skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wiretapping with a warrant is not obstructed by this, of course: it might require a bit of crossborder co-operation to get an EU warrant for the data of an EU national, but it's still possible to tap a specific user for law enforcement purposes.

What's not legal is warantless universal wiretapping.

(Also, I don't want the US to be "world police"! Like US domestic police they are far too trigger-happy. And the US is one of the few countries not signed up to the International Criminal Court. Would you want a police without a court?)
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>But I wouldn't pretend that keeping data in any country in NATO isn't akin to giving it to five eyes.

Collecting data which is routed internationally is a well documented method that NSA et al have used to skirt domestic law and grab/share the data. If you already live in country "C", and by statute your data must never leave country "C", then your data are more protected than if it had been sent outside the legal jurisdiction of country "C"'s courts.
That does make it very natural to scale to big data (aka lots of Excel files).
I'd rather see recommendations on where to work given where I live.
Every day, week, and month, we give a free stuff
I was in an environment like this once. I just left. You really can't fix a problem like this if he's a management darling unless you want to go the HR route.
SendIP is a tool which allows creating and sending of arbitrary IP packets
Actually even though Linus has shown to be 'direct' and sometimes 'rude' there are much worse people

> within a developer culture that required overworked maintainers to be rude and brusque in order to get the job done

And I guess that's the root cause of it
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How about Cap'n Proto? Their marketing is great, but I don't recall seeing many experiences with it, so I'm asking for feedbacks here.
This clearly shows that we need to disrupt the old and outdated statistics that are powering these studies. Disruption isn't a straight line and you can't fit a straight line to disruption because it's a fractal.
May I suggest a small textual amendment? "tell us where you commute to" might be a little clearer.

Edit: Also "Please enter your commute address..." in the input box. :)
I'm unfamiliar with the situation. What do you mean?
Almost no mention of it on Reddit prior to this story [0] aside from rumors in a couple small Subreddits. Feels weird as a Reddit user to see something like this out in the news without attempts for creating community buy-in, as if the Reddit team has lost faith in aligning with their user base and instead leans toward working around them.

EDIT: The Wired article is starting to make its way around [1]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/search?q=upvoted.com&sort=new&t=week

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3nnw6v/reddit_l...
It is not the full episode.
You should have continued reading in that case, because it's not like that's the sole point of discussion.

Dismissing that argument out of hand is disingenuous. I absolutely, fully support no-holds-barred consideration of all the viewpoints involved here – 'designer babies' is a very real issue that we absolutely must think about in the scientific, social and ethical sense (like basically every bit of science fiction touches on).
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Geneva & Zurich are always going to be laughably expensive, mostly.
>so why can't she just ignore any of those comments or subtexts?

Why should she have to?
I strongly empathize with this decision, and I think it's unfortunate to lose a valuable developer because many people feel a lack of basic politeness is a virtue.

It is a hard problem to solve, and the open source model greatly aggravates the problem. Within an open source project, no one is accountable for their actions, by design. This ends up meaning you can say whatever hurtful things you want, and unless you really cross a line, most people except for the target of the attack will ignore it. If you haven't been the target of such frequent negative reinforcement, it's easy to tell others to "shake it off" and learn from the experience. And maybe you can do that a handful of times. But it really drags to have the work you put a lot of effort into described as crap and yourself physically threatened for having dared to bother someone else with it. Eventually, you're not going to want to work on it anymore.

The reason it's a hard problem to solve, though, is that sometimes you do get crap code, or bad community members, and you need a mechanism for dealing with that, too. Open source means you effectively can't "fire" anyone from the project. The best you could do is ban them from all of the project communication channels, or make it extremely clear that they're not welcome, and well now you're back to negativity. On a project the size of the kernel, where do you draw the line?

