skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what you call it when you add an API to some business functions that run on a mainframe in order to make them available to other external software written Java or .NET, for example. This kind of thing is done all the time in enterprise shops. Trying to frame it as a political power struggle between the negotiating parties frankly sounds pretty ridiculous.

I have direct experience doing this sort of thing for years. It's really just a strategy for better leveraging your existing business assets. What is the value of saying, "That's no application programming interface, it's just an implementation detail." I think it just confuses the concept for possible surrounding context. If that context is missing (negotiating, somewhat hostile parties), then all you've done is say that you can't call it API. Hmmm ok then...
My guess is that it's them playing slightly loose with the AWS term VPC: Virtual Private Cloud. My guess is that this is the way most people that have done work with AWS will understand their statement this way.
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Planned Parenthood, planned “hacking”?
Starting with the body tag with a suspicious attribute: `data-page-category="Under Attack Campaigns"`

<body class="site_down_template no-write edit-disabled"
data-page-category="Under Attack Campaigns"
data-page-type="Site Down Template"
ontouchstart="">

The headline on the main page has since removed the text "Our site is down due to extremists", but the phrase still remains in some metadata in the head:

<meta name="title"
property="title"
content="Our site is down due to extremists :: Planned Parenthood"/>

An image has since been removed:

<meta name="og:image"
property="og:image"
content="/images/planned_parenthood_is_under_attack.png"/>

It is certainly odd that these "hackers" have only made it easier to donate to Planned Parenthood in their time of "crisis." After three days, Planned Parenthood still can't get their full website back online, yet in minutes they were able to identify the "hackers" as "anti-choice extremists".
In many of those places, $80K salary places you 2x above the median. Not so in SF.
So sad I can't see or reply to that comment anymore - I'm the author.
Sorry, HN, my personal blog rarely gets that wide circulation, I should've done better job at introducing the context.

This was just one of many systems that thousands of facebook engineers build and they did not think of some edge cases. We do know how to write queries or to operate our databases, in general.
You're right. It's technically a virtual private cloud. We've found that nowadays VPC works for most people. The days of on-premises platforms are numbered.
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LIMIT 2 is also exposed to this issue, at different data ratios (in my tests up to LIMIT 142, I went through the math).
hibikir got it right. Privacy comes from VPCs.
Thank you, that is a great article! Recommended for any map geeks.

I love these two bits in particular:

> In another segment, researchers found a stone boundary monument that had been set as part of a 1928 resurvey, except it now stood near a tee on a golf course. Officials at the course had moved it years before so duffers could brag about their two-state tee shot. Using the original 1928 maps, advanced mathematics and some informed guesswork, the joint survey teams navigated to the exact spot where the monument had been uprooted, and even found its broken-off base.

> But an obvious fix is not in sight for Lewis Efird, who bought a gas station just south of what he thought was the state line in the early 1990s to take advantage of South Carolina’s significantly lower gas tax, as well as the ability to sell beer and fireworks. Unfortunately, the survey work showed conclusively that his pumps were in a part of North Carolina where gas is more expensive, beer sales are not allowed and fireworks are illegal. As he told commissioners in a public meeting, “Our business is going to be destroyed.”
A a satisfied drive-by user of ffmpeg over the years I was not aware of any major forks or ffmpeg derivatives. What are the points of contention between the different forks ?
I noticed that LuaJIT has the LJ_DUALNUM define, which actually internally adds an int32 subtype which causes numbers which can fit in an int32 to be stored as such. It does not change the semantics, it's to avoid floating point ops on (mainly ARM) processors with slow or emulated FPUs.
However, I think it should be possible to extend it without a huge amount of work to implement Lua 5.3 semantics with a 32 bit (rather than the default 64 bit) integer subtype. I think it would still be useful to a lot of people, personally I would love to have it.

Increasing TValues to 128 bits would be very undesirable, but since luajit already supports 64 bit ints through the ffi library I don't see why they couldn't be stored as boxed udatas/cdatas in the same way.
> This is clearly wrong - I demonstrated a stupidly simple alternate theory which disagrees with the consensus, but still lacks constant power shifts.

Your theory didn't even explain the data (in the software industry), and had nothing to say about power. Basically, it can comfortably exist beside the consensus theory as a second-order effect (and the data actually looks like that is probably the case, explaining representation differences of up to 2:1).

> So why cling to that theory, rather than, say, my theory of p=A - B x math_content + second_order_corrections?

