skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expected this to be a piece about on-line piracy. In reality, it is about something that can be much worse.

It's profoundly disturbing that so many people have such a lack of perspective that they can seriously threaten violence against someone and their family just because that person did their job and tweaked some game mechanics.

Sure, most of the abusive people are probably kids, but that's no excuse. What kind of kid is old enough to be allowed unsupervised access to the Internet and yet so out of control that they can think this kind of behaviour is acceptable?

Some of the things described in this piece are surely criminal, but somehow I get the feeling that sending the cops round would just be a badge of honour to people who've gone that far off the rails already. I'm not sure how you fix this without change on a society-wide scale, and I'm not sure how you could even start to effect that change if you're in the the kind of position described in the article.
Uhh that yellow

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Actually, I'm glad that C++ has been my first programming language. Its syntax is pretty straightforward, and it's even better to work with when you've got extremely clear guidelines set up – at my university (UPC BarcelonaTech) we had a course PRO1, where you got seriously punished if you used spaces instead of tabs, or if you set 2 as your tabstop, or if you used goto, to name a few. Now I cannot say that I share all those guideline rules, but at least I understand what a good C++ code style is.
Thanks for clarifying! Makes sense.
Unfortunately that only works when you live in a place where people do play golf, and where playing golf does not cost a year of your income...
"Oh, cool. Can my wife come? She doesn't much enjoy eating dinner at home."

At which point you are shunned anyways for being one of those strange "old people" who somehow had time to bond with another human being in a non-professional setting.
GPS signals are surprisingly easy to disrupt
I doubt pinch to zoom falls in that category then. The vast majority of innovative (or unique) touch based interactions/gestures have to be learnt and cannot be intuited. As you know, intuition just means your brain recognizes a pattern.
You need to talk to someone. I don't mean you need to talk to a psychologist, you simply need to talk to someone now. There are many here on this site who have felt despair like you.

Go here: http://www.suicideprevention.ca/in-crisis-now/find-a-crisis-...

Find the number that is most appropriate for your part of BC and call it.

Your first two mistakes don't sound like errors to me, they sound like they were things done out of love for your mother. You have a heart. Your third 'mistake' only looks like a mistake now: life is long.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

If an entity issues a DCMA take down notice that turns out to be erroneous, they should be charged a fine. That find should grow exponentially for each URL impacted by that erroneous take down (i.e. when they knock out 100 domains while trying to take out one)
> Or going drunk driving was a great idea when you drove your own horse, but really dumb idea after cars.

I don't think the danger to self is a big differentiatory between drunk horseback riding vs. drunk driving, rather, the difference in the external costs is.
Good question. We haven't looked so much into that yet, but we'd love to hear ideas.

All your issues articles, are available online via uninkd as well. So when people share an article on Facebook or Twitter, they'll share a link to the online article.

When it comes to analytics, we haven't implemented anything yet. It is something we want to do in the near future though and for now, we could give you access to and App Annie account where you can see all the analytics on the app you could wish for.
The economist is today covering GPS outages near the London Stock Exchange. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6123535

Perhaps interference happens a lot more often that we think.
Only Apple go so far as to take such petty things to court.
Most of their law suits can be generalised as "It looks similar from this side of the room"
Just for some context, USC starts intro to CS with C++ and then does Data Structures in C++, then switches to Java for more advanced OOP. Upper division classes are usually in Java or C++.
Perhaps you're correct, but I would say this article is the author explaining his criteria, and asserting that it might be useful for some other people, on both sides of the line.

Given that, I suspect that in one, two, five hundred years neither he nor his blog will be around. Nor anybody who read his blog. Even if his text had survived (perhaps someone goes digging though the NSA archives in a few hundred years), I'm sure that the person reading it will just intelligently substitute in the succeeding technology.

So, what I'm trying to say is that the point about TeX is just a point of practicality. It happens to be approximately true right now, and the author has no information to guide him to an alternate conclusion.
Thank you Patrick.

