skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take it you live in a country where people are ok to see other people living off the street because they presumably "failed"? That's the only reason I can think of which would make it possible for charities to fit government action scale.

I think this is very erroneous thinking. Just because a government currently does something, does not mean it cannot be done any other way. Nor does it mean someone against income tax is in favour of it not being done at all.

Imagine if someone proposed nationalising all food production to you, and you recoiled in horror, then they accused you of being OK seeing people starve on the street. It's dishonest.

What I'm not ok with is having people who use what we all pay for, then try to not pay for their part by evading taxes.

The very richest people do not pay income tax proportional to their wealth. The progressive taxation system is largely a myth - when you are very rich you have the means to find ways around byzantine tax rules and you will tend to tie up your wealth in assets.

If taxes is a problem for you, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of countries where you can move and that you will find adequate.

You could literally say that about anything a government does. If you don't like being sent to gulags, I am sure you can leave North Korea, etc etc. It's not much of an argument.
Not really. Sounding like a redneck is good for a laugh, but otherwise generally counterproductive in professional settings outside the South.
The lessons of this story are hugely important. Coming of age in a state of hyper-anxiety about our careers (as many of us do), we're used to thinking of our heroes role models as paragons of not just of efficiency and discipline, but above all, clarity of purpose and direction. In reality, quite often the reverse is true.
If I'm not mistaken, 1% in milk refers to the butter fat content, but if a chocolate is 60% sugar, isn't that by weight? Like if a bar is 100 grams, 60 grams is sugar? If that is how it works, you'll notice the missing sugar, I think.
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It depends, but the quality is often MVP level. Some new services are introduced but then virtually abandoned or developed at a snail's pace (Service Catalog, ECS). Sometimes I wish they'd spend more time making the core awesome instead of constantly introducing new services.
It's a tool with an unexpected side effect that it can hurt or kill production. And this post (and others like it) encourages people to use it without a single mention of "overhead" or dangers.

One may not need to belabor the dangers of tools like shutdown, ifconfig, fdisk, etc, since as administration tools one should _expect_ dangers. The worst tools are where the dangers are unexpected. People are going to learn it the hard way if you don't provide a warning.
> This is why democrats lost the elections. Facts matter.

Trump lies constantly. He lies about lying. He lies about lying about lying.

People don't care.

He went up on stage and said vaccines are bad and like magic everyone started nodding and saying yup, they are bad.
It's the principle of least privilege. Give apps (and websites, and even parts of core services/infrastructure and kernel code) only what they absolutely need. Every syscall you can say shouldn't ever be called is one less avenue for attack. Benign isn't good enough. You need to actively justify every privilege, and leaving a few open for "benign" reasons is bad practice.
I'm actually surprised it took this long. I did unix admin work, including SunOS and Solaris since the early 90's.

I was a big fan of Solaris, and it had an edge over Linux for quite some time...as did the Sparc hardware over 32 bit x86.

The writing on the wall was around 2003, when AMD opteron servers came out. 64 bit Linux on dirt cheap, fast, servers.
Would you mind pointing me at the Solaris kernel source code? Directly, please, and not a leaked version of it.
I just tried "admin:admin" and "admin:password" and "root:root" and "root:password" just instinctively.

The site reminded me of "hackthissite"
That's $2000/month cheaper than Cloudflare Enterprise. I imagine they have the same target customer?
Why wouldn't they be happy? Google's a diverse company, it's not like every department/team has an unwritten goal to push Chrome at the expense of everything else.
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> Could make a great heist movie.

Actually 'in the movie' the plot line comes at the end when you find out that the government is behind the heist in order to get hold of a large amount of end user data that they need for surveillance purposes.
Hello! Any recommendations for highlighting the fact that we're applying from a HN Who's Hiring post? Like a keyword in the email subject line or body, etc. Thanks for your time!
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That’s why I stated it as a question.

I still think it’s hypocrisy to care about one and not the other. Those corporations are actually actively working to erode Internet freedoms, which affects everyone, not just a single country, and one that is not even democratic in the first place.

To get on your high horse over censorship in Asia while at the same time merrily include spying in your own code, as a simple convenience, nonetheless, is very much indefensible.
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According to http://www.kitkat.co.uk/content/kitkatcollection , about 54% of the mass is sugar, so reducing that by 40% would cut the mass by roughly 22%.
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This is not true. The reality is that they have never had a "secret strat" for dealing with DDoS attacks except to pass the buck to their customers. And the lack of a clearly defined policy, combined with their exorbitant bandwidth costs, has made it far too dangerous to anyone without a massive budget to build services on their infrastructure.

