skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I've said over and over, the key problem with freedom-of-speech on the internet and harassment is how to handle people using the point-to-point facilities to antagonize others in volumes beyond what they could filter reasonably.

Having ten thousand people on twitter continually tweet at one person, or email them, or whatever, is kind of like a psychic DDoS. This is a thorny problem for freedom-of-speech absolutists who can recognize the harms such things may allow.

However, shitty subreddits? There's nothing there to offend anyone until they go to the subreddit and become offended. People in those cases are basically autoharassing themselves.

It's just so shitty to see a few crybabies and a few shitheads drum up enough drama to cause everyone to forget just how awesome it is that we had this nice, open platform for idea exchange--even the ones the majority dislikes.

EDIT:

And lest we forget, the newsgroups and BBSs and everything were more than happy to allow people with nonstandard gender configurations and sexual tastes to merrily congregate, as they did other weird and sometimes hostile subcultures.

That people want to remove the facilities to support such formations, now that $PREFERRED_CULTURE is mainstream enough, is pretty harmful.
Germanwings Crash Probe Widens Beyond Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz
Which only survives by selling our addresses and delivering 100s of billions of pieces of spam to our mailbox. The legitimate mail for which i ostensibly exists is drying up quickly.
http://www.gizmag.com/thync-hands-on-2/37820/
I've gotten it compiling! Though I'm not as excited after just now noticing salamynder's comment:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-hask...

I basically have the same modifications, though I use a StoreableArray instead of an IOArray so theirs is probably faster.

I'm very satisifed I was able to fix all of these things so easily thanks to following the types and using ghci.
Even better, they need a CFO
Universal request to all when doing technical documentation - "MBytes/sec" and "Mbits/sec" are much clearer, and leave only the doubt as to whether you mean 2^20 or 10^6 (and, in 95% of use cases, 10^6 is the correct choice, both syntactically, as well as in what you are actually measuring - data rates are almost always in SI units)
> Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime.

You have to be kidding! The USPS is a disaster and barely works. I'm about to cancel my prime membership because Amazon started using the USPS although Amazon have finally got the message at least for my account and rarely use them now. Look up Prime and USPS if you want to see pages and pages just how bad service is with the USPS.
Well, sure. All I know is that if I was an investor in Twitter I would not be happy with it.
I work at a software company where no one likes computers too.
MIT research analyzing faces may explain why these CEOs are successful
The handful of companies that I've dealt with using Oracle bought into a product that Oracle sells (like payroll) that runs on an Oracle database (obviously). Oracle convinces them to pay for way more than they need for that application and in-house development ends up being done using Oracle rather than MySQL, SQL Server, etc...
they seem to keep that pretty hidden.

It's explicitly stated on their plans/pricing page, I don't think that really counts as "hidden"

https://bitbucket.org/plans
It's a pretty interesting experiment, trying to recreate something that happened organically in Silicon Valley.
There doesn't seem to be any official specifications for the Xeon E5-2676 v3, probably because it's a custom CPU made just for Amazon.

Random sources found via Google seem to suggest that they have somewhere between 10 and 12 cores, which would translate to between 40 and 48 hyperthreaded vCPU's with a dual-socket setup.

So perhaps Amazon has found a way to set aside fewer (or no) cores for their own uses on the new m4 lineup. Or maybe it's the other way around and the data-heavy nodes require more cores to be set aside than usual.
It adds a photo of you to the certificate, and then allows you to download it.
It's maintained by the original author. The readme is a good place to start researching, but it's not that interesting a topic tbh.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md
Nice work finding this.
"Conflict of interest" is not a phrase found in the Silicon Valley dialect of English
By the same token I could tell you that those people have no idea what foodies are looking for or how to discriminate between good chefs and mediocre chefs, or how to talk the talk to relevant people in the industry. Or that they'll spend a lot of time missing targets in price points.

It is always better to have at least an above-average knowledge of any industry you want to be part of. The narrative of outside players coming in and having success is very nice, but it's based on the premise that the people involved were originally very passionate and picked up the ropes very quickly.
Right, which are cases where a graceful restart will never help you. If a user is uploading a 4K video file and the server dies because god said so, well they can just try again.

If the server dies because the dev team decides to push to prod 4x in an hour and the user has to retry every time, a graceful restart lets you do that without pissing off anyone who was using that live connection.
What? I could have easily made a career in NetBEUI.
Oh, just saw that the post title converted the ampersand between Hackers-Painters to the word AND. This was supposed to be a subtle reference to Pg's book, which uses the ampersand. It is a great read if anyone is interested in either subject.
The Hustler and the Chess Player
Yeah, I think Amazon does this on purpose to encourage people to move to the new lineup, so that the old, underperforming, energy-inefficient lineup can be decommissioned sooner.
Well, there's always:

1) Squeezing your enterprise customers for money.

