skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I see your point. Whereas if people with unsecure passwords saw others logging into their accounts they might be more likely to change their habits. I stand corrected.
I find his dividend income astonishing: 0.007 * $36 billion ($252 million per year)

Of course Steve Ballmer does even better: 0.029 * $15 billion ($435 million per year)
Interesting, but how do you know if you passed the column 80? how do you work when the coding standards mix tabs and spaces (like tab for indenting, spaces for multi-line aligning)?
11pt in the demos? Real programmers use 10pt!
Yeah, zero-copying is a great LMDB feature, even using LuaJIT stored procs you can pass pointer to mmap window and process the data in that window using ffi (did I say LuaJIT is just damn great?) and (optionally) DynASM.
Works fine for me on Safari 6.0.4.
"What you're advocating is bordering dangerously into the realm of "security through obscurity" - a very bad principle to base any kind of security on."

I don't believe that is what I am saying. I'm saying you are less of a target if you are "nobody" than "somebody".

Would you agree that it is proper to have more security in place at an event like the Boston Marathon or a major league baseball game or when the prime minister visits then the dance recital at the local school?
"because Skype support didn't verify if the person owned the account or not, just wanted those 3 points mentioned above"

So, what? Is the author expecting Skype to just have some "does this person own the account" crystal ball? What do they want? If it's security questions, I don't consider those much of a solution because the questions tend to be very poor on the ratio of "things I can remember specifically" to "things people can't look up about me".
People organised enough to address their grievances through the political system are capable of building vastly more powerful explosives, ammonium nitrate doesn't compose a critical part of their supply chain. For those who it's not an option, or for those who find the option unpalatable, it's highly questionable whether not being able to get the right kind of fertiliser's going to stop them - especially when you consider how easy ammonium nitrate, and other precursors to more significant explosives, is to make.
I'm curious -- does anyone know of other important financial numbers that are easily manipulated?

I'm thinking, in particular, of numbers like LIBOR that are generated from privately-reported or easily manipulated data. Although deregulation seems to lead to major fraud sooner or later, so that would be worth keeping track of too.

I'd like to get a feel for which numbers are "soft" and easily manipulated, vs. "hard". Prior to this I thought that LIBOR and ISDAfix were fairly hard to manipulate. Theoretically, it seems like they would be tough to manipulate, but the reality of the financial system is very different from theory.
You left out what I view as the best part about these tribunals, just before your last quote from Wikipedia, a great example of "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely":

"Lemire (with the qualified support of PEN Canada and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, among others) has won the right to cross-examine HRC investigators concerning their conduct during investigations, namely their posting of provocative racist comments on websites. Jonathan Kay, of the National Post, opined that the HRC had "managed a seemingly impossible task: They've found a way to rehabilitate the image of neo-Nazis, transforming them from odious dirtbags into principled free-speech martyrs.""

Nice "business" they've got, plant racist speech at the websites of their enemies and then prosecute them for it (or something close to that, I forget the details now).
Hmmm...that's interesting. When I clicked on a color, it copied the color's hex value to my clipboard.
I think once a country reaches a stable population, you can implement free immigration. You could have multi country treaties where for every person that is allowed in another country you could have one person get in. That would keep flows under control and give freedom to the people.
Awesome, I've been looking for something like this. Would be even more awesome if the fonts were embedded with a syntax highlighted editor ;)
I Code to Save Lives
The making of the Xbox: How Microsoft unleashed a video game revolution (2011)
Etckeeper lets you store changes in /etc to git
There's no money in Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program and Torchlight and countless others?

Turns out there's a massive amount of profit to be had in successful indie games. The distribution channels are spectacular today, from the general Web to Steam to Amazon to Xbox Live etc.
The article is about more than freedom of the press though, otherwise they wouldn't be talking about laws that are aimed at quashing protests. My point was that the Freedom of the Press ranking isn't the whole picture. The author cites the Freedom of the Press ranking, but then spends most of the time talking about other freedoms being suppressed.
I think you can achieve that effect with auto-scaling, for example on Elastic Beanstalk. If AWS goes down though, that won't help (but most probably such a service would run on AWS anyway :)).
Have you ever sat on a jury? Unless all 12 people start in unanimous agreement, then some people are probably going to have to be persuaded to change their mind. This is intentionally part of the process; it's how the system is supposed to work.
Yeah, I'm sure he realized it was a joke. But it is funnier/sadder to use payment in day old sushi as a metaphor for "with impunity". That is, no payment necessary, because there is no fear of punishment. As it was obvious to us it was really a joke, perhaps Taibbi thought there was no need to spell it out for his readers.

However, it could also be seen as manufacturing outrage, as accepting as payment something of little to potentially negative value would cause more outrage for those who didn't get the farce. And perhaps that was/is Taibbi's goal, to try to elevate the level of outrage to what he feels are appropriate levels.

