skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's very important to be allowed to say publicly that things suck. I would argue that more people should do it... His comments in the video were harsh and opinionated and the questioner was disappointed with the answer, but as the same time he was being asked for an opinion and gave a fair one.

I totally agree about the need for honest criticism. If Jonathan Blow had started the reply, and Phil Fish had followed up with his apt comparison involving the Zelda games, they wouldn't have come across negatively to me at all. Seriously though, how can you not see how rude (and even mildly racist) his opening remarks are, especially when given to someone who is not fluent in the English language (and is thus likely to take what he says even more seriously)?

"They suck. I'm sorry, but you guys need to get with the times and make better interfaces and like update your technology... we're totally kicking your ass... back then you guys were the king of the world, but your time has passed."

What the fuck? How can people on here get bent out of shape over the mildest use of unnecessarily gendered language, but let something like that pass?

To the sibling comment from PavlovCat's, obviously I can't get into their heads, but the impression I got was that the people on the panel were laughing at Phil's complete lack of tact. Listen again and hear Edmund exclaiming "oh wow" just before he bursts into laughter.
well, sortta, and mostly in the US where malpractice lawsuits are an issue
You can make a million dollars in a millisecond.
A clever scam with the land-line call.

I wonder where the fraudsters have got all his personal info (including his land-line phone number) from. Even if they got a hold of his receipt that shouldn't contain enough info to get all the other details.
Hmmm. Why do you think it is that the costs of products and services produced by certain industries, like medical care and higher education, tend to rise much faster than inflation, while costs in other industries, like say, technology, fall over time? Could it have something to do with the fact that the industries where costs are increasing are those most heavily regulated and subsidized by multiple layers of government, while those where costs are falling (and quality is rising) are those that are least regulated and subsidized? Perish the thought! Much easier to just scream "greed!!!" and feel a bit morally superior than to actually try to understand what the problem is.
I wonder what positions the good MBAs tend to work in vs the bad, for example which kind are more likely to be big company CxOs.
i don't know what current state of the art is and even 3mm sounds crazy good when i think about it (i was just repeating the spec sheet). i wonder if it that also requires separate / multiple receivers to fully model the ionosphere?
Google should sue for every inaccurate DMCA takedown it receives. Not practical, but it would send a few firms broke, and stop the flood.
Responsible disclosure can benefit us all, unfortunately some vendors -- SaaS, PaaS, physical, or otherwise -- use their legal departments as blunt weapons to needlessly attack well-meaning security researchers.

In case anybody is wondering, I'm referring to Volkswagen.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/29/uk-court-volkswagen-megam...

Personally I'm an advocate of full, anonymous, and public disclosure.
>If you call a landline, it’s up to you to end the call. If the other person, the person who receives the call, puts down the receiver, it doesn’t hang up the call, meaning that when I went to find my bank card, the fraudster was still on the other end, waiting for me to pick up the phone and call ‘the bank’.

Can someone explain this? This seems like a pretty glaring and obvious issue that I'm sure I would have experienced before. Is he saying that if he hangs up the phone and picks it up again and the person at the other end doesn't hang up, then the conversation isn't over?
I understand that. In what way, is what I'm asking.
I don't particularly like the solid blue, but I think the post is all wrong in it's conclusion " It's just a bottomless box..." that is actually the right metaphor for dropbox, so why would they change it?
Agreed. I did a stint in a cardboard box factory. I put the lid on a box that came out a machine. 1 per second for an 8 hour shift. Clock in clock out. Management sat in an office above the shop floor and waited for infractions to punish it was soul destroying.
What's the difference between what you're doing and domain squatting apart from the fact that we're dealing with a logo and not a domain name?
No one is advocating for increasing those penalties. Taleb is just stating that there be some penalties, which kinda makes sense:

You feel safer if the pilot is in the airplane with you, and has his life at risk as much as yours, than e.g. if he was just remote-controlling the plane from his office
So put a regular cell immediately behind the transparent cell? It'd be equivalent to a multi-junction standard cell, just one that goes out into the infrared instead of stopping at red.
Finally, The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office does their job correctly and rejects a ridiculous patent. Hopefully only one of many ambiguous patents denied in the coming months and years. Gestures should not be patentable whatsoever and Apple are deluded for thinking so. I guess when you have billions of cash at your disposal your imagination knows no bounds as to what you think you are entitled to.
How much different is it than http://www.kaggle.com/
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In the book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (1966), an electromagnetic catapult is used to deliver goods from the Moon to Earth. It is similar to what you described -- just a really long tube (or rail) at the highest elevation possible.
You should be, I'm probably going to steal the idea for all my front-end teams :)
Props to the way you handled this. That's how you do responsible vulnerability disclosures!
If they can keep up. Google has the deep pockets to add a new, complex feature to the browser every other week - they don't have to be better than current tools (though they very well may be) just completely different. If Mozilla just tried to chase and implement every one, not only would they set a pattern of being willing to follow, which would lead to them being expected to follow, but they also have less money and manpower, so they would implement those new GoogleThings(TM) badly. They wouldn't have time for their own stuff, so their only option left would be to follow badly and be nothing but the company that implements Google stuff with a slightly more liberal license. They would lose all market share to Chrome for being a shitty imitation of Chrome, and eventually cease to exist.

