skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Warfare" in cyberspace doesn't worry me as much as "Mutually Assured Destruction" in cyberspace does. With conventional warfare, MAD is relatively straight-forward: pick a large open area on friendly soil, detonate an impressively large weapon, and make sure your enemies know that you have plenty more where that came from. A similar approach works for missile tests and aircraft, armor, and ships in war games.

It is relatively easy to convincingly demonstrate the capabilities of traditional weapons without causing any collateral damage (well, except for Castle Bravo). The problem, I think, is how does one convincingly demonstrate cyberwarfare capabilities without causing some amount of real harm. For example: we now know that China has the "great cannon" it can use relatively effectively for DDOS attacks, but only because GitHub suffered...and this is just the beginning of the inevitable arms race.
Might be due to the competitive nature that we are living in this world. Things moving fast and everyone competes to be better, working longer hours each day . The hectic life that we experiencing daily make us feels like time past faster.
I'm 90% sure they intentionally use imperial units when speaking to the press and someone converted it for the purpose.
Are the Later Harry Potter Books More “Adult”?
> I'll give you that he was genuine. So was Hitler.

I would say Lenin was more comparable to Robespierre than Hitler. There is no doubt they were all ruthless mass murderers, but for different reasons.
The Book of Life: On Becoming an Entrepreneur
What kind of customizations do you use?
Elon Musk Teases Mysterious Tesla Box
...is it me, or did I miss the argument here?
The Gideons did not rush Bibles to Nepal. They were already there
There was an article on The Lapine(http://thelapine.ca/emergency-gideon-bibles-rushed-to-nepal/) that said Gideon bibles rushed to Nepal. It went kind of viral, thanks to people who didn't realize it's a satirical one.

This one clarifies some confusion on that chaos.
Ask HN: Contribute to earthquake relief fund
Nepal, my home country, had a 7.8 earthquake and thousands are in need of food, care, medicine and supplies.

I am running a campaign to raise money for the American Red Cross Nepal Earthquake fund: http://www.youcaring.com/emergency-fundraiser/nepal-earthquake-relief-fund/344474

I would like to request HN readers to contribute what they can. In return, I can help you with any data science related questions/problems you may have.
Oddly enough, on Windows 8 it appears in Scientific and Programmer modes but is greyed out, and I couldn't get it to activate. Why not hide it?
The model seems to work and they seem to have great traction. I can see all the objections but the proof is in the pudding.
Really liked this sentence from their answer to a critic:

"""You said you talked about the idea of Blendle when I was two years old. But Blendle is not an “idea”. Blendle is about execution. And because of that we’ve gathered more than 140.000 users in The Netherlands with a $0 marketing budget."""

Seems somewhat reasonable to assume this could be transfered to the hyperbroken academic publishing model (publisher resistence is a lot higher and older articles are worth more than for typical newspaper stuff though). One source, micropayment per article, refund policy. One can dream ;)
Not to sound ungrateful. But would it be possible to split your GFM package into its own repo? Because it's currently a PITA to vendor because it pulls half the world with it?
Oh, I don't know about that.

Seriously. Mental energy is impacted by a lot of things. And I've had to come up the hard way, just due to my circumstances early on.

Doing this gets harder as we age. But under 30?

It's there for an awful lot of people who want it. There is one's own drive, and there are the kinds of friends one makes and how time is used.

For the longest time, I read one tech book a month. Just needed to gain perspective. I also turned the TV off.

The amount of time this frees up is AMAZING.

Networking pays too.

And for some people, that's starting a business. For others, it's self-employment / contract work. Still others, it's taking hobbies and spinning them into skills they love to exploit.

Lots of ways to get this done. And frankly, doing it consumes 10 to 20 percent of one's free time outside of a 40 - 50 hour work week.

That's not too much time. Just turning the TV off delivers that time for a very large number of people.

There is a clear cost for some jobs too. Where those work demands punch up above 50 hours, it really does start to get tough to do other things. Sadly, we've a lot of people stitching several basic jobs together and that eats a lot of their time.

But for many, who are just working full time, it's possible to make personal investments.

And what a lot of people don't get is the compounding that comes from doing that consistently.

One hour a day spent on this kind of thing compounds better than 5 hours on Saturday does. (though it's really nice to do both!)

Simple things, like just getting up early, make a big impact. Eating healthy, managing sleep to 6 hours instead of 8.5...

What is worth what?

Many people don't see a pay off they can visualize and believe they can actualize, so it's not worth it, and so they don't do it.

Setting aside difficult circumstances, it's often that simple.
Great work. A huge step in the right direction!!

