skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like it would be faster to make a list of things verizon won't accept an administrative subpoena for in lieu of a warrant as opposed to the other way around.

On an unrelated note, if you have verizon FIOS they can push a new firmware package to your router and reboot it easily, without you ever knowing. And they log in every day and confirm the hash of the firmware you're running - if it's not on the approved list (which is generally just the current one they have you set for) it automatically reflashes. A properly written firmware could monitor not just all traffic that was internet bound, but also everything on the local lan and wireless net.

At least in the router I have, there is a significant amount of dark radios on the board. There's a second (unused) 802.11n radio that in other editions is used as a second n stream but easily could be used to do full site surveys or packet capture or as an evil twin, a DECT (cordless phone) compatible phy that could impersonate a cordless basestation and if I read the spec sheet right a bluetooth and powerline phy.

The verizon STB for their converged QAM/IPTV also downloads a portion of their firmware from the management servers and verifies hashes and oprational state TCG style - if they aren't connected to the network they will never actually finish booting.

Details are limited about what the CISCO built STB contains on the inside, but it at least has a light sensor (ir remote) and a vibration / accelerometer (for sudden drop hd head park) that they have been touting as a feature that allows them to measure ad exposure based on floor vibrations that suggest you walked away during a commercial.

They've also been recently touting a 99% effectiveness rate at uniquely identifying the viewer in multi person households based on statistical modeling of the order and speed buttons are pressed on the remote, though I'm unsure if that's with the current cisco gear or the new motorola (google) gear that they are just rolling out.
The article doesn't seem to mention if the sensitive information from the email was marked as such.
The Times's paywall is so porous that this really isn't much of a problem. The content still loads behind the JavaScript overlay, so you can use Safari's Reader or a similar browser plugin to read the articles. You can also get around the paywall by reloading the page in a private/incognito window, etc.

I subscribe to the Times but have never bothered even to log in to the website on my iPhone, since I can always just click the Reader button—which I would do anyway—to read the article when I get paywalled.
Having not been able to maintain my own marriage, I think its more complicated than that.

But the quality Musk has that almost no one in his position has is the willingness to risk it all for the dream. Musk himself almost went broke on SpaceX and Tesla. Most billionaires are into preservation of capital in a big way.
Right, but he didn't jump right into future-tech industries; he had a huge pool of personal capital to draw on, and only himself to answer to in using it. The point the parent is trying to make is that there are probably a lot of people working in less glamorous businesses who would love to jump to working on the cutting-edge, but they don't have access to hundreds of millions in personal funds.
+1 to your second paragraph. I've previously carried out what I considered a pretty fair benchmark: real hardware, realistic server setup, well-informed configuration of both nginx and haproxy, etc... HAProxy had significantly bettter performance in my results. Not questioning their results, just surprised.
I'm confused. Virgin has trains?
> Doing a proper "compile newer version of GCC, then recompile GCC with it, then recompile GCC again" voodoo is just tiresome after the first time. Yes you may lose some performance, but chances are your time is worth way more than what the setup takes.

I agree the recompiles take time, but it's not like you are going to sit in front of the computer and stare at the console output window while emerge is running.
A more sensible approach would be to take advantage of TradeHill's "dark pools" which enable very large BTC transactions to take place outside of the public order book.
True. But you cannot expect that their boiler plate is good for everyone. As you become more familiar with a technology, you probably want to create a boiler plat that works for you. I find that tools like Yeoman keeps me from learning a tool when I'm just starting out and when I become good enough, its boiler plate is just not good enough.
http://www.zec.org, of course Europe is a whole different ball of wax.
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I don't say all are like this... but most :\

At the company I work are 2 +50 people I work with.
The dev is like "give me any programming language and I will programm with it"
The admin is like "I give you the IDE I choose and you use it!"
After reading, I'd say your base question/thesis is: "Why on Earth aren’t there more billionaires doing really cool sci-fi sh!#?". You go on to give plenty of examples (FYI--some of these are already being done such as self-driving cars and flexible displays) but all of them, to truly build, would require a solid understanding of mathematics/physics/some type of engineering right? Not every billionaire has that knowledge. Elon Musk does--I believe he has a degree in physics from Penn and dropped out from the PhD program at Stanford. This knowledge simple does not exist among the majority of billionaires. And exactly because of this lack of knowledge, I don't think billionaires CAN actually do 'really cool sci=f sh!#'.

When you think of a crazy idea, out of the first few questions that come to your mind, one of them is probably, "Is this idea feasible?" To Musk, the idea of Tesla and SpaceX were both feasible, BECAUSE he had the necessary base knowledge in those areas to realize that with money, these visions could become realities. I like to think many people, other billionaires included, have had the idea of cool battery charged vehicles but without the ability to realize it is possible (aka the base knowledge), they stopped at that. Good or bad, this is most likely the reality of it.

