skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there's this term I love that has sort of fallen out of use recently, but it's useful in this conversation:

"grinfucker"

IE, the kind of person that is socially extremely polite and gracious, but fucks you over in subtle ways.

I totally agree with the spirit of this article, but I think they've defined "asshole" as "caustic person". I think the most corrosive people are actually the grinfuckers -- the people that will smile at you one day and stab you in the back the next. I like caustic people! They might be difficult in the moment, but at least they're honest.
I'll have to hunt down a Solera-process rum then. Can you recommend a particular brand?

As for cognac, bourbon and tequila, I can definitely see your point there.
Beautiful insanity.
As time marched on, I've found myself more and more hesitant to use SourceForge at all, even to download things. If a project isn't available on GitHub, BitBucket, or through a package manager, then I'm very unlikely to download the source.
This is encrypting the disk that the RDS instance is using to store the data right? And amazon are holding the decryption key.

What exactly is this protecting against? (Genuine question not rhetoric).

Without encryption, I guess someone with physical access to an Amazon data center could pull a drive somewhere and grab the data.

With encryption, that same person would also have to get hold of the key as well, but nothing seems to be said about the key storage being in some separate super secure location, so could that same malicious employee with physical access not also go on a key hunt and end up getting access anyway? So it's just another "layer" of protection not totally impossible.

.... or am I missing something crazy obvious where an unencrypted RDS disk is accessible by some other means? Maybe via to nature of disks being reused without proper cleaning or similar?
Yes, agreed. It's just that abstraction and over-engineered complexity often also go together -- it's abstraction and simplicity that can (sometimes, even often, but not always) be enemies.

The tension I think I've seen through experience is between maximizing flexiblity and simplicity. Maximizing flexibility without extreme care can often lead to non-simple, over-engineered, over-abstracted, complexity.
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Nice, anecdote from a funny book against established safety literature.

"Investigation of alleged appliance electrocutions and fires caused by internally generated voltages"

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=31244&...
Why would you not recommend installing skyline? I would like to have something that watches metrics for me, and we're already using graphite for stats.
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misleading title - kids using smartphones on wifi to get on internet and communicate with friends.
I would've been impressed if he said 2016.
The DOE has some great resources, I can't the one I'm thinking of, but this document:

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/12/f5/Grid%20Energy%...

On page 30 has a matrix of the different attributes of different energy storage systems (but unfortunately not cost or capacity).
NYPD, one of the largest municipal armies in history, has become a latter-day Praetorian Guard. They have yet to stage a coup and appoint their own Caracalla as emperor, however.
I remember the chemist who ran the lab at the maltings joking about the "romance" of "throwing another peat on the fire" when it reality the analysis was all done very carefully and scientifically with gas chromatography being used to control peat levels.

[NB The automated titration machine they used as a reference for nitrogen levels was quite scary - all flames and concentrated acids being squirted about.]
I see this device as the perfect next-generation-chromecast.
You can download anything you want wirelessly and play it on your HD TV. No need for Chromecast to load youtube and be a "closed garden" of google.
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Compared to the smartphones currently on the market, I agree. My argument is that the form factor / functionality of the smartphone is very compelling.

I am not going to buy this Intel product, but I would if it were a smartphone.
Yep, same here. I can highly recommend WinSCP.
Rum enthusiast here. While the rum market has been experiencing a small boom in recent years, especially at the high end, very few consumers think of rum as a fine, sipping drink. Low- to midrange mixing rums still account for the bulk of the market, and, barring a few trendy aberrations here and there, they probably will for years to come. Most people think of rum as a commodity, a mixing component. Scotch, on the other hand, has a long history as a standalone drink, and as an aspirational luxury good.

What you're seeing in the Scotch boom isn't the sudden uplift of a formerly humble drink; it's the discovery and rediscovery of a noble drink by new markets. When and where rum has seen boutique, high-end mini-markets, they are usually driven by the marketing efforts of a firm or two, and they are usually impermanent. Even these usually promote rum as a mixing component -- which is a good way to remind people to consider rum as a vital component of the liquor cabinet, but not a great way to get them to appreciate it.
That quote resonates with me. Besides fear of judgment another part of my problem is acceptance I believe.
PCI compliance requires that, IIRC.
You make a valid point, but that relies on systems asking for all records on an RR. If a DNS server decides to send along A records with a SRV request, it's likely those A records won't be cached[1], and thus you'd have to make a second query.

