skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in the Collier Hills area for 6 years and violent crime never impacted my life. Having only ever ridden the Red/Gold lines of MARTA and mostly during day, I only ever felt unsafe when people with obvious mental issues were yelling on the train - although I never saw violence. Parts of Atlanta are perfectly safe, and parts of Atlanta are a sad depressed economic wasteland.
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IP -> 176.126.252.11 -> 12.218.239.38
You are part of that 3/4.

A proof of concept or mockup to verify that you've correctly captured requirements? Sounds like planning to me.

Determining which technology stack is best, including building (to be clear, I mean coding) some basic systems to test out if your assumptions about performance and writing the pieces are correct? That's planning.

And so on.

Hours spent writing code are not mutually exclusive to hours spent planning for the success of a software project.
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The S&P 500 total return index has gone from 1330 to 2081 in the same time frame. So if Microsoft had paid you $31 dollars a share and you had reinvested it in the market, it would be worth $48.5 or thereabouts. Even if it does catch up, it will have taken more than 7 years to do so.
Cola has great algorithms! Hopefully they will be implemented as a Sigma plugin (https://github.com/qinfchen/sigmajs-webcola).

Still, GPU clusters beat all for performance. I'd love to see a demo :)
Indeed. It's unfortunate that they need to do their work in spite of the companies that make the hardware.

Actually I would like to get involved in that. What are the IRC channels referenced in the post?
DARPA does absolutely no research itself. It's a funding agency.
I assure you there are plenty of room for designing your own operating system even if you implement POSIX. POSIX is a pretty reasonable minimal system interface for C programs. I osdev for fun and to challenge myself and I find a very ample supply of interesting things to work on. If I went and did something different, perhaps in another language, it would likely be equivalent to the POSIX system concepts largely, except custom and probably worse. If I really wanted a custom design, I would want it to be at least a magnitude better.
I agree, and imagine your downvoters are praising themselves for identifying some fallacy in your sarcasm.

Enforcing a uniform profitable culture where all real estate is available for developers' whims is not a "neutral" act.
Open Source, Hadoop, and the Great Top-Down Development Debate
Has this actually happened or is this just a fever dream? We are talking actual dollars and pain-in-the-butt work versus some weird hijack looks like it would get caught in very short order. I am unwilling to trade caching and bandwidth for this.
jschlatter just wrote a great blog post about this:

http://blog.mailgun.com/introducing-a-new-cross-platform-deb...
$140k. 26 years old. Software Engineer (C/C++). Bay area. Masters in Computer Science. H1b.
Similar deal with super mario world, using programmed controllers to poke arbitrary code into memory and execute it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPcV9uIY5i4
You can now buy a OnePlus One without an invite
I never understood why they couldn't make this feature work correctly. The most common use case problem I had was I would message a company/brand on Twitter about an issue and they would invariably reply "DM us with details of your order and we'll look into it".

The problem was most brands weren't following me so I could not DM them via Twitter.

Here's a solution that might work better:

1) If a user/account has ever tweeted back at you in response then a DM is allowed.

That would prevent a vast majority of potential spammers from flooding your DM inbox and if they try to spam you publicly, you can mark as spam and get their account banned.
Reading this article leads me to believe the writers at Techcrunch are slowly discovering basic economics, and they think it's revolutionary.

Instead of selling “software-as-a-service,” these DIFM companies are
delivering “software-with-a-service.” The result is awesome customer
experience that can only be delivered with a human touch.

Techcrunch has it reversed. These companies are selling a service, and happen to effectively use software to create their competitive advantage.
>Yep, the problem with "fast food comedy" is that once you reward it, everybody wants to do it

Anyone who has been on reddit for more than five or six years has seen this. It used to be on par with hacker news for discussion. I'm not sure if it has been happening since day one, or if the site reached a critical mass and started going downhill from there. But I definitely saw it happening before the Digg migration.
1. "Realm-time" isn't baked in. It certainly comes easier to write real-time programs (for some definitions of real-time) than in some other environments, but real time programming doesn't come for free in any environment. You're overreaching with this claim.

2. Tons of programmers know JavaScript well enough to avoid it. A language originally thrown together "to make the monkey dance" is generally a poor choice.

3. Sane templating engines are a dime a dozen. I could probably find 5 in Python alone.

4. Same later realization that it's really good at a few things at the expense of others, I'd bet.

5. Okay I'll cede one point.

> Pheonix and Elixir may be the bees knees, but unfortunately because it uses a functional language, it drastically cuts down the mindshare of developers. I don't even know any developers in real life that use functional languages. Looks interesting but that's the reality.

That says more about you than about the quality of tools involved. I'd rather have quality of mindshare than quantity.
SpringIndicator is indicator and PullToRefresh such as a spring.
Google Cloud sucks
The issue isn't that you can hear the difference.

