skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's something i don't understand about sites with a lot of discoverable content:

Why do they almost never allow the user to hide content they're uninterested in? In game stores for example, only Steam allows marking games as "not interested". GOG has wishlisting, but no hiding. As a result i never try to explore GOG because it almost only shows me stuff i don't care about.

Youtube Gaming does the very same thing with their left-hand menu. You can favourite games, but you can't hide games.

Why do sites do that despite it actively hurting them?

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Wow, they have this big front page, with a nice thing at the bottom talking about cookies. However only once the user clicks on a thing does it tell you:

"Live Streaming is not available in your country due to rights issues."
If he pays taxes then it's partially his money, and he has a right to vote on how it's used and tell people his opinion.

Arguing that his idea would be spending "other people's money," is a non-sequitor. Following that logic nobody should have any say in how the government spends money, because no single person is contributing the majority of funding.
> So if we need to apply the same level of protections, does that not also justify taking away rights like voting

In my opinion, yes, though in practice this restriction would probably be impossible.
Welcome to the developing world where you don't drink water coming out of the tap, even if it's chlorinated.
The problem with digital data is that it can be replicated at no cost and with no trace, so there wouldn't be any way for Ashley Madison to ever be sure the leak was contained. They could pay $10MM for a copy of the data... and two months later it can anonymously show up on Tor. Not to mention the hackers would need to come forward to collect the $10MM, which might land them in a jail cell before they can collect.
Any architecture that facilitates this will lose massive amounts of customer data, full stop. Backups have to be in places where live systems can't touch them, or can append only. Backups have to be offline and immutable. If you can mutate a backup based on a user request, it's not a backup.

Offline backups are, however, pretty hard to steal (unless you're stealing the physical tapes).

So... immediately, maybe. Completely, no fucking way.
What would you prefer, some amorphous undefinable moral relativism where everyone is somehow a good person, and we're all the same? Public shaming is a pretty decent prosocial incentive.
I suspect another big reason is, if you're mostly a backend guy and you're building the site and can't afford someone to worry about the front end, how do you make your site responsive and mobile friendly? Bootstrap.

It's (extremely) easy to learn and (as mentioned in other comments) its ubiquity means people come to expect it and are already familiar with the UI.
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YC-backed Teespring teams up with NFL to offer official fan-made apparel
Not familiar with Twitter, but if you can easily get all or most handles through their API or scraping then wouldn't it be easy to brute-force reverse the hash?

Edit: Maybe add a private salt?

Edit again: Oh, missed that "The Twitter handle Brian Krebs..." is effectively the private salt, nevermind.
I'm pretty sure Krebs is in the game for the publicity, not the reward money. The publicity and "staying relevant" as a security researcher has a lot more value than a nebulous reward that likely will never pay out.

Based on the typical wording when reward money is offered, I strongly suspect almost no reward money is ever paid out. It typically requires arrest and prosecution (often conviction) and there are plenty of opportunities for the lawyers to say "sorry, your tip did not qualify" even if someone is arrested and prosecuted.

I did not find a direct offer, but Wired has a quote[1] (most sources don't even provide a quote!):

“Today I can confirm that Avid Life Media is offering a $500,000 reward to anyone providing information that leads to the identification, arrest and prosecution of the person or persons responsible for the leak of the Ashley Madison database,” Evans said, according to the BBC.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-offering-500k-re...

Update: Odd. The BBC link in the Wired story has quotes from "Bryce Evans of the Toronto police", but does not have the offer of a reward quote that Wired quotes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34044506
The future is a future where no semblance of privacy exists.

In the year 3000:

"Truth about the ugliness of the human race will finally be revealed when every single detail about anyone's life is public knowledge available to all."
It's also important that you can also avoid the bounds checks safely in Rust, as well. For example, if you're iterating over elements, you don't pay the cost of the bounds check on each element, because you can know statically that it's safe.
> I assume OP was going for the James Bond feel

Well, M is also a fictional character in James Bond - head of MI6.
Do we know for sure that they didn't try?

HACKER: "Hello, I am an evil hacker. All your data is belong to me. Cough up $10 million or be destroyed."

ASHLEY MADISON MANAGEMENT: "Whatever, we don't believe you, go away."

HACKER: "All righty then." destroys them
I'm sure an algorithm picked them.

Even a design intern working for free could have picked better photos.
Agreed, amazing content but also a great tutorial for Julia. This is my first stab at it and it's great (as a daily R user).
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The volume of water being drawn from and the volume of evaporation, precipitation and runoff affecting that body of water, dwarf this desalination plant by an exceedingly long way.
Also since then Erlang got maps (associative data structure).

Here is a postscript chapter from Learn You Some Erlang on them:

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/maps
Of course, is that unclear? “M can actually complete tasks on your behalf. It can purchase items […]”
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Seems like if it is public info it is hard to argue against it.
I only copy/pasted that part to provide the exact dates and location.

