skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think an often overlooked issue is the type of social media button used on a site. All too frequently, you'll see every single media button at the end of a blog post or article, with no consideration as to whether it's appropriate or not.

For example, take a technical blog post about something to do with computers. Facebook-wise, why on earth would most people share this? It's technical, and only a few of my friends out of about 150 (the average is ~130 I'm told) are actually techies. The kind of post that goes on FB is mostly personal or funny, never work.

Whereas Twitter, I might have followers who have 10,000+ followers of their own, ready for retweeting. This is more like a public broadcast, therefore I will be reaching the demographic I want, regardless of whether I know these people or not. It's an entirely different marketing strategy and yet you'll almost always see the whole cluster of buttons, without any consideration to their appropriateness.
> not in the naive way often encountered in the Bay Area these days.

Really? Because reading this, he comes across as the epitome of naivete. Are people really this clueless about how to interact with cops?

FTR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
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It can't be strawmen if they're direct quotes. I pulled quotes out that were contradictory to their actually stated philosophy. The whole statement is riddled with them.

In fact, your claim of strawmen is actually a straw man argument (and also so funny).
Downvoted for encouraging tax fraud.
they assume the caller ins't qualified to make the right determination. Not only is the US a police state, but also a Nanny state.
How're you going to top that next year? At this rate, in a decade you'll have to build a Taj Mahal.

Keep expectations low, stick to ye olde chocolates and roses.
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As Portuguese I congratulate SO. Now I just hope it means all Portuguese variants (Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe) and not just Brazil.
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I think it's more that the economics of RHT are skewed compared with the marketshare that they've got.

That is, Red Hat has basically won the enterprise datacenter Linux war. It's Red Hat Linux and Windows, at the cost of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, SLES, and others.

And despite that crushing success, and having no worlds left to conquer in the OS space, their market cap is only $11b. Salesforce.com has a 12% market share, and they have a $38b market cap.

EDIT: just cleaned up "Linux" vs. "Red Hat Linux"
They were just asking for it. If you work with bitcoins in such quantities, you will have an attack surface so appealing that every single hacker on earth will be targeting you. You better treat security seriously.
wow

such anatylics

seo cool
Its almost as though the citizens can remove that power if its abused...

Is your point that because citizens gave police power at some point that they can't possibly object to them abusing it...?
He said he had 3 beers over 3 hours. Assuming he is of average build for someone working "in an early stage start up" then I would think he wasn't wasted at all.

Given that he called 911, he definitely had some connection to the situation.
That should be 4474.26636916 . . . who is doing BTC calculations with floats?
Please offer alternatives and examples of "awesome" front-end programming.

Also, the author fails to take into account the evolution of the web browser. In my day we didn't even have CSS. Just HTML.
It does, but it's not very useful, as you cannot have a VIP span multiple AZs and typically a spontaneous instance failure is correlated with an AZ problem. ENIs (and IPs) are tied to a subnet, which is tied to an AZ. Even the example only utilizes a single availability zone. While there may be a tiny bit of additional redundancy added by doing this, you still need a way to fail over to another availability zone.
Thousands hit in Tesco.com attack
No, there is no requirement for both sides to meet. Police serve the citizens. That's how public service goes.

Their job is hard. They deal with assholes the likes of which most of us never see, they get shot at and kicked and punched and spat at and sworn at, and still their job is to protect and serve the public without fail. No shortcuts.
Self-healing Cassandra now runs on top of Mesos
Mesosphere released Cassandra on top of Mesos. This means you'll have a common infrastructure to run your data processing, stateless applications and data storage.
Just give yourself an assignment and start with it.. It's easy to read arround and don't do anything :)

Use PHP because your friends know it.
Write me a simple CRUD application for a daily todo list (etc. for groceries), use bootstrap and CodeIgniter, no authentication required ..

Ready, set... Go ;-)
>> Both intent and context come into it heavily.

>Absolutely false.

seriously? I thought most laws literally have "intent" as a requirement written into them.

With the OP's service dedicated to explicitly revealing unintentionally insecure rsync servers, I can only imagine the plethora of horrid cyber security laws he would be vulnerable to.
>Perception matters more than reality sometimes.

Hence, the irrationality comment. Somebody who has one pleasant experience with a cop has had a good day. Somebody who has had one friend murdered by a cop probably never trusts any police again.
You can find shitty police behavior everywhere, including the EU, Germany and Canada. The probability is just different.
I would say that is not a joke but rational reaction to police state. Why 12 police man has to come to bike accident?
> Say you spend a night in jail for an errant arrest, you get an immediate $2k for time lost and distress incurred.

