jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Posterous actually has a nasty security hole which allows you to get the email address for any posterous which the user has not claimed.

Here's a posterous I just created: http://john-tfk88.posterous.com/ that I have not claimed.

The 'Claim this site' link goes to http://posterous.com/main/register?hash=Bu5fX3lRT2rYPURl7axZ...

If you view source that you'll find that my email address is 'hidden' in the page:

<input id="user_mail" name="user[mail]" type="hidden" value="jgc@jgc.org" />

So, for any unclaimed posterous you can programmatically go to the owner's email address. A nice hack would be to grab the email address of newly created posterous accounts, wait for them to be claimed (or not) and then started spamming them. Yay!

Oh look: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22claim+this+sit...
Yes, the four polymorphisms you can find in C++. Am I missing something?
rsync won't delete extra files at the destination unless you tell it to. Although, there's still the problem of syncing corrupted stuff to the mirror. Keeping multiple versions is certainly more robust, in any case.
Nothing says 'cute' quite like an ideology thar killed ~300000000 people.
Agreed. Since "May God have mercy on his soul" is pretty much boilerplate language for executions, we should look at the difference in what Shurtleff says.

When he writes, "May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims," the emphasis is on Garner's crime.

The "May God grant him the mercy..." part is more likely a cultural artifact than religious extremism.
Oh I know, I'm just paranoid and have (yes, even me, the Google fanboy) my limits on what I'm willing to store on others' servers.

I know, I can use xmarks or del.icio.us or whomever, but having bookmarks/extensions or (at least eventually) all of my browser state synced in a single place... that's just unbeatable IMO. Especially because I have a desktop, laptop and work laptop that are used about equally. It's a nightmare to remember, "Oh where did I bookmark that page at?" etc. Not to mention extensions, cookies, etc, etc.
> community is probably biased towards people who are (1) a little bit smarter than average

[citation needed]

I agree that on average we're much more willing to learn things ourselves and interested in the subjects you listed, but I reject the idea that the community prefers text content because we're smarter than average. One problem with HN being connected to YC (though it comes with a lot of upsides) is that people will always go out of their way to appear smart. Everyone knows that can help their chances of getting accepted.

Sure, literally everyone that has replied to my original comment has said they're in favor of learning by reading plain text, but the fact is less HN users would have followed along with Sam Altman's "How to Start a Startup" course had it been in that format.
Meerkat could still go the way of Color. They're quite early in their public life, from what I can tell, and suddenly facing a much stronger competitor.
There are better ways to phrase your sentiment.
I am currently building a workbench in my garage, so that I can build a radio controlled plane from my own design. I'm planning on welding the frame from aluminum tube and using riveted aluminum sheet for the skin.
This fucking sucks. I'm angry.

I have a pretty dark outlook when it comes to global warming, but when you're a griddy customer and you're watching your meter constantly, it just made sense. For a brief moment in time, a green future based on renewables felt realistic. For a brief moment in time, I felt like we might actually be able to meet carbon emission goals.

When it cost a lot to make electricity, I used less. When it cost very little, I used freely. When I was able to get paid to put a load on the grid, I sure as hell did. And whenever I was thinking about this, I was able to realize that everyone who wasn't a griddy customer was not remotely aware of what was going on with wind turbines nearby. Anyone on a flat rate plan set their themostat and forgot about it, because the cost to run their AC was fixed. Whereas when the wind wasn't blowing and it was hot out, I was aware that it meant burning more natural gas, and was perfectly fine with having my thermostat a bit higher because it was going to cost me more.

Regulation and politics have killed innovation, once again. Fuck that.
Except during events like this, that people are not and cannot be prepared for. Griddy going out of business is nothing -- if someone else wants to take up the business model, they can tomorrow. Individual people being charged thousands for debts difficult to discharge is the real harm.
Do you think we should leave a mint on his (non)pillow every night? The accusations against this military person, who voluntarily violated his oath to protect the nation's secrets, are very serious, and PRIVATE, not Mister, Manning is being held to the same standards any other military person is liable to, and is quite likely to face execution by firing squad.
Well in all fairness those are probably pretty good passwords. I would guess they are both extremely uncommon passwords. Furthermore any brute forcing algorithm is probably going to leave trying all 28 character passwords for the end since most people do not have passwords that long.
Tracking down Alex Cazes wasn’t shady at all.

Shortly after he committed suicide I pulled up the French language technical board where he had linked an alias to a real email address. Which mirrors the same mistake as the Silk Road operator.

When you dig deeper into these cases it’s clear that they aren’t properly washing the money. There’s no placement or layering. They go straight to laundering on a public ledger and cash out under their own names.

