skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> between mobile and these little bad boys, there's plenty of power around to run a number of applications that would have required a rack server 5 or 10 years ago. Now John Accountant could just buy a little silent box and put it on his desk, without having to go through hellish rounds of IT approvals.

Which would be nice, if we had the hardware of today with the IT practices of a time when enterprises might exert centralized control of departmental server purchases but not exert the same control over individual desktop system purchases and even the software installation on those desktops.
Why is nervousvarun's post downvoted? Is Hacker News also a cesspool of over-sensitive, ultra politically correct liberals?
Irish whiskey is going through it's own boom - it would be interesting to compare the two. They have different histories and tastes.
> Adventur.es takes a proactive, zero tolerance approach to assholes.

Oh good another zero tolerance policy to be abused. That's forward thinking...

Look I don't like assholes as much as the next guy / gal (I mean asshole is an insult so that's a no-brainer) but this post is just smack with the egocentric quality they are against and just sounds naive.
par0xyzm is hellbanned, but this is interesting:
http://gonullyourself.org/ezines/exp/exp02.txt

is hosted at Sourceforge, so they share a server with thousands of other customers. Every single customer is able to execute commands and access the other project directories. Pretty stupid, eh? You only need to find one hole in one hosted site and you can access ALL the project databases
Also, backups. The data is often more valuable than the device.
SmartOS (like OmniOS, DelphixOS and the others) isn't a fork -- we're a downstream repo that merges from upstream on a daily basis, and regularly upstreams our own work. This model has been very successful for illumos (in my opinion) because it has allowed for a broad degree of experimentation in production-oriented systems while still having a conduit for getting successful experiments upstream. And by the time we go to upstream something, it's generally been running in production for us for a while (and ditto other downstream repos), giving reviewers confidence and allowing us to maintain very, very high quality in illumos itself. (Prakash alluded to this in the linked blog post, and it's absolutely essential to assure that downstream repos can frequently merge.)

The net is that we have found the work going into illumos to be exactly what you want upon integration: innovative, pragmatic work that has already proven itself in production.
SPDY was chosen because nobody got any serious notice or time to come up with any alternatives.

If the IETF wanted a fresh look at HTTP, they would not have set such a short deadline for submissions.

It was evident from the start that this was about gold-plating & rubber-stamping SPDY, and people saw that and said so, already back then.

HTTP/2 isn't compatible with SPDY any more, but there is no significant difference between them, only a few deck-chairs were arranged differently in HTTP/2

The fact that people spend ages chewing the cud on a "clarification" of HTTP/1.1 has no impact on how long time it would take to define a HTTP/2 protocol.

Quite the contrary, HTTP/2 was a chance to jettison many of the horrors and mistakes that made the HTTP1.1bis effort so maddening.

You can see some of my thinking about what HTTP/2 should have been doing here:

http://phk.freebsd.dk/words/httpbis.html
It's to comply with IT policies that require data to be encrypted on disk. Now, businesses that wouldn't use RDS before can now tick that last box off on the IT security audit.
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In response to your edit I think what happened is that the police officer was notified of the stolen item by the pawn shop and before filing an official report they contacted the owner of the item and offered them the choice. If she opts to pay the ransom the police officer has less paperwork, the justice system has one less case bogging it down, the pawn shop gets off the hook entirely, and she gets her laptop back quicker. Also the police officer maintains a great relationship with the pawn shop which might be beneficial in other cases. It's a win win win all the way around for everyone directly involved in the case. Unfortunately it's probably a net negative for everyone else as it makes the pawn shop less diligent in the future and makes it easier for robbers to offload their stolen merchandise making it more lucrative for them to continue their "profession".
Additional feedback, if this is appropriate: the coupon link in the footer results in a blank page. It's 404, but I had to check an inspector in the absence of any 404 text. Hope this helps.
Does Bemmu offer an "every other month" subscription for 2/3 the price?

If not... you should. :)
> At that pace, the towers wouldn’t reach 95 percent occupancy until 2019, almost two decades after the 9/11 attacks leveled the first twin towers.

How is it that Manhattan residential and Manhattan commercial are so out of whack? As an example, Lincoln Towers, which from the outside looks like a public housing project. That being said, it sells for $1,400 square foot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Towers

And we have these nice new commercial buildings that will take years to fill.
Has a 2013 MBA, but can't afford a $225 expense?? Mac users are hilarious
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Ron Zacapa Solera 23 is probably the most common and certainly the one I see 'in the wild' the most often. It's a mega-corp rum (Diageo) and bit looked down upon by many rum snobs, but it's pretty good and a decent enough place to start in my opinion, and you shouldn't have much trouble finding a pub with a bottle behind the bar if you just want a taste rather than buying a whole bottle.
Who says tax collectors can't be racist and/or overly aggressive?
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Organizations with very valuable networks that are completely disconnected from the internet and have strong policies and procedures about sneakernetting data back and forth.

