skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his point is that this website (or specifically, its owners) is more aligned with mainstream corporate/VC culture than what traditionally was considered hacker culture.
While I don't disagree, it's still true that much (though not all) of trans-national activity still takes place within an overall Westphalian state framework. (And one of the big exceptions--the Middle East--is essentially a result of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire post-WWI.
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Here are a few updated differences. disclosure I work for Iron.io

Lambda: node, java

IronWorker: node, ruby, python, php, java, binaries, .NET, go (binaries), and more (specific language runtime versions available)

Lambda: allows 500mb of local disk space to persist your task

IronWorker: 10 gb of local disk space available

Lambda: only current version of code

IronWorker: versions all uploads and allows you to revert

Lambda: no built in scheduler

IronWorker: a flexible scheduler out of the box to run tasks

Lambda: maximum execution time 60 seconds

IronWorker:maximum execution time 1 hour (customizable up to 24 hours for dedicated users)

Lambda: 100 maximum concurrent request. (The maximum can be higher, can someone point me to the absolute maximum if it exist?)

IronWorker: concurrency maximum can go much higher as needed (250 for a production plan). You can also limit concurrency per IronWorker, aka set a worker to only run up to 50 concurrent tasks. (useful if you have bottlenecks)

Lambda: 90 inactive code retention period

IronWorker: no limit to inactive code retention period

Lambda: available on aws

IronWorker: choose your cloud provider: AWS, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, private clouds, and more.

We've also enabled users to pause the execution of their task queue incase they need to patch or revise their worker code.

supporting your own docker images

http://blog.iron.io/2015/06/no-lock-in-thanks-to-docker.html

http://blog.iron.io/2015/05/full-docker-support-for-ironwork...

We’ve been doing some very neat stuff with our local docker development workflow

https://medium.com/@treeder/why-and-how-to-use-docker-for-de...

edits* formatting

Overall we are are glad Lambda is validating workflows around eventable compute services. It's an experience we've been innovating for some time now.
I agree with that as ads support the content rich internet we all know and love

However ads have become just too much annoying with all the pop left and right and other shady tactics to steal your eyeballs or get you to dow load a virus

It is time user started pushing back, since content owners are currently little to no incentive to push back to ads provider for getting high quality ads.

Adblocking puts the right incentive where its due. They should however play nice to web site owners. If the content owner wants not show content unless an ad is displayed, the ad blocker shouldn't circumvent that

They aren't gonna fixing ads provider getting too far by getting to far on the opposite direction. That will just put more content behind paywalls in the long run.
There are many many problems with the current system:

- It locks people into poor locations. Someone that is unemployed lives in a massively subsidized apartment in the Bronx. A job opens up in South Brooklyn. Would they move and take it? Not when their rent will go up 4X.

- It helps long term residents at the expense of shorter term residents, and companies who hire them.

- It only helps the small subset of the needy who can get in, and leaves the others out in the lurch.

- It discourages investment in the housing infrastructure.

I can keep going, but it would take me an hour to finish venting.
An excellent example of a failure to communicate.

Linus said that the fact that systemd parses the "debug" parameter is not a bug:

http://lwn.net/Articles/593677/

But sadly that didn't stop various Linux developers from bullying the systemd developers in that bug report instead of trying to find some common ground.

The actual bugs (assertion failure creating debug output in systemd, and inadequate buffering in Linux's /dev/kmsg) could have been fixed much faster without the pointless flame fest.
Disagree. I've tried low doses of lithium orotate and it had positive effects on my mood. I don't think it's inherently mood-lifting, but it lowered my anxiety by a huge margin. It was very noticeable. Suddenly, I could be around in public and not worry at all what people might think about me. Anxiety can be like chronic pain, over time, it wears you down, and can lead to depression.
I believe Dell did agree to that. I am talking to the tech group and their case notes say they were not to reimage the hard drive or reinstall the OS.

And I did back up the data. I just never imagined they would go so far out of their way to do what I asked them not to do. And they agreed not to do.
> I think supporting such a small feature-set of the web is basically rolling back the clock. This is putting people back in the Web 1.0 days, although with a browser built using more modern tools. Even with performance in mind, you might achieve better performance with a closer-to-the-metal language than JS.

The goal is not to support the whole web experience, just the news reading / information seeking part. Recently, more and more site are getting into the way of the content by adding distraction that can break your flow when you try to inform yourself. Did your eyes never get attracted by a Taboola 'Read more story here' or a buzzfeed '10 most productive trick for programers' link when you was reading some news?

As for JS, I choose it so I can prototype fast, I optimise implementation time vs performance (it take me a couple of hours vs ??? if I have try to do that in C for examples).

> I don't think the world needs a more minimalistic browser, we've already been down that road in the past, but rather a more minimalistic coding system for webpages in general.

