skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I had not smoked for three full months and no words can adequately describe the smoke appetite that was consuming me. I had been a smoker from my ninth year--a private one during my my first two years but a public one after that--that is to say, after my father's death. I was smoking and utterly happy before I was thirty steps from the lodge door. I do not now know what the brand of the cigar was. It was probably not choice, or the previous smoker would not have thrown it away so soon. But I realized that it was the best cigar that was ever made. The previous smoker would have thought the same if he had been without a smoke from three months. I smoked that stub without shame. I could not do it now without shame, because now I am more refined than I was then. But I would smoke it just the same. I know myself and I know the human race well enough to know that."

He smoked the stub without shame.
It's not a story, it's a press release. And EFF is more creative with the facts in their press releases than I'm comfortable with.[1] See: http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/cannibal-faces-life-guilty....

He did use the NYPD police database to access information about a high school girl, and was convicted of it based on records of the access. He did send another member a file documenting the murder of one of his friends just before meeting her in person. He did talk about murdering and eating his wife.

I still don't think there was the required "overt act" but it wasn't just abstract fantasizing like the EFF is making it out to be.

[1] Public interest organizations can be just as bad as cops in this regard (ACLU is an exception). I stopped getting Public Citizen emails when they described an a teenager who had just been with a group of friends when someone else shot someone, and was sentenced to life. They failed to mention the kid was with a gang of other teenagers who brutally robbed and murdered a pizza delivery driver while his wife and child sat in the back seat. If you mention the facts, people might get outraged at the guy you're defending.
How I got a valid SSL certificate for my ISP's main domain
Can we create new senses for humans? [video]
My company has open sourced a lot of code (80% of our products) and finding people outside willing to contribute is actually quite difficult if you don't do things properly. We actually spent quite some time to improve the build and the branding, to check the intellectual property of our dependencies etc.

If you want real contributors, building a community often require a good documentation, examples, etc.
I particularly agree with point 3. We're programmers who routinely automate other's tasks, we should spend some time each week automating our routines.
Just curious, how are DDoS attacks mitigated?
I agree with this, but learning how to use your tools will provide the initial boost, and let your tools get out of the way of your thinking.
I think he's saying that the market value for web developers is higher than the complexity of the work would justify. (i.e. their salaries are inflated)

Feel free to disagree with people, but please try to avoid misconstruing their arguments.
The final stage is actually owning the mines.
To add to your list: Virtualization type
I have edited that post to recommend the book over my ePub. You can always read my compilation after finishing the book, if you want to read the articles the book leaves out.
Is this a market now wholly because the United States has shit maternity leave laws, or would it be a market without it as well?

For some cultures, there has been an employment category called "wet nurses" whose entire job was to look after an infant and breastfeed it as a mother would. Perhaps as society becomes more an more unequal, we'll see a resurgence of wet nurses for rich infants.
Video Streaming with RethinkDB Changefeeds
$30/mo for AT&T, $10/mo for Facebook, $25/mo for Verizon, $35/mo for Google, but the rest of the companies tracking you don't offer this feature, so are you even protecting yourself? Reminds me of how Germany got around the Maginot line by going through Beligum.

You can't set a precedent of paying for privacy because you can't pay everyone who can spy on you. All it takes is for one reasonably frequently used service (credit card, Amazon, AdWords) to refuse to respect privacy, and you are back to square one.

Privacy is not something a single company can successfully sell you by paying other companies not to spy. It can only be obtained by making spying expensive and difficult. (Perhaps with cryptography, perhaps with legislation, perhaps through some other means)
You doubt this? When Google's entire business model is based on surveillance? Even if they are not logging everything now, they will be.

Google's standard tactic has been to offer some service that is enticing, that "just happens" to put them in a position to log massive amounts of data. They do it with analytics, they do it with email/IM, they do it with DNS, and every other service they offer. Each one gives them access to a new type of data they can log. Are we supposed to believe they will suddenly run ISP services differently?
California megadrought: It's already begun
Problem: Can't choose currency. Why? I'm in Antigua and all pricing is rendered in XCD, but I'm a USD user.
I've never seen a provider of SSL certificates (or any other service) allow you to "prove ownership" of a domain by receiving an email.

Even from the early days of email, it has never been the case that a majority of a domain's email addresses were assigned to owners of the entity.

That is just absolutely insane.
The best nootropic for me is bicycling into work.

