skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised to hear this coming from Etsy, a place I thought of as doing deployment right.

All these things should be simple. You already have (or should have) a unified system for dealing with logging/monitoring/graphing/init scripts/backup across multiple services that are far more different from each other than they are from mongodb (Sharding strategy and slow queries are probably an application-level concern). It shouldn't be hard - in fact it should be trivial - to add one more service. At last.fm (disclaimer: my experience was brief and getting on for two years ago) it felt like we were running every database under the sun, but we had a unified system for doing deployment/monitoring/everything, so it was no bother to add one more if an application wanted it.
It seems like what MS may be getting (or trying to get), at least in part, from this is a return to (or continuation of, I suppose) GNU/Linux as strictly an "enthusiast" OS. A BIOS tweak won't stop me, but it would definitely stop my mom.

I'm currently in school and I see a surprising number of students using Ubuntu, even outside the CS department. Not a lot, by any means, but more than I would have guessed. I wonder how many of them would be using it if it required a weird workaround or really anything more than "put the disc in and reboot".
x86 vendors that want to qualify for the "Designed for Windows 8" logo program have to include UEFI secure boot and enable it by default, though they can allow users to disable it or install their own keys. That creates an extra hoop to jump through to install anything other than Windows 8.

ARM systems designed for Windows 8 have the same requirement, and additionally must not allow users to disable it or install their own keys.
I wonder if this will have an implication for running Linux on Surfaces, I hope it does because they're a very neat (and affordable - inb4 Asus Transformer) piece of hardware but I have little use for another Windows machine.
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Yep, the process needs to be transparent, documented and verifiable. Until it is, good idea to warn others!
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If you read the claims they are apparently infringing upon, it's all math with a thin veneer of "on a magnetic storage medium". It's literally mathematical signal processing. I would bet a few dozen bucks that it is obvious to anyone studying signal processing, since it seems like an advancement on a Kalman filter.
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Number 7 on the Turkish list is Illuminati.

Number 1 on the French list is some kind of shrub.
The biggest difference was pulling a random record. This is an odd use case for most people, and not even a common one for me, but say I wanted to show you a random car near your location. The more common use-cases that were sped up were any geo-location searches, ie you're searching within X miles.
For all not german-speaking:
He's literally talking about how politicians and media use words and sentences to not blame themselves... Really funny...
It's possible, but difficult. Like many other extraordinary feats like doubling your bench press in a month, it's most often seen in people just starting out.

In general, gaining strength means a caloric surplus, and in general, losing weight means a caloric deficit. There are programs like leangains that try to do both. There's a reason the "pros" have separate cutting & bulking phases, although that's maybe needless and arguably dangerous for mere mortals.

I suck at dieting, so I won't give specific advice other than perhaps troll r/fitness & co.
I'm confused. Why is this on HN?
An awful lot of those weapons are provided to those places by outside interests for proxy wars and similar circumstances, at east for more advanced types of weapons. Yes, you can improvise killing tools from a great many things, but the more effective methods tend to be at least somewhat advanced.
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Completely agree with you. Definitely see a variety of beneficial use cases ... wish it worked outside US.
That is pretty much the same technique I would use to get through long pieces on the Erg (rowing machine). Continually breaking down what I had done, how far through I was, % left, how many strokes left at 24 rating etc.

The mental maths helped block out the discomfort!
Breaks while loading http://i.imgur.com/AU2mg.png it just hangs there. Tried with XP and Win7

spoygg@Yggdrasill ~> wine --version
wine-1.5.19
spoygg@Yggdrasill ~> cat /etc/*-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
Nice, but more a research vehicle than a PDA. About three times as thick as the later Newton, which wasn't known for its thinness, and does not look battery operated yet (scroll to 8:45 in the video)

Also, 1992 was late for touch screens. Plato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato_computer) had one in 1972, and wasn't even the first (http://billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html)

So, like almost everything in technology, once you zoom out enough, things that seemed outliers start to fit in patterns.
Doing what they do the best. Kill a good startup.
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Quora and Foursquare have so much data that they're valuable services to non-account users -- but that probably doesn't help their income statements. But Path is only useful to Path users and it is such a small network that there isn't enough of a network effect to keep Path users in the habit of using it -- so how much more appeal can it have?
I've had my bodyweight (110 KG) stuck on my chest with no ill effects other than embarrassment. As the parents say, simply slide the weights off, or ask anyone nearby for a hand.

One thing that is extremely dangerous is using the 'suicide grip' when benching - i.e. having the thumb and fingers on the same side of the bar and simply resting the bar on the palms. It's stupid, but a surprisingly large number of lifters use it.
Taiwan University sues Apple over SIRI[1].
Columbia University sues Illumina[2].
University of California sues Facebook[3].
And now, CMU sues Marvell.

