skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my experience with the Australian Computer Society.

Having studied abroad (Ireland), I was required to send in all of my exam results for my B.Sc, H.Dip & M.Sc. as well as a reference from each employer that I worked with in my field (Software Engineering).

For the visa I was applying for at the time it required that I was certified by the ACS, have a minimum of 5 years experience.

The process took 6 months for a single sheet of paper saying I was qualified for my profession! Due to this, my visa was submitted quite a while later than I initially planned and that took a further 12 months. 18 months all up waiting for my residency.

They took $600 for what was an open and shut case. They never contacted any of my references or colleges enquiring about my past experience or grades. The whole thing is a complete sham and is just another way of grabbing money off those who need visas.

The entire visa system in Australia is in bad need of restructuring and left a very sour taste in my mouth.
I don't think they circumvented Tor. The police tracked him via mail deliveries, then just seized all his computers and mobile phones to get evidence.
New Research Shows Complexity of Global Warming
> As for the phrase "conspiracy theory", the implication of that phrase is that conspiracies don't exist.

Exactly this. Or that all theories are not worth our time, since they are just that, "just a theory" (implying there is no proof?), like creationists (of which, America is filled with) like to say.
Solve a real fucking problem
I think it's about being totally comfortable with yourself and your existence, and being able to define your goals and ambitions, and separate them from the distractions.

We're all vain creatures, selfish, we have vices, we get offended, we seek acceptance, we hurt other people, we make excuses, we disappoint, and we never know what we want. We're often not fully present, distracted by dozens of things in the back of ones mind but not doing anything about it other than worrying, and pulled in many directions, unsure of how to proceed, left with high speed but low velocity. So I think that self actualization is being fully in control of yourself.

It's hard to describe. I was on a long bike ride in the country when I first experienced a glimpse of this. I'd biked maybe 80 miles, alone, winding road, no cars, empty mind, wind, time becomes irrelevant or just another dimension, and a singular purpose for that moment.
The problem is that they can print money if they are released before their competition, but we don't know when the competition will ship. (In retrospect we can see that Avalon batch 1 shipped before BFL, but there was no way to know that ahead of time and batch 2 is still unknown.) So I can understand why outside investors would refuse to touch it and why the Avalon developers might have decided to reduce their risk.
> I can see taxing purchases according to the sales tax rates of the buyer's state.

i would prefer to see tax rate set at the "seller" country, not the buyer's. I hate regional pricing. Setting tax rate for the "seller" instead would mean that countries (or states?) have to compete on taxes, which will force gov't to better utilize resources instead of adding taxes for inefficiencies.
RubyGems.org hacked, interrupting Heroku services
Angry dinosaurs and accelerating change & Institutional incompetence
I was going to get mihir.io, but it was bought already, so I took a chance....

Best part? The guy who bought mihir.io has been parking it for the past four months.
> On top of this, they built a massively central system that is widely trusted with no means of code verification whatsoever.

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/master/History.txt

0.8.11 / 2005-07-13: Added Paul Duncan's gem signing patch.

They've had a mechanism for code signing for 8 years. Yes, they could require signing of all gems on the site, but the ability has been there for a long time.
Arab spring has kind of taught us that things aren't as simple as: "Break status quo and things get better".

I don't think that anyone needed to be taught that. I doubt that we will be able to judge whether the Arab Spring was a success for another ten or twenty years- the immediate aftermath of revolution is always deeply messy.

Not to mention that 'better' is entirely subjective anyway, of course. There are plenty of older Russians that miss the Soviet days, believe it or not.
Thanks for that, I'll change the article title.

I was going off this Ars article which made it seem as though the Australian cops were quite suggestive, but you're probably right.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/australian-cops-t...
Some of them you can tell are drawings, but http://diegokoi.deviantart.com/gallery/25937209#/d5hk8nb looks really good.
Hi. This is Michael (Submittable). I've been on a plane today. Just seeing this. But this answer is spot on. We came from a publishing background where publishers have an over-supply of content-see Clay Shirky's Congnitive Surplus for more on this- and they needed a simple way to accept and curate incoming work. Submittable was originally a tool for that, but has since branched out to accept and curate any kind of digital object: manuscripts, film, audio, images, links, applications, resumes, anything coming in that needs to be reviewed and acted on.
Yes, some corporate proxies and mobile phone networks will block .xxx by default.
Could not disagree more.

Hell, I wish they'd hellban question-mark titles.
Out of curiosity, what title did you originally submit? I noticed your submission was this URL, and the changed title matches the submission's actual title.

http://superuser.com/questions/367490/can-a-32-bit-os-machin...
What Chinese newspaper competes with the New York Times, in any meaningful sense? Given that media inside China is heavily censored, and Chinese newspapers publish in a language the vast majority of the US cannot read?
Submitted. Thanks!
> and/or to discourage them from sending company-owned code outside their corporate network?

