skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why is the call for a dedicated database, rather than for a simplified API instead? Many frameworks provide it already, but base it on the existing database which reduces the integration issues.

For example Symfony has FOSUserBundle [1] which provides nice support for most listed things. Django comes with its auth module [2]. There are more examples like that. They allow easy auth / user management without touching any of the underlying details. And once you actually want to go the direction of LDAP/kerberos/..., it's usually just a matter of switching the backend implementation for something that already exists.

[1] https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSUserBundle
[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/auth/default/
Most of our stuff is plain old net/http w/some gorilla doing things we didn't want to code at the outset and never bothered to replace later on.

While our main datastore is postgres we have 3 custom datastores that are starting to take a very active role. We have a lot of time-series data, very little relational, a bit of 'document' style and micro-service traces are living in their own.

Not sure if this answers your question but maybe that gets you going in the right direction.
I will put up a call for proposals on Experiment.com (I am the founder), don't expect me to commit a lot, but between friends and colleagues, I'm thinking we could review many proposals and get a few exciting projects off the ground. This is a great excuse for me to get around to doing this, and doing it in a transparent and democratic way.

edit - here's the link for more info: http://blog.experiment.com/post/117058351892/rfp-nasa-open-d...
Right, there's a few classes of data that can see that would do well to separate from the database that a website may have unfettered access to.

1) Authentication data
(login id?, password)
2) Personal data that is not used in an online manner (depends on the site of course)
(full name, email address, etc.)
3) Data that shows up on the site

If this data is segregated in to separate silos with no 'read everything' apis exposed to the web servers, you might stand a chance of not leaking all of your users data when the web servers are compromised. This of course will not help you if the authentication servers are also compromised.
My beta-quality Golang version of this with pluggable backends, including S3: https://github.com/nmcclain/glauth
I would love suggestions/help.
I'm willing to defend any statement you find 'off the rails' with evidenced and falsifiable statements.

With regard to the Bretton Woods System, the AIIB has gotten sign off from European allies despite the US's efforts to keep the AIIB underwater. Paired with the BRICS bank and Asean trade deals the IMF and World Bank are being seriously challenged in their ability to make strategic infrastructure investments. If you would like an example of what that looks like: the AIIB is investing hundreds of billions of dollars in Pakistan and more broadly Eurasia to build out oil pipelines and trade routes - a land route in Eurasia to pair with South China Sea and Indian Sea trade routes for China's "new silk road". Please feel encouraged to ask more questions.
I think it's too early to tell whether Go will live up to it's promises. However, the promises of Go are generally shit: Go has promised to help us relive the horrors of static code generation and empty interfaces in exchange for being able to compile our shitty code quickly.

I'm also not sure elixir is so great (not enough experience with the language and no time to try it right now) but at least at a glance it seems to put a cleaner face on some of Erlang's strengths, so at least it brings something new to the table.
That's compliance with the law.
Hah, I knew it was about Bionerd when I saw the title :)

I remember subscribing to her YT channel around 2010 after https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIEO0lQV7rU
The article is pretty unclear on some basic concepts, such as salting and hashing wrong. This is a pretty well solved problem with bcrypt and other framework-driven identity mechanisms.

And It should encrypt data internally really gives no protection other than physical theft of the disk drive, as in if the portion of the application is compromised that can access the data, the key is available at that point, and the attacker has free run of that corner of the universe.
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He is the OP.
Try some mealsquares :)
I wouldn't characterize the magical detection of uncommon access patterns as a minimalist feature (it can be done, but not out of the box in a meaningful way)

I'm not even sure about a meaningful way. For sake of portability the DB will need to have some way to dump everything. And if a server admin can do that, then someone who can get the same access as a server admin can do it, and we're back to square one.
Considering how hard it is to establish charter schools in Maryland (at least, pending the outcome of a bill), that could be tricky.
(Active Directory trigger warning) Even when the number of users goes over 10k I'm not sure it's worth it. I've lost days chasing down random errors to do with DNS or a misbehaving DC... when the error reference looks like http://www.selfadsi.org/errorcodes.htm (although I wish I'd known about MS's err.exe at the time)

And that's just when you're using the recommended connectors (ODBC/ADO.NET). FSM help you if you're using JDBC and the vendor of the $20k+ product hasn't tested against Server 2012.

I wonder if there's any money in providing an LDAP/AD -> REST server.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2453769/active-directory-... might be an idea, too.
Here we go! Also for anyone else who's interested in helping to fund these experiments.

http://blog.experiment.com/post/117058351892/rfp-nasa-open-d...

As long as they are primarily working off the new tools, can be published/shared openly, and within $500 to $5k, then let's see what we can come up with!
Ah, unfortunately Elena was discredited as a fraud more than a decade ago.