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[1]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/30/us-apple-patent-ta...

[2]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/26/us-illumina-columb...

[3]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/13/us-patents-faceboo...
WARNING: DO NOT USE A THUMBLESS GRIP.

Yes, it's a slightly better angle for your wrists, but you can get that anyways, and it will kill you.
The philosophy of stretching changes every couple of years. One year, stretching before is the way to go. Then, stretching after sport. Then, no stretching at all.

From what I know: Stretching after doing a workout is bad, because it tenses muscles even more, stopping the flow of blood in the muscle and thus, making muscles more sore. But maybe that opinion is just the current trend.
surely criminals aren't allowed on?

:-P
They could also sue all manufacturers for anti-competitiveness for not allowing Linux to be run

But I think the $99 is cheaper and better (given what some idiot bios developers do - remember (IIRC) one link here on HN where the bios would look for 'Microsoft Windows' or 'Red Hat Linux' on boot entries?)
Does anyone know how these stats were collected?
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Why does Facebook have such poor user support?
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> Do they not know that basically every important piece of software today is still written in those languages [C and Cpp]?
> The MX records store the server receiving mail (i.e. an smtp server). How does this relate to the imap server?

It's useful information to guess what the mail servers may be before displaying options to the user.

For example, doing an MX lookup against the domain of postmaster@ycombinator.com would show that the domain is hosted on GMail.

Doing an MX lookup against inky.com returns smtp.arcode.com. Now if you do DNS lookups against mail.arcode.com and imap.arcode.com you'll find they both have A records. imap.arcode.com is listening on port 993 (IMAPS) whilst mail.arcode.com isn't listening on any imap port. So you might want to display imap.arcode.com as a possible option.
I believe you are referencing "DIE WAHRHEIT, WAS WIRKLICH PASSIERTE UND WAS IN DER ZEITUNG STAND" (the truth, what really happened and what the newspapers said) http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5181.en.h..., which is the talk after the keynote.

Jacob's talk was in English.
Jake Appelbaum is an attention-whore who wished for the wrong thing and got it.

The type of fight he's fighting, which, indeed, was foretold by the cypherpunks years before he ever compiled a program, is one of vast asymmetry. He's the source of the quote "the government has a monopoly on violence, but violence can't solve math problems".

The problem is, when you function within an outlawed organization using your above-ground identity, you choose to have your own life destroyed, rendering you unable to be effective in doing the things you talk about being so important. We're talking, here, about a guy who gives sensationalist interviews to Rolling Stone about how he can hack into anything on the internet.

They don't need to break your crypto. They can just break you.

When fighting the surveillance state, you can be famous, xor you can be effective. Period.

I wrote about this some time ago:

https://eeqj.com/20110113/wikileaks/

Don't believe the hype.

Every single person paying attention knows Wikileaks would have been way more effective if it had been fronted by a signing key instead of Julian Assange's haircut. They might have even been able to continue functioning instead of being extrajudicially harassed into oblivion.

These people serve as examples of how _not_ to effect meaningful change.

PS: It also speaks volumes about the current state of the Chaos Computer Club and their conference that they chose such a meaningless sycophant as their keynote speaker.
Great article! After reading it, it seems like stronglifts 5X5 is the thing to do.

I followed it for a while until some guy at the gym said I was doing squats wrong (he was wrong), I ended up injuring my (already weak) back and never properly recovered. Now I'm not sure if I should try pick it up again. Free weights get a bit scary as from a certain weight, you really need a buddy.
Surprised it hasn't been on here before - great set of tools I use it all the time.

Discovered it after dnsstuff moved some of their tools to pay-only.

Watchmouse seems to have been bought out recently too, hope they don't go pay.

Oh apparently they have been on here before, just not the main page http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=viewdns.inf...
strange... your're right.... I just followed the link and saw this stream...
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/leading-article/8789981/...

"In 1990, the UN announced Millennium Development Goals, the first of which was to halve the number of people in extreme poverty by 2015. It emerged this year that the target was met in 2008. Yet the achievement did not merit an official announcement, presumably because it was not achieved by any government scheme but by the pace of global capitalism."

For some, this is a very uncomfortable fact.
No, no, no.

If you are claiming something, than the burden is on you to provide us with evidence. Not on us.

