skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This treads awfully close to 'if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear.'

But you're not hiding anything. You're transmitting it in clear text through Google/Facebook's services. You're not worried about the right to hide your information, you're worried about the right to hide it against the government specifically. That's the key distinction. I do have things to hide--I don't share those thing with either Google or the government, and those are the things I want protected. If I choose to share something with Google, I'm okay with the government having access to it too.

> Government employees wield much more power than Facebook employees.

In my mind, the government has a lot more power to screw me over, but private industry has a lot more incentive. I'm much more worried about credit ratings agencies, insurance companies, potential employers, etc, having access to my information than I am about the NSA looking at my information.

> As it stands, employees should only be looking at specific communications to deal with work functions

That's the same for government employees. Maybe the difference between us is that you implicitly trust the employees of Facebook not to do stuff like this, and don't trust government employees, while I feel the opposite way.
| what led to something does matter when
| evaluating sympathy or Schadenfreude

Even though you say that breaking and entering doesn't justify weeks of torture, your other statements don't back that up. If you think that nothing deserves weeks of torture, then why do you even need that information to evaluate it (to care)?
Yes, you could -- and people often did if they got better performance out of 320x200. When SVGA cards became widely available, multiple resolution support became a hallmark of even some of the DOS games of the day. Especially 3D ones, but I remember being able to play Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (a 2D platformer, and a Windows DirectX game) at 320x200 or 640x480.
Neat stuff! Can you tell us a little more about what inspired you to build this specifically (in other words, why was this the idea you chose over other ideas you had)?
It is sitting at 18% right now. The after hours trading stat is in small print under the current stock price.
I often think about creating a browser and email plugin/extension to help with this:

- Look at all link tags.

- If it looks like a URL (has a scheme at the beginning, or something which resembles a hostname, or a bunch of path or query parameters), inspect the actual link.

- If they have different hosts, warn the user, and perhaps give them the option of just visiting what the contents of the link tag say (rather than the href attribute).

- Maybe do some magic with onclick events too.

I don't care that it wont be right 100% of the time. I don't care that some times I'll be warned when in fact it is perfectly fine. What I do care about is that when I click a link, I go to that link.

It would be quite helpful for attacks like this, but I'm also interested from a privacy perspective.

Google, Facebook and others go to great lengths so that when you mouse over a link, it looks like it will take you directly to the webpage it says it will, but actually redirects via themselves first. I often find myself copying a url from Facebook and pasting into the address bar, because I don't want them to know which articles I read (yes, I know, if I'm that paranoid, I probably shouldn't use Facebook, blah, blah).
Meet the Richest Hypocrite in Silicon Valley
It's not possible for a corporation to be ethical or unethical, a corporation doesn't have a soul or a conscience.

Thankfully, ethics do not depend on the existence of a soul nor conscience. There is a such thing as emergent behavior, after all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
This same issue happened to me, including the unsolicited LinkedIn contact invitations.

Suffice to say that it is extremely embarrassing to not only send "connect requests" to people I barely (or don't at all) know, but also to people whom I am actively avoiding due to issues in real life.

I had to go through, check all my pending invitations, and rescind them. Not sure if that really helps, though, since then if they were to click "accept," it would simply say "no invitation to connect."

What a mess.
Agreed, however It still seems truly odd to me.
ITT obedient pro-authoritarians are getting pissed at the article.

In all seriousness, I can second the notion about extreme compliance that is required to get PhD and to secure a job. I knew a small army of extremely talented individuals that have been forced out of grad school because they refuse to kiss all asses they were required to kiss (starting of course wit almighty adviser). Those who graduated (well at least majority of them)are only good at following commands and "networking".
Accurate. On one hand, we didn't want to fuel the fire, but on the other, that inflammatory article forced the attacker to reveal their hand. So it was actually to our benefit, strangely enough.
IBM big systems will still be running long after you and I are dead.