In reality she was on an escorted tour through Chernobyl and brought along her motorcycle helmet to use in photos.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2004/05/fraud-exposed-and-true...
How to Just Ship: An Interview with Amy Hoy
Only using it on a small scale.

Go with Google App Engine. Works well both with SDK and on AppSpot.
Could use a [2010] tag. The github repo has moved - https://github.com/ledger/ledger - and the referred to version 3 is out.
It's the US voting system! Imagine if we hadn't voted for the other guy, then the architect(s) would be back in there a third year.

I saw a thought experiment once on choosing lunch with coworkers under a US-style voting system showing why it inevitably ends up being bipartisan. It was fantastic, I sure wish I could find it again.
Since when was anyone required to only have fair advantages? If my lawyer is smarter and more skilled than yours, that probably isn't 'fair,' but nobody is going to stop it. (In fact, what even is a 'fair advantage'? It's not a well-defined term.)
Yes, I agree that one company having a complete monopoly in the publishing business would be problematic. But in that case perhaps the better solution is to use existing regulatory powers to break it up (like AT&T was broken up) instead of restricting the types of licences it can offer.
Don't think I'd be quoting Madame Curie, if I were her.
We might take better care of Earth, if we thought we would be around in 5000 years. Turns out that people tend to care more about themselves than theoretical great-great-grandchildren - no matter how much they protest otherwise.

So I don't think your argument from resource constraints and carrying capacity is self-evident.
Betalist's social layer for your files
That link works for me--what's supposed to be missing?
Hey good job. Did you leave the stack trace on purpose or by accident?
Why Thomas Sweatt Set Washington on Fire (2007)
Yes, there have been instances of subsonic standing waves/resonance in hallways that have caused feelings of fear and reports of "ghost" sightings.
OpenLDAP is limited by LMDB, which is pretty much limited only by what your filesystem and address space can handle. For scaling out it does support multi-master and slave configurations. So yes, it should.
I don't follow how that explains why two identical objects with the same energy content should be expected to have different masses. It seems like this whole thread is trying to argue that chemical reactions destroy mass through examples of open systems that leak energy. A leaky water balloon loses mass, too but that doesn't constitute evidence that atmospheric pressure/tension/etc destroys mass, does it?

If you take a block of steel from the top of a hill to the bottom of the hill and convert all the potential energy to kinetic energy (without loss), why would the mass of the block be altered? It may well be true, but arguments based on applying the mass-energy equivalence is not the answer.

Likewise, if you start with some pool of molecules and rearrange the constituent atoms and bonds, energy must be balanced via kinetics (i.e. translational and rotational energy of and within molecules on both sides of the reaction)--why should anyone expect the overall mass to change from such chemical reactions?
Flight Demonstration of a Laser-powered Quadcopter (2010) [pdf]
My link works, but many of the links in the article itself no longer exist
Why are manhole covers round? TED-ED video
To think that human history is maybe 50,000 years old, tops. Recorded history maybe 10,000 years. Then take these events that happened MILLIONS of years ago... There could have been conscious, intelligent life back then, but it just died out and all traces have disappeared in that time.
Tesla Motors to Unveil Home and Utility Batteries April 30
How do you identify the length of a program to determine that? If I had a presumably random string and an assembly dialect that had a command that outputs that exact string, the 'program' has been deferred to the hardware or the brain of its inventor. I can understand how that is still a long program, but I can't understand how that would be measured.
Show HN: HN on the Apple Watch
You can't be excellent at software, hardware and services
Actually, it's 48 volts DC (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Communication_Systems/Telephone...). A few years ago I got to tour a central office for a small telephone/cable company in a suburb of Houston and the phone lines were actually powered directly by massive banks of lead-acid batteries which were then constantly kept floating by the mains supply.
The question one needs to ask is not whether you will notice, but whether you will notice before it is too late.
Clojure is underway: http://github.com/littlredcomputer/math
Hm, I must have gotten a js error because I didn't see an elevator button, and until I checked HN comments, I had assumed this was a social experiment/joke to see how far people scroll to find nothing. I tried it couple times, too..
Aside from reading papers, it's a good idea to look through the syllabus of a distributed systems course to get a broad idea of what the problem space looks like.

Academic papers will talk about "minimal" problems like consensus, or desirable properties like sequential consistency, and expect you to already know why those concepts are important. If your experience is mostly hands-on, it may not be obvious how it all applies to real-world systems.

Say you have a complex distributed database. Forget all the bells and whistles: can it solve the problem of allowing a set of processes to reliably agree on a single Boolean value? If so, then you're trying to provide the same consistency guarantees as Paxos/Raft. So if your architecture is substantially simpler than Raft, then either you've come up with something really ingenious, or you've missed some edge cases.
Someone should combine that with the upcoming marijuana legalization and make their fortune selling irradiated seeds that might create a completely new high.
>I don't ask women what their priorities are. I infer from the choices they make concerning dating.