There are a lot of people who would instigate an officer for that kind of money.

Besides, having served on a Jury, I know what they think my time is worth. Getting a check for $200 (a more realistic number) would be an insult after getting stuck overnight in a jail cell.

> But instead, they do everything they can to stick with and make-proper the mistake, and pettily punish those who don't just submit and take it

This could be said about the first group, but he even admits that his own actions are what got him put into solitary confinement. If he hadn't made a ruckus they wouldn't have put him there. Note that they did overstep by doing that, but not massively.
Three parties: you, good cops, leprechauns.

Of the three, with whom have I ever had a conversation? (Hint: this is a singular answer!)
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These guys didn't design Linux; it would work better if they had. They created Unix.

Also, know how you do init in Plan 9? You add commands to an init file, and they run when the machine boots. If a service goes down for some reason, you GO RESTART IT YOURSELF.
Really, cash is no different. I remember when I was living in London it was really hard to pay for things with 50 pound notes because they had been subject to a lot of counterfieting.
I think instead of building startups, some of us should start super PACs instead.
It looks like this is using APIs not ARP to move the IP address; am I wrong?
nice try officer
I might just be wrong. I'm interpreting their statement to mean that, but some people have pointed out that they've said other, possibly conflicting things.

>This means that an individual could request bitcoins from an exchange or wallet service, alter the resulting transaction's hash before inclusion in the blockchain, then contact the issuing service while claiming the transaction did not proceed. If the alteration fails, the user can simply send the bitcoins back and try again until successful.

https://www.mtgox.com/press_release_20140210.html
I run file vault on my mac, this gives me the peace of mind that if my macbook is stolen or lost I don't have to worry about the sensitive data (generally work related) on it.

My personal files such as photos etc are usually on unencrypted usb drives or cloud storage.
Swoosh! Right over your head. This is just so hilarious I can't stand it. Nothing is better than watching a true believer grasp clumsily at his beliefs as they slip from his grasp like a slimy eel.
> But what does it look inside private corporations?

Except for the big international corporations, most of the stuff tends to be written on the country's language.
Yes, but I don't understand your point...

Did you watch the rally to restore sanity?
Did you watch Jon Stewart's appearance on the original Crossfire?

It's not one side or the other that's the problem, or even that all politicians are the problem. It's that we as a people cannot stop blaming each other long enough to get anything done. We need less snark, less blame, and more people working to build bridges. Dwelling on the partisanship doesn't change things.
I think the idea of starting with portuguese is because of the large brazilian community that struggles with english. In portugal most programmers speak english fluently. I, for one, will continue to use english.
I’ve included transaction logs at the bottom of this message. Review the vendor’s dishonest actions and use whatever means you deem necessary to bring this person to justice. More details will emerge as we continue to investigate.

This seems like absolving themselves of responsibility. Was that in the spirit of how this was set up? I understand that this is different than a bank, both in spirit and law. But is there really nobody who would go after Silk Road 2 to get the money back?
I think that's exactly wrong, given the number of people who don't feel compelled to say, follow the rules about when to cross the road, but don't commit theft or murder.

It shows that large classes of people are willing to follow rules that they think are ethical, while ignoring others they regard as immoral or amoral.
Apple should rename their appeals process to cutsey human words like they do "logic board","retina" etc.

The Apple Peal process.
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Games, Noir and the 17%
The saying "Everyone should learn how to write" is the same sort of thing. It would be great if more people were able to write well, but the reality is one must put in some effort to be effective at any skill.

Should everyone learn how to code? It would be nice/cool if everyone did, but it is probably not plausible.
yardie isn't saying the author was black. They're saying that this is the typical experience of black people's interactions with police in the united states. Whereas the author is surprised at being treated this way, many people learn to expect it.
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Her wanting to stay on the scene to look after her friend and the cyclist was enough 'disrespect' to trigger the cop into violent mode. In the same way, her asking for a doctor was the trigger for the jailer to strip her and put her in solitary. If you haven't been in the system, then you don't understand how brutal, arbitrary, and nightmarish it is. Good heavens, almost the exact same thing happened to me, and I live in a sleepy, peaceful little town. It's startling to think that this kind of treatment is only a phone call away, for everyone.
Or you could have had an ecard delivered by hotmail.
Extensions don't break standard compliance so I didn't bring them up. Note that both C++ and GNU C have similar extensions but under different semantics which don't make them any less ANSI compliant.

BTW, be careful around those documents. The assembler, compiler, parser and linker have seen over two decades worth of work since those were put ink to paper. Though admittedly I haven't read through the lib9 source tree in years...
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No one said the thing you're claiming people say...

