skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't know the names of companies A through X, or supposedly safe Z for that matter. All you'll be doing is an enormous amount of work and bother to move from Y to, lets say, A, because you think you'll be more secure but unfortunately if anything its probably the other way around, its just that A hasn't been hacked... yet... so far as they know...

none of them get a free pass they all suck, but the one that just got busted is probably going to be a little more security focused in the near future.

Hmm stay at a place that just got burned, or expend lots of effort to move to a place that hasn't been burned yet...
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A large factor in this is the "lock-down" culture that has sprung up, and people buying into the bullshit that it's necessary for devices to be "secured" to be user friendly. I know it won't solve the cultural problems, but it's a complete non-starter if you can't even legally re-purpose your own hardware, or if it takes too much effort.
I would begin to distrust resumes

You mean you now trust resumes?
I am seeing a lot of comments which makes assumptions about this being detonated explosives. Has there been any confirmation about this?
> Which is why the smart thing to do is to go for the most unfashionable job

That assumes that you don't get any value out of having a glamorous job. Sure, there are tons of people that want to be game developers. Why? Because a lot of things about being a game developer are awesome! You get a laid-back working environment, you get to work with artists and other exciting, creative people, the work is technically challenging, you spend your day looking at monsters and explosions instead of spreadsheets and forms. People you meet will be excited to talk to you about your work. If you're lucky, you create something that people will form real emotional attachment to.

It's not smarter to choose a higher-salary job, because salary-maximization is not the goal of life. You spend much of your waking life at work, and a bigger salary won't give you those hours of your life back. You may as well try to make them be something you love.
Love it! This is the future of news consumption: firehose.
So, they asked us to change the password for reasons they cannot yet tell. The fact that they cannot lay it all out for our curiosity is driving most of people here off the rails. I don't have any problem with letting them verify & deal with the issue properly before releasing any public statement. Anyone who's ever been with them has never received less than perfect customer service. Can we give them a break, wait and hold our judging wands for a moment? It's not like they are staying mum out of spite towards their customers and the press…
> Instead of having that money tied down on a house, people are much better investing in the stock market, which has, over the past 100 years, gone up by 7% annually.

Just to be clear, that 7% is after inflation. The historical performance of the stock market is closer to 10-11% pre-inflation.

> The only time a house makes sense is when raising kids.

Retirement is of course another scenario where it makes sense. Mobility won't be nearly as important (indeed it may be totally irrelevant), and you won't have any rent or mortgage payments if you own your house.

The thing is that I don't plan to retire in San Francisco or NYC. I plan on retiring in the south or midwest. Housing is so "cheap" there compared to salaries in tech hubs that as long as you're saving a reasonable amount of cash (say $1k minimum) every month (on top of retirement accounts and investments in stocks and bonds), you'll easily be able to just go buy a decent house in a cheap area for cash when you're ready to settle down in retirement.

Is it absolutely the most efficient path, financially? I don't know, but it sure does make everything simple, as you'll have maximum mobility during your career. I can't tell you how many people I know who have basically stunted their careers due to buying homes. Money is certainly not the end goal in life, not even close, but lots of people I know could double their earnings if they weren't locked down to one location.
>failing to take into account that only a tiny fraction of the mortgage payment actually becomes equity.

What percentage of a mortgage payment actually gets converted into equity?

(coming from a genuinely curious person who has never owned a house)
Nitpick: those times are EDT (UTC-04:00), not EST (UTC-05:00).
2: Distance from Los Angeles to NYC: 2790 miles. Distance in kilometers: 4469.58. Kilometers per hours: 19,155, for arrival in 14 minutes. NASA's X-43A has a top speed of 10,000 km/hr (by comparison, the SR-71 has a top speed of 3,529 km/h). So NASA's fastest plane, the X-43A, could not make it in time to satisfy the requirements.

It is possible to say that sometimes in the future, perhaps distant future, all things are ultimately possible, but that's not what we're talking about, is it. We're not worried whether sometime in the future we will be able to zoom around the galaxy and perhaps Andromeda on wormhole ships, in fancy flights of the imagination that would even surpass the bounds of science fiction and enter the realm of fantasy. No, rather we get silly requirements from managers who wants these things delivered in the next twelve to eighteen months.

Also note that a data center that crawled the entire internet daily would probably have to re-implement Google, and even Google most probably doesn't crawl the entire net daily.

