skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
does it mean docker includes linux package manager function?
I think Manning probably lacked the sophistication to have as many options as Snowden.

Snowden, could have remained anonymous a lot longer, too, though probably not indefinitely. What do you think about him disclosing his identity before he had to?

I also don't think Snowden had the same options as Ellsberg to have his contributions to public debate so quickly recognized since there are different attitudes in Congress right now. Quite likely, as long as he remains safe for a few years, he'll get powerful senators as protectors, too.
Ubuntu Forums are back up and a post mortem
Call 911

(or your country's equivalent)
Ethernet is really great, I can't wait for affordable 10Gbps cards - right now the most you can get is 2Gbps (which is still enough to write/read seamlessly to even the fastest hard drives with the right setup).
Certificate pinning in mobile apps goes a long way to preventing a leak of secure data. Sure, you can't get to your service while the hijack is occurring, but you don't have to worry you just submitted your login and password info to a hijacked/malicious IP block. Better to fail closed in this case.

Disclaimer: I use PNC Bank, who was part of this hijack.
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> Would you say the same thing about a war veteran who has PTSD and commits suicide?

This example is absolutely great.

Surely nobody would blame a conscripted Vietnam veteran for succumbing to illness caused by Agent Orange, but it seems many here would blame that same veteran for succumbing to mental illness induced by the same war.

Really makes you think how poorly we deal with mental illness as a society...
Revising and writing 25 headlines to find the perfect one

!=

Doing the SAME thing over again and expecting different results

I feel Einstein would be in the camp of reiterating often, much like Edison's "I failed 10,000 times" quote.

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It really depends on what kinds of developers you need.

On the problem domain I'm working on, the concern of the programming language used by candidates is the least of my worries when looking for people. And yes, the people we are looking for are more expensive than average. But that's not because they can work with Scala.
When I first got the space bug as a young man (was going to be an astronaut like many of my peers) I realized that if you ran around the equator fast enough you could put yourself "in orbit" at ground level. There is an orbital velocity where your angular momentum is in balance as Galileo figured out.

Of course you burn up because you are moving so fast. But imagine that you put a big tube around the planet and pulled a vacuum in that tube. Then you could be in orbit just off the ground, how fun would that be?

Just as impractical as this idea however as you'd have to hold the vacuum in a very very long tube.
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It follows from the definition of suicide that the victim is also the perpetrator. Are you suggesting it wasn't suicide?
I was thinking that there would be a generic Rails container (like a Heroku buildpack), that reads the location of your Rails code from the configuration, downloads it, and runs it.

So, just like Heroku buildpacks, you can create your own, and you can even create one with your app baked in; but most people would end up using an off-the-shelf container.

But this is just my interpretation! Your approach may be better, and it doesn't look like CoreOS will care which way you want to do things!
Arg this article title really misses the point.
Something I do not want is to be chatting with friends, and to have the wait staff plop down on a chair with us and try to chat me up. It's such an obvious ploy to get tips.
yep, blame the victim.

People on HN like to remind others about need to take responsibility for one's own actions. They did it to Aaron before his death and do this after. Being a passive observer while something awful is being done to another human being is a bit uncomfortable, it is much easy and self-comforting to our consciousness to think about the victim as being the one who is solely responsible for and is causing the awful things being done to him.
So he could have gone for trial, and serve his 2-3 year sentence (if convicted), probably get out early for good behavior, and keep his sacred honor. And it still would have been far better than hanging himself.
We use Mailgun for the crypto challenges (tinyurl.com/mtsocrypt) and are very happy with it.
What about the argument about loosing things between backups? Also, my understanding what that this issue is about using administrator time, not bureaucratic time.
The takeaway for a lot of people on HN is that gnupg keys on AWS are vulnerable to side-channel attacks...
Within reason, yes. If they were leaking things indiscriminately, then they shouldn't be considered a whistleblower, even if some of their leaked information was about something that the public had a legitimate interest in knowing.

These aren't black and white issues, so think more in terms of what a "reasonable" person would consider. If your goal is to expose a particular program - then you should be leaking only things relevant to that program. Throwing in diplomatic cables between embassies because you can just isn't relevant. And it weakens your argument for whistleblower protection.
Currently using Meteor for my startup, I foresee scalability issues down the line (which the meteor devs are currently working on) but for cranking out a MVP its a pretty nice framework.
Hear hear. When I was cooking (at a fancy place) years ago, the waitstaff used to walk home with $500 in (unlikely to be declared) cash after a 4 hour shift on a good night. I walked home with $90, for my 11 hours of humping shit, and paid taxes on every penny. cooking sucks. hard. still miss it though.
The cap is about as low as it could be. The investors put up capital which is committed to the ordinary operation of the business. Buy some materials, hire some workmen, make some stuff. Perhaps none of it sells even at 90% off. The capital is gone. BUT the investors were never on the hook for any extra.

