skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nothing like Fifth Estate, but it does look really interesting in its own right. Not a drama so much as the diary of a road trip through central asia with wikileaks workers along for the ride, interjecting with their own stories and negotiating with journalists about the cable releases.

I've skipped through a few interviews, and it's enlightening (for me at least) as an overview of the region's politics and the attitude of journalists to publishing these cables. I'll be going back to watch it all.

[EDIT] The section on Afghanistan starting at 0:45 or so is particularly interesting.
I don't want to comment on the post itself or the comments. But one thing confuses me.
Please help me to understand: Is it a custom thing in the US that legal issues like this are handled by an HR department within the company instead of the legal system?

The blog post states that she reported it to HR. Over here, if something like this came to their knowledge, they would be required to forward this to the proper authorities.

She can recount the whole incident and has at least two witnesses that confirm her story (more might show up during a police investigation). No authority (at least in this part of the world) would refuse to investigate this case and bring it in front of a court. Is this different in the US?
The "tourist tax" is quite difficult to circumvent. The best way is to make close local friends and get them to do all your ordering or negotiations for you. Normally food and drink prices are clearly written and are not over-priced unless you're at a tourist destination. Taxis are meant to always take meter so you should never take cabs unless they go by the meter. Some tourist-congested places are notorious for this (i.e. Platinum Shopping Center and Chatuchak Weekend Market), but it's quite easy to walk a little further from the main location and grab a meter cab. (At these places they also try to over charge locals, so it's not really just tourists :P)

Now, there will be instances where even local friends can't help. Such as entrance fees etc, if you look obviously foreign, you're going to be hit with a tax no matter what, but these places are usually tourist attractions and you're expecting to pay those anyways.
I'm actually in Saigon right now! Do you have any recommendations for spaces to work? I am trying SaigonHUB on Monday.
I use philosophers on my personal machines: thales, aristotle, plato, etc.

On VPSes I like names like London<optional digit>PROD/DEV.
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I'm on mobile, so I'll paste this comment which had both links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6538644

I don't agree with the comment, but they're both there.
Considering the first generation, we would have enough names for 151 machines.
Right but they have all been from a while back. The number has been stable for a while.
Someone decided to name ours based on specs. DUAL2800, DUAL3000...
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I wonder if this would still be the case if fewer states had punted the work to the federal government. The fact is that the federal government is running 36 exchanges was never the plan.
Released exclusively on SteamOS != SteamBox exclusive.

SteamOS will be freely available
>I find it absurd that FRAND patents are practically valueless

They are not really "valueless", but are weaker simply because their holders pledged them to FRAND license terms in order to get them into a standard. Most standards-essential patents aren't "essential" because there's no other way to do the same thing, but because they're part of a standard that everyone must adhere to in order to be inter-compatible.

As such, patent-holders always have the option of not having them be part of a standard. However, in these cases, they made the bet that getting a small but guaranteed royalty was better than not having it used in a standard, and likely not being used anywhere at all and thus being truly valueless.
Planets mentioned in Star Wars is a good source (if you include books) although some can be hard to spell.
Did you notice how the rocket tilted to correctly position itself over the landing strip. Great camera angle.
Periodic table: hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon... and shorthands... h.yourcompany.net, etc... :)
I agree. Thanks for the suggestion. https://github.com/HubSpot/odometer/commit/927b5e35cbe9d4071...
"Programmers can use Schwartz as a sandbox in which to explore and learn Apple's graphics API using the popular Python programming language."
Any language barrier issues in Thailand?

"English is a mandatory school subject, but the number of fluent speakers remains very low, especially outside the cities." - Wikipedia.
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Not an essay, but did post a slightly more expansive comment just upthread :-)
I like Harry Potter characters. There are lots of names in those books and the lists are readily available. Lots of them are unambiguous in English which is nice.
I think that number is only if you're living very very comfortably. Personally, on a normal standard of living, I can get by with around $500 USD a month, and that's normal 3 meals a day with internet, phone, apartment (no pool or facilities.) Street food, normal portions are going around $1 to $1.5 USD so it's pretty cheap.

Now of course, you might be able to only afford to go to socialize at bars and restaurants once a month or else you'll blow that budget, but it's possible.
I use elements. Machine with IP 192.168.1.x gets the element with atomic number x as it's hostname. :)

http://computernamer.com is good too.

Routers are named after species of penguin!
Presumably also because working somewhere for more than 6 months usually means you are tax resident and the visa is a tourist and not a work visa?

Not that it is probably enforced in Thailand.
On the contrary!