Also, after years of experimenting with caffeine I'm convinced that for me, one cup in the morning is close to ideal. Caffeine stays in the body for many hours, so it's all too easy to fall into the trap where you're tired, so you drink more, &etc.
There are a lot of women who would prefer to breastfeed but can't for a variety of physiological reasons, so this market would at least have the potential to exist even if America's maternity leave laws weren't barbaric.
Last time I heard this particular bark, the bite was remarkably weak. [This Physics Overflow question](http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/23785/what-errors...) didn't turn up any "outright mistakes" unless you count one very trivial sign error that doesn't change the thrust of any of the arguments.
From my 10+ years of experience: if you want contributors, build something that people really need, that is not available on the market. Build it just enough to solve the main problem it should. Make it really open and easy to contribute. People will chip in to scratch their own itches with the software.

Also, make sure you keep developing it yourself further in the open. Discuss features and architecture with community. Nobody wants to work on a code dump of commercially failed project. You can get a lot of help, if you show leadership by example.
Depends on the attack and how sophisticated it is. For most layer 7 attacks like this one, you can filter e.g. specific user agents or protocols. One thing that often works (but has some false positives with simpler search engines) is dropping all HTTP/1.0 traffic, because any remotely modern browser uses HTTP/1.1. Essentially you block anything that's unusual, like specific user agents (reflected attacks from user agents containing 'Wordpress' and 'PHP' come to mind a lot especially), HTTP headers, and so forth. Ideally as far upstream as possible, but it can be done on the server level as long as you have enough horsepower to throw at iptables or the web server, and your connection doesn't get saturated. The right IP blacklists can help a lot as well.
> At the worst you sound anti-technology,

Aah, a Luddite, seize him!

Maybe it's not anti-technology as much as anti-cram-everything-into-the-browser. Some people think that full-fledged applications should be kept out of the browser, but that doesn't mean that they think that full-fledged applications shouldn't exist at all.
Karl Fogel's Producing Open Source Software is hands down one of the best books possible on building communities and driving contributions. It was written ~10 years ago (pre-Github) so it's a bit dated but he's working on an update now - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kfogel/updating-produci...
Thanks for the feedback. I agree, the text needs to drop down a hint in mobile. And yes, the same quotes come up too often. Will have to work on that in the future (though it may be an condition of not having too many in the db yet).
I'm late to this thread, but I met a restaurant owner in Barcelona who said TripAdvisor employees demanded to have lunch for free in exchange of good ratings. He declined and got bad ratings.

He also got a visit from Yelp, that didn't demand anything in exchange for listing his business.
Does this mean that startups are limited with regards to the level of innovation? I notice that a lot of startups don't really do anything new technology-wise, but have more of an emphasis on organization (for example, Uber reorganizes transportation, Bitcoin reorganizes money, but both use existing technology in the form of software languages). If I'm doing something really new (and I think I am because I sometimes have trouble convincing people that what I do is even possible), then the only recourse is to use the dated patent and licensing model with large established companies. If this is the case, then the startup model of innovation has failed at a fundamental level; ie the advantage of a small group doing something difficult only exists for an intermediate level of innovation, don't try to do something 'really' new. Would you agree?
Databases at Scale Part Three: The Reality of Transactional Apps
Do note that you need TLSv1.2 to connect to the website, or plain HTTP.
My coordination improved when I quit drinking. I was a fairly heavy drinker, but not nearly to that extent. It used to be that when I dropped something, I would seldom catch it on the way down. Now I often or usually do. I didn't notice a commensurate improvement in code output or quality though, but it could have happened without me noticing.
An easy way to remember which is which between New Hampshire and Vermont is to note that Vermont is shaped more like the letter V.

Mississippi has the Mississippi River, and thus borders Louisiana.
Frankenimage – Reconstructing images with pieces from an image database
Hi there, didn't see this until just now.

The metric that is improving is the latency experienced by a user.

Imagine that you have a web app that takes one second of server CPU time to render a page, and you have three servers which process three hits a second in total. All three servers are thus on 100% CPU load, dealing with one hit a second each.

Each time somebody visits your site, they are going to experience a 1 second latency (in addition to communication latency), as they wait for one of your servers to build the page.

If you then optimize your code so that it completes in a third the time, 333ms, then your servers are going to suddenly be at 1/3 load; they execute their one query for 333ms, and then sleep for 667ms.

Not just that; but the user now only has to wait for 333ms for the page to render on the server, so the site gets a lot more snappy for them.

Then you can shut down two servers leaving one; it will sit on 100% load, but you still keep the shorter 333ms latency experienced by your users.

You are doing the same amount of work as before - 3 hits a second. But previously, when the tasks took 1s each, three would be running in parallel, each being completed more slowly. With the faster run time, they are running in series, being completed quickly before switching to the next one.

Now, this does not apply if your requests are queuing. Because you're not able to do any more work than before (after shutting down the other two servers), if your hits/s exceeds the capacity of your servers to deal with them, the backlog will grow just as fast as it normally would have, and the latency caused by this will sky rocket.

