skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I'm French too.

I think Marc nails it. Being born here rather than in the US means that one will have a different view of pride. French aren't proud of being french, French don't hang flags in their yard nor do they sing the national anthem each morning in school. Heck, we even allow (or rather do not disapprove of) some of our footballers to not sing the anthem at the start of the matches (mind the double negative). We like our country and we wish great things for it, but we are not proud of it. We were born and raised in a country that has seen some serious shit and done some terrible things, things that we learn of at school.

Final point: the US (as a country) are young and "innocent". France is an old dinosaur in comparison.
I like this article!

> Within a few weeks I get my typing up to forty five words a minute one-handed. Everyone is very impressed, but what do they know? It’s half the speed I could type before. Am I going to be half as productive?

Typing isn't where people are most productive.

> I refuse help from people. They mean well but they don’t understand. If I start taking people’s help now, then it’s accepting that I’m a broken person. It’s accepting that I’ll need some kind of assistance for the rest of my life.

No! People helping you know are doing so because they know you need help now, so that you'll be okay in future. You need time to heal, and giving you assistance is giving your arm a chance to heal.

> The following is the standard conversation that people had with me, borderline unedited:

People are given advice about this. I think they're told to say something like:

"I had an accident, my arm is paralysed, and it might not recover. It was pretty traumatic. Thank you for asking! But I really don't want to talk about it. Now, about ..."
This is fucking ridiculous. If you get "distracted" by dollar signs identifying variables and semicolons on statements, you need serious amounts of medication.

It's no surprise the same mind that gets distracted by a fucking semicolon would suggest a combination of slashes pipes and +/- signs to indicate member type/visibility.
I don't understand why ZeroMQ outside of a data center would be a deal breaker for anyone. You do realize the data on the wire is encrypted right?
An engineer at Tesla, who has actually worked on the problem, rather than someone who believes he has enough information to make a judgement on a problem which you have not studied or thought about for more than a few minutes. /internetproblems

I'm out, this argument is pointless.
It's a thorny issue. On the one hand, Snowden clearly committed treason in revealing a part of the national security architecture. So even in a fair trial, even counting how overdue the discussion about constitutional compatibility was, he can't expect to get free.

But he is right. While the US have a much fairer process of trial than most other countries, the system has been bitch-slapped left and right over Guantanamo and Wikileaks.

What is worse: The US justice system's failures are minutely documented, while China and Russia do these kind of trials routinely, and noone really bothers.
I really wish I could sign the White House petition to pardon Snowden, but I don't want to get my name on the no-fly list or any other such secret lists of "terrorists".

I wonder how many Americans are afraid to speak out for the same reason. I guarantee every one of those 110,000 people who signed that petition are now being closely watched.
Maybe. CL has a bunch of different implementations that are slightly incompatible and some of the libraries (or their dependencies) have to be chased down on obscure FTP sites that haven't been updated in a long time.

Don't get me wrong, as a language is it the best that I know of. As an environment, it is not.
We're building a book recommendation service that is delivered via a weekly email:

http://bookvibe.com

Uses some sophisticated NLP to monitor what books people are talking about.
Absolutely. We aren't using this code in production. It's sitting on a branch.

I just thought recursive queries were really cool...and I had an example to illustrate it with. So hey, why not?
Hey memset - these sound like pretty straightforward questions (with straightforward answers). Perhaps asking on the mailing list, or hop onto the #salt channel on freenode IRC?
The act of deliberately not voting is an under appreciated form of protest and non-consent.
Why do you think that a fair trial would result in Snowden almost certainly not being found guilty?
There are indeed freelance editors -- both at the copyedit level and at a higher level.

Self-pubbed authors often hire freelance artists for cover design.

And there are freelance book designers for both dead-tree and e-books. There are also services that provide "canned" book design service -- i.e. you pick from a template.

