skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article states the opposite: that it's write-heavy.

The difficulty in managing time series data is that you need to do roll-ups and generally avoid doing the same work twice - that is, read the same rows over and over again.

If you're doing the same work over and over, it's always going to be slow. Don't do that! InfluxDB could presumably be built on top of PostgreSQL. It just manages the data lifecycle. But that would be a polyglot mashup project then and not something you could sell to VCs.
Is there a statement from github what they think who did the ddos?
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> it stands alone among large corporations in protecting free speech.

As seen in the last few years, Google has a fairly cozy relationship with the US government and intelligence community, so I don't think they're doing this just to "protect free speech". Besides, breaking SSL goes well beyond free speech (e.g. industrial espionage etc).
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So, are the U.S. going to sanction themselves?
And most of them happen in concentrated areas (inner city), which means that the vast majority live in safe areas. If you aren't living in Gary, Indiana or somewhere similar, it's pretty silly to be scared of burglary. Perfectly reasonable to take precautions, but it's crazy to go overboard.
> Plus just getting your news once a week:

You seem to believe that the Economist is a newspaper. They clearly say they are _not_. They are a news _filter_

I find The Economist's core idea to be very good. They "he promise we make to the reader is that if you trust us to filter and distill the news," They do not aim to be reporting the latest breaking news like CNN or Twitter, in real time.
They aim to be the only media you need to read to understand "what matters in the world and what’s going on." No small undertaking, but a great goal.
I can not remotely fathom the use of twitter or even facebook. I have accounts with both even wrote a facebook app but posted maybe a dozen things total and haven't touched either in years. It is utterly unimaginable to me to upload photos of myself at random or post random statements. I haven't a clue how this is keeping in touch.

Likewise the notion that one is in continuous contact with others is also totally alien. I own a couple generations of iphones and androids, wrote some apps for them but otherwise leave them in a drawer. They're there right now batteries dead.

I do not know what percentage of people also think this way, twitter seems to have low penetration but facebook enormous. One thing though is that such people are not posting on the web and so would be under represented.
>Nobody in Amsterdam wears a helmet while biking.

Also many tourists and a lot of expats! I also see more and more kids riding on the front / back of bikes wearing helmets, their parents usually going helmetless.
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This is a fantastic, powerful response to the question a lot of us without the context frequently ask ourselves. It must be so difficult to reconcile your love for your homeland, its culture, and your family, with the reality of a pervasive worry that the worst can and does happen with frightening frequency. We take for granted that we can typically feel safe here in the US, and I hope you stay safe and continue to contribute to making your home better for everyone.
Batteries are to devices what rockets are to space...things.

So there's a trend here.
Well let's be clear on one thing, what's the benefit of a desktop over mobile? Usually we say productivity.

Editing photos, video, text, is all less productive, slower, less capable, more superficial on mobile. Adding an instagram filter is kind of iconic for mobile's productivity factor in my opinion.

So is ChromeOS suddenly comparable to desktops if it can run mobile-productivity software? Of course not. Far from it.

This may change as we're seeing mobile/laptop blur a bit (iPad Pro with force touch, a stylus and USB ports for externals, 12" Macbook with Intel Core M processor, for example. Or any of the 2-in-1s, the MS Surface etc). Once we see Mobile software running on Laptops, and see Tablets equipped with a keyboard/stylus, converging around the 11" form factor, with ever improving mobile chips, then we'll probably see more 'real' productivity software.

But it's a bit too soon to call ChromeOS comparable all of a sudden. It's a great move, though. I remember you couldn't/can't even run Skype on ChromeOS. Soon, stuff like that will be of the past, without requiring massive Tizen-like investments to have developers completely rebuild a hundred thousand mid-high quality apps for your store.
When TPB was pretending to be in North Korea, someone proved that they weren't, [1] because of how quickly they responded to a ping. Could someone narrow down the physical location of the firewall similarly?

[1]: https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-f...
Well, time to update your priors. There's a lot of good evidence about the impact of different strategies on recidivism rates. Here's a fairly recent comprehensive overview: http://static.nicic.gov/Library/023358.pdf

Ah, downvotes for supplying actual research, gotta love it.
Not knowing what Ublock is, nor whom gorhill and Deathamns are, this headline sucks.

As it is, this does not seem important.
> Note: This specification does not address relativistic effects of scrolling or animations and transitions at (or beyond) the speed of light.

I presume these would only show up if using relative paths or positions in your CSS.
Django has long term releases if you wish to upgrade less often.

The last LTR was Django 1.4 which will be supported until October 2015. The new LTR is Django 1.8 which will be supported until at least April 2018.
Fewer than a lot of other countries, including many that are considered very safe/desirable places to live:

200X comparisons: http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Burglar...

