skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer/manager I completely agree with you and have always had good relationships with IT for this specific reason.

However, I think many non-technical people (and let's be honest, they are the ones causing a lot of the issues) simply assume that "the computer guys know what's going on" because they just assume it's all magic anyway. The idea that we aren't wizards and actually have to figure stuff out may not even occur to them.

That, and some people are just dicks.
There's a subjective jump between "this is loud" and "I can feel the music rattle my chest."
Actually, my point about Obama's cyber-security build-up is that they will get those kinds of people to work on securing servers like random FEMA servers.

I get the distinct impression that we're going to see a serious shift in the administration's attitude towards cyber-security, specifically a swooping change in direction from offense to defense.
These look like they came from some sort of third party CRM, possibly http://www.iconstituent.com/ given the number of variations of iconstituent in the password list.

I'd be willing to bet that the actual house/senate domains require strong passwords, I've interacted with their IT in a few situations and found them to be on the ball.
It's not. They do their job anyhow. But they have 100 things to care about today, do you want to be one of them?

And do you want people to perform their job for you, or do want them to care about the quality and outcomes of the work? I want the second, not the first...
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I think this bankruptcy is an exciting thing for Detroit. The purpose of bankruptcy is a reboot and if anyone needs a reboot it's Detroit. Of course, Detroit isn't the only city going through or considering bankruptcy. Unlike most people, I view the nationwide phenomenon of municipal bankruptcies positively. Years of unsustainable policies have left the big cities of the U.S. in a financial state where they can no longer effectively provide services. In 2013, 40%+ of Detroit's revenues went to bond payments, pension benefits, and health benefits to retirees. This is money taken away from providing services to current residents of the city.
Bankruptcy will mean bond money will no longer be so easily forthcoming, but that's a good thing. Cities will be forced to grow within their means, and that pressure will force more prudent fiscal policy going forward.
>90% of the time poor performance is caused by the managers not really taking time to understand what's wrong or to consider their own attitude.

Oh phew. Some random person on the internet said a vast percentage of poor performance is the fault of managers and provided no context, information or stats to back it up. Glad we can finally put that debate to rest.
This letter basically sets out "it's ok to snoop on our customers, just as long as we can report it".

Why aren't these companies, and people in general, demanding that operations like PRISM are terminated entirely? Why are people prepared to accept this sort of intrusion into their private lives at all?

If a peeping tom kept bothering me I would not accept his presence as long as he called me up before he started watching my house.

The major issue here isn't the way the government snoops on its citizens, it's that it happens at all.
Agreed. Where should I post it? Somewhere that those hair-gel-using, dockers-wearing, matching-socks douches in Marketing can find it? :-)
The first one to add real encryption to their platform could make a lot of money... especially if they are in desperate need of a competitive advantage.
Microsoft then bought out Skype even though it was clear it was non-profitable.

Lots of non-profitable companies are bought all the time. Skype had hundreds of millions of users and now Microsoft is urging users to make Bing as their default engine when upgrading Skype (just one example). Of course it can also be integrated for Office users too so that angle is not likely.

Do you have the dates for the switch? IIRC the previous owners joined PRISM before Microsoft bought them out.

Another thing: Microsoft needs to be in the good graces with the US Government, so does Google and to an extent Facebook. This NSA thing is quite popular for a reason or another among different senators, politicians and people that know know people. Piss them off and bad things could happen...like FTC, DOJ and IRS investigations.
These look like they came from some sort of third party CRM, possibly http://www.iconstituent.com/ given the number of variations of iconstituent in the password list.

It says something about how thoroughly they vet their vendors, but it's not 'our government's security. (although requiring a full audit that deep before letting them pay a third party just makes them more lumbering and tech-phobic...)
The room is empty for me? Am I missing something...?
"hey guys, for the sake of the surveillance state, let's not ruin everyones's businesses here, amirite? We're in this together"
Well technically its 100% because they hired them.
Apparently, one of the major reasons for bankruptcy has been population loss. Detroit has lost 250,000 people in the last decade. What has particularly happened in Detroit that has led to migration of population?
These look like they came from some sort of third party CRM, possibly http://www.iconstituent.com/ given the number of variations of iconstituent in the password list.
There's a silent YouTube video referenced at the end of that piece showing the stages of ice harvesting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x9rc-54s-I очень хорошо.
It depends on your tastes. It isn't high quality alcohol, but if you don't want the smell of alcohol in your breath, or want alcohol that tastes kind of like Sprite, then it's not bad.
Well, some people will signup for anything. Different thing getting them to open their wallet.
it depends on the version:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...

