skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I am absolutely certain that there are enough politicians ready to mobilize to roll back NSA surveillance programs if they really think the programs are excessive in their scope."

This seems a very paternalistic view of politics that assumes politicians inherently know better than the public and that the people here are overblowing the dangers of NSA surveillance. I can imagine an alternate universe where there was no one like Snowden to make public the breadth of surveillance and the system was allowed to run unchecked. Isn't it a worrying sign that the system of checks and balances required a whistleblower? Before that, the government was writing laws that were eroding privacy without the knowledge and input of the public. That's not how things are meant to work in a democracy.
Much more interesting in my opinion is the Square article also in this issue of objc.io http://www.objc.io/issue-22/square.html

I am surprised to not see that article on HN instead of this one.
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That's not correct. In a pure-ethanol economy, the total emissions will be CO2 from:

- Deforestation for the creation of corn fields. This includes the process of cutting down trees (gas powered machines, transport, etc.) and loss of trees that will no longer produce O2/absorb CO2

- Planting

- Fertilizers. This one is huge as creation of fertilizers is nasty business and fairly energy intensive.

- Harvesting

- Transport

- Fermentation

- Disposal of byproducts

- Transport again to the pump

- Combustion

- Other effects, such as having to manufacture more engines as they would wear out quicker and recycling of more worn out engines.

This would partially offset by the fact that the corn is absorbing CO2.

As I mentioned above (twice), fossil fuels have similarly complex sources of emissions (drilling/fracking, transport, refining, transport again, combustion).

The question to answer is this: if you sum up the totals for both methods, which is more efficient. I guarantee you, both still will produce net positive CO2 emissions. The only question is which will produce less net CO2 from all the sources.

Lastly, I should mention that theoretically, there is also a benefit of reducing other nasty emissions from fossil fuels such as sulfur. We could probably produce cleaner ethanol than gasoline. But none of that will matter if we spew so much CO2 into the air that we suffocate before we can measure these secondary pollutants properly.
UI aside I am referring to applications like the new server manager that are literally a front end to PS cmdlets.

Full screen only metro is gone as of W10 it seems. It's just a flatter art style and I think the metro stuff something else again, it's not some powershell driving layer.
Not really. The controlls are there to protect municipalities from having obligations to provide welfare and services to migrants. It doesn't actually prevent the migrants from travelling for work.
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One problem I have with postgres right now is that whenever I want to upgrade the cluster (say from 9.1 to 9.3) there's downtime while the cluster is upgraded.

Not even vanilla replication helps, right now. I think I'd have to use something like slony to replicate between different versions of postgresql, but I never tried it.

How does upgrading postgresql versions work in RDS?
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Yes, power corrupts, and the US government is exceptionally powerful and exceptionally corrupt. The NSA is included in this, of course.

We already know the NSA's power has been extensively abused with "SEXINT" (stealing people's private photos for personal enjoyment and likely blackmail), JTRIG (discrediting people not accused or suspected of any crime), PRISM (monitoring every communication via to/from data and other private data), not to mention others.

None of these things relate to foreign espionage or generalized signals intelligence. Snowden said it himself: the NSA is only about SIGINT in their press releases. Really, their purpose is social control and consolidation of power. Their spying does not stop at members of the public or foreign publics; whistleblower Russ Tice said long before Snowden that the NSA had a tap on Barack Obama as early as 2004.
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I will admit to not having tried it. This is what I read when I was researching why it wasn't enabled by default.

Any thoughts on why they leave it off out of the box, then? I know it's not crazy hard to build a kernel (used to have to do it to get sound support in the 4.x series), but I'd rather not build kernels if I don't have to =)
David Mimno, has interesting post on the status of Mallet http://www.mimno.org/articles/malletplans/. Of note also is the Vowpal Wabbit variational Bayes https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki/Latent-Di... implementation. Spark includes a parallel LDA in the 1.3 release of mllib.
In this case, at least, honeypots. From the linked page:

> Every second, Norse collects and analyzes live threat intelligence from darknets in hundreds of locations in over 40 countries. The attacks shown are based on a small subset of live flows against the Norse honeypot infrastructure, representing actual worldwide cyber attacks by bad actors.
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Well thats disturbing.
Direct link to the Youtube, gizmodo article doesn't really add any value:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yn-rNdYZAY
a true merit based system should provide equally safe and secure environments for all citizens to thrive

Incorrect. The best and worst part of a meritocracy is that, if you don't have merit you don't belong.