The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Isn't that just a beautiful explanation for security measures? Kind of like suspending or limiting Miranda Rights because of terror.
As much as it's fun to think about how much you personally stand to gain in an exit, it's all just pie in the sky silliness. Your number one goal should be to maximize your odds of success without constraining yourself to any arbitrary parameter like "no more than 2 cofounders."

Building a profitable company is such a difficult and volatile process that if you try and focus on anything other than just success (e.g. your personal take) you're going to end up shooting yourself in the foot and end up with nothing.
For those who enjoyed reading this post, I have some recommendations:

* Anything by Hervé This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervé_This#Bibliography)

* Nicholas Kurti's "But the Crackling is Superb: An Anthology on Food and Drink by Fellows and Foreign Members of The Royal Society of London" (ISBN 0-7503-0488-X)

* Stuff by Heston Blumenthal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heston_Blumenthal)

I first learned of the obsession with perfecting food through understanding the chemistry behind it through Cook & Chemist (http://www.cookandchemist.com). Unfortunately, the two books they have published are in Dutch and there appear to be no translations yet.
You assume we have representative, legitimate government that can control programs that hide behind "national security."
I'm fine with them bringing back the Mammoth since it at least was recent, but I do have some concerns about other animals. We probably should not bring back any apex predators for a while (T Rex or for the love of all that's holy a Meglaodon).

I am a bit concerned that it will not survive with the evolution of other things (e.g. disease).
I can say that I just moved and I avoided Colorado strictly on climate concerns.
But only if you're vaguely OK with a trip that lasts ~20 years and has no exit option.
After thirteen years this is what crypto gives us. A few people get rich at the cost of all the rest. From coins getting hacked/stolen to ransomware, to just cryto-gambling.

But there is something positive to say about crypto too.

The failings of crypto teach a lot of people about how and why societies work the way they do. And that no amount of tech can ever replace our institutions and human trust.

I'm 100% with Stephen Diehl on this one: the entire 100% of crypto needs to be burned down to the ground. It needs to go because of the enormous harm it does to people and our larger society, for no gains at all.
You're being really uncharitable towards yummyfajitas here. I think if you were to give him the benefit of the doubt rather than trying to take the worst possible interpretation of his words at every turn, you could have a more productive conversation. He didn't respond to you by accusing you of favoring the caste system -- why are you accusing him of, first, racism, then favoring only crony capitalism?

I have several Indian friends who've expressed approximately the sentiments that he did about the average Indian business, specifically very hierarchical management compared to American culture, which is indeed problematic in settings of knowledge workers -- you don't manage them the way you manage an assembly line. Heck, you shouldn't even manage an assembly line that way, the line workers know the equipment better than you do. You can disagree with him and them without accusing people of racism or blaming them for the East India Company.
That's the impression I got. I ended up using the renamed one, after renaming it once again from @tweetcoin1 to @usetweetcoin.
Sure, and that's why I phrased that suggestion as a question. Maybe we're not walking towards strong AI with weak AI steps. But...with AI writing sports articles now, it seems logical to wonder if perhaps small progressions in the capabilities of weak AI systems will result in real, full AGI.
One thing, though... make sure you politely decline if he asks if you want to do anything involving massages or exercise. Unless you're into having sex with old men, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
He simply should've followed the HN guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and linked to the article and stuck to the original title.
If the bot is willing to make Taiwanese-style CG animations of the highlights, I'm all for it.
Playing chess better than humans was also once considered as would-be proof of "Real AI".

As soon as we get an AI doing something that was previously considered intelligent that task is retroactively relabeled as not really requiring intelligence, and consequently "Real AI" remains out of reach.
Yes, I noticed it too.

I don't know what the backend is, but if it's on a single shared machine it might be too many inquires on the hardware at once. Maybe ask the hosting company to move it to a machine with a lower load.
Surely strong AI is by definition such a paradigm shift that it cannot be achieved with lots of little steps of weak AI? I thought that was kind of the point of the strong/weak AI dichotomy.
I'm really disappointed to see the language support for collections get pushed back to Java 8; it's one of those minor things that really starts to wear on me when I'm using the language.

I might just switch more code over to Scala...
Lua (The programming language) is very well written and well worth reading and understanding.

http://www.lua.org/
I'm really impressed with the way he imagined the UI, and his way of using dots and the life gauges. You must be a really proud dad, as you definitely seem to be.
"A person is guilty of theft, if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it".

Actually, I'm not sure that US law is the same. But that's how it is in England.
Leverage is mostly about having a place to stand on
not about having a big stick.
Any tips on how to get a better handle on 'many, enough, and too many' relatively easily? I'd like to do something like this, but it's the paradox of choice with me and health: I know next to nothing, so I just feel confused by everything...
To nitpick, the topic at hand is pre-image attacks, not collision attacks. Pre-image is where you know the hash and want the plaintext, collision is where you create two plaintexts with the same hash but don't care about the actual hash value. The former is recovering information, the latter is falsifying trust and almost always involves signatures.