The most of my friends stick with the cs2
You actually hit on an interesting point, and there's some truth to that! People who didn't work the personal angle often felt "left out" or "ignored", especially in light of how much Scott got done. But, they never actually figured out that if they simply were kind & generous with praise/credit, they would get the same treatment.

So yes, it was a problem for the losers in the equation.
What I find intriguing is that creativity really develops from giving it time to develop. i.e. If I just tackle a problem as I know how to from my own point of view, I'm probably going to do it as straight forwardly as possible, anything that has a definite solution I'll answer first and I'll do that ad nauseum (perhaps w/ research inbetween, but we're not talking creative research, just more fact checking) until the problem is finished. On the other hand, if you are willing to you can probably sit, think the problem over, and let a solution develop. You might have to forget preconceived ideas that you had, perhaps think in a new way, but it's possible. Either way you'll probably get to a solution, but my real point is, creativity is as much a matter of willingness as anything else, I mean you just can't turn off your thoughts, you can really only direct them. ...I'll admit I havn't read the article, but I'm always curious about these discussions of creativity, why is it an isssue? How do you know someone isn't being creative? Because they don't take your approach? How do you teach someone to be creative, show them how you would do it? I think the only common denominator for creativity, is how much effort you're willing to give it.
I do not fly, and I have no intention of flying until I can do so without getting treated like a criminal.

You may have a different opinion. It gets brought up because not all of the world shares your opinion.
You seem to be attributing leadership and direction to Anonymous.

It doesn't work that way.
Exactly! Stuff4ben, does it motivate to you to know you're "helping save the company $1M" or to feel like "your digging the same ditch, different day"?
Sounds like SF...
Staffers on the Hill are paid very little and work long hours. They tend to be very interested in policy implementation and are sweating more than the average hire out of college because they want to make a positive difference.
Fair enough, thanks for your insight! Where is your company located?
He does not even hint that the firing could be due to management and hiring process failures. Does he fire the people who approved the hire of a person who winds up not working out? They failed, too, and you don't want a company built upon the wood of a poisoned tree.
Austin: 3,262.86 people/sq mi
SF: 17,620.2/sq mi

Austin: 272 sq mi, growing
SF: 46.87 sq mi, fixed on 3 sides by water and a 4th by other metropolises

Not saying that SF's development managers don't need to rethink their restrictive development policies, but comparing any city that doesn't have fixed boundaries to SF is pretty apples and oranges.
Perhaps not true any more. I came across this article yesterday: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/227436

"Austin ranks as the No. 1 place to launch your business, according to a new ranking by GoodApril, a San Francisco-based tax-planning startup. The ranking compares the seven hottest startup scenes in the U.S. across measures that matter most to new entrepreneurs: median tech-employee earnings, maximum personal income tax, property tax, the cost of housing and the cost of office space. Perhaps surprisingly, San Francisco, the longtime Silicon Valley startup mecca, ranks as the worst place to launch, due to high costs and taxes."
I'm surprised it took this long. The whole situation has been extremely political and this should have been done long ago.

Perhaps now Detroit (the city itself) will physically shrink to accommodate its ability to actually service residents.
Yes, if you think the NSA has backdoored all mainstream Intel chips, then certificate pinning and forward secrecy are not particularly meaningful.
I live in SF and it's certainly far from perfect. California no doubt has its share of problems too.

But as noted in comments below, I would never -- not ever -- consider living in a state run by people like Rick Perry.
Sorry to ask but i'm confused, is it really bad that the project got declared its end of life? The source is open and anyone interested is able to continue where it left off...
I find stuff like this fascinating and marvel at how it's even possible to do via visual inspection alone.

It's also sobering to think about how long it would take using a similar process to understand a modern, 20 nanometer chip.
I considered that obvious.

"F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog" would be a good choice: It's the subject (both 'the mail header called subject' and 'the subject to discuss') of the thread you linked to.

Rephrasing that a la "Proposal to remove a syslog from Fedora default installations" would be fine.

Dragging a person into the title is just asking for trouble and attacks and serves no purpose. The proposal is technical, the discussion should be technical.

