skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By reading the top comments here it feels like Cameron's fascist gvt also has a "super flagger" up-voting status on HN. I mean come on, it feels like I'm on Reddit [1] all over again. Only a sock puppet [2] would say this:

> I'm from Algeria and the UK showed great hospitality to extremists calling for killing us from the foggy London streets. They allowed that in the name of democracy and freedom of speech. Easy being a democracy when what the extremists do isn't harming you.

> It took the fhit to hit the san for them to wake up and do something about it.. How about freedom of speech now when terrorist actions are conducted on the UK soil

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140226/11344026358/reddit...

[2] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
His business model is, he has a bunch of cabinets colocated in a datacenter I operate in Dallas.

And he financed it with his bitcoin winnings, I guess.
I'll add that to the website in a bit. The machines are located in Dallas, and we're looking into multiple future locations.
Is it surprising that an appication used to stream torrents, is primarily used for piracy? No, no it's not, and this is why I'm scratching my head. They knew from day one, before they wrote a single line of code that the application would be used for pirating movies. For this reason, I assumed they had a plan, because surely no sane development team would put forth the time to setup this project, and then act surprised at the first legal threat, and close up shop.
There probably aren't many people reading Tesla press releases other than (a) people that already own a Tesla car, and (b) people that don't need to be swayed, they just can't afford/justify the price of one.
Pcwalton, do you guys at mozilla think servo could be foolproof against sandbox escapes, or that this is a bit unrealistic ?
" If he wanted to raise the issues and stay in the country and engage in civil disobedience..."

Kind of hard to do that when you're sitting in 24 hour solitary confinement in Guantanamo, Mr Gates.
http://xkcd.com/936
Our group has 40 people. We're part of a 1200 people group, which is part of a 37,000 people group, which is part of a 240,000 people group. now imagine no managers.

Yeah, that's not going to work.
I do have to point out that lots of companies in lots of industries (including most B2B technology firms) sell both direct and through partners. Every one of them has to deal with "channel conflict" but that's what you do. It's a balancing act. The partners are never 100% happy but they add value to the manufacturer (or they wouldn't be allowed to stay partners) and the manufacturer can't routinely screw them over (or they'll depart for greener pastures). I'm guessing a mixed model wouldn't really make sense with autos though.
I wouldn't call Consumer Reports that objective. They probably have a significant pro-United States bias.
Yeah - I would not expect Mus to not have the foresight to do this...
We just updated the website, with a list of ideas. https://www.resetthenet.org/

Also, the email form is there so we can feature applications on the homepage, in the coming months. While we'd love to list your application(s), there's no pressure.
Introducing Delta Innovation Class
The Fed can't do something like that. It usually takes the involvement of a bankruptcy court, though the FDIC has some powers it can exercise independently. A full Swedish style resolution would almost have certainly required new legislation.

All that said, I agree with your underlying point that just giving insolvent banks money wasn't a great solution at all, though it was minimally sufficient to prevent bank runs at least on formal banks. There were some runs on shadow banking institutions, though in at least one case -- money markets -- the government stopped one by guaranteeing them as though they had been insured banks. That too was a mistake in my opinion.
Fucking Shell Scripts
Banks Wage 'Hand-to-Hand Combat' for Tech Talent
>They've been told for a long time that the license shouldn't have been issued and would be revoked and that a change in legislation was needed.

Shouldn't have been issued according to who? According to law, it should've been issued, otherwise you don't need a law change to revoke it.
There's no such thing as "foolproof against sandbox escape" without proving a sandbox, as well as all it depends on, correct. But I believe that memory safety is a security advance.
How about Steam?
Treasuries are often used as a "risk-free" asset to adjust a portfolio in order to meet a predetermined level of risk. Someone who works in finance can probably tell us more.
Is there any assurance that someone can't just break into whatever facility you're housing these machines in, and walk off with all my data? Do I even know that you're going to be in business in 5 years? What happens if someone DDOSes your infrastructure? There is hardly any information on the landing page, let alone answers to questions like these.

There's really nothing differentiating this service other than metrics, and I wouldn't show this as a hosting option to my clients because of how little information there is about it. I'm not trying to put you down, just giving some real-world perspective on what your potential users are looking for.
I doubt it would be more than zero.
Exactly. In the same way my computer remembers which monitor I plug into it (work, home office one, home office two, etc) and recalls the configuration of the second screen... the car should know when it is plugged into your home charge port. Various features should only be available when plugged into your home charge port.
Indeed, that's why I said rational self-interest and not just profit. His self-interest involves advancing science and technology.

"[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia." - Democritus
It's not clear that CoreOS helps since it does not provide the userspace that runs inside the container. It looks like most people are building Docker images based on Ubuntu or busybox.
I'm unconvinced by the low cost aspect. Low cost is the listing at http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers.xml. You're cheaper than a lot of the premium hosters, but not the budget and low cost ones.
To be fair, the lender of last resort isn't necessarily printing/creating money in the long term.