> More the latter

Sooooooo I guess employees have to resort to the old "micro SD card in your shoe" technique...

Or just use a tunneling proxy.
Who's hiring? 
Anyone hiring? I am a developer from India and wishing to move to the US.
Don’t cold call me, Bro
The executive editor of the Times says “Computer security experts found no evidence that sensitive e-mails or files from the reporting of our articles about the Wen family were accessed, downloaded or copied"... but referring to their forensics they say that the attackers "search[ed] for and grab[bed] Mr. Barboza’s and Mr. Yardley’s e-mails and documents from a Times e-mail server" after cracking their password hashes.

So which is it? Did they download gigs and gigs of mail, but not the ones they were looking for? Or is "found no evidence" doublespeak for "we're pretty sure they got what they were looking for, but the logs had already rolled over on that system, so we have no evidence that they did". Based on the rough timeline presented, this was after they were known, so it may have been their honey-pot server, but the tone of the article suggests that they were not honey-potting them and simply monitoring their progress as they slowly stomped their way through their live network. This begs the question... if they were really monitoring the attackers for months, including watching them grab Barboza and Yardley's e-mails, what are we to make of the PR statement that no relevant or sensitive e-mails were obtained?
*Crackers.
When Apple released the Pippin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin) they didn't have a reputation for being a game platform.

Now, some upteen million iOS devices sold later and billions paid out to developers of which a good chunk relates directly to games, Apple's the big dog. It's quite a flip from years past.

A beefed up AppleTV-like device with a decent controller would be a formidable contender. The iPad 4 when plugged into a TV over HDMI is already an impressive console by current generation standards. A device without the limitations of battery power could push that significantly further.
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The problem is this is the professional body that determines what we teach in universities, that promotes the technology industry as a whole and who decides who we let into the country on a skilled visa.
The guidelines of Hacker News

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

were actually edited to the current version quite recently, after an earlier discussion of this issue. The current guideline language is, among other details about titles,

"
. . . .

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

That plainly says that original titles are preferred.

The guidelines also say, "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." So blogspam is plainly disfavored. Personally, I think that it is a rare blog that has many posts worth submitting here, and I'm always on the lookout for better sources from which to submit articles.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4624933

By the way, as a rhetorical matter, I'm surprised after reading through all the other comments before posting mine that I don't see a lot of examples of before-and-after titles to see if the submitters who don't like the curators preserving original article titles (or shortening original article titles in a way different from the submitter) are really coming up with titles that are much better than the original article titles. What are the most important recent examples you have in mind?

My own experience on HN is that when I see a cool article from a good source, and I submit it with the original, professionally crafted title, I sometimes submit an article that was earlier submitted by someone else, and sank into oblivion because it was retitled in some way that made the article look dumb. Few participants on HN have much professional experience in headline writing, and I'd rather have most submissions be submitted with their original titles based on my observations. (If you have convincing counterexamples, that is examples of HN-user-made titles that were really good and more helpful than original article titles, I'd be glad to consider those examples.)
That's not nasty, it's frank and polite.
The File API is still kind of poorly supported, but you could add that depending on your browser (though you'd want to use an extension, since it'd be a bit more code).

As for live-editing HTML, that's usually been considered out of scope for a web browser, and been pushed to authoring or debugging programs. Chrome ships with their developer console integrated, but IIRC Firefox still relies on extensions.
No IT employer in Australia that I've communicated with has ever mentioned the
ACS in regards to qualifications, not once -- I would be surprised if any even
know it exists

Same - I've been working as a software engineer in Australia for almost five years now, had never heard of them!
When all else fails, use baking soda
Cloudpic (http://www.cloudpicglobal.com/) is also attempting to address this problem. I can't vouch one way or the other and have no affiliation.
Actually that's inaccurate... The A380 has 2 engine types and the issue only affected one of the 2 types, specifically the Rolls Royce engine. The other problem is that the issue was not a general flaw but some of the oil valves in the engine were not cut properly and would eventually break.

A better example of how this stuff hits the A380 are the cracks in the wings.
I coded that demo, it is not the Chrome Socket API that is the problem, it is that I don't error properly in the code and it blocks the port like any socket server would.
Former employer bought me an ACS membership one year (mainly so we could get access to their members in the hope of selling our services).

The entire membership seems to be guys who built a homebrew PC in the 70s and haven't showered since, or international students who believe so much in their education they're fooled into believing they need the ACS to rubber stamp their degree.

They're totally irrelevant in today's "but can you write good code?" hiring practice.