2012 (p. 8): http://www.civitas.org.uk/crime/crime_stats_oecdjan2012.pdf

A higher burglary rate than the US in both rankings are Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, and Australia.

(In fact, that makes me wonder a little whether these numbers might be a mix of both "burglaries" and "whether the citizenry even bothers to report" – with other countries having more burglaries that people don't report because it doesn't help...)
In the end the best home security is creating a state with good enough social security so that nobody gets desperate enough to steal all your stuff.

People may complain about the high taxes I have to pay in Germany, but at least I never really have to fear for my personal safety or invest a ton of money in heavy home security systems.
Hardly, he's just saying that since the odds of burglary are quite low(maybe not everywhere) and on a downward trend,[0] and since he doesn't have anything that is particularly irreplaceable, he's not going to be too concerned about burglary or take excessive precautions. And even if you did have something 'irreplaceable,' sooner or later it's going to be gone or transformed, it wouldn't hurt to incorporate that into your present awareness.

[0]Pretty sure I heard something like this recently. One factor postulated was that since the price of consumer electronic items and whatnot typically targeted in burglaries has been falling, the risk/'reward' calculation of what a burglar would find in an average house versus the risk of being caught and going to jail is serving to deter potential burglars.
ok... here is the deal.... the Tsar Bomba was ^#%$ing huge.

No seriously... MUCH MUCH bigger then you think.

it was 10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in World War II

it was 10% of the combined yield of all nuclear tests to date.

and mostly....
It was the equivalent of over 1kg of antimatter going up.
1 ^#%$ing kg.... of ^#%$ing antimatter.

It broke windows in Norway and Finland and its shock wave was VISIBLE in the air 700 km away.

It is impossible to get people to understand how much of a monster it was. AND.... and this was it dialed down to 1/2 its maximum yield.

No one has been crazy enough to test another nuke of its size. Even in the height of the cold war no one was crazy enough to test something like that again.
Welcome to reality. I think that you'll find that everyone, hero or villain, has both good qualities and bad qualities. It's not healthy to idolize people, and it's not healthy to devalue them either.
Pretty high in relation to what? I live in the Netherlands, which is considered to be a safe country, right? We have 0.00539 B&E's per inhabitant, whereas the US have 0.068 B&E's per inhabitant. Not that much difference, if you ask me.
Is anybody else disgusted that 1.6 seconds is considered an acceptable page load time? When did this happen? Whatever happened to 200ms being the benchmark?

Dear Lord, people, please stop loading 14 zillion different domains every time I hit a web page.
Can you just send speech directly in this situation, without converting to text? There are apps, that allow asynchronous speech messages.
If the nature of the law, is such as to continually breach international law, and companies are consistently and successfully challenging that law, a state may feel pressured to either:
1. Withdraw from the free trade agreement, or
2. change its laws to conform to the terms of the free trade agreement.

This is not a bug but a feature: the ISDS is designed to ensure that states abide by international law and respect the terms of the free trade agreement they consented to. This is fully in line with the concept of pacta sunt servanda and the relationship between international and municipal law.

Finally, if you are the United States, you can also simply ignore the arbitral tribunal and continue to be in breach of the agreement and international law, because, well, what are they gonna do?
I understand. But the fact that I need to trust the vendor and the CAs is a broken concept.
you don't need google..

and if you dislike their support then that's a valid criticism.
I have no idea if batteries are Musk's primary focus here, but creating very cheap and dense storage for electricity WOULD be as world-changing as you can get: if you solve that problem, you can't just replace combustion engines in cars, you can also use solar and wind power for base load on the grid.

This would be much more world-changing than cheap rockets.
Certainly a great goal, but every newspaper claims they are a filter (All the news that is fit to print is a filter) when they are really a newspaper (ie a paper with news).

What I question is the delay. If I have to wait several days to know what is going on, then by definition, I don't know what is going on. Even if I finally catch up on friday, by saturday I will still be behind.
We have 4 internal cameras that use motion detection, and a house alarm that calls us if the motion sensors go off, or goes nuts if it detects movement at night.

We were broken into last year while we were asleep. We were only alerted after a few minutes when one of our Dogs freaked out and started barking. They ran away.

The cameras will be useful in terms of potentially identifying future burglars, but it's also more about feeling violated. They actually made off with very little considering what was just lying around but I'd love to know exactly what they were doing while they were inside. Pretty scary with a newborn sleeping upstairs and we were non the wiser.
the first comment under the article claims energy density of about 10% of li-ion batteries, so it's not a battery replacement. still quite useful, though.
What are you trying to achieve?