All of that being said, I would like to see billionaires do what J.P. Morgan and George Westinghouse did for Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, respectively--and that is to find and fund geniuses with these revolutionary, futuristic, 'really cool sci-fi sh!#' ideas. If more billionaires sought out to find scientists/engineers working on 'the next big thing', I imagine more would happen and newer, more fascinating, industries would be formed.

My plea: If you're a billionaire who appreciates what people like Elon Musk has done/is doing but don't have the skills to do so yourself, go find more people like him (in the sense that they have crazy futuristic ideas) and help them to help the world.
A lot of those billionares were born that way. I suspect that to understand what to do with that kind of money, you've got to have been without it at some point in your life.
That was roughly my take away. Hetzner looks really bad - but the explanation that they are incompetent and lazy sounds more likely than the criminal explanation.

And EFnet looks wronged. But also looks bad for spreading allegations against Hetzner of profiteering from criminals without much more substantial backing.

Sticking to the facts of the situation would have produced a more powerful, and damning condemnation.
To me, the point is that there are many complex challenges to building a real-time collaborative text editor -- so we are stuck with the feature sets of the few people who spent the time to tackle those challenges.

Firebase eliminates much of the complexity, so that if you had a need for a collaborative text editor with one specific, niche feature, it may not be unreasonable to just sit down and build it yourself.
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The OP taught at a top school which is a much bigger deal than graduating from one.
I wouldn't be that optimistic. The FBI investigates and prosecutes crime, which makes it a much more public organization than the NSA.

Even assuming the agencies talk to one another, and for all the FBI's law-bending, they still have to present their evidence in court, and 'your honor, we got this off an NSA dragnet' isn't gonna cut it.

Heh, well, give it a few more years.
Except those aren't straw men. Those are valid objections to some extreme Libertarian and/or Anarchist positions that haven't been answered, only painted as straw men.
Please check which Go version was used for the measurements `trailfox` pointed to ;-)
Why not make bot a function and just call it in your code?

There are things like this, for example, scaffolding in rails.
I have a travel agent. I first check with http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ for the sorts of times and flights that are available, then I check with http://hipmunk.com to see what sorts of prices might be reasonable, then I call or email my travel agent and give him my departure and arrival windows, and my maximum transit time, and let him work it out.

The time this saves is well worth the extra money. I can spent my time doing something I'm good at, enjoy, and pays money, rather than something I'm bad at, don't have the tools for, don't enjoy, and doesn't pay that well.
This isn't for performance, it's for the capability at all.

Would you rather have:

1. No ability to create your own silicon logic outside of FPGA/CPLD chips or having an ASIC fabbed, all of which tend to be very high cost per unit and have large board outlines, and are limited in i/o by the predefined capabilities of the chip?

2. The ability to whip out cheap prototypes whose performance is nowhere near state of the art in a few hours with a laser printer style device onto substrates on an arbitrary surface.

New tech is frequently disruptive in ways different from how things were envisioned - for example, I doubt people reading Stephenson's "Diamond Age" would have envisioned the plastic PLA/ABS fiber printers as the first major incarnation of the 3D printing revolution.
OSX warns you when you change the file extension too, though it doesn't warn that it may not work, it just says it'll open in a different application.
It's an appeal to authority, not an ad hominem.
The vast majority are busy running the businesses that made them billionaires.

Perhaps we just need to look more closely at the list of billionaires "running the businesses that made them billionaires"? Making a spaceship certainly sounds (and is) sexy, but those spaceships are built on top of other technologies like material science, energy storage, communications, etc (and those in turn are built on other technologies like extraction and manufacturing). I'd bet a number of those "businesses that made them billionaires" are working on that kind of tech, but those technologies don't generate the kind of headlines in mainstream media outlets like self-driving cars.

It's the difference between developing packet-switching technologies and Google fiber. You can't have one without the other, but only one sounds exciting.
Seriously, I am such a big fan of Musk. He is challenging every status quo. Big oil companies and auto manufacturers have been stalling the progress of electric cars since decades. Musk went ahead in spite of the tall odds. He's a Tony Stark of our age.
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Doesn't explain why efnet themselves are not at fault for failing to redact the details if they are so concerned. What if the attacker was Hetzner staff?
AFAIK, aged wordpress install usually run on shared hosting.
Can somebody tell me, what "kline" means? I never heard that word and dont find a dictionary entry.
I see many such articles lately and all of them have the same argument: bitcoin doesn't fit well with the current economic theory and hence it's a NO.

