skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a guy who rescued several people from slavery in Florida. Here's an article about it from the New Yorker from 2003:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/04/21/nobodies

Since then, they've helped the government rescue over 1,000 people from slavery in the southeast U.S.
The app does not only uses GPS, it uses an underlying framework that gather position from GPS and other sources like Wifi location databases, which are much more precise.
That sounds amazing. I would love to contribute to such a project (or be interviewed using one).

(Actually, would you mind if I stole this idea?)
What percentage of the requests is handled by CDN?
1. The web page is not the primary entry point for the program; the Debian package is. So I don’t think the “bounce rate” is that large of a problem.

2. CAcert was chosen when the system was used for different purposes, in a different environment, by a different audience, and at a time when Debian shipped browsers with CACert’s root cert included. After that, it’s just been inertia.

3. I quote from the StartSSL F.A.Q.¹: “The Terms and Conditions of StartCom and the StartCom Certification Policy requires subscribers to provide the correct and complete personal details during registration.”. I generally don’t create accounts with external services, and as a sysadmin, I can and do run everything myself.

① https://www.startssl.com/?app=25#1
I don't buy it. This is the same argument I've heard from Node.js proponents.

You'd be offloading your development and debugging to a third party tool that will always be staggered behind native development.

You'd be translating your code through a shitty javascript transpiler.

You'd end up hiring javascript programmers with little to no domain knowledge to make apps that feel less than native.

You'd end up having interface with the platform anyway, but through a JS shim.

You'd be putting all your eggs in one basket on a platform known for killing off its dependents. Apple doesn't like what React Native is doing to its ecosystem? You're shit out of luck when they pull you from their market.

Hire a competent person with the relevant experience instead of trying to shoehorn javascript into every problem domain. You'll end up hiring one anyway.
Mandrake was one of the first distros that I ever got to work on a laptop correctly. I'm shedding some nostalgic tears here!
Indeed. ~2m is the limit of accuracy for a typical smartphone GPS - I've gotten down to 1.3m when standing in an open area for >10 minutes with 12 satellites in view, but that's an exceptional case.

In practice, accuracy will be in the 5-10m range.

It doesn't make it any less creepy though... which then begs the question of how the number of people wanting to send their location would change with how "approximate" of a location (i.e. rounding to some radius) they're sending. Nearest 100m? 500m? 10km? 100km? State? Country? Continent? ... Planet? I would probably be fine with the last one, but no more than that for anyone I don't know well.
As others have pointed out, this has been done many times before. There's even a commercial product to pair an analog phone to a Bluetooth cell phone.[1] It generates proper ring voltage and dial tone, and a fast busy tone if it lacks a connection to the phone system, so it does the whole job of emulating land line.

We have one of those in our steampunk telegraph office[2], connected to a 1970s Singapore-made imitation of a 1930s French phone equipped with a Japan-style telephone plug. It's popular with small children. ("It's so heavy!")

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Xtreme-Technologies-BT-Bluetooth-Gatew...
[2] https://vimeo.com/124065314
The term generally used is "prison".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_State...
Thanks for this. I was happy to see 'Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems' on your list, though the link appears broken - new link: [1]. I remember working through that book and porting everything from C to Assembly (my boss at the time was too cheap to buy me the nice Keil compiler). Once I had that library in hand, I was knocking out his projects in days instead of weeks.

[1] http://www.safetty.net/download/pont_pttes_2014.pdf
It's not about making a collective threat, it's letting management know that the new conditions are making you consider options "up to and including departure", and that you think the other devs may be in the same boat.
Surprisingly, they uses mysql (instead of current hype k/v store) to map hostname and fileserver.
But wait...you're saying...if I don't race to the bottom, I might not end up there along with everyone else? :)
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I thought the point of using docker containers was that they were pre-packaged apps. Not so you had to continually rebuild the container with your own updated packages. Doesn't having to rebuild the container to fix security vulns defeat one of the major reasons to have versioned docker images released for use? You could very well end up breaking dependencies.
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/9/ucs-vs-utf8/ is a nice comparison of Python’s (2 and 3) and Rust’s Unicode handling.
Ah, thank you, these weren't in the small chat windows. Clicking on them gives you a full, browsable map, as well.
Google Search Will Begin Indexing iOS App Content
Is there anything suggesting it's SourceForge itself doing this and not just (an improbably widespread, admittedly) set of account breaches? It makes sense -- acquire accounts, enable ads, profit.
>How's that democracy working out in Libya and Syria?

How was India immediately after its colonial rule? Or South Korea after the war?

