skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly I agree. I'm not sure there's any way for you to guarantee the security of WP as long as users can install arbitrary plugins and themes. At least as WP is currently architected.

Insofar as there's a WPEngine specific piece of this problem, it's that (IMO) you guys don't do a great job of making users understand before they install that stuff that installing it can have severe consequences. If installing arbitrary plugins is how users get their sites hacked, installing arbitrary plugins (except maybe for a few whitelisted "known good" ones) should be a Very Scary Thing, full of dire warnings you have to click through before the plugin installs. Users mostly won't understand what the warnings are saying, but most have at least been conditioned to click "Cancel" when warnings start flying.

I've talked to a lot of people who think that just moving to WPEngine has solved security for them, so they don't get how their massive collection of Super Awesome Plugins are putting them at risk. They think you all are protecting them from that. Which you can't, I know, but you can make the users understand that better.
How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion
Countries Statistics API
Hi, I am looking for countries statistics like population, poverty level some kind a api for grab the datas. Is there any ? Thanks
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If you can cold call someone I feel it would make you better at networking as well. It is easy enough to just meet your friend's friends or other awkward programmers. However it is another thing to go to talk to a CEO.
google has a search app: (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-search/id284815942) and facebook has a "just share photos with your friends" app: (https://www.facebook.com/mobile/camera).

While you can bemoan feature creep all you want, the truth is that its hard to remove features one they are in (see http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html). On the other hand having a specialized tool for a common task is really handy. I like these specialized apps, (though I can't comment on LinkedIn's in particular).
Why would you add your current boss to LinkedIn to begin with?
Thanks for correcting me, both of you. Goes to show that you can't trust everything people say on the internet :-)

Seriously though, great work on your whole product suite! I keep finding myself going "I wish it would.... oh, it does.", and that's the kind of thing that will keep me around.

side note: when viewing a slice of the yahoo dataset plotted interactively in wakari, the zoom tool seems to completely crap out. the whole notebook hangs. updated chrome on win 7.
As I note elsewhere, also run the numbers on how much gun owners have invested in firearms. If, as one person did using the latest figures including the clearly too low ownership rate from surveys, the average is $100K then....
Star Wars FORCE will get you funded and more
Using NAT-based networking for the VMs should neatly solve the VPN issue.
For one, a built-in theme editor that exposes you to remote command execution in the presence of another vulnerability, such as cross-site scripting (XSS).
If you get enough RT's you can be answer as many Poetry Readings as you want... fair point.
This switch does not require SDN or OpenFlow. The idea is you run whatever OS on it you want that provides the features you need. For instance, you can go buy an OS from Cumulus (mentioned in the article) and run it on an ODM switch and run traditional routing protocols and topologies. It is only a matter of time before other somewhat traditional vendors start selling their OS for commodity hardware as well. Arista will likely be the first.
SQL is rarely about a lot more than CRUD and tables. I would think that over 95% of the SQL code ever written has been CRUD operations.

ORMs exist to simplify CRUD operations. If you are trying to do something that is a not a CRUD operation then you'd be mad to try and use an ORM to do it.
The Ultimate Guide to Ballin on a Budget as a Summer Intern in NYC
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This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers
I agree for this one integer, they obviously should have been using 64-bit. I just take issue with the implication that Blizzard is somehow at fault or unusual for (presumably) not running a 64-bit stack.

They made a mistake for sure, but 32-bit vs. 64-bit architectures should not be on trial.
Nest acquires MyEnergy
As a spam-filter to mail I want a spam-filter to aswhoiwant ;)
I haven't get an email yet either (wasn't in my spam folder and the whois details are correct). I hope that's not a sign of bigger issues.
I emailed you on April 30th with the following:

I recently applied to FD and it appears that you randomly
spammed 10 of my LinkedIn contacts. What the hell? Not cool.

That "line" definitely wasn't obvious to me. I originally dismissed the oversight as carelessness on my end, but the widespread outcry here leads me to believe the UI is likely deceiving.

I was highly embarrassed when I received a reply to one of the LinkedIn messages. And your failure to respond to my email only makes it worse.
I get a little too much spam from LinkedIn.
The default mail digest option is daily, and unless one changes it each time after joining a new group, one can expect an inbox flood
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What a stupid webpage! It looks like it wants to do some fancy javascript just to show an image that should be: <img src="URL">
> to my understanding, anywhere outside of the US, not just Canada – Amazon is next to useless

No it's not. In France they are fantastic. The product selection is very narrow, yes, but everything else is perfect, namely:

- delivery time and accuracy

- customer service

I once bought a kitchen appliance that my kids broke by letting it fall on the floor. I told Amazon that I would like to buy the part that was broken and they said "we'll just send you a complete product as a replacement, free of charge". The new product came in the very next day.