For example, I might work at a R&D company working on some kind of new magic technology. All of the R&D work happens on the disconnected LAN (call it R-NET) and that's our daily driver. All the computers have software on them to prevent USB drives and other removable media from being plugged in, and no wireless anything, and if I have to move data onto the R-NET from the internet, there's a designated security admin person who does the move. They do it with a physical drive, sneakernetting the data between the networks.

Their process is to get the data, scan with every kind tool known and toss out certain prohibited files (executables, scripts etc.)

If you need an executable or script on the R-NET, you go through another procedure that does a full security audit on that software, and only once it's approved and added to a special list of installable things can it be put on your machine.

Going from the R-NET to the Internet requires a reverse of the process, but everything getting moved out gets reviewed, every document, piece of data, etc. to make sure it doesn't contain anything that shouldn't be sent out.

Everything on R-NET is logged. Everything, log ins, log outs, what software you opened, what libraries that software used, everything.

There might be a security team who monitors the R-NET and the moment they see something suspicious they have a "kill switch" to disable the network and all the machines that are one it until the problem is sorted out.

It sounds extreme, and it is, but it can be reasonably effective. Some places even have different networks for different projects to provide further isolation.
Not to disagree with your points, and I don't know if my upvote helps, but you got a bunch of lucky breaks that a significant slice of HN didn't get, which could explain the downvotes.

Consider that some are incapable of sensing the customer, much less their requirements, whatever they are.

And consider that some are trapped mooning certain tools over others.

I'm reminded of Cory Booker's "Conspiracy of Love". Cory's dad

was born to a single mother who could not take care of him. He then was raised by his grandparents, like many children in my community, but then his grandma could not take care of him.

And then he was out in the community but it was that conspiracy of love –people whose names I do not know in a small, segregated, North Carolina town – that rallied around this boy, would not let him fail, got him to school, put a roof over his head, put food on the table, taught him discipline and respect, and he made his way.

HN is that conspiracy of love for many lurkers.
You should look at multi-armed bandits - this approach is pretty much what you have reached in your conclusion and a lot of work has been done on them
Yeah, that's for sure a problem. There are potential ways around it, but none of them great (that I see, at least).

"So, given that `object<int>()` throws a type error in python and not a syntax error, you can't unambiguously parse that."

Apparently in Python 2, it's not even an error.
This is really helpful with understanding where data analysis goes wrong but he totally mis-characterizes proper segmentation strategies.
This exposes your public key through /whois <username>. In order to protect that along with hiding your system's default username, join with "ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no <username>@chat.shazow.net"
The Mirage OS configuration languages use them to provide a safe interface between device driver descriptions and module implementations.

The core is as simple as:

type _ typ =
| Type: 'a -> 'a typ
| Function: 'a typ * 'b typ -> ('a -> 'b) typ

From https://github.com/mirage/mirage/blob/master/lib/mirage.ml#L...

I talked about this usecase in the ML Workshop in ICFP this year; video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKJ8Sxqr4r8

Some blog posts here: http://openmirage.org/blog/intro-tcpip
If you don't deal with the problems that lead to the existing cops being corrupt before trying to add new cops, that's what you get. So if you say "we desperately need more cops" without including "we first desperately need to deal with police corruption", when your present police department is noted for corruption, you are implicitly saying you need more corrupt cops.

Or, at least, that you need more cops even if they are as corrupt as the existing ones.
Part of what was said was that the police (in Ferguson) seemed ill trained to use this fancy gear. With little oversight on how and when it is used. Allegedly.

http://mashable.com/2014/08/14/war-veterans-ferguson-police/

Personally, I think the problem is when there us no cost benefit analysis. What's the cost in terms of maintenence as well as public perception and trust.
My bad, fixed -- We accidentally published a non final title for the article
What about doing a Fork of it? Clean build. Call it Forkzilla.
I hear that. I worked across the street from the Towers on 9/11, and there's no way I'd got and work in those new buildings. Too many bad memories, and I think the terrorists still have those buildings in their sights.
You can get it without the downloader, but it is non-obvious as you have to choose the other download options. To me that implies downloads for different platforms.

The installer is horrible, and I think that the last I looked at it, the options were all opt-out, they hugely abused anti-patterns to make that process all but impossible.
I was in a similar situation in Germany, the police handed my my iphone back directly and I had to show up to witness ~10 months later at the trial.
This is literally a real problem that Ohio has just taken steps to reform.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/23/ohio-remembers-mens-rea
yea, I didn't understand how the pawn shop can hold her laptop for $225. Isn't the pawn shop in trouble for receiving stolen merchandise? If not in trouble, obligated to release it for free knowing it was stolen, etc...

