skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
be so clueless about email security

Old people + technology = failure. Really common pattern. We like to believe people in positions of power know what they are doing, but sometimes the facade cracks and we see they are just regular old crazy people.

But, it's more like inconvenience + people + technology = policy violations. In one company I worked at a new CEO was installed (the old one was faulty; turned out the new one was still faulty) and he told people to forward all their company email accounts to their personal gmail accounts because he just liked the gmail interface better.

edit: _gasp_ it's like online people read comments while wearing hair trigger hostility goggles and don't use their contextually aware kindness beanies. go figure!
The one question not asked yet. The guy knew probably about Clinton emails case. And made nothing with his personal mailbox having the same problems. He's unlikely to be an idiot(who knows though). So has he thought he's more protected from a prosecution than Hillary?
In my previous job, I saw a lot of federal criminal cases come up on appeal. In nearly every "blue-collar crime" case, it was clear the prosecution had the defendant dead-to-rights. E.g. the defendant tried to sell drugs to a cop; they arrested him and found X grams of cocaine on his person; they searched his house and found Y more grams.

Now, there is huge room for debate about, e.g., whether selling drugs should be illegal or whether people should receive jail sentences for stealing a TV. But in those prosecutions it's exceedingly rare that there is any doubt about whether the defendant actually did what he was accused of doing. The line between legal conduct and illegal conduct is clear and it's easy to prove when someone has crossed it.

White-collar crime is totally different. Selling stock, making out like a bandit on a deal, screwing someone on the other side of a transaction, losing a bunch of someone else's money--all those things can be legal or illegal depending on what you knew or said while it happened. Proving knowledge and intent beyond a reasonable doubt is really hard to begin with, and especially so when it comes to subject matter (like financial transactions) that are complex and difficult to understand.

And frankly, you wouldn't want it any other way. You really don't want the government coming up with creative prosecutions to get guys who did "bad" things but followed the letter of the law. That's not a society you want to live in.
Your coworker is very close to the "jumbo mortgage" limit on mortgage size. If you exceed this amount, it is much more difficult to get a mortgage, even with pristine credit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_mortgage
Keep in mind that in this circumstance, it's not the finance people who are claiming complexity. It appears to be the reaction from the jurors based on the case made by the prosecutors.
Then that makes it a lot better than some "enterprise" ETL/integration tools I've seen that could only aspire to be pieces of shit.
Great idea Christian! Just sent you an email regarding a security/privacy issue around data leakage that is occurring on the site.
You can check the end of this talk, when someone asks about this:

https://events.yandex.com/events/ruBSD/2013/talks/103/

I would recommend, however, watch from the beginning.
I don't understand how present housing prices are possible. Don't markets require buyers? Look at prices in most cities vs. the average family income and it's beyond insane. Who is actually able to buy at these prices and where are they coming from?

IMHO it's much crazier than the "unicorn" phenomenon, since that can be explained by crazy term sheets and a lot of private investor cash sloshing around. I can't understand how present housing prices are even possible.
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I think I remember reading old articles about how they're doing this. Once the code has been JIT'd they put it on a page (or pages) by itself, and then toggle the write bit so it can be executed. Once it's JIT'd anyway it won't ever be changed, other than to maybe be dropped in favor of some other code. This still can have some security issues if someone can manage to get the JIT engine to output arbitrary code directly but it prevents a huge class of attacks of overwriting the JIT pages and getting the browser to then execute them. Or the usual stack overflows and other things of course.
I've been led to believe that they are persians and not arabs. correct me if I am wrong.
Hi Rich,

I think this would be better suited to Show HN than to Ask HN :) .

I googled for Streamly and one of my first hits was a YouTube background player app

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streamly-youtube-background/...

The idea sounds very good, but I would be extremely worried about the legal implications of using it, unless you get licenses/approval from the parties (band, venue operators or whatever you might require), you're probably party to copyright infringment.

There are some typos that make it less credible, "weather" instead of whether, "Up comming" instead of Upcoming, etc.
My mom was using email likely before you were born. She knew the risks.

But please, keep your ridiculous ageism going.
You sincerely think that the prosecutors in the cases mentioned in the article purposefully made the case hard for the jury to understand, for the explicit purpose of losing the case?
Vimeo?
I'm very confused by your comment. Is there some context that I'm missing?

What does

> How on earth are we supposed to figure out what is going on in the world when everyone lies to us about society?

have to do with

> I'm thirty four and nobody has ever suggested to me that I am supposed to buy a home

???
You have to kinda gauge the culture. When I was getting ready to move on, I let my new boss know, who got me a meeting with the CEO, where we hashed everything out. We promised to keep everyone on the same page, and rash moves were prevented on both sides.

