skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...the failure to close Gitmo was not Obama's fault."

I recommend this Salon article by Glen Greenwald from July 2012

The Obama GITMO myth: New vindictive restrictions on detainees highlights the falsity of Obama defenders regarding closing the camp

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/23/the_obama_gitmo_myth/
Strawman: She never claimed the problem didn't exist.
The only winning move... is not to play.
Further pages can be found by clicking the next button that floats up when you approach the end of the screen - it worked for me in FF, though I don't consider such design comfortable.
It was my "dream job" to work in some big name game studio one day. Then, after reading studio horror stories and working in other normal programming jobs, I realized that I had all this extra time outside of work that I could use to make games on my own terms. That made the decision easy for me :)
Narrowing the Achievement Gap with a Psychological Intervention
Explosion at Boston Marathon finish line
I've always wondered if a tweaked version of the DARPA model might work for VC's. The gist is that DARPA hires a bunch of PhD's (to limited terms) to serve as program managers. The PhD's have an area of expertise and a research agenda, but not specific ideas. During their tenure, they think of specific projects and get a few tens of millions to fund them. Obviously for a VC you'd want to pin down ideas into more concrete, less blue-sky sorts of things with correspondingly smaller budgets.

I think the real benefit to the model is that you decouple idea generation from execution. The guy who is an expert in a particular field and can analyze the literature to see what can be done isn't necessarily the right guy to bring a product to market. Indeed, that expert doesn't necessarily want to take all the risk entailed in bringing a product to market, but may be the person best positioned to determine what can and can't be done.
Linode has already grossly mishandled the situation by not coming out with a complete statement about what exactly happened. I only read this news because it was posed here -- no email notification, no update on their homepage, no twitter, no nothing.

The alleged hacker has made serious and specific claims, and Linode has done jack shit; without more information, how should I proceed? I don't want to call my bank and waste time getting a new credit card (not to mention replacing a million and two services) without a confirmation and I can't get a confirmation because Linodes people are having a circle jerk (or whatever the hell they do).
I wonder if they've deleted CC details of previous clients. Is Linode going to contact all relevant customers? Seems like the right thing to do. Not everyone reads HN.
No, it's covered by the FDIC. Banks can offer better protections but at least 48 hours within discovery is mandatory. http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/news/cnfall09/debit_v...
I really hope no one is injured.
There is definitely a habituation effect. I bought a pair of KRK Rokits a few years ago and got used to listening to everything through them - I bought a second pair for my living room, and virtually all music I hear now comes through one of the pairs of monitors or through a pair of Sennheiser HD 280 headphones. It sounds normal and sound played back on a stereo with an unbalanced EQ setup sounds... odd, like it's trying too hard.
Yes, you will get ALL WebStorm features in PhpStorm. They are built from the same source code. One difference: not all plugins bundled with WebStorm are by default available in PhpStorm but you can install them from the plugin repository. Such plugin is JSTestDriver, for example.
Yeah I did the same thing, but new card takes 5-7 days in my case. Very disappointed that I had to find out about this incident here, imagine all the customers who dont happen to look on slashdot or hacker news.
I guess it just surprises me that the CC companies don't do it themselves. Is the additional overhead of such a feature so high such as to warrant the choice between no payment processor (x% fee per transaction) vs. third party middle guy (x% + a bit more)? Not to mention the money the CC companies would save by not having so many fraudulent transactions (assuming they come out of their pocket, I honestly don't know).
Absolutely. Right now, the only limit to the size of the map is the size of your SD card. A 16gb card should be more than enough to map that courtyard as well as your entire house or office.
The Healing Power of the Crowd
It is possible to work in the games industry and have a family and not crunch all of the time. It should be possible to determine which companies have or do not have this problem without actually working for them. Look for a company with a large population of experienced developers with families and you'll be much less likely to encounter a culture like the one described in this article. I've been in the games industry a long time and my working conditions are great. It seems like it would be more useful for people working in the industry to publish information about bad cultural issues at specific companies than to generalize about the entire industry.
"The fact that these people obviously have very little understanding of the issues they're talking about just convinces me we need responsible organisations like Mozilla to help prevent them from exposing us to privacy and security risks."

Amen.
Edit: Boston police reporting at least 2 dead, 22 injured and 10 people losing limbs.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/explosion-reported-near...

Looks like there were two explosions.

Picture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BH6fCgFCQAERWMB.jpg:large

More details http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Explosions-reported-nea...

"Witnesses said several victims lost limbs, and the area was being evacuated.

Many of the injured appeared to be spectators who gathered for the 117th running of the race."

Many more pictures(warning NSFW Gore):

http://deadspin.com/explosions-reported-at-the-boston-marath...
"However, neither my TF300 nor my Nexus 4 are listed as compatible. [...] It apperently isn't compatible with all 4.x devices."

