skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, I imagine it'd be a fair bit of money. Many toolbars track every site you visit, how long you're there, what you type on the site (including personally identifying information), and a host of other Orwellian things.

I can't imagine anyone feels good about trying to trick their users into installing this crap. If the money wasn't good, only completely amoral psychopaths would do it. As it stands, the financial incentives bring it to the point where greedy asshats are also willing to get in on the action.
surely a right and better choice.
Completely OT: "copacetic", new one for me - where have you come across this word; the etymology is intriguing to me.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/copacetic
so not code as infrastructure and therefore precisely not devops
Should white women make documentaries about rape in India?
Yes, I'm fairly certain that's what the parent meant. If he was running a company doing the bundling, how much would he get paid if his bundle installed the toolbar 1000 times, now how much would he as an end user get if he installed it 1000 times on his own machines.
Business as usual for Java, king of bloat.
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I'm already replacing my project's ancient Go and Rust based services with Pixie powered end points!
I installed the JRE and JDK (on diff machines) from the downloadable installers (not the updater) and neither installed the adware, nor had the option to.
Hitler was a US backed dictator in the same way that Saddam was for decades. Eventually it got out of hand and the USA had to declare war on Nazi Germany, but Hitler still managed to do what the US wanted him to do: Inflict maximum damage on the Soviet Union and weaken Europe so that the US could take over half of the continent.
At the rate Java has been fixing exploitable vulnerabilities lately, I would rather have just one copy to keep up-to-date. I know that's not a very Mac-like attitude though.
Well, stuxnet showed us that the vector is real and does exist.
This yeoman generator is also good start : https://github.com/newtriks/generator-react-webpack
What do you think would be a better term?

Network security is accurate I think but not specific enough.
I agree that we will need to consider location and all the aspects related to it. We are already brainstorming on this.
Could you elaborate some points that motivated you to switch from go? What would be next?
that's noops/movedops not devops
Are you talking about sysadmins on Windows? I can't imagine a Linux sysadmin being afraid of bash, zsh or a ios shell. My impression is that knowledge of some combination of bash, perl and python scripting is a basic job requirement.
http://acousticbrainz.org/ ?
What's wrong with "cyber"? - does it not relate to computers?
Probably not, he couldn't code.
Why is current salary relevant? In most cases, revealing your current salary will be used against you by the new employer, as it allows them to lower their offer if they had planned on offering much more.
And now to add insult to injury, you get excavated, mounted, and displayed in the moment you soiled yourself in death.
Except it's a beacon that screams "Hey I'm over here" to everyone in a 90m radius.
> DevOps /is/ operations. It is just that simple. It is design and automation of support systems. Nothing more, nothing less.

I disagree; although there's a huge value to consciously automating and designing support/deployment systems, there's even more value to developing products to be deployed ab initio.

You need automated production systems, and you also need developers who understand how their code is deployed and run. Really, you need smart, productive people, not interchangeable Java monkeys.
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You aren't Oracle's customer. The Fortune 1000 are their customers. Oracle doesn't care about nerd outrage, the developer community, or end users.

Former Oracle employee, via acquisition. Horrible place to work.

This post is my own opinion and does not relflect insider or confidential information from Oracle.
This is ridiculous. I'm "economically" coerced into working every day (i.e. if I don't work, my employer will stop paying me and fire me), but that's completely distinct from slavery, which is work forced using physical coercion (or threats of physical coercion), and is illegal.

What you're describing is essentially prostitution. While illegal in some jurisdictions, it's far from rape.
This is pretty interesting because the extends certainly result in DRYer CSS, which I think most of us would have figured to perform better.

I know I've gotten myself into some hairy situations in the past by mistakenly extending things that were already extended, and unintended consequences are a concern even now.

I've got a hefty redesign due to launch in the near future, and I'm doing a lot of performance tuning. I've got ~300 includes (mostly media queries) and ~30 extends. This seems like an easy enough change to make right now for a quick, but small win.
This makes me wonder if they're doing a partial rollout to some small percentage of users to test the waters.
I'm don't look like any of the video game characters from the games I play, regardless of gender.

An extreme diet and a lot of gym time and a set of stilts might get me somewhere near Agent 47, or binge eating and a wig might move me towards something E Honda-esque. IDGAF.

One of the MMORPGs I play as a female character coz I preferred the character model. She has green hair. In real life, I don't have enough hair left to warrant the pack of bleach and color.

It's not real. It's a video game. I'd be as happy playing as Katniss as I would Peeta, if those are the Hunger Game options.

Video games aren't the story of us. They're the story of someone else. That's the point.

