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I'm in a rather good situation to answer this. I have a Vultr VPS and a Linode VPS. Both are on $10/month plans.

Linode I use as an rsync server, fossil server, and for IRC. It's running Arch Linux. I would like to run FreeBSD on it, but I didn't know you could when I got it. The Vultr one is a Postgres server running on DragonFlyBSD that I use as a database for various hobby projects. I experiment with various distributed computing projects with the two of them.

I'm very happy with both of them. I'd like to unify on one for ease of payment and maintenance, but I can't decide which. :(

Linode pros:

- Recently the $10/mo plan went from 1GB RAM to 2GB! EDIT: So apparently I should've read the link… that was what this is about. Thanks for the extra RAM!

- 4GB extra disk space (20GB vs 24GB).

- I like their management panel better.

- liXXX-YY.members.linode.com is an alias for your instance. It's much easier to remember than my Vultr IP.

Linode cons:

- I'm worried about security.

- Installing OSes other than the available images is hard.

Vultr pros:

- Custom ISOs are nice for those of us who vastly prefer BSD servers.

- So far no security breaches?

- May be slightly faster, but it's hard to say given the OS difference. I suspect it's just DragonFlyBSD being DragonFlyBSD.

Vultr cons:

- Web management is mediocre; Linode's is better designed and shows me more information.

- Young, who knows what their security is actually like.

- A little more expensive for what you get. I don't mind much though.

If any Linode people are reading this, I think I would settle on Linode _IF_ I can get some assurance about security practices. It's a nice service. I like you. It would be extra nice if you roll out some custom ISO thing eventually.

EDIT: Obligatory "not affiliated with either company". Just a dude that wants to host some place for his fossil repos, rsync, and Postgres server. One of these days I'll just maintain my own server on a Free platform (not Intel, not x86_64) and not use any VPS provider.
I hope you're being paid in full for that.
If you're talking about profits, youtube wasn't a good company before the acquisition, and it still isn't. But it is an important company.
I've been wanting to like TAP, but can't seem to find much straightforward tooling around it. There seem to be tons of libraries for producing it (is a library really needed to spit "ok"/"not ok" to stdout?), a bunch of formatting commands (is it really that useful to swap "ok" with a tick and "not ok" to a cross?), then there are things like Smolder and Jenkins which seem interesting but quite heavyweight.

What I'd really like is a commandline tool for tracking test passes/failures over time, graphing trends, tracking how long tests remain in a failed state, etc. Is there anything like this which doesn't require running a Web server and opening a Web browser?
I think it's a good question. Clearly the content of the documents should matter the most. However, whoever leaked it has an agenda. If it's a lone hacker, it's most likely for the lulz. If it's a foreign country actor, we should keep their intentions in context.

I personally think it was for the lulz and this was a lone hacker.
A friend of a friend was hired as a CFO at a dispensary, and pretty much had to create an entire accounting system from scratch. Cash management consisted of employees driving around to the store and collecting the money, as the armored car firms wouldn't accept their business. So he set up a subsidiary that went out and bought some armored cars and was able to safely transport the money, staffed with former military. .. they had the cash for it, so why not?
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Your responsibility is to make sure they can get the code for a certain amount of time after you distributed it to them.

So you can point to the origin source if you feel confident that it will remain available for long enough, and if you know you can provide an alternative way to access it if that site goes down (so just keep a local copy, and if somebody tells you that the link is broken then you just share that copy).
Probably is- but if the RFID tag says a box weighs 50 pounds, and it comes in weighing 45 pounds, then you can throw up flags. Of course, there's always going to be ways around this sort of stuff, but you just have to raise the cost of getting around them just enough for it to be unprofitable.

Also, I've heard that cartel-grade MJ is terrible quality- local cultivation is probably pretty different then whatever shit they can grow.
Yes.

Federal enforcement is carried out by the DOJ, which is an agency of the Executive Branch. The DOJ serves at the pleasure of the President, so while Obama chooses not to enforce this law currently, he (or the next President) could change their minds at any moment.

In practice, Microsoft is betting on their lobbyists to ensure a stable regulatory climate.
Can I ship software faster than you? With these workflows, yeah
Can you specify in what way this isn't "ready?" I'd assume it's because they seem to be peddling "early access" in which case that's not an immediate indication that's "not ready."
Thank you for sharing, simple and detailed. However I'd like to comment that AWS is not cheap.
I don't understand why Git can't just make the [histogram algorithm][1] default, which has better performance than the base Myers algorithm, and is already built to integrate this type of heuristics (without the bugs that caused this patch to get held back).