I get she could have waited and then got it back at no cost, but why pay a fee to get it sooner if the dam thing is sitting in a drawer not being investigated.

Are you trying to tell me the police are waiting on her decision to investigate or not? Seems the laptop should be evidence regardless.
If you want to refute you will have to do better than just show up; you could start by explaining why do we have so many shops using Java and .Net and now Rails (which makes it possible for Ruby programmers to be fungible for managers) and so few using Scheme and Smalltalk etc.

Ask your manager why you can't switch to a better language. The answer is it's harder to find talent for it. Bingo.
You obviously havn't spent much time looking either, have you?

You could look at section 15 here for instance: http://phk.freebsd.dk/words/httpbis.html

With respect to key-exchange, maybe the problem is that I do understand, and therefore know that there is a difference between privacy and secrecy ?

Some places we want privacy, some places we want secrecy.

Mandating privacy everywhere makes it almost mandatory for police-states to trojan the privacy infrastructure (ie: CA's -- yes they already did), and therefore we have neither privacy nor secrecy anymore.

PS: Dangerous for who ?

PPS": Google "Operation Orchestra" if you don't undstand the previous question.
http://calmerthanyouare.org/2014/09/30/brainfuck-java.html
some of the issues encountered when writing a brainfuck-to-java compiler in brainfuck

Yo dawg, etc
From the official spec the max wires is 18 + shield.

Also, from all my reading, USB 3.1 + DP Alt run at the same time. USB 3.1 only needs 2 of the 4 lanes.

http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
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Which, to me, is the scary part of this whole thing. Before, it was only implied that the police weren't accountable to anybody -- now they're literally turning their back on the head of the municipal government.
D'oh: I got my Willett and my Weller crossed, and my Pappy/Buffalo Trace and Black Maple/KBD crossed as well.
Sure the NYPD has lots of gear and toys - but all of that is a rounding error in the face of pension and medical obligations.
I while ago I wrote a simple Brainfuck interpreter, JIT and compiler (https://github.com/brianquinlan/brainfuck-jit).

The compiler implements the "Operation offsets" optimization as described in the article. It is actually pretty straightforward. This function converts a map of offset => delta to x86-64 instructions:
https://github.com/brianquinlan/brainfuck-jit/blob/master/bf...

and the function following it generates that table.
Keys are stored within AWS Key Management Service, which relies on Hardware Security Appliances (a dedicated tamper-proof hardware appliance just for storing secrets). For EBS, encryption works like this (I imagine RDS will work similarly):

The basic steps to encrypt data being written to an EBS volume are:

1. Amazon EBS obtains an encrypted volume key under a customer master key through AWS KMS, and stores the encrypted key with the volume metadata.

2. When the EBS volume is mounted, the encrypted volume key is retrieved.

3. A call to AWS KMS over SSL is made to decrypt the encrypted volume key. AWS KMS will identify the CMK and make an internal request to an HSA in the fleet to decrypt the volume key, and will return the volume key back to the customer over the SSL session.

4. The volume key is stored in memory and used to encrypt and decrypt all data going to and from the attached EBS volume. Amazon EBS retains the encrypted volume key for later use in case the volume key in memory is no longer available.

More info: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/KMS-Cryptographic-Detai...
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Into the Turing tar-pit
Stolen and missing moon rocks
1) Make it difficult for bad guys to move around inside your network.

This includes employing strict and disciplined use of access controls to manage where each employee can go in the network. That way if some assistant's account gets compromised, the bad guy can't just log into the email server or file share root.

It also includes keeping every machine's software patched and up to date. That makes it more difficult for bad guys to use known exploits to escalate privileges within the network.

It also includes enforcing strong password policies--and giving every employee a secure password management solution. (So they don't use Excel.)

2) Keep an eye on the internal network.

Network admins and security folks can use software tools (example: Netwitness) to know what traffic typically looks like on the network, and to detect anomalies. For example, if a lot of data starts flowing from a file share to a computer that typically does not access that share. Or if a lot of data starts heading out of the firewall to an address that no one has ever connected to before. Or if a VPN account authenticates at a weird hour or from a new address.

For example, at my employer, if I VPN in after about 10pm, I get an email or phone call from Net Sec asking if that is really me. If I connect to IRC from within the LAN--same thing. Any file transfer larger than a certain size gets flagged for follow up. Etc.
Please excuse my late reply, I've spent the last week deleting EVERYTHINGGGG
Brainfuck is a really beautiful language. It was the first language I wrote a parser for, and it's incredibly beautiful in its simplicity.
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It's 100% ready for production. Joyent runs a very large platform on SmartOS, and I can verify that at OmniTI we had the vast majority of our hosted customers running on OmniOS. I worked there for a bit over three years, starting just before the initial betas of OmniOS and watched as systems migrated from Solaris 10 to OmniOS without any major issues. (I say "watched" because I was in dev rather than ops, but I don't recall any inordinate grumbling.)
I'm suspecting that it will eventually prove that those that don't remember history are doomed to repeat it.

