skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual dates you'll be staying might also be helpful.
People were mostly talking about drive-by infections and the fact that an unpatched Windows machine idling on the Internet could be infected in an hour or so.

There's nothing anyone can do if a user installs software. UNIX design or not, if the user runs a program, it can access everything that the user can. Nothing that this malware did needed special access (e.g. root exploit).
What would you say is a better alternative to donate to?
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Pretty much. My friends found that the game wore very quickly compared to Apples to Apples. Pick the most offensive one, it'll win. Down to luck really.
I love the game in small doses, but it's very obvious there wasn't much diversification in the team that made it. Not because it would have curbed the offensiveness, but because after two or three hours of playing [as happens in larger groups], and even with hundreds of cards and endless combinations, the formula of offensive card (either based on history, internet humor or shaming) + offensive card just isn't funny anymore and people become bored. They'd have benefited from including different folks so that the jokes were different and meant different things to different people. Part of the fun/unexpected educational aspect is learning what the cards are referring to if you don't know (forcing people to learn about things outside of their worldview in an effort to make them funnier is a great incentive).

As it stands, if you're not a gamer, aware of internet culture or you don't find tragedies hilarious, you may have a hard time finding enjoyment from it.
Everything's relative except c.

Best I could do.
For those curious, the FAQ says that this should be addressed in the future (it presently sends HTML to search engines if the spiderable package is installed.)

>A future version of Meteor will also send HTML to web browsers on inital page load. The Meteor templating system was designed specifically to support this use case.
I am going to have to call bull on that.

Here is the original EFF donation page:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110514012705/https://www.eff.or...

It contains the bitcoin address.

Here is the history for that address:
https://blockchain.info/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2...

Which as you can see received a total of 3,515.077 BTC. This is still a lot and is worth over $400k today, but way short of your 20,000.

FYI, here is the original discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20185.0

edit: That discussion was right after the first bitcoin bubble and at the time it was trading for around $17 so the total donations that they were talking about was about $60k. Still a lot of money to be going to the faucet (and down the drain?).
Regardless of how current your company/product may be, there's a clear reason why you don't see any other companies advertising roles on the front page.

These posts should be restricted to the monthly Who's Hiring thread.
No, my boyfriend (now husband) has been my co-founder for 3 years now.
Yes actually. I don't seek confrontation, but I prefer a world wherein men can settle differences with fists instead of weapons or court rooms.
Kickstarter is a huge topic on BoardgameGeek.com. It's everywhere, and tends to dominate the discussions of new titles. It's all over the site, but the concentrated discussion is here:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/915012/kickstarter/genera...
JetBrains tools are the only software I happily pay to use. Their support, though not nearly perfect, is by far better than any other software I paid for.

I hope Google and JB can work together to do a nice job and provide a better development experience for Android.
Those bits are my favorite parts!
I work for a lottery that sells the type of tickets you're referring to i.e. a set amount of tickets a business purchases knowing how many of each winner is in the box. Only the business that purchased the box could cash winning tickets, each batch of tickets had a unique serial number.

The tickets have recently been changed with a new feature a barcode which allows the ticket to be cashed at any store that sells lottery products.
Spear fishing seems to a big problem these days. Not sure if there is any other way to stop it except to educate people not to click on links in email or to sandbox and totally lock up the system like the iOS App Store and Windows Store do. If you can install Firefox, you can install malware.
I think IBM watson is showing us that it's possible to build a great search engine with no privacy issues.
HI Matt, I'm in San Jose for the next few days and would love to meet you at an event or something? talk about spam and the up coming updates, especially since were from the other side of the world (London), are you at any events that we could meet at, were here attending the bitcoin2013 and ieee, if your interested.
I read about a different study some time ago (apologies, I've completely forgotten the title, authors or even field) which basically said that twins separated at birth ended up with relatively similar abilities and personalities regardless of whether they were raised in different households with different income levels, parenting styles, diets, etc.

In other words, much of it comes down to genetics. I have no idea the relevance of this idea or even of its validity, but it makes me wonder if the causation they speak of here between parents of a certain personality and their children has any ties to the inherited genetic characteristics rather than the nurturing of the child.

And yes, some of your personality traits may have been affected, but you will be a different person every 5 years anyway; walk in that direction and you will get closer to where you want to be.
Thanks for the reply. Look forward to the next post. I guess I prefer to be bogged down, or at least have the ability to go deeper off some tangent and then be able to return to the main lesson.
Gatekeeper really can't do much against a spear phishing attack. If someone's running a scam specifically to target a single person or a small group of people, and has spent the time and energy figuring out how to get them to open a malicious file, having an Apple ID is a $100 speed bump.

