skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're a YC partner defending this company. You also posted this in another thread, which was your own submission with a linkbait headline to your own blog, which was an obvious advertorial for Survata:

"Survata is a survey-wall -- meaning you have to answer a survey before you see a given article. They have about 20 publishers signed up, and they're all non-spammy content."

Survata is also YC funded.

FYI, all survey walls are "spammy content" and the data from them is garbage. Installer bundles are spammy content. This is all scummy. Please stop funding these types of companies. And please stop with the borderline meatpuppet posts and plugs.
People started believing everything they come across that happens to fit in with a narrative they've accepted.
Check your browser plugins, especially adblock. The background on the comments should be dark grey #ccc. You're probably blocking or rewriting something from Disqus.
Hamed Helped. Help Hamed.
This is one side of the story. I'm not going to form an opinion, and then criticize the US government, weev, or AT&T, without seeing the other side.
Huh, several different scenarios where it was obviously useful immediately occured to me. I suspect that for many people, it is immediately clear!

(I don't typically run postgres locally, but work on open source software, both projects of my own as well as projects of other peoples I contribute to -- which need to support postgres for others. This has been a pain in the past for me. Your service is quite exactly what I need -- to be able to run automated test suites against postgres without needing a local install of postgres.)
Oops, missed that point.
I'm surprised they didn't mention the new Android powered game consoles. Wii U game should be easier to port to these newer, cheaper, simpler devices.
I only wish my in-laws were having that much fun. You nailed the location, though.
Inaugural crowds corralled on the Mall to witness history
More information about the case from ars technica, that supports your story

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/01/goatse-security-trolls-...
You don't need to be a lawyer to have a valid "legal" opinion.

That's true in the same way that a broken clock is right twice a day is true.
China is not naturally terrible, China is just in that kind of shithole phase which any country might get into. It's the wrong direction a civilization evolves into.
Division of the Korean peninsula was as a matter of fact a capitalism vs communism thing. Its a cold war baggage.

North Korea was a proxy for the USSR and South Korea a proxy for the US.

US wants a strong presence in the area given how Chinese are growing on the world scene currently. I am not saying that the Kim family are saints, but US is not present in South Korea for charity work. Everyone in the game is for their interests.
Spend some time on XDA, Rootzwiki or any of the other larger Android forums and you'll find them :). I see them quite often when I read either one and I'm an avid Android user.

Most just don't show their colors until there is a new Apple Product out to rant about. Otherwise, they're quite tame generally and reserved in their behavior. However, talk about Apple and things change pretty quick. Most aren't silly enough to argue the obvious things that Apple has up on Android (battery life in terms of battery capacity and overall system performance/responsiveness). However, there's always a few crazy fanboys that will still fight those things.
eh, this article doesn't paint the whole story.
People that describe themselves as trolls are generally bigoted idiots and I feel no sympathy. I'm sorry if that's a stereotype but I can't help myself, the internet hasn't been nice to me.
Been there — I know that feeling more than I'd like to admit! :) Cheers!
I think it would be more helpful to have the - relatively - insignificant problems remedied one-by-one, rather than just talking.

Being deeply depressed is like having a burden/cloud over your head, you can't think straight because all those issues are just sitting there in the background, blocking normal thoughts.

Once you come out of it, you don't really recognize the depressed individual that was running on auto pilot. That's my take on it anyway.
Chad_oliver is right: the impact is negligible. We wouldn't do it if it would deteriorate the user experience.

There's a lot of great documentation on the systemd site. An exact description of socket activation and its intended use cases is on there as well: this is definitely one of them.
I think that it's a social status thing. I offered to move my in-laws in here, but I think they see multigenerational living as a sort of failure. These sentiments will change, not in time for my children, but hopefully by the time I am a grandparent.
Because it teaches you how not to treat your workers.
Good call. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/01/goatse-security-trolls-...
India Bars ZTE, Huawei, Others From Sensitive Government Projects
Attacks on Convergent Encryption [2008]
The add-ons aren't Heroku, they are 3rd parties.

That being said, they aren't making this policy a secret. Not sure what you have to complain about after the fact.
The problem is that there is little consensus on what the boundaries in digital space should mean. Law makers, not without a certain logic, approach things from the principles of private property. Is changing a public URL considered "conspiracy to access a computer without authorization?" Well why would you do it, intentionally? Would you jiggle my door handle to see if that would unlock it? And if it was a crappy lock and jiggling it did unlock it, would it be unauthorized access to my property if you then walked in the door?

There is a line of thinking in the tech community that accessing data you're not supposed to access is only "bad" if you do something "bad" with it. But in meat space, we enforce fences in their own right, whether or not there is any other criminal activity involved. Arguably, doing so makes the larger problem of ensuring that their isn't associated criminal activity more tractable.

