skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salt is supported already in Vagrant (since 1.2 or 1.3). Ansible as well!

A docker provisioner is actually making its way into core for 1.4. If you want to know what that looks like take a look at "Vocker" (the plugin).
And the federal government is a remarkably ignorant customer. They don't know what they are asking for, meddle in the details adding in things they think they need, and don't really know what to pay but often think lower=better. Top that off with insane complex procurement rules that require the work be divided up to meet social goals: x% to small biz, y% to 8a, z% to hub zone and so on and you have a guaranteed mess.

Even if there was a highly qualified company to do the work, the FAR requires it be divided up. Top that off with a silly idea that a company needs to have past performance doing something that's never been done before, and well you end up with selection committees picking the "safe" (I.e. Big firm) choice. And you're guaranteed to get a firm that doesn't know how to innovate, they just imitate and throw money, hardware and sub contractors at the problem.
linux has "equivalent protected-storage APIs integrated throughout the desktop environment",KDE has kwallet[1],GNOME has libsecret[2] and lxqt has lxqt wallet[3].Firefox has an extension to store its passwords in KDE's kwallet[4] and GNOME's gnome-keyring/libsecret[5].Chrome has support for both wallets[6]

all linux destributions ships with libsecret and that will be the API to target if anybody want to store sensitive information securely in a linux desktop session.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWallet

[2] http://lwn.net/Articles/490518/

[3] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/lxqt_wallet

[4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kde-wallet-pa...

[5] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/gnome-keyring...

[6] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/r65mTFM...
I spent a good few years studying Latin at one of the last few state-operated high schools in Australia to offer it. Later, I spent a decade in China.

Though I've been to Europe and did find the formality of Latin grammar useful for dalliances with Indian classical language, on the wohle I wish I could have learned Sanskrit or classical Chinese instead.

Europe is young and, in unpopular reality, rather monotonous. It just doesn't feel as philosophically broad-minded or historically interesting as Asia, where so much more has happened and continues to happen.
> Get sick or old and then tell me how bad the ACA is.

Beneficiaries of wealth transfer are fans of the wealth transfer! Film at 11.
Yes and that's the why you can't use multiple devices to access same environment. I highly recommend you to give linode + tmux + emacs/vim as an IDE.
FWIW, I adjust my F.lux setting all the time! When the sun sets at 5pm but I'm still working in a brightly-lit office, I hit "disable for an hour." When I'm in a completely dark room, I switch it all the way to the dimmest "candle" setting.
I'm a safe driver. Why should I have to pay for auto insurance? It's a wealth transfer to bad drivers.

... And actually, I completely reject your characterization of it as a wealth transfer. It's insurance. You have no idea if you're going to need it. You may be in a car accident and badly break your legs, and require corrective surgery and rehab. You may get pneumonia or a bad MERSA infection. If you haven't saved up a few hundred thousand dollars and you show up at an ER, then the wealth transfer is to you when the hospital eats the cost and passes it along to properly insured people. That's not even going chemo/surgery should you develop cancer, god forbid.
Why would they care about US government debt? Nothing about government debt is detrimental to the human condition.
You've never built a system for the government I take it? You don't build these things in a vacuum, they approve and co-design the system, drive the technology decisions, require you to use "approved" technologies, ban the use of icky technologies because they aren't on the interoperability list (which locks you into a few vendors, the usual suspects, Microsoft, oracle, etc.), slap on all kinds of additional requirements, force you to use hardware from a cut rate vendor so they can make their 8A quota, and so on.

It's nothing like a private company building a system. It's more like being a peasant to a lord. Sure you can do what you want, as long it's exactly what they want to you, when, where and how they want you to do it.
> Even worse than USB is Firewire, which, if I am not mistaken, gives direct memory access to whatever device is connected.

Both FireWire and Thunderbolt offer DMA. There's publicly available tools that allow you to extract passwords, remove lock screens and find keys in the memory of running devices using either type of port.
I did not. It might be difficult tho for all the delta encoding methods since they all depend on computing delta from the previous integer.

For the non-delta methods it is conceivable that ||ism may help, but not sure by how much.
>Final Fantasy XIV is a re-launch of a failed 2010 MMO.

It is indeed a re-launch. But such a successful re-launch that they had to temporarily shut down digital downloads for nearly a month because they didn't expect such a large influx of players.

A relaunch that was so successful that they had to revise their earnings report from an estimated 20 million dollar operating loss for the financial year to a 48 million dollar profit[1]. The game has 1.5 million registered accounts[2]. But I guess mentioning that would certainly detract from the supposed doom and gloom of the franchise that author is trying to perpetrate.

I'm playing it. It's very fun. Here's a small article on it[0].

[0]http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/09/final-fantasy-xiv-a-re...

