skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's get this straight from the get-go: I'm a soldier in the US Army and I'd have never served if I didn't love my country.

One of my many causes is a stronger America and a better world. I see a stronger America as a potential force for good in the world. However, in the past decade, it's been hard to see through many of our faults.

So how does it benefit me to see a weaker US? By equating our surveillance state with those of other regimes? By pointing out that gerrymandering and electioneering isn't quite democratic? By disagreeing with the use of drones that result in 10x the number of civilian casualties?

Sorry, but all this protestation is intended to strengthen my country, not weaken it. I'm not sure how you arrived at the opposite conclusion.
I can't help but notice that they are still super rich.
SSH tunnelling on insecure networks
Why so many books these days are available to download for free one chapter at a time. It just makes reading worse.
As my parents are getting older (nearing their 60s) it's being more difficult to talk about some subjects. They started believing all sorts of ridiculous stuff, even read Icke's books. It's hard to argue with someone who questions reason itself. It's even more difficult knowing they're teachers, well educated, liberal and open minded usually. They buy into the whole alternative medicine, all sorts of natural cures for cancer, even more bogus explanations about cancer causes. They believe this stuff even when it contradicts itself, how can you believe that cancer comes from high acid levels in the body or emotional conflicts, and then also be afraid of EM radiation? They believe in the sincerity and good intentions of people who publish this alternative material but they are extremely suspicious of "main-stream" science. Anyone having similar experience?
Make sure you handle all the \ line splicing in the middle of them! And keep track of the source line numbers.

Naw, you'll throw regex under the bus very quickly.
I love the idea of the developer causing a buffer over-run to patch their own game. Does kind of make one wonder what other dragons lurk in that particular code set.
He only has a New York Times Best Selling Book on the Bush Administration and its abuses of power.
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We could start by punishing some of the prosecutors who are particularly notorious for creating these conditions.
Your theory also has historical precedents from other nations. It is known that the KGB spied on the GRU and vice versa.
What I prefer about ansible above all others, besides its simplicity, is that its use case scales up and out. By that I mean ansible can be used for platform/app stack provisioning while OS/infra sys admins maybe another tool. To often an agent based approach causes a conflict with OS sys admins and platform/app team regarding ownership/sharing. I want to offer self service as much as possible.
Further, most cfg mgmt tools are monolithic in that they want to manage all servers as tho a single team/overload manages them all, rather than various independent sys admin teams. With various independent teams its just too much hassle trying to share roles appropriately or setup separate master/agents.
Ansible does not have these issues.
I'm sick of the idea that there is anything particularly patriotic about getting paid to kill and be killed. This glorification of the military needs to stop.
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"And federal prosecution is absolutely nothing like a fair coin toss -- the federal conviction rate is 90+%."

It better be. Yes, a high conviction rate can be a symptom of injustice, but it need not be. A low conviction rate, on the other hand, is a sure symptom of injustice. It would be truly harassment if the feds prosecuted many where they should know they don't stand a chance of getting a conviction.
I think the author misses the point on what is being disrupted. It sounds like he thinks a law firm that adopts a better version of office is being a "disruptive." He says that if a business is constantly open to change, then what's the point of disruption? He confuses the role of adaptability and who the disruptor is displacing.

Think about the first word processor compared to a typewriter. A company's choice/ability to adopt the word processor didn't make them a disruptive company. However, the word processor creator entirely disrupted the typewriter company.

In the author's article, he references Office 365. Incorporating new features of 365 as they role out does not make the 365 customer more or less disruptive. What's disruptive is that 365 is attacking dropbox / google docs / other service providers.

In fact, when the author asks is the term "disruption" relevent if businesses become adaptable is kinda silly. Adaptable businesses open up opportunities for more disruption. If a business is willing to take on new ways of doing things then they are more likely to become customers of a new disruptive product or service, whereas old non adaptable businesses would limit the new product's potential client base / make it harder to find first adopters.
Chicago has some spots diversity on that scale as well.
They basically let you write, using a declarative language, what state the server should be in. The software figures out how to set that up for you.

When you want to change the state, you edit the file - say, to add a package.

At any point you can set up an entirely new server from scratch using that same code.

You can't do that easily with bash scripts.

(you could if they worked like virtualenv requirements files but that only works for python's virtualenv...)
>"Children have been raped in every land at every point in history. It is human nature. Deal with it."

Yes, and you shouldn't blame a nation where no one from the time period when that was acceptable is still alive and no on alive still condones that behavior. How long can you hold a grudge against a nation when that nation still exists in name only?

That's the whole point. Arguing over what countries have done in the far distant past doesn't do anyone any good.
Link: http://www.ansibleworks.com/ and https://github.com/ansible/ansible
> 4. America despite its many faults has been an overwhelming force for freedom and wealth throughout the world.

