skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a number of datastores that claim to shard and replicate automatically, with no worries for dev/ops/devops.

They've been lying. Never trust them.

Some datastores can actually do this, but performance per beefy server is less than you'd expect. You can use Riak but you have to write proper CRDTs. You can use zookeeper or etcd but those are for small amounts of configuration data, not for large amounts of customer data.

For all the datastores that claim to do everything automatically and have great performance, we can thank Aphyr for providing the proof that they don't live up to their promises, while we just suspect they don't.

I'd suggest trying to use a simpler model, and understand and accept its failure modes. Maybe your app has to go into read-only mode for a few hours if there's a server failure, etc.
To spare people the click after that dumb clickbait title:

Germany only requires tuition fees of ~30-100€ per semester* from any student, regardless country of origin.

* For administrative stuff and often includes public transit tickets.

Also, previously (today even): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9656905
According to the paper:

"the Android OS by default performs WiFi scans in the intervals of tens of seconds, even when the WiFi is turned off; the setting to disable background scanning when WiFi is off is buried in the advanced settings."

It looks like you can stop this from happening when the WiFi is off it just requires an extra step. I don't have an Android device so I can't really verify this.
I'm curious how many people think he understands the technology and just doesn't care if he's undermining security, or is he just clueless.
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Freedom of Information Act. It's a US Federal law that allows private citizens to request that the government provide any records that it has in its files. The government likes to keep copies of EVERYTHING, so you can often turn up quite a bit of documentation. The law has very strict requirements on what can be withheld or redacted -- for example, the government can't withhold data just because it's embarrassing to them.
I'm one of the developers behind Houndify. Thanks for this feedback, I'll look into it.
> why not?

Because unfair discrimination makes it worse for everyone involved: workers (cannot get jobs), employers (cannot hire qualified people), consumers (higher prices).

> That's the whole point of countries.

Of course not.

Countries have their own legal system which could be good (competition between various legal systems), but there is no good reason to discriminate on the government level against foreigners.

Even if other countries discriminate against Americans, the US would still benefit by NOT discriminating against citizens of these countries.
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Is this related to censorship in any way?
Seriously, a dog[1] apparently is a way better security system.

[1] Big dogs are not afraid, thus they sleep at night if not properly trained. Small dogs (especially Yorkshires) are the most bad-ass security system I've encountered. They bark on anything alive that comes into 0.5miles circumference.
Why don't you just accuse them of making up the numbers, then?
Some payday lenders already have their own prediction systems in place using scraped public data. The problem that arises is that due to regulation, credit decisions cannot be made based on certain information. I'm sure this varies across sectors of finance though.
I didn't make that claim. I honestly have no clue what % are active(I've been asking for MAU numbers from a number of bitcoin companies on every bitcoin related forum I participate in for close to a year now with none releasing them) and wouldn't even make a guess though I know there are a lot of former users in the community for a variety of reasons.
Sad to see the beeradvocate and ratebeer datasets were removed before I could grab them.

https://snap.stanford.edu/data/web-BeerAdvocate.html

https://snap.stanford.edu/data/web-RateBeer.html
That seems a little unfair. The SVP are indeed the "strongest party" in the swiss government, but they still only hold 54 out of 200 seats in the National Council. Parties in many other European democracies have expressed equally repellent views in recent years -- the rise of racist anti-immigrant parties is not a problem unique to the swiss by any means.

As an American (who has also spent a lot of time in Switzerland) I agree that it's shocking. But, I think it's also a little understandable. There is a strong desire to preserve swiss culture. Switzerland is a country with a history and culture stretching back into antiquity. In the US, we are a country of immigrants.
I'm one of the developers behind Houndify. Feel free to ask any questions.
What a lot of people fail to understand is that successful startups derisk in exponential steps. It may seem unfair to a lot of people that early employees are paid 2 or 3 orders of magnitude of equity less than founders for doing perhaps even more work. What they fail to understand is that they're not being paid equity for work, they're being paid for risk.

Successful startup founders are obsessed with derisking at every step along the way and even when it seems like "they haven't done very much", the stuff they are doing is relentlessly pushing a startup through the various gates in which a certain percentage fail at every gate.

So it wouldn't surprise me if a reasonable equity split for Gimlet ended up around the 90/10 range. Considering that Alex managed to raise $1.5M almost entirely based on the back of his reputation, he's really offering ~$700K of equity to his co-founder vesting over 4 years. There's no way his other co-founder could have found an opportunity that big through any other avenue so it would have been smart for him to take the 10%.
You guys are fantastic. I use Zapier for several of my organizations and companies, and I cannot understate how incredible of a service you guys have created. <3 for days.