After a life of having to deal with French retailers this feels like landing on Mars, if Mars had rivers of milk and honey.
What are current revenues if you don't mind me asking?
I'm already doing something like this for my personal money. Getting a forecast every couple of days.

https://github.com/Swizec/Personal-Runway

Have been trying to come up with a way to turn this into a product for over a year now. A service for SaaS owners ... might not be a bad idea.
That she's young and female is interesting...but I really love how her idea was thought up the night before and swiftly implemented...what a prime example of how fixing an itch that everyone else is too lazy to scratch can be more compelling than trying to come up with an elaborate, but contrived project
It's very difficult and bordering on impossible to get an internal floppy drive in a modern pc. Probably the best bet is digging up a IDE LS-120 drive somewhere and using it through a PCI IDE controller.
Maybe those are the premium features...
I had a very good mix of science in CEGEP that, say, a software engineer from ETS completely missed.

I think that a lot of what you learn in the SE curriculum can be learnt (and probably is better learnt) on the job, as opposed to the very theoretical courses in a CS curriculum that a) cannot be learnt easily by one's self or on the job and b) will last a lifetime.

In 2006-7, it would have been much more useful nowadays for someone to learn about machine learning in an AI class than about rational rose and the waterfall process, and I suspect the same applies now in the CS vs SE debate, except with updated technologies.
Not exactly the same thing, but I have long said that if Joan of Arc were alive today, they would be adjusting her meds to make the voices go away instead of following her into battle while she played handmaiden to the birth of modern France.
"Building apps this way makes them highly cachable. It''s trivial to deploy this app on a CDN."

Building apps any way makes them cachable. I don't get it. The app could be 50mb and the browser would still cache it.

"A mobile HTML5 app should probably never be over 1.44MB. If it doesn't fit on a floppy its probably too big. Bonus for fitting on an 8"."

Why? And why would you get bonus points for making it 700kb or less? This isn't 1983. Worrying about bandwidth, memory, and processing power (in user space) is no longer relevant. Instead, worry about scalability, cross-platform compatibility, code practices, etc, etc.

Size should be the last thing on your mind. And setting arbitrary limits (1.44mb) is just silly. Calling this kind of exercise in futility "practical" is even sillier.

"Impresses hipsters."

Ah yes. That explains the up-votes.
For accounting, why not just use scaled integers? Isn't there a limit to many many digits you want after the period? BTW, I think BCD is outmoded. Seems it's getting replace by DPD which has far less overhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal#Higher-den...).
Since your service is invite-only, why don't you post a screenshot of the page in question? If a significant portion of posters think the page is deceptive, maybe that's an indication that your UI is the problem, not the user.
Nice. If you use the second variant you have to click an a test case to see which arguments have been passed to the constructor of Thing. Just from the tabular view most test cases look identical.
> There is nothing sneaky about it.

There really is. The fact that you either don't realize this, or care to admit it, is cause for concern. The email being sent out to your users' contacts is highly personal, and one very few people would be comfortable with.

> If someone doesn't read the line "this will send a message" there isn't much we can do about that.

How far would you extend this logic? That is to say, how much can be justified by saying someone "missed the fine print"? In my opinion you clearly crossed a line here, just not a legal one.
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>And EU has the regulations in place, as opposed to USA

You don't think the USA has food regulations?
Appeal to nature fallacy, not moralistic fallacy:

Appeal to nature: an argument or rhetorical tactic in which it is proposed that "a thing is good because it is 'natural', or bad because it is 'unnatural'" -- the word 'natural' here has no notion of morality

Moralistic fallacy: a fallacy of assuming that what is desirable is found or inherent in nature. It presumes that what ought to be—something deemed preferable—corresponds with what is or what naturally occurs. What should be moral is assumed a priori to also be naturally occurring.

Though, you may also be confusing appeal to nature fallacy with the naturalistic fallacy (I made that mistake myself, and corrected it in an edit 3-4 minutes of my having posted the above comment).

Anyway though, getting back to the topic at hand: is it really a worthwhile exercise identifying these non-severe mental disorders as a real problem? The latest revision of DSM identifies a good few many hundred disorders, the average individual has 5-20 mental disorders as they would be identified by the DSM. At this point an individual with no disorders at all whatsoever is the strange individual ('in a world where everyone is special, no-one is').
This is so true.