People need to be made aware of any and all threats to their security that may exist. They need to make sure such hardware is not deployed against them. And they need to design the vulnerability out of future systems.
Even France. A one-bedroom apartment near Paris is 400€.
Where I work, the number of tickets filed about the speed of 'Shadowfax' always makes me chuckle.
Really? Could you provide a bit more information? How did it work prior to that?
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I think personal characterizations have no place in the discussion of public characters, as these can only ever be opinions that are unable to be proven true or false. They only serve to derail a discussion when the argument turns away from one's favor, and is a very dishonest thing to do. Shame on you snowwrestler.
I've never thought of using colors before, but I like it. It's a whole new type of "color coding".
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Nice! I use elements but I pick the element based on IP address and atomic number.

So 192.168.1.30 is zinc. :)
>EDIT: Of course, I'm not exactly familiar with the visa situation since I don't actually need it. Based on the OP, it seems pretty complicated, but still worth the hassle.

I lived in Thailand for several years and 'bootstrapping' your business there as a foreigner without a work permit is breaking the law.

You need a work permit to do ANY type of work in Thailand and although working out of sight is unlikely to get you deported, working in co-working spaces isn't exactly out of sight and a phone call to immigration would get you arrested, deported and blacklisted from the country.

Getting a work permit in Thailand is very very difficult. Foreign owned businesses have to employ Thai citizens and require silly amounts of registered capital deposited in Thai banks. It's marginally easier if you are an American.

Thailand is not worth the hassle and FFS research the law before you just up and go there!
Turkey. It's cheap, the variety and kinds of food is incredible and there is no racism at all since all western and asian cultures are mixed there. And the universities are completely free in Turkey, which leads the middle class grow faster and provide the companies dozen amount of engineers every year
Look at these numbers from the last humble indie bundle 9. Linux is ready.

Windows $4.62

Mac $6.04

Linux $7.50
Visa/MasterCard is pushing for EMV/Chip & Pin technology. Previously, the liability of fraud is on the payment network. Visa/MasterCard have announced a liability shift from the payment network to the merchant for fraud if the merchant doesn't adopt chip & pin.

The rollout date is supposed to be Oct 2013.

As an end user, you are not able to protect from this type of fraud. That's why the liability doesn't reside with you.
This is ridiculously unnecessary, and very confusing for new team members and devops. Hostnames should be descriptive and help describe the machine's location and responsibility in the network topology. Like webserver01a (nginx, first machine in LB, us-east1a).

Sure it's not cutesy as "pikachu" or "bobasaur", but it will sure make your nagios/copperegg dashboard make lot more sense. And when shit hits the fan you won't think your servers are cute, despite their clever names.
I went last December and bought a SIM for $30 for the month. We were getting about 10Mbps down most places, sometimes higher. As pieterhg mentions, there is wifi all over Bangkok. I wouldn't suggest spending a ton of time there though - much cooler places if you get out of the big city/tourist destinations.

I'll also add the Thai people are absolutely delightful. I've never met such positive happy people.
There are three accounts of what happened all supporting her account of what happened. There is absolutely no guarantee that the courts are a safer, or better way for her to make her accusation. It might be the opposite. Or the police won't care.
My personal machines (including phone, tablet etc) used to be called Snake, Zero, Ocelot, Boss.

Guess which is my favourite game series.
Cute naming conventions are fun when you're small and have no intention of growing the network. If you're planning to scale, you may as well start with practical names that give some context for the location and purpose of each box. Your team have more important things to remember than which country mario lives in and whether pluto is an app server or a database.
Hmm, I was usually working out of my hotel room or cafe's along Phạm Ngũ Lão street.
Who Made That Android Logo?
Elon appears to be pretty confident after they tested booster return on the last Falcon 9 flight. See this tweet:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/384407846349062144
Props to the OP for being open to exploring a whole different continent. But frankly, there are plenty of university towns right here in the USA that'll fit the OP's 1000 USD budget very well. As a TA in a CS grad program, I made $800 per month. With that money, I lived in a comfortable studio & had everything the OP describes & when I graduated in 2 years, in addition to my Masters degree, I had managed to save $5000, which I used for downpayment on a car. Most students live like this & some of the frugal TAs manage to save much more than 5K.
Haha, nice idea - would be a nice prank to use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_gray

For a network of 50 computers :)
The RFC seems to back me up:

You might as well just call them "1", "2", and "3". The only time this kind of
naming scheme is appropriate is when you have a lot of machines and there are
no reasons for any human to distinguish between them. For example, a master
computer might be controlling an array of one hundred computers. In this case,
it makes sense to refer to them with the array indices.

