skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theorem: Evil Microsoft is a despicable liar.

Proof:

Microsoft asserts:
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Does Skype use encryption? - Support - Skype

"All Skype-to-Skype voice, video, and instant message conversations are encrypted. This protects you from potential eavesdropping by malicious users."

Did this answer your question?

--Microsoft(Skype FAQ)

https://support.skype.com/faq/FA31/does-skype-use-encryption

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Proof by contradiction:

Evidence of COUNTER EXAMPLES:

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"Since its acquisition of Skype in May 2011, Microsoft has added a legitimate monitoring technology to the tool", says newspaper's undisclosed source in Kremlin. "Now any user can be switched to a special mode where the encryption keys are generated on a server rather than on the user's phone or computer". Microsoft has been providing this technology to security services across the world, including Russia.

This is not the first time

That's not the first time we hear about Skype breaching privacy.
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There's been reports that Skype is being listened to in China
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We all know that Microsoft has replaced Skype "supernodes" with Linux boxes moving from p2p-architecture to a more traditional one.
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It's been discovered that some web-bot with a Redmond IP-address crawls all https-links you post into a Skype conversation (here's the source translated from German).
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Jeffrey Nokel from the University of New Mexico has discovered that the Chinese installer even comes with a keylogger that "listens" to some specific "bad" words and combinations and sends them to the secret service later...
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Skype leaks your location
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And the list continues....

http://blog.jitbit.com/2013/05/skype-spying-on-you-in-russia...

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...And so, Microsoft ruins Skype

"let's see if they crawl this."

Adam Back, and The H Security have confirmed the back door, I was still shocked when Guan later dumped the following from his access log:

65.52.100.214 - - [20/May/2013:13:04:11 +0000] "HEAD /skypetest HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "-" "guan.dk"

" ...our worst fears have become reality. Microsoft have absolutely no good intentions, or at least none which are backed by morals, and so they have now effectively ruined Skype.

My time as a Skype user is coming to a grinding halt as soon as I find a completely end-to-end encrypted alternative — and, for your own sake, I seriously hope that you consider going down the same path.

http://bruun.co/2013/05/20/and-so-microsoft-ruins-skype
Clarification - the OP is asking for good places to hire, not to find work.
Pointless article. The author gave a talk at a high tech company, some coders in the audience described how they wrote code, which reminded her of a small subset of the autism spectrum, thus Silicon Valley is powered by an autistic way of thinking? Doesn't make any sense.

To me it looks like it's a desperate attempt by the author to make her book appear relevant to tech workers.
Is "Don't be evil" just a joke or was it actually the motto of Google?
I'm sure it's been there a while, but I just noticed it recently as well. Cute.
Good on your for being here and looking for suggestions.

Never used your service, but I did use 99designs to design and build a site recently. And I can tell you that as soon as I got my design, I told the designer to email me and then I payed him through paypal for the design and for the website work. I was out some money to 99designs, but I was happier that random Indian dude got most of the money.

I think I have an account with freelancer.com, but the site comes off as so bloated to me that you need to be a regular to really navigate through it.
For reference, among others:

http://htmldog.com/

http://www.cssdog.com/css_intro.html
Discussion is currently split between:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770316 (19 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5771413 (13 comments)

Alternate sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770284

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5772544
Yep. My cofounder did a ton of user testing. One guy, as he was doing a shopping-related search on Google, said, "You want to know the secret of Google? Ignore the left side of the page. The good stuff is the little things over on the right."
Cutting through the hype: highlights from innovation conference 2013
seems to have been considered, but there is too much vendor-locking

http://www.dw.de/de-maizieres-euro-hawk-problems-drone-on/a-...
Why New Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook HQs Are Negative Indicators
Sorry, should have said gov. When the Chinese Gov doesn't like what people are tweeting about they just delete millions of tweets and pretend it didn't happen.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442620
The avalanche explanation does not seem to be very viable for modern investigators of this mystery. The information sources in English are scarce, unfortunately, you have to read Russian discussions of the incident.
A few decades ago, there was published a book that popularized the avalanche theory, and the book was translated into English too. However, many people including the participants of the search expedition are saying that it could not be an avalanche. The ski poles were standing around the tent vertically, not affected by the avalanche. There is an evidence that the tent was not really covered with thick snow, and there was a flashlight laying on top of this snow (belonged to the group leader Igor Dyatlov). The slope is not steep at all, maybe 15-20 degrees. There were found footprints of 8-9 people walking away from the tent in organized ordered fashion. It could not happen if 3 or 4 of them were heavily injured by an avalanche. Even if there was some sort of avalache in the area, it just does not explain the whole crazyness, imho. And it is very unlikely that just a noise could make 9 sane people run away from their only shelter, without putting on any warm clothes or boots.. yes, most of them were walking down the hill with only socks on their feet.
In my opinion, it is more likely that they were killed by another group of people, but there is no direct evidence of that either.

