skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't used it personally and hope my colleague can weight in on that one, but it was on the list of tools we evaluated end of last year while working with Chef.

It use agents ("minions") and is architected very differently. Ultimately, we settled for Ansible because it uses lean and out-of-the-box tech, doesn't push dependencies on remote hosts and uses YAML extensively (close enough to JSON, actually I believe JSON is a subset of YAML).
Yeah, well maybe the people in MY state are OK, but those bastards one state over are fair game. And don't get me started about the neighbours across the road. Their tribe has no rights in my book.
No. I live in the UK, I don't pay the TV license, yet I still can't see the content of that page.
> No, they are probably using evanescent wave technology.

This is not a term used in fiber comm. The wave traveling down the fiber has a "mode", and part of it extends beyond the core. Yes, that part is evanescent, but it is part of the mode solution from Maxwell's equations.

All you've done is restated OP's explanation of how a fiber tap works.
His email hinted at uncovering a grand plot. Lots of people who have mental issues think they've uncovered grand plots.

Even saying it's likely

I didn't say it was likely, I said it was possible (given that the outright acceptance of incredibly conspiracy theories are by far the most commonly discussed possibility). The difference is profound.

But really I think there are some people who seriously flunked basic probabilities. When considering the possibility that he a) was assassinated by rogue government agents who apparently both hacked his car and improvised explosives, or b) who had personal issues that led to irrational behavior, you are seriously saying that the former is more probable? Give me a break -- that is a seriously broken mental model.

Further the legend of this reporter has exploded into something completely detached from reality. His legacy is that he wrote an article for Rolling Stone magazine where a shooting-from-the-hip general who was a loudmouthed braggart (almost certainly because he was talking to a Rolling Stone reporter and wanted to be cool) got taken down for it. If you read the narrative on here, this reporter went deep in the NSA and hacked the special mainframe.
Taking the decision of living short-term in terms of salary can be a really liberating step in anyone's life. Especially if it is because of something you love passionately.
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed the post.
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Honestly, I think long-form twitter is just twitter + a personal blog. When you want to write an article, you post a link to your twitter.
Currents, more likely. Either way, they should've had a synced web version of currents before killing reader.
prism?
Awesome! Might be switching from Salt soon. I _really_ like that I can just pip install it.
At least you're only forced to pay for the BBC if you watch TV.

You're "forced" to pay for the commercial channels every time you buy something that's advertised on them.
Why not? We're exercising our right to peacefully assemble and protest the government. We're not terrorists, we're patriots. Why play their game?
Is there someone interested?
I think it's important to rethink this progression a bit. In the early years of Rails, what else was around? What other Ruby-oriented frameworks did we find that did what Rails did? How many people were developing web-based MVC apps on a day-to-day basis in comparison to how many are developing them now? GitHub wasn't even around until three years after Rails v1 - seems like maybe GitHub on its own will have untold effects on speeding up development time on a project like Ember.

Let's consider also the simple fact that ALL client-side MVC frameworks are JavaScript (unless they are precompiler-based, which none of the big ones really are, currently). The fact that all of them are based on the same language, the massive cracks in server-side systems that are further exacerbated by language idiosyncrasies are reduced significantly.
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The only weak point Ansible has is that its documentation doesn't show enough real-life scenarios. Fortunately, it's really easy to grok and extend when you see a script, so I wrote this to help:

http://www.stavros.io/posts/example-provisioning-and-deploym...
Was probably just a joke saying to wait until he got rid of his US citizenship.

"A couple of weeks" = 2 weeks.
"Wait 3 weeks" = the week after the couple of weeks are over.
It might, but to be perfectly honest most people don't keep partitions of random-looking data, or large files containing what looks like it. Your plausible deniability would be of the form, "I was getting ready to make a hidden volume there, filled it with random bits etc., but I never got around to actually making it."

I'm not actually sure that TrueCrypt lets you separate these two aspects of creating a hidden drive, but Linux's tools do. With LVM (to create volumes in volumes) you could create a partition which exists within an encrypted partition, so that it's full with random data to begin with -- but then you could plausibly have forgotten to do anything with it after your computer was up and running.

Large random-looking files are a bit different; if someone were to ask "what's this 10 gig file of random data doing on your hard drive?" it would seem hard to answer them. The only thing that I know people use that much random data for is testing an RNG for its statistical properties.
The actual demand for goods and services which would rise as a result of the lower class having enough money to actually buy them is not the main driver of inflation. The main driver of inflation is the printing of more money which is inherit in our fiat currency system.

