skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I am not an expert, but I have read several UNSYMPATHETIC accounts of Snowdon's actions that specifically and categorically contradict what you say here when you assert that "He ignored the legal process for raising his concerns."

Last I checked, the consensus was that he raised concerns repeatedly within his chain of command and then attempted to go over it, so much so that there was a process begun to review his actions for discipline/reduced security clearance.

He did not ignore the legal process for raising his concerned- the legal process for raising his concerns FAILED, and, as widely acknowledged by those who should have had oversight (but did not effectively have it until post-Snowden) after his leaks, those concerns should havs been taken seriously by that review process, but were not.

Furthermore, you must understand this: the damage that Edward Snowden caused to the United States was no more and no less than desperately necessary chemotherapy, because the NSA had grown CANCEROUS, and I'm absolutely not convinced it has been cured totally, though I'd be happy to see information otherwise.
It's not weird at all if you live somewhere where an iPhone is important for status and very expensive. You want every penny back you can get when buying the next one
So we ask a snow board instructor to save a man held by an outrageous government? We also realize that there is so little gain for our little snow boarder. He will do nothing. Canada could probably do little in any case
The whole first 3 paragraphs almost describes an intricate dance of restaurants having to keep up with the Times to recognize these reviewers, and the reviewers disguising themselves to get a more authentic experience.

It is sort of like driving -- the best way to avoid a speeding ticket is not by having a keen eye, understanding the cop shifts and hiding spots, and when its "quota" time, the best way to avoid a ticket is to just always drive safely. Then you don't even have to worry about being pulled over.

Similarly, the best way to avoid having a bad review from a fancy columnist, is to just always treat every customer as if they are special, and not have to catch yourself up in the worry of always looking out for the right people. My father was a restauranteur for 35 years, and myself for 8, I found that even if you don't get it right the first time, if the service is exceptional and you build a rapport with your clientele, you will be given a chance to make it right. Focus your efforts on the important things.
Wow. I've used Fiverr twice. I used the same guy to do a mobile app icon and a logo for a different business. He did amazing both times. Total out of pocket expense was $11 each. I got exactly what I wanted and it really really really looked amazing. I got the psd too. Best 20 bucks I ever spent.
Intifada literally means tremor or shaking, and in context it means "to shake off" or "uprising"

It's a real concept with reasonable meaning- digital revolution, digital uprising, etc. Not necessarily related to the first and second initfadas, the historical events.
And subsistence farmers in many areas of the world have 0% car ownership, so they clearly have luxurious lives.
Bill Gates, on the other hand, is in favor of switching from income tax to progressive consumption tax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar0ri9NLArs
If we actually were living in prosperity these kinds of articles just would not exist.

It is all rationalizing.

The fact is that young people are poor, and not just poor in the conventional way people with less time on the planet less savings, but poor in the historical sense of being less wealthy in real money than their parents when they were the same age.

Somebody needs to explain to (most people outside places like Silicon Valley) why in an age supposedly advantaged by the forces of technology and globalization we are actually poorer.

We're not asking the right questions.

The government, the media and huge portions of the middle class are blithely ignoring the territory in favour of the map.

This is not going to end well.
Mariano is correct, DalmatinerDB is build and maintained by Project-FiFo. Dataloop (the authors of the blog post) is currently the biggest user (as far as I know at least), using it in their SaaS.

They have however been excellent open source citizens and contributed back improvements, bug reports and suggestions.
Judging by the only number stated - 500-to-1000-years - and considering the lifetime of 22-olds is about 22... about 20-40 times? Of course assuming the same degree of breakdown...
My MBPr 13" (Late 2012) turns off the left fan and left speaker when the microphone (which is on the left side) is in use.

This is entirely in software, and Windows 10 does not also do the same. OSX has done this since 10.8, which came with the MBPr.
Firmware Update Vulnerabilities in Networked Industrial Equipment
> nobody has _really_ thought about providing a great unified UX for all of this.

Isn't the Stash-Jira-Bamboo-Confluence stack a unified UX for doing all of this (source control, pull requests, deployment, docs, issue tracker, build pipeline, etc)?

It may not be a great UX, but can we at least give Atlassian credit from probably having thought about it having a great UX?
Funny enough - it's all too common for a company to poach employees directly from another job. It's an odd double standard (though understandable) that an employee could get backlash for looking, but recruiters actively try and poach.
> He caused exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States.

Unless you can point to a specific quantifiable thing that happened due to the information he had (because some people getting rightfully upset with their government's mass surveillance of its own people) I'd have trouble saying he caused any damage whatsoever.

