skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Partners split up, and maybe out of anger or spite one of them sells a valuable asset way below market value

By selling shop.com for $500? A 4 letter, dictionary word, extremely brandable, .com?

> Has nobody even bothered to do a whois lookup on shop.com?

No, not even you apparently. Well done. This was a lesson valued at $500, be glad it wasn't more.
me too. i retook the survey :)
> There was no such thing at the time.

The fact that they didn't exist doesn't mean people couldn't write short stories (or other fiction) about them. Fictional accounts often precede reality.
Surely not. They're trained to detect counterfeit screenshots and would sniff those out in a second.
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Not really. I started thinking that but not really sure. There's a number of models. The thing the preventative ones all have in common is they impose control on the flow of information in such as way as to prevent attacks. Separation, like address spaces, is a recurring concept and technique but not the only one. So, I use the term "information flow control" albeit it might be used differently in academia. The other model, covered by diversity and obfuscation, is to create a disconnect between what attacker envisions and what they can accomplish to create probabilistic security. The first is great against "known knowns" and "known unknowns:" specific attacks or non-specific worries in known risk areas. The second is great against straight unknowns, esp tricks nation states devise. Combining the two is most powerful and hence my recommendation. Many models of each, which further muddles things for attackers.

Far as Tinfoil Chat, I've recommended it heartily as a project to use and improve. Markus Ottela took what he learned from prior work and our comments at Schneier's blog (esp on data diodes & physical separation) to create a unique, solid design. He's been posting on the blog for feedback for months, we've suggested many risk mitigations (eg polyciphers, continuous transmission), and he's integrated about every one into his system. Most just ignore such things or make excuses: Markus is 1 in a 1,000 in (a) applying what's proven and (b) not letting problems become legacy "features."

So, yeah, I recommend it. Once my personal situation stabilizes, I plan to reimplement it with a tiny TCB on appropriate devices. I'm probably going to do a portable implementation of Send for microcontroller-style systems. Receive will be a Linux box hardened with virtualization or obfuscation security methods. Genode if it's up to it by then. The transport will be a more hardened, cheap box with just that functionality. I'm going to use CHERIBSD, if possible, just to experiment with it. Might replace the raw, serial links with MCU's or FPGA's for higher-speed, one-way I/O. Optical is highly likely (good guess). Eventually, I'm going to put it in an appliance with several, cheap boards so it's all integrated.

On my extensive backlog for now. But, yes, it's one of the best and practically has no TCB. Great design. Can be reused for email, audio, video, and maybe filesharing. Will be my interim framework until my next high-assurance system is ready.
I did something that caused Firefox to restart and lose _all_ of my active tabs. (Got them back via sessionstore.bak, thank goodness.)
I can relate to this. While I do software development, it is certainly not my passion.
Its an attempt to avoid the long term consequences of population contraction. Most heads of state and policy pushers seek to, at minimum, ensure their country keeps its current level of global influence & power. Generally this holds true whether one is right or left, but some ideological views result in different policies.

A population contraction breaks most existing economic models. You can't borrow money for infrastructure improvements. Tax revenues shrink. Housing prices go down.

The more cynical observer may suspect that its an attempt to break some of the social welfare systems and replace them with more capitalistic alternatives. I'm not sure that is a goal. Perhaps to some it is. In the mid term most certainly you will have to spread about the same amount of resources to a larger number of end users. Two or three generations forward, there should be more resources and economic wealth to make up for this.

An even more cynical observer may believe that the US is trying to destabilize the Middle East because this could have a negative influence on the great powers which threaten global American dominance -- Russia, China, and Europe. There may not be any logistical way for Europe to throttle the influx of refugees. Rather than setting policy Europe is just trying to manage it the best they can. The fall of dictatorships in the Middle East and rise of religious fundamentalism may have been totally inevitable.

The above is all speculation. However, do I believe Western nations accept refugees solely out of kindness and an unwavering moral standing? Probably not.
I kept going because the questions were entertaining.
Personally, I'm not sure what "my own people" would be: over the years I've noticed that the idea of one's own people has a tendency to be non-reciprocal. Every Angus is a true Scottsman until he's not.
How can you tell that a web developer is working?
Being "mechanical" does not mean anything "easy". It's hard, nearly impossible, simply because the most formal definition of this process boils down to an exhaustive search in a huge (but finite) morphological box. That's why we need the greatest minds that are able to find suitable search heuristics.

