skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers"

Since we're talking about a fantastic breach of trust, I'd like clarification that all copies of all uploaded contact information have been deleted from all servers (even ones that one could argue are other people's), and from all backup media, and further that no effort will ever be made to try to recover this information.

Because, I'm sorry, but anybody who thinks its OK to violate someone's privacy like this is at best someone who is able to easily justify unethical behavior because they think their business might depend on it and at worst a sociopath.

There is not a human on earth who would not object if someone else picked up their phone and started looking through the contacts.
Well, editing as response to a child comment makes this comment a useless space.

Cheater :(.
Don't confuse a random number with the value returned by a function that returns nondeterministic values with a somewhat predictable pattern.
Ask HN: I want to be a game developer. What should I do?
I'm 22. I have a bachelor's degree in CS and slightly more than three years of professional experience. None of my previous experience involved game development or even computer graphics, but I really want to work as a game developer because I'm carrying a big love for computer games through my entire life. It began with "Bobby is Going Home" on Atari 2600. Then there were the NES games that shaped my childhood: Flying Warriors, Mario, the various versions of Contra, Mighty Final Fight... And finally, there was the PC with Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Doom, Quake and the Half-Life series, which I consider the best FPS game ever.

I have always admired games and the technology that makes them tick, but never had the chance to work on a real game because where I'm from there are simply no game studios.

But I have recently moved to the US. There are much more opportunities here, but the problem is that I lack the experience necessary for a game developer. In my understanding, modern games are very complex and it would be extremely difficult for a person with no previous experience in this area to just jump in and start working on them.

So, my question is, what should I do to qualify for a software engineering job in game development? What do I need to learn? And another thing - if you are an engineer at Valve reading this, what would I need to show you to get a job at the company?

A little bit on my background, if it helps: I'm a C++ guy, I do know C and can write low-level or system-level code if necessary. Understanding of linear algebra is present. I did work on some simple games in my spare time, but a) there was little spare time between my day job and my studies, so the games had to be really simple b) they all look like shit because I'm no artist.
Dude, look at the ongoing travesty in Washington and tell me again that Slovakia has more prevalent corruption. I'm just not sure I believe it. It's just less smooth and more obvious in a small country.
+1 for twitter bootstap
I also purchased the original book and loved it.
Thanks a lot
I suspect, if you probe more deeply, that some of the Path developers where familiar with how this problem is normally solved and just copied a common design pattern. A large number of IOS applications supposedly upload the contact list to make it easier to find friends server side - I further suspect that many, many of the popular social apps do this.

Hopefully at least Five good things will come out of this:

1) Social Apps immediately remove the "upload contact list code from their
apps"
2) Social Apps come up with a more privacy clueful way of searching for
your friends.
3) Social Apps (all apps, ideally) focus more on user privacy.
4) Apple requires permission to be granted before allowing an app to read
your contact list.
5) Apple is more explicit about what app developers are _not_ allowed to do
when transmitting information off the IOS Device
6) The App review process adds a check to see if certain user private fields
are accessed, (Contact, Photos) - and ensures (through audit, or
confirming with the developers) that private information is not
being uploaded without opt-in.

If some or more of these things happen, then I'm actually happy what Path did was publicized. They've deleted 100% of the contact information off their servers - people now have to opt-in to add it back in.
'Amasia': The Next Supercontinent?
> Because the US doesn't do military action without death, without shooting, without explosions. I don't know any nation that does.

Either this is a strawman or you should go back and trace the thread of argument again.

> What we can't do is military action without using the military (who use deadly weapons).

I don't know what this means.

> Any military action in Iran would be full-scale, classic-style war like America hasn't seen since WWII.

This sounds like wishful thinking and again, military action in any capacity (e.g. dropping bunker-busting bombs on their nuclear facilities) is not synonymous with 'full scale, classic-style war'.
I'm really not big on accessories (I prefer universal/multifunction devices), but I have to say, this dock is pretty impressive (if it works as advertised).

Most docks are like 80% there, this dock's attention to detail brings it close to 100% (perfection), kind of like the MacBook Pro...
I have no idea how important thorough knowledge of game design is at a bigger company where you'd likely be working on something small. For smaller experience with games there's a bunch of frameworks - Flixel, Flashpunk, Unity, etc...that might be a start?

I'm interested in this question as well I suppose, so upvoted.
I don't necessarily disagree with your point (although I think you overstate it), but this part is at least partially wrong:

Even the ability of decades-experienced police officers who SWEAR they can read people only perform as well as random chance.

Some people (perhaps 0.25% of the population) can do significantly better than chance. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_Project
Seriously: the influence of big money on US politics is a bad thing. But it's far, far away from the worst corruption out there.
I'd argue that you can get away with it in many cases.