Software that generate stories already... Please. Name one bestseller in the past, well, ever, that was automatically generated.
This is similar to C++ in which base class methods are 'virtual'. Is there a way to stop this behaviour? Just thinking how non-virtual methods can be implemented then. C++ has a keyword, 'virtual', for switching this behaviour, but any analogue in Go?
By the sounds of it, they probably don't know the full extent of who and what was taken, otherwise they could just email everyone involved and say: "there's been a breach and it affects you" ... or they could contact CC companies.
Since the news is bad for me and ignoring it would make me happier, should I just forget about it?
It seems like some sort of natural law that any industry with a lot of revenue and teens/young adults dream of working in ends up with similar issues. Poor work environment, poor or deceptive compensation, tons of time or travel, psychopathic management and some sort of age bracket.

That best describes the game industry, but it fits the major label side of the music industry, the bottom 95% of pro snowboarding, military combat, resort work and i'm sure there's more.

And if include a set that misses just one of the traits you arguably could ad tv and film, the junior level investment banking scene, pro sports maybe.

Hell, startup employee is a fairly close fit as well.

I think it's just human nature - young people have a lot of passion, energy and without a stretch of office employment may lack some of the context necessary to decide how exploitative or appropriate various demands are.

Given some of the common psychological traits often associated with officers and directors at many firms, it's not surprising that a certain number of them would see no problem in or perhaps even their responsibility to structure their business or process to take advantage of (exploit) this pool of people that dream of being part of it.

At some point, whether or not the constant crunch turnover and burnout is worth it versus a more sustainable style that increased retention and experience level seems like an unsolvable riddle for any firm thats culture has been built on crunching.

Anybody who has made it to senior management in these places has done so by being successful at executing the model and getting their underlings to work under those conditions. If you can't stomach it you won't stick around. So essentially upper management is full of people who have shown they're cool with it and have seen it work. Some probably flat out enjoy it.

With this kind of environment it's hard to believe you could even finish pitching the idea, let alone get enough traction to investigate or even come up with a plan to implement something that would take so long to have any measurable results.

Unless great results came quickly, I'd be surprised if they had more than two years before everybody got sacked and they reversed coarse
Math. That explains the endless debates on aesthetics, the difficulty of measuring productivity, and the enormous spectrum of productivity.
They're not. You're right.

Wire transfers often are not able to be undone once they happen (and are accepted by the other bank). This is the reason why there's so much verification that happens in wire transfers. (I helped develop 2nd factor authentication used for authenticating wire transfers for a financial company)

Credit card charges can be reversed.

http://www.reba.net/news/wtransfer
I had a CC problem, and I use it for a very restricted number of online services. Luckily the fraudulent attempt was blocked by the CC company. Linode was not at the top of my list of suspects (there was another company that seemed to be storing passwords in cleartext), but now I'm wondering. This was a couple of months ago though... I wonder if that's the right time frame?
And NY? Just curious, what makes you say that? Haven't seen that reported anywhere.
Agreed. I try to be very understanding of the fact that it is usually the winner that decides who is the "good guy" and the "bad guy" in history, but doing something like this is "bad guy" regardless of the reason. Nothing but a senseless tragedy. My thoughts are with anyone who has friends and family affected.
This is the craziest thing. Last Friday, my fiance (works near Boston) said she had to leave early because someone called in a bomb threat. We laughed it off "ha someone wanted to go home early on a Friday..." no idea if related, but crazy...
>Can someone just run a plain marathon without having to worry about this in modern civilized life?

In lots of places in the world, no.
Do you have statistics on how often you've hired long-term out-of-work people and the frequency of said people to be sub-par employees?
It didn't work for me at first in Chrome. Reloading the page fixed the problem.
I live in Charlestown, which is Boston's northeasternmost neighborhood, which is actually across the Charles River.

For the past hour I've nothing but ambulances going down 99 or along 93.
Yeah, I mentioned that at the bottom of my post

It wasn't there when windsurfer replied to you (I was reading the thread earlier), hence his question.
And yet I'm sure we will all see some more civil rights displaced as fearmongers jump at the opportunity. :(
I echo everything everybody has said. This sucks because we don't know one way or the other. This may be some asshat FUDing away, or this may be a genuine hack.

It's hard to get angry at anybody but Linode needs better auditing around sensitive data so they can tell people one way or the other.

I resigned to the fact that I'd find it easier to change my card details in 30-odd online shops than it is fight my bank to get my money back. Now I can't make any purchases for 7-10 days.
For some reason this reminds me more of the Atlanta Summer Olympics or Moscow than the attacks on the World Trade Center. [edit to add links for clarity]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings#Ryaz...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing

Condolences to friends and families of the injured and dead.
That’s not what they’re doing. They are sharding horizontally on the user. ID’s are 64 bits with the db location (logical shard id) in the first 16 bits. This will allow anyone with an ID to go to the right db for querying, granted they have logical to physical shard mappings.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BostonDotCom/status/3238868777467...

