skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The information on the website is lacking in clarity

I agree but it's something I'm struggling with aka how to package what is literally; an outsourced job board service. That's before we look at the benefits of Prospect.

On billing, we do offer 6, 12, 24 month plans. I just haven't made it clear pre-billing.

> My other concern is this: what’s your target audience? Is it small business owners who aren’t very tech savvy? Most likely they won’t need the $18 a month subscription since most small business owners don’t change staff members that much to justify the cost. A soon as a company gets big enough for putting several job openings on their website, they’ll most likely have some sort of CMS to handle this. Or does Prospect offer something that standard CMS’s don’t?

This is a good point - it's aimed at those with a social network presence (i.e Facebook user) and those with a CMS that doesn't integrate jobs well e.g uses a static jobs page.

As you mention, as companies grow, they will want a ATS type solution (Taleo etc) to effectively manage HR. Before then, I guess it's the Fortune 5,000,000 that's the market.
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That sounds really useful! Will google penalize for this though?
Why do human interest stories always swamp other content? Writing about a person is a basic tool of journalistic story telling. Nobody wants to get every juicy update on what we know about an inanimate computer system.
You can do it the other way round: have your data on direct-attached storage and network mount the root filesystem.
I think you're underestimating the importance of not living in bubbles for a) and opening a can of worms by assuming b).
Good luck with that if you learned nothing from the PlaysForSure fiasco.
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Neither is apple.com
So what you are basically saying is that the cloud and the free international market of services are dead.

I would prefer if we managed to stop this nation vs nation view on things. But, since this is probably impossible, the way forward is to encrypt everything and stop using foreing cloud services.
Yes, because I'd prefer an idea that can be bootstrapped into a profitable company. No dependency on ad revenue. No stupid consumer app that goes big or bust.
NSA logic: Don't encrypt your data or we'll keep it until we decrypt it.

So, they will keep it until they can figure out its content ? Fine, so why make it easy on them by giving them plain content from minute 0 ?

I don't see why would anyone able to encrypt his/her data not to.

The problem is not about them keeping encrypted data but about them labeling you as a potential bad guy once you have encrypted data.
And that first duty surely indicates that any government should do its upmost to pry into the business of anybody where doing so will offer advantage to its citizens.

Here you are going wrong because this implies every other country should do the same and therefore harm you. This is nothing but war just without shooting people. Every right you claim for you, you have to grant to everybody. You want to perform industry espionage, then don't call it an act of war if they are spying at you. This is one of the deepest roots of all the mess in this world - not being willing to treat everybody equally.

I actually have a nice Gedankenexperiment. Just imagine for one moment Iran would contact the US government and tell them they fear that the USA may be hostile to them and they are concerned about their atomic weapons. Therefore they would like the USA to denuclearise and grant them access to all their nuclear facilities to oversee what they are doing. Can you imagine the laughs?
jsperf test cases like this don't produce valid results.

The amount of work done in the test case is very small (actually dwarfed by the setup part of the test), making it subject to huge variance due to factors like task switching, GC pauses, etc.

The result of the benchmark is also never used so it is possible for a valid JS runtime to partially or completely optimize it out.

Benchmark actual code doing actual work. Code reduced to this level of meaninglessness does not allow you to draw meaningful conclusions about actual JS performance.
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Is using a service like privnote a plausible way to communicate privately? According to the privacy policy, at no time is any note held in any readable format state on their servers. Also each message 'self destructs' after being opened one time.
As far as I know, Tor is theoretically vulnerable to a correlation attack by an entity capable of monitoring the entry and exit nodes. Personally, I thought having this capability, plus actually implementing the attack was a bit far-fetched for most cases.

However, reading about what the NSA might or might not be be doing, plus the fact that GCHQ is tapping the transatlantic cables and knowing that the US and western European intelligence agencies tend to cooperate, I'm not so sure anymore. I think at this point we can assume that other countries have similar capabilities as well. Knowing that the infrastructure for this kind of attacks is in place, I think the cost is a lot lower than I would have expected a few months ago.
The majority (at least in the Midwest) vote a straight ticket. That's not to say there are those that don't vote on position or agenda, but most are positioned to vote party lines. I find it crazy that people will watch 10s of hours a week watching junk TV but when asked if they've researched who they're voting for they have a blank stare.
That was a very tough call we had to make by choosing this date. We kept it in order to respect the tradition. Who would we be if we break the rules on the third event :P
GCHQ monitors communications world wide.

This is recently reported, but has been known for many many years. (Longer than the lifetimes of some HN readers.)

