skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But can you really entrap someone into launching a surface-to-surface missile at a air base?

Easily. If you've seen these cases you'd notice they specifically try to find and groom people who have a mental disease, are under stress or just simply seem to be easily manipulated and controlled.

You can entrap someone into launching a missile. Becoming a pink elephant. Or doing all kinds of strange things.

Heck, clerics from 3rd world countries manage to convince young men that they should blow themselves up. If they can do it without training and education, FBI can do it better.

This is not new and has been happening for a while. My favorite case is this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12...

FBI sends their man a mosque. He starts agitating and promoting terrorism, trying to recruit people. Congregation files a restraining order against him and reports him to the ... that's right, FBI.

Bottom line is, if your job, mission and funding depends on fighting terrorism, at some point they'd manufacture a bit of that in order to keep getting more support and funding.

TSA would do it too, if they were higher up on the ladder. But they are not. FBI is high enough to do it and get away with it. Kind of like NSA is high enough up to not have to follow laws and get away with whatever they want when it come to surveillance.
>made some equivalents that allowed me to demonstrate my skill in a similar way (analogous to writing some code in a personal project).

Except that doesn't work in programming. I can't take the core bits and re-release them in my own projects. In fact that's literally what I'm prohibited from doing.

While in photography you can make the same photo with different people, in programming you absolutely cannot simply rewrite the same code.
This is a horrible experience that she went through, but one quote stuck out:

> The room’s only other occupants were men. I do not feel comfortable in rooms full of men I do not know with the door closed.

Why? This doesn't make sense. What does she think is going to happen? Are most men really presumed to be rapists or something?
Thanks for correcting the misconception and adding context. I'm glad to see the situation isn't as simple as I posited it was.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I completely agree.

I use photoshop maybe once every two months and have found that its interface is completely inaccessible if you don't use it full time.

I understand that it's great to have full control over everything, but there's a point where it's overkill in Getting Shit Done. Hell, it's gotten to the point with me where I'd rather use cv2 over photoshop/gimp for most things...
Is the average javascript developer responsible for the horrible security model and the dubious javascript-accessable features added every year to web browsers?

This is like saying developers of MS Windows applications are responsible for the horrible period of Windows worms we had a decade or so ago before MS started to get more serious about security.
This is correct. That's why there is a distinction between vacation vs. business visits.

Whoever is reading this: don't take advice you read on the Internet regarding these types of things. Just this thread alone contains a ton of misinformation that can get you in big trouble.
Jeebuz, I just want a Firefox browser that isn't a piece of crap that doesn't lock up and suck battery.

Let's start there first.
Your fingerprints (all 10), iris scan, and photograph will be taken each time you apply for a UK Visa. Same goes for USA, so it did not come as a surprise, too. (I have an Indian Passport)

What my worry is, though, that all of the application processes are outsourced to VFS Global[0] for both USA and UK, and I can't help but be skeptic about it.

[0] http://www.vfsglobal.com/
'Muhammad Ali was my pen pal for 30 years'
In my experience, it is taught in school, only as an afterthought and a single semester-long high school course with usually one of their least competent teacher, much like the computer literacy courses.
Citigroup Is Suing AT&T for Using the Word 'Thanks' Because Citi Trademarked It
To bake an apple pie from scratch only takes an afternoon too, after you finish creating the universe.
You could hold the hydrogen or helium as liquid prior and post use. There's a bunch of stuff we would have to figure out to make it work, but it doesn't seem entirely impractical.
It's unbelievable until you actually start searching for a job out here.
Dinesh. Jin Yiang.
It works without JS too
The keyword being some. If HN started requiring JS for basic browsing (like a lot of other aggregators out there already do), I'd get the hell out.
The major purpose of the patent as it is exploited today in the tech world has long surpassed its original purpose. Patents are like weapons-of-mutually-assured-destruction. You engage your patents, I'll engage mine. And so, we cross-license and get on with our merry lives to the detriment of our mutual competitors. This suits large businesses very well.

In the 'real' (as in physical) world there are still some good patents issued. But for computer related stuff (and that's what the bulk of Yahoo!'s patents will be about it has been quite a while since I saw a patent that made me think 'good that someone spent the years required in order to come up with this and that their rights are protected with a patent'.

I'd suggest a retro-active limitation of patents that do not involve anything physical of 3 years. That should be enough of a head-start and will immediately take care of all these ticking time bombs of patent portfolios in the hands of aging and ailing Leviathans.
The freelancer and the entrepreneur
That site seems fairly clear. Where was the site that the author posted a photo from?

It seemed to be less informative. Are there two conflicting sites maintained by the government?
sighs Oh, Marathon.
Nah

There is no way that my improvement to the derivatives market would have ever been worth my time if I couldn't sell the patent to financial institutions.