When the entire basis of your point is a clear strawman, and your argument is literally "cops aren't bad, because there are a non-zero number of good cops, is, as the above poster said, vapid and lacking in rational thought. The idea that you need to make up an opponent to make up an argument and call it "blisteringly stupid" to make your point, seems pretty silly.
There are other RedHats already, SUSE and Canonical among them. So the article is flawed halfway through the title.
I notice this quite a bit amongst my libertarian acquaintances. They tend to believe in a world built on complete freedom to exercise self-interest provided their self-interests are to be held up no matter the cost or damage to others and society. Once they get burned or outwitted by others serving their own interests, they cry injustice in the world as if it never existed before.
The reference client certainly doesn't do this on spends. Why would gox have implemented it in this way? It doesn't make any sense at all.

I've been researching the details of this disaster. Here's what I've gathered. This info came from Greg Maxwell, a bitcoin core developer. He got his information from the owner of MtGox himself:

Gox implemented custom wallet software to deal with massive transaction volume. The reference client wouldn't cut it for their purposes. For what it's worth, Greg agrees with the decision to write custom software for high-volume exchanges. It seems pretty likely that other exchanges have also implemented custom bitcoin software stacks.

In the scenario where Gox detected that a transaction failed, they automatically reissued the transaction. But that was based on the faulty assumption that the transaction hash couldn't ever mutate. This flaw was exploited to siphon bitcoin out of Gox.

This doesn't matter very much for Gox because, conservatively, they've made at least 120k BTC in profits from trade fees. More likely in the range of 400k. So they'll be able to cover the losses.

But this means it's entirely possible that other exchanges and web services with custom software stacks were hit hard by the malleability event, just like Gox was. It depends whether they were automatically reissuing transactions. If so, then they probably lost money.
Having dealt passingly with a large number of marijuana dealers, I disagree strongly with your assessment.

Do you have any statistics to back this up, or just the naive reasoning "Well, it's a /serious/ crime, so they'd probably commit others, because only bad people commit /serious/ crimes"?
I think you have a deep misunderstanding of libertarianism (which is your right of course). Libertarians don't necessarily not believe in laws, they simply don't believe in a monopoly of laws and law enforcers. This is kind of the whole point. Its clear that in your world view "justice" is somehow inexorably tied to government, but there others that disagree (which leads to your confusion in thinking that because someone asks for justice he is necessarily asking for government).

To illustrate this a bit better, perhaps using an example that you probably agree with Libertarians on: just because libertarians believe drugs should not be illegal, does not necessarily mean they believe drug use shouldn't be discouraged or treated. It is not hypocritical to fight for drug decriminalization but then seek rehabilitation programs for your drug addicted friends. That is in no way acquiescing to the need for drug control -- it is using a different tactic to fight a problem both sides may very well agree exists.

Similarly, it is not hypocritical to want the government to stay out of currencies, but still want a method of punishing thieves. You may believe other methods don't work (just like there are a lot of red voters who think its naive to think not putting drug users in jails works), but that doesn't make the other position inconsistent.
C# allows generating and re-writing code at runtime. Couple that with reflection, bypassing private/protected modifiers etc. Does that make it dynamic? Genuinly interested, what defines a dynamic language?
You jest, but that's actually the reason.
You didn't get a receipt did you? Any time cops take anything get a receipt...
The world where litigation versus police fails 99%+ of the time...?
Yeah, just like anyone is free to keep their sheep off the commons. It's still going to get grazed flat.
> Unlike virtually every other function in a software company, engineers — particularly the good ones — don’t want to move up. This means that the people who want the engineering manager role are unlikely to be very good at it; and those who could be good at it don’t want anything to do with it at all.

This is an awesome article and resonates with me.
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I have. I'll admit this is rare, but one time I paid the city to put up some no parking signs the day I was moving so that the moving truck would be guaranteed to have a place to park. (This is apparently normal in Los Angeles.) When the morning came and one of the spots in front of my building had a car in front of it, I called the police to have it towed. Since the moving truck hadn't arrived, the cop actually went to my neighbor's buildings and checked to see if the owner was home. (He didn't know who it belonged to, so he checked a few different buildings.) He was going to let them move their car instead of having it towed. But as luck would have it, he couldn't find the owner, so he had it towed. I can't believe he went to the trouble, and had it been my car, I would have really appreciated it.
I, uh, don't know about that, but I will say that thought and intent are not the same.

Thinking about murdering someone and not taking any action to that effect, then actually killing that person; VS taking action to do it, strike me as different.

