skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...

The fact the he even got involved in the leaks makes me think that its all a lie.

He could have done it like the FBI leak of the 70s but I don't know why he didn't

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Investi...
> When my boss replies with "sounds good" I start looking for my next job.

What about this reply triggers this?
I didn't have any particularly prolific group in mind. I was thinking that ascribing birth rates to culture and morality might be premature, especially considering the low birth rates in other developed countries.
Thanks to my cable provider's wifi network, I can get fast connections at my laundromat. Great time to get things done, since you're spending most of the time waiting for clothes to finish washing.
Wikileaks and the Guardian are intentionally spacing out their leaks to keep it in the news as much as possible. Wikileaks has put a lot of thought into how to maximize exposure and impact, and the Guardian... is a newspaper :)
There's a reason that for quite a number of these warnings, Go has either designed the causes out of the language (no implicit casting, only manual conversions), or promoted them to compiler errors (unused variables and imports).
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That's crazy. Why isn't this a 5 minute fix that should be deployed "yesterday" already?!
It helps a lot though. One of many small incremental changes, or one big monster change, which do you think is likely to break a system? And which is going to be easiest to diagnose and fix?
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Don't early employees of startups get incentive stock options, which are not forbidden to be derivative-traded on?
Thanks for the shout-out! I'm on the https://www.scalyr.com team and am here if anyone has questions/feedback/suggestions. It grew out of our own frustration with the available tools, exactly as you express.
I stand corrected...lets chalk it up as an avg b/w the exchange (microsoft tax of 10/user/mo and 2/user/mo). :)

I'd love to share specific use cases that would funnel more demand your direction, but it appears that ship has sailed. Good thing you asked your users what would make that better though and they said kill it (said none of them ever).

I guess the only thing left to do is open source it and we will take it off of your hands.

Thanks!
This link is particularly humorous: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ZX_Spectrum&oldid=...

The comically large banner ad at the top is certainly a nice touch. Not at all out of place on wikipedia.
Yes, in Eastern Europe the "wealth gap" was very small during the communism. We all had money. Actually we all had plenty of money... too bad that it was only useful to wipe our ass with it.

On the other hand, some people had POWER. It didn't matter that they only had three times as much money as you and an apartment only twice as big as yours. They had to make only one phone call to get something they wanted while you, the simple wo/man had to stay in line from 4 a.m. in order to buy "luxury" products like milk.

... but "the wealth gap was smaller". So what?
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If you have clang available, the -fsanitize flag is also incredibly helpful for runtime analysis.
Don't forget ServerDensity :)
The name for this is conditional code obfuscation:

http://llvm.org/pubs/2008-02-ImpedingMalwareAnalysis.html
That's a pretty damn big exception, not sure how anyone can make that claim you made with a straight face when the "exception" is composed of 20% of the world population...
And now no one has such insane power and no one goes with out food or housing!
That is understandable and I am glad that people are taking notice of the situation.
To clarify a few things:
1. This was not an article from the Washington Post newspaper. It was from their online blog group. In many news outfits this is a signal that the output can be in a less formal tone/pass a different set of editorial hurdles.

2. A maxim in the American newspaper business has historically been to write to an 8th grade (12 and 13 year old) audience. They have historically felt that the American newspaper buying audience is ignorant.

3. Ukrainian politics does not receive very much coverage from the mainstream news organizations in the United States. For instance, cnn.com only has 1 story on their front page about the Ukraine and it is well below the fold. Foxnews.com has 1 story but it is headlined with highly sensational text.

So in short, yes I suspect a large part of the United States news paper reading public could use a refresher on the Ukraine protests.

Curiously, in your country how much coverage do you receive of the politics of Texas? How much about the Philippines?
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I'd say it's subconcious. You pose a task for them and they just wait, try to think about nice things and hope you and the task will go away.
What probably happens is this. The client gets your email, sees a list of things that you can do for them, thinks "great, finally I have someone that can help me take care of X" Their minds start thinking over the possibilities. "Well, if I got him started on X, we'd need Y, Z, and A." They'd mull over it for, I dunno, two minutes, until a phone call interrupts them. No further thought happens again until you get back in touch with them.

