skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between a person and a camera is that people get tired, miss things, have to eat, and cost a lot more money to maintain. For this reason, people are deployed only where necessary, while cameras can be deployed much more widely. It is the weighing of cost associated with sending a person that used to protect privacy in public places, but with electronic surveillance we lose that cost consideration as a check against surveillance.
Amazon debuts Indie Games Store
You bought an apple for one dollar, then sold it for two dollars a few blocks away. Where did your one dollar come from?

Now imagine doing this for fractions of pennies millions of times a day. The money came from people buying/selling on the stock market.
It never has been, all it guarantees is hackers will find it and exploit it as well.
I haven't had anything odd yet.

Ironically, Chase did flag my DigitalOcean charges last week.
banking details is a much broader term than credit card number.

account numbers / routing numbers / company names / po boxes/ physical addresses / account history and other billing info.

I'd assume they're saying some of these might be compromised, but specifically that credit cards aren't.
Why Google Web Designer is more of a threat to designers than it is to Adobe
No, no, dear sir. The people must have their entertainment. Thank you kindly for volunteering to be the third candidate in our contest. ;)
It was private land, according to this article.
hahhahahaha :D you're cool man...

The Op asked for a HN alternative. (Arxiv is great, I subscribed to all rss) But I bet you can't comment on a dissertation/tehsis/publication like you do on HN/reddit. hehe :)
Well, if so, you could just use a link shortener to hide the tag from FB...
Small typo:

Euler defined the function e^x in analysis as:

e^x = lim(1+x/n)^n

as x tends to infinity

Should be "as n tends to infinity".
Good point. I think a lot of people just post what they think will generate buzz. I tried to really think this through without regard for its newsworthiness.
Elegant screen scraping with Node.js and YQL
What if people discover you have made lots of calls to KKK? They will quickly jump to conclusion that you are probably a neo-nazi, but maybe you was like that black guy that made a KKK documentary

The thing is, Verizon isn't handing over identities. This isn't to absolve Verizon here at all, but to illustrate that the US Government can't find terrorists this way.
What is the value of a software architect?
And I bet his guests drove on public roads to get there. Some of them may have even have had public educations!

Taking advantage of government services available to everyone does not preclude one from expecting the usual degree of privacy and respect we accord to our fellow citizens.
I agree that only answering "You just committed a fallacy, goodbye" would not be the right choice, but at least mentioning it and then try to explain why I think it's relevant doesn't seem so wrong.
Hacking high school exams and foiling them with statistics
The "hoarding" argument has no economic basis. Money that is saved in stocks, bonds, or bank accounts is immediately put to use by companies, banks, or governments.
one that's dominated by fads and gossip

larry ellison has an interesting take on this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0
I think it is an abstraction about how finance is as a whole. I gather you are not in finance, but neither am I.

Let's say I'm a fledgeling lemonade stand and I want $10 of investment. You give me that $10 and with it I make $15. You wanted a 10% return on your investment so you get back $11.

With this model, you have "created" $1 in investments. That $1 originally came from the $15 I made with my lemonade. And all those $15 were exchanges for convenience or sheer happiness gained from having lemonade.

So no one really "lost" in this scenario. But I think the finance people call this "creating wealth". Vs other scenarios, where if you invest in someone who is bad at selling lemonade, you only get $8 back, now you have lost $2 from your initial $10. The idea is to continually "create" wealth by making good choices, investing in good lemonade stands vs bad ones.

So when someone says x-machination (high frequency trading) has "made" $5B, there isn't necessarily a loss anywhere. That's just how much that came out on top.
When Thunderbolt adoption goes mainstream, this is your 10GB/s 128GB Thumb drive
Come help us disrupt textbooks in Detroit
FirstDirect cancelled my Linode card for me, after the first three fraudulent charges. Luckily, they were easy to detect, as they were made in physical locations in the US, while I was in the UK at the time.

Probably the only time in my life a bank actually helped me retain my money!
There already was an Echelon 2.0 back in the 90's. I suspect we're on Echelon 4 or 5 or 6 or 6, etc. by now.
Sounding like a broken record, but I'm partial to DigitalOcean. The coupon "SSDTWEET" nets you $10 of account credit.

I've been using them for a while now, and can't in a bit fault them.
Questioning the reviews on OpenTable
My point is that SnapChat is a crowbar, not a gun. A lot of talk about SnapChat revolves around affairs and sexting because that gets more page views, but there's really no proof that people are using it primarily for amoral reasons. The totality of people I know use it just for goofy temporal messages (and, yeah, occasional sexts to their S.O., but nothing they wouldn't otherwise do via SMS)
They admitted that at the time. They assured everyone that the password on the private key was secure, even boasted about how long it was on twitter.
You are right, i cannot say it's linode 100%, maybe 99%. however it is still a good idea to cancel those cards.
I do not have a reference. You'll have to live with accepting what I remember from my childhood as being correct, I am afraid. Or, searching.
This is really cool and I'm glad to hear of someone doing this. Having the time to learn and work is key. It's hard to make any real progress when you're still trying to maintain a social life and work full time.