And, in case of your example, "citation needed" is the most valid answer in XXI century, when your claim goes against all common scientific knowledge. Saying anything more is not intellectual laziness, it's a waste of energy. Burden of proof, again, lies on you.
Perhaps better stated, it's a mistake for a junior engineer to do so.
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If you are interested in medical "hacks" on long-distance flights, the award has to go to two doctors who were on a 1995 British Airways flight from Hong Kong to London when a patient had trouble breathing. They determined that the patient suffered a collapsed lung, so they made an incision in her chest, and used a coat hanger, brandy, and a tube from a medical kit to drain the lung. As I recall the story, there was also a nurse who assisted but I can only find the AP story which references the two doctors.(1)

I also have a relative who is a doctor/med school professor who does a lot of traveling, and has had to assist the crew three times with in-flight emergencies. One was a heart attack, one was deteriorating condition of an unknown cause (the flight was diverted to evacuate this man) and the third was a guy who had intense bladder pains mid-flight which turned out to be the result of downing a huge quantity of beer before the flight and being unable to urinate.

1. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZBxOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p...
Perhaps an even better solution might be:

Any people I have emailed at least once within the last two weeks, plus any people I have emailed at least 5 times ever.
What happens in that case is people just type in RandomDictionaryWord at majoremailprovider.com and then the person who really is at that address gets the pleasure of your interesting offers, even though that person probably never heard of you.

(My old gmail account gets Pizza Hut order confirmations from some guy in Texas. About every other week.)
Not really. The point is that what is code and what isn't should be decided at load time, and never be changed during the execution.

Any resources loaded later must be data-only, and code memory must be read-only during the entire execution.
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I should probably mention that this guy has been following Appelbaum around the Internet for literally years, commenting like this on every post about him that he can find. He's @sneakatdatavibe from Twitter, IIRC.
Strict separation of code and data contradicts the definition and purpose of "computers." Single-taped Turing machines do not seperate code and data (it's a single tape and a single "memory space"). Computers are (supposed to be) Turing complete within finite resource limits, meaning they can be used to simulate a single-tape Turing machine.

I dont' really want another single-purpose appliance, so it's kind of a bummer to see the TSA "security" arguments (the article, not you) working to break general-purpose computing... (I think the best we can do for now is a trust system and, for me at least, I still have to see the code to have faith in that.)

As for the "principal of least privilege", well, that was the point of microkernels. We're all using Linux and Windows and Mac OS X (none of which are microkernels), so even if microkernels are "better" they may not be very "practical" for the moment (the old Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate).
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So we basically have Anonymous or lulz-sec working on your proposed model. You think wikileaks made less noise and effect than Anonymous?
Jacob's talk was a pretty good one for an attention whore and that's what keynote speeches are supposed to be about.
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How do you upgrade firmware? My computer has one of those checks that looks for "windows" in the boot string. I just want to rip it out.
Interesting that you should post this, as Schneier literally posted a blog entry seconds ago entitled "Public Shaming as a Security Measure":

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/public_shaming.html
Adding Exchange Web Services support to an email client for the sake of supporting one extra server seems like a lot of extra work for very little benefit. Especially when that server can be configured to allow IMAP connections like the rest of the World uses.
> And if you think it's obvious bullshit, then say so by pointing out why.

How about: I (honestly) don't believe "putting stuff on one plane makes them difficult to read", nor had I ever any trouble with understanding flat interfaces. So how can we reconcile our opinions? You assert a general statement, I have a counterexample (i.e. myself) that seems to go against it.

You can't assert general statements without supporting evidence and expect people to believe you just like that. You can either mark it as opinion ("I believe ..."), or expect to hear requests for citations.

Yes, "citation needed" is a meme. Yes, it came from xkcd, which is so popular among geeks[0] not only because it's funny, but mostly because it's smart and accurate. It's not just another web comic out there.

> just like every other stupid meme, it is old and boring and misused and needs to be put out of its misery.

I'm sorry you say that. You see, you are in the Internet right now. It's an another world inside the real world. What you call "stupid", "old and boring and misused" memes are - for better or worse - the cultural and historical heritage of this place. They are equivalent to proverbs or adages of real world. You cannot get rid of them, they are product of culture.

[0] - and especially HN crowd; just search for "Relevant xkcd" or "Obligatory xkcd".
Much like the 19th century Quaker model in the UK, as with worker villages like Port Sunlight, although in this case the workers did not actually get the extra money...

Lever's aims were "to socialise and Christianise business relations and get back to that close family brotherhood that existed in the good old days of hand labour." He claimed that Port Sunlight was an exercise in profit sharing, but rather than share profits directly, he invested them in the village. He said, "It would not do you much good if you send it down your throats in the form of bottles of whisky, bags of sweets, or fat geese at Christmas. On the other hand, if you leave the money with me, I shall use it to provide for you everything that makes life pleasant – nice houses, comfortable homes, and healthy recreation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Sunlight
I think there is room for both, but I don't think wikileaks would have been as effective without their own (incredibly successful) media whoring.