Running the same software that was first written before we were born.
I'm guessing you're a smart person and have never done tech support for cable or dsl? Every other call is from some granny who can't check her AOL email because the cable is out.

Seriously, there are massive swaths of people out there who pay for high speed internet _and_ AOL because they just don't know any better.

No, I don't do that job anymore (yay!). And no, I never explained to any of those people they are being stupid.
Poor Little Tiger Cub
If you're a "gun enthusiast", then you're not in it to protect yourself. You're only fooling yourself.
No. But an ORM is training wheels on SQL.
Amazon does something similar to in store pickups in Japan. They'll deliver to a convenience store near you and you can pick it up there-it's a very popular option.
Did you release this anywhere else? I'd be appalled to learn all that foul language is coming from HN.

EDIT: Very sad. Nothing more to say.
The points in this blog post are good...but how about something more basic: Never log in after clicking through an email link
Facebook Account Hacker 2013
a secured one would require either getting intel's ssl cert or convincing users to click through a big "dont trust this site" page

Or breaking into their DNS registrar and getting your own cert for their domain, or breaking into any one of the many many dozens of CAs that most browsers trust...
Amazon supported the Internet tax. It would be poetic justice if Google provided a free to use tax and shipment calculation to all merchants if/when that becomes law. Then Google would be able to help users find what they want and sort it by final price, including shipping and taxes. That might be the missing piece that gets all merchants giving Google the information it needs to allow users to do that.
With an extensive network of lens millers who are distributed so that each worker has a short list of lenses to grind, which are all destined for local customers.
Profit is more important than public health. This will end badly for the people.
Have you tried seeing if those auto-invites are in your invite outbox [1]? You might be able to cancel them. Then again maybe not, I've never used the contact integration feature.

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/inbox/invitations/sent
Reports Of Lower Facebook Usage Based On Ad Data, Not Official Figures
Received mine early this morning.
only on hacker news :)
You Can Buy This Guy's Personal Data for $2
RSA Animate - Smile or Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo

Touches on the same idea of those who are anti authoritarian being sidelined without reason, and enabling and exacerbating the recent global financial crisis.
I'm somewhat skeptical of "we have a validation rule here, but it doesn't validate against any actual requirement, we just threw it in for the heck of it [image of dog piloting an airplane]." Even the bizarre "well, we have a CHAR(20) for the password, so we can't save anything longer" sounds saner than that ;)
So you don't actually mean buy local.

You mean ask the farmer.

But it's not really all that hard to find this out even for bulk packaged meat if it's branded - just call that single company and ask.

If it's unbranded from your butcher then ask him. (Although admittedly he might not know.)

In all three cases it's just: "Ask".
Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook:

http://www.amazon.com/Being-Geek-Software-Developers-Handboo...
Something that most people forget about the fruit and vegetable standards - gradings other than the finest can still be sold to the public. Just most supermarkets chose not to.
Zenoss vs. Zenoss: The Definitive Duel Between Our Free & Paid Versions
http://awesomescreenshot.com/09a1943624
Google requiring you to enter your password at random times for random things (e.g. to read a Google Groups message) seems like one contributing factor, since people treat those prompts as routine noise, and are less likely to investigate such a common occurrence too deeply.
There is one shining beacon of hope! I try to visit every time I'm in London.

http://www.herman-ze-german.co.uk
TSLA is currently up 21%! Wow, and still climbing...

Edit: Flying past 27% in after hours trading.
Now TSLA is up 21% (67.90 last trade)
This is what we do now - It gets to be a bit of a pain later. I'm looking forward to switching to Vagrant in the future (On the backburner for now as I have other things on my plate) - Vagrant allows you to easily nuke and re-setup your entire environment, and change things easily for the next go around - while if you're using a VM image you'd need to re-image every time you make changes that you want to stay persistent.
My wants are not being acknowledged. I want to see my wants on the list.
It has something to do with the size of your app, though.
See her other replies. The only correct response to this type of situation is a professionally worded apology and some soul searching to determine where the zeal for viral distribution outpaced commonly understood limits of ethical marketing.