Whether this tactic is ethical and even pragmatically advantageous is not absolutely clear in my mind. I generally have an overriding value of intellectual truth, and abhor skewing that for the sake of an emotional response. However, if an unimportant intellectual truth is sacrificed to communicate a significant emotional truth, is that acceptable/virtuous? Of course, the danger is that this may be used to call into question the intellectual integrity of other claims which do involve important intellectual truths, as cynicalkane has done in this thread.

I think in the case of the day old sushi, the truth is outrageous enough without misrepresenting such an insignificant detail, even in jest, which could be used to undermine the author's credibility.
Counterpoint: Free Speech and the Harm Principle
Bingo; I carry concealed almost every time I walk out the door, yet I find it unnecessary to employ the Iraq combat theater advice of US Marine general James Mattis, "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet."
The Canadian officials at least don't have the same penchant for the dramatic that the US officials do at least (e.g. the whole Portland terrorist thing; the Via Rail plotters weren't infiltrated and then setup to press a fake 'button').
Would you care to elaborate about (potential) shenanigans on BrokerTech?

[BTW, surprisingly apropos username.]
There is a huge difference between:

* poor security question, which is up to the user to choose

* poor account recovery policy which is Microsoft choice, is the same for all users and which the user cannot do anything about
Agree. I think the main mistake was (widely spreaded) belief that key performance factor in k-v databases is complicated multi-level caching, that is obviously hard to implement, not to say to implement it right.

By the way, what was the storage that satisfied your 'append only' use case at the end of the day? AFAIK plain LMDB could get performance on par with raw disks I/O in this case.
I'm not sure if the site's creator changed the site since this post, but I believe the site is responsive. When expanded wide enough, I saw a "Why?" button that when clicked explained the site's purpose.

I do get your point. I have played around with the site and there's a part of it I still don't understand. :-/
> TL;DR: Social engineering attacks work.

They work against the service company you mean. This is not a normal vector. The company is supposed to be smart enough to not divulge their customer's accounts through social engineering.
https://jitsi.org let's you do voice and video chat on top of XMPP. It's free software and runs on Win/Linux/Mac
I guess tech-journalists gets to try out quite a few mobile phones through their work.

Would it not be a reasonable scenario that the journalist got to try a phone and used the Google+ app with his account. Upon returning the phone, it wasn't reset properly before being sold on to another person. So the Google+ app could still be associated with the journalist's account when the phone was sold on.

Update: In this article(http://www.dagensit.no/tester/article2355417.ece) the journalist reviews the Sony Xperia S, the very same phone model that the girl uses.
hiring different developers to build different parts and then you join them together is risky in a sense that the code is not uniform across all parts, therefore it can be one part is efficient, one part is not.

hiring one developer to build them all is good in a sense because it's consistent across the board. the bad point is that it's one developer only, it takes time (vs multiple developers).

if you decide to go with multiple devs, choose a tech that is mainstream such as Zend or CodeIgniter vs Ruby (while Ruby is getting popularity, but its pool of devs is not as many as Zend).
That was the Hacker News app which uses the Android browser.
I am running Android 4.2.2.
RAM prices have increased by 1/3 since last year, for example this[1] item was $60 back then.

[1] http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168201391...
I have a similar blurb in my profile, although I don't go as far as saying "I'll mark them as spam". But I have a very explicit section, labeled "NOTE TO RECRUITERS I am NOT interested in ..." in there.

With that, I do still get a few recruiter contacts every now and then, but it's just a trickle.
I've cut my fingers deeply with a kitchen knife more than once, and bled profusely.

I rarely cook, but I work on cars a lot. Cutting my hands and fingers is part of the routine. Oddly, such cuts have never gotten infected, even when the dirt gets embedded below the skin. I think car grease is an effective bacteriacide!

(I find wearing gloves while working on a car uncomfortable, though I'll do it when cracking a rusted nut loose - when it finally gives way you'll always bang your hand against something.)
It's not as clear-cut as you make it sound.

Holding a loaded gun is equivalent to having strapped explosives around everyone in your line of sight and holding the trigger.

You have the right for effective self-defense, but I have the right of not having explosives strapped around myself.

Which right weighs greater, and who should decide if not the majority (or their elected representatives)? Some dudes a few centuries ago when circumstances where vastly different and firearms far less effective?
That's ... odd, or based on outdated statistics per David "Spengler" Goldman, in his writings that include titles like "The Closing of the Muslim Womb" (one of the things freaking out the rulers of Turkey and Iran). About the only place where it might be playing out that way the last time I checked is the U.K.
> It's not just the emails. It's the constant phone calls, too.