So there's an incentive to intensely scrutinize everything that Google is trying to do, and only to implement the best stuff. And let Mozilla's projects be specs, or in javascript, or be protocols, and sell the other browsers on them, hopefully getting other vendors like MS, Apple, Google, and Opera to think they're neat enough to buy in.

Though friendly, here's an inherent asymmetry in the relationship between Mozilla and Google. Mozilla should throw around its little market power as hard as it can.
If you received a full scholarship to law school, then you must have a good head on your shoulders.

Talk to someone, keep your chin up.

Contact that law school and explain you needed to provide for you mom and see if they will let you in now! I have no idea if something like that would exist but doesn't hurt to explore it.
This is an interesting idea, but one that heavily relies on factual mathematics to work correctly. Even slightly get your calculations on force required to launch the vehicle and continue acceleration wrong and you've got a potential disaster on your hands when whatever it is you are launching comes falling out of the sky in your direction.

I really like the outside-of-the-box approach and idea, it will be interesting to see if $250,000 is enough to build something of this magnitude which will need to be tested and tested and then tested 100 more times before you could even attempt to try it in the real world.
OP and I disagree on what the problem is.

OP believes society does not do enough to cause people to be creative. That kind of problem has one kind of solution. Perhaps the very grant that Phil Fish used to initially fund his development of Fez would qualify.

I believe people that make death threats are solely responsible for their actions. They need to be held accountable. There are tons of ways to hold them accountable.

One such internet community built solely around internet gaming is Lethalfrag's Twitch.tv channel. You can see for yourself the quality of commentary on his show. He has spoken at length about his methods for maintaining a solid community. He does not do it by providing people with a creative outlet.

But I shouldn't have to point out an example of a successful internet community to assert what the problem is. I think it is in the ways in which we hold people accountable for their actions. Maybe you do not believe that is the problem.

In any case, I cannot imagine you believe the problem is that we do not make it easy enough for people who make death threats to be creative. That's an awful lot of grace we give a person before expecting them to change their behavior.
AKA, instead of free to play, its pay to play!
This probably still mostly true.

The US claim that since 2008 they've been launching GPS satellites without selective availability capabilities.

That means 27 of the current working GPS satellites are older ones which do have SA which could be switched back on at any time, and 12 are newer allegedly non-SA equipped satellites.
A pre-binary of an existing project and an idea that you had that you've conveniently been sitting on for a year are very different things.

This isn't competition. It's complaining on a professional level.
I think I need a list of things to check. This sounds pretty scriptable though:

* SSH Host Key

* SSH Authorized Keys

* SSH PermitRootLogin

* Disabling password auth in favour of keys

* Security updates from the distro

* SELinux (maybe?)

Anything else?
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I thought it was a given (for anyone keen to read more than a headline) that the impact implied a long period of changes and involved more than just the strike itself?

I did assume however that volcanic activity could've been as a result of the impact.
It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a restaurant in possession of a good name, must be in want of a good web designer.
Yes, that's what happens here in Australia (and I assume the UK). If the receiver doesn't hang up the call disconnects. The exchange disconnects the call after 1 or 2 minutes.

What I don't understand is how the scammers got his landline number?
And so it begins. Thailand is a drop in the ocean, once the US and other countries get on-board then the success of Bitcoin is only going to be further propelled. I presume most Bitcoin transactions will go underground and given their anonymous and decentralised nature, good luck enforcing laws like this or even being able to draw conclusive proof of Bitcoin usage to a particular entity (unless you find other proof like receipts, emails or having the Bitcoin client on your computer).
I thought this was already done using Google script and sheets. I tend to recall an old blog post from labnol.org specifying exact steps without installing anything.
A takedown notice needs to be certified by a person. Sue that person, it's irrelevant if the search was automated. Next time they won't use automated and inaccurate takedowns.
Lots of people feel good spending money on heroin, and it also makes them feel good (proven - it chemically makes you feel good!). But you can't possibly agree that heroin is good for you, nor those who make or sell it is justified in making and selling it.
But it is very easy today to take payments from people. Being able to do it doesn't really signal a time commitment in my mind.
How does its sharding by key algorithm work and how does it handle adding new peers? I was looking for at in the source, but couldn't find anything related to it.
Are you willing to make the inverse (and I think more interesting) argument, that reducing their respective skin in the game would indeed make the world better?
There isn't true privacy by default in Java or C# so how can they get by? Are they relying on the fact that programmers won't use reflection to access private? Does the client run the program with security manager on? What if the application cannot afford to run with security manager on?
Perhaps it works that way in the UK? Seems odd to me as well.
Network effects. Even if my friends' iPhones are "compromised", if I can get them using the same messaging protocol, then that messaging protocol is more useful on my "non-compromised" device.