I ask my friends straight up. I would say half of them lie, and the other half are honest. A lot of it depends how close I am to them.
Windows 10 for Phones vs. iOS 9: Realities and Rumors
Absolutely. It's voters' own faults. Also non-voters. So nearly 100% of eligible voters in America are to blame for whatever they don't like about the government.
IoT Is Changing Development, Testing and Software Release Processes
I think I have an archive of my old BBS somewhere. I'll go looking tomorrow.
http://www.abjpress.com/tarpv1.html
Speaking generally rather than about any specifically identifiable person, many people in the United States told the scenario: "Your boss pays you 15% of Monday's sales of $200, Tuesday's sales of $1,200, Wednesday's sales of $450, Thursday's sales of $80, and Friday's sales of $1,500. He then awards you a bonus of $120 and subtracts $380 for expenses. How much money did you make?" with "Umm... a thousand dollars. Give or take. Good money. That's a heck of a lot more than I ever got paid at McDonalds, and they don't take out taxes or anything."

Life is a series of 4th grade math problems and, unfortunately for some people, 4th grade math remains difficult for them.
I suppose you could gauge it against entrepreneurship rates in places where there is more 'social security', ie Scandinavia and other parts of western Europe.
Good journals honor great referees by listing them on an annual accounting of Outstanding Referees:

http://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees
I had this bookmarked https://code.google.com/p/gofy. But it's pre Go 1.0. I wish someone would port this to recent a version.
I find mobile sites are often tailored towards use cases that are very narrow and specific to what the site operators believe are the reasons a person would visit their site.

This sort of thinking leads to sites highly tailored for mobile that ignores a segment of their audience.
From the looks of it, they're now under a branch called 'old'

https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen/tree/old
Good luck. Interesting times ahead :/
JILA Strontium Atomic Clock Sets New Records
That's useful. It should be possible to do almost as well with a suitably programmed phone, if you can get to the RF control level. What's needed is something that gives to the app level the same kind of info that's available for nearby WiFi stations. Then anyone could write analysis apps.

"Cell tower pinning", so that your phone remembers the cell towers in an area and reports new ones, would be useful. When a new one pops up, that's an interesting event. That capability would be useful for other purposes, such as finding and reporting coverage holes.
But it sounds, that some of them did...So congrats on that..That's really good :D
I missed that distinction when I posted the link. I'm sure they had difficulty rescuing Price of Persia.

If you have some time to spare, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEWBtCnFs8 (or read http://ultimacodex.com/2012/04/saving-prince-of-persias-sour... and the many other sources)
https://archive.org/download/frostbyte_1980s_DOS_collection/...

https://archive.org/download/frostbyte_1980s_DOS_collection/...
AeroFS Is Hiring (Software|Mobile|Front End) Engineers
M.Mplay3: diverses sonneries mobiles à télécharger comme la musique hip-hop
If you do manage to save the data, consider letting archive.org / Jason Scott know.
Try about a quarter of that.
I hear that too, mainly at night, a constant droning that seems to come from very far away outside and from no specific direction, but bothersome enough to keep me awake.
Here's another interesting "radiation enthusiast", who visits nuclear sites and collects radioactive memorabilia. He actually works as a nuclear engineer.

http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/

Highlights include Chernobyl trips, a trip to "Soviet Ground Zero", and a how-to for DIY uranium chemistry.
> By what rational basis is a deer less worthy
> of (any particular) rights than a fetus?

Because the deer is not a person, while a fetus is. I hold this to be more than mere tautology. I believe it's the more rational, intellectually consistent viewpoint.

> Do you argue that the human species is special and
> distinct from other animals in some categorical way <snip>?

Yes.

> Do you argue that you should grant more rights
> to an individual of your own species than to one
> of a different species? That premise is hard to
> argue with, but it seems absurd if you consider a
> hypothetical planet with two intelligent species.

In your hypothetical, I don't think I would argue for granting more rights to my own species. It's hard to say, because I've never been introduced to either of these hypothetical species. I will say that I don't worry too much when the rationality of my viewpoints is called into question by a wildly hypothetical corner case. (I don't see a clear analogy between your hypothetical and my original question).

> ...we're just mammals, more capable than other
> mammals in some ways and less capable in other ways,
> and that all of our differences are more
> quantitative than qualitative...
> ...
> I understand that the primacy of homo sapiens seems
> obvious to most people...

Would you consider the fact that a human fetus can grow up to write a play, learn to sing, discover electricity, debate ethics, and express incredibly deep emotion to be qualitative or quantitative differences from chimps or dolphins?