The ACS preys on uninformed international students. (Who, in interviews, all seem to want to work for Cisco in five years time! Are they taught this by the ACS?)
It would allow you to verify the authenticity of the gems, even if the server had been compromised.

(This isn't a new technique -- for example, .deb packages distributed through APT are usually signed with gpg -- IIRC, this was a measure introduced years ago in response to a Debian mirror being compromised.)
>> why?
Same as the 'why' for many Android apps. The API is huge, the potentials on different devices are barely countable and Google's developer advice is sadly lacking. This inevitably results in developers forgetting things like LED colours etc.

(I'm a fan of Android, I wouldn't buy a phone without it at the moment, but it really is a weak point. Especially when compared to iOS where Apple seems to really nail home how an app is supposed to behave on their platform)
For $29,90 USD you should get at least 100Mbps. 10 to 15Mbps upgrade made me laugh. Here in Helsinki, Finland 100Mbit/s unlimited connection without caps costs 19,90€/mo, including 24% tax.

Gigabit connection got premium price of 99€/mo (including taxes).

There are no additional fees, like device rents, connection fees or what ever.
I've lived in the inner-west all my life & I know 5 or so squatters. Yep. There are vacant buildings everywhere you probably just don't know it. There's a whole world outside the market & we need to encourage this sort of thing, or else a city becomes locked into mortgages with little job flexibility. The ability to live cheaply in a city is very important. High costs to maintain a basic lifestyle mean less risk taken, less businesses started, less innovation, less arts. In total contrast to Sydney is Berlin: high unemployment, very low cost of living, tons of start-ups, tons of arts.
Oh wow .. I wonder if I could convince an electrician to put a massive plug and socket in my meter box ..
Amazing web page architectures
My sole use of jsonlint.com is for quickly formatting JSON. JSONLint will format the input and then show the error which is handy for all sorts of data structures that are close to JS objects (Python dicts, for example).

I was hopeful this would be a great companion / alternative but it appears that it won't format the input if detects a parse error :-/

I guess it's best for its intended purpose.
Castaneda was a fraud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda#Reception

http://www.amazon.com/The-Antipodes-Mind-Phenomenology-Exper...

It's rigorous. It has tabular data. It's about ayahuasca phenomenology.

Why is it that so few here actually research psychedelics seriously?
Resources for Getting Started With Erlang
No-Referrer Redirects
When it comes to minor tasks like making a shopping list, Google Docs is great (it even syncs with my phone). But IMO it's not very useful for serious use, and that is probably one of its most detracting points. It has trouble displaying some docx files (probably because it's such a complex file format) and because it doesn't offer the level of control a word processor like Writer or Word offers. When it comes to editing complex documents prepared in Word with tables of contents and embedded Excel tables (which isn't uncommon in legal documents), Google Docs just doesn't cut it.

In any case, a lot of people won't be able to do their jobs properly without full-fledged document editors. I do agree that there haven't been any major advancements in word processing; if Google could solve the issue of compatibility and maybe throw in some grammar checking or autocompletion, then I would drop whatever I use now and switch to Docs in a heartbeat.
Sounds like Impala could use your talent. You should talk with them.
Which is the point of the TLD. It could work out better for everyone if people would adhere to this idea.
possibly dumb question; what's the difference between columnar storage and a bunch of row-major tables with an id column, and one column of data?
Wouldn't these sorts of issues be solved more easily if the Gemfile listed specific versions of the gem dependencies? I don't like the idea of allowing a Rails app to just download whatever is the most recent version of a gem for this exact reason.
I'd like to know what measure you are comparing FF with other browsers?
We know they exist. They're just irrelevant.

It says a lot if you prefer to tell us you're an ACS member rather than that you write code for fun at home.
List of Potential Startup Ideas?
I've always felt uncomfortable about how employees are not supposed to talk to each other about their salaries.

To me, it reeks of manipulation feels just like saying to a child "Here's some candy, but you have to promise not to tell anyone I gave it to you, OK"

ugh.
http://jsonblob.com/api uses this, for manual creation of JSON responses, to mock an end-point during development [my paraphrase]. Can then be updated programmatically.

HN submission http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4997493
awesome reading. other posts by Ilya Grigorik are great too.
I found HN's approach to be interesting. (I looked when I noticed the new link in the footer.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html

I can't speak to how "good" or "correct" it is. OTOH, pg usually seems to put some good thought into such things.
I'm sorry Australia, you are not getting me as a skilled worker (I thought you were in need of IT experts with fluent english). No seriously, I stumbled upon this issue some time ago, and that wasn't the first or last paywall. You have to pay for everything, even if you end up being rejected (not that I couldn't afford it, but f*ck that). Kind of offtopic, but I also saw they have some serious discrimination issues (it's not even about skin color, which I don't care since I'm white, they just don't want foreigners). Back to Google Maps to find a different destination.
You aren't assuming, you are looking on all machines for IOC's (specifically machines that have been compromised before), and hopefully making use of all that fancy network security monitoring technology you paid entirely too much money for.