As a long time user of the "new" dashboard I would love to see a way to version control my cloud flare configuration for a domain. The team and I are always scared of pushing the wrong button due to the lack of confirmation buttons.
I agree with you mostly. This article was an eye-opener for me which reinforces your thoughts : https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/
One who helps those in need doesn't need something in return.
Well said.

Building a future generally costs us 10 to 20 percent of our "fun" time, or personal time.
What's the bandwidth of the video and transmit rate of the antenna? How large is the video buffer?

We haven't had to rely on a 1:1 record->transmit system for about 50years now. If the antenna has more bandwidth than required then a few seconds of connectivity each revolution may be enough to give a perfectly smooth video signal.
Any plans for European datacenters?
> taxi fare problem

Do you mind expanding on that?
What does that even mean? Every encryption system that works is "super-hard". Maybe everyone using SSH is a suspected agent now.
First data on the export of natural gas in Moldova
Anonymous? Safe? The Internet? Hassle-Free? Hello, Privatoria
Collected money from OMV Petrom
Been there done that. They only grow up once.
This data is also extremly valuable for journalists. I can envision someone becoming a better journalist by optimizing for lower refunds. A good journalist will use this as a weapon. Quite often you can't really be sure about the quality of your piece. Now you have an interesting data point.
What's your editorial policy? Did you seek out magazines and authors and content creators to keep a tight ship, or is it open to anyone?
The Well Tempered API
If you can manage your memory completely, then yes, you could obtain the same performance by applying some restrictions.

There are some cool things erlang vm does:

- immutable values (so you don't have to worry about sharing and copying)

- per process heaps (so you don't have to worry about big stops on gc)

- adjustable heap pre-allocation (so you don't have to resize heaps once you know how much memory your processes need)

I don't think that depends on the compiler really. You couldn't patch python for example to do the same for you automatically. It's in the language limitations.
"Unlike Rust, Go is really easy to pick up. It's possible to jump directly into it, and you can be writing useful programs after a single afternoon of messing around or reading."

I think it's safely implied that you put more effort into Rust code, but get more out of it. It's a tradeoff from Go. It's worth it for some programs, and others it's not.

Go for me doesn't work out because it's not C ABI compliant which is a limitation Rust doesn't have. As a language nothing draws me to it in particular. The killer feature is how easy it is to get started with it. Something that is undersold.

Coming primarily from Python I'm still favoring the field over Go until my problems matched Google's. I would probably reach for Erlang for concurrency and Rust for anything low-level going forward.
I'm a CloudFlare customer, and now I work for CloudFlare... I've been a customer for years and an employee for months.

I too originally tried CloudFlare and left, tried again and left again, before eventually trying it about 18 months ago and staying.

I too run highly dynamic sites, the same as you a few were vBulletin forums and I also had a Django web app that has a login form on every page. In both cases the pages are not able to be cached. The vBulletin page has personalisation or CSRF tokens (login form) depending on your login state, and the Django web app CSRF tokens again act to prevent caching there.

It is obvious to me now, as it is to you, that any asset (page in this case) that isn't cacheable is only resulting in an additional hop and the additional delay that introduces.

The reason I eventually remained a customer is Railgun.

Railgun is the missing link that allows dynamic content to be mostly cached with only the diff between requests passing over the wire between origin and CloudFlare. Dynamic content still isn't cacheable from the perspective of the origin or the end user, but Railgun doesn't send 99% of the page over the wire, just the diff (this is a simplistic explanation but works well enough for this).

Railgun is the only thing that I personally felt took my highly dynamic sites and made them feel dramatically faster than going direct to the origin. It also works really well for APIs.

Additionally, for vBulletin I'd recommend setting up a page rule so that your attachment.php file is aggressively cached. Especially if your vBulletin is configured to store attachments in the database as this will spare your database server.

Of course, if you're running WordPress, Drupal, or a CMS designed to produce cacheable sites then Railgun isn't needed. CloudFlare does act like a silver bullet in those cases and by default the caching is very good and the speed improvement the end user experiences is dramatic. But for dynamic sites, Railgun and Page Rules help to get the best out of the service. Hmm, it may be worth us producing Knowledge Base articles for "gold configurations" for common web applications, or better still to provide some way for us to let you just tell us how you're using something like vBulletin so that we can configure some things for you and recommend the other things (Railgun) that will make a difference.

On ISIS sites, it's likely true that amongst the millions of sites there are some that are probably related to terrorism, or to carders, or whatever else is unwelcome. We have a trust and safety team and of course they work with law enforcement and courts in all jurisdictions in which we operate. Our service is to protect customers from DDoS and other attacks, so to some extent yes we are a shield for our customers as we do protect origin servers. However any valid legal request from a court or law enforcement agency is respected. That's the way to have something removed, not a subjective policy applied in a non-transparent way by a private company.
This stuff is chronic in service, many production, and similar, mostly hourly, jobs.

