skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Doing something" about IS is exactly what they (the leadership of IS) want. They want the West — and particularly the US — to engage militarily with them, to give credence to their particular, perverse brand of apocalyptic Islam.

Letting them continue to alienate themselves amongst all the other Muslims on the planet by the way they treat their fellows (if you're Muslim, but don't believe in IS's specific notions of the caliphate, you're an apostate, and must be killed) will, in the long run, do more to destroy them than even nuking all of Syria ever could.

EDIT: re your edit: if the West engages militarily with IS, that becomes an even bigger recruiting tool for them than did the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Imagine how many villages will be raped and killed and sold into sex slavery when IS has three times as many crazy fucknuts who all believe their heinous idiocy?

So, yes, by all means. Let's just go ahead and print their recruiting posters too, while we're at it.

This is long, but it's well worth the read. The Atlantic's article, titled "What ISIS Really Wants": http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isi...

Don't mistake me. I think IS and what they're doing are heinous and disgusting. But to react to what they're doing and try to stop them with force of arms will be massively counter-productive. Sometimes, blowing shit up just makes it worse. I mean, IS wouldn't even be a thing if the US hadn't blown up Iraq. How, exactly, is doubling down a good idea, again?

In the days immediately after 9/11, I said in an online forum to some friends that I really didn't want the US to spend the next several decades playing Whack-a-Mole with the jihad-inclined parts of Islam. Guess what we've done, and what you seem to be calling for doing...
Storm is not even 1.0 yet. Since Heron is API compatible with Storm, why can't Heron be simply a code name for Storm 2.0?

Storm is a much better name than Heron, IMO.
Here Active Listening – An equalizer for your ears
Parts of this sound more like hardware RAID controller issues than SSD issues, which is why I typically avoid hardware RAID in production environments unless there's a specific reason for it. RAID controllers tend to be buggy pieces of shit, usually implementing some RAID method that's more-or-less proprietary and unique even between different RAID cards from the same vendor (meaning that if your RAID controller fails, you might as well kiss your data goodbye, since the replacement - 9 times out of 10 - won't be able to make sense of its predecessor's RAID setup).

Also, RAID6 is a bad idea, almost as bad as RAID5. There have been numerous studies and reports [0] indicating that both are very susceptible to subtle bit errors ("cosmic rays"), and this is made even worse when SSDs are involved. If you need absolute data integrity, RAID1 is your only option; if you need a balance between integrity, performance, and capacity, go with RAID10, which is still leaps-and-bounds better than RAID5/6.

[0]: http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/Why_RAID5_is_bad_news.pdf
I know this doesn't mean diddly squat, but my sister worked for a manufacturer of airline wiring harnesses up until very recently, and when I asked about it, she mentioned that they were not interconnected or exposed to one another. I don't believe they did the really huge jets, but regional and private sized jet harnesses instead, so it could be different in that aspect also.
Firefox Integrates Pocket, Adds Distraction-Free Reader View
Here are a few links to start out with.

Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts (aeon.co)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411762

The Wisdom of Alan Watts in Four Thought-Provoking Animations
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http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/the-wisdom-of-alan-watts-...
It's not, but most successful startup regions are left or libertarian leaning (Portland, NYC, Austin). Conservative states tend to produce conservative economies.
That seems like a lot of effort just to keep your apocalyptic narrative alive.
He "doesn't believe in" vaccines. Keep that in mind.
It's like plane surveillance- except it's in the air for decades at a time.
TrashDay: Parody or peak bubble alert?
My vote is for parody. If we find out that a service that charges in the neighborhood of $40 a month to roll out your trash cans is real, we are on official bubble alert. If we find out that they are backed by $5 million in venture funding, sell everything you own right now!
If I remember correctly, the node.js team needed a lot of help from experienced Windows developers (even from Microsoft itself??) to add IOCP support to libuv.

I think kqueue is the best (well I guess I'm a BSD fan :D) but in general: app developers generally don't care about this, they just use libuv or libevent or something like that.

Does Windows really have "good stuff" for developers? .NET is excellent, but the lower level APIs look horrible. (And the CP/M / DOS era files stuff – drive letters, file extensions that actually matter – makes me very unhappy.)

Jails, ZFS, DTrace, FUSE, netmap, PAM, pf – that's good stuff!
Why is that? Finagle, Mesos and Aurora look like solid open source projects from Twitter.
Watchbird[1] coming next?

[1]. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29579

See also https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121205/21484221251/nyc-a...
Powershell ISE?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315244.aspx
Snap has higher-order procedures, call with continuation, multitasking, interprocess communication, modules, objects...

