skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever had a garage sale without telling your town? Ever bought something out of state? Ever copied a CD to give to a friend? Ever added a shed out back without getting approval? Ever lied when a doctor or teacher asks if you own guns? Ever told your kid what the teacher said was wrong? Ever complained about the President? There is a lot we do that aren't felonies and may not even make us guilty, but I still don't want the government poring over every word and deed to see if they appear suspicious enough to investigate. I'm even more afraid of the day local governments get access to these databases, and they can enforce all the regulations people only tolerate because they can ignore them.
NASA discovers hidden portals in Earths upper atmosphere
Can you add a akismet style spam filtering to kill spammy pages?
That looks like what I'm after, thank you.
I don't want to let myself off the hook too easily here, because we don't hire for typical developer roles; our work-sample tests are very well defined (they're exercises in finding and exploiting vulnerabilities) but I'm generally interested in the technique overall. So let's stipulate I'm a hiring for a standard dev role. I think you make some great points.

(1) Yes, ambiguity is death. It's bad for the reason you say it is (it psyches you out, and discovering how people perform when they're at their most psyched-out is a pointless exercise). But it's also bad because open-ended tests are hard to grade and compare. Work-sample tests need to be standardized and they need to be defined rigorously enough that you can draw comparisons between candidates, and then draw comparisons between the performance of hires and the tests.

(2) Yes, grading superficial issues is also bad, for the same reason: when you give someone "points for style" (or demerits), you lose the ability to make apples-apples comparisons with candidates over time.

(3) I flat out disagree that take-home work is disrespectful of candidates. Most interview processes demand that employees submit to several (3+) hour+ long phone screens, then show up at an office for 1-2 days of interviewing. Allowing candidates to do the most important technical portion of the interview on their own time, on their own schedule, in their own location is simply better for the candidate than forcing them into a room with a whiteboard.

(4) Yes, not giving feedback to candidates is one of the great sins of tech hiring. Some of this is folkloric; for instance, there's a belief that providing feedback to candidates you opt not to hire sets you up for frivolous complaints down the road. But there are ways around that problem.
I think he means dev services, not necessarily a product. It's still a good idea, but you must be one hell of a salesman or have some folks who truly believe in you.
> email to wikileaks offering to volunteer

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting to the NSA, but for not just the obvious reason.

Wikileaks set itself up as a nexus of exchange for state secrets of a great many states. Any state with an intelligence operation would want to penetrate that organization to have access to raw data and advance notice of anything interesting about to go down.

I've often wondered if such organizations (not naming names) ever wondered why they get approximately one volunteer from each European nation.
> if I'm letting AT&T or Verizon see the encrypted bits (as well as any intermediate carriers and backbone operators), I don't really have a privacy expectation

Why? Because ISPs handle your data, they get to spy on you? If you asked UPS to ship a memory card full of photos, does that give them permission to copy it and use it how they wish?
It is very refreshing that a side project/start-up related post has made it to number 1 spot on HN. And this is coming from someone who posted a Bee article that made it to the front page today.

kyledrake if any negativity on this thread gets to you, something tells me it will not, just ask yourself how many others have posted their side project on HN that made it to #1, I know I have not and that is why I created this account to begin with - to share my start-up with a start-up community.
You can't even buy 17" monitors anymore though. You can barely buy 19" monitors in 4:3 aspect ratio.
The Guardian is entirely owned by the Scott Trust, which is a trust set up specifically to safeguard their editorial independence. It doesn't have owners in the usual corporate sense of the word.
Hey! That's so awesome to hear, thank you. Please feel free to reach out to me directly: ajay@crowdtilt.com
Not sure what part of Canada you are from, but in my area there is a community group called VIATeC. The Victoria Advanced Technology Council (VIATeC) is the conduit that connects people, knowledge and resources to grow a successful technology sector in Greater Victoria.

VIATeC has a job board [1], which I have personally used to find several jobs over the last 10+ years, so it works. I would look for something similar in your community and hope they have an equivalent. craigslist.ca is good too.

If you want to look at the province as a whole, there is the BC Technology Industry Association, and they also have a job board [2], with 1116 posting no less!

[1] http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/results

[2] http://www.bctia.org/Resources/BC-Tech-Jobs
Absolutely! This functionality is present in most (if not all) browsers. The goal of this post was to show how malware could automatically attempt to extract all credentials.

However, that's certainly a good feature to mention!
It is not about statistics. It is about the _reason_. We know that suicides were committed _because_ of the employment conditions at foxconn. Numbers are irrelevant in this case.
Feminism is absolutely Marxism. Why are the struggles of men in society ignored and belittled, while the struggles of women have entire university departments dedicated to them? Why is inequality only decried in one direction? Because we are not witnessing an earnest attempt to make society better. Rather, it is Marxists acting out class conflict. The uberclass must be defeated by the underclass.