Two reasons: 1. your theory doesn't explain the anomalous software industry (neither the very low participation nor the sudden change) while the consensus theory does, and 2. your theory doesn't explain the lack of representation (and possible correction after well-documented struggles) in fields of high prestige and little math (such as law, medicine and politics). In all those fields: law, medicine, politics and software, women participation was (or is) far lower than 30%. It was/is lower than 20%.

You might think that singling out software is uninteresting from a statistical perspective, as in Scott Alexander's regression it was just a single (outlier) data point, but in fact, the software industry is larger than all "heavy math content" professions combined, and holds more power in today's society.

> My theory predicts more things (e.g., it predicts % women in academia, % women in finance, % women in tech vs non-tech roles) and is vastly simpler. How is that not a win?

Because it predicts fewer things, and not even what you claim it does. At best, it predicts fewer women than men in certain subjects, but that's it. However, we see that while the binary relation "fewer" may remain, how much fewer decreases over time. Second, it only holds (even as a binary prediction) when you look at the past few decades -- far too short to look at social change -- which means it does not explain the exclusion of women from law, medicine and politics. Third, it does not explain the way-too-low representation in CS, nor the drop in participation. The consensus theory explains all of it, for any time duration. It even explains interesting shifts we see in, say, education (more women as prestige drops, while in CS fewer women as prestige rises). Yes, it's more complicated, but fits reality better, plus it's supported by lots and lots of data.
> ran readnews.com from 2004-1024).

Not sure if typo or integer overflow there :)
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No, you're not, you're actually the cause of the problem. If you were actually doing what you claim, then more than one person on your staff be anything other than white. You are the problem. And if you figure out how you managed to start a company around social impact, and yet only hired young white males that targets young white males, then maybe you just might figure out how not be the problem. The only correct answer, is "Holy shit, I'm an idiot, how do I fix this". I waited a few days so focus was off this article.
Days numbered or not (aside: take a look around Fortune 1000 and you'll see it's alive and well) the term private cloud has a definition. Someone should come up with a term for subnets inside a public cloud.
"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

An initial comment like this is particularly bad because it takes the whole discussion down a predictable generic tangent, instead of discussing the actual story.
And the fines could potentially be more than the cost of the operating system over the course of a year.
I posted this on a whim because I found the article in conflict with itself. Saying 'it remembers conversations' and then later 'no data is saved about the user' just shows how conflicting. That lonely people are using it is even worse - they could be adding to their suffering by sharing their personal details.
NNTP should replace RSS and comments to posts would be newsgroup posts.
What functions are those?
How is that even possible? The beam incidence angular calculation (and multi path dispersion) creates insane complexity that must be computed on the fly to even make sense.

For instance: a beam hits some material and needs to reflect or worse, pass through via transparency. Another issue: If we are calculating on a per pixel basis, that means bundling multiple paths together to figure out what the weighted return will look like. How can this all be computed with any kind of efficiency without cheating?
From startups and public markets to open source projects and online communities, communication and collaboration are always the most difficult and rewarding piece of any human endeavor.

Never let the technical problems mask what really matters, where the real hard work comes in: people.
Funny, we have a similar tag line but quite different products.

https://cloudron.io/

(Cofounder of cloudron.io here)
Thanks for the interest :) We have been trying to figure out the best way to describe our platform and "private cloud" seems the closest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Private_cloud
"Our site is down due to extremists" from them.

"anti-choice extremists" from you.

If this were the home page of the RNC or the DNC or rainbowcc... who all operate within the law, it would not be unusual in the modern vernacular to use the word "extremist" to represent the attack.

Since you seem to align right on this issue Ill make a wild guess that you lean right across the board. Lets take a recent look at something that a republican candidate "hinted at".

Asked by another reporter how he would stop abortion, and whether this would mean using the FBI or federal forces to accomplish this, Huckabee replied: "We'll see if I get to be president."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/07/mike-huckabee-federa...

Ignoring the source, as I'm sure one can find criticality with that, and assume its true. It isn't "extremist" or terrorist, its treason, in the true definition of the word. Recently you have seen that word used with another figure, one Mr Snowden. There are few who could argue that what he did wasn't treason, but there are fewer who have solid ground to stand on when it comes to "right" and "wrong". The distinction was his action was in defense of the constitution, what Mr hucakbee intimates is not.
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I very rarely downvote comments, but I find it distressing that the top comment thread on this post seems to be turning towards a hate-on-Murakami theme.

Not only do I enjoy his work very much, and found some of it to be extremely influential in my life (i.e. Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World) I fail to see the value add in these sorts of comments about any creator's work.