Is it personal safety from intruders? Or safety of possessions from burglary or damage?

If the latter, do you really own anything that cannot be re-purchased? Any works of art or otherwise irreplaceable high value items? If not, just get insurance and do whatever the policy requires (window bolts, certain grade of locks for doors, etc).
We have two ears, so most of the psychoacoustic effects we experience in real life are achieved by just stereo recordings. Stereo listening also mimics the effect of standing in front of the stage at a live performance. You don't have performers on your back in real life. Also, stereo has a sweet spot, meaning that you only get to experience it properly when standing at the right distance in front of two speakers. Surround is similar in this way. All the other positions cancel almost all effects and it might as well be monophonic and we wouldn't notice.

So, while surround is interesting, it is not practical, the amount of mixing work needed is increased exponentially and for very little gain over stereo other than satisfying a very narrow audience. It's mostly a marketing gimmick in my opinion and a reason to sell hardware.

Add this to the fact that almost every equipment and technology since the discovery of stereo is designed to just handle stereo, I don't see us shifting to surround anytime soon. Binaural actually has a far better surround effect than surround audio. And it's in stereo.
> No, CNNIC is not even trustworthy among Chinese Internet users.

CNNIC is not trustworthy especially among Chinese Internet users.
I've actually been relying entirely on The Economist for my news for over a year now. I used to spend a lot of time reading various news sources, but then at some point started asking myself for each story I read: "Does having this information make any difference to me? Do I need to know this? How much information does this actually contain?" to which the answer was "No, no, and very little".

The Economist's weekly schedule filters out a lot of the useless noise and it gives time to write in-depth analysis rather than just bloating up non-news to fill the 24h news cycle. As a result I have a much more in-depth understanding of the current affairs than I had before. Of course my view also gets slanted by The Economist's biases, but those biases are at least well justified and supported most of the time.

Of course that does not mean I'm blind to the world around me. When a president gets elected or 9/11 happens or something else that actually matters, I will hear about it. It's just that a lot of the useless noise masquerading as "news" gets filtered out.
Right, but if someone requests:

> request "lkj3fla3kjf1ljf3jf"

Which doesn't exist anywhere, it makes no sense to return 403.
> Having a giant thing sitting in your backyard might be okay if it was high-capacity and cheap

There are also walls you could embed batteries in. A house has a lot of surface area that could be used to store energy.
I generally like your insight. The example seems to contradict your idea though—getting a readership of 20k is often much more difficult than getting paying customers from an MVP.

For the brochure, I would leave out specific metrics and data based results and instead keep the benefits high-level with tangible results.

If the brochure is merely an internal tool to help one focus on the important next steps, ignore above advice.
I haven't seen their animated ads, because I adblock all sites by default, but their ad was a textbook case of a simple ad with a straightforward pitch: "VPS, starting from $5 a month" (if I recall correctly).
You now have to run all those programs in the same namespace, on the same machine. There is no possibility to run some of the programs somewhere else (without building a new image).
You can really only use a method like this to say where a server is not (it can't be halfway around the world because the speed of light limits it), but this is assuming you're communicating directly with the server. The method used to inject these packets on the wire makes this sort of analysis even harder to do this sort of analysis (and if there was concern, appropriate amounts of random delay and noise could be added).
There are non-monetary things you can lose.

My wife was chased through her parents house at knifepoint by burglars. She locked herself in the bathroom and was on the phone with 911 as the burglars tried to kick the door in. They had almost gotten in when the cops showed up with sirens blaring. They left.

Two weeks later, they broke into a house a block away and killed two residents.

At my last apartment, I didn't think much of the cheap-shit door locks so I added a hotel-style locking bar for something like $20 - something I'd never bothered to do in the past. When I was out of the house and my wife was home alone, a pair of men in masks (she peeked out the peephole when the battering paused) started trying to break the door down. My very sweet, loves-everyone, 50-pounds-soaking-wet 6 month old puppy let out some very uncharacteristic and very intimidating-sounding barks and they booked it.

These are statistically unlikely occurrences in most safe countries but they still happen. A bit of security doesn't hurt and doesn't really cost much.
One of the thing that always fascinate me with American film is how 'simple' a suburban house can be. You have 4 feet open windows and glass wall everywhere living in a neighborhood without any gate or security guard. That led me to believe that American must have it nice over there...until I actually went there. They do have similar common sense of protection as where I'm coming from such as hardened/laminated glass for window, and solid door+frame.

I add CCTV just to expedite any insurance claim. Socially, nothing beats tight-knit neighbors.