It is the publicly stated mission of GCHQ.
If one of your complaints about configuration management systems was that they're slow, this is not the answer.
Perhaps you could use crawl frequency in your pricing. For example daily (or even hourly) crawls for the top tier plan.

Most people probably don't have that many pages so I'm thinking the existing pricing tiers might not work well?

And maybe offer a free plan that only crawls your site 3x per year or something really slow like that.
This is actually the method that Google recommends for these AJAX powered websites. https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/

I am just letting people out source the hard work. Since the rendered page will be proxied from BromBone, there will be no way to tell that the same it rendered the file instead of the normal webserver.
It seems like it gets you far enough. A custom IMAP client can just not download anything locally (just grab the headers and cache content of anything you've read), plus UI niceties (click on header to navigate to page). IMAP allows you to use this reader on platforms where no friendly client exists yet.
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My comparison is simply that someone built a solid product and gave it away. Yes, people still pay hundreds of dollars for the same software when Open/Libre Office will work for most people.
Well, maybe, but I think I somewhat prefer the old fashioned way where at least a democracy or republic looked after the interests of its citizens, and hopefully the citizenry had some concept of ethics and fairness towards others in the world.

Now we seem to have this attitude of "Justice for all (multinational) corporations!". Voting the wrong way is terrorism, as far as some of these interests are concerned :-(
Complete Speculation. Is there video evidence that he said this?

But yes, even if true, lets hold proles to the word of the law, while writing new laws that demonize all whistleblowing and the exposing of corruption.

I find it funny how we always get into the character attacks. Lets talk about the leaks.

Bradley Manning -> Traitor

Julian Assange -> Rapist

Edward Snowden -> Spy(?)/Traitor/Ethical Person who knew about the abuses and attempted to follow through with uncovering them?

You can call it by different names all you want, but ultimately we can either support the act, or demonize the individuals.
Even if its true, there is a long American tradition of people working undercover to expose wrongdoing.

Upton Sinclair took a job at a meatpacker so that he could get the information to write The Jungle.

Its totally different than the scenario of Ford spying on Tesla.
I've really enjoyed using Feedbin.me. They have a three column layout and keyboard commands. Makes it easy to read. Feedbin is web based, but they have an API that I can sync with Press on my phone.
The point is simply to get the message out there, not to verify anything. Once it's out, it can't be undone.
Yep, and I think they can even keep all the communications of everyone in the US you communicate with.

Not encrypting to stay secure is just plain fucking stupid. If you don't encrypt they can read your shit anyways. Plus "reasonably believed to contain secret meaning" in all likelihood means "whatever the fuck we want".

As someone else already noted: There's strength in numbers. Let's just encrypt everything and have those fuckers deal with humongous amounts of data, most of which will be completely useless. Shit, if you're inclined to do so let some piece of software run all day that just produces encrypted gibberish and sends it off to random recipients.
He probably just wanted to test the difference between 'while ' and 'do while' and takes the fastest possible solution (for) as a reference. It's however good to know that 'do while' is that much slower compared to while.
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It is definitely getting worse. I had MSNBC on last night as background noise and heard several pundits speculate that Snowden may have sold or given information to China or Russia.
Do you think there would be any demand for a separate service that makes it easy to screen scrape javascript heavy sites? (might be legal issues there though?)

(Sorry for all the comments, this concept intrigues me)
If you have not visited the US, please resist the urge to make sweeping generalizations about it. OK?
I'd be interested to know if the number of people running tor servers, or if donations of servers, or donations of money to fund servers, has increased much recently.

How many machines would Tor need to make traffic analysis tricky?
What would be the timeframe of reaching/colonizing these planets? With another 20 years of engine development, would it be possible to reach these planets in our lifetime? That would be a world-changing event.
"ERROR: Adobe Flash Player 9/10 or higher needed."
And some would think that PRISM is a BIG thing. Well no, it's just a small little thing that has a lot of brothers and sisters surveillance programs. PRISM is just the tip of the iceberg.

And USA are not the only one having such programs.
I got one through backing them in their kickstarter campaign and sadly I must say its not worth the $99 yet. Software is really bad and lacking apps/games.
"with the holiday season fast approaching"... really?
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Yes, but at least Tor <-> Tor(.onion sites) traffic should still be secure. It's browsing the open Internet that is unsafe.
> He meant that they cannot by law, rather than cannot because they dont have access.