I agree with you, CSS/HTML/DOM is a pain, but it seems to be the best we have today. I prefer wrote some interface using them than Qt, X or SDL.
I don't remember any ads in Google Reader. This question suggests there weren't any:

http://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Google-put-ads-in-Google-Read...
Is there not the right of freedom of association, and by extension, not to associate with those who offend without purpose?
It stands for Ads. I fixed that, Thanks!
This is about as easy to do with every other language - I could have done it in C, or Python or PHP or Java or C# or whatever - node was just the lowest friction one for the PoC - all you ned is an HTTP server that lets you write dynamic requests - could have been bash even.
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Hi, creator of StrongBox Password Safe (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/strongbox-password-safe/id89...) here. I think LastPass have done a pretty good job of being upfront and honest about their techniques and have a handy little product. Comments above mention the centralised nature of storage and indeed it is an issue as it becomes a real bullseye for hackers. Ultimately it’s a tradeoff between convenience and security. For what it’s worth my app uses the standard Password Safe format (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/), designed by Bruce Schneier. It can store your encrypted password databases locally on device or on Dropbox or Google Drive. This can be easily exported or imported. An added bonus is you can store other tidbits of information in there, notes of any kind, not just passwords. Might be useful for those of you with more stringent security in mind, or more general encryption requirements. It’s also free.
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He said decreasing intake would inadvertently cause mild depression, not help. (I read it that way too at first)
I too would like it taught in schools, but I also think its important to have reliable sources for the bare facts. It depresses me when I go to the history section in a bookstore and see how much of it is given over to conflicting viewpoints of the same events, so there's (almost) different versions of history available depending on what you already like to believe - conservative history over here, liberal history over there, progressive history in this corner and so on.
Continuing the sequence of overstretched metaphors I propose the related antipattern of Black Hole Component. BHC is so tightly coupled that any functionality that enters the area of its responsibility can never be factored out. The end result is of course that BHC consumes most of the functionality and more easily refactored components are mere shells of their older selves.
I feel like much of what was lost wasn't very valuable. How many reporters do we actually need sitting in the room with the Press Secretary? If reporters just report the news and only the news, how many do we need to send to each natural disaster to get the story? If readers can (and will) read only the best report or the one that most closely aligns with their political beliefs, why bother rewriting the same story one hundred times over (every major paper)?

At any rate, there will always be journalism even if it is wildly unprofitable for the same reason there will always be musicians. Long form journalism is often advanced as the biggest loss - I don't see the equivalent of t shirt sales or patronage keeping it around but I haven't seen any numbers either. Anyone know how it is actually doing?
Not true. You can still get ~300s Isp all the way down to a ~1kg thruster: http://cs.astrium.eads.net/sp/spacecraft-propulsion/bipropel...

That's not what they'll be using, though. They'll be using Hall Effect thrusters.
That has definitely happened here. And I've personally had my fair share of breaching people's trust. We're human. It happens.

There's no magical solution to fix it. I think the best thing to do is acknowledge it to the person you've violated and tell them you're going to do your best to earn their trust back over time (and actually do it).
I was going to say this:

"And? It's a simple tool. It's not exactly the most complex thing in the world - it's not as though it needs multiple developers, as if/when the current dev drops the project another can easily step over".

And then I started flipping through some of the code. Man, sudo is complex. Much more so than one would naively assume.
Is there any solution for keepass on ChromeOS (I mean other than the whole developer mode/crouton thing, I prefer to keep ChromeOS in secure mode)?
When you've put your passwordfile in the cloud, you should assume it's fallen into the wrong hands (NSA) already.

I've put my keepass file in the cloud for extra backup, and I know
I can only rely on its cryptographic strength to keep it safe.
SIGMOD 2015 proceedings are open access, meaning the conference has arranged with ACM to provide the content to pretty much everyone.

That being said, the submission is to someone's (Adrian's) interpretation of the work, and is arguably more useful than just linking at the pdf itself.
Thanks, this is very interesting and I'd love to switch to 8.5.

I might wait a little for my benchmarks to be 8.5 ready though!
I saw a documentary on him--can't recall the title--which seemed to generally have a positive take on him but I came away thinking he was just awful.

He hurt his ex-wife and child by basically being a deadbeat father. And then dictated in his will that money be spent on a giant fist monument on his property. Money that could have, in my opinion, been put to better use by his family.

He apparently lied about candidates during the (I think?) 1972 Presidential campaign simply because he didn't like them. And by lies I mean he reported them as facts in the publication he was writing for. (come to think of it, I'm surprised that publication didn't fact-check him) Lies which affected the candidates negatively that might not have otherwise had his reporting been accurate.

In general he just seems to have a cult of personality where so many people like him simply because others do, because its the cool thing to do, much like they do with Che Guevara, without acknowledging the many flawed aspects of his character.