2) Lawsuits. With the right incentives to lawyers and politicians, Oracle might be able to get Lotus v. Borland effectively reversed; then they could start licensing the use of SQL itself!
What region are you looking for? At the moment, only US waters (both inland and coastal) coverage is available. The following region will be added in upcoming weeks.

http://gpsnauticalcharts.com/main/folio-catalog-nautical-cha...
He'd probably rather run Twitter if forced to choose.
Yeah, but it's still two tweets, which kind of proves the parent's point. I think the character limit could be removed, but everything past 280 characters is only visible if you click on the tweet. (and ofc some indicator of this truncation needs to be visible). So then everybody would really want to stick to the character limit, but at the same time you could add some extra text if you're fine with people mostly not reading it.
Ok, thanks for indulging my curiosity guys!
poor b8, 1/10. Please try harder.
I don't think this is the is a particularly strong argument, but an incredibly important point none the less.

There are different mechanisms and motivations by which corporations gain, express and are removed from power. But I remain thoroughly unconvinced that those make the power wielded somehow benign.

There are differences, sure, but to quote my favorite blogger: Wired are more horrified about NSA spying, despite there being an explicit terms of service agreement with them that what it finds without a warrant is inadmissible, but Google monitoring my sexts for their commercial benefit is SAGE approved behavioral economics. Google buying Boston Dynamics is better than DARPA having it, is that the game we're playing now? If I had to put my chips and my children against an 8 year rotation of civil service nincompoops vs. some nerd with an open marriage who spent $15M on a "bachelor pad" so he could score chicks of questionable emotional stability, I'm going with the group my private sector lawyers have an outside chance of pwoning.
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You are correct. This is part of his duty.
What a terribly written, poorly researched, ignorance laden article. Not that any of the other similar articles about this issue have been any better.

Yes, free speech is exactly about saying and hearing from others that which one may find "offensive" or "tasteless" or "cruel", etc.

The real issue here is that while the reddit admins and owners are completely within their right to mold the website and the community it contains to take a shape of their choosing, there are better ways to go about this than the hamfisted and juvenile methods they've used up to now.

The real question is this: is their poorly thought out and even more poorly executed plan actually accomplishing their goal?

Obviously not.

As the admins, you don't create a higher quality community by poking users in the eye and dancing gleefully at their howls and ignoring any and all legitimate concerns they bring up in their attempt to engage you.

Here I'm referring to the /r/announcement comments where the admins go to great lengths to avoid any real dialogue to the many polite and well informed questions and comments that brought up the painfully obvious issues they won't or can't address.

It is very very difficult to mold and moderate an online community but it can be done. There are great examples out there. Go and study them and see what they did. Each experience is unique but they all have at least one lesson for reddit admins, should they care to listen and learn from them.

Bringing down the ban hammer indiscriminately on a 'fat hate' subreddit while allowing hundreds of others even worse (/r/coontown for example or /r/gasthekikes or many others) may be easier in the short term but it will accomplish nothing but worsening an already bad situation.

Here's just one example of a community doing it right:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/03/monster-hu...

Want more examples? Metafilter, hackernews, etc.
Game-changing holographic display blew past $180k on Kickstarter in a day
This. Who is going to sign a Service Level Agreement for your postgres install? Support contracts are super important for enterprise.
Yes it is. "Jogging" isn't something that doesn't solve anything, jogging solves lots of things, and hopefully by jogging you can live longer, if not forever.

Banning 1 hateful subreddit on an open forum does nothing to solve to issue of someone being called a hambeast, or someone being an asshole in general.
F# has Active Patterns, which really rock. They let you define custom patterns or destructuring functions, then use them like normal patterns.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233248.aspx
I had my last gaming rig built at a small PC store. Not a big chain or online or anything, just one where I could walk in, sit down and talk to the guy about general components, pick all the pieces I wanted and then have them order them in and build them.

Build quality was great, he did a really good job with the cabling, I got all the boxes/manuals/extra parts. Have no complaints.

I've done some upgrades to that machine myself over time (RAM, graphics card, PSU, a drive change). PC assembly has gotten incredibly easier than it was in the past. It's the little touches. I notice that tolerance on cases are a lot better these days (things tend to align much more easily than they used to). PCI-E slots are a lot easier to put cards into than the older ones. RAM sticks generally have heat-spreaders on them, so you don't have to worry as much about handling them as you used to. Drive cables are easier (cabling in general is easier as most things are keyed these days), thumbscrews are almost ubiquitous, as are easily removable drive bays.

The only thing I still get nervous about is CPUs and their heatsinks. I haven't fitted a CPU in a long time and a mate of mine did my heatsink replacement for me.

