skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you use for configuration management?
The article says:

You want to make sure that you don't see the text "_DHE_" in the list of ciphersuites.`

And the article links to https://www.howsmyssl.com/, which shows me these in my list of cipher suites:

TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

But the heading says: "Your SSL client is Probably Okay."

Is https://www.howsmyssl.com/ out of date? Shouldn't I be seeing some kind of warning?
Aren't all investments "betting on an outcome"? Betting the stock will be worth more, betting my house will be worth more, betting my car will maintain more of its value versus a different model or betting its better to buy now against the outcome of inflation? Even a date is betting my time that the outcome will be me getting along with stranger.
This is clever. Hopefully they expand to Asia soon.
Ah, the good old CMoy. Built one of these in 2005 right as I started college. Didn't know a damn thing about soldering and circuits, just kind of followed along. Building it was my point of entry into hardware and eventually embedded systems. It worked (after several hours of debugging) and got the most interesting looks from my friends.

That was back when I would go to HeadFi everyday and follow the latest news on headphones and amps. Think I even went to a meetup and met Ray Samuels.
At some point it becomes the bully on the playground, holding your arm and hitting you with it, chanting 'stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!'

Weapons manufacturing in bulk for sale to anybody with cash can be called evil, with good reason.
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Lennart Poettering
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I'm not terribly surprised, considering that the whole scandal is basically meaningless to the consumer experience. I wonder how many people who report on stories like this are aware of how little the average consumer actually cares about deals and tricks between giant corporations and the Government regarding changes in emissions characteristics that they will probably never notice.
seems like you're jumping through mental gymnastics to discount being more inclusive. none of that applies when you're actively going out of your way to be more inclusive of POC.
If what is on that page does not make you care, you are not the intended audience.
I went to the Ansible conference in London last year. We were looking into whether or not to use Ansible, thinking that going to the conference would shed some light.

To be honest, we were put off by the (I use this word advisedly) fanboyism. There was a huge amount of "Ansible is amazing!" and (in my opinion) not much actual substance. It felt like there was lots of back-slapping.

Toward the end of the day there was a presentation which presented features (possibly new ones) demonstrating how they were contorting (presumably declarative) YAML into a new programming language with control structures (and templating, my memory is hazy). It felt like "our deployment scripts were over-complicated so we took out the complexity and put it in a declarative non-executable format. Then we had to put the features back because we needed them after all, except now it's in new less powerful language".

Anyway, the conference was informative, but probably not in the way intended.

That said, if you can give some substantial reasons why to use Ansible, it would be great to hear them.
Ask HN: What books will stay relevant for many years to come?
I just finished reading, The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman and it is just amazing how the author has laid down principles of design that will stay relevant for many years even if the technology will change drastically.

What are books like this which will stay relevant for a long period of time?
Augur raised millions of dollars through crowd funding. There's definitely a central organisation there.
Amex has been offering pretty sweet signing bonus for new cards. I think I have raked in enough points for two first class international flight tickets.
I sort of agree, except I try to buy from publishers who provide PDF, iPad, and Kindle versions.

When I do buy from Amazon, I try to copy to a PDF for backup for my own use, which I believe to be legal. Backing up to a PDF does not always work however.
quotas lead to inclusion. and inclusion is what's important. inclusion includes being represented at conferences.
It's not that simple. Suppose you have a group of animals spread across a large continent.

The ones on the eastern side can breed successfully with the ones in the center.

The ones on the western side can also breed successfully with the ones in the center.

The ones on the eastern side are different enough from the ones on the west that they can't breed successfully.

How many species are there? :-)

It's a continuum, not a binary relation.

It's very similar to the way that in historic times you could travel the Germanic or Romance language areas of Europe and the people in one village could always understand the people in the next village, but after a couple of hundred miles the languages would be mutually incomprehensible (this is not nearly as prominent today due to the rise of strong national governments enforcing "standard" languages through schools).

There are a lot of other issues involved, too. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem for some discussion.
In my opinions librarians are actually needed more now!

Yes we have a fire hose of content and people need people like librarians to help utilize that fire hose more.

When I left (I quit the job) being a librarian in 2008 more than 50% of librarians had lost their jobs in the next 2 years. Most people who handle budgets have your same idea.

My school district of 19,000 students had ONE librarian for all the elementary schools. CRAZY
A minor nit-pick: RDO is community project :-)

If anyone is wondering what the 'RDO' acronym stands for, from the FAQ[1]:

"RDO has no expansion or longer name, officially. It is not an acronym or abbreviation for anything.

However, RDO does focus on building a distribution of OpenStack specific to Red Hat operating systems (and clones of Red Hat operating systems). So, in some sense you can think of RDO as being a project started by Red Hat to build a distribution of OpenStack.

