skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Los Zetas are hardly famous for a subtle approach. Are they actually operating like intelligence agencies?

It seems to me that even if they have the knowledge, they don't think it is worth the effort in practice.
I know, but they don't mention what exactly they are using hg for. Someone (from IRC) said they were using this for some "secret" thing :)

From IRC I know someone has said git didn't scale very well for Facebook.
Another language that distinguishes between returning a list of values and multiple values is Go. Return variables have to be declared and can be named.
What happens if the DNS server happens to be unreachable or the owner accidentally or maliciously removes the signature in a DNS record after their transaction has been included in a block?

If enough clients saw the transaction I don't see what the problem is. The domain owner would also be running a client after all, and they'd have the private keys to prove that they own the transaction.

Once it makes it into the longest running blockchain with enough confirmations there's no reason to check the old DNS again (I don't think, unless I'm missing something). The next time the old DNS will need to be queried is when the domain expires. Maybe, by that point, no one will be relying on the previous system anymore. ;)
For some reason, I thought of Rahm Emanual (used to be Obama's chief of staff) when he said "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeA_kHHLow

Unfortunately, you have leftist statists that want market economies to fail so they can impose their statist, opressive regimes on people under the guise of "helping the people"
They could hire a FreeBSD hacker and let him/her code all day long on the OS.
#2 - also the ones the US randomly decides are terorrists and bombs "humanely" from Drones? Get off your fricking high horse and look in your own backyard mate. The hypocrisy of this is bordering on hilarious. She may be earning below minimum wage in the US - but its in no way inhumane or exploitative - at 4$ an hour - she's earning more than any maid or servant in India.
What happens if the DNS server happens to be unreachable

This is not a problem with Namecoin, right? Traditional DNS has the exact same problem, namely general intolerance to failure.
That's some scary shit there. Vivid mental images. Do you have source? I'd like to read more about this experience from first-hand account.
Shaming and moralizing aren't the same thing either. I agree with you about the structure of the system producing immoral actions, however I think that in order to change the structure, we must recognize the immorality otherwise this is just an empty abstraction.
Interesting note: Wes Anderson seems to get away with pretty much every established rule in the book of cinematography, and yet his films are generally beautiful to watch. Discuss.
sure - there's saying "depending on your connections you may or may not have access to opportunities" - which is true in pretty much ANY country in the world and theres saying the mere fact that people have servants is exploitation - which is simply not true. What you're saying is not false - but it has nothign to do with the original argument of my post.
They do contribute money, and developers to FreeBSD. They send patches, they sponsor the FreeBSD Foundation directly, they sponsor developer conferences, and they work with companies like Intel and Supermicro and LSI to make FreeBSD more awesome. This is a page for their content delivery appliance package, and it's not really an appropriate place to discuss all the stuff that Netflix does for FreeBSD.
That's not the point. You are assuming the fighters are only for use against the US.

There is the possibility of Brazil (or any other country that has bought F-35s) getting into a diplomatic tiff with the US, losing access to their fighters because of it, and then being unable to use them for standard training exercises or boarder enforcement against neighboring countries.

Having your fighter fleet grounded would be "disappointing" in far more situations than "is in a hot war with the US".
I'm totally with you. We've experienced to have Object database or XML database and NoSQL database. Now we understand that relational database is just the right way to go for web applications, because it deals with structured data so well, keeps querying and sorting, filtering seamlessly and effortlessly. It's a must.

It is the same thing for choosing Linux distribution and JDK mode. See the references here:

http://bingobo.info/blog/table-of-contents.jsp

BTW, your title should have "relational" instead of "relation".
Interesting...but I don't think hacker news is the right place to share this type of article.
When are people gonna shake the false impression that *BSD are outdated and their flavor of Debuntu is far superior?
When you fear you're a nail, everything looks like a big scary hammer?
Too bad those mods/upgrades/updates are not free software?
This. Exactly this, and I think it's not a coincidence that learning Scheme was also like this, but for programming.
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/rsas-art-coviello-anony...

Paid shill

Want to see money flow from federal government to RSA and EMC over time.
I'm a computernik, my wife is a megastar.
You don't need to be fighting with the US. Say you're Greece, and you're fighting with Turkey. Or Iraq vs. Saudi Arabia.

The US picks the winners.
> Currencies aren't like some weird subset of commodities.

Actually, currencies are considered to be the ultimate commodity. They don't degrade, they're 100% fungible, and they're instantly moveable worldwide. They're even susceptible to runs and shortages.