When you hear the word "oppression" think Marxism and class conflict.
This has nothing to do with prices or wrongful chosen clouds. This has everything to do with Amazon encroaching on IBMs old business with the government.

Boeing did the same thing and used the same excuse when they didn't want Airbus coming into the United States and encroaching on its territory.

Mark my works. IBM will win because they have deep pockets with the politicians. That's who will decide this fate, not the CIA.

Humble ex employee of Northrop Grumman on the front line of the Airbus situation.
I can offer some advice on swift-water river safety.

1. avoid swimming in moving water unless you know it and everything downstream of it very well

2. if you're boating (canoe, tube, etc) on swift moving water always wear a personal flotation device. no exceptions.(a)

3. if you find yourself in moving water, swim lateral to the flow - never upstream

4. the safest orientation of your body is lying on your back, feet downstream (though this isnt the most effective for moving laterally, so this is best used through rapids, for example)

5. swimming across eddylines can be difficult. the easiest way is to do a torpedo stroke, which is like an alternating front crawl stoke / back stroke, with your body rotating around its long axis with each stroke. I would link to a video of it, but I cant find one...

a) - i've swum in tame swift-water in downtown Denver w/o a PFD, and I've swum (accidentally) in raging swift-water with a PFD. The former was far more unpleasant, and resulted in more swallowed water.
That was pretty sad.
Yes - they attempted to register it on April 9, 2013, according to the USPTO. But it hasn't even been examined yet. My guess is that it will fail on a common law basis, and even if it doesn't, it will be subject to an opposition period, and it will be opposed. And it will not be granted.

See here: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:jyex1k...
True about calories at the lowest level. You can eat sugar and workout and feel hungry a lot of the time and stay trim, certainly not impossible... riding the blood-sugar roller-coaster every day, so to speak.

I eat some junk on the weekends myself, that's how I get perspective on drastic changes in my energy levels.

Or, instead you can switch into fat-burning mode and have a constant blood sugar and not feel hungry nor have to skip meals. Lots of good stuff too, eggs, spinach, olive oil, flax, etc. Doc says my bloodtest numbers some of the best he's seen.

Fad diets are suspect, but this isn't one of them. When was the last time in the wild you saw a chimpanzee or early human eating a loaf of bread, pasta, or cookies? Never, because they are man-made creations. The fad diet is the empty-carb diet pushed by the modern world, the results of which are obvious.

Humans have evolved over millions of years eating veggies, fruit, nuts, meat, etc.

I'm forming an idea, that there is nothing wrong with these two approaches. Rather there is a choice. Perhaps some of us prefer trading off in favor of tasty sweets, while some of us prefer stable blood sugar. You can live much longer than our poor ancestors with either approach. So, let's not bash the A- students on the other side because they're not perfect.
Hi there! Sorry about the resolution issue.. I'm using Google's blogspot with settings not adjusted too much (only widened a few things, etc.)

Any suggestions as to what I could do to help you read the content?
Don't worry, Dade Murphy will clean up.

Next, enter a password. This will be used to allow you to login. Minimum 5 characters. If you don't make it a good password, Dade Murphy from the movie Hackers will come in and steal your "garbage files".
Because the problem is not specific to Google. (Not to put words in the gp's mouth, but that seems like an obvious reason to broaden the focus to me.)
I think the percentage is interesting, but it adds nothing for either side of the debate (either for or against). I'm not challenging you, I'm talking about the people going back to that number in the thread you posted.

* I don't even know how to setup a master password and have never heard of the option being available in FF or Chrome. I also don't know what it does. Does it replace all password boxes with a master-password that you enter which then pulls down the appropriate password? Is it a keychain?

Saying "X people don't use this feature" could mean anything. It could mean the feature is buried in the system, or that the feature isn't descriptive enough, or that the feature is hard to understand... it doesn't default to being "people clearly don't want that feature".

[*] I could research it, but I'm giving you my current uneducated opinion to make a point.
Jacob Applebaum (@ioerror) on Twitter just minutes ago --

I've long heard rumors that there has been a sealed search warrant for my Gmail account that's probably like this.
Google already offers paid email accounts that don't show ads.
A union of small businesses banding together and throwing their weight around to protect their interests honestly sounds pretty analogous to a "corporation" doing the same.

It's like an amoeba throwing itself around or a small multi-cell organism doing the same. The details might differ but the effect from the outside is pretty similar.
What is the "rule of law"?
Comments like this are really telling of how far down that slippery slope we already are. Troubling.
Ask HN: Which Domain Registrar Do You Use?
I hate GoDaddy, but I've been working with them for several years. I find the marketing to be very unprofessional, and it feels as though features either creep up in cost or have hidden fees.