The 3 letter meaningless acronym sort of comes from that line of thinking."

[1] https://www.rdoproject.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions
That will be difficult if not impossible since you don't have a presence here. You have to have a tax I.d / SSN to be able to set that up and open a bank account.
That is actually a serious issue that many scientists including historians, anthropologists and archaeologists are actually trying to find ways around.

Digital storage is far more fragile than many physical storage mediums, digital data in many cases might also be indistinguishable from random data in such cases where it have been heavily encoded, encrypted, or the mata-data was lost.

Time capsules are now becoming more and more important (including us sending one to Mars) because if we blow ourselves up or encounter a calamity that will erase much of modern technology we will lose more data in that instant than all the data lost to history before that.

Most modern storage media will not last a century even under good conditions, yet alone under conditions that we've found many historical manuscripts and objects of significance so it's quite important for us to develop a high-density, long term media which can store current information in ways that will be fairly simple to access, micro-film was a good candidate at one time but the information density was too small, so allot of people are working on more high density storage media including crystals, and even encoding allot of information into DNA, if you can turn an entire forest into a time capsule you might be able to preserve knowledge for a very very long time.
Robot trucks outperform human drivers: Rio
As an anecdote, I still plan on my next car being a TDI VW Golf, assuming they are available in the US by the time I'm looking in a couple years.

As another commenter said, I really don't care about "the deals and tricks between giant corporations and the Government".
> It's weird to see producers greedy over their patterns now that it is (legally) possible to distinguish between the two..

Could you expand on this point? E.g. are you referring to format shifting?
This is all too familiar. It will end up being yet another r/unixporn anime wallpaper desktop screenshot generator.
> We’re still making sales. It’s approaching $1 million. I get about 40 percent of that. It put my kids through college.

Wow. Can a stock image still achieve that kind of earnings in today's commodified market?
Everyone has different opinions but what was crap about it. Directed by the visionary behind Children of Men, which won best picture and rather than just making a bunch of easy films he spent 4 years making this one.

The cinematography required new innovations in ways to film space scenes. New rigs and such they invented that stuff on the production budget. The acting was top notch. It was stunning.

The cheesy stuff? The unrealistic parts of it? Maybe you could criticise those aspects of it, but they were intentional sacrifices made so the rest of the film could be fresh, new, attainable. The story arc was like a mini rollercoaster, never slowed down. I cheered for our protagonist.

Movies like that don't come out very often.

It's a borderline masterpiece my dear friend. A masterpiece I tell you. One of the prettiest looking things I've ever seen in Imax. It made me have feelings inside. I rated it as one of the best movies to come out in decades.

I think part of a film like that is the spectacle of it. It's probably harder to enjoy on a cellphone, is that what happened?
Introducing Spark Pay: Young Shopping Cart with a Long History
What is the fastest algorithm to find the largest number in an unsorted array?
> Tipping dealers in UK casinos is actually forbidden by the 'Gaming Board' (gambling commission) to discourage "cheating" since they believe that if dealers might get a cut of the winnings they might be inclined to stack the odds in the player's favor.

Are you sure about this? I've played poker in UK casinos where tipping was very common
Having a system with an big blob that you can't maintain yourself anymore.
The world needs another linux distro like it needs a plague.
Haha, I daresay that student did poorly on the exam.
IIRC there was a study on sleeping in tents, too — which would suggest that the insomnia curing in your example was less a result of rigorous outdoor adventures and more from the participants sleeping outside (falling temperature, natural lighting, lack of noise, etc).
He is an amazing person. YC is fantastic at attracting talent
i mean maybe, just maybe, they're sick of being called insane, and being discounted like you and OP
Here's a blog post I wrote about why this probably isn't implemented in most servers yet: https://caddyserver.com/blog/implementing-http2-isnt-trivial
Your second sentence is a red herring that misses the point of that goal. Of course nobody has that goal (hopefully). But when people don't have that goal, complexity tends to creep in.

Simplicity rarely happens by chance in large software.
FWIU of the situation, we have reason to suspect the government has 'cracked' the default large primes that are commonly used by a bunch of different software packages, including web servers. Assuming they have, the challenge is then defined as determining which applications and sites tend to use these standardized or hard-coded primes.

> Breaking a second 1024-bit prime would allow passive eavesdropping on connections to nearly 20% of the top million HTTPS websites.

I'll point out that agwa's comment is relevant here in mitigation. Without any control over what primes are used on the server side, the only resolution would be to detect the server is using such a prime and then avoid communicating with that server until they've patched their systems. Perhaps someone who knows more about this could comment on how we could go about notifying websites they are using venerable primes?