One could imagine company law creating a same-again limitation on liability. If you invest a million dollars, you have two reasons to watch the management you appoint, first they could lose your investment. Second if they screw up and do a lot of damage the investors are on the hook for the same again; potentially another million dollars.

It is quite a tricky proposal to analyze. Consider the common practice of supplying goods on 30 days credit. It is slightly risky. The purchaser might go bust without paying. Under current once-only limitation of liability it is common for suppliers to lose out, which can cause a ripple effect as one company goes bust, causes its suppliers to fail causing their suppliers to fail...

Under same-again limited liability the ripples go in a different direction as investors liquidate assets to meet "second" liabilities.
That quote gets trotted out often, but it's highly meaningless.
Sorry for the confusion, you don't need to register for anything.

SDK (roll your own) docs here: http://coreos.com/docs/sdk/
Our EC2 images: http://coreos.com/docs/ec2/
46 repos worth of source here: https://github.com/coreos

The form is mainly to send t-shirts to the people that try it out for us. We do have a profit motive, because we want this project to be sustainable. Similar to Ubuntu and Redhat.
Any call for proposals up?
Docker includes facilities for building, versioning, discovery, distribution and updates. So although it's very different from traditional package managers, yes, you can use it to distribute software.
As icebraining says, there is no reason for the 2 to be mutually exclusive.
The author fails to mention tablets with an Atom CPU as an alternative. They cost pratically the same as similar ARM tablets and give you the option of running x86 software.
Ooh I know, or they could release UI APIs that make it trivial for devs to build apps the right way rather than encouraging them to hardcode pixel perfect layouts and then slowly introducing more form factors over the next N years.
Very well said, thank you for the response. It's disheartening to read people act like the prospect of a future in federal prison (over a "crime" where no one was hurt! And where the "victims" (JSTOR) don't even want prosecution!) is a negligible factor in pushing someone into suicide.

Arguably life in our modern prison system is one of the most horrific experiences you can have, some of the most miserable living conditions on the planet. The effect on your psyche of having a group of highly empowered, well funded government agents seeking zealously to place you in that cage over what is really a silly reason cannot be overestimated.

Yes it's tragic that Aaron committed suicide. But the real tragedy is that we as a people let our government cage non-violent offenders in a veritable hell all the time for stupid stupid reasons. It's an atrocity that it happens, and for MIT to take a position of neutrality on whether or not a human should be caged up for downloading documents is at the very least condoning that atrocity.
If you're using a throwaway, I think the description of your wife would pretty much give you away anyhow :)
> I remain unaware of any imminent threats to my personal freedom other than from the Military-Industrial-Surveillance (and also Prisons and Police) Complex.

As someone who identifies as fairly libertarian, I'll give you that.

But it stands, to some degree, some aspects of the Military Operations of this country are necessary - and even supremely honorable in nature - in order for this country to exist as have whatever degree of freedoms we (still?) have.
After spending two or three months with Angular, I’m running away screaming. I really owe people a blog post about it, but basically, it’s hard to debug, weird for weird’s sake, and polluting of the HTML namespace. Death by a thousand cuts — and by disregard for best practice.
10G NICs have been around $400 for years; I've given up hope on them ever getting cheaper.
Spacex awarded launch reservation contract largest canadian space program
Nobody in the administration or faculty has anything to do with this hackathon...... it is entirely student-run.
-An organizer of the hackathon
His prosecutors are surely responsible for their actions--namely, over zealously prosecuting a man beyond the legitimate interests of justice--but that does not relieve Aaron of responsibility for his actions.

People can be provoked into suicide by a number of things. If a woman divorces her husband and he commits suicide, the woman may be blamed for the manner of the divorce, whatever that may be, but it was not her choice for the man to die. Conversely, if Aaron didn't commit suicide, the prosecutors would be no less responsible for their cruelty and injustice towards him.

Your moral responsibility for what you do to me has nothing to do with how I choose to react to it. I am not exonerating Aaron's prosecutors, though the logical conclusion of your argument is that you would exonerate them, had Aaron reacted differently.
I love Salt Lake City (I was born there and moved away 5 years ago). But, Salt Lake City in the middle of January is the last place I would want to be.

Its not the snow, cold, or people -- but the smog from the inversions is absolutely terrible.
"Local man tries Windows RT, doesn't hate it."
I'm one of the product guys at The Guardian involved in this project. It was quite an undertaking. Happy to field any questions you might have as best I can.
Psd.rb
Aaron Swartz's situation was not like any of those things.
His case was very similar to Bradley Manning's and Manning did not commit suicide. It's pretty clear from his blog and behavior that Aaron Swartz had untreated bipolar disorder which sadly has extremely high suicide rates.
And a custom ROM should be treated as a different device.
> Why do some people survive terrible hardships, and others don't?

