skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> services should allow me to easily create lots of aliases. Right now the best defense against social engineering seems to be my fastmail account which allows me to create 1 email address alias per service

What you may want is a catch-all email - which lets you do @domain.com -> nmjohn@domain.com (where is everything besides already defined addresses) - that way you can make up emails on the fly without having to setup the alias beforehand.

I've had that setup for 5 or 6 years now, and it works extremely well. A handy side-effect of this is it makes it easy to see which companies sell your email address to spammers when you included the name of the original company in the email you register with
> 5. AMA-style Q & As
> 6. Chat/AI services and integrations

This actually makes me wonder: if you increase or remove the length limits, how well would Twitter work as a private chat platform?

Because compared to the terrible internal "social platform" sites that some large companies run on their intranets, a company-wide private version of Twitter actually seems like a significant improvement. Use lists (including shared lists) as an equivalent to rooms or groups. That would give three different types of streams: your main feed (people you follow from across the company), the groups you watch or participate in (where most of the productive value comes from), and the firehose (to sample what's going on across the whole company).

As a bonus, if you add in a form of federated accounts, this could allow businesses paying for such a service to have a family of verified accounts on the public Twitter, all tied to their domain (similar to email addresses).
I don't understand this comment. Isn't it still under LGPL or more liberal licenses, depending on the component, as it has always been? According to the website, it is.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/licensing.html

I see nothing in that list that seems different or that would prevent one from building commercial products on Qt without licensing fees.
Not if you start with a small compiler
Except that Bronson's character wasn't a cop.
This is relatively old NV functionality. However, there were some complaints about this folder ballooning after installing a couple driver updates, which caused brand new shader blobs to be built. Not a huge issue, but that spurred some of the extension getting traction to allow games to manage the process
Startup idea: Whitehat Social Engineering (as a service). You authorise a whitehat team to attempt to social engineer all your discoverable internet presence/accounts to see what personal information their systems and/or customer service will disclose based on existing publicly available data. (I suspect legally that'd at least be on the white-ish side of grey rather than blackhat...)

I wonder how long it'll be before (or how long ago it became) sensible to register a shell company as the holder of any public record you're legally required to make public? It's probably much easier to roll your shell companies "registered address" if you discover it's been compromised than it is to move house every time Amazon's customer service goes "above and beyond" on your behalf to your attackers...
If you own a home in the U.S., anybody already can get your address legally and easily from your county or district property appraiser's/assessor's website. Along with how much you paid for it, and when you bought it. So calling Amazon CS rep is a hard way to go about it. :)
Similarly, The Paris Review was founded by CIA agent (and novelist and National Book Award winner) Peter Matthiessen[1] as a form of "cultural propaganda"[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Matthiessen

[2]http://www.salon.com/2012/05/27/exclusive_the_paris_review_t...
The move from LGPL 2.1 to 3 should only affect you if you ship locked-down devices, not if you develop "normal" software.
This isn't even a bug. It doesn't behave the way this user would prefer and the feature is not as refined as it could be. Neither of these things is a bug.
I can confirm this. I don't know why they aren't mentioning the entirety of the broadcast in the article. My favorite is that Simms and Nantz had to think really, really hard about the name of the tablet and just gave up half way through their report by just saying "Microsoft Tablets" instead of the Surface or Surface Tablet.
"I'm no conspiriacy theorist, but ... anti-smoking laws are actually being used to limit the plebs ability to congregate together and discuss issues"

Smoking bans have not pushed people away from pubs, bars, etc. For example, see http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/1/63.abstract :

> Some were concerned [comprehensive smoke-free regulations in Ireland] would cause pub patrons to move their smoking and drinking from inside pubs to inside homes. ... Conclusions: Smoking and drinking in the home was not greater in smoke-free Ireland than in the United Kingdom, where there was not a smoke-free law at the time of the survey. These findings add further support to the enactment of comprehensive smoke-free laws, as called for in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control."

and at-home smoking rates in England went down after anti-smoking laws went into place ( http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7509/129.3.full ) so it's not like more people stayed at home to smoke.

Moreover, the underlying premise of Starbucks was to be a "third place" to congregate. Who would spend all the political capital to push pro-plebe isolation laws when they are so easily circumvented by someone out to make a profit?

For that matter, cars isolate us far more than DUI and anti-smoking laws. A walking neighborhood with its own local bars, parks, and businesses (instead of zoning purity) reduce isolation. And you can't arrested for DUI if you're walking home from the bar.

As to your main topic - I quite disagree, but that isn't a topic I want to discuss.
What do you mean stupid? It's the entire point of the competition. Do you mean that it's got no 'real-world' relevance?
Well, they were compute shaders, and that's not the intent of the article.
Fully agree, but I think they they could at least have some in house talent pumping out experiments.