Gatekeeper is meant to prevent a wide-ranging attack. If you've got someone custom crafting an attack vector for you specifically, you've got some serious problems. I don't think Gatekeeper adds any more false security than an antivirus app would, and I don't know of any software that'd prevent an attack like this.

At best, it adds a small amount of information for authorities to try to track the attack. I doubt it'll be fruitful, but it's better than nothing.
Ditto. Even if it was just mostly a jab at the stereotypical 'American white male' stereotype, I'm really not fond of people depicting 'minorities' like me (and women) like poor overly sensitive PC types. If anything, it's probably less likely to offend minorities, cause a lot of other countries really aren't so paranoid about being PC like the US is. I mean, there is a fine line between dark humor and offensiveness, but we'll let you know when you cross it; please don't speak for everyone.
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Worse, as you would expect. 15.2% wasted floor space vs 3.7% with 40x48 pallets. See here: http://www.ncagr.gov/markets/international/documents/PalletI...
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Really skeptical about this. Taking a look at their block chain, doesn't look like they've ever received a donation of that size: https://blockchain.info/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2...

And EFF are denying that they've ever had anything near to 20k bitcoins on Twitter: https://twitter.com/evacide/status/335461080220454913

Apparently they determined that selling them (at the time) could have crashed the market.
Though I understand the point you are trying to make, and agree with it as well, lets please not have novelty accounts here.
I'm shocked--shocked!--that the guys behind Cards Against Humanity responded rudely to your attempt to piggyback off their idea.

Here's an idea: go build your own brand!
As this is a rather one-sided story, I'm inclined to disagree based on my experience with them.

Me and a buddy of mine are really big CAH fans, and we had been playing on a set of cards that he printed and cut at that point. We had also been meaning to start a project together, so to test the waters, we started working on a digital version of CAH that would be open sourced and could be freely enjoyed by everyone.

I made the wise decision to reach out and get their blessing before we really began working on it, and one of the founders replied in short order, essentially telling us that we couldn't go ahead with our project because they wanted to control what was released. It's been a while since the correspondence happened, so please excuse my memory, but it was something to that effect.

However, they were very courteous and concise the entire time, and were not even close to being rude. So I find your account a bit hard to believe.
Google doesn't do that. http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/
"We don’t sell users’ personal information."
good article. also:

"the lottery is a tax for people bad at math." - some dude.
If he can consistently reproduce the $41 return, he has it made.

He just needs to aggregate bundles of lottery tickets and sell them to investors looking for a guaranteed -60% return, and then pocket the extra 1%.
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"The scary part of Glass-like devices taken to their logical conclusion for me isn't the little individual invasions of privacy (though those are also unfortunate), but the massive amount of real-time, real-world information collected in the aggregate."

As opposed to the world without Google Glass, where people are constantly taking pictures in public and then uploading those pictures to Facebook? Honestly, singling out Google Glass is just a diversion, probably driven by Google's competitors who could not see how a head-mounted display could be useful.
See https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy

Example:

>> r = envoy.run('uptime | pbcopy')
If that's actually a rule, it should be added to the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As far as I know, the guys don't have a top-down structure, so they're unable to make calls like that individually - and besides, they're hustlers. They made CaH in-house, bootstrapped, and entirely by-hand. It's not narcissistic to want to do things yourself, but it is possible to erroneously think that "anyone can do it". I've sensed a bit of that from the founders, but honestly - it's motivational for me to hear that, and while I would hope not to be dismissive or inflated if I had similar success, I also certainly think we need more people saying, "Why the hell not just do it yourself? Why raise money? Build it tomorrow!"

Also, you were expecting something other than vulgarity from the founders of a game like that? They have a brand to uphold, after all. I don't think it's necessary to be rude, but that's precisely in line with their entire "brand voice".
This is super janky (sorry if anyone here made it), but there's an online version here -- http://pyz.socialgamer.net/game.jsp
Hacker News, two years ago: "God, I can't believe EFF stopped taking bitcoin! I'm not donating to them again until they do."

Hackner News today: "I can't believe EFF had the gall to start taking bitcoin again! Definitely not giving them a cent."
We really do believe in offering "Fanatical Support". Mark is a shining example of Rackspace ideals. On behalf of Rackspace, I'd like to offer a sincere apology for your poor experience with us.

I'd like to learn more about your experience with us and figure out how we can improve. Would you mind emailing help@rackspace.com with your details?
To me he comes off as very nervous and awkward in front of a camera, and in that way reminds me of an early bill gates. I'm sure in time he can evolve that style if he wants to, but he doesn't really own the screen at this point.
The rays that come from each rock move only so fast. They take time to get from the rock to Dana or Bert. And it is only by when those rays get to Dana or Bert that they can say if they were at the same time, or one and then the next.