Actually, real world example: over the weekend someone stole my phone out of my (unlocked) car while it was parked in my apartment building's garage. Now, let's say he hadn't stolen the phone. Just rifled through the glove box and center console. No harm no foul, right? Of course not. We presume there is no good reason to be looking through someone else's car, even if you fully intend not to take anything.

Now, that doesn't mean we should treat digital boundaries the same as physical ones, but I don't think it's as obvious as some people in the tech community make it out to be that there shouldn't be penalties (of some sort--the magnitude of such penalties is a whole another debate) for intentionally violating digital boundaries, regardless of how well they are protected.
There are plenty of ways to embarrass people that are legal, and possibly moral. The question is: was this one of them?
By the way, we've been having a hard time attracting Japanese audiences to the past meetups, in part because I'm not very familiar with the Japanese tech ecosystem yet (and not speaking Japanese doesn't help…).

So if any of you Japan HNers have any suggestions to reach more locals (blogs to contact, people to follow on Twitter, etc.) they'd be very welcome!
Harvard professor blasts Web rumor of Neanderthal clone as "poor translation"
ANother rant on "big budgets are killing the industry!". We see this coming every 4-5 years and this never ceases to make me laugh. There's never been as many games sold as now. And of course there will be winners and losers, as always.
There is no indication he wanted to sell it. He wanted to embarrass AT&T, and that isn't a crime. Changing the number in a URL is not identity fraud.

This is exactly the same thing that was thrown at Aaron, even if you don't find the target as sympathetic.

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -Thomas Paine
Attention and time are also being split across a range of devices (esp. tablets, smartphones) -- this may also be having an impact.
It doesn't need to paint the whole story. If the dude committed any overly serious crime, he'd still be in custody right now awaiting sentencing. They don't let you out on bail if you're a serious offender. I'm sure there is more than meets the eye here, but given the the spotlight being shined upon hacking cases like this of late, it's not hard to believe that what this guy says isn't what went down. Andrew was obviously a troll in every sense of the word, reckless and irresponsible but by no means did he have to bypass any security measures to get the email addresses. I would argue it's the equivalent of a bank leaving it's doors unlocked, alarm systems deactivated and lights on and someone walking in and taking money, then the bank complaining they got robbed, but this situation is blown way out of proportion and a metaphor like that would be over the top.

What he did is no different to someone writing a script that scours the web looking for email addresses (a tactic spammers have used and gotten away with for years), except no trickery was required to get the addresses AT&T were handing them over unknowingly without recourse. This can't even be considered a hack, more of an exploit if anything.

The stupidity of wanting to embarrass was no doubt a really stupid move to make, but definitely not some security defying hack. People shouldn't be jailed for acting like idiots, AT&T should be the ones being scalded for allowing this to happen in the first place. A company has a responsibility to keep customer data safe, AT&T should be no exception to that rule.
For example if I believe a doctor is acting unethically is it wrong for me to call him out because I don't have a medical license?

No it doesn't mean that. What it means is that you, as a non-doctor, should excercise some discretion and humility wen choosing your words. Expressing harsh condemnation and judgment when you have a small piece of the picture is an unbelievable asshole move. None of these Tough Guys throwing around words like "crapware" and "spammer" would ever call anyone out like this in public, I guarantee it -- it's all keyboard courage and nerdrage.

This seems to be largely because they appear as a company that has strong driving principles about the sort of changes they want to see in the world.

IMO it's more due to the fact that YC asks for nerds to come as they are -- the entry process asks you how you're a hacker, and if you're selected you get an interview where pg wants you to geek out with him about your product. No flashy pitches or navigating social networks to get the right intro -- it's a process that cuts out all the BS that doesn't appeal to nerds.

The idea that there is some violated goodwill is just backwards rationalization. And it doesn't change my point, which is, essentially: who are you to question where YC invests?
I have "pain is temporary" tattooed on my inner thigh to serve exactly this purpose. Unfortunately, when you're depressed the tattoo seems stupid.

PS: This might be because it's a stupid tattoo to begin with.
There's NO difference between Adam Lanza & You
Parsley.js - Javascript forms validation
Well that's trivially falsifiable.
I've thought about this a lot, but I haven't found any sure-fire way to pierce through the depressed mentality.

In the depressed mentality, you are 100% sure of your convictions. That's why you know that life isn't worth living. Anyone telling you things counter to your ideas is either lying or deluded or just plain naive. SSRIs are nothing more than "happy pills" that cloud your judgment and turn you into a stranger to yourself; basically lies in pill form.

