skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These folk are between a rock and a hard place. I think they're finding out the same thing benedict Arnold found out. Neither side likes them much for different reasons, still, it's pretty bad for a country which seeks out assets to treat potential assets with such distrust. This may be among the reasons Russia, while not remunerating as well as the US, is said to have a better network of assets in the west and US in particular.

You have work with the assumption some assets are bad, but, you cannot treat all assets with suspicion and the brunt of bureaucracy, if you want to attract more and better human intelligence.

Maybe they can reminisce with Stalin's granddaughter, I think she still lives in Portland.
Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister
Brother-in-law? Sometimes the link isn't so indirect. For example, GM has a partnership (since foreign manufacturers aren't permitted to have majority ownership (last I checked)) with Chery Motors. Chery has access to everything produced in that plant, including tooling, tech, designs, etc. Chery takes this and uses it in their own plants to produce cars that compete directly with GM (and they export these cars too).

This is why many manufacturers use last-gen tech in their products within China.
The SpaceX design should be dramatically suprior to the aging Atlas and Delta designs because they are designed to be cheaper to build in the first place and they will be game changing if they manage to land the first stage and immediately turn it around for multiple launches.

Atlas and Delta are certainly good platforms for high reliability but they are expensive and they aren't making much effort to bring the costs down. Bringing the costs down would require design revisions that might undo that 50 years of design stability.

If SpaceX or someone else comes up with a reliable design at a dramatically lower price point ULA wont be able to sell their launchers unless its to a money is no object customer like the U.S. military.

Recovery and rapid turnaround of the first stage could make space access cheap enough many things would become possible and affordable that are not currently, due to high launch costs, like expeditions to Mars or large space structures.
I've been using daemon-manager for the past couple years—its most interesting point to me is that you can start and stop user daemons without require root privileges, which make it nice for non-root scripts/bots (for the paranoid age) and for multi-user systems (admittedly decreasingly common in the AWS and Docker age).
Just for the sake of checking, I installed NoScript from their website (not from Mozilla Addons or whatever) and indeed there is a white list, sad it doesn't tell you this, I think the very least they could do is tell you the fact they've added a default whitelist set, and maybe a description explaining why each domain / subdomain has been added.

Edit:

Didn't finish my thought but: It's not too hard to remove links you don't trust from the list since it's not so big, I actually have to say I find the majority of URL's on the list to be quite helpful, especially when trying to figure out how to safelist hotmail with all the numerous domains they use.
These are also from the Snowden leaks and they detail far more than just methodology, but rather examples of the actual information they're collecting - courtesy of Microsoft.

July 31, 2012

Microsoft (MS) began encrypting web-based chat with the introduction of the new outlook.com service. This new Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption effectively cut off collection of the new service for FAA 702 and likely 12333 (to some degree) for the Intelligence Community (IC). MS, working with the FBI, developed a surveillance capability to deal with the new SSL. These solutions were successfully tested and went live 12 Dec 2012. The SSL solution was applied to all current FISA and 702/PRISM requirements - no changes to UTT tasking procedures were required. The SSL solution does not collect server-based voice/video or file transfers. The MS legacy collection system will remain in place to collect voice/video and file transfers. As a result there will be some duplicate collection of text-based chat from the new and legacy systems which will be addressed at a later date. An increase in collection volume as a result of this solution has already been noted by CES.

March 15, 2013

SSO's PRISM program began tasking all Microsoft PRISM selectors to Skype because Skype allows users to log in using account identifiers in addition to Skype usernames. Until now, PRISM would not collect any Skype data when a user logged in using anything other than the Skype username which resulted in missing collection; this action will mitigate that. In fact, a user can create a Skype account using any e-mail address with any domain in the world. UTT does not currently allow analysts to task these non-Microsoft e-mail addresses to PRISM, however, SSO intends to fix that this summer. In the meantime, NSA, FBI and Dept of Justice coordinated over the last six months to gain approval for PRINTAURA to send all current and future Microsoft PRISM selectors to Skype. This resulted in about 9800 selectors being sent to Skype and successful collection has been received which otherwise would have been missed.

March 7, 2014

PRISM now collects Microsoft Skydrive data as part of PRISM'S standard Stored Communications collection package for a tasked FISA Amendments Act Section 702 (FAA702) selector. This means that analysts will no longer have to make a special request to SSO for this - a process step that many analysts may not have known about. This new capability will result in a much more complete and timely collection response from SSO for our Enterprise customers. This success is the result of the FBI working for many months with Microsoft to get this tasking and collection solution established.
Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo.
Factors other than labor cost were discussed a few years ago wrt the iPhone:

http://gizmodo.com/5878209/why-apple-doesnt-make-the-iphone-...
Better title....
"Interrupts and interrupt handling in the x86 port of the Linux kernel"
The URL in the thread he shows is zendcdn though:

https://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17066
I agree with your point about the default partition layout providing too little space for the src trees.