There is no obligation to "all citizens". Now, the corollary to this is that, if a citizen proves their merit, they must be rewarded for it, because that's the social contract in play.

But, there is no reason that the system has to reward unproven individuals just because of some diversity quota...in fact, that's a really good way of destroying the ecosystem (same point made in article) because it undermines the very philosophy the group is predicated upon.
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I think the problem with something like Windows is that it is too big to be secure.
It should be extremely clear: the NSA should be expected - and I don't know of anyone outside of anarchist circles who doesn't expect - to have extremely sophisticated targeting operations for espionage.

While I fully support limiting the mass surveillance, stopping the NSL practice, and indiscriminate data collection being performed (along with other Star Chamber-esque behaviors), it is pure folly to expect targeted spying to be limited technically or not take place. It's simply too valuable to be able to monitor $espionage_target's computations.
Perhaps, but I think that if this comes to pass, we're going to have people who look and fuck like octogenarians for more than half their lives.
TL;DR The only problem is that ISPs love to oversell their capacities. And important services don't need that much bandwidth. NN has nothing to do with this.

The "911 calls should not be interrupted by torrents" is such a load of crap argument. It has nothing to do with net neutrality but is all about service level agreements.

With landlines, the main problem here is not that your neighbour could prevent you from making a 911 call by torrenting, but that his torrenting affects your bandwidth at all.

When you buy 10mbit from your ISP, you should _always_ be provided with that speed, and the ISP should take measures to ensure that.
Not on a per service level, but on a per customer basis.

But instead ISPs like to sell "up to 25mbit" offers which actually means "0mbit guaranteed, the rest is lottery" because you share that "25mbit" connection with everybody on the street.

Mobile contracts are a bit trickier, because there the topology is unknown and can change anytime, but even here we can calculate a lower bound if we take into account that each lte cell can only support a few hundred [(maybe a few thousand, if you have really fancy tech and own a very wide frequency spectrum)](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Plz-anyone-help-me-How-11807...) connections at the same time.

Even if we assumed that an lte cell can have an utopian 10.000 _active_ users using every available frequency, we would still be left with 300mbit/10.000=30kbit per user, [which is still enough for that goddamn 911 call.](http://www.erlang.com/bandwidth.html)
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I think you make a great point. If you're think A/B testing is important grow your business big enough to hire a statistician.
Yes, I agree. I mean, that's the point of the NSA, right? That's why they were created, for electronic surveillance.
I, for one, welcome our new sound overlords if it means better performance.
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That makes a lot of sense to me, too. Also: this isn't to say that there aren't grave concerns with using self-propagating malware as a vector for attacks. It's just to keep things in perspective.

The chances of a full-blown Iranian nuclear weapons program not eventually bearing an attack by explosive munitions are pretty close to zero; see Osirak. If malware that only really impacts centrifuges forestalls that for a couple years, I see it as a good thing.
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Aha, I was looking for something along these lines yesterday. One of the nice things so far about Flux so far though has been an absence of much unsettling 'magic' in the stack, which you get in Angular and Ember.

Will definitely check this out though, it seems sensible.
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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6351681 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102782.
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Their website requires TLS but doesn't support TLS 1.2. What technology are they using to serve their website that cannot support a 7 year old standard?
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I was thinking him or Gates.

Gates was famous for flogging his engineers in front of other staff members in meetings and telling them they didn't know what they were doing.

Hard to say the constant questioning of ideas didn't make either company incredibly successful.
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If we place too many restrictions on how companies should offer preview releases, they'll just stop entirely. Are you suggesting that even those comfortable taking on risk to get a sneak peak should be forced to wait for general availability?
If the NSA is really that overwhelmingly powerful, it is irrelevant whether a jury can be convinced of some random hacker's guilt. Let him go free if you must. If he is legitimately dangerous, the NSA can shut him down or point him the right way.
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No, I mean literally: if Stuxnet really did target the Iranian nuclear project and really did set Iran back by a year or so, then Stuxnet forestalled an aerial bombardment of Iran by a year or so.

It's an ugly situation, since Iran's geopolitical strategy involves gaining concessions through a game of chicken with the US counter-proliferation regime. At some point, unless it's resolved in a way that ends the Iranian nuclear arms program, it is going to end in explosions, and scores of lost lives.

This is a descriptive observation, not a normative one.