As far as load balancers, sure, it'd be great if nobody needed to do anything other than spread requests across a pool of heterogeneous machines... but there's plenty more to be had by using a load balancer in front of web servers, namely intelligent routing. Things you just couldn't possibly figure out, as the browser, from looking at SRV records.

Besides that, I appreciate your thorough and clearly-informed thoughts on my attitude and state of mind when it comes to engineering systems. It definitely elevated this discussion to new heights, to be sure.

1. http://tools.ietf.org/rfcmarkup?doc=2181
Up until rather recently, it was hard to pay or receive sub-dollar amounts. This problem is solved on the two mobile platforms (though Apple still takes a much larger cut from payments). Paypal / Stripe / Square sort of solve it in the web space.

But we still lack a nice software store (or several) where you could pay a piece of software and pay a nominal amount (or more if you choose to donate), knowing that you won't receive any malware / nagware in exchange, and that a large cut of your payment goes to the authors and maintainers.

Similar things seem to happen around indie musical tracks, so probably the model could survive in the "indie" software area.
I wish the author would have tried negotiating with the pawn shop. The pawn shop would have been out the entire 225 had she not bought the laptop back. Realizing this she could have offered a lot less and it would have still been in their best interest to sell it to her. She just needed to bluff a bit that she would be willing to let the police confiscate it if the cost was going to be over X. I bet she could have gotten it back for $50.

Also as others mentioned it's a pretty broken system that she would need to do this at all - that her laptop would be locked up in evidence for so long. But lemonade from lemons, ect...

EDIT: Also do we even have any proof that the pawn shop actually paid 225 for the laptop? It's in their best interest (financially, not morally) to lie and state a higher price. Ie. They may have profited off of selling the laptop back to her.
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New Orleans has had quite a history of corruption in its police force. Are you sure?
HIPAA requires encryption-at-rest of any personally identifiable information.
You should change your FB share image to the professional photo of the box of candy, rather than the comic image, IMO.
IETF did a call for proposals, Google had a protocol that was up and running with others using it, MS put in a similar proposal, and another partially formed one came along too.

SPDY was the only really viable option for the IETF to choose - it was running at scale and there was knowledge out there about deploying it and it's performance.

Although SPDY was the prototype, HTTP/2 isn't SPDY anymore it's evolved and moved on taking some of the concepts from SPDY and introducing it's own.

Given how long it took HTTP/1.1 to get ratified we suck at ten year standardisation processes.
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I don't think Intel necessarily wants to dominate or even lead the market with these offerings, they want to spur the market to fill the niche now that they've shown the demand and the ability(and the parts for sale). Intel didn't want to sell ultrabooks itself, but it very much wanted a vibrant marketplace so it could sell more high-end parts, and keep Apple from leveraging their market position for better pricing from Intel.
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It's not that interesting. You look up the requirement for the relevant law.

Larceny is:

Taking something that doesn't belong to you, without consent of the owner, with the intent to permanently deprive the owner. Taking your own property means the "crime" doesn't meet those criteria.

It is a terrible idea to actually do this. You leave yourself open to being shot or arrested and then spending cash to go through the courts.
Tried to send an email and got "554 rejected due to spam content"
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You could use aria2, which is a command line program so no need to deal with a daemon. Also, you could make it download just parts of a torrent (the start of the torrent for example) instead of the whole thing and take the screenshots from there.
very cool little programs. like it!
What do you think about meeting the "significant other" as a test ?
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Here's the no-vs-all optimizations graph for gcc with -O3: http://imgur.com/Q6yycrT
Arrested for what exactly? As you yourself just asserted it likely isn't a crime.
The cynic in me says the police officer got a share of the $225 under the table. Why else use an extrajudicial process for something that should be easily resolvable within the law?
Yes, High West and Bulleit are MGPI. My understanding is that by "same juice," he meant "also from MGPI," but at a lower markup.
Apparently one of the reasons cited by some is that the decrease is due to police doubling up -not patrolling solo, due to perceived possible threats from possible crazies, and this doubling up has taken away availability to address non crucial policing matters...
That video doesn't appear to available to everyone. It says

"Sorry

Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here."

Not sure if it's because of country/IP restrictions or what.
I so much wish they would adopt SRV records. I've used them many times for load balancing internal HA web services and love the freedom they give you to specify failover tiers and push higher loads toward beefier servers.

Honestly, SRV records cover about 90% of the usage I've seen people deploy ZooKeeper or etcd for. I'd love to see them become the standard way of doing such things.
Nobody should use Sourceforge. I rarely take projects seriously when hosted on Sourceforge.
Of course, your realize the issue with a no asshole policy, right?