* Disqus for comments.
* You re-generate the static site on every deploy. "Recent" can be regenerated every new post.
* It's easy to convert a date into "2 days ago" with javascript.
* Quote of the day, or other banner can be javascript too.
* Advertisements are almost always javascript.

Im not seeing the need for a database in anything you described.
Key giveaway to their untrustworthiness still: "and we want you to feel completely in control of your information on Path"

TO FEEL, as in "we still don't give a shit whether you actually _ARE_ completely in control of your information"
[disclaimer: i'm the author] not sure where you got the second in growth point, but Clojure does perform well by some metrics.

Ohloh's data suggests cause for concern, however:

http://www.ohloh.net/p/clojure/factoids/15688840
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Menopause is used to describe the permanent cessation of the primary functions of the human ovaries.
It doesn't matter where things are created; if they infringe US patents they can't be sold in the US. Most companies can't afford to ignore that market.
You do know, that many other social apps do the same thing as Path, right?
check out the forums at gamedev.net, this topic gets covered all the time.
> It is possible that the internet has gotten so public that we should all just stop worrying about privacy.

It's notable that the core of Facebook's pitch, to users as well as investors, is "we should all just stop worrying about privacy", or perhaps "everyone you know has stopped worrying about privacy, so you should too."

So rather than a radical view, it's actually become an authoritative statement driving the fact that "the internet has gotten so public"! An elegant hack, really.
It's not only the notification delay. They also do it so that the app doesn't have to reconnect if you reopen it within 10 minutes.
Breastfeeding mothers are just fine: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=340974655932193#Does-Face...
>Not to single out Path, a massive number of apps are guilty of this behavior.

And so is Apple. I am alarmed that any 2 bit app can access and upload all my personal contact information for any use they want to.
"it keeps coming up because you haven't paid me, yet." is the correct response. You can't let people jerk you around as a freelancer. You have to eventually cut off anymore work until you are paid.

You shouldn't release the source until you're paid in full. Also, google "fuck you, pay me" for a humorous but insightful talk about contracts. I think the person giving the talk is named Mike Monterro, but I could be wrong.
Retailing v/s E-tailing
I see you're using Command-T, but for anyone else, these remaps will list all buffers using F1 and quickly jump to b1..b9 using \1 .. \9, and toggle between alt buffers using \\, all in normal mode. Super handy and quick.

" Buffers ***

nnoremap <F1> :ls<CR>
nnoremap \1 :b 1<CR>
nnoremap \2 :b 2<CR>
nnoremap \3 :b 3<CR>
nnoremap \4 :b 4<CR>
nnoremap \5 :b 5<CR>
nnoremap \6 :b 6<CR>
nnoremap \7 :b 7<CR>
nnoremap \8 :b 8<CR>
nnoremap \9 :b 9<CR>
nnoremap \\ :b #<CR>
But with no style.

Proper trolling is like good teasing, it teaches people about their cognitive blind spots.
Maybe the three X's and the circled symbols represent physical objects instead of words.

Mountain ranges (Tallest peak next to 2 shorter ones) circled symbol maybe a marking on a tree?
"Game Developer" is a misnomer. There are many jobs to be done in the "game development" arena, and most are not development of the game. Just to name a few, you have:

>> tools devs, who build the tools needed to manage the game environment;

>> server devs, for those games with a multiplayer component'

>> network stack devs, because that piece of code must be bulletproof and FFFFFAAAASSTTT!; and

>> AI devs, to guide the NPC's to their prey...;

Gone are the days of Epic's Sweeney and ID's Carmack, guys who would sit and write an engine in a week. Valve-type games are now million-dollar budget epic sagas. That said, there's nothing wrong with Plants Vs. Zombies... or Angry Birds... they've both made millions.

You need to decide what parts of the process appeal to you, and focus on those. Or, you could write a game, from the ground up, and spend a few months to a year cutting your teeth to learn how it works.

Then, there's always an internship if you feel you can afford a few months working for nothing to get your foot in the door.

If it were ME, and it has been (I sold my game company back in '94 for a pittance), I'd spec out a simple game, write it, add a network component, write it, and get some friends to test it in play to see how it goes. You don't even need cool graphics to start... those can be added later if you design it correctly.

Good Luck!
$155k and counting. Not bad for a few hours! They did quite a successful PR push, I saw it mentioned on Gamasutra, NeoGAF and Wired.
Sarcasm isn't needed here. This place has been great because people say what they mean.

You said "I'm sure that's fair use, and not theft, because the Gray Lady doesn't do such things, and you're vile for even suggesting it."

Which could have easily been, "I don't think that's fair use, and believe it's theft."

The rest I don't even know how to unparse because it's not particularly useful. Are you saying everyone does it? Are you saying the New York Times vilifies anyone who argues they don't? Are you saying other people vilify others that don't?