I ended up editing the partitions on the second install.
Applied Simplex Method for Deciding Future Coursework
How? There is no contact information in your profile.
RequestPolicy won't save you if the link is to a subdomain of vjs.zendcdn.net which is whitelisted, but also the site you're visiting.
> In the past, they encouraged an honour system through the use of WDRP emails. In addition, they only acted or required registrars to act when an issue was reported or noticed. I guess you could call this passive enforcement.

In practice for anyone who isn't a wrongdoer this is also known as non-enforcement. Nobody would normally notice or care when a website operated by an innocent person has inaccurate whois data or uses a whois privacy service that will actually keep the registrant's personal information private.
What’s the best way to spend $20K to help the common good?
Yes, I program on a netbook. I find the resource limitations useful in writing programs that are very efficient. I do mostly scientific programming, so if it runs on my netbook, it flies on my cluster.
Is there any Linux or BSD that is good* on the desktop for you? Just wondering!

PS: There appear to be a number of CentOS boxes that have been left for more than a decade judging by the thread on CentOS Forums about patching a CentOS 4 server for Heartbleed...
Injection molded plastic seems to be one industry that is still viable in the USA (just my observation, it seems common to see plastics factories here). Not sure why this is.
From tsan documentation: "A data race occurs when two threads access the same variable concurrently and at least one of the accesses is write"
Interesting. So what is, in your opinion, the percentage of earnings an average Chinese spends on maintaining/extending his "Guanxi" and on supporting his parents/presents for relatives?

I am asking about these two specifically because they make the biggest difference between the "western" culture and the Chinese culture. The other items on your list also appear in the lives of the citizens of many European/European based countries.
This is consistent with it being a typo. Typo's just in the forum post now.
> The base system config files are properly centralized in /etc, but not the ports.

OpenBSD generally stores ports configuration in /etc as well, however; some software has unique directory layout requirements and/or may be chrooted in /var. In that case they need access to their config files.
Ok, most or all that may be true, but it's quite immediately unrelated to the discussion, which is about the cost competitiveness of China compared to US manufacturing. And quite unrelated to the points of the person you're responding to.
If you ever run a company you'll know that job creators exist.

I had a bunch of money. I could have kept it locked in a box somewhere. Instead I decided to pay a bunch of people to help make something cool. Yes, that's a transaction, but for my part, I didn't have to engage in it. (In fact some days I kind of regret it, given all the garbage one has to put up with when running a company.) I could have kept the money locked in a box and felt happy that I feel rich. Or something.
You can say much the same about the US (swap Russia and Africa for South America and Middle East).

Besides, it's the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons on civilians.

All super powers are threatening.
Simple explanation: decreasing return + noise means you can't tell whether someone has been doing something for 10 years or 13.
Shoplocket is shutting down
I must admit, I felt a pang of nostalgia seeing that domain name. Must have been nearly 15 years ago that we got our super-fast 64k connection with free ntlworld.com web hosting, and we could finally have always-on internet at home. Oh how things have changed..
It's kinda strange that he spends so much time documenting his old-school linux admin rep, then really complains about building from source and not being able to just apt-get upgrade. Building from source is the way we used to do it.
I think NoScript works best as an additional defence line and not as a primary protection mechanism. As such, I would of course still install all regular security updates. It does reduce my attack surface, though, even if it won't stand against dedicated attacks. At the moment it benefits from its rare use (compared to browser users in general) and if it became more widespread and targeted by mainstream attacks, I'm optimistic that the whitelist issue would sort itself out over time (by iteratively removing vulnerable or untrustworthy sites).

Btw., like a few others have noted for theirs, my whitelist does not contain those entries in question. It might be because my installation is relatively old and they weren't pushed retroactively.
You basically want it a little above body temperature. My crock pot is too hot, even on its lowest setting, so I just use it as a dumb insulated water bath. I heat it to about 45 C, turn it off and let jars of milk/culture sit in the bath overnight.

I also boil the milk and then let it cool to 45 C. This achieves a few things: it kills off any other bacteria that may be in the milk and it denatures the milk protein so that it sets thicker. Costco milk is probably pasteurized at a high enough temperature that this isn't necessary, but I've always done it this way.

Yogurt is really forgiving. I've daydreamed a bit about making a temperature regulator for my crock with an Arduino or similar, but it's honestly not necessary. People get good results simply wrapping a jar with towels.
I am from India. And Unfortunately amazon.com doesnt ship to India and .in has it for 200$!

Let me checkout if I could find it some where.