You deliberately put his name into the title. Why? And why just him, not both owners:

Change owner(s): Lennart Poettering, Matthew Miller

You had an agenda, even if it wasn't a conscious decision. That's just wrong (and not constructive either ;-p)
I have never fired someone for poor performance and have not felt bad about it. I even helped one person with their Cobra payments out of my own pocket.

Remember everyone. 10, 50, 100 years from now, none of this work is really going to matter. How you treat people? That's what matters.
"Macro events" like leadership failure and business non-development? Few responsible for those eventualities resign.
People want to live in San Francisco, Marin and Peninsula because there are jobs there.
The best way to get your IT staff to do things for you is to treat them like human beings?

Shocking.
Latest version of Photoshop (CS6) has Gold status which means it runs reasonably well. To check the status of any application or game, a quick search through the WineHQ App Database does the trick: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...
Totally missed the little line of text under the other paying plans the first time I looked at their pricing page.

No need to be sneaky about it. Adding the "FREE Plan" along side the other paying plans, instead of hiding it underneath, would help ease the feeling that they're solely out for my dollars.
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This is Ireland 1949, they probably did not had money for centrifuge.
Reminds me of this little clip :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM
There's really no need to make transphobic comments.
The 1967 Detroit riot happened.
Texas isn't really run by Rick Perry, it has a weak governor system. The legislature is the major problem.
Yahoo took the gov't to court over it and lost, and until recently were forbidden from admitting that fact.
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You're ducking the actual question, then.
The issue is that SF can't sprawl like Austin, and there is a large contingent of people who don't want density.

Personally I support increased density and housing in SF, but it's an uphill battle with the other residents who want to fight the "Manhattanization" of SF.
>a great guy, is starting his degree in civil engineering

yep, sounds like he is just young and thus naive.

> working for the government to help develop systems that deliver water to people whom would otherwise not have enough water to survive.

government and water at places where not enough water ... what can go wrong here ... Chinatown.
How is that related to population migration between 2000-10?
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Wow, I wrote about this today: http://pydanny.com/travel-tips-for-geeks-preventing-theft.ht...
No poo
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If you look at the UK as a prime example, all hope of legally destroying the tyranny has been lost thanks to the various terrorism related laws that have been introduced. The same is true of the US as well now thanks to the ability to detain people on suspicion indefinitely. The legal system is beyond repair.

Revolution has been destroyed too as the very act of promoting or discussing it is terrorism under law and people will just be locked up before they have a chance to express or organise. Our modern communication infrastructure supports this outcome.

The best thing we now hope for is to survive in quiet obedience or await for a natural disaster to shift the balance.
What sort of maintenance? Server maintenance is the host's problem, software / upgrades etc I charge for. 10% admin fee is just setup and email creation.
Now that Apple has abandoned Carbon and Rosetta, I can use Wine to play Starcraft 1 on my Mac.
Shocking, but unusual in my experience...
Nate, there are female interviewers out there too.
Now that I've switched mostly to OSX, and with many apps moved to "the cloud" and virtual machines, Wine is getting rapidly irrelevant (to me!).

However, I wonder if a project similar to Wine will be needed in a few years, to run OSX applications.
The proper analog is an article on the lost art of lock picking, or how driving a stolen SUV into an ATM should earn less respect than digging a 100 m tunnel into a bank vault.

I don't see an inherent paradox in admiring the execution of an action while simultaneously condemning its objectives or effects. For example, Attila the Hun must have been a great military leader, but that does not mean one should admire the idea of plundering the world.
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What's the best way to use Wine on OS X?
Let's try: Chronic unemployment?
West coast of Ireland, we will be moving to Greece in a few weeks.
My take on how this works, in summary:
he distributed something totally unrelated to some people, quite a few of them, not even friends probably, with the instructions to do some non-specified action with that thing if something bad happens to him.
Those non-specified actions on those non-specified things, once done together by a minimum number of different actors, act as the famous dead man switch, which is therefore impossible to intercept via MITM attacks and impossible to beat,even by torture, because every actor could only know his/her specific action.
For what we know he could even have "outsourced" the whole setup to someone who then fleed/changed identity, this way not even him may be able to tell what actually has to happen in order to trigger the release of the documents.

[edited for clarity]
$15K left? That's well short of even a "short game." The company is less than one pay period from bankruptcy at all but the tiniest ramen startups. You should give up the $15K as an apology for failing the entire company if things are that dire.
You're in luck - he's leaving next year:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/rick-perry-2014-reelec...

