skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of stuff wrong with what you've written, and I don't have time to address everything, but I'll give you a short list:

* You're begging the question by asserting it's the Ebola virus. The question is whether or not it's dangerous and by calling it a deadly virus you're asserting it is as a given. Logical fallacy.

* I'd like to know where you got the information that the collected surveillance data is fully processed, even being used in its entirety, or that it's "fine grained". If you have information that hasn't yet been released, I recommend you be careful. See what happened to Snowden?

* What do you mean "computers which are usually publicly connected no matter what"? Are you saying that when a computer is connected to a router, the data it transmits is public information?

* What would hackers do with my location data, exactly? The fundamental problem that privacy solves is that the government would use your private data to cause you legal trouble. Hackers have no such luxury, and while they could steal your money or identity, that's a constant risk for the government, anyway. We already trust the US government with tons of our personal information, and yes, it could get hacked. It does get hacked, and yet somehow we're still here.

* 1984 is fiction. It does not, in any way, shape, or form have any influence or predictive powers on the future outcome of events. It's a good story, but it's as useful as Harry Potter is at telling us how our society is going to transform.
Massachusetts Introduces Software Service Tax
I've been using HTTPS Wikipedia for years. It's great to see them make it the default.

But considering what Wikipedia is, users wanting increased privacy could just download a copy of the encyclopedia and do their searches offline. Wikimedia makes data dumps of their user-generated content (UGC) available to the public. (Don't you wish all mega-websites relying on UGC did that?)

There was a time before the internet when we used volumes of paper bound encyclopedias. These were not written by laypeople and they were not free. Few people owned their own set of volumes of Brittanica's encyclopedia. They used someone else's copy, e.g., a library's.

But imagine if Brittanica offered _free_ copies of their encyclopedia that could somehow fit in your pocket (as is possible now through digitization and Wikipedia).

Would you continue to use a copy belonging to someone else everytime you had to look something up? Why wouldn't you obtain a copy for yourself?

What if...
Wikipedia's data dumps were small enough.
Wikipedia content was, overall, static enough.
Storage was cheap enough.
Download speeds were fast enough.
And you could get your very own copy of the encyclopedia.

Compared to the speed, reliability and privacy of offline reading, grabbing specific articles piecemeal via HTTPS simply cannot compare.

See OpenMoko's WikiReader as an example implementation. It's on Github.
CoreOS Vagrant Images
It's not "not smelling like a horse", it's "body odor is bad".

Did you read the article?
Not at all due to the fact that Bitcoin uses double SHA-256 and I don't think any passwords are stored that way.
Yeah, sadly. But at least Google has the resources to learn on false negatives. There have been a few malware scandals, but they are usually cut off short in bulk just after exposed. I doubt smaller stores are able to perform that well in this area, not to mention that those Russian ones probably are the scammers themselves as the phones have non-google app stores unlocked and it only takes a spammy redirect.

All that said, as you mentioned in the other comment - the root of the problem are cell companies, if not for them, the premium sms problem wouldn't exist.
OrderAhead seeks Account Execs to Launch New Markets
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As an Account Executive at OrderAhead, you will help scale our business across the US. You will develop new market strategy, identify important local partnerships and close high-quality merchants.

It’s important to us that everyone at OrderAhead shares our intensity, grit and passion for fulfilling our mission.

Requirements:

- Sales Ability

- Love of Technology

Email for Resumes:

- jobs@orderaheadapp.com

Bonus:

- Include a 30 second video of you selling us on why you’re the right candidate for this position
See also, from my earlier article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/how-the-u.s-fo...
"The government has a lot of leverage," including contracts and licenses, said a representative for an Internet company. "There is a lot of pressure from them. Nobody is willingly going into this."
Heckling is one of the oldest forms of political dissent. If one can't handle heckling, one shouldn't be a politician or any kind of public figure.
> there are pre-currency societies with both barter- and gift-based

Smith doesn't allow for the concept of a gift-based economy. Or for the possibility of an explicitly accounts-based economy, also supported by the anthropological record.

> zero economic growth literally means things never get better

I've argued both sides of that statement myself. I think I'd argue it on an evolutionary basis: the level of supportable complexity is static, but the focus of that complexity, where complexity is used to provide solutions to problems, isn't fixed. As the environment itself changes, or even interests within that environment, changes can occur within the economy. It's bounded but not static.

The material standard of living cannot increase overall, but its application and allocation can be shifted.

And whether or not the goal is desirable really has zero impact on how real the situation is. That's a classic wishful thinking response -- or if you prefer, argumentum ad consequentiam, appeal to consequences, or Diax's Rake. The Universe doesn't owe you your desired lifestyle.
Considering how much I use WP, they're gonna need a terabyte just for me.
Your value proposition is rather unclear. Whom is this aimed at and what advantage do you offer them?
Ok, I think I'm missing something: Why [0.6983]?
Folks, remember your historical context. Before people drank soda, they mostly drank beer (or other alcohol). Soda is the non-alcoholic replacement.