What do you use, and why?
I don't understand why they think it has to be a "mutually beneficial" solution. That would imply they get benefit out of this too, and they haven't done anything that warrants them getting any kind of benefit out of this blogger's project.
Exactly. This is why this has nothing to do with Trademark law. They are stepping on a mark that's already being used in commerce by someone else. Their attempt to claim ownership through TM doesn't really grant them any rights in usage. And yes, they are attempting to register the mark. It won't go far.
In case the way I word it helps, containers are a very similar concept to FreeBSD jails or Solaris Zones - so once you get what a container is you may appreciate some of the power that already existed in those systems. It's essentially a partition of the system: picture a kernel, but an additional instance of the network stack for each container, a certain mount-point that becomes the "root" file system for all actions inside that container, etc.

In the end you get very similar functionality to a VM, but because it's just partitions of a kernel it's much more integrated than some third-party hypervisor. This lets you do things like inspect processes that are inside your containers as though they were native processes, etc...
But you can say the same thing about a long in-person interview, which has the added disadvantage of demanding your time during the working day.
That was my thought.

dd if=/dev/urandom of=secret.txt bs=1m count=200

^^^ this should do the trick!
> "only a few kilometers?"

At 30 - 50km/h? Yeah, "Only".

The hypothetical human in your example would have a car that traveled a couple thousand km/h. Given which, we'd be right to say "only" of his 133km commute as well.
True, but Google is by far the most dangerous aggregation of personal information, and the topic of this conversation. It's also a company that spends a lot of effort telling people to trust them when that is clearly unjustified.
name.com
No hidden fees.
In these particular instances, though, information is much more valuable than money.
Considering the actual name of their project is his exact blog URL [1], I can't imagine they looked that hard to see if anyone else had the idea first.

[1] http://aroundtheworldin80jobs.com/
The Netflix Tech Blog: Genie is out of the bottle
Tucker argues that his books teach important lessons and are deeper than just "got drunk, had sex." A common theme in a lot of his stories is that he almost always came out the loser — did something incredibly stupid, or lost a friend, or went to jail, etc. Tucker points out multiple times how immature of a person he was when these stories took place. In the end, he is the one hurt the most by his actions. He's matured and learned from his own mistakes.

They're good for a cheap laugh if you're into that sort of thing, but having read I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, I can agree that his book isn't vapid. There is a bit more to it than one would think.
Doesn't Thompson Reuters have a similar thing in place?
I do not have that option with my Macbook, nor do I think people have such an option with most laptops that have an integrated camera and mic. I could physically cover the lens and mic, but you can do that with a Kinect, too.
I’ve no doubt it would be hard to convict – but that doesn’t change anything about whether you are a rapist or not (or at least guilty of sexual assault).
Things like "if(selector === undefined){", "typeof HTMLElement === "object"", "__dolla_handler_guid" are the typical bits as I go through Javascript code that remind me why I'm not a Javascript programmer (or at least not a enthusiastic one).

Almost 20 years in and with a de facto monopoly on the most ubiquitous medium of the 21st century, it's awful to think that it's still so coarse (the word is carefully chosen here to avoid being too inflammatory). Or maybe it's actually because it's so widespread (and getting even more so every day) that it can't be made into a cleaner and more elegant language across the board.

That being said, kudos to the author for a well-crafted article. Very interesting to follow and perfectly illustrated.
Looks bad.
Absolutely it could. However, the layer of defense provided by a master password is still (so far, seemingly) better than the instantaneous and automatic access to credentials malware could have when extracting credentials from Chrome and IE.

But yes, to answer your question (and to validate the other poster on this thread) - If malware infects your system, you will likely have a bad time.
The legal theory that the bill of rights only applies to US citizens is dangerous and wrong.

It applies to actions of the United States government. It is a list of things they may not do.
Google Glass and the war on old people
BigBrain: Scientists Create Ultra High-resolution 3-D Brain
That is kind of genius.
Yes, you are certainly right. But the submitted article is mainly about Google and my post was intended as a better title/headline.
PRISM: All your data, in one place
No, I don't believe that's true. The information in your mail is not more valuable to Google than the integrity of a bank account is to a bank.

Google has a financial interest in having access to the content of mail messages, but (a) it's an interest "in the large", not in any specific account, and (b) it's a nonrivalrous interest.
"The matter of coercion becomes trivial in the sense of The Greater Good (of course, not all research will yield positive results, and that's the whole point of research)."

Not really. There are historical reasons why informed consent is a requirement.

Put another way, would you feel the same if you were the one being coerced? How would you feel about an untreated syphilis infection?
I don’t think it’s possible to convince you. I will not attempt it.
They just need to make people believe their package will get damaged and then take all possible steps to not pay out for a claim.

I thought that's how all insurance worked?
The probationary period is to reduce risk of lawsuits because at-will employment is actually very complicated when it comes to subjective evaluation (i.e. all white collar work) and no one wants to cut a severance check for someone who is cut in the first 90 days.