I guess if your attitude is "software uber alles" then hounding and insulting submitters that aren't up to standard seems like a legitimate way to improve your product. But if you're more concerned about creating a welcoming and diverse development environment, then it's time to lighten up and dial down the vitriol. Those goals are at odds, and a balance needs to be found. Sharp's departure might be a sign that the current balance is wrong.
I don't think that's what the judge is talking about in the remark about Silk Road having laws. I can't imagine that it is related to the topic of murder for hire.
Well, in terms of economic theory, he has a point. Markets usually don't take into account so-called externalities such as the environmental impacts of pollution (or individual loss of privacy) when setting prices. Perhaps a better way to view environmental (or data-protection) legistation is not as constraining the untrammelled workings of the free market, but as modifying the market mechanisms themselves to take certain externalities into account, so that they get factored into production costs instead of being passed on to society.
So this is what I think will happen: a lot of companies (maybe even the likes of facebook and google) will move out of europe and just serve everything from the US. There is not really an alternative to that, how could my EU-hosted facebook profile not be transferred to the US so my friends can see my book favourites?
TL;DR Microservices have their place, and can be useful for certain environments, but they are not a fix-all.

They can be pretty nice for multi-tenanted development environments. Sure, you could use any of the other isolation techniques, but being able to provide an environment that can be started quickly (and somewhat easily depending on the rest of the services required). Not to mention that the popularity of container systems and their ease in understanding (Dockerfile vs RPM spec) means that other people can hack away at the dev environment without having to know the ins and outs of building proper packages (although they should learn).

Now, for a production environment, I would never move to a microservices architecture for the reasons listed in the article and my own dislike for adding overhead and complexity to solve "issues" that can be easily dealt with using tools that have existed for years (proper packaging with dependencies etc..).
I am a big fan of letters to the editors in my local newspaper. I try often to send in my opinions. (though they rarely get printed)

But that is the only NewsPaper I consume and my relationship with it is way more personal than any online portal.

All websites that I visit are based on links shared via my friends on FB, people on Twitter and Discussions on HN.
I really have no personal connection with any online content platform.

So unless Vice has a captive audience that visits it religiously and has that personal connection, I am not sure how this section is going to help.

It is pretty much the same as stating that “Comments are Turned off. Period.”
You think that the CBC isn't trying to make money? What are all the advertisements for then?
Interesting. Is the circuit breaker a feature of .NET running on Windows?

To my knowledge, it can't be implemented on Linux + Java or Python (a thread can't be terminated from outside, and some syscalls involve a whole process).
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Very true, but I've heard modularization touted as a benefit of microservices many times, as if it's exclusive. You can get modularization as a first-class feature in your favorite language, and almost for free!
> This is a money grab.

No, it really isn't. It won't be effective but the judge here is not aiming for EU companies to earn more money.

> There's a part of me that desperately hopes all major internet services just shut off Europe entirely. Welcome back to the Stone Age.

Economies have becomes so intertwined that shutting Europe 'off the internet' by any other party (presumably the US or the rest of the world) is no longer feasible. It will backfire tremendously on those doing the shutting off.

Besides that, you wouldn't really shut the internet down, merely split it. Even North Korea has internet access.
I'm always surprised to read about how awful the linux community sounds, given how great the product is.

Does anyone familiar with the psych literature know if Linus' behavior here might be causal of quality? Abrasiveness feels like it might cause conformity[1] effects or similar, which sounds like poison for a tech project... but then again, some of the best software I've seen has come from "proving someone wrong on the internet" so maybe it depends on the type of person?

Any references would be appreciated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
I caught an earlier edit of this comment, and I think it may have incidentally demonstrated (shall we say) a focus on blunt honesty that resonated with the description in the article. I've gone back and forth about posting about the edit, but it seemed germane to discussions of possible communications issues experienced by the subject of the article.
Why do you want be a UX engineer and GitHub specifically?

Perhaps apply for UX positions at other companies - ones that are actually hiring in that position, and build up some working experience in the field.
People have mentioned other countries, but even the US FCC has endorsement rules: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
In Germany we have the term "Empöreria" for people who have nothing better to do than complain about "bad culture" just for the sake of complaining.

In the case of the Linux kernel, well, the culture seems to work out just fine - the kernel is pretty much a solid piece of technology and used in literally billions, if not trillions, of devices. So why change if it is not needed?

edit: Downvotes, just because I'm not following the radfem ideology? Please either explain your downvotes or fuck off, thank you very much...

edit 2: oh, more downvotes? Looks like I hit an uncomfortable core of truth, huh? <3
"eu" literally means "good". So yes, you can use an English word instead, "improving", but that's still eugenics.
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Genetic screening is already a common practice.

https://www.centerforhumanreprod.com/services/infertility-tr...