When should we expect you? Just kidding, you'll be out of the country shortly because he'll be President </sarcasm>
Bias up front: I am a Googler.

I don't understand the tone of the comments here. I see lots of pitchforks out and pointed at these companies, but I don't get why. Yes, it appears that companies released data to the US government. That seriously sucks.

But as far as I can tell, the affected companies are the victims here. They were forced into doing this by the US government. There's no "cooperation" when the US government says "we are legally compelling you to do this".

If it wasn't by force, why would any of these companies do it? What's the upside for Microsoft of Twitter to send user data to the government? If it's cooperation, what do they get out of it?

I think this letter is a good thing because, even if the US government doesn't respond to it, it communicates that the companies involved are apparently releasing less information than people think. Why would they ask to show the numbers if they were large?

The companies here are asking to be more transparent. I can't see how anyone can argue that it isn't a step in the right direction.
QR code security vulnerability found with Google Glass
The decline in businesses/industry that said population could be employed at.
Oakland and Berkeley should be ripe for startups. The rent is drastically lower than SF, both for commercial and residential space, and they are still very close, via freeways and BART to most of the areas that make San Francisco attractive. The East Bay has its own cool/interesting aspects too.

Disclaimer. Just moved to Oakland. Loving the lower cost of living and proximity to my old haunts in SF.
I'm beginning to be glad I'm not in the Valley. My competitors there might have access to far more VC than I do, but their cost structure is going the wrong way for them with these crazy rental prices.
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Looks like it might be time for OCP to demolish Old Detroit and replace it with Delta City.
I know a couple of companies that have a policy with IT employees, that regardless of the 2 week notice[1], the IT employee is escorted out of the building upon giving notice. They worry more about security than hand-over. Doesn't matter if the company loves the employee or not.

1) they do pay for the two weeks
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It's a somewhat racist simplification of things.

The 67 riots were a big part of what provoked 'white flight' from detroit to the burbs. Of course, detroit was already losing population before that and the trend didn't speed up overall until much later, when the car companies started struggling. As always, it's more about economics than it is about race.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit
> Right below the word "locked" it gives the reason why.

You mean this very illuminating blurb:
> "it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site"

Here is the question: "What are some guidelines for maintaining responsible session security with PHP?"
Interesting idea, but now you have multiple points of failure. All you would need to do is neutralize one point, and the whole system fails.
Detroit's de-population is a tremendously sad story. The city peaked in the heyday of the U.S. auto industry at 1.8 million people, and is now around 700,000. The decline of the U.S. auto industry meant jobs left the city, and along with those jobs most of the middle class people. This was compounded by white flight in the 1960's and 1970's (and as a result the city proper is 80% black even though the overall Detroit metro area is 70% white). Fully a third of households in the city are below the poverty line.
Why do you consider collecting 1,100 email addresses to be particularly noteworthy? I see inane YouTube videos of the worst possible quality getting orders of magnitude more views. And how many of these email addresses are bots?
Worry if the employee won't sign, you will probably have trouble coming and it may not be something you know about.
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If you are honest and don't want to rob other people, you cannot complain when less honest folks do so.
Good point. I'm specifically talking about founders who are shooting for 100mm in revenue companies (the kinds VCs would invest in). Sorry -- I thought everyone in the silicon valley defined entrepreneurs in the same way? ;-)
I wish that this article discussed other factors that are causing rents to increase absurdly in other cities as well. In Portland, for example, rents have gone up 20-30% in the last couple of years. Why? I don't know the whole answer, but some possible factors are:

- People who lost their houses recently have trouble qualifying for a mortgage and must rent instead.

- Investors (Wall Street and otherwise) are buying up houses to rent because it's hard to get a good return on your money in other ways.

- There still exists some amount of "shadow inventory" that banks are keeping off of the market, either on purpose or because foreclosing on a house has become more expensive and time consuming.

Source: http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/real-estate/articles/renta...
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I used to be an avid mplayer user too, starting since circa 2003 on Linux. However nowadays, on my Mac, I found more and more video files that mplayer crashes on. That made me switch to VLC. I still miss mplayer's super-fast seeking and loading times though. And once in a while VLC freezes during startup for no good reason.
Oh, I see. The severance is conditional on signing the termination agreement.
Very true, but wouldn't you rather have 10,000 eyes on your product than 100, even if most won't convert.

We will likely convert single digits to paying customers. That doesn't mean we won't work our butts off to get the beta in front of as many ppl as possible...