To me it seems that the hardest part of the whole equation for an indy author is promotion. There are so many books published daily that it's really hard to get readers for your work.
In the meantime, I just used PDFtk:

pdftk preface.pdf toc.pdf ch*.pdf index.pdf cat output Aho_Ullman_1992_Foundations_of_Computer_Science.pdf
SaltStack also won at Gigaom Structure last week!

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/20/devops-player-saltstack-wins-st...

(I'm a SaltStack employee)
We dropped the equivalent of many nuclear weapons worth of conventional bombs on Japan.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/29/the_bomb_di...
Greenwood is not the only reporter in the world, other sources can contradict him if they have clues.
I totally agree. I'm not proud to be Italian either, but I find myself to be happy as an Italian when Italians excel in music, food or science for example..
Google Trends [1] seems to indicate that Snowden has become the story and the underlying issues less so.

This is understandable, Snowden is the classic Robin Hood character.

[1] http://s831.us/12ZUwZP
If you don't want to run a master, you can use Salt in masterless mode: https://salt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/tutorials/stan...
> There is, of course, only one explanation for Snowden’s absence: He never existed in the first place.

Please tell me I am not the only one who stopped reading here.
Ask HN: Anyone taken the Front-End Web course at General Assembly in NYC?
This just goes to show that there is so much more than a feature-list to consider when selecting your stack.
This was disappointing. I came here actually expecting to see something about architecture but ended up looking at product stacks.

having said that, I am somewhat glad to see django there. for all the inconsistencies and speed issues that have already mentioned about python and django, it is great to see that the framework still gives pretty good performance on large systems.
Yes, of course. My local government spends quite a lot on marketing and publicising the social enterprises I mentioned in grandparent post.

A few thousand CDs won't cost that much. Canonical themselves supply Ubuntu CDs for £80 per 100. I'd imagine it gets a lot cheaper per 1000.

You can pay £900 to advertise a job in our local paper, and that is for a 10cm two column advert with two insertions. I had to pay £100 to move a piano not so long ago (specialist private mover).
The numbers were large enough in the most recent English elections to arrive at the same kind of 'centrist' outcome as in the most recent Australian general election. In England, turnout increases generally when important contention arises.

I think your point is correct, but not unique.
I always love when someone posts the false-positives of their companies shitty firewall. It's not the website owners responsibility to be firewall friendly.
An indirect benefit is teaching the younger generation to be more proficient with linux.

Many of these old PCs can be used as hand-me-downs for young kids. Some of these kids will eventually work for the city and contribute to existing infrastructure. Also, let's not forget economies of scale (ie. labor, ecosystem, etc) to further reduce costs.

Makes sense to me. Think of this as dogfooding.
This is a very naive point of view.

I too am not from the US, but this impacts me directly. Perhaps, even more so than US citizens, as they have rights (for the moment, at least).

It wouldn't be much of an issue if I didn't use Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, heck, even Oracle products. Not to mention that traceroute shows that most internet routes pass through the US, even if the destination is not there. After all, the fattest pipes are to the US.

I, and most posters here, have done nothing wrong. But the Stasi, if it still existed, might think otherwise. The US seems to be ok right now and focused on "terrorists" (real or imaginary), but we don't now who is going to eventually replace Obama.

I have faith that the american people will eventually put an end to the madness, before it is too late. But, in the meantime, please keep the NSA and Snowden news coming.
I'm American, and I agree completely. One should reserve pride for things they had control over achieving, not that which is a coincidence of birth.
>The word "defeatist", for example, has no particular political connotations now. But in Germany in 1917 it was a weapon, used by Ludendorff in a purge of those who favored a negotiated peace. At the start of World War II it was used extensively by Churchill and his supporters to silence their opponents. In 1940, any argument against Churchill's aggressive policy was "defeatist". Was it right or wrong? Ideally, no one got far enough to ask that.

Paul Graham, What you can't say. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

Please don't go and use words designed to shot down the debate.
> MCollective (which Puppet Labs acquired several years ago) was (and remains!) fiendishly complex to set up.