It is also true that if Iran somehow arranged for explosions at US nuclear facilities, the USG's response would be world- historically horrific. Any reasonable observer knows this to be a fact, so we can acknowledge it without getting into philosophy and move on.
Would love to hear from any Netflix employees lurking around here.
Note that since openssh 6.2 you can plug in to sshd for the keys without patching it with the AuthorizedKeysCommand , and there's several utilities around for pulling the authorized keys from LDAP or similar services.
Or a low latency environment where you need to reliably turn around a piece of data in 500us 1 billion times a day. If you do it in 1000us then the information is no longer of value.
You get what you pay for. This product is very squarely aimed at people that want backup cheap (and there's nothing wrong with that). Should you be backing up your enterprise with this (and only this)? Probably not. Is it good enough as a backup of your family photos and videos? Probably, but it depends on your risk aversion level. Additionally, you can always throw another backup service into the mix and get the redundancy you want, at the appropriate cost.
> "Implementation absolutely requires assistance from an integration partner."

> "If you aren't a multi-thousand user customer, Salesforce's sale folks don't take you seriously"

Thanks for the breakdon. I strongly agree with both above, which I think leaves plenty of opportunity for those purely focused on SMBs where companies like Hubspot have stated they will stay. Ever heard of a 'Salesforce Developer'? I put that in the same category as 'Websphere developer', 'Dynamics CRM developer' or other 'Huge Headache Engineer'. When the market needs a specialist for your tool (ie one who is familiar with the half-bakery) then how is one NOT leaving opportunity behind?

Thanks
This is a false dichotomy of the most offensive kind.
The second sentence I agree with, but not the first.

An 'untalented' developer is one who is perhaps slow to complete features, needs work on their design patterns, produces buggy code, etc.

Process isn't needed for these people, rather it is for people who do or try to get away with things like: expense excessive purchases, frequently lie about being sick to get out of working, speak or act in a lewd or unprofessional manner, etc.

Nobody is under the impression that mandating wearing a business suit (process) makes one suddenly better at programming (talent), the converse is equally absurd.

edit: punctuation
That actually sounds like it could be the name of a game.
Anybody know of a way to increase the buffer size of pipes? I've experienced cases where piping a really fast program to a slow one caused them both to go slower as the OS pauses first program writing when pipe buffer is full. This seemed to ruin the caching for the first program and caused them both to be slower even though normally pipes are faster as you're not touching disk.
Wikipedia sues NSA over mass Internet surveillance
The report published on Tuesday by the Japanese newspaper Tokyo Shimbun said figures from authorities in Fukushima Prefecture showed a total of 1,232 deaths in 2014 were linked to the nuclear disaster.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/10/401156/Deaths-tied-t...
That is a sad case of people proving that once the tables got turned the once who once was oppressed will happily deny others the right of free speech.

And, the majority, the ones who care less about right and wrong as long as they are on the correct side, will happily follow along, just as they did when Catholics ruled, just as they did when White Straight ruled.
Sure. Make an exception for 911 VoIP. But what else is there? Burglar alarm/panic button are in the same category, and what are we talking about? 5 bytes or 10? ..Self driving car? Put the computers on board. They are cheap. You can't do this now? Ok, ll buy your car next year, when you can. Not really happy with having to check with big brother in order to drive around, anyway. ..Robotic doctor? You mean you are having your open heart surgery in your living room, while your kid is playing 2 feet away the latest mmorpg? Well, maybe you have something to think about there.

Freedom is important. Really important. Everything else, are just excuses.
Did you even read the article? If they cared to actually silence someone, they would, and you would never know. People (or even robots) disagreeing with you on an internet forum is so far from effective that it's almost insulting to accuse them of it.
I understand what was being said. But in my experience many groups say this but in fact don't even come close to actually achieving it. Groups of white males have said this for a long time, "we are merit based, gender or ethnicity aren't considered during selection", but it just wasn't true. Much of the time it is a conscious decision to avoid the qualified diverse candidate, other times it isn't. Just because she or you say you are only choosing based on production doesn't make it so. She, you, or whomever is making the decision must look really hard at their own biases, if you can even see them (they may be obvious to anyone around you but hidden to your self).
Heard an opinion that Rosetta landing is a fake. Do you think it can be true?
At first I was thinking the same thing, but you can definitely go a-la-carte with SAP (one could argue there is no other way), and it is totally possible (and largely done) to build your own reasonably competent and market-priced team to maintain it. Come to think of it, SAP does provide added value when it is well-managed and tailored to your business. SAP is quite an unique beast.
> I call baloney on the idea that NSA can keep politicians on its leash simply by knowing their secrets.

