skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a random one I noted from 1983:

From: KIM::CALFEE 16-DEC-1983 13:50
To: @SYS$MAIL:COINOP
Subj: Atari 800 Software Theft

It has been brought to my attention that some stolen Atari computer software may now be residing on one or more of our VAXes.

This is intolerable.

We are a company whose existance depends on software sales, and every ATARI game that was in a cartridge and has been put on disc and then on the VAX is a potential leak to the outside world that can impact sales. Any competitors' games that might be on the system could substantially weaken Atari's cases against piracy in court. People who participate in stealing software are risking their jobs and the company's future.

Please delete all questionable files immediately!!!

As Jed would say, Thank you or else.
Steve Calfee
Should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos?
I really wish Apple would start using something like json or yaml. I hate plists.
Six things I learned about the BGV interviews
I'm curious as to what motivates your question. Is there an expectation that a software developer could contribute to climatology more than a climatologist could to software problems?
Thank you, TBH I realize I should of investigated before commenting. Sorry. I am new to HN, bad manners will be corrected. I guarantee that.
> Thank you or else

I'm so stealing that.
Disappointingly, the article doesn't really explain the authority part, just how they came to review restaurants.
You can't get "specific performance," where the court physically forces you to uphold the agreement.

But it is enforceable in that Yahoo could sue for damages. The damages probably wouldn't be all that high though. It is more of an issue when the employment is something unique. Like a start athlete or movie star. You can't just find another person to play Tony Stark in Iron Man 4. But there are plenty of people who can be a Yahoo executive, relatively speaking.
> "I'm just here for the money"...it's disheartening

Yaa, how awful...because my landlord accepts a share of my company CEO's "vision", as does my grocer

> Widespread cynicism will kill high-tech

What a laugh that the heirs, the LP's, the VC's and seeds and angels aren't the cynics, your unhappiness is the twenty-something wage slaves slaving away at all hours building products are now disheartening, because they're buying the BS less and want to keep more of the wealth they're creating.

The heirs and LP's are not "here" for the money. They're in their yachts at Key West, and they have their bets spread.

Woe is us, how disheartening that the people creating the wealth want to keep more of the wealth they create, as opposed to believing the fairy tales the idle class and their myrmidions are telling them.
I'm more curious as to why they are still relevant in this day and age of Yelp.
What about retention bonuses?
I believe it is part of this project: https://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~hengel/?/research/project-lego/

Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.02570.pdf

He's in that research group, anyway.
Google Summer of Code and Pander (R Project)
got to 137
When you say IoT applications, do you mean phone apps which are dealing with data which originated from a "thing" in the IoT, but that the data has already gotten to the phone or cloud through some other, non-Couchbase Mobile channel?

Or is it possible to run or communicate/sync with Couchbase Mobile directly from a "thing" itself?
Many business deploy at that sort of rate. But they are deploying independent services
Talk about a gun to your head. If they don't, I can only assume they are short-listed under the "Not Loyal" column. Definitely curious about what sort of carrot/stick might be attached to such an agreement to make it even worth attempting that tactic.
For anyone interested, I solved this problem for my own needs using what I think is a unique approach, available here:

https://github.com/rustyio/git-gpg

As the name suggests, it uses gpg to encrypt and decrypt the data.

Unlike git-encrypt and git-crypt, it doesn't use smudge/clean filters.

Instead, it uses a special command (`git-gpg push $remote`) to push changes to a local unencrypted mirror of the remote repository. It then encrypts any newly created git objects, and finally rsyncs the new objects to the remote repository. So the remote is just a directory of zipped, gpg-encrypted files.

It has worked well for me over the past two years, but I don't expect that it solves every edge case.

