skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably Bitcoin was a lot more conservative than it should've been in terms of stuff like the speed of confirmations, though, and in practice this has actually reduced security since all the popular payment services accept transactions with zero or one confirmations. With Bitcoin's sluggish design that's the only way to complete with the speed and convenience users are used to from services like credit cards and PayPal.

(If anyone here hasn't paid attention to the technical details of Bitcoin, the number of confirmations is a lot more important than the total amount of time taken on them. A lot of Bitcoin proponents tend to argue otherwise in order to encourage people to use it over newer alternatives, but they're fairly unambiguously wrong and even Satoshi's original white paper explaining Bitcoin makes this clear.)
Mail: Postfix (my go to SMTP server). However, a lot of people like Exim as well, but I've never got into it. Sendmail is powerful, but unwieldy. Postfix is very simple to configure a basic email server, especially b/c RedHat does such a great job with the defaults. However, be careful with security if you expose your server to the Internet.

Firewall: IPTables if you're running a firewall on the box. However, if you're running a firewall edge of network, then I'd go with a dedicated solution like Shoreline, Smoothwall or ClarkConnect.

LDAP: OpenLDAP. By itself, OpenLDAP is not difficult. However, as you add layers to it like TLS and Kerberos, etc. then the configuration becomes obtuse.

Web server: Nginx (the current king), but Apache is still a strong choice. Nginx works great with the newer frameworks where you're running it as a proxy for your application server plus as a high performance static file server. Apache is still solid if you're developing in PHP.
For me, as a Christian: hope and gratitude.
I've been there when a suicidal person pulled a razor blade out and started trying to slash us as we were trying to take a chest x-ray after an OD with vomit inhalation. I do not believe that any search risks a bigger problem - it is lucky that no one was hurt (patient included).
The later search (including x-raying the patient top to toe) found more razor blades, some internal.
Edit: missed word.
No GPL do not restrict you with anything you do with software. The only thing is if you distribute binary, distribute code too. You may create addons system for paid apps or may be deploy business logic on cloud-saas and distribute thin client. you are not distributing business logic/binary so you can use it however you use.
Still community needs such the persons.
Pretty good at it, I can't recall any major scandal in the last few years. Suppression of evidence (regardless who the actor is, be it prosecutor or a 3rd party) is punishable by law (http://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/274.html). However I was not able to find the possible sentences (though, I think, it includes jail time).
i haven't been following markets much over the past year, but most likely this is a bit of a "managed crisis" that will be used to justify the next round of QE or whatever. this bubble still has a few years to go. look for a timed crisis near the next presidential cycle.
The $60k is for rendering an education, not providing psychiatric counseling and a safe environment for recovery.

Have you looked at a catalog for Yale or any similar private school? They're not primarily selling education.

Besides, the "education" is no different from what you'd get at a much less expensive, much less well-known school. You're paying for the "community" and the experience and the brand.

Source: I paid for my own Yale degree.
Your first post is a link to an artie saying that English mental health care needs to be better. I agree. There are many problems with English MH care. I have no idea why you think that article is relevant to this person's treatment' so perhaps you could explain that?

The next article suggests that people in society are stigmatising and need more experience to spot signs of mental health problems. It finishes with an anecdote of a student with depression who isn't thrown out of university and locked away, but who is allowed to continue with their education.

I genuinely have no idea why French treatment for ADHD is relevant. I bet ADHD treatment is shitty in a bunch of countries.

EDIT: you say that people in the UK are not aware that poor quality of MH treatment. That's not true. People are well aware that there are longer waits in MH treatment and that bad practice happens. Looking at the Cornwall report and Winterborne view we see some shocking abuses. But that's the point - these were shocking. Some of those involved will never work with vulnerable people again. Others are in prison. Everyone accepts that the treatment was not acceptable.

The closest thing to the treatment in the original article is detention under section 136; this is the power that police have to take someone who is in a public place to a place of safety. That place of safety is usually a police cell for a maximum of 72 hours. But there are strict legal protections there too.
That's also supposed to be the law in the U.S., especially for material that could counter the prosecutor's claims or otherwise help the defendant. If a defendant discovers material was withheld, that can be a basis for overturning a conviction later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_v._Maryland

However it's rare for a prosecutor to be personally held liable for withholding evidence, unless it was something really egregious where it can be proven they did it on purpose.
Thank you for sharing your story - it helps many others.
A loss is painful only when you have reasonable chance to win.
This is a textbook example of a comment that used to get a user hellbanned on this site. Maybe mine is too, but you said nothing of substance and were a huge asshole to someone trying to contribute insight to a conversation.

