skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. I would never advocate using MD5. Use PBKDF2, bcrypt, etc! I just needed some hex strings to make my point about the hashes (hopefully) not being reversible to the actual password, and thus useless for the purposes of seeing if the passwords are 'strong.'
Thanks!

Where were you looking that you couldn't find a tweet timestamp? I'm pretty obsessed with timestamps myself so I made sure to put them everywhere they could go.

If you add more items to the homescreen (especially other users), your icon won't look so out of place. Plus, that is also where you can tweak the settings for your own account. In testing, people wanted to double and triple verify that their tweets were actually posted, and having a shortcut to their own timeline fixed that need (among others).
Yep. But they are hex strings that look like (are) hashes, and that's all I need to make the point. Next time I'll use /dev/urandom for that :)

In a real scenarios, use PBKDF2 or bcrypt!
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That sounds like an incredibly permissive company policy to me. Not a "gag order" with all the associated connotations.
In SF here and just signed up for individual health insurance, HealthNet PPO ($70/month) after getting recommended to an agent through Dave Ramsey's web site. It's a high deductible plan (around $7,500), but the premiums seem low. I personally feel less at risk of being in the hospital; I don't commute right now; I'm a fairly healthy individual. I would have signed up for the Health Savings Account, but it was a bit more expensive. Maybe later.
I totally understand what you're saying. I'll definitely try to give a better example of the feedback that you're actually getting. Thank you for the feedback :)
"This is yet another example of the continued arms-race that consumers are engaged in when trying to protect their privacy online..."

I don't think arms race is a good analogy here. Arms race is a good analogy for virus-makers and antivirus software, since their goals are exact opposites.

The goal of analytics sites like KISSmetrics is to measure and understand the behavior of their customers as a group, not as specific individuals. The goal of people who wish to remain untracked is to avoid having personally identifiable information about them stored without their consent. These goals are not opposites and don't necessarily result in an arms race.
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it emulates the "command-t" functionality in textmate, which is pretty similar to sublime's project navigation.
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No problem. I think you're working on something worthwhile. Everyone gets told to take a laptop to a coffeeshop and show their site to people for usability. If this is useful and cost-effective, people will switch.
Cool, I think that should help keep the comment quality up while not driving away newbies.
Email's taken a considerable hit. The challenge of running your own email server (even as a business) is considerably higher now than it was, say, in 2001. Hell, a lot of major ISPs won't even talk to you unless you jump through a lot of hoops (SPF, DKIM, and more).

Spam doesn't break into my house, pour yellow-brown crud all over the background, smash the walls, and take all my stuff.

It's shown me a few things that can't be unseen, though console-mode clients have distinct advantages sometimes.
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I find the cyberpunk and mind-altering culture of the very early 90s Internet (referred to briefly in the video) to be fascinating. I wish I'd been a few years older so I could have properly witnessed it.

Random things I remember from the time:

* Billy Idol's strange Cyberpunk album http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_(album)

* Mondo 2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo_2000
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You know, when individuals access a company's computer using technically valid means (e.g. a username and password or by logging in from multiple locations), then its criminal charges, international arrest warrants, and jail time. [1] [2]

But when companies do it to people, oh its just a clever programming trick, and its not a problem because you could install additional software to prevent it from happening [3].

The law is showing up pretty clear that simply because you can access a computer system, does not mean that you may, and indeed that doing so without the user's permission is a crime. Causing a computer to store data on a user and then serve that data back to another computer seems dodgy without permission. Doing it when the user has taken reasonable steps to prevent it from happening? Class action time!

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110722/02351315202/how-ci...

[2] http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/aaron-swartz-spent-mo...

[3] http://www.kissmetrics.com/how-it-works
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There are two sides to the spam problem.

One is managing _your_ inbox. Yes, the tools are there, and if you're using any largish email service provider, you've probably got pretty effective filtering going on.

Try getting on the other side of it, though, and start _sending_ email from a new domain. The same mechanisms which "solve" the inbound problem create a _huge_ issue for outbound. Especially if, say, your business is somehow reliant on being able to reach out and communicate a message to people (I'm not even talking about marketing -- think of status notifications, account mailings, etc., etc.).

I'm a huge believer in email, don't get me wrong. I dislike most of the tools that have come along to "replace" it to some degree or another (how fast would SMS disappear in a mushroom cloud if spammers were to hit it like mail?). But it's gotten really, really creaky.
Ghostery blocks many tracking scripts.

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>A lot of techies see FUD as evil. It's business.

And business can't be evil?