Think of it this way, what is the price of money? Is it $1 for a sandwich or 1 sandwich for a dollar? In this way, money has a price. So if the price of money goes up, by say everyone worrying that they'll lose their job and not spending anything, "prices" for goods will drop. Conversely, you can get runs when people think their money will lose value, eg during a war or disaster.
I always thought hadoop, mapreduce, hbase (via bigtable) were Google's biggest contributions to open source. The new generation of Operating Systems for mobile devices existed before android came to fruition (iOS on iPhone for example). But hadoop introduced a new paradigm of distributed computing to the world.
Yes, even hammers, the small, non-intimidating kind. ;)

(Please keep the discussion to the merits of the points raised.)
well - if you understand society in India - depending on where you live - it can very much be a neccessity as well. It may be a clear luxury for someone living in the west. But there cant be 2 more different places than a developed country in the West and India.
Netflix does contribute quite a bit:

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors

Or search for "Sponsored by: Netflix" in the commit messages.
I'm sure Netflix is contributing to FreeBSD. From the link posted above it states:

>We've been working hard on stabilizing the
FreeBSD IPv6 stack for production-level traffic, and I recommend that all users
of IPv6 update to the latest patches in 9-stable and 8-stable. Contact me
directly if you have questions about this.

Surely that work has gone back into FreeBSD and is not just for Netflix alone.
It's built into CMDER. But I've added it to the list to make it clear. Thanks!
They have done that, more than once.
IIRC, the previous Brazilian president (Lula da Silva) wanted/advocated for the Rafale, so as to strengthen relations with France / Sarkozy.

After Lula left, the competition become more about cheapness and transfer of technology.
PSP was the best. Lawd.
Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow in eBook Format
I just finished a project to convert SE data-dumps into draft PDF eBooks, which I'm calling SE2go. SE2go eBooks are interactive, they contain all the original links within the question and answer body, original formatting (as much as possible), and are sorted by tag and question title. Also included are links back to the original question, and the meta data important to each question and answer.

Any comments or unaccepted answers are not included in the eBooks. The page size of all eBooks are formatted to be easy to read on a 7” reader or tablet, include any embedded graphics and highlighted syntax. Using SE2go on larger displays is also supported without any degradation in quality.

The Stack Overflow has the largest number of questions and accepted answers, the Posts.xml file is >20G. To convert the entire Stack Overflow site into a single eBook was just off the hook; it made an eBook that was not user friendly, so the best working idea was to create separate tag based eBooks.

The first set of draft eBooks are built from the Stack Exchange data dumps of 3Q/2013. Current plans are to release another set of drafts after community input. Right now the only format available is PDF but depending on community input other eBook formats (epub, Nook, Kindle, etc) can be done. There's a short survey to see what the community would like.

I've posted draft PDFs here: http://se2go.ka6wke.net.
Applebaum has access to stolen information, but what proof do you have that he is in possession of it?

Given his background with Tor it seems likely that it is just stashed somewhere in the cloud.
Simple + interesting
Seeing as corporations are pretty much legal entities created by states, (whether they be the US or EU states, or anywhere else for that matter) which allow for privileges for those who run them based on the state where incorporated, that doesn't seem to change the status quo. To me, that just makes this all look like some kind of grandstanding to placate those on the sidelines, and if we are honest with ourselves, most of whom will continue to use (and be used by) such services which leads me back to my question…
They actually have several developers on staff and most of the work they are doing ends up getting committed back to head
I'm not a liberatarian, but the anti-libertarian fearmongering in this piece makes it hard to take seriously. The current financial establishment has no accountability. No heads rolled after the financial crisis. No heads have rolled from the Libor scandal. The folks enriched by the current financial order only care about keeping us at the table of their rigged game. Cryptocurrencies are unlikely to be cure-all for inequality, but the status quo has been increasing inequality for decades and shows no signs of stopping.
wow yet another westerner sitting on their high horse of "we know what's right for you" - the caste system has little or nothing to do with this. And these steps are far from as trivial as you make them sound. If the biggest economy of the world is totally failing at preventing homelessness and sky high medical costs - do you really think its that easy for India which for all means and purposes has only truly started developing over the last 30 odd years can just do that?

Germany - which is one of the most developed nations in the WORLD - didnt have a minimum wage until now (except for individually bargained ones in specific sectors by unions).. It is only after tremendous pressure that the newly formed government has agreed to have one starting next year.
The first obvious question is how good is the Fiber pool? Almost any ISP I have encountered in NYC oversold their pools. Time Warner though has improved pretty well for about a year (but still crappy from time to time).

The second question is how does Fiber do in the future when it opens up in other towns and cities? Say it comes to NYC, and Google just not able to handle that crazy botnet running in some residential pool, should they pull the plug and say NO MORE SERVER?

