skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bolea is the only one who could make all those choices. Those are his rights, and if he chooses to (or not to) screw Gawker over with legal strategy, that's his decision. Neither you nor I can make that for him and unless he complains about it, the entire discussion is pure nonsense.

I have no reason to believe that Bolea couldn't have funded the lawsuit himself. Bolea has no obligation (and no reason) to do things in a way friendly to Gawker. I find it highly believable that he himself asked his lawyers to screw Gawker over even if it got him less cash. More money != more justice. And inasmuch as this puts a chilling effect on publications that spy on people's private sex life, I honestly don't have a problem. There's no news here. Just perverts who want to spy on a celebrity.

You can't just go out and manufacture lawsuits--at least, not without getting yourself in trouble in court when they're found bogus. Someone has to have some kind of case or they get laughed out of court. He might be willing to fund suits, but they won't go anywhere and at least some of the time one can recover reasonable costs and attorney's fees on victory.

So call me when he funds something clearly meritless. The funding has no bearing on the rightness or wrongness of what Gawker did, therefore it should not affect the case outcome.

So yes, the merits of the suit are relevant. Funding tons of bogus suits is clearly different from helping Gawker's victims seek justice. And so far, evidence points to the latter.
I find some of the attitudes towards equity / cash salary baffling.

If you care about the "safety" of a cash salary, join a big, established company. You'll have limited upside but a more stable cash income. No risk, no reward.

If you are joining a startup, it is by definition because you want to take on risk. The reward for that risk is by far captured in the increase in the value of the equity, not the cash compensation.

It does not make sense to join a startup and not want to maximize your exposure to the upside in the form of equity.
Justice O'Connor in Feist: "Many compilations consist of nothing but raw data -- i.e. wholly factual information not accompanied by any original expression. On what basis may one claim a copyright upon such work? Common sense tells us that 100 uncopyrightable facts do not magically change their status when gathered together in one place. … The key to resolving the tension lies in understanding why facts are not copyrightable: The sine qua non of copyright is originality."

OKCupid is a collector, not an creator.
The Kerr effect is present in many different transparent media, but not in vacuum. You're probably right that sufficient power density would give rise to self-focusing by gravitational lensing, but it seems like the necessary power density would be very high — the gravitational acceleration needs to be a substantial fraction of c very frequently, like 0.001c over every interval where diffraction gives you a divergence of one milliradian. A narrower beam moves the escaping light you need to capture closer to the center of mass of the beam, but also increases that divergence.

It isn't obvious to me how to calculate this. Can anyone help?
While I completely understand why this is an annoying point of view, the apparent contradiction is well understood. The official theology of many religions is that everything good comes from God, everything bad comes from people. God gave people some freedom, and they abused it to create all the problems of the world, which he is constantly working to correct, but he leaves a lot of the negative effects of our choices for our own good because we need to understand how much we need him and lots of other mysterious reasons that we wouldn't understand because we're too limited to see the big picture.

It's totally legitimate to complain about not liking this point of view, but people do know what they're doing when they thank God for everything good and blame people for everything bad. I think it's important for non-religious people to understand that because so much of the world is religious and believes that God sets the standard for what's true, not the appearance of things which we're able to understand and reason through.
That is even more reason for those FBI agents in charge to find something else to legitimate this waste of resources. For a real life example how this works you might google "FBI Keith Gartenlaub"
Writing on and off on http://keanankoppenhaver.com trying to expose people in the real estate industry to technology and automation.

I also post on more dev topics on Medium every once in a while. https://medium.com/@kkoppenhaver

Trying to do more of both in the coming months.
They're too busy to make an appointment with their desk to read emails, and the government can't supply a secure smartphone to anyone less high up than the President himself? Even the Secretary of State? Just bizarre.
> "The Senate hearing over controversial bill 4ad57b ..."

Ha! That'd be a nice side effect this approach.

Taking the concept one step further, there should be a CI environment to test out new laws.
Uh yeah. The charge is whatever will stick. Military courts will never uphold the law as written if they feel the need to punish a soldier for being non-soldierly. (The judge, Col. Denise Lind, intentionally came to an illegal ruling to punish someone she didn't like. She's a traitor.)

The law is very clear that it's your duty to stop illegal actions, not merely report them and carry on. Chelsea tried just reporting the problems but that didn't do anything and she was given direct orders to continue the illegal activities. The guilty party (us, our government) doesn't really have a leg to stand on when complaining about the measures she was forced to take.