So I guess the safety of the genetic modification procedure would be the only ethical difference when altering well understood genes to prevent disease.
Looks like I can afford half a service, then :P
I don't see a reason to be happy that Linux lost a maintainer. Or to celebrate. This is a rather sad story all round.
No, only if you've got some connection with the content sponsor.
I see where she is coming from. My first (and last) foray into the Linux community was ~2003 in high school. I decided that I was going to try and use Linux for "real stuff" - which implied internet access. At the time I used my smart phone as an EDGE modem which didn't work in Linux. After hours of switching dual-booting between Linux and Windows I had devised a 1-liner that would detect the PCI vendor/id by diffing some device listing with the device plugged in vs. not plugged in. It would then insert the information into <some file>.

I approached the IRC room for the distro I was using (this time from within Linux!), asked for a wiki or some website where they would recommend I post the quick-fix and got a disproportionate aggressive response from a few of the participants.

A few weeks later my brother got me a friends-and-family license for Visual Studio and I've been developing on Windows ever since - I found people always appreciated contribution (ironic) no matter how insignificant, and would give far friendlier (as a relative term) advice on how to fix problems with the contributions.

I praise Linus and the Linux community in general for their bluntness and honesty, but I don't think being honest requires being nasty to high school children.

Edit: I strongly recommend having a look at the Contributor Covenant[1]. It has some great guidelines for ensuring that any misguided contributions are guided toward success in a friendly manner.

[1]: http://contributor-covenant.org/
Every terrestrial radio station I've listened to has a story a couple times a month about the "top 10 things people said about something" that is lifted directly from a top post in /r/AskReddit. Some stations mention that it's from Reddit, but some don't.
Even in your patent-encumbered worst-case scenario I don't think DHL et al will have much problem paying licensing fees.

Urban transport will not be HGV. City limits trans-shipment points will split packages into inner-city deliverables.

Last mile is an active area of research investment e.g. electric cargo bikes [1]

The buzz phrase in the literature is massification to atomisation [2]

[1] https://k4rgo.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/k4rgo-ups-germany....

[2] https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch1en/conc1en/atomiz...
Travis Bickle. Übermensch.
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Similar too, but for Hotels and Airbnb in case you are travelling to visit someone else's workplace (searchable by their company name or address)
World police? World arsonist would describe it better.
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why these critical facilities connected(or can be connected) to internet? it is crazy
less pressure to moderate reddit.com

I very much doubt it; the pressure to moderate harder comes from within redditors as well whenever the toxic subreddits leak.
They just have to claim it's test data. If they didn't, this could blow up really bad - the regular user would be convinced that the bank messed up. In this scenario, it can be played off as a "test to improve security" (or whatever), if it ever were to end up in the mainstream media.
> Good. If you want to be a multinational company, then you should have to obey the laws of each country

Good luck with that. If the US mandates you do X and EU mandates you do !X.
I was actually involved with the experimental setup at SNO, however tiny in the grand scheme.

Btw, my contribution was in the front end particle detectors, when I was an undergraduate student. This was 20 yrs ago so a bit fuzzy on he details. But basically, people on my team (University of Pennsylvania high energy physics dept) designed analog ASIC's that effectively connected directly to the SNO photomultiplier tube outputs to process the tiny electrical signals, IIRC often from only a few hundred or thousand electrons. There were two chips they designed. An integrator (SNOINT) which was like a preamp and identified how strong the signal was, and a discriminator (SNOD) which identified accurate timing information of the pulses.

We required IIRC about 10,000 of these chips, and the fabrication process had a very low yield (about 30% had all functionality working). So my job entailed setting up an automated test station, simulating all functionality of the photomultiplier inputs, and interfacing with a computer to run the suite of tests and identify good/bad in about 30-60s. We had a good process and hired a bunch of part-time workers who would run through the tests to identify the good chips.

I was quite jealous of some of my colleagues who worked with the actual production circuit boards, and got to travel to SNO itself and go down into the mine to set them up in production.