My only wish would be for a paid tier between 100 and 3000. If I went hog-wild and did everything I want to do, I'd probably use 200-300 a month. I would love to pay for that. But there's some loss-aversion psychology happening that makes me not want to pay for 3000 if I know I'll only use 300.

I'd give you my cc number right now if you did a 1000 zaps at $10/m.

That being said - you know your business better than I do. If it would hurt conversions of $20/m more than it would help, I get that. :)

<3 you guys though.
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The victim cannot avoid being victimized if it is the basis of his identity. African blacks come to America and thrive. How is that possible with the your alleged white supremacy?
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I run Hacker Paradise, which organizes workaway trips for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs.

While many of our participants have software companies, we're really an operations company, kind of like a specialty tour operator. As opposed to working with software or hardware, we spend a lot of time scouting hotels, running events, and facilitating the community.

Happy to answer any questions about that. So far, we've been to Costa Rica, Thailand, and Vietnam, and this summer, we'll be in Estonia, Spain, and Germany.
Thanks for your comment, my sentiment exactly.

Opting out of the entire thing is the best way to eliminate this scam. It is absolutely stupid that in the US your financial life is dictated by an opaque algorithm and an entrenched bureaucracy.

If you live carefully you don't need credit at all, ever, except for possibly buying a house as you said. All other purchases... car, food, etc are easy enough to save up for... and if not, just do without until you can. Such a lifestyle sucks if you are used to instant gratification and living beyond your means (been there) but you can sleep better at night.

If more people followed your advice we would surely be better off... even in the circumstance of buying a house as you said, they will find a way... they are after all paid on commission :)
A quick question: I have a list of 100+ million points with their geographical distance, but I want to improve it and calculate the "driving distance". How expensive in terms of time/ops would that be?

I'm scanning the different subprojects on Github and I think Tyr is the one I need, but I'm not entirely sure..
If you're looking for even larger graph datasets, the team at WebDataCommons[1] extracted hyperlink graphs from Common Crawl[2]. They're available at both page and domain levels of granularity.

The page level hyperlink graphs are 3.5 billion web pages and 128 billion hyperlinks for 2012 and 1.7 billion web pages connected by 64 billion hyperlinks for 2014.

[1]: http://webdatacommons.org/hyperlinkgraph/

[2]: http://commoncrawl.org/
> Because being highly skilled at both writing and software development is rare, those who can do it well are often get the most attention and influence from the software world, turning these folks into “thought leaders” that drive the overall direction of the community.

Improving writing education can increase the pool of software developers who write/teach well. Teaching is often an excellent way to learn, because writing helps to structure thought.

> Producing high-quality educational resources is obscenely, ridiculously difficult and time consuming. So the people who can invest the effort are typically either from a position of economic advantage, or are backed by monied interests.

This is a challenge in any "commons", where code/prose content (marketing) is often funded by ancillary revenue/income/objectives. How are libraries funded and how do librarians decide which topics are curated by those funds?

> Those who are doing original research, particularly things that are experimental or exploratory in nature, are not well supported at all.

This is a subset of the broader challenge of long-tail discovery, which afflicts many smaller code/app/media publishers who lack marketing budgets and expertise.

> We must find a way to bring programmer education out of the marketplace, and into the commons. How should we go about doing that?

How about finding ways to compensate those who already produce valuable content in the commons, so they can have more time to do what they already do well?
I don't think they did make the numbers up. I just think they are useless and chosen because they will always look good.

AFAIK Coinbase hasn't been caught faking numbers like Bitpay so as far as I'm concerned the numbers are real but useless as a metric.
I see. So anyone we ever dealt with in any capacity was "propped up". Gotcha.
A friend who lives in a wealthy neighborhood here had their garage broken into electronically more than 10 years ago. So clearly some people have known about it for a while. The local police claim the thief probably "listened" to their garage door opener open the door at least once to get in, as opposed to brute forcing it.
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Very Mention of Snowden’s Name Makes Prosecutors Tremble
Ugh! Wouldn't want to work there if I needed to concentrate on code. Would be OK if the day is spent talking though.
Gawker Media Votes to Unionize
CCTV is one step removed from a human so the taboo isn't felt (as strongly)
I'm taking a trip to UK in the fall, so I'm doing related reading until then. Currently:
"A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603" by Simon Schama
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155314.A_History_of_Brit...]
They want us to communicate over insecure channels so they can ensure everybody's safety.
Or, more importantly, understanding securing information from the government is a good thing.
Magic Leap wants developers to mix the virtual with reality
One of the tool authors here. The answer is "it depends". We absolutely designed sysdig and csysdig to work on production systems. They both work by capturing system events, so their cpu usage depends on the number of system calls in the system. On machines with average workloads, I would expect csysdig's CPU usage to be comparable or slighly lower than htop. On machines that do a lot I/O, the CPU will probably be higher. Memeory usage is typically some tens of megabytes.
Darn! I had this awesome idea! Somebody else has done it already!