Imagine a convicted kiddy fiddler complaining that their legal business files got examined in court with their illegal files. Nobody would case, It's the price of crime...
In the U.S. the burden is on the plaintiff (the person allegedly defamed) to prove that the defamatory statement was false IF the plaintiff is a public figure OR if the statement involved a matter of public concern; otherwise the burden is on the defendant to prove the truth of the defamatory statement. [0]

[0] http://www.rcfp.org/first-amendment-handbook/introduction-de... (scroll down to "Falsity")
"if it's everybody's job, then it's nobody's job."
Nihilism, gotcha.
I am all for challenging orthodoxy, but Myhrvold appears to have been really sloppy.
This is much more about CSRF than XSS.
Well, it's plausible, but the most natural case is that acquaintances use Facebook as a low-touch way of staying in contact.

I admit if I wanted to be friendly acquaintances with people, then Facebook is probably the best way to do so.

However, close friends share information without using Facebook. I call my close friends on their birthdays. My acquaintances, I'll +1 the long thread of "happy birthday" messages on facebook, just like everyone else.

tl;dr: Facebook is unnecessary but useful.
how are the local WISP's in the area?
Is the brightness greater than that possible by refraction of the sunlight?

Can we tell if the light is generated or reflected?
It's because it's evidence that he's knowingly screwing the users over, rather than it being subject to Hanlon's Razor.

I had the opportunity to make an account back in the day when you needed a .edu email address, but to this day I have never made one.
The 'Tootsie Pop' Model for Unsafe Rust Code
It's called an "electrolaser": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolaser. There are reports that they work in practice, but not yet well enough for use. I don't know why.
Next step: As they have an exception for "IP" (intellectual property rights like patents) we must promote the logical consequence. All publicly funded research must mean all "IP" must be made available to anyone for free.
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As many people as there are who use these services, I wonder if it would cause such a public outrage if they were turned off that congress would actually do something about the broken patent system in the U.S.
> This reaction makes me very, very angry.

You are hearing one side of a story (that doesn't mean there is another side that would change your mind or my mind of course) but keep in mind that the parent also said "I admit I was snooping".

Let's say for arguments sake someone enters a room that they are not supposed to be in and finds something in a desk drawer that shouldn't be there. Should the person snooping be commended for doing that? As if a reward saying "go anywhere anytime and as long as the end justifies you are off the hook". Are you allowed to enter your neighbors house in search of contraband or access his computer? I realize this was allegedly "public" but the devil is in the details of what that means exactly.
I watched the second video first (no weird stuff in that video that I noticed, just a demo of the invention). My impression was that it was one of the most innovative and unique things I'd seen in a while, especially from a UX perspective.

Then I read the comments and watched the second video. I get the backlash over the misogyny. But I wonder if focusing too much on that is throwing the baby out with the bath water. Without knowing anything else, the scenario that popped into my head was a team of creators who are really good at a few things, but at the expense of being completely incompetent at marketing, social issues, website design, being classy in general...

But should this invention be squashed for their mistakes or lauded for its brilliance?

Sometimes I think really innovative and brilliant things come from people who have ultra-focused to the point of being very good at a few things and sucking at many other things... And the sucking at many other things is the cost that must be paid.
Can you actually buy it though? I have it in the back of my mind that they restrict sales of ida pro and the decompiler as an anti piracy measure.
I also had no idea.

The article is just one person's experience, though, and I'm assuming they're an outlier. I don't think most people cry often enough to consider keeping a diary of it, but I really don't know.

To counterbalance the article's author, I've cried maybe three times in the last 4 or 5 years, and that covers a pet dying and a break up from a long relationship.
Ya I don't understand it either, but it seems that other commenters are the same. I once went on a date with a guy who told me he sheds a tear daily -- until now I had never heard of anyone doing that.
Another bearded guy here: Some Elliott Smith songs make me tear up a bit, but at the same time the sadness also me makes me happy -- I don't quite understand why, perhaps I have a bittersweet tooth. I also cried at the end of Field of Dreams.
Oh yeah, and email her friends and family asking them not to wire money to her in Ireland when the scammer claims she has gone on a trip there and has fallen ill in a few months.
Is this article for real? I start a website and it becomes insanely popular then someone suggests it is wrong that I "wasn't elected" to be the leader of it. Only in Europe...

Facebook has its issues and is ready to be replaced any day now, but it's still a private site with private rules and use of it is optional.
I think you are right about the publicity and show of force. I can't imagine it takes more than a couple police officers to arrest a single suspect in a house in a safe manner.
The new eastern span of the SF Bay Bridge is about 6x over budget because politicians wanted it to look pretty. There's no need for a suspension bridge there; the water isn't deep and it's not a major navigation channel. It could have been a set of short spans, like the old one, and much cheaper.
Reddit having more control and being able to take things down may be a mixed bag at best as far as many users and mods are concerned.