[1]http://www.vg247.com/2013/11/05/square-enix-financials-final...

[2]http://www.siliconera.com/2013/10/25/final-fantasy-xiv-realm...
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Innatist Nonsense
You can't "switch" if you're dead.

Ever heard of the Gardasil vaccine ?

"Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing... The risks of serious adverse events including death reported after Gardasil use in (the JAMA article by CDC's Dr. Barbara Slade) were 3.4/100,000 doses distributed. The rate of serious adverse events on par with the death rate of cervical cancer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/

Over a hundred young girls have died after taking the vaccine, and many others have been left suffering horrible illnesses. Here, look at some of the victims.

http://sanevax.org/

Debate the causal link all you want, I'm not taking a stance on this either way, but what I object to is people being labelled cranks for simply asking questions and pointing things out.
I hadn't seen Hush before -- neat idea! I only wish it'd let me silence notifications forever, or for days at a time.
Ask HN: What do you have in your menu/status bar?
I did this exercise recently with a friend at a conference during a talk we were bored of, and it was interesting to discover some new tools. Similar to the http://macmenubars.com/ tumblr linked to in the "GTFO my menu bar" HN post.

Here are my less-standard ones for OS X:

- Vitamin R2: Easy pomodoro-like timeboxing with a scratchpad - http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/

- Keyboard Maestro: Keyboard shortcuts for all the things - www.keyboardmaestro.com/

- Euclid: allows you to easily measure anything on screen in pixels - http://euclidapp.com/

- RescueTime: Tracks time usage, handy - https://www.rescuetime.com

- Backblaze: Easy backups - http://www.backblaze.com

- Flux: Adds red hue in the evening, allowing brain to produce Melatonin - http://justgetflux.com/

- Caffeine: Click to disable screen from auto-shutting off - http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/

- Bartender: Keeps my menu bar less busy - http://www.macbartender.com

Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9p6nhf1whn000/Screenshot%202013-11-30%2022.42.04.png
The details of the story seem unlikely and it was probably sloppy journalism, but I haven't found anything besides speculation that claims it happened otherwise.

It doesn't appear anything was lost in translation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864882

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864653

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864577

I think the likeliest case was that they searched her laptop, found an open tab with her Facebook messages, then printed the conversation.
Using this logic would allow the legislators and bureaucrats to escape all culpability by contracting out implementation of all policy. Unrealistic project goals, incompetent oversight, a complete lack of testing, and general unwillingness to adjust to failures are all factors which contribute to project failure.
This is just fascinating. This must be why I've seen many a store clerk / govt employee / postal office worker / bank worker / etc. sit there want wait for 10 minutes while the "system is processing"?

> "Software that assigned identities to enrollees and ensured that they saw only their own personal data ..."

I guess the simplest EIDM is a where clause in your SQL query :P Just kidding - I do wonder what this thing does more than just a regular authentication / authorization system though. Maybe sandboxes data so that it's impossible to even query for data that doesn't belong to you?
Prenda Law ordered to pay $261K to defendants
Interesting, my first guess would have been '60' since the old C89 / K&R C had the behavior

(prefix ops) => ( statement ) =>(postfix ops)

Which made code like

*a++ = *b--;

Change the pointers after the copy as opposed to having them change before the copy.

It is interesting that this has become compiler defined.
Fictional island of San Serriffe
The subsidies and relative price fixing are wealth transfers, why else would they exist?
They're just another representation of a long string or number... checking or verification can be built on top of it if needed by software.
I find Gnome 3 to be slightly less goofy, and the extensions repository makes it easy to patch over the remaining bits of fail.
Why don't more people play video games?
Why aren't video games as mainstream as TV or movies? Where does the social stigma come from? Is it just the social stigma, or are there other reasons?
See "The Keysigning Party HOWTO":

http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysi...
For Linux there's Seahorse, the Gnome app for managing PGP and SSH Keys. It comes installed by default on Ubuntu. Generating a key and synchronizing it with a key server couldn't be more painless.

For email clients, you can use Thunderbird or Evolution, both of which can handle PGP. There's also a new Chrome/Firefox extension that brings PGP to Webmail interfaces, such as GMail: http://www.mailvelope.com/ ... because of a Firefox limitation, it's kind of slow on Firefox right now, but should get fixed in 27 and it also lacks advanced features (e.g. PGP Mime, or syncing with key servers), but those features are coming.

