skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for me, making smarter pill boxes is not much better then designing new deo-spray box or make a new web page or app for a company. Not a big difference.
Why aren't we all using strong, private crypto for everything -- or at least for email? Nobody seems to using PGP? We "the people" have the technical ability to communicate privately but nobody seems to use it. What happened to Zimmerman and his followers? This is a solvable problem!

-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
MFwwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADSwAwSAJBAObAT8Pn+C1Ets8Ge/EyMgiOPzmy/Mzk
N+ENpDYRJzqGoyS59QkI58GhYwIVkhmEEk2pjp6gqWPNjTzO0QI1KOUCAwEAAQ==
-----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
Good question. Though I suppose it's not too difficult to state in terms of the Abel-Ruffini theorem, but then again that watered down version would probably fail to mention the wide-reaching consequences of Galois...
That's right! :-)
This is an excellent defense. Having a $4.5 million dollar wedding may be jerky, but better he spend the money than hoard it; unemployment is high. Sounds like a badly maintained and forgotten site is going to end up improved due to a billionaire's urge to create a magical fairy garden for a day.

Hope this gets upvoted enough to salvage people's views on this incident.
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Thanks, I was thankfully canceled my card. Is there anyone else here that has had their card compromised?
It's interesting that you mention groping. The tort of battery is evaluated according to an objective standard: would a reasonable person consider the contact offensive? It is defined by social norms: grabbing someone's ass is offensive, bumping into someone on a crowded subway is not.

So your point fails even within the four corners of your analogy. That secretary will have a pretty tough time arguing that her boss's handshake was sexual battery, even if she belongs to an obscure religion that considers hands to be sexual objects.
I realize I'm unfairly ignoring 90% of your rant, but I just want to say I disagree with "too much government" as the issue here. When my computer breaks, I don't throw away my computer. I fix the problem. Size doesn't matter. Focus does. Large organizations can have plenty of thoughtful focus, too.

When two terrorists explode bombs at a public event, I definitely don't want less "gumment." I want effective government.

In this case, every Senator knew about the wiretapping. Why did they allow it to continue? We elected our government. The government isn't the problem. We are. So in that respect, I agree with you. We're short on well-informed citizens.
>> This is exactly my point.

Not sure I follow. Are you saying that "crow bars kill people too, so we shouldn't have legislation for guns that don't also apply to crow bars?"

If so, we probably disagree fundamentally on debates - which is fine but an important point.
We know exactly what's being collected: all the Internet traffic they can get their hands on. They have installed beam splitters on Internet backbones at facilities around the country:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

And are funneling all of the traffic to a datacenter in Utah with "yottabyte" scale capacity, with the goal of having enough capacity to archive the data for 100 years:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/al...

The NSA whistleblower who disclosed the project to the public was the person who wrote the backend of the system, which was originally designed for foreign data collection only. The NSA later repurposed the system for domestic data collection too. The goal, according to him, is to build models of every single person in the country, model the social graph, and be able to classify people as potential threats.
The hypocrisy is this.

How could anyone give you constructive criticism...

If we don't know who you are! :-)
pretty brilliant in addressing the issue head-on while not confirming or denying any of it (and thus violating the terms of the order)
We can't let this end without someone getting the noose. I nominate the hack journalist/blogger making the accusations in the first place. Failing that, we can hang the guy that asked for the death penalty. A little poetic justice would go a long way to making online discussions civil again. :)
Haven't seen any fraudulent charges on my card yet. I only have like 3 different monthly charges that go to that card so they'll be easy to spot and to contest if I need.
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The author quoted the CCC's report and at first this seems enough. Why would anyone be upset that someone else, specially someone "known" to love the redwoods be upset that he/she spent so much money "fixing" the place for all of us? Idk, this all just seems like drama now.
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And yet, somehow, they still have better documentation than Mozilla.
If I understand what you're saying correctly, you're basically asking for a payment gateway with a dev friendly API that allows you to change out merchant accounts easily? If so, this is something my company is launching in the next 2 months or so depending on audits and stuff.
"so long as the Attorney General certifies that a particular set of information is useful for reasons of national security. Then, the NSA asks the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to order that a company comply."

I would assume it would be pretty hard to go through those steps with "any reason", no?
I like thinking most people are somewhat honest, and I wouldn't see anyone from Intel. use a 'favor credit' with an AG for some random telephone data.

Am I being too innocent? :)
Did ya miss the whole thing about figurative language?
We are reading/talking about Sean Parker's wedding in the tech press and discussion forums.

