skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a client account on Upwork. Have hired two professionals on it, paid the amount in Escrow to get things going.
I had couple of more job postings which were still open. And an old friend of mine with whom I had worked in the past walked into the same service apartment where I am staying. We spoke about the work and I ended up telling few places where I was stuck. She offered me her expertise and I asked to apply on Upwork for the same. Just to keep work as work.

First problem which I think, she applied with a lower hourly rate than what she normally charges people with on these kinda portal.

Second problem, which I am now figuring out from these guys questions, was that we were both connected to same Wi-Fi router provided by the Service Apartment.

Third problem, as soon as she applied for the job, I accepeted it and kept a call between my devs and her on Skype. So there was no chat communication.

But on these grounds, even before asking me any questions they suspended my profile. I cannot withdraw or pay the money in the Escrow to the devs, while they enjoy the interest over it.

Even her profile is suspended I got to know. Again her payments are stopped and they are enjoying the interest.

My question is, do I not have a right to remain innocent unless proven guilty? They have not only cost me a huge business loss, but also caused me all this frustration and guilt to ask someone who was offering help in my tough times to come on upwork.

In fact, I have a older Freelancer account too on upwork, which never helped me. These guys were having some doubts there too.
Especially considering that most of the people grumbling about this now are going to obediently vote the Secretary of State on whose watch it happened into the Presidency in November. Nothing's going to change.
Journey of a 21 year old founder
Maybe don't throw away the current integrations that work for magical new platform, but instead work collaboratively so that both parties plan and work together on channels to manage change from a position of trust? devops for vendor relationships. Instead, seeming to take an adversarial tone isn't going to benefit either service. I would consider rolling back the developer TOS to something equitable and sign mutual NDAs to share support / source for channel integration code and make publishing stable APIs in both directions a priority. Otherwise, channels will disengage as we're seeing right now and it hurts the platform because it gives the appearance of shifting externalities to everyone else, even if that is not the intention. It comes across as bullsh!t.
No problem at all. Happened to me before too!
Ask HN: Password Gorilla last commit 3 years – give up on open source pwd mgr?
I've read everything I can find on HN and other sources about password managers. I was influenced by this paper "On the Security of Password Manager Database Formats" (http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/6487/pwvault.pdf), it indicates PasswordSafeV3 is the only DB secure vs. Read/Write attacks (safe to store the DB in the cloud). Eventually I decided on Password Gorilla (https://github.com/zdia/gorilla) based on criteria I'll list below.

Now I realize that the github repo hasn't had a commit in 3 years, 3 years of new vulnerabilities. There is an updated (2014-10-27) version linked to their site, but this is obviously not part of the open source code in repo, so I may as well just trust the fancy new closed source products.

I'm in a quandry:

- 2nd choice: pwdsafe.org is a secure DB and source code is available on sourceforge, so theoretically I can trust that malicious/crap code in there would discovered by security researchers. But it is only available for OSX from unknowns that are not open source. (https://pwsafe.org/downloads.shtml)
- 3rd choice: [KeePassX](https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx), active development, fails the standard of RW attacks researched in the paper. Open source yet inferior database is unsafe to store on G-drive, dropbox.

It looks like I have no choice but go ahead and trust an unknown software developer and hidden source code, even for the 'open source' product, might as well go with LastPass or Dashlane, which are closed source but which at least have resources and very active development and responsiveness to reported vulnerabilities. Oh and LastPass was acquired by LogMeIn so trust is even shakier.

My criteria for choosing:
- OSX and Linux
- Open Source, because I believe that it meets a higher standard of security
- Must time-out or reauthenticate after inactivity
- Support 2 Factor Authentication
- iOS client would be nice
- I'm only storing tier-two passwords.
The truth is no one knows what Trump will actually do. Trump can say whatever he wants during its campaign it doesn't matter. No one knows what he will do if he ever gets elected. All people know is that he is a business man with a big ego, he isn't even a conservative at all, he is the pure product of the New York upper class culture.

Hillary on the other is as hawkish as they come, this was demonstrated through her emails. She is a neo-con.
Thanks for your feedback! I have not heard of thefunded.com before. Surely will go check it out.
Docker: Test Environment
Lua is a simple and only slightly quirky (1-based arrays) dynamic programming language. It has exceptionally small and high quality implementations in Lua and LuaJIT. It has very good documentation.