Would be a dream job for me to be on twitters payroll building experiments and functional prototypes.
Those numbers are completely useless because they don't question the reliability of condoms but the more social aspects of it (eg: how good are people on average in using them). If you are capable of using birth control then they will work just fine to prevent a pregnancy.
Please reach out to me privately, and we can see if this would be a good fit. robby@sibipix.com

Thanks!
California is desperately in need of more prison space and Texas is planning on closing prisons and figuring out how to change the laws so fewer people go to jail.

No competition between who handles criminality better between the two states. And one of them is the biggest democrat state and the other the republican. Doesn't prove anything exact this is not a republican versus democrat issue.
(Shrug) It's a terrible idea to add a feature like this without giving the user a way to turn it off. Who in the world would prefer it to work this way?
There has to be an entire category of UX problems like this, even with Apple products (maybe especially with Apple products), where some well-meaning set of product owners decides they're going to automatically detect something that might normally be a user input (like mode of travel), and then it turns out their heuristics for detection weren't thought through carefully enough and run afoul of a use case they didn't account for.
The bad reviews on that book seem legitimate (e.g. Doomsdaying without specifics so it's difficult to pin down their point). Anyone can constantly publish that the market is in a bubble and then just wait until it goes down and claim they were right. It's completely worthless in that regard because early doomsdaying are worse for investors than getting into the market.
The last time I checked, it lacked almost everything in what concerns native mobile widgets, device hardware support, OS events, background services and IPC between apps.

Someone made me aware that they are now in yet another reboot for mobile support.

Using C++ with standard libraries like Boost plus platform specific language is less effort than re-writing QML for each platform, which still doesn't feel native, while having anyway the work to wrap platform API ourselves.
Can you back that up with any data?

There are many sources which demonstrate that it's fairly simple to get all the nutrients you need by only eating plants. My own experience (and that of the vegans I know) also reflects this.
Whenever I see a highly technical article on HN with many upvotes and few comments, I know it will be quality. Nothing much needs to be said, it stands on its own. Great work.
Would you agree that there's room for a site that wants to fix science journalism and how the public interacts with science?

Problematic publications about science are certainly a big problem, worthy of your attention and mine, and my posting history over 2624 days here on Hacker News may suggest that it is one of my pet issues. How much interest this issue gains here on Hacker News is one thing I look at as I ponder what to do about the problem--it will take a lot of work with a lot of collaborators (some of whose work is cited in my various submissions and comments here) to tackle that problem.

As far as I know about who can participate on PubPeer, absolutely anyone can participate, as long as they have something to say about a particular scientific paper.
>30 years - huh? I just looked through wikipedia's Drug Liberalization page and didn't see anything earlier than Portugal's 1999 decriminilization, except that Uruguay never even criminilized them. So what are you referring to?
Unfortunately, far more people think they want that than can take full personal responsibility for it.

See also: people who don't understand that full-disk encryption means they lose their data if they forget their passphrase. That doesn't make full-disk encryption in any way bad, but if you train people to think that all accounts have a "forgotten password" option, they might get a nasty surprise.
Twitter might have looked like a place to go to but it sure seems to have been a continuous revolving door of exec mgmt for many years now.
Who got it from elsewhere ;D
I would suggest to follow and/or talk to Amir Sariaslan
https://twitter.com/search?f=images&vertical=default&q=amirs...

He could help you get started :)
When people say “torture doesn't work” it's usually meant to counter the way the U.S. used it in an attempt to get valuable secrets, almost always in a time sensitive context. It's pretty widely agreed that, given time and monstrous creativity, torture works for things like getting false confessions because we have examples of the public false confessions the North Vietnamese, USSR, etc. forced people to make or the many false stories the CIA tortured out of people like bin Laden's driver.

What's contentious is the idea that you can get someone dedicated to reveal a secret before their friends notice their absence and change the secrets. The classic movie plot is something like a bomb disarm code but that's a [fortunately] rare situation and likely futile when e.g. a dedicated extremist who knows they only have to hold out for a short period of time.
All of this reflects my thoughts on the matters, and I've been waiting more than 15 years for the co-called Actor model to 'come around', grieving the use of the term 'Object Oriented' in the meantime.