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32365271/whats-the-differ...
A bit off-topic, but: to all the people complaining about the 503 and suggesting that this is a code issue, I don't think you understand what causes a 503. You can have a 503 with an empty page if the web server gets overloaded with more connections than it can handle, for example.
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Stupid question:

What safeguards does this have in place to stop me from building a set of bots that game it?
Personally I would prefer stricter gun control but the usual argument is probably that a mass shooter won't go where he knows that people have guns. So you could argue that having people with guns in a location avoids mass shootings.
This is so timely for me! I was struggling to build a repeatable stack with CloudFormation, started down the road of Terraform just last night. This will help me skip a lot of learning curve. Thank you!
"Both CrowdStrike and the DNC, moreover, are still pointing their fingers at Russia."

Of course they are. It looks horrible for both of them if it's a script kiddie.
"Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs."
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Edit: and instagram won't refresh.
Direct result of the England and Northern Ireland celebrations perhaps.
They appear to be paying evaluators based on candidates keeping the job for which the candidate was evaluated. It says "You'll receive a percentage of the hired candidate's annual salary for their first full year." If we interpret that to mean they have to work a full year before you get the commission, it's in your interests to make sure your rating is accurate.
Any black hole generator that doesn't itself become a black hole is essentially throwing part of itself in the black hole (Yay conservation laws!). You can replace the catapults with lasers or plasma guns or whatever.
Oh man, excellent. I've wanted this feature in my [Plushu][] project for years: this will make my code significantly simpler.

[Plushu]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/253...
As the person who wrote a patch to import data from WP to Pelican I agree. It's a complete nightmare. In order to properly maintain the formatting from ~6 years of blog posts I had to literally translate the PHP code that parsed the database representation into Python... which is some really gnarly code.
In the mid-80s, you reported income to the IRS as coming from a marijuana business?
Bold move.

In the mid-80s I had income that would not ordinarily go on a W2 or a 1099.
I had reason to take them at their word and file. All I'm saying is that the IRS doesn't care where the money comes from, as long as they get their cut, and I have experience to back this up.

All it takes is one story to the contrary to turn this into urban legend, and the IRS doesn't get as much money anymore. They're a debt collection agency, I had/have little reason to doubt that they just want their money.
> as all marijuana trade is criminal under federal law

You may be right because of the word trade; however, the Federal government itself has authorized the growing (University of Mississippi) and interstate distribution of legal marijuana since 1976 through CIND.

Not trying to split hairs, because the total patient list has probably always been under a dozen people, but it is still an interesting fact and one I only know of because I randomly represented one of the Federal patients in a corporate capacity. Each patient dosage is individualized, and the Federal government gives my client 360 joints per month.
Stop right there. You made a claim that "the plagiarism stuff is now not even getting mentioned anymore."

I demonstrated that it was mentioned, in the linked-to essay even. This suggests that you didn't read the essay, at least not fully or in detail.

Definitely not with the focus that you brought when criticizing a minor supporting document, nor with the high standards you want in response.

That demonstration was all I cared to do. You can move the goalposts, and demand "documentation for the super broad claims", but I'm not going there. Nor is this essay about that topic you want to discuss.

You can derail the conversation to something completely different than what Violet Blue described in the essay, but not only don't I care to follow you, but I have to wonder why you aren't discussing the points that are in the actual essay and want instead to switch topics away from the increasingly well attested cases of harassment allegedly done by Applebaum.

You write: "And I simply don't see how any of that would have been necessary to stand up against abuse and Appelbaum"

I see. So because you don't understand something doesn't mean it can't or doesn't happen. Is this based on your experience in reading through EEOC and court cases on how sexual harassment takes place in the workplace? Or in Title IX cases of how sexual harassment takes place in academic environments? Or in research reports in how sexual harassment occurs in other groups and organizations?

Or are you winging it based on your personal beliefs? Because that's what it seems like to me.

I like and am impressed by Snowden's talks.
Have you heard of this sweet version control provider called Github? I hear they might provide a solution for this sort of thing, for free.
Yeah - like I said, I think I misread something up-thread, so I had the wrong context in mind.
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The advertising platform was in development prior to the acquisition, and in my humble opinion, the plan that was in place was not bad at all, and certainly had users best interests in mind as well. I moved off of the ads team when initial integration started with Yahoo, so I don't have as much insight in to this.
> Some knew the name, but they were hoping to be bought by a trendier tech company...

It didn't occur to me that millennials could be oblivious to the existence of Yahoo. (Afterall, millions of people still use Yahoo Mail, Flickr, etc.)