A lot of users are very twitchy about anything that even hints at censorship right now.
Hackers claim to have 427M Myspace passwords
It is not "a legal problem". It is a problem with legal, technical, governance (and probably more types of) approaches. If you're working on a legal solution I'll support you, just like if someone else succeeds in neutering the traitors in DC/VA, I'll cheer them on. But I am not a lawyer nor a soldier, so I'll remain focused on finding technical solutions.

Protocols "seem" secure enough, because you don't seem to be focused on the technicals (which is fine, as per what I just said. Just don't nay-say). For example, even if messages are encrypted between servers, the graph of who is talking to who is still revealed to a passive adversary, and this problem only gets worse with individually-run servers.
I have a few technical questions, as well as a few about your intentions with the software.

How does it handle interrupt calls to the OS? It's not an issue for Windows (because it's all done through library calls, right?) But DOS int21 and Linux int80, for example?

With the x86 work, is the logic all built around protected mode? I've been using IDA to examine/document the assembly of a DOS game, so I'd be interested in the behavior if it's fed real mode code. Further (and tying in to my previous question), the game uses Borland overlays through int3f (it seeks in the binary itself and loads new sections of code into memory, while running, before jumping into the newly-retrieved code). Would that kind of thing be possible to handle automatically? IDA seems to be hard-coded to look for the offset+length tables that are used, and finds the function entry points that way.

More on the business side, you've got a way to request a quote, and the impression I get is that your aim is to run a decompilation business. Where does that leave the software itself? As a proprietary technology that lets you differentiate your business? Or is it your plan to sell the software, release binaries, release code, or some combination? My perspective is that of a hobbyist with a curiosity for reverse engineering and a (strictly non-commercial) project to apply it to, and I'm trying to figure out where this software fits into my world.
Kind of the same for me. More baffling for me, however, is the range of discrete emotions she was able to categorize. If I tried, I would probably end up with buckets "upbeat", "fine", and "down".

I found this article very fascinating.
... but then God surely can't be omnibenevolent!? (But perhaps that doctrine's been abandoned?)

I'm just pointing out the contradictions in "classic" Christianity. Regardless of all that, unless we somehow come up with a coherent and agreed-upon definition of God, I don't suspect anyone's mind will be changed by logical argument. And, thus, I defeat my own argument.

EDIT: I mean, it was Epicurus (~2000 years ago!) who first put this argument forward and I don't think anyone's ever come up with a good answer, so I'm forced to think that the problem is either a) coming up with a satisfactory definition of God, or b) belief in God is not determined by rational reasoning.
alternatively, the grandparent post's mindset becomes the parent post's when the application needs to be extended, and the grandparent's simply hasn't had that need yet : )
This is especially true for things like flat screen TVs, where both prices have decreased and quality/sizes have increased
Nihilism is the position that nothing outside of the immediate has meaning. It's a polar opposite to theism, which places meaning in the hands of one or more deities.
The parent comment was posed as a question for discussion, rather than a statement of fact. While agree with your points, I disagree with your combative tone.
The term patent troll is used without regard to any facts in the media these days, and I fear that is doing harm to the patent system.

The patent system was designed to foster innovation. If you invent something, you get protection for your intellectual property. It's not a requirement that you produce a product. You could realize that you don't have the resources right out of the gate and choose to license your invention to someone that does. The days of submarine patents are over.

There are some entities that actually are patent trolls - companies that collect patents for litigation purposes - but just because a lawsuit happens doesn't mean that the plaintiff is a patent troll.
Seems like he just cherry-picked the negative comments. That'd be fine, but choosing not to mention this kind of hurts his argument. (Could have titled the article "Six Years of Twilio Doubters on Hacker News" or something more clever than I can come up with.)

The comment he gives for "Twilio Launches UK SMS" is from the bottom of the page with one or more downvotes. Meanwhile, the first comment on that page says "Awesome work Twilio, been looking forward to being able to play around with SMS as much as I have calls without having to use a US number."
As a regular user, I don't want to know anything about systemd. I want the system to behave like Unix.

The nohup utility is standardized by POSIX: Look here:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/no...
> Perhaps I'm not using the correct term for it... whatever you want to call the dominant American university ideology of today.

I don't think that the ideology people complain about actually exists; I think its a mélange of different things that the objecting parties don't like, that are held by different people, and not subscribed to as a whole by any coherent group.

> I do think it's appropriate to think of this ideology primarily in racial terms.

I think that's more telling about you than any coherent ideology.

> Virtually any issue supported by the left today is, in its essence, about stripping white people of power, identity, and autonomy, and giving that power to other groups.

Equal pay for women (and women's issues generally)? Raising the minimum wage (and economic justice issues generally)? Voting rights (and political reform generally)? LGBTQ rights and related issues?

If all you see of the left is racial issues, that's says a lot -- but more about how you look at the world, than about the left that actually exists.

