skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's great if you want a lot of multi-tenant instances on one box. Why would HN benefit from that, though?
I said: "either politically impossible or not within the President's power." Recognizing foreigners as having "rights" that constrain the security-related operations of the NSA would be a political non-starter.

Re: "stop pushing the use of compromised encryption standards" is a lot narrower than "stop undermining internet security." Politically, the former might be possible, but the latter certainly wouldn't be, at least to the extent they involve breaking encryption standards and the like.

Finally, while the President could theoretically instruct the Justice department not to rely on the doctrine, he can't "reject it" as the law of the land. He also can't, practically, tell the DOJ not to rely on it. U.S. v. Miller is the underpinning of a huge portion of white-collar and antitrust enforcement activity.
There was more than one OS. Supercomputer manufacturers (not just Cray) were basically hardware companies, and operating systems were an afterthought. Software was written on other systems and loaded in from the outside. UNICOS was a regular System V Unix port, to give users the sort of rich experience of a modern operating system.
Do you feel comfortable with reliability of btrfs?

When I do a Google search, I want to see confirmed cases of fs lockups / data loss from fs bugs to be multiple years in the past. btrfs isn't there yet.

I like btrfs's ability to e.g. switch raid levels without offlining the array. I think it's promising. But I wouldn't trust my data to it tomorrow.
Absolutely agreed. I've had a job since I was 15, yet I spent all my money (and then some) well into my 20s. It was disposable money and I didn't appreciate budgeting (though I understood the concept well).
I received no allowance as a kid. I was also expected to do a set of chores each week to contribute to the family. These were things like cleaning my room, washing dishes, and taking out the trash.

Beyond these, however, I could perform additional chores in exchange for small amounts of money. My mom and I agreed on a price sheet. By doing a few of them I would have the equivalent of $10 a week or so. If there was, say, a computer game I wanted, I could do additional chores for a couple of weeks to earn the money for it. They encouraged this by helping me open a savings account early on.

Every now and then I approached my mom to renegotiate the prices (effectively to ask her for a raise). If I had been doing a good job, she would usually agree to small increases. Sometimes there were items that seemed too big for the return, and I would negotiate an increase by explaining this.

My first part-time job was at 15, but I helped where I could before that for odd money here and there. I paid for my first car with savings from that job, and I also paid my way through college (with some help from my parents for room and board).

I have never been afraid to negotiate on salary.

I feel like more than any of my friends growing up, and more than many adults I know, I understand the value of money, and I give a lot of this credit to my parents.
> I mean it's not like it's doing them anything

Being overweight is very bad for your health.

http://www.healthline.com/health-news/heart-excess-weight-ra...
I'm a fan of Saarinen's work on the Arch, and I know that great things were accomplished in this building, but it seems to me to indulge in the worst excesses of the International Style. Awe is a nice emotion to experience occasionally, but it eventually becomes oppressive. The "stacks" motif here evokes nothing so much as an early 20th-century prison. We don't see any of the actual office space here, but I expect it's entirely the same cramped warrens I've suffered in other buildings of this style. It's not surprising that the merged company decided to sell this building.
Teach them about compound interest and then set up a vanguard account.
Yes, but I don't think such shortages do them much harm.
I tend to look at HNer comment history. You can usually tell quite quickly if someone seems sound or not.

I also don't like the ODesk / freelancer sign up process (credit cards etc).
There were some bold announcements on spying from 2007 as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAQlsS9diBs
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Have you thought about perhaps open sourcing the server setup scripts for HN? I'd love (and I'm sure many others here) to help with the configuration. Perhaps a github repo for some chef recipies that people could work on given the current servers?
It seems to me that they're following a very similar trajectory to [Pandora](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_radio) (which, to me, indicates that it's probably a good thing).
Give your child a monthly allowance that is 8-12 times lower than the price of something it really wants. Watch as the child saves up to be able to buy it or fails. Raise the allowance slowly as they get older, but never so high that they can buy what they want comfortably.

Let children be children, don't force them to work summers and holidays to teach them a lesson, that will come in its own time. They will have to work the rest of their lives anyway. It's better to teach them how to save instead.
I like the concept. Would love to see page authentication
A new topological invariant for the "Rubik's Magic" puzzle
I'm pretty sure you inverted those.
Yes, obviously. That's why I said you should restore from backups in that event. If you lose your backups on S3, congratulations, you had better odds of winning in your state lottery. The big difference is not just the price as you say, but the flexibility.
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FWIW, our start-up began on AWS during early days, but finally due to cost constraints, migrated most of our servers to our own h/w setup. We had substantial number of servers of varying types on AWS (live servers, full hadoop cluseters etc..), on east and west regions, lots of EBS storage etc.., so not some trivial setup.