It is running perfectly fine on my Nexus 4.
Bitcoin: The worship of things shiny and useless
Considering that a Raspberry Pi's processor is the same/similar to an original iPhone (v1)'s processor, repurposing an old iPhone has a lot of advantages over shelling out $35 for a Pi.

Romo (http://romotive.com/meet-romo) is a cool example of repurposing old smartphones (unfortunately only works with iPhone 4 and above, but conceptually interesting)
"who are in the 20k-40k range" - Sounds like badly paying startup.
I agree very much with your post.
Seeing this want me to play with Arduino, not lego. I call this a success. Going to look into Arduino now. Thanks!
From your link:

> [With a debit card,] "Until the bank provides provisional credit, you could temporarily be out of pocket for the amount in dispute," said Richard Foley, an FDIC attorney who specializes in consumer issues. "This would not typically happen with a credit card because consumers can withhold payment of the amount in dispute."

> Also, as discussed on the next page, consumers have better federal protections when they purchase faulty goods with credit cards.
The pasted text from Linode appears to say exactly that:

> We are unable to release any additional details regarding this incident at this time, as there is an ongoing investigation.

Edit: Oops, didn't refresh before replying. jmilloy got it first! Sorry about that.
> Basically, the way our culture mindlessly promotes home ownership is insane. Absolutely insane!

It's really the older generation that promote this. If you're 35 years old, chances are your dad walked out of high school into the same large company that he retired from. Why would they need mobility when they had jobs for life?

The only younger people I know that share that view are close-minded and never see the point of leaving Smalltown, USA.
Cue is looking for Python hackers
"Oh, would somebody PLEASE think of the advertisers!"

Hmm... building the internet not particularly thinking about the ads on a website sounds good to me.
It seems there are a LOT of incompetents then. Are the payment processors you're talking about something the vendor interfaces with in the background and not a third party that is directly utilized by the customer (eg. Stripe, Paypal)?
Have you consider having "vesting schedules" based on milestones?
This way nobody owns anything until they prove their work and commitment to the project.

Vesting schedule was commonly used with employees, but these days more and more Start Ups use it with their founders, advisors, etc...
Good luck!
It doesn't even have to be just working as a healthcare professional. If you don't like working with patients (it can be quite depressing for some folks), you could be creating a variety of products for this market, including software (though you sort of lose the supply-side advantage in that case).
The .ideas file - Quickly jot ideas from the Terminal
9 out of 10 security pros recommend … PCI
They probably can't say anything just yet. It's fair to be mad about them not realizing (or worse, covering up) the breadth of this breach, but do keep in mind that if they're working with the FBI, they've probably been asked to keep a lid on their official response for a few hours.
Explosions Reported at Site of Boston Marathon
Boston Marathon hit by explosions
I absolutely do think that employers should only be able to ask how long you worked somewhere and not how long you worked there. Sites like linked in should give you the ability to only publicize tenure and not approximate dates of employment.

I'm employed but but an issue like this is worrying for other reasons like the decision to take a break from the labor market and travel. What if I want to dip in my savings and travel for a year. I'm unemployed for greater than 6 months in such a situation but voluntarily so.
I assume you've checked out Marketcetera ( http://www.marketcetera.com ). What will be your platform's primary differentiators?
Boston Marathon Explosions
Crazy people.. Another image [NSFW]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BH6fwFvCUAA-PWb.jpg:large
Two explosions at Boston marathon finish line
Sorcery. It's poetry that has to actually accomplish something.
> All entrepreneurs want to change the world!

I don't agree. Most entrepreneurs I have met just want to have viable businesses and make a lot of money.

> Don’t create solutions for problems that don’t exist
> Listen to your customers, and stop building things they don’t want or need

I disagree. Opening your mind to possibilities beyond what people want today is what makes people either appear extremely stupid or extremely visionary. Whether they are former or latter can only be judged by history and not by the present. The corner stone of innovation is that it creates things that people don't really 'need'. But once it's there, people seem to think they cannot do without it.

Like the PC
or tablets
or a tamagotchi
or a pet rock

Don't be dismissive of any idea.
3 years ago I ended 18 months of unemployment by listing every friend, person I spoke with, or acquaintance as one of my clients for my 'very successful' consulting business.

I regularly do help out on side projects or test out ideas with friends so they were more than happy to provide a reference for this period. In the 3 years since i've been able to climb from no income, to medium US income, to top 5% income bracket. Its hard, but not impossible to recover.
This story seems to be a problem in need of a solution. Doesn't that suggest a market for solutions?
This is the same quota issue we deal with in all sorts of fields for all sorts of minorities. In my opinion the only effective course of action is to continually improve equality of opportunity, not by promoting some people at the expense of others because of minority status, but by concentrating and encouraging/requiring others to concentrate on qualifications to the exclusion of ethnic, sexual, etc. factors.