America has been an overwhelming force for its own self interests. These are the kinds of statements that show why so many people in the rest of the world are mad about US foreign policy.
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You don't think it's possible that he is a stooge for the Illuminati? It is blatantly obvious. His name is Snowden because this is a snow job. Wake up sheeple!

"Editor’s note for the literal minded ... this comment is not actually suggesting Edward Snowden is a stooge for the Illuminati. It’s just a conceit to make a larger point."
So true. People at my school don't always realize that computer science isn't just about programming, it's truly a subset of mathematics.
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The thing that bugs me about salt is the almost complete lack of testing/coverage. They had tons of egg-face releases for crypto bugs, upgrade issues, things a basic test suite would have solved. I'd rather not trust my production environments to something that's a roll of the dice of whether its working, secure, or upgradable on a given release.
I just now (past few days) started learning about this stuff. I've been doing the "Learning Puppet" tutorials [1].

The most important thing about it is that you describe the state of the server. And puppet applies it for you. It's idempotent (you might know this term from REST). You can run puppet multiple times and the end result would be the same.

Normally (without config management) you would write scripts that do the configuration. If you ran them twice, things could go wrong, or they would overwrite the stuff from last time. Scripts are descriptions of what steps to take. Puppet manifests are descriptions of what state you want the server to be in.

[1] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/index.html
Normally I'd be upset that another patent troll was winning in court - but come on, this is about a slimy patent troll that will be suing even more slimy advertising scum. I have to say I'm on the fence on this one.
What do you think would happen in the symmetrical situation where a Russian or Chinese whistleblower, exposing evidence of his respective country spying on the Americans, were to seek protection from the US? There's no chance the Yanks would just meekly accede to an extradition request.
I started with cdist, but ansible won me over. I bootstrap ansible-pull using cloudinit. It's been an excellent experience so far.
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rbenv is a great way to get whatever version of ruby you want up and going fast. Install a couple dependencies, clone the git repo, and run the install.sh. I went from never using it to running on CentOS 6 in a half hour.
Many of the same questions when discussed here previously. Still no epub which is a shame..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1450633
> 1. every land has been invaded/occupied/taken over at some point in history. it is human nature. deal with it.

What kind of argument is this? Would you be ok with China conquering the United States? What if it was after 90% were wiped out by SARs?

> I didn't fucking enslave anyone. nobody alive today in the US killed any native americans or owned any slaves.

Of course you didn't. But slavery and the dispossession of native lands created a status quo that benefits you.
I think non-interventionism gets harder and harder to achieve as the world gets more connected. Even if the government becomes non-interventionist you still have private companies and individuals intervening. I think it's hard to separate the two.
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reads article about A

I've tried B, C, D, and E, and I like E.
I agree. Let's do something. But what? Physical protests? Projects created in protest? New tools that can actually do something to make a difference, e.g. meshnets, anonymization & encryption software, email clients with GPG support built in? Participating in existing projects to do the same?

Some people have started doing things. See:

https://optin.stopwatching.us

https://call.stopwatching.us

http://www.restorethefourth.net

And if you have browsed New on HN for the past few weeks, you will have seen many hobby projects on the subject which received little to no upvotes.

But I agree, let's keep it up and do something.
nah, ruby is pretty much perfect hth

(the slowness of the interpreter allows you time to appreciate its beauty)
"technically-inclined folks and, well, libertarian-type weirdos"
>exceeding the power of the executive branch

...The NSA is under DoD which is under the power of the Executive. By definition, their power cannot exceed the power of the Executive.

>It operates as its own organization with its own budget. And it directly fights with the CIA for funding.

Technically everything in the government is fighting for a piece of the federal budget. Are you sure he isn't actually a Post Office burn? They've been trying to get additional federal funding for years and with the decline in the post due in no small part to email (which the post office tried and failed to tax) and other forms of electronic communication, have posted continuous losses quarter after quarter. If people mistrusted electronic communication and the NSA had its budget cut, it would be a double win for the post office. Clearly I have arrived at the heart of the matter: Snowden was actually a Post Office agent working inside the CIA and then the NSA as part of a long term plan to move the Post Office ledger into the black.
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Good point! I've flipped the queries around.

The difference is lesser, but still fairly significant (30x).

Thanks for pointing this out.
No, no, other people have the D-K effect. Not us. We are smrt.
This sort of opinion hinges in the assumption that people are completely independent from whatever environment they've lived in. Is it also absurd for a graduate to be proud of his alma mater or a son to be proud of his parent? Pride from both of these stems from how their influence added to you as a person, not just because you happened to be around them.
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> But pushing citizens to use Linux is NOT government business

Why not? The goverment standardizes everything else, from screws to seat belts to yogurts, why not stop the crazy update-planned-obsolescence cycle pushed by commercial entities and agree on a "standard UI" for normal people?

