skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an alternative perspective:

"The database logs created by NGP VAN show that four accounts associated with the Sanders team took advantage of the Wednesday morning breach. Staffers conducted searches that would be especially advantageous to the campaign, including lists of its likeliest supporters in 10 early voting states, including Iowa and New Hampshire. Campaigns rent access to a master file of DNC voter information from the party, and update the files with their own data culled from field work and other investments. After one Sanders account gained access to the Clinton data, the audits show, that user began sharing permissions with other Sanders users. The staffers who secured access to the Clinton data included Uretsky and his deputy, Russell Drapkin. The two other usernames that viewed Clinton information were “talani" and "csmith_bernie," created by Uretsky's account after the breach began. The logs show that the Vermont senator’s team created at least 24 lists during the 40-minute breach, which started at 10:40 a.m., and saved those lists to their personal folders. The Sanders searches included New Hampshire lists related to likely voters, "HFA Turnout 60-100" and "HFA Support 50-100," that were conducted and saved by Uretsky. Drapkin's account searched for and saved lists including less likely Clinton voters, "HFA Support <30" in Iowa, and "HFA Turnout 30-70"' in New Hampshire. Despite audit logs, Weaver said at the news conference that NGP VAN has told the campaign that no Clinton data was printed or downloaded."

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-18/sander...
A fresh account, commenting on a new, extremely controversial issue should probably disclose affiliations before getting too embroiled in arguing interpretations and facts.
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If you assume a completely non-coercive scenario: Each side values what they're getting more than they do what they're giving out. So I wouldn't go so far as saying that it is a straight swap. Furthermore, in order to define/measure it as such we'd have to have some sort of objective measurement of the values exchanged.
The rent, then, is the value the possessor can extract from the property as a result of not having to take those costs.

But the nature of uncertainty of action means that such a cost isn't really quantifiable. It seems like you're trying to say that the rent is the value derived during idling. But idling can serve a valid social purpose in conferring availability of something, or when land is converted for a purpose only on occasion but must necessarily remain available by idling.
Why is immigration off the table?
>I kind of feel the same way. Unfortunately, if you're going to do this all on your own, you're going to have to find a way to get interested in everything.

Oh yes I definitely agree. I don't want the game to be worse because I couldn't bring myself to do something boring XD

> I think maybe just tone down the anthropomorphism and it will be better.

That actually bugs me a bit too. But I had chance to gauge the response at a convention and I found that female gamers actually like the game a lot and they react positively to the tutorial. But I'll have to see the general reaction and I may end up throwing it out.

>The general visual and graphic theme seems to be technological and futuristic.

Sounds like a good facade.

>Since you are using Unity, have you considered putting a build for the web up somewhere?

I tried an online build but it seems like unity webplayer is being phased out for the html5 backend. I tried it out in that but the performance was horrible so I'm not sure if there's an easy path on that.

Thanks for the encouragement! Do you have a website yourself or something I can follow you on?
> I'd agree that many Icons are context sensitive and many require the user to learn their use, but they do, mostly, provide a language agnostic approach to navigation.

They are "language agnostic" in that an icon system is its own language.
Start at the beginning. Here's a tin mine. But it wasn't always there; it's there because a prospector found a tin deposit, presumably as the result of a large amount of effort. It's there because somebody invested in equipment to make it economically viable to extract the tin. So viewing that as "rent" seems a bit off.

Same thing with farmland. There's a farm there because somebody made a farm there; it wasn't always farmland. Somebody cut down the trees, cleared the brush, broke the ground, and started planting. It wasn't easy. Later, somebody (a series of somebodies) bought the equipment for the farm to be economically viable in the current environment.

Real rent is when the king or somebody gives you a monopoly on selling boot blacking (or whatever), so you can charge whatever you decide, and everybody has to pay it or go without boot blacking. I don't see a farm or a mine in the same category. (I do see a house for rent in an area with zoning restrictions in the category of economic rent, though.)

I guess I also didn't give a concrete place to draw the line, though...
My experience is that typed functional programming is excellent for any application that can afford to run a garbage collector and needs to to be able to change continuously forever.
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I had a bad motorcycle wreck a couple years ago. I was hit head-on and got to experience the joy of flight momentarily before landing on my back and ass in the road. At the time, my iPhone (4) was in my back left pocket, protected by a heavy duty Otterbox "Defender" protective case. While several of my bones were -- to borrow your term -- "shattered", the iPhone (and case) survived my landing on it (with some speed and force, I might add) just fine. A nurse in the E.R. used it to call my girlfriend and I continued to use it until I bought a 6s when they just recently came out.