> Karp, a coder at heart, is described by colleagues as “openly hostile” to traditional advertising.

I suspect Tumblr users, much like Reddiors, are allergic to advertisements.

> Traditional marketers... were also skittish about some of the raunchier user-generated content on Tumblr.

No shit. In many respects, Tumblr is essentially a bootleg porn site. From Day One, people have cited Tumblr's reliance on "adult content" as a major problem for Yahoo. I thought the would just ban adult content, but then I realized that they can't because they would lose a significant chunk of their userbase.
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I think you'll find that jealousy is now synonymous with envy as well as its previous meaning, which is derived not proscribed.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

I don't think this means what you think it means. A quick glance at wikipedia expands and explains:

The Ninth Amendment explicitly bars denial of unenumerated rights if the denial is based on the enumeration of certain rights in the Constitution, but this amendment does not explicitly bar denial of unenumerated rights if the denial is based on the enumeration of certain powers in the Constitution.

What unenumerated right is being infringed here?

One could suppose the right you're referring to is that of the individual states to create their own laws...except the Constitution covers that one in Article VI, clause 2:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing [sic] in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

Or the right of the states to regulate trade...

[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

...hmmm.

The problem is that a) weed is illegal in the United States under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) (21 U.S.C. § 811) b) the President of the United States has decided not to enforce this law (in violation of Article III clause 5: "he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed"). This had led to a murky situation where the laws that apply to a local company are very very different from the laws that a multinational entity like Microsoft has to worry about. I'd be very interested to see what happens in the long run here.
Perhaps this should have been the quote pasted above instead.
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I'm actually $10K under market average.
That isn't a U.S. government classification marking. This is just a document that has the word "secret" in the header.

1. There are no dissemination controls present in the banner, e.g. SECRET//NOFORN.

2. None of the paragraphs are portion-marked e.g. (S) or (U).

3. There is no classification authority or date in the footer.
Switzerland is not even in the EU — I think being in the EU is a prerequisite for any EU funding, though :).
That's motivation to give ratings, but not necessarily accurate ones.

Actually since your commission per employee is likely to be very small, it's in your interest to cast a wider net by giving ratings to as many developers as you can. Since you can't really lose anything.
There is always someone willing to take your job. Most won't have what it takes. But managers will use that to cow you into a shitty bargaining position.

Look I've been you. I took the crappy job because I figured that was the only one available. There are better companies out there. Just ask around. Get a few offers.

There is nothing normal about being on call with a 1-3 minute response time. I'm pretty sure it's illegal as well.
Cool. BitKeeper internal diff, used for recording history and displaying changes has done this since 2001.
https://gist.github.com/wscott/c403526ca19a210c13ad649136c15...

http://bkbits.net/u/bk/bugfix/?PAGE=patch&REV=3bdee65dgEb_uM...
From crossing the border between the US and Canada regularly both US and Canadian officers are equipped with gear and armed. They are likely Bulletin Proof or Stab Jackets. You really never know what is going to happen
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There are more than two options. For instance, you can document this is an expectation of you, and you can document all of the times you are on call. Then you can sue them for unpaid overtime.
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I don't think you understand what a 503 means.

Edit - In the wild, a 503 usually means that the person who built out the site did not do a very good job of estimating traffic. An empty response can return 503 if the server is overwhelmed with connections.

In other words, a 503 more likely than not has nothing to do with code and has everything to do with provisioning enough resources for the amount of traffic received. Unfortunately, that's a tough thing to get right, particularly when you land on the front page of Hacker News during extremely busy times.
Ads delivered to your computer by Windows? Check.

I'd rather have the old Microsoft back. :/
What languages do you support for unikernel?
Is it just Go, or do you plan to support others in the future (e.g. OCaml for MirageOS)
Oh for beating Wales at Football? Ha maybe. If it's that wonder what will happen over Brexit?
The website works for me, but Messenger is down and so is Chat on the main site.
You mean stuff like the "signal" and "slot" declarations in the class definition?

Wouldn't these types of classes be tied to the GUI framework anyway due to the inherited classes, implemented virtual functions, widget classes referenced and so forth? In my experience (having used Qt, GTK, FOX, FLTK and wxWidgets over the years), different GUI frameworks are significantly different in their APIs and how they work, to the point where I think changing existing code from any of these to any other is a very difficult job, with or without moc.
It's faster (C++ vs Java) and more compatible with the documents I have to open.

It also pleasantly surprised me once:

I received a Powerpoint presentation, and went to a customer meeting, where said presentation had to be presented.