It's not that they didn't want to work with you, it's that they're busy, and if they had the knowledge they needed to turn the muddy requirements in their head into actionable steps, then they wouldn't need you. You need to sell them something.
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The issue I raised is not about this particular piece of code or about it being defective - it could have been perfect for what is worth.

The deeper issue is about code as it is communicated to the next developer.
For various reasons (most - me included) developers do not talk to the next developer but to the compiler. And some other guy comes later who doesn't know about copy_to/from_user shit because he is not exposed to the internals.

He might be competent programmer but he lacks exposure. He might also be able to see in a second the dereference but when he is reviewing the code, he keeps a stack of several levels of irrelevant contexts that blurred his view.

He could have avoided all that if only the code was being written with him in mind.
>I've only sees "only abstinence is 100% effective" mocked from a policy perspective. It is true that abstinence is 100% effective on a personal level, but teaching it is remarkably ineffective at a population level.

The phrase "only abstinence is 100% effective" is a slogan for teens, not a claim that only abstinence only sex education is 100% effective (which is clearly false).

>There is room to mock it on a personal level, by pointing out that we are willing to engage in far more dangerous activities without 100% guarantees on safety. 'Seatbelts fail, only not driving is 100% effective'.

It depends on how much a person wants to avoid having an abortion or unplanned pregnancy, and how much value they get out of sex.
Agreed, it looks super clunky. Even JS feels clunky for me at times for async stuff, compared to, say CoffeeScript. But I suppose it's possibly the case that async isn't used as much in Java, compared to its ubiquity in the browser.
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$('#something') and document.getElementById('something') are not quite the same thing because of what you'll do after you create that reference.
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Thank you for your comment. There is a lot of variation depending on the language. In Turkish, that tends to happen, a lot of times the translation needs to be redone, but in EN-SP it is surprisingly good. The crowd aspect of it tends to help with the quality problem. Still a lot of work to do though, but we are off to a promising start.
> ...but we just have ot make sure we don't try to apply the refutations in the context of other modes of reasoning.

Why not? I'm not sold that it is an error to disagree with another's (often unconscious) criteria for making a conclusion.
Ukraine is geo-politically an important region, and has long history of being a part of the chess-board of empire building in Europe. It's not a value judgemnet, it's just more things are in play and the outcomes are more consequential. Thailand is a unique place, and is historically more self-contained, so the politics of Thailand don't have the ripple-effects, in terms of security implications for the region. Thailand, for example, was never conquered by a European power. So it lacks the baggage of post-colonialism, and whilst has its own intriques, they are more unique to the country iMHO.

(You were probably asking a rhetorical question, but these are worth considering for those who are not aware of them.)
so #1 tip should really be: move to Canada
the biggest logical fallacy is not realizing that homo sapiens is evolved to NOT use logic in certain areas: tribal allegiances, bonding and politics. You can see this play out in the GOP/conservative vs Dem/liberal farces in various forums and on TV every day. Same thing goes for what passes for the term 'political correctness.'

Also, religion--logic does not come into play there.

Also, death and the afterlife--logic is precluded there as well.

Homo sapiens is evolved to use logic in certain limited areas only.
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For $44 a month you can get a dedicated Xeon E3 32GB server from OVH in Montreal. http://www.soyoustart.com/ca/en/offers.xml Hertzner in Europe is even cheaper.
Thailand notwithstanding, are any of these other protests building improvised forts in the streets of a major city or taking over government buildings around the country?

Edit: 001sky has the better, less flippant reason.
He was 23 at the time. I posted a lot of stupid crap online at 23 too. He posted this at the end of a lengthy screed complaining how racist Europe is.

context:

< User7>	we don't have ghettos in the UK
< TheTrueHOOHA>	sure you do
< TheTrueHOOHA>	i went to london just last yearit's
where all of your muslims live
I didn't want to get out of the car.
< User7>	no, that's Bradford
< TheTrueHOOHA>	I thought I had gotten off of plane in the wrong country
I don't know where it was, but it was by London City Airport and it was terrifying
< User8>	same thing in France
< User7>	TheTrueHOOHA: east London
yeah, a lot of ethnic groups have settled there
< TheTrueHOOHA>	I guess it's nice that they set up their own community, though
< User7>	TheTrueHOOHA: not many people here share your opinion
< TheTrueHOOHA>	they just seemed awfully... orthodox
< TheTrueHOOHA>	i mean it wasn't like, "hi, we're your friendly neighborhood muslim community. welcome to our main street."
< TheTrueHOOHA>	it was more like, "SUBMIT TO THE WILL OF ALLAH. SHARIAH REGULATIONS POSTED AT ALL CORNERS."