Now. Bert is on the bus. It goes, let us say, from west to east on the road. Bert is half way from the west rock to the east rock when each rock hits land -- but he is on the move, and when the rays from the east rock hit his eyes he has gone some way east. The rays from the west rock have not yet got to him. Then, just a tad more time, and the rays from the west rock get to Bert's eyes.

But Dana does not move. She sits by the road. The rays from the west rock and the east rock hit her at the same time: each rock is, say, a yard from her, one west and one east.

So Dana sits and does not move; she sees the rays from each rock at the same time. Bert is on the bus, and goes from west to east; he sees the rays from the east rock and then the rays from the west rock.

And all that is fine. They both know that Dana does not move and Bert does. So they will say that each rock hit at the same time, for Dana (who did not move) saw them hit at the same time.

But (and this is the bit that may fry your mind) we can just as well say that Bert does not move and Dana does move! And then we will have to say that the east rock hit and then the west rock! How can that be?

We must say, even if you find it odd, that "did the east rock hit, then the west? or the west, then the east? or both at once?" just goes one way for Dana and not that way for Bert. Just like "is this rock to the east or to the west?" may not go the same way for both, if they are not at the same site.

(You are not dumb. This is hard. It took Al to work it out!)
>I don't think Gatekeeper adds any more false security than an antivirus app would, and I don't know of any software that'd prevent an attack like this.

It helps if you're using a non-rooted Chromebook, iDevice or WindowsRT device. Then the attackers have to look for exploits in the mail client/OS instead of just sending a link to a .dmg or .exe.
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This should be the translation:

for d in *
test -d $d
or continue
begin
cd $d
time-consuming-task-1
time-consuming-task-2
end &
end

However it errors; seems you can't do `end &`. Probably a bug; I'll report it. When fixed, I imagine we could actually do it even better with fish:

for d in *
if test -d $d
cd $d
time-consuming-task-1
time-consuming-task-2
end &
end
AmEx also offers a lot of other benefits for the consumer like lengthier chargeback periods and free extended warranties. They'll provide warranty coverage for a year past the manufacturer's warranty on items purchased with the card for no cost; it's the reason I put all my big ticket electronics purchases on my AmEx.
I absolutely love Shut Up and Sit Down, I followed Quinns over from Rock Paper Shotgun and have enjoyed the videos very much since. I'm very happy to hear you're profitable already.

I would love to see what the Quinns and Paul think of Machine Of Death, a similarly mega-funded card game Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234131468/machine-of-de...) when it arrives.
> Every argument is trivial to win if you first convert your opponent into Mecha-Hitler.

The problem with this metaphor is that Mecha-Hitler's early studies were in rhetoric and formal logic, making him a skilled opponent in arguments of all kinds. It was only later, after the infamous radiation-and-remechanization incident during which his personality module was irreparably damaged, that his resulting monstrous disfigurements led people to believe him a simpleton, easily defeated in arguments.

But I suspect that what people are concerned about regarding Google is whether it's best represented by the powerful and happy-go-lucky pre-incident Mecha-Hitler or by the powerful and scheming post-incident Mecha-Hitler.

Without examining the personality module, how can you tell for sure?
http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2012/03/devoxx-2011-talk-freely-a... has a demo in the video
It's the same with slot machines penny may be 80% (payback) but $1, $5 and up may be 96% but that's over a million or even ten million spins.
I'm confused as to why you want any group to represent you whose job isn't to represent you.
A bit confused, but curious: you guys are essentially curating board games to promote and sell, am I right?

I'm just trying to figure out if you guys make them or just talk about them. :) Either way, a lot of great content on there.
While it doesn't literally cost the charity anything this go-around, it is pretty unseemly behavior in a charity event. If I was a player in said charity's poker tournament and saw the organizers gaming the system to their own profit, I would be much less inclined to come back to next year's tournament. Many of these tournaments see lots of return players year to year, and it is in their interest to create an environment that maximizes the feelgood effect on players and charity donations. Many players will donate winnings back to the charity. Somehow it seems like these clever folks who are trying to outsmart the charity's game might not be so altruistic.
The charity is going to get the same no matter what. All of the variations of this I've seen works this way:

A charity approaches a bar with a box of tickets with the total of the ticket face value of X. The total prizes are in the range of X/4 to X/3. The bar buys the whole box for X/2 and keeps all of the proceeds.