I realize it's only been an hour at the time I write this, and admins can't be everywhere at once, but when you start snark-quoting someone back at them, you should realize you've been compromised. For fuck's sake, get ahold of yourself.
This is one of those situations where you have to see it to believe it. Yes, John, you can spend all the time in the world making your PowerPoint presentations look and behave like Keynote, but why cut off your nose to spite your face? Just use the better product.

One of simplest examples of the attention to detail that Apple has is the default slide layouts of PowerPoint and Keynote.

Microsoft decided at the dawn of PowerPoint that slides should be white with black text. Why? Because users want to work on a "blank canvas". White is bright and noticeable! No one will miss a thing!

Apple, by contrast, defaults to a black background with white text. Financial consultants around the world scoff in disgust. "What is this, a Hot Topic presentation?" they joke.

Now fire up both on a projector, the intended medium. Whereas PowerPoint blinds the audience and washes out even the blackest of Arial, Keynote's white text stands alone beautifully on a blank projection screen -- the end result is a sleek, seamless look that you almost never see in PowerPoint.
I've just addressed that elsewhere in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7120285
FFI = Foreign Function Interface
That's how is is supposed to work in the US too. However like everywhere things do not always work as they are supposed too.

The Grand Jury mentioned is the article is not the actual trial but a pre-trial procedure to decide whether to even charge the suspect with a crime. Special rules apply that favor the prosecution. If the grand jury decides to charge then there will be a trial with normal rules to decide guilt.
Am I the only one who finds this google status page a bit difficult to interpret?
That is pretty much the epitome of "hard task". Sites differ, associating the right site with the right password is difficult, and the security risks (having scripts accidentally send the wrong creds to the wrong site(s)) mean you'd really want to get this right.

In conjunction with some other thoughts of mine, though, this suggests a space for a more API-driven web design generally. One in which the authentication mode is clearly expressed. HTML had this integrated at one point with htaccess, but it was a horribly simplistic model.

Something I've been thinking about.
Unbound - validating, recursive and caching DNS resolver
What that VR post was about
Yes, last year I was at a Red Robin (in Hershey PA) that had a Ziosk terminal on each table. Our orders were immediately visible on the screen. When we were ready to leave, we only had to swipe a credit card, enter the tip amount, and we were good to go. There was a green light on the terminal signaling the waitress that we paid.

http://photos.pennlive.com/patriot-news/2013/08/ziosk_termin...
Having employees that aren't 100% "fine", for any reason, is a risk.

I doubt you have ever worked for a company where most (or any!) of the employees were 100% fine.

The choice is not whether to be fine. The choice is whether to deal with problems as they inevitably arise in all our lives, or to hide them under the rug ... until they erupt.
Thanks for your sympathy. But I've done my homework. Jesus did actually rise from the dead. Research it and you'll come to the same conclusion. I don't have many books on it, but I'd probably start with Handbook of Catholic Apologetics[1] by Kreeft and Tacelli.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Catholic-Apologetics-Reasoned...
Here's a proper link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7120293
Everyone has an opinion, and every opinion is equally easy (equivalently, equally hard) to demonstrate by an appeal to a private revelation. You're right, there's not even any point talking about it unless you have some way to back it up that beats "try it and see." Everyone can say that about arbitrarily different claims.
The recipient should put those emails on a website for everyone to see, along with a description of the issue.

Sometimes public shaming is the only way to push big firms into action.
I like what I see so far at this page [1] and will watch closely to see whether Julia catches on.

One thing -- can we call agree that dictionary literals begin and end with '{}', that arrays are zero-indexed and that an index into a unicode string is properly a character and not a byte? Or are we doomed to permute endlessly on details such as these? I wish any new languages would set aside a large set of tempting innovations and just go with the flow on the smaller points.

[1] http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/julia/
They differ in their belief about the deceased's current subjective experience (or lack thereof).

To the religious, death is an illusion. After a short time on the earth, everybody meets up again in the afterlife. It may be sad, but not too sad.

To those who don't believe in an afterlife, death is real. When someone dies, everything about them is annihilated. A lifetime of experiences destroyed; a unique personality deleted from existence, and everyone worse-off because of it.

Sadly, the desirability of an outcome has no correlation with its likelihood.
Industry breakdown of jobs subject to computerisation
That's not true, there's a very big difference per unit time.

The difficulty of attempting a double spend decreases linearly with the nominal length of the blocks, but it increases exponentially with the number of blocks required to confirm a transaction. So if for instance you decide you need an average confirmation time of 20 minutes, that'd be 2 blocks in Bitcoin and around 20 blocks in our hypothetical 1-minute Bitcoin. In general, for any given target confirmation time the 1-minute Bitcoin will be harder to attack than the 10-minute one - and this is especially true for the sub-10-minute and sub-20-minute confirmation times many merchants want.