QBASIC, to the best of my recollection, had none of those things. So how, exactly, is Snap "dumbed down" by comparison?
Yes, I use dump1090 which can decode Mode S/ADS-B with or without location and Mode A/C.
THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING a FUCK
A Letter from the Fed'd Hilsenrath to the American Consumer
UN Special Rapporteur Kaye: human rights now depend on encryption and anonymity
I wonder what Nathan Marz thinks about this, as he is the guy that created Storm (which IMO, is some of the best OSS code out there)
Singabore is Asian Las Vegas. Very sterile, controlled "wild partying" dictated by large corporations.

SV had a wild counter-culture drug scene in the 70's and 80's. Things got tame in the 90's, but there's always SF nearby.

For example, take gambling in Singapore as a resident. You can only lose so much money per day, and it's tracked. While some might argue the merits of this, Americans would have a problem with not being able to risk it all or win their money back. Again, just an example of the SG thought process and not a certain dealbreaker.
Bizarre, their blog post is tagged "open source" but I checked their GitHub page and no sign of it.
Picking the right project to work hard on is not a matter of luck.
This idea has seen some possibilities with a recent article on HN about a few co-ops popping up around the SF/CA area (at-large).

Most of the other guys here seem to think of the co-op as a:

structure where multiple independent freelancers work on a project in a unified manner

This isn't what it should be. A co-op should be something in between a coding sweat-shop and the freelance world.

Profits are always shared but the work is more "secure".

Structuring it is a bit more difficult and I personally would look to the lawyer/big-4-accounting/consulting style structure, where there are: associates, junior partners and senior partners (it can be less formal, but there should always be a few guys in charge)

It would also be better to be more equitable with the profit-sharing compared to how those guys do it, but your "rain-maker" who pulls in the million dollar contracts should obviously be earning a lot more than the guy coding out simple backends in Meteor.

I've considered this myself deeply, but the logistics of building out such a company/co-op (it has to be remote as well, IMO) would mean that the "founders" would eventually end up taking big salaries to compensate for all the initial effort they put to build the company (which would still be less than equity-rewards that a regular startup would see).
And then do what? Isn't this the problem of non-decreasing expectations? Once you learn how to fly, you see yourself as a sucker every time you try to ordinarily walk.
Tell me more... I suppose one could do some form of page scrapping in the background and then generate a notifucation
In my experience, "smart" tvs almost always offer a degradation of user experience.
Thanks cookiecaper. I would not disagree with you in general but I would say that in our experience most cart systems don't make it easy to switch payment processors _unless_ you don't care about storing or retaining cards for additional purchases or subscriptions. Most carts, for PCI reasons, pass your cards directly into the gateway so you're still stuck looking at export/import if you want to move.
Over the years, I've got a lot of mileage out of "Learning the vi and vim Editors" from O'Reilly, and web pages like http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html. Practicing and testing compositions based on what you learn from these will go a _long_ way. Try new ways to move (by screens, by sentences, by blocks), test using your buffers, experiment w/ transforms. Then, one day, you realize you're pretty good with vi.
Less than a millennium ago, the idea of making reading (let along writing) an "everyman" skill boggled the minds of people like yourself - the already literate who had pretty comfortable jobs because they had a skill that maybe 2.5% had. Fast forward about 400 years and more people can read than those who can't (at least in developed countries)

Perhaps the reason you're stuck in this old mindset is because you see programming only as a means of employment, and not a basic skill that nearly every will have in a couple of centuries. Not being able to program will be akin to not being able to read, and we'll have developed a wealth of special needs programs to help those who can't hack it.
Once you sign up for the $32-$52/month service,
the company will come assess your home’s trash situation,
*get copies of your keys*, and then show up the afternoon
before your trash pickup to roll your cans out to the curb.

Please let this be a parody.
Comedian who called Uber CEO's girlfriend a 'b****' faces backlash
Bionic Hearing 1.0: Doppler Launches Here “Bionic Ears”
I started looking at finagle, finatra and scrooge. i love all three projects. but at the same time, the documentation is really really bad.

if you have the same requirement as twitter, nice -- but if you detour even a little bit, you are going to have a shitty time (for example, for thrift, i wanted to use buffered codec instead of framed and there was not a single document explaining how to do it. i spent ~2h perusing unit tests to find a way which i don't know if it's correct or not).
That very last stage stands in my memory as one of the best uses of game mechanics as part of the story telling I've ever seen. It's the rare sort of thing that truly makes games an art of its own, rather than some sort of "interactive movie".
Early SSD failures were all firmware bugs. As time goes on that has receeded into noise. Now SSD failure stats show sensible wear patterns.
I can't figure out if this is satire or not?
I struggled for many years of lack of motivation. One source of insight into motivation is "Drive: The surprising truth..." http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates...

