skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd just like to mention something about specialists vs generalists. Over my career, as a sysadmin, I've noticed this trend. At smallish organizations (i.e. startups), you'll see almost exclusively generalists, because the company simply is not large enough to have a team of specialists running around. As the company grows (think fortune 500 companies, universities, government, etc), these generalists will have to make the transition into specialists, say for example into, security, networks, email, linux admins, windows admins, storage, racking/stacking/cabling, etc. You might even have these enterprise architects popping up.

I have also seen less sysadmin programming (whatever that is) at the larger companies, because they will purchase prepackaged products that fit their need.
Better way to solve this problem: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/fixing-employ...

A state government is actually diverse enough in needs to create a full market for these options; it wouldn't have to sell/transfer them on a secondary market to profit.
didn't Ferris and Cameron destroy this already?
How do we know if the NSA is acting lawfully? Why can't we have better oversight and transparency?

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After all, they have nothing to hide, right?
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I assume they record the IP-address of everyone who visits that page. And then watches activity to/from that IP-address for ten years.
Awsesome desktop/mobile crossover
It shouldn't. Processors with hyper-threading enabled expose two virtual processors to the operating system per physical core.
he didn't mention the most important - write the docs http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KEakc...
I like how they called the Constitution a clock
I haven't been following Firefox OS that closely, but one question comes to mind: why didn't Mozilla fork Palm's excellent WebOS?
The plan for the last push - GoD Wingmen: Factory
Fortunately it's only a pilot program. While I doubt it will happen, it's conceivable that they will realize these flaws and make regulatory adjustments accordingly.
The Fall of the American Worker
To be fair, I only associated the name FooBarWidget with passenger after figuring out you are the author on the project.

Any reason why you do not keep it with the company repo https://github.com/phusion ?
Gulags were lawful. It's not doublespeak. The problem is not the NSA, it's the whole system.

If baseball isn't interstate commerce, but growing your own wheat is for your own consumption, you know the whole state is rotten to the core. There is no objectivity it's just do whatever you want and if you're powerful justify it later.
Prism like surveillance system in France to intercept billions of communications
I'm not condemning ansible, or even ansible-pull for that matter. I love and use ansible in my own company.
Immigration can be a huge force for growth and prosperity as much as it can be destructive. You can think of a country as a company, and of immigration as recruitment. Recruitment will make, or kill, a company.
you're limited by Ruby's green threads

Ruby (MRI) started using native threads in 1.9, but you are still bound by the GIL.
Iceland also granted citizenship to the late chess great Bobby Fischer, when he was on the verge of being deported to the US, from Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Asylum_in_Iceland
Hacker news. Great news site but what purpose does karma serve?
I've only been checking HN for the past few months. In fact I only started coding last March! I love this site. It has a high volume of interesting links every day. Also the comments are often worth reading with a healthy contrarian/pragmatist streak which is a pretty amazing achievement on the internet.
I made an account so I could join in the conversation, but then I noticed this number in the top right which it turns out is my karma This kind of thing makes sense in, say, stack overflow where the quality of peoples technical answers is important but on a news site?
I like a healthy debate and I'm not shy about expressing myself bluntly. I've noticed on some of my comments they get downvoted and then upvoted multiple times. It seems all the karma is really used for is as a pissing contest between people who agree or disagree. Seeing my karma move up and down is just annoying and distracting to me. It doesnt seem to serve any vital purpose so I would just get rid of it, however a good alternative would be to have an option on your account to just not display any of that info so it does not bother you. I'd be happy with that.
Blog d'un condamné - J+1
I genuinely don't know if you're trolling or not.

Some of the people criticising cryptocat are respected, knowledgeable, experienced researchers with shipped product used by many people everyday.

Other people criticising cryptocat know enough about crypto to know that they should not be doing it. That's not a negative, that's a strong positive point.
"NSA does not object to any lawful, peaceful protest."