Depression in full flower is an air-tight system that allows nothing contrary in, roughly equivalent to being in a cult, so cracking through the armor is difficult, indeed! The only way I can think of that could work (other than the person figuring it out for themselves) is to (a) be known and respected by them, (b) have experience with severe depression yourself so that they know you've been there, and (c) keep gently pushing them forward after the initial bluntness. Just getting a depressed person to see a shrink would be a huge accomplishment. Getting them to stay on SSRIs is another huge accomplishment (I haven't helped anyone with the first, but I have kept a friend going with the second).

For me personally, I keep mental snapshots of my baseline emotional state so that I have something to compare against. It's a kind of early warning system for when I'm falling so I can catch myself. Just realizing that my current sadness is of a purely chemical cause helps me get out of it sooner (within hours rather than days or even weeks). There are, of course, times of honest, real sadness, like anyone else gets, but they have a different feel. I can't explain the difference, but I can recognize it.
Yeah but prison time, followed by secret service, not allowed to use computers, not allowed to take jobs... for what, compiling a list of email addresses that an public API was happily returning to him? Despite his questionable handling of the situation, I don't support that kind of draconian punishment.
That does not appear to be true. From the Ars Technica article on the case:

"Auernheimer then helped Spitler refine his script to harvest a large number of valid e-mail addresses of iPad 3G users, suggesting that a huge data set would be needed to "direct market iPad accessories" or start a "future massive phishing operation," noting that the data breach would be "huge media news."
Sergey Brin Dons Google Glass in NYC Subway
Wow. This is much worse than I thought. I'm glad there's no conceivable scenario in which this could lead him to be extradited to the USA, like Marc Emery was. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Emery
Well, I guess we can both agree that in the end, as usual, it all comes down to quaternions. ;-)
I could have. I'm on one of the mailing lists he founded and I followed both prosecutions of him.
Laws take into account indent (mens rea)

That should be "intent", fyi. Legal code is not nearly as whitespace-sensitive as is Python.
>Unauthorized access is unauthorized access.

Do you not comprehend that you've just restated the despicable fallacy that overzealous prosecutors use to rationalize their behavior?

Stealing is stealing, so stealing a tic tac = stealing a cargo ship. Breaking the law is breaking the law, so jaywalking = mass murder.

No, they're not the same. They're comprehensively, fundamentally, entirely different.
Seriously? That you actually believe his punishment fits the crime is incredibly saddening. If even the top voted comment on a site that understands the issue believes the punishment is appropriate, imagine the discussion in a law firm or in parliament. Anybody in the USA touching a computer will be in trouble soon. Can't wait for the next batch of laws.
Unless there is an actual diagnosis of depression, then it may not be. In any event, you are not qualified to treat it.

You can however, listen. Quietly. If you are asked for help, ask if she wants to see a professional. Offer to go with her.

Then shut up again and listen. Quietly. Don't try to fix it. You are not qualified.
It would make for a great new feature to be announced, say... at the beginning of April. :)
As someone that has had a sibling take her own life, and another that has had suicidal thoughts frequently, this article was extremely helpful in seeing the cognitive layers beyond the emotional layers. Pretty eye-opening. I wonder if the cognitive destruction would prevent a person from even realizing they're experiencing cognitive destruction (eg, after reading an article like this)?
Whether they're bigoted or idiotic shouldn't affect how the law affects them, though. If the person committing this crime was a nice, inoffensive guy, would the law remain justified?
I'm not sure if it's a white people thing specifically, at least other than locally and recently. Maybe more of a "recent American society" thing.

Certainly when I was a kid I was usually watched by my grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, and so on. Only very rarely was I watched by sitters.

Part of it is modern mobility. Parents may live thousands of miles away from the grandparents, and elders are working in their own careers longer nowadays.
A person I respect likes the author's writings, so I've read his technical posts before. Unfortunately, turns out respect isn't transitive (even on the technical level).
Futureict - a Matrix / World on Wire precursor
That is a joke. He is a troll. He makes satire videos and makes statements like that left and right. His security company was called "goatse security" and it was an ASCII picture of an anus.

This might be offensive, juvenile, or unfunny, but it's nothing remotely close to criminal. The feds took a private IRC log out of context and pasted it into the indictment.

This is not what the prison system exists for, and we are all worse off for using it this way.
Access Modes in JPA2
CoffeeScript Has the Ideal Syntax for Configurations
As long as the court of public opinion is in session here, who is this guy? What other good/bad stuff has he done, outside this case?
I have immense respect for and look up to anybody who can do something as complex and low level as DB kernel development (mem management, persistence/file system, caching), especially with the long list of features you have to support to make the DB desirable/useful (ACID transactions, connectors).