Maybe a Chrome plugin attached to an IPFS client could be one method to warn on access of sites using default primes.
I don't think the focus of this article is us, the technology savvy. I think the danger is for the common reader, who doesn't know the difference between .MOBI or .EPUB and wouldn't know how to circumvent DRM on an Amazon book to keep it. There's still the risk that these systems will become more sophisticated that even mid-level savvy folks give up. Do we know the implications of TPP w/r/t ebooks?

But I think it's important that we maintain the community to circumvents copyright. Copyright, the way it is implemented today, is anti-cultural. If we have any hope of harvesting our incredible digital archiving ability, we must maintain ways to keep content free of DRM. But it's up to us - no one will do it for us.
> If you only want a subset of that graph, make an endpoint around that subset.

This is one of the places this article didn't ring true for me. GraphQL is a much simpler way to do this. I shouldn't have to make a new endpoint every time my frontend team adds a new screen or modal.

> Facebook is just Facebook. It's just another web company, making a ton of money off fundamental backbone technologies which it barely understands.

Like Google, Facebook is so large that it can redefine web technology. After all, the web is built upon agreed-upon standards. If enough of the web (and, yes, it can be just a few companies) agree on a standard, then that's what the web becomes.

And Facebook could very well be managing the most complicated internet-connected infrastructure on the planet. My mind is routinely boggled by the fact that Facebook loads as quickly as it does.

> You can answer every complaint Facebook has with "just use REST correctly."

Even if I use REST correctly (which I do for some reason), what benefit does that give me? My users probably won't. It adds headaches for me.

I recently wrote a compliant REST API, and our app developer told me that one of his libraries wasn't making non-POST requests properly and that I should allow all requests to be POST. What am I supposed to do about that? I couldn't rewrite a library for a platform I don't understand, and it was too late to fire him. I just broke the REST compliance of my API and moved on with my life.

The bottom line is that REST is too poorly understood and poorly adopted to offer me much benefit in terms of efficiency. Ever used a REST client library? It requires tons of configuration to tell it how the API you're consuming is non-compliant. It hardly saves time at all.
Not a fan of elitism, however one good effect AMEX has on people who use their charge cards is to make them be more responsible with their spending habits. Credit cards make their money by charging interest on revolving credit, which steers people toward being less responsible with their spending.

Ironically, I think the people who would stand to benefit the most from a charge card, those just getting started i.e. in college, probably don't qualify for a charge-only AMEX, whereas the credit card companies aggressively pray on them.
It's one thing to have the intent. It's wholly another to actually execute it like suckless and co. do.
"Understand what kind of problem it is" could be reworded to "Find out what the interviewer wants from you, and don't make unstated assumptions", and could be the subject of its own post.

The biggest problem in technical interviews is when the candidate doesn't know what the interviewer wants from them. Maybe they want unit tests, maybe a rough functional spec... maybe what they really want to see is how you'd explain your algorithm to a junior developer.

If, as a candidate, you think you've been given an egotistical interviewer that really just wants to see if you can read his mind, mentally reframe it as a test of your ability to not make unstated assumptions. I've had interviews when I've tried to clarify whether I need to do things a certain way or provide something like unit tests, and met with the response "I don't know - do you think that's the kind of thing you should do?" If you get this as a candidate, the best solution is to talk a briefly about what you'd do in a real-world scenario (where you have context, tools, connectivity, time and teammates). If that doesn't reveal anything, explicitly state an assumption and why you're making it and move on.

If you give technical interviews, I implore you: when the candidate asks what you want from them, don't be coy or sneaky about it with the justification that figuring it out is part of the interview. Tell the candidate what you want. If what you want them to do is role-play a scenario where they extract requirements from you, tell them so. If you just want the damn FizzBuzz code so you can move on, tell them so.
> I'm not terribly surprised, considering that the whole scandal is basically meaningless to the consumer experience.

Right: the scandal is about VW fudging a test to mislead on the scale of an externality; unlike government tested fuel economy (which is about consumer information, so deception on that hurts primarily the direct purchaser), emissions testing is about protecting the public at large from paying (through environmental impacts) for benefits received by the particular consumer of the vehicle (and, in the form of profits from the trade, the vehicle manufacturer.)

So, on the VW scandal, drivers and the company are the beneficiaries of the deception, so its unsurprising that drivers qua drivers would not be angered by the company's deception.
>Soylent and other meal replacements save about an hour per day.

This sounds utterly horrible although it did lead me to this gem of a quote: "When Soylent debuted last year, the New York Times' tech columnist Farhad Manjoo described it as "the most joyless new technology to hit the world since we first laid eyes on MS-DOS."" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/soylent-2-0-review_561d6...