From an organization that spies on the world, that sounds sinister. As in "if we did object, we could do something about your 'lawful' protest."
I remember when the demo for FF7 was released alongside Brave Fencer; I think I played that demo alone 50+ times. Completely changed my expectations on how immersive/cinematic/emotive games could be.
This divide is a really fascinating to me. I feel like I'm watching a National Geographic special.

"We don’t want to learn the latest IDE and develop best practices for working with a version control system with other developers. Code reviews, strategy meetings, QA reviews… what? No thanks, let the programmers get that stuff done. They have 7 hours to commit to this project today, I have 45 minutes and that’s only if all my KLO goes well."

Why do you feel this way? (Not a rhetorical question). Looking at it superficially, I would guess that:

(1) You don't like the engineering part of software development, finding it too tedious or something?
(2) You feel like you're more badass for having to get shit done in a much smaller time frame.

I read through some of the other responses and it seems to fall into this general pattern.
"NSA does not object to any lawful, peaceful protest."

Come on: is it possible that anyone has felt the need to write this seriously on the corporate web page of the NSA?

AMAZING.

I hope (but I do not know, they do not say) the NSA also does not object to free speech, to private property, to freedom of press, to freedom of economic initiative, to freedom of religion...

EDIT: Come to think of it, it is possible that they had internal conversations like what are we going to do with these people?. And then the chiefs said: "hey, we do not object to these demonstrations!".

Scary...
Dude. Michael. o Church. I love your writing. No harm intended, but recently your "all VC funded people are Connecticut trust fund babies" rants are a bit twisted (if only because YC can whitewash so many people from "shouldn't be fundable" into fundapalooza territory). That's the only crazy pants thing I've seen recently. (Your EIR rants are kinda in the same vein, but I've seen EIRs handed out as friendships, or to failed CEOs who ruin companies then just recycle into the system, or under-23-year-old "EIRs" ego-boasting about their positions, so you're not too far off. I read everything you write as over exaggerated (which is the only way to grab these people's attention apparently). Go big and crazy or go home.)

Um... what else are we talking about here.

Oh, right. Loserdom.

Well, I don't feel bad about anything. I enjoy having had a series of jobs where I could show up at 10am and leave at 3pm or take a week off to do a 600 mile bike ride or tell my boss "No, I won't do what you ask. It's unreasonable." knowing he has no real power in the organization.

With all the startups I worked at, I never exercised my options. It was clear they were loser startups with loser founders and loser execs. They were comfortable for a time though. HN money boasting brings out all the people who have been at google since they were 23 and have been making $250k/year for the past eight years though. That kinda hurts. But, the world is big—we can be better than The Safe Path.

I'm not sure how much damage the "job hopper" stigma imparts. People know shit happens. Some people.

Your "one new tech hub outside SF/NYC" is way too timid. Try twelve new ones. I've got a writeup about that in my head needing to make its way out through my fingers soon.

Your rent-is-overgrown-evil rants are top notch. We're one step away from landlords demanding to know how much you make so they can set the apartment price to exactly 1/3rd of your take home pay.

Honestly, the best thing we (as people who haven't achieved greatness in the face of media constantly focusing solely on 18 year olds becoming millionaires) can do is to stop reading the news. Get out of your head. Mindfulness. Talk enough to change the direction of opinion in the world. Let it sink in. Talk some more. Shut up for a while and create good things. At least try. There is no try.

We're only left with one practical path to greatness: Make good art.

Happy 4th.
How likely is this to be passed?

I would imagine that there will be a fair amount of influence exerted in the direction of Reykjavik to make sure this doesn't pass.

Actually, it would be fascinating to see the records of the incoming calls to the leaders of the Icelandic government - I wonder who could help with that? ;-)
Judging by the strong negative opinions expressed in the top comments, I am not sure that is going to be the case :)
> I really don't like it but I can't shake off my smug European sense of being weirded out when I read about how atheists are seemingly treated in America.

