skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In order to get access to your server they need to circumvent the anonymity that tor provides.

Not necessarily, the CP sites were hacked using PHP vulnerabilities or something similar, not to mention your hosting provider could just get interested in your network activity for whatever reason.

> This is completely tangential, but can you point me to the Tor investigations?

Nothing I have bookmarked, sorry.
This should be brought to public attention but the public don't want to have to download 2.8 gb of data and filter through it. Someone has to do that first and make it easily digestible, highlighting the worst or most 'dangerous' emails.
And if it's anything like the online book components I remember from college, calling it an "investment" is a stretch. (Because that implies that you're getting some value from it.)
Nice work. Name definitely needs to be changed (sounds like little shits as someone else mentioned). I think the value prop needs to be better. I read the site and I'm still not sure what I'm getting or why I need it.

best of luck
Having just gone through the process, I would completely agree with the advice here. We are really pleased with our logo from an eLance designer (www.crowdshelf.com), but it lacks an independent graphic, which I quickly realized was something that would be really useful for stuff like favicons, Twitter and Facebook pages, etc.
hmnn indeed looks better. Updated. Thanks.
Launched http://Pumpups.com in under 3 weeks. Have paying customers and work directly with brands.
buchladen = bookstore
Just use keepass. If you're already carrying around a password file, you can carry around portable binaries of the program that reads your passwords.

www.keepass.info
> and it's a bit low to go after the other side's private emails.

I think that calling them "private" is a bit misleading here. As far as I can see, they all seem to be about Scientology business / logistics. That by itself obviously does not excuse leaking them, but (again, as far as I can see) the emails do not contain much personal information.

> It'd be much easier to fight/debate against their public image, which is easy enough, without having to resort to intrusive attacks.

I would probably agree with you if this was about any other organisation, but the CoS has a long, long history of suppressing information about them by any means, both legally and illegally. People who leave the church are routinely harassed and threatened to prevent them from talking about it. Judging from the past, they also do a lot of dirty business that, in my opinion, needs be be widely known.

Considering this, I think this might be a good thing. At the very least, I find it hard to blame the person leaking this.

> We have the warrant system in the states for a reason, and if this were to happen in court the evidence would just get tossed right out.

Even though US law probably doesn't apply here, you're almost certainly right about the legality of this. But, honestly, I'm not sure why we should care, we're not the part of the Austrian judicial system. I'm still somewhat ambivalent about the ethical status of this, but I think we should not conflate legality and morality here.
Yes, but the point was that haXe is not a game engine.
Another key here is breaking down the specs. If you're clear in your communication, you can get good work. But being 100% clear with exactly what you want the finished product to look like is critical.
I'm sorry you're unhappy with the change. We spent quite a while considering this, and it's the best solution we could come up with for the safety of our users. As has already been mentioned, it's still very easy to install extensions. It's just a few extra steps per install, or some additional configuration by the user or administrator. However, we're always open to better proposals.

As for how the WebStore is handled, the story you linked to seems to show a positive resolution. The extension was improperly flagged, but the developer appealed and his extension was quickly re-listed.
> in spite of long experience telling me it will most likely not be appreciated.

Much appreciated. My approach to conversations is "hurt me with the truth, never comfort me with lies; tell me all you can, I'll filter it myself".

> I have a long history of being cold natured (including an abnormally low temp when not feverish),

I do too, actually - that's another thing no "expert" I consulted had anything to comment on (or has even shown interest in), even though this is surely an important marker.

> If you wanted my advice, which you most likely don't, I would suggest you get tested for Atypical CF if you haven't been previously and look into the possibility of metal poisoning as a factor.

I do want your advice. A quick google, however, did not find a reasonable reference for atypical CF, and since I don't have a sufficiently open minded doctor, I don't think that would work -- could you give more references about the definitions, what tests are involved, and if one can do them privately?

> Peace. And thanks for contributing to the conversation.

Thank you. And good luck!
A developer can talk to a developer.

Most of the failed outsource attempts I know of are one way or another due to non-technical team members attempting to lead technical teams. That a developer could lead another developer, or team of developers, down the right path sooner, more efficiently, and for a longer duration, makes perfect sense. In practice, it's worked brilliantly for the teams I've worked with.

Even still, it takes a special kind of developer to successfully outsource development work. It's not sufficient to simply push work over a wall and accept whatever comes back. Things like well defined requirements, frequent code reviews, detailed mockups, and clearly stated user stories are critical, b/c when you outsource work, the default regresses from what you'd normally expect to substandard work.

