skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like Pocket for online shopping and price and availability notifications
That people's reaction to essentially the same comment would vary vastly with the form of self-identification. I suspect people are downvoting my comment just because it contains the word "audiophile." The point is that the topic is subject to a lot of unthinking prejudice in forums like this.
There were 7 CVEs of which 4 were applicable to LibreSSL, including the one in that link.
> The Windows operating system can dispatch different events to different window handlers so you can handle all asynchronous HTTP calls efficiently. For a very long time, people weren’t able to do this on Linux-based operating systems since the underlying socket library contained a potential bottleneck.

What? select()'s biggest issue is if you have lots of idle connections, which shouldn't be an issue when crawling (you can send more requests while waiting for responses). epoll() is available since 2003. What bottlenecks?
These major browsers (latest stable on OS X) are currently vulnerable:

- Chrome 43.0.2357.124

- Firefox 38.0.5

- Safari 8.0.6 (10600.6.3)

Not vulnerable

- Opera 30.0.1835.59

Reference: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html
I think it's more a design trend than a magical tool that creates sites like these. Look up flat, metro and material design if you are looking for a name.
Yes and no. It's a monopoly that can't charge what it takes to stay afloat. Raising prices or changing delivery schedules requires an act of Congress! No member of Congress wants to have to answer for that, so the price of sending a letter hundreds - if not thousands - of miles, to be hand-delivered remains under one-half of one dollar $USD. THAT IS INSANE.

It's been argued, deftly, that even with a decline in volume for mass mailers, raising the price from $0.49 to $1 would not only put the USPTO all the way in the black but enable them to meet obligations for years to come.

But convince Congress that it's a good idea...
Google, Facebook, etc.

You think "addicted to Facebook" means something now? Just wait until they literally have a direct line into your brain!

In all seriousness though, it's far more likely tech like this will emerge from... You guessed it, the tech sector. Large nontech companies have historically shown an unwillingness to innovate in tech, and if they get out innovated by a tech company, it's impossible to catch up. Example - amazon vs big retailers, amazon vs book sellers, etc. (I would be curious to hear counter examples)

It's hard for a big company from a predominantly nontech environment to suddenly catch up to an agile tech company years ahead in R&D and HR.
Face recognition tech, RFID tracking at UK music festival
I would assume it varies based on valuation.
What's up with that condescending "Engineers :)" remark, which has nothing to do with whether Jerry Yang returning to Yahoo made a difference in how Yahoo recovered from its demise.
Ask HN: People who made it to Google. What was your experience like?
Probably all people I know who interviewed at Google and got rejected has a horror story to tell. On the other hand, it seems like people who made it there (although I don't know the whole lot) often have the same story "It wasn't hard, they just asked me DFS". It'd be curious to read stories of people who made through a complicated interview and got an offer.
Australian Government Green-Lights Internet Filter
because their code is vulnerable to sql injection attacks?

That is the only reason I can think of.
To the best of my knowledge there isn't much you could do with that information - we don't really know what "good" or "bad" intestinal bacteria distributions are (besides obvious disease states), and variation between healthy individuals is tremendous.
Infer computes fixpoints whenever there is a cycle in the call graph, until it reaches stable procedure summaries or timeouts.
I think your overall point is accurate and would go further to add that there is an ironic safety in storing my data with "hostile" nations (or corporations associated with them) over nations that are "friendly" and readily exchanging data with my own.

The US is in fact far more likely to imprison/traumatize one of its citizens over one of its many obscure technicalities (whether actually violated or not) than say NK is to attempt to use data to somehow pressure that US citizen.

Trying to decipher the underlying perspective of the article, I also find mirth in the apparent angst of all the secret agents and their sponsors; they have no idea what corporation will screw up their cover. Joseph Conrad would be proud of our progress even if it is marginal.
Wouldn't a VPN get around this easily?
When this is in place, Australia will have the complete three: Slow Internet, Severly Limited Competition, and Strict Internet Filtering/Anti-Piracy Laws. Seems like the impossibly high cost of media in this country can only go up.
> Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime.

If you count in taxbreak and other benefits, it actually does, especially USPS finance is in decline.
Indeed. But if we now return to this global finding, then the assumptions change. What if, globally (not just in "most industrialized countries") there is a bias toward conception producing males (because, say, it is a biological given), yet the compensating factors (longevity of women) do not hold.
I already have a maximum download speed of about 600kb/s, if I had a VPN between my network and the internet would it not become almost un-useably slow?
As far as I can tell, there haven't been any placebo-controlled trials yet. All of the medical conditions listed have a very high placebo effect, and using a novel device like this will amplify that placebo effect. Right now I don't think we can even say whether or not this thing works at all.