To those down-voting me, fine, I'll take your down-votes. If I'm wrong, I'll gladly stand corrected. But at least answer my original question instead of down-voting because you disagree with me. What is it you like about him?
While Management usually the only thing equated with "soft" (hate that word beeteedubs) skills, moving up the IC ladder also requires good inter-personal skills.

Above senior you are allowed and expected to go "heads down" (by yourself or a small group) and knock out solutions to technical problems. However you are also expected to identify cross-cutting problems, rally the right people, coherently frame your arguments, etc to move the "implementing solutions to technical problems" needle (even if you don't directly write a lot of that code).

Management also get's the "fun" things like "let's talk salary!" or "you need to improve along X, Y, Z axis!" :P

Just my two cents :)
I'm really enjoying the additional features of RetroShare 0.6 over the older 0.5. It's generally faster than 0.5 and it has several features that were sorely needed and I am very much enjoying using. I'm looking forward to discovering its full functionality.
That's reasonable, but won't you get the same result in a million other ways?

I agree that preventing the browser to become unresponsive when loading bogus/malicious pages is a worthy objective but I don't see why the favicon needs to be singled out as a "bug".

These kinds of deny of service attacks against browsers have been known since, like, forever and they're basically impossible to completely prevent given the surface of attack and the complexity of modern web pages.
False identity is already illegal. You don't have the right to fake you're not who you are for anything legally binding. Is the law currently nightmarish?

I don't think this is a necessity for TVs, I was just playing along the extreme example.

I meant you can stop your TV from phoning home, just don't complain if they stop providing you service. If you instead falsely convey you are watching their ads, that is what would be illegal. Ads are a form of payment so to speak, and by actively concealing it you are making a false payment -- I'd expect that to be illegal just like false identities are.
Geosynchronous orbits? You mean, 35,000km away from LEO?

Operating in a single orbital plane is really not as hard as you're imagining it to be. We do it all the time. And there are tens of thousands of large objects in Earth orbit, but we only detect collisions every several years.
Hard limits aren't much of an issue if updates are rolled out ever 6 weeks.
Swiss history can be thought of periods of peace and war. By peace, I mean sending mercenaries to go fight, and burning jews and witches instead of invading the neighboring cantons with a slightly different version of Christianity and pillaging them.

Fortunately, the invention of the portable Raclette oven calmed down religious tensions, though it did not lessen the zeal for witch and jew burnings.
This article strikes me as surprisingly badly argued, much more so than I'd expect from The Economist.

> Students should beware of winning too many victories. A perfectly safe university would not be worth attending.

What? Why? Is there anything in this article that even attempts to be an argument for this point (let alone a good argument)?

And isn't the voluntarily departure of of Mr Tanyolacar a sign that the university is in fact not safe, as the author wants? It seems like he faced some "ideas or imagery that might prove distressing" from students, and chose to leave the academy. Well, good for him, not everyone is cut out for a free-speech environment where students are free to say that they disagree with poorly-done stunts from faculty.
> by extension, not to associate with those who offend without purpose?

Of course there is. You are free to not acciciate with those who offend you by leaving. You do not however, have the right to stop people from offending you by assiciating with them.
Yeah, imagine my surprise when I saw that google was working on those hand gestures radar things and then my disappointment when i realized that I can't do any of those gestures because of peripheral neuropathy. My thumb on my right hand has limited mobility, so hopefully it will be able to pick up my half-assed attempts to mimic the movements or i'll be screwed.
This is how I use uBlock, by disabling all the built-in filter selections and blocking ad providers when I notice them doing something shady/annoying, or going down in a way that hangs site loads.

Spoiler alert: you wind up blocking all ads anyway. There aren't any ad networks that have anything approaching the standards and practices of late night cable. If you don't believe me please run this experiment yourself.
We already have satellite-killing technology, so I think your idea of 'beyond the reach of governments' is fanciful.
1) We are using TVs to extrapolate what's acceptable for the internet. Why not just argue about internet directly?

2) If you want to keep using the TV analogy, ad blockers are like distributing a device for automatically muting/blacking out every TV ad, for free. Do you think free over the air TV broadcasts would exist for very long if such a device were the norm?
My camera was stolen this week and if someone uses my camera, takes a picture, and posts it to Facebook, they get away with it, because Facebook strips out the EXIF data when photos are uploaded, making it impossible to see if someone is using your camera.
It's a poorly constructed sentence, but nothing about it reads (to me) as "Apple will help you resolve the issue."
I really doubt that mail from Apple is in any way legally binding, but just in case it is, send them a mail (preferably at a different email address) stating that unless they reply with "NO", they agree to pay you $10,000 per month for including your feed in their news.
>You hear about the tremendous amounts of waste in government projects...

>When it comes to huge corporations, these arguments never seem to come up.