The issue is that you can't reencode. I can't take a 256kbps MP3 (or even 320) and then reencode it at 128kbps for my portable media player without significant lossage.
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Yes it could. You would either need to have redis slave replication setup and then only load balance your read-replicas, or else you would need to use sticky sessions to always send requests back to the right node.. I'm not sure if sticky sessions is possible with TCP loadbalancing in nginx but I assume it is.
Yeah exactly, who is the audience here? For the average semi-computer literate office drone there's hardly any questions the jolly IT guy could ask that would seem out of place. You have to have a lot of domain knowledge to know that what's being asked isn't kosher.

Probably the biggest clue is that the IT guy is "jolly." The IT guy generally isn't jolly. You know some shit is up :)
If I wanted to make $100,000+, I'd move to/work from California.
Just for another number to look at, according to Wolfram Alpha, the $31 in 2008 would be ~$35 today when you adjust for inflation.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=31+2008+dollars+in+2015...
Refined numbers on Earth-like life outside of Earth
Ubuntu MATE Inks First Hardware Deal
Cmakepp: Expression Syntax
You can do walking meditation. Once you have a basis in concentration practice, it's just about continually returning to awareness of the present moment.

It's common to alternate sitting and walking meditation during extended sessions, to my knowledge both in south-east Asia and in Japan.
Try Matasano's Microcorruption CTF. It is designed for people with no experience. You will do the same things the author of the post did.

uctf strips away the layers of complexity related to a specific environment, giving you a clean place to learn the first principles. Whereas, if you tried this on a Gameboy, you must learn a lot of domain specific things, and learn how a computer works at a rather low level. For example: once you have built an exploit payload or two, it isn't so magical how using an inventory of items that are represented with integers can become code.
I have no personal experience but from my observations I see it like this:

Number one you are a part of something big, even small groups can have massive impacts from their leaks/releases. It's no fluke that the demographics for scene members often favors younger people, I know that for the internet in general, when I was younger, it was a magic place where age didn't matter, only merits. I would assume the scene is no different. It doesn't matter how much you make, and your race, religion, age are not important. You are judged by what you can DO not who you ARE. That alone is a VERY powerful motivator.

Secondly I think the scene is very appealing to people who have a tech inclination plus a love/hobby for something else (Software, movies. music, etc). The scene allows them to interact with people who share the same interests and gives them access (through top sites or similar) to more content that they love.

Lastly sharing. When I like/love something there is a part of me that wants to share it with everyone else. When that something is funny story then all is well and good but when it's a TV show/movie/album/etc it's a little harder to share. Sure you can share a link to Amazon/Netflix/etc but unless your friend already pays for access then you share isn't "free". It's free to you but not to the person you are sharing. Piracy makes it easier to share because you don't let those pesky laws get in the way. Even so sharing is not 100% free, you can tell someone about a piece of content but they still have to go find it, download it, and then they can watch it. Topsites are like your friends opening up all of their content so that you can sample it on your own or go grab something on their recommendation. There is still a little friction to the sharing (a direct link to watch would be ideal) but it's about as close as you can get.

That's just my 2 cents.

To answer directly to: What motivates someone to risk so much and invest so much time and money into participating in the scene today?

I, for example, love messing around with web dev. Because of this I have tried out (and continue to pay for) a number of online hosting platforms (both dedicated, shared, and your AWS/DO/RS/Google clouds) either to try them out or because I am long-term hosting things on them. This ends up being a fair amount of money when all is said and done but it's my hobby, it's what I love and it benefits me at work. Now other than the "benefits me at work" bit I don't see how my hobby is any different from file sharers (legality aside). Even then I'm sure you can learn skills participating in a release group that can benefit you in your professional life (server management, release planning, etc).
This is pretty interesting. I remember some time ago Vox Media (who make The Verge and Polygon along with Vox itself) declared that they were going web-only:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/2/6096609/welcome-to-verge-2-...

It doesn't seem to have hurt them - but push notifications are probably the #1 feature that differentiates between webapps and native apps in a context like this. I wonder if they'll take advantage.

(as with all things mobile web, this comes with the huge caveat that Apple have no intention of doing this (despite having similar functionality on desktop), and want to force everyone to use native apps, so it's unlikely to be a complete solution any time soon)
One nice thing about Posix is that it makes porting existing app to your new OS somewhat less daunting.
I'm more pointing out that there is a history of political violence that undermined the country's economic conditions. Famine doesn't come only from a drought or a land use change, but most disastrously occurs with more basic political and economic breakdown. This is something that it easy to forget or ignore from a privileged position in the US. The US has been at war in Somalia just as part of the GWOT for basically a decade, yet with so little press and attention in the US press that the cost and benefit to regional stability is never discussed, for example.