Feedback welcomed through issues and pull requests.
You're fighting a strawman my friend. I explicitly stated that I was not talking about inequitable distribution of capital in a podunk startup. Indeed, in the context of this, the executives that Mayer would be seeking to incentivize with cash are already in the upper stratosphere of ownership - so given that as a background my slant should have been clear.
There is nothing wrong with being at work just for the money, and it most definitely does not mean you are cynical. Funding a family or a hobby is a rewarding and valuable life to live. Being in it for the money can be a really powerful way to push through a lot of hard and boring work that nobody capable of doing could possibly be passionate about.
"Well, daddy, don't you know that things go in cycles..."

Every once in a while, we come up with a new generalization that cuts through the complexity of current, seemingly intractable problems. With time, they break down, succumb to exceptions, or lead to blind alleys. Consider "privacy", which is very new from a legal point of view, but no longer has quite the same new-rule smell. Compare "consideration" (for contracts), which has functioned a good long while, but isn't applied universally, and might be breaking down.

It's a kind of technology. Best case, our advances keep pace with our needs.

But the _pursuit_ of universality, as a principle for rulemaking, has lasted a good long while. The further we get from the incisive "moment of truth" for a rule, the less "just" it feels in application. The more the exceptions and uncertainties, the more we suspect corruption and discrimination. In other words: The more a rule shows its age, the more those who do not (and, practically, cannot) understand its subtleties perceive it as arbitrary.

It's a somewhat indulgent, idealistic line of thought. But it gives me hope. Thought I'd share.
He was part time for the quarter before that tho.
"Open source" was designed for the sole purpose of being "clever" wordplay and an effective marketing strategy, so you really can't blame fsf on that one.

Words matter. See "pro life" vs "pro choice", see "terrorist" vs "criminal" see "migrant" vs "alleged refuge", etc. etc.

The tech press are mouthpieces for the big corporations, and all of the big corporations do not want free software messing with their profits, so they use and coin words which align with their interests. It's perfectly natural for fsf to use different words.
json and yaml didn't exist in the late 1980s when NEXTSTEP was developed.
did anyone manage to find a top wall?
I'm reading backwards. Here's a pretty funny one:

From:	BERT::CAMERON "Somebody has to write this junk" 3-SEP-1992 11:48:33.64
To:	@SYS$MAIL:JUNK
CC:
Subj:	GOOD NEWS!!!!

With the new California budget, students will be spending less time at
school and spending less time studying or doing homework.

More time to play video games!!!!!!

Secondly, kids will get dumber and dumber and we won't have to work
so hard to make sophisticated gameplay and complicated features.

Yeh, Good news for us!!!!!!

long live Atari Games..............
Blocked iTunes Account Warning Email – MailShark
Good leadership wouldn't have turned around MySpace. Sometimes, it's too late.
Main cause - the hardware on offer was not upgraded - they just tried to sell last years model, for several years in a row. Lack of understanding. Eventually everyone had a (old) console and no one wanted to buy another.
Or let users help you identify such pages. Instead of showing a vague message that indicates temporary failure due to time out, show the 404 with option to report the broken link.

I miss picks because that's how I kept track performance of results from my own algos and compare with supposedly experts and crowds.
> I liked how they put the entirety of the infographic text in the alt text - really shows that they care about accessibility!

The alt text for the image is just "5 Keys to Google Teams"; if you open the image in a text-based browser (e.g., links), that is what you'll see.

What they've set, the "title" attribute, is used for tooltips in graphical browsers; the replacement text comes not from title, but from alt. (And alt and title can be different.)

From an accessibility standpoint, I'm not sure it really matters. The infographic's text is also above, in the bullet point, just in question form. (I actually question if the "info"graphic really adds anything. These seem like five independent things, not that 2 depends really on 1, which if the infographic implies anything, it would be that. 3 (goals are clear) certainly doesn't depend on 2 (get things done)…; if anything, having clear goals will lead to getting things done, but not the other way around.)
Prestige, probably. Michelin stars are relevant as long as customers and reviewers are impressed by them.
Don't miss status report on 22 May 1992.
Oh wow, this is about the NeXTSTEP format for plists. That's really old! Modern plists are either XML or binary.
This whole archive is a an absolutely priceless treasure, from the '92 status reports:

EYES ONLY	BURN BEFORE READING

To: Rick Moncrief	1 of 1
Fr: Jed Margolin
Re: Pirates
Dt: 26 February 1992

1. From the evidence, the Pirates have broken security on ASIC65. Guardians
has a problem because they use the same system. Consider the following:

read more at: http://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/Stat92.txt about when the 'war with the pirates' was hot.