We really liked AWS, and the support we got for most of the times was good, but as we had 24x7 live traffic, even with reserved instances, the cost finally caught up to justify the move to our own hosting solution.

One thing that the made the migration easier for us was that from day 1, we decided to treat AWS as a co-location, hence we set things up with the usual open-source s/w stack (i.e. avoided proprietary Amazon solutions like dynamo, messaging solutions etc.. maybe just used S3 for offline archiving of logs. It was tempting to build on their components, but ended up building it ourselves.), including own own hadoop setup. When the time came, we could easily migrate things out.

Hope this gives some perspective. Still a fan of AWS, and if I were do another start-up, would follow the same script all over again.
The author says they were in the snack aisle and she was "begging for cookies". I read the reference to her weight as a clumsy way of implying that the girl's parents were giving in to her demands instead of teaching her what the snacks cost.

As a hook for the article I thought it was clumsy and unnecessary.
Raid 60 is not really that good. the rebuild time of a raid 6 slice of 12 disks is 36 hours. (sas 3tb disks)

Raid 10 is more expensive on space, but is the best compromise of traditional raid.

LSI have some fancy magic virtual disk chunking mechanism to make rebuidling large raid 6 luns much quicker (4-8 hours)
Yup—he's spoken about it[1]:

> I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop—it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. Incidentally, with Linux I much prefer the keyboard focus that I can get with classic FVWM to the GNOME and KDE environments that other people seem to like better. To each their own.

[1]: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
The memory architecture is a very good point. It's fundamentally different from the x86-derived systems we all use today.

Besides, if you really want to emulate a Cray, it's not the OS that's important so much as that almighty FORTRAN compiler! Part of the fun of working with old Cray guys was listening to the ranting about how FORTRAN is the Best Language Ever and that by removing a layer of memory indirection, it's faster than even C. Of course, you're then hardcoding the living crap out of everything, but that was handwaved away as a minor price to be paid for real performance....
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Yes, loved the User Illusion. Fascinating Stuff.

Also, lately I've been hearing a lot about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happiness_Hypothesis

in which the brain is likened to a person riding and elephant. We can train the elephant, but mostly the elephant repeats its program.

It's billed as about "happiness," but imo that's only one slice of it. It applies to all habits, including eating, exercise, improving sw development skills...
The key is to require the kids to make purchasing decisions.

Our kids (ages 12, 11, 9 & 8) are required to purchase all of their own school supplies, clothes, activities, etc. They earn the money from us and can earn a lot, but they have to complete their chores without us asking and turn in their peg slips (like a time sheet).

They then have to decide, do they want the $80 jeans or the $20 jeans? If they buy the $20 jeans then they can make more trips to the skatepark.

It works really well. Our system was derived from the book The Entitlement Trap: http://www.amazon.com/The-Entitlement-Trap-Choosing-Ownershi...
I like the way you think. It is a systematic problem, not an individual one. These people think this way because they haven't been educated well enough to think otherwise, especially in the comprehension of their own psychology; nothing more.

I wish we would treat all social issues in this manner. The world would be a better place. Provably, I think.
a+++++++++++ would read again very disrutpive
ZFS has inbuild raiding and much much friendlier tools.

The BTRFS tools are like MDAM and lilo had a child.
Maybe the Pentagon asked them to do so?
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MetaFont and TeX are both known for being bug-free because Knuth offered cash rewards for finding them—famously, he no longer does this because he had issues with people not cashing his checks. So it's highly unusual to find bugs, and is generally considered newsworthy these days.

EDIT: MetaPost -> MetaFont
No I meant the squatting market, although I was using the term market ironically.

The existence of the "right" to squat is a historical accident, and this legal right should be eliminated entirely.
You may want to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village for some historical examples of similar things....
The assignments are, in fact, available: https://class.coursera.org/datasci-001/assignment

You'll be required to login is all.
I've squatted. We started our business in one. Commercial property (Grade 1 listed commercial property...), unused for decades, full of leaks, no services, infested with vermin... so we got a DSL line slung over the roof from a friendly neighbour, threw down some sleeping mats and skip-diving desks and chairs, and got started.

We moved out and rented premises and homes as soon as we could, which was after about two years. Nobody noticed we were there (no visibility from any other properties or the street, even though it's bang in the centre of a city), and we left it with no leaks, clean windows, the floor restored, everything repainted and cleaned, and the rats and gulls cleared out.

About six months after we left, they bricked up the one and only entrance, and it's once more sitting there, quietly rotting.
There's probably not too many memory safety bugs in the standard library, most of it is "safe" code (i.e. Rust code without any `unsafe`).