That's OK, 'cause we Americans can be smug right back at you over the way Gypsies are treated in Europe.

Just as we treat atheists the way Europe did a century ago, Europe treats the Gypsies the way America treated black people a century ago. Actually, Europe doesn't seem all that friendly to blacks yet, either, at least judging by what soccer fans have been chanting at opposing team black players.

So...don't get too smug over there. :-)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5990614
Historical. The Phusion Passenger repository started in 2008, when Gitub did not yet support teams. We never moved it because there are so many links to FooBarWidget/passenger.
A true Scotsman would never take the position that scripting is coding.
Fellow Americans, Help Me Understand.
Would you need to do at at all? As it wouldn't get cold.
You can say the same thing about any piece of software; if Excel forgets how to multiply numbers, think of the horrible things that could happen! The difference is that multiplying two numbers isn't hard compared to getting a cryptosystem right, and neither is accurately displaying a key fingerprint.
NodeFly Node.js News Round-up for July 4, 2013
Some great points about the tooling, especially the control server. For 2.3, the control server is going to get some much needed needed love that should hopefully address major issues.

A couple of notes: Puma has a dynamic pool but it's common to see people configure the pool as 16:16 in production, meaning it's staticly configured to 16 threads.

Some people have asked about using Puma to manage multiple apps recently. I'm currently consider what that would look like. If it's done, it would likely be a separate gem rather than being wired directly into Puma as it is now.

On the topic of time limiting requests, this is conscience choice. Aborting a thread or process externally is really problematic and I don't personally think it's something that should be done casually. If a user wants to do time limiting, they can easily use a Rack middleware that uses timeout.rb.

The same goes for OobGC. Performing it in a multithreaded env makes little sense because the only out-of-band is when all threads are idle. I have thought of some ways to implement it in puma, but I see OobGC is a kludge. Better to tune your interpreter to handle your garbage load better (something 1.9/2.0/rubinius/jruby can all do).

Thanks for the great comparison! I look forward to future back and forth and we all work to raise the level of technology used in ruby webservers.
La France rejette la demande d'asile de Snowden
>This particular case is not English vs. Metric, but rather lack of cohesion in the metric system.

Yes, and the grand-parent already said that this particular case is insignificant compared to English vs Metric.

Let's first fix this, and then we worry about decimal separator.
'Stop suspicionless surveillance' is probably what you're looking for. In countries like Afghanistan with numerous independent terrorist factions, 'massive' surveillance is an inevitability.
I really liked Opera. I've used it for as long as I can remember to pretty much the exclusion of all else. Best mouse gestures, integrated mail and RSS client, notes that were easily searchable and right there alongside all my web stuff, nice speed dial for regular sites, first people with tabbed browsing (though they managed to screw that up to an extent by stopping the tabs overflowing so they shrunk into unclickable icons instead.)

But, honestly, you strip out mail, you strip out notes - that's a lot of the advantages that it had going over other browsers gone. It's no-longer something you can really use to manage information. You're almost in a position of saying, "Well, I mean - why not use Firefox? It's stolen most of the other features anyway." Pretty much the only thing Opera has going for it at this point is the nice mouse gestures. Everything else it is basically the exact same thing as Firefox. They've even stripped the easy access bookmarks out so they can't claim they've an advantage there anymore either >_>

At the moment I'm still using Opera 12 - but there's only so long you can stick around on a browser that's not being updated anymore.

I think, in retrospect, the point when Opera went wrong was when they stopped charging for it - at that point it was grow or die, and it never did grow that much.
How has Reddit "signed on"? Their userbase is one of the biggest on that list but they didn't change their homepage at all..
Just signed... let's hope this does something. Sometimes I think the mass protests done in Egypt recently will be the only way our government actually listens
Wasn't FF8 released along Brave Fencer Musashi?
>i.e. the official metric system symbol is period or comma, regardless of what actual Europeans use.