Edit: they used a DSP32C I never knew that, that's a label I haven't seen in a long long time. I had a board with one of those as a co-processor in a 286 and it ran incredibly fast compared to the 286/287 combo, it also had a couple of DAC/ADCs on board. That was my intro to signal processing, I used it for all kinds of tricks and even adapted a raytracer to use it as a coprocessor. Fun times!

(this was the board or something very close to it: http://www.symres.com/webpages/products/legacydsp.htm )

edit2: more goodies:

Don't you just HATE to talk to rude people on the phone? Well,
SO DO THEY. Yes, YOU can be just as rude as the people you despise.

Like the way this is going? Of course not. It's arrogant,
it talks down to you, and you feel like you know better. Unfortunately,
sometimes we DO sound like we are above dealing with people on the phone.

We can make this happen less often by avoiding certain trigger
phrases. These are things "nobody likes to hear--not a spouse, not a
child, and least of all, a customer."

I DON'T KNOW should be replaced with an offer to find out.

WE CAN'T DO THAT should come with a sincere apology, and only
when there are no alternatives to offer.

YOU'LL HAVE TO ... is a lie. The caller doesn't HAVE to do
anything. It feels much different to hear, "In order for that to happen,
we need you to ..."

JUST A SECOND never is. If you feel the need to excuse yourself
from the conversation, ask if the caller is willing to hold for a minute
or two. Don't simply presume that they have nothing better to do than wait.

NO, at the beginning of a sentence. If you avoid saying NO as
the first word, you force yourself to project a positive image, and even if
you must deny a request, you put the caller in your camp by giving reasons
or making the caller feel like you didn't WANT to say no, even if you had to.

These changes can't happen overnight. It takes a while to affect
speech patterns; it takes a while just to realize you have them. When you
hear yourself utter one of these trigger phrases, simply think of how you
could have phrased things differently...and before too long, you'll use
those speech patterns instead.

And people will call you just to hear you talk...

Mail archive, Jan '92
Nibiru Portrayed in Commercial by French Phone Company
Having watched way too much "House of Lies" where consultants often seem to be brought in to back-up the viewpoint of a given executive and make the case for whatever that person's agenda is...what would such consultants likely be doing in this case in "the real world?"

I admittedly haven't had the experience of working with any consultants, so I'm curious for opinions from those who have what happens when they come in during a "typical" engagement of this nature.
>The United States legal systems are massively distributed, fault tolerant, resource starved systems that consume exclusively dirty input from malicious users.

I like that assessment.
If you're lucky and you reported the bug first you get to find out what happened with the Radar bug. If you weren't the first you get your support request closed and get to hope the original person posted it on Open Radar. If that doesn't pan out you have to actively ask for an update or read release notes.

I like most of Apple's products but I really wish other people didn't so they'd be compelled to fix these long running process failures (and give IT folks a little more love).
This is great:

Due to a severe increase in demand, we are forced to state some
kind of policy on private archival backup tapes. Effective immediately,
anyone can have a backup done on a BYOT (bring your own tape) basis.

All of the above applies to floppies, as well as tape; floppies are
a little more convenient to store, but don't hold as much. Rough figures
follow:

Tape (2400 ft, 8KB block size) = 40MB storage, or 80,000 disk blocks
(figure 75K blocks after backup adds its own overhead)

Floppies (single density, our default) = .25MB, or 500 disk blocks.

Floppies (double density, YOU MUST SPECIFY) = .5MB, or 1,000 disk
blocks. If you want double density, all of the floppies to be written on
must be pre-initialized before the backup starts. Therefore, you need to
KNOW beforehand just how many floppies are to be used.