Its main downside is that the language changes in backward-compatible ways between releases. And worse, LuaJIT has in some sense forked the language. Lua 5.3 introduced integer support, but there are no plans to add this to LuaJIT AFAIK.
While I haven't explored specific costs, I agree it's definitely a situation where the benefits have to outweigh the costs. For the OP, there's no point doing this if it's not going to bring in more work; for others, it may be the territorial-nature of the HK tax system that makes it worthwhile - I'd gladly pay a $5Kpa auditing fee if it saved me $20,000 in tax compared to another jurisdiction. (That's a key reason why I haven't pulled the trigger yet - my personal tax residency is such that my HK entity would be a Controlled Foreign Corporation, and those tax benefits wouldn't apply.)
I wonder how much of the mess in the middle east is cause by the erratic western diplomacy and how much would have happened anyway.

Clearly the US invasion of Iraq, and the chaos that followed has been a catalyst for islamism in the region. The US+European backed revolution in Libya, Syria and Egypt only added to the chaos. It is tempting to think that had we just stayed away from all that, the region would be under the control of ruthless dictators but at least would be in peace, and islamists would be in jail. When we think that half of the population of Syria are now refugees, of which half had to emigrate, is overthrowing Al Assad really worth that, and is overthrowing Al Assad worth creating ISIS? I must say that for how much I dislike Putin, he has a point when he tells Western diplomacy: look at the mess in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and now you are telling me you want to invade another country in the middle east?

On the other side when we look at most of these conflicts, they are really ethnic conflicts. Sunnis vs Shia vs Kurds vs Alawites vs etc... Both Saddam Hussein and Qaddafi were old and were bound to die in the next 10-20 years (as of 2002). And the rise of Islamism is a global phenomenon that spans from Indonesia to Morocco, through Turkey or Pakistan, from the muslim suburbs of Paris and Brussels to the desert in Mali. Perhaps all of this would have happened anyway. Like it is foreseeable that when Saudi Arabia will run out of oil money, it will descent in a state of complete chaos.

I think of Islamism as a kind of a repeat of communism, it's an ideology which time has come, which will find a broad adhesion in the muslim world, and will likely disappear the same way communism did, through its own disastrous results when in power and inability to compete with the West, both economically and in term of values. The most anti-communist populations are the populations that have been ruled by communism (Eastern Europe).

As for ethnic conflicts, there are no good solutions. If two populations hate each others, grand speeches at the UN headquarters in NYC will not change anything. I'd be incline to think we should stay away from ethnic conflicts. We should keep in mind that whoever we decide to back in Syria, once that side wins, they will start a terrible ethnic cleansing. Do we really want to sponsor that?
Besides a plethora of things that can occur[1], the main issue is a combination a pain response and a foreign object entering the skin.

When a you stick a needle in a persons arm you often trigger a flight-or-flight repsponse. It's actually fairly similar if you prick their finger. The problem with this study is that one was done after or before the other. It depends what you look for, but for example white blood count (which was tested) would/should change subtly after a blood draw.

The amount can vary (or not vary) depending on the person. For example, when I get my blood drawn my arm swells, it's not actually that I am allergic, but my body reacts in said way.

Regardless, my only comment was that the study seemed to be on somewhat shaky footing.

[1] http://www.frhg.org/documents/Lab_Manuals/Blood-Collection-A...
Be sure to mail Dan once you do.
I'm a pinboard user, and an IFTTT user. I've also made a few recipes on IFTTT including the pinboard > Google Calendar one.

The sum of your comments on here mean that I'll be looking to reimplement all of the IFTTT recipes I use on Botize.

You've stood by your legal team and defended the ToC, in addition to how this has been communicated and handled, and what it is you're trying to do.

Are you really trying to assert ownership of content as it passes through the APIs on your site? If not... why is that even in there? If you are, then there is no way I can keeping being a user of IFTTT.

It seems to me, that when these HN episodes happen that it would be a good time to pause and wonder if the internal bubble at IFTTT in which this was thought a good idea, actually produced an externally viable good idea. I think in this case, it did not.
Damn, that is good! I have reached out to Maciej as well.
What specifically have you had issues with? We haven't seen great proven cross-platform support for docker images, which is why we're still using Vagrant+Virtualbox. From the folks we've talked with, it seems to be a pretty painless process. (We do this for development all the time.)

Obviously features like Snooze and Send Later won't work, but the idea here is you can build the entire stack or deploy it to your own VPS at any time.
Building an Open, Verifiably Secure Mobile Ecosystem
Are those even enforceable?
> This will be the end of EU as it is today.

Amen.
What I've learned over the last few years:

1) The requirements are theoretically tractable by an SMB but only just.

2) Non-compliance is ridiculously widespread. Ridiculously. This is partly because HIPAA prohibits people from doing things they really want to do (emailing about a patient, perhaps to that patient) and partially because the requirements are so vague.