And to the prior points, that's sort of what he'd need a pardon for, isn't it?
Sure. But... Then you enter the place where you get overloaded semantic. In particular... the fact that "Object need Classes !" or "Objects are a thing that encapsulate Functions with hidden state"

I have some ideas for post about the fundamental difference beetween RPC and message passing. And how it impact how you think about your code (Java/Cpp vs Smalltalk/Erlang). I think it is the main point.
Great to hear you had such a good experience and that the integrated container registry was so easy to use.
The early momentum is great, but the problem is sales will basically stop after the price hits a certain level.
I assume the argument is that people will see it and strike "while the price is right". While $1000 is not cheap, it's also not exactly exorbitant when you consider the cost of creating your own logo or hiring someone to make it.
Given the title of the article, I was really hoping that the author would answer the following question. Suppose I have the following line:

>rsync ~/20160604/apache-tomcat-7.0.63/webapps/ROOT/contact.html apache-tomcat-1:/svr/apache-tomcat-7.0.63/webapps/ROOT/

I'm rsyncing the contact.html file to my website. Now I want to rsync the index.html page. I do this by:

1. Pressing the up arrow key to get the previous command.

2. Press and hold the back arrow key until it gets to "contact.html"

3. Press and hold backspace to delete "contact.html" and type "index.html"

My question is: How to quickly move the cursor to a location on the line. For example, in Vi I could do "F+c" twice to move to the first "c" if this were a text file. I know I can enabled Vi commands for Bash, but this seems cumbersome. There has to be a way in Bash to jump around the already typed line.
Very cool. Just did a few shots to try it out and the results are definetely nice. Love the smart live picture, and I don't know if it's in my head are real but it feels like it is doing a field of depth if the situation call for one, which is really nice
Speaking personally, I do. Internet ads are usually a sign of low-quality content, for instance they seem to have an incredible power to turn previously esteemed newspapers into clickbait factories.

The best content on the internet is ad-free.
This. I never even realized the web link was there. Always wondered myself why people would keep posting WSJ links to HN without complaints since it was always behind a paywall.

TIL.
500€ notes are not officially available in France. Usually people bring them back from Luxembourg. And then, it's rarely legal to boot -- Luxembourg is a tax haven, and French customs roam the Thalys (high speed train) looking for people carrying too much money back to Paris to be perfectly honest.

I'm pretty confident that these notes are only there for shady if not criminal uses and nothing else. The legal uses are merely justifications for the real, forbidden ones.
> and the sizable remainder of the corpus detailing US tools, techniques, and strategy employed against foreign nations.

Could you provide a reference to these? I've heard this referred to before, but still don't know what he did that could have done actual harm.

EDIT: Unless that harm is simply other nations thinking that the US isn't spying on them, and then learning that they really, really are?
I'm afraid I have to disagree, partially. In any given situation, you're right.

But it's often necessary to get programmers to change their behavior, since what they are doing is causing the problems, and programmers are no better than anyone else at changing behavior in response to criticism.

Design and code reviews are particular hot spots, which is why most I have seen had become just check offs.
Some resources:

Highly recommended Patio11's podcast: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/06/03/kalzumeus-podcast-episod...

A general article on employment negotiation: http://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation
For clarity:

When you say "preemptively", you mean in advance of trial or even indictment. So far as I'm aware, the President cannot issue a pardon in advance of the crime.
That's true. I guess what the OP meant is that trait + being known in the US is what puts Snowden at greater risk in the US.
Does anyone know if these Stingray devices could also be used to intercept M2M IP traffic from a cell modem?
> Now, why would I take the time to write `rm my-file{-01,-02,old}` and risk getting a typo into it, instead of relying on the tab-autocomplete?

If you write `rm my-file{-01,-02,old}` and then press tab, it will expand it for you before you run it.
just be yourself
Author said that if (s)he believed there was a legit conflict of interest, they would have declared it. They asked Wikipedia folks for clarification, after which the bureaucrats started some administrative process and proceeded to edit the page with incorrect facts.

FWIW, the EOMA68 crowd funding campaign is to create a open hardware laptop that can run entirely with free software, and all of the designs etc are open source and available to the public (afaik).
I've noticed:

- For a post or show/ask hn| 4 upvotes = 1 karma point

- For a comment | 1 upvote = 1 karma point

Not sure if this is typical or varies by account based on post history/vote history/above or below 500 karma/etc.
There are so many things that can go wrong with ZipCar in NYC. I never had a good experience, and it ended up being considerably more expensive than just renting a car for 24 hours. It's probably fine in other cities- but it just doesn't work in NYC.