An idea: It might be much much easier to simply move to Mexico or Thailand. You could live on around $200-300 USD per month if you made your own food and you'd probably be a lot more comfortable than living in the woods (though I think that's amazing in its own way too).

Does anyone know of any dev boot camps or coworking spaces in the "developing world" that I should check out?
Anyone notice that this now says "Page Not Found" and the site doesn't have the article up anymore?
He understands you. He just disagrees and thinks your metaphor is wrong.
Maybe he should sell off some of the massive holdings that the Vatican has and invest in food for the poor?
That's about as horrible of a tl;dr summary as I can imagine someone could come up with even if they were trying to come up with a bad tl;dr. It's clear that you didn't read the article.
I think it was actually private land, which was simply made accessible to the public under certain conditions. Parker's position is that the campground was temporarily closed anyway, and that his wedding did not deny anybody access who would otherwise have had it.
How good is your product if SEO tricks are at the core of sustaining your business model?
Perhaps a better description would get more points.
Dutch public transportation may be hackable with an Android smartphone
In baseball, currently, the TV contract dominates income, which means your income is more or less directly tied to how recently you signed your TV contract. Medium market teams with very recent TV contracts are wealthier than the Atlanta Braves, which has the worst TV contract of all the big-market teams.

The upwards trend of TV contracts clearly isn't sustainable, but trying to extract the maximum value from your attendees just seems less interesting at the present.
I can answer the opposite question: we intend to keep in sync with upstream. Since HyperLevelDB is a drop-in replacement for LevelDB, it should be fairly easy for LevelDB users to pick it up.
The Dark Science Of Naming Your Post: Based On Studying 100 Blogs
This is awesome. Personally, I occasionally daydream of "escaping it all" and coding by the ocean.

This piece reminded me of someone else who "escaped it all": Paul Lutus [1].

In the spring of 1976, he built a 12 x 16 foot (3.65 x 4.87 meter) cabin in Oregon and developed Apple Writer [2] on his Apple II. He documented his story in a piece entitled, Cottage Computer Programming [3].

[1] http://www.arachnoid.com/administration/index.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer

[3] http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
It's not even the crappy, nitpicky criticism that bothers me, it's how it's so frequently presented with zero tact, and an overdose of aggression.

Reading some of the threads around here you'd think we're giving points for being rude, condescending, assuming everyone else is a complete idiot, and utter and complete verbal evisceration of other posters.

In short, there are an awful lot of people here that behave like complete assholes to everyone else, and when called out on it they'll yell loudly about how they're being oppressed for expressing valid opinions in vitriolic ways, and then follow that up with some variation of "well, the world isn't nice, wuss".
If you don't mind my asking, how did Chase mislead you about the awards available? I've had my Chase Freedom card for almost a year now and I love it, but I don't recall running into any sort of fine print issues so I'm curious what you ran into.
I would like an invite please. animesh@lavabit.com :)
A few months ago I had some trouble with BofA flagging my card for "suspicious activity." I had to go in and get a new card twice over two months. The only change I can think of is that I switched hosting to DigitalOcean.

I had been thinking of switching banks for awhile, but this ended up being the biggest motivator to finally pull the trigger.
Enabling Always-Available Input With Muscle-Computer Interfaces (2009)
Project SHAMROCK. It ended in 1975 due to the scandals that came to light during Church committee hearings (and Watergate), hearings that resulted in things like FISA and the Congressional select committees on intelligence oversight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK
I cancelled mine for an unrelated reason, but was about to anyway once news about the Linode compromise got out. Linode themselves have admitted that the only thing between HTP and the credit card numbers is a passphrase (of unknown quality).

I no longer have any VMs on Linode. It's unfortunate that a company I trusted behaved so oddly and non-transparently over the course of the incident.
In today's deficit boogeyman environment I can't say that extra revenue isn't a consideration, but really the tax was to attempt to stem a runaway financial system that has become the blood-sucking vampire squid[1] that's taking more and more of the wealth while providing little of value to the country.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/andrew-clark-on-america/2...
Motivation driven design
You've fallen into the trap the article talks about, in expecting the woman in the story to be talking logically and therefore held to a high standard of discourse.

People say over-the-top, outrageous things out of emotionality, when they may mean something far less or completely different.

Instead of seeing the woman's statements as a logical argument, one should see them as the expressions of emotion that they are, and try to engage in talk that connects to the emotions and experiences underneath.
The fact you think price per hour is directly correlated with total cost to achieve a good result is a bad thing.