Anyway I can see any of your business plan sample if they are available in public domain.

Edit: Thanks for tip.
Parts maker. It's something people forget about. Britain for a time was the premier plane/jet developer and manufacturing center after WW2. Like the Comet. And that helped a lot of parts makers (like Rolls-Royce jet engine) for planes grow in UK. Even when UK lost the crown of biggest jet maker to Boeing, those parts makers in Britain are still around and thriving.

So it's more disturbing to me that you can't find such competitive/numerous parts makers in US.
Yes, it's a tough life, but people actually pick that life because other options are tougher (for example being a rural farmer somewhere).

It is true that we should care about conditions in factories such as these and work to improve them. It's also true that if you insisted that Chinese workers get paid what American workers would, there would have been almost no factories and the entire country would still be in desolate poverty. Yes if there were no factories then probably the environment would be in a better condition.

It's a very complex situation. Just picking one angle to it and insisting that angle holds the whole truth does not help anyone.
For manned space flight, so far 18 people have died out of 430 that went to space. (14 Americans in two shuttle accidents, and 4 Russians in two separate incidents)

That's only slightly lower than 1/18.

The shuttle had a 40% vehicular failure rate (2 out of 5) and a 1.5% flight failure rate. That's better than 1/18, but not by that much.
If the program exits with a special status to indicate non-restartable failure, you could, in principle, recognize that in the process manager and handle it differently, by not restarting. Is there any way to do this in systemd, or in any other process manager?
Tumblr is blocked in a lot of places (schools, workplaces) because of all the porn they host. So you'd likely have to have your own domain.
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks
This will work if you're paid in the stock of a big company, which will have a market in its options as well. But then why not just short the things if you don't want to have the stock?

It doesn't work for non-listed startups. Lots of idiosyncratic risk, and no liquid market in the shares.
please show me where US
* is ruled by a secretive group of old men
* produces pollution that threatens the entire world
* uses the great firewall to attack tech companies in other countries like github
* creates artificial military island near neighboring countries.

And every since Obama took over, our policies with human rights and dictators is much better
First ever official ReactOS laptop
Many if not most publicly-traded companies explicitly prohibit their employees from hedging out their risk in this fashion. Check the fine print of your employee handbook before doing it. And if you are a section 16 employee, you should already know that you are almost certainly prohibited from doing it.

What, did you think you were the first to think of this?
But one does get used so quickly to the nice things... :) That's the main reason that put me off Slackware and Gentoo. Package managers are a great improvement.

Think about it: we also spent a lot of time configuring drivers, and I think we all agree that hardware autodetection is something to be desired in 2015, isn't it? That was my thought with compiling from source. Not that there is anything wrong with it, I just found it very weird because I didn't know that was the usual way to go on BSDs
in russian:

http://habrahabr.ru/company/reactos/blog/261313/
The shell I use on x86 returns the value in ax as the shell variable $?.

I have always thought about the idea of a shell that could return values from other registers.

I guess there are reasons this would be a stupid experiment. Or maybe I am the only one could see the utility of it.

Did anyone see Bourne's keynote at BSDCan about how sh was developed? I only looked at the slides.

Meanwhile I use a debgger for asm programs called ald to trace register values. I found a nasty bug in this program but I am not aware of any similar debuggers aimed at asm (cf. C).
Assuming it is in fact the case (and it probably is for larger items at least), it's probably as part of the US-based hydrocarbon refining ecosystem in some way. (The city in question in my comment was also one of the first places to do industrial plastics manufacturing as a way to replace tortoise shell for combs etc.)
The US could fit most of your points, probably even better. The world is not "doomed". What does that even mean? China certainly has its issues, but this sort of irrational fear speaks to me of a subtle form of racism.
Having installed it today I believe the whitelist only affects fresh installations.
NoScript's feature set goes way beyond just selectively blocking scripts based on domain, so nothing in the uBlock family is really a replacement for NoScript, just a replacement for NoScript's most basic feature.
Intelligent analysis of a deeply flawed Daily Show interview about Islam
Hooker and blow. You'll help them pay for college.
The cost of borrowing stock to short it is often higher than the corresponding option premiums. You also generally need less on deposit to execute the options strategy (that is, your value at risk will be lower, as will your margin interest cost).

I could retort with an equally glib "why don't employers just pay their employees in cash?"
Where to get free PHP reservation scripts?
Hi guys, I need to create PHP reservation form similar to this one: http://goo.gl/EhcsX9

Can anyone tell how to create such a PHP without PHP knowledge?
In addition to rules set by the company, selling short the company you work for (or doing the equivalent with options) is a legal grey area.