This was really helpful. I did not know about these professional liability insurances...:)
Hint: use something like

var DEV = true;

(function() {
var priv = function() {};
if(DEV)
this.priv = priv;
})();

and then use Closure Compiler with option:
--define DEV=false
Write/Speak/Code: A Lesson In Having A Voice
I agree it's insane, but the US is apparently working towards it (and China is responding in kind).

http://yalejournal.org/2013/06/12/who-authorized-preparation...
I think their point was that the person who made the icon is anonymous, so it's harder to blame and therefor benefits you. Not that you had that goal in mind to begin with.
I could post my own explanation of why I said what I said, but it would merely be this one, more poorly worded. :-)
Better Science through Art
CS125 at UIUC was taught in Scheme (using the SICP book no less) as the first course in CS and it did a pretty thorough job of separating the wheat from the chaff.
Proxies were already forbidden since 2010 (I think).
I can't edit my post it seems, but yes, I am most definitely being sarcastic here.

I absolutely believe that it is wrong to rape someone, and that getting people drunk to get them to sleep with you is rape.

In my experience, society does not think that, which is why we use phrases like "date rape," and talk about "date rape drugs" without ever mentioning alcohol.
That is actually pretty tame relative what some rich kids do with their fancy cars.

* Jewelry heir kills two men with his out of control Porsche, pays off the families, gets house arrest. This is after running over a cop a few years earlier. [0]

* Red Bull heir kills a police officer and drags the body with his Ferrari, pays off the family with a mere $97K. [1]

* Aspiring "interior designer" kills two men while driving recklessly in her mom's Porsche. One is killed instantly, she drags the other around a parking lot. [2]

0: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-03/news/ct-met-le...

1: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2355224/Aspiring-int...

2: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/09/26/red-bull-heir-pays-9...
Perhaps both of you would understand each others position better, by meditating on the phrase "security theater".

A straw that detects a handful of numerous dangerous substances is about as useful at its claim of producing "safety" as TSA agents molesting grandmas and teen girls at airports. I'm rather proud of this analogy.
Looks like the are using V3 of Stripe Checkout. Hopefully if will be in the next release.
While your point about small-scale violence and theft of physical goods is well taken, the ultra rich have the opportunity to steal and commit violence on a scale undreamt of by the poor -- and these crimes are rarely the subjects of police statistics.

As the old saying goes, the best way to rob a bank is to own one. The elite and ultra-rich commit theft and fraud on a scale that would bankrupt entire countries, and start wars with hundreds of thousands if not millions of casualties.

They get laws written in their favor, buy off politicians and judges, hide their gains in off-shore tax havens, and hire armies of high-paid lawyers to protect them -- with the effect that few of them suffer any consequences (rarely anything like the SWAT-style raids and hard jail time routinely inflicted upon the poor for far smaller offenses).
True, it could be. If they went to the trouble to integrate the two and develop the solution. But that begs the question: why use GPS? Use the same map information with the non-GPS location calculations that could be automated. GPS is just too convenient...
A better solution is to learn the behaviors that rapists use - being pushy and overbearing, not taking no for an answer, cutting out of the herd, stuff like that. If your buddy behaves like that, don't let him get away with it.

And it's useless to detect rape drugs because the biggest rape drug is alcohol.
A transparent cell works because it basically eliminates the chance for higher energy photons to be absorbed. So I suspect this won't work.
What is the lifetime of a photon?
You lack imagination. :P

If the NSA is collecting everything, then it's possible to go back in time once you become a person of interest. This doesn't necessarily help you if you are actively planning something that the government is interested in, but if you become a political opponent to the NSA, they could look into your past for skeletons to blackmail you with. Who you are talking to may not give them enough information to do anything without the content of the conversations.
No, he's almost certainly not. Keep in mind, I know nothing about PL. I'm solely relying on my background as a mathematician to think of the most reasonable interpretation for what he's saying.

He's saying something like, "You can axiomatize Peano Arithmetic in PL and explore the idea of provability therein because that's what PL was invented for. At first glance we might try to use something like PL to do what we're setting out to do, but it's so specialized that it winds up not being worthwhile."