Expensive (per hour) developers are often far cheaper.
Because he is a philanthropist.
It doesn't have to be my business for me to think it's jerky. I'm sure I think things that you're doing in the privacy of your own home, that I will never hear about, are jerky, and vice-versa. Luckily, if it becomes public information, I don't have to ask your permission to either have, or express those feelings.
But someone has to actually spend the money for it to be truly useful (money has to circle through the economy).
I live in SLC and have met quite a few people over the last few years who lost jobs in the financial sector, usually in the NYC area, and subsequently moved to Utah.
HFT is a way for market makers to compete among each other. When I want to buy stock in some company or other I need someone to sell it to me, and when I want to sell a stock I need someone to buy it. I might get lucky and someone like me might be looking to sell or buy at the same time, but that's unreliable. However, there are people who have some of pretty much every stock out there, and who are always ready to sell a share of ACME to me for $11.59 or buy it from me for $11.58. Because there's a granularity to the prices of stocks the market makers can't compete on price, so exchanges end up using speed to resolve who gets the trade. Hence HFT.
OpenHeatMap
This has been around for much longer than people realize. What does everyone think this is used for these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON All those intercept points didn't just go away.

Wasn't there a legal requirement that ISPs install some sort of box for law enforcement usage back in the early 2000s?

Also, I recall reading article from around the same time where a network operator noticed mysterious taps that appeared in his fiber rack over night. These were at a major peering point(lvl3 or att?). The taps went into the ceiling and over a wall. When he questioned their existence, he wasn't allowed to remove them or investigate further.

This has been going on ever since the internet and cell phones became popular. The difference now is that they are less secretive about it. See before, you had to have your ally(the UK, AUS, etc...) log communications for you and you'd log communications for them. Then there's no risk of federal or local laws getting in the way. It looks like just good old fashioned espionage. I guess after 9/11, the powers that be felt that wasn't good enough.
Let's be real. This president versus that president isn't going to change a thing if most of their constituents just don't care.
$675 million in saved energy costs during 2012 thank to LED lights
Still it doesn't necessarily pay. There is a very large productivity gap between different people, for different tasks in software development (in the 1-50x range).
A watermark won't help me with at an anonymous service like snapchat.
Perhaps its clearer to say that pointing out a fallacy is an argument against their argument, but not an argument against their claim. When you dismantle an argument as fallacious, you're just leveling the playing field; you can't actually refute a claim that way.
I find this view of e^z far more beautiful than a bunch of symbols rearranged by someone who thinks definitions provide insight...

http://acko.net/files/mathbox/MathBox.js/examples/ComplexExp...
My Chase cards seem to get compromised somewhat regularly but it's never been an issue. I get a robocall that asks me to press 1 if fraudulent, 2 if legit. Obviously I indicated that the DigitalOcean charge was fine.

Whenever I've had an actual fraudulent charge, Chase has just overnighted me a replacement card, both with my business and personal cards. They've got wonderful customer service.
A major natural disaster is a certainty in the SLC area: we're surrounded by active faults.
It should be easy to prove you did not make the purchases and instantly have your funds credited back to your account OP.
The Hunger Games, bah humbug.
The Lean Start-up from 1946
Disappointing. I was hoping for more IronMan, like http://www.tonystarkitsystems.com.
I agree it was bad form of the author, but in all fairness the original piece was a very casual editorial and not serious reporting. In objective reporting the standard is to cover all sides of a story, but in editorials it's to spout off your opinion - often with little regard for the truth.

My point is don't trust everything you read, always question the source and intention. A lot of us HNers were also guilty of passing on the blame: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5824276

One more thing: we've now heard two sides of the story (an editorial covering the CCC report and Sean Parker). Keep in mind that we don't know what actually happened yet.
Bank Simple actually reached out to me and asked me if I wanted to cancel my card. I did. But I was impressed that they saw that I'd had charges from them and knew about the security issues.
I would post on elance.com I've had projects as little as $25.
You need a konsoleH account for the registration of 'special' domains not covered by the robot. One doesn't have one by default.

I think webspace users get a konsoleH account, too.
Conversely a certain subset of Mormons are going to be very vulnerable to a certain type of attack that the regular (incl. more liberal subsets of) population would not be vulnerable to.