The best advice is simply to sell as early as possible (note, this is not financial advice).
this was the failure of a cutting edge rocket that resulted in no loss of human life. How is it tasteless? I'm personally more saddened by the fact that the ISS is getting schedules pushed back than some billion-dollar company lost a rocket.

I'm very much pro-space exploration, and I thought it was funny. It's just a tongue-in-cheek joking reference as if this was a huge game of lawn-darts.

Lighten up, and stop 'guessing' about what 'camp' people are a part of as part of public discourse. It makes you look rude, presumptive, and (possibly worst of all) wrong.
Worse still, school un-prepairs you from healthy interactions. You grow all kinds of needles, you become wary of people and insecure. It takes literally years of your life to overcome that. Sometimes forever.
This is amazing, I wonder how many of these machines are out there.
One weirdness I encountered recently with nested functions:

sub a {
my $v;
sub b {
# captures only the first
# instance of $v
}
}

This is because named subroutines are created once and variable captures are resolved at that time. I expected the more normal capture semantics you get with anonymous subs, like

sub a {
my $v;
my $b = sub {
# a new $b each time
# captures each $v
}
}
I guess this is using massscan, pretty interesting how many power station type mainframes/servers there are
I've been using chrony to sync 18 CPUs in a realtime application. I've found it to be a mixed bag. Once it gets syncing, it's really good. I've got it set up so I'm accurate to w/in a few microseconds on my LAN. But getting the initial sync fast is extremely unintuitive, impossible, poorly documented or some combo of all three. I don't think it was designed with the thought that the machines would get rebooted every night -- which is our case. I had to write some upstart scripts to perform the initial sync and then let chrony take over from there...
Environmental problems and abusive labor practices are problems and should not be tolerated. But they're nowhere close to accounting for the full discount in labor costs in China v.s. elsewhere.

Business owners factor costs into their strategies. They/we don't just have a bunch of jobs, and then go looking for people to fill them. China's cheap labor force has made possible products that wouldn't exist otherwise.
Show HN: Self-hosted stack-based programming language
Do you have any links that gives recent information about the JIT? Would be interesting to read more.
Please don't twist my words. I'm just saying "co-author" have different meanings for you and me.

edit: Really? Downvotes? Not cool.
[video] Doom on Raspberry Pi (~9800 bare metal assembly) - first year project
Bare metal port of the game DOOM for the Raspberry Pi (1st generation, model B) as part of the first year ARM project at Imperial College London (Computing). Not a perfect replica, but textures are sourced from the original game.
~9800 lines of bare metal ARM assembly, no operating system Custom homemade controller connected to the GPIO pins.
Group 34:
Bálint Rikker
Csongor Kiss
Sicong Li
Toby Shaw
Source code soon to be released on GitHub
Hope you enjoy!
Show HN: Facebook's “Celebrate Pride” tool recreated with JavaScript and canvas
"The author resents staying out of school because it also meant staying out of more diverse and more regular social interaction."

How is sitting in a room with other people, all of whom are within 12 months of your own age, with an authority figure at the front constantly telling you what to do, a "diverse" social interaction?

American schools were designed to produce factory workers who would stay on-task based on the direction of a foreman and bells ringing at certain times. That world doesn't exist any more.
SpaceX’s Failed CRS-7 Mission Had Something to Do with an “Overpressure Event
Rioting, looting, blood in the streets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=December_2001_riots_in_Argen...
i get this with flight tickets. they go up whilst im booking. If i don't book but wait, they go back down. anyone know how this works?
Right, if you get tricked into visiting the site then first-party scripts can run. But with XSS protection intact and RequestPolicy preventing any third-party access, the scope of possible attacks is pretty narrow.
"A 2014 study by the National Science Board found that of 19.5 million holders of degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, only 5.4 million were working in those fields, and a good question is what they do instead. The Center for Economic Policy and Research, tracing graduates from 2010 through 2014, discovered that 28 percent of engineers and 38 percent of computer sciencetists were either unemployed or holding jobs that did not need their training.2"
We should colonize other planets for their resources
(Author of the blog post here.)

While I don't want to debate my mindset or the motivations for the original blog post, I do want draw the attention to the closing comments at the bottom of the article :-)

In essence, I very much acknowledge that the Poland I left 15 years ago was not the same country it is today, and that it has changed in profound ways. Ultimately, the post is not an attempt to contrast the modern-day Poland and the modern-day United States; it is a personal story of getting out of the 90s Poland and finding happiness elsewhere.

Cheers!
Please skip/sit through the intro (first minute), after that it gets really interesting. I'm curious about people's opinion from a US perspective...
This is what Mark Cuban did when he sold broadcast.com to yahoo in a all stock sale - http://www.quora.com/How-did-Mark-Cuban-save-his-wealth-from...