Why do people make their email and phone number visible and then complain about unsolicitied contact? LinkedIn has privacy settings, you might as well use them. I have an account for years and only get a handful of job invites per month, if that.
Well, the compounds themselves are typically in solid phase. I would assume that the mix is just composed of an adequately well mixed combination of iron sulfate and ammonium nitrate crystals. If you make them have pretty much the same size, and sufficiently small, then you make mechanical separation unlikely/impossible.
+1 for Bitstream Vera Sans Mono!
> it should be no surprise that "social engineering works."

Is it really social engineering if the employees followed the Microsoft policy, however crappy it might be? I always thought social engineering is making someone break the policy by psychological tricks.
So you tout the ability to "Explore movies for your taste." as something that's possible with a free account, but upon signing up require a paid subscription for said feature. I understand you want to monetize the service, but not being outright to your users isn't cool.
Impugning peoples' motives like that should require some justification, even if it's labelled as "just an opinion".
Why we can’t give up on our liberal-arts universities.
You should never accept the caller id of a phone number that called you as identity verification. It is trivial for anyone with a VoIP line to set caller id to whatever they wish.
Winning points with whom? Who is keeping score in this case?
You could say the same thing about free speech. "Anybody at any time could start calling for us to overthrow the government in the town square! Newspapers need to be reviewed by the government!"

Liberty is dangerous. If you don't like it, don't go outside.
There's also the issue of crafting a business model around the rules on how Medicare pays out. This is not fraud, as it follows the letter of the law, but it's an enormous cost.

For example, ever notice those TV ads where you can get some equipment, like a scooter, "at no cost to you"? That's a business based entirely around looking for people they can get qualified for free stuff from Medicare, then they make money by billing Medicare.
I've been using this for quite some time, but mostly as a 'fire and forget' tool.
There were some rare occasions when the information from the git history was useful though, like finding out how the configuration looked for an older version of a program.
First off I'm a student. Though the last summer job I had people didn't really care that much. Tabs/spaces doesn't really matter much. 80 char width also never been a problem. If it makes sense to have it on a 150 char line, then so be it. If it makes sense to split it up, then do that.

The only time I ran into length problems was when I was asked to print my code on A4 paper for an exam.
> I've never seen a good idea come out of George Mason's econ department

Really? Prediction markets, futarchy, signalling, ems economics... not even anything in Launching The Innovation Renaissance?
> It's almost as if people need to pad their ego by bragging about how many of these annoying emails they get and then start doing things like writing blogs about how theyre deleting a useful tool because of it.

I agree with this impression. I feel especially inadequate when some people talk about getting 2 - 3 calls or emails a day and I feel lucky to get 3 in a month if I don't have my resume posted on Dice. That said, my own experiences with recruiters have also generally been negative. Over 95%[1] of unsolicited emails I get are inappropriate for my skills and experience, sometimes wildly so. I even get this from in-house recruiters at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, though these recruiters tend to misunderstand my systems engineering background[2].

This is coming from someone who wants to find one of the good recruiters. I see the value they provide, and I think I would benefit from it because of my geographic location and unorthodox background. Spending two years looking for another job and having to deal with the above has left me very recruiter-weary, though.

[1] Probably not a coincidence that this ratio is about the same as the number of recruiters you call "worthless annoyances".

[2] I was a classical systems engineer: http://www.incose.org/practice/fellowsconsensus.aspx
To further support your argument, I'd think that when the business signed up to add data to the system, they had to sign a contract that said something to the effect that they'd add it in an honest and timely manner.

In other words, whether or not they were cooperating or competing, they were probably in breach of contract.
I don't know why it has taken this long. It should have been the case as soon as the iPhone 5 started shipping.
This is a really nice idea. Thought about making it into a Spotify app or making an API?
Do you have any tips about finding remote work on LinkedIn?
I mean i agree that there are many factors at work, but im not sure whether i could comfortably say for example that "what university you attend" is a worse factor (correlation wise) than work ethic/determination. Though I guess that is party because you can't really measure those other factors you mentioned.
What’s Wrong at Yahoo: Skunk works
> I'm not paying for the driver's time

Of course you are - whether you do so directly or through a company is irrelevant, either way the driver needs to get paid.

They could change it so that you don't pay more for slow trips, but in return fast trips would become more expensive to even it out, otherwise all you're doing is taking money away from the company/drivers. Then people who travel at peak traffic times are being subsidized by those who travel when the roads are empty.

(Personally I actually prefer non-metered trips, where I know that A to B always costs £x regardless of traffic, but there's certainly a lot of logic in charging by both distance and time.)
Look, I don't believe the premise of the person you are quoting and to put it simply without 6 poorly spaced paragraphs:

"But someone who burns a cross on his neighbor's lawn has clearly committed a hate crime"

No, they are guilty of harassment, property damage, and possibly assault depending on the legal definition in the jurisdiction.