A user was asked to endorse people, but that action ended up endorsing a product; that is the very definition of deceptive viral marketing.

Someone who is too eager to attract users and too confident to politely respond to even the most scathing criticism is clearly struggling with a lack of maturity. If this was an overly zealous employee, that would be one thing, but the founder/CEO? Giant red flag.
Amazon AWS Security: Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) with Google Authenticator
The difference between the legal reasoning and your reasoning is the "property in trust" part. Legally, once you hand your communication over to Google, it's their property. If they choose to hand it over to the government, that's their business.

Think of this hypothetical. Say Google reads your g-mail and tells people you ordered green shirts. Do you have a lawsuit against Google for disclosing your private information? I doubt it. If the information is sensitive for a different reason (e.g. it's about your herpes diagnosis), you might have a suit, but then you'd also have a suit against a friend to whom you told that information in confidence. I.e. it's a suit based on the nature of the sensitive information, not the disclosure by itself.

The idea of this "information trustee" doesn't really exist in the law. Google is treated no differently than a guy on the street you tell to relay a message to your friend. And as for the 4th amendment, as I said, wiretapping aside it's more of a "personal search" protection than a "communication protection." This is a good summary of the relevant precedent: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~chase/cps49s/carnivore-history.html
I was more talking about the option to buy something that's in inventory at a local store, but yes, I can see why that would be a popular option.
لعبة كرة القدم 12 على الهاتف الاندرويد fifa 2013 on android mobile
FIFA 12 هو نسخة لكرة القدم 2013 للموبايل الاندرويد تحميلها من هنا مجانا يمكنك ان تكون لاعد او ان تممارس دورك كمدرب.

يمكن القول، FIFA 12 هو أفضل لعبة كرة القدم للموبايل الاندرويد او الايباد حتى الآن. تم تحسين اللعب أبعد من ذلك عن طريق إضافة حركة لاعب 360 درجة لقطات وحركات ومهارات بقدر كبير من الدقة.

وقد تطور الدفاع في FIFA 12، مما جعلها أكثر انسجاما مع الخطة التكتيكية التي اتخذتها PC نسخة وحدة من FIFA 12. يمكن أن يكون محبطا في البداية، ولكن سرعان ما كنت أدرك أنه يجعل اللعبة أكثر مهارة.

الايجابياتممتاز، واللعب الذكي
نظام التحكم باللمس ممتاز جدا
عرض ممتاز جدا
Thanks for the response! Those features make a lot more sense as to why I'd use it. Do you guys have a roadmap online?
So in your mind, it would be better then if a hundred thousand armed Japanese would have started fighting back on mainland US? How about, instead of permanently distrusting the government, try to make it more democratic. There shouldn't have to be rebellions in a democratic country, then you talk it out and try to convince everybody else. If you can't, then touch luck, you're in the minority. That doesn't mean you have the right to start a damn rebellion and carve yourself a new country by force.
| But you're not hiding anything. You're
| transmitting it in clear text through
| Google/Facebook's services. You're not worried
| about the right to hide your information, you're
| worried about the right to hide it against the
| government specifically.

That's not true. If I send a person-to-person message that goes through Facebook or Google, am I ok with that information broadcast across the globe to everyone? Probably not.

| If I choose to share something with Google, I'm
| okay with the government having access to it too.

Are you ok with the government having unfettered, unrestricted access with little or no oversight? That doesn't make any sense to me. Even if you don't care about the information that Google/Facebook have on you, do you really want government agencies to get used to accessing information without a warrant? It only incentives them to push for more access to information without a warrant.

| Maybe the difference between us is that you
| implicitly trust the employees of Facebook not
| to do stuff like this, and don't trust government
| employees, while I feel the opposite way.