They have decided to "resolve" this problem by using it as an opportunity to further gouge their customers on bandwidth (which is already 12x+ more expensive than market rate for IP transit), instead of absorbing it into their existing cost structure. Which still would have meant their bandwidth was overpriced, and still would be way higher than what you can get pretty much everywhere else.

For a contrast, OVH provides this protection as an included feature in all of their offerings. Before everyone writes it off as junk in comparison to the glorious AWS black box (AWS is amazing at marketing), bear in mind that the OVH scrubber just took a terabit DDoS attack against it and survived: http://www.securityweek.com/hosting-provider-ovh-hit-1-tbps-...

OVH correctly realizes that the only way to solve this problem is to make sure everybody gets access to it. Otherwise you're just encouraging the democratization of censorship for those without the means to protect themselves against it. I hope the "cloud" providers follow their example.
I don't. Haven't for, I don't know, 15 years? Before that I tended to do passive scans a few times a year, and I never had any viruses so I don't even bother now.

Here's a secret: You don't need AV on Windows if you're remotely tech savvy, and it doesn't mean you need to be paranoid about what you download either, only use some common sense.

The AV's I've come in contact with (friends, family, work) are worse than the viruses they purport to defend against anyway. Just the other day the IT department installed some undisableable Webroot extension in Chrome that injects some godawful green checkmarks throughout Google Search's HTML. That's a virus to me.
AWS Shield Advanced though...so what does this mean if you are on Standard? One of the biggest fears is launching an EC2 instance (or some other service) only to get hit at some random point in time with a DDoS attack and a large bill at the end of the month. I've read stories of AWS forgiving events like this, but are you now up a creek if you don't subscribe to their "Advanced" tier?
Do you review all the code in all the plugins you load to Kodi? Curious why you care so much about OS vs Plex. I haven't found anything that works as well as Plex for on the fly transcoding. DLNA on its own is terrible.
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The combine harvester is incredibly important for everybody, yet nobody considers them a mainstream mode of transport.
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xhci for SmartOS is actually code-complete and in its final testing.[1]

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.o...
This smells fishy to me.

ProductHunt had no hope of ever becoming an actual business with realized monetization, it was a glorified marketing tool built by SV insiders to sell the ventures of their friends, colleagues, and investors. Slimy, but I guess not illegal.

I start to draw the line though, when PH raises millions of dollars on XX million valuations (that anyone could easily see they had no chance of ever meeting), seemingly funnels most of that money into things that simply make promoting other startups more effective, but don't create value or revenue, and then gets bought by another startup who shares multiple investors for (supposedly) something around their ridiculous valuation.

I guess it's probably not outright fraud, but somehow we ended up in a scenario where we have investors shelling out (in some cases paying themselves!!) a (rumored) total of ~28 million dollars for a community website with no real revenue, no actual product, not even any technology that they could theoretically pivot on... it's just a glorified phpBB theme with a relatively small community of fans who just happen to all be in on the take as well. And I'm sure all investors involved get to mark it as a "win" on the books and pad their stats.

Next time Silicon Valley tries to portray itself as a meritocracy I guess we can just point to this...
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So PH was acquired for half the price of Pebble?
This doesn't make any sense... Wow...
I'm 'satisfied' that you seem to have to have considered Adams' argument, even if you then reject it. It takes significant good will just to read a suggested link, so I thank you.

Saying "no credible evidence" might technically be correct, but I don't think it explains why some people are so convinced that the evidence is conclusive. I think it's more accurate to say that some of the evidence appears credible, but the conclusion is unsupported because of the biased manner in which the evidence was collected.

I agree with Adams when he says "Confirmation bias looks EXACTLY LIKE a mountain of real evidence. And let me be super-clear here. When I say it looks exactly the same, I am not exaggerating. I mean there is no way to tell the difference." And I think he's right that other aspects of the political divide may have similar origins.
> Saudi Arabia has been a particularly generous benefactor. The kingdom gave between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. (Donations are typically reported in broad ranges, not specific amounts.) At least $1 million more was donated by Friends of Saudi Arabia, which was co-founded by a Saudi prince.

Ref: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinto...
AWS has also been certified to be PCI Level 1 compliant for a few years now.