Anyway, what your analogy blithely ignores is that everyone playing poker has actively chosen to play that game. While the business culture you're so ok with effects everyone -- the rest of us can't walk away from the consequences.
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Yea, they are _now_. How quickly that can change.
Interesting for hackers who like to use this type of information. Although almost six years old, I'm not sure exactly how useful it would be.

Completely lame for anybody outside the hacker culture. We're all looking for the juicy stuff, not lists of email addresses. I give this one a 7.
... And my point was, you didn't cite any evidence to back up your claims. Twice.

EDIT: But apparently no one cares, and will listen to whoever talks like an authority.
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Gosh times have sure changed.

At 700MHz, this thing is clocked at nearly 100x the ARM3 I started out my career on. And it has a vector floating point.

It would be awesome building a really stripped down kernel on this with a basic graphics kit.

I hop they get the numbers right, because they are going to get a lot of orders.
Yammer is great for groups of all sizes. The advantage is that the information is public and searchable.
> They don't package this information and sell it wholesale to advertisers.

Yet. Genie, meet bottle.

Thinking this information will never be sold is short sighted and naive.

When it becomes advantageous for them to do so, they'll sell it in a heartbeat and then sell it again. Somewhere in there the FBI and the NSA will start making "requests" for them to share with the government.

What begins as clever social commentary in movies like Minority Report tends to wind up as a sad fact of life years later.
The 'gag' in question doesn't apply specifically to this matter, employees usually aren't allowed to discuss this sort of stuff, they let PR handle it.
I might agree about the better person being basically irrelevant, but I've seen a lot of projects run into the ground by assholes - I guess my basic point is that being an asshole is only weakly positively correlated with being a competent manager.
Of course there's value in what they're doing — to advertisers. As a user, I am not 100% comfortable with any tracking service, supercookie-based or otherwise.

[Edit: Made the wording clearer]
A car is an evolved horse cart.

We kept the four wheels, steering, and even the dashboard (you know where that term comes from, right?). The only thing replaced was the prime mover.

That's admittedly an oversimplification, but if you look at early cars, the were called ... what was it again? Oh yeah: horseless carriages.

Neat stuff: rack and pinion, you know, we use it for steering? Leonardi da Vinci used it, though it dates from far before then.

The real innovations for the car were incremental increases in metalurgy (allowing creation of efficient engines), machining, and the availability of cheap, plentiful, portable, and dense energy sources (petroleum).

Much of the advances of the 19th and 20th century is attributable to increased available energy, compounded and confounded with technological increases allowing better and more useful use of that energy.
I find the polarised reaction to this list almost more interesting than the list itself. As for me, I was in complete agreement with basically all of it. I didn't find it rude, in fact rather the opposite - I appreciate the consideration for our shared time and the pledges to fairness and efficiency.

I wonder about the work experience of some of the most vocal offendees. Maybe as you get older, and hear that clock ticking louder and louder, you come to appreciate brutal efficiency a little more. Yeah, the guy's blunt, but at least he's not going to waste your time. Would that I could say the same for every leader I've had to work with.

And for those obsessing over the "copy my document style" etc - that's a rule you can break if you know how to break it, ie you know you can do better. If you've seen, however, some of the shocking creations inexperienced people can come up with using excel - well, that rule's for them, not you.

And the reason he says he "likes" things is because he doesn't want to argue about it. That's his preference, do it. When you go to a restaurant and order a steak, do you bring out the chef and tell him "give it to me well done, because that's the best way of cooking it"? Cue huge debate? No. You say, this steak please, well done, because I like it like that. Gets what you want, no argument, no book length discussions on The Effectiveness Of Communication Methods.

Anyway, nice post.
Unfortunately, this does not help with mobile devices which do not have the same capability.

Well, I guess you can always maintain a hosts file but that's the only way I can think of.
The problem is that this is AirBnB's 2nd to worst case scenario and it doesn't look like it is going to turn out well for them or that they gamed the possible problem scenarios out before hand and created a set of responses. No one died, so there is no "AirBnB Killer" in the headlines, but it might make the host side a little more scarce.

Hysteria and PR can both overcome facts. Heck, look at the people in the articles comments quoting the McDonald's coffee incident and believing the "common wisdom" it was a lawsuit happy lady. McDonald's PR did a heck of a job on that one given how absolutely, positively wrong they were and how bad their behavior and actions were.

I just cannot believe they didn't think this might be a consequence of the scaling of their service. It happens to every community based service as soon as it gets out of the initial, early adopter group. Startups need to take the time to figure out how to deal with "bad actors" in their business model, particularly when the potential damage is high and of a new type.
> Save your rage for when you discover someone actually being evil.