All that said, I'd still pay someone money to assemble my PC from scratch. Someone good that assembles PCs for a living is going to do it way better and way faster than I would. At least, I'd hope so :)
A friend of mine successfully funded their wristwatch design on Indiegogo ( http://eurekawatch.com/ ).
I did 6502 in high school from a book and later did 6809 (EE class) and 8088 in college. The funny part was our compiler target for the CSci Compiler Course was an IBM 370 on which they taught the required assembler course. Of that group I liked the 6809 best. The 370 was ok and it sure had a lot more registers. We didn't write our compilers in assembly, but instead used the department's chosen language: Modula-2. It was very odd translating from the dragon book to Modula-2.
Whatever the reason behind it, it was poorly executed and has left quite a number of users outraged. The game was on sale for a price of $20 for a short window of time, then it disappeared, then came back with no discount. Rockstar has given amazing discounts in the past on Steam but for whatever reason this time they aren't doing so. Also the 3.5 million in-game currency is nothing when you consider that GTA V Online for PC is running rampant with hackers left and right, that currency is practically worthless, at least last I've heard it was.
Cassandra is a distributed database that easily scales more or less to infinity. As you add more nodes to a cluster, it automatically redistributes data throughout the cluster. It "just works", and that's pretty exciting. So Cassandra at the moment seems to be enjoying a bit of the hype cycle that MongoDB enjoyed 5 or 6 years ago. It's the thing that everyone wants to try out and get onto their resume at the moment.

However, like all "NoSQL" databases, the trade-offs come with the usual severe limitations (e.g. no joins, no foreign keys, no transactions in the usual sense of the term, eventual consistency, etc). Curious people diving into Cassandra (or most NoSQL databases for that matter) typically have zero understanding of these trade-offs at first, and think that they will be easier to work with. It isn't, and it isn't supposed to be. It's harder to work with, and has fewer features, because that's the trade-off you're making for scalability. There's little reason to use it if you don't need to scale like that.

So, curiosity and RDD ("resume-driven development") aside, I don't think there are many situations in which one would be choosing from Cassandra or MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL. If you are working with multiple terabytes or more of data, then there is seldom a good reason to consider a relational database. If you are working with less than a terabyte of data, then there is seldom a good reason to consider anything OTHER than a relational database. I just don't see much overlap in which these technologies seriously compete against each other.
How so? There's one case per branch. It's no more blowup than writing out the branches by hand would be.
I look at this the other way around: older instances are more expensive, compared to the newer ones, when those arrive. And that is a common thing in the hosting business, either EC2 or not.
is there a demo?
Docker is here to stay with backing from large vendors.

The problems stated can and will be resolved as they evolve.

Personally, I use freebsd jails which is much better than docker. But if someone wants to use Docker, why not?

Regardless, I don't feel like containerization is not going anywhere.
I think this is hinting towards a future where end-users will expect end-to-end encryption for everything by default. As a consumer I never want to think about who's watching me, I just want it to be impossible.
I would hope that a sufficiently high admin fee would be needed for each blocking request, something like $1k to $10k. Just so people wouldn't spam the office with censorship type requests.
Won't be a problem if everyone has one.
The first thing I thought when I saw the heading was. "They will just milk existing customers with higher maintenance contracts and fees". Sure enough, went to the article and the first graph shows declining sales but increasing fees.
Just a guess here (I'm not affiliated in any way) but the "Ontario Centers of Excellence" is listed on their partners page - the OCE is a gov't funded body which provides ~$55K of matching funds in the form of grants to early stage companies (i.e. you raise $55K from accredited investors, they provide the other $55K as a grant) - that could be why their max commitment is $110,000.
Sometimes getting things done is far more important than trying to get them done with the most optimal tool, particularly if choice is somewhat subjective.
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>but rather that they have less to fear from companies than the government.

Absolutely true. Google isn't going to bust down my door because I'm a climate change activist.

>my speculation on why the "common layman" doesn't care.

I think the common layman absolutely cares, once they understand. It's getting them to understand that's the hard part. John Oliver's "Dick Pick" bit is a great start.
Thank Science.
See kitcar's answer. Sounds like the govt might pitch half and the investors the other.
Glad to see you following the discussion, Jeff. Maybe you probably could address my and others' curiosity re: the exact nature of the custom Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 CPU? I don't think Intel could justify making any serious customization even for a customer as large as Amazon, but I would be very interested to know exactly how custom it is.
Unfortunately, Ada isn't a 'cool' language any more, so it's hard to get a new generation of programmers interested in it. Even university programs that should know better are teaching almost exclusively in languages that have no business anywhere near safety critical environments.
Inverting Binary Trees Considered Harmful
Ask HN: How to setup a small DEFCON?
So some friends and I were talking about LAN parties today, and an idea to hold our own very small DEFCON came up. Basically to have a single machine with one or more known vulnerabilities setup by the 'dungeon master' then everyone else attempts to pwn it.