But yet, this process does not produce any new knowledge on its own. All the knowledge is there, in the data. Waiting to be extracted.
For anyone interested the source code is here:

https://github.com/last-box/LookingGlass

Also, there's a subreddit here.

https://github.com/last-box/LookingGlass

There's a TOR-based IRC and Forum system too.
Yes, although it's tin whiskers rather than the zinc whiskers that come from solder. It might be the same mechanism, but the mechanism isn't well understood yet. Which is kind of funny, given that we've been smelting tin since the beginning of the Bronze Age; you'd think we'd understand it by now.

I thought about bringing up tin whiskers in my earlier comment, but I decided I was already going over my non-architectural surprising-failure-mode word budget. :)
You have no choice, that's why. Some will indulge in military dictatorship style authoritarian fantasy solutions, some will opportunistically collect political dividends by selling this fantasies. Less developed European countries will even try their hands at some of this solutions. As ugly as it is this reality is there and is not going away, you have no choice but deal with it. Same with homelessness/extreme poverty btw, if it's that big where you live.
80% of these refugees should be accepted by the US, after all, if you give weaponry to various "free" syrian armies to cause havoc in the region, you should take responsibility to take care of the humanitarian disaster that results. The other 20% - UK, France and Germany, whoever dumped weapons on that region. Unpopular as it is - the middle east was doing much better under strong dictators. They had civilization going for thousands of years, and an attempt to change the regional order from the outside was a fatal mistake. Do the right thing and accept them, also don't forget build a couple of mosques near your house. At least in theory.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

The US Government does _not_ have the legal authority to arbitrarily collect or seize data without a warrant specifying exactly where and what they're looking for.

>So much so that they have codified the few that it doesn't apply to.

There are a few exceptions on whom you can get warrants for, but we're not complaining about warrants with probable cause.

The complaint is that our "persons, houses, papers, and effects" are being violated without probable cause and without "particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized".
How is this relevant now? We are in 2015 not 2001.
I'm in the UK, no idea where you are. I don't trust my government one bit with my data, or any one elses. The US so called justice system literally scares the hell out of me. From a UK perspective, its terrifying. Unfortunately for UK subjects, the UK government willingly hands our data over to the US government, and equally willingly allows us to be extradited on little more than a request. Being a European Citizen offers us in the UK very little protection from the US.

As others have said, I have very little problem with the likes of google and MS having a lot of data on me, as long as they use it fairly and reasonably, and Im kept informed. Of course we do have the problem of government access to that data.
Funnily enough, after reading the first paragraph, it still sounds like a recent article even though it has been years. In fact, the country probably has taken two steps back under Manmohan Singh.

To a certain extent, even if the article was recent, it's not a surprise. Democracies are SLOW and India is still a social democracy trying to be a capitalistic democracy - so even slower.

Democracies move fast only during a crisis. Otherwise, they are inherently slow.

Even in the US, a majority of top issues have not changed much since the 90s. Politicians have been debating pretty much the same thing without much progress...
This is a project I worked on late last year. I set out to build a spaced repetition app for younger students as well as for those who are less technically inclined. Since then, this area of online learning apps has gained a lot of traction. Some of the bigger players include Anki, Memrise, and CleverDeck.

I'm not actively working on Memoread at the moment, but it was a great learning experience!

EDIT: Feel free to ask me any questions!
I was commenting more for the benefit of the original commenter who said there is no "byte" type.
fun survey. submit button did not work on iphone.
For me it's always like, 32.
Here's a link to the slides that she used for the NBER talks. I've flipped through them and there seems to be some references to working papers (that Googling should be able to surface):

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=351055fdce7d0ff1&id=351055FDC...
Please see the parent comment again:

> How many of those users were forced by updating Firefox?

"forced" would be zero
Not sure. I know the traits are important but as to hiring managers' effectiveness in assessing them... totally different. Mostly anecdotal stuff there. Wonder if anyone has some studies to post on that sort of thing. Make a nice read.
3dark5me.
the internet runs on fetchmail?
I guess when an opportunity comes up that makes me think "there's no way this can be for real, but there seems to be no risk involved," I lean towards the assumption that the scammers have also thought of this and are confident that they won't have to give the money back. It's a shame PayPal is this oblivious, but the scammers knew this in advance and took advantage.
I don't think it's "common", but people do it so they can scroll to the last line and have it appear near the top of the page. It's a matter of personal preference. Some editors allow you to scroll that far without the extra lines, many don't.
Its not my comments that are causing the problem.

I was just responding to the same techie myth that humans are so, very, very logical.

I know that HN commentators believe otherwise and any comment that denies the orthodoxy is downvoted.

However, you will notice that not once did I attack another commentator. However, I was attacked plenty. Did you say anything to them?
> No, story is that Paypal has been a haven for spammers and crooks since it started.

