skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anything much has changed.

It's interesting to look at Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" -- published in 1907 -- which is based on a true story (of an anarchist attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894). All the elements of modern "terrorism" are there back then: a half-wit dupe bomber, nutjobs with a crazy ideology (anarchism in this case), and national actors manipulating them from behind the scenes.
The first thought on my mind was what mysterious 1000 page bill is going to show up and get rushed through congress because of all this?
Murder is political when americans do it?

And I'm not making excuses, all murders are inexcusable including american ones.
The reason here is that the interests of employers are misaligned with society's interests at large.

Individual employers are clearly demonstrating that they have a disincentive, rational or otherwise, from hiring potential employees with large gaps in their resumes. This obviously will tend to feed back on itself, making long gaps longer and unemployable applicants even more unemployable as time passes.

Society, on the other hand, has both economic and humanitarian interests in minimizing the number of unemployable individuals. Since the market has inadvertently began creating a large pool of these unemployable people, and it shows no sign of changing in the short to mid term, then society can and should apply non-market forces to advancing its interests.

Honestly, I'm not sure if direct employment is the best solution; I'd probably prefer some variation on tax incentives for employers. But reaching for the hammer, as you put it, is not always a knee-jerk reaction and seems like a pretty rational instinct in this situation.
because he desperately needs attention and right now boston has it.
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What? Companies call your current employer for references? That's unbelievably stupid.

A smart company would call the employer before your current one, because your previous employer would have no interests at stake.
Explain ''There are a lot of sites out there to choose from these days''
"For me the important spark was that my mother was forward-thinking enough to see the C64 as a useful educational purchase"

Same here, but mom and dad got me a BBC Micro. Stayed with Acorn and got an Acorn A310 when I was 18. Wrote a game in ARM assembly and self-published it in 1992. Now my day-job is Java, tying this story nicely with this other front-pager today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5551771

My school actively put me off a computer science education. I was programming colorful games in BBC Basic and 6502 assembly language using keyboard and floppy discs, while my O-Level text book was describing punch cards and tapes. I went off and got a degree in Physics instead.

So while we may be only two data points, we both share the experience of having access to a computer at a young age and being way ahead of the teachers by the time it was taught in school. I'm trying to figure out how to make her laptop as easily programmable for my youngest daughter as my BBC was for me. Hell, if I wanted to play a game on the BBC I had to type a command, so right there the reward required the first step of programming.
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Stop what you're doing, and just [use bcrypt](http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/).

The fact that you've gotten it wrong already (when you probably thought you knew what you were doing) should be a strong wakeup call. There's always an attack you didn't know about or a countermeasure you didn't think of.
I should, I just closed the issue an hour ago about this after looking through the repository and only finding your library and 2-3 others as a spec with meaningful appledoc options. I'll re-open it for my next deploy.
Very true. If your bank gives you a separate savings account you can transfer the bulk of your money there and just use the card from the current account to limit your exposure.
RAR archives are hugely popular in China, for both legitimate and (presumably) illegitimate reasons. All my Chinese friends constantly send me RAR files. I’ve long wondered why that’s the case. All operating systems these days have built in Zip tools, but you usually have to install extra software to create and extract RAR files.
they typically have the same protections, the only difference is that while credit cards only check that the charge can be made during the authorization period, debit cards lock up the bank's funds immediately which may cause your checking account to be temporarily unusable even if all the charges are successfully disputed.

a good practice that bankers constantly tell me is to have a separate credit card for online purchases for the fact alone that it is one step removed from your checking account.
Here is TSA's own blog saying nail clippers are allowed:

http://blog.tsa.gov/2008/01/lighters-nail-clippers-and-lithi...

http://blog.tsa.gov/2009/05/tsa-urban-legends-nail-clippers....

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/12/tsa-response-to-claim-that-nail....

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/12/updated-tsa-response-to-claim-th...
No worries, you're simply thinking pragmatically, when everyone else is emotional. The killings are nothing but a mode of transport for destruction of freedom.
Can random usage of a nearby phone trigger remotely detonated bombs?
Boston police triage numbers:

For families of the victims, primarily:

617-635-4500 (Mayor's Hotline)

If you have any information about the explosions and/or were at the site of explosions:

1-800-494-TIPS

NYPOST reporting that a suspect has been identified and is being held under guard at a hospital:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/authorities_under_susp...

Update:

Steve Silva's Ground Level View Video (Boston.com)

http://live.boston.com/Event/Live_blog_Explosion_in_Copley_S...
Agreed. I mean if you hate a country you blow up their military or you call in a bomb ahead of time so that nobody gets hurt.