I like running server straight from my connection if it is stable and fast. I am just afraid that they might say no in the future when things get worse.
Is there any proof that the «Rule of Third's»* especially it's power/focal points is more than just a self-referential myth?

As I understands it prevents beginners from falling for the symmetric layout / static center composition trap,
but other than that I think it's just not any good indicator for a good picture.

* also applies to golden ratio and fibonacci spirals
see:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3118007
Could he harassment, but, on the other hand, plenty of governments would love to get their hands on the rest of the Snowden cache. This may be one such attempt. Besides the US, you have China and Russia.
I'm really surprised there's no reference of Box / Aaron Levie.

Named Inc's entrepreneur of the year, this year, Box started off with a cold email from Aaron Levie to Mark Cuban:
http://zurb.com/soapbox/events/27/Aaron-Levie-ZURBsoapbox
They did not remove the clause completely, they changed the clause.
Docker container automation
(2012) The ToS has since been updated slightly, although I don't know if Page is happy with the current version. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/google...
How much might a mighty prize be, if I may ask?
VLC Chocolate
Page 18 of the pdf kev009 linked to in his post[1] lists Netflix's contributions to FreeBSD.

• Camcontrol mods to download SATA firmware
• IPv6 ref counting fixes
• ixgbe interrupt mitigation, RX optimizations
• Fixes for isci driver for firmware download
• Collaboration with FF, Isilon on Unmapped I/O
• VM/VFS Tuning: vfs.read_min

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949244
I'm starting to think there's a place for something like Dogecoin as a teaching tool. Although, heh, certainly not if there are too many people take it so seriously on either side of any debate about its value.

Sure, limited liquidity on exchanges like Cryptsy suggests that DOGE currently holds some* "real value" at present. I think it's best described as a high score contest. You can't sell a million USD worth of Doge to anybody right now, but that's not a bad thing! If a crypto-currency-game with a cute mascot gets more kids and teens into learning about computer science and math, we should find ways to keep it innocent and fun!

I remember running Distributed.net as a teenager, just to see how much processing power in keys per second I could personally muster. It was exciting because it taught the power and limitations of parallel computation.

To anybody who has managed to search and hack their way to mining their first Dogecoin (or anycoin) using only source code and blogs? Well done!!! You should consider this a great computing merit badge and maybe even a hacker rite of passage.

I hope future generations will have the same opportunity, community and incentives necessary to participate in the excitement of a gold rush, even if they can only make a actual pennies a day doing it. Having fun while learning at a young age is priceless.

(Looks like about 1.5 million DOGE / 1 BTC?)
The original:

После логаута одного из собеседников ключ для чата будет перегенерирован, а проверить то, что я имею тот же ключ что и собеседник я могу только посмотрев в его телефон глазами.

My (human) translation:

After one of the participants will log out, the key from the chat will be re-generated, but in order to check that I have the same key as them, I would need to see their phone with my own eyes.

This sentence has a particularly non-English word order, plus some missed punctuation. I can see how it would be a hard case for machine translation.
Because I don't enjoy SSL configuration?
The actual case dockets and documents can be found here:

Jewel v. NSA - http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=1911200

Shubert v. Obama - http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=1901515
Not offended, just tired of, in my perception, the air of absolute certainty among so many technical people.

A bit beyond the scope of this particular discussion, what does offend me is when people (not you perhaps) are constantly learning these life long skills on the client's dime. Some things it is fair/correct/righteous to learn and bill as part of a project, but when it isn't, I'll take the $20 approach every time.

It offends me when technical people are dishonest and insist that the "technically correct and proper" way is the path that must be taken, not the approach that should be taken. Or, they don't even inform the client of the option and just secretly make the decision to take the more expensive route. Again, not saying this is you, but it sure as hell happens.

By the way, who here is celebrating ignorance? Scott Hanselman?
I'm curious as to what you mean by this since it does not compute.
I thought it funny that NetBSD is a donor to the FreeBSD foundation.
I think maybe your question is just "What happens if you want to sell bitcoins and nobody wants to buy them?" and in that case the sellers are just screwed.

Nicely summarized. We are talking about the same thing.

That particular point is lost on a lot of people who are looking at Bitcoin. They see the surface aspect. Gee 1 BTC gets me $X and $X gets me 1 BTC. And from that they leap to 1 BTC is $X. That leap doesn't work because there is no equivalent of a market maker in BTC. I explain to folks who are wondering about BTC like this, "the more you want to trade the less they are worth, probably all the way to zero." So unlike Euros where 100 euros might be worth $132 and a million Euros $1.32M$ 100 BTC could be worth $X and a million BTC could be worth (small fraction x (10000 x $X)).