This tells me the Boston PD found one or more devices and are in the process of detonating them.
I've made no claims of my fear of marathons or that I will not attend them, I'm afraid of the total risk of conducting such affairs in life, I'm not the person who avoided planes because of 9/11 forever afterward. It was merely a simple remark of disgust.
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Casualty count seems low for something "professional" I would have thought - though certainly I'm no expert.
Just got a response from linode:
somethings not adding up?

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dportalatin
30 minutes ago	Hello,

Thanks for getting into contact with us about this. Linode has found no evidence that payment information of any customer was accessed. We have implemented all appropriate measures to provide the maximum amount of protection to our customers. If you have any other concerns we can address, please let us know.

Regards,
Dolores
True, but I'd rather fix the problem that got them in, force reset of passwords, and delete all customer keys and require them to create new ones than be like "uhhhh, our data was hacked and your credit card is safely encrypted... But we had the encryption key on the server too, oops"
Short video right before second explosion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMYObtjToU&feature=youtu...
| Are there any places here in the U.S.
| that would actually take and try the
| Gitmo detainees?

I imagine that they would be tried in Federal court, but I would be curious what the jurisdiction would be if the crimes were committed outside of the US.
I know. I've asked for further clarification, especially since their email on Friday said API keys should be reset "if applicable."

Edit: Groan, here's their clarification. It's starting to look like they don't know what the heck they're talking about:

"Thanks for getting back to us. To be extra cautious it would not hurt to regenerate your Linode API key. You can do that in your user profile. Please let us know if you have any other concerns we can address."
I've got a PayPal business mastercard which is connected to PayPal Smart Connect. They may not allow PayPal proper but you could pay using PayPal by way of their card. I use my PayPal card hooked into Smart Connect for a good number of recurring payments like this.

So I guess the answer would be, if you ended up hooking your PayPal account up to Linode in the way I described, yeah follow the same steps as other cards, otherwise it's not even possible to have a problem.
For anyone that understands politics understands that things
can get done by applying a significant political push.

Yes. What does that pressure look like?

I've lobbied. A fair amount for an amateur. We had some small victories, but mostly lost ground.

The victories we had were because we packed the hearings with warm bodies.

Where are the people willing to pack the chambers over Gitmo? It absolutely should be closed. But Gitmo is not a motivating issue.

Down thread, you cite Obama's enthusiasm for gun control. What's the salient difference?

People are going to show up for gun control hearings.
Modular hardware? Yes, please! Right now, I can upgrade the RAM, CPU, GPU and storage in my servers, desktop, and laptop. My phone? Not so much. And it wouldn't pain me so much, but for the fact that I'm missing out on things like NFC and low power Bluetooth. If I can get a software defined radio in a wristwatch (http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2011/04/reprogramming-ez430...), then why can't I have one in a cell phone?
the database server is local, read the entire log...
Another thing I've noticed from US TV & films (so it might not actually be true), is how it only seems to be the US flag that is flown. Here it's not uncommon to see flags from lots of countries. Only governmental buildings would "only fly the local flag".
I don't think w1ntermute was suggesting the news media were responsible for the incident.
I wouldn't call it "confirmation" at this point, but emergency services have been reporting the discovery of "secondary devices", so it does appear to be something intentional and not something along the lines of an accidental gas line explosion.
I'm following Reuters

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/323882328655028224

>Paul Browne, NYPD Deputy Commissioner, tells Reuters that in response to #BostonMarathon, NY police stepping up security #breaking
There exist other material that go boom beyond gas. Just to take a random pick, maybe a truck with industrial chemicals was parked near. The majority of goes boom but a chunk get thrown away and just later goes boom too. Double explosion, but no detonated explosives.

Not saying its likely, but we really should start listing on what police say first before jumping directly to bombs.
Gaming companies have a rep for being a bad place to work that nevertheless attract top-notch talent. I've been programming for a living for since 1997, and this is the first time I've heard someone say that game hackers are "not that good or clueless".
Now trending from a more valid source:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1cerrp/boston_mar...

During disasters such as this, I appreciate reddit's scale (and diversity) for up-to-date information in the comments.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, it's gone... Shouldn't have told everyone about it. Clearly it's quality made it viral.
This picture looks considerably worse: https://twitter.com/brm90/statuses/323876631980687361
WTF is... H.265 aka HEVC?
Update: Boston.com crashed, now back up
I disabled third party cookies in Chrome on my own and I don't see nothing wrong with my experience of web browsing.
you seem to be new to this, most companies lie all the time about the nature of their security compromises.
There is something to this idea but I am still skeptical. In ATL I park my car for 5$ a day using my wife's corporate discount. I am assuming that most of the regular fliers out of ATL use some sort of discount. So, this might not be the target market for FlightCar on the supply side. But, these are the very people whose cars might be available more often for renting.