Also, on a completely different subject, I find it interesting that the incredibly simple javascript animation uses about 70% of my macbook pro's CPU time (even after zapping the flash adverts at the top). Chrome really needs a method to stop javascript execution in pages, especially now that javascript is replacing flash for animations.
His remark is important as a refutation to this sentence from the article

>In a sense, that’s disappointing, since a computer running the existing algorithm would take 1,000 years to exhaustively compare two human genomes. But it also means that computer scientists can stop agonizing about whether they can do better.

People are using the result to draw conclusions about real world problems that may well be easier than general case.
Clickbait for something that doesn't even have any evidence at all of its effectiveness (see my other comment here).
It's hard to tell from the paper, because they don't include either specific build version numbers of browsers / servers nor date of publication, so their results are difficult (e.g., impossible) to reproduce exactly.

0: https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf
This reads very strangely, like maybe the author didn't really understand the issues, or maybe that many, many editors/censors had their hands on it.

Bulk data collection was seen by the agencies as essential to uncover networks and identify and pursue targets on whom they could then focus. It was not the same as so-called mass surveillance, though without proper oversight it could be misused for that purpose. W. T. F.? "Mass surveillance" and "bulk data collection" are synonyms in this universe. Only a lawyer could slice those two phrases thin enough to make them mean different things. The article is full of contemptible double-talk like that.

Now [Intelligence Agencies] had to make a massive effort to try to identity potential targets who were often hiding in plain sight among the rest of the population.

Really? Really? Which US residents/visitors/vacationers, other than the original 20 9/11 conspirators are or were "hiding in plain sight"? All those lamers that the US FBI has almost-but-not-quite entrapped into heinous terrorism charges? Najibullah Zazi, who was so incompetent that they found him posting about how to turn beauty supplies into bombs after he miserably failed to do so?

The whole thing reeks of some kind of elitism that is so rarefied, so high handed, that I can't even really believe someone would be able to write it down in 2015, much less actually believe it.

Crap, crap, and more crap.
I too have been mystified by R's licensing. I actually don't see how anyone can ship a commercial product using R in its current form. At very least you're in a legal gray area, at worst you are involuntarily open sourcing your product. Not that there's anything wrong with open sourcing a product, but I think there's an enormous potential issue that could foul up a lot of people down the track. The best discussion I have seen about this pretty much ends up with uninformed speculation. For now, I take the policy of "explore and prototype in R, build the real system in something else". Fortunately the flaws and limitations of R as a language make this a sensible choice for a host of other reasons as well.
I don't believe that this is illegal. Because of the fact that they're doing the "write an essay" thing it's a competition not a 'raffle'. While yes, it's completely subjective... It remains within that competition level.

Think about it like this: You enter a pro-poker tournament, you pay $10k to POSSIBLY win $2million. Or a better example, you enter a baking competition with a $50 entry. The judges choose based on their feelings. They use their expert knowledge and weed out the people who couldn't perform technically.... but everything after that is based on their feelings and personal tastes/preferences. This is no different.

To the point of some other people in this thread... Ye this is totally preying on desperate people and is Fked up. I don't know if they realize or just don't care but anyone entering is looking to 'better' themselves. There's no reason to enter a subjective competition like this when you're an investor with money to burn... so everyone entering is people with sob stories looking for hope and they're most likely spending money that they really shouldn't be giving up with their current situation.
There's one guy who has experimented with 'megadoses' of probiotics for curing social anxiety: http://www.scribd.com/doc/28819342/Experimental-Treatment-fo...
not sure why i was down voted for admitting I was wrong, assholes.
You could download things into a seedbox and then download from there at your current 600kb/s. Essentially you're renting a server dedicated to downloading things.

E:

Browsing would be slower. Although there are a lot of pay-for VPN's that work quickly. Also I don't think downloading torrents should be effected at all.
One of the major limitations of firebase is that it's not possible to filter results by permissions. Is this something that deepstream can do?
Lets see a competitor that has no restrictions against the taxicab companies.

And is it any wonder that the unrestricted competitor wins?
My favorite is the cube: http://goo.gl/qnDIFW
Now you are the one spreading misinformation /r/fatpeoplehate had over 100k subscribers and was growing extremely fast over the past few months.
It doesn't require any bigger team if the team are polyglots. It may require a more skilled team (it certainly requires a differently-skilled team.)
This is OpenSSL's response to the "Logjam" attack (https://weakdh.org/)
I don't even know how Oracle is still the juggernaut that they are. A $10,000 dollar computer running postgres can serve a ridiculous amount of queries.