Collision attacks don't apply to many situations but are much easier to execute, for example a MD5 pre-image attack requires approximately 2^128 steps but a collision attack requires only about 2^64 steps. This is why MD5 is totally unsuitable for collision resistance, and in fact has already been successfully exploited to fabricate a real-world CA certificate, but still puts up mild resistance to password cracking. Not that I'm recommending you use it or anything -- do what the nice gentleman says and just use bcrypt already!
"Hoy por tí, mañana por mí" is about empathy, not about literally expecting future reciprocation. In more practical terms, it's a polite way to refuse being rewarded for something done out of kindness.
No, absolutely, there are very cool things coming out of Microsoft with regards to C#/VC++. It's just that they nearly always come from Microsoft, there isn't an active community that does these things.
Good point in that the aesthetics of a model are in the eye of the beholder - although:

> that does not make a simple model better than a complex model that matches observation better

Perhaps this is less of an issue in physics than some other fields because the observations are less noisy (?) -- but if getting the best match for existing observations is all you care about from a model, you could end up with something grossly over-fitted. I guess it goes without saying that any proposed physical laws need to pass the equivalent of cross-validation :)
In theory minimal on the positive side. The only thing you'd care about is the amino acid profile of the proteins, which they are claiming is better than meat:

> “What’s exciting to me is that we now have a completely different set of proteins that we can tune,” says Geistlinger. “We’re looking at yeasts and algae, which both have amino acid profiles that are superior to beef. We made something that used yeast from the brewery across the street. It came out like bratwurst!”
> 1) What are the advantages of getting separate feeds from BATS/EDGEX etc. instead of using the consolidated then?

EDIT: Sorry I misinterpreted the question I think. I was answering why not use the bloomberg feed over the TAPE C feed.

In the case of why get exchange feeds directly rather than the consolidated feed , the answer as far as I know is "Peeking". The exchanges let HFT see orders for up to 30 milliseconds before the general public does. As far as I know TAPE C doesn't give you these "peeks".

See:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/694931-the-new-high-frequenc...

In the case of getting a consolidated feed from say bloomberg, the data flow is:

EXCHANGE -> BLOOMBERG -> BLOOMBERG OPTIONALLY MIXES IN OTHER DATA(VWAP, etc) -> YOUR SERVER

if you get the data from the exchange it looks like:

EXCHANGE -> YOUR SERVER

so timing. Each exchange takes a slightly different amount of time to publish their quote so if you colocate at multiple exchanges you can respond a bit quicker to each of them than if you wait for the consolidated quote to come from a third party.

> 2) Another question I have is, let's say I send a DMA marketable limit order to BATS specifically to get the liquidity rebate fees and because there's a price improvement for that marketable order; BATS is obligated to re-direct my order to ARCA, do I still get to collect the rebate fee structure from BATS or is that order technically under the fee structure of ARCA.

TO be honest I'm not entirely sure as I deal more with the Canadian markets, but here the fees are payable where the trade executes.

I'd be surprised if BATS paid you for taking/providing liquidity on another market:)

I don't want to present myself as an expert in the US financial markets. I'm responsible for trading technology for a hedge so its my job to know as much as I can but the only universal truth I've found is that no one fully understand how the whole system works.
It's somewhat akin to emergency non-medical services - say, a tow truck, locksmith, or plumber. Many of these services cost quite a bit more than they should. Why? Because the people who need them are in no position to shop around.
You’re right, “not your keys, not your coins”
If people feel shame, it’s probably because they have some ambiguous feelings on the matter. No one can force someone else to feel shame, especially not through an internet comment. People like you are trying to shame me for the posts I made, but I don’t think I did anything wrong, so it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Maybe I could have been a bit nicer and more sensitive, but it’s not like I was throwing out insults—just clearly stating my beliefs on a touchy subject.

I definitely don’t see myself as morally superior as a person—far from it. But on this topic, yes: I believe that there are some things people do, like sleep training or putting their career ahead of their kids, that are morally wrong and psychologically damaging. That’s why I’m taking the time to post.

I don’t view downvotes as any indication of comment quality on controversial issues. They generally just reflect the tribal belief breakdown of the community. And anyway, I got as many upvotes as downvotes across all my comments itt—probably like 100 of each based on the swings up and down I saw (no way to know for sure). So it appears HN, or the portion with any opinion on these matters, is more or less evenly divided.
Somehow I managed to swim only good parts of twitter. It was full of smart creative people doing only peaceful things. A few thin feud here and there but nothing crazy.