But, that's not always due to the outsourced team. Often times its on the hiring party to identify what they need to do better. Great results start with great teams, and part of being a great team is understanding that accountability for the overall result flows both ways.
the small cost that you are passing on to everyone else that buys from Amazon by making them handle the return.

That's not really how pricing works. A retailer sets the price that maximizes their revenue, not based on their costs. If jason_shah stopped doing that it'd probably just mean a (very small) increase in their profit margin.

If everyone shopped at Amazon this way, they wouldn't be able to sell their goods as cheaply as they do.

That wouldn't be very smart off them. I think it's more probable that they would just limit the conditions of returns.
I think accounts payable is the term you were looking for.

Here's a link to Wikipedia for the term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounts_payable
To expand on what phillmv said a bit, printing money generally tends to increase inflation. I say tends to, because there are a lot of factors that change that. For instance, in 2008 when most people though we were facing a more supply driven recession with a possible spike in inflation[1] but the Fed wanted to put a lot of money into banks. What they did was institute a policy called Interest on Reserves, where they would pay banks to sit on the money they were giving them and not lend it out. This policy worked remarkably well at what it was intended to do, and the US money supply increased by a huge amount even while the country was suffering from deflation. Whether it worked in light of what was actually needed is another story.

Another big complication in the relationship between printing money and inflation is expectations. If the Fed gave everyone in the US $1000 but said that anyone who didn't return it in a month would go to jail, then inflation would go up very little because most people would save the money. Conversely, if people were absolutely convinced they were going to get $1000 in a month inflation would go up a bit right now as people made purchases in expectation of their future windfall.

This makes printing money as a way to finance the government very dangerous, though. If the government is printing money to finance its spending, people know the money is going to keep coming into the economy, so prices go up even in advance of the money arriving. But this inflation forces the government to print even more to match the increased prices, and you've got a positive feedback loop and then you get hyper-inflation. Which really sucks for the economy. So though you want a central bank that can print money to do macro-stabilisation, you don't want to have the people in charge of the budget able to print money to make ends meet.

[1] The governments numbers on inflation take months to calculate, inflation was already crashing at this point but the Fed Open Market Commission didn't know it.
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Says the man posting via the nerd-only Google+ platform.
Does repeating a statement as "Piracy is not stealing" make it true? Does echo-chambering the meme "Artists just ask for this" make it true after enough mindless repetition here and elsewhere?

Why would any content creator (except, of course, producers of software, they laugh at you from their SaaS cloud) want to create anything if a pompous and self-righteous "respecting" in quotes is the spit in the face?

Or could you care less? If so, why do you consider payment-or-not-download not an option? (hint: "because I can" was already answered but not considered satisfactory)
Journalists should do that. But I have the feeling they are happy with youtube videos nowadays.
Very interesting. I would work on your spelling throughout the site...
FIne, but claiming the story I linked to about a company that sells private submarines is false, without any evidence, is just an arbitrary assertion, and should be dismissed. As should all arbitrary assertions. I guess I should have just said that.
Exactly. The comment at the end "Now imagine there are hundreds of other entrants, even further decreasing your odds" makes no sense. Those hundreds (actually, more like you said: tens of thousands) of other entrants make the negative effect of inviting your own friends negligible.

Example: let's assume there 10,000 entrants including you, maintain the assumption that "a new person will sign up each day based on your initial invitation", and give it 30 days. Therefore, you only get 1 extra entry and 30 of your extended friends have signed up (each getting an extra entry except the last). Your chances have gone from:

1/10,000

to

2/(10,000+30+29)

You've increased your odds by 98.8%! And you could do even better by waiting until right before the contest deadline and inviting as many people as possible.

The break even point is ridiculously low too: only 60 entrants under these assumptions. So even with just "hundreds of other entrants", you should share.

Keep looking for that science, bro.
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I don't want my extension on the Chrome webstore discoverable by the whole world. Extra steps will lower my conversion rate tremendously given how non-technical my users are.
I can help out. http://masswerks.com is me.
Maybe someone will parse the emails and have a detector that will find the ones written in English.
Alternatively, if you are not using Rails but are still using Ruby, then you can use OpenSSL::HMAC.
Exactly. Too focused on having a unified IM network for the desktop web. Facebook chat took over desktop web chat. Whatsapp took over mobile app chat. And Meebo got into toolbars and sharing widgets. Their lack of product focus and subsequent sale reminds me a lot of Loopt.
I certainly can't fault them for not laying out in detail what the new security systems in place at LinkedIn are. Only a few companies would.

Generally, I feel sad for LinkedIn, not outraged.