(That said, there probably are some `unsafe` blocks that were not written with enough care, etc.)
If tech workers are the scapegoat for all the ills of SF, why aren't grossly overpaid actors and actresses the scapegoats for the decadence in Hollywood?

No, Hollywood decadence is accepted, but you get techies with a small salary multiplier and people get upset, you have the 100 to 10,000 (income) multiplier in Hollywood and that's quite alright. I don't quite understand the incongruence.
"Leading by example" is one of the best, if not the best ways to teach something to your kids. Kids watch parents closely whether they are 3 years old or 13 years old, even the rebellious types. They know what you are up to as a dad/mom and will follow your lead. When it comes to money, if you are responsible yourself, odds are that your kids will probably be good with money. Having said that, there are definitely a few ways to teach them the value of money.

We were always taught to respect money. Think before you let go of it. Challenge (not haggle) spending on something. My dad always said "if you don't respect money, it will never respect you". It is also important to show your kids that money does not come free and it has to be earned just like respect.

Overall, my goal is to teach my kids these important math/formulae:

It does not matter what you make but what you save.

(Cashflow IN > CashFlow OUT) = "Financially happy".
Same here. So i checked what ciphersuits they use.

TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA

Too bad they cant correctly set up their servers ...
Only when adding money to the app is the password required.

This seems precisely backwards.
HN: I gave away my life savings to start an open-source project
My initial plan was to distribute my shares 50/50 half to myself and half to the dev team. It is an experiment in open source to see if it a possible to function as a stock. I believe that if we can create valuebal services and keep the devs interested it will pay off.

Do you guys think I will succeed, or am I absolutely out of my mind?
How is this a CTF then?
I'd rather teach how to earn money in an enjoyable way. "This is work, it's unpleasant but it earns you money and keeps you alive and we all do it because we have to" is not really the message I want to convey.
I like small details when reading stories. Even if unimportant, it's fine to put it there.
Apparently math isn't necessary but logic and all the other skills that go with math is.
Thanks guys . I will check dribble again. Most of the people I talked to there were either freelance only or employed, but agreed it seems like the best place.

Had not heard of sortfolio, thanks.
You can invalidate tokens for a compromised phone. Well you can also change your password, but I'd rather revoke the access from my phone than have my password stolen. Some kind of validation mechanism before you order could be nice (like a screen lock), something you can do with one hand.
What is it, do you think, that causes former critics of spying to become 'overseers'? The Presidency is limited to two terms, so it's not like it's being used to weild power. Are there honest intentions related to safety, or is it all about money/lobbying?
Logic is part of mathematics, and mathematics as actually practiced - not as taught in schools - is far from repetitive.
They obviously want to prevent phone thieves from adding money to your Starbucks account!
The assertion that users can make unlimited purchases after entering credentials just once is false: "Customers need only enter their password once when activating the payment portion of the app and then use the app to make unlimited purchases without having to key in the password or username again."

That is, unless you have automatic reloading on, which is a crucial point. This doesn't excuse the practice of storing passwords in clear text, but it's an important detail.
But then again, to a Windows user BSD and Linux are convoluted and illogical (I've been using Linux for years and still have no idea which folder a program will install to. Every distro handles it differently). And you can't say that BSD and Linux don't bear scars of their predecessor, a half-assed copy of AT&T Unix. Any time I have to hit the command line to do something that should really have a proper GUI over it, I'm reminded of its past.

Every OS has its warts. There's no need to trash talk software, it can't hear you.
It's not bad crypto, it's an encoding scheme. It's even in the name! Citrix uses this to pass around credentials between disparate systems which might not be part of the same ActiveDirectory forest preventing the use of OS provided ticketing systems. The traffic carrying these credentials are encrypted with SSL, so you shouldn't be able to pull this in cleartext off the wire. It's obviously not a great system, but it does what it's designed to do. Details on abusing this system are available here[1], but they still require getting access to the unencrypted stream which once again will be passed around the network inside an HTTPS connection.

While I'm sure it was an interesting exercise, the author could have saved himself some time and simply Googled the name, there are published scripts and COM objects to deal with this encoding stream such as[2].

[1] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520869

[2] http://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2013/03/19/scriptable-citrix...
Starbucks app leaves passwords vulnerable
Can anyone comment how F# compares to other functional languages? Just curious.
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Exactly!