I'm not a humanoid fox with a star fighter, I'm not an elf tasked with saving the world. I'm not a hired assassin or a warrior with long red hair fighting a tyrant.
Guninski had several, and there were working exploits for them. Nobody uses the OS to set process limits like djb claimed (nor should they), so it was exploitable on any installation of qmail.
Looks so much better than the first version!
I don't think any customer would like this.
A very poorly reasoned piece.

- How can "racism" explain US bombing of Japan when the exact same tactics were used against Germany?
- The piece has two links supposedly documenting Japanese piece overtures. One goes to no such discussion. (The other gives a brief summary of the Trohan article.) Sloppy.
- The question of who spoke for the Japanese government was very real, and made suspect overtures from "high Japanese officials".
- "Victory for the Allies was guaranteed by the start of the year" is a remarkable statement. There was little doubt that the Allies would win, but the timing and cost of that victory were very much in question.

What happened in Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima was truly terrible. Arguments that it was unnecessary, and willfully unnecessary, would have to be much stronger than this.
Snow is a major quality of life and safety issue. People from snowy climates will tell you it's not a big deal, but I'm from somewhere without snow, now living in the NE, it is definitely an issue and a major reason I won't settle here. Prepare to spend a few months every year basically stuck inside doing nothing. But that's a minor inconvenience compared to the issues with driving and even cycling. It's flat out dangerous to drive in snow, and more dangerous to drive on the black ice that remains.

There are cheap cities in America in much warmer climes.
@DigitalOcean, @GeekDad are fake accounts. It seems like it doesn't work for me.
It really depends on the environment and culture. In Python web apps for example it's very popular to keep project configuration in Python dicts and lists, which are just Python code (as opposed to using something like YAML or JSON for config).
There are quite a few visual testing tools, for example WebdriverCSS (https://github.com/webdriverio/webdrivercss), which is an open source visual testing framework built on top of WebdriverIO.
Visual testing tools actually differ quite a bit from one another in many ways (automation framework integration, if any, baseline management, comparison engine etc).
Getting an H1B is is getting harder every year its expected to be less than 50/50 chance, so this website is more like; jobs that come with a chance to enter the lottery so that you can start working in 7-8 months
This is mostly because of General Motors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
Why is it a horrible place to work?
A few years ago I built a home PC for myself and bought an i5 sandy bridge processor with an appropriate motherboard. A few months later it was found out that a huge batch of the SATA controllers shipped on those types of motherboards were faulty[0]. Back then, Intel made a statement recalling all faulty motherboards and shipping out new ones, I just contacted my retailer where I purchased my board, sent it for RMA and got a new one (different model, but that's another story). All of this for free.

[0] http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/pc-components/3259061/intel-...
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Agreed. Great update—I finally understand the product.

I also agree with the last line from greggh, too. Calling the things "Loops" is a bit weird and jargony. Something like "cards" (and stacks, being groups of cards?) might seem more natural?
Define "a fair bit of money", please.

It's telling that Facebook, a company that's not known for treating their users as anything other than a commodity to be packaged and sold, would never stoop to something like this.

In an era where a photo sharing site sells for over a billion dollars, Oracle must be raking in hundreds of millions on this deal for it to be worth the damage to their Java brand.
One way to decide on the free trial duration is by asking yourself - what is the shortest amount of time that my typical customer will find the "aha" moment using my software. This could be as little as one day and as much as 90/120 days depending on what the software does.

One benefit of a shorter trial is that it lets you iterate fast - if your trial period is just 7 days, you could make a change and see its result in 7 days.
Just log in so they can tweet on your behalf, follow on your behalf.... It'll be fine!
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Does anyone know if Macbooks are known to be affected?
I think the most striking point made here was the one about culture and how without everyone buying into the DevOp paradigm, its just another unused tool.

I say this because I've lived it...the last 3 (three!) companies I've contracted at were pushing dev code to live servers! Even after I setup svnserve and created the repos, no one was really interested in changing workflow. I choose svn because, lets face it, it has a much lower learning curve then git.

It wasn't until I absolutely refused to work on the live server that other the devs grudgingly started using SVN...I'm sure they are all back to FTPing to the live server now that I'm gone.

Without the proper culture from above, things just aren't going to change.
I think a similar argument would apply, that a reasonably informed user would understand that some metadata will be shared with (components of) the Tor network (I think this is a reasonable description of what controlling a guard node gains the FBI).

I understand why the FBI would need a warrant to capture traffic on some node owned by someone else. I don't see what would stop them from logging data from nodes that they placed on the network. Running a DOS is sketchier, but they do actually have some authority to not obey the law.