This comes across as strongly worded, but I'm going to let it stand, given the understanding that the C++ and Java style of 'Object Oriented' has value in a lot of situations and circumstances. Though I have leaned very heavily on Kay's 'Actor Model' over the years, C++ style OOP has also been useful from time to time.
Well, the GM engine plant had a small part of the property in another water district, so they just ran couple pipes and started buying the water from next door.

http://michiganradio.org/post/how-people-flint-were-stripped...
What I have a hard time with is consuming conversations esp. when there are multiple branches. There is no easy overall thread view.
Note, though, that catch-all emails will also catch a ridiculous amount of spam. Creating each account name individually avoids that problem, at the cost of some extra trouble when registering a new service.

An intermediate step that may work if you don't expect people to target you individually: have one or more required substrings for the email local part, and catch all mail to addresses containing that substring.
How well did you really think this out? It only took me a couple seconds to figure out a reason why this feature would be beneficial: it could be more accurate in many circumstances.
The article is from 2011, but it's somehow trending now and has been resubmitted a few times.

The origin of the mistake was found a few months later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...

> Later the team reported two flaws in their equipment set-up that had caused errors far outside their original confidence interval: a fiber optic cable attached improperly, which caused the apparently faster-than-light measurements, and a clock oscillator ticking too fast.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/955/
yes. you can.

but good luck getting anyone on HN to acknowledge it. Officer Barbrady doppelgangers everywhere, stating "nothing to see here, move along".
jack9: you might want to think about how your tone is coming off to people reading your text -- "You're serious and I'm not..." -- if you're surprised by how people react to it.
Twitter IPO'd a while ago. Employees with option grants had plenty of time to realize gains...
Actually Yabause does that if you use its OpenGL graphics interface instead of the software interface. It interprets the mesh command as 50% transparency. I used Yabause to grab the VDP2's layers when writing this, and at first I was a little stumped when the spotlights weren't meshes :)
Thanks HN for making a graduated psychology student more critical. When I was studying psychology at uni I had no help from peers in being critical with regards to psychology. It's a lot harder being critical when no one really challenges your thoughts on the subject.

Now on to a method that does invoke "neuroendocrine and behavioral changes". The Wim Hof Method, it takes about 10 minutes to do to feel a strong effect IMO. Don't want to hijack the topic but I thought it was a fitting counter example :)

The results are also not barely statistical significant, it's more like 5 deviations away from the norm with regards to their main RQ.

Paper is here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7379.full

Claims about behavioral changes are mine (and I'm just a guy on the web who takes cold showers every day), the research team focused on immune response. But as you can see in their charts about the adrenaline boost one gets, behavioral change occurs in my experience at least.
Agree. Your contact info in whois adds little to any number of other public records that will contain your name, address, phone number.

It does make good sense to not use your primary "personal" email address in whois, nor your home address. PO Box rentals are fairly cheap and that's what I use for whois registrations.
Mission Driven Startups
If true, that sounds like a market correction. We may lose some good talent in the process, but it would likely lead to better long term outcomes.
> Startup idea: Whitehat Social Engineering (as a service). You authorise a whitehat team to attempt to social engineer all your discoverable internet presence/accounts to see what personal information their systems and/or customer service will disclose based on existing publicly available data. (I suspect legally that'd at least be on the white-ish side of grey rather than blackhat...)

You'd need to take care to avoid getting people locked out of their accounts, but otherwise that sounds like a useful service for the small fraction of people who have a high enough profile that others may actively target them. I don't know if that represents a large enough target market for a sustainable business, but it might.

> I wonder how long it'll be before (or how long ago it became) sensible to register a shell company as the holder of any public record you're legally required to make public? It's probably much easier to roll your shell companies "registered address" if you discover it's been compromised than it is to move house every time Amazon's customer service goes "above and beyond" on your behalf to your attackers...

Depends on how easily you can register a shell company that doesn't itself have easily traceable public records of ownership. Little point in the indirection if you can then look up the shell company and its official owners and legal contacts.
It definitely happens and they are usually easy to spot. It's best to just assume they are connected/involved.
So if someone is willing to teach a class for $2000 per semester, they shouldn't be allowed to?

I've tried to get into adjunct teaching, but there are so many applicants that it's almost impossible. Supply and demand. Adjuncts are paid what the market dictates, and that's ok.
Does QML have native widgets by now? When I used it last (2 years ago?) you had to make nearly all widgets yourself. Was no problem for our project, which didn't have a native environment to match, but would be an issue for normal applications.
Angry about this? Director Panetta tried to throw the book at Ishmael Jones for his 2010 CIA memoir, The Human Factor. Suitable method of protest and entertaining read would be to buy the book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Human-Factor-Dysfunctional-Intelli...
Hey! Thanks for the interesting article. It makes a lot of sense that 90% of people are "lurkers." I would love to see some user interviews with these people to try and figure out what, if anything they are getting out of lurking and not contributing. I agree that consistency in tagging will be a challenge, but one that I think is solvable and scaleable. Please let me know if you'd be interested in helping create this. You sound like you've had some awesome experiences and I'm definitely interested in hearing more about them. Please reach out to me privately so we can talk. robby@sibipix.com
Although they probably can't get this information if all they know is your domain name.
You can approximate this with gmail using the plus sign. Like myaccount+label@gmail.com.