Linux in general have the best security related tools. Ubuntu's graphical installer for example gives you the option to encrypt either your $HOME directory or your entire hard-drive (with dmcrypt). When formatting an USB Drive, you also have the option to encrypt it. And if you synchronize your files on DropBox or Google Drive, you can quickly create an encrypted folder by means of Encfs / gnome-encfs. And personally, I went full on with encryption. My hard-drive, my USB drives, my Dropbox, my Google Drive storage, all encrypted. I also link to my PGP public key in my email signature, which is cool, as my personal website serves links only through HTTPS.
I live on a big island in the southern hemisphere. Working remotely on a Linode is painful due to latency even with mosh. I tied Fremont for ages but the latency was too much so I moved to Tokyo which is a little better but I still prefer to work with a VM locally. Vagrant gets the job done but I would prefer an alternative.

I don't like Ruby. I don't like running virtualbox when I could be running an lxc jail with something like docker. I think I will be ditching OS X and moving back to a Linux desktop as soon as I find the right laptop.
For those pedantic fools focusing on the "debt" part of your comment, replace that with poverty, NSA spying, unemployment, education, or any other perceived problem. The specific problem isn't the point.
Rain Gutters on planes
These exchange requirements are set up to avoid "free-riders", a problem caused by the mandatory disregard of pre-existing conditions. The logic is quite interesting, as the regulations create problems which must be solved by further intervention; this causes ever-increasing levels of interference in the market.
according to the OP, the Glass-wearing restaurant patron's name is Nick Starr; i recall a few years ago a guy w/ same name tweeted in detail his imminent wish to commit suicide--on two separate occasions. i wonder if it is the same guy.(http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/nick-starr-threatens-...)
Your testing VM setup sounds like it might be really useful for the pgjdbc-ng project (a project to create a new JDBC driver for Postgres).

I was looking through the project issues on Github yesterday, prior to starting to play around with it and your comment reminded me that one of them was a note from the main developer asking for suggestions on automated testing. Perhaps you could send a pull request ?

See : https://github.com/impossibl/pgjdbc-ng/issues/31
Most likely multiple vendors. It probably depends on the component and contractor.
There are human genders other than male and female? Scientific or imaginary?
Definitely social stigma attached to it... when people think of their kids playing video games they extrapolate that to them flipping burgers at local joints as opposed to studying or watching TV that can still not come in the way of getting respectable jobs
The explanation (and subsequent discussion) in your first link is wonderful.

I love that there are nerds tucked away in random corners of the internet, making themselves happy by working on obscure, challenging problems like these.
'Fast and Furious' star Paul Walker dies in car crash
Vagrant doesn't, but blueprint[0] seems to be a decent tool for generating puppet manifests. I haven't used it personally, but an Ops guy at work has had some success with it.

[0]http://devstructure.com/blueprint/
Look at blueprint: https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint/

Right now it has frontends for bcfg2, cfengine, chef, puppet and shell scripts. It's not perfect, but it does a pretty good job of giving you a base set of provisioning rules you can then refine by hand.
1. Ignorance of the administrators - the programmers in the institutes, if any, have to listen to the design ideas of the administrators even when the programmers are more competent and up-to-date. The administrators may be competent in their own areas, but they have to be listened to at all costs.

2. The programmers in these institutes are often sidelined, and their work is seen as inessential. So, many of them lack motivation to update their skills. Regular "refresher courses" to update skill-sets are hardly ever funded.

3. There are a lot of restrictions to government companies outsourcing work to private companies - in general it is very difficult for government companies' funds to flow to private companies - for example, all govt. employees have to fly Air India, even when other airline tickets are cheaper. In things like website development, this means that it is hard (not impossible) to subcontract the work to a non-government agency. Also, the private subcontractors who do get the projects leave after 3 years or so, since there is no maintenance contract built-in. The maintenance contractors who come in later have no idea what the existing code base is.

Overall, I think this is a system designed to minimize corruption. Please see a related analysis on the healthcare.gov debacle - "Furthermore, many of the procurement policies that make access to services like AWS difficult have been put in place to prevent corrupt or unjust spending of taxpayers’ money. Unfortunately many of these policies have become so complicated that the issues get obfuscated, they repel innovative and cost effective solutions, and ultimately fail to achieve their original intent. " [1]

The policy does a bad job at preventing corruption, anyway. But especially in the case of a fast-changing technology like web development, it is a ridiculous hurdle. (No, I am not a programmer, just an exasperated government employee in India, who is aghast that so much of talent in the country is not allowed to be used just because of ill-made legislation. I am not a fan of vigilante activism either - they have no idea of the kind of policy fetters that people have to deal with in government.)

[1] http://www.civicagency.org/2013/10/learning-from-the-healthc...
No, that's unrelated and handled by the mandate. Note that the exchanges still have to take newcomers in the future; making people do it during arbitrary windows does nothing about the free rider problem.
All branches of government contract out a wide variety of services, the only things they all have in common are cost overruns, delays, and under-performance. It is astonishing that all these different contractors are always to blame, and the government has done nothing wrong.