Not perfect, but not quite as bad as the original quote. He seems to have matured since then.
since the flightplan shows a certain number of lat/long style waypoints you can assume they did this. Entering arcs in the FMS is somewhat possible (by approximation, i.e. multiple FIX<radial>/<distance> points); but entering these digits that way would be unpracticle (albeit NOT impossible).
RankNTypes are pretty popular in libraries and break total inference. You don't need to enable the extension personally to suffer it either.
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Weighing conflicting evidence and expert opinions is a domain in which correct understanding of fallacies -- particularly those of argument to authority and ad hominem -- is critical. In fact, it is a domain I which it is critically important, because it is intimately tied to the vital distinction between expert opinion, on the one hand, and reference to evidence which happens to have been previously presented by an expert, on the other.

So, no, the distinction between the valid use of attack against credential to rebut expert opinion, and the fallacious, ad hominem, nature of such an attack when used to “rebut” evidence that happens to have been previously presented by an alleged expert is not, at all, irrelevant to internet debate.
He should have released it as a torrent. The whole damn thing.

There are too many motherfucking secrets.
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Mine was reason was to try to make the world a better place so that I could feel fulfilled when I died.

Now I'm looking for better alternatives.
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Wow. As a geek who enjoys thinking at a big picture level and have bigger and bigger world domination plans as I go on, I never realized until this post how much I use that line and how much it hurts my business relationships. I really appreciate the author taking the time to type this up, because I hadn't thought of it from that perspective.

On a side note, part of my problem is that I am a USMC combat vet, and I have worked very hard at toning down my bossy, demanding mannerisms since I got out, but it seems I may have taken it too far. Sometimes, people need other to take that initiative.
A lot of mobile providers have shitty transparent proxies on port 80 and ignore problems unless it affects a large customer base in a visible way. They often barf on any fuzzing of a protocol, such as using LF instead of CRLF in HTTP requests (which causes more than one provider to actually skip its authentication checks and allow any request)
"compat" gives you a hint that it's a wrapper for another ABI

Why is this obvious? I can extrapolate on sys, but what cues are in 'compat' that I don't see?
Do you have a source? Also, I would argue that concatenation with + is less readable than string formatting.
Memorising lists of words is counter-effective - I am opposed to flashcards, because meaning is always created by the context.

The methods presented by Steve Kaufman seem interesting to me http://www.youtube.com/user/lingosteve I used Lingq for some time and it was good value for money.

But there is really no easy/quick way. 3 years should be enough to learn any language if you're committed. There are bad ways, though. You have to get a decent exposure to the language, and learn every single day, the more the better.

Try to use the langueage you are trying to learn. Talk to yourself - who are you, where are you, what happened 2 days ago, what do you want to achieve, describe your job, your hobby, your famili. Read stuff that you are really interested in. Find someone who could offer you conversations. Describe your life and the world around you, like a little child.

Don't confuse good methods with hard work.
Of course you would have welcomed it. But you're missing the point: companies don't want you to sell their private shares, either. If nothing else, it's a logistical headache that they don't need.

This isn't a story of "big government" -- it's better for everyone (except perhaps you) if it's difficult for you to sell your private shares on a secondary market. The company maintains better control of share pricing and internal information, you have a (sometimes strong) incentive to stay an employee if you can't liquidate your shares on a moment's notice, and it helps to keep scammers out of the equities market.
sorry, what about policy brutality? kidnappings? tortures? murders? corruption? hiring of thugs? beating of journalists? Dmytro Bulatov was found with a part of his year cut off, cheek slashed and crucified by ukrainian police. The Cossak that was undressed? This isnt just an economic protest, dont reduce to such. Those tendencies finished a long time ago, it has now turned into something completely different.
Indeed. Their application metrics have been incredibly useful for us at Pathwright. It's nice always knowing what views are slow, which comprise the bulk of our CPU time. The SQL time breakdowns are handy to.