I advocate a return to a resource-based fractional reserve system as a way of mitigating inflation overall.

Since Nixon took the US off the gold standard, credit use has spiraled out of control: http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2000/0900lead.pd...

You want to talk about increased demand causing inflation? Look no further than consumer credit.
Well damn, I have been doing it wrong. That is awesome to know though.

I wonder if anyone has done a http://todomvc.com/ equivalent for cfengine, puppet, chef, salt, ansible etc.

Something like a simple webserver running Apache with mod_xsendfile, Passenger, Ruby 2.0.0, postgreSQL and a few firewall tweaks (why yes, I AM mainly a ruby developer, why do you ask?)
I would upvote this comment more if I could. I think the analogy with literacy is absolutely spot on.
Anericans did /not/ elect Bush.
The lack of "mass" is going to be a real problem. If you add up the visible numbers of people following their social sites, it is hovering under 25,000 with about 20,000 of that number coming from their subreddit. It would be fine if this was pitched as an ongoing, building movement like OWS or the Tea Party, but the focus is all on a one day protest that currently looks to be ill attended. This could quickly turn into a prototypical slactivism joke.
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"Our products are built for real analysis with a focus on security, scalability, ease of use and collaboration. They are broadly deployed in the intelligence, defense, law enforcement and financial communities, and are spreading rapidly by word of mouth into applications in other industries and realms of impact."

2 of the 4 named industries sound like "terrorist hunters" and 3 of the 4 are not generic big data. None of them are e-coli outbreaks.

Palantir is easy to condemn because from their own messaging to third party analysis, every angle you look at them they look like a boilerplate "evil company" on par with Blackwater/XE/whatever they're called now.

Glassbox reviews and interview reviews are absurd and eye opening, tangles with RICO law and unethical business partners seem the norm, and on and on and on. Other than some nice looking tech, they're public image is one of "mercenary nerds for hire".
I think you just can't "compete" with your former employer for X years after leaving, i.e. building a product that is doing the same thing one of their products is doing.
> Doing it to a bundle of fibers in the deep sea is challenging!

It is also detectable: Long haul folks sometimes pull up the cable to service it for various reasons. So they pull it up and see a zillion fiber taps? WTF?

And where does that cable tap go?

To your bigger point: Yes, this article has zero explanation of how it is done. The salient sentences are:

However, light signals can not be read in another way. Therefore you have so far to expose and turn that a small part of the light waves emerging from the fiber, the individual glass fibers. If you immediately reinforce these waves again and transported via another cable, it has diverted the data.

To anyone in fiber comm, this language is pretty much gobbledegook. Any chance the pastebin is a translation? It vaguely sounds like someone is describing a fiber tap, but in such confused language as to make it sound like a bad spy novel.

Edit: I should have read through the thread. It is a translation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5982681
Welcome to the real world, mr engineer!

I've got a few stories like this, or worst, to the point I was chained.

I just think it's funny, you mention, I'm an Engineer, that doesn't change anything dude, but It's nice you think like that, because is true, nowadays there's a new kind of ism, the classisim! That's the real issue...
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It does give off the smell that the US thinks it rules the world, doesn't it? (Not that it hasn't been an unspoken idea in everyone's minds for the past 50 years, but it's still weird to see it played out in the open.)
Thanks for the advice. Will try to be more concise.

Meantime, work on defending your position and constructing logical responses. I should warn you however, that constructing arguments may require that your word volume increases.
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(I don't strongly believe in this, but I do thing both IV and Craigslist suck. And it's worse in a way because IV was always evil; Craigslist actually was a force for good at one point, and has become evil.)

The postings themselves belong (in a moral sense; I'm not sure what the current craigslist license is) to the people posting them. If I post my room for rent, I would be happy to have more people see the listing, especially with a clean UI (like padmapper). I'd be aggrieved if Craig Newmark blocked people from seeing the listing. The "server load" issue is a red herring; people have been more than willing to pay a reasonable fee to offset that, and it's a minimal amount of load to begin with.

It's even more egregious in the case of a posting tool, which is what this appears to be.

I agree IV is a vastly bigger deal; I personally just soft-boycott Craigslist, but if I had a chance to destroy IV while taking only moderate legal or financial damage, I'd do so. But I think a lot of that is due to the patent system being totally horrible, and copyright being only moderately broken (and trademark being only slightly broken). If Craig/Buckmaster had the ability to use the patent system to kill services which might compete with them, they probably would claim it was "helping their users by making the market more comprehensive and efficient", too.