The story is that every financial exchange has been a haven for spammers and crooks since they started.
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Malware scanners that search inside archives really love zips that decompress recursively forever.
London Clinic Leaks HIV Status of Patients
Obviously Reason is a libertarian publication, but the article argues that plastic bags are not bad for the environment, considering the alternatives.

The overall opposition by libertarian/conservative groups is that conservation policies require centralized control and action. You can both accept the possibility of global catastrophe based on environmental damages, but you also fear the centralized control that is required to even try and manage the potential crises. Also, many are skeptical of the political process as an effective means to solve big problems.
Rules of the Buffet
Five Red Forces Driving the Selloff
Instavest is trying to share targeted reasons via infographics for why the market is declining.

http://img.svbtle.com/wmnxdugsaoaxug.jpg
Technical this isn't fraud from the perspective of PayPal.

Let me elaborate, if your account is taken over and used, or your credit card is fraudulently associated with a PayPal account, then this is fraud (as per PayPal). However in this case, you were willingly using the account to pay someone and entered into the transaction willingly. Even though the outcome was not favourable to you, but PayPal doesn't have the information needed to mediate.

In fact to PayPal it doesn't have the necessary information to judge who is telling the truth: it is as easy to fabricate a GoDaddy letter or whatever documentations you provided, and there is no easy way to tell (yes, PayPal can call one by one to verify, but this isn't scalable and very expensive). That is one of the reasons why eBay doesn't offer buyer protection.

I doubt you will get better protection with other alternatives like credit cards or bank transfers.
> Learn about stack versus heap, and recognize that Go treats the stack differently from other languages.

Yeah, this comment strikes me as deeply confused. Go does not give you precise control over what goes on the stack versus the heap: it's even in the FAQ.

There's a common misconception that stack vs. heap and value types vs. reference types represent the same distinction; they do not. For example, note that it is possible in unmanaged languages to have dangling references into the stack.
I don't see what I'm looking for, primarily because I don't see anything.

http://i.imgur.com/zOfrJSl.png
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The Fourth Amendment seems to be pretty merky when it comes to data about you belonging to and stored with other entities.
Plenty of economists argue against things like austerity, trickle-down, etc...

The problem is that politicians aren't interested in implementing the most ideal economic policies, they're interested in policies that give the effect they want - which is often at odds with the common good.
I always wondered what the economics of a buffet were.

Is the eating a cost a traditional bell curve? At what point do buffet's lose money?
This makes them very similar in price to Digital Ocean, even slightly cheaper. I wonder what the performance comparison would be between their equivalent tiers...

Their S3-compatible object storage is also quite appealing.

Being in North America though, I'd love if they had a data centre option here too.
> You can get just about anything in China or even in parts of Africa, but not here.

Any concrete examples? I think this is inappropriate any more.
I thought about it for a while, and then it occurred to me, that there are actually many ways one could possibly understand that -- thus replying e.g.:

- cat

- "cat"

- 'cat'

- panther (not exactly a cat, but kinda -- that's why it was in quotes, no?)

- [one could type "cat" in one's terminal]

- "Whiskers", etc. (i.e. name of one's cat)

then, one could make a typo (thus e.g. "ca" or "catt"), or finally something more or less totally random, given that it's an open question (thus e.g. "no", or "How are you?", or whatever).

So, not that stupid a question I thought initially :)
Pirate Bay will be blocked in Norway
(The title currently just says '2,99 per month'. This should probably be changed "2.99€" instead, since a lot of people would expect HN to default to USD. Even I (living in Germany) was surprised it was in Euro.)
Apart from the obvious jumping clearly in to a scam part which we can ignore, this lacks a distinct amount of that-there evidence.

I'd very much be interested to see the listing, the comms, and the comms with Paypal/ebay.

It's also curious that someone who is posting all of this opted to call support agents all the way instead of having something on record.

Of course none of this proves anything but still these are curiosities.
YubiKey NEO OpenPGP Security Bug
A human cut and paste a bunch of names into an email. They put the names in the To field, not the BCC field. This person then sent a newsletter to all these email addresses. 800 names!

While not everyone on the list is HIV+ many were (it's an HIV clinic providing services to people who are HIV+) and there's likely to be some significant fallout. (Changes in NHS software so that To and Cc fields can't have a bunch of non NHS email addresses; heavy fines; etc).
It'll be about the same level as respect for ticket scalping, and with about as much value added.
In 1980-81, there wasn't even MU* games around. The original MUD1 was "released" in 1980, if you were on the arpanet at the time. The first commercial MUD didn't come around until 1983 with Scepter of Goth[0]. So it's likely that the story was fiction (or the timeframe is off)

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scepter_of_Goth
I don't think this analysis stands up to the observation that many non-SV nerdcultures have severe problems genderwise.