There are many other theories and possible explanations. The UFO theory is absurd of course, but, you know, people come up with such bizarre explanations because reasonable explanations are not very believable either. This is why many people are still trying to solve the mistery, they make expeditions in the area of Dyatlov Pass, trying to understand what could happen there in 1959. Probably, only new declassified documents, if there will be any, can shed some light on this mystery..

Btw, you can look at the photos taken by the group members (from the films found in their cameras):
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/aleksej-koskin/album/159799/
Hi, just for clarification I am not affiliated with stampready and/or email on acid. Saw that, found it interesting and wanted to share. And there were quotation marks around the title when I posted, wonder why they disappeared?

edit:
holy hell, whole title is edited! Original title was:
"How Email On Acid stole worth over $20.000."
In many ways cooking is a form of "hacking" and creating, a form of human ingenuity that has very concrete and practical applications...

You take raw materials, in themselves nutritious but unappetizing, and create a final product that looks and feel completely different, and manages to be satisfying in addition to being functional and necessary to survival.

Making something like bread starting from flour, yeast and water... what a brilliant hack!

Since I have started looking at cooking from this point of view I have been hooked.
However we could still discern a great deal from the data given in the graph.

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-to-read-an-unlabeled-sales-cha...
Walks And Walking - Malvern Walking Festival 2013
Most programmers would throw fits over my code. They are monkeys -- cannot think for themselves, or do not understand the purpose.

I hate India-niggers -- obnoxious. By culture, or something, they are all arrogant and usually do not know their place in the IQ pecking order.

I should have nothing to do with ASCII, UTF would be most logical, but it's nasty. Fuck the scribbles.

If you make a clean break, all kinds of opportunities open. The niggers could never fathom nonASCII -- that simply is beyond them.

I'm always against a hostile crowd.

----

Backspace?

Anyway, CTRL-SHIFT-RETURN is yuck, I admit, but I don't see how to fix it.

SHIFT-SPACE is nice for SPACE-TO-TAB conversion in source code. I wisely did away with SHIFT-SPACE in documentation files. That was stupid.

My code is very well groomed. There used to be lots of ugly code, but not anymore.

I haven't done shit in 4 years, just polishing. It's gotten better. My download numbers and emails reflect I'm in some kind of CIA isolation. Oh, well, fuck it.

God is just.

God says...

1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou?
and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better
to thee than ten sons? 1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in
Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat
by a post of the temple of the LORD.

1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and
wept sore.

1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt
indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and
not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man
child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life,
and there shall no razor come upon his head.

1:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD,
that Eli marked her mouth.

1:13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her
voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
To borrow an analogy from the art world, I'd agree with this if there was some well of 'negative space' in this article which was shaped like Chinese manufacturing. There isn't. The article also didn't discuss Indian ingenuity - is there something going on with that as well?

To me this is article is utterly inspiring. This is about the hope of the individual. It's about a bunch of smart, motivated people taking big risks to better themselves and the people around them. They're thinking big, dreaming big, doing big, and surely ignoring the people around them who are telling them that they can't. Are some of them missing the mark? Absolutely! But if there's a statement being made here, it's an incredibly positive one.
You know, there's more than one set of laws in the world.
Whereas hunting and gathering for free in the South African savanna will kill you in a natural [1] and premature way.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_South_Africa#Predat...
I pick vegetables from a community garden, buy lentils from the grocery store, cook them with spices.. add butter || peanut butter & quinoa for fats & more amino acids. Very healthy, very cheap, tastier than anything I find in restaurants.
I guess that I'm saying we aren't inherently smarter (westerners have often thought about others around the world). Education, nutrition, healthcare, better mental health of course all contribute to better effective applicable intelligence.
See, I consider their case weak at best.

The template is nice, but I've seen templates like that before. It's clean and well done, but to be honest, it's not that unique either. That little ribbon on the dark background - I have that on my website. The class "plusIcon", I probably used all possible permutations of "plus-icon", "plusIcon", "plus_icon", ... somewhere over the last couple of years. The color is the same, but hey, the number of colors is somewhat limited. And then the html differs as well if you really look at it. The CSS differs significantly.

EmailOnAcid acknowledge the inspiration they used for a mostly educational article, and promised to change the design in the article. Now that could have been a peacefully and entirely fair resolution for the problem. Another option might have been for EmailOnAcid to acknowledge the inspiration and link back, offering the opportunity to rack up some sales to offset the damage.