The last thing I've recently bought at a retailer other than amazon felt like a hassle.

I decided to buy some glasses from "39 dollar glasses".com -- they offered overnight shipping, which is something I've gotten used to thanks to Amazon.

I've been sitting in my office all day waiting for them to get here, and they haven't, so I got on their website and talked to a person via chat. I found out that they ship 2nd air...but only after a 3-5 day order processing time.

To somebody used to shopping on amazon, that seems completely preposterous. That seems especially insane given that I paid almost $20 for the shipping.

Half the stuff I order on amazon I get delivered on the same day.

Going to some other retailer and finding out that my order won't get here until next week has turned from "normal for ordering things online" to "an awful experience".

--

Obviously amazon doesn't sell glasses, but my point is that unless somebody can offer at least the service level that amazon does, I won't shop with them for anything ever.
Hey folks! I'm happy to answer questions about this if you've got 'em of if you're in SF next week you should stop by our Middleman hackathon. The creator of Middleman will be there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/194420917372942/ is the registration link.
As frustrating as it is, actor/observer asymmetry[1] is a reality and you can't simply say it's "unacceptable" unless you're willing to find a lot of people's normal behavior to be "unacceptable". It's a line that if you draw, it becomes hard to not appear dickish in normal situations.

Because sadly, everyone abuses actor/observer bias.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_asymmetr...
Not for a public C corp. They must maximize shareholder value, or a minority shareholder could sue and win.

Patagonia changed their corporate structure to a California B corp to allow this.
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I'll get right on that and recommend that to my parents. :P It is interesting the recent research on psychotropics, though.
Have you ever checked out Meteor? It'd be cool to implement this on it.
That sounds even worse. The company is aware if I don't use a benefit, such as spyware from Spotify? Perhaps not if the same gifts are awarded to multiple people at the same time.
thanks! now if only i can prevent the spam...
> Why does the fact that the farmer is next to you have anything to do with his process?

It doesn't. It does, however, have everything to do with discovering what that process is. I walk up to a farmer at a local farmer's market and say, "Hey, do you feed your cows chicken shit?... No? Cool, can I buy some steaks from you?"

Obviously there's better ways to present the question, but you get the point. It's far easier to discover the process directly (and IMO more reliable) than to follow the supermarket->distributer->packager->slaughterhouse->farmer chain to find out what the process is.
The purpose of LinkedIn is to connect in the business world, I don't know a single user who doesn't connect to their current colleagues, including their boss.
i was wondering the same. working perfectly for me as well..

seems its just cool to post things like that without bothering to test if it, in fact, does work.
I can't find it now, but my favorite such site was one that just took your password and replied with, "This password is completely insecure, because you just gave it away to a random web site on the internet."
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I am sure an USB 3.0 (Thunderbolt would be even better) floppy disk drive will solve that issue!
just copy the content to your hdd? and back for permanent changes - is that a big problem for you? this way at least you can satisfy your fetish for floppy disks :D
Ask HN: What's the best Google Reader replacement?
Now that we've had time for things to shake out, what's the consensus on best replacement for Google Reader?
It seems odd to have an environment that you are 100% in control of, and then relish the times when it does unexpected things.
IndieGoGo and other alternatives to Kickstarter do exist.
Complaints such as "Sadly, I didn't take a screenshot of the suggestion I apply to work as a SAP consultant in Germany, though I don't speak German or have the word 'SAP' on my profile. "

The thing to keep in mind is that LinkedIn's job, in this area, is to offer great options to advertisers. On Facebook I can put an advert out targeting a specific age, a specific city, and specific interests. Or I can just target... a huge number of people. If I do the latter, do you blame Facebook for not using their data properly?

I've never advertised on LinkedIn. Maybe it's awful, it could well be. But seeing badly targeted adverts means absolutely nothing.
This is exactly the problem- they choose to ignore / attempt to discredit the people giving them an early warning that this is "Not cool" / deceptive.
can you limit the posts?
i like the comments idea!
You could try scraping the CIA World Factbook, which should have all of that information. There's no formal API, but someone has written a scraper[0] that you could rerun to get newer data (or, for that matter, you could write your own scraper).

[0]: https://github.com/twigkit/worldfactbook-dataset
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Sure- if using databases isn't an everyday task for you it's understandable. But this guy used them every day, without knowing what was actually going on when he called .Save()
Yup! =)
I made an account on name.com 5 days ago. Anybody know when the breach happened?
I also found it interesting how vague they were in "implementing additional security measures". I would hope that they've identified and fixed the core security issue that HTP exploited, and that these extra measures aren't simply asking their customers to change their passwords.

