skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a root server hire an admin.
Especially if you want a root server from Hetzner. We had two incidents where our machine either lost power because of a problem in the datacenter or was shut down outside of a predefined service window. Hetzners reaction to the resulting problems* was that they won't do anything because it is a root server. They didn't care that they were the source of the problem.
We changed the hoster afterwards.

* First time was only a hanging connection to the server, because the machine was still performing disk checks (they didn't tell us that, we had to request local access), second time the hdd crashed and we learned the hard way that they are unable to configure a software raid properly (but tell you that the root servers are preconfigured with raid), which resulted in a complete data loss. External backups saved us here.
So far all we've gotten is some powerpoint slides, claims that they have other evidence, and a lot of interviews.

He hasn't presented any concrete evidence, just the same powerpoint slides we saw a month ago. He claims he has some, but we're not seeing anything.

This is incorrect. Have you read any of the Guardian or WP stories? Quite a few documents have been leaked, covering a broad gamut of programs in the US and abroad. Whether the information about intelligence programs was presented in powerpoint format or not is irrelevant (though not all of it was), it has shown the broad outlines of the ambitions of the NSA and other intelligence services like GCHQ, many of which are supplying information wholesale to the NSA (on Americans and citizens of other nations). Other whistleblowers like Binney have also confirmed the truth of Snowden's allegations, so it's not as if we have a lack of evidence here, just a lack of accountability. Most stories have cited a different document, so if you are genuinely interested, I suggest you start here. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-nsa-files+content/docume...

If you don't care about Snowden or find Greenwald uninteresting that's fine, but you should be demanding answers from your government and representatives, not from Greenwald. Is he responsible for a massive spying program and the ambition to collect all the data in the world in centralised, searchable repositories? Is he the only or even the best authority on these programs? I'd say the people responsible for setting them up should be the ones we ask for more information and more answers.

What has been shown so far is enough in my opinion to enable us to ask hard questions of our respective governments, and of ourselves if we continue to enable them to collect this information over the long term and to realise their ambitions of total surveillance.
Data::Dumper::GUI: View Perl data structures in a GUI
When reading the headline: Hmm, I can draw stick figures in CSS as well..
When seeing the result: Impressive!
Still, a bit pointless, but still a cool thing to try and experiment with.
I wish no one take this as an offense. But I will repeat the same speech I say when I see these examples: wrong use of CSS for nothing.

May this help the author with adversiting his skills but the truth about these is they're totally useless and waster ways of making stuff for the web. You can do that minion properly with SVG and be more semantic than that thing.

If authors wanted to draw using code, why not improving skills with something proper, and the best thing I know is SVG, period.
Suggest to change the way you word things. For one, your post is attacking people indirectly by suggesting that systemd people are absurd and their idea is a cancer and that there is no need to change at all.

That is what I see as the main message from your post. If you wonder why people move to something else and your ideas are ignored: try coming up with real arguments ("X is better" is a bit light on details!) and ignore the need to rant about abusrd, cancer, etc.
Personally, I would not go that far. I mean, what is the practical risk?
This. Just imagine the <expletive>storm if he did that with Apple products instead of Linux.
So you have a Core i7 to build the package quick,
then, you use it for 1% of the time.

Sounds great.
Martin Fowler refuses to publish the slides of his talks because they only make sense in the context of his talks. Seems to be a good decision.
This is most likely a mistake on their site. The i7-920 doesn't even support this much RAM. For >32GB it has to be some kind of xeon, maybe sandy bridge E.
ZenMate for Chrome encrypts all browser activity
> Negative comments on blogs? Perhaps not a surprise [1] > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect

Obligatory comic response: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
My 2¢: I've been on Hetzner for a few months, experimentally, and the sporadic 'offline uncorrectable sector' emails I'm getting from smartd are making me nervous.
"100 % Protection – It's Free! "
i wonder about the business model...
I think it is time to rethink everything, Not just Microsoft. Cloud computing is at risk now too. From Amazon to Google Drive, Gmail, etc. Shared hosting is not even secure any longer. Our connections from our isp can be the source of their spying.

People want the ease of computing not secure computing. The polls show it. In the US everyone but the geeks are OK with the NSA. Sad.

The system is going to have to change to federated data. Email, Social media, everything. Appliances owned by the individual. Either located in the home or small server appliances "rented" at a colocation facility and every user's info on their appliance. Any warrants are served to the individual not the "processing" or interpreting host that parses the data in their UI or service. The host, whether Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc would notify the requester that that info is on a server rented solely by the user and they have no standing to grant or honor the warrant as they are the wrong party.