But now the case has been blown out of proportion - they created a new blog to post this entry(!). I understand the feeling of rage, but that's not a good mood to write a blog article. And for me, personally, stampready just lost out. I'm not going to buy from a company that goes ballistic at the first possible opportunity - I prefer to deal with professionals.
I used to be a semi-regular purchaser of small projects on vworker (rentacoder), and didn't like the transition to freelancer. On freelancer I had mixed success with the quality, and also the timeliness of deliverables. I also didn't like the method for escrow/disbursement of payments. I do wish you could more clearly label payments and structures (vworker was super ugly, but much clearer in this respect).
Maybe it wasn't a trading-focused firm? Most of my friends (and wife) work at firms that are primarily about trading, and it's hard to hire (good) traders if you restrict them from also trading with their own funds on their own time. So, they seem to have the bare minimum policy that satisfies legal regulations about insider information and the contracts they usually have to sign with high-end enterprise vendors.
There's been a huge amount of discussion here about "Soylent", be that a company, a project, or whatever.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Aso...

What I'm a little confused about is why people aren't doing this "properly", in the sense that the problem was formulated by Stigler over half a century ago, and George Dantzig produced the algorithm to solve a large, complex version of it over 30 years ago.

If you're really interested in producing an adequate diet for minimal price, why not actually use the work done decades ago?
"Forever" meaning "as long as 37signals exists" ?
Yes, but programming vs cooking maybe has some left brain vs right brain going on?
Anybody have feedback on Fiverr.com?
> In a few places where the artists have been officially sanctioned it worked acceptably.

One of my favorite examples: http://5ptz.com/

If you're able to see it in NYC this summer, I highly recommend it - there are rumors that the owner is tearing it down to build residential high-rises.
Because it excludes most forms of interactivity.
It doesn't make sense for people who are bidding for projects, either -- at least, it doesn't make sense for me. It's a childish system, completely out of tune with how I want to present myself professionally. I don't want to Like You On Facebook or Follow You On Twitter, I don't want to Level Up For More Bids, I certainly don't want to bid on 200 projects a month, and I certainly, CERTAINLY don't want to see my clients spammed with similar requests.

I really liked vWorker, but I actively avoid freelancer, and the gamification is the biggest reason.
And it also doesn't seem to stem words. [flower] and [flowers] give different results (actually flowers gives no results). But I am impressed by the number of classes they have: who labels pineapples in an image corpus?
maybe a root-kit would have helped to prevent that.
I haven't written one, but I contributed a few patches to nanoc [1]. But if nanoc didn't exist, I probably would have written my own.

And now that you mention it, I have been looking for an excuse to learn Clojure...

[1] http://nanoc.stoneship.org/
I'd add turning on screen sharing and setting up a dynamic DNS client so it's easy to get on and help.
LastPass or KeePass might be what you're looking for.
In Buenos Aires, it's legal and sometimes results in beauty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4
In that case, you're just describing about maintaing a fluent API, which is painfully verbose to maintain for every type.
What if people started using drones to do the graffiti? It seems like a possible future. Then you will need anti graffiti-drawing drone drones. Eventually you will wind up with a giant Skynet graffiti problem.
There are still some options. Check this site: http://www.coopdam.org/
There's also offshore tax havens, political action committees, and patent trolls. Some unethical things are legal.

There's also underage sexting, media piracy, cryptocurrencies, and marijuana. Some things aren't globally agreed upon as ethical or unethical, but the law still attempts to address them.

Identifying the overlap is difficult.
The funny part is they are probably on the government dole.
It's back up with this update:

"May 27, 2012 Update:
It has come to our attention that the original layout for our responsive template was being sold on Themeforest. We are truly sorry for any misunderstanding or misappropriation of content. We would like our readers to know that we had written all CSS on our own (which is the power behind responsive design) and our intention was only to share in those findings. As we stated in our response to the notification we had agreed to redesign the layout of our template so it does not match the layout of their template. We are currently in the process of updating the template and should be available shortly."
I agree with you about simplifying the tax code, but do not agree about reducing the tax-liability. Since these corporations benefit from society just like private individuals do, they should contribute to society (in the form of taxes) in kind.
> The last time a modern military in a major conflict actually took and held ground was probably the Korean War.

Except for ..

Falkland Islands

Grenada

Desert Storm

OIF
I feel like if you provide extra courses that are more 'real-world' like (like creating a simple web application) even more people will start to use Codeacademy. Doing so, it becomes more evident of how coding is used in real life and I think it encourages people more to start making their own stuff, because they know how to combine several languages and principles to create something more concrete.
people create laws to enforce ethics, but ethics and laws and law often don't overlap because law gets tinkered with less than ethical people and one man's justice is another man's horror.
libstdc++ is still missing C++11-features. Regex and thread are still not complete: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/status.html#s...
le brogrammer memes XDD #yolo
Lifeboat Foundation
Actually, if you look at the video from the Senate hearing, some of the senators are clearly fawning over, and pandering to, Tim Cook.