But you do have to be firm. I hope you have some cash saved up that you can live on in case of sudden unemployment. Personally, I'd recommend a three-month trip abroad. I travel every few years and it's great for resetting my burnout clock.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10424623
20% down? A starter home in the bay area in a less than great neighborhood would run you about $500k 7 years ago. Drop 100k down on your home for the 20% buy in, thats a pretty big chunk of change that has already eliminated a huge swath of people.

If you have just been given a job offer to come work in the bay area you are likely looking for a home to move your family. Your signing bonus isn't going to be given as a lump sum, so you are stuck renting for $4,000/month. Not to mention that previously $500k starter home is now $800k (still a bad neighborhood with crap schools too)
No screenshots or product tour at all?
It will be interesting to hear Hilary Clinton's take on this.
Cool. Robots.
http://www.fanuc.eu/uk/en/robots
"With more than 100 models, FANUC offers the widest range of industrial robots in the world."
> But the coercion involved It sets an alarming precedent about how

This is supposed to be two sentences, or remove the "It" from the middle of the sentence.

How is it obvious grammatical and spelling errors make their way into these articles (and seemingly more common now-days)?

These are professional writers, with professional editing staff - however it often feels the article is a first-draft written in one go and then published with zero review.

It's not just TechCrunch, but a lot of tech press (there's a bias to my observation because I read predominately tech press).

It makes it feel as-if the general quality of journalism is declining.
Yes, but the editorial board is not the only cost component of a journal. I'm somewhat skeptical of how much the model in which "the scientists" do all the work of publishing a journal can scale, but I'd be glad to be proven wrong.

I'll admit my comment was influenced by some proposed models (e.g. in the UK), arguing for the allocation of taxpayer resources to "buy" open access for research.
I had $60k sitting in my account for my first house. I just closed at $265k.

It's doable, but with a lead dev salary in NE Ohio. This is neither common nor really acceptable, but I worked hard to save my money.
I got burnt out working 10+ hour days, 7 days a week for a year, tried to ignore it and push through and was noticeably showing signs of burnout and productivity issues because of it. I couldn't take it anymore and asked for a week vacation. 3 days into the week vacation I was fired.
Facebook sues people for Face* names. Not an entirely unprecedented precedent.

The real problem is you never know when you'll be sued for going too far. The only way to find out is to go too far and hope it doesn't happen. (like, the existence of YouTube itself)
Even good, clear, code is inscrutable complexity to a lay-person. Finance is no different.

To me, it's more than a little ironic how often software professionals look at what finance professionals do and ask the equivalent of "why the hell does Twitter need all this code? It's just 140 character messages!"
If nobody can prove that you committed a crime, then you haven't committed a crime.
The PNP game
And the Arab Spring was 2-3 years after this document was created.
"Forget it. I'll build my own Twitter. With hookers. And blackjack."
Because failover.

Seriously - Tutum lets me rebuild my infra on Digital Ocean if/when AWS dies, and quickly. ECS, by contrast, is just POOF in that scenario.
There are two main ways to buy a public company. One way is to make a deal with the board of directors which gets ratified by the shareholders in a vote. Because stocks are highly liquid you really have to offer a premium over the current stock price for that to be a good deal for everyone involved. Then think about what happens after the board agrees to the sale, people can still trade their stocks on the open market, but it'll be a vastly different landscape than normal because those stocks now have a fixed price at a future date. So it doesn't make sense to buy stocks at higher than that price, it also doesn't make much sense to sell stocks at lower than that price unless you need liquidity now.

The other way is to just buy up a majority of the public, voting shares, typically called a hostile takeover. This is the hard way, and can become extremely expensive if enough people decide they don't want to part with their shares except at very high prices. As you buy up shares the price will go up, so it ends up being a longer, more difficult, less certain, and more contentious way to buy a company.
Moebius and the Key of Dreams
>The guy knew probably about Clinton emails case.

Of course he knows about the Hillary situation. Since this is the CIA, would it be entirely tinfoil mad-hat of me to suggest that this was an intentional honeypot left out, knowing it would get hacked and the ensuing leak coverage would reinvigorate the debate over Hillary's misuse of private email for official business?

Brennan doesn't exactly strike me as the kind of guy who plays for the Democratic team.
I don't know, what do you think? What would happen if Google only ever released software for Android? Or if Google didn't allow anyone else to develop software for their devices? These are opposite examples, but there are more cases on that side.

I'm a lawyer (No I'm not), so I know that under competition law it's illegal for a company to engage in abusive behavior. Fixing prices in that way seems unfair.

And anyway I'm not concerned about the particular pricing because I won't pay for this product for either platform.
Yeah, you sort of assume good benefits and pay, and then you stay as long as the relationships and learning are good. And then you do something different anyway.
Answer to your last question: yes. However, the results of these (and other) experiments are not consistent with abandoning realism.

