skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have amnesia / sleeping difficulty (being awake for ~20 hours, then sleep for 10), which means my waking cycles roll around. UK-based sales people, on the other hand, tend to do their cold calls at 10am sharp.

Long story short: when they call me, I'm generally in REM sleep, and have been for a mere 2 hours. After their interruption, I will not be able to sleep back, but will spend the next 10 hours in zombie mode.

I have found a fantastic new way to use this zombie time: looking up legal, and law services, small courts, corporate databases about their company, facebook of their personal, and any and all leveraged counter-offense methods, that will make these companies, and individuals within not exist ever, ever again.

Please for the love of all that is holy, respect TPS's do-not-call lists.

[1] See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6163051 for more
"Download QuickTime to view this video". No thanks.
Way to respond with a comment that is contextual with what I said.

You really didn't conflate my detailing mass murder with support for other murderers at all there. If you did one could say it would be highly detrimental to discussion. Good thing you didn't though.

edit: I do love me tried and true tactics like what inanov and throwaway display. Anything said against a subject they feel strongly about is means to deny what is said then distort who is speaking. At the very least a lot of accusations and insinuations not relating to the original subject being discussed will be brought up adding noise to the signal. For a very topical example here is the regime's Syrian State TV split screening opposition talking at Geneva2 with stock footage of bombing carnage[0].

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BekwsuACIAA2gQr.jpg:large
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A kensington lock means you can walk over to the cake counter and take your time selecting a cake, leaving your computer back at the table, locked to the table leg or whatever. That's what I found anyway when travelling... it just removes the quick swipe opportunity and gives you peace of mind.
The only way to "revoke/cancel" (repeal) an amendment is to issue a new amendment repealing a previous amendment, which is precisely what the 21st Amendment does.

Think of it like git version history: even a revert is actually a new commit.
Oh god the surgeon with the scalpel in one hand and the ipad in the other. Time for glass methinks.
My main experience is with Puppet, though I have migrated legacy systems from CFEngine as well. My main gripes with Puppet are that, at times, the DSL is restrictive and you have to either rely on ugly Execs or dropdown into Ruby extensions. I can see how this can be off putting to beginners.

The advantages though once we've gotten comfortable have made our infrastructure smarter and more resilient.

- Idempotency (If you're careful)

- Abstracting configuration data vs methods. Passwords/Keys/Addresses are kept in a Hiera config file and the manifests merely access these variables instead of hardcoding when applying changes.

- PuppetDB as a canonical reference of the state of all our infrastructure. What are all my servers running MySQL? Which version? Where are all my Ceph MDSs?

- Exported resources (also relying on PuppetDB), enabling propagation of information about new nodes to all others. A godsend when paired with Nagios.

Does Salt have anything that matches these use cases?
Linux: I think because it's less of a 'concrete' thing (e.g. so many distros, very steady 'word of mouth' growth rather than a big launch)

Windows: People just don't have the same affection for Windows: it tends to be something that's used, grudgingly, often for work, rather than something that people are genuinely pleased by. I'm sure people will disagree, of course, that's just a big generalisation. Also, since Windows is available on a whole range of hardware, it suffers (in this specific regard) from the same fragmentation as Linux: there's isn't so much one single thing to get attached to.
Microsoft isn't responsible for terrible OEMs.
> An open source (so the crypto can actually be vetted) version of BTSync[1] would be great for this.

I'm most of the way through the non-Bitcoin / "Disk Space Marketplace" portion of a project that would work really well for this[1].

While the premise is that you would be able to rent disk space from anyone who wanted to provide it (using Bitcoin/Stripe/PayPal/Whatever), that part is going to be decoupled from the actual encrypt + distribute portion which could be pretty easily used by a group of friends to have reciprocal backups of important data.

I'm still a couple weekends away from it being usable though.

[1] https://github.com/ConceptPending/fincrypt
At that level it's a game and money is the score.
nope... you can settle in any schengen country if you come from a schengen country too !
If Apple would still build Macs with soul (i.e. anything before 2002) it wouldn't need a campaign to tell how great they are.
Unfortunately there's Supreme Court precedent that growing wheat in your own backyard for your own use is "interstate commerce". Why? Because by growing your own wheat, you're not buying somebody else's wheat, and that affects interstate commerce. boggle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
What's the average cost per year of employing an average Office worker? $50.000?

What's the cost per year of buying a copy of Office? (I'm still on Office 2007 and it's 2014...)