In addition one explosion could be accidental, two not so.
Was it just the verdict that was uncertain or it even was unknown that it was to be given today? If it's the second, I have to agree.
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It's LEGO-fan usage more than British/American difference. A fan always says "I play with LEGO, this is a LEGO brick, hand me some of that LEGO" whereas a casual user might say "Scoop up some of those LEGOs; I play with LEGOs."
This is fantastic. Truly!
What else do you have when you are going to a campus to recruit?

On top of that, even if the company didn't consider them, their classmates probably knew where everyone fell in relation to each other. They would know if they got passed over for someone who had better grades than themselves.
I don't know the skill level of the Linode folks, but could it be that they left a honey-pot CC DB out for this hacker to discover on purpose? Keys sitting right there?
There was tech conference in eastern europe where was 15% quota for womans. Organizers solved it by organizing afterparty and hiring stripers.
Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
Well, whatever your approach, you'd better include some consideration of how much crap you have to clean up, after the fact.

Some people "crank it out", but... don't consider the bigger picture. (Don't understand and/or don't take time to consider context.)

Even when their solutions are technically correct, or "adequate", for the current definition and state of things, you may find significant problems down the road that someone else, perhaps not such a "speed demon", might have foreseen and avoided/mitigated.
Harsh as it may be, the people dying and losing their limbs will have no direct impact on my life, or on most other people's lives. It's a tragedy for their friends and loved ones, but I'm not in that group, so it's a very abstract thing - I feel bad, but it won't affect me personally.

Losing freedom has the potential to affect me personally, so I'm more concerned about it.

And I don't necessarily agree it's too early to discus the consequences of this. The authorities on the scene are handling the immediate situation, and there's very little to be done from 2K miles away.
IT Audit
Also tax day.
Mm, not equally. I'd rather have incompetence over malice.
Another thing to focus on is the infrastructure. Telephone lines and data networks must be clogged, it just goes to show how much we need reliable networks and data infrastructures for such vital occurrences!
Getting down with Twitter Cards
More Python 3.3 downloads than Python 2.7 for past 3 months
I recommend Jekyll + GitHub Pages.
I actually just finished my migration from Heroku to DO. I am using salt to manage the servers on DO and also setup zabbix for monitoring.

I have a draft blog post coming about zero downtime deploys that came from having to leave Heroku. So there is a plus side to it as well.
a security reseacher made a bomb from stuff he bought after going trough the costums at schiphol. so most of the security is just show off.
The thing I don't get, is if you know there are multiple devices, any opfor with half a brain is going to put them in the mass transit for follow up. So why evac people when sheltering in place is almost certainly safer? The TLDR is don't create a juicy concentrated target when you know for certain that someone is currently aiming at juicy concentrated targets.

Also if its an ongoing event, shelter in place means people pay pretty close attention to their environment, but scrambling in terror every random direction means a great opportunity for the opfor to drop something bad in the chaos and possibly escape.

I'm not saying lock down everyone for hours (days?) or don't evac a known bad location, but...
I felt the same way. My first thought was that I was glad there weren't any assault weapons involved, for which I was immediately ashamed. Immediately after that I was disgusted that Bloomberg.com wanted me to watch an ad for a new Mercedes before I could check on the well-being of my fellow humans.

I'm not proud of my thoughts, and I'm not proud of the hundred or so sarcastic remarks that I've thought of since I first heard the news either.

I am genuinely saddened that this happened, and my most sincere hope is that whomever did so is apprehended quickly and that nobody else is injured or killed while that happens. At the same time, the explosion looks (at least to me) like Tannerite, and I'm also thinking that perhaps Tannerite is going to get banned, or regulated, despite being, basically, iron oxide; which would make such a ban pretty futile.
Authorities ID suspect as Saudi national in marathon bombings, under guard at Boston hospital

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/authorities_under_susp...

EDIT: Two media outlets reporting conflicting information, so not sure if this is reliable information.
Ah sorry, I have no idea about Java or final, so ... can't comment.
Whoever did this is getting their terror/propaganda effect - 30 people with lost limbs will have a much higher media impact than 300 dead in, say, an airliner bombing.
Apparently not.

I know it is too early to speculate, but my money is on the muslims -- homegrown terrorists/IRA use car bombs and you couldn't get a car there, crazy people seem overwellmingly to prefer guns.
Here's a tip that's worked well for me. Avoid asking "Would you like to hang out sometime?" The reason being that it is easy for the person to say "yes" but never act on it.

Instead, make it easy to convert their "yes" into an actual activity by arranging the activity before asking them. There are two ways to do this:

1) "Hey, I'm planning on seeing Jurassic Park 3D on Friday, would you like to join me?"

2) "Are you planning on doing anything fun this weekend?" (if they respond with some activity that you're interested in) "Oh, that sounds cool, would it be cool if I tagged along?"

Obviously you can replace seeing a movie in option (1) with any interesting activity. The key in both of these cases is that you make sure you have concrete plans to actually do the activity. If they agree, offer to call them to meet up at a convenient time/location.
DigitalOcean is new and they fixed the problem the same day the article was written:

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-is...