There is also a third option that almost no-one mentions, and that's superdeterminism; i.e. that free will doesn't exist.
If only the Nim project had access to a few of the tens of millions being spent by Yahoo in order to more effectively deliver clickbait about the Kardashians and the like.

I mean, if the money actually came from a different organization than Yahoo.

Its good they do have support from 3DICC though.
I'm a boss of devs. My off the cuff response to you is "please, god _please_, talk to your boss."
Say exactly what you told us. "I'm burnt out, I've tried addressing the problem..."

Before you do, think through what's causing the burnout. It could be the hours, that's where everyone goes first, but it could be a particular client, it could be the number of projects you're having to concurrently work, it could be your environment, it could something else completely, or it could be a combination of a bunch of those things.

Once you get sorta close to what's causing the burnout you can work to a solution that you can pitch your boss. But I wouldn't lead with it, I'd let him ask you "so what can we do" and then present what you're thinking.

Speaking as a boss, I really don't want people quitting for negative reasons. If they get some crazy offer that I can't match or they get to work on some cool tech that excites them, them's the breaks and it suck for me but I'm excited for them. But if I have people quitting for systemic reasons, man that's bad juju and I need to know so I can fix that shit before quitting becomes contagious and I lose a shop full of good people.

It's also been mentioned a couple times to see a counselor. I concur. You may be dealing with some anxiety and depression issues that a qualified doc can help you through.
young people - old people = lord of the flies
She'll tell you it's "a distraction"
Addressing Is The Secret Of Power8 CAPI
Amazon employee spotted.
Really? Since millenials are going to be buying most of the houses over the next 15 years this suggests that housing starts will go up dramatically. Look at previous housing shortages, people returning from WWII, baby boomers entering the market, and now millenials. So demand goes up, clearly a lot of them are unserved by current prices, so developers figure out how to make houses they can afford to capture that demand.

A more interesting question is whether or not they want houses. It seems that with work mobility its simpler to just rent for a lot of folks. That drives interesting price inversions where it becomes cheaper to buy than to rent because people don't want to be "tied down" to a particular place.
At this point, I feel like the AOL account was actually a clever honeypot.
Google has a de-facto monopoly position in this market (spotify for user generated videos and user generated videos in general). I think this deal should be subject to a FRAND regulation, like patents.
Hillary wasn't using some AOL account, she was using a private server configured by a private security firm. ON one hand, I am betting her e-mails were much more secure than the CIA director's. On the other hand, the amount of effort and thought put into acquiring a secure alternative to a government e-mail account makes it far less likely that her motives were doing so were simple ignorance.
I can easily make 10-15% a year on my money investing, so that $66k downpayment actually means I would lose $6.6k-9.9k in annual income.
It appears that the EFF licenses its content under the Creative Commons Attribution License[0][1], which would make it acceptable to redistribute original content which is not already under a more restrictive license, if attribution is given, which the original site does not appear to have done. They also altered the content to remove the final paragraph, which would require attribution as well.

The EFF would be undermining their own credibility (not to mention that of free/open source licenses) if they were aware of this and choose to ignore it. I'd bet no one bothered reporting it, though.

[0]https://www.eff.org/copyright

[1]https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
But how do developers being successful on Twitter's platform translate to Twitter making money? Developers aren't really willing to pay for access to Twitter, and I don't think many of them want to show Twitter's ads, as that removes a way for them to make money by offering an ad free version, and makes offering their own ads that much less unpalatable.
A Survey of Computational Steering Environments (1998) [pdf]
http://xkcd.com/1591/
I'd love to try this to induce lucid dreaming, but I'm not sure about the unknown health risks of electrical stimulation to my head for hours.
DroneSeed – Re-planting the future with drones
IMHO the concept of unilateral changeable contract does not make any sense. Never. It's a oxymoron.
Their logic is that because elements are typically deeply nested, it's better to sacrifice the readability for the saved indentation. By the time you get 4 child elements deep, almost half your line space goes to tabs.
Monotone, Git, Linus and Marty McFly (“Back to the Future 2” Day)
A Lot of Cheap Housing Is About to Get Very Expensive
Lose the developers, lose the platform.

Dorsey is making a smart move here but can it be reversed? When twitter started and now when it is down they wanted/want developers, back when it went gangbusters they booted the devs. Engineering lost control of twitter internally, developer love was the first to go.
Note: I brought this up to my mom and she pointed out that it was a shooting in Washington, not Columbine, that had the schools paranoid.
Just another reason why Twitter should be a protocol, not a centralised service
I can't stand this term - "Starter Home". Not everyone, even those who can afford it, wants a McMansion.
Startup Without VCs. Is It Possible?
Awesome idea. 10 minute expiry should reduce abuse and impending DMCA's :)
Property-Based Testing in F#
> Then Twitter can acquire or copy the successful services.