I didn't find MCollective hard at all - you just install some debs, a message queue server (Stomp was easiest at the time - it's now deprecated, but surely is not much different to RabbitMQ?) and it Just Worked for me. And there was a great screencast.

Did it get far more complicated since I used it last?
He doesn't exist as he has been portrayed.

He's a CIA burner, used to attack the increasing dominance of the NSA within the US intelligence apparatus. This is an internal battle.

The CIA is having its budget slashed, and field intelligence in general is getting cut. Meanwhile the NSA is doing a booming business (not to mention having its authority gradually increased toward military warfare, through direct intelligence and military commingling).

I think it's very arguable that next to the Department of Defense, the NSA is now the most powerful organization in the US, exceeding the power of the executive branch.
If you had kept reading you would have seen "Editor’s note for the literal minded: It is not, in fact, all too perfect, and this column is not actually suggesting Edward Snowden isn’t real. It’s just a conceit to make a larger point."
Feeding Our Reading Habits
I wonder if journalists were ever impartial, considering the history of "yellow" journalism and the papers of Horace Greeley and Randolph Hearst and others. Maybe Edward R. Murrow fits that criteria but it seems as I think about it that impartiality has never been a common feature...
> Could you set up the Hyperboria layer with a built in crypto coin payments system, so people that need to leach of the Hyperboria layer can pay some small amount of Bitcoin or Litecoin and this fee is distributed to the nodes that are carrying the traffic.

Hocnet resembles that:

* http://www.reddit.com/r/Hocnet

* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1osU8vnuOW1eV3hdYMxg8hDh7...
US government is the most selfish country in the world. They sit on #2 oil mine in the world (Alaska) but yet continue to suck it up from any other place.

And yes indeed its irony how they believe the only law everyone needs to comply is the one they set up. And if they decide to use nuclear weapon of course it will be in accordance with rule of law and in "interest of everybody". Yuck. That abuse of basic words: everyone, everybody, everywhere. My parents gave me really good advice: do not ever listen or trust people who continuously abuse those words.
Sony and Disney streaming movies still in theaters in a move against piracy
Spot on again! You guys are painting a real nice picture. I am definitely abandoning karma as a self worth indicator. I already kicked drugs and I don't want to start again.
The NSA is part of the Department of Defense...
I agree with you except maybe on the word "treason". I'm not so sure that revealing state secrets is treason. A crime, certainly, but not treason. I thought treason was siding with some other entity over the interests of the state. So, for instance, if Snowden took state secrets and sold them to China, that might be treason.
"Editor’s note for the literal minded ... this column is not actually suggesting Edward Snowden isn’t real. It’s just a conceit to make a larger point."
I've dealt with recursive queries many many times. For legacy production systems I stick to Oracle's CONNECT BY statement and half joins to keep performance okay. Most of the tables I deal with typically have 80 million rows with a fanout of 1:2.5 and a average depth of ~3.

A better solution is to create a temporary table to insert results in as you go if you can't afford extra DB results and perform additional inserts to that table in order to effectively take advantage of shared memory on the server side. The second better result is to effectively flatten out the rows as a closure table.
That wouldn't scare the bejeezus out of the next leaker. They have to ruin his life, harass his friends and family, the works.
There is no GPL code in TempleOS.

StrCpy is built-in. Until recently MemCpy and MemSet were built-in, but I got rid of 3 argument compiler codes.

You are in denial on God or you wouldn't question His chosen.

God says...
unhealthiness turmoiling some character reclaim female World
announce hey_Mikey_he_likes_it restraint -what represent
smiling recalled minds beaten zip* Name weakest
chosen kindled selling recent Burp stealing intently spiritually
alluring elders Pay canst wrath apprehend look_buddy never-failing
fatigues greedily
Care to explain the etymology?
>I'm told that if all rings of the form a+b.sqrt(-p) are unique factorization domains then there is a fairly simple proof

I just can't resist showing why this is false. It's actually pretty simple.