On that note, the first thing I did with that 6s was to secure it inside a new Otterbox Defender. They're certainly not the cheapest cases you can buy but they're cheaper than a new iPhone and, to me at least, they're worth every penny.

If it's just the screen and the phone still actually functions, you can get it replaced. That won't be real cheap, either, but it'll be cheaper than a new phone.

I'm sorry that happened to you, it really does ruin your day when that happens.
The second link is a very solid scientific paper - not yet done reading it, but looks good.
At least it would be only BigCo in USA and the tech sector.

I know only numbers from germany and somebig corporations here. Apart from management you would here be very unlikely to even hit 100k (neither $ nor €).
Location is one of the core factors of this article. I'm 3 years into my career and still make less than half the starting rate at BigCorp in SV.
RSUs are stocks. A grant of 1 RSU means that on the date it vests, the company will buy 1 share of its stock and drop it into your account at a major brokerage. It's considered compensation and taxed as income, though it's often withheld as bonus income.
Yes, very much so. Aside from fast food, pretty much all jobs I've ever had required them (including retail and grocery.)
Speaking of radiating condescension...
>patent and copyright restriction is a HUGE rent. Even more so now that we're first-to-file and not first-to-invent.

Technically to consider it a rent the copyright holder would not be producing anything, which just isn't true. Well, not for patents on genuine inventions.

The same is true for financial services. They do provide a service for the money.
I don't understand. None of these reasons have made any sense. Could someone explain in greater detail what this article is talking about?
From that I see this:

Wow. It's like we are reading two different articles. If Verisign isn't doing typical rent-seeking, then we might as well delete the Wiki entry, because the concept doesn't exist.

Just from paragraph 1:

seeking to increase one's share of existing
wealth without creating new wealth.

Exactly what Verisign is doing. They are supplying infrastructure to the Internet. They're not creating anything, they're simply charging everyone an excessive fee for using the existing Internet. They're inserting themselves into every single .com and .net domain purchase or renewal.

From paragraph 2:

capture of regulatory agencies to gain a coercive
monopoly can result in advantages for the rent
seeker in the market

Regulatory capture. This is exactly what happened when ICANN awarded no-bid contracts to Verisign, under the pretense that no other firm would have the capacity to do it.[1]

[1] http://timothyblee.com/2010/01/22/verisign-angling-for-no-bi...
Even before selling the current pills, I've seen mentions from the mid-1800s of how something horrible would happen to someone and it would be lamented in mere economic terms, lost productivity.
I think it's reasonable to be somewhat outraged due to the fact that there are actually very few end-users who would have had the skills to prove the metering problems. This guy was advanced enough to be gathering traffic statistics at the modem (way beyond 99.9% of users already) and he still got told the measurements were "probably" legit. He didn't get any consideration until, knowing full well that their numbers were off, he unplugged his LAN for an entire week to prove it.

If we're going to give them a pass on accidental billing, you can't make correcting the problem this user-hostile.
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>Why not just always use the more accurate system?

Time and cost. Do you count retransmits, drop packets before the customer sees them? If so there is a whole lot more tracking that must occur, that means more cpu power, memory, and storage. In the case of the ISP, it probably means more licensing cost on whatever tools they use to capture that data.

What is more worrisome is that utilities have standards set and particular rules they must follow in their measurement systems. Do ISPs? I've seen systems that count all packet sizes as 1518 bytes. If you're doing mostly bulk transport that is generally the case. If you're a customer and do lots of DNS lookups and other small calls, your average packet size will be below that.
I work at Big Company and although I grumble, I know it's probably better than going to a Startup. I think the Startup route is like trying to win in Vegas. Some win, most don't. Although it could be fun depending on what you're looking for.

At Big Company if I get bored I can move to a different group fairly easily. And I know my work will be used by millions of people a day. I think that's the part people forget; A lot of people will use your product. At a Startup good luck with that.

And another thing, if you start to have conflicts with someone at a Startup and it's not resolved, it will be a pain to work there. At Big Company, at least you can move to another group or hope they will.
Thing is, homomorphic encryption is expensive in terms of time and computing power. I can't see it being implemented for the majority of consumer grade data, which will probably continue to be mined by large corporations and governments in exchange for "free" hardware, software, apps, etc. Financial data, medical data, VIP data, crypto-junkie data - I think there's a strong use case there.

The guys developing enigma said they'd be putting out another paper at the end of the summer but I didn't see anything...any insights into what's going on over there?
> Using a non-registered and non-inspected device to measure for trade? That's a paddlin'.

I wonder if that isn't the best way to approach all this. Not just for Comcast but any carrier that meters stuff out; mobile phone data, mobile phone minutes, etc. If you want to claim I get X amount, prove it!

