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>would they really dare to mock themselves in the honeypot?

Of course they would. The makers of a maximally-effective honeypot aren't going to shy away from making fun of TLAs. They'll do what's most effective.

With that said, I doubt it's a honeypot. Of course I don't plan to test that hypothesis.
Great work Mozilla team. You're seriously making me consider switching back to FF for development. Is this effort to improve the FF dev tools an ongoing effort to quickly add these features, or can we expect the pace to slow down in the coming months?
I quite like 'business hacker'. But 'hacker' comes with lots of other baggage (including the inevitable confusion with 'cracker').
There will always be more work you can do. You need to just draw a line in the sand and everything else can be done later.
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That'd be the most recent Firefox on Windows.
She's always been a villain. Its just that the other Senators are so much worse she looks good in comparison.
The current DPR is allegedly the third one, and the one in jail is the second, as he said in an interview with Forbes.
Working from home my employer's work has been drying up and I've been bouncing between building my own software or getting a "real job"... Your article (and software) has inspired me to do my own thing.

At least until the next article convinces me to learn more under someone else's time ;)
You know what's one of the most trafficked products in Brazil?

Tobacco.

Tons of counterfeit cigarettes cross the border between Paraguay and Brazil, and that funds crime syndicates. A legal and regulated product. Now imagine if marijuana or anything else is legalized... they will do the same thing to avoid taxation, which would go to fund health assistance, and buyers won't care about where it comes from - they'll just care that their fix is available for cheap.

That drugs should be dealt with as a health issue, I don't disagree with, but legalizing substances isn't a silver bullet to stop crime, crime is rooted on other issues (education, poverty, lack of assistance).
Receiving a broadcast isn't illegal - you shove it out into the air, you lost all privacy rights on that broadcast legally speaking.

You can debate the ethics of it, but it wasn't illegal. And Google did get penalized for it.
The standard response is that she needed disability insurance on top of her medical insurance. So yeah, you need 2 different insurances in case you get a real illness in the US. This is how fucked up it is here. Unfortunately the GOP and conservative democrats killed any "public option" in the ACA so we'll never have anything like the NHS here.

Oh, I have this secondary insurance. It also sucks and will cost me a lot of money to take care of myself if I ever get as sick as Molly. I might have a chance of not losing my house with this insurance.

That's on top of student loans you're paying off and other things Europeans don't have to worry about, but according to HN libertarians its all "welfare nanny state statism" and somehow Ron and Rand Paul would fix everything if we could just make them dictators for life.
Right now it is illegal at the Federal level. To really allow states to have a choice (instead of the current the-feds-might-look-the-other-way-if-they-feel-like-it arrangement) is for it to not be illegal at the Federal level.
You know, the projects is really really good. Just work on the rough edges.

:)
Lobbyists can lean on and skew and sway. That's bad enough, but they're not unstoppable forces that will dictate policy indefinitely.
DO is affordable enough that the minimum you should run are 2 droplets. Having said that, I'm actually fairly impressed with the 500 credit and now you have no excuses to run 2 vms. Consider it a lesson learnt.
Awesome changes and tutorial dogfooding, though I certainly wouldn't call Firebase "ubiquitous" just yet.
Coming from a position such as yours, here's how I interpreted it:

pdfTex will take TeX input and output PDF (and apparently other file formats as well).

LuaTeX should do the same (being a drop-in replacement), the difference being that it can also use Lua scripts to control how the output is formatted (versus everything being written in TeX).
To me, that seems like the easiest possible thing to do. If they have the original site code, then it's just a matter of making some superficial changes and re-launching as "Silk Road 2.0".
Failing to list the #1 reason: Your VC could decide that they want their money back at any moment.

(#2 would be bad employees/decisions foisted on you by those handing you money)
> "This default setting would be a nuclear first strike against (the) ad industry," tweeted Mike Zaneis, general counsel for the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

Such dramatic silliness. An actual first stirke would be NoScript and AdBlock installed by default (which I already do to begin with). Removing third-party cookie functionality is just a shot across the bow.
The other funny part is that even you and the other YC partners don't see probably 95% of the interactions between YC companies, which IMO are one of the most worthwhile parts of YC, especially after demo day.
Cisco takes fight to SDNs with bold Insieme launch
I stopped paying my health insurance once and I didn't die.

Perhaps you mean if you don't pay for health insurance you are more likely to declare bankruptcy as a result of an unexpected healthcare issue however to equate declaring bankruptcy with death is a bit extreme imo.
It's amazing to see how far along Django has come. Anyone remember when Django first came out? Good times :)
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Interesting that they're using Codemirror instead of Ace (http://ace.c9.io), which is their progeny.