The fact is, Bitcoin doesn't and will not fit the theory. What it will eventually do is create a new theory, based on these new technological realities. In fact, I envision such tremendous changes in our society because of cryptocurrency in general that it's hard to even imagine what the consequence will eventually be.

My concern is not that Bitcoin will not work, but that it will work so well that it will totally transform the world, which, given human nature, can lead to big disasters, like famines, wars and so on.
Why would it need to be? Surely Hetzner and the like would be familiar with how sensitive it could be.
In the UK, yes, they operate a couple of rail franchises.

Personally I've always found them far and away the best company - but they have the misfortune of running "cross country" routes, which go through every bottleneck in our rail system :D
You're trolling. Nobody says they're in favor of oppression. Nobody tells themself that, anyway. Everyone's in favor of good things.
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RAD (Delphi, Visual Basic, yes that VB) were far ahead of where we are now today in the ability to put basic pieces together to make an application

Have you tried Django? It provides some rather large building blocks that fit together nicely and reasonable abstraction for constructing your own.
Thanks lutus, I included your tips, they are on the spot. I will try to explain my post. The tip "keep a separate copy localy" or "domain name and hosting shouldn't be in the hands of the same company" wouldn't mean anything to my friend who is an artist. She just "lost her website". To her, there is no domain name, hosting, files, its just a website.

This article wasn't about advanced user such as yourself, you don't need protection and advice how to avoid this. And my writting style is passionate, I am telling a story, not providing bullet points on advice like - Here's 10 advice you should follow so you don't get screwed over by a hoster. It was about a friend of mine who is an artist and got screwed over, and now she will go around tell people how techies are bad guys.
I have had reasonable success with using the Apache POI project for the XLSX and XLS. You might want to consider looking at the community edition of Pentaho Data Integration at the 5.0 level and up. It includes POI for XLSX. I use it all the time to deal with random spreadsheets full of data I get from clinical data (hospital reports).

But I hate excel of any type for data. People randomly change formats and give me updated spreadsheets with 100K's of rows. Then seem surprised when their data doesn't link up with other data sources anymore . . .
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Obligatory calling out of blogspam and linking to the original article: http://allthingsd.com/20130408/whatsapp-were-not-selling-to-...

It never really made sense to me that Google would buy WhatsApp. What do they have that Google can't build themselves? An established userbase, sure, but any messaging app included by default in Android will have users migrating in droves.
That. Why do so few people win 7 in a row in craps? Becausethe odds are against you. Most don't get rich by risking it all. Of those that do, 1 in a million 'make it work' i.e. get lucky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(IRC)#K-line
kline is short for "kill line" and refers to lines in configuration files for IRC daemons (IRCd), i.e. IP ban.
kline (K-line) basically [K]ills a network or IP block, forbidding them from connecting to the IRC server. (I think the term stems from the config files for the original ircd, circa 1988)
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> Most billionaires are into preservation of capital in a big way.

This is surprising to me from a behavioral economics stand point. Seems like billionaires would know they've very nearly maxed out their utility function in terms of material stuff. I'd think it would be very worth it to them to risk a billion dollars (which, remember, is something like the cumulative life's work of a thousand human beings) on mere personal glory or hubris.

Are you speaking from personal experience, or is there some conventional wisdom or data I should know about?
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It's IRC terminology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCd#K-line
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>> He's missing the entire point, bitcoin was designed to stop the federal reserve and US Mint from systematically diluting the value of our money through systematic inflation, (taking taxpayer dollars and giving it to AIG buddies for bailouts and million dollar bonuses) while bribing the media to trick the masses that inflation is somehow "good" for us.

But they've replaced it with a massively deflationary system. As the number of bitcoins approaches the maximum of 21 million, there will be massive incentives not to spend or exchange bitcoin which should grind any bitcoin economy to a halt. Deflation is a much, much harder trap to get out of than inflation.
You are talking about Phusion Passenger Standalone. That is a third mode, which kind of behaves like it wraps Nginx.

First first two modes, Phusion Passenger for Apache and Phusion Passenger for Nginx, behave like Apache/Nginx modules.
Please -- no generalities -- provide a URL so we can all see what you are looking at, and reach our own understanding.
A K-Line is a ban of an client (or multiple clients) from an irc network:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(IRC)#K-line
So... brash, impulsive, and often luck-based ambition vs. careful, calculating ambition.