Yes, definitely, too much (over)sensitivity. There will always be people who discriminate, and there will always be someone out there -- no matter who you are -- that will actively discriminate against you given the opportunity. Those people will never change. For the rest of us, what the world needs is to lighten up and give things some time: In the grander scheme of things, all this equality talk started up relatively recently. People don't change overnight, and the institutions we build change far more slowly.

Patience, people. Patience, tempered expectations, and realism. Not all of this will ever be "fixed," and that which is will pretty much asymptotically approach our best case expectations, so learning to be happy with what we get and work to improve things without pissing everyone off all the time seems like a pretty reasonable goal to me.
You don't pay for Netflix, Adwords, Amazon Prime, AWS, etc. using a card? If so, yes, I think you're weird. What do you do? Give them all your bank details?
No, you don't have a right to claim that he is guilty of anything until it is proven beyond reasonable doubt.
The Geneva convention is irrelevant to that.

Whether or not US Forces say he's guilty does not make him guilty in reality. They could be lying; they have lied many times in the past
Dennis Crowley was running the marathon and tweeted that he and thousands of other runners have been stopped at mile 26: https://twitter.com/dens
Makes me think where's Stellar Wind when it's needed…

edit: "Thoſe who would give up Essential Liberty to purchaſe a little Temporary Safety, deſerve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Explosions reported near Boston Marathon finish line
Every site can be hacked. It's just a matter of time. You just have to properly react: call your CC provider, check for any charges on your bill, and move on.
I think you will find is that a lot companies don't like hiring small business owners either. Even successful ones. Companies might expect them to be 'arrogant' or "want do things their own way".
For brand new cars, FlightCar honestly comes out to about even as you mentioned. Though, our ordinary car is an '08 Prius, which has depreciated enough in value (as cars depreciate quickly!) to make our service a definite positive. Also, our utility will probably never really be 100% (Hertz for example is doing a lot to increase their's and is at 65% or so I believe). So your car most likely won't be rented for everyday you're gone.

We do try and make the experience way better than traditional airport parking. We drop you off and pick you up in a town car and we give you free Starbuck's coffee before you fly and after you land! You also don't come home to an outrageous bill!
I'd have to agree with you, but I didn't figure creating such a system for my hobby projects was worth it.
The title is based on a survey which was conducted:

Your average industry professional is a 31 year old white
man (86 percent of the respondents were male, 82 percent
were white)

http://gameqol.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Quality%20of%2...
What if you want to change processors? If you weren't storing the CC details, wouldn't you have to have customers enter all their details again? I imagine this could cause a drop in revenues due to people either forgetting, procrastinating, or just not bothering.

It's never cool to be actually- or quasi-locked into a vendor.
This boils down to the age-old question; "equitable vs. equal".
So glad the CC I had on file expired this month. +1 for procrastination. Here's to hoping Linode gets their shit together.
It seems to me that the fundamental problem is not that they got hacked (although it seems that storing a decryption key in the same directory as the encrypted data is over the top careless), but their response to the disclosure that they got hacked. I realize that there may be limitations on exactly what they can say, but they should be as open as possible on what may have happened, what they are doing to protect their customers, and what their customers should do to protect themselves. Customers taking action when there wasn't a breach is less of a problem than not taking action when there was, in fact, a breach.
> facepalm. You can't use both? I do. This is horrible advice if taken on face value.

Of course you can!

I think you are taking many of my statements much too literally and misinterpreting the perspective of this article. Of course a long, completely random password made up of multiple character sets will always be the strongest password, but that really isn't the point of this article and it really isn't the most practical advice for most users.

There is a big difference between addressing where we need to be and moving away from where we actually are. Short passwords are not strong enough no matter how random they are. Therefore, I personally would rather see users out there focus on making longer passwords rather than focusing on random passwords. The typical user is much more likely to memorize a less random but longer password than trying to memorize an 8-character random password. I didn't mean to imply that randomness is bad, and I thought that most people got that from my article.

> Let me stop here and say that I can check ALL of the above in less time than it would take to check all variations of 3 characters using alpha, numeric, and common special characters.

These are all valid points and I could have gone into great detail on all the different ways our passwords could be cracked, but that just isn't the point of the article. I also didn't cover other things such as avoiding password reuse, regularly changing passwords, etc., but that doesn't make them any less valid and I cover them regularly through my other blog posts.