Your example doesn't fit because multiple machines aren't ever used to process front end web requests in parallel; you don't render half of a template on one machine, and the other half on another, for example. If you can set up a system like this and see gains from it, then what I've written above will not apply.
I don't disagree, but in terms of a framework for evaluating the behavior of businesses I think the following is reasonable:

Businesses should act within the law, and lawmakers and the public determine what legal safeguards are necessary. For example, if you start a restaurant you must comply with health code, fire code, etc. If you start a bank you need to keep a certain amount of risk capital, etc., etc.

One could argue that all dishes used by a restaurant should go through hospital level sterilization, or that banks should contain more risk capital than they are required to by law. Such arguments would be in the name of safety or quality.

One could similarly argue that restaurants should use at least 20% locally grown produce or that banks should lend 20% of capital to underprivileged groups. Such arguments are in the name of moral responsibility, etc., and lawmakers have actually implemented many such laws for banks.

For an investor who wishes to invest in a bank or a restaurant, there are many options. Being able to compare financials and other metrics will help the investor figure out which is the smartest investment (based on her risk appetite, etc., etc.)

Why might a restaurant decide to focus on locally grown produce or a bank decide to focus on its ethical treatment of subprime borrowers? Largely for PR/marketing reasons. If such marketing campaigns are successful, customers will flock to the bank or restaurant in question and (assuming they are still able to be profitable) make the bank or restaurant a more desirable investment.

One can pick any business and any metric that he thinks has moral significance and claim either "regulators should require x, y, or z" or that "that practice is horrible". One might be right... essentially ahead of the game morally from society's average.

The perception of moral progressiveness, like the font chosen for a brand, is one factor that helps determine a business's success. It may be the case that most of the meat we eat was raised in unconscionable conditions, or that 30% of imported electronics were assembled by modern serfs in near-slavery. The more we are aware of such things, the more likely firms are to make the most progressive choices.
How we hired from Producthunt
Using Immutable Objects for Persistence in Java
It's more "if your primary tool is a text editor, there is a complexity cost to context shifting, and for some simple tasks that cost isn't justified if you have a suitable method of representing what you want in text."

Just as with programming, polyglot programming has value, but switching languages within a project had a complexity cost that isn't always justified even when for dinner task taken alone a different language is marginally superior.
I am glad you were able to get the proper verdict. Do you think that AGIS will try to come again after your company or rather stay away from you guys?
do you think other trolls like AGIS may decide to avoid Life360 from now on due to this victory?
> It's on its way to become one of the great monopolies of the web.

How is it a "monopoly"? Usenet was a "great monopoly" (with better UIs) before it died. So was Digg. Pseudonymous chat servers are a dime a dozen. When Reddit grows "interesting monetizations," people will just go elsewhere.
Look, No Mocks Functional TDD with F#
If I learned that a co-worker believed that nuts were invariably fatal to me and gone on to hide some in my food, the nuts would do me no harm but I would still take the whole incident seriously.
My Brother in Law, Part 7
There will be a talk on this at HackBU today (http://2015s.hackbu.org/)
Ubuntu, Redhat, and other distros are compatible with secure boot.

I understand the concern, but the flip side is that if secure boot makes my future Ubuntu laptops more secure that could be a good thing.

Linux is here to stay. Relax.
Brc's assessment is 100% correct. The bombastic tone of the "climate change" cult is disturbing hostile. That is because climate change proponents use propaganda to advance their self-interests. This is no different then the other disturbingly condensending and deliberately polarizing tactics then use to advance other left wing fictions. This is politics, not science.
Got a 3 month old son and my wife is providing the milk. We're lucky in that, for some reason, oatmeal cookies or hot oatmeal cereal causes my wife to have an abundant supply. We're also lucky in that my high-paying tech job allows her to work only part time(2days/week) so she's home most of the time to feed the baby and pumps milk ahead of time when she won't be around. But some women can't produce enough milk or have lives that are too busy, but still want their child to receive the benefits of mother's milk.

Anecdata tells me that women who are stressed out won't produce much milk, so... I assume that's a significant number of people right there.

EDIT: Changed phrasing per reply
China's Youku Tudou gets 900 million video views daily
Most coffeshops in the US will gladly fill a water bottle with water. I've done this too many time to remember. I've never been turned down. It's not shopping and asking It's simply walking in and politely asking to have the bottle filled.