Everyone left is full of shit. <grin>
if you need to have a stateful connection, why not just use websockets? in many other cases (eg asset fetching) http/http2 are fine
Coding is easy. Anyone can learn to code.

What makes programming hard is the frustration. Almost
everything you write will fail in some obscure way. The
levels of frustration in programming knows no bound.

Even worse, very few people will be "software blacksmiths"
who write code from scratch. Programming at most jobs
seems to be writing glue code from one framework to
another. Failures in frameworks are a whole new level
of frustration. At best you hope that Home Depot has
a new better framework in their software section.

And in the long term we will have managers who took a
three-day "learn to program" course and wrote a working
fizz-buzz program. We will hear "I wrote programs. It
is easy. What is taking so long?"... a whole meta-level
of frustration.

Programming is as easy as writing a recipe. I can read
a recipe. But I can't cook.

So keep your expectations of these "learn to program"
initiatives within bounds. Autodidacts who find
frustrations a "challenge" will succeed just as they
have in the past. The rest will find programming as
interesting as algebra.
wow that looks pretty sophisticated.
I wonder if this is more about homogeneous cultural norms. If you respond to criticism the similarly to the way I do, I can predict how to provide effective criticism.

In a small team, i think the conventional wisdom is spot on - hire a really good cultural fit, even in favor of technical chops.

In a larger organization you're inevitably going to have a wider distribution of values simply because there are more people. At a some point the organization needs to figure out how to get people to play nice together. The larger the organization, the more tolerance for variance is required. I guess if you're doing something really cool or are willing to pay a lot that can be mitigated just because you'll have a larger pool of candidates.

Of course, you can't really figure out how people respond to stress until they're stressed, which happens way way after they are hired. It's probably a better heuristic to figure out how the organization can cope with wide variance norms, rather than trying to pick people that act like me.
Did you try https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlpython?

It's not quite the same as pgcli but I took some inspiration from that for auto-completion.
Plus, it was the pawn shop's work in submitting serial numbers that got the items found. If the pawn shop gets prosecuted for turning in paperwork, they will turn in less paperwork.
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Dont know about grabbing, electric lock on the door and all. I would definitely haggle tho, $100 or I tell police to confiscate it and you get nothing (unless they have some kind of 'I buy stolen property' insurance).
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Better is all very subjective :) Both Balvenie and Benromach are produced by Scottish companies, so I have a nationalistic soft spot for them :)
Sadly yes so it's sortof a damned if you do damned if you don't scenario.

Just lately we've had serious issues recruiting police (largely due to antiquated policies like 'no visible tattoos' or 'they must live in Jefferson Parish (expensive on a cop's salary)'. The murder rate (always a problem in Nola) is actually currently down but violent crime is up significantly and the nature of the crime seems to be getting more and more brazen (http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/11266753-123/buffa...). It's obviously a complicated issue that requires a lot more than just "more feet on the ground" but we certainly seem to not have enough at the moment.

Here's a link but there's probably a million more available via Google:
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/05/nopd_understaffi...
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Been a while since I've had to deal with PCI, but I don't think encryption is required.
Maybe. Many pundits have been talking about NYPD's use of COMSTAT, stop-and-frisk and fighting the "broken windows" syndrome as being leading causes of the drop in crime in NYC. On closer inspection the crime appears to have been falling anyway for a number of possible reasons, some as simple as a change in demographics.

Now we have perhaps something of a controlled experiment going on regarding the alleged root cause of the drop in crime in NYC (and perhaps nationwide).
One idea is to audit the use of the encryption key.
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I think Google should mark SourceForge as malware site.
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Libertarians should support aggressive parking enforcement. It's a clear correction of a substantial externality.

Of course, an even more libertarian approach would be to simply sell or lease the parking spaces to private entities and let them set whatever prices and rules they want for the use of their real estate, perhaps including making deals with local merchants to subsidize market rates during business hours.
You could say that most of the modern web is a historical band-aid. Here we are, 20+ years later, building "apps" on top of a document delivery system.
I am pretty sure that nobody who says "we desperately need more cops" means "we desperately need more corrupt cops".
I, too, have noticed a big change along those lines, which is why I was very careful to use the hated "back in the day" phrase.