So it's okay for them to be evil as long as we don't discover that they are? More seriously, once they have the info, how can we be sure we nail them? The best way is still to ensure that they don't get the information in the first place.
Define broken. It is possible to generate (within reasonable time) two files which have the same md5 sum, which means you shouldn't use it to sign anything somebody else have given you.

On the other hand collisions between two different files are still not something you would ever expect to see in the wild so if you are trying to find duplicated files, then you don't have to worry.
Roomorama doesn't scale. You could try to crowdsource some of the vetting responsibilities, or appoint community members to "check IDs", but then you get into uncomfortable privacy issues.
TL;DR: Yeah, changing your diet is going to feel like you're eating stuff you don't enjoy. Just try to stick to your convictions and give it a month or so, you're very likely to find your tastes change in response to your diet change.

"Water tastes fantastic. It's sweet. An all-soda-and-mcsquats' diet has killed your taste buds, so anything that isn't loaded with sugar and salt (never mind the Coke, your McChicken has a crazy amount of added sugar) will taste bland to you. Cut the crap out of your diet, and the good stuff will taste good again."

This is _so_ true.

I'm still fighting a battle with my own brain which I've been fighting (on and off) for 5 or 10 years now.

I don't actually like french fries, but my brain keeps tricking me into eating them. I spent so much of my life eating them that the smell, their appearance on a menu, even sometimes just the idea of fries; triggers incredibly strong desires to buy and eat them.

If I resist those desires for 3 or 4 weeks, then "give in" and eat some, they're incredibly disappointing - they strike me as slimy/oily salty mush with an unappealing flavour and leave me with an unsatisfying heavy feeling in my gut. This (sometimes) makes it really easy for me to only eat a few, then not buy any again for quite a long time.

But for some reason, my brain retains the "OMG! Fries! I want some!" memories _way_ more strongly than the "Oh, actually they're not very nice..." ones. And it's _so_ easy (for me) to drop back into the habit of eating them, and once I've eaten just half a serve or so, the unpleasant oilyness and flavour somehow doesn't affect me any more. Then I need to struggle through the 3 or 4 weeks of denying myself something I'm strongly convinced I really want to eat again.

The same for sodas - though it's easier for me to (more or less healthily) work around the soda-desire by buying diet soda instead of sugar (of hfcs) laden soda... (which just leave me open to the problems with chemical sweeteners, but for now I'm writing that down as less of a concern than the sugar/calories of regular soda).

At a guess, I strongly suspect the "fast food industry"'s manipulation of fat, sugar, and salt levels; is very strongly targeted at manipulating our tastes and desires to make us think we enjoy their version of "food" over what food really tastes like.

On the positive side, over ~10 years I've managed to get from a high of ~130kg (285lb) down to a fairly consistent 92kg (202lb) - I'm still "overweight", but I've settled on a diet/lifestyle that's a lot healthier than I had a decade ago. I need to "get fit" now, if I can incorporate some proper exercise into my lifestyle, I'm pretty sure I will be able to drop the next 10-15kg to get down to the 75-80kg (165-175lb) that the health industry says is "normal" for my height... (This is also something I've had many more or less successful false-starts at, I manage to get into the habit of walking for 40min to an hour 3 or 4 times a week, and keep it up for a few weeks or months, but then something interrupts the habit and I have to struggle with myself to start it up again...)
I like the idea of a certificate. One of the problems with the autodidactic movement is a lack of 'proof'. You can be a self-made guru but but there's no formal way to prove that to an employer.
That is really cool. I've forwarded the link to a couple instructors in the CS dept at my school. It seems like a great chance for some of us in the frozen northern wastelands of Vancouver to see how we stack up against the best and brightest in the US.
That's awesome. I wonder if I can convince my college to count it for credit.
They are tracking user behavior completely anonymously

Just because you, a human, cant look at the millions of data points and go "oh look, there's george tomlinson of 28 esperay avenue doing something we dont like" doesnt mean that it cannot be done or will not be done, or indeed is not being done already.