Now that you mention it, I can't help but wonder why Starbucks doesn't have to "prove" that its 12oz latte really is 12oz. Is it because I have the right to immediately measure it and complain? I don't know much about this aspect of the law.
Thanks, I came in here looking for that. Here are some more explanations: http://www.davisimperial.com/resources/care_lables.html

I assume the "No Christmas Crackers" symbol means "Do Not Wring Out".
Because you don't need private property for the latter. You can just skip the buy and sell part and jump directly to improve and get paid
That's the second time that's been reported on linux. I'll have to look into that.

I made the order based on blue. The first artwork I made used blue and it just kinda settled that blue would be Box's default state. RGB does make more sense now that I think about it though. I'll have to think about it and gauge whether it's worth changing since I'd have to go back and tear into code in many files.
Several people have been commenting on how the archaeologists "know" that the raised structures were altars. Well, they don't. Not for sure, anyway. Here is an excerpt from a paper describing the find:

"Three different interpretations have been proposed: as ‘altars’, as ‘hearths’ and as ‘platforms’ [...]. The notion of ‘altars’ presupposes some ritual function and would be supported by differential concentrations of figurines, or other so-called ritual objects. However, there is no such concentration of ritual finds. The expected evidence to support the notion of ‘hearths’ would be the identification of burnt fired clay fragments, allied to concentrations of charcoal and/or ash close to the features. The absence of burning near these features diminishes the likelihood that they were ‘hearths’. Nonetheless, short-term, low-temperature fires in the middle of a raised seating area for ritual participants may well have left few traces of ash or charcoal. The term ‘raised area’ is a more neutral term, indicating a proper concern with a feature that is raised from the ground-surface of the me- ga-structure, on which people could have sat or ritual objects could have been placed for short-term performances - objects which were then removed to other contexts [...]"

Once again, the popular press slightly twists science to present a "more interesting read"...

(Source: http://www.jna.uni-kiel.de/index.php/jna/article/view/110)
I wish, but unfortunately I do backend work in Java as well. The relative expressiveness and simplicity of JavaScript saves me from Stockholm syndrome, I guess. But still... Every time I touch Java I have to puke a little in my mouth while tears of blood roll down my cheeks and my soul dies a little. The horror.
I also didn't realize how much I was shaped by my awful upbringing. I just thought I'd get away and that I was a rational person and everything would be all right.
Sales tax is a small part of it, but most item's just cost less period. When you declare at the border, as long as you don't have more than a few hundred dollars, you're typically alright. I've declared up to $350 worth of groceries and they let me go through no problem. Liquor/Tobacco is a different story, however, once again, I've crossed and declared a flat of beer (24) and was asked to pay.
They said "almost certainly", and put "last subway line Japan will ever build" in bold font for emphasis. In any case, that really isn't a very strong argument:

"The next level up we start to see responses to the writing, rather than the writer. The lowest form of these is to disagree with the author's tone. E.g.
I can't believe the author dismisses intelligent design in such a cavalier fashion.
Though better than attacking the author, this is still a weak form of disagreement. It matters much more whether the author is wrong or right than what his tone is. Especially since tone is so hard to judge. Someone who has a chip on their shoulder about some topic might be offended by a tone that to other readers seemed neutral.

So if the worst thing you can say about something is to criticize its tone, you're not saying much. Is the author flippant, but correct? Better that than grave and wrong. And if the author is incorrect somewhere, say where." http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I've responded fairly well to SSRIs, but I think it might be significantly influenced by how bad I had gotten without them. The side-effects I endure are objectively terrible (I hit almost all of the common ones and most of the uncommon ones) but the change for me has been night and day. I've always wanted to try Ketamine because of what I've heard about its effects on depression, but I've never gotten the opportunity. I do hope this starts a broader conversation about people like us.
The crappier the job, the more likely that it drug tests.

And, of course, safety-reliant jobs like truck drivers, warehouse staff, etc.
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agreed. many of the systems running our campaigns are "clunkers".
But doesn't, by default. And that's crucial. On the web I can just run any random program from anyone and there's a very strict limit on what it can do to me and to other software.
"Comcast has been steadily introducing data caps into parts of its territory, testing customers' responses before a potential nationwide rollout. "

Sadly a lot of people will complain and will dislike this meter, but have no other choice as Oleg in the article and will have to stick with comcast. Comcast will later say we lost 0 customers in areas we switched to metered bandwidth.
Dublin is in a weird situation. Loads of immigrant here. I lived there couple years and worked in one of those big corps.

Salaries do go quite up a while but statistics on the corporate ladder are stacked firmly against immigrants, the higher you go the less chance you have to find non local people.