When you're starting off with your cute naming scheme, how do you know how many machines you'll manage in the end? Most places I've worked at have hundreds of servers. Using a simple, easy to follow, don't-make-me-think standard from the beginning is the only thing that makes sense IMO.

To give a server a meaningful name, use DNS.

edit: Also, to take your complaint about "i-977.. what was the rest of it?" and turn it around - imagine this scenario: provision 20 new app servers named foo40..foo59 OR provision 20 new app servers and think of 20 cool names to match our existing cool naming scheme of leonardo donatello michaelangelo raphael master-splinter shredder blah blah blah :)
Transformers.

AlphaTrion is the PDC, A-3 is the BDC/SDC. Iacon is the SQL machine (VectorSigma is the name of the LVM pool). OmegaSupreme/Metroplex/FortressMaxiums are the gateways. Gestalts (Defensor, Computron, Superion) are used for the SANs and any other clusters.

Considering we try to be good guys, we only allow Autobot names for workstations. Starfire, Starscream, Punch-Counterpunch, and other fence sitters are not allowed. I lobbied for Wheelie to be included in that list, but was overruled by others.

[EDIT] I could see how this might have limitations on scale, but we haven't hit those limits internally, so it doesn't affect me yet. :)
Until you have 27 hostnames.
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It's entirely reasonable to discuss the extent to which drugs themselves contribute to social problems, but by this point, I think it's reliably evident that drug prohibition doesn't effectively address any social problems that might be attributed to drug use. Indeed, it's become clear that the social problems caused by prohibition are themselves more pervasive and more destructive than those caused by drugs themselves.

But it's still wrong to assume that drug use is inherently a social problem: there are plenty of people who can and do use drugs moderately, while still remaining peaceful and productive members of society, and these people are victims only of prohibition, not of the drugs themselves.

We should be careful about what we recognize as contributing factors to social problems at the macro level, especially where those influences affect the macro-level society only by way of willful human behavior. Everything might be rightly construed as a potential influence on human behavior, and anything taken to excess might inspire dangerous or irresponsible behavior; but it's very dangerous to treat human beings as fungible stimulus-response machines, and locate the nexus of responsibility for outcomes in the complex of external behavioral influences rather than in human agency itself. People should be held accountable for the actual, quantifiable harm they do to others, with consideration of what external influences contributed to their actions having only a role to play in deciding how to respond to people who actually are harming others.
Yes, from what I've heard, most do learn it in school but they don't practice it. So most can speak very rudimentary English but that's about it. The university-educated and higher society do speak English a lot better. In a city like Bangkok, with its international allure, they also speak it a lot better. The further you go outside the big cities, the less they speak it. Kind of like most developing nations.

I got by well though, by learning some basic Thai phrases and lots of hand gesturing and pointing.
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Personally I think this depends largely on what types of community you're going to be around the majority of the time. If you're talking about living day to day, ordering food and getting around, you won't need much Thai to actually live here. Ordering food will require some pointing and sign languages at street food stores (most of them understand English numbers + sign language), but at restaurants in malls, English is "well-enough" understood and you won't have any problems (or they'll call the manager to talk to you.) Now of course, if you're in the startup scene, you're probably going to know some locals that can speak both languages well and are willing to help you around, however, you should alway try to learn the local language enough to get by on a daily basis.

In the startup community and the white collar working population, we understand English well enough to understand what you're saying but maybe not converse with you fluently 100% of the time.

EDIT: I'm only referring to Bangkok in this case.
Open source won't address everything, says Red Hat CEO
I've only had issues with version upgrades. It might be easy, but upgrading is anything but seamless.

Past that unity fits in here where things change drastically between releases.
For those curious, here's how that's done: https://github.com/HubSpot/odometer/blob/ef4a0f9b56b715b7f00...
I agree that prohibition doesn't work. My point is that its naive to pretend that those in favor of drug control are purely interested in regulating peoples bodies. Just like with alcohol. The fact that prohibition is bad policy doesn't meant that alcohol doesn't create social problems beyond just harming individual users. You can disagree with prohibition as a policy while also understanding what motivated people to institute it in the first place.
FWIW I'm a very happy 5s user. It's crazy fast, and I love the upgraded camera (I'm shocked how well it works). TouchID is also nice (I didn't previously use a PIN). I was using an iPhone 4. I also develop for iOS.

I'm not very fond of iOS 7, the "fuck Scott Forstall" release. The management on the software side is acting like teenagers, trying to rid his contributions without giving a shit about the customer in the process (c.f. the new Calendar app...).