But setting all this up seemed like a lot of work just for an evening of fun.

Does anyone have any tips or links to make something like this easier?

We are all working as good guys and must be security minded, but don't have a lot of firsthand experience as bad guys. Thought this would be a safe way to practice some of attacks the bad guys might us against us.

Any ideas?
Yeah, it is possible that amazon does the latter there. Save some virtual cores for their own purposes to dedicate towards parity, etc, to get IO higher.
> I was talking about the firehose, not the full social graph

Ah, I got a bit muddled in my diction here. I was trying to refer to the firehose.
The firehose itself should inherently have some useful graph data though, as you would be able to see all the @reply relationships.

> What issue do you see here? can you expand?

I don't have a great handle on the economics here, but I can envision a scenario where:

cost to deliver firehose (engineering, infrastructure) + (marginal cost/user * users)
>
market value of firehose/user * users

Again, this may sound silly to someone with a better handle on the numbers behind engineering & maintaining this solution. My salient point was just that I'd be curious to find out what kind of value they could extract from the firehose by selling it directly.
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Well, there was always gopher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
Shouldn't we be thanking Innocenti, Kellner and Williams?
Author here! I experimented a bunch with different ways to calculate the plotted points. WebGL shaders outperformed everything by a mile, though it was weird dropping down into what's essentially a low level C-like language. Check it out https://github.com/cjlarose/de-jong/blob/master/src/de_jong/...
Possibly this: https://github.com/zlizta/LC?
Jogging solves things A, B, and C. Banning a subreddit does not solve D and E. But, jogging does not solve D and E either. Maybe banning a subreddit solves some things like F, G, and H?
EnterpriseDB?

http://www.enterprisedb.com/ba/license-support-services-v3-0
I thought Google did it, too, for a while.
or 'a mind forever voyaging'.
I made a quick installer for Infer as the default steps are a bit manual.

$ npm i -g infer-bin && infer

https://github.com/sindresorhus/infer-bin
Because Ev's a great product guy but not such a great manager. Speaking of which, Jack's also better at coding / product than managing himself. (i worked at the company before both 'founders' jack and ev joined as employees.)
6 years of AT&T under my belt,

Enterprise operates differently. They don't care about what postgres or EC2 or whatever can do, it's all about not doing anything that someone can point a finger at you for later. Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM, Oracle or Microsoft. Also, companies that supply software to corps also supply something that's probably more valuable than the software itself. Support & Maintenance agreements. The fact that if anything goes wrong they can call up a phone number and immediately have a consultant($200+/hr) show up at the corp's location and troubleshoot the problem is a lot of accountability they don't have to directly absorb. There's also PCI compliance and just general fear of new things.

Accountability/blame is the name of the game. You want that value for yourself to be zero unless you get privileged info that the project has succeeded before everyone else finds out, in which case you then scramble to get your name on any documents or email chains related to said project so you can claim it was all due to your planning & decision-making.

I've seen this happen several times and was personally burned hard by people I thought were my friends back in 2006. I'm still bitter about it. I will not let that happen to me again. And I know it happened because I didn't properly document what I was doing and why. Or maybe, I just shouldn't have done it at all and just sit back and watch everyone else panic and burn.... whatever. It was my first job out of college, I was naive.
> I feel safe in claiming that I speak for thaumasiotes when I say I didn't mean it that way.

oops!
Had a friend get burnt bad by this.

Specifically, he got two GTX 970s to run in SLI, but the motherboard didn't end up supporting SLI. Neither him, nor the PC shop that built the machine for him, picked up on that.

It didn't help that the motherboard was branded as a 'Pro Gamer' motherboard (Asus H97-Pro Gamer: https://www.asus.com/au/Motherboards/H97PRO_GAMER/). How can something be 'pro gamer' without SLI support?!?!

Fails all around, but yeah you definitely need to be careful about the motherboard you pick.
I'm not arguing about sound quality though. When I said "immersion" I was thinking about over-ear headphones generally having better isolation than on-ear.
There are many niches within the general category of "post".
USPS's focus (and monopoly) is on first-class and bulk mail.

How much cost/time does it cost Swiss Post to ship a package 4000km ?

It's at least 3x the price of USPS:

https://www.post.ch/en/private/a-z-of-subjects/prices-sendin...
Which again was a reason for why Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz could undisturbedly let the plane crash for committing suicide.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525)
Even if you decide that an extra $X dollars is fine to tack onto the price of whatever it is you're shipping, being as updates are as difficult as they are in the field for an embedded device, I still think I'd rather stick with a statically typed language with good testing and verification tools (granted you can blow your foot off with C too, but there's a lot of talent around here for building safety critical system in C--Javascript not so much). It's not just the upfront cost where something like Javascript has the potential to hurt you here.
"they" did, it's called Medium (it was founded by @biz & @ev)