I would strongly dispute the words "open" and "transparent" in Hoffman's statement, though.

I think you could do a pretty good case study on how not to do security crisis PR from what happened last week. But the only parties really harmed by bad crisis PR are LinkedIn investors.
It is absolutely not "still very easy to install extensions" outside of the webstore. If it were then how would this be a solution at all? The reason you're calling it a solution is because you're making it so much harder that it will happen far less frequently.
Use the happiness advantage
To your first statement: yes, strong agree. The fact that usernames weren't paired with passwords in the leaked dump should be cold comfort.
I think you've parsed that sentence incorrectly. The issue is that some sites are selling "likes" on Facebook -- e.g, you pay them $X and a site of your choice gets some large number of FB likes driven its way. The way many of these sites probably operate is presumably by way of a a bunch of Facebook users with malicious Chrome extensions.
Poll: when's the last time you logged in to MSN/AOL/Yahoo Messenger?
Good stuff!

I just added two new places (Niagara Falls and Yosemite Falls). I'm hoping for this to catch on, that way It can help me plan my US-West_Coast trip in a few months :D
It troubles me a tiny bit to see comments on HN like (paraphrased) "Members of [group that has different religious beliefs than me] are evil."

I am not defending religion or Scientology.
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I think a key difference between FB and MySpace is that FB has my parents, pretty much all my relatives, and all of my friends. MySpace had early internet adopters, which were maybe less than 5-10% of my friends?

For me, it is MUCH harder to leave FB now than it was to forget MySpace ever existed.

I realize though, that some of the HN crowd is completely uninterested in communication through FB, which is ok. HN is really the only place where I have seen people say they have left FB 100% and have no regrets about it. I have to bet that the rest of the world that is already invested on FB will find it much harder to abandon people whose main line of communication is through FB.

If I leave FB, I lose touch with good friends that live far from me (and therefore I do not see often IRL), and vast majority of my family's activities (and them getting fat, telling a joke, expressing a stupid opinion, and so on).
This is illegal, plain and simple.

Who cares? The question is whether it's wrong.
Which proves what?
Facebook began gaining more traction in Japan once they setup a special office in Tokyo and let them make tweaks to the product only for the Japanese market - AFAIK, this was a unique case for them at the time, and they didn't do anything besides basic localization (which they crowdsourced...) for other nations. One of the things they did to show that they understood Japanese culture was to add a blood-type field to user profiles, a superstitious statistic that's nevertheless prevalent there. Before that, it felt too foreign.

Anecdotal but I've had many more of my Japanese and Korean friends abroad join Facebook in the last year or two.
A few points (with no overarching narrative):

- China's construction industry is a force unto itself - important economically and a huge employer. Its hard to say 'stop'.

- As it said in the OP - property seems the simplest way to invest money. After all, can prices go down when they are already so low compared to the west?

- In the west we built in the 1960s at (what seemed then) a ridiculous pace, with new building typologies that were often terribly designed. Like us, they will be living with (or in) the consequences for the next 50 years.

- Various levels of govt are already trying to put the brakes on the worse kinds of speculative development, with some success. Aside from the already clear examples of 'bad investment' (like the ones you point out) - the brakes are already coming from other directions too.
This is a MUCH WORSE IDEA. Don't do this. Even this Python wrapper library does a better job providing HMAC services to users than OpenSSL's HMAC primitive does. Leave OpenSSL:* to the suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H crypto library implementors.
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Have a look at the FDA Guidance for pre-market solutions, they categorise device into 3 levels, major, moderate and minor.

The minor level is for software that is unlikely that serious injury or death will result from the software:

http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidanc...
Shipping packages is actually pretty environmentally friendly. The alternative would have been to drive a 2000 lb vehicle a couple of miles to pick up a 1 lb garment bag, making 0.05% of the total weight the payload. The other 99.95% of the fuel is going towards moving deadweight back and forth.

Shipping usually aims to hit anywhere from 10 - 90% payload, greatly increasing the efficiency by which carbon is used.

I did some rough back-of-the-envelope calculations a while back that showed driving to the grocery store used roughly as much carbon as shipping everything you were buying from New Zealand.
I worked for Amazon, and focusing on the customer experience is something that permeates its culture (at least in fulfillment).