I also hope DB implementers know how to get acquired by big, companies, because I don't see how they can really compete with these big legacy companies that have been developing their core DB's for decades and have an army of support/sales to back it up. Not to mention, where's the safety and accountability with mission critical data with a new product versus say DB2 or oracle? Maybe the new DB is a better implementation/more fault tolerant, but there's no big corporation to blame if something goes wrong, rather a small company you gambled on.
Seems to me the real problem is you spend 50 for a bigger DB instead of 35 for a dyno. If you got no traffic why do you need so much db cache especially in addition to memcache. You can easily fix that with pgbackups and import into a basic db.
Usually the author (that posted it on Dribbble) will have a description of how he likes the PSD to be used - ie: Not for redistribution or doesn't want to see it used and reposted on Dribbble etc.

Safest bet - contact the author directly and clarify. You can find their contact info through Dribbble.

Personally when I find resources I'd like to use (mainly non print, commercially), I contact the authors directly and offer to buy a license. Everyone's pretty open and friendly.
Does she have health insurance? If so, have her talk to her PCP about antidepressants. You can be the best spouse in the world, but sometimes you're fighting a chemical equation that will render your best efforts in vain. (It's not your fault!) I know there's a lot of stigma around antidepressants, but I was chronically suicidal for years and finally having access to health care (and antidepressants) was literally the only thing that made a significant change and finally stopped a rather overwhelming amount of constant suffering. Offer to go with her if she's feeling anxious about a doctor visit. (You didn't mention if she had anxiety problems, but depression and anxiety often occur together.)
The internet was created by "hackers" and is kept running by "hackers". The only way to make the internet more secure is through "hackers".

Government, and the laws that are drafted, will not make the internet more secure. My general feeling is that laws against hacking will only result in a less secure internet. This, in turn, will lead to more laws against hacking. And so on...
If the review process was blind and the proposals were evaluated on their merits alone then in the selection process would have removed the author's demographic as a discriminating factor. The sample itself would likely be skewed (as in the discussed example), but as long as the speakers gave interesting, relevant presentations I don't see the issue.

I'll agree that there was obvious discrimination in who she personally sought out as speakers, but when it came time to select speakers for the event she didn't turn men away for being men or select women because they were women. She didn't sacrifice the quality of her conference to showcase women speakers, and each candidate that did apply had a fair shot as becoming a speaker. Personally, as it was her conference I don't see a problem with her seeking out the people she wanted to hear from for submissions; it appears it was discrimination based on the quality of the submissions that was the deciding factor, and for me that's what really matters.
One time, I indented my code with five spaces instead of four.

I did this because I despised Guido van Rossum, whom I think is unjustly beardy[1], and wanted to embarass him.

I was convicted of two consecutive five-year felonies, and am now awaiting sentencing.

[1] https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14204175/screencaps/AwesomeRossum.j...
weev still thinks that AT&T 'published' this information.
AT&T had no intention on 'publishing' this information, he abused their system in order to obtain it, then he leaked it.

No weev, you found a bug in their web app, then _YOU_ willfully published other peoples personally identifying information for your own fame and glory.
Unfortunately, someone who's name and details you leaked didn't like that, and called in a favor. The DoJ came after you hard.

Your little tech crunch article chooses to omit crucial facts, and you are riding on the back of AAron Swartz again. You are nothing like AAron.
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I think economics will prevent the industry from going out of business by spending too much, but the more visible effect of the high budgets is similar to what we see from Hollywood -- total fear of risk resulting in tepid sequels, remakes, and lowest-common-denominator titles. If the market gets disgusted enough to stop buying Call of Duty 29 (Reskinned) we could have another 1983 on our hands, but I don't quite see that coming, yet.
Encrypt a single message
1. In the message, on the Message tab, in the Options group on the ribbon, click the Encrypt Message Contents and Attachments button
Note If you don't see this button, click the Options Dialog Box Launcher in the lower right corner of the group to open the Message Options dialog box. Click the Security Settings button and in the Security Properties dialog box, select Encrypt message contents and attachments. Click OK and then close the Message Options dialog box.
2. Compose your message and send it.

Encrypt all outgoing messages
Choosing to encrypt all outgoing messages means, in effect, your e-mail is encrypted by default. You can write and send messages the same as with any other e-mail messages, but all potential recipients must have your digital ID to decode your messages.
1. On the Tools menu, click Trust Center, and then click E-mail Security.
2. Under Encrypted e-mail, select the Encrypt contents and attachments for outgoing messages check box.
3. To change additional settings, such as choosing a specific certificate to use, click Settings.
4. Click OK twice.
Note3DES is the default encryption algorithm used in Outlook 2007. For more information, see the Overview of certificates and cryptographic e-mail messaging in Outlook.
How short are you each month? Would part-time consulting cover it?
Things you need to know before working at a start-up
Try west London, particularly Hounslow. Plenty of south Indian cuisine and at very reasonable prices.
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