There's still echoes of this left in modern-day asian culture. Particularly authentic asian restaurants will still look at you funny if you ask for iced water with your meal. Traditionally, it's either hot tea or hot sake.
It's not just SMS. There's premium numbers, too. It's a fairly neat racket. You get Elbonia Telecom to publish a tariff inside their country that is like $0.50 a minute. They'll make a deal with you to give you, say, 20 cents a minute on all traffic you can generate.

So you go and hack people's PBXes or phones or whatever and call these numbers non-stop and profit handsomely. Careless telecom (VoIP) providers are also good targets, as the updating of these prices is a haphazard operation.

It even happens inside the US. Some local telco (like in Iowa) gets a 7 cent rate published, then puts up free conference calls or whatever to generate traffic.
Yep, I thought it would be fun to use a touch-based app for drawing diagrams.

Turns out that to get the lines straight, group/ungroup objects, line everything up, choose fonts and colors, etc., etc., it takes a lot of input that is not particularly well-done using touch.
I mean, frankly, that's a somewhat arguable point. It might be, but it wasn't, I don't think, consciously sold in the "devious" manner deodorant was sold. Soda wasn't invented first, and then people started drinking things other than water after being told they need to. Soda was sold as, "here try this, it's pretty good!"

You can't really compare food with nonfoods in this area. Food and sustenance products come embedded with a need - survival. You have to drink/eat something, why not drink/eat my product?
My favorite coding music, for late nite is SomaFM: Mission Control, wich is ambient music mixed with NASA mission audio archives, it is sublime. You can find it iTunes radio or in SomaFM official website http://somafm.com
Not a dam. Or, it's a natural dam. I suspect a big piece of the phenomena is sea levels massively shrinking, and then expanding ... massively, but slowly. 11000 years is plenty of time for, say, an ice age cycle (even a minor one).

After all, if a large % of the water on earth suddenly collected at the poles, it's not as though every water body's shoreline would contract at the same width, like a photoshop "contract selection" command. Undersea geography, depth, etc would play a factor.
How many non-intrinsically expensive ebooks had reasonable wholesale prices above $10?

What I've read is that the "below the wholesale price" didn't happen a lot until publishers started raising that price after Amazon created the market. Now, maybe the latter discovered they couldn't afford below $10 wholesale prices, but the method they used to deal with the problem as, as you noted, "straight-forward collusion", and as I add, that harmed the consumer; add the two together and you get a slam dunk anti-trust case.
They're collecting phone records of everyone. They say they haven't been collecting location data yet (I don't trust them, but we'll leave that aside for now) but a court just ruled that they are free to do so, so I expect they will start to if they haven't already. That violates my privacy even though it is technically legal.

Furthermore, collecting business records of everyone without a warrant requiring probable cause absolutely violates the spirit of the law they claim authorizes it, as evidenced by the authors of that very law saying so.

Your second paragraph is meaningless to the discussion, because what I, and others, are trying to do is raise awareness of the threats to convince others to act, which is something everyone is free to do on any subject.

Governments do inevitably push at the edges of everything they're allowed to do, which is why we have to keep enforcing and adding limitations as necessary to keep them from pushing out in new areas. It's not hopeless, as long as there are still independent branches of government that don't all work together on everything. Congress needs to establish firm limits and close the loopholes and twisted interpretations of law the executive branch continues to find and exploit.
There even was an institute! Amazing thank you, I had heard the idea of a dam but didn't know it was so serious.
Why is it so difficult to find a link to download this? Not writing this with some sense of entitlement, just frustration.

This looks cool, I want to try it out, are they really forcing me to dig through GitHub (which I may not be familiar enough with) to find the release page that has a .zip file that may or may not be what I want?
The Anti-Techonomic View: Economic Growth Is Over
>Every civilization with written records has existed for less than 5,000 years

Uh, writing is only approximately 5,000 years old, so, yeah, I agree with parent that Munro's argument is silly.
Ask HN: How do I learn marketing?
I have a $2,000/month product, that is almost passive. It's a good income, however, I believe the product can reach a larger audience.

I don't do any marketing, I don't even have an idea how large the audience is, or how much I should charge.