It's ignored for delivery, but gmail's filters can match on it in the to: address.
I once got a call from them on an bug I encountered with an Airport Base Station. They had me load a testing firmware on to try to reproduce the bug. I've also had a couple of bugs replied to (usually asking for more information), but these were when I was playing more with beta software.
I created my catch-all on a subdomain. While it gives a problem with certain websites (don't consider it a valid e-mail address), I barely receive spam on it.
> On the other hand, 2FA opens up the "I lost my phone" customer support channel which might be just as weak.

"I lost my phone" (or "my phone stopped working") does need some solution, though.

The right way to handle "I lost my phone" seems like one of two possibilities: either come into a branch and provide legal identification matching what you used to open the account (and get "yourself" on camera doing so), or have a token mailed to your physical address on file (which you cannot change at the same time as a lost phone claim).
Thanks for this, I'll definitely take a look. I like straightforward emulators for learning how hardware works.
Have you heard of the "halo effect"? It's a very common fallacy where people mistake cause and effect. If a company is doing well, people will say "this company has great management and has a great, productive work culture." If a company is not doing well, people will say "this company has inefficient management, and has an unproductive, corrupt work culture."

They will say this, even if it is the exact same company say, right before a crisis and 6 months into the crisis. See [1] for more information.

When Germany's economy was doing worse than EU average, Germany was the "sick child of Europe". Now they are doing great and they are the "locomotive engine of Europe".

Besides, how do you reconcile these "ex protestant" work ethics with the breathtaking corruption of the VW scandal?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Halo-Effect-Business-Delusions/dp/...
The problem with the market-based approach is that the oversupply won't go away anytime soon. Right now there is a surfeit of chemists on the East Coast from the Dow-Dupont merger that added to the surfeit from the pharma crisis that started fifteen years ago and hasn't really ended.

What exactly is wrong with the union-based approach (the AMA works rather nicely for physicians), and why can't the US have a proper science policy?
Rust has good C FFI. The Book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ffi.html) itself says that Rust is not able to call directly into a C++ library.
Thanks, that's why I shared it on here. I suspected that its rational approach may not receive a warm reception since so much of today's dialogue about this topic is driven by emotions. Glad that I was wrong.

I find it alarming that this toxic culture is invading the tech field. Because of its nature, coding is, has been and will continue to be the best environment for meritocracy to flourish and be rewarded.

If you are a good programmer and can deliver, no one really cares if you're young, old, black, white, purple, man, woman, etc. They will want to hire you and/or work with you.

Squashing that for a superficially forced diversity "solution" is both short sighted and wrong. Discriminating against any category of people, no matter on what personal basis you decide to create that category is short sighted and wrong.

Or should I say 'problematic'? ;)

To leave things on a positive note, this is the sort of thing I'm talking about:

https://github.com/rosarior/Code-of-Merit
In my experience, the vast majority of realtime rendering engineers work on Windows (because of the products). The landscape is starting to change, but I'd spitball still 99% Windows ownership. Even for console development, the platform is Windows
Fastmail and Gmail support a local suffix of the form yourname+amazon@gmail.com. That's a plus character between the local name and local suffix. If you use a password manager, you can replace a predictable suffix like "amazon" with random hex value.

Unfortunately, many sites borked their e-mail address validation and do not accept the plus character. (Amazon permits it.) Also, you'll ocassionally find a customer service ticketing system that expects replies to come "From" your account's e-mail address. (Many mail clients can alter that header, but it's a pain.)
There isn't much in fact. Most of the so-called civilized world still puts drug offenders in prison, a lot. Just take a look at Japan's extreme drug laws for example (they apparently don't count as civilized).

The parent is claiming a few, mostly tiny European nations represent the majority of all civilized nations.
Here is a psychiatrist presenting the flaws of rehabs and an argument that governments also need to allow widespread use of suboxone to treat addiction:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/02/practically-a-book-revi...
I'll chime in that I own the first version, it's great and I have no idea how I bought it, maybe directly or in a bundle. But it's been in my Steam library for a long time.

And I'm not affiliated with them at all. ;)
Slack?
Charge people with followers. $10 per month if you have > 10K followers, $100 for > 100K followers, and so on. You charge as you are allowing them to broadcast
When a company I worked for was acquired by a public company, my options were converted 8:1 to actual shares in the acquiring company.