What if some politicians manage to get an insider peek at the data NSA has ? NSA does not necessarily need to seek power on its own, but it can become a tool of control, usable by people who might want to make use of it.

Information is indeed power. The problem with that surveillance program is that it's a secret warchest of data, it's secret because it's purposed for criminal investigations. Anyone who can manage to bribe or have enough influence towards NSA employees could theoretically make unimaginable use of this data. It's having a monopoly on information. It also create distrust in computers in general, which is not necessarily a good thing.

The problem is not privacy, the problem is the possibility of small groups having privileged access to mandatory, potential sensitive data about anyone. That data is supposed to be secret because it's for investigative purposes. But it's done on everyone, without warrant, it's a recipe for a huge political mess.

This risk is way too high, compared to its advantages. You can't dismiss that risk.
Small correction, it was J. Edgar Hoover's FBI that tried to get MLK to commit suicide (not the CIA);

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensore...
It's not about whether there is any astroturfing going on, it's preemptively calling it out, implying that everyone who disagrees is astroturfing.

It's similar to people who say things like "I know I'm going to get downvoted, but". Instead of making assumptions about the nature of a discussion in a comment people should wait for the discussion to develop before judging.

If you know someone is astroturfing call it out. If a post isn't appropriate or isn't contributing to the discussion call that out. Just don't assume that people are participating in bad faith, especially before that participation has even occurred.
Your thinking on this matter is incredibly messy and not guided by rigorous investigation of the facts.

> Why would it stick around if it is not needed?

WHY WOULDN'T IT??? It's not expensive to carry junk DNA around - it just sits there, not doing anything, not creating proteins, not affecting anything. You're proposing that there's some sort of janitor going through and cleaning up the nonsense and it's just not true. If there is such a mechanism, point to it. Name it. Tell me what it is. Tell me what the evidence of it is. Just link to a wiki page!

I think the problem is that you're stuck on thinking about DNA as procedural program code instead of on its own terms, how it actually operates.

I'll try to explain a few things, in a last ditch attempt to appeal to your intellect:

DNA gets transcribed to mRNA based on START and STOP codons (codons being sequences of three bases). Then the codons in-between START and STOP on the mRNA strand get translated into amino acid chains, also known as proteins. The "ignore protocol", such as it is, is then twofold: 1) if a sequence doesn't occur between START and STOP, it's highly unlikely to ever get transcribed into mRNA, and 2) if an mRNA contains nonsense codons, or its number of base pairs is not divisible by three, then the resulting protein is most likely benign, or at least not harmful enough to prevent the organism from producing offspring and therefore propagating the harmful sequence. (If it is harmful enough to affect reproductive viability, then it doesn't tend to stick around very long.)

Not all DNA does anything. Plenty of it is just hanging on for the ride, not harming anyone, and so not selected against by natural selection.

> I call it peace at a certain point.

I call it giving up the search. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you give up trying to understand.
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Was that so hard?
Re: #2: in some US states, if you are laid off you are entitled to be compensated for vacation days you have accrued but not used.
Both mbuffer and pv by default contain fairly large in-memory buffers for pipe data, and accept parameters for particularly large buffers.

http://www.maier-komor.de/mbuffer.html
http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
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Is anyone else horrified by that demographics chart? The "income" pie chart has a line that splits it almost perfectly in half, yet one side contains 61% and the other 39%. The 24% piece is clearly way over 1/4, and the 25% way under. Are they drawing these by hand?
" Each win we get against idiot corporations is a battle won, but the war rages on"

a) We don't "win". We just "don't lose". Yet.
b) You are doing a great favor to them, thinking they are "idiots". The truth couldn't be further from the truth. They just have different goals than we have.
Where did you get that idea? Servo is designed to become a production-quality Web engine.

(Source: I'm one of the "founders" of Servo.)
How about an add-on cost/service that tags your data as needing datacenter redundancy, and only replicating that to a new datacenter. It has the benefit of not requiring as much up-front investment, as it's used it pays for itself, and you have a bunch of current customers you can upsell to. The architecture to segregate redundant from non-redundant backup customers could be a pain, but as long as you have tools to migrate data between systems (I imagine you do), then it could just be running two separate backblaze clusters in the first datacenter, one which supports redundancy and one which doesn't, and then just migrate customer data between the clusters as the add/drop the redundancy service. That saves you from having to cherry-pick specific files/customers from the the cluster to duplicate in the other datacenter, you just make sure one cluster is always redundant.
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