The amount of unnecessary changes in UIs has become unbearably crazy. And since those changes are forced from all sides, there is no way to vote with your wallet.

Whoever wants to constantly relearn the same stuff over and over and over, and today relearn the Ribbon, tomorrow Metro, and so on, is free to do it. But normal, everyday folks should not have to deal with this shit. Computers are supposed to be boring, everyday tools to accomplish everyday tasks, not fashion statements.

If the commercial world is not willing or able to keep computers useful tools, the goverment has to step in and slow down the amount of changes and prevent the giant waste of tediously gathered know-how.
>The FISA court signed off on this stuff, no?

Who knows? The "court" meets in secret. Its rulings are secret. I'm not even certain that NSA is bound in any meaningful to abide by their decision/advice.
how long until building a site is patented?
> The OP decided to bring race into this.

No, he didn't. You did.
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And what does this have to do with hacking?
I'm not sure I agree, it really does depend on your target audience, I saw it and it gave me a chuckle (as someone who remembers the flap about cookies a few years ago).
...and links form medium.com, please!)

Unfortunately, it can't be helped. The visitors set up trends. As long as it just a popular tech site the quality of its content will match the average intelligence of its visitors.
As someone who lived in South Lake many years ago, I do get the Tallac reference. In the spring of 90 I hiked that mountain (started at 2am and reached the top at 9am)and snowboarded down the "cross". That day is one if my best memories. Thank you for the reminder=)

http://www.summitpost.org/mount-tallac/150430
Dash is a Fitbit for your car
tcpcopy is a good tool.
As I understand it, XP wasn't meant to do that either; the fact that it lasted so long was more of a series of mistakes on Microsoft's part in getting a replacement out the door. I'm happy to be corrected, though.
Yeah, that's not correct. Windows keeps fairly up-to-date OGL drivers through vendors (as makes complete sense), and the Linux driver story isn't terrible.

Windows also generally will try and install driver updates as soon as they become available--this hardly makes OGL some magical burden to keep up-to-date.

If anything, OSX has been lagging behind hard until recently.
There's a lot of discussion here that is missing the point that is clearly expressed in the first paragraph of the article:

"Pleading for asylum from U.S. officials he says want to persecute him, NSA leaker Edward Snowden told Ecuadorian officials that he fears a life of inhumane treatment -- even death -- if he's returned the United States to answer espionage charges, the country's foreign minister said Monday."

Snowden isn't afraid of being found guilty and serving a reasonable sentence. He's afraid of disappearing into a secret dungeon and tortured for decades. Which is a thing the USA has been proven to do. Recently. To people who have upset the government way, way less than he has.

It's a legit fear.
Is there a comparable tool for Windows?

Powershell works great for executing commands on arbitrary servers (which sounds like the basis of Salt), but it'd be great to declaratively say "I want the server in this state" like the config management side of salt. I assume there is a tool built atop of Powershell like this somewhere?
And don't leave out Three Floyds.
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This is getting extremely scary that big-name journalists already are now smearing him with accussations of criminalities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU8-cBfgLJA
Just what is that "larger point"? Is it that by revealing his identity and publicizing his movements, Snowden has shifted attention to his personal story, away from the issue of U.S. government surveillance? If so, I disagree with the point -- Snowden's story has, if anything, given the issue a more compelling narrative arc, and kept it in front of the public far longer than if he remained an anonymous whistleblower.
If it's a concern, just lock it up behind iptables. Only let your master talk to your minions and your minions can only talk to your master.
The NSA is solidly controlled by the military. Also, my sense is that both the NSA and the CIA have blank checks when it comes to funding, and it is probably a small drop in the water next to the larger defense budget.
So dogs don't deserve to be locked up all day inside, but kids, and people, do?

Humans are happy outdoors. Children need to be outside exploring, playing, figuring out the earth and nature, not sitting inside on iPads all day. Just because there are "good jobs" in tech doesn't mean it's OK to withdraw your child from nature in order to allow more time tinkering with computers.

Let kids get close with nature. Let them connect with animals and the earth. It will lead to calmer, more empathetic adults with less anxiety and more confidence and compassion.
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Idea: Encrypted Email against PRISM
Also, consider how many people would be incapable of fulfilling such role: if something cannot be done by robot it probably means it requires creativity, intelligence and other assets that are in shortage even in humans.
I always love reading about Knuth. What a great guy.

TAOCP:Computer Science::Gray's Anatomy:Medicine
Groklaw: opinionated, pro FSF.