Fool me once, blame the contractor; fool me twice, blame the management.
or you can just cut the two data cables or put a piece of tape on the two data connectors on a usb2 cable.... pleaaaase and it's almost free...
I think a lot of people are hoping for a "remaster" of FFVII, including me. I'd buy a PS4 solely for FFVII in an instant, assuming they did a good job of course.

FFX would be great, but I'm annoyed it's only on PS3, which I skipped.
Ask HN: B2B SaaS Pricing 
We offer a document management system tailored for the construction industry.

We've approached a number of Contractors in the Middle East, mainly Dubai and Qatar. We’re getting a lot of positive feedback on the product from these prospective clients. However, we're having difficulty pricing our service. Some contractors are gladly willing to pay anywhere between $10,000 to $15,000 annually for an unlimited number of projects and users. That's usually the big contractors who are turning over $300+ million annually. However, potential deals start to fall through when targeting the smaller contractors.

Ideally, if a client purchases the software, we'd like them to manage all their projects with it. So tiering based on the number of projects a potential client has is not really an option. Our problem would pretty much boil down to tiering the pricing so as to accommodate for contractors of all sizes. And the first thing that would come to mind would be to do that based on storage space.

Can anyone point me in the right direction.
In part because it handles a separate authentication questionnaire with Experian. That's a PII sensitive integration that needs dynamic content.
Government website in India are terrible. Most are built by NIC (National Informatics Center). That works just like an employment scheme with lots of entry-level employees.
Hi Adam, I just looked up your position in the backers list, I believe your glasses will ship in January.

Thank you for your early support and I hope you will really enjoy your Epiphany Eyewear
This is actually what I'm attempting to do right now. Our prod database is Oracle, and trying to automate the installation of Oracle is a huge PITA. So I'm doing it once manually (or somewhat manually at least), and I'll just freeze that vm into my own box that other devs can use at work.

I'm really really enjoying working with Vagrant.
I tried the no shampoo thing for a month. The result was extremely scaly, itchy scalp. So I used Ketoconazole + shampoo once. (Ketoconazole can cause dryness, flakes and hairfall; so I used very little of it). Had some dryness and some hairfall following the wash. The next two weeks were without shampoo. Now I intermittently use a "mild" shampoo like Johnsons baby shampoo every week or so and my seborrheic dermatitis is much better. So the nopoo thing is not so bad.
I still don't get vagrant. I create an image in VirtualBox. clone it, then provision with Ansible. The thing that has always bothered me about vagrant boxes is it has stuff baked into the image. I want state EXACTLY like I get on a bare VPS, which is just SSH and root account.

Reverting to a snapshot is faster than using vagrant command line and rerunning all scripts.
The subsidies are to poor people. The poor people get medical care anyway, at ERs, where hospitals cannot refuse them. Or they forgo the care until mundane problems become chronic or acute problems (and they end up in the ER). ERs happen to be the most expensive means of providing heath care. So, to answer the first part of your question, the subsidies exist so that people who cannot afford heath insurance via the exchanges can still have health insurance. And the reasoning behind it is to reduce health care costs that emerge from lack of access to care.

I know less about the age rating bands. Off the top of my head, it's to smooth costs over a lifetime. So it's a wealth transfer from your young self to your old self, if you have typical health care costs over your lifetime: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/

edit: http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/20... for more on age banding.
They're worse because they're not human-readable.

It's easier to trick someone into scanning the wrong QR code than it is to trick someone into sending money to the wrong url, email address, phone number, etc.
This looks like the Bitcoin version of the GoldenPalace casino buying the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich for $28,000. The majority of the donations were probably designed to attract attention and therefore help market Bitcoin.
The vindictive reaction from Joyent on this was just atrocious. Perhaps it's time for node to find a new home.
Hope you guys enjoy the technology, my coworkers and I have been putting our hearts and souls into engineering and manufacturing these glasses for almost two years now! It's been a long but rewarding road and I've learned so much about manufacturing that I would definitely recommend hardware technology to anyone interested in the experience of starting a company. Just be ready to spend every waking hour on it!

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"It seems the author of this post appears to work at Google, a contributor to the Trusted Computing Group."

Yes, however, note this is a hobby project, written on his own time, with no official affiliation to Google at all.
I'm unsure how exactly chef does its thing, but I found that using puppet apply (similar to Chef Solo), was far superior to using puppet server (which we use for production).

Maintaining usable certificates, sharing them with other devs, synchronising puppet plugins etc was just far too much work, and very time consuming. I also found it a lot nicer to have the explicit puppet configuration right next to the code that runs on it.

I don't know if these kind of setbacks will be similar with Chef Server or not.
It was on HN front page when the orbiter was launched.