Sure, it's the KKK vs. Augusta National, but mostly a difference in degree.
(Replying to this comment as I can't to the other for some reason) It is indeed! That'd be a brilliant idea actually. Sadly I only have a very minor amount of experience using chef.

If you're interested though, I recently released our stack as a chef solo project at: https://github.com/FineIO/fine-io-chef
My first thought is number of recipients. If you allowed low-tier users to send messages to e.g. 5 people at a time, and any more required the business plan, that seems like a good way to separate the two.
Seems unnecessarily pessimistic. AdBlock has been on the chrome store without much issue despite being directly opposed to Google's business model.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5982061
It's called a no-compete clause, and has very specific language about not making a product that'd be in the same space as something the company you just left makes.
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That was his point, web 2.0 is blogging about ongoing litigation.
Maybe they tapped fiber before hacking backbone servers (or vice versa), and they can do both now. Why stop now?
Also, the interactive map on http://www.restorethefourth.net/ is completely broken. Clicking on any of the locations for more information leads you straight to a 404.

Judging from the comments on the subreddit, it's not something I want to get my family involved with anyway. There's an unfortunte lack of serious effort here.
> Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000

Incidentally this is the same law that is also being used to legally justify GCHQ's Tempora operation (the UK's PRISM), according to this Guardian article[1] and discussed on HN previously.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-...
While I think this is not impossible, I am not sure whether I wish for it to be the case, as it will, to some, justify the US & EU reaction.

I would rather Snowden still was in Moscow, but found asylum swiftly in an EU nation.. Unlikely, but I think that would be the best outcome.
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So existence of organisation with particular goal is good enough reason to pursue that goal, no matter if its ethical or no?

Seriously Americans, what's wrong with you?
You're not allowed to compete with the company you used to work for or use your "proprietary knowledge" to undercut it. There's lots of potential reasons companies claim, some legit and some not:

1. I have training or specialized skills I acquired at the companies expense and I will be using them to compete against the company.

2. I have "insider knowledge" that they believe would amount to corporate espionage.

3. I know something that could cause harm to the company or its clients (ex. I used to do tech support for a series of store chains and I was not allowed to work for them upon leaving because my knowledge would make it trivially simple for me to steal from the store).

Those are just some of the thought processes. I don't think it's that you couldn't make money self employed, but you couldn't make it doing the same thing you were doing for your former employer (i.e. making a feed reader).
Even funnier, Canada can read these articles as well, just not the U.K. ;)
You can. You install a client certificate and configure your web application to demand that certificate during the TLS handshake. It works fine.

The reason it doesn't get used in practice is similar to the reason why HTTP Authentication doesn't get used in practice: login is something many apps want to keep control over, and delegating that feature to browser chrome (either in the form of the HTTP Authentication popup, or the [even worse] certificate selection UI) makes it difficult to control login, provide password reset, display user help, &c.

Over the medium term, expect to see 2FA products filling this gap. The phone-based 2FA products all allow web app developers to control their own login UX while mitigating the password vulnerability.

The incipient success of 2FA solutions is also a reason I wouldn't bet on browser-based public key authentication or federation happening; the latter solutions are competing with a more pragmatic, simpler alternative.
I agree, we need to fold more playbook examples into the docs for sure.

Folks might be interested in checking out http://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples for some full-stack use cases showing playbooks that we do have.
I like in this particular article, how the interviewer delves into how it is possible to sustain interest in coding a single game for so long (and potentially for decades). Anyone who has coded games as a single dev probably knows how bogged down you get as the game becomes more complex. Generating graphics yourself is a huge time suck which they have neatly avoided. What's intriguing is that the game design appears to be flexible enough to spend time coding mineralogy and then jumping to say horticulture while still being manageable. It would be interesting to know more about the design to see why it is so extensible.
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What stupid shit the president said has nothing to do with other things the president said that may or may not be truthful? I think you're mistaken.
I'm sorry, I have no idea where did I imply that "two wrongs made a right". Could you please point it to me? I personally support Snowden but just like I'm suspicious of the US gov, so I am with the Bolivian one.
I wonder if the author has been to Israel and interacted with technologists and VCs there. Technion (and some other universities such as Hebrew U. and Tel Aviv U) is the "Stanford" equivalent and in fact Technion along with Cornell is partnered to be part of an new technical university in NYC.