It used to be called Bespin: http://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2009/02/introducing-bespin/
Actually there's an issue open right now to switch to postgresql
So we meet the aliens, we communicate with them, we become friends, they share a bunch of technological discoveries with us.. Then what ? We travel some more ?

If we can travel parsecs to meet them, wouldn't we be supremely technologicall advanced ?

I mean, the human race is pretty technologically advanced today, too advanced actually and it's hurting us as much as it's helping.

Will we some day realise that it is of no use to pursue higher mountains or more distant stars, because at the end we're still stuck within ourselves ?

What if the supremely advanced aliens realised this a long time ago and renounced technology all together, because it ended up destroying them ?

I wonder..
The abrasive headline is kind of unfortunate, as the actual moral of the story given at the end is exactly the right takeaway: Never assume your hardware is infallible, so always have backups that you know you can use when your server experiences a wildly improbable catastrophe.

Also, very impressed by Digital Ocean's response here. Given their reputation as a budget host, they really do put a lot of effort into service.
I think we'll see a lot more of this type of software in the near future.

It's easier and cheaper than ever to automate the setup of servers. Imagine being able to click a few buttons, in something like the webmin of yore, and suddenly having a private mail server/file sync node/document editor application, set up at the VPS provider of your choice.

This type of thing will encourage open standards, as the private servers will need to communicate with each other. It also ties in nicely with concerns about the implications of everything being hosted and controlled by major providers.

There are probably business opportunities at many points in this model.
"Great engineers do everything I do."
Next time you are on an airliner think what kind of "work ethic" you'd like your pilot to have. One who puts in 80 hours a week, or a "lazy" one who only works 30 hours per week.

(Note that FAA actually limits how many hours a week an airline pilot can fly. I think the number is close to 30).
Good luck with that. She's not up for re-election until 2018, and so far as I'm aware there are no allegations of crimes of the sort that would get her expelled from the senate (in practice, looking at previous examples).
I have been using Nokia's music store in my Lumia phone.Its pretty basic.If you are looking for a decent library at a low cost it is worthwhile.Some people are using it like a ipod instead of a phone.Of course, you would be locked down to MS.
For those interested in this path, it's worth checking out Rob Walling's book "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup."

I found this book especially insightful.
Maybe, the author wrote the two stories as interesting anchors around the principle in order to help you recall it when you need to. Maybe. Or something.
Last year someone mentioned an 8 hour recording of Patterns and Conflict that was apparently distributed among some of the participants of Boyd and Beyond 2012. Googling the write-ups of that event should give you more information on which archive the audio recording should be located in (at the Marine Corps museum?).
The team here is dedicated to developer tools full-time. We have no intention of slowing down.
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It seems that is very nice from DO. I would not expect them to be responsible of data loss in case of hardware failure.
This line of thinking seems to be a small minority from those I speak with in the scene, but sums up my thinking exactly. I even get scoffed at sometimes that I am not going for the lottery-type odds endeavors solving 20-something first-world problems. To each there own, I suppose.

I'm seven years in, nice to meet a fellow "lifestyler".
We've updated ours every Monday morning since 2006.

Seems reliable.
Why not MariaDB and then you don't have to worry about fixing third party packages that depend on MySQL specific behavior?
Thank you, I'm actually prepared to spend a lot more than a few hours. I wish this was integrated in Computer Science programs. Not being able to objectively justify some of my choices has been pretty traumatic and your list nicely summarized why :)
> The pricing seems a bit weird though.

Thanks for the feedback — what about the pricing seems weird to you?
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Oooh, a social contract reference, my favorite! Please, show me this social contract I've signed. Where can I read the specific terms of this contract, and how do I challenge/nullify the clauses I disagree with?
The bureaucracy has indeed scared away a lot of foreign interest in the country.
What filesystem are you running on? Can you snapshot it outside of the postgres environment? The database may be mid-transaction at that point, but it's still better if it does log replay at startup, than losing all the data.

Also if your filesystem snapshots can be exposed as files / block devs, you can rsync them to another host lowering the amount of transferred data (keep the previous copy so rsync will only copy the blocks that differ).
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What is the # of "good" developers in India? What is the # of "bad" developers in India?

What is the # of "good" developers in the US? What is the # of "bad" developers in the US?