The main takeaway is that you want internal motivation, not external!

I found my internal motivation through finding my "why", read "Start with why" for an explanation http://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/...
Your initial "find" version would be better if it used print0 because it would avoid failing on files with spaces in their names:

find ~/.ssh -name '*.pub' -print0 | xargs -0 ssh-keygen -lf
It's up to 80% of the full salary. While your typical Swedish programmer would get more than $350/week, they're not going to get 80% of their salary since they cap out well before that.
This looks very impressive. Any details on how it was done?
> Says the guy who

Please don't do that here.
Otherwise-equivalent Smart TVs are usually less expensive than displays (whether TVs or monitors) without the "Smart" features. This is a matter probably largely of economies of scale -- because that's what manufacturers think the consumer market wants, that's what they make most of and flood consumer channels with, and dumb alternatives are a specialty product.
Polymer and modern web APIs: In production at Google scale
Let me turn that around:

Just because you're not a cordon bleu chef doesn't mean you shouldn't know how to cook a basic meal.

Just because you're not a world-class fashion designer doesn't mean you shouldn't know how to reattach a loose button.

And, more directly: just because you're not a Linux kernel committer doesn't mean you should be mystified by your home's programmable thermostat.
To expand: in my 20-year experience, no small-computer RAID 5/6 controller I have had experience with has ever saved any data, ever. All failures are hard and non-recoverable. Which begs the question: why use them at all? I mirror only.
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Pretty sure that if it was a hack or credible bomb threat, that they would not have been flying again after only an hour. A scenario like that would suggest just a normal IT glitch and a reboot/restart to fix and validate that it's back to normal.
I believe 2 people were executed for drug crimes last year.

I would argue that the government is overbearing. The air is clean until Malaysia starts a few fires again. Were you there for F1 in 2014?

Certainly living in Singapore has its upsides. You trade away certain rights for what some would consider a high quality of life. It's basically ethics bargaining. I'm not saying it's terrible. I'm just saying it's not conducive to entrepreneurial ventures. Out of curiosity, do you work for a large, multinational company?

Also not to be pedantic, but it's hanged, not hung.
sshd would still be authenticated. It's defense in depth.
Definitely reminds me of this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/suspense/flowers_by_i...
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2391

If I am forced to use Windows in an Enterprise setting, then I just go to Control Panel and enable the POSIX layer ("SUA"), then download the SDK and install. With some minor changes to the %Path, it just works.

SUA has older versions of tcsh, ksh, vi and many other utilities, including an older Perl and an old GCC toolchain that does work. It is 4.2BSD based. If you are at home on BSD, it is like going back in time.

netcat, tmux, emacs, etc. you would have compile yourself. Maybe OpenSSH would compile and run. I have not tried.

Perhaps an alternative to Cygwin, etc. Not "better" but different. It generally "seems" faster and I find it's more difficult to "break" than Cygwin which in my experience can be very "delicate". The SUA White Paper says SUA comes to within 10% of the speed of native Windows.

The main advantage though, for me, is that this is not "unauthorized third party software" to the extent it comes with Windows and the SDK download comes from Microsoft's Akamai account.
When I share a password between two services, they get the plaintext password when I authenticate, so the first one can impersonate me in front of the second one. How does this apply to keys?
Show HN: Strongarm – An Incident Response Platform
Actually one month ago in Amsterdam I've used a Philips smart TV that complained about "youtube is not supported anymore yadda yadda". Programmed obsolescence at its best (this TV probably wasn't more than 3 or 4 years old).
But here the device uses the data to like ping the user if there's a chance for an accident with another Fuel Book user or to detect pot holes ahead, I wouldn't mind the device pinging those details.
GoAccess, Open Source real-time web analytics in the terminal
I'm a co-founder at Percipient Networks and we are extremely excited to get feedback from HN!

I wrote a short post about the vision for STRONGARM on our blog. It should give a little more context.

https://percipientnetworks.com/blog/strongarm-incident-respo...

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks!
That assumption is not reasonable at all. Not only are "dumb" TVs no cheaper, hardly anyone even sells them anymore.
It seems like the real problem here is the administrative process... the OP makes it sound like a unilateral decision with no recourse... and maybe less extreme measures could have been taken, such as letting them know what aspect of their business was high risk and giving them a chance to spin it off instead of just booting them. It is incredibly inconvenient to have to switch payment processors unexpectedly, and having a reputation for booting customers unilaterally will not benefit your company.
Anyone knows why Firefox pdfjs fails to follow links to chapters correctly?
This particular device was mentioned in a discussion here awhile back: http://www.teledynecontrols.com/productsolution/ned/overview...