Fun times though. We also built Fermilab and CERN detector electronics, and even for the cancelled superconducting supercollider. That job basically taught me electronics and data acquisition, and led to my next job as a joint hardware/software engineer.
Couchbase Server 4.0 released
Seems like a great startup idea :) Hotel website usually have high affiliation rewards.
I don't think you get it... In most cases we are talking about applications beyond the complexity of a configurable CMS. Also assuming that replication solves your (potential) database bottlenecks does not account for write-heavy scaling.
The Linux kernel development culture has always been like this, so it is a bit strange that foul language using bunch of developers turning out to be foul language using bunch of developers is a shock for someone. It suits for some and sure will annoy/scare some. As far as I know bashing is not about the person, but it is about the quality of idea or implementation.

Is it right? Maybe. Maybe not.

Of course there is this line, where some people are doing it in professional context and are expecting it to be... professional. In every level. That I find a false expectation, as LKML and this "terrible" culture has a public track record of a few decades. Of course not everyone can choose what kind of work they do and which projects they attend to, but someone working in IT corporations probably isn't one of those unfortunates.

I don't find it amusing, that someone's feelings have been hurt. But on the other hand I find it a viable alternative for all that wasted time on correctness, when someone's idea or implementation is terrible, but no-one can tell it directly, that this really is crap.
The brush off makes sense, he probably wasn't supposed to email him back at all incase he posted the email on some sort of social media.
First I'm hearing of it. Looks really promising, but without any experience with it I cannot really say.
There's two options:

Either genetical improvement will be only available to top 0,5% (this way nothing changes, they're already separated from the rest of us, we don't interact)

Or it will be available to top 70% (middle class)

In both cases there's no scary divide.

We could have scary divide if this option was only available to 10% population, but economically that's unrealistic.

Talking about developed countries, of course.
Announcement blog post: http://blog.couchbase.com/2015/october/announcing-couchbase-...
One can dream... Of course having this available as an opensource technology would be great but for now it is a piece of proprietary tech inside google.
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Criticism: http://www.psychwiki.com/wiki/Asch's_Conformity_Study#Critic...

The experiment is so badly constructed http://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html that it is hard to imagine one takes results seriously.
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And then there is this: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8123533&cid=506646...
Industry is willing to pay but individual companies are not, especially in the days of "job for 5 years".

For instance The NOVUS Trust [1] is a Supply Chain / Logistics undergraduate scheme that guarantees a job for those graduating with a 2:1 or over that is sponsored by industry members.

[1] http://www.novus.uk.com/
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Amazon Downplays New Hack for Stealing Crypto Keys in Cloud
You might want to switch off DEBUG mode on your backend app...

File "/home/django/django_project/wonsch/views.py" in get_data
35. homegate_result = requests.get('https://api-**CENSORED**.apicast.io:443/rs/real-estates',headers={'auth':'**CENSORED**'},params=homegate_params).json()
I have 10+ years of experience in the field :D

I fell in love with GitHub as a product just using it, and as a company reading the posts by Zac Holman.
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ideas that aren't carefully crafted for palatability

That's quite an impressive euphemism for some of the stuff that you might see if you were to hit the "random NFSW" link. Not to mention the racial and misogyny hate groups that turn up, or the ubiquity of NSFW usernames.
Something to consider: just because there is a widely present neurological basis for criminality doesn't mean we shouldn't segregate those suffering from it from society. They're still a risk and real danger to everyone around them.

It would be nice, though, if we could move away from the idea that we need to be the implementers of some grand cosmic justice, where every sin of the accused must be punished by inflicting pain and suffering on them (up to and including brutal gang rapes, which are popularly joked about and sometimes even celebrated, at least in America). That might require re-evaluating or even disposing of traditional notions of moral guilt and punishment, though.
Thanks for the advice, I can and will try this :)
PDF copy: Seriously, get off my cloud!
Cross-VM RSA Key Recovery in a Public Cloud, https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/898.pdf
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Good riddance. Her blog indicates that she was trying to change an entire community's behavior so she didn't have to be offended. That's just as oppressive as the people slinging around insults.

Some people work better in harsh environments and some work better under environments where everyone's feelings are taken into account and you kill any behavior that could offend anyone.

The kernel dev community is not a place that censors rudeness. If you don't have the ability to read mean words, it's not a community for you.
Interesting ... then why cryptography was forbidden to export?
What I don't understand is, why are they allowed to sell the medallions at all? The problems with the medallion system stems from the fact that due to supply/demand problem, their prices skyrocketed. But they should quite simply be non-transferable.
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Funny, I just started a re-read of "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley last night.

"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able …"