If it is simply a classic bank run, and everyone wants their money back now, the lender of last resort could take over all of the distressed bank's illiquid assets and, over time, recover some or all of the lent moneys.

In this case, what the lender of last resort is really doing is making all illiquid assets liquid.
Tesla stores are already galleries (with a small repair facility). Purchases are made over the Internet.
Believing that Snowden isn't a hero doesn't make Bill Gates worse than the others. It simply means that Gates doesn't think Snowden is a hero. He doesn't say whether he considers Snowden to be a villain, which is entirely separate from not being an hero.

if he advocated some very serious changes, and put his money where his mouth is

You must be unfamiliar with the billions he's spending on medical research, education, and various other nonprofit causes. He's the single largest charitable donor in history (excepting Nobel, who has the advantage of a century's headstart on inflation).

Moreover, you bring up Trump, the Waltons, and the Kochs and then call Bill Gates the worst of the bunch?
A large part of the MS anti-trust suit in the US was over the pressures they placed on OEMs. An example, BeOS was going to be licensed to Compaq. MS pressured them by threatening to raise the cost of OEM licensed copies of Windows, which would have severely eaten into the profit margin of an already narrow-marginned industry.
Buyer Beware: My Apptopia Refund Experience
On Firefox:

1. Go to about:config

2. Right-click anywhere, New -> Boolean:

signon.overrideAutocomplete

Value: true

More info: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425145

EDIT: Based on the milestone set on that issue, this setting requires Firefox 29. Another workaround is this bookmarklet: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_... referenced from comment https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425145#c16
Introducing Debate Embedding on ChilledLime
> I don't think that profit is his motivating factor.

People are allowed to have multiple motivations.
> If these firms are buying U.S. debt with that money, then U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for hundreds of millions in debt payments to the same U.S. companies they already buy billions of dollars from in iPads, software and routers.

Isn't that the whole point? If it were undesirable for the US to borrow money and pay interest on it, why would the US Treasury issue bonds? And if they are issuing bonds, does it really matter who buys them?
That's not really an option here. My next best possible step would be our dev team, which would be doing C# and SQL stuff on a Windows stack. It would be more money, and I'd learn some stuff, but it's not exactly my highest calling.
It doesn't matter. The code is already out there.

Respectfully, I think the authors didn't think much and were kinda dumb. The project had a great potential, it was barely legal, they bought a fight with the media industry, but the cherry-on-top is that they putted their asses on the line. They shouldn't have used their real names. Anonymise your accounts and be happy.

But as I said, it doesn't matter. Everyone already has a fork of their repo (which has over 70 open pull-requests) and any one of these forks may become the new "official". It won't stop. The gears are already running, much like bitcoin. Fortunately.
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Peter Drucker (the old father of modern management) and Gabe Newell (the new father of modern management) both agree - managing people is a skill in itself.

When will we ever learn?
Yeah, cool, thanks for the pointer. I remember looking at it before but never quite wrapped my head around it.
Yeah, you are totally right! I did not think that through enough. It is all dependent upon the tools inside the container. Should be interesting to see how this one plays out.
Instead of a wall of text, use a wall of photography instead!
My biggest problem is with sites that don't let me copy/paste into the password field. WTF!? Who's the PHB that came up with this policy? Despite this misguided nannying, I still use randomly generated 22 character alphanumeric passwords, even if I have to open up the window in Keepass and manually type them in. Most people aren't as paranoid and anal as me, however. Whoever you are, you're basically encouraging people to use weak passwords.

Ironic, as it seems to be banks that are most often guilty of this.
The first thing I install in a new browser is an adblocker. The second thing an addon that disables autocomplete=off.

Yes I'm lazy. But my laptop is encrypted and goes back to the login screen after 2 minutes of inactivity. To me autocomplete=off is just annoying and doesn't add any security.
Update on Metro
I'm pretty sure the browser sandbox is more restrictive than the MAS one.
This looks to be some sort of partnership with LinkedIn... http://www.deltainnovationclass.com/
I don't understand the graphic. How are you a predator?
Shameless plug:

I dot so worked up over this kind of nonsense one day that I wrote a firefox addon to turn autocomplete on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/autocompletea...
Voting is an administrative task, not an advocacy action. If you want to change how things work, start advocating. Voting is the end of a campaign, not the beginning.
Node is passing the Peak of Inflated Expectations and into the Trough of disillusionment. Rails is firmly in the Plateau of Productivity.

There are some genuinely interesting ideas coming out of node, and I think it's unfair to just call it obtuse complexity. I think that node.js has been a call to return to small, focused modules that will percolate back up.