Regardless? Those (and mainly comma) is exactly what Europeans use. It's not like there is some other symbol besides those too in use for that purpose.
As a set of bullets, I can agree with parts of this list, but the supporting paragraphs of weird assumption and baffling generalization, not nearly as much.

The phrase "I'm not a coder" can mean all kinds things coming from a sysadmin, context is import.

If a sysadmin truly lacks the ability/confidence to write useful code, I'd expect has more to do with the typical nature of the job and organizational divisions than prejudices, hang-ups or fickle behavior of the sysadmins themselves.

A role which is too often reactive doesn't leave much time for development. Likewise, development towards the goals of a sysadmin (automation, insight, reliability) too often lead sysadmins to unemployment due to misunderstanding as the relationships between sysadmins who "don't do anything" and systems that don't break.

I expect new businesses, particularly the type common on HN could be exceptions, but in many organizations the preferred language of system administration and those of software development don't align. As a result, serious sysadmin code written in say Python as opposed to corporate standard of .NET/Java is putting the sysadmin on an island and likely to be seen as a threat/liability.
France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillions Of Metadata Elements
Wonder if he needs it, as he has such a short drive to work.

I was quite jealous of the love he had for that thing.
Is this for United Statians only, or can we (Europeans) sign it too to let the US government know that we're tired of their shit?
>The politicization and militarization of technology is undeniable

You make this statement as if it was some sort of new happening. This is as old as technology itself. Finding new ways to kill each other has been the number one driver of technology progress, and always has been.
Using the word "hate" was probably unfair; I can see it being okay for the small Heroku/WPEngine project deployment.

What I mean by that statement is that VCS was never designed to be a deployment solution. I won't argue with a seasoned programmer for using git to deploy their blog to WPEngine, it's one-dimensional and not mission critical (unless you make your living off of it).

Deployment is much more than just "getting your app on the server". Git happens to be in vogue (for deployment) because it is part of the developer's toolset and already handles transporting and merging diffs. This doesn't make it appropriate for deployment though, the argument is very long and I may just end up writing a blog post about it.
Most sysadmins aren't LAMP (or LNMP, or LNPR, or whatever the flavor of the day) programmers, who know how to make a todo list "pop". They aren't javascript ninjas, who actually know how to interact with the DOM. They don't know how build models of black holes, or self-driving cars, or make enemy sprites hunt you down in an interesting way, or debug a GUI.

Most software engineers couldn't do any of those tasks to the typical, silo-enforcing business asshole's liking (i.e. it needs to be done yesterday). That shouldn't matter. What matters is the ability to learn.
As Google buried organic search you will pay for links
What? Minecraft "voxels" are huge. And then the cubes on the creatures are a different size. How is it not just using meshes to start with?
Worth mentioning that while Chipotle campaigns based on a farm-to-table ethos, McDonalds is also pushing suppliers towards humane sourcing.

That said: I'll feed Chipotle to my kids, and we actively avoid McDonalds.

Fun fact about Chipotle: all their pork and (I think?) beef is cooked sous-vide in a central kitchen in Chicago.
Could you say why? Are you using it on a touch device?
Thoughts On Evolutionary Algorithms & Human Behaviour
There should be no benefit of the doubt or warm encouragement for these developers. The bug with the array of decimal digits shows minimal programming competence: the author either does not understand how numbers and strings work in a computer, or doesn't read API documentation. Nadim seems like a naive person without a computer science background who is attracted to cryptography as an activist, but has no knowledge beyond a 3-page tutorial. It is extremely arrogant and irresponsible for a developer with such little domain expertise to promote this product as secure.
They should also incorporate the currently popular design patterns, dependency injection, etc, lest someone else be able to figure out what they do just by looking at them.
Opera 12 will indeed be updated with security patches for some time.
"You can expect that we will keep Opera 12.x up to date and secure." http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2013/07/02/opera-15
No, it's called focusing on a particular topic at one time.