They really don't do relationships with people. They just want the cogs to mesh, the stuff to get done, etc...
It's got more memory, though I ended up buying a RAM expansion card as it still wasn't enough. The GX supposedly got the faster processors for a while, until the yield got good enough to also put them in the G models.
just noticed that myself, had pretty much the same thought.
New business experience.
You can certainly limit scope in Rust. That's not the problem, though. The problem is, what if something goes wrong in Giraffe's destructor? Like maybe the remote procedure call to Zoo fails.
Ubuntu Users can still exploit sudo
Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pilots’ iPads crashed
Just because the state owns lots of stuff does not mean the state is being communist. State capitalism is also a thing.

As far as enterprise goes, after finding out that keeping everything in house was not working, nearly all state enterprises were incorporated and the government mostly got out of the running of the businesses, while still holding onto a majority of shares.

There are also privately owned enterprises, which first equaled the number of people in employment in the public sector in 2001, and has been growing fast since, with China today having about the same balance of private sector to public sector jobs as Alaska.

Also, the state does not own all the land, for the past ten years private land ownership and property rights have been established in law, hence the nail houses - http://www.danwei.org/bbs/property_rights_the_coolest_na.php
The biggest howler in the article might be this: "Piano tuners frequently possess this gift, making their seemingly difficult craft effortless."

In actuality, absolute pitch is of hardly any utility in piano tuning. Even those who are recognized as having some degree of "perfect" pitch very very very rarely can tell 440 Hz from 440.1 Hz, which is the sort of thing a piano tuner deals with. And this task is always done with electronic help anyway, these days.
"Progress M-34 was a Russian unmanned cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1997 to resupply the Mir space station, and which subsequently collided with Mir during a docking attempt, resulting in significant damage to the space station."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_M-34

Edit. Some more detail here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir#Shuttle.E2.80.93Mir
and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir#Accidents
Disruption Coming to Corporate Banking via Blockchain Systems
Oh, of course! My English temporarily blacked out I guess. :\
Didn't Zappos work that out ~15 years ago? 365 day no questions asked return policy and reputation for fabulous customer service seems to be what grew them to a $1 billion+ Amazon acquisition in 10 years...
There are countries where land is more scarce than in the US where area efficiency is more important than water/light efficiency.
I was in Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago.

You and your numerous fellow residents are fortunate enough to live in a city that has quite possibly the best designed and most ubiquitous public transit system I have ever encountered as well as a city geography where it is economically viable to service virtually everyone.

The vast majority of the world's cities are not quite so lucky. This is especially for cities in the American Midwest. I live in one - Detroit. It would be nigh on impossible to function without a car in this city.
Not going to lie that ui actually looks pretty sweet. Do you have experience prior in coding or UI/UX design? Also how much did you 'glean' from the book. I was looking and it looks very informative but similar to what you designed. Still, bravo
There's a whole gamut of options between current regulations and no regulations. But the corrupt regulators don't want to change anything because they like how the current regulations bring in $800K per year per medallion to license holders who are also their friends, partners and/or campaign donors (actual Vancouver numbers).

What kind of safety or convenience or other concerns require profits in excess of $800K per taxi cab per year? What's wrong with market pricing? Why should short rides subsidize long rides? Why can't one company offer no-frills service (at no-frills prices), and the other one premium service? Why can't taxis have optional ride pooling?

Uber, Lyft & co have already proved that they can work great alongside existing cabs. There is no reason why they wouldn't work if the regulations are updated from 1930 to 2015 and from protecting incumbents' profits to protecting users' interests. But the cities are unwilling to do that because they like their profitable taxi cartels.
This looks very polished for a 0.1 alpha. The mGSD [1] which the author used previously looks very interesting too. Since this implementation of GTS uses Git, I expect it to gain functionality for syncing with a git repository soon.
[1] http://mgsd.tiddlyspot.com/
How were you using CloudFlare? I keep hearing this a lot and just want to make sure the setup is accurate...

Most CDNs are used to cache static files (javascript, images, etc) so they download faster but the webpage still loads from the origin server. CloudFlare is different and proxies everything through their servers (that's the only way they can provide the protection and caching benefits). If your origin is close to your location, then it WILL increase latency because a request now has to go through CloudFlare's network, to the origin, then back through CloudFlare and then back to you. It's an extra jump that will add some latency to all page requests that have to go to the origin.

It does help for far away users though because CloudFlare's private network and proxy servers can contact your origin server faster than the end-user making it all the way on their own connection. In either case - near or far - the latency should be minimal and definitely not something that adds seconds to load time.