This makes more sense in the context of his paper, anyhow. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem basically says that Peano Arithmetic can't prove its own consistency within PA unless it's inconsistent

So, we could model PA inside another logical system (e.g., PL) which has notation for certain meta-mathematical statements like "P(X): it is provable that X". You'd then need to demonstrate that a version of PA axiomatized with this logic is both complete and sound WRT PA, etc. etc.
For security reasons, all IRC services (including bots, proxies, bouncers, etc.), anonymous navigation services (also known as proxies), TOR nodes, are not allowed on the OVH network without written authorization from OVH. OVH reserves the right to suspend any server on which these services are used without prior authorization from OVH.
Exactly. A much, much smaller problem.
It appears that this was based on persons currently employed at Google. I wonder how the results would change if it studied the tenure of ex-google employees - would such a study would better measure loyalty?
The difference is that they think terrorism victims don't "deserve it" but rape victims do.
One place the criticisms here are bordering on unfair is in mentioning the study's assumptions without mentioning how they're based on previous work. For example, the use of fancy cars as a proxy for higher social status, or the use of a self-reported assessment of social status, are not arbitrary—the authors justify them with references to previous work that presumably established those techniques. Maybe that earlier work is bad; one would have to read it to know. But it's legitimate for experimenters to build on earlier work by pointing to it rather than inlining it.

Similarly, the experiments where subjects were asked to imagine things about their social status or about greed are based on a huge amount of earlier work on priming. That is by now an established experimental paradigm, and the authors clearly assume their audience knows about it [1]. That also is legitimate for a scientific paper. To criticize the paradigm, one should find flaws in the work that established it, not work that seeks to build on it.

So the comments along the lines of "how could this paper ever have passed peer review" seem to me not to hold up very well. You can extract details from most any experiment and make them seem absurd. It's true that the interpretation of these particular findings is greatly open to question, but that's no reason not to publish them when they're both interesting and statistically significant.

On the other hand, the paper clearly doesn't substantiate the enormous claim in its title. It's hard to imagine how any one paper could. Apparently peer-reviewed journals do linkbait too.

[1] Or rather, that's how I read the paper. I don't know enough to say whether this is true.
I'm not sure what you mean by out of band

If you mean that it is communicated over TCP/IP(what i gathered from reading the doc), what is stopping someone who has access to whatever is connected to your IP from redirecting traffic to that port in order to do what was already discussed.

if you mean that it is shared in person off the internet, then what is the point of this program. Diffe Hellman, ECC, zero Knowledge proofs are all dependent on the discrete log problem being hard, so you might as well just start broadcasting to their ip with the key that they gave you in person instead of going through the trouble(and increase in vulnerability) of trying to establish that the person is who they say they are. maybe I'm wrong but I don't think that math is wrong.

in any case, I feel like the problem for this program stems from the fact that validating the IP address of the person is much more complicated than it seems. Its pretty much the reason centralized databases are needed for connections between people(those are bad things in our world now).

this is pretty much what is needed for this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
Weird, the French part looks like the output of a translator. There are a few faults of vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure.

Your translation is correct though.
Hardly. Your argument is a caricature of itself. Success and the mere capability to engage in purely hypothetical anti-competitive behaviors suddenly means ordinary innovation practices are evil.

Presumably at this point Mozilla would like to join Microsoft in one of its various anti-trust complaints against Google for having dared to offer users better products.
Not only is it downright fucked up, it's rape. Full stop.
The list of Exit nodes is publicly accessible. All you have to do is check if any of your IPs are in that list.
Just because something is complicated doesn't mean we can't automate it. That's the "curl up and die" solution that you yourself say is not an acceptable response to failure.

And GPS isn't what I was talking about, the automatic navigation system on the $80 million yacht was the system we designed which we thought could be run without human interaction.