Please note I use voice typing due to fine motor control and this comment may contain errors.
Is slower Chinese growth a good thing for world economy?
I can confirm this, we're replacing at least two disks every month. You really have to design your architecture that allows a server to be taken offline for a few hours for disk replacement. Also, never use raid 0 on Hetzner.
Here's the constructive-criticism version of your comment:

"For the benefit of anyone like me who never heard of the LSAT before: it's the Law School Admission Test, a half-day test of reading comprehension, logic and verbal reasoning used by law schools in the US, Canada, and elsewhere."

(More work? Maybe. But all the information there is also in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on the LSAT, which you said you already checked.)
Agreed, what is the practical risk?
<rant>
It is precisely this hypocrisy that has rankled more and more as the years roll by. Sure other countries do horrible stuff but nobody else claims to be such a bastion of freedom and democracy. As one learns about the sordid interventionist past of the USA one then realizes that the superficial rhetoric is at variance with past actions.

These double standards reek of the colonial mindset that is meant to be well behind us. I follow a couple of blogs and it is this they return to time and again. The double standards. The hypocrisy. Imagine if the USA didn't make such claims then when the whole NSA/Snowden thing broke people would just say, "oh well, that's just par for course then".

So can we just drop the whole freedom and democracy rhetoric now? Can we drop the pretense? If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and all that. Measure for measure the USA is one of the more hostile and anti-democratic regimes globally.
</rant>

Also, can I have my privacy back please?
There seems to be no discussion though, which is the HN's strong point.
I honestly don't recall where I read this, but one thing that really struck me is
"Work 60 hours a week. 40 hours a week for your company, 20 hours a week for yourself"

I find it true. As you say, company work don't teach much. Better said maybe, they don't teach much diverse skills. Most of your time is spent doing CRUD or API modifications.

When I get out of work, I try to get projects about things I don't know anything about.
Like learning web dev (or at least trying), publishing an android app, or even teaching yourself marketing.

For me, the rule is usually simple :
- Do something you don't know anything about.
- Make it small.
- Do it fast enough so that you don't get bored.
- Publish it.

I like it because I usually struggle a lot, and then understand the rough concepts. Adn the next project is easier, because I am used to trying to understand how stuff works. It basically keep your brains agile.

And the best thing is that it makes you better at your job. Because you can then think out of the box, and offer new solutions to problems. More than if you'd spend 60 hours a week on your job only.

Last thing is, those small projects, you can show them off; which makes you more seducing for other companies / people. Simply because you can talk about them, without having to know too much context :).
You mean would the NSA bring up the CEO of the company on random charges after he says no, put him in jail, and get someone more agreeable to run the company? They've done it before! Look up Qwest.
Hetzner reuses disks to reduce cost. So a "new" server might come with old disks with shorter life-spans. Thats all okay, especially as they are not a 'premium' host. As long as you are aware of this, they are a good host. As others said, you can ask for new disks at a price.

Also be aware that their abuse department shoots first and asks later. I know of servers that were off the grid for multiple days without access because of abuse on a friday - everyone relevant went on weekend.

They _are_ cheap and that comes with a few trade-offs. Doesn't make the product bad, necessarily. If you are cash-strapped and need raw power, buy without hesitation.
What do you mean equally good? Hetzner seems to give you a much more resources for the same price.

Digital Ocean $80/month: 8 GB, 4 Cores, 80GB SSD, 5TB Transfer

Hetzner $77/month: 32 GB, 4 Cores Haswell, 2 x 240 GB SSD, 20 TB Transfer

I don't see those equally good.

And Hetzner gives you physical machine that you can virtualize by yourself, ie. buy one and install for example 4 virtual guests on one box. You could compare it to 4xDO = ~1 x Hetzner.
I think a Constitutional Amendment should be considered too.
Sometimes it's fun to build something just to see if you can. Why else would I have been making Jedi Knight levels for 10 years rather than using a far more capable (and easier to use) engine?
Is it me or does that picture look like a low-quality photoshop? I feel like manipulated images should have a disclaimer on them.
The value of a proof is a different matter.

And for example knowing e=mc^2 might be valuable in itself, independent of understanding relativity theory.
//let's check if the guest is already in our system
$check = "SELECT * FROM guests WHERE
`first_name` = '$_POST[first_name]'
AND `last_name` = '$_POST[last_name]'
AND `email` = '$_POST[email]' " ;

I'm not much of a PHP person, but doesn't this imply you're taking user-supplied POST data and are putting it directly into your SQL? If so, that won't end well.