It's possible that they are legally the same, but I doubt the court can do much to prove thought without a confession.

IANAL
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Can we say that they were inviting themselves to be hacked? Really, the only way to not have all their cash stolen would be for the NSA to hack them first and close up all the security holes.
It's kind of unfair to paint all the police as the same -- it varies both by officer (hard to predict) and by department (easy to predict). I try to deal strictly with California Highway Patrol and various Peninsula PDs.

BART PD, SFPD (and SFFD), EPA PD are pretty horrible. I'd go out of my way to avoid contact with them, be wary, and use protection (a lawyer).

OPD is bad too, but by virtue of being a rich white guy I'm not really at much risk from them (except through inaction). Oakland Fire is surprisingly good.

I've called 911 for road obstructions, traffic accidents and the like hundreds of times. I've stopped for some fairly serious accidents before anyone else got there, called 911 and gave an accurate and detailed report , set up flares and blocked with my car (when victims were ejected from the car), first aid, etc.

Never once have I had a problem. In the cases where someone was seriously injured and I had better medical training than the CHP who arrived, I waited until the paramedics and ambulance got there and talked to the paramedics before leaving.

Taking this story at face value, these SFPD officers need to no longer be police officers.
While I was a student living in a "gentrifying" part of the city, I once went outside to discover my car was full of bullets. Several in the hood, several through the windows, one in the rear tire and most disconcertingly one in the driver side headrest.

When I called the police and the investigator came, I could tell I was instantly suspect #1. He began grilling me lengthily about my whereabouts the night before and who I lived with.

An officer in blue joined as well and they were basically threatening to confiscate my car until I started talking about getting a lawyer.

Of course this situation is nowhere near the authors in terms of harm or even potential harm, but it definitely showed me that ANY interaction with the police has the potential to go VERY badly for you no matter what.
It doesn't like a moral argument that's being made, rather a probability. Yes someone can be motivated by libertarian values and enable crime. But what's the likelihood that it's a crook looking for a way to steal?

I don't have a great opinion on this argument, just clarifying it.
Can I ask a question that would help me narrow it down?

Are you mentally-ill?
> It is perfectly possible [to secure a bitcoin one owns].

You're forgetting about social engineering.
Links or it didn't happen! I mean hell, if every guy weirdly named Paul or Ron or Rand seems to have read Atlas Shrugged and calls him self a Libertarian, then I gotta go with combining the two.
Yes, there's never limits on cash withdrawl in the glorious banking system.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25861717
For those curious, this is the law which allows you to sue the police: 42 U.S.C. § 1983

"Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia."

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement_Act_of_1871_(third_...
>No one is denying that good cops do exist.

If you'll look closely through this comment section, several people have suggested that good cops don't exist. I'm speaking to them.

I do not deny that calling police can be a big gamble.
"They don't give a shit about your elbow nor should they. Everyone who gets put in cuffs complains about some current or former injury."

Of course they should give some shit about person arrested, especially if that person is not danger for them in any way. I would expect cops to use only necessary force.

And if everyone complains about current or former injury, then those handcuffs are either too tight or cops to brutal. Especially if those handcuffed people, again, represent zero threat.
I have plenty of problems with the way police departments are ran in this country, but I think he was probably a bit drunker than he mentioned in the story.
Are rsync passwords normally plaintext is not over ssh?
I still don't understand why Soylent matters. There are already meal replacement shakes on the market. Just walk into a Vitamin Shoppe.
Yes this is completely true.

I meant particularly the return-to-libc type of attacks that the canary (to some extent) protects against, when I claimed immunity (and improved performance).

We have some stuff to talk about on the protecting authentication flags and things front too, but I'm afraid that'll have to wait for the Security talk.

One other security-related aspect that we have already presented is how stack debris is not readable once returned, so malicious code can't go looking at it.

We've also talked a little bit about how we don't have rings, and we have very cheap syscalls across protection boundaries. So there are some hints of stuff to come.
From the FAQ:
"The initial matchmaker meeting costs $25 (and is free for everyone initially while we launch in SF) and dates cost $20. It's a real steal. "

Oh it's a steal alright...
Gotcha - thanks for the correction. Checked my sources and it was W^X they implemented at the same time as ProPolice and indeed it was IBM who built that.
You can do it with cloud VM's , but the problem is the startup time for a windows VM. The best i know of is ~400 seconds[1].

On the other hand, desktone(acquired by VMware) claims it can boot in 60 seconds[2], which might work for this use case.

[1]http://www.slideshare.net/mingtemp/a-performance-study-on-th...
[2]https://twitter.com/Desktone/status/312990615229050880