I guess we can admit we're a fashion industry now.
The impression I keep getting is that (with due respect to "the power of the context" http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf) teaching someone about fallacies automatically makes them about 15 IQ stupider.
All of Neal Stephenson's books have a breezy sense of wonder and adventure with a dash of science-y cleverness.
In this case you could tell the original article was BS so it's kind of irrelevant. The only 'evidence' against him was a list of permits he hadn't applied for, there was no mention of anything that was actually damaged. (Except for the picture of the tree that supposedly 'looked unhappy' or whatever for being in the middle of a rock wall.)
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Probably why Goldman Sachs is moving a lot of its new hires to Salt Lake
I was just going to comment on the similarity as well. I think these built-in HTML5 editors are great, especially when they include persistence. For the node.js devs, I made a wrapper for Create.js http://github.com/primaryobjects/contentblocks
Make something better than Soylent and sell internationally. Would buy it.
Thanks! Wow. Those stats seem relatively high for the company I'm negotiating with. They reflect roughly SDE II salary and beyond.
We're doing our best to keep API compatibility with LevelDB and will do our best to keep true to LevelDB. That being said, it'd be great to see our changes flow upstream.
> however I do not know to what extent they provide it.

Probably in the same form they do for law enforcement. A little booklet with every photo ever uploaded (deleted or otherwise), every message, location and IP address the user has ever used, every single click they have made in the interface. Seriously.

Here's an example booklet, complete with redactions.

http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/88465177?access_key=key-247...
I've been working on a console Pomodoro timer: http://thymerb.com

There were already a few around, this was for fun and I wanted one with easy pre/post hooks.
Yeah. I'm not making any moral judgements or conclusions. Just stating an observation. I definitely don't think Snapchat in and of itself is immoral. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't consider the net effects of the app.

It could be that Snapchat is terribly useful.
As it says elsewhere, this diagram is only presenting algorithms as currently implemented in scikit-learn. Having said that, there is a place for a larger and more comprehensive chart/diagram. But again, as I said elsewhere, even when people ask for such things and promise to contribute, they don't, so I've stopped trying to make things like that.

Feel free to present an augmented version that include the things you mention. I, for one, would be interested in a more comprehensive diagram.
the world’s most celebrated sushi chef turns to his son, who is leaving to start his own restaurant, and says: ‘You have no home to come back to.’ Which, when you think about it, isn’t harsh or discouraging but is in fact the very best thing you could say to someone setting out on an adventure.

Only if the only type of adventure you consider is one which aims toward financial success. There are other types of adventures in this world, and other types of goals. There's a place in this world for experimentation, playfulness, and boldness of the type that only is possible when you have a home to come back to.

I know that may not ring true in this forum, where the entrepreneurial spirit reigns, or in Japan, where (for many) katagaki (social rank through achievement) brings honor to your whole family, but from my point of view Jiro was sort of a jerk.
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The info in the mail regarding the safety of credit card info contradicts with the linked FAQ.

FAQ: Bank details are encrypted (two-way) in the database. However, it cannot be excluded that the attacker/s have also been able to obtain access to the key.

Mail: With credit cards, only the last three digits of the card number, the card type and the expiry date are saved in our systems. All other card data is saved solely by our payment service provider and referenced via a pseudo card number. Therefore, as far as we are aware, credit card data has not been compromised.
That's the nice thing about requestAnimationFrame. It's smart enough to not waste time updating if you're not looking at it.

As for 80%, umm... video driver issues? :-(
I wrote the article, so I'll add some questions for you here.

From all the time I've spent running searches on the site that 90% number seems very high, but since I don't have access to the database like you I can only ask follow up questions rather than refute it.

Does this number represent unique users or simply accounts?

For those that are renting the home they live in, what's the average number of nights they make available per year?

What would you say is the percentage of the available rooms on the site that come from people who have more than one listing in a market? 40%? 50%?

For people who have more than one listing, what's the average number of nights available per year for each unit?

Will Airbnb introduce a system for removing hosts who are in obvious violation of local laws? For instance, the hosts listed in my story, where they shared 19 units between three accounts.
it's evident you have no understanding of it. full of errors and logical fallacies.
I always love seeing what the real numbers of a bootstrapped business look like. It's easy to look at a company that's been around long enough to be successful and think, "If I just build a product and flip a switch... I'll be rich." and it really doesn't work that way.

It's a long, slow, slog to get to a certain level of success if you're bootstrapping.
Care to share how you've done this? We've been looking to do similar in our laboratory for the various instruments we run user samples on (HPLCs/xray/NMR). We've been using gCalendar so far, but it's not always user friendly + we have to add users to the calendar manually before they can reserve instrument / consultation time. We've started using Quartzy[1] but it suffers from the same "must approve users first" model and we've accepted its clunkiness in the name of consolidation

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[1]http://quartzy.com/
Does this really need to be a centralized service though?