I plugged the HDMI to VGA adapter for the VideoBeam to the laptop, started the presentation, and the presentation was running in the external display, while the laptop display was still showing the normal 'Powerpoint' view. I could load the web browser in the laptop display to check some things while the presentation was still running undisturbed and the speaker and the audience was happily unaware of it.

That level of professional use in software was something I did not come to expect in Ubuntu for any third party software. In fact I don't know if the other Office suites (including MS) have that feature. I guess they do, but still.

It is wonderful when everything just works as intended.
I used to use that weather app too. Loved it. Then I tried the AccuWeather app and I became convinced that its forecasts were more accurate.
Right in the nostalgias, dude. I had totally forgotten about those days...somewhat hoping we don't get a repeat.
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I have multiple posts in my history praising Vultr, but I'm not a shill and I don't even currently use them. I just had a really good experience with them and their support team early last year.
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I have mixed feelings about this because people may game the system just to protect people they know or to simply try to make money without actually being honest with the evaluation.

I don't know the details on how the evaluations happen, but I think you should only be able to evaluate the code and recommend people without knowing who the actual author is. This way you prevent some biases.
Just based on how that phrase is worded ("all developers..."), this would seem like a market almost purely to hire bootcamp graduates.
"Compared to an asset like gold, Ethereum is very volatile. Recently, bitcoin had attained levels of gold-like stability."

Brought a smile to my face ;)
So we will have a new metric like the ballmer peak?
I don't want it to be smart. I don't want a 'smart' blender or a 'smart' fridge or a 'smart' doorbell or whatever else you can think of. Most of this internet of things stuff is a bunch of quasi solutions looking for an actual problem.

I'd rather one that doesn't need replacing as often and works better as a traditional device.
All these are viable, and I use a handful of them- however, there's a lot of software that's windows exclusive, and if you're in a corporate environment chances are you're using a bunch of webapps that are IE exclusive. If you're a gamer, graphic artist, modeler, etc, you need directX.

Now, this is all becoming less of a problem (thanks vulkan!) but I would safely say MS has a monopoly still.
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Another idea is to have a code word that you will use if you are really in trouble. Though a good scammer can probably work around that by saying you are injured, dying, can't talk, etc.
It looks like they are using both TensorFlow and Theano. Is there a reason to use both?
These things aren't mutually exclusive. Blogging is both a hobby and a civil right.
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Seems back up now.
Looks like fake accounts on Facebook will have real unique userpics soon
Could it be that a new version was rolled out 4 hours ago?

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/16/facebook-rolls-out-a-new-l...
During the course of facilitating a tax audit of a startup I worked at some years ago, I was told by the IRS agent conducting the audit that they in fact have an entire group of agents focused on compliance and audit for prostitutes. It turns out that the IRS' job is to collect money, not to make sure that rules established by other parts of the government are followed ;)
So this is kind of a two part question:

1) What languages right now - Go, php, javascript, ruby through the rumpkernel project - rumpkernel.org.

2) We are implementing support to support user supplied images which will let you run mostly anything in the very near future. We plan to be completely agnostic.
This is the logical end result of politics turned nasty - violent targeting of politicians of all stripes. It's about time we all stopped going after eyeballs and became about something greater. Giving air time to Trump, Farage and their ilk has consequences.

The media industry needs to take a good hard look at itself and ask if it's truly making the world a better place, or simply acting as an engine for lies, fear and intolerance.

There'll always be venues for hatred. There doesn't have to be a platform and megaphone for it.
I was just thinking about this the other day! If machine learning can be applied to almost any problem, then surely it could be applied recursively to optimize itself. I'm glad to see that someone worked on this.
29 (which lacks the "too young" connotation the author has placed there)
The issue is not with problems, but with the arbitrary nature of this as a learning tool. Getting a page to fix an issue that you forsaw and prevented is dumb. Teach them to make resilient systems rather than get out of bed.

I have never gotten up at 3am to fix an outage because outages do not impact systems that widely. If it is a network problem, let the network team do their job. All of your other problems are solved with multiple HA/ load balanced servers, monitoring, and proper testing.
I really like that they used TensorFlow and published their code in GitHub. It will help a lot of people like me, that are new in the field and want to learn more about generative models. Amazing work by the OpenAI team!
Is it just me, or does the TV show "Person of Interest" seem to get one step closer to reality every day, minus the all controlling AIs.
There is no legal marijuana trade in the US,

You mean interstate trade, of course.
I place the blame squarely on the Obama Justice Department's Operation Choke Point. The previous task force was at least targeted towards specific, named, businesses and brought them before a court--not a blanket, de-facto ban caused by threatening financial institutions, directly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point