As far as Oracle Cloud appeal is concerned - I can totally see the big "enterprise" type IT departments using Oracle/Weblogic stack going for it at least in the "paid POC" type mode to get things rolling.
You can't pay an exact amount because we literally have no way to calculate such an amount. How do you calculate usage for police, fire, military protection? How do you calculate the monetary value of being surrounded by educated people (which is what part of your taxes pay for)? You can't.

We do have usage-based taxes for things where we can calculate the usage relatively easily, such as tolls for roads. A lot of other things however have to come from your income, because that's the easiest method that, believe it or not, requires the least bureaucracy.

P.S. You can't opt out of police protection because... how would that work exactly?
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Design, develop, test, support, and deploy custom web, and mobile applications in a .NET environment
Assist product development team with API specifications
Collaborate with clients to translate business requirements into technical requirements
Technical Qualifications

Experience developing real world solutions for the internet
C#, ASP.net MVC, HTML5, Javascript, CSS, AJAX, JSON, etc.
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I haven't installed an antivirus program since Microsoft released their Security Essentials / Windows Defender pairing in Vista. I think we're already there -- it's just taking time to reverse the years of beating the antivirus drum into the common perception.
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The Github PR integration is the most important part for me. It's a necessity for us to be able to use it. We use our own install of Drone on a fairly sizable EC2 instance and not having to manage that anymore would be wonderful.
Stuck on step 8, failed to crack the "pass" thing once (what do I even do there?) and now it says "No route to 01:55:53:35:13" which is the IP I discovered and NMAPped. Now what?
Definition of stealing: Taking something you're not entitled to. People are entitled to make less money and pay fewer taxes as a result.
"Nobody's gotten fired for buying, uh, Oracle."
> Isn't it more useful to get a few hundred snowballs and ship them via Fedex?

Corporate types, spending loads of company money, are more interested in convenience and turn key solutions to problems that rigs that cost less but give more to think about or other issues.
Re-encoding is not enough to prevent attackers from constructing polyglots, see https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2012/06/encoding-web-shells-i...

> Placing shells in IDAT chunks has some big advantages and should bypass most data validation techniques where applications resize or re-encode uploaded images. You can even upload the above payloads as GIFs or JPEGs etc. as long as the final image is saved as a PNG.

An attacker will likely be able to figure out the exact re-encoding you apply, so unless you add some form of randomness, the attacker can work backwards to get the payload they want included.
That's an odd statment. Not all startups need gigantic cash influx nor (oh god) 1000 engineers. 100 million a year businesses can operate with under 100 core developer staff (need more for other operations of course but those are generally easier to hire for).
No need for a nuclear holocaust, the increasing ineffectiveness of antibiotics will do the job eventually. Nature has a way of getting even.
That's the key issue. How long before Uber runs out of cash? They've raised around $15 billion.[1] How much of that is left?

The experience of Austin, TX, where Uber and Lyft pulled out rather than fingerprint their drivers is indicative. Within weeks, there were seven companies replacing Uber. It just isn't that hard to replace Uber.[2] When Uber goes under, it will be a speed bump, not a disaster.

Amazon lost money for a long time, but they were building infrastructure - huge warehouses and giant data centers. That's ordinary industrial growth, like building a steel mill. Now that's paying off. What physical assets does Uber have? They don't even own the cars.

[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/why-is-uber-raising-s...
[2] http://www.512tech.com/technology/tested-seven-austin-post-u...
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We're measuring human behavior. The problem is that, as the circumstances change, humans change their behavior. That means that economic models only work as long as the economy keeps doing what it has been, so that the humans keep doing what they have been, which leads to an economy that continues to do what it has been...
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Aw, I'd planned to buy Christmas presents, but now I have to divert all that money (and garage space) to hoarding full sugar Wonka Bars.

"Who can make the sunrise?..." Me, even 2 years on, that's who.
Since XP / Vista, actually. Windows 8 is when they integrated Microsoft Security Essentials into Windows Defender as a full OS component.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Security_Essentials
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How so? The government is collecting the money you owe them. And you owe them money because every single day you use and benefit from things the government has funded, such as as infrastructure, police protection, fire protection, military protection and much, much more.

Much much more... like launching invasions on other countries, giving policemen paid leave after committing brutalities, bailing out mega corporations, providing jobs it's near impossible to be fired from with no incentive for hard work...

The state is structured in such a way that you can't help but use what they provide. That doesn't constitute any kind of consent. If a cartel occupies your area, demands protection money, and provides some services - they are still a cartel.