Other than that, it's neither a well written article nor very accurate. In any case, the missing part before your quoted text is not "these academies". The article talks about several "ancient higher-learning institutions were developed in many cultures to provide institutional frameworks for scholarly activities". That part of the article is quite sloppy too (mentioning "museums", "scientific institutions" in a lemma referring to antiquity [1]).

Then it goes on to refer to the Academy too, later on, but even so, it undermines its own differentiation, as the Academy was both an "Autonomous organization"(check), and of "scholars" (check).

It didn't follow the full template of how a univerity today is (that starts around the 16th century), but it was most of the way there and is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern university (even the name "academic" is not a coincidence).

Now, my intention of reffering to the Academy was to give an example that the earliest college is something that we got in historical times and we know who created it (contrary to what the parents wrote).

If, as you suggest, we maintain that the first "actual" college was created even later, that serves me even better.

[1] There were museums in antiquity, but extremely few, and of them we know nothing much, and especially not that they operated any schools.
Ok, did the research. So, like IBM did, they put the mainframes on cards that plug into PC's:

http://www.cpushack.com/2015/04/18/the-forgotten-ones-unisys...

There was a YouTube ad for them, too, that showed the processor and memory took up little space. Good job on that. The pricing was around $25,000 for people wanting to play with it. That was nice. Unfortunately, and predictably, they've moved onto x86 with firmware emulation:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2364600/unisys-phasing-out-de...

Not sure if that's a mainframe box or not. Has a nice case that reminds me of Alienware. Anyway, now MCP runs on Libra's which are $900,000 entry-level. Wasn't crap on eBay for the older stuff. (sighs)

I'd be concerned about buying one given the complexity of mainframes. I tried to acquire an old AS/400 to play with only to find that there were a myriad of strangely-named options that probably weren't options. I surely found all for sale. It take an expert, though, to know what to buy, how to put it together, and so on. Unless I wanted to sift through encyclopedias. Is acquiring Unisys Micro-A's etc like that where I'd definitely need an expert rather than just the documentation?
Yes, it absolutely is always unethical.

Who are you, or anyone else, to question or evaluate "commitment" in a relationship that you have no part of, and know nothing about? Or to force someone's personal private life out in the open where it will be used to judge them without context?

Nothing is as black and white as you are claiming it to be.
I still don't see the problem. If this handle was directly connected with $x I would fully expect people to be discussing my handle in blogs/forums. Going to the cops is fine and dandy too of course.

Krebs even clarifies "If Zu wasn’t involved in the hack, he almost certainly knows who was.".
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That's incredible! Do you have a source for this? Or do you know which media were saying this?
Don't you mean M?

We have been building Q ! :)
"STOP THIS RIGHT NOW, Q!" was going to be my next thought.
Politically and economically powerful people don't need some obviously-for-suckers website to have an affair.
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I am not gonna suggest that one solution fits all. Maybe you have different requirements but in our case (adtech) offering near real time reporting with a standard error rate of 0.81% is very good.
Interesting; "Data does not handover between networks" seems to contradict other reports I've seen that the data connection seamlessly hands off.
I was using the definition of the UN declaration of universal human rights: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

That may not match the definition in your book, but their book is bigger and is written with the blood of multiple wars and genocides. I think society in general, and I in particular, expect companies to honour that definition and stand up to the obligations it engenders in them.
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Do you believe in the founders/investing team? Based on what you are writing, startups should never be LLCs. You should always have 4 year vesting on all the stock. 50% equity in the first round for investor is way too much. These are just a few things that stick out immediately.
Facebook provides a boot camp to all new engineers, and it's unlikely that it's only for their proprietary stuff.
My main question is - how did facebook make a HUGE picture show up when you share this page on facebook? Anyone know?
I am not an American so forgive me if this answer is not viable due to the structure of American government, but the simple solution is continuous and steady investment in public transit detached from political tampering.

Many of these failed referendums were about creating a local tax in order to provide that dependable pool of transit funding for expansion and operating costs.

A solution would be for the government to take the initiative and start seriously funding public transit, considering it a first class citizen along with the road and highway network.
> 404.

> Lorem ipsum other castle, arrow to the knee set up us the bomb.

Ouch! :)
Surprisingly they have less of the deliberate yes-we-have-diversity than the usual selection of stock photos used on such a document by a big company.
I think the distinction here between low and high-end MF operators may not be just that they're MF operators at certain experience level. At a number of companies, I've seen that the people on top have a thorough understanding of the applications the mainframe supports and are critical for making changes that don't break it. Not having them any more could make stuff stop working. So, it justifies their higher pay plus job security.

You think that might be the case for the high-end MF operators in general?
This touches on so many things I've been saying...