Its incredible how people conveniently forget how long transition periods are for societies that were previous non-democratic to a democratic one. Ten to fifteen years from now it will be a very different picture. Migrating to a democratic capatalistic economy is an incredible thing. GDP comparision between North and South Korea below:

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/sites/default/files/image...

It was rough for the South Koreans until the 1970s then its been all gravy. They went from war ravage rural wasteland to the most envious economy in about 20 years.
Thank you for a thoughtful response.

I appreciate your argument that these new CMS systems are better thought of as improved "journalism life cycle" management systems, to borrow a more familiar jargon.

Given that view, I would have to say that these tools are not good because the system output is not good. Every PLC system I've been a part of has a quality assurance component, and in the case of Vox Media, that quality component doesn't seem to be sufficiently engaged. More worrying to me is that when edits are made at vox.com (and I assume, perhaps in error, at other Vox Media sites), the changes tend to be as silent as possible. I can never be sure of the accuracy of the article I'm viewing. In addition, there are frankly immature actions of Vox Media staff (seems to be concentrated at The Verge) that signal to me that the company culture is problematic. I expect journalists to have an air of professionalism, like Walter Cronkite. I get the feeling that Vox Media is a bunch of bloggers acting as journalists, when the original concept (as I understood it) was that it was journalists that could respond with the speed and flexibility of bloggers, thanks to the Chorus system.

Maybe I expect too much from internet journalism. If you'll excuse me, I think there's some kids on my lawn I need to chase away.
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To be fair to you I didn't know the last 3 or 4 years of Mandriva history and what had happened.

In May 2012 Mandriva the company abandoned development of Mandriva and transfered leadership, resources and the forums to OpenManadriva. http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-r... (The link is broken since it was hosted by Mandriva)
It's not so much that I think it will automatically help them as much as I think that it's unfair that we restrict people's ability to improve their lot in life because of their nationality.

Moving from one place to another should be their decision, just like a citizen from a poor city can decide to move to a richer city in the same country (or if you wish, a citizen from a poor EU state can move to a rich EU state - same reason why I fully supported poorer countries like Bulgaria, Romania & Croatia joining the EU & hope to see Turkey joining as well at some point in the future).

Not granting them that freedom reduces class mobility, even thought it's not the only element in the equation. We should definitely additionally also try to fix the other factors reducing or limiting class mobility.
> If early 1980s Henry or Paige wanted to spend all evening talking on the phone and keep a recorded copy of their conversations, they could have

The key word being wanted. Most forms of person-to-person expression were default ephemeral. And failing that (eg a written letter), generally required explicit copying. Contrast with an email - by the time you even read it, how many copies have been made and where do they reside?

I completely agree about "enforcement" being laughable, but there is room for parties voluntarily agreeing to not permanently record things. It can even be beneficial to a would-be recorder (eg legal discovery). Of course it can be quite beneficial to defect. But that calculus may even change as non-signed logs start to hold less weight (eg OTR's auto-repudiation).

However, none of that really applies for explicit publishing mediums like the web. The next generation of content-addressable systems will be ultimately based on persistent data structures, with garbage collection of older versions only being necessary as a storage optimization.
You really want to call this WTF (8)? Is it april 1st today? Am I the only one that thought this article is about a new funny project that is called "what the fuck" encoding, like when somebody announced he had written a to_nil gem https://github.com/mrThe/to_nil ;) Sorry but I can't stop laughing.
What are the reasons for people to use SourceForge today? Why hasn't everyone else (especially major projects like GIMP and Audacity) moved off?

Here are some possibilities I can think of, but I'm curious if they're correct:

- Mailing list hosting

- Non-git repository hosting, for projects that prefer CVS or SVN

- Shell account (though it doesn't seem very useful)

- Features GitHub has but few others do (binary hosting, website hosting, etc.) and the project wants to avoid GitHub

Are there others?
Reminds me of one of my favorite @profbriancox tweets:

"Wading thru much bollocks trying to research evolution of pigments. I suggest Google introduce a logical "and.not.god_did_it" switch"

https://twitter.com/ProfBrianCox/status/115080841411051520
The Google one is based on an older, public one: http://www.freebase.com/
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The deal with stuff like this is, you always charge more than you really think you should because the people are going to be difficult and would pay someone else more if you were with a larger firm.

So I'd do an intake meeting with them to get a sense of their needs. Ask lots of questions, do your home work and figure out what they need. Then draw up a scope of work that outlines the work you're going to do and put a quote on that.

Historically all jobs suck equally and they work you just as hard, so you might as well be compensated well for it and if it's too much and they balk, then it's fine.

Someone once gave me advice that said if you really want to work on a project charge a lot and if you don't want to do it, charge more. I don't necessarily employ this advice, but...it's an interesting thinking.