(Also it should be pointed out that that dude got a ban (not a hellban or slowban, a real ban) from this forum for a gender-based insult)
It was the ads coupled with the 5% yearly price increases which caused me to disconnect cable back in 2008.

When 20 minutes of the time is spent in a 1 hour program is spent showing advertisements, it becomes irritating to watch, and the time to summarize all of the events prior to the ads, takes away from the depth of the programming.

We have Netflix, but the quality of the programming has gone downhill in the last couple of years (at least as far as non-fiction programming is concerned). I'm considering cancelling and just using Youtube for most of my viewing.
> For instance, thanks to the implicit satisfaction of interfaces, I find it one of the easiest mainstream imperative languages to still create a separation between IO and pure code, by wrapping all IO behind an interfaced object, one that I may not even have to create (i.e., Files already implement io.Reader and io.Writer, io.Reader & io.Writer also already have several test implementations available in the stdlib and it's easy to adapt them to a few more), which then allows me to write some really good testing code, almost as good as Haskell. (In fact, swapping in alternate implementations is probably easier than in Haskell.)

I'm confused. How does not having to write "implements Reader, Writer" (25 characters to type) have anything to do with purity and IO effects?

> interfaces are actually half of generics

Interfaces aren't generics at all. Java had interfaces and Object as a supertype before it had generics, and it still had zero support for generics.

I do agree with you that Go has maybe 50% of the use cases for generics covered, but not because it has interfaces. Those don't count. It's because it has maps and growable arrays built in.
It took me a minute to realize that the jobs list is on the sidebar. I find it very strange for LinkedIn to organize a company's CAREERS page in such a way.
> Is there any evidence that any companies were willingly going along with PRISM? Seems like they were under gag orders and potential fines (Yahoo said $250K a day). Not sure what choice they had.

I'm not aware of any evidence of their intent, no, just that they assisted in collection. I believe Glenn Greenwald has stated that they were a willing and proactive participant, but that that information came from NSA internal forums and not official documentation so it would not be released.

I don't think it really matters though. Whether they were willing or not, the end result is the same. If you don't trust the USG, you cannot trust US corporations (yes, of course this applies not just to the US but others as well; it's just that we currently have more information about the fiveeyes programs, and the US is a big player geopolitically so they have interests to protect in a lot of areas).

On an more personal level, I would say that even if they collaborated with this under legal threats, they are still morally responsible for their decisions to support the surveillance state. I cannot accept that we give people or companies a clean slate for evil just because they had financial interests to protect. Everyone has financial interests to protect, and it's usually more convenient to ignore evil than to put oneself at risk.
'How to Change the World'(2015) the new documentary on Greenpeace is incredible
"Pull up a chair, grab the popcorn, and settle in. You’re not gonna believe this…"

Actually, I'm not surprised. Paypal has no incentive to resolve disputes or stop fraud. Every company has a limit over which they will intentionally try not to honor any fraud protections. With Paypal it's just zero. For example, American Express is usually good at resolving disputes, but a dispute that a few thousand dollars will not be resolved in your favor even if you can prove that what you got was not what you paid for I paid for an air-conditioned Marriott room and got 6 rooms (one at a time) in two different Marriotts, none with AC that worked over a period of three weeks. (Apparently, Marriotts in Cancun advertise AC but don't let you use it, a problem that I've ran into at one other major hotel as well, though only for one night.) Amex, at least is a reputable company. Paypal on the other hand is a company that knowingly signed up many people for credit cards without their knowledge. I would not expect anything from Paypal and I would only use a credit card and make purchases up to an amount I know I can dispute with the CC and win. If you're using Paypal any other way, chances are you will get fucked.
I learned a lot in Roughgarden's course on Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/course/algo

but I'll be first to suggest going to font of computer science that is TAoCP, not because you're likely to understand most of Knuth, but because it's unlikely that anyone will understand half on the first pass, so there will be something else to learn for a really long time.

Good luck.
I'd wager the scale they cook at reduces the cost per meal significantly.

Although, I was at a sushi buffet (the kind where you order it and they bring it to the table a few minutes later) once where my friends and I ate so much sushi, they started slowing down our sushi "refills". Eventually we got the hint and left.
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> He's not attacking his person and it's not ad-hominem, he's saying the guy is basically a moral hazard, he is advocating for policies here that he won't have to suffer the consequences of.

That is ad hominem -- specifically, ad hominem circumstantial [0] -- and lies at the nexus between the genetic fallacy and appeal to motive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Circumstantial