It's not even just having good customer service/returns, ensuring the best customer service even permeated through our code.
And it doesn't see control modifiers when used through Lion OSX screen sharing (seems a lot like this bug: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/180 ).
Why I chose C++ for my product.
You're not an IT guy, but you are a programmer, and you know that leaving a vulnerability in your code, hoping the devops team catches attempts to exploit it, is a fucking retarded idea. I think you're just trolling.
"Never trust the client" is, like "always validate input", one of those timeless bits of security strategy that is worth pretty much nothing in the real world. It's about as useful as "pretty much you should always make sure you're secure, pretty much."
I would day almost every religion has dirty secrets, because with power over people comes evil actions. Scientology in particular has a bad reputation of engaging in particularly dubious activity though, as even a cursory inspection of their history will reveal.
thanks, they are awesome places ;)
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> They also seem to be using quite a lot of jargon

First time reading CoS material? Anything in particular? LRH was an american so it is not surprising that the domain specific jargon is english...
So...what would be needed to see native Haskell iOS apps? :)
Thanks for checking. Sadly the bookmarks always go missing...
As I've explained to others, this was a considered decision taken to protect our users. I don't claim that the WebStore is immune from malicious extensions, but all our data very clearly showed off-store extensions to be the major vector by a very large margin.

I don't think this marginal increase in friction for off-store installs is a bad compromise. However, if you have a better suggestion, I'd be happy to hear it. Also, I'd ask that you report the WebStore extension you believed to be malicious, in the interest of protecting other users.
I think the underlying message here is that Scientology is a lot more interesting to you than it is to me! Honestly, I care about global warming a lot more and yet I didn't take much time to sift through the "Climategate" emails in detail[1]. I also care about Linux security, and yet I've not done an audit of the kernel I'm currently running. I also care about the federal tax code, and have certainly not taken the time to analyze it for inconsistencies and unfairness.

Would you say that these decisions are "counter to the spirit of HN"?

Of course, Paul Graham started HN mainly to have intelligent, on topic discussions about technology and startup issues. And in that sense, apart from my aside about "data scoops", I am probably posting contrary to the spirit of HN, since the bulk of this message and the one before it are just simple opinion expression, rather than anything more susbtantive. Heck, now that I think about it I'm tempted to delete them both!

[1]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_... And for the record, those emails are pretty disgusting and I'm surprised and disappointed at the reaction.
I might have to start throwing in a non-dictionary word here and there .. "Don't touch the Snorlax after 4:45" .. "The Grue desires my 25th Triforce" ..
Blueprint - https://blueprint.io - platform for developing native iOS apps without writing any code (order of magnitude less time spent on development, rapid iteration by non-developers possible, able to generate any app at runtime).

Actually interviewed at YC but they declined to fund me cause of competition from Apple and Google (see Apple's recent patents and Google's forway into codeless dev - I was actually suspicious if Apple took some of my innovations). I decided to put it on ice and pursue one of my old EE projects which is actually more important to me.

Nowadays I'm working with Pair (http://trypair.com) and do have a few firms interested in acquiring blueprint, so might actually be able to pass the torch and get something out of it to fund my next ventures. For that matter, anyone interested in learning more can email me at paul@blueprint.io.
Very yes. It troubles me more than a tiny bit.

What does this have to do with HN? We'd flag off posts about Scientology as irrelevant. So basically, this is at the top of the page as a celebration of hacking organizations nerds don't like. It's how we nerds do bullying.

And I think Scientology is probably a criminal organization.
unfortunately yes, probably not so many people in tech industries but I have definitely seen it done.
Oh, well then, to hell with the rule of law.
That's the spirit;) Most of the marketing material that I have seen is in English. But that is just based off skimming the attachments

Extracting the MIME attachments is pretty straight forward:

ls *.txt |xargs -n1 munpack
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Of course what's even more efficient is shipping to a network of distribution centers which are in walking distance for most people, reachable by mass transit by others and reachable during trips that would have happened anyway for the rest.
Tell you what, you sift through the data and let me know what you find via email!
Agreed. I think that is the strongest point about designing a logo. I just finished creating a new one and having an "icon" is incredibly helpful. Favicons, iphone apps, social media pages, etc.. can all be branded much easier.
It's difficult to comparison-shop for features; Amazon reviews are now the definitive source of consumer opinion, but you have to sort of agglomerate your own set of W-X, X-Y, Y-Z and X-Z comparisons to see why people chose one over the other (and account for the fact that all four of those reviews were on models that have since been replaced).
Scientology is not regarded a religion everywhere. In Germany it is considered a cult instead and it is even on a government watchlist. As students we were warned about it in school.

EDIT: I was just looking at Scientology's (English) Wikipedia page and came across this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scientology_warning_leafle... . I though it would illustrate my point. Those are three government-issued leaflets with the title "Protect Our Democracy". One is on organized crime, one on Islamic terrorism and one on Scientology.