I describe really interesting problems as "fish don't know they live in water". The people who have the problem and deal with it every day don't even recognize that it's a solvable or that pain reduction is possible.
Valuations are numbers coming from thin air,, I wonder what will be the total profits of YC company. When i ask profits ,its actual net profit ,, not some accounting gimmick !
I really love the logo. I kind of wish they'd made it a mobius strip (this one has two sides), but either way, it's awesome.
The first thing I see when someone asks "find me a good burger place in Chicago" is "how can companies game this through official ($) or artificial (spam) means?"
When Fi was announced they mentioned that public wifi traffic would go through a VPN to google's datacenters. At the time I assumed that they'd just run ALL traffic through the VPN, since that'd make for some very seamless switching. As bad as that would be from a privacy perspective, I trust Google more than T-Mobile or Sprint.

By running everything through the VPN, you'd be able to have TCP connections that didn't break when the network switched, since your device's public IP address would be in a datacenter somewhere.

Also with a VPN you'd be able to send voice traffic over both a carrier connection and the wifi connection at the same time to avoid dropouts.

There is something similar called Multi-path TCP (MPTCP) which uses latency to decide which TCP path to send traffic over.
If nobody wants to pay for the full edition after trying a demo version, I would assume the game is not engaging enough to warrant desire to spend a few dollars on it..?

There's a lot of games out there, and most of them are just cranked out rehashes or predictable and dull.
that's true, but if such law was implemented, services providers will now have to think about running things legally or illegally.
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Wow, that's ungrammatical.
I've had mixed results with Contiki in the past. Several of their modules are of extremely poor quality. The coffee filesystem in particular is an un-redeemable mess of bugs.

Great OS to experiment with, but I would not recommend building a business on top of Contiki today.
I've always felt that all fines - for any cause - should be turned over to the state. Even simple parking tickets.

The state should fund the court for hearing those cases (but not enforcement).

Then we'll see if cities really care about safety or about money.
Probably one should do something similar to this:

echo "The Twitter handle Brian Krebs anonymized in this blog post is @user and this a random salt qF7KKAUxtrEtQbnj4LPkUZM4." | sha256sum
At best you're arguing for vigilante justice. An internet mob accountable to no one and meting out punishment to people who, for the most part, have not violated any laws. No, that is not ethical. I don't want self-appointed Morals Police going around ruining lives for perceived crimes. I don't think mob justice is ever ethical.
Dark web marketplace “Agora” shuts down over security concerns
Number of companies funded by YC that have shut down: ~300

Does this include aqui-hires?

Also, would you know how many companies rejected by YC are worth more than $1 billion? Zero or non-zero? :)
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Valuations are currently so high and IPOs are so difficult that you shouldn't pay much attention to the valuation stats.

If all of those companies wanted to exit at the price of their most recent raise, they wouldn't be able to. That means that at least some of the valuations are unrealistic.
I think it depends on your perspective. From the perspective of my keyboard, my input is random/unpredictable (it doesn't have perfect entropy, but it doesn't follow rules that make it completely predictable). From the perspective of my body, I have complete control over what I am typing, and there is nothing random about it.
This is a relatively new phenomenon which is also why the YCF program exists now. Time was, you had a team and a demo.
All I can conclude is that in US politics, it's far more politically suicidal to give things away to individuals for free than to waste government money.
Privacy isn't a natural right, just like lying to someone via marriage isn't universally considered unethical.

Your right to privacy isn't naturally guaranteed, and is only granted by some mutually agreed upon rules in the form of privacy laws.

But if I know some fact about you, what gives you any right to say I can't reveal that information? Wouldn't you be limiting my speech?

If you argue that lying in marriage is a complex issue, then privacy rights is also a complex issue that's not black and white.

A world with no secrets and a world where everyone has a right to secrecy are both potentially equally valid.
Not to mention the massive subsidies for driving: roads, parking, trillion dollar wars in the middle east to secure oil supplies. None of these are questioned, but a couple billion for public transit takes giant fights.
Then that's a breach of contract between two private parties which is of absolutely no relevance to outside observers. It is the married couple's prerogative to undergo court procedure if they so desire.

Being on AM wouldn't solely have been about breaking commitment. From what I recall, it became an inadvertent hub for gay dating due to its extraordinary gender/sex imbalance. AM's entire business practice was about hooking into people's desire to seek taboo and then be exorbitant with charging them fees, even for terminating an account. It was, in no minced words, a con.

Having morals means knowing when to stay out of things that are none of your concern.
You can't use temperature to accurately model power consumption, if for no other reason than that it's too heavily influenced by environmental factors.

"Battery charge" sensors are problematic because they're hard to keep in calibration without interrupting normal operation of the system.
Why would it include acqui-hires? Companies rarely broadcast the fact that they're acqui-hiring, so it's not always a black-and-white issue.