> And please stop dismissing the issue by repeating the words "brute force"

Not really sure what you mean by this or what issue you think I have dismissed by mentioning brute force. Brute force attacks are by n o means dismissing anything as they have become increasingly effective with ever-increasing computing power. Nevertheless, if an attacker has to assume that you will be using all character sets, the effort to crack your password grows exponentially with the length of your password.
No company in their right mind would formally "require" insane hours upfront. But if you wear fewer than 37 pieces of flair, you will find yourself under a lot of indirect, cultural pressure.

Most companies have reasonable employment policies on paper.
Real-time Web Analytics for Panic's Status Board
> Auto play == not good.

Flashblock ?
That might apply if you choose topics purely to please your audience, but remembering that other people could be reading what I'm writing has definitely helped me improve over time. A post I write for myself will inevitably have no structure, coherence, or focus. Writing for others forces me to clarify my thoughts and ideas while viewing them from the perspective of a stranger, which is a skill that extends to all aspects of my life.
oh, okay. I thought you meant that we were entering a phase of economic development where technology had obsoleted itself as a business advantage.
http://www.namestation.com
Many times management does not know enough to understand the explanations.

Given proper audience, many computer people are able to base their reasoning for rejection on actual physical laws and theories, but since management many times is unaware of these laws and theories of physics, management dismisses the claims of impossibility as "primadonna behavior".
Explosions at Boston marathon finish line
the card with my linode account has a minimal amount total allowed to charge. I'll go through my cc usage, but at worst they could've gotten a couple of ebooks. as a long time customer though, Im conflicted and motivated to move off linode to another provider.
I think Steven Pinker would agree: "...music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of at least six of our mental faculties" (How the Mind Works, p.534).
This analogy is more confusing than illuminating.

If the allegations are true, then Linode was keeping encrypted CC numbers, with the decryption key in nearly the same place.

Trying to make the analogy more sufficient by incorporating this type of fact would only make the carjacking analogy more absurd. At the end of the day, an analogy is not needed.
Have you had your (mathematically predicted) miracle this month?
The United States federal government cannot be sued unless it elects to allow the suit. This is not a real threat.

Look up "sovereign immunity".
Can't think of the exact word to describe that practice (what you did in response to the long list of questions which I've seen) but on the part of the company requesting you to answer the questions it's more or less a "absence of malice" type of thing that allows them to appear that they are doing the right thing while fully knowing that people are doing what you are doing. It's a "we will look the other way until we need to show that it's not our fault because we have passed the liability to you - look you acknowledge doing all the right things".
Sell it, because I can't think of a good way to make money with it that I would also enjoy to do for a long period of time.
Qriket awards a total of $1,000,000 to its users
Alternatively, watch the film Amadeus.
ah: http://postach.io/
Predicting the next product of 37Signals
" takes a few months off to do nothing"

Isn't that an answer? If I was the interviewer in this situation, that would be a completely acceptable response to me.

I'm sure to other people perhaps taking time off is seen as some sort of weakness, but you don't want to work for those people anyways.
(not knowing anything) - wouldn't it be possible to give the cc company a white list of clients that can continue to use it and block all other requests?
> That data has given the team deep insights

What a shame they didn't bother to include any of them in the article. Instead they filled it with shitty similes like this:

> Microsoft’s buildings were experiencing data dissonance that would make the works of Igor Stravinsky sound like a barbershop quartet.

I was no fan of Microsoft in its Gates days, but I can't imagine it would have produced anything as bad as this article. Apparently the reason for this content-free article is that Microsoft hired some dumbshit to write it who couldn't be bothered to learn enough to understand what they were writing about:

> He projects the algorithm on a screen, and then launches into a deeply technical explanation about when a discharge air pressure set point is something-something, then the air is being overcooled by something-something for a duration of 900,000 milliseconds.

The Accenture white paper linked http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/8/8/4885BBB9-2675-4... is slightly better, but only very slightly.

Sensor networks are a promising approach for improving the efficiency of existing buildings, but the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passivhaus approach seems much better for new buildings. Instead of removing unwanted heat with finicky mechanical systems with valves that get stuck, you don't let the heat in in the first place; and similarly for maintaining warmth in the winter. There's plenty of solar energy to keep your temperature pleasant year-round, unless you're in Siberia or something, and solar energy used to heat your house is 100% efficient, rather than the 20% provided by photovoltaic panels. It's mostly stupid to use marketed energy to heat and cool things.
If your using lvm you can create a snapshot to do this while online, if not just read from your disk (assuming sda here):

1. (offline) Boot new and old VM servers from live CD
2. old server: dd if=/dev/sda bs=8M | pbzip2 -c | netcat <newhost> <random high port>
3. new server: netcat -l <same port> | pbzip2 -cd | dd of=/dev/sda bs=8M

Compression: You can use something besides pbzip2, maybe pigz of if you only have a single core use bzip2 or gzip.
Security: You probably want to add encryption to this pipeline.
Price of gold plunges most in 30 years