And your paranoid delusion that the US can/would use its GPS satellites offensively is just that - paranoid delusion.
Steve Jobs: The Least Disruptive Entrepreneur Ever
Wow, that is a really elegant, quite low-tech way of positioning!
daux.io perhaps?
Comparing RSUs and options with a pension is insane. The former has a net negative value for you in the average case even if the exceptional case has it making you money.
It's not. It's a completely different codebase.
Wait, so closures for encapsulation are bad because they allow encapsulation? You're complaining that you can't get access to private member functions this way? Isn't that what encapsulation is for??
Indeed; I believe they currently do that in some solar cells. I personal favourite are "distributed Bragg reflectors" – they're mirrors, but don't work in the traditional sense:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Bragg_reflector
This discussion is from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6122569

It seems to have some tracking code garbage at the end of the URL, so the dupe filter didn't catch it.
Ah, yeah, that's the dealkiller for us -- we don't want our content duplicated online. Too bad, we were looking at it.
I wonder where you live. Golf is very unpopular with most tech people I know.
Another vote for "It's often a matter of where you look and what you read". Like others have said, HN has a slant towards some languages - if you only took thoughts/advice from this site, you'd be led to believe that everyone everywhere uses those languages. That's not the case though - look at lots of sources.
> DMCA takedowns are filed under the condition of perjury

Which means that you must believe what you claim to be true. It doesn't mean there's any penalty whatsoever if what you're saying is found to be bullshit after the fact.
While ILS is generally considered to be the second most reliable instrument (after the windsock) it has its own problems... For example false glidescope, see
http://www.ukfsc.co.uk/files/Safety%20Briefings%20_%20Presen...
Yeah, well, that's a first world problem, clearly. That 1.5% isn't true for their target market.
Reminds me of studies done by power companies on utility outage communication.

http://www.emergencymgmt.com/emergency-blogs/crisis-comm/Why...
http://www.tppa.com/events/2013/barrow.pdf

Outage communication is a key driver of satisfaction

- Outage communication drives approximately 55% of customer
satisfaction for key account customers

- Customers desire communication of estimated time of restoration

- Customers desire ongoing follow up during the outage event

- Customers desire communication of outage cause within 2 business days
Can you expand on what you mean by "Real Googlers line"?
Same as any big company- you're a cog in an increasingly larger wheel, and don't feel any great sense of attachment to what you're doing. It happened to Microsoft, it's happening to Google.
Harlan Ellison on getting paid
So if someone links to one of my articles online, will those linked to the article have to have a subscription to view it?
not projecting at all, that's like saying phrases have no meaning. It is juvenile, possibly it's an attempt at humor, but that doesn't detract from the silliness that comes from naming rooms that way.
The concept is decently clear, at least to hackers like us who regularly have side projects. Your tagline is good, which is very important for new ideas.

However, I'd say the landing page is a bit light on details (you want a short page to simply capture emails, but you also want to communicate value). Also, the background color scheme is a bit garish and distracting IMO. Finally, as 6thSigma mentioned, "marketplace" does denote buying and selling. I guess other terms you could use would be forum, board, community, etc.

If you are not aware of it, you could look to the /r/SideProject/‎ subreddit for ideas/inspiration.
That's actually a really good deal then. Adobe charges something like $250-$500 per issue for their magazine apps.
If you had a functioning time machine you could travel back in time and file the patent before any prior art was created.
Don't pollute your github with forks
gotta see denison on the banjels loose this wednesday.
My CS degree was 100% C based; Java shows up in a class about OOP, and our class on Programming Language theory exposes us to Lisp, Java, and Prolog. They used to be Java based and chose to switch back to a C based curriculum around 2007, as well as focusing more heavily on algorithms and data structures while pushing the more "software engineering" type courses in to elective and offering Software Engineering as a specialization on a CS degree.

Joel Spolsky wrote a great article[1] in 2005 that basically says using a massively high level language like Python or Java as the core of a CS curriculum is damaging because the languages aren't "hard" enough. As curmudgeonly as it might sound, I'd be inclined to agree. Even though I rarely write C code anymore (we do everything in Java in our lab), the underlying understanding of memory management that is acquired from having to learn to handle it manually has been invaluable to me as a programmer.

Additionally, C/C++ is the language of UNIX and still the lingua franca of high-performance. Most high-level languages worth their salt will have a foreign interface to dynamically load C libraries; we're in robotics and have to work heavily with ROS/Gazebo as participants in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, and even outside of this a lot of really great tools for mathematical optimization and high-performance numerical analysis are all written in C. I'm one of only two or three people in our lab with the requisite knowledge to be able to effectively hand-roll JNI wrappers, and