If we went with your way of thinking, most of my friends would never use Tox, thus making it useless to me, thus meaning I'd have to use a non-end-to-end-encrypted messaging protocol such as SMS or Facebook Chat.
Since it's such a crazy idea, why not build a gigantic dirigible to take it up to high altitude? No problem, right?
It can be really stressful. Once I had to detour due to an accident. I forgot about it but was called in 3 months later and threatened with a firing if I couldn't explain it. Fortunately I remembered, but I learned after that to keep a personal log.
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The government doesn't make much of an effort to keep your personal information secure. Let's see an example:

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey...

Yup, that's my home address!
I agree entirely.

I got burned out with the 'tech event' echo chamber a couple years ago and haven't looked back.

I've done exactly what the parent suggests: I find people I'd love to connect with and email them with an idea. My emails, while not a formula go something like this:

- Tell them how I heard about them
- Mention something I know about them that I appreciate
- Ask them for help on [subject I'd love their feedback on]
- Ask if they'd be up for a coffee

The "trick" behind these emails? Be 100% genuine. I have something I want to talk to them about and I'm convinced we'll have a fruitful conversation.

You don't always need to give something back, at least right away, but you'll often discover where you can contribute through natural conversation. Eventually, you'll be the receiver of the same type of email I mentioned above.

Thinking about the missives I've sent, I'd say 8/10 result in a coffee meeting, and a worthwhile connection made.
The amount of drag during the acceleration phase is going to be inconsequential compared to tearing through the entire atmosphere at an angle.
The difference is that with most of those, you can create a snapshot of an instance and then duplicate the configuration, but Host keys are special, since they need to be re-created for each instance.

In any case, there was discussion on those issues not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5316093
Just be careful that they're not teaching you Haskell as a way to 'ease you into' C++ template metaprogramming!
Except I informed them of this issue in January of this year

http://imgur.com/GTi2UxJ

Apparently they ignored it :)
If they're certifying without actually checking anything, then they deserve perjury charges, yes.
But then you have to pull those iterators into almost everything that deals with your objects, making the code hard to follow, and wasting memory. The problem also gets worse when your objects are in more than one list (which you can't literally do with std::list anyway) since you have to keep several iterators around.
For regulatory purposes, milliseconds are negligible. FINRA allows for up to 3 seconds of divergence from standard time sources.

For deep alpha signals, a millisecond is pretty negligible (especially when you are calculating minute or 10 minute bars).

For microstructure trading strategies, since the timing doesn't manipulate the book (which is where most microstructure trades derive alpha from), the effect is similarly negligible.

And for cross-exchange and cross-asset arbitrage, where microseconds may seem matter (regnms), slight drifts are permissible insofar as you can plausibly argue that even if the clock is slightly off, your view of the market is internally consistent
Ask HN: Designers, how do you use Photoshop?
Hey Hackers/Designers,

I'm looking to get into designing and have more control over my projects, make some logos I imagined, etc, so I downloaded Photoshop, got me a nice Wacom tablet and ...... I'm stuck. I have no idea how you guys make the designs or use Photoshop in that context.

Could you guys/ladies please let me know what their workflow is and how they use the tools they use?

Gracias.
I too am an advocate of full public disclosure but the concerns by Volkswagen are warranted and fixes to the issue can not be deployed as easily as DigitalOcean has done here. I don't agree with the gag order from the UK courts but it isn't totally unjustified.
I could understand if you don't want to reveal the nature of the data, but what kind of data is it? IM Conversations? Reviews? Data mining wise, it would be neat to build something like a named entity tagger or doing sentiment analysis with it. If you're really ambitious, you could do something like relation extraction with it.

There are a lot of monetization options you could do with data like that. Using some of the tools already mentioned here, there's a lot of options available.
It's a well known tactic used by scammers in the UK.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4825751)

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826367)

Here's another newspaper article about the scam. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/may/23/credit-card-user...)

