construct them as a single rational in a countable way

How? Your construction above does not show that.
I think this makes a lot of simple sense.

Say you are a service company.

You have 20 employees, and one manager. The manager makes twice as much as the employees, because customarily managers make more than their subordinates.

In a small business, the manager is the owner, and his salary is twice as much as the average worker.

Now say you are a bigger business, and you have multiple outlets in the region. Your regional manager manages 20 outlet managers, the 20 managers each manage 20 employees. Your regional manager makes twice as much as the outlet managers because managers make more than their subordinates.

Now say you are a national business, and you have 20 regions each with 20 outlets per region. Your national manager manages 20 regional managers. Your national manager gets paid twice as much as the regional managers.

And say you're an international business, and you have a presence in 20 countries each with multiple regions with multiple outlets. You manage all of the national managers, and so you get paid twice as much as them.

The small business has a situation where the business owner makes twice as much as the employees.

The international business has a situation where the top of the management chain makes 32 times as much as the employees.

That's using a really simplified model, but the larger the business, the more layers of management will likely exist, and we have a system where management expects to get proportionally more money than those they manage. That's discounting any human or sociological factors that might contribute.

I think the biggest change that could correct this issue would be to do away with the idea that your boss makes more money that you is just a given.
No matter whose name a put in I seem to get an error

Either the tweets from id_aa_carmack are not publically accessible
or there are too few words in them to analyze.
Considering that the cheaper "used" launch cost will lower the bar for getting satellites to LEO, I wonder how long until we need to worry about Kessler Syndrome[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
You can block with firewall IPs of users, who didn't solve captcha. You will get only SYNs from incoming connection requests then.
Well, FWIW, it works in Kerbal Space Program. But as you said, this would require for the fuel to be brought from somewhere else than Earth's gravity well. Maybe Planetary Resources will find some kerosene on a near-Earth asteroid?
Ah.. Now I get it.

So, if each branch's code was signed and contained an embedded key and chosen encryption algorithm, then if the app used those during processing and users received verifiable transmissions, that app's output could be verified by users as having come from that advertised branch.
Thanks for the clarification on all points, I had no idea Paris could be so confusing.