3) Be prepared to use HIPAA as a pricing segmentation engine and for your providers to use it on you. Getting a BAA with Rackspace, for example, quintupled our costs.

4) Get insured. Because literally everyone is exposed to this and investigations are infrequent, the industry treats them like acts of God. You can insure, minimally, the cost of responding to an investigation (though my policy doesn't cover any fines assessed) and breach notification.
I doubt they, the prosecutors, the judge, or a jury will agree with you on this. I certainly don't. It wasn't very good security, easily jimmied. But that was true with early vending machine security as well, and with a surprising number of home door locks. The defendants here went beyond normal operation of the machine, which is all that it will take to qualify it for "rigging a game" and the computer crimes.
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Or simply force a comment if none already exist from a previous down voter. That way first one in has to give a reason for the downvote, which others can then +1 (or is it -1..)
> politics is often seen as off-topic

That attitude is a huge problem. Everything is political, because politics is simply the way we solve problems, negotiate details, and make decisions in a society.

> lethal failure modes

Non-lethal failure modes can still be just as much of a problem, and small problems are still problems.

> Very few of us will work on systems that impact human life

Everybody that makes a product is impacting human life. You may not be making something with immediately obvious lethal failure modes, but it still has an impact. At ever step in the building process decisions are made that affect people. Many of these are probably small and inconsequential, but prediction is hard and sometimes supposedly-trivial things have large, widespread effects.

Hiding from politics and claiming that something is "apolitical" cedes the decisions to others, and technology is rapidly magnifying the impact even trivial things can have. So please, consider the surrounding politics before working on something, and at least try to consider the greater context of how people will be affected - both good and bad ways - by the work you do.

Why? Because there is "no neutral ground, in a burning world"[1].

--

[1] Which is the title of Eleanor Saitta and Quinn Norton's 30C3 talk[2], which explains these ideas better than I can.

[2] https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5491_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312272... http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/no-neutral-ground-burn...
It's the signals destroying trust that create the animosity, and will tend to make it harder to have decent, respectful, working relationships with integration partners. It reads as lopsided and occurring unilaterally, without any degree of trust or respect for said partners.
You and many others. There is an 'average life-span' of a contributor to HN and it is less than the age of the site. Commenting less is 'stage 2'.
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The way I analogize the US interventions in the Middle East is to liken it to a gambler who keeps going back to the table for "one more hand", because his "luck is sure to turn this time."

Can anyone name a single US intervention in the Middle East that hasn't backfired on us in some way? Propping up the Shah of Iran backfired on us in the form of the Iranian Revolution. Propping up the Saudi regime led to a safe haven for militant Wahabi Islam. Our interventions in Iraq led first to a massacre of Kurds and Shia, and later to a civil war that was directly responsible for the creation of Islamic State. Our intervention in Libya led to another civil war that has turned a major oil producing country into essentially a failed state. Our intervention in Syria hasn't helped matters, and has only brought us into further confrontation with Russia, while simultaneously discrediting our ability to hold intransigent dictators to account for their crimes.

And yet we keep going back, to exert our "leadership".
Yea the last 1% is the most fun and difficult.

One of the projects I am working on lately is a data integrity and syncing platform with multiple PB of data in multiple data centers, and the dataset has been around for 10-12 years.

Some of the file names and path names I see have the most unnatural and unbelievable characters in them.

It can absolutely be quite a challenge. This point about rusts string system sounds like maybe could give me some very precise control.
Would you recommend a specific book?
We fully intend to make the APIs public, but are working with existing partners to implement. We are trying to be flexible and understanding, also are not throwing legal threats :)
It's been a while since a stray comment on the internet has made me reconsider so many things that I was previously convinced of.

Thanks for this.
Linux only - bummer. Not even FreeBSD.

The turbolua.org project is somewhat similar (i.e. a webserver with Lua support).
> taking tax money from others, actually at gunpoint?

Oh, please. The 'gunpoint' in the tax system is the same 'gunpoint' in any legal dispute - you have to go through a long and tedious process before you get the deputies with guns at the door, and even then, they're not there for your tax money, but to take you into custody.
Could you clarify if you actually have someone that is responsible for reading and responding on the official contact channel (http://ifttt.com/platform) for "Partnership" Inquiries?
Parent was praising Norway and Finland for their focus on leveling up their culture and economy. No problems there.

As for Flint, Michigan... A quick google will give you a lot of info, but the gist of it is that they have had lead in their water for over two years and it's beyond toxic. Their government has failed them.
I think your hobby could be a MVP for the first CAaaS -- CEO Apologies As A Service.