People whose time is worth so little that they can't afford to update Office can spend time on workarounds instead.
The only good reason to burn karma is for the lulz.
(i upvoted).
Wow... This scared the crap out of me. I started thinking about what files acutally are available in non encrypted state on my harddrive and phone.. Like the author I have digital copies of all my ID, tax reports, payslips and the list goes on. All of the passwords I have are different so I use a password vault, but that is usually turned on (JUST CHANGED THAT)

Also, the my dropbox on my job is leaking personal documents like crazy.. I better step up my game..
Forty Years of Unix!

I love writing in C and compiling on OS X, Linux and FreeBSD with the same Makefile!
Example root: liber-

Fr: liberté, libertés, libérer...

Sp: libertad, libertades, liberar...

Pt: liberdade, liberdades, liberar...

For a 2-3 word completion choice it's useless.
This is true for creative industries (which the video is all about). Most design studios, musicians, 3D artists, etc, use Macs.
The probability to get 9999 heads and 1 tail is so small that you have more chance of finding an unicorn in a forest. I'd toss that coin :-P
Actually 45 years...
Weird. It's the first time I see an Apple use an actual webfont instead of pictures—and it won't load for me.
Pretty sure the musician is Moby.
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> These students did absolutely nothing wrong.

> The paper would get rejected, or heavily revised, and the world would keep spinning.

Which means they did something wrong. Sure it might have been just a mistake, not quite the cardinal sin the GP makes it out to be, but you don't have to publish papers with flawed arguments on ArXiv.

It's one thing to write up a silly LaTeX PDF with wild speculations, put it on your webpage, but you don't need to submit every brainfart to ArXiv either, or do you?
First production unix system: 1972. I counted from that.
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For a long time, it was impossible to reach Syrian Government news agency SANA's website, as it was banned without any notice or court order.

That was when the war started, and only news Turkish people got were Turkish Government's and international war lobyyists' lies through Anadolu Agency's black propaganda.

Turkey still keeps supporting the war in Syria by sending ammunition, weapons and other stuff to rebels. Our border gates are wide open for the rebels. Some of them live in Turkey's border cities such as Hatay.

For the last few weeks there has been at least eight trucks which were intercepted. They all were later protected by turkish national intelligence agency, governors, the ministers and prime minister himself, claiming what the trucks carried were governmental secret and nobodies' business. Of course the trucks moved and people had to mind their own business.

There has been a lot of misinformation incidents in Turkey, through government's hand, and a lot of inhuman incidents by those criminal-rebel looters that we witness. Then I still sometimes get surprised when people tell about the Free Syrian Army is defending Syria against an anti-democratic regime. I don't believe that those are for democracy, and everyone knows that those lies will be revealed one day.
Who are the world's richest 85?
Times have a five article cutoff, isn't that right? You're paying for consuming a relatively large amount of news on a weekly basis after hitting that limit.

It's not like this is an essential piece of information you cannot Google to find elsewhere.
Wozniak on Jobs :

*...told Jobs the good things these machines could
do for humanity, not the reverse. I begged Steve
that we donate the first Apple I to a woman who
took computers into elementary schools but he made
my buy it and donate it myself.*

http://i.imgur.com/a1I9DTs.jpg

https://plus.google.com/+CarmsPerez/posts/GnVTvQNgvpf
The operation of these sites in Eastern Europe can be equated to willfull throwing away of goodwill towards the US.

I mean secret prisons? In former satelites of the Soviet Union? How could anybody assume that this would not result in a scandal in those countries sooner or later?

I'm not even sure that the Polish politicians are much to blame, since, at the time, they were (blindly?) grasping at anything they could do to move away from Russia towards "The West"/US/NATO.

What is unexpected, though, is that the illegal rendition scandal erupted all over Europe when it did. There are now actually a bunch of CIA operatives who will be arrested, should they ever set foot on EU ground again.
If this was any other company like Microsoft, Every one will enjoy.
Given that there were only two Democratic appointees on the Supreme Court at the time of this case, and four Republican appointees voted in the majority - including Scalia, this his hardly the work of "Democratic justices."

Majority:
Stevens - Republican (Ford)
Souter - Republican (Bush)
Ginsberg - Democrat (Clinton)
Breyer - Democrat (Clinton)
Kennedy - Republican (Reagan)
Scalia - Republican (Reagan)

And the dissenters:
O'Conner - Republican (Reagan)
Rehnquist - Republican (Nixon)
Thomas - Republican (Bush)
I still don't get it that you would like to write in an inferior language such as js on the server side. Cm'on its broken by design. There are a lot of better alternatives.

The only reason to use .js on the serverside is that you don't know better.
This is normal.