Isn't this the sort of thing that could be implemented as a peer-to-peer networking service?
They have a lot of competition to be the next great tech city.
Indeed. There is, as far as I can tell, no reason for this order to be secret at all, since it's so indiscriminate. I can understand (grudgingly) the argument for sealing the court order during an active investigation, since you don't necessarily want to tip off the suspect that you're "onto them". But if you're saying "give me everybody's data" then it won't be tipping anybody off.

And weighed against the idea that our government, which we created, to serve us needs to be almost 100% transparent in order to be accountable to us, I just can't see any reason for this being kept secret.

If We The People are to police our government, we need to know what it's doing. And when it does something wrong, we need to smite it mightily.
> I just wish that they used bcrypt instead of a salted SHA256 but at least it's salted (and anyway in my case I never reuse passwords so no big deal).

If they fall under PCI:DSS, they might not be able to use bcrypt since it isn't an official recommended standard. (I am of course assuming that they mean PBKDF2 when they say salted SHA256.)
Guess they really did leave the private and public keys on the sevrer.
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> I think we should cut "incidental start-ups" some slack for a while

Agree. I'm just not sure we're taking the "effect" of a start up into consideration when we put them up on pedestals.

Perhaps there isn't interest in the "effect", which is what I was alluding to.
> Having a $4.5 million dollar wedding may be jerky

How is that any of anyone's business but his?
That's pretty weird. Is it possible you have a browser extension that's replacing the video tag with an EMBED?
exactly. the dude has no idea what he's talking about, or didn't bother with even a cursory proofread. e^x as "x tends to infinity" is infinity.
The industry doesn't actually create any wealth

=> in theory, does not "investing" sorta "create" wealth? This might be the answer, otherwise I, too, am stumped.
To be fair, that still doesn't mean it's from linode 100%. I recently had a fraudulent charge on a Chase Freedom card that I never once used anywhere (their fine print when it arrived showed they mislead me in the rewards I was promised). I had even shredded it when I got it so its not possible someone took it from my place. When they called me about the possible fraudulent charge, they guy explained that various government/creditor databases contain these cards and sometimes malicious employees use them for fraud.
You mentioned in the article that you have links in the headers/footers of various websites that say: "Powered by Jitbit AspNetForum". Here is my take on that...

These COULD potentially hurt you, but I doubt it. That would mean all forum software links in the footers were doing more harm than good. Forum software websites like phpBB, vBulletin etc are doing just fine. Furthermore, your install-base and incoming links should grow slowly over time and Google will recognize that as a natural kind of thing. Therefore, I would cross that off your list of reasons.

Your main reason for being hit by Penguin are bad SEO practices. Never buy links for SEO. You may benefit from these links today, but 3 years down the road Google might catch on. (As you just realized)

If you do purchase links, make sure to nofollow them and point the user to an actionable page. Such as purchasing your software or signing up for a newsletter. The goal here won't be for SEO purposes, but for advertising.
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Be young, drink cheap booze. You will pay for it later in life but you underestimate the capacity others have for a "party" life.
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Subjective, I guess. But many movements in countries with oppressive regimes use Twitter heavily to spread information.
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I would also like to add that the same thing happened to me. Except it happened on May 30th.

I can't be 100% sure that my card was compromised because of linode, but there is a good chance that it was.

Thankfully the transactions were not captured, so I'm not out any money, but it still sucks.
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Look for page-turners rather than literature as you're getting back into fiction. Business and popular non-fiction books these days are written in a very elementary style. I take nothing away from Malcolm Gladwell, but his writing style is very easy to read compared to many of the books we're suggesting.
They can replace the booting kernel. Unless you use SecureBoot, TPM or some such thing, there is no way to protect against that (assuming that the attacker has access to the shut-down system at one point and you boot it later).
What do you mean by "a fashion industry?"
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In theory the secret stuff is given oversight by politicians. You elect the politicians, so that's the weak link to oversight by the people.

I'm not sure how it works in the US, but I'm aware that GCHQ / CESG / etc have pretty rigorous scrutiny.

I'm not disagreeing with you, btw. Far too much stuff is classified as top secret or secret when it just doesn't need to be.
I wanted to share our recent work on Nova. This is another hypervisor for Nova that enables the use of LXC containers as VMs. There is also a Glance backend that makes the glue with Docker's Index remote service. I am sure it improves the use of LXC containers in OpenStack (as an alternative to libvirt).