NYC in the '70s and '80s was not that safe. Street crime, muggings, etc. were common. In the 1990s Giuliani stepped up patrols and sarted enforcing what most people thought were petty crimes, such as loitering, graffiti, parking violations, subway-gate-jumping, etc. with the effect that more serious crimes also decreased, and within several years NYC became one of the safest big cities.
There are quite a few at the top of this list, and they vary based on subject. Are you speaking about technical books, or literature, or something else?

Regardless, the one that I spent a good year reading through multiple times was Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric. A brilliant book that challenged my knowledge of rhetoric and enabled me to hone my rhetorical skills. You can read it to learn or read it just for the awesomeness of the passages.

http://www.amazon.com/Farnsworths-Classical-English-Rhetoric...
Anyone who buys something from someone else, but especially a professional like a pawnbroker, has a duty to make sure the goods they're buying aren't stolen.

Isn't that what the pawnshop did, by submitting the serial numbers to the cops?

The very least the pawnbroker should pay is the cost of whatever they're out of pocket for

And they would've, if she had followed the legal procedure, she just didn't want to wait.
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Or maybe he could just show them a little respect.
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I'm a security guy and I've worked in these kinds of environments and it really sucked.

These days whenever someone proposes creating an air gapped network for a secret project I spend a lot of time enumerating the extreme costs of this configuration. Some of these costs are lowered development productivity, additional hardware and the extra people required for the more intense monitoring.

Air gapped networks are unpleasant to work on but can be a good security mechanism if you truly appreciate the costs.
He should remind the police that they are public employees, under oath to uphold city and state laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Definitely loved Julian Jaynes. It's a "just so" story, but quite compelling and interesting - enough so to have a cult following.

Probably the most challenging/rewarding book I've ever read was Fuller's Synergetics. It offers an understanding of science and nature that is holistic in a way that is timeless and self-evident.

http://www.amazon.com/Synergetics-Explorations-Geometry-Buck...
I have to say, it's the best editor experience that I've found by a long way. In addition the developer Sylvain is incredibly helpful.
Buddhist books whichs content cannot be fully understood as a concept and require subsequent meditation experience.

Most programming books are challenging to me as I'm more of a learning by doing guy and the content is usually either too abstract for me or in form of sample projects that dont teach much beyond mere replication.
I hope terrorists dont get any bold ideas.
NY police are first line protection at major events like New Years Eve.
Singleton Pattern in Swift
Not that patrolling in pairs saved these two guys' lives...
The truth of the matter is that we don't know why crime dropped over the last 30ish years. There are lots of theories, broken windows policing is just one of them.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/11/24/10-not-entirel...
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I am not surprised someone who's career has been writing the lowest of low-level software. kernels and device drivers, isn't interested the total opposite end of the spectrum, web development.
Sad day for freedom of speech: Terrorists kill 12 at newspaper in Paris, France
What an awful human being. After the Tawana Brawley and Duke Lacrosse hoaxes, it's a wonder that anyone still takes him seriously.
Definitely GEB. This book stole 5 years of my life =)
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At one point in the past enforcing these minor offenses served a legitimate purpose. NYC was leading the nation in violent crime and the city was in deep disrepair. Times Square, an international icon, was so filled with trash dangerous that people avoided it for fear of being mugged or killed. Movie theaters weren't safe places because drug deals would occur which sometimes lead to increased crime.

This is the NYC in which these minor offenses needed to be enforced strictly. There are a number of theories regarding the decrease in crime but I'm pretty certain no one can argue that the drastic measures were necessary. Fast forward to 2014 NYC is basically disney world for adult tourists. There definitely needs to be a review of how we police the city because the tactics currently in place are from 25 years ago. Hopefully the data from this slowdown will provide the evidence necessary to create change.
It seems to me that working late nights to avoid distractions is only strictly necessary if all of the following are true:

1) you are not rich—can't afford to hire out housekeeping, (at least some) child care, all home repairs and maintenance, etc.

2) you still have your day job—i.e. not (yet) a professional artist or whatever

3) you have a spouse and/or kids (and you aren't a man alive during a time when it was considered OK to behave toward them in a way that would, but modern standards, be seen as neglectful)

I'd guess that for very few (none?) of the listed individuals were more than one of those things true at the time they kept the listed schedules.