Wikileaks, with somewhat less rape and insider strife, would have been a more effective organization, true. But a totally anonymous organization on the Internet probably wouldn't have attracted mainstream attention. I doubt dropping the Pentagon Papers today would have had much effect. I mean, 99% of what was in the War Files was essentially known to anyone willing to look, and even people with access wouldn't really read most AARs. It's boring. The controversy actually made more people look at it than would have if Cryptome had FOIA'd it or the DOD just declassified it.

Choosing to do what Jake did (sacrificing his own freedom to promote his agenda) is not something I'd want to do, but we're overall better off that some people are willing to do it. He's never been as technically accomplished as a lot of hackers (probably including Julian Assange), but more than a lot of others, but has been very effective at getting the Tor message out and generally promoting things.

I'd personally rather hang out with people creating technical countermeasures (or, even better, building stuff which is actually expanding human capability, like putting humans on Mars in a decade or extending human lifespan by 20-30 years), but not everyone can do that, and it probably doesn't make sense for everyone to do so.

Keynote talks at conferences rarely have technical content, too.

Just because a cause is right doesn't mean it doesn't need PR/marketing.
1) You can't use Anonymous as a subject for the verb "working" because it's not a noun - it's an adjective, and it's capitalized out of convention, not because it's a name.

2) Those calling themselves anonymous are still operating. Wikileaks is basically paralyzed (which is unfortunate).

3) The Federalist Papers.

4) The Arab Spring revolutions.
What do you think about Wikileaks desire to be treated like a journalistic organization (and afforded the same freedoms)?

While I like to give credit to the general public for being insightful, I think the notion of granting first amendment rights to a signing key pushes the limits of what might ever actually happen.

The decentralizing and anti-authoritarian forces of the internet also have the power to legitimize entities that are above ground yet hover outside the reach of traditional jurisprudence (napster, wikileaks, online poker). It's volatile but the stakes are getting higher and the strategies are getting smarter.

The point I think you overlooking is that if Wikileaks is a signing key then it becomes a lot more plausible that the leaked info is contrived and was planted there to achieve a propaganda goal. Like it or not, human authority structures are somewhat necessary to address issues like that. To offer a counterexample, Anonymous could be hijacked by the government far more easily than Wikileaks. I think the ideal social cryptosystem addresses this but does not exist yet, at least at a scale sufficient to have the kind of impact that Wikileaks has had.
Yes - exactly. It does not have 'special science sauce' added.
very reasonable rules for a one-employee company. will look forward to hearing about how these policies hold up as the company grows.
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I think it was linked to the stream that is just showing whatever is current, some of the talks are in German and some are in English.

(Hello from 29c3 btw)
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> Little wonder as Yoga was developed over thousands
> of years

There is a large amount of bullshit which evolved over thousands of years and is still bullshit. Thousands of years mean nothing. I am not saying that all yoga is BS, but signal to noise is definitely very low.

> Those basic strength exercises are IMO just the western
> version of it, a slightly less advanced form.

Uhm. How about learning some basics?
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I understood question:

"I was told to avoid registering and hosting at the same company. What do you think about that?"

as

"I was told to avoid registering and hosting at gandi.net. What do you think about that?"

If it was meant as asked than there maybe some truth to it. But than again if you are confident in how some company handles one area than that may give some credibility of their work in other areas.

When I started using gandi they were just a domain registrar. And I am yet to use them as hosting provider.

I agree somewhat with your view, it can be true in some cases :)
The startup scene shows engineers and innovations still reign outside of large organizational structures.

Disagree, at least if by "startup scene" you mean VC-istan. The VCs hold all the cards, and most of those startups aren't very interesting or innovative.

VC-istan is a postmodern tech company. A fairly good one, but more like a large bureaucracy than a research center. The CEOs are semi-independent PMs who are still beholden to their VC bosses.

The only way to turn VC-istan into something decent would be to impose strict regulations over communications between VCs in order to restrict their ability to collude on terms or blacklist entrepreneurs who piss them off.
'Devian' Linux? Never heard of it.

Sci Linux:

"As the name suggest, the distribution is geared towards scientists doing scientific stuff (I wouldn’t know)."

No it is no more (or less) scientific than CentOS.

Dreadful article.
Everytime I have seen a doctor call on airplane it was either an allergic reaction to food, or some guy who opened his duty-free bottle on the plane and had a little too much fun.
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Open Artist - http://openartisthq.org/

It tries to combine free software into a suite for creative people.
Driven by the fact that there are so many cool applications out there, but most people do not know them,
openArtist tries to be a complete package of creative software.