You cannot concern yourself with politics all the damn time any more than you can concern yourself with anything else exclusively.
Eero, Objective-C dialect, reaches 2.0
I agree.

But for the sake of argument, why? "Big data" is huge an expected to grow exponentially over the next couple of years. This is just another form of big data.
And the flip side, why coders can't do the simplest of sysadmin tasks.

I've meet coders who couldn't spell "DHCP" let alone tell you what it does or how it works.

They're two completely different job descriptions - why should one need to do the other?
Contact your MEPs in EU, and local politicians:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html;jsessionid=58...
Part of it is just experience. As a sysadmin I was jumping from one task to the next learning as I went. I never got the chance to be really crazily good at any one thing. No sooner would I learn something and apply it and I was off to put out another fire in a totally different area.
Free Energy Magnet Motor (Engine)
HTML5 Animations With 3D Effects
We know that HTML5 is a very cool technology and it has revolutionized the way we see the web. However, looking at these examples made me realize that HTML5 is one step closer to beating Flash.
Why does incurring the costs associated with resale on the industry in any way morally gray? It's the manufacture's right to price items accordingly. They can just raise it to compensate.
Way to go. I wonder why none of the south american countries offered him citizenship and a passport, maybe even a diplomatic one (it won't give him immunity, but will help with travel arrangements)
how are you getting round this, have you partnered up with companies in other countries?
I've never met an openbsd/freebsd, solaris or old school unix sysadmin that didn't have a total mastery of C/++ and scripting like perl. By total mastery I mean debugging and even reverse engineering binaries looking for something that was eating memory, and often completely rewriting some major program parts to add security like old smtp and sendmail. The Sr admin I worked for could quote K&R by memory and was a much better dev than the software engineers there just he was a total neckbeard and didn't want to deal with "politics" so confined himself to the sysadmin dungeon. He made more money than them too

Just look at openbsd-dev mailing list. Most of those guys are sysadmins, like the guy who wrote OpenBGP from scratch, the pf maintainers... basically all Berkley forks were created by sysadmins.
Well, if enough people agree with the statement it's ok to do xyz as the internet isn't real life (or implicitly agree with by behaving in such a manner), then it seems to me to be a reasonable default position to take. You and I might disagree, but that's just two data points. We probably shouldn't legislate or even feel too smug about our minority taste, as much as it is a minority taste.

Regarding private conversations, I agree that the internet offers the capability to have private conversations, but I'm arguing that the medium tends toward people having fewer of them nevertheless. Of course, private conversation is not well-defined. I'd argue that a exchanging slurs between members of a sports team is more private than doing the same between virtual strangers on a CODBLOPS server; that mobbing during lunch break is more private than mobbing on Facebook; that a confidential conversation between friends is more private than an email stored for potentially forever.
Surprisingly, tiny Iceland is the only country in Europe daring to question American might.
This is a pure publicity piece. McDonald's had a chicken wrap on the menu in 2006, albeit without as many vegetables. An article about the business of the McWrap would talk about earlier versions of the menu item, whether or not they succeeded, and so on.
Some of best programmers i have met are, watch this out, sysadmins. And no, they will not do your job :-)

On the other hand most of developers' knowledge is like swiss cheese, because they don't know enough about underlying machine, they only want to deal with abstractions and algorithms, so for example trivial things like where is located config can be really tricky for them. As you can see, one could do same article about developers, but what's the point on spitting on people you work with? Ah, yeah, frustration :-)
At least our industry hires entry-level people. A lot of industries right now are looking for entry-level persons with 8 years experience.
Online Protest == Can't be bothered to actually do something meaningful to register my outrage.

Sorry, but change means getting off your fat ass.
Citizenship ones seem to be. Here is the Bobby Fischer citizenship law: http://www.althingi.is/altext/stjt/2005.016.html
Please stay in your free speech zones while 'lawfully' protesting.