An attempt to keep things small and focused is nothing new -- Unix started the trend in the 70s. Everything old is new again. I think they're forging some new patterns that take advantages of small, composible blocks through NPM in a way that CPAN and the like were never quite able to exploit.

I think node has an exciting opportunity, coupled with single page apps and browserify, to be a common front end to disparate web services. And, to me, that's exciting.
http://i.imgur.com/3fpmImY.png -- Rackspace for a 15GB RAM server is actually around $500 a month. And to be quite honest the service there is fantastic. If you are going to run a production server you need assurances. Assurances that the linked vendor does not provide.
Very nice of you.
"I guess that's why i'm not an entrepreneur."

Yep. Attention is the most valuable commodity these days and Secret has certainly managed to obtain it. Ad-based monetization would be pretty easy...if they even want to try monetizing before getting much bigger.
I couldn't find a contact form or phone number anywhere on the site, so there's no way to ask about the service before signing up. (All I could find was a support e-mail address buried in the copyright section of the TOS.) This doesn't inspire confidence. If someone's business depends on one of these servers, they're going to want to know that the hosting company is reachable, and that impression starts with the initial contact with the company.

Also, who is going to commit to a five year contract with a company that has no track record? Maybe there should be a one-year discount instead of a 5-year discount?
Inflation from 2007 to 2012 was about 10% (total, not per year). Inflation from 2002 to 2007 was about 15%.
{set of good managers in software } = {set of people able to manage other people well } intersect {set of people able to do software engineering well}

No wonder that it is rare. If you add additional filter that a company need to be able to correctly identify and promote such people...
> After working to provide for the family I don't have a lot of free time to commit to politics if that's what you mean by 'participate more actively'

FYI, this is effectively deliberate. You're more useful to companies as a business asset rather than as a political force. It may be worthwhile for you to look into ways to pool resources with other people in order to get enough free time to commit more to politics.
As I was arguing with rayiner on another thread, this is a prime example of what is wrong with the legal industry in the United States especially: shit is so complex that litigation is expensive, so people with more money than you can sue you into oblivion even if the law is on your side.

Another way of looking at it is that, as things stand now, the legal system is just another weapon the rich and influential can use to crush the little man.
Worker-owned firms in Scotland 'more successful'
As a consumer who may consider a Tesla in the future, I like and appreciate this dig. Christie did something underhanded again, let's bring it up to strengthen Tesla's claim that something fishy happened.
Any others that are like this? I like this price!
Am interested in details, but none given.
I'm not suggesting you're wrong. I have a client that uses Rackspace, and while I know they're expensive, they also have extremely good (in my experience) technical support and customer service. Whether you think that justifies the price or not, it's a difference, and if the OP wants to compete or compare -- which he may or may not; it's not clear, and I brought up Rackspace, not him -- then there should probably be some discussion of that.

Anyway, my point is exactly that you say "anyone who has evaluated Rackspace." The OP doesn't make claims one way or the other, and if I don't have my own claims I'm willing to evaluate using his service, there's no call to action (I can't believe I just used that phrase).
Yeah, I remember those times, too; perhaps less nostalgically than you do. Take your ignition system example. Sure, one could dig in there and replace and adjust the points. But you did it because you had to, you had to do it regularly, and it would be adjusted correctly exactly once: after you did the job. From there, the points immediately started wearing and it would not be exactly right until you did it again. Solid-state ignition, please.

Synchronizing three Weber carbs? Oh, yeah, good times. Good times that involved poisonous mercury to boot. Port fuel injection, please.

Don't get me wrong, there was a time I liked working on cars, too. So much so, I was a professional ASE-certified mechanic for a while. I also like my Scion xB that in 70K miles we've done nothing to except insert gas, change the oil, and put a set of tires on it. I don't miss having to slap new points and plugs in it before a weekend trip.

And for the Tesla tie-in, our Leaf is about as much of an appliance as you're going to get in a car. There's something to be said about a car whose maintenance schedule doesn't fill a page.

> Reliable, boring, convenient transportation is great sometimes, like when you're driving someone going into labor to the hospital.

Or great even for something as simple as getting to work in the morning. I've owned my share of Triumphs and Fiats. I enjoy my dumbed down existence that doesn't involve a late-night session under the hood because I have to be at work the next day.

I mean, I see your point. But if most folks are like the cranky, older version of me now, if they wanted finicky transportation that needs constant maintenance they'd buy a horse.
Reading the news as of late, there seems to be a new narrative against the tech companies, as if they are the new Wall St. See the bus protests, gentrification protests, aren't involved in their communities, complaining they don't pay enough taxes (while some other companies, such as oil, are receiving tax subsidies), etc.