Really what he meant is that the NSA can't target their listening at you, but they certainly can listen to your calls accidentally or in a mission targeted at some other person or targeted at you if they don't know for a fact that you're a U.S. person, and once they do listen to your calls, they certainly can forward that information to any appropriate law enforcement agency to take action against you, and they certainly can use that information to get a warrant to legalize targeting you if need be.

So really what he meant is that yes, the NSA can listen to your calls, "legally", in almost all circumstances. By taking care not to initially link up phone numbers and names/addresses, they can maintain that they didn't know you were a U.S. person for as long as they need to.

If you didn't understand that from his use of the word "cannot", well, I guess that's just your poor listening skills at fault.
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For the same reason I don't call my c++ libraries (foo.asm) or dart libs (foobar.js). Fundamentally it is a different language with different syntax and semantics. Just because something can compile to js does not make your library a "js" library.

Note that this is not an argument against coffeescript as a language. Use it if you want. Just realize that calling things ".js" when they are not is both confusing to newcomers and those expecting to read a lib written in js.
I almost did that. Ultimately I decided to take an "it just works" philosophy to crawl frequency (unless you need realtime).

Would you segment the number of pages differently? I think some sites with a lot of user generated content might actually have a ton of pages. But it is hard to get real numbers.
Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking. Moreover, they could run their own exit nodes.
Yeah that's what has bothered me. Everyone is rattling on about spying on US citizens (which of course is justified) but hardly anybody seems to point out the blatant disregard for everyone else.

As a non-US citizen (UK) the NSA supposedly has all my communications stored. I have no say in that and it seems that people are treating that as a non-issue. 'Ahh foreigners won't mind.' But we do
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Was thinking of getting one for the purpose of building a MAME cabinet. Does it run MAME out of the box?
>But either way, blaming the NSA for missing an attack by domestic terrorists is almost completely missing the point of why we have the NSA, CIA, and FBI

No, it isn't. Gov't officials have repeatedly made questionable claims about the efficacy of these programs in support for them, while they have yet to provide any proof of their actual utility.
My problem is too many ideas. They overwhelm me. I have started 18 companies. Most of them fail to take off. As I get older I have succeeded in fighting the idea-a-day syndrome.
All the computers in the world wouldn't be able to brute force the strongest crypto algorithms in far more than billions of years. Are you implying that the NSA has access to other planets?
Could still be useful in case anything ever happens to our solar system.

But 22 lightyears means it's still going to be one-way trip, even with matter/anti-matter engines. Unless we develop immortality by then of course...
Because by not respecting foreign citizens America instead of leader becomes the schoolyard bully. So the US are losing respect, soft power and goodwill with nothing to show for that.

So international isolation in the upcoming turmoil times of re-balancing of the global politics may not be the best time to be.

US seems like post-Birsmarck's Germany right now - too powerful, arrogant and incompetent for its own good.
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Yes, and plenty of other emulators:

http://dayoftheouya.com/a-list-of-all-known-emulators-for-ou...
Yes. I'm looking for a subtle idea, that doesn't necessarily make me millions, but keeps occupied and pays the rent. I have many ideas but they are too hard or need too much money to bootstrap.
Yes it would be possible. Project Orion in the 1950s demonstrated that using nuclear pulse propulsion, you could accelerate to (max) 0.1c for intersteller missions. If we were to actually spend a little bit of money and effort on real space travel - which we're about to, if SpaceX and Plantery Resources succeed - I think it's completely reasonable to think that we will launch (and perhaps arrive) on these planets in our lifetimes.

It's optimistic, sure, but it's possible.
Which war? The war in Afghanistan?
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Every time I look at one, I find that I'd rather not install lots of unneeded functionality and clutter up the configuration repository (which is supposed to be self-documenting). I wind up writing my own.

For example, I looked at a postfix cookbook[1]. The client recipe[2] looked nifty but wasn't something I needed, and wouldn't work without modification anyway since I run serverless. Meanwhile one of the key parameters I needed to change was recipient_delimiter, which this cookbook had hardcoded into the main.cf.erb template[3]. I decided to just write my own bare-bones cookbook that didn't try to abstract every single configuration parameter I could think of. I haven't had to modify it since.

This has been a common experience for me in the past year. I have yet to actually deploy a public cookbook.

[1] https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/postfix

[2] https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/postfix/blob/master/recipes/client.rb

[3] https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/postfix/blob/master/templates/default/main.cf.erb
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I disagree with you saying this isn't a valid test but added http://jsperf.com/while-vs-for-queue/4 for your convenience.
Naw, don't worry about it.