And if your toilet have one of those airduct/vent. Make sure the size is no more than a feet.
> And yes, the race-to-the-bottom has hit $5, see ssls.com

What's the race to the bottom for wildcard certs though? Looks like $80+/year, which is frankly completely ridiculous seeing as it's exactly the same amount of work for the CA.

The whole thing's a racket, we would honestly be better off using self-signed certs and certificate pinning (perhaps with a global list of cert pins stored in the browser/a server the browser implicitly trusts)

I mean, we have to trust the browser anyway, might as well make it handle all the security
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Page 9 is the relevant graph for burglary on the Civitas pdf. The US is right in the middle.

One thing I'm surprised by is the ridiculous level of assaults committed in Britain. What's going on there?
If you can tell me how to make a decent looking site with a few MB of images load in 200 ms, I'm all ears. The only method I can think of, is by making the website ugly (i.e. few images and other design assets).
When there is a indication, it would be too late.
> Binaural means a recording with two microphones spaced at the distance of a human head.

I don't think that's enough. It's about the effect of the shape of the head and ears on the propagation of sound waves. For example, the definition of binaural in the page that you linked to says:

> the head and ear structure affect the way sound waves are picked up
I've done a fair bit of HTML5 game development for Mobile. And it's really tricky to get Mobile-first games to be fun on Desktop. All my games run on Desktop, but things like Flappy Bird just don't get much playtime on Desktop, it's popular because they're played in 'throwaway-time' on the bus, or in a bar when your friend is waiting in line to buy some drinks. A lot of mobile gaming is like that.

Which is why we don't see a ton of HTML5 games on desktop. Expectations for desktop games are far higher nowadays. If you're competing with a household-gaming experience (i.e. desktop games are generally played on your home computer), we're talking about competition like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, shooters, RPGs, or indeed big budget console games.

And seeing as any of these games can also run on your phone, and seeing as most gamers have phones nowadays, and seeing as your phone gives you a touch-screen experience around which the gameplay is built (e.g. swipe to throw a basket ball), you might as well play on your phone.

There are some exceptions, but not many. At the end of the day though, if the mobile game runs on your phone and desktop, you'll play it on your phone. If the game has a mobile version and a desktop version, and the mobile also runs on your desktop, you'll play the desktop version instead on your desktop. Mobile games on desktop is likely a relatively small market.

Of course this entire thing will shift slowly once you can run mobile games on your desktop. But it won't be a gigantic thing overnight. It's years away.

And considering I fully agree with all your points (Flashlight, nav, cab, Photoshop and Notepad++ are excellent examples of the divide) I think it'll take quite a bit of time before things take a big turn.

It kind of feels like the early Android tablet days. When the tablet app store offered just blown up phone apps. This is going to be that, but even more blown up, and much less finetuned to the mobile form factor. (e.g. things like swipe based UI just doesn't fly.) Of course it was clear that one day developers would build apps that'd adjust to both phones and tablets perfectly, but it took some time and it's still not quite there yet. This will be similar but I think it'll take a little longer, as it's not just a resolution-difference, but also requires developers to build multiple control systems (like swipe). The entire fat-finger vs precise-mouse driven UI/UX divide now needs to converge and it takes time.

In any case, the latest announcement of touch-screen Chromebooks makes a lot more sense now.
that's the part that boggles my mind.. it's as phenomenally big as everyone mentions, but it was only 50% yield because the Soviets were scared.

my head cannot fathom what 100% yield would look like.
If you include adwords-search in online advertising, cliks will dominate. However, if you look only at display (banners, links, video) then clicks are not dominant at all.
It isn't all peaches and cream in the US. You guys have some pretty rough areas too, it's just they're known as ghettos. And of course there's Mexico right next to you, which even I felt unsafe in many areas (and I grew up near Soweto).
Does anyone have a list of all typical root CAs and where they are issued from? Are there any other CAs that can be used in rogue ways?

I see a "Hongkong Post Root CA" which I assume can also be used this way?
And this page took 9.7 seconds to open from Perth, Australia on a 10mbit connection.

CDNs are useful because they load content closest to where the user is located.
And Django 1.4 was released on the 23rd of March 2012, so if you stick with the LTS releases you very rarely have to upgrade. I have to say though, I wouldn't want to upgrade a 1.4 app to 1.8 - lots of big changes have happened between those two releases.
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Are things getting better? I can definitely understand this mindset, and I feel like once momentum starts building, people get behind it and start believing in a better tomorrow.

I'd feel a lot more hopeless if things were stagnating or getting worse. I can't imagine being a Syrian right now, for example.
It's more than 10x higher?
Here's how it's done in Switzerland:

You don't do anything and just file an insurance claim. In fact, if you got a break-in and call the police, they come, but only to issue a report for your insurance company.