The points about his recurring themes are technically true, but it can be easily debated whether he has reason for using the same metaphors across much of his work.

In any event, to me it seems pointlessly negative to critique such a unique and influential writer with these broad strokes. The best you could hope to achieve with these sorts of comments is nothing, and the worst would be to discourage someone else from finding real enjoyment and meaning by reading him.

Specifically, I enjoyed that little essay about the origins of his writing career so much, and it ever so slightly decreased that enjoyment to turn to the comments and see immediate negativity ... so where is the net gain in that?

Edit: Spelling, and added the last sentence.
Microsoft has been going full Google for some time just as Google has been going full Microsoft. But, Microsoft has never beaten Google in anything they've tried. If anything, all of their attempts to battle Google have resulted is spectacular failures. The lack of privacy in Windows 10 is Microsoft finally acknowledging that Windows is the only thing they have left and they're going to do whatever they can to remain competitive against Google. They're now treating Windows 10 as their trojan horse to overwhelm you with their services. Unfortunately, this is also going to backfire. Microsoft is an enterprise software company. That's where they make the majority of their money from and they should stay focused on the enterprise because the consumer market has already made their choices.
From what I understand, it was mainly the way Michael ran the project. Some developers tried to (forcefully) take over the project, but in the end they had to fork it. Here is a recent article with some comparisons, now that it's been four years https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/.

There are two questions now that Michael has left, will they still actively merge libav patches (which he was mainly doing), and will development continue at the same pace.
I built something that starts instances with Bitcoin, if that helps any: https://www.stackmonkey.com/. You add ssh keys with a callback, so the site never sees who you are. The virtual appliances run on my HP Cloud account, so for now your instance would be there.

Will be adding container tech to it at some point.
SolarCity didn’t invent solar panel, but it invented something more important
Well there's screen time and screen time. Building something cool in minecraft is pretty different from watching spongebob on netflix.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30
It's actually pretty easy to avoid being ripped off. You just have to know about how much something ought to cost, and offer that as your price. You also have to be brave about offering $5 for something if someone tries to sell it to you for $100.
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Not a resource, so much as a technique, but I've just been baffled to find myself moving slightly into management, and my new mantra, whenever I'm not absolutely positive what I should be saying is: listen.
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This isn't relevant to the alleged Planned Parenthood hacking.
Fair enough. Btw, is this what Nitrous became?
> Your comment is hilariously cruel and, I would say, borderline sociopathic.

This comment violates the HN guidelines. Please comment civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Anything that doesn't result in equal outcome of greateness is sexism. For example, asking 50% reservation for women in soldiers going to war is sexism because war is not greatness, but preferring women 200% over men in STEM[1] is not sexism because doing science is greatness and women are still < 50% of sceintists.

Just joking of course. Women having different immune system functions means more funding for women specific medicine - hence it is good. Study of behavior at workplace based on gender doesn't generate funding because there aren't many women doing startups anyway.

You keep watching, in a decade or two when there will be enough women in startups that they will actually have any economical significance there WILL be studies conducted. And depending on how that turns out - if 'women better than men', it will be an 'evil corrected' story, and if 'women worse than men', state will intervene via laws to protect women's rights. It has already started actually.

This is why I took the risk of losing mod points and posted 'another decade' comment above.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ICcdpH2WA
Cool info graphic
I don't agree with all of his/her points, but if s/he saw nothing positive in the posts, why say anything positive? I'd much prefer an unaltered view.
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Michael Neidermeier, basically. People forked over the guy. then he resigned and here we are.
Glad it's not me who finds 95% of TED talks pointless.
Except that that still leaves you open to a dictionary attack.

Or rather, it accelerates a dictionary attack from O(sizeof(dictionary)) tries to O(length(hash)) tries.

(Let's suppose you are comparing by hex digits. You try 16 dictionary "words" whose hashes start with 0...f. One of those should take slightly longer. You then try 16 dictionary "words" whose hashes start with the digit found previously with different second digits. (Skip any digits that you don't have a word for.) One of those should take slightly longer... Repeat until found.)

This can be mitigated with a salt - if and only if you manage to prevent the user from figuring out how your salting scheme works.
Looks very interesting, but no docs, downloads or code yet.
They're not. They're just the only ones who insist on doing it with a filesystem that can't handle the load.

The other problem is that their interconnect is relatively fragile. It's comparatively easy to crash the entire network, at which time your filesystem goes away and processing stops.