People that have never had a good idea in their life imagine that patent holders are making widgets in their woodshed, or have the ability to make said widget in their woodshed.

But the reality is that there was no way I could ever have commercialized this in a way that had so few risks, aside from my ability to cough up $12,000 at the time.

Yeah let me just go recreate the financial derivatives market and lobby Congress for the rest of my life just so that children on reddit won't call me a patent troll.
"Do you prefer terrorism to happen and then be reactive, or do you want the government to be proactive and work to flush these people out from the shadows before they commit a terrible act and murder innocent citizens?"

This question has been the foundation of modern justice systems for over a hundred years. We've built systems that let the guilty go free occasionally to avoid the far more greater injustice that someone innocent be persecuted by the government.

This arrangement has worked out very well, but now that we are so much safer there's no tolerance for the small price that needs to be paid. We're now tearing down this system to setup the foundation for eventual tyranny.
The problem is that once javascript is enabled on a page, there is too large of a business incentive to tack on google analytics, auto-playing video ads, facebook and linked-in and twitter integration, annoying subscribe popups, etc. Javascript is necessary in the web that I want for the future but I want some standards for what gets run in my browser without me going through manually and whitelisting specific scripts to block out the 10s of MB of crap that get thrown at me every time I go to a new site.
Oh, it gets much better. Here's printf being traced in detail:

http://blog.hostilefork.com/where-printf-rubber-meets-road/

Seeing this, one realizes there is something fundamentally wrong with how their language or libraries work. ;) Personally, I think these things are perfect examples of where a language providing macros, DSL's, and/or generic interfaces can be much more readable. You could just describe the grammar or whatever with ties to specific, low-level functions for the results. Compiler does the rest. Racket people do that kind of stuff all the time. So, do tools from sklogic, REBOL, RED, Julia, Nim... Inherent limitations of C and their coding approaches combining to create trouble. Plus legacy effects.
United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers
On Gregorio's blog post: We're on the side of the good guys. I introduced the point that Gregorio blogged about (has to do with how one accounts for tech-adjacent jobs) and we already keep track of the stats that way. You can read about what counts as "employed" in our methodology[1].

On grads employed by HR: they are not counted as successful job seekers. Again, you can read about this in the methodology.

On big name companies blacklisting our grads: I have literally never heard of this. Google was our # 2 employer in 2015.

[1] http://reactorcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/StandardSt...
Unfortunately, I suppose this is exactly what we (meaning the electorate who voted since 2001) wanted. By allowing politicians to pass bills like the Patriot Act (which started this whole mess and quickly brought about similar security and surveillance laws in at least every other country that's on friendly terms with the US) we brought this kind of treatment on ourselves. How can one establish organizations like the TSA or the Border Force - its UK counterpart - and seriously not expect things like this to happen?

Unfortunately, the majority likely doesn't care at all when some 'snotty' designer gets held up at the airport and sent back to her home country. "Probably deserves it anyway in some way, doesn't she?" In fact, resentfulness towards people who get to 'live the life' and travel for 'work' might play a role here, too.

The aspect of a German company paying her in British pounds. shouldn't be a problem at all. After all, that's what the EU single market should be about. Theoretically, that is ... It seems as if the EU can't get anything right anymore these days, though.

Just claiming VAT you payed in another EU country has become so ridiculously complex I have given up on it. Fortunately, in my case it's just things like the occasional conference fee so the loss is minimal but I can't imagine how anyone could run say an eCommerce business in Europe and sell in more than one EU country these days without having to resort to founding a company in each of those countries.
Has that been tested in court?
So without these occurrences, you're positing that countries like China and Kyrgyzstan (seriously?) would some how lose track of the fact that we spend more on our military than the entire GDP of most other countries, have shiny military tech coming out our ears, and have enough nuclear capability to make irradiated glass the only commodity left for them to barter with in their new found post-apocalyptic hell scape?
No, this isn't how proof works. All you have to do is find a bum, and definitively prove that he has no talent at anything, even things he has never been exposed to, even things that have fallen out of fashion, even things that have yet to be invented.

Go ahead, get started, I'll wait. If you could please do this with many bums, the world would thank you -- every inevitable failure will make the world a better place.
Plus, you don't want to give your child a complex.
I found that very relatable as we recently made an app close to instagram in UI sense and with couple of features plus minus in react native . The app(react native) and backend(express) were written by me and including everything took easily ~10-15 days more as predicted by the author .
>Also, inb4 "communism/socialism is big government and authoritarianism", I'm tired of explaining the failings of tankies.