Oh well, might do it anyway :)
Binary numbers (1010 it's off to work we go!)

Boolean logic.

How numbers are encoded in binary. How ints, doubles, floats, etc. work under the hood on a computer. Can be learned on the job.
> cooperate with NIST on encryption matters, but that's fairly arms-length

Heh, you might want to read up on Dual_EC_DRBG.

Technically you're right, and I think that people who claim that these missions are fundamentally at odds have not fully games out what options the NSA have; where they see fixing bugs as the only way to increase security, but despite their responsibility being technically only to the government, there has been quite a push for the NSA to help defend civilian networks too since they're being routinely targeted by nation state actors too, and the economic damage there is arguably worse.
Especially since you could otherwise inject "/e" which turns the whole thing into an eval() !
This would only make sense if when you moved bitcoins into coinbase they immediately converted them to USD. In that case, sure they would need to have USD on hand to cover your funds.

In the case where you are storing the bitcoins with coinbase and not converting it they just need to make sure they have the bitcoins on hand. Forcing coinbase to both hold bitcoin and USD to cover the value of those bitcoins makes no sense.
I noticed that GPA is also required for recruiter applications; SpaceX is a really interesting company that's been on my radar for a long time, but seeing this is a huge turnoff. The best recruiters I know probably don't remember their GPA from college and some of them were so busy traveling around the world exploring during college that their GPA would only be a tiny detail in the overall narrative of their lives. Seems like a very short-sighted requirement (and means otherwise qualified and impressive candidates may never apply).
What I suggested isn't locked since there is a manual override. The button is meant to allow unsigned patches, while signed patches are accepted by default. Give it three states if you want: deny all, signed only, accept all. Ship it set on "signed only" which is the default 99% of buyers want.
How does the US government dictate how much value you assign to the USD? You could trade me a piece of gum for $1 or a car for $1. In both cases you've agreed with me on the value of $1 and in both cases that value is different.

You have no more control over the market price of Bitcoin than you do the forex pricing for USD.
To be fair, recognizing another spoken language is a much larger effort than localizing a web site. I was curious to know if they have plans to move beyond English, maybe next year or 2017.
High Paying Writing Jobs
The prosecutors also want to prevent the discussion of the existence of the NSA, and a speech by Diane Feinstein.

It's best not to confuse juries with anything not favorable to the prosecution.
set theory, equivalence relations, partial and total orders, algebra (monoids, lattices, ...), graphs
The Fragility of Information
I wonder what it would say about the under development placebo effect blocker if placebos were evidence of god.
During the Android setup process it asks you if you want to enable this feature and has a side note that these scans are specifically to save battery life because they take much less energy than typical location services.
Maybe not really mentioned- but having a free edu and then returning to the us- you basically get more money for the same job, as you dont have to repay the loans and interests, but get the same plus the others get to reduce that debt.
Automation with pre-commit hooks
For me this sounds like a broader application of insight from neuro science and especially from research into ADHD. While the latter is definitely a pathological condition, with major negative effects for the patients, there seems to be a continuum from extreme ADHD on one side (or even Finneas Gage) to fully enlightened buddhist monks who have trained their attention and focus for decades.

It may be well worth the effort to train attention, concentration and self-control in a more targeted manner, like through "Becoming a Man", but also martial arts, meditation, or certain other activities.
I find understanding of symbolic logic to be very important.

For UI programming of any sort, an understanding of basic geometry is very important, including graphing. There have been times in my short career where I have had to implement pixel perfect renderings due to the types of problems that were being solved.
I love it when a comment gets downvoted with no response. Can't be bothered to explain why you disagree?
Sometimes I feel like I should have paid more attention in class, like when looking at an expression and wondering if it could be simplified or if all the parens are really necessary
Any chance for an invite, or should we just use https://www.houndify.com/verify-invite ?
Humans do two things unnaturally well: make communities and separate into tribes. ISIS hasn't done much the Japanese haven't done to China, the Hutsis haven't done to the Tutsis (or was it the other way around).