The code is still pretty raw but I hope it'll be just the beginning, I'd be glad to get feedback from anyone interested.
Ah, I missed the physical machines. No hypervisor to crack, just out of band management cards. :)
Some of us have been shouting for the rooftops until hoarse for the last decade and more. Suddenly everybody's reacting (and I don't mean everybody here - I mean the New York Bloody Times) like this is the very first time this has ever come up.
that card tied to a lot of things :(, probably a bad idea in general. but for overseas charges at least, my bank will block transactions and notify me.
BoA actually cancelled it for me, I didn't even have a choice!
Wouldn't that require physical access?
I've got a login for robot.your-server.de and have changed my password but don't seem to have one for konsoleh.your-server.de.

Is the konsoleh login/account something that would have gotten created for me automatically? i.e. do I need to worry about it?
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How about, from now on, nobody ever gets the death penalty and we stop wishing for people to die? I’d like that.
Are there any other alternatives out there for VPS service?
>>But not everything that is said here needs to be treated like it was uttered as part of a debate. Sometimes opinions are just opinions, sometimes anecdotes are enlightening, and sometimes generalizations, metaphors, analogies and other abstractions come into play.

True! But I also think that the intent to immediately jump to logical fallacies is a sign of weakness. If you can't dispute the premises (or even understand them) you can jump right to an area that allows a) total victory, he used a fallacy somehow somewhere! or b) the argument breaks down into a subjective analysis of whether someone committed a fallacy thus allowing the argument to continue without having to face the other persons argument.

Maybe it is just me, but I find that even the (few) people without any critical thinking skills don't really commit classical logical fallacies. The problem isn't the surface argument but rather the evidence or the premises that is usually the issue.
There's some even more important gaps regarding analytic continuations of functions to complex numbers (and the resulting power series expansions). You can prove it this way, but it's not at all rigorous by today's standards.
The goal, according to him, is to build models of every single person in the country, model the social graph, and be able to classify people as potential threats.

Another example of government waste and redundancy. We already have Facebook for this!
The finance industry creates wealth by making financial transactions and investment instruments cheaper and more efficient.

Same way as a rail company or Amazon creates wealth not by 'building things', but by moving things from point A to point B cheaper, more easily and for less risk.
> Deductive logical systems cannot reliably find truth.

Don't you mean inductive.

> That is the lesson of the scientific revolution and the revolution in mathematics that is most closely associated with Godel.

A lesson which hasn't permeated the "scientific revolution" perhaps with good reason.
Euler defined the function e^x in analysis as:
e^x=lim(1+x/n)^n as x tends to infinity. So, we get:

It should be as n tends to infinity.</pedantic>
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I haven't seen anything yet, and I tend to keep pretty close watch on it.
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The interesting part of this to me is discovering that some Android devices have barometers. (I only have iOS toys)
The card I used for Linode was used for fraudulent online purchases on May 13. However, I also used the credit card at many other places besides Linode, so I'm not certain that Linode was responsible.
I do it nightly to a SQL database. It's my morning routine to review the logs, add firewall rules based on various "things" I find, or order new/replace equipment based on what I see. I have a heavily partitioned SQL database and so my load times for one day are very fast (< 3 mins typically).
I have not noticed any odd activity. My card has been with Linode for years.
Wish he spent more time on meaningful work instead of retorting inflammatory web postings.

He could have done two things in far shorter time.
1) Debunked the original article
2) Used the space to evangelize to others (while echoing the original article's author's views).

Too many words for HN over any private wedding. If I wanted ceremony, I'd be writing STL.
I'm surprised that neither the article nor the comments here mention the "principle of charity". I read about this early in my study of logic and philosophy.

It basically says that, if your objective is to discover truth rather than to win a debate, you ought to grant the best possible interpretation of the speaker's statement instead of focusing on narrow and literal interpretations which contain obvious logical fallacies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
It's a trend, fun to argue about if it's going up or down, or when it might go down, but does anyone honestly think it won't?
Voluntary response data are worthless.
>In the end the only secure server is one in a vault at the bottom of the ocean[...]

I strongly doubt that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
> How is that any of anyone's business but his?

He used public land. He made it public.
> what's new about what is breaking in the news right now?

That they no longer operate on a cloak-and-dagger basis, and that all three branches (judicial, executive, legislative) are demonstrating an unprecedented level of cooperation -- the "checks and balances" we so hold dear in democracy are now null and void.

Previously, plausible deniability and "neither confirm nor deny" public relations policies dominated the privacy debate arena, however now we can move forward beyond that and we can have a frank and honest discussion about it all.

The window of opportunity to debate these broad-sweeping and baseless violations of privacy is distinctly ajar, however it is closing quickly.

The various levels of government will soon rely quite heavily on this domestic surveillance network and implementing restrictions after the fact is almost always impossible.