They are the poster boy for a corporation despite having screwed up incredibly so many times over the years, nearly fallen off a cliff and treating their customers like crap ("you're holding it wrong" for example) and still only maintaining a minority market share on the desktop and handset market. Also they have several system architectures and complete API rewrites over the years that mean their client-base rewriting the entire universe every time they move the goalposts.

For comparison:

MSDOS is 32 years old. Stuff still runs from day one.

Windows is actually 28 years old. Stuff still compiles from day one (windows' original API isn't much different to today's windows). Stuff still runs from circa 1995 on current machines.

Unix is 45 years old. Stuff still compiles and runs from circa 1974.
People did celebrate the 20 years of Linux, back in 2011: http://content.linuxfoundation.org/20th/

The thing is, Linux doesn't have the PR machine that Apple does, nor the number of fans among journalists, nor the recognition by the public.
> They are now moving up-market to software and services, and letting Lenovo, a down(er)-market player take this business away from them.

This suits IBM fine, and they have been doing this for the past decade. They would prefer to focus on solving high-margin business intelligence and integration problems for customers. Any h/w business they retain is the more specialist stuff in support of that.

IBM's big interests in the future are smart data analytics and the IoT. Expect to see everything they do geared towards that.

NB: I'm an IBMer but all opinions are mine.
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Based on Startup America idea, the Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) is an online platform where young startups will get access to resources, connections and expertise. SEP will also provide support to the development and networking of web entrepreneurs within regions/hubs across Europe with special focus on the Member States with higher unemployment youth rates. The focus is on web entrepreneurs because any unemployed youngster with a laptop can become a web entrepreneur, grow and create jobs provided that they receive the adequate support in terms of expertise, services, talent, customers and capital.
Indeed they're. Looks like comments on your blog don't work. And there's no RSS feed :(
Fair point although it was 1971 running a nroff typesetter at Bell Labs.

First external to Bell Labs deployment was in 1972 though.
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Ok, I'm not sure if I still can do this. Let's try:

In Soviet Russia, Slashdot retires you?
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If they weren't being satirical, this response would be a logical error, this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque (The logical error is that it could very well be true that Princeton is declining, and proving this would not affect the results of the Princeton study that Facebook is declining.)

However, the fact that they did so satirically sounds like when a politician says, "that's preposterous" instead of "that's false."

In addition, the data they use is pretty weak. The first chart shows that Princeton "crashed" or died between 2010 and 2011, since that's when that graph tanked. Since that data isn't good to make their Tu Quoque argument (that Princeton "will die") they are being satirical and ignore it. The second graph shows that more and more Non-Princeton articles are published. But this is due to more and more non-Princeton publications. Princeton has a fairly static amount of output, as the world's universities started outputing scholarly articles in English, you would expect Princeton's share to drop.

More interesting would be if its share of what it is trying to go for, Nobel Prize Laureates, publication in Science and Nature, whatever - were on the decline. This isn't addressed, just a global proportion of all scholarly articles: not Princeton's aim.

However, Facebook's goal is to get a majority of daily active users.

The second to last graph actually shows a pretty good case that larger institutions (by enrolment) correlate with search relevancy. But that is not a case study of an institution whose enrolment fell, which is what it would take to make a parallel case with the Princeton paper. They would have to pick an institution whose enrollment fell with its relevancy, and then show that Princeton is on the same track.

As it stands, it is not "longitudinal" but just a static cross-section of enrollment and mentions. Perhaps enrolment is static at all major institutions, regardless of search relevancy, and their enrollment remains full even if they become irrelevant?

This small switcheroo is a major one, and shows why the article has to be satirical.

Of course they did respond quickly :) It seems to indicate that Facebook did some research, but then found their results too weak to publish straight.
I haven't seen a sleeve or cover that addresses this very fact.
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All they are trying to say is they don't want new customers.

Either you are inside their walled garden, or out (the better place for me).
We switched away from puppet towards Salt. The broad stroked opinion is that salt covers all of puppet 's use cases, with advantages in terms of both performance and extensibility.

It is idempotent; there is a central configuration db (a couple of options, actually; we use pillar, a YAML set of files for its simplicity). Exported resources are handled a bit differently (you pull data from servers at config time instead of pushing at export time) but cover the same functionality. The same functionality covers software configuration inventory.

Where it excels is in performance. Our deployment runs on puppet took some 15min, salt handles them in 30s.