Even if you consider those to be quantitative differences, the quantitative difference is huge.

I'm not advocating for animal cruelty or torture at all. But if we're all just mammals, why do we care about the ethics of being cruel vs. humane at all? Apes will never grant each other due process of law. If we're so much like them, why do we care?
Chernobyl is a proof that humankind is deadlier than anything else.
CSI: Backblaze – Dissecting 3TB Drive Failure
Here is the biggest retro moment for me already from this archive...

http://imgur.com/qyFVUid

I still remember the sound of my 2400baud modem disconnecting from call waiting. I had a large collection of half complete images.
Genuine question from someone that doesn't understand.

Is she exposing herself to more radiation than is safe?

Is there a very high likelihood she's going to make herself sick? I watched this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kg4vVYKc90 and she seems to be pretty callous with that hot particle.
you're missing:

7. do the above for 12 months with zero positive results, under the threat of termination, without losing any enthusiasm or energy.

99.9% of people can't do it, point blank period. they just can't. you might as well ask them to fly.
are you hiring for junior engineers? can you talk a little about your engineering culture, size of team, etc.?
Ned - would you mind replying to this with a list of the features specified in the blog post and a YES/NO to confirm which are supported by your code?

thanks
> So, it very much sounds to me, that you prefer just unproven theories, that one can draw from arbitrary analogies over sound science.

You are entitled to your opinion. IMO, "Sound science" is quite limited. Sortof like the lowest common denominator of knowledge.

Reductionistic thought tends to cause issues like "not seeing the forest through the trees". It has led to a number of cultural issues that we face today.

People also cling to "sound science" like it's a religion. And your accusations make you sound like you are straight from the inquisition. It's quite ironic...
> McCarthy's implementation of Wang's algorithm from 1960.

> Run's unchanged in Common Lisp, with only very little support code.

Riiiiight, okay, so how difficult would it really be to change `defun trace (functions)` to `define (trace functions)` and a few other minor syntactic so it runs in Scheme?

What you're saying is basically tantamount to a claim that CL has stayed truer to the syntax of McCarthy's Lisp, but it would be easy to argue that Scheme is truer to the mathematical principles of McCarthy's Lisp. Looking at syntax is a very shallow way to look at it.

>> CL somehow got everyone to agree they had sole ownership of the name.

> CL does not have the ownership of the name Lisp.

I said "So at this point it's just a name, and I'm not sure what's to be gained even if CL somehow got everyone to agree they had sole ownership of the name." Please don't quote me out of context.

The rest of your post is incoherent because you've used the isolated word "Lisp" despite the fact that this conversation is about the very fact that the meaning of "Lisp" is unclear.

> Languages like Logo, Clojure, Newlisp and several others are 'lispy'. But they are not in any way compatible to Lisp. Porting a program means a full rewrite and re-architecture.

Porting almost any CL program from CL to McCarthy's Lisp would require dropping most features. Hopefully this highlights the problem with this whole debate.
The French School Where Panama Canal Pilots Train in Cute Little Ships (2014)
Viruses back then were more of an annoying nuisance than a big threat to privacy/security... compared to malware today which is almost certainly for commercial gains of some sort.
Using Go for the backend of https://snitch.io

1. Use Godeps to vendor your deps
2. Use Logrus for logging
3. Figure out a deployment script early one. I have a Rake script that uses chef-api to lookup current production nodes, cross compiles locally and scp's the resulting binary out and restarts the process
I made my legacy web pages (one almost 20 years old and including an image map) mobile-friendly by google's standards simply by adding a viewport. This had no impact on the usability of the site on a desktop, and only slightly changed the formatting (for the better) on my iPhone. I don't think that what Google is mandating here is a separate, crippled site for mobile devices.
I'm using Go on App Engine, decently large scale site. It's a pretty good setup. Includes a task queue, database, file storage, almost everything you need. Not having to manage those things yourself is pretty fantastic.

No need to use godeps, setup logging, create a deployment system, or manage linux machines with a bunch of scripts. You can even pipe your logs into BigQuery for serious analysis (and copy your database there too, though this might be expensive for large databases).

Main downside of App Engine is that network stuff has to go over urlfetch/socket api unless you use Managed VM, which is not really production ready yet.

As for frameworks, the builtin http package is fine. Just make some http.Handler structs or wrappers and you're basically done.
One her comments:

well, if its over 100 mSv/h, then acute radiation sickness begins after ~2 hours (noticable reduced blood cell count from 200 mSv acute dose onward, though you'd only FEEL sick after another 3 or 4 hours). but yeah, as the inverse square law applies, there's nothing to fear with this particle. and yep, the spectrum was done by a HPGe, as usual. :)
Seems like everyone and their dog has a radiation detector in Russia esp. around Chernobyl, not something ones sees in the west.
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