Sarcasm is a way to say very little, and just be cynical with no justification. It's not adding anything to the discussion.
You need look no further than primetime TV in the US. ABC and NBC both have shows based on Grimm's Fairy Tales - Once Upon a Time and Grimm. Both shows are doing well in the ratings and have the public domain works of Grimm to thank for it.
Amazing. I had no doubts you would go places with Gumroad, but I didn't imagine it would happen quite so fast!
Just in case anyone else glossed over them, all the links in the first few paragraphs are worth reading. A lot of pretty poorly articulated arguments lacking nuance, and a feeble half-defense of SOPA/PIPA that I didn't expect from the NYT, although I guess I could have known better, being the old gray lady...
There's a good chance their time at the top will be short-lived. Double Fine just posted a proposal to fund an old school point-and-click adventure on Kickstarter.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adv...

At this moment they are at "2,951 BACKERS $156,197 PLEDGED OF $400,000 GOAL 33 DAYS TO GO" and rising very fast.
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A New Tool for Australia's Website Development
Railscasts: Backbone on Rails part 1
Re using the Caps key mapped to Esc. Many people are commenting they never use the Caps Lock key. I'm puzzled since I use it all the time. Do you not capitalise your constants or globals? Or maybe you don't write much C or C++; I'm not sure what the standards are for ruby etc.

Autocomplete helps, but life without a CapsLock would be awkward for me.
"A decent scam"

No question this will happen. Kickstarter hasn't hit the mainstream yet. Once it does the scams will follow in force.

There was a story somewhere about how people don't do kidnappings anymore to get money. One of the reasons is the amount of security cameras out there another was the fact that with the Internet there were much safer and easier ways to make money illegally.
I don't know all the options at our disposal. Maybe prisoner trades? I don't know. I agree the things I listed are too much, which was my point.
I think I misread his last sentence.
Hipster CEO Also Apologizes For Address Book-Gate
This is far from textbook. If this is textbook anything, it is textbook "taking a calculated risk that no copyright holder is going to come after you for infringement". It's a variation on the risk calculation an individual does when downloading copyrighted material. In the case of an individual downloading an MP3, they may (unconsciously) decide that saving $0.99 is net positive versus a $5000 settlement (no better than 1 in 5000 chance that they're going to be discovered and lose). For the NYT, they must figure that whatever ad revenue they gain from the story isn't going to be offset by the expected value of a judgment should some unknown copyright holder emerge and actually assert their rights.

The only difference is the scale.

It didn't seem clear to me that the original newspaper was even going to be able to clearly prove it held the copyright to the material.

But this is not fair use. I'd categorize it as the same kind of benign and beneficial piracy that we all know promotes culture and the arts (just as sampling an MP3 illegally doesn't in fact harm the artist or even the label since it often increases the likelihood of future economic activity benefiting the actual copyright holders.)
> Would you commend a landlord for dismounting a hidden camera in your bathroom? Doubt it.

Woah, woah, nice analogy. Excepting what Path did is even worse. They also retain(ed?) your bathroom activity photos forever and can do what they please with it.
Maybe things are still a little better in US, but I wouldn't go as far as saying there's a dramatic difference. The real difference is that a lot of corrupted acts have been made legal in US, while in other countries they are not.
How Credit Cards works: The algorithm behind the Anatomy of Credit Card Numbers
Meanwhile in Canada, the government is limiting debate on its own copyright legislation. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/02/08/pol-copyright...
Hardly. It's good PR maybe.

Why would I not trust them with my contact info but trust that they actually have deleted it and there are no copies.

Also, these are developers, there are copies, it's a near certainty.
> What you really want is a CMS with a compilation step that outputs static HTML each time something changes. That gives you the flexibility of database-driven CMS with the runtime performance of static HTML.

Did you just define "caching"?
The Myth of the Disconnected Life
Weekend Getaways from Bangalore within 200 km
I think you raise a very good point with "how much value does open source provide", but this question:

"Why is money the sole metric of wealth."

is a) ungrammatical and b) basically a tautology. money is the sole metric of wealth because wealth, quantified, is money.

not trying to detract from the point you raise, just getting a bit OCD about logic and grammar.
"The BarterCast mechanism was designed by
Meulpolderet al. to distinguish free-riders and cooperative peers in ﬁle-sharing environments. After the
ﬁrst release, Seuken et al. [?] proposed an improvement to make it more resilient against misreporting
attacks. Their solution is based on ignoring some
of the feedback reports. Also, this solution could
cut down the severity of the attack, but on the other
hand it increases the feedback sparsity."

Do you have the cite handy for the paper referred to in section 2? I'm curious about the problem of network degradation due to pollution by an adversary whose clones attempt to maximize their reputation so as to isolate non-clones before initiating the attack.
Foxconn Servers Hacked
His energy is just outstanding
>And yes - the current urge is selfish - as you point out it grows out of having taken a freedom - not having worked to be 'granted' anything - and then had that freedom 'revoked'.