Also, saying a company was acqui-hired makes a VC look less successful, so they have an incentive not to be honest about it.
>8/970 companies are worth > 1b and 40 are worth over 100M.

Sorry to be negative, but worth according to whom?

If none of these companies are public, the valuation comes from a very narrow group of private investors. In what seems to be a bubble (and an echo chamber) in S.V., these valuations may be vastly overstated.

That said, kudos to YC for being transparent.
Wow - that's a much more interesting article than the title would imply. I wonder if anything changed in Woodworth in response to the verdict (I doubt that it did, but still).
And by "electorate" you mean "primates whose brains evolved to solve survival tasks they faced on the savannah, which didn't include practicing logic or empathy."
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How about people not sticking their noses into other people's relationships?

We used to have the state jail, or even torture, adulterers. Society eventually agreed that it's not their job to do that. Let's hold off on forming lynch mobs.
How many founders have gone through YC?
>To say that Zu tweets to others is a bit of a misstatement. I have never seen anyone tweet the way Zu does; He sends hundreds of tweets each day, and while most of them appear to be directed at nobody, it does seem that they are in response to (if not in “reply” to) tweets that others have sent him or made about his work. Consequently, his tweet stream appears to the casual observer to be nothing more than an endless soliloquy.

Perhaps that's all Zu is? A bot, or a covert chat channel of some kind. Perhaps prime numbered words from every third tweet contain the real message, or something like that?
Ahh, thank you for the explanation, I should really read more carefully! This is indeed a great application of AI related technologies.

Ohh, wait, can it do something else?
The simple truth of the matter is that there is no urgent action required.

Blocks are only just now half full on average.

http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/diagrams/blocksize-pretty.svg
that video is worth the watch, pretty funny!
A huge epic list of growth hacking tools for non-coders
I'm surprised that (it seems) google isn't using Multipath TCP to carry the VPN traffic to google. This would allow it to switch seamlessly between LTE and Wifi and in theory even LTE and LTE while maintaining the VPN connection and thus the call.

In fact, Apple uses this tech for Siri to reduce latency on voice queries.
That sounds like Unreal. Unity has a free version and a pro version, the latter is either a subscription-based one, or a one-off payment of $1500 or similar, which does sound awfully cheap to me.
The way the climate is going, we desperately need good energy sources. If you compare historically to the space race, the manhattan project, or the spending on any major conflict you'll see that's a rounding error -- e.g. America's DoD burned through the entire cost of ITER (which is shared among 6 nations + EU) roughly every week circa 2009.
Possibly because if Tri-Alpha pulls this off you are looking at a company with the networth/revenue of Royal Dutch Shell in the near future.

Would be a hell of a wrong horse to bet on ;).
>It doesn't seem unreasonable to point out that an earned undergraduate degree is significantly different from an honorary doctorate degree, and that perhaps when somebody EXPLICITLY SPECIFIES the second type, they aren't talking about the first.

It's very unreasonable, and kind of rude to divert the discussion just to split hairs.

Not to mention that there wasn't even a syntactic or logical error in the original bloody statement. The full original quote plus parent comment was this:

>Supreme Court member Ruth Bader Ginsburg has an honorary degree from every single Ivy League School, with the exception of Cornell, which doesn’t give them out." ...except for her actual undergrad degree, which is from Cornell.

Clearly mentioning that her "undergrad degree" is an ACTUAL one, and not a "honorary".

Very clearly he adds to the information that "she has a honorary degree from every single Ivy League school except Conrell" that she also has "an actual udergrad degree, which is from Cornell".

It's CLEAR that his intention is to say that she has a degree, regardless of kind, from ALL Ivy League schools, and to also explain why she doesn't have one from Cornell (because Cornell doesn't need to give her a honorary one, they gave her their actual degree).
i use both.

when i first started using it many sites were broken, but there are options to "forbid" and "allow" certain domains so after a while when the blacklists and whitelists are built up, it's working pretty well for me!
That. I'd be glad if they supported any distro that is not user hostile.

But anyway, they are probably doing this because Valve supports Ubuntu, and Valve is doing it because Ubuntu comes with GPU drivers out of the box (contrary to Debian, where you must apt-get them).

A Debian installer with support for non-free software would go a long way towards changing all that. (Or even better, a deb-multimedia installer.)
Some tweets may be a bot but it's clear someone is typing direct responses and tweets from this account.
Unfortunately, that's not how the "politically & economically powerful demographic in the world" works.

What you will see is lots of new laws to crack down on hackers, encryption and any type of computing not specifically 'approved' by some sort of security overlord department.

Look at what the UK is proposing (way before AM became news) and you'll have a rough starting point.

The laws will be the exact opposite of improved privacy.