While the Intel materials science ("die shrink" -- "tic") technology is US developed, the architecture development "toc" is done in Israel. Intel in Israel employs about 8,000 people. It includes those in two design centers and Fab 28, the 22nm fab (current die shrink) in Israel.

Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Marvell, Apple, Qualcomm, Broadcom, IBM and many other recognizable technology names have built or purchased many subsidiaries in Israel.
I started with salt a while ago (not serious production use) and recently picked up ansible.

So far I'm coming down on the side of ansible. The config is a marginal improvement on salt (which is already pretty good) but I think the clinchers is the explicit push nature rather than the declarative state declarations in salt.

I'm far from expert mind you and not using either in a serious production setting, so don't take my word on anything!
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You don't rip off a company in an "attempt to make it better." You make your own listing site, build your own brand, and compete on the merits of your "superior UX."

Anything else is acting like a spoiled child. Padmapper should f off and build their own listings.
here's what you could do. put an encrypted volume onto somebody's computer. call the cops, tell them he's got child porn on it. they seize his computer, he doesn't know the password.

what is the even the fucking point in having a password if the state can just ask you for it?
And that's also precisely what a lot of the CL scrapers want to go after— try to pick up money that CL is leaving on the table.
I can think of half a dozen people amongst my immediate social circle who have expressed interest in playing Dwarf Fortress "if it wasn't for the interface". Anecdote != data, but from my experience the building blocks of the game appeal to a lot of people who are thoroughly put off by its level of inaccessibility.
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also true
And with the shutdown of Reader went any chance of me investing any of my time in Google+, or Docs, or Hangout, or any service they offer in the future.
It's true. A government can only censor so much content. Inevitably there will be some escaping it.

But if everyone censors themselves out of fear, then that's much more effective of a power for a government to have, since they barely have to do any censorship work themselves. They just need to set examples every now and then to remind people "what's waiting for them" if they dare try to expose the truth.

I've said it before around here - the most dangerous thing is not the dictator himself. He can be removed if, and only if, the population itself has a free spirit and viciously opposes him, until they remove him.

But the real threat is when part of the population starts believing in the dictator's "ideals" and principles, and defend his actions "for the good of the people", and the other part is too scared to say anything anymore. That's when a dictator can rule in "peace", for a long time, and so will his successors, because then, for "his kind", the environment is very "welcoming".

Here's a good example of the opposite of self-censorship, and what everyone should be doing:

http://mobandmultitude.com/2013/07/02/the-nsa-comes-recruiti...
> Most middle class people aren't really financially independant either.... Why should they?

Those people aren't really middle class. They just think they are.

"Middle class" has political and functional meanings beyond just "having near-average income". Nobody living paycheck-to-paycheck, no matter how big those paychecks are, can really function within the middle class.

The difference between lower class and middle class isn't income, it's assets. Because only assets beget independent economic and political power.

As recently as mid-20th century, an American talking about being "middle class" would have been referring to ownership of assets. Originally, of course, middle class was anyone who was neither a serf or a noble.

If you can't afford to tell your employer "fuck you" today, then you're a serf, and you have very little leverage.
Craig: legal team, take care of any violations.

Legal team: Hmm -- we get paid for anything we find. Let's widen the scope a little bit...
Sorry. I didn't mean to be rude.

Some titles have PT in them. i assume this means part time.

If there were a large number of full time workers earning around minimum wage, I would expect to see a lot of salaries around 20k p/a. Only ~1% of total compensations are between $17-$23k and they all have job titles that can be found above and bell that band. About half have PT in the title and I assume others are something else other than full time.

Anyone above that band wouldn't be impacted by an increase in minimum wage. Anyone below that band is part time and may be earning near minimum wage, but most probably aren't.

I don't have a problem with minimum wages. But, it don't look like an increase would impact here anyway.
AFAIK there are no physical RICA interception centres up and running yet.
- I totally agree with you on "Im An Engineer" comment, that definitely doesn't change anything like you said but I don't think it is nice that he thought like that. Having a degree doesn't change anything even Kanye said it in "Good Morning" ~> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPFe72omjY

On the contrary, I just think that there are two types of people, the good and the bad but the new type of ism, like you said, is have & have-not ism.
Perhaps you'd be good enough to enlighten us as to what you are trying to say. Because it is not obvious to me.
Did you consider finding a Snowden angle for your launch story?
What would you do in their place if faced with a angry populous?

I would behave so much better than when faced with an apathetic one.

To me this is like the argument that "prostitution avoids rape", it's blackmail.