You're a great friend :-)
What is it exactly that Snowden did that so many Americans consider to be bad? The legality and morality of the spying program shouldn't even have to be an issue when one is determining whether to support Snowden or not. If an American supports the spying program, how is it any better or worse now that he knows of its existence?

It's not like Snowden destroyed the program. All he did was tell us that it exists. The program still operates freely and "protects us" as much as it did before. Why would a citizen now be unhappy that he's burdened with the knowledge of such things?

Terrorists aren't now saying, "oh crap, I better be more careful with my communications now." I'm sure they were already taking proper precautions. The existence of the program was probably already safely implied by the people it's targeting the most.
You don't mention what you find unusual about that price, is there anything obviously wrong with it?
while is faster than for here.

Testing in Chrome 27.0.1453.116 32-bit on Windows Server 2008 R2 / 7 64-bit
Hmm I still like the crawl frequency as a price differentiator personally.

Other ideas might be a service level guarantee for the high priced plans. And included email support for setup.
Why would you expect the US government, or ANY government to respect the right of privacy of citizens of other countries?

Oh I don't know... morals? A simple sense of common decency? I know, it brings a chuckle to talk about such qualities when talking about a government, but let's just pretend for the sake of conversation that the government is for the people and by the people and not a self-propagating hostile life-form.

The first duty of government is surely to protect the interests of the country to which it belongs

Do you not see that the foreigner-spying aspect of this this leak does immeasurable damage to US interests, especially US-based companies? Such simple-minded views are used to defend our drone program. To put it crudely, we can't go around the world fucking everyone else in every which way and continue to pretend to be the good guys. The concept of this country being a good citizen of the world hasn't even occurred to most Americans.

your co-citizens will be rightly outraged

You beg the question. They may be outraged, but I don't think they'll be rightly outraged. People tend to have very myopic perspectives in the face of disaster. I don't think that's the bar by which we should set our policy.
I don't know. That was brought up in my previous posting, and I've had some people email me about it. It's hard for me to tell. I'm just not in that community enough to understand their needs.

I'm afraid that every scraping project is just enough different that it would be hard to write something that offered value to a lot of people.
That... actually sounds like a fantastic idea. One folder per feed, you could read your feeds with your email client. Interesting...
If Google were smart, they'd open-source Reader and let the people who love it maintain and run it (It's probably much too dependent on their architecture for this to actually be a viable option).

So.. if they were smart they'd do something that's impossible, you're saying.
>>That was odd downvotes. Anyone care to explain?

There seem to be a bunch of people that will down-vote every little thing. Unfortunately it has become quite sizable now. Just watch them down-vote this comment. They really are Re..tards.
>> They can attack an encrypted communication and probably decrypt it

No. If you do it right, nobody on earth can decrypt it. From Bruce Schneier:

>> In fact, we cannot even imagine a world where 256-bit brute force searches are possible. It requires some fundamental breakthroughs in physics and our understanding of the universe. For public-key cryptography, 2048-bit keys have same sort of property; longer is meaningless.

and

>> These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_c...

Also, from Bitcoin Talk:

>> But what about very well funded entities such as the US National Security Agency (NSA)? Could they build a machine to crack a 256 bit key? Assume they could build a theoretical nanocomputer that executes 10^13 instructions per second (approximate rate of atomic vibrations) in a space of a cube with a side that is 5.43nm across (This is the approximate size of a silicon lattice10 atoms wide, or a crystal containing 1000 silicon atoms). Assume that it could calculate an attempt in 10 cycles. Such a computer the size of the earth would take more than 10^13 years (roughly 58 times the estimated age of the earth) to attack a 256 bit algorithm via brute force.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=360.15;wap2
Always assume "No" unless you have a bunch of established crypto researchers who've looked at the system and who are prepared to use it themselves.

People might say that "there are no posted attacks for privnote", but that just means the bad guys haven't told you they can crack your encryption. Since bad guys will never tell you that they can crack your encryption you must not assume lack of evidence of cracks is the same as lack of cracks.

(http://pablohoffman.com/how-privnote-really-works)

There's some stuff that is vaguely worrying about privnote.

Really, learn GPG / PGP. Help other people learn it. Fix the UI. Fix the documentation. Sign everything. Encrypt everything.
although it doesnt state their mass, as super earths it isnt likely to be much fun living there - higher gravity means people born in lower gravity systems would initially be oppressively heavy, and then just really really uncomfortable should they stay long enough to adapt; whilst the gravity well means getting off again is going to require much larger rockets (assuming similar atmospheric density).

Although if we can solve getting there we can probably solve constructing a space elevator to get on and off relatively fuel-free