> Aaron suffered from [...] depression for many years.

This answers the question, although I would prefer not to use the term 'suicidal depression', which is not a medical term.

As someone who's attempted suicide, I also believe your choice of quote is both wrong and unfair. Surviving the holocaust is in no way comparable to surviving the things your mind can convince you to do when you suffer from anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder or any other such condition.
Except no, Google Play Services contain almost all relevant APIs and backport them to 2.3, meaning you can trivially target basically all Android devices as long as they have Play Store
Regardless of Ford's procedures, this could happen to anyone who crosses a border, if the smugglers have access to the person's car or bags. And almost inevitably, the person set up in this way will be disbelieved and prosecuted. This guy was relatively lucky.

The ultimate fault lies with the drug laws, which provide for punishment of victimless behavior, incentivize smuggling - and as this case shows, indirectly trap innocents.

On a practical level, this incident shows that it's necessary to examine the trunk, the underside of the car, one's luggage and so on, every time - and still something may have been hidden.
From the same buried comment:

"Describing '5 minute accidental blackhole route leakage' as 'Multiple banking addresses hijacked' makes for a better and more sensational head line. I fully understand if you must blow this event out of proportion."
On some things, yes (and I take the position of disagreeing with the military's management structures, here).

On other things, no, definitely not. These are the actions that I consider heroic defense of our freedoms.
Three tries later, it's dead.

Zune. Windows Live. PlaysForSure. Spot watches...
>>Nobody liked that philosophy then, and most developers don't like it now either.

I'm not sure if the latter part of that sentence is correct, since iOS is the most popular mobile development platform.
This doesn't seem like a good source, but estimates about 10 per year in the US.
Find a way to persist the data if it doesn't change frequently, or if you need it to be an in-memory object then pass the object around to classes that need it as others have alluded to.
In my own opinion, yes. The point of a restaurant is to have the food brought to you. I can make perfectly good food at home. If I don't get good service, then why should I even go out to eat?
For all intents and purposes, state of a mind someone deciding suicide is different and can be easily remedied by giving some time to further reflect (morbidly enough if you for example hide the gun from a man that wants to commit suicide, all chances are that he will give up on suicide).

Aaron did the deed, but the circumstances in which he found himself were extremely dire. Government and MIT have a lot of stake in that death, even they aren't the one who pulled the trigger.

Imagine if you would have the prospect of spending your best years in a prison, and the terrible prospect of joblessness once you left prison. Worse yet, his torment wouldn't end with prison, and adapting to life outside bars, I'm sure government would make him suffer for all the things he supposedly did. He would be under constant supervision, he wouldn't be able to stay true to himself. Even slightest doubt of activism would probably return him to a jail cell. He only could look forward to more fear and terror.
You make it sound like America doesn't have a large, well-off and well armed populace, with the backing of heavy industrial plants that can tool up for war.

I'm not saying America should have no armed forces, of course, but don't you think they're a little excessive?
Put and lookup are much slower vs ju.HashMap. For most use cases where the system is already multithreaded the parallel collections don't gain us anything.

If you have a large read-only map being read by multiple threads (doing random lookups) ju.HashMap leaves both mutable.Map and immutable.Map very far behind. Scala is great, but the Map performance lags.

I'm not the only one who has noticed. Try googling "Scala map performance vs Java"
"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing."
Something like this maybe? :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0
Is it possible to achieve the same result on a mac mini (with an external display, of course) ?
>> They used this access to download the ‘user’ table which
>> contained usernames, email addresses and salted and hashed
>> (using md5) passwords for 1.82 million users.

Somewhere, oclHashcat makes room temperature rise.
Curious: They've stopped using "email"? I'm guessing LINE's becoming ubiquitous because of the free functions and the cute stickers.
Well, this judge acquitted him for leaking the video of American troops killing civilians. That's one of the key things that I'm basing my opinion on.
While I fall firmly in the 'words mean things' camp, I think it's important to note that this isn't an apples:apples comparison.

People undergo felony charges all the time without killing themselves.

A Federal charge sheet involving the possibility of a 'mere' 6-month sentence is not the equivalent of months of sustained cyberbullying.

To continue with your analogy somewhat, if a new sailor showed up to the boat and his divison said 'Hey look, it's the F.N.G.' on day 1, with no further hazing from there, and that new sailor hung himself, is his division to blame for 'cyberbullying'? Or is it appropriate to wonder whether the new sailor has something more going on inside that pre-dated his arrival?
> Hm, but it seems to be a runtime error.

Yes, it's still javascript.

> Is there a transpiler or other tool that will give you static errors if you try to set an out-of-scope variable?