Here's a horror story ZipCar experience for me:

- I need a car for X...
- Open ZipCar app- oh all of the cars in the area are booked for the next 4 days, except for one (inconveniently located).
- Book the car for 3-4 hours.
- Arrive 10mns early- find/talk to an angry parking attendant
- Find out that the car isn't there yet, the previous person still has it.
- Wait for 20mns for the car to arrive.
- Car arrives, it smells like wet dog and has sand all over.
- Hold breath, get in car. Find out it's almost out of gas.
- Spend 30mns finding a gas station, and buying gas.
- Find out the gas pump's credit card reader is broken, wait for another available gas pump.
- Finally fill tank with gas. Only 1.5 hours wasted and we're on our way!
- Preform task X
- Drive car back to ZipCar garage, get stuck in traffic.
- Try to extend reservation, but I can't because someone already booked the car for the next slot.
- Return car to garage, can't find a parking attendant.
- Pass the car along to the next annoyed ZipCar member, sorry for being late- stay away from the Brooklyn Bridge...
- Consider for a moment this other person wasn't actually the member who reserved the car, but possibly a car thief? Nah...
- Contact ZipCar to ask for a discount because of the bad experience. Get $10 next reservation- great, thanks.
How artificial intelligence could help warn us of another Dallas (iawacs)
I'm obviously biased but I feel the comparison is a bit weird.
The constitution has meaning apart from whatever a given Supreme Court says. They try to decipher it, but they don't create its meaning.

We may be bound legally by their ruling, but that is simply a matter of law and tradition. The Supreme Court does not itself have a constitutional mandate to decide on the meaning of the constitution and the constitutionality of laws. It started when a chief justice decided that is what the court was going to do in 1803, and everyone went along with it.

The concepts of case law and judicial review are simply traditions of our legal system.

The constitutional clause in question says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." That to me seems to say the government shouldn't be screwing with it one way or the other.
But they want the router back if you switch provider. If you void the warrenty then I have to pay for it.
Having worked at an ISP, the problem is that pretty much all the routers/modems at price points consumers will accept (because an expensive router, even if leased, means a higher monthly bill) suck.

They all work really well in the testing lab, where there's 50m of cat5 between the DSL modem and the DSLAM on the floor below. But then you find out once it's deployed that they have big issues with certain kinds of interference, so for a small segment of your userbase they have more dropouts than other routers. Since the company has already bought tens of thousands of them at this time, it's not really practical to just recall all of them and buy new ones. So the ISP files a bug with the upstream vendor. After some months of pushing, the vendor gives the ISP a special firmware build that's supposed to fix the problem. The fix never gets into the official firmware line (presumably because it has other downsides that the mfg doesn't want to talk about, maybe it's more conservative in line measurements etc), so now the ISP is locked into running this custom firmware version. Oh and that one probably has its own bugs that the older one didn't.

I saw this happen so many times, with routers from multiple vendors over my years doing this kind of thing. I don't run consumer networking equipment in my home anymore.
As opposed to the non-criminals who receive presidential pardons?
Let's go from "hypothesis" are not being generated by magic.

I'm asking: how can I generate hypothesis? Are you in possession of a scientific method for generating hypothesis? Can you share it?

Scientific method can do so much but I guess you have made up your mind already.
You do realize you're arguing against yourself, right?
They made some changes to how upvoted stories get turned into karma points. There is some threshold of votes (I don't know what it is) that a story needs before upvotes count toward karma. I noticed this a week or two ago and inquired with the moderators.
First reading the title I thought people were making pizzas with logos on them. Which would be a much more bizarre business.
This is one of the essential points outlined in Dale Carnegie's seminal "How to win friends and influence people". This should be required reading for EVERYONE before graduating high school, and revisited regularly. I read it at least once a year.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation. People will do things begrudgingly for criticism and an iron-fisted leader, but they will work wonders when they are praised and appreciated.
Hey! That's Pascal's wager.
Is not whole Atlassians business a unified toolset for all of this? I would not say that nobody actually tried to be that one place... I only seeing GitLab beeing the best open source solution without making a big risk with vendor lock in. And they are also cheaper than their competitors (github, Atlassian etc.) when you want to do private team development.
> I had to do some research to see if it's ever been successful. It hasn't.

You failed at your research. In art, this is quite common. As an artist gains notoriety, their work goes up in price. How much do you think Picasso sold his early works for? How much do you think Picasso paintings are worth now?

Also, Minecraft started out cheap and got more expensive over time.
Hell I disagree with myself about it.
The last car we bought was a used vehicle that cost about $8k a bit more than a year ago. Since then, including repairs, we have probably spent about $700 on maintenance. But that also includes a new set of tires, which should last longer than a year. That car is driven every weekday, with a minimum distance of 20 miles.

The US ran an incentive program a while ago called Cash for Clunkers that basically took a lot of used car inventory permanently out of circulation, as a political favor to the auto manufacturing industry. That drove the prices of the surviving used cars way up. And since many of the destroyed cars were more owner-serviceable than newer cars, that also increased the average cost of maintenance.