Regarding the actual concept, I saw a place which used an iPad as the signin system for visitor badges, complete with a way to sign your name for NDA purposes if you're there for an interview. It seems sound, assuming you can keep people from messing it up with the home button.

That said, I think they had an app, not a web page.
> The economic advantages of Linux/BSD based operating systems include the ability to use older hardware for longer

Totally untrue in my experience, unless you want to use something as minimal as gentoo/archlinux, and that's not for everyone (and even then, low-level stuff like sub-optimal drivers might byte you).

Windows XP is still the champ here, and I believe in many cases 7 does as least as good a job as most popular distros (Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/...).
> Honestly, some of what Snowden/Greenwald claim sounds like embellishment or bluster

This is vague. What exactly do you think is bluster or embellishment. Greenwald is a very precise and measured journalist. Snowden strikes me as very cautious.

> and saying that Snowden has a dead-man's switch ...

Show me (in Greenwald's own words) where Greenwald claimed this of Snowden.
Genomes of 201 microbes sequenced
You should compared to OVH in Canada instead. The Price are roughly the same when you take into account Hetzners 99EUR Setup fees. OVH also gets you a very decent Anti-DDOS for free. No more shutting off due to DDOS attack.

The higher up plans they have recently got a brand new, decent Hardware Raid included as well as the latest Intel DC 3500 SSD.

So I dont understand why these make HN headlines when only 1 week ago OVH US introduce some much better plans and no one cared to mention it.
Assuming you mean the first image, it does say "an artist's impression".
Your second sentence reminded me of the Dicks, Pussies and Assholes speech from Team America...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32iCWzpDpKs
Is the Internet bringing out the best in us?
Windows should be banned in all countries except America. Open source OS is the only way to go. I'm not saying Linux since it's not exactly the most non technical friendly OS for people requiring more than basic usage but windows definitely isn't the OS for the future and it needs to die.
SAP recently announced that they have a recruitment drive for autistic programmers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22621829 - I would contact Specialisterne, the agency named in the article that focuses on helping people with Aspergers find tech jobs - their USA site is here: http://usa.specialisterne.com/
Maybe you're not stressing your disks enough. I recently setup a database server and a disk broke (as in becoming unaccessible, not just bad sectors) within a day.
It was certainly always hard to become a megastar, but it used to be a lot easier to put out a genre record (eg techno, drum'n'bass, jazz) because a well-run label had a pretty good sense of what would sell enough copies to turn a modest profit for everyone involved. An album that sold 4 or 5000 copies to a niche audience could make about 25k each for the artist and the label (record deals in genre music are generally a more equitable than major label ones). That's not a lot, but it's not terrible either, you could pay your rent with it. Nowadays you'd be lucky to sell 1000 copies, so small labels are correspondingly less willing to take a risk on unknown artists, and there are fewer labels with the expertise in distribution, marketing, and developing an artist's career than there used to be.

If an artist is good, they will probably get viral

Don't be absurd. Justin Bieber is talented, but he's also extremely attractive and happens to be proficient at the sort of music that appeals to teenage girls. That's a bit like expecting J. Random Developer to enjoy the same sort of success as Bill Gates, and concluding that if he doesn't it must be because he's no good as a programmer.
So, after SElinux, another big push form NSA to open source community?
I think we're getting bogged down in a game of semantics. I do not think it is such a horrendous misuse of the word 'science' when I mean we can use the results of experiments and sometimes loosely (but rationally and in a learned manner) use them as a basis of our actions, morality, and rule of law. Denotationally the word 'science' implies and includes questions of experimental falsifiability, but I see many smart individuals saying 'science tells us climate change is happening' and I don't think they're wrong when they say that -- we may not have found by science that it is true, but we're sure enough that it is true. To reject climate change on such a basis is not so different from people denying the 'theory' of evolution, because "noooo, it's just a theory you see". They are right by this account of technicality... but that doesn't stop us from accepting this theory as being "good enough to go with".

That said, I'm heading to sleep for now. If you would like to continue this discussion in e-mail you can let me know your e-mail address and I can reply to your other questions (which I would have answered/re-answered if I were not so sleepy).
As long as you also "boycott the hell" out of:

Yahoo
Google
Facebook
PalTalk
YouTube
Skype
AOL
Apple

Who have also been mentioned as complicit in this whole scandal.