> The amorphousness and formlessness of this ideology and its lack of coherent theoretical basis

...is a product of the fact that you are creating something out of things you don't like, and pretending its a single ideology. There's lots of different ideologies, many of which are rigidly principled, but "the Left" (like "the Right") is a big umbrella under which there exists lots of ideologies with a certain degree of commonality, not a single ideology.
The GDP deflator solves this problem.
Are you around kids much? They certainly don't need any encouragement to lie!

It has long been my policy to tell my young nieces and nephews really obvious lies on a regular basis, just to let them practice their critical thinking. I love the looks of dawning realization and the swiftly following cries of "nuh-uh!" My oldest niece has heard enough of these that she just smirks when she hears another one.

Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are sort of an internal critique of Christianity. Sadly I think this critique goes over most people's heads, and their eventual disillusionment is more upsetting as a result. Still, parents have to try. To give away the game, I don't actually think there's anything wrong with this particular lie.
Nobody was shitting over anything.

I certainly do not think it's ridiculous to criticize religion. It's 2016, some supernatural beliefs should not get a free pass just because people will feel offended. However, choose your battles. Elderly people saying a very common phrase is hardly something to get worked up about.
In line with your comment: in September 2015, regional publication "Santa Cruz Tech Beat" published a special report, by Steve Blum of Tellus Venture Associates, titled, "Santa Cruz Muni Fiber Threat Forces Comcast Upgrade":

http://www.santacruztechbeat.com/2015/09/23/santa-cruz-muni-...

TL;DR: "Before the upgrade, the best that Comcast could reliably deliver in the Santa Cruz area was less than 25 Mbps download and somewhere between 1.5 Mbps and 3 Mbps upload speeds.... Comcast routinely advertized and sold Santa Cruz subscribers its faster 150 Mbps service. According to a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, when pushed to the wall, Comcast gave refunds and discounts to customers, but apparently only to those who went to the trouble of complaining to the district attorney, the CPUC or other regulatory agencies."
> Is cartoon lactation just part of the art or is it more tech industry misogyny in a project launch?

When intent determines whether an act is right or wrong I believe I'm asking the wrong question.
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I don't think the article mentioned bed bugs.
I like to think the greatest moment of my life was when I performed the heimlich on a colleague on an airplane. It took three tries but it worked. In retrospect I was surprised how calm I was. I remember thinking on the third try, "if this doesn't work, I'm yelling for a flight attendant."

What's even crazier is I was sitting in the window seat, she in the middle seat. I'm surprised it worked in such cramped circumstances.

And something amusing: the guy in the aisle seat slept through the whole thing.
What about aggressive childhood leukaemia? Why does God do that? Genuinely curious to understand.
How close is the SNES 65C816(-ish) code to NES 6502(-ish) code supported in the demo version of the program? I understand that they're from the same family, but I'd expect some incompatible extensions in the more-advanced chip, at least.
Despite tepid support and funding peril, fusion energy researchers make progress
Seconded for "Up". All the sad scenes involving the wife. This movie, and only this movie. Makes me cry every time. I'm a 40 year old man.
You'd be referred to as a big girl's blouse round here.
Yeah there's no way in hell the average developer spends more than 7 hours a week coding on the side even when taking into account people who code 4 hours a day after work.

I personally run for the hills and leave my laptop at work when I go home.
I've been (and am) there. My undergrad was at least half ecology with plenty of field work (in the states and briefly in Africa), and one of my graduate degrees was also in environmental science, but somehow here I am in a windowless concrete cube for the last 2.5 years writing code and building models. When I was finishing undergrad I was looking at park ranger type jobs, but it turned out that with a couple of wars on those jobs were almost impossible to get for someone who wasn't preference eligible. I could have gone to grad school more explicitly for fieldwork-related disciplines, but I wanted to focus on getting a solid set of technical and policy skills, which ended up with me in an office in the south, driving everywhere and getting fat.

After about a year of that I really buckled down and focusing a lot more free time on exploring the outdoors and the ecological and geological systems I enjoyed in undergrad. I end up spending a lot of time outside: hiking, camping, backpacking, even just relaxing in a hammock, and exploring the natural processes I know as best I can in a somewhat-informed sense (Why is that gullying? What's that on this tree? Was this burn prescribed or accidental? How old is this rock? What is this rock? How hard is this rock?).

Basically, you never know what path you're gonna go down, but it's not the end for you to pursue physical, hands-on knowledge on your own, you just won't get paid to do it. The motivation can be often hard to come by, but when I'm out there and get to take a nap on top of a mountain, clamber up onto a boulder mid-river, or get that perfect picture of a bee pollinating some wild flowers I feel quite at peace, even if the rest of my week is in that windowless concrete cube.
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