Tim Cook should have kept Forstall and fired the other SVPs who supposedly couldn't get along with him, especially Craig Federighi. My god that was a bad decision, and iOS 7 is just the beginning.

Firing Forstall reminds me of firing Jobs back in the 80s, and I fully expect him to be Apple's CEO in the next 10-15 years. In the meantime, my expectations on the software side are low. They simply have no one qualified to steer the ship at this point.
It doesn't work in FF24/win7, at least not for me.

The slow example looked nice in Chrome though. Might look good on a dashboard..
There's even a website collecting naming schemes. http://namingschemes.com/
> let other people speak.

How do my comments prevent anyone else's speech?
I think you're confusing transparent with open.
Viruses were a favourite for a while (Hanta, Ebola, ...)

We had a 'bad idea' theme once which included:-

port23
dotat

But my favourite for one of our build machines and appeared in -version output of our product was sigsegv.

I've settled on the elements with atomic number as last octet and the handy shorthands, but that's for home dev network.

For company stuff they get named by function/env/counter.
More often I feel that I'm living in the future.
Stillness grips a lagoon in the heat and humidity of a rainy season afternoon. Not a breeze stirs the canopy. Even the crickets and cicadas have gone silent, waiting for a break in the stifling atmosphere.

Some of this is very poetic. And the photos are simply beautiful.
we use periodic table elements for releases, we even have "isotopes". version numbers perfectly match to atomic numbers, and they all have abbreviations. it's a great way to learn the periodic table as well.
To be fair, something that gets the extreme cases of bill-splitting right probably deserves a patent, if not a Nobel. After all, Bistromathics is the most powerful computational force known to parascience...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6540442
Outgrowing Marvel characters is a sign of good growth. Marvel says they have 7000 characters, and that count might exclude characters that just had one minor appearance.
My working theory is that consumer ideas are both art and engineering. The art component either takes in the mind of the consumer or it doesn't. Like movies or music, sort of. Lots of great engineering teams can't get the art to work with high probability, and even the great consumer internet artists swing and miss as often as they hit (eg odeo vs twitter). And if the art doesn't take, the engineering won't save you.

Whereas the enterprise ideas are mostly engineering - or rather the art lies in really understanding the customer and the domain, which is relatively straightforward for the great enterprise entrepreneurs, because they are already so deep in it and you can easily go talk to the customers one at a time and learn what you need to know to predict success or failure with pretty high confidence. Not easier but different.

These are all gross over generalizations of course. I think of this as a framework for thinking - one of many - not a literal description of the truth in all cases. One lens.
Yes, the law is not ready for this set-up yet. But as you mention, unless you cause trouble, it's not really in the Thai's interest to enforce that you might officially be breaking the law by working (even if it's for yourself).
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My ISP in the 90s had fruits for hostnames. The main Cisco router was called 'passion'.

Shortly after setting it up, I pinged it from a Solaris box. The response was 'passion is alive'.

I tell this story every time there is a 'what do you call your hosts?' discussion!
If you spill your coke at McDonald's you get a new one for free.

If you don't spill it you pay for it.

Do you go back to the register and say you spilled it?
Already discussed here( with a direct link to the video ): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6539649
This sounds more like an issue with an app (or a kext) consuming way too much memory than any innate OS-level issue with paging. Activity Monitor and/or top can be useful in figuring out what the heck is using up all that memory. Xcode can use a really surprising amount of memory sometimes but it's not going to just gobble up 20GB of pageable VM.
So you're claiming me that IOS7 wasn't tested on pre-production 5S phones before the release of both of them?

That Apple didn't catch such flaming obvious usability issues blows my mind, but whatever floats your boat. They shipped Apple maps so I guess I shouldn't be surprised by anything anymore.

Since we have no idea what the root cause of these bugs is, I would not immediately conclude HW until it is proven so (because usually it's not). And even then, I doubt they will admit it's HW if there's a SW fix for them (which there usually is).
At my university, we had a small Beowulf cluster set up for when what we wanted was to play with distributed processing (there was another, much more powerful and better managed, cluster for jobs that actually needed to get done). Naturally, we used names of kings and heroes from Beowulf.
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Have you seen this thread? Not only are people misinformed about what constitutes sexual assault, but on top of that they are ignorant of what constitutes consent. It's quite honestly TERRIFYING.
for perspective, Steambox Exclusive == Runs on Linux PC's.

Not even Xbox/GFW can do that.
I think 12k or 13k a year is realistic in America for a single person, although it would not be easy surviving on this amount (especially if one has a family). Not in NYC or San Fran, but again that's incentive to work if one wants to live in the most expensive areas.