There hasn't been any evidence yet that central planning is effective in the long run. What do you think will work this time around?
Sorry, although I buy the human nature argument there, from a government organisation point-of-view, that kind of behaviour is utterly unacceptable. If it's too difficult for people to do their jobs properly the way the system is set up, change the system. This isn't an impossible problem; we have many state bodies that have to deal with similar situations - police - and they simply should not be able to get away with this.
I know lots of folks my age that loved Hypercard. Deal of the century? No, but Hypercard not going mainstream was a huge missed opportunity. I mean I know a generation now of people my age that grew up with that and loved that product in elementary school and all of us ended up doing lousy powerpoints in high school, college, and beyond.

(Additionally given the programming-like nature of Hypercard, I wonder how many more young folks would have entered programming related fields...)
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Sony Confirms More Powerful PS4 in Development, but It Won't Be at E3
3 major financial mistakes of Generation X
Money. Hollywood is running out of ideas and they've rebooted/re-imagined/re-released/sequelized/etc everything.

So while we are debating whether to watch ghostbusters or independence day ( and whether our choices make us sexist or not), they'll be busy with this silly movie/non-story.

It's amazing how the media took a non-story and made it into a story and now they are going to make a movie out of a non-story they turned into a story.

This is akin to a firefighter arsonist setting fires all over town so that he can have more work or a greedy doctor intentionally giving his patients poison so that he'll be able to drum up more business.

It's circular and incestuous and wrong on so many levels. Like a snake swallowing its own tail.
I do have sympathy for her, but I absolutely agree that Americans need to recognize that they are doing the same thing to others.

If you don't want to live in a world like that, start petitioning your own government to change standards for foreigners that come to your country. Positive example is the only reasonable way to convince other countries to follow it.
Pure functions, i.e. that are 1) idempotent 2) have all their arguments passed in 3) cause no side effects as a by product of evaluating the function are fundamental to functional programming.
Handling organization crisis at growing companies
If you define community by geography, then I have no desire to be a part of the home or "community" you lionize. I suspect I'm not the only one who thinks this way.

I'm sick of being told that I can only think and live in some antiquated way because some people in the 1960s and 1970s thought it was a good idea.
> The new offer, however, was for cash rather than MSFT stock, overcoming one hesitation of our investors.

Whoops.
Sorry, I think I misunderstood your setup.

The proper way to do it with paket would be:

* get rid of the Dependencies project (it was a side effect of trying to cope with the pain of using raw nuget)

* add a paket.dependencies at the root of your repository listing all nugets used across the solutions

* next to each project, add a paket.references file with the names of the dependencies (only top level, you don't need to list transitive ones)

running the convert-from-nuget command should practically work out of the box if you don't have far out inconsistencies (which I believe you managed by reducing amount of packages.config files), but I'd recommend to do another round of sanitization similar to what I'm describing.

I think if you give it half a day of studying / using paket on a smaller repository, you'll figure out all the things you need to accomplish migration on a large scale repository, after which you'll be recouping benefits any time you need to adjust references in projects / add or update nuget packages.
It's of importance to anyone with a political ideology they think stands no chance of being voted in on a large scale. Again, I'm not seeing more than a superficial resemblance.
It wasn't even taught in my school unless you didn't sign up for any other elective classes (e.g. shop, computer classes, etc). So on top of it being only taught once, it wasn't even taught to the majority of people that signed up for something else.
The Silver Searcher: a fast code searching tool
Or the period of monopoly should be reduced, to something like 5 years from transfer date, or original expiration date, whichever is sooner. Would reduce the incentive to sell them around, and increase the incentive for the original "inventor" to utilize them.
Hey Everyone!

My co-worker, @typerandom, has been building this for a while now, and myself and a lot of my colleagues over at Stormpath have been internally testing it for a while.

I'm really happy to finally release it as it's been incredibly useful here internally, and provides a ton of awesome resources for debugging JWTs on websites, and also debugging JWTs in general.

Happy to answer any questions!
Bangladesh Says It Now Knows Who’s Killing the Bloggers
To be perfectly honest, as a man, I don't feel comfortable being in rooms full of people I don't know regardless of gender but I feel more uneasy when it's only men. Somehow it feels more threatening to me. Being regularly beat up by a group of boys in school probably didn't help. Some of those feelings stick around.

With regards to the rest of your question; I don't think most men are presumed to be rapists and I don't think that is what the author means. There are also many other forms or perceived threats of violence that can make people uncomfortable.

There are multiple studies on the topic of male/female group dynamics that you might find interesting to read on this topic.
Exactly. Republicans do not have a problem with single women per se, only unchecked promiscuity out of wedlock.
Why would they want or need to be ageist about it? If it's just about paying low salaries, surely all they need to do to accomplish that is offer low salaries?

(If anything my experience is that older developers have a stronger tendency towards implementing academically known datastructures themselves, whereas younger developers are more likely to make more use of libraries)
> Tech people on Windows use Notepad.