I suppose that is accurate as far as it goes, but labeling that "selfish" seems to be a point of view connotation rather than a necessary one. That is to say, whether or not a thing is a right or an overzealous demand is in the eye of the beholder.

And I unequivocally support the right of people to their culture, and I'm part of a world where that culture is increasingly free.

>But the desire to wipe out IP does nothing to put economic power into the hands of creative individuals

_Exactly._ It removes economic concern from the art. No more rock stars selected and groomed by the establishment; instead hard-working touring musicians.

The fear that seems to drive any continuation of copyright seems to be that artists will stop making art. The fear that seems to drive patents is similar; that our engineers will stop building things.

You can never stop humans from constructing beautiful things! It's in our nature!

I as an artist and an engineer _don't want my output to be property._
Good find. They clearly know how to do push and in timing tests push notification is well under a second if done correctly. Apple Push is stupid fast. (probably a good separate post)

I suspect they are using a 3rd party push service and perhaps are trying to save a buck when the app is open. Not sure why they don't just keep a socket open?
This illustrates rather than you should think twice before using a service you do not know much about. You can always make rules and there will always be ways to go around them. Personal responsibility and awareness is what makes the difference in the end. Would you eat just anything given to you if you ignore where it comes from and how it's made?
Amazon: 762 Billion Objects Stored on S3 Cloud
Creating a Private Cloud using Openstack in Ubuntu Maually
perhaps its a form of shorthand

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Ecl...
MIT: The Movie (circa 1992)
This has been a great resource in my learning of Rails. Thanks!
Some simple mnemonics might help you out.

zg g = Good word, add to personal dict
zug Undo Good word.
zw obviously, Wrong word.
...
zo Open
zA open All
zc Close
zj uses the same movement as the j key
zk ditto

Once you have the mnemonics sorted, sometimes you find you can remember the others because they are the ones "left out" of those with mnemonics, like zd doesn't have a mnemonic, so the command left over is "forget fold", so zd is that one. After a while, muscle memory takes over.
Note that the link to the book contains the blog owner's Amazon affiliate referral code, so even if you disagree and click through to Amazon and buy something, he gets a cut. I'd love to see the economic benefit of this post to the author (along with the number of orders of the book the post actually induced).

This is not a moral judgment of linking to products you disavow, just intellectual curiosity about the results of such a counterintuitive marketing approach compared to affirmative recommendations of other popular books.
The stated goal of copyright protection in the United States is to "...promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".

Given Disney's fierce protection of ancient copyrights and attempts to have their length endlessly extended AND the importance Disney places on their old properties... would a shorter copyright term in fact meet this goal better by forcing Disney to produce new characters and new series? There is little "progress" in endlessly hashing out Mickey Mouse, so if he were forced in to the public domain Disney would be forced to create new characters to keep making money.

Disney is just the example I am using to illustrate the point, this train of thought applies to most film studios. Long copyright terms are making it more desirable to keep squeezing your old work over creating something new.
No, its not. You do not kill a person over any of
these... they are shitty crappy company who are
unconcerned about ethical matters of things

You're oversimplifying human behavior. It's not as simple as "bad people do bad things." There are COUNTLESS examples in which large groups of decent people have acted in horrifying, deplorable ways. And our psychologists know enough to reproduce this type of behavior in a lab. Read about the Milgram experiments, in which researchers were able to convince average American citizens to knowingly torture each other for almost no reason.

I am alarmed, you are now equating cheating under
the right circumstances, to planned and intentional
thieving under business as usual.

Circumstances are circumstance, whether we're talking about business or school. In this particular circumstance, you have Path participating in a market where "the police" Apple simply allows this behavior to go on. And where there's tremendous social proof, because everybody else is doing it. And where there is tremendous groupthink, because the only people they consulted with were themselves. And where there was tremendous incentive, because they want their company to be successful. And where they can attempt to rationalize their decision by saying, "Well we won't use the data for anything bad" without any oversight. All the ducks are in a row. It's just the type of perfectly disastrous environment that could entice even the most noble of people to make bad decisions.

irresponsible, irresponsible? What shit are you
smoking chief? I have zero responsibility for their
actions, or the pubic outrage against it, or my own
reaction to crap. Let them rot in hell for all I care.

It's simple: Either you care more about verbally abusing people who behave poorly, or you care more about preventing poor behavior in the future. If you claim to belong to the former group then fine, keep doing what your'e doing. But it never fixed anything in the past, and it won't do so in the future. But if we want to bring about real change, then we're going to have to concentrate on the immoral systems that allow and incentivize bad behavior.
Title a little misleading...
...that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. - Ben Franklin