You don't have to justify anything. You're a professional who knows his craft and if you outline your recommendations and what you're going to do in writing -- which is what a firm would do -- then you're going to be fine.

Realize if it's too high they'll go with someone else, so decide if you REALLY want the work or not. If you want the extra money, then decide how big the project is and come up with a total price and then divide that by how many hours you think it'll take realistically (in other words, more hours not less hours) and then quote them based on that hourly rate.
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Your definition includes nationality. Libya, Iraq, and Syria are essentially gone.

I was never claiming the US has committed genocide, I simply asked how many deaths do you need to define one. WWII killed 6 million Jews, were only about an order of magnitude away and our current war has now gone on longer with no end in sight.

EDIT: I'm using _your_ definition dude, I don't think it is genocide, yet, but by your definition it certainly is.
Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface, by Bret Victor http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

(or PDF: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/MagicInk.pdf)
I think this is why problems that feature singly-linked lists are so popular: you can tell from the start that the problem is limited in scope and has nothing to do with any system currently in production.
(1) It lends itself to the web because it's FAR more interactive

(2) There is far too much to grok all at once with that Voronoi example... way too much clutter. I understand how to read it, but I definetly think this one is a very good interactive illustration.
Comcast in Talks to Acquire Vox Media, the Verge
The only issue is that Sourceforge made nice binaries available. Most people have no idea how to use git and/or build their own binaries.
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How would you use hashing for that?
> Why do you think the US cares?

It's a fair assumption that the administration in the US cares. They put significant work into the 2022 World Cup bid and were beaten in the final round by Qatar. It is highly unlikely that this is unrelated to that.

Fine by me, honestly. FIFA is pretty damn corrupt, and if this is what it takes, then so be it.
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I remember Freebase, I even recall fact-checking on it a while ago.. I'd be interested to see how their current efforts are shaping up - if it's all ML or requires human assistance.
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Is the code quality from commanlinefu.com any better or worse on average compared to a source like StackOverflow?
Because it's coded in Paul Graham's vanity language that only a dozen people know?
Unfortunately this isn't an option for us. We need to be able to move sites between fileservers periodically to keep disk usage and load balanced. Adding new fileservers when using a hash modulus based routing scheme is also quite complex as it would require copying quite a lot of site data between fileservers.

Pages also supports custom domains for both user sites and per-project sites, so we'd still need a way to resolve domains to users.
adding "-bible" does this nicely.
BuzzFeed Founder Launches New Lab for Open-Source Invention
Just make sure you don't talk for other people (for example naming your peers). Otherwise i strongly agree.
Would postgreSQL be meaningfully faster?
I went from performance work / data science tools at Facebook to PM at MemSQL. A big part of my job is enterprise sales engineering (SE) work, pairing with account executives (AEs) around the country as we fill out our SE team.

The funny thing is that I'm doing much of the same things here as I was doing at Facebook: understanding the team's core problem, understanding their systems, designing benchmarks, explaining possible solutions, walking through operations scenarios, etc.

There is more PowerPoint time, as we are from a separate company and need to establish our credentials first, but the bulk is deeply technical and the standards are high. I couldn't bullshit these people even if I wanted to.
> "Is abortion right", returns from a strongly pro-choice viewpoint

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

> "Is abortion okay", returns an excerpt from a strongly pro-life viewpoint

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

> "Does God exist", returns an atheist's viewpoint

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

> "Is God real", returns a strongly theistic viewpoint

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

I feel like Google isn't doing a good service by providing quick and very biased answers to very big questions.
One of the fun and excellent things about America is that there is no official language (/ religion / whatever).

My housekeeper, a US citizen born in Mexico (her father was American), speaks English marginally at best (she had a high school education in Mexico). But she has put two kids through the Palo Alto schools (with another graduating next year); the oldest has a graduate degree and works overseas. She lives in Palo Alto and owns another house in the foothills. She votes, and politicians who want her vote speak to her (via TV) in Spanish. Companies who want to sell her things advertise in Spanish. Isn't that capitalism at its best?

Now I think she's made a poor choice, because I think it's self-disenfranchising to not speak English. But that's her choice to make and it's hard to argue with her success. Plus she's a citizen and it appears quite reasonable to me that my taxes pay for the government to accommodate the linguistic wishes of large blocks of citizens.
This is an example of precisely the kind of false-positive that you would expect to have emerge when you leave it up to machine learning over publicly available information to try to figure out the answer to a question.
Your question is based on false premises because genocide isn't about raw numbers. It's based on a number of other things which don't fit the situation in the middle east.