ISIS is evil, but they are not unhuman.
Thanks for this Zach, we keep re-evaluating and running pricing tests, and this plays into that a bit. Reach out anytime if you need help!
> "Privacy, above all other things, including safety and freedom from terrorism, is not where we want to go," Steinbach said.

It's where I want to go. Also you have YET to show ANY evidence that we are more safe or more free from terrorism by surrounding our rights to privacy.

>He also disputed the "back door" term used by experts to describe such built-in access points. "We're not looking at going through a back door or being nefarious," he argued, saying that the agency wants to be able to access content after going through a judicial process.

You mean "Rubber Stamp Judicial Process"? Even if you didn't the mere fact that these backdoors (you can rename it all your want it's a BACKDOOR) exist make the whole system LESS secure. What a clown and this is the AD of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division??? Fuck....
Thanks for the explanation. It sounds like the stock is allocated to the entities willing to buy the largest amount though, not everybody has the same chance. If an investor asks for $70B of stock (through shell companies) even if the total offering is for only $1B, they'll get about 25% of this IPO without posting the $70B. It also sounds like the company going public has a big incentive to boost its short-term profits in the year leading to the IPO.
Not exactly pair programming, but I give assignments to my students via my own system and give feedback remotely.

http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/ (and a video from old version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFy8LHQ6EtI)
Added a patch for Moped::BSON in Rails here

https://gist.github.com/eddanger/9408317d5d508d8e9ba7
I think possibly because without a protagonist-antagonist binary, you only have yourself. African blacks lack the legacy issues and come into a "clean" slate, i.e. that binary dynamic doesn't exist for them. It's certainly not a simple issue.
>Neither of which are skills that have anything to do with language.

Because nothing says "monoculture" and "single language" like scientists from all over the world converging outside Geneva to build the world's biggest atom smasher!
When you set up android for the first time it gives you some text explaining what this is and how it works, and asks you whether you want to enable/disable it.

I'm not sure if this was ever a "default", but it is definitely part of the setup prompts now.
Would you also say the same about Cassandra?

Netflix is the largest user, and they are well-known for their "Chaos Monkey" strategy of taking down servers randomly..
Tell HN: Take my idea: drone watch detector and interceptor system
A system that uses cameras to watch for drones and alert to their presence.

For those who wish for privacy.

Optional drone-to-drone interceptor and forced landing capability where interceptor drone drops a lightweight net on top of invading drone.
Are you a salesman by any chance?
What's next for Spotify?
Yes, wifi scan location takes less power than GPS location. Rolling your own wifi location service in an app will take more power than the framework's service, however, and it will almost certainly be less optimized.
So amazing ...
That's it. I said NetBSD, but meant OpenBSD.
tl,dr;

Author was arguing with people on comments section of local Portland newspaper about safety of kids on bikes, found out people say nasty things, responds by trying to drag brands with ads on offending paper's site into slapfight.

There. I just saved you five minutes.
>show ANY evidence that we are more safe or more free from terrorism by surrounding our rights to privacy

Wasn't FBI surveillance a thing during the Boston bombing? Since 9/11 have any attacks been prevented? If surveillance was a tool to prevent these attacks, why wasn't the surveillance authority (FBI) held directly responsible for the attacks?

Anyone who would advocate surveillance would first need to be criminally prosecuted for the Boston bombing because at the time they had the information and ignored it. With-holding information from the law about crime or potential crimes is illegal.
Don't forget Nokia. Going from #1 in a market to doing so badly that you exit the market--and all in the span of 3 years--is something to behold.
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FWIW Balsamiq uses the two terms interchangeably.
I want to believe that, too, but when Amazon is spending serious money on a one-press-to-order button - thus betting that ease of access will increase use - I'm pretty sure I don't want to argue the other direction :p
I propose a new protocol: HTTPSUFBIHCO - HyperText Transport Protocol Secure Unless the Federal Bureau of Investigation Has a Court Order.

The logo will be a semi-open padlock with a FBI agent holding a FISA court order.
Do these guys seriously not realize that "the terrorists" will use end-to-end encryption whether it's legal or not? This literally makes no sense to me unless "the terrorists" is code for "the local weed dealer".
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Ouch, that's certainly a step on the wrong direction. I guess they get points for consistency, but they're being consistently bad.
Maybe what could happen though is that when booting the operating system, instead of reading whatever code normally runs as the kernel launches, some malicious code could be sent to the processor instead
All of those are only on issue because the US operates with extremely restrictive rules of engagements. They had a k:d ratio of 1000:1 in Somalia.

The truth is if the US wanted they could have ended the troubles in Iraq. It just wasn't worth it.