This outfit makes it easier to get water from other kinds of merchants I guess -the kind ho also have drinking water available.
The original title, as evidenced by the URL, had "goes nuts" instead of "is going crazy."
At least until VPNs are made illegal because of the profits lost by not being able to track you, aka privacy piracy. Besides, it's used by terrorists and pedophiles as well. Think of the children.
Not my intent, but maybe I wrote it that way subliminally too.
Proving ownership by sending email to the contacts in the WHOIS record is the _only_ way I've seen for the cheapest certificates. What other ways are you thinking of, and can you point to any CAs that do them (for their cheapest certificates)?
I don't know. It seems reasonable to at least provide the options. It sort of like paying to get rid of Ads on the apps, except it's privacy, much more controversial. I bet there are people think privacy is non-negotiable, labeling it with a price somehow stains it. Unfortunately, the real world just does work like that way.
Parse Incoming E-mail Notifications and Post Them to Slack
Thinking about this, it's the sort of thing I often enjoy amongst friends, but that I'd probably not bring up at work.
Plant protein is subpar because of its amino acid profiles. I'm not being anti-vegetarian here, it's the basic truth and it's why strength athletes etc. don't count plants as significant sources of protein.

Basically, bugs are better, comparable to any other animal source.
Very cool work! A great link I found in the article's comments for generating dot-matrix text:

http://www.omgtldr.com/.matrix/
I think it's Old Webmaster Lore that there exist roughly ten email addresses which are Widely Considered To Be Special. abuse@, postmaster@, and administrator@ are three of them.

There exist a lot of systems in the world which rely on this being true, irrespective of whether it is in fact true.
No worries. It's easy to get disillusioned when the tools to surround yourself with better options aren't very well developed.
Rail is shown the same way as roads, I'm not sure if this was intended:

http://tangrams.github.io/tangram-docs-assets/?procedural/tr...
Of all the CAs my browser trusts, any single one of them can compromise the entire web by fucking up and issuing bad certificates.

I have no say in which CAs I "trust", since my list has to match the list that site owners pick from. Site owners have no benefit from picking better CAs on the list over worse CAs also on the list, because my browser trusts them the same.

How could anyone think this is a good system!?

[Edit: and yeah, things like cert pinning can mitigate the damage a bit. That's not enough to make a bad idea suddenly a good idea, and it only took approximately forever to start being implemented.]
Ha. The strange thing about stallman is that his words of 'craziness' magically convert to words of wisdom, but there is always a delay in that process, which can go up to decades. This happens _always_. Joke's on us, despite knowing about this phenomenon, we never adjust for it.
I don't really understand the concern here. Microsoft is simply saying it's optional for its hardware partners to display the option to toggle it. I could see plenty of enterprise systems wanting to not allow users to change this setting. Microsoft isn't trying to block anything here.

If you want to use linux simply vote with your dollar and go to the vendors that will let you install it (I imagine most will). That or use a linux distro that is actually compatible with secure boot.
I don't recall anyone staying that in, say, 1990, nor do I remember any facts that would have supported that if they did, like many leading firms releasing free software without compulsion, either where they were the original copyright holder or where the upstream was under a permissive license so that they had no obligation to release anything, with thriving community driven free software projects, with major firms frequently contributing or sponsoring, under permissive free software licenses in many application domains.

The fact that the pragmatic case for free software has been made and well-avcepted is quite evident.
The problem was IIRC that you need something signed with MS key to be able to boot whatever. If you are able to set your own keys - then there is almost no problem (still usb flashes and so on will be harder to boot)
It costs $99 to sign the software. I'm sure most of the distros can afford that (unless they take a die-hard stand, in which case, just don't buy a Windows pre-loaded PC from the OEM that disables the option to run Linux with).
Time Is Ripe for Disruption
Wow, I'm really not sure how to judge your friend ethically...

Providing a source of breast milk is really important. Providing a source of income for people who are poor enough that getting milked for $2 a day sounds good is important. But this is pretty clear exploitation.

I think in poorer countries, living costs and incomes in urban areas are lower than in richer countries but not vastly so.

However, out in the countryside, especially in areas where the farming is mostly subsistence, currency is hard to come by. When everything is okay, that isn't so important because people can get locally produced food and shelter, but when someone needs medical treatment or just imported building materials it is.

However, the people in those areas are not very mobile. There may be a minibus network or similar, but getting to a major urban centre is a big deal, costs a significant amount. You could set up a deal NGO clinics where those exist. I don't know much about Cambodia though personally...

But yeah, I don't know if he's doing a good thing or a terrible thing.
Well, at least VM's are still available.
What if I prefer Debian over Ubuntu? Can I be upset then? I'm sure this will be possible to hack around, but we shouldn't have to hack our own computers to use them. A simple option to disable secure boot would solve all the problems. The vendors know this, so I'm curious why they would chose to not provide the option. Is there some belief that by even having the option, the system would be inherently more insecure?

I'm sure that some vendors will provide an option, so this will just likely be an extra thing to research before buying a new system.
If users had and at least some exercised control over trusted CAs, at least to the extent of disabling if not adding, then site owners should have an incentive to choose better CAs, since worse CAs would be disabled by security-conscious users.
Saves me a lot of time! almost instant break-even. money well spent!