If I had a choice between a VPS provider who either:

- Only has large issues (eg. leaks credit card data) and goes weeks without reporting them to customers, or

- Has lots of small issues (eg. forgetting to clean the free space of LVM volumes) but fixes them the same day,

I'd much prefer the latter.

EDIT: My bad, apparently the problem was reported on March 27 and wasn't fixed until April 2.
Nice one... are you planning on releasing a Rails api as well?
As someone who just bought a home -- I can also assure others in this thread, there is a lot of emotional value in owning your own place (reality check -- yes I know the bank owns it for a while) -- but for me and my wife, the value comes from being able to do whatever we want with the house.

Expand the basement? Sure! Get a bunch of dogs? Why not! Commit to getting to know the neighbors? Sounds great. All while not having to worry about a landlord doing whatever they want at the end of a lease.

It's a very rewarding thing. Is it for everyone? Absolutely not, much in the same way having kids or getting married isn't for everyone either. But for me, there is a lot of value in the actual ownership.
mikevm, check out Dark Pools by Scott Patterson. Great book about the evolution of HFT:

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Pools-High-Speed-I-Financial/dp/0...
> The fact that they are childless indicates that they don't have time to have children

Or they don't want them...It may be anecdotal, but I know a good many of people around age (26) who don't really want to have kids
Crater really depends on how high off the pavement, too. I assumed "top of a trash can" but that might not be the case. Just clearly a small bag device, not a serious carbomb or anything, and based on the smoke I don't think it was military or commercial explosives. I'm really only familiar with bigger devices and telling artillery vs anfo, though.
I don't see the point in imagining a world without psychopaths. It'd be lovely, but no amount of societal structure will ever remove them, we can only try to reach them whenever possible and lessen their influence on others.
Better false positives than false negatives.
To some extent they are. Assholes like the people that set this up love the press and the press loves them in a way. Every time some jerk kills off a bunch of innocents there is money to be made and without a platform I wonder how many of these idiots would do their deeds. Media and crime like this feed off each other.
This photo is amazing.

https://twitter.com/BGlobeSports/status/323889004246343681/p...
The best part is at the very bottom of the log. A customer enters the IRC channel to ask for support after ryann (the hacker) finishes explaining the attack.

Customer: "hello, i forgot my password and linode's email reminder service doesn't work. i checked spam box but there's no email from linode."
Linode Guy: "ryannn: can you give him the password?"
Their measure of complexity is Genome size. That's a very simple measure of complexity.

Just a dumb example-- humans have a single gene for a protein in muscles. But that single genes has multiple exons and depending on whether it's being produced in heart, usual muscles, or soft-tissue muscle it's transcribed differently. Most of the protein is re-used, but a couple of parts are swapped out.

So we have genetic code being used in three different proteins. Our genome is being efficient in size, yet it's increasing in complexity.

That being said, I have no idea how to measure complexity well.
Isn't it obvious? Kittens or porn.
I know when I desperately need attention I come to hackernews. Sick logic.
Any popular ecommerce site that sells stuff has teams of accountants.

PCI compliance auditor

SOX compliance auditor
A third explosion is confirmed at JFK library by Ed Davis, commissioner of police.
> How on earth then are so many illegal immigrants making enough money to both survive and also send money back to their families in their native countries?

no taxes? no health care? no social security?
I can't recall any who didn't return, but it's a pretty small sample.
Trader admits fraud in $1 billion Apple stock scheme
There is something extremely hellish about marathoners missing legs.
Why Backbone-Relational sucks?
So here is the fundamental flaw in this model. Conflict of interest.

If I, as an entrepreneur, walk into the VCs doors to pitch them on something I have done and research I am doing - presumably without knowing that they have invested (or are investing in similar research with a view to taking that research into a commercial business) why should I feel comfortable knowing that they won't take my research and use it without me.

I know that a successful business is more than just 1 idea, but if two sets of eyes are looking at the same problem, both trying to build a business around it and 1 has some insight that the other doesn't....that's a competitive advantage. That could be used against the entrepreneur - given that VCs tend to not want to sign NDAs & non-competes before hearing pitches (understandably so).

So this whole VC investing in their own ideas, while also hearing pitches from founders....I am not too bullish on.

The potential for conflicts are just too great.

This is like having an EIR but worse....from the pitching entrepreneur's perspective anyway.
No they tend to use guns or knifes (or in one case, bow and arrow) because they want to be up and close with the victims.