Or, to put it another way:

There are 2000 tickets and each ticket costs $1. The bar buys the whole box for $1000, which goes directly to the charity. The total prizes in the box is $500. The bar sells the tickets out bringing in $2000, pays out $500 in winning tickets, recovers the $1000 paid to the charity and keeps the remaining $500 as profit. Then they call up the charity for another box.

Most of the boxes come with displays that list out the various prizes and most places will cross out the big ones when they're paid out... mostly so they employees can keep track and buy out the box when there's a favorable amount of big tickets left.
I wonder if there's any sort of somewhat even distribution to the winning tickets. If it's entirely random, there's shouldn't be. However, I knew a guy who worked at a gas station and he'd watch whenever people bought a bunch of tickets. If they scratched them off right there and didn't win anything, he'd buy the next few tickets. I believe he spent about $50-$100/week, but regularly won about $150/week.
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Here's some inspiration. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/17/robert-nay-bubble-b...

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/01/24/from-zero-to-angry...

Alot depends on type of game you want to build.
Point of interest: google has owned an Alpha fighter jet for years

http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-fighter-jet-to-air-f...
Just be warned, don't mass apply its result, double check or you may have a disaster.
>Especially when combined with copious amounts of beer and the right kind of friends.

There's a brewpub local to me that has CAH nights.
Gitty - GitHub for iPhone
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I wonder why they have not implemented that from the beginning. Right now rendering the initial page with JavaScript feels non-native, like a Flash plug-in. I suspect that it will be even more noticeable for large web applications.
It was. Windows has since improved its security by a large amount. Windows XP and Windows 7 are two completely different beasts, and even XP is far more hardened than it was at release. (I'm not an expert, but I'd point to the ASLR in Vista as the harbinger of improved Windows security.)

Now the malware problems on both platforms rarely rely on privilege escalation. They use trojan horses instead, and wait for you to install them.
No, we're talking about social engineering and the principle is the same regardless of whether it's e-mail or websites. You take a page -be that of an e-mail or website- make it look legitimate, and get people to follow dodgy links or download dodgy programs. You see the same thing with Facebook malware as well (which spreads by social engineering). So maybe we should close Facebook apps down.....actually, I'd be in favour of that last point hehehe.

Claiming this is a straw man argument only demonstrates how unwilling you are to view this from another's perspective. At least I've listened to your arguments and come up with potential workarounds.
10 women out of 40 are women is prrrrobably a higher proportion than most tech companies, no?

This strikes me as being a little bit...weird, and could maybe put women off..? Perhaps it could be explained in a more robust manner than saying they have excellent planning skills and have "exceptional minds" as if it's some sort of universal truth. It comes across as sounding artificial and...weird.
The foundational layer goes away over time. Everyone's app gets better/stronger/fast :) The opinionated sugaring layer on top of Web Components (the Polymer layer) won't go away.

That said, one goal is to have a continuous feedback loop with standards bodies to get things spec'd out if it makes sense to add them to the web platform. Similar to how querySelector landed after jQuery made it "a thing".
My favorite for #4 is Google's +1. You need a Google Plus account. +1 is like Facebook like, only it boosts the ranking of that link whenever you are logged in and search. Not every page has a +1 button, but there is a chrome plugin for that. Side effect: the links you +1 are boosted for your G+ friends too, so the bookmarks are sort of public.
You mean IRC?
"I'd be really uncomfortable if I was standing at a urinal and someone was next to me still wearing Google Glass."

What if that person is deaf, and Glass is doing speech-to-text for them, helping them get through their day? What if they are a foreigner, and Glass is translating signs, instructions, and spoken language for them?

There are a lot of good uses for Google Glass that should not be ignored just because it has a camera and a microphone. Privacy concerns are no greater for Glass than for any smartphone -- significant, sure, but nothing new. It's just a smartphone in a different form factor.
That's a highly UNIX-centric attitude. There is no reason in general that an app should be able to access everything the user can access. For example, Mac and iOS apps cannot access the user's contacts without the user's explicit permission, even though the user can access the Contacts app themselves just fine.

The idea that all apps run under a single "user" and all share the permissions of that "user" is just how UNIX does it, not how things must work. I don't think we've figured out proper app sandboxing yet (Mac, iOS, and Android all have their problems with it, and differently) but it seems to be the way to go.
One of the founders says the article's financial speculation is "wildly incorrect"

https://twitter.com/MaxTemkin/status/335124440469876737
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Is there any Perl code inside by any chance? :)
That's unfortunate. I have the opposite anecdote - they've been extremely kind and responsive every time I've been in touch.
Because it wasn't a false flag operation perpetrated by the government, it was just a normal act of violence that happens every day across the country. Sandy Hook = False flag operation to start disarming the populace. Boston = False flag operation to see how easy it would be to declare martial law in a major US city. =)