This is a lot more of an interesting question.
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Google for example would still be profitable it paid everyone including secritary's 500,000$ a year. So no companies stick with a market rate well below what a top engineer's output is actually worth.
Really? I give location and context and the Why of the message. I make sure that every message is unique (unlike the code I changed in a certain once-prominent US firm's three-letter operating system) as well. I clearly know nothing and shouldn't be in the profession.
There's a setting in postgresql.conf that will let you up the limit on long running queries on the standby from 30 seconds to ~ unlimited.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/runtime-config-wal... See max_standby_archive_delay and max_standby_streaming_delay, -1 lets them wait forever.

Alternately, you can issue pg_start_backup('label'), backup the filesystem, then issue pg_stop_backup() and keep all the WAL logs from that time. That'll get you a base backup similar to the slave.

What I'm doing is this:

I've got a primary/hot spare pair, and a tertiary db on lesser equipment that's my second copy for cases where I have one of the main machines down or I have to rebuild the secondary from the primary.

The tertiary db ships logs to s3, after gpging them. Every $timeframe, I take a base backup and throw it up as well. I keep a couple, and delete the older ones. Every few months, I test a restore on ec2. There's a balance between the WAL logs that you need to keep, the time to restore, and the frequency of base backups.

[edit - parameter names. Further edit - strategy.]
It's good for the first time, but as you move forward it becomes really annoying to check the diffs and merge them back..
Was the database designed using transactions to achieve consistency? If so, then you can just instruct Tarsnap to back up the folder containing your database every day, and you're done.

If the DB uses transactions for consistency, you can copy it at any time without any problems.
I'm not a webmaster but skimmed the document anyways. Really good read for those of us not very familiar with SEO terms and practices in general. It was easily digestible.
>We had far more invested in prohibition

Is this actually true? We've invested an enormous amount in the war on drugs.
Yes - they are very much multinationals both in customers and employees. I think the true sense of their being American (and this does include Accenture) is that is where they were founded, and did much of their early growth.
> The evidence totally points to cable splicing.

I don't think there are any evidences at all. As far as I know, the only known thing is that NSA was able to obtain the un-encrypted google traffic. For example, it could have been backdoor in the router, one extra cable in the switch, or a few other similar low-tech options.

> Most DCs have tons of security to make them safe.

Don't disagree. But this doesn't make them invincible from other attack vectors (e.g. rogue employees). I actually heard the same argument from quite a few people during interviews and I usually don't hire them because you have to be paranoid to get security right :)
One statistician has developed a system to compare players across time. I don't know enough about statistics to say if it's valid or not, but it's interesting to look at. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated in almost a decade, since it says Carlsen's peak rating was 2556 in January 2005. http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/
As a result of medical treatment or recreationally? Assuming the latter and a popular choice of recreational drug, I don't much harm will come from a kid seeing a friend's parent saying stupid things and eating snack foods. If the friend's parent was visibly drunk, that would be something to worry about.
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I'm curious as to what is next, now that Kepler is dead what do we do to substantiate this data further?

My impression is that there is not much more we can do to confirm outside of the statistical models giving us probabilities, it would take some much more advanced detection tech (or traveling there) to get further, which means we might be stuck at this point for a little while.
>If you visit a website (Assuming you don't go via some anonymizer proxy), they can track you, and they can pass your details to any 3rd party who wishes to also track you.

Sure, server-side logging is always possible, but (AFAIK) advertisers and data miners have little interest in this information because it requires trusting the website owner not to forge results, which is obviously a very stupid idea when your business revolves around purchasing and selling ad impressions. Precluding the practical methods of this type of data mining (ideally by requiring whitelisting of Javascript and all access to third party resources, but disabling third party cookies is a good practical step) could greatly reduce the amount of surveillance that users are subject to, by eliminating the most common incentives to perform it.

>If you don't want to be 'tracked', stop generating HTTP requests, or do them through an anonymizer service.

I hope you realize that the effectiveness of services like Tor is greatly reduced if you aren't using the same techniques to reduce your surveillance "attack surface" that people are advocating for regular, non-anonymous browsing. It's really not hard to see why; considering the tracking cookie example: A unique cookie makes it clear to a site operator that the requests coming from all these different exit nodes are really originating from the same user. A third party tracking cookie can then make it clear to that third party that the same user is visiting sites A, B, and C over Tor. All it takes at this point is small handful of screwups (from mentioning personal information to something as innocuous as reading a news article that is only relevant to people living in a certain location) to greatly reduce the search space required to identify you. "Uses xmonad and likely lives in New York City" could be more than enough to tie a large amount of your Tor browsing activity to a small set of suspects, in this case.
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Drinking was by no means less acceptable at the time than smoking pot; the relative ease of getting pot was despite it being frowned upon much more.