Take p=5. Then our 'integers' in this ring are of the form a + b\*sqrt(-5) for integers a, b. Taking b = 0 we see that all the normal integers are part of this ring. So consider how 6 factorizes.

On the one hand we have 6 = 2 × 3... uncontroversial. But... due to the existence of new numbers in this expanded ring, we also get 6 = (1 + sqrt(-5)) × (1 - sqrt(-5)) . These are evidently two different factorizations... it suffices to show that both are prime factorizations under the modified definition of 'prime' we get when we allow factors of (a + b × sqrt(-5)). You can get there by noticing that any number of the form a + b × sqrt(-5) that factors into smaller such numbers must either be totally real (b=0), be totally imaginary (a=0), or have a larger absolute value than any number that could possibly multiply together with another number > 1 to get you 1 +/- sqrt(-5). This line of reasoning can show that 2, 3, (1 + sqrt(-5)), and (1 - sqrt(-5)) are all primes in this ring.
... And that's what I get. Legitimately if I had read 3 more sentences...
To me Snowden's story looks like a ‘meta-issue’, arguably even more important.

There might be more problems in addition to what he helped uncover, but whether they are voiced might depend on what happens to Snowden.

You wouldn't halt QA process until you fix a critical security issue in your production system, especially if the fix might take some time. You'd probably be paying even more attention to improving bug visibility after such an incident, to make sure other problems are noticed in time.
The real reason for Apple’s new HQ?
This guy gets it. Being proud of one's nationality makes no sense. You have no right to take pride in something you didn't have a part in. Likewise, you have no obligation to feel shame for something you didn't take part in, like a country's wars or human rights abuses.

Attaching your sense of pride and self worth on something you can't control is a weakness. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be a nation, a political ideology, a religion or a football team. As long as you don't control it, you're subject to its inevitable changes whether good or bad - your sense of pride or shame is outside of your control.

To be independent is to be strong. Your country maintains secret torture facilities or spies on its citizens? Not your fault; you didn't approve of it and that's as far as your obligation goes. You can be proud of your work to oppose it, but the shame belongs to the perpetrators.
If we stop talking about Snowden, he'll have lost his only viable defense. If what he leaked is important and worthwhile, then he ought to be defended. The probability that he'll receive fair treatment by our government and a fair trial is directly related to his presence in a spotlight.

How the government treats Snowden is a proxy for how the government may treat each one of us in the future; he's now committed to being the test case for our possible future.

I'm not stoked about discussing a random dude's travel plans either, but it would appear that the court of public opinion is more transparent than the system which would otherwise judge the man.
Agreed. This is better and more relevant than the usual Techcrunch parroting.
While I would prefer ansible as well, the author does show why ansible is problematic for some people:

> Chef works atop ssh, which – while the gold standard for cryptographically secure systems management – is computationally expensive to the point where most master servers fall over under the weight of 700-1500 clients

That said, unless you must have 700+ simultaneous slave connections, you should probably make life easier on yourself and choose ansible.
It doesn't take much reading of the literature to understand industrial espionage or any of the other substantive risks of outsourcing. Prism or not, when you put your intellectual property on someone else's networks you are taking a risk.

Yet most of the managers I see who make this decision just don't care. They ignore the advice of their systems admins and follow the old adage "you can't get fired for buying IBM" like sheep to a slaughter. It's typical of the short-term mindset that drives so many business decisions.

I chalk this up to a lack of education, both in business and IT. While CS professors obsess over data structures and algorithms, and non-IT departments preach about the relevance of the next quarter's results, "Rome is burning".
It's ridiculous how much more pleasant it is to use Ansible than Puppet or Chef. Its invention solves a big pain for me: As a veteran user of Puppet I'm a firm believer in using a tool like Puppet, but Puppet-and-Chef are overdesigned for small jobs (and, arguably, for most other jobs as well) so actually recommending them to a beginner has always felt like this:

A: "I just set up a cloud instance by running some shell commands by hand."