As someone else said, cooking really doesn't need to take a lot of time. I doubt I spend an hour a day on average even though I generally like cooking and spend more time on it than strictly necessary. There's a lot you can do with stir frying and making meals like chili in bulk.

But shudder. If that's what efficiency looks like, I'll just stay inefficient.
> if you can turn an entire forest into a time capsule you might be able to preserve knowledge for a very very long time.

I do like the idea that the information would be self-propagating, but who'd think to look in the DNA of some trees?
Why It's OK to Block Ads
Yeah. Fuck projects that people do to learn something and give away for free.
It seems the blue genie is an alternative notion of the magic smoke: At the electronics factory, they put magic smoke into the IC, if you let it out, you won't be able to put it back in yourself. (Often there's a puff of smoke when you destroy an IC, maybe when you put the power input onto the wrong lines, or 12v for a 5v chip, etc)
It is possible to turn off the tracker and use "predefined hosts" instead - see details here: http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1901264
Note that the "predefined hosts" must be able to access each other (once you turn off the tracker for a folder you also disable NAT traversal)
Docker names generator guards against ever returning “boring_wozniak”
How to get an interview for a startup job
Absolutely. I've had the "premium" level subscription for at least over a decade, which includes all of the content producers and all of the movies (and music). I've paid roughly $12k to $16k to these bloodsucking corporations in that time and I continue to pay even though I can only take advantage of a small percentage of what I'm paying for via Cable. So I really feel like I'm entitled to watch and listen to what I want to, how and when I want to.
Correct. The front page is pretty self-explanatory. Obviously it requires you to actually be familiar with what it explains.
IIRC, Aqua Santa in Williamsburg used to only accept AMEX. Think they take other cards now though.
I really like that you specifically spell out how many emails the user will receive next to the registration form. That's a nice and explicit upfront "user promise" that I think will make people trust you more.

You may wish to allow for some kind of opt-in for future emails in the second and final email you promise to send. That way you can continue to email those people who do wish to learn more going forwards.

Great service and idea - good luck with it!
Little Bites of Cocoa #105: Media Library Basics
Redhat and Mirantis are now direct competitors in the Openstack world. Redhat buying ansible, among the the great points you made, will further solidify their position in the Openstack world against Mirantis going forward...
There's nothing inherently wrong with the DHE ciphersuites, as long as the server provides secure parameters. Since weakdh is really a server-side issue, and howsmyssl.com is a client-side test, a warning doesn't really make sense.
So, a two class system. The poor get by (taken advantage of is more like it) by submitting to "brain-scrambling". The rich get rich thorough said brain-scrambling. Excellent!

Not to mention it is utter bullshit that ads make things cheaper or free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773. So much for your "pattern".

EDIT (since I can't reply to hagbardgroup at this thread depth): You didn't really read the link and the argument why it doesn't make anything free or cheaper (think about where the advertisers get their money that they pay Facebook), in fact the opposite. Ok, here is the same argument in different words: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237
'Need to respect' meaning what?

Do I follow the law so I don't get in trouble? Yes.

Do I use the law to decide what rights people have? No.

The law is only relevant because there are people who choose to enforce it with violence, it has no place among a discussion of morals, ethics, or rights.
How do you put a price tag on a video game when it’s the first of its kind?
This thesis seems rather incomplete in light of:

https://www.nber.org/digest/oct08/w13985.html

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1975-07262-001
Hollywood wants to make films that people want to watch. They might be able to trick people into going to the cinema before the reviews come out, if necessary. But that won't save it in home entertainment, which is where most of the money is.

They're pretty good at it, too. This year, Furious 7 and Jurassic World have been two of the top-grossing films ever. That's not because people were tricked into seeing them, and didn't know what they were in for. It's because people enjoyed watching those films.
The myth of discoverability (2012)
Maybe they wouldn't lose their impetus, but they might lose their ability to sell the idea of e-books to publishers.

The major stores sell DRM-free music now, but do you think that Apple would have been able to get music publishers on board if the iTMS had no copy protection on day one?
> That's interesting: surely almost none of the state violence still being committed under this law is aimed at persons who had anything to do with 9/11, right?

Its all being targeted at people or organizations the President -- whether Bush or Obama -- has determined have the requisite relationship to 9/11. The accuracy of that determination is immaterial to the AUMF, which isn't contingent on the actual relation of the targets to 9/11, but on the President's determination of the relation.
To put it another way, you can model a traditional bet as a kind of derivative - the payoffs operate in broadly the same way.
There are a lot of distros out there. That is what makes Linux so great. You can roll your own formula of kernel and userland for YOUR needs[and then share it]. You aren't forced to just take what Microsoft or Apple or XXXX gives you nor do you have to completely write your own from scratch.