Think of it this way: who requires a black market for pot? Every single person who wants pot. Who requires a black market for booze? Not everyone who wants booze... just a narrow band of people spanning 5 or 6 birth years. A group of people who tend to be rather broke.

You can find an adult or two that is willing to buy you a sixpack once in a while fairly easily, but that isn't their job, they couldn't make it their job (since the market is limited and poor), and they probably have more interesting people to hang out with. Pot though? The guy that sells the pot does it for a living. He's going to be far less flaky.

If you, as an adult in an area where medical pot is legal, try to buy pot regularly from somebody who has a medical card, you will likely find that they are less reliable than somebody who does it fulltime. As pot becomes legal to a greater portion of adults, this effect will only increase.
> ... every half point bring him closer to winning a match, and players are therefore incentivized to play for a draw.

This tendency could be discouraged by making wins more weighted realtively than draws: win = 2 points (or, may be 1.5 pts), draw = .5 pts, loss = 0 pts.
I'm really crossing my fingers for Jolla in particular, and Sailfish/Mer in general, to succeed. It's becoming clear that Android's currently debatable status as free software is heading decidedly in the non-free direction.

Sailfish/Mer's Android compatibility also makes it sounds at least somewhat realistic that there's room for it in the market.

Moreover, what I've heard about it is that it's aiming to be much more of an "ordinary GNU/Linux system with a radio and a slick touch screen interface" than Android has ever been. Does anybody have any hard information on this? It would be so delicious to have a platform that's more like an ordinary computer than what's offered in the mobile space today.
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Four withdraws were made from my checking account after Walmart confirmed items were in stock at the end of the order process. Four times, items in stock, thank you for the money. Check bank account and Walmart withdrew all ASAP.

Pretty clear their course of action is to ship other people's rightfully purchased goods before being declared of theft.
As I understand it, there's no law or rule that would allow for his removal short of being convicted of a crime and jailed.
Tesla shares keep falling, trigger NASDAQ 'circuit breaker'
They are from Edmonton, no? Interesting place for an e-Commerce startup. (They do have that monster mall - not sure how much that helps or hurts them.) How is the scene there?
How would it be enforced? Easy. Show some third parties a timeline of rsync's social media posting before, and after the court order. Remove the absolute time data and don't tell them which is before and which is after.

If they (the overwhemling majority of third parties to which this is shown) can correctly distinguish them better than chance, then rsync was trying violating the anti-tipoff order.

Incidentally, what I just described is basically the test for whether a cryptosystem is "semantically secure", which is often expected.
Because you should think about other people, not just yourself. You have the option of voting for someone who won't shut the government down and to some people that matters quite a lot.
This was nice to read. Let me know if there is anything I can help with (seriously).
My favorite bit is Forbes' publishing software automatically linking the handle "Steve Jobs" to their profile of the real Steve Jobs. Classy!
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Not really much stupidity. Corporate limited liability. He placed a bunch of orders and bet his company on the outcome of his product, but he would have been just as out of business if no one bought his soap.
No! I'm very much saying that most insurance (car insurance, home contents insurance, payer-protection insurance, flood protection insurance, etc etc) is rife with scammy practices and awful awful people - the scum of the earth.
Another issue is that people for most part don't seem to have an issue with tracking ("I have nothing to hide", "I trust them not to do evil", etc.), whereas the adverse health effects of bad food and obesity are well know and easily observed.
Stephenson wrote this about text editors:

> emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish [1]

I think if you replace "emacs" with "TeX" and "editing software" with "document formatting system", the quote holds just as well.

[1] http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
I assume that what the GP referred to is that even though it's all "beef" (part of a cow's body), one beef product might be mostly tendons, bonemeal and fat, while another is a cut of fillet, almost 100% muscle tissue. Colloquially, I think most people would agree that the latter is more pure than the former.
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And with S3 storage so cheap, they should be backing up directly to S3, across multiple regions.
Yea, it happens. But I realized it's often by people who have something to gain from you doing it, or don't have a lot of startup experience. Lawyers that make money by doing financing rounds are one example.
This raises the obvious question .... Where is everybody?

It's like we were born on the Marie Celeste; a place that should clearly be brimming with intelligent life, yet appears (on the face of it) to be an empty desert.

The more we learn that the extent to which the galaxy is chock-a-block with habitable worlds, yet apparently devoid of intelligent life, the more I get a truly creeped-out feeling that we are living in some horror-movie galaxy where something is killing everything.
The trick that I've used is saying the name 3 times in the initial conversation. That usually works for me, and people like to hear their own name in conversation. Otherwise I have to use the "Have you met..." introducing them to someone else, then hearing them reintroduce themselves.