>Clearly some projects are deemed "important enough" to be paid for.

What you're calling government waste is some corporation's profits. Nothing is ever wasted. It's simply redistributed. It's not so much a matter of whether it's important enough, but one of lobbying, campaign finance, and quid pro quo. Foot the bill and we'll "waste" some money your way.

Worker-bees don't have this leverage, so they get government rates.
Of course. But my freedom not to associate with someone DOES NOT give me the right to force him to go away.
I would like to inform you that the events of _Gravity_ were highly dramatized. Space is not so crowded, and most particles from a collision rapidly drift away.

They chose a very high section of LEO, though, 1200km, where debris lasts millennia. Further populating high orbits like this without a solid plan for deorbit is problematic - not for OneWeb, but for the rest of us who don't want to see a Kessler Syndrome cascade thirty years down the road.
> expelled, fired, or censored

I get the censoring , but firing or expulsion would be illegal right?
> In any event, the artist shouldn't complain, because he got exactly what he wanted: a dialogue on race.

This is an excellent point. There was a lot of freedom of speech and expression. Unfortunately, that expression was apparently so traumatic for the artist that he left his job. Nobody forced him to leave. Certainly nobody forced him to leave his entire academic career.

Maybe we should institute "safe spaces" for faculty who don't know how to start conversations on race in a useful way, so they can be shielded from criticism.
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> Anyone is free to exercise their free speech, but that right does not protect them from being expelled, fired, or censored at a private university.

I'm not trying to single you out here, but I see this type of comment all the time whenever free speech issues come up, and I can't help but see it as a middlebrow dismissal. Yes, we all agree that in the USA, the First Amendment only covers government suppression of speech. But perhaps equally important is whether we want to live in a society where the smallest amount of "wrong speech" can subject you to almost unlimited social & economic consequences, none of it state-sanctioned.

Should you lose your job and have to go into hiding and start a new life because you make a joke in poor taste to your 50 twitter followers?

Should you lose your job and get death threats because you take a disrespectful photo at a grave site and share it with 5 friends on facebook?

They're not First Amendment issues, but they are free speech issues.
Google 'Slaughterhouse cases', and 'Colfax massacre', and then curse Louisiana for being the rock which incorporation stubbed its toe on.
I fail to see how systemd hijacking a kernel boot argument for its own purposes is a "bug in the kernel".
Was anyone forced to go away?
> below average...
Not at all. People get fired all the times for things they've said.

[0] http://www.salon.com/2015/06/12/jaw_droppingly_racist_mckinn...
Quite the fascinating concept, though I don't know that I'd buy it. A few thoughts:

⚫ I share the concerns over usability, sharability, and length, generall.

⚫ Twitter's going to be lifting its 140 character limit, by all signs. It's also been rather less than useful as a popular medium. It's fascination has largley rested with the news media, marketers, and advertisers.

⚫ Images do grab eyeballs, and many of us have noted that (including the #waronwords folks here at G+). But ...

⚫ There's only so much you can say in an image, and the format's not readily fungible.

⚫ This particular 3,000 word essay was kicked off by an idiotic image meme: http://redd.it/39w8u4 https://plus.google.com/u/0/104047951999948186971/posts/j8Kc... Mind, I had to go looking for the original text first.

⚫ Some sort of system that's similar to meme-generator, in which there is a full-text story, but a pull-quote is generated and attached to a suitable image (appropriate and/or interest-grabbing), but has links back to more substantive text-based content, and generates accessible text and/or translations, might be a worthwhile hack off of this.

⚫ There's already enough frustration with pixel-obsessed site layouts. Presenting content-as-text where display size is an unknown strikes me as a fools errand, but...

⚫ SVG suggests some interesting ways around some or all of this. In particular you can incorporate SVG and raster images, text is independent, scalable via CSS, selectable, and can include hyperlinks, and the whole result can be formatted and presented across a tremendous range of display sizes, even incorporating different elements as viewport size varies. The resulting images can also be rasterized as bitmaps if preferred. Device and browser support is still lacking but is in process.

Discussion on Rick's G+ profile:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110980345342028402481/posts/Ux4e...
Where you read "safety" in this article and other discussions of the issue, it's illuminating to substitute the words "regard as full human beings."

Contexts that don't regard certain classes of people - those with a history of this lack of regard - as full human beings are going to be considered obsolete by today's undergraduates. That's just a given. Repair these contexts and universities would see a lot of these problems go away.

There are, of course, contexts you can't repair - namely, works that have value but were made in, or contain, obsolete contexts. The recontextualization work here can be difficult, it's true, but universities and professors that don't do it are going to be hearing about it.
What does it matter? If you're having real impact on the decisions you care about, and your pay goes up who cares about "career growth"? What is a career these days? There's no loyalty, no gold watch coming.