I also like its codebase. It is clear and well documented, easy to extend. I am biased towards python instead of Ruby, so take my opinion with a grain of salt (heh:-)
Social skills are those we develop to be able to function in a world of different weltanschauung. They are skills developed specifically to avoid offending anyone. Social skills can be taught but a thick skin can only be developed through experience.
You have now:
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Passwords You Should Not Be Using in 2014.
No practical hashing algorithm, even Scrypt, would be able to securely hash a 4 digit PIN. If they don't have a hardware security module they may as well store it plain. The amount of cryptography fail in mobile apps is stunning... from Snapchats static encryption key to pointless obfuscation like this.

If you want to talk about weak passwords though, consider that millions of broadband customers in the UK are likely using cable modems/routers with the default Wifi password that came printed on the base... currently 8 random lowercase characters on Virgin Medias newest gear for example. WPA2-PSK handshakes only add 12 bits during key stretching, so that's only 2^50 hash iterations to compromise potentially millions of wifi networks.... which can be done in about ~2 minutes to a few hours with a bit of hardware investment.
Chrome + Windows can't handle the fonts on the website after the video ends
Work that I did yesterday should be worth the same, not less! Inflation is a silent tax on the poor.
No problem!

Here are the scans:

http://trinixy.ru/9306-jenciklopedija_professora_fortrana_25...
That isn't what PR means.
- Idempotency

Yes, the run will report on each salt state which can result in either: failed (with a reason), succeeded (with a description what changed), succeeded (nothing changed). Each salt state provided by the project is also intelligent about its use of resources - for example, if you have multiple pkg.installed, the list of available packages will be pulled only once and all states will be able to determine quickly if they need to run.

- Abstracting configuration data vs methods

Methods -> salt states; Configuration data -> grains/pillar. Grains are kind of attributes that belong to a host (like hostname, system version, installed packages, available ips, etc.), while pillar is a plugin system that can provide external data (it can be used like puppetdb too; I've got a plugin that pulls json files from s3 and talks makes it available as a simple hash for example). If you know chef, think attributes/databags (but better).

- PuppetDB as a canonical reference of the state of all our infrastructure.

It doesn't actually provide this out of the box, but provides the needed elements so this is trivial. Basically you can query all your nodes from the salt server (or nodes can query each other). You just need to extract the bits you need and save them to whatever destination you want. For example on the server run `salt -G 'roles:database' grains.item mem_total` and save the data. You can also define a "returner" which is a plugin that handles the data you get back and for example implement something that writes the data back into your information store/cmdb.

- Exported resources (also relying on PuppetDB), enabling propagation of information about new nodes to all others.

Pillar again. Although depending on what you want to achieve, you may want to enable some querying between the nodes, so that one of them can just broadcast some message at runtime and work on results.
Read the privacy policy first: http://info.trove.com/policies

One of the sad facts: "We do not honor Do Not Track requests."
I burst out laughing at "truly worldwide democratisation of creativity". Yes, that expensive personal computer, intentionally aimed for most of its career at media and education in western markets. That was a bad bit of copy.

And, more the fault of my mind than the copy, but "a tool for exploring new fields [that I otherwise couldn't]" - the same could be said of a machete. :)
I'm using Arq as well. Easy to setup, reliable through AWS S3 and encrypted on the client.
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Until exercise becomes an addiction.
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Art, art, art... Why can't they show programmers in an ad for once? Apple you can come film me at any time.
There's always a new frontier.

Today there are new people somewhere trying to do something that seems difficult, maybe impossible, and certainly rather pointless to the outsiders looking at it from the comfort of the establishment's balcony.

I'm pretty sure it's easier to look for those people today than it was in 1980, when you still needed to be physically in the right place.
Graphic designers, yes. But music and 3D is mostly Windows in my experience. Because how are you gonna fit a high end graphics card or audio interface into your mac? (and don't tell me about firewire please)
The new Mac pro is something beautiful and unique.
Why has an exclamation mark vomited all over their patent.
I could see this working for a company if the passenger was offered a voucher to the value of the taxi ride off goods/services that the company sells.

I'm not sure offering a free ride to a centrally located business would make financial sense.

Is it important to offer a free return journey?

Of note, in the UK, some out of town supermarkets offer a free bus service to them. However the key bit is that there is usually nothing else near them to make it worth taking the bus unless you actually want to go to that supermarket.
Is it possible to get the hash and salt off the device while the phone is still locked and not in developer mode? If not this doesnt seem too serious as a security risk.
I think what the parent means is that these companies are all for free markets only to turn to informal regulation amongst themselves, making them de facto hypocrites.
Certainly not true for graphics, 3D and video. Windows is the majority platform for apps like Photoshop, Maya, Premiere, Avid Media Composer...

(The illusion that all designers are on Mac is probably because HNers don't often meet the ordinary designers who have a boring corporate job or are struggling freelancers somewhere far away from San Francisco.)