How can you say "I was never claiming the US has committed genocide" while simultaneously, just one sentence before, saying that these countries should qualify?
Well, I think this questions would benefit more people so I'll ask in public: are there any plans for a commercial offering? Thanks!
I'll be late 5 minutes means you're 10 minutes away (5 minutes to get there on time and 5 minutes of being late).
I don't get the car reviews on tech sites. Clearly they're not "all things automotive" - it seems to be mostly Tesla, tech implications and these sporadic reviews of nice cars that make me wonder if they're really marketing.
If one thing gives me hope for the future, it’s the cause of ​internet freedom
Don't Let the Snoopers' Charter Bounce Back
Odd that so many people in the comments (and at the top, indicating consensus) seem to share in some of GP's confusion.
I also gave a short talk at !!Con about this, with some Unicode history background: http://exyr.org/2015/!!Con_WTF-8/slides.pdf
Oh sorry. Not saying the question is gibberish or anything. It's just missing a couple words so it's hard to parse.
Intro to Caching and CDNs
No its not. Regional power and influence is an important concept for sovereign countries. The US is more interested in insuring its neighbors are well behaved than if a country across the Atlantic likes it.

The same is true for Russia, if Russian-Canadian relations are tense that's not as nearly important as whether its neighbor Ukraine is bombing civilians on its border.

America is not exceptional, your argument requires we treat America and Russia with different moral thresholds, that's insane.
For the mutex example, the explanation says:

"So here is how the code works: we count to 20 like in Python"

That's a typo, right? Both examples count to 35, not 20 (I'm not crazy, right...?)
Brazil at least also has the Olympics coming up so one would hope some of the infrastructure put in place for the World Cup will transfer over.

Who knows though.
Reminds me of the "programming language inventor or serial killer" quiz (warning: Flash + sound): http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/
Xin Luna Dong at Google works on the problem of web site factual credibility. See her talk at Stanford.[1] There's a database of well-known facts, and when web sites mention those subjects, their credibility is rated by detecting disagreements with those facts. This in turn affects their search ranking. This helps detect satire sites, fantasy baseball vs real baseball, Obama "birthers", and such. She said the system is live for some topics, but not fully rolled out yet.

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/150429.html
MySQL is extremely fast.
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assassinate scientists?
Mary Meeker – 2015 Internet Trends Report
http://www.wired.com/2012/06/beard-gallery/
Would graduating more college students reduce wage inequality?
There is a fundamental difference between HN and the IRS (for Americans, and corresponding agencies of the government for people in other countries): using HN is completely voluntary. Giving your personal information in a tax return is mandatory and not complying is punished severely.

In my opinion, this sets the required standard to a completely different class. The tax services have an important responsibility to process their information in a secure way. The information needs to be protected against leaks.

And from the outcome we can see that the protections are not adequate.
Alternative Redis-Like Databases with Python
What value do you think is worth your time? If it isn't worth your time, why would you do it?

If it isn't "necessary work" then there is no reason to take a penny less than what you value your time at.

Note that what you value your time at could still be less than what they're willing to pay you for your time. But I find it silly to dwell on that. If I'm being paid what I think my time is worth, I'm content. If I'm being paid less than what they would be willing to pay - they are likely content as well.

If they aren't willing to pay me what my time is worth. Well, I value my time more than money. If the job isn't necessary to pay for food and rent - then I don't need to take the job.
I kind of agree TBH, although I would say their search engine (as it is today) and a 'fact-repo' are quite different things. I'd expect a higher level of rigour in the fact-repo ML checking processes.
Like I said, examiners do make mistakes sometimes. For what it's worth though, your claims look pretty lengthy.
Bitcoin is on there also. Now that is worrying.
What are you talking about? The mortality rates of migrants in Qatar are exceptionally low.
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I've done pre-sales despite not being on pre-sales pay before for a short time after all our pre-sales guys quit pretty much (long story). But the biggest thing I did to get to that position is to be involved and care about what your customers are doing with your product. Be indispensable to your sales demos and POCs. If you become the go-to guy in your engineering team, you have an edge already because most sales and engineering orgs are so divided from each other you'll be in the know rather soon.

I started down this way because while I love technology, I was getting pretty bored with the typical engineer personality types in every company I went to, and I was starting to get a little heat for being too customer focused. This makes sense when your company is at risk because they're drowning in features while engineering is light years ahead and into YAGNI territory. But simply caring beyond your engineering duties of ship stuff on a schedule is a huge step in mentality.
It may not have been a lie. It could simply have been a bad estimate, maybe he guessed he was about five minutes away but didn't know the area too well and was more then ten minutes away?
noble strategy - thanissaro bhikkhu

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/nobles...

Very readable introduction to the dhamma.