"At-will" means that companies have the right to execute strategic layoffs, and also to set performance standards whereever they wish, as long as they're uniformly enforced across that job description. (Both of these, I'd argue, are reasonable.) It doesn't allow companies to vary their performance standards for different individuals, or to fire "for any reason". For example, if you work for a 5,000-person company and you're fired for performance after failing on one project and being denied transfer, and you can prove that someone else was allowed transfer under the same circumstances, you can possibly win a discrimination or harassment case (especially because any negative communication about you by management that impedes your chance at transfer can be construed as harassment; this is why the common practice of making performance reviews Enron-style-- that is, part of the transfer packet-- exposes a company to severe legal risk).

If you apply to a 5-person company and get fired in Month 3 because your boss (probably the CEO) isn't feeling it, you probably don't have legal recourse, because as owner and manager of the business, he has the right to select personnel. If it's a 5,000-person company, and you weren't give a few chances to prove yourself on multiple projects, you can raise accusations of personal bias. (That's why companies implement those horrible 18-month policies against internal transfer-- it's to create the impression of a uniform performance standard-- however, those only have legal weight if enforced uniformly, which they never are.) Even if you don't win, you can bring a lot of HR records into fresh air (which a company doesn't want) as they try to prove that you failed according to a set of rules that is enforced uniformly. Companies would rather pay severance than have the courts getting into their HR records.

The probation period is generally more "at-will" than regular employment. For most companies, probation means a couple of things. First, it means that a no-show constitutes voluntary resignation and therefore can't require the company to pay unemployment. (This isn't an issue at our level, but most people are not as ambitious and diligent as we are, and no-shows happen.) Second, it blocks the "employee should have been allowed transfer before termination" argument because the going assumption is that no one transfers in a probation period. Third, it often means no vacation is accrued, which is relevant when people are terminated early on (because they usually haven't used it). Fourth, and perhaps most relevant, it means that one should not expect severance if terminated in that time.
Ask HN: Idea for Github-ish StartUp project teams
Working on an idea purely from personal experience.

Love github but want to record, share, build daily startup stuff, stories, learning - and other coding/non-coding etc projects I do. Not on fb/twitter etc - doesn't work.

Something started at http://ventureIQ.com

Thoughts? Worth pursuing?
I am not. Google is only doing what it is forced to. I am activly searching for google alternatives. Ghostly app on iphone, ghostly for firefox, duckduck, but a good mail client? With easy encription? Not available...
Investing in Games
I'm not sure if this is what rtpg was referring to, but... In this case, the 10x productivity would come from suddenly being able to use C/C++/other code that can be compiled to asm.js, which was previously not useful for client-side web apps unless you rewrote it by hand into JavaScript.
That's a theory that suggests all spying is unconstitutional.
I wanted to share this with a co-worker. Asked him, "you remember geocities?". He didn't. Because it was probably before he was born. I'm so old.
Personally, I think these anti-discrimination laws are probably fundamentally flawed for a while now, at least nowadays.
>Most other "free" web services aren't much better.

Most non-free web services are equally happy giving away your data to the government. Apple, MS and all the other companies are no better than Google.

And Google is not the problem -- it is just a symptom. The problem is the government that does not respect the rights of people.
If someone has intimacy issues after 5 years, he/she may want to consider seeing a relationship therapist instead of buying a self-published book from some guy on the internet that tells you how to pick up women in a bar.

Regardless of that, the book is not about managing long-term relationships. Ostensibly, it's about how to get relationships started in the first place. Therefore, whether a given interaction may or may not be appropriate with a girlfriend of 5 years is irrelevant to the conversation. That was my point.
Ask HN: Should we pursue VC?
We're a niche website. We target a very specific type of post graduate student.

We're coming up on a year of being in operation (this August), about to break 700 registered students and so far we've been completely bootstrapped. I cover all hosting / development costs, my partner covers live events, traveling, advertising, etc... He's the face; I'm the technical. We both still maintain day jobs (and I still freelance in addition to this, so technically, I have 3 jobs).

Development is slow, but it doesn't need to be fast. The site grows as fast as we can manage to grow.

We have some big aspirations for the coming year; we want to break 1500 students, we want to start publishing (iBooks) a quarterly magazine, we want to reach / do more events...

Should we pursue VC? Until now, we owe no one, nothing; and that feels great! But living 2 lives is wearing on me. I want to do this full time.

I feel like we could do so much more if we had some more cash to play with. Not necessarily hire more staff (though it would be awesome to have another programmer to help me) but to do more events, maybe some "grass roots" marketing, etc... Maybe even get an office and we can hold events at our place instead of always renting out rooms.

What will a VC want? A return on investment is obvious; Will they want to tell us what to do? how to do it? When to do it? If we do 24 events a year right now, will they demand 50 (for example) ?