(please everybody try to separate the reality that they do have this authority from arguments about whether they should.)

edit: I fixed "Tor" in this comment and the one above, thanks to RemoteWorker.
"There is one occupation, however, that rarely figures in their reveries. Few of these kids hanker to become professors."

Perhaps there have been so many words written about how teaching jobs are not only few and far between, but they are underpaid and unloved by the very institutions that offer them. If you have read about adjunct professors who are homeless, or post docs 10 years into their search for a teaching position, you start to get the idea that maybe that isn't a smart move.

I suspect that much of the writing is for effect, and to promote a discussion on the pay and benefits of being a professor but it has the effect to turning away people who might one day pursue that role.
Have you checked out http://www.teamedwith.com? I wanted to invest in them on AngelList, but the min syndicate was just a tad too high for me.
⇒ npm ~@cluster-linux-xeon
zsh: command not found: npm

Portability?
It appears to tell you you've installed the extension, then ask you if you want to install it. Anyway, it would be fairly simple for someone not paying careful attention to install something completely unrelated to what they're actually trying to install; that's a trojan in my book.
> Going through a CS degree without learning to code is easy.

Let's name some schools here. In no school I am reasonably familiar with (either first hand or by friends with attendees) would this possible.
hmm I've worked with some of the people who invented the term and this is a bit off. devops is bringing dev practises into ops as you describe - e.g. replacing ad-hoc bespoke shell scripts with more standardised automation frameworks leading to full infrastructure-as-code phoenix-pattern deployments. It is also breaking the dev and ops wall in the same way that agile is intended to break the bus/dev wall. An example of this would be continuous deployment and automated testing (e.g. the kind of things that IMVU did with automated performance testing on commit to live with rollback if problems started to appear as changes cascaded through the infrastructure). and like agile it is meant to describe a mindset rather than a role or department. and also like agile, it is horribly bent out of shape by most orgs and comes to mean different things to many people...
Terry Tao has a blog post about these "compilation errors":

However, when, as a graduate student, one encounters the task of
reading a technical mathematical paper for the first time, it is
often the case that one loses much of one's higher reading skills,
reverting instead to a more formal and tedious line-by-line
interpretation of the text. As a consequence, a single typo or
undefined term in the paper can cause one's comprehension of the
paper to grind to a complete halt, in much the same way that it
would to a computer.

https://plus.google.com/+TerenceTao27/posts/TGjjJPUdJjk

There's more context here:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s...
On compulsory education:

If you agree with John Taylor Gatto, you could argue that the purpose of universal education was never to provide children with opportunities to learn how to make a living (apprenticeships rules date from the middle ages, and every other human society solves this problem somehow), but to condition them to blind obedience and dullness... for the direct benefit of the government (in the age of Napoleonic Wars, you needed lots and lots of idiot sheep that would literally march towards the enemy lines and shoot each other at point blank range) and indirectly to the nascent class of industrialist who needed a new kind of workers who would perform the same micro task over and over again with no regard for the total process.
If you're a heavy user you'd use a device like a phone or tablet for typing/viewing, like today's smart watches accompanying phones but the phone being more of a client.
In the EU, products have to be fit for purpose. You could then argue that if you bought (for example) a server for hosting virtual machines, then the RAM was not fit for purpose because the flaw made it incapable of isolating separate VMs.

Good luck trying that though!
How about we talk about the CIA's next projects after we finish the prosecution of those in the chain of command that are responsible for torture.

Or are attention spans so short and/or the agency so completely removed from the rule of law that we're going to let them get away with their crimes? If we're not even going to bother with the trial - acknowledging that we won't even bother trying to maintain the rule of law - then I guess that's sufficient proof that we have lost our republic, as we let it be replaced with feudalism.
Tried to check it out, but:

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Sorry. Not doing it.
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H1B isn't the only visa available to work in the US. It doesn't take 8 months to get the visa once you applied.
If we're talking about general tradecraft, in a how would you do it vein. I suspect a small internet-enabled device set to randomly transmit some time in the next few days or so, that sends OTP encrypted messages to as many people as it can, including the destination, and that self-destructs... releases acid or whatever into the chips... once it's done or if it's tampered with, would be hard to trace back the sender.

Throw it in a bin along with your morning coffee in a place thousands of people go a day - it'll get mixed in with all the other trash in a landfill somewhere and then good luck finding whose trash it went there with....
This!

I sure got that as the takeaway. Public investments targeted at innovation we've identified as important, or worth it, whatever should be increased.