It makes me think about our company's 1MB web page download, as it would require 60ft of Atari tape storage. XD

[0] http://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/Vax83.txt
Getting involved with local government may help to solve your local problems, but won't help with the epic ones. And from my own experience living and working in DC, getting involved with the federal government gives you only a very small chance of making a dent in whatever your pet issue is. I've worked with people who've lived here for 30+ years fighting for a single issue who've failed to make any meaningful progress.
There had been several incidents on Syria border, Turkey warned both Syria (and downed their helicopters and airplanes before) and Russia that it is very serious about this.

Russians got cocky.
Kickstarter's requirement that projects have a working prototype is a good start. They should at least verify working prototypes in person for projects with over some amount (like $500K) of funding. Or even just require a prototype video shot by an independent third party.
Yes, but you don't go around making big changes when you're in a temp position. Once he was the real CEO he had free reign to execute a new plan and has shown steps that he's doing that (Moments launched literally the next day!).
> In particular, I feel like the whole "web worker" angle has been seriously overlooked, even though the tech is ~5 years old.

I wonder how much of that stems from the fact that IE didn't support them until 10 and Safari til 8. I'm not sure about dates/numbers, but mobile browsers were pretty late in support too, weren't they?
In glad to see that top of the list is "psychological safety". It's a great term for something I have always found desperately important. Being secure enough to say "I don't know", is vital. I have promised myself "never lie", simply as that gives me the best psychological safety - it's horrific having lied about something (yeah that's ready, yes I know about X) and just waiting for the axe to fall.

A great term for a vital concept. How to create that? Dunno.
Concept: Blockchain-Powered Encryption for the Masses
But the law is just as much of a state monopoly in Russia and China as it is here...

Also it's a complete non sequitur. There are so many differences between Russia, China, and the U.S. that it's absurd to point to one area in which the U.S. is winning and claim it's because of our particular system of law, as opposed to any number of other factors.
Nor in the late 90's when the modern property list format was devised.
I can see this being very useful in teams. Hell, its even useful for a single developer as a form of future documentation. I generally write code today and think, when I read this in 6 months and have no memory, how can I help my future self? For new code bases I'll be adding this.
This bullshit again?
"While we're on the subject, I might mention that Ronald Wilson Reagan anagrams into Insane Anglo Warlord. A public service message."
Capital is fleeing places like China and is being converted to real estate assets.

Real estate is seen as more secure than Chinese currency, and it's easy to transfer real estate while remaining fairly anonymous and avoiding money laundering laws.
Except Apple keeps using them with Xcode. Here is the xcspec for the Swift compiler. A language from 2014 using NeXTSTEP plist format!

I don't know why they just don't upgrade to xml or binary.

https://gist.github.com/jevinskie/98a11023f4b561d36b26

P.S. Xcode plugins are "fun" to write!
I suspect it's giving G/R somewhat short shrift to describe their contributions so dismissively

Sorry, that wasn't my intent -- I'm saying how impressed I was! That doesn't change the fact that they were knocking some really lame titles around.
This is incredibly exciting! I got myself on the waiting list, looking forward to trying it out!
And a strict reading of the first amendment would allow "give me your wallet or I will shoot you". Of course, it could punish you for actually shooting, and so the threat may be incredible.

I wonder if congress can ban a mixture of the first and second on a literal interpretation? That is, allow people to bear arms, and allow them to threaten to shoot, but not at the same time? That would be a fascinating legal question in the alternate strict-law universe.
I once made a Pokédex page for Pokémon Showdown, but I never really got around to promoting it:

http://pokemonshowdown.com/dex/

It's a similar idea to yours, in terms of making it modern, although I never got around to making it work offline, but it might be interesting to compare how they're similar and how they differ.

Maybe if there's interest, I should put its source up on GitHub and maybe write up some details of how I wrote it.
Read the Experimental Method section. The experimenters conducted monthly hour-long observations of families.