So are there are any good resources to learn marketing and seo that works?
A brief history of manufacturing
Ask HN: Other than cash, how do you compensate employees in your startup?
Our company (bootstrapped) has grown very quickly in the past few months. As we contemplate our next moves, we need to decide between investing in hard assets (machinery, IP) and paying employees for project-based work related to the development of these assets. These assets will provide us with a protected competitive position in our industry. We aren't really looking for outside investors, and an exit down the road is highly unlikely, so equity compensation for employees isn't ideal. What other forms of employee compensation have founders on here used? Ideally, some sort of rolling-debt instrument would fit our needs, but everything I've read online says that's a bad idea (and possibly illegal). Does anyone have any other suggestions?
You, and the article, assert that the negative connotation of the smell is manufactured. By "smells like a horse", I mean "considers the smell to be bad".

If "people smell like horses" is illegitimate because it is manufactured, then why isn't "I am unsatisfied with this wide array of beverages that are not simultaneously sugary and carbonated"?

Either both are illegitimate because they are "manufactured", or both are legitimate.

Did you read my comment?
I think it was probably instructive for the hackers to analyze the General attempting to do social-engineering.
It's used in Cornell's intermediate-level, required, notoriously difficult functional programming course.
It depends on who you ask. But the DOJ and FBI and NSA are very good about getting what they want from Congress. I can't think of any clear examples in the last 15 years when Congress has rolled back surveillance authority. (They're thinking of doing it now re: email search warrants, but (a) it will have little practical effect because major companies already require it following a court decision and (b) even that limited reform is still not final and could actually make things worse.)

Remember, the Patriot Act was sitting on a shelf long before 9/11, with the DOJ looking for good arguments in favor of it:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20058797-281.html
Long before 9/11, the U.S. Department of Justice drafted the so-called Enhancement of Privacy and Public Safety in Cyberspace Act (PDF), which goes by the awkward and not very memorable acronym of EPPSCA. In July 2000, the Clinton administration forwarded EPPSCA to Congress, where it was introduced by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and met with a generally chilly response.
I for one am massively interested in Go NLP, and this project as a whole. I'd really love to see this project opened up.
> The "natural human body" wasn't meant to have clothes on

Stop anthropomorphizing nature; it gets angry when you do that.
yes there is, you encrypt the OS that is stored on the hard drive

edit: sorry, chain looks like this: BIOS reads boot block from hard drive, checks digital signature, signature invalid, boot fails. BIOS check for signature works in concert with TPM to do key storage, so you're fine. albeit, sleeping with 'evil' technology like UEFI and TPM.
in Poland a few years ago we had a scammer scheme where they left you a message to call them back. When you called back, they forwarded the call to a US premium number.
I've never understood the idea of ranking a developer based on activity on Github, Bitbucket, HN etc. I've been writing code for more than 15 years and don't have a single line of code on an public repo. "Why?", you may ask. Because everything I have done (besides a couple side projects that were never meant for release) has been paid work for an employer/client. Nothing to put in a public repo. And my activity on HN or other boards really has nothing to do with my coding. I'm sure I would score very poorly if I signed up for something like this. So I never would. And that now limits your dev pool to only a certain type of dev... and not necessarily the best ones. So knowing that and looking at it from that angle, if I was looking to hire a dev, I also would not use a site like this. "Why?", you may ask. Because I'd be looking for good devs... not just good devs that happen to release a lot of public code and/or post a lot on HN.
It's supposed to help said currency become more solidly established, and therefore more useful to more people.

I don't think you're going to find people flocking to a currency where it turns out that they have zero change of a big score. At least during the gold rush there was the possibility that a small miner could get lucky.
It was only more plausible if you believe they would see fireworks on facebook and show up asking about pressure cookers.

The fact was something in between, of course, it was computer searches but they weren't passed on from the NSA to some JTTF agents.
Regarding your phone call example. In my experience, most call from unlisted phone numbers, and they will keep trying to engage you in conversation until you hang up.
Yup, and that is the great irony of Bitcoin in my eyes. In the long term, the value of Bitcoin will probably continue to stabilize around the price of electricity, which is of course defined in US dollars.

In other words, Bitcoin will be anchored to the value of USD (with some factor comprised of average rig efficiency and prices per watt)
Just so I understand correctly, are you saying you would like to be able to read HN using an nntp client?
Discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6149393
> Particularly authentic asian restaurants will still look at you funny if you ask for iced water with your meal. Traditionally, it's either hot tea or hot sake.

As someone with the habit of burning my mouth with hot beverages, this drives me bonkers.
I don't, and won't, fly for as long as the TSA gropes and scans people. That limits my rapid travel abilities and has prevented me from doing certain things, but I would rather maintain my principles on that matter. Does it actually do anything? Probably not. Nonetheless, I refuse to ever subject myself to such treatment.
> ... wherein the regulatory agency has a vested interest in the continued success of its regulated clients.

The logical consequence for the consumer would then be to boycott these clients.
It has numerous major disadvantages (expensive, proprietary, closed-source, lock-in) and virtually no advantages over a number of other open source technologies.

I suspect there are very few people who have extensive experience on both sides of the fence and would choose the Microsoft route for their own startup/company. It tends to be almost exclusively people who lack experience with open source alternatives.
It could definitely be sampling bias, but with that I'm not sure where any anti-manning articles would be posted in the first place. I thoroughly agree that mainstream media hasn't covered this case as much as it should have been. I'd argue this is just as important as the trayvon Martin case ( I mean the guy literally got away with manslaughter. I guess after thinking about it for a while, the reason people wouldn't be upset about this, thus all the pro-manning articles and nearly no anti-manning articles are a result of only hackers genuinely caring about the misapplication of these poorly worded and over stretched laws they used to "prove" manning guilty of "computer fraud" whatever the hell that is.
I've been reading HN in a terminal for a while via Emacs and w3m mode.

EDIT: or also, just use w3m outside of Emacs.
Isn't it an immense amount of negative PR to buy an app and shut it down? Why does this keep happening?
Bdw, I am not at all saying that dire mistakes were not made. However in my view it is more a case of incompetence, then there is a case of corruption, malice or deliberate misuse of force by the police.
CSRF attacks: A minimalist method for protection used by ifixit.com
> I don't really know why, but I like the imperfectness of our calendar system now.

Both in your case with calendar and in case of dustincoates and the Imperial units, I think you like the way things are because you got used to it.
Why do they need talents? they need marketing strategy and profitable products, and a bunch of middle level engineer to implement it.

after all, talents can simply quit their jobs after acquiring
I have been reading the cypherpunks archives recently, and have noticed that Declan was pretty active on that list. Thought it worth mentioning, as his articles have been popping up on HN with increasing frequency.
It appears you've done a pretty good job :)
Extrawelt.
You might react so badly to his smell if you were not conditioned othervice.

You just don't realize that you are in cultural and subjective bubble and you don't have objective keys to the world of smells.

If you travel around, you will realize that people have different smells and some of them are really strong. When you get used to them, they stop bothering you.
Cross Site Request Forgery in JS Web Apps
It's cynical but there is a lot of cognitive dissonance surrounding software startups. The players involved in a deal like this seem to go through a lot of twisted internal logic to convince themselves that what they are doing isn't just an investor shell game. Whereas a corporate raider type simply wouldn't care about having extra-financial justifications for the deal.

I'm not saying that is what happened here, but I have been involved in a startup acquisition which was an investor shell game, and even guys who lost in the acquisition had to come up with a warped internal history about what happened in order to not feel bad about it, or something...
I wanted to like it but I'm not sure it's really better and could be much worse merely from being so different from every other method.

That said, there are some problems:
* Amex CVV doesn't allow the proper 4 digits
* Tab-order is weird
* Confusing because sometimes you tab to next field, sometimes you don't
* Name usually not needed since already entered elsewhere (inexplicable why so many checkout forms do this)
* Difficult to change card number
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. I have SMS payments for two of my games in 30+ countries worldwide. You can use the same code as long as it is free to register.

But the whole code story is completely irrelevant! If malware is installed in your Android phone it can send any arbitrary short code it wants, without you noticing. What is important is the number to which you send the code, and this is different for each country (and even different for different carriers in some countries).

So, a well coded malware with international support would need to know the premium payment number + code pairs for all the countries the attacker wishes to gather money from.
I understand all this. Like many people, I've written programs in C++ templates. But I think we're talking past each other because you want to make a pedantic point. I'm using the words as they are generally understood, not in a technical computer science way. I'm talking about first-level stuff, not metaprogramming. Let me give you some questions to ponder:

- Is the text of Hamlet code?

- Was it code as soon as Shakespeare wrote it?

- If not, did it become code once the electronic computer was invented? Or did that happen once a version was stored in a way accessible to an electronic computer?

- Did all the existing paper copies immediately become code at that point as well?
Yuck. Fortunately, both companies in this case are in California.
There are easier ways to reconstruct your HTTPS Wikipedia browsing habits than to crack HTTPS.

Because Wikipedia's content is public, the NSA can crawl the site repeatedly with all common user agents, generating the number of HTTPS bytes needed to download any given Wikipedia page. Then, simply by looking at the patterns of bits sent over the wire, they can trivially reconstruct the likely pages a user was viewing.

Wikipedia has not discussed any plans to mitigate traffic analysis; until they do so this whole exercise is futile, and I doubt Wikipedia will be able to obfuscate their site sufficiently to evade sophisticated traffic analysis.
To quote Eliezer, "not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change". I think people in general are too conservative, and that's why we get stuck for tens or even hundreds of years with suboptimal solutions that are barely good enough to work.
How LA says "Los Feliz"