I'm always horrified to see this. MS really shot themselves in the foot with the dev community by not providing a powerful text editor as the default. Getting a WinAdmin to enjoy the UNIX'y way of doing things is like trying to feed a child broccoli.
We screwed up, we are fixing it for the future, and if there is any unemployed recent grad that isn't already hearing from us weekly they should email me. Thanks for the feedback -- I agree with you 100% that we're accountable for these things.
My head is spinning... this is super awesome!
You know, better financial education would be great.

I don't think it's enough, though, when you're trying to stretch a $230 paycheck to $300 in expenses.

I don't think it's enough, either, when you look at how poor people get dinged with so many more fees than the less-poor whenever they go out to do anything in the world.

And I don't think most of the "save what you can" advice is particularly meaningful when you're telling people to put aside $10 a month. One big family gathering could wipe out a year's savings on food costs alone!

I think the first solution has to be getting people--especially the poorest--paid more for the incredibly taxing work poor people tend to do, like cleaning, cooking, all those jobs where you're on your feet 8, 10, 12 hours a day and your body's worn out by the time you're 40.
Both the UK and the USA border authorities share their biometric databases like gossip girls. Even when there's (5, 10 year) limit on the records, the safe bet it's been shared with rest of the globe and make endless circles via law enforcement cooperation.

I figure my fingerprints will be in the system decades after I die.
According to the Culture timeline (http://theculture.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline), the Twin Novae battle occurred in 1367, and the light reached (er, will reach) Masaq' in 2170.

(The Culture found Earth in 1977, shook their heads sadly, and then went away again.)

So if we're seeing the light now, that means that we're 649 light years from Portisia and Junce, which suggests that Arm One-Six is what we would call the Orion Arm (the one on which our sun is located). Which means that we were right in the middle of the Culture-Idiran war back in the 14th century. Lucky us!
I'm sure the engineers as Yahoo who actually created these patents got compensated, with the understanding (written though probably not verbally) that the patents were no longer theirs and the buyer could do what they want with them.
Dante created a new circle of Hell for PowerPoint
The good engineers whose brains led to these patents had no way of knowing that this would happen

Being engineers and not morons, of course they knew that this (meaning the sale of the patents in question) could happen.

But it's an easy thing to get past, when you're the engineer in question. The "patent bounty" at a typical large company often amounts to a bonus of multiple thousands of dollars, just for sitting down for a few hours with an attorney. It's likely that an engineer -- especially a young one -- won't understand that they're building the intellectual equivalent of a land mine. Something with one or two good uses and a hundred evil ones. Something that will probably just lie buried in the sand for 20 years, but that also might cripple someone or something that they care about. Instead, all the engineer sees is the extra $$$$ and professional prestige that comes with their name on a United States Patent.

Source: personal experience.
> Fifteen months ago, the Redmond giant decided to get serious about the Internet. Never too proud to imitate a competitor's success, Microsoft issued its own browser, the Microsoft Explorer, offered it for free over the Net, made deals to ship it with new computers and versions of America Online and CompuServe, and vowed to build Web-browsing into its Windows operating system and business software. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

Let's not forget that IE was actually a bought product by MS:

> The first iteration of the Internet Explorer platform shipped on August 16, 1995 but was essentially a rehash for an existing product called Spyglass Mosaic which Microsoft had licensed. IE was originally shipped to retail as part of the “Internet Jumpstart Kit” but could also be pre-installed with a new Windows 95 PC. http://www.neowin.net/news/internet-explorer-version-1-10-a-...
Redshift V. BigQuery: Similarities, Differences and the Serverless Future?
> In this thread: people who don't turn JavaScript on by default and are unhappy when sites don't work because of it.

I think you have this backwards, sorry. Perhaps it used to be true?

We have reached a tipping point where using a JavaScript blocker like NoScript actually improves the browsing experience. And not just a little bit, I mean substantially. The NoScript UX is good, and I can easily toggle domains on/off. I very seldom have to enable JS for a new site and my list of permanently white-listed sites is relatively small, maybe 20 or so.

To anyone who still thinks that JavaScript makes your browsing experience better, try browsing without it again. The shitstorm of clutter and annoyance that people keep complaining about is now the worse option. No one is hijacking my scroll, no modals are blocking the page content, pages load lightning fast, it's great! For a select few sites that can be trusted to run JavaScript to improve my experience, they get white-listed and work well too. It's my browser, running code I decide to approve, and the overall experience is very good.
In defence of word salad-generating screenwriting neural networks, arguably the finest spoken lines in any Sci Fi movie - the "tears in the rain" speech in Blade Runner - also owed more to the actor's ad-libbing than the original screenplay