You can, of course, do all of these things on your own without New Relic, but a small team like us needs to be spending time on other things (like pushing the product forward).
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Your analogy suggests that "safer languages" are like crappier versions of C. I don't think that assertion is well supported.
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" And really, it's not that hard to learn how to use it correctly."

Patronizing and 100% wrong.

Or do you think there are only idiots developing C code?

How does things like OpenBSD get so secure? With a lot of code revisions by people that are good at catching problems. And even they have problems sometimes.

Your comparison with a knife is false, I can have multiple languages in my development machine without a big burden, as opposed to carry a lot of specialized cutting equipment.

So is Java/Python/Go a dull knife? Let's try something then, create a Web application in C as fast as it's doable with these languages and as safe as them.
I've got no issues with this. Of course they want people to upgrade themselves. They do provide a very nice guide to using swap which I followed myself.

They want to look the best they can and as fast as they can. If your server is heavily using swap people will think it's slow. Also SSDs do not like being written to again and again. This is exactly what using it for swap does so this could be another little reason against it being on by default.

To be fair, I've got a small Wordpress website with Apache, MySQL and PHP on a $5 droplet. After several weeks of working fine MySQL ran out of memory and stopped. Adding swap space has fixed this and the server can still handle 100 connections at once OK. This isn't amazing but it's enough for me for now. So I'd say, add a little swap but be sure you don't have to use it often. I'm totally happy with it being off by default. More RAM will give much better performance than more swap and $5 is incredibly cheap.
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And here: http://issuu.com/lisarost/docs/lisarost_dotview_singlepages/...

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Judging by the famous "shot in the balls" quote, Snowden has probably changed his outlook a little since then.

Or, of course, he could have been leaving this type of trail of online activity precisely because he knew it could be observed, and wanted to put himself in a particular light for anyone doing so, if he was already intending his exfiltration of data or some such act at that stage.

That's probably just wishful thinking on my part, though :) More likely scenario, quoting from the author of the material linked: "So Snowden was young once, and said anything that occurred to him? Imagine my shock!"
Are flash cards placed on actual objects any good? Putting the word for lamp on the lamp?
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The fallacy you're describing, and it's something that far too many startups do, falls under the banner of "cargo cult behaviour". It was first described by Richard Feynman, while talking about science, but the principle applies to people who merely mimic behaviour and expect the same outcome regardless of what they're doing.

"In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas--he's the controller--and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land." [1]

Believing you're building a billion dollar business because you're nationally doing the same things as someone who has built a billion dollar business before you is all too common.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
Is this a serious question?

Technology companies in that part of California date back as far as the 1930s.
I suggest using a common sales technique. End the email with a question instead of an open statement that requires no response. The question can be as simple as "Does this work for you?" By using a question your assuming / prompting a response. It may not always be the response you're looking for but at least you'll know one way or the other.

The OP's idea of proposing two solutions is good too, even if there is one real solution. You're allowing the client to make a decision, even if it's a forced one. It lets them feel in control. Give them two solutions and then ask something like "Which would you prefer?" You're almost guaranteed an answer.

When I get a new lead for a project I know nothing about (either incoming or outgoing) I usually do a very brief one or two sentence intro and end with "How can I help?" It's similar to "Let me know if I can help" but requires a response.
The only thing most Americans know about Ukraine is that it was former USSR. I actually tried talking about the protests to about 10 different people this past weekend, and none had even heard about them.
> However, it is also extremely inefficient at the purpose it was designed for: cutting things.

... So you're saying that C was designed for string handling?

> When wielded correctly it is still safe and efficient

You do realize that even the most skilled chefs have 'battle-scars', right? Your analogy falls on its face in this respect.
That sounds pretty good but how does she decide whats on her list?