Bombs fit either muslims or crazy homegrown terroists, but those tend to put their bombs in cars, (and you can't park a car there) so my guess is muslims.
How many licks does it take to get to the middle of a tootsie pop?
The most likely change to your freedoms is 'none whatsoever' -- tragedies on this scale don't threaten society as a whole and therefore are dealt with by existing laws.
No, compared to most people [OP knows] not in the games industry, as the OP said. I've worked at a lot of different, varied places (including someone else's startup, and my own, and a government agency, and an investment bank, and a chip manufacturer, and a couple large software companies) and I'd say there's more to learn there than C/C++, GLSL, "AI" (game AI implementations might be large/complex planners or whatever, but AFAIK they aren't doing serious ML) and animation.
How do you plan to get around the Twitter syndication rules and regulations once this site takes off?
Well, here's a data point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5554071

Since Linode has proven in the past that they aren't the worst at communication, I can only assume some entity really has them over a barrel, considering the curt and callous responses there.
If the bombmaker wants random cellphone usage to trigger it, yes.
Google's Person Finder:

http://google.org/personfinder/2013-boston-explosions
" Immediately after that I was disgusted that Bloomberg.com wanted me to watch an ad"

Are you suggesting that they should have some automatic kill switch implemented in advance which they can hit to show sensitivity? [1] Networks also run commercials to make money it's part of how they can afford to do what they do. Of course I've seen cases where networks don't run commercials on rare occasions.

[1] And why do they need to do this? Are you willing to pay for access instead so they don't have to run any advertising?
I feel like everyone expects a reaction and increased security and such, but sometimes this type of reaction won't be fruitful. What could we learn from this -- check every trash can for a bomb at every big event? There are an unlimited number of places you could hide a bomb. If someone trying to blow people up saw the 'reaction' being checking every trash can, they would just learn not to hide their bomb in a trash can. There's just no chance we can prevent disasters like this with security increases alone.

I feel like at this point that we should be examining who did it, and what caused them to do it rather than how it could have been prevented with security measures. Get to the root of the problem and solve it there, rather than a surface-level patch. Was it a mental health thing? Was it spurred by our culture of violence and/or attention to violence? Was the attacker after a specific person? Certainly not easy to find out these answers, but would probably be effort better spent than checking trash cans.

I'm sure there will be some silly knee-jerk response that serves no good for the public and likely just inconveniences everyone. I'm also sure that people working in the government understand these short-term reactions are almost always useless. Why does it continue happening?
Slightly off topic, but is anyone else confused by the fact that several runners in this video[1] reacted to the explosion but did not turn and proceeded to keep running? These people weren't exactly leading the pack (at a 4+ hours finish time), so my guess is that they are just severely deprived of nutrients and aren't processing what's happening, but it's still a bit baffling to me why some didn't turn to see what was going on.

[1] https://vine.co/v/bFdt5uwg6JZ

*EDIT - thanks to those who confirmed. My confusion is now totally irrelevant after seeing the finish-line view of the same people[2]. It just took them a few seconds to register and they were just in a running flow.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=046MuD1pYJg
Honestly, WTF are you talking about? The Harrods bombing, the Lloyds building, Eniskillen were all aimed at civilians.

Take your biased ignorance elsewhere please.
No suspicious charges on my end, yet, but I did just find out that my bank (USAA) is finally offering cards with Chip-and-Pin, which causes the card number to get re-provisioned. No time like the present, eh?
The problem is that our ROE is seen as an act of weakness, not compassion.

Our ROE says not to shoot unarmed kids. So, the enemy puts suicide vests on kids and sends them at us.

Our ROE says not to shoot people who aren't carrying a weapon. So, they shoot at us, drop their weapon, and walk to the next building to do it again.

Our ROE says not to blow up a house if there are civilians inside. So they take a family hostage and shoot at us from upstairs.

My attitude is that we use these rules as a courtesy. We didn't bomb hospitals in WW2 because those hospitals weren't being used as shelter for soldiers. We didn't bomb orphanages because they didn't have IED factories in their basements. Today's enemy does that, and then people get butthurt when we blow up the orphanage. Well, stop putting bomb factories under there!

Laws of war only apply when both sides agree to abide by them.
WordPress Sites Targeted Mass Brute force Botnet Attack
Is it just me or is each passing minute without an acknowledgment of this issue bad for Linode? There's tens of thousands of customers right now who would kind of like to know if they need to request new credit cards or not, or don't know about this and deserve to know that their VPS provider's credit card database has been compromised.
I had Flash block and "do not run plugins" enabled. Turn on flash & boom! Ubuntu 12.10, Chrome.
WP Engine: Update on the Friday Linode Event
You might not realize it but the thing you're complaining about? That's the Patriarchy to a t. No one thinks 'patriarchy' means 'all men oppressing all women.' except people constructing straw men. Patriarchy is the force that both tells women they belong at home and tells men that it's honourable to die in war. It's all around us.
The fact that this is the top comment for this thread makes me sad.
Official: Cellphone service shut down in Boston to prevent remote detonations
9/11 didn't threaten society, either. Just a few nutcase cultists who got lucky with a single attack that they couldn't sustain.