Beholden to no one. Enshrining important cases in plain text in the public record. Crowdsourcing prior art and patent busting. Surfacing contradictions in court cases.

In short, they're the gold standard in IP law reporting. And it wouldn't be happening without their passion.
Nice!

And then we will debug the code
while flying at 0.75 Mach
at 35,000 feet!
Also apparently I'm supposed to stare at the ends of my handle bars for directions?

It feels like both speedo functionality and gps directions should be rolled into a third group of lights on the top of the cross bar.
Salt can configure Windows machines, but you need to have the master running on *nix iirc.
The same principles apply, just like everyone suddenly becomes an expert on politics just before elections.

I'm from the UK so you could say its worse for me as I'm definitely allowed to be spied on by the NSA. What are you suggesting should be built/organised? Protests? Another political party? Aggression?

Governments today have seemingly limitless ability to do whatever they want and then just shrug it off if they get caught, we on the other hand don't have that luxury, we have consequences. This is why you'll find few people willing to stand up and put their ass on the line, the last really notable people (Aaron Swartz, Edward Snowden) unfortunately aren't doing too well right now.

If something of the scale capable of toppling the current power structure is to be organised then the tools for doing so need to come first.
Maybe they should hire you to review it for security flaws?
I was really disappointed with something like this in a game I was playing last week. In The Unfinished Swan, after you get a certain number of bonus points, you unlock a power that lets time freeze for the objects you throw in game so you can have tons of objects queued up to go all over the place when you unfreeze.

What I was trying to do was use the frozen in space objects to sort of paint in mid-air the area I was in. Unfortunately after about a 100 or so, the game removed the oldest dropped object with each new one placed.
And they did such a wonderful job with the home-bred hordes in South Asia and the Middle East!

EDIT: For the curious, am referencing "Arithmetic on the Frontier" by Kipling ( http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7846/7846-h/7846-h.htm#link2H... ).
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Paul Revere just rode by shouting something. Back to bed then?
Or they could write a book and you could read it for free at the library, or online.

Because, as I said in my original comment, the value of good English courses lies less in the dissemination of information and more in the underlying discourse. To borrow a weak metaphor: reading a lot of criticisms and interpretations is like having someone lift the barbell while you're on the bench. Sure, you might tax your arms a little bit but you're not actually working out.

Why limit knowledge to people who have $50,000/year to blow on college? Not everyone is rich and upper class. Can only people from well off families become "properly" educated? ... To me, at least, intelligence and a drive to learn are far greater indicators of someone's likely degree of sophistication than how much their parents spent on their four year vacation to some over priced campus.

This is completely irrelevant to the point I made, and it appears you're just trying to rail against the college system as a whole. Which is cool, I guess.

I've seen too many english and other writing intensive liberal arts majors graduate without knowing the difference between your and you're, its and it's, to really have any respect for the degree. Oddly, my scientist friends have few problems with attention to detail and understanding basic syntax, despite not spending four years on mastering the subject. I suspect this is because they already mastered it in high school, if not earlier, much like myself.

I don't want to disparage your anecdotal evidence, but I -- and imagine many, many others -- have had the exact opposite experience. The average literacy and communication ability of a STEM graduate is far below that of a humanities grad. Also, the implication of this passage is that anyone who goes into a liberal arts major is less intelligent than anyone who goes into a science. I'd like you to qualify that because it sounds condescending as hell.
Totally impartial stater of QUOTES, actually. 'Facts' implies a journalistic responsibility to call out quotes that are inaccurate, but they very much don't ever do that.
Click "Step into the future! Click here to switch to the beta php.net site" at the top to see the new design.

It's a huge improvement visually.
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Maybe this? http://ansibleworks.com/docs/gettingstarted.html
Except WildTangent isn't scrappy ad farm, it's a games company.
Is it really that smart ?
By doing so the president commits crimes against humanity, incentives lots of people to attack the US, kills privacy for the sake of security and does so while violating the constitution. The list goes on and on.
Meanwhile, the people (not the government !) end up paying for this madness. Literally and figuratively.

A smart thing to do would have been to fund programs that bring alternatives on the market.
That may not even have been necessary. (high oil prices is a big enough incentive)
If he had invested all that war money in alternatives, the world would love the US.
But look at what's happening now !
The guy at the top is worse than Bush.
He then bullies and threatens foreign countries in an attempt to shut down journalists.
How smart is all that ?

The US could have innovated its way out of oil dependency problem.
It choose not to.
How smart is that ?
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HN discussion on an essay I wrote, "Computer Science is Not Math": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928276
Salt is missing templates, the ability to use higher level programming language and all the environment/roles that I find the most powerful part of Chef.