Not to pick on it but compared to curated reddit / twitter, I found it very hard to find anything interesting on discord I kept jumping from server to server.
100% agree.

I used to be a very "analytics focused" product manager until I joined an enterprise software company that hardly uses them and is wildly successful.

We're succesful because we talk to our users about everything. I spend most of my time talking to customers and watching them use the software. We occasionally use analytics to help us validate hypotheses or assumptions, but that's always complimented with a full range of qualitative methods.

Analytics can help with observation, but it'll never give you the "why". In my experience only observation and a lot of conversations will get you there.
I tried to use Twitter for cyber security news. I followed very smart people and i hoped to see their research about new vulnerabilities etc. but what I mostly saw was shitty posts about politics, theirs kids and daily life and rare about my topic of interest
I think its inherent to the setup of the ecosphere and has similarities to high school politics of everyone desperately trying to get noticed that can lead to bullying.

To get noticed everything has to be larger than life and this tends towards hostility and partisanship.
What format does everybody use in their footer? We use:

© 2014 NodeSocket, LLC.

Is providing all the years in business standard practice?

© 2012-2014 NodeSocket, LLC.
It is about economics. The attacks on crypto systems have complexities, and still at the end of the day they require things like raw calculation power. Could they break even single 16384-bit RSA key pair? Probably yes, but they wouldn't be doing anything else on that year. It would be simply way too uneconomical.

Presented by Spiegel are internal services that are designed on purpose to be more economical. They exploit more bad implementations. It doesn't really matter as long as the dirty tricks get the work done.

Also, NSA seems to troll for targets from the vicinity of their targets of interest. It is again more economical, and can be just as revealing. The risk there is that the broken target has nothing of use. The real movie style "let's break the encryption keys" stuff is done for sure targets when they get the extremely rare high value target on platter.
It's "common folk knowledge" where I live (Poland) that to be healthy you should "temper yourself" - after hot shower you should follow with cold water for a minute or so.

I do this (not each time but often) and I like the feeling after the cold shower ends - air feels warm instead of cold, heart is beating very fast, and it's very refreshing.

It's probably bad idea if you're not healthy to begin with (thermal shock etc), but if you are healthy it's great.
I always wonder how much of the 'news' is pure spin...
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." - Alan Kay

Where are Sun, SGI, Cray, etc now?
I've been using their free wifi for a while now and I don't ever recalling them charging me.
Logarithms are tricky with complex numbers because rotation wraps around if you go 360 degrees (2 pi i).
No one would sanely argue he wasn't having a tough time shooting but I'm sure a math nerd could explain this away with a large enough sample size

That's exactly what I would argue. I think the math nerd is right. Given consistent shot mechanics, we'd expect occasional "streaks". Unless you're proposing that circumstances may change the shooter's mechanics, I don't get what you're saying.

You don't say a batter has gone 2-for-3 through 6 innings when they really went 2-for-4

You're right that they don't do that sort of thing about a single game, but they say stuff like "last 5 of 7 batters" to refer to streaks across games all the time, which makes the example I quoted a straw man.
Walmart does this all the time.

If you buy a CD that should have explicit lyrics at Walmart, they're bleeped out. Walmart refuses to sell music otherwise.
I am actually amazed at how heavily some fortune 500 companies I have worked for relied on Excel as both a database, and repository for what is sometimes the only copy of sensitive financial data...
I think MS dropped the ball with Excel similar way as it did with IE.

Users of Excel see its great potential and its intuitive interface and use it for things that builders of this product have not anticipated.

What's wrong here is that builders do not follow users and don't try to improve their product to better fit what the users are using it for. Excel should turn into actual database many years ago.

Personally I'd like to see Excel migrate in this direction: http://dabbledb.com/demo/#play
Completed the required badges and reached out to IBM, the program is /only/ available within the US at the moment.

They are apparently working to include other countries though I also heard from other channels that even the US is being looked at whether to continue this offering.

So if your in the US and interested, move on it quickly. These badges aren't difficult to obtain but you do need to use Coursera for the last one, the Mainframe Practitioner, so unless you can activate the free 7 day trial there is some cost associated with it.
I assume if the ABS unit fails…

If your Antilock Braking System fails, then your brakes will continue to work as they always did, save the fact that they’ll lock the wheels if you press too hard. If there weren’t a light on the dashboard, it is unlikely one would notice ABS failure (unless, of course, one is in a situation where ABS would come in handy, like an ice-covered road).
I think it's quite hard to reach all the places you may want to go if you just walk if you're in a suburban midwestern town. Really wish we could come up with reasonable non-driving communities. More small towns and villages. My college was situated such that you could walk to classes, bookstores, coffee shops, and groceries comfortably. Wish there were setups like this outside of colleges.