The cheapest new car in the US market, the Nissan Versa, retails above $14k. That's 27% of the median household income in the US. The average US household spends $3k per year for vehicle purchases, $2400 for vehicle fuel and other consumables, and up to $3k on insurance, maintenance, licensing, and other transportation-related costs. That means that the overwhelming majority of the US could not purchase a new car without a loan, even if they wanted to.

This is likely a good portion of the reason why younger folks don't own cars at the same rate as older generations. Cars got more expensive, even as education costs skyrocketed. When the economy says you can't have anything nice without taking a big dose of debt with it, it is easier to say, "Okay, well, F U then; I'll educate myself using the Internet, sleep in a cupboard under the stairs, and skate to whatever work I can find that isn't already done by robots."
I like that they aren't providing a phone number as a backup. There has been a lot of discussion recently questioning SMS-based 2FA as a target for social engineering (and other attacks).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12163046
A fun story, but not making pretensions to objective reality, which creationism certainly does.
I would love to hear how this is running for you after a month -- when some of the edge cases have been poked. It would be good to know if you run into problems or if it is still going as smoothly as the initial setup.

I switched over to GitLab for a static blog when I realized I could use the free shared runners to compile any static site generator out there. Such a beautiful feature. I would be interested to hear how it holds up in a production environment.
I don't think that is related. My assumption is that might have to do with caching and when the old value gets evicted from the cache the new value just happens to be different by that much.
Confessions of a Pokemon Go Cheat
Is the two billion page index open source?

I've been thinking a lot about days recently. Seems to me like Pandora's box is open. Google knows where you live, where you eat, what your fetishes are, all of your sexual partners. Facebook knows most of those things to, via different methods. And if you run Windows Microsoft probably has access to most of that as well. Apple will too, because if they don't they won't be able to compete. Tesla, Uber, Waze also have a huge amount of data on your life.

Everyone is pushing the envelope on how much data they are collecting, and the companies which collect more data will compete better. As tech gets better we will increasingly be unable to resist sharing our whole lives with the companies who are powering modern living.

Even worse, there's a huge monopolization effect to having data. Nobody else has anywhere near as much data as Google. That means nobody else can compete. Nevermind the engineering, your algorithms can be 2x as good but you won't have 0.1% the data as a company with billions of daily users.

So Google and Facebook are left untouchable. Microsoft, Apple, and maybe Amazon can get in range. Is there anyone else?

We can fight back by giving up the privacy war and blowing the doors open instead. Take your data (as much as you dare) and make it public. Let every startup have access to it. Let every doctor have access to it. Give the small players a fighting chance.

That does mean a massive cultural shift. It means your neighbors will be able to look up your salary, your fetishes, your personal affairs. It's a big deal.

I don't see any other way out of this though. Surveillance technology is getting better faster than privacy technology, because surveillance tech has the entire tech industry behind it. Smarter phones, smarter TVs, smarter grocery stores, smarter credit cards, smarter shoes... smarter everything. Privacy is melting away and we aren't getting it back.
I had a similar issue to this some time ago. I upgraded our internet at home to Comcast's 250 megabit package, in doing so I had to upgrade our modem. I picked up a Motorola/Arris Surfboard 6183

I ended up with an interesting issue where the modem itself would "hang". My ping to Google would skyrocket from 5ms to 3000ms+, my download speed would drop from 250~ megabits to 0.20, the upload speed however would remain constant at about 30Mbps

Rebooting anything and everything had no effect, throwing various kinds of routing equipment in front of the modem (from OpenWRT to PF sense to even OpenBSD) made no difference. Eventually I purchased a "KanKun SmartSwitch". Some cheap Chinese wall adapter that you could power devices on and off using a phone app. Conveniently it ran OpenWRT and was hackable, so I was able to automate simply rebooting the modem when pings spiked into the 4 digit range (pinging Google every 60 seconds with a simple bash script)

I spent months talking to various Comcast departments. Technical Support, Tier 2, Tier 3, NOC, Headend, Engineering. Eventually I was told that (across the 14 states in my "division") there's only about 20,000 of the model of modem I had, simply not enough to be able to establish a problematic pattern (presumably most customers would just reboot the device when it crashed

Frustrated, I noticed on the Amazon store page that there were numerous complaints about the device with the same issue. I assumed it most likely to be a firmware issue, as the headend engineering team could not correlate any changes from my device on the node at the timestamps I gave them, still archived here http://intelminer.com/reboot.txt

Upon speaking to Amazon about a refund or exchange, they referred me to Arris/Motorola citing it was under warranty. Arris/Motorola then "helpfully" explained that they certify everything BUT the software of the device to be functional, as such I was not covered under warranty. (But hey why not buy a Surfboard 6190 instead? it IS newer!)

It seems like almost a racket for planned obsolescence. Release a decent modem, hire some interns to write crap software, then encourage the customer to "upgrade" the "faulty" hardware when they call in. After all, it's not under warranty now is it?