And you're monitoring outbound connections to any of the places which are known to be "bad neighborhoods", as well as any other suspicious traffic.

In the gmail example you used, it would indeed be difficult to see that on the network. If that was sent out by some BIOS rootkit it would indeed be very difficult to detect.

I have no idea why we don't see more of that stuff (I suppose you could argue that we wouldn't recognize it even if we did), but that's not been the level of attack associated with these actors.

I suppose the main reason they don't do that is because they don't need to. They will just keep sending malicious emails over and over again until they get someone to click on one.

Or, if the company does a good job with protecting email, they'll compromise another company that partners with the target company (which is what ensnares a lot of small companies today, who are partners with larger defense contractors) and exploit a trust relationship there.

It might just be that the five guys they have who can write BIOS rootkits are all busy being used on projects that have more strategic importance. The shortage of good programmers isn't just a problem in the west.
I think the necessary reworking is going to happen, but it will take a few cycles through the "Wheel of Reincarnation" to make it fully realized - with the rendering example, we now have Canvas and WebGL; instead of relying on the browser, you can create something completely customized, with the downside being that many of the supporting features of the document-renderer paradigm are lost. But it's the right technology for certain kinds of applications, and others can be rebuilt on top of that, and eventually you'll get frameworks, and so on.

At each step, not everyone will be 100% happy with how things are organized, but enough of it will work that it expands the frontier of what kinds of software can be built on the web. We've been through this before - the web has worked because its paradigms keep getting stretched beyond expectations.
I can see how this is interesting, but it seems like it would be too easy for no one to ever be happy. Employees tend to either over or under value themselves pretty strongly, and while trying to level the playing field seems like a good idea, it's just inviting confrontation if you have a mix of both (like a lot of workplaces). Combine that with the proclivity for workplace lawsuits at even a hint of discrimination (in the US) and I don't see how this could ever gain wide adoption.

I also think the idea of scheduled raises breeds a sense of complacency.
Well, seeing their own logs in some sort of anti theft scenario?
As one American once put it, "The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."

In the United States, over 200 years in, it is still very much so the American experiment. Its success dependent on all sorts of radical notions about human nature.

Turbulence in brand new democracies is not evidence of failure. It is to be expected. Democracy is hard.
Argh, the usual webGL problem: "Your browser doesn't support webGL. Sadface :("

... despite webGL working fine in this browser (chrome) in the past...sometimes... ><

[Sometimes it's due to bogus browser detection, but usually that tends to be "chrome OK! everything else FAIL!"]
You should really talk to a doc about how to come off that. Or maybe you have.

What I've often heard is a good route is a couple of tablets of prozac. The half life is on the order of weeks, and so you can take these for a few days, instead of the venlafaxine, or maybe with (whatever your doc says).

Then, after building some up in your system, you can just stop. As you go through the half life decay, it's a built in taper, and it's slow enough to limit side effects.

Naturally don't take my word for it, talk to a doc.

I've considered it myself, because if I miss a dose of venlafaxine, I get terrible vertigo. really bad. But I do suffer from an anxiety disorder and it definitely has made a difference in my life.
Here's the link from the site's footer. It's easy to miss.

https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditoronline
FactHacks: RSA factorization in the real world
What I also found weird in NYC is that people can be really cagey about their rent, because our have a rent ceiling that most landlords won't let you go past, and that's a multiple of your salary. So if someone's paying X amount of rent, you know that their salary is at least Y. It's really strange.
Yup, I missed that. Thanks!
#777 is really hard to read on that background.
The CPC simply wanted the names of whoever was leaking their corruption to the foreign press to 'fix the leak' by rounding these people up for unpleasant interrogation.

lol western orchestrated arab spring in China. I don't think so.

Hey China, you guy's stop buying our debt, floating our consumer economy with a giant pool of near slave labor we can exploit, and stop giving us billions for our resources or we will promote a rebellion so all your nuclear weapons can wind up in the hands of breakaway republics that might be hostile like nuclear Uyghurstan
Ok, so rant here.

This shows the problem with browser apps.
This is the sort of thing I find useful when I am doing JSON heavy work.

However when I am working I often end up with about 20+ tabs open in my browser that I switch between quite regularly.
So everytime I want to get back to this I have to find which tab I left it in.

I should be able to dock this like my other apps and switch back and forth between this and my general browsing session like I do my browser and terminal.

Would also be way more usable with keyboard shortcuts which are not conductive to a browser environment.