If you're targetting an average confirmation time of say 5 minutes, that's a solid 5 confirmations with 1-minute-coin but a risky zero confirmation transaction with Bitcoin - and in practice a lot of services do accept transactions with zero confirmations because it's the only way to get the level of convenience their customers expect.
I'm not arguing against your point that a college's decisions with respect to student retention are made in the interests of the school rather than the student.

However, you're ignoring the enormous pressure on institutions (especially the prestigious ones like Yale) to maintain a high 4-year graduation rate and a very low dropout rate. Most of these colleges will do absolutely anything in their power to keep students from dropping out, so I'd say her chances of being readmitted were very, very high.

I know because I went to one of these schools. Many of my peers were forced to take time off for reasons ranging from mental health to academic probation to disciplinary action. I know one student who was forced to take time off from my college for three separate semesters for three different incidents. The top-tier institutions give students an incredible number of second chances.

Which isn't to say this falls into the same category as someone who, say, did LSD, got naked and had a physical altercation with the town police.

My only point is this: saying a university perceives troubled students as liabilities is an enormous oversimplification of the factors that go into an administrative response to this kind of situation.

But I do agree universities generally act in their own interests.
I suppose that there is an incentive for each of the bad actors in this scenario. What do the informant and the prosecutor get out of a successful conviction? Money? Reputation?
St. Louis may have the best chess scene in the US, or perhaps second only to NYC. Among other things, it hosts the US Championships every year. And Magnus Carlsen has played there. And Anna Sharevich lives there. (I.e. a lot more than the "Hall of Fame.")
For anyone interested in rational arguments for believing in Christianity, I recommend the Handbook of Christian Apologetics[1] by Kreeft and Tacelli.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Christian-Apologetics-Peter-K...
My understanding is that for a number of services (postgresql comes to mind) the issue was that syslog isn't implemented on all platforms, notably Windows.
"If you are interested in using WebODF in your commercial product, contact KO GmbH for a commercial license."

I know why this kind of tactic is used, I understand people have to make a living, but I'm not keen on it, it's a form on FUD. It suggests that the A(GPL) depends on the use case, which isn't the case.

You can use AGPL in a commercial product as long as you adhere to the terms of the license, none of which exclude commercial use.

I've seen this tactic used a lot, I wish "commercial, closed-sourced, product" were used instead.

That said, really nice product, impressed.
With SQLAlchemy, I have done similar optimizations against mssql by changing a few lines of ORM code. Without SQLAlchemy, I imagine I'd have to change dozens of hand written SQL queries.

A good ORM helps you to generate the exact SQL you need.
Nagios - How to kill a community (2014)
from the viewpoint of a icinga core developer.
Take a look at http://www.appointmind.com/

SMS reminders are in the making and the rest is already available. I'm not sure, though, what you mean by "Calendar invite".
Maybe a competitive advantage could be learning to make the tech component of your work distributed.
Well, that's awesome, but with an AGPL license it's not very useful for anything other than owncloud.
So you think that Google isn't going to be taking the effort to maintain as much uptime for its services as possible in the future?
Thank you. I supposed you just create this new account to share the story. But thank you, now I know I should do body check. I am only 22 and I already feel unsafe.
There's no major scandal because it is expected, it is practiced with regularity, and it is not punished when it happens.

Some friends of mine were setup by Austin Police Department undercover officers...the protest they intended to participate in would have led to misdemeanor charges. The undercover officers encouraged use of, and provided, dragon sleeves (a type of lockbox to make it harder to separate protestors who are in a sit-in or lockdown of some sort), which led to felony charges for seven of the protestors.

It was entirely a lucky break that one of the undercover officers was outed (a friend of a friend recognized him from school and knew he was a cop), and with that information the lawyer was able to request all the records that showed how things went down. Had that lucky break not happened, those kids would still be in jail today and saddled with felonies.

The prosecuting attorney tried to make the case that his Houston officers didn't know about it, and that it wasn't relevant to the case and that evidence shouldn't be brought up. The judge, thankfully, disagreed.

In my experience, cops lie, prosecuting attorneys lie, and when they lie they face no consequences.

The officers overseeing this case, and the district attorney prosecuting this, should be out of a job or, better, in jail for trying to destroy a man's life. But, to them it's just another day. They got caught this time, but dozens of others weren't lucky enough to have surveillance footage proving their innocence.