But thanks to Lustre, even when it's good, it's bad.
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You don't have to penalize bad messages. Just don't link to them. Curation and moderation seem to be higher level problems that don't need to be specifically addressed by underlying storage/transport layers.

ipfs[1] is an interesting project that could be used to develop applications in this area.

[1] http://ipfs.io
> If a user is on a metered connection, and "seeding" Windows updates pushes them over their bandwidth cap, then MS is quite literally stealing from them.

That scenario would never happen since P2P updates (a.k.a delivery optimization) won't use metered connections [1].

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/windows-update...
> Thanks for playing.

Please don't.
An FFmpeg developer has already volunteered to continue the libav merges: http://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-August/1...
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I built this last year using OpenStack and Bitcoin technology. The project has a site at http://utter.io. It uses callbacks from Coinbase to ping the virtual appliances, which can be run by volunteers that have an OpenStack cluster running and don't mind having strangers launch instances on them. The use-cases for this are interesting and I'd suggest you treat it the same as any other early alpha software.

While working on an installer for OpenStack I came up with the idea of implementing federation with the blockchain. The general idea is that federation requires identity management, payments and some standard way of deploying code in a trustworthy way. The blockchain gives you most of that, although the storage bits are probably better served by something like Ethereum.

I went around pitching the idea a bit toward the end of the year and got pretty close to raising a round. Being a solo founder and at least a few years too early probably didn't help much. I was in the process of converting the site to use container technologies when I decided to join a German company who is writing a container stack: https://giantswarm.io/.

The whole shebang is Open Source and I'm happy to answer questions about it, if anyone has them: https://github.com/stackmonkey/
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This was in the comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3f5won/tablet_vi...

I'm doing this on my work laptop.
A bit more than that, actually.

"It's not better, that's the reason everyone's been switching back.

The short version IIRC:

- Some people didn't like Niedermayer so they forked ffmpeg to libav

- Libav pulled some dirty tricks that pissed people off

-> They added an ffmpeg binary in their distribution that claimed ffmpeg was deprecated, while it wasn't

-> They managed to get the Debian ffmpeg packager on their side and get ffmpeg thrown out of Debian for a brand new fork (Which is really hard to do since Debian is nuts about stability) which gave them free marketshare for all debian, ubuntu etc derivatives

- Libav had an NIH problem leading them to build their own version of stuff ffmpeg already developed, while ffmpeg merged all of libav's changes back and ended up the superior project

- After years of complaining about how libav just doesn't work as well as ffmpeg, Debian finally squashes the flame war and moves back to ffmpeg with the rest of the linux world. Now libav is an inferior project that's also not in use anywhere

- From that email, it looks like libav threw a tantrum and made Niedermayer want to leave (Which is an ironic reversal of the original reason for the fork afaik)

Edit: As pointed out by /u/OrSpeeder libav also trademarked the FFmpeg logo and threatened to sue them if they didn't stop using their own logo.

I also remember that the naming was particularly (And potentially deliberately?) unfortunate as the ffmpeg project already consisted largely of AV libraries called... You guessed it: libav.

And as pointed out by /u/Kaligraphic it started with an attempted coup:

- removing access from everyone not involved with the coup and seizing the bug tracker, mailing lists, etc. and only forked when the ffmpeg team were able to restore ffmpeg.org."

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3fdsgw/ffmpeg_...
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/n230b/til_a_w...

the original papers are to be found in mil resources.
This is a separate venture from Nitrous.
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I have a very hard time getting in the flow and really productive. It's mostly a matter of starting, when I've started I get in the zone.

Let me stress this again: the hardest part is getting started.

Also necessary, for me at least:

1. Caffeine

2. Music - no vocals, steady rhythm. My preferred kind of music is psytrance/techno during the day, ambient electronic during the night. The steady rhythm is to my brain like the clock to the CPU.

3. Diet - I've started being serious about understanding the cause of my lethargy and not feeling up to doing anything most of the time, and after ~30 days of a clean albeit strict diet (I'm cutting out _all_ possible allergens) I'm feeling more productive than I've been my whole adult life. Probably placebo, probably unrelated. But it's been a long time I wasn't hacking in the middle of the night like these past few days.
Great minds think alike ;)

Cloudiron.io looks cool. I'll definitely check it out.
From the linked page:

"If you use a WiFi connection that is metered or capped, make sure that you identify it as a metered connection."

The behavior is opt-out: you have to tell Windows you're on a metered connection. Or did you think it would somehow figure that out on its own?
Pretty sure this is the same video, but on youtube itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v6o-VsLAew