On demand side, this idea rocks. I remember renting a compact car for a day for around 150$ (including taxes, fees etc etc).
> There is an actual correlation between long term unemployment and being unemployable because of lack of skills and incompetence, or serious personality defects, such as drug addiction, mental disorders, criminality, violent behavior and laziness.

There is an actual correlation between being black and drug addiction, criminality &c.

Discriminating on skin color is illegal, though.
>I don't like to consider myself an Audiophile (and I really don't think I would classify as one anyways) but I don't understand why people are okay with paying hundreds of dollars (sometimes over $1,000) on HD TVs and yet stick with free headphones or cheap speakers.

I cannot understand this myself. I mean, why pay thousands of dollars for HD TVs, period.

As for the cheap headphones part, who cares. They like the beat and the feeling of the music, not the details and the subtlety of the recording.

That's why they don't listen to jazz or classical that much.

What exactly musical subtlety do you miss on Justin Bieber, Metallica, Hip Hop, Skillrex, 99% of what passes for R&B today etc, by using cheap headphones? You'll miss some low-fi sampled, bit-crushed drum loops? Two-note synth motifs?
Yes, I think the startup market may be similar. Two differences are that right now there are so many startups, there is still strong demand for programmers. The game industry is actually not that big, so the demand for game programmers hasn't been as high.

Also, I think the startup scene is newer. While there are some younger developers now whose childhood dream is to build a website, there aren't as many of those as there are people who grew up playing videogames and who want nothing more than to make them.

As the web gets older and you have more adults whose software experiences during their formative years revolved around websites (or, I guess, soon, mobile apps), that may change.
This kind of testing is usually done mechanically now. Much higher repetition, reliable, and cheaper. This sounds like a last minute rush job.
Eclipse was just an example. There is going to be a niche for massive projects.

That niche and Java deserve each other.

There's also going to be a niche for projects that live for a very, very long time and thus are touched by a massive number of programmers

There's some overlap, but more than anything, this niche is just the one that really needs a solid unit test suite and documentation. There are excellent unit test framework packages for Ruby, and high unit test coverage is very much a part of Ruby programming culture. The documentation quality for open source Ruby projects also seems very high overall.

Community style/idiom standardization in Ruby and Node is probably a function of having a constellation of very active, popular, and often interdependent open source projects in each. When you're writing Rails gems that depend on other Rails gems, everyone is reading everyone's code, so agreeing on some style guidelines as a community makes everyone's life much easier.

I think that if someone wrote a very popular open source project (analogous to Rails) in a Lisp dialect, we might see the same thing start to evolve. And I think we're already starting to see it happening with Clojure. There's a Clojure Style Guide that's gone up on Github very recently: https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide
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>You just need to account for that time if you want people to not think you are sketchy and trying to hide something.

In context of this article, most people aren't even given a chance to account for that time. Their application gets filtered out and they are never called in for an interview. That's one problem. Another problem is that it may not be relevant at all. Worse, it can be something that is highly personal. What if you had health problems and you had to take time off, should you really need to disclose something like this?
From the paper, written by the same person who made the video:
"The result is not impressive at all; the main goal here is to reduce the opponent's health, but our objective function can
only track bytes that go up."

I can't watch the video at the moment but I imagine the paper goes much farther in-depth with the internals of this AI.
You present a reasoned argument. But I need to clarify a couple of things. In your first lines

almost anything can be prevented ... long as you involve enough people

I want to point out that I only mean prevention by obtaining actionable information, not the idea that by keeping a guy off of the street we keep that particular guy from doing something awful again.

Also, under your numbered list of The only thing putting him in Gitmo does you left off one that I think is important. You are actually telling the world that we won't play fair with terrorists. (This is also, I think, the point that a lot of people are debating: that, in fact, we should play fair and take some sort of moral high ground.) We're telling the players that we can be quite nasty too.

And I completely agree with you that having Gitmo open "enables a lot of folks to ignore having this national discussion" and this could be exactly why we do it. Also, the idea that if we do get the terrorist threat to a manageable place we can close it down and "wash our hands" of it without having changed our stance in an official way.

But mostly I wanted to say that I pretty much agree with closing Gitmo. The idea authority without oversight is dangerous. But, in all honesty, if I knew it was working, I'm not sure I could be the guy to close it either. But that would be the only reason to consider keeping it open, and I have no information either way.
Ruby, Python

Realtime -> Node.JS
The two explosions were on opposite sides of the street. Take from that what you will.
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