They also only mention personal information theft, while there was also supposedly a risk of configuration changes to domains hosted there.... were they able to track any malicious changes? Or are they confident none happened? Or did they have no idea about the breach until HTP publicized it? More information would certainly help my confidence with them as a registrar.
I guess that it isn't something you intended, but you've build great entertainment site. As your user I want you to archive these pearls of humour and let me upvote'em. Time to pivot ;)
Liked the pimped Bootstrap!
You used to get all of QNX including the GUI shell and the web browser on a floppy.
No, they frequently don't. They depend on trust, not authority. People respect leaders because they demonstrate good leadership. Not because they arbitrarily claim authority.
I can't decide what amazes me more: that you think the described behavior is acceptable, or that you think writing this comment will somehow help your case.
I think his first point is not about the file size but about the fact that it need to be static content (or content that use jsonp on an external server).
That way you can drop it on any CDN and it will still work.
The Exit Trap
He opted in for one action, and was signed up for two actions. How is the second action considered opt-in?

He clearly did not give his full consent because the UI was designed to bury the thing that he would have explicitly opted-out of.
> This isn't 1983. Worrying about bandwidth, memory, and processing power (in user space) is no longer relevant.

Except not everyone is running a top of the line desktop in a first world country. Even in a first world country you have people on older laptops, slower internet, or even metered internet.

Minimizing the size of your app is still a worthy goal. Maybe not to the level pushed in the article.
The OP and several other people on this thread have identified real problems with your service's integration with LinkedIn. They clearly feel a line has been crossed.

Instead of blaming users, how about stepping up to the plate, and addressing the problem?
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Great question, here is how we approached this:

My best advice is not to drop your work for as long as you can
until you see traction. In our case, Joel only stopped working after
we hit ~$1k in monthly revenues.
(read: http://joel.is/post/6687368692/startup-bootstrapping) and I
only dropped out of College a lot later after Buffer actually had
already received funding and was supporting a team of 5.

I think the key might be to only drop your work once your
revenues are enough to support you. So I would try and make that
window almost 0, in our case working nights and weekends is a
great way to get there.
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> But seeing badly targeted adverts means absolutely nothing.

You don't think that advertisers are willing to pay more for well-targeted ads? This is a strong sign that LinkedIn is not leveraging their data as well as they could.
I don't see people complaining about all the video games they have kickstarted to get whatever 1995 Cult Hit Part 4 made by an established well known developer from that era. Why does it have to be different for movies.
Alright so I believe you're correct, again with respect to federal guidelines, and that the state guidelines are murky. I believe I may have to rescind my post at the top of this thread according to my friend, whose name I'll redact for his privacy:

"It's funny -- one of the ideas I had batted around with my publisher for a second book was a history of wiretapping. :-) But, I never got around to doing any research and don't know the definitive answers to your questions off hand.

In the thread you linked to below, mrexroad is correct about the Communications Act of 1934 (and section 605) being the first wiretapping federal law, at least that I'm aware of. And Olmstead is indeed a seminal case in the field, but whether it was the first, I don't know. The American Bar Association article he linked to seems pretty definitive.

I had not ever heard the theory that wiretap/eavesdropping laws originated due to party lines. Not saying it isn't true, just that I've never heard that."

So that's that. I'll have to blame some of the old engineers I talked to at AT&T for my miseducation, although they may have been referring to local (non-federal) laws.

This has been fun :).
Of all the animals, I get the feeling trying to regulate what goats or pigs eat is going to be a loss. Pigs have been used as "garbage disposals" for a long time by many groups. There is a decent historical reason for some religions to ban the eating of such animals. Parts of the Old Testaments are after all a health manual for their time period.
Thanks for the mention! I love seeing examples of what people are building out there. Some crafty visitor was spamming the list with scripted entries and the updates were buttery smooth :)
Yes, he opted in to "vouch for" those people. A ethical UX designer would have shown a modal showing the full message with the list of people it would go to BEFORE sending it on the user's behalf.
You can't sign your rights away, and "we own all of IP you produce past, present and future," is a forsaking of rights that would naturally be exercisable by the person signing the contract.

Employment agreements are also subject to contract law concepts such as consideration[1], which would come into play when someone stops and asks "what's in it for me?" A single job as described at the beginning of the relationship through the employment agreement is probably not going to be seen as valuable enough for someone to have legitimately signed away his future productivity.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration
Or for Java.
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