There is no doubt that due to the pace of technological change nowadays, the idea that devs and managers can hide behind a bloated solution and rake in profit! are pretty much long gone.
It's bizarre how this article seems to suggest that "asshole" is some kind of objective quality, rather than just a label we use for people we don't like.

I'd say anyone who has "rid their company of assholes" has simply fired the people they dislike (while retaining people that somebody, somewhere, thinks are assholes). To imagine otherwise would require a much more rigorous definition of "asshole" than is evident in the article (it sounds like they've basically gone with "I know it when I see it").
Agreed! On nomenclature - you're saying ssh agent forwarding, but the functionality you describe is actually simply public keys on remote machines. The only time you need to forward is when you're logging into another machine through a third machine -- and as other commenters have pointed out, you're extending your trust model to that third machine.
That's exactly what I'm saying, you can't expect one entity to solve this.

There's clearly some good people working at worthwhile things at Google. My concern is that a lot of those things doesn't end up being pushed by Google. Not only because it might hurt themselves, but because of non-obvious outside influence.

We shouldn't forget that many things we accuse the NSA for like lack of accountability, overzealous collection of data, the undermining of privacy etc. are all things we can expect from a corporation.
Intel has spent/lost a lot of money pursuing smartphone design wins, without success. Maybe Project Ara modules will give Intel another shot at smartphones or handheld devices.
Thank you for the response. I have not heard of some of those cases. I'm looking forward to reading up on those.
Agreed. WinSCP is not only easy to use with a fairly "native" Windows feel (just drag and drop stuff from one half of the window to the other), but it's also not bundled with malware.
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When it comes to phones, Amazon was in a great situation. It didn't have any baggage in terms of older models. No risk of cannibalizing existing models if the new phone is superior. It completely knew the strenghts and weaknesses of its competitors. All it had to do is plug the weaknesses and provide something which is superior. Something whose uniqueness lies not in useless 3-D gimmicks but solid features which other leaders are overlooking.

For example:

1. Provide a truely great display. This is not necessarily to trump others but something which is just a must. The display is the face of the phone.

2. Provide two SD card slots. Which market leading phone has them? None. With 2x128 GB sdcards (which also happen to be sold by Amazon) and say, 64 GB internal storage, the user gets 320GB of storage. On a phone. Unique? Yes. Useful? Hell yes.

3. Provide two SIM card slots. Granted, there are a whole bunch of phones that provide them but usually not in a phone with 320GB storage.

4. Massive 4000mAh battery. Make the phone slightly bigger, say 5.5 inches to manage heat. As numerous very successful large phones have proven, a big display is not a bad thing for a lot of people.

Without getting into the drawbacks of not latching into the Play Store ecosystem, the hardware i.e. the product itself would have generated so much positive buzz.

Unfortunately, focusing on solid and useful features is often overlooked and in case of Amazon, it squandered a great opportunity.
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What happened to you Sourceforge? I hope the same thing doesn't happen to Github in 10 years.
It's a direct response to De Blasio's asking police to implement Broken Windows policies. They are sending him the message they aren't taking his orders anymore.
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I'd say the biggest resurgence in tech on the west coast is not actually in "The Valley," where you spend your time on the 101 between Palo Alto and Mountain View, but rather in San Francisco.
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I take your point but in fairness OP is definitely correct regarding a corrupt Nola police force. Definitely not a simple issue.
https://github.com/yairchu/red-black-tree

Has implementations of some binary search trees with GADTs to guarantee, at compile-time, that most of the tree's invariants always hold.
WinSCP is far superior to filezilla. At my last job stuck using a Windows machine for some things, I ended up using it quite extensively. Every bug I submitted to the author was fixed within months. He is also active on the forums, though has a bit of a Linus Torvalds style... which can be offputting for some.

Filezilla use will drop down because most admins I know that hear about this will immediately write it off as too dangerous to even try to get around. Sure you can dig into the sourceforge files and maybe find a clean version, or maybe find a checksumed mirror, but would you really trust it?
If you like the whiskey at your local producer thats great. Most of the local producers have to take short cuts over traditional aging processes because they cost so much. Whether those short cuts matter is a source of big debate.
This is because they condense the water out of the basin, whereas a traditional dryer is generating hot air from electricity or natural gas, which I don't believe can be done in a combined unit.

Innovation remains to be seen!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8004092
I agree that this is a problem but I wouldn't say it is a big problem in comparison to the problem that most companies have - they don't run any tests at all.

I actively need to prevent myself from going too deep into the maths and caveats of A/B testing with clients. Running tests with bad maths trumps running no tests at all in my experience