I'm not sure if we really need to value one over the other. The fact that Musk threw caution to the wind I do not believe is really a virtue - it just weaves a more interesting tale after the fact.
Is this still true after a certain number of hours? If the counter itself doesn't update a database value in real time (which is entirely possible when they use Squids for caching), then there will be a certain delay between the click and the processing.
A good marriage can be way more complicated than putting rockets into space.
My pet peeve in Europe is the positioning of traffic lights. It drives me crazy that they not on the opposite side of the intersection, like in the US, but at the stop line. If you are in the first car at the stop line, then they are right above you and you have to crawl under the windshield to see them. Worst usability ever.
Which would mean even he doesn't agree with his ridiculous main point. But I think you're being too generous.
Yes and no. (Mainly no)

It is unquestionable that Rb has pursued many different avenues despite there being little to no obvious commercial benefit. I do concede that you could argue it is just in the name of building his own profile, but for example did you know he started a charity aged 17, the Student advisory centre where he used to personally give advice over the phone (apparently still running) and that he started mates condoms[1] (UK based). He is also the one behind the eldars[2] (http://www.theelders.org/) and countless other projects including helping african communities establish sustainable business (to name just one).

1: http://www.mates.co.uk/mates-expert/history/
2: http://www.theelders.org/about
Are we really going to start analyzing a man's marriage now? This is not a tabloid. :/
They did not do our design.

Have no idea who they are.
I dread to think how many complete rewrites have never seen the light of day.

Get your data source in order, then refactor in small achievable projects from there. Better for motivation and better for end users.
I assume that we're taking Elon Musk's "Tony Stark"-ness in this context to mean electric cars, space travel, and solar power. To the best of my knowledge he is neither an alcoholic nor a superhero, though I did just look up his marital history on Wikipedia and with assistance from Google Images I have to award 8 Tony Starks out of 10 on that one.

In all seriousness though, are we sure not one of those other 1,225 billionaires is "pursuing major advances in technology with a childlike wonder about the world’s potential"? When I hear about Elon Musk I tend to draw a different conclusion from the author of this piece: not that he is one of a kind, but that there are many more like him out there. I'm not sure which of us is right, quite possibly the author and not me - sometimes seeing X suggests 'generally ¬X' (http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/03/when-seeing-x-suggests...).
It has been removed from wordpress.org. The support page is working, though:

http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-media-widget
Except that the point of the parent post was that people would always hoard bitcoins and never spend them because the value would always rise.

If you don't expect it to always rise, then you don't have the issue (not that it would necessarily be one) in the first place.
It is an IRC term for a "kill line". If your host tuple (nickname, username and hostname) somehow matches the kill line, your connection to the server will be closed with a message on why it was closed.
> Maybe the answer to OP's question is, "Because many who could dream and do like Elon Musk would rather focus on the "little things" like life, love, and family.

I don't want to generalize but I feel this extremely non-trivial notion is often overlooked in this community. Couldn't upvote you enough here.
Must say I agree with ErrantX on this one, by far the best trains I have used (in the UK).
I was just musing that the only word in this headline recognizable to someone outside this small subset of the tech world is "all", and yet it makes perfect sense if you know all the words.
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Honestly, every time I see a job market paper[1] written in Word I can't help but think, "this person must have never worked on anything (mathematically) hard, or needed to automate table generation, or..."

[1] on the off chance that the term is not widely known on HN, job applicants for academic positions (in Economics, at least) send a draft of an (almost always) unpublished paper as the main component of their job application.
sometimes you are required to do task switching. Multitasking is something, though mostly misused can actually help when problem solving. Sometimes you need to let your 'other side' of the brain figure things out while you continue doing something else
Because if there was (and I'm sure there are), we would compare him/ her to Elon Musk, or Steve Jobs, etc.
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The short answer is that they've banned all users connecting from those IP blocks,.

Various *-lines for IRC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCd#Configuration
They don't need complete unfettered access themselves. As this case shows, corporations are all to eager to give them anything they want. Why spend time building it themselves when others give it for free, just by getting "Bob"[1] down the hall to sign a piece of paper.

1. The magistrates and the police work very closely together. By nature of the relationship alone, they are likely to be inclusive of requests. When information about what is being done, as is alleged in this case, it effectively opens the police to access to anything.
It is a necessary sacrifice to foster an open and mutually beneficial service.
And it's web based, and thus I will never use it.
I agree with your sentiment but I'm actually kind of conflicted.

Inspecting into his marriage feels dirty and indeed, tabloid. But if we want to get the full picture of entrepreneurial life, we can't ignore personal life. If you want to be the next Elon Musk it is probably worth noting that his marriage failed- if nothing else, just to remind you that even when you're a billionaire it is very difficult to have it all.
Let's also note that the Go regex-dna programs run out of memory on x86 :-(
There are quite a number of webdev/media agencies which run the Wordpress sites of their customers on their own servers, but neglect the maintenance.
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The ones who were born with it are often quite interested in wealth-preservation as well, to pass the money on in turn to their own heirs. Rather than spending it on something risky, they're more likely to put it in, say, a generation-skipping trust that makes diversified investments.
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