Facebook is more accountable that the government is. To be fair, there are bad actors in all places, but the FBI/US Attorney General has more incentive to pull people into court, and send them to jail than Facebook employees do[1]. FBI agents 'doing their job' is more of a risk than Facebook employees doing their job, because the FBI agents' jobs are about arresting people and charging them with crimes.

When was the last time that an FBI agent was fired for overstepping their authority? On the other hand, I feel more trust that Facebook/Google would fire an employee that overstepped their authority.

[1] And they are always testing the bounds of how they can apply the law. See the case of trying to charge the mother that drove her daughter's classmate to suicide, where they tried to charge her with 'hacking' because she violated the Terms of Service of MySpace.
The .223/5.56/variations is the round of choice for military units around the world. For killing/maiming people.

It's powerful (dramatically more powerful than a .22), relatively light, and can be loaded in high capacity magazines.

Just to be clear... I'm not saying that you can't kill somebody with a firearm chambered for .223. Of course it's potentially lethal. Pretty much all firearm rounds are potentially lethal, even something like .22 Short rounds.

What I'm saying, is that the .223 is not particularly more dangerous than other common rounds, to the point that there's any reason to single it out for special attention. And the fact that military forces choose it doesn't dispute that. There are a LOT of reasons why military forces make the choices they do, and they're as likely to be economic forces as purely strategic ones.

When the military chooses it as the round of choice for killing people, it's pretty nonsensical to try to hold it as some sort of weakling.

If sheer lethal effectiveness were the only criteria used to select a round, .223 would not be the first choice for killing a human being.

Of course you can make any point with relative comparisons. Compared to a bb and a slingshot, .223 is deadly-as-fuck. But compared to many other rounds that you can commonly find firearms chambered for, it's average at best.
FBI claims right to read your e-mail, just like other federal agencies
I'm reading your comment on an intermittent 2.5 g connection.
Patients demanding placebo like vitamin shots or antibiotics is an old problem (or technique, depending on how you look at it). For that matter, many doctors are regularly prescribing people stimulants or opioids because patients are asking for them - instead of turning down their money and/or making them unhappy.

I agree with you and like the example, but I wanted to provide feedback that this example is confusing in its relation to the current topic.
sorry, seems like the spammers are blocking some requests from hitting the Pusher api
Do you know where I can find documentation for that?
Well played with that closing line.
View source on this thing. The entire post is there at least two times in different formats. I like the whole "&amp;nbsp" thing in one of them. I didn't go looking for others.
That's really convoluted to simulate bad network. Here is an easy route if you are on OS X: get Apple's Network Link Conditioner [1], a System Preferences panel plugin. Once installed, tune your network to 3G Lossy and test again.

[1]: http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/hardware_io_too...
It's really cool to see The Onion hosting on github and using Octopress for blogging.
U.S. citizens ditch passports in record numbers due to high taxes
My brain is a bit fried, but what about a rule that "if the text contained in the <a> tag is a FQDN, it should match the FQDN in the href exactly"?

What are the false positives?
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That's not open source at all. That's "freely available", and easy to redistribute (not necessarily legally)
I guess so, but I wouldn't be too negative about it because she probably wouldn't have gotten burned at the stake.
Wait you mean you really don't want to drop a table? Liar!!! :)
Your heart attack bill: $3,300 in Arkansas, $92,000 in California
Technically, an UPDATE is a DELETE and INSERT. so if you only knew SELECT, DELETE, and INSERT, you could do crud.
just going to say this: i miss snapping close the little metal shields on floppys.....nostalgic
I boycott them with the idea that I don't want any single company to become any sort of de facto resume & hiring service, which they already try to bill themselves as. Ostensibly, if you use their service, you don't need a resume or a list of references -- it's all right there!

I also have grave reservations about giving so much of my personal info (job, job history, colleagues, etc.) to a for-profit entity that has every motivation to capitalize on that data while having few reasons not to.

I'll network the old-fashioned way, thank you.
2FA is great, but it wouldn't save you here if you ask it to remember you for 30 days.
I'm pretty sure that "reasonable expectation
of privacy" is found no where in the
Constitution.