It's disgusting.
You are dangerously bad at cryptography
While these 'regular expressions' are unreadable, on the plus side they don't ensure O(n) runtime. There should be an anti-Turing award for their creation.
Know When To Just Say Yes
This is not how the vast majority of people shop. It seems like you are arguing that changes to a site's design will rarely result in a significant increase to their bottom line, but there are countless case studies that prove the opposite.[1]

[1] http://www.abtests.com/
I think politicians are just upset that those tax law loopholes that were supposed to be just for their friends are now being exploited by those upstart interweb companies like "the google".

Our supporters paid good money for those exclusive exemptions, dammit. This is just making us look bad...
This is really helpful. I'm kind of thrown by the page about "final". The C++ example shows a method that is both virtual and final, which seem to be in contradiction of each other. Or am I missing something?
I don't have a linker -- don't need it.

I don't have a MAKE tool, either.

I just do this:

#include "file1"
#include "file2"
#include "file3"

Fucken planet-of-the-ape nigger-monkeys

They cannot grok that my code is not Kernel in FFFFFFFFFFFxxxx range and user in 000000000xxxx range. They cannot imagine multitasking without all applications at 0000000000000 . I identity-map and do multitasking. My compiler only does Position independent, JIT or AOT, through patching.

They act stupid... unbelievably stupid, seeming more like intentionally acting stupid -- couldn't possibly be so stupid.
Introduction to Software Development on SAP HANA
With SAP HANA, you have the opportunity to build applications that integrate the business logic, control logic, and the database layer with unprecedented performance. As a developer, one of the key questions is how you can minimize data movements. The more you can do directly on the data in memory next to the CPUs, the better the application will perform.
" I have lived --aboard-- so i'm not just doing it without knowing how it's like being in a foreign place."

abroad?

aboard? -as in living aboard a boat, BC? Vancouver? False Creek?

Tootle on down over the border into Puget Sound and you can code 24/7 where anchor outs cough up only $65/month. Free coffee and victuals included. small print: $51/yr insurance required.

Google Earth for details.
Great slides. This is the first time I am seeing a direct C++03 and C++11 comparison. Makes it much easier to understand.

That said, c++11 is a language that wants to be everything. Functional, object oriented, procedural, imperative, declarative and what not. The end result is slush.
peopleperhour.com is a UK-based site akin to oDesk. I take issue with any such site, though, since the number of bidders is huge and low-bidders are omnipresent.
I think publishing for yourself is the best way you can have it.
When you're publishing on your own blog, you can be covered on other blogs as well, but at the same time you can stay with your own image. When you link your blog on HN you get plenty of feedback and at the same time you're able to build your own audience as well.
Good luck with your writings!
Why Hotel Industry Lobbyists Want A Global Crackdown On Airbnb
They also have a route planner for almost whole Europe that is super-fast. Would be interesting to read howabout it's built.
SQLite modelling with MySQL Workbench
I disagree, many applications can be defined entirely in client-side code.
45-year-old man living in hospital since age 1 is directing a 3D animation
We provide annual subscription for our software (http://www.infocaptor.com) but the price for subscription is significantly lower than if the customer decides to go the perpetual route with optional upgrade path. Some do ask for perpetual license and most of them are happy with the annual subscription as it behaves like an installment plan.

In either case, the customer hosts the software internally within their intranet/firewall.

So offering two price points perpetual and subscription will let the customer see the value and help them make better decision. You have to constantly make an effort to show value in your software at the pricing you offer.
Why not use the valuation cap on the note (in cases where there is one) in place of the valuation? Is there a reason you wouldn't consider it equivalent to a valuation for the purposes of a rough calculation like this?
This is the case for every hosted mail solution in existence. And external hosting/procesing in the mail space is quite popular from mailgun to google apps.

So I don't view this as a major concern.

The fact that the maker of this API has a very fly-by-night looking website - that's more concerning. I'd very much like to have some good indicators of trustworthiness, and a good idea of who to sue, if things go wrong...
Rightly or not I sometimes feel that dissenting opinions, especially against popular YC companies, are met with contempt. I wouldn't go as far as "groupthink" but I would postulate that an inordinate amount of people that read HN are very supportive of YC companies and dislike when flaws are pointed out about them.
Really like this little framework, was just checking it out a week ago. To the author or anyone else interested, I'm making a little tool that does something very similar (http://roots.cx) and am aggressively adding functionality in order to make almost anything feasible to build as a static site.

Would love to talk about this stuff any time!