B: "You shouldn't do that, because of X and Y and Z. You should learn Puppet or Chef."

A: "Wait... did you just tell me to go spend thirty hours banging my head against solid objects, in exchange for nebulous benefits that I can't even perceive yet?"

B: "Why, yes, I believe I did!"

Ansible feels much less embarrassing to advocate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5927892
How strange - the times I get to keep to myself I go wild with context-switching.
He absolutely did not clearly commit treason, and he is not charged with it either. Treason is an actual crime defined by the Constitution and he did not commit it. Arguably, he did not commit espionage either—the DoJ under the Obama administration has charged seven other whistleblowers with that crime and in at least some cases the courts have found them not guilty.
Moody's reviews for downgrade five banks in Hong Kong
It falls under the DoD chain of command (which is of course why generals run the show at the NSA). It operates as its own organization with its own budget. And it directly fights with the CIA for funding.
Snowden vanishes in Moscow, most likely already left Russia
I used to be a huge python fan but after a couple of years of scala I don't want to go back. The syntax can be almost as lightweight, the typing is just a huge help as your project gets bigger, and the whole language just feels a little more consistent, with fewer weird corner cases like the default arguments thing you mention.
OP seems to be issuing a blanket request that we slow down with any stories related to either Snowden or the NSA. If he's really only against frivolous reporting his subject line ought to have said "Please post good stories on the NSA and post them as frequently as possible" and then explained what he felt were good stories.

But even then I would object to drawing too sharp a distinction between Snowden's story and the NSA story. There's an integral relationship between the two, because how the US handles leaks and leakers has everything to do with the national debate on how the US gov handles secrecy in general.

Some reporting might boil over into frivolous details; I truly don't care what he eats and I think those details trivialize the story. But in terms of driving attention to relevant details, I think Snowden's story and the NSA surveillance story command attention symbiotically as opposed to being mutually exclusive. It's like the thesis advanced by Alex Gibney in his Wikileaks documentary We Steal Secrets: the allegations against Julian Assange and subsequent attempts at extradition probably had the effect of bringing much more attention to Wikileaks. Similarly here with Snowden.
That is a great suggestion. I almost never do this for fear of sounding like a noob, but I ought to try giving it a shot more often.
> You then confuse financial success with competence or intelligence.

I stated from the beginning that I consider ruling out any possibility of stealing and cheating to be prerequisite for existence of the capitalism. Given that,the only remaining ways to become rich are to be competent and intelligent.

> Also, keep in mind those "idiots" will have to obey their "smart, successful" rulers without right to question their rule. They are also in much larger number and may resent that. How do you intend to oppress them?

Funny thing is that they do not need to be oppressed at all.
Most people are just mentally incapable of questioning rules that were imposed on them, they are totally happy with explanations like "it has always been like that. It has to be like that". They even like being told what to do because it is easier and gives them sense of security.

And those few who are brave enough to question rules are welcomed to be successful, earn a lot of money and join the class of "rulers".

Moreover, provided that the "rulers" are really intelligent they will know how much they can push their minions without causing resentment. This is basically how US politics works these days :)
haha yeah very confusing for drivers. As if they need another reason to mow down a cyclist.
Why the NSA is Dangerous
Scoping AngularJS Directives Part 1
Video: Abusing Windows Remote Management (WinRM) with Metasploit
Interview: Daniel Martin of Dradisframework.org
I'm (slowly) moving through ACP at this time. Definitely not night-stand reading! The clarity of his thought is impressive and shines through on the pages of his books; reading and doing the exercises in his books has made a noticeable impact on my own thinking, not just in my Mathematics or programming!

7 Volumes though! I've got the boxed four set, at the rate with which I'm progressing I'm sure he'll have the other three finished, lol.