I suspect the general idea is to spend huge amount of money to run incredibly inefficient SQL queries.
I don't know enough about business, but I feel rewarding people is never a bad idea, as long as the talent fits. That being said someone outside can be a fresh eye, but again, doesn't mean they won't become issue. I actually find Google's Eric Schmidt being a really successful outsider (but he joined so early), or Yahoo's CEO being the next prime example in this external talent debate. I mean why work for a company if you won't be prompted to take on the next important role? How many years do you want to stuck at being a director, rather than a VP, or a SVP?
Reddit's user revolt is the best thing for Reddit and the internet
> why wouldn't we just choose the people who can do that, too?

I agree with your overall point (why not both?) but how does the interviewer know they can do both if they are only tested on their ability to solve problems on a whiteboard? I don't have a solution (that scales) to this problem but I tend to agree the types of whiteboard problems typically seen in interviews are a bad way to identify good developers.
This looks like an absolutely amazing resource for embedded media development, not just on the RPi. Thanks for posting!
The business may be evaporating, but the service is going to continue. It turns out that getting documents and packages to any given citizen is really, really important for the function of governance.

In many ways, stripping the post office of their monopoly had the opposite of the intended effect, because it removed the pretenses that let people pretend that it was somehow magically different and special compared to other essential government services just because it sold stuff.
As far as I know, that's never really been a reason as to why we haven't implemented it in GHC. It's much more likely just that nobody has ever gotten around to implementing it. Shouldn't be especially hard, I imagine.
I'm actually less concerned with the piracy aspect, I primarily use Spotify and Netflix. I'm more concerned with how attempting to filter the internet may a) further reduce the already dismal speeds and b) become a common tactic for blocking objectionable content as a sort of stand in for the failed 2013-2014 internet filter legislation.
Everyone knows there's a direct relationship between stealth and FOMO. Maximize FOMO by remaining stealth as long as possible.
> It's still not clear to me why the EVP functions provide a significant advantage

In case of EVP_... your code is not hardcoding the hash type. You can provide the hash by its name in the config file without any code changes in the app. When using hash contexts directly, you're stuck with what you implement.
Researchers Say They’ve Cracked the Code to Being Happy
" I personally believe these kind of interviews/questions should be banned since it's really no indicator of skill."

If it's between two people with the same skill level you obviously pick the person you can best see yourself working side by side with for the next years to come. There is nothing strange about this.

Be yourself and you will end up in a place where someone with your skills and personality will fit in
They've integrated Tungsten / native sorting into shuffle and observed some decent speedups:

* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7081

* https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/5868#issuecomment-10183...

However, I guess reduceByKey (and friends) don't benefit yet.

Their SGD implementation still uses TreeAggregate ( https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/e3e9c70384028cc0c322cce... ) so I wonder when they're planning to add some of the "Parameter Server" stuff (e.g. perhaps butterfly mixing or Kylix http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/papers/14/Kylix.pdf )
>I don't even know how Oracle is still the juggernaut that they are.

Their existing massive install base, aggressive salesforce, and being perceived as a "safe" choice by customers is a strong position to be in.
Somebody shoot the graphic designer for laziness. If you are making promotional artwork for a VR headset, try not to have the view in each eyepiece being the same picture slid horizontally. Surely it wouldn't hurt to do two renders.
I was talking about the firehose, not the full social graph (although this is interesting to think about). They already sell this but their entry price is high. There other companies in this space using this data and selling additional services such as DataSift.

> I wonder if there's a price point where they could achieve widespread API usage while still making money with standard infrastructure (no custom datacenters, &c.)

What issue do you see here? can you expand?
I cited piracy as it was the main purpose of the censor (supposedly); whether that ends up being its actual use or not.

Can't comment on A, seeing as my only experience with Australian internet speeds is mocking my Australian friends' internet speed.

Internet censorship is a case of whack-a-mole. Block a server? They move the server. Seize a domain? Users can edit their host files (or get a new domain). Block an IP address or IP range? People will set up mirrors. The average person (and for that matter, politician) are seemingly unaware of this and waste a lot of time and money forming non-solutions. In some cases I'm actually supportive of B occurring due to the Streisand Effect. Their attempts at censoring information ends up spreading the message further and gives it a microphone and limelight in an increasing number of cases.
MB/s is probably incorrect for the EBS throughput instance limits; those values make more sense if they use Mb/s.
Perosnally i think there's a niche for higher level languages(maybe python) in the non cost-sensitive embedded genre, for systems where size, determinism, peripherals, and maybe power makes embedded micro-controllers attractive - without aiming at low-cost.

And i would guess that there are plenty of developers doing such work , either in research or small volume products(or maybe even medium volume).
Imagine using a language in a command-line setting. Each statement prints a value, but it would be rare to see something like `expr' be a mnemonic for that value.

I only bring it up because I'm in the process of writing an interpreter and I was surprised to see values printed at the end of for-loops, because assigning the last value to the iterator counts as a statement/expression.

Fair points.
> Chrome really needs a method to stop javascript execution in pages, especially now that javascript is replacing flash for animations.