(If you act fast, Theranos could be your first Enterprise customer.)
The 1-based indexing isn't particularly bothersome. It's the method vs. function determination at call site combined with default nil for unspecified arguments that really gets you.
Being CEO of IFTTT must not be a very demanding job if you offer to come over to every service that connects to your platform, in order to contribute to coding their API.

Joking aside, Maciej isn't asking for "more time", he's asking for:

1. Money, if he has to do your work for you

2. Some kind of guaranty that your undocumented, private API won't change without notice in the future, rendering all this work useless

3. Legal terms that would be acceptable, ie that would not attempt to rob him blind of all intellectual property regarding any work in relation to your service (from which he derives exactly zero money!) and that would not prevent him from competing with you.

Your answer so far does not even attempt to address any of those points.
> Go ahead and downvote to the abyss

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading
What salaries do you guys consider competitive ?
Do you all compare it to the SV salaries ?

If we exclude SV salaries how much more your avg US tech worker earns compared to his canadian peer.

And is this concentration of wealth good for the economy overall ?

I mean the canadians experience exactly the same. Even the high paid workers in Vancouver cannot afford housing as the "super rich" chinese that climbed upon the backs of their fellow countrymen and then swarmed Canada.

Don't you think that such concentration of wealth is not really a good idea ?
> Just saying people will need to stop with the islamiphobia because its predominately Islamic people will become a major component of west/European populations

This adds the value.
Windows 10 full screen problems
My (highly speculative) guess is that your String issues were due to either/both:

- Swift performance issues involving working with strings, some of which have been ameliorated by later releases;

- 'Hidden' bridging between NSString and String, which can be expensive and might have something to do with some of String's APIs actually being Foundation APIs in disguise.

There is much to be done with regards to Swift performance, though. If you have any sample benchmarks I would be interested in writing/running them myself, just for personal edification.

In terms of 'close to the metal', I freely admit this is a ill-defined term I am using for my own benefit. Swift code doesn't execute on something akin to the JVM or CLR; it still requires a heavier runtime than (e.g.) Rust. It is AOT-compiled to machine code. (But then again, this is possible to some degree for Java as far as I can tell, although it is certainly not the most popular way to run Java code.)

I agree that mandatory RC for classes and boxed types makes Swift impractical for a certain definition of 'systems software' typically written in C++ and occasionally Rust. For a different definition, one that encompasses the garbage-collected Go, Swift is theoretically suitable. The language designer has mentioned that he would personally like to see Swift gain some form of borrowing/lifetimes, although even if that did happen Swift would not get it for years to come.
But that would help the terrorists !1 /s
I don't think the parent comment is "grinning," just reiterating the unfortunate reality. Democracy doesn't inherently produce morally laudable outcomes; it just reflects the will of the majority.

If everyone in the US strongly valued privacy, then our government would have to behave very differently. The US government's lack of respect for personal privacy merely reflects the apathy towards the issue held by the American voting public.

I agree with the parent, that if we want progress, there is no easy path. The only long term solution is to educate the voting public as to the value of privacy. Anything else is just a band-aid.
Therese are degrees of chronic pain. In its acute form painkillers are helpful. In its mild form there is always danger of suppressing a useful signal. The signal gives clues how small changes affect it allowing one eventually to find a remedy that works.

Similar with depression. Unless it is severe, it gives a hint to try to change something. Those changes can be really small, like getting enough sleep, or going to sea once in a while, or talking to an old buddy, or joining some volunteer activity. The key is to try and recognize the feedback that is impossible under antidepressants.
> The US economy hinges on sustaining the petrodollar system

This is an incredibly uninformed view. Dollar hegemony rests on our being the sole trusted enforcer of the oceans' open navigation. That confers us, directly and indirectly as a large economy, economic advantages which in turn reinforce our military's ability to defend this position.

Petrodollar monetarism is no longer a dominating factor to our financial system. Relying on it as a forecasting model, for economic or geopolitical aims, will produce bad outputs.
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Isn't "when it comes to foreign policy" about the only way to be a neocon as opposed to just conservative? That was my impression at least.
Another factor was that the DOJ had suggested to Yahoo and Google that it would investigate if Yahoo outsourced search / ads to Google.
Great to know, thank you for the information and source.
What are you talking about?

Russia was virtually a failed state in the 1990s, except for half-a-dozen pro-Western crooks who became instant billionaires stealing assets the Russian people had built and paid for, and who helped steal the 1996 election for their partner in crime, Yeltsin.

I'm no fan of Putin or his own kleptocratic cronies, but whether you like him or not, Russia seems to have become far stronger and more stable under him than under his drunken pro-Western predecessor.
Personally, I don't believe that "at least you can say you tried" is morally superior to not participating in a rigged game.