We don't know how often these parents conversed with their kids outside these observation periods.
Check out the email on May 19, 1992 for an interesting writeup on Atari's downfall.
This happened because CSS and HTML are a totally broken model, useless for writing larger applications. They don't provide any sort of modularity / encapsulation - everything is in the open, present inside one big giant namespace with class names colliding with other class names and styles cascading through / being inherited by everything you want or don't want.

Web Components / HTML Imports kind of solve this though, but they're still not there. http://caniuse.com/#search=components

JavaScript has lexical scope, and that pretty much solves everything. CSS styles are now local variables and need to be passed around. Components are not just a dump of HTML, but opaque functions - their inner structure cannot be (accidentaly) accessed by outside components. Ah - finally, a sensible programming model.

Just imagine what would be possible if CSS class names were lexical, not global strings - and you could import them into HTML (perhaps with renaming). How big of a change that would be in terms of making things easier to separate.

Well... React users got tired of imagining things :) http://glenmaddern.com/articles/css-modules
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> You don't think his talk about soldering and "inventing" is a little suspicious considering what he actually did?

Well, first off: you don't know what he actually did unless you see it up close. A couple of grainy photos won't show much.

And secondly: No, absolutely not. Unequivocally not.
StackExchange's blackbox[0] has solved this problem for me.

Alternatives:

* https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt
* https://github.com/shadowhand/git-encrypt
* http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_vault.html
* https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt
* http://www.passwordstore.org/

[0]: https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox
Hacking gmail password
I just had a gmail account hacked, did a google search and it seems there are many ways to hack gmail, e.g. after you fill out some ads forms and such. This looks scary and is it time for us to do two-step login these days?
The scenario you describe is really one more common to the modern world of just the past couple generations.

Intelligence has been evolving and subject to inheritance far longer than that.

Believe it or not, the scenario you describe has occurred to researchers as an avenue of study, and they found it didn't amount to much(i.e. nature over nurture), see 'twin studies.'

This subject, intelligence, is really one of the triumphs of 20th century science, in that it has come to be quite well understood. It's understandable that you and so many others seem unaware of this, however, because to quote Steven Pinker, 'people hate the message.'
https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/645301814955388930

Also, you may consider abandoning this notion of genetics and culture being in an uncorrelated relationship.

Cultures are simply people, that is they are emergent from the interactions of people, and since there are high IQ people and low IQ people, there are high IQ cultures and low IQ cultures.
I'm not saying they made a bad choice.
South Park actually had an episode on that recently..

"You're Not Yelping" (S19E04): Cartman considers himself the top online restaurant reviewer in South Park.
> as it would require 60ft of Atari tape storage.

More likely they were DEC VAX tapes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:9-track-drive.jpg

At a guess running at 1600 bpi for 40M at 2400 ft.

(1600 x 12 x 2400 = 46M bytes and change, reserve some room for headers)
Software Engineering is a loaded question. It covers the range from formal planning bureaucracies to seat-of-pants extreme programming. Any software company that makes it into its second decade has probably hacked together something that works.
They mention a technique to improve these items:

"So we created a tool called the gTeams exercise: a 10-minute pulse-check on the five dynamics, a report that summarizes how the team is doing, a live in-person conversation to discuss the results, and tailored developmental resources to help teams improve."

And they had some metrics for a specific improvement:

"... ones that adopted a new group norm -- like kicking off every team meeting by sharing a risk taken in the previous week -- improved 6% on psychological safety ratings and 10% on structure and clarity ratings.

And generally:

"Teams said that having a framework around team effectiveness and a forcing function to talk about these dynamics was missing previously and by far the most impactful part of the experience."

So it sounds like simply discussing the importance of these aspects and how they influence your team from within the team itself might help foster a better environment.
Ban Encryption? An Impossible Idea Whose Time Will Never Come
Can I create an account with you if I'm an EU citizen, or is it UK-only?
Very impressive visualization! It'd be great if there could be a <del> legends table </del> (or even better, tooltips) explaining all these confusing acronyms...

EDIT: found doc. Still it would be great if the legends is nearby.