With soft career ceiling and continuous influx of people salaries are driven down. You can still make a fine living, but nothing compared to the colleagues on the other side of the ocean.
> Technically to consider it a rent the copyright holder would not be producing anything, which just isn't true.

Even by the (overly restrictive, IMO, as it excludes economic monopoly rents that are not derived from government-granted monopolies), copyright and patent are sources of rents drawn on the government-issued monopoly right to exclude others from duplicating the covered subject matter (or, in the case of patent, even independently developing it).

Even that restrictive definition upthread does not included the requirement that the rent-seeker was not required to produce something in order to secure the government-granted privilege from which it extracts rents.
From everything I've read the Japanese are rather anti-immigration and it's ingrained in their culture.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32788ff0-ea00-11e3-99ed-00144feabd...
Totally agree. The process model is actually a better sandbox than, e.g., Firefox per-origin one (because it sandboxes CPU time and memory as well). But the shape of the sandbox is incorrect for the modern era.
i'll fire an email your way shortly. but yea, a conversation would be great.
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Maybe its useful to discern between 'rational depression' and 'medical depression' .. by firstly labeling them as such ?

I don't know how you'd differentiate between this formally, but it seems there is a massive difference - and they need different solutions.

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"It is actually not a bad language and with an IDE like Eclipse or inteliJ you can be quite productive."

Just as the guy with two broken legs can get around a little bit using a wheelchair. Yes, the wheelchair might be great, but the poor bastard still can't dance.
You only need the one line in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini. The other stuff is for, well, theme stuff.
Amen to the Apple Mail icon problem he mentions. It gets me every time, too.
I've had an experience where they claimed a cable modem I had purchased from Amazon was their own (from the MAC address on the label). I had to call in several times because I had loaned the modem out to a friend and they refused to activate it because it was an "unreturned rental modem". They're not even able to keep track of their own inventory, I would hardly count on them keeping track of MACs of all modems for the purposes of data caps.
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-british-intelligence-devilish-c...
Well, this isn't very good. "No one had to promote C, or Unix, or HTML"? Really?

I tend to find his essays much less interesting and persuasive now than I used to. I'm not sure why.
They detected the structure using underground imaging techniques, the uppermost layer of objects was half a meter below the current ground surface. (The whole excavation took eight weeks, if you are interested in more details, check out the article I quoted above.)
There is a reason we don't normally throw people into jail without bail...
I follow it a bit. Right now we know that it's theoretically possible but it's very slow, too slow for uses other than maybe very niche things.

In the next five years I fully expect to see an acceptably fast implementation that will broaden use to the application areas you mention: high security stuff and crypto junkies.

At that point is where things will get interesting. To make homomorphic crypto really fast will take custom silicon. As soon as I see acceptably fast software homomorphic, I expect to see either a startup or one or more projects inside big companies very quickly pop up with the goal of producing either homomorphic silicon to pair with an existing CPU or -- more interestingly -- a CPU that computes homomorphically as its native mode of operation. That could get interesting.

I predict that by 2030 you will be able to spin up a 100% "blind" sealed VM in the cloud for <$20/month that is fast enough to run what can run on an average cloud instance today.

All compute doesn't have to be homomorphic to get the benefits. You only really need it for encryption, decryption, key generation, authentication, and indexing of security critical data. Boilerplate stuff can be done in the clear. By 2030 standard cleartext compute will be so cheap I wonder if cloud providers will even bother charging for it below very large levels.

Edit: can't make this any deeper but to reply to your reply:

I'm not sure. I think that's up in the air. Right now you can do a whole lot with a small cloud instance with <1gb RAM and 20gb local storage. Software bloat seems to be increasing less rapidly than it was 10 years ago, and there are even movements toward more efficient languages today. So I just have to shrug on that one. We'll see.
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They took away my family's right to vote in Pakistan. I think you can come up with plenty of ways to kick people out of a nation state short of making them stateless (which I guess isn't kosher after WWII) I suppose another good example would be the Rohingya in Myanmar
Hmm, that's much more specific, and seems to go beyond simply establishing that there's a permissions problem and they can see data they shouldn't. I still think cutting off the Sanders campaign from all their data, even after the bug was fixed, is over the top. Perhaps the staffers did act inappropriately or aggressively, but deal with them, and let the campaign continue with its daily business.
For someone who follows HN somewhat, I really don't keep up on any current cool-and-hyped stuff. I'll just see websites become more and more useless with three-stripe icons for menus and then just random mysterious icons, and I'll tell myself that that no doubt these no-context meaningless icons must be derived from whatever iphones are doing this week.
I believe the medical terminology is exogenous and endogenous depression, where exogenous is due to external factors and endogenous is independent of them.