Elm and Fay likely do.
In Japan, some restaurants (not the fancy ones, but family-friendly places) have a button on the table just for that. Push it, and a few seconds later a waitress appears, just like in an airplane.

If you have younger kids, you have to be careful to sit them away from the button.
scott_karana - What you're describing is true, but is closer to anarchy (which I'm not quite an advocate for).

Do I think the military forces have grown to an excessive level? Yes.
The reason why prices are almost always listed as taxless is complicated. Sales tax in the US is weird, and varies a lot by product and jurisdiction. We have no national sales tax, but each state can levy a sales tax, also each county and each city can tack on their own tax to that. In New York City for example, there is a additional small sales tax that is a fraction of a percent that goes to the MTA. Each percent of the sales price can go to 2-3 or more different places. As a result a product can be taxed differently down the street. Each item is taxed differently, food isn't usually taxed, unless it is restaurant food. Clothes are in some places are aren't in some places. Sometimes clothes are only taxed if they cost more than a certain amount. Tax laws can change at any time, so it is easier to program a register than to reprice the entire store if tax laws change. Our sales tax went up recently.
It doesn't demand you surrender your rights yet. It is just becoming more and more encouraging that you do so and I know many young researchers who are opting to make that choice a lot more often than I used to see.

The governmental sector in our field is the main area I was thinking of. And it is one that is only growing with time. A lot of avenues and research sub-fields require clearances if you don't want to be on the outside looking in. In particular, our ability to get realistic threat information on large scale actors is vastly limited and my research suffers from that lack of context.

This is worse in some specific subfields than it is in others, crypto comes to mind. Though that is one area where academia seems to have actually maybe made that less true than it used to be.

There are people in bio and other areas who are experiencing similar pressures. The scope of the work done by people with clearances is trending upwards and the subfields in which someone's ability to participate in them is more limited without a clearance seems to be expanding.
Sure, you are free to discuss what circumstances and latitude people bound by the UCMJ should have to speak their mind. You might be able to argue that the portions of Manning's leak that show evidence of wrongdoing were justified. That does not change the fact that he recklessly leaked hundreds of thousands of other classified documents, and is therefore guilty of espionage.

My point about Manning waiving his rights was primarily in response to this quote from the parent post:

> Government employees who blow the whistle on war crimes, other abuses and government incompetence should be protected under the First Amendment.

Waving the First Amendment around is meaningless when the affected parties have agreed to not reveal classified information and waive their rights as citizens. Arguing that the First Amendment broadly trumps the UCMJ and classification leads to nonsense. As you said, doing so obviously doesn't work. You can make a case that leaks are justified under some circumstances. That case does not involve appealing to the First Amendment.
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Lockpicks leave evidence of their use (src: http://www.lockwiki.com/index.php/File:Forensics_pin_picked.... ). If the victim was confident that the lock was picked, they could hire a forensic locksmith to find this evidence if the reimbursement is worth the cost of the locksmith.

As far as I know, getting a keyfob code and using it to unlock a car door is completely surreptitious (no evidence left) entry, as opposed to lockpicks, which are covert entry (evidence is left).
Schoolchildren are too young to be held truly responsible for any of their decisions, so in the last example I would hold the parents responsible. In the other cases--yes, it's certainly one's own decision and one's own responsibility to commit suicide.
"...there is no reason for the components of the app to depend on those things being global..."

BINGO! This is the anti-pattern part. Not that the data is globally required, but that your units are mutually dependable. This is why Interfaces and Dependency Injection are so popular now, because they facilitate the ability to make easily testable, singular units that allow for mocks / stubs etc.

To illustrate, what happens if your global requirement happens to also be external? Would you want to have to test your component with a live version of your global and external resource? No, you would want the ability to test (either as a single unit, or even the whole app), without requiring the database, messaging, web service, etc, to be up.
I think we are confusing 'responsible for his death' with 'the cause of his death'

The mental anguish of being ruthlessly sued by a government, with the cooperation and possible collusion of your school, and facing the potential for many years in prison is inarguably substantial. How well would you have handled the same thing?

Whether a more stable person would have been able to suck it up is inconsequential - they still did the damage that they did. In his case, it was too much. The damage is there either way. They may not be responsible for the ultimate outcome, but they are responsible for the anguish that put him there.
Aristotle drank the hemlock. Who is/was a better philosophical mind, Edward Snowden or Aristotle?
Bradley Manning put his life on the line and has essentially lost it also.

He joined the military, saw that his organization was acting in a manner that was morally reprehensible and then did something about it. Of course, the same system replied in a manner that's just as morally reprehensible as Manning demonstrated.

The danger of rationalizing evil through the old truisms of "Patriotism, Security, Etc" is that it can corrupt those that rationalize it instead of saying, "This has to stop."