I think this is what makes people so hostile towards Twitter.

Twitter neither clones successful services nor continues to run those they acquire. Instead they either shut them down, or acquire then shut them down - meanwhile completely missing opportunity after opportunity to capitalize on their massive ocean of data.

It seems, based on history, Twitter is not interested in running many services around the Twitter platform/API/data. Instead they really just want to be "Twitter".

I say, let them do what they do best - acquire data and build great API's. Let 3rd parties build Twitter's userbase and data, but charge them for access to the API. It's a simple monetization plan.
Merge differently colored cells with sum equal to number in uncolored cell and move to that cell.
There is a cool project I found called Venice you might want to check out: https://github.com/Zewo/Venice
The problem starts when you consider things like kerberos, where MIT Kerberos and Heimdal both implement the same basic kerberos api, but have mutually incompatible portions of the libraries -- there are functions that take different arguments depending on which library you're talking about, etc. So, programs that want to implement kerberos authorization need to either put in a bunch of ifdefs and the like to handle this, say that their program's just not going to work with one or the other, or bundle their own known good version. Or look at sqlite, where everyone and their brother ships their own version because there are a lot of defaults and settings which can affect behaviors that may be beneficial to an application.

Bundling is a necessity because software interactions are complex, and sometimes developers get tired of having to field support requests because packagers build programs with silly options. Including a known version of a library allows a developer to pin down the behavior a lot more, which loosens the burden on them because they don't need to worry about how Debian or Guix is going to screw up their programs.
One of the cleverest ideas I've seen on HN lately. Great job!
Popular city housing prices are global markets, not local markets. Turns out foreigners have lots of money to burn that locals can't match.

Things like http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/04/28/realtors-printin... and http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/How-and-why-... and http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-14/nyc-s-luxu... and http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/nyregion/russia-time-warne... and http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/stream-of-foreign... and http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/12/chinas-rich-... etc
Minneapolis reporting in, 200k houses abound.

But hey fuck us flyover states-- what with our high paying jobs and affordable housing
> "I don't think it can be equated very easily to theft. Theft is when you take something and the owner loses possession. But in copyright infringement, you don't take anything from other people," Elbakya says. "Many university researchers need access to these papers because subscriptions are very expensive."

Ah, but you do take something from the people who are expecting to be paid for their labor, according to the value the market has placed on it. By refusing to pay, you are telling those people, "I think this is worth $0 so stop your crying", in essence. But if it was really worth nothing, would you break the law to get it?
Two Weeks After It Sued the CIA, Data Is Stolen from University of Washington
Yeah, if you have to ask what you need to do to make something right, then you don't really know what it is you did wrong in the first place.
Before you do anything, get your resume updated and start talking to recruiters, etc, and see what your options are. Make sure you have a fall back plan before you open this can of worms.
You agree about tech's age problem--now help fix it
The should be taught what it means for a DNA test to be 99% accurate or at least it shouldn't be out of order for a lawyer to explain that as is currently the case.
From what I understand, this only applies to people who are making money by displaying ads on their videos. So if you want to continue to make money on YouTube videos, you have to sign the new terms.
* Theres a theory that WIKILEAKS has been a FSB front since 2010: *

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3pobtq/is_russi...

They haven't posted a SINGLE ANTI-Russian document since they threatened to leak documents in 2010
I know the founders. The product is great. They've actually put a lot of R&D hours behind it.
Analysing the lyrics of the Rolling Stone 500 greatest songs of all time
It's not that there aren't exceptions, but it's pretty obvious old politicians aren't hip to technology from the past 30 years, isn't it?

I didn't say "every old person is dumb and invalid and will rot in their living rooms out of stupidity." But, an average 4 year old can use an iPhone better than an average 63 year old.
Old people invented email.
Google exec: “your genome isn’t really secret”
Absolutely! If any dev falls for this trap again then they need their head examined. Fool me once...
Beautiful user experience.

I'm assuming the file will remain "alive" while it is downloading, right? So after you share it and the download starts, the receiver can take, say, 2 hours to download the file?
I don't think the amount of people who would pay Twitter is that high.
What kind of abuse are you imagining?
I believe it's that way because of the rights issues. They can show ads while songs are playing to pay the copyright holder of the song but if your display is off then there is no ads and thus no revenue to share.
Twitter has insight into what everyone on the planet is thinking RIGHT NOW, and they're using it to sell ads for t-shirts.

That's just a fundamental lack of imagination.

There's all kinds of things that can be built on that, if you can rely on the platform to remain available to you.
How do you make an easy 10 to 15%?
Lost library of John Dee to be revealed