The last paragraph does not support "hate crimes" legislation, it points out what a threat is.
I really like your idea, but what about content being changed/updated, instead of deleted?

For some use cases it would make sense to show the cache (when the original quote is no longer there), while for other it'd make sense to forward (some style update, or an important addition).

How do you think can such service handle this?
> I'm a recruiter and I simply do not understand things like this. Sure, many of my colleagues have given us a reputation for being incompetent assholes. But many of my friends contact me the second they are looking for a new job because they know I like to help people out. Isn't pressing archive on a couple annoying emails worth meeting someone like that?

I'm sure that a fellow like yourself, who seems quite considerate of others' time, can appreciate that it depends how easy it is to tell you apart from the less exemplary members of your profession. There might be some fantastic recruiters out there but if it takes five minutes to see whether someone's serious and people have to pay that cost for every interaction - are they really going to do it?

It's not like someone's just paying the cost once or twice to talk to you, they're paying the cost with every bit of spam they go through to find you.

I know that's something I have extreme reluctance to do. I get hundreds of emails every weekend, most work-related. If the field is heavily slanted towards abusive personalities, then almost every time I invest in that activity, rather than dealing with one of the pressing issues, it feels like I've wasted my time. Very discouraging when the returns are purely hypothetical, (never met a recruiter who made me feel like he was taking me seriously.)
I don't use a proportional font like the OP but graphics art stuff like that is best handled by computer.

For example if you do sysadmin scripts in perl and edit with vim and have perltidy installed, its more or less just (esc) :%! perltidy (enter) and it looks beautiful.

Gave up on 80 columns a couple years ago. Haven't looked back much.
You're saying "firearms aren't like other rights", but that's like saying "a twitter account isn't like other rights." Twitter isn't the real issue: the right to free speech without government censorship is the issue. Twitter is a medium. Likewise, firearms aren't the real issue, the right to self-defense is the real issue.

But then a few minutes later you say that I have the right to effective self-defense [1], and we just have to balance that with other liberties, so you're coming across a bit contradictory.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5622606
If A is also allowed to call, it solves the problem of B and C splitting the pizza.
Somehow, I keep thinking that what we lack, is what our elders used to do back then (and I'm not just talking about our dads/mothers and grand parents here).

Whenever I read about a famous writer like Jack London or others, It seems like one of the most common traits between them is their attitude towards learning.

They exercise, read the classics of those that lived before them, but they also write (much like we do today with our blogs and such). And they write about their own self, their journey.
Essentially, they were already keeping track of themselves, in order to better themselves without outside judgement.

It seems to me we kinda skipped some part and are just beginning to re learn what was common back then...

In the end, the most helpful thing you can do about your mental health is to question your own self, on paper.
Why does that blog post use Disquis then, instead of a github issue? :)
At risk of sounding blunt, I do want to ask: have you tried several fixed-width fonts, or have you just used whichever is default on your system? In my experience, there seems to be no issue seeing where there is a space (not even for a split second) with well-designed fixed-width fonts. In fact, for me, it's more apparent, as spaces tend to be wider in fixed-width fonts, being the width of the widest character.
your argument hardly talks to the bias laid out in this article. The problem is not that a white student with perfect SAT's will gain an admission, but that the same student with a lower score can gain admission while an asian with perfect scores cannot. Essays are important , but they are a tool to hide behind.
if the existing tests are not good markers of excellence, why dont harvard and stanford have their own entrance examinations? it is a common practice in universities around the world.
do they really have a skunk works unit ?
GTA 1 development video
In America, the ruling elites have ways of keeping out the rabble by means of making city life both costly and difficult.
99.99%+ of all life form that have ever existed on Earth are extinct. And it isn't because of Humans.

Think about that for a second: The universe is--gasp--actively trying to 'kill' life.

For us to undertake the greatest mass extinction of all times (that is to say, rival or exceed mass extinction caused by natural causes itself on Earth), we'd have to destroy at least--at least--another 10,000 Earth-like planets, each one replete with life as Earth is currently.

I would love to see Humans possess such amazing technological prowess one day[0], but alas, that will not be today, tomorrow, nor even this century.

[0] Wanting to see possession of technological capabilities does not imply I want to see future Humans use it to destroy extra-terrestrial planetary life.
Once upon a time, I drank this koolaid, but no more. Many things in life are ephemeral, including information. To suggest that a webmaster's responsibility is to hoard data for eternity is both scatological and counterproductive. As the Web matures, it is threatened far more by the growing mountain of obsolete information that must be ignored in order to find anything timely and relevant. I would much rather see these pages deleted if they aren't going to be updated, even if it means broken URIs, which will eventually fade away.