Some of us dont want to walk around with yellow badges thank you. Do you imagine that fact that the badges are only visible to those with the resources and motive to discover them, and not the average joe, is more, or less of a motivation for privacy?
The reviews are conducted by MTurk users. I think a common next question is, "why are they qualified to provide feedback?" And I think the answer to that is that qualified feedback is pretty easy to come by. Ask any startup guy and they'll give you a bunch of different reasons to do this and that. What's more difficult is to find the absolute average user, the lowest common denominator, and see if they understand how to use your site, and if your branding and messaging is clear enough for them.
Obviously DNA is low level. This means it must be assembler- and assembly often is as simple as removing comments and translating "written" code into "machine" code.
Do we really need to soften everything? Are our egos so fragile that we can't take a little bluntness - as long as it's genuine and well-intentioned?

I find your version to be much, much weaker than the original. In many parts, the motivation of the writer is so obfuscated as to make the list little more than a vague and friendly pep talk.

Note taking - friendly productivity tip, or career-defining moment?

Interrupting a meeting the boss is in - does he really want me to do that, or was he just trying to sound friendly and approachable?

I think the biggest difference is that the original expects excellence, and implies penalties for not living up to it - while your rewritten version expects mediocrity, and implies rewards for rising above.

To each his own - I prefer the original, I find your version to be more patronizing, and somewhat hypocritical in claiming to "cut the bullshit". Many others will prefer your version. I guess the real trick is coming up with a version that will make everyone happy, while keeping the impact of the original.
Looks like a good way to sell more copies of AIMA[1]. (Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan, with my own signed copy--but not necessarily enough of a fan to "upgrade" to the third edition.)

[1] http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
We could always call the proteins the binaries, that is to say the output of the linker!

Either way, I was just trying to phrase it in terms familiar to programmers. No metaphor is perfect.
There absolutely is something wrong with what they are doing.
They are deliberately going out of their way to stop me from enforcing my personal privacy requirements on my browser running on my computer over my network.

If I installed an application on your computer that sent me the names of all the applications you ran, when you ran them and how long for. That reinstalled itself when you attempted to remove it and that used every technique it could to gather information about you, you would want me arrested as a hacker.

I think what they do is disgusting, and I hope to hell that stories like this kill the traction they have gained with some big-name clients.
I think the parent is mistaken.

I have been looking for the equivalent of CommandT for buffers for a while, and the closest I've found is this: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890

Unfortunately it's fuzzy file matcher is nowhere near as useful as CommandT's, so you'll have to use them in conjunction.
Business is supposed to be positive-sum

That should be written with big, flashing lights somewhere.
If I can offer my own reaction as a guide, I'd find the list less rude if I could trust it was written by someone with an actual record of successful management. I've known a few people who talk this way, and had a past record of turning projects into Hell Marches.

That said, I'd be interested in what you think of raldi's take on this list - he's rewritten it to be both concise and, (lacking a better word) classy. It is far less likely to raise hackles and makes an interesting comparison to the original. And well, knowing his record, I'd much rather work with Mike than with whoever wrote the original :)
" They also claim "KISSmetrics has never, and will never, share anonymous customer activity of what people did on customer A’s site with customer B.""

but if they change their mind, there is no way I can stop them - right?
I wish they had a version of a class like this that was meant to fit more easily into spare time. I'll be taking 18 hours at my own university, and I don't think I'll be able to set aside enough time to put a serious effort into this class.
He says "frequently". People who frequently don't pay attention or fail to absorb information are a nightmare to work with.
If his Mum had lusted after an iPhone, that's what they would have bought.

Instead, she lusted after an HTC Incredible, so they bought a Samsung Charge...

In some ways, it was her son that distorted the picture, assuming that all Android phones were equivalent. Without his conviction, his Mum would have dragged him, and his Incredible into a store, and said "I want one like his".
Marketers do nothing to "make the product better".

They pump exorbitant amounts of money into advertising, thereby increasing the final price paid by customers without increasing product quality. Furthermore, they use these advertisements to inflate their customers' perceived value of the products, once again, without actually increasing product quality.

Marketers maximize profits, not quality.
I was shocked by two egregious prosecutions mentioned in the video:

Jake Baker
Arrested for posting rape/murder fantasy on the internet
case dismissed

Robert Thomas
Tried for transmitting porn on the internet
sentenced to three years in prison

We must remain guarded against such assaults, even to this day. I don't think there has been much of a shift in politicians' technoliteracy or indeed their ulterior motives.
Except they do. At the moment, search results on Twitter are largely polluted with the article in question, but you can still see plenty of everyday folk using the term. News outlets still use it all the time, and it's something a regular news.yc reader should see quite often:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+cybers...
that is very cool. The important thing about the system is that it is a matter of personal choice, right? I can choose not to participate, right?

because they ask my permission, dont they? I mean, I can choose between not seeing their contact or being tracked - yes?
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