No, but it was established in Katz v. United States[1] as one part of a two-part test of whether a search is constitutional under the Fourth Amendment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz_v._United_States
phew, someone just automated it and is spamming you hard. this is interesting to watch, thanks :P
Aren't you already connected to your boss and other current work colleagues through, you know, work? I've only connected with current colleagues when I know they won't tattle, and never connected with a boss until I've given notice. If your main use case for LinkedIn is to find work through your connections (as it is for many people), it seems a little thoughtless to connect with people who not only won't help you find work, but will be unhappy to know that you're even looking.

EDIT: OK, I don't mind downvotes, but could you please explain why? After factoring in actual work hours, company social events/groups, water cooler/lunchroom chat, and internal company communication channels (email/phone/IM/etc), what sort of connection is missing that LinkedIn provides?
I'd say at least most HN'ers are on the ball. I glanced over that original headline and thought, "gee, let's go test our password by giving it to someone we don't know, that sounds like a good idea" (sarcasm detector explodes).
Yeah, and probably an American kid in the UK - and for sure in Eastern Europe where I currently reside - would be diagnosed with autism ;-) Too quiet, has no views or opinion of his own, sits still all day. ;-) I love it.

I remember my first days at the office in the US. I was like - am I in a mental institution with a band of cranky autistic adults now?

And for them I was waaay too crazy. Asked too many questions, talked too much, walked too much, "rocked the boat" too much.

Finally, they got really offended when I told them that I really came to believe they must be medicated or have some stuff added to water / food. ;-) And I loved that too.

I had a friend from LA visiting Poland. He used "dude this is intense" about 10 times an hour. He claimed people drive crazy here, say crazy stories, generally are crazy, and he was like - is that all for real?

Cultural differences can be huge factor in determining if someone mentally fit or not.
>For some people it's not about quality, that's for photographers. A lot of people just like memories and photos of the kids playing at this place and that place might not make great photos but they are still important to the people.

10 photos of an event or place will do. 500 or 1000 are not necessary, even if you do it for the "memories". If the memories where worthwhile, a few pictures can evoke them just fine. If they were not, one million pictures wouldn't help.

>My daughter takes photos of her pets all the time, her iPhone is full all the time. They aren't great photos and they are highly repetitive but they are important to her.

Well, teach her how to keep the best photos too.
Still, 'it depends'. Yeah, there are all sorts of reasons, depending on context (and plenty of people to argue all those reasons).

Personally, I agree with OP that nobody should ever use an ORM as an excuse to not know SQL. You need to know SQL anyway.

So, once we agree on that, your question "Is there any reason to use an ORM if I know SQL" (that's basically what you mean when you phrase it in the inverse "Is there any reason it would be suboptimal to NOT use an ORM", right?) -- basically just boils down to "Is there ever any reason to use an ORM?".

A topic which is basically the equivalent editor/OS war of db-based web development on HN or reddit. Meaning it's an argument that can and does go on forever, and you can find in-depth treatments of in many other threads.
This is a good thing. People are constantly telling the big media companies, musicians, film studios etc. that they need a new business model - maybe this is it.
Fair enough. Those are still generally on the order of very difficult, and certainly more difficult than doing none of those things at all.
Sure. Note also that CROSS APPLY allows you to retrieve multiple columns, unlike an in-SELECT subquery (unless you want to have that query written multiple times)
Seeing the screenshot (not having looked at the site or anything), the "see/edit this message" is pretty small. Everyone else isn't exaggerating when they say it is small.

I also think it's important to notice that the big, friendly button says "Agreed". "Agreed" doesn't lead me to think that it will send a message, just that I will vouch for them.
I prefer the German and Scandinavian descriptor "ecological food", rather than "organic food", partly for that reason.
don't credit them and say this is a hack....it's just phishing.
reproduced and confirmed.
One word: mutt.