I don't have a very high opinion of police or the justice system, as you may have guessed by now. But, I think it's important to stop living under the illusion that this is an isolated incident and that "most cops are good people".
This is totally wrong. Yes SF has a ridiculous cost of living, but it still has an amazing ratio of single women to straight guys. Unlike the Peninsula, you do not need to be rich to meet and date attractive women in the City.

If you are an employed (white?) guy who can't get a date in SF (not to be confused with Palo Alto), you need to get out more, or just get on okC. There's a whole lot more to the City than yuppie bars in SOMA or the Marina.
I have used the DNS servers of the Swiss Privacy Foundation for some time. The IP addresses are not easy to remember but it is great to have uncensored DNS from a Swiss non-profit organization:

77.109.138.45 (Ports: 53, 110; DNSSEC), 77.109.139.29	(Ports: 53, 110; DNSSEC) and 87.118.85.241	(Ports: 53, 110; DNSSEC).

https://www.privacyfoundation.ch/de/service/server.html

(The Swiss Privacy Foundation operates Tor exit nodes too.)
For Christ's sake, is there no safe haven in this world for the unapologetic atheist? I thought that Hacker News might be the one safe zone where Jesus brainwashing is not regurgitated to the masses, but I guess not. News flash for everyone, death is inevitable, and people do not rise from the grave, whether they harbor sympathy for humans or not. Life's meaning, if there is one, is at this stage incomprehensible to human beings. If there is life beyond the grave, it definitely isn't life, and it definitely isn't what you think it is. How many more years must humanity be shackled to superstition and death fear before we fucking get over it and move on to the important work of getting off of this planet? For fucks sake...
You're technically right - the correct calculation is in section 11 of Satoshi's original paper [1], though the probability of success still reduces exponentially with the number of confirmations in the same way that dragontamer's calculation does.

[1] http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
How to Separate Your Spirit from Your Physical Body
I beg to differ! As the NSA-debacle shows, it takes my right away to a) ensure there's no backdoor, b) the software i get does exactly what was promised and c) in a way and quality as advertised.

Furthermore take a look at the "USL v. BSDi" lawsuit, where BSD was sued by AT&T for infringing copyright-laws against their own(BSD) source-code, which was incorporated into USL(AT&T's) UNIX-variants!

"Freedom" comes with responsibility, if you want carefree "arbitrariness", then say so, but please don't mix them together, they are fundamentally different!
Can't really blame them since they have been telling the public not to use their service forever.

Still, I am guilty of using them too.

Not really thrilled with the idea of using Google DNS.
مباراة المغرب ونيجيريا اليوم السبت 25/1/2014
It's hijacking. Try and talk your way around it all you like, but call it what it is.
Industrial Heat’s Acquisition of E-Cat is Major Endorsement of Rossi
I went to Washington University in St. Louis, and I was overall impressed with the beauty of the city (especially forest park) and the sense of community. The kids at the school were wicked smart (ranked 7th in the nation in terms of average SAT scores--higher than Stanford).

The city is super segregated. When you cross Delmar, the population shifts from very wealthy and white to poor and black.
Six Degrees of Seperation
Many countries have age restrictions for accessing items - alcohol, pornography, tobacco, right to vote, ability to consent to sex.

Do you agree that those restrictions aim to serve a useful purpose? (We can ignore flaws in implementation here because we're just talking about the principle of restriction). You might agree or disagree on some of the restrictions but do you even agree with the general practice of restricting some things from children?
the bug was probably neatly tucked inside a conditional that was time and/or state related

if state=="x": break_google
else: fix_google
Linux Journal is down
The thing about human contact for me is that I can do with very little of it, that it takes this magnitude of isolation for me to even identify with the idea that people might actually want to socialise with other people is emblematic of that.

Every two or three months I attend a local meetup, or try to arrange contact with some of my old friends that travel frequently enough that our paths nearly overlap, that's basically enough for me I think. Perhaps that will change in the future but for now it's certainly the case.
That's right Jesus freaks, downvote me to HELL!
I'm actually dumbfounded that this happened to this student if it as she described. I went to an Ivy years ago and I and many other students took medical leave. There was no need to reapply or jump through hoops, you just had to tell them you were better. Has something changed? Can they kick you out for other illnesses?
Can People Form Relationships with Software?
There are at least three different purveyors of fancypants grilled cheese in the city. One has multiple locations.
Oh, they are enlightened! They know they can learn Lisp in Heaven. :)

As for Python...
The prosecutor at least gets reputation for convictions. The informant might get some pocket money in the process. Both might get additional "motivation" from corporations running privatized prisons ...