Also, is it safer having the password saved on your phone in cleartext, or is it safer if user has to enter it every time in front of strangers?
Requiring them to purchase school supplies seems counterproductive, unless they really value them. If my brothers were given a choice, they'd buy the shoddiest possible equipment to save money for fun stuff, and if you were to force them to buy better things, you haven't really gave them the purchasing decision, just faked it.
When you zoom in, you do in fact control for differential population density to a lot of extent.
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Yeah, I have both and I love them, can't wait for the third T-shirt :)
Uh, does anyone have this in cleartext form? I'm on a EDGE connection and it looks like the darn thing is all-images.
What is a variable? function? you might be astonished at how many lawyers don't even understand what true and false mean. I guess some programmers use algebra so much that they forget they are using algebra and consider it just writing. (You don't need to know how to move your legs man! All you got to do is walk.)
The headline might as well be a more Onionesque "After gaining power, politician turns out not to actually hold the strongly principled views he expressed while campaigning".

I'd be surprised if Obama holds any of the views he expressed during his campaign. A campaign is a marketing effort intended to install a team of people in power.

Generally speaking, the vast majority of power holders agree that aggressive spying is a good idea. This is closely related to their strong preference for maintaining the status quo across the board. We should not be surprised that Obama did not reverse any of Bush's controversial decisions because they were not actually controversial among those with power or with the potential to gain power.

Generally speaking, when an issue is touted as being highly controversial between the major parties, it consists of 98% solid agreement and 2% hyped up disagreement. The disagreement and the "fray" are part of the choreographed propaganda undertaken by powerful interests to create the illusion of dissent.
learn haskell because it's harder.
Bug #248619 Open Office does not print on Tuesdays
There are so many cool building in the States that just get abandoned. I hope they find a anchor tenant and save this place. It reminds me of the Sterick Building in Memphis, not architecturally but I just feel sad to see a beautiful place go to waste.
I think we all like HN, otherwise we wouldn't be here. That doesn't mean it can't improve.
It is also good for the press, if he is going to do anything is another matter.
Theory and reality are two very different things there.
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I agree it was kinda weird and misplaced.

Teen and especially preteen girls tend to be really skinny until they put on their adult fat. I remember fitting into a size 0 at 12 and 14, same with my sister, we were both healthy.

Then I looked at my yearbook about last year and I notice something, many girls were very very skinny, just like I was at that age. Many seemed to have the same kind of body. They didn't have the more adult body I (and many others I'm sure) grew into. In an unrelated conversation I had with a friend, she was mentioning about how her body has changed since she was in high school.

You can't really compare a child with an adult.
Do OKRs work?
If I remember correctly, when you buy a blank hard drive, and then format it, the formatting tool does not zero out the entire partition. The empty space left after a base install of an OS is note literally all zeroes or ones, it's random noise.

Am I wrong or outdated on this?
> Please acknowledge this one thing, if you will acknowledge anything in my post: our elected officials are no less victims than we are.

If I hire someone to walk around a room punching everyone in the face, my nose may be broken, but I'm not a victim in any real sense. These officials made their choice and it came back to bite them in the ass.
“When you get the package every morning, it puts steel in your spine,” said David Plouffe, the president’s longtime adviser.

This strikes me as backwards. Seems that a president with a steely spine would be strong enough to maintain the rights of citizens in the face of such challenges.
the apps you can build without mathematics are limited to crappy Facebook clones.
Every single app on your phone that remembers a username and password combination, or any other credential, is likely vulnerable.

Imho its about time that Google required the presence of a HSM in Android devices for key storage. A HSM that locked me out after ~10 x 6 digit PIN guesses (with software locking me out at a lower number) strikes me as a good thing. If someone wants to destroy my $500 phone, prise out a chip, grind it down, and look at it under an electron microscope to extract my passwords, then good luck to them. Why isn't this happening?
Funny the blog post is about bad crypto and its all they support.
Can't your product just stop supporting XP?

Like web developers charging for ie6 compatibility, push your true costs of supporting XP to XP - if the conundrum "should we pay $200 more for software X or we can get Windows 8 and it's $200 off the software" seems like an easy answer given no other software in the picture.
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/spotify/

But you were looking for something more detailed?
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Documentaries are a smart direction for Netflix. They can actually afford to license the best ones for streaming. Of the five Oscar nominated documetaries that were announced today, three are already streaming on Netflix and the one Netflix produced comes out tomorrow.

Given that the actual movie studio distribution of these movies must be minuscule, it makes a lot of sense for Netflix to just buy them directly.
Because it is actually 2014 :)

Kidding aside, running a bare metal server you own or rent is always cheaper, assuming you cannot save money by turning things on and off and know you capacity needs. Sure HN grows but not nearly as fast as FB, Twitter, etc. the service is big enough where it would require expensive virtual servers. This is the best case scenario for a physical hardware box run by people who are familiar with such things.
Can you prove that you are the CEO? I'm doubting between this being a bad prank from someone impersonating you, and you actually placing advertisements for your own company here.