It's the article's use of the mid-1980s famines as a hook for discussing economic development as a technical land-use issue that makes the omission more glaring. And it would be a more interesting article, to consider the history of efforts to abolish feudal land tenure, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Ethiopia

I'm curious about the use of compulsory collective agricultural labor that has made this possible, though ;)
> But an argument that demands that change only happen through meek, polite statements is in effect arguing for the status quo.

That's a caricature. Change should happen through dialogue between the various parties involved, and that dialogue should be based on rational argument, until some kind of consensus or majority decision can be reached. Nothing revolutionary here; I'm describing how democracies work. I didn't say anything about the tone of the dialogue itself.

What you seem to be arguing for is that certain parties be shut out of the dialogue altogether, because their opinions deviate too far from those of your group; and also that your opinion does not necessarily require rational underpinnings, so long as you feel certain enough of the righteousness of your cause.
This is absolutely the case (source: I'm a former pentester in charge of the social engineering).

SE had two guarantees for every organization we were hired to pentest.

* We would get the information/access we wanted

* It would be easy

Chris is a pioneer in this branch of the industry and has done a great job of highlighting the importance of social engineering through his research, books, and the CTF at Defcon (which is awesome to watch if you get the chance).
I aiming for Food Finder to be differentiated from the competition - I am a big fan of City Mapper and so I am trying to mirror their concept of incredibly simple UX but applying that to restaurant discovery.
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That's my bad - I should have included that in the title. Eventually we'll expand to other major cities.
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If a specific person were named, I could see that possibly happening if said person were to ever set foot in the US (or maybe just Illinois).

But a company? That brings in additional questions. Would not Cook County have to prove that the person to be held in contempt had been employed by the company in question at the time of the subpoena? Wouldn't they also have to prove that responding to the subpoena would have part of said persons duties at said company? For example, if I were employed by EuropeCo in 2014 as an engineer on their Foomatic line of widgets, and travelled to the US next month for a conference, I don't think it should be possible for me to be held in contempt of court because someone didn't respond to a subpoena regarding EuropeCo's Baritron service. Yes, it's a silly and contrived example, but hopefully you get the idea.

But again, IANAL.
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Follow Scott Beyer's byline to his blog to his about page:

"My book will argue that cities should instead embrace “Market Urbanism.” This phrase was invented in 2007 by Adam Hengels, a development consultant who founded the Market Urbanism blog [where the OP appeared]. He defines it as the intersection between capitalists and urbanists, and his contributors describe how municipal governments repeatedly harm economic productivity. My book will package his ideology into a series of proposals..."

So it seems like he's taken a development consultant as his role model and is fitting his observations into an already-decided ideology and action plan. That's why the article seems so one-dimensional and ignores obvious facts.
Making $77,500 base, ~9-10K overtime (I get paid the hourly equivalent of my salary for each hour over 40 I work, depending on the type of project I'm on).

Just under 2 years out of school (May 2013), was a Brain and Cognitive Science major with a minor in Legal Studies. Job progression thus far:

1. $45K base, no overtime - 5 months

2. $62.5K base, hourly wage as overtime depending on project - 1 year (switched jobs)

3. $77.5K base, hourly wage as overtime depending on project - ~4 months now (same job, got a raise)

I work at a consulting company in NYC that makes software for financial services firms.
Nginx has their own non-PPA repository with latest versions, both stable and mainline.

http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html

The PPA is unofficial.
If you don't mind building your own package, this has worked well for us:
https://github.com/yaoweibin/nginx_upstream_check_module

Though I agree it'd be nice to have the functionality integrated.
The writer has no clue about SF, and yet pontificates as if he knows something.

Mission (in SF) was not historically a Latino neighborhood; it was originally Irish.

He picks 1 example (8 Washington) and proceeds to paint the entire city with it. Did he not bother to look a little south at SoMa, with its tall buildings?

I stopped reading at this point.
HAProxy's primary feature is HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. This new feature competes only with HAProxy's TCP load balancing support.

Note that Nginx already has a simple proxy built in that does very basic HTTP load balancing. HAProxy's is vastly superior to Nginx's in that it supports a sophisticated set of filters ("ACLs"), transformations (eg., header rewriting), queue behaviours (eg., queue limits, backup backends, health checks, retries) and proxy-specific request logging.

A big difference is that HAProxy's main balancing algorithm is "fair", in that traffic is distributed evenly among target backends, whereas Nginx's load balancing is purely round-robin (there is a third-party fair balancing module [1], but it's not maintained).

[1] https://github.com/gnosek/nginx-upstream-fair
> because it kinda does the "right thing" in many cases, but it's actually ill-defined, varies between browsers, and has only a work-in-progress spec

Which is completely not like using CSS at all, right?
I love in Miami; there are A LOT of rich people here. These people are actually rich too, as in 6 figure salaries are what they consider just well off. The majority of them are ultra wealthy Latin Americans or Europeans who live here part of the time and maybe have their kids go to high school here where they basically live on their own in huge apartments.