One of the collateral PDFs for the device shows it connected to "IFE (In-Flight Entertainment)" (http://www.teledyne-controls.com/pdf/NED_Brochure.pdf).

Just the existence of such a device gives me reasonable cause to believe that there's more interconnection than "isolated just fine". While I have a lot of respect for the engineering processes that go into aviation systems, I've also had enough practical experience in IT security to know that blind faith in things being done right is foolish.
A blockchain-based virtual reality world
Are you arguing the enforcing the law is a bad thing? I think it's clear people arguing this line of thinking aren't pro privacy, they just want people to get away with crimes.
I have to admit that I don't really understand the spirit of some of the commenters here that feel that the rank and file employees were wronged.
Every year my company has to decide how much bonus and equity to give me, if any, and I have to decide if I want to continue to work for them. If the work is interesting, my skills are growing, and the compensation is adequate, then I'll probably continue to stick around. If other companies offer me a sufficiently better gig then I'll leave.
They do have a nifty feature for opening doors with a knock on your phone or Smart Watch.
edit : and the Fuel Book accessory
US based media are highly tuned to what their readers want to read and just focuses on American names/companies that their readers know most about in addition to not caring about what companies are doing in EU.
It's 10 and 10, I think.
Out of curiosity, what do you use Firebug for that the regular developer tools can't handle?

There used to be a huge feature gap between them, but that's been shrinking for a while, and I thought it had been eliminated altogether.
If you don't trust the TV manufacturer to include spying devices in their product, there is no reason to believe the "dumb" TV you brought from them is any less capable.
I applied here last month when it was posted but never got any kind of response. Is there anyone I can reach out to about this?
Well, I certainly welcome any evidence or well presented arguments. Like most people, I don't appreciate bold claims based on intuition.
Definitely not, for the consumer. For the manufacturers, sure. Supporting a cheap piece of hardware for several years when consumers are going to demand it works with HomeKit, Google @Home, or whatever it's called now, and their descendants, and Microsoft's play, and the many competitors yet to come — that'll suck.

Traditional hardware makers are going to have to factor the support of this software component into their prices now.
Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid, is coming out with a new game called "The Witness" pretty Soon™.

http://the-witness.net/news/
I don't know how I feel about Stingrays. On one hand, I think if your phone is spewing out all sorts of information about you into the aether, that's your problem, not the government's. On the other hand, pretending to be a cell tower is an active process, unlike a purely passive device like an aerial camera, and that seems "more search-y" to me.

The solution, of course, is to not have utterly retarded cell phones that blindly trust whatever claims to be a base station.
I believe they are looking more as a platform for connected cars and not just a one shot solution, have you checked their Fuel Book accessory HUD it's on their campaign page.
A while back when I was responsible for windows boxes they ran ssh and RDP, there were plenty of times when machines were un-RDP-able but I could still SSH in and fix the saddness.
They probably should come up with some way to simply mark things though, so you can easily tell by looking at what you're plugging in that everything is good.
Totalitarian?

Nearly omniscient?

US law enforcement can't even keep bombs off airplanes, drugs out of prison, and people from getting away with murder.
> The last thing you want is a government monkeying around with your currency.

Currencies are legal instruments of Governments, seem rather inextricable to me.
Fab plants are now making superfast carbon nanotube memory
Hot Swappable Raspberry Pi Rack
Or people who use twitter and like to gamble.
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> "Programming", better described as applied mathematics, is not and has never been an accessible profession.

Not all people who use programming in their work are professional programmers, just like not all people who use writing in their work are professional writers.

> Computer science is the application of mathematical logic, which by definition, is out of the reach of the majority of students.

No, the application of mathematic logic is not, by definition, out of the reach of the majority of students.

(And programming and computer science are different things, anyway.)
I suggest reading "The Idea Factory - The great age of American Revolution". The book talks about the experiences of all these exceptional engineers and scientists that were brought together under the umbrella of Bell Labs and as a result a plethora of technologies came out of it (digital computers, networks etc etc). What we need today is another similar revolution but in the field of bioengineering and health sciences.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/d...
> This can't be farther from the truth.. "our" design aesthetic is not on a basis of trying to save bandwidth.

No, it's more to do with 'democratising' app design, and cutting the expense of (good) designers.