A gay mormon (which is just as common as a gay catholic, or a gay atheist) will be likely to be in the closet. They would probably be ostracised by family and friends if they were outed, lots of people in the general community would not be ostracised. Mormons are more vulnerable to that form of attack and compromise.
Uh-huh, I had better go and smash all the windows at companies that I know have tons of money, so they'll spend it in the local economy... right?
I can guarantee you that you won't get people to wake up by insulting them. At least I can't recall a single case that's ever worked.
Under radically different definitions of use, yes. Money is useful as a reserve, but useful isn't the same as use.
As Facebook grows up, grand ambitions get reality check
I hope you are a paid shill.
Why does the victim in the article have to be a woman? Why can't it just be a random, genderless Internet denizen?
Yeah, I feel a bit bad for the recruiters trying to get senior/lead level guys for "fresh from GT CS program" wages. Or trying to hire iOS devs for $50 an hour.
Ask HN: Why isn't Microsoft focusing on making Windows as secure as Linux ?
Hi,

I know that Microsoft is fixing from time to time security exploits but why isn't Microsoft focusing mainly on finding a way to make Windows as much secure as Linux ? Is it normal that since Windows 95 people still have to buy antivirus/firewall software ? What's the point of an OS if every new version that comes out focuses on stability/features rather than maximum security?
> Why not?

Because, while it's a perfectly valid argument to make, technically winning an argument is different to actually winning an argument.

If most people don't know what a logical fallacy is, then you may as well be referring to the argument from magic pixies and fairy dust fallacy: they won't care or understand what you're saying. At worst, they'll assume you have an unwelcome air superiority about you and they'll start to ignore everything else you say as well.

The sad fact is that people listen to emotions because they can relate to them and, however invalid such an argument is, it's often the argument that wins.
Two ways off the top of my head, both mentioned in the article:

Arbitrage: balancing the prices between exchanges. This helps settle all exchanges on the market price, so you don't pay $5 more just because of the exchange you're on.

Market making: By placing both bid and ask orders, algorithms can tighten the bid-ask spread around the price. When the spread is too large, people are disincentivized to trade because neither buyers nor sellers can agree on a common price.

I would guess that day traders lose out, since they miss the opportunity to act on many of these same opportunities. Also I've heard index funds lose several basis points to HFTs when rebalancing.
I canceled my card the day I saw the issue relating to linode.com. I'm glad I did!
Binney has stated that he witnessed a shift in culture at the NSA since 9/11. We either have to take him at his word or not though.
After living many years without a TV or cell phone, and in a part of the world with almost no advertising, I personally believe every industry is a fashion industry.
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No it isn't. It is paid out in dividends and bonuses. The ultra-rich also are experts at sheltering their money from government's eye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayman_islands#Taxation

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

Bonus points if you know unemployment benefits are subject to income tax in America.
Thanks for the crowdsourced list of great resources for distributing unique content. Yay pageviews and engagement! :D
Hetzner allows to netboot any server via admin panel. After booting into recovery os, you can modify unencrypted parts as you wish.
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.

In theory, yes. I, for one, don't consider that an acceptable form of oversight / accountability. We need to be able to see inside the box, and know damn near everything that's going on, end to end. There is, IMO, very little which truly needs to be classified: Launch codes for the nuclear missiles, things of that nature. Most of the rest, not so much.
No true citation would be incorrect.
All the nerds I know (which is basically everybody I know) like the Vlad Taltos books. As long as you're OK with dragons, sarcasm, and crime you should like them, too.
How NoSQL is Shaping Data Management
Twitter expands its advertising ambitions with WPP global partnership
Few enough companies implement anything close to agility at the beginning of a project. An attempt to inject it when failure looms is desperation at its worst (or best if it means a quick end).
Using Docker as a Open Stack Nova hypervisor
I don't agree with this. I think the root problem in many "arguments" is that the two parties are speaking completely different languages or using two different rule sets. One side will use logical sounding arguments that aren't really logical, and the other side will actually use logic. The logical side isn't "running away" from this argument. They are taking it head on, as an argument should be taken.

Or, you both need to admit to yourselves that what is going on is just political theater and not really argumentation. Which is fine, but just different.

But let's not throw away all of our logical tools because some idiot doesn't know how to use them.
North Korea now streaming state-run TV newscasts on Facebook
I disagree with etanz's post, and think it makes sense for Snapchat to make this feature more accessible (as others have pointed out, profiles have existed on the web for a long time).

In particular, the people we communicate with is not "one of our tightest guarded secrets," especially among the teenage demographic. The term 'bff', for example, has meaning because teenagers like to declare their relationships publicly. Of course our friendships define who we are, and we use those friendships to express our identity in the same way we use fashion to express our identity.

I doubt a large part of Snapchat's usage is for extramarital affairs and the like, and the company is probably happy to make the app less useful for that, and more useful for communication between friends. By making the top friends visible, if user A looks at user B's profile and sees herself as third in the list, and is jealous of the people in the first two spots, then the best thing for user A to do about it is... send more snaps.
Utah overall population density is low but the Salt Lake metro is in geographically constrained valleys and fairly dense (maybe halfway between LA and Midwestern densities). The deserts and mountains are not useful for the NSA.
How did it hijack your back button? My back button works perfectly fine navigating to and from this site.