It is the difference between a currency and a collectibles market. Euros are the former, BTC are the latter.

Funny anecdote. My brother in law was buying property in europe and needed to do the transaction in Euros, prior to closing escrow he noticed that at the Hotel desk in the Caribbean where he was staying they had a better conversion rate than the bank had quoted him. The down payment was about $100,000 USD. On a whim he asked the desk clerk if he could change $100,000 USD to Euros and the clerk said, "Cash or check?" That one really through my brother-in-law for a loop!

I agree though, generally large foreign exchange transfers are scheduled things but they aren't all that complicated and seem to happen in the same 24 hr transaction window that other wire transfers do.
That is some of the most racist, homophobic garbage I have seen. Which shitlord funded this study? Probably the Koch brothers.
Government needs to fund grid upgrades if they expect Utilities to support solar.
They are. Most companies using BSD-licensed software realize that it just makes sense to not release contributions back to the community. Having to backport whenever a new release comes out just to hide a couple shiny features quickly becomes very much not worth it. Netflix in particular is a major contributor in code, cash, and community, so saying the mods aren't free software is utter ignorance. The meme that only restrictively-licensed free software gets people to contribute back has frankly been debunked from here to mars and back.
Polymorphism for Beginners
You recoup your investment immediately when you sell, frequently with a healthy multiplier.
Appealing to authority is only a fallacy if the authority isn't actually an authority / is considered infallible. This doesn't seem to be the case here.
To be fair, no one here mentioned anything related to the found vulnerability. Instead people seemed to have focused on their choice of SHA1 and IGE.
Startups should use the right tool.

A relational database might be just as wrong as a nosql one if all you need is redis.
... except that they are. Scott Long and Adrian Chadd are working full-time for Netflix, and other developers (e.g., Kirk McKusick, Gleb Smirnoff) have been hired from time to time for other work. Aside from short time periods while Netflix is testing kernel patches (on live traffic!) all their FreeBSD code is in the SVN repository.
Would this hole allow him to decrypt chat text?
Which San Francisco Neighborhoods Have the Most Graffiti?
I was surprised to see black heterosexual women ahead of any group other than homosexual men--and by a large margin. I wondered why this would be. Some ideas:

1) Black heterosexual women are more likely to have sex with black heterosexual men, who are in turn more likely to have HIV (according to the same data). The black male population has fewer cases than the females, but this might be reconciled by noting that male-to-female transmission is more likely than the reverse.

2) Perhaps the bigger risk factor for heterosexual women is not being black, but being poor. TFA does not include a breakdown by socioeconomics. Or perhaps, the risk factor for women is being part of a community with a high rate of male imprisonment.

Related to the above, it seems that male-to-female transmission during sex is more likely then the reverse in high-income countries like the US, but this does not hold in low-income countries. So that raises another question of why. See http://www.aidsmap.com/Estimated-risk-per-exposure/page/1324...

There are a whole bunch of possibilities, and I don't claim to know which are most true, but presenting a simple graph that says black women get HIV a lot seems a little...not helpful?

Edited to add: I dug up a study from three years ago by the very same CDC which specifically says it's poverty more than race that matters. So why are they publishing charts that highlight race and ignore poverty? See here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/povertyandhivpressreleas...
Not that many people use / used BSAFE. However, the news is still pretty mind blowing because it makes you wonder what else the NSA is doing.
>>Perhaps the bigger risk factor for heterosexual women is not being black, but being poor.

I'm confident you're correct; this has everything to do with being poor/middle-class/rich than race. But you can't see people's net-worth as easily as physical features so we continue to publish studies grouping people by race. I mean really, as if HIV is just waiting to get me because of my brown skin...
Please explain why you felt the study was racist and homophobic. Was it simply because it categorized new infections by race and sexual orientation?

I'm not sure I understand.
Between the two, I'd rather use FreeBSD than Netflix.
I see, yes viewed that way you COULD do this with jQuery- But you'd be missing most of the benefits of react.js, due to the missing "functional programming" that is possible with the react.js approach.
Is there a context to this being posted? (Honest question.)
What would be the drivers? Lack of education about safe sex habits?

Other than that, I'm not sure why socioeconomic status would be so correlated with new infections.
In the case of DOMA, Justice Scalia noted that, if Obama thought DOMA was unconstitutional, he could simply refuse to enforce it.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/12-307#writing-...

Doesn't this suggest that it is, to some extent, the President's responsibility to maintain his own branch?

Or do you think Scalia is wrong in both cases?
This is great news for Telegram. With such a weakness, the NSA will soon be encouraging wide spread use of their protocol.