If your pages don't change much, you can also just cache the HTML itself on the proxy servers which will definitely decrease load time to pretty much instantaneous. POST requests will still go back to the origin through CF's network but the GETs should be fast and the higher-end plans give pretty precise control over how long the caching lasts. (You can also do this with modern CDNs with more control but they don't provide the security benefits and the other apps that are part of CF).

EDIT: By the way, Hacker News uses CloudFlare.
Think how much more you could have done if you didn't have to pay all that debt interest.
Heck, I've changed careers, and been great at each of them, three times.

I'm looking to do it again too, but not for a while. I've got some unfinished business with this one.

A mentor of mine is late in life now. We've had a 20 year dialog on this. Never, ever too late.
Right now, the biggest problem is the unlimited invasion of privacy done by transnational companies accountable to nobody.

NSA could, in theory, be reigned in by the government, but nobody in the world has the power to stop the transnational companies deconstruction of everybodys indentities.

For instance, I have never agreed to FaceBook's terms and conditions, but they track me, like everybody else.
New: Cannabis Strain Rater App
THIS!

I've noticed the difference. It's been slower. I feel like managing this perception is very important.
Would be extremely awesome if university libraries could be hooked up and I could select a book on amazon and they'd approve it. The current ordering system here takes long and the books are usually more expensive, too.

Same goes for our procurement department. You find stuff on amazon (or other sites) and they just order it somewhere else for more money and it takes forever. I think I'll have a talk with them. They could essentially outsource the procurement to the employees (who'd gladly do it) and would only have to approve/deny stuff.
The current process for standard stuff is pretty much "found it on amazon, sent a link, they ordered it somewhere else after x-time"
PHP in Perl from PHP
Really helpful, but the question is too hard to concentrate so many things on one person.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-98-percent-of-us-com...

Still, even if this is selfish and hypocritical, it can be harnessed - transportation is all about "if you build it they will come". If people support the development of alternative transport, it will get used. The biggest obstacle is people demanding that all the transport funding goes to building roads and parking lots, if we can defeat that mentality by telling people it will make the roads better for them, thats good.
How and When Criminals Like to Operate Online
Ask HN: Is there something like Sendy but open-source and in Python or Ruby?
I am looking specifically for an application for managing all the parts of newsletter sending that do not involve actually sending/being a mailserver. I'd like to outsource that to Mandrill or SES for now.

Cheers!
came here to see how it was done; was hoping for STS :(
Agreed.Read a meme somewhere that if only hardwork and perseverance resulted in success, then African village women would have been millionaires.
How many mentions do companies get in national constitutions ?

They're not mentioned one single time in the US or the Danish Constitutions, yet, both countries they more or less run government now.

UN's human rights don't mention them either.

Companies have no claim to human rights, like privacy, because they are not humans.

And if you think all humans, no matter what, should have a universal, unabbridgable right to privacy: Vote in your elections, and if nobody is worthy of your vote, get yourself elected instead.

But right now there are fully valid laws that says certain classes of humans do not get privacy, and the government which enacted those laws are legit, elected and have every right to enforce their laws.
And older.

I have a wide array of friends, and what I've found is some of them become mentors, and we become mentors and it can all add up to this nice resonance where we give and receive energy, perspective, help, opportunity.
Ask HN: Where is the best place to live for a Full Stack Developer
Silicon Valley is too expensive. I currently pay 700 for a two bedroom apartment and I'm not moving to Silicon Valley just for the startup scene and paying 3000 for the same thing I have now. So what is the second best place for the startup scene that won't kill your bank account.

Thank you in advance.
Türkiye'de günde yaklaşık 524 iş kazası oluyor“ – YALIN OSGB
Lenin specifically requested no memorials to him. However the needs of the state superseded the wants of the individual, in the end (with a dose of broad over simplification), its what sunk soviet style communism in eastern europe.
Actually some of the UI was designed by me but most of it was inspired by the app designed in the book. I do not have much experience in UI design. I learnt a lot from the book. Thanks for the appreciation :)
So what you're saying is that because you disagree with me, I'm a terrible person ?

Needless to say, I don't agree.
And to write 'of those babies we have examined...'.
Though you are right about the character in Minecraft, the characters in ksp are never refered to as human
Next step: Python on bare metal ARM targets. Imagine loading Python interpreter to an uC, quickly hacking together some scripts and happily running some DIY project.
`sys` and especially `os` packages are out, maybe some high level features and something clever has to be done about interrupts, but that would be totally awesome
> What's wrong with micro-payments?

Nothing inherently, its just that they are generally used to extract more revenue from the existing model instead of supplant existing incomes.

There have been several studies about decision making being taxing the brain, and always being presented with a dollar sign for any part of your experience can be a bit wearing.

If your domicile had the ability to charge every time you go to the restroom, I guarantee they would just raise the rates until you considered pooping your pants.
Robotic telescope discovers three super-earth planetary neighbors