Just to be fair :-)

By the way, I actually agree with you and have been slowly switching all my home stuff to linux and trying to get away from Google Dependence (although I type this in Chrome on a Win 8 laptop... damn work computer)
The company and those with the information can still be culpable but the salesperson on the frontline isn't to blame unless they have a clue. What they say is still said by the company and the company should still be liable for harm caused by any of the untruths told on their behalf because the company does know even if the individual does not.
paranoia is good :)
How aerial photographs tracked down Hitler's flying bombs
There's a fella who built a helicopter for himself out of a whole bunch of small electric motors and a battery pack that looks bit like a pilates ball.

...because he can.

These types of demos exist to show what can be done with a bit of experimentation. It may not be salable, scalable or sane. But it's interesting nonetheless.

The purpose of this is to not be useful. The purpose of this is to exist.
Are you saying that chasing after new industries is ambitious? I would argue that the opposite is true. Trying to change an established industry is a lot more ambitious than trying to change a new industry. There will be a lot more resistance.

Cars may be cool. I guess the takeaway is: Stop caring about being at the forefront of something and instead focus on producing real value.

For every "car trend" that gets big, there are thousands of trends that never reach the mainstream, and die.
A democracy depends on an informed voting population.

This means that decisions have to be clearly explained to the voting public by the leading experts in a field or the public's representatives, and then the decision of that public accepted, even if it is distasteful to the experts/representatives. Of course sometimes on unimportant topics the representatives will shortcut this process and just take decisions themselves. On important topics though they have to go to the nation and demonstrate their views by explaining what they plan to do and have done.

The society created by your proposal is an oligarchy, not a representative democracy.
Could I have an invite? My email's in my profile.
Exactly. I've got an Rdio subscription but I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. As a small label owner where we put in more investment than we've ever gotten out, it's crazy to see a thousand streams generating a couple of pounds given that those are all lost sales... but you think 'ah well, at least people are listening to it'.

Also, as a commenter below noted, pay-what-you-want is not new at all. Off the top of my head The Crimea shifted about 100,000 free downloads of their second LP after leaving Warners, quite a bit before In Rainbows.[0] As a second aside, I interviewed a pretty big artist a year or so after whose backing band knew Radiohead and, though this is hearsay obviously, they suggested the reason In Rainbows wasn't toured much beyond festivals was lack of tour support capital. I always sort of suspected that they fudged the numbers on sales/profit for that record, so that could be an indicator, who knows.

[0] http://www.thecrimea.net/products/502351-secrets-of-the-witc...
They don't seem to care much about that lately, though.
Because then you can create a fallback if Javascript isn't enabled - use a server side language to manipulate the DOM on page load to give the same state as if the Javascript were there
I'm a fan of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, so it's sad to see when a company's founder steps down. I feel like the ambition and drive sometimes disappear...then bottom line and dividends matter over pride.
I'd like one too, if you've still got them!

Email in profile :)

Thanks
I don't see logic behind not powering off an abusive machine, no matter if it's saturday night at 3am. The internet doesn't run on your schedule. If your server has been compromised (or not, heck we all know there are baddies out there), and it's actively hosting a phishing site, taking part in a DoS attack, etc, why shouldn't a provider be allowed to take action to protect their network, other users in general, and at the end of the day, perhaps the reputation of your site as well?

Blaming providers for the inability to secure your server is incredibly irresponsible. Unless service was interrupted because Hetzner misread an abuse report for another server (which is highly improbable and most likely is not what you implied in your original statement), you shouldn't ever be pissed that your host took action to prevent abuse from occurring.
"People would be calling us constantly". Would people call if they did not have a problem with your service? This is either very pessimistic or it means "lets kill the messenger".
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6042442
I don't think mtgox was implying principle, just a willingness to resist, even for the wrong reasons. ("You can't imprison dissidents. That's my job.")
How do you know it was Steve Jobs that prevented Apple from joining earlier? Perhaps Apple just wasn't a priority for the NSA until 2012.
I also felt like ranting about the ranter. But couldn't find the energy. Thank you for giving a good example.

You could just have stopped at "fella who built a helicopter" since that in its self is almost always useless :D

PS: I love helicopters but could never justify buying anything more than a 3Ch mini helicopter.
> unless you want to use something as minimal as gentoo/archlinux, and that's not for everyone

I don't actually understand why wouldn't anyone use a minimal distro like Arch on any hardware. You would be surprised just how lightweight a full featured desktop environment like KDE can be on Arch/Gentoo.