There is another aspect to this as well. Check out this history of PDX area Tektronix: http://www.opb.org/television/programs/oregonexperience/segm...

Between Tek, Intel, and a couple others, the area was transformed into something we call "silicon forest" and it spawned a ton of great companies, many of which are in business today.

It was a very interesting mix of private and public investments in education and investment support. Spin offs, not competitive with Tek, got Tek support while ramping up. Colleges offered targeted programs for people to get educated, companies did the same.

The founders got very wealthy, but so did a lot of other people.

We need more of this kind of thing.
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Download the tool and try it yourself? It supports Mac OS and there is a mailing list to report affected machines (nothing seems to be posted there yet).
Great analysis, I hope you don't mind my linking to this comment as an explanation of the fractal patterns in the readme?
Looks good. One of the principles of my skeleton is to keep tooling down to a minimum. I am taking a look at Webpack and Hot Loader currently, but without the overhead of Yeoman, Grunt, Karma, etc...

That is not to say that these tools don't have value, and if a developer wishes to include them, it should be a fairly straightforward addition.
Yes. This happened 20 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
People became attached to their Tamagotchis and people liked talking to ELIZA. You need surprisingly little power to make people bond to stuff.
Boy that's interesting, I've never thought about it. I'm an American who grew up in Germany but have an Italian and German family who grew up in the projects of NY (the Love Canal, Niagara Falls). My grandmother (german) and grandfather (italian) married and their families constantly fought and pretty much hated one another.

I remember them fighting (mostly arguing) and the men going "Ey ey, lets keep things copacetic." (They might have said capasetti)

I always thought it was a pretty and a smart sounding word. I guess not.
Am I the only one who thinks it is sad that one needs a "skeleton" to write a minimal app?
Since sharing USB flash drives is pretty much the equivalent of having digital unprotected sex anyway, I'm sure you'll get that soon enough.

And it can get much, much worse than plain old viruses too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuruzFqMgIw
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I agree. That's why paying attention is important when installing 3rd party software. Especially when an installer requests admin privileges.
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> Mathematics is written by humans for humans.

Sure. But since I can't directly probe your mind, I can either read through thousands of pages of manuscript to refine my internal mental model of the particular theory/problem set/subfield, or hope for an interactive system that allows me to do just that, where I can tinker with concepts and connections between them.

Bret Victor showed it best, and even though he was talking about the applied side, it goes perfectly for the more abstract areas too.
A lot of my fellow security analysts have an irrational dislike of the term cyber. Personally, I'm indifferent towards the word. When someone uses it, I know exactly what they are talking about. Isn't that the important thing?
There was a similar story relating to Java updates and Ask toolbars in 2013. There is some history to this.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-close-look-at-how-oracle-inst...
I moved to Beijing, and started working for a healthcare startup. I'm finally on a legitimate work visa. It was a pain, but I'm definitely glad I did it.

Found the job by writing cold emails to people in Beijing through meetup.com
Same here, installed both JDK and JRE today and no crapware screns.
I agree. I've actually taken to using table/table-cell for primary/container grids because it works in IE 8+ and with border-spacing I can set consistent grids with (fixed) sizes if needed to suit a design.
Well you can only apply in April.. So what happens if you get the job in August :) ?
@strommen, [1] agree with making static resources cacheable and even using CDN for the same.

[2] inlining all CSS and JS, might not be a good idea, as it has several issues related to the same e.g. not being cacheable to start with, parallel resource request etc.

There are several other optimizations possible to reduce the page load time that we could share, though the issue in hand which required immediate attention and seemed to be causing a serious damage to the user's experience was its rendering performance, which we have focused in our discussion.
I think you don't understand the project at all. The point wasn't to play some game by doing something retro, the point was to create an amp that sounds as good as reasonably possible. There are many people who believe that tubes are the best way to do this. I can't say they're wrong; the most realistic sound I've ever heard came from a tube amp in a shop.
Can any of this be attributed to salary negotiation or "better" options being available to those already established in the field, such that a large commitment seemed unnecessary to them? For those who were established, where did they drop out of the pipeline and why?
Learned something new today: cyber, via cybernetics, originates from the Greek word for "steersman," kybernetes.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cybernetics
What frightens me is that we don't seem to have come far enough as a society since those times. Benjamin Barber and Noam Chomsky have done a pretty good job of exposing current-day American exceptionalism. This article points out that the attitudes which made such atrocities possible still exists today. Chomsky's essay "We Own the World"[1] is another good read - it's uncharacteristically short and accessible. Alas, "a prophet is without honour in his home town".

1. http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20080101.htm