Just turn it off. You wouldn't believe how much quicker pages load.

It's such a pain in the butt when you're visiting a primarily text content page, and it jitters and freezes your browser initially while it loads its 43 analytics engines and social media libraries.

Just flip it on when you want it. There's plugins for fast switching and allowing only for certain sites.
Nintendo controllers are god tier in quality, reliability, and unique integration with games. When I see the Xbox controllers all I can think of are Microsoft Sidewinders.
Can Postgres do distributed transactions? Oracle can.
Does anyone have any good resource for someone looking to try this sort of thing?
Preferably aimed at someone with High Level + C/ASM knowledge looking to apply it in this direction.
How can it be that there's a risk of over-supply if times gets short and feedback loops between buyers/contractors/sellers become much faster ?
Get out of here, proprietary propaganda.
Dick Costolo in a Bloomberg interview in May[1], when asked what he thinks of skeptics who say he should be fired:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NrVg-7bQw

[1] Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Q&A: What to Do When People Say ‘You Suck’

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/twitter-ce...
Oh yes, I agree.

More importantly, food is inherently cultural and varies on class and it might be that neuroticism/social anxiety does as well. I posted this because I thought it sounded like a week study with an overly strong conclusion.
My hunch is that Jack won't/can't stick around for three reasons :

a) He has another company to save which is in itself a
full time job, given how hot the payments space is.

b) If Twitter should ultimately (and rather ingloriously)
be sold to say a Alibaba or Facebook or (longshots)
Microsoft or Google, Jack wouldn't want to be the guy who
'trimmed the fat' and right-sized it for a sale. It wouldn't
be good for his personal brand.

c) Twitter hasn't yet found an identity - even with
300 MM users (even Costolo hasn't contested this as
recently as May, in an interview [1]). Jack can only
breathe life into it, if he makes one hell of a pivot away
from the way Twitter is perceived by the masses - way
too confusing to use for most [2] and lacking an identity
(People still ask of Twitter what they don't of Facebook -
what Twitter will be when it has finally grown up)[3]

Bonus reason : Twitter has gone through 5 product heads
in the five years while Costolo was at the helm. A part
of me wants to believe that it is not all the fault of
Costolo and that Twitter needs a fundamental rethink.
I doubt Dorsey is willing to do it. I just don't think
he can, unless he gives up his gig at Square.

[1] [3] Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Q&A: What to Do When People Say ‘You Suck’

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/twitter-ce...

[2] Twitter redesigned its confusing, unattractive homepage

http://qz.com/384517/twitter-redesigned-its-confusing-unattr...
Hack of government employee records discovered by product demo
> in many police states such people are executed instead of imprisoned.

Well, let's try a thought-experiment with some napkin-math, focusing on "man-hours dominated by the state per capita" and comparing incarceration to execution.

Assuming a stable incarceration rate of 1%, it follows that 1% of all "man-hours" in the nation is being taken, or about 88 man-hours per person per year.

Now, let's assume that another nation, the Bizarro States of America, achieves the same effect, but purely through less-frequent executions. The executed average a "lost remaining life" of 30,000 hours. (~35 years.)

That would require 0.29% of an execution per person per year. The BSA would have to execute 876 THOUSAND people every year to match the USA.
The more left-wing you are, the more society will reward you. For example, I was never really able to get a good job until after I had spent a bunch of time doing radical left-wing activism. Around age 27, I helped organize thousands of people to stage protests in Manhattan. I ran subversive media campaigns. I openly called for an anarchist-communist revolutionary overthrow of the U.S. Regime (which is ironic if you consider that America is already a communist country.)

All these experiences helped me get socially connected with a lot of powerful and important people. They all loved me. I even put the fact that I engaged in this sort of troublemaking on my resume. I'm not kidding. I even talked about it at job interviews. Stuff like this impresses people. There's no doubt in my mind that it led to my current level of success, writing code for a living.
This is what it can find in openssl: http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=143406271519649&w=2
Atlassian employee here.

Stash, the the on premises version of Bitbucket that is also from Atlassian supports plugins and has a marketplace, so you can have plugins both on-premise and SaaS.
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They seem to be approaching this by offering very reduced functionality on the cloud, so that "real" enterprise businesses will still buy apps to self-host (hopefully on Exa boxes). At least this is what I'm seeing in Middleware.

It's long been known that Database would eventually see a decline, which is why they bought loads of products to ring-fence it (as well as attacking SAP). I just wish their support was still worth the money -- in most cases it's not. That's the real problem IMHO.
Why cars went from boxy in the 80s to curvy in the 90s
The page linked in the post confirms your assertion: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSOptim...
From what I've heard about how Oracle treats their customers and the industry, this is good news. We need to move away from juggernauts who try to control things, and towards a more distributed, robust methodology.