The sad thing is there is actually shortage in housing and the rents are getting extremely high while wages are absolute shit. It doesn't help that every new apartment complex that gets built are marketed as "luxury" apartments for the ultra rich. There are two separate markets for renters here. When you can build ultra luxury appartments and rent them for $5000 - $10000 a month, there is no reason to construct more lower to middle class housing.
Like I said, "working". I don't want two columns stretching ten feet long. I want two columns on this page, two on the next, two on the one after that...
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The problem I have with this argument is that is doesn't eliminate the problem, but merely removes it a step. These are problem EVs need to surmount because other wise we will have lots of of personally owned EVs that get parked so people can rent ICE vehicles every time they leave town for a trip. As an early adopter people expect to have to look past these issues, but for wide mainstream adoption, and dare I say, replacement of ICE vehicles, the problem will need to be solved with a combination of better range, quicker changing, and a wider availability of quick chargers.

Also, there are many people who take long road trips far more frequently and for whom range is a genuine issue (between my vehicles, I clock about 30k miles a year--mostly pleasure as I live only a mile from my job.) I don't begrudge those who can make an EV work for them, but it won't for me.
Offtopic perhaps, but last year I purchased a mattress online from https://www.tuftandneedle.com/. Not really expecting anything, but having heard enough praise for their customer support, I figured I'd take them up on their money-back offer and give it a shot.

It's damned fantastic, though the entire experience was foreign as hell to me. I was able to order it online (for $700, I think, for the King model), have it delivered on the day I selected. While nobody set it up for me, it came in a box that just sort of fully expanded as I cut it open.

I don't have any particular insight on Casper, but it seems like, to me at least, T&N sort of proved the market, so unless my timeline is off, Casper seems like far less of a gamble than the first entrant to a market would be.
$83k in central New Jersey. BSc in Computer Science, 10+ years of experience. Was making $50/hr for about 6months when I was on a consulting gig in NYC. Salary wise, this is higher than what I was getting when I was salaried in NYC. I feel like I'm being ripped off.
XSS Vulnerability Affecting Multiple WordPress Plugins
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I haven't had problems scripting the Altera tools. We use make on Linux to build things for the Daisho project[1]. Or were you thinking of something more advanced than that?

Having said that, I'm 100% in favour of open tools. I think the current tools are one of the biggest barriers to the use of FPGAs. I also think that they cause a lock-in effect for developers, which hurts FPGA adoption as a whole.

[1] https://github.com/mossmann/daisho/blob/master/sw/fpga/targe...
interesting! I am working on a windows build of grafana 2 right now. Does statsify have a /render and /metrics/find api that is compatible with graphite? If it had grafana could use it.
CBR 128 still gets that weird underwater warbling distortion on cymbals and other high-end sounds. You need to go at least 192 to make that inaudible.

With today's bandwidth and storage capacity, there's no reason to use anything worse than -V2.
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saas companies are a little tricker to value. Acquiring customers for say 1/3 of the clv is a great deal for a saas business but will show up as big losses because the acquisition cost is paid out up front while the revenue is earned monthly over the account life.

see eg http://a16z.com/2014/05/13/understanding-saas-valuation-prim...

if those customers are sticky, box should do well for themselves; if not, they're in trouble
Even when the victim legitimately deserves the blame? If I jump in front of someone shooting a gun at target practice, are you going to support charging them with manslaughter? If I jump off a bridge, are you going to blame the bridge builder?
It sounds more like they're doubling down trying to make this "hacker" seem more malicious than he was to draw attention away from the fact that their security measures are pretty atrocious.
What exactly "unauthorized access" means is still being ironed out in case-law. Just because you have access to something doesn't mean that you are authorized. Prosecutors have attempted to push "hacking" charges against people for accessing something on a shared drive (with no technical permission restrictions) because the employee was not "authorized" to view said file.

Just because the students had the admin password doesn't mean that they had permission/authorization to access that teacher's physical computer. Even if they had permission to do that, they probably didn't have permission to access the wallpaper settings.

This is really a failure of the laws in question to be less broad, and a failure of prosectors / cops to show some sort of restraint.
That's a start, but all of those buildings are in a largely commercial area that's pretty inconvenient to get to for anyone not working downtown. There's also not a lot of NIMBY resistance because few people live there right now - once you move into established residential neighborhoods, large projects are next to impossible.
*stupidly set up a cron
Maybe. The IP address that is referenced in the subpoena (12.218.239.38) is the IP address of cookcountyboardofreview.com. Maybe that box got hacked and it had access to some big cook county DMZ?