If someone can spin negative news against them, they will.
I was under that impression they could make loans of 72/8 of their account balances. I may very well have misunderstood, but I had thought banks could loan out a given dollar multiple times at once. No?
You might not agree with this but hear me out. I used to work on Chrome and I was curious what the justification was for storing passwords unencrypted in Chrome. I went and talked to the Chrome security team and they frustratingly explained it to me as they get this question all the time.

As you said, in FF, (and in Chrome), a few clicks and anyone could look and an unattended computer and see all the stored passwords. As they pointed out, an unlocked unintended computer can pretty much be owned by anyone who wants to own it. You've given them access to your computer. They can open a shell and start running apps. They can exploit any bug in the OS or other app. They can copy files to a USB stick or across the net. On top of that, your password manager (or FF or Chrome) will let them log into your mail, your bank, your facebook, whatever services you've saved passwords for even without knowing your password.

The point is

(1) don't leave your computer unlocked and unattended. Put a password on it, when you walk away from the computer lock the computer (start the screensaver or whatever that makes it required you to use a password to get back in)

(2) don't ever let someone use your computer logged in as you. If you hand someone your computer to use login as guest then hand it to them.

If you're like me you'll probably reject these suggestions. I thought "I don't want to be bother to lock and unlock my computer all the time" and I thought "It's stupid to expect me to put my computer in guest mode anytime I let someone else use it."

But, after I calmed down and thought about it I realized they are right. If someone wants your passwords or other data and you hand them an unlocked machine they are going to get them. How FF or Chrome or Password managers store passwords has nothing to do with that.
Reading about management attempts back when Google was starting, they definitely did try. I'm not sure if they'd admit it, but I think they failed spectacularly. I'd even go as far as to say that if the people trying couldn't get it to work it might actually be impossible to create a large company that isn't a 'BigCorp'. There are too many barriers - social, legal and technical.
>They're injecting arbitrary non-functional nonsense and technical hurdles that just hold developers back.

Arbitrary nonsense like a sandbox? Didn't we learn anything from when viruses were rampant in earlier OSs?

>I'm not saying HTML/CSS/JS development is a panacea, it's all painful awkwardness with occasional sublime moments. But at least I am my own master when I deploy my apps to the Web.

So the solution to the "arbitrary non-functional nonsense and technical hurdles" of the native App Stores is web development? As if that doesn't have tons of arbitrary non-functional nonsense and technical hurdles itself compared to native development...
I imagine the strategy is that if you want Office on a tablet, you need to buy a Surface. Apparently it's not reason enough.
The problem is that github itself agregates value. Issues, Gist, not to mention that various package management systems use github as the repository.
I love it, personally. Elected officials should be dragged over coals publicly for crap like the bridge closure AND this sneaky legislative practice he used to get the anti-Tesla laws in.
Politicians (left and right) are pushed by strong forces. You can't just vote for someone who you believe is ethical and walk away, expecting that the power of that vote is sufficient to oppose those forces.

In other words, you were asking about a way to vote to fix this, and it's not fixable by a vote.
Yes.

Don't forget this is only the start of censorship. The progression is as follows:

1. Censorship is forbidden.

2. Censorship is a subset of all things.

3. All things is a subset of censorship.

4. Censorship is universal.

At that point, people are puppets by nurture. They're then controlled by the will of the people who control the information.

Then when all you know is hatred and a single view than you're easily taken and trained.
This is utter nonsense, "possible new issues" are every reason to carefully evaluate and weight new options.
I'm going to go with Bruce Schneier on this one and say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with writing your passwords down. If someone mugs me and takes my wallet there is a 99% chance they are going to get the phone too and I'll need to change all my passwords anyway.

Not letting the browser cache them is still dumb though.
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An old-man Jaguar costs a fraction of the price. Does a Model-S come with the country club membership? I'm in!
Barely scratched the surface of what the language can do or the possible insights available by using Haskell?

I ask because I have done exactly what I described above, both with Haskell and Haskell frameworks.
I thought it was decentralized enough that you just needed the software for the job. Seems like it used a centralized point since I can't use it now.
No. It's a car, and has the power to kill people on software malfunction, making it a critical system. Critical systems are tend to go through a much greater and more robust form of testing.
Thanks for correcting me. I never realized this.
Well I had hoped it would end after I got a chance to finish watching Bronson.
I'm sure you enjoy Rome. Beautiful city. I am from Italy, but I live in San Francisco.
Good point - this would be a very simple way to circumvent it.
To be fair, MtGox was an exchange, not a bank. My understanding is that if a standard exchange (eg, Ameritrade) went down in a similar fashion, you'd be equally screwed.
Hahaha, I love that the install process is more complicated than the example shell script.
it really helps with forms where you are an admin and can edit other users information... in these forms when autocomplete is on... and starts populating your information into the user you're trying to edit... well... things just get pretty messed up...
I'm going to write a similar year-in-review story for goread.io.