EDIT: cultural note - we don't[1] pay to receive a phone call, even with cell phones. Perhaps that makes a difference?

[1] Well, with normal accounts that is. Obviously free-phone 0800 numbers etc are different.
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Something similar has happened to me.

I was in Barcelona, regular tourist. Here come a guy saying he is a cop, in civil but showing some kind of ID. Saying I might have stolen my own credit card and asking to dial the PIN on his phone. I've fallen for it. They've taken 400 euros from my bank account.

I guess we don't have to blame ourself, scheme exists, we might fall for we might not fall for it. This guys have training we don't, we have good reason to not act in the smartest way!

I hate Barcelona.
|Also, you gotta love their pretty low-key / somewhat amateur'ish videos. ;)

The kickstarter aesthetic
That's not a fair comparison. DigitalOcean just needs to update some stuff to fix this issue. VW would need to recall millions of vehicles (10s billions $). You would do the same thing if you were in their position and had shareholders to worry about.
I'm also coming from LA. My Email is mwein2009 (at) gmail.com. I'm partnering with another person so we have room for up to 2 more.
I've seen that happen in the U.S. too: if one of the parties doesn't hang up, it may take quite a while for the connection to time out.
> I also then ported the C++ memcached (called memcacheg) to Go, for profiling Go vs C++

How were the results of the profiling? Anything interesting come out?
If it's a listed number, you can just look it up in the phone directory if you know the name and address.
I used headless selenium successfully for executing javascript. it has a nice feature of waiting the browser until the some element appears in the HTML.
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If I could parse your first sentence and wade past the snark in your second I might be able to come up with a cogent and fitting response.

But I can't.
That worries me far more than the actual security issue. Security issues happen to everybody, but so long as too many don't occur, it's the response that shapes my ongoing confidence in that company or product.

What's happening on the left side? Is that you or the rep?
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I got to play with a working pinch-to-zoom map table at Hillis's company around 2004 or 5, before the iPhone came out. (It was not Intellectual Ventures; I forget the name of the company.)
If the bug is still valid, then don't close it. It's not a competition for time to fix! If you don't know if the bug is fixed, don't close it. Certainly don't ask the reporter to log it again!
There are commercial products for less than $100 that do this for the L1 C/A signal - such as [1].

You can rebroadcast at substantially higher power than the signal coming directly from the satellite, so the direct signal gets drowned out. After all, the satellite has to broadcast to cover half the world, while you only have to cover a few square meters.

Now, I'll grant the receiver may see a change in signal strength, some cycle slips, and an increase in clock skew. But you get those in normal GPS operation anyway. If you're going to detect GPS attacks and self-destruct your drone you'll want a very low false-positive rate, and I'm not sure that's feasible.

[1] http://www.diplomat.co.uk/products/hardware-products/active-...
OTOH, you feel safer if the 911 dispatcher is sitting in a far-away call-center and not freaking out because she's at the scene with you, and you feel safer if the surgeon is a dispassionate expert at their field and not the patient's mother. You'd feel better being represented by a lawyer who is not on trial with you than one who is.

I think a lot of this depends upon whether the task calls for a rational or emotional response. For tasks that require a rational response, having "skin in the game" can cloud your judgment and make you perform worse than if you were a dispassionate observer. For tasks that require an emotional investment, you want the person's risks and incentives to be aligned with yours. (For example, you want a product designer to actually use the products they design, and you want a teacher to care about your kids as much as you care about them.)
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My landline phone (BT 6500 Cordless Phone) rings if you have hung up but if the person on the other line hasn't hung up after 5-10 seconds which is great if you accidently turned off the phone (my parents do this all the time) and in this instance for this case.
I blocked out my name, the rep is the one with a picture.

edit: actually I didn't realize there was a skype window up when I took the screenshot, thanks for warning me...
So nice to have Kathy Sierra back blogging. I've missed her!
> how can you not see how rude (and even mildly racist) his opening remarks are, especially when given to someone who is not fluent in the English language (and is thus likely to take what he says even more seriously)?

I'm not saying he's not rude. Rude is fine, abusive is not. In some cases there's a fine line between rude and abusive, but not here.

The guy looked heartbroken, it's true. He was clearly a fan of the genre while Fish is not, but it wasn't personal.

As for racist? I don't think that any sensible person watching that video should come to the conclusion that Fish hates Japanese people as a race.
Interesting. Do you have an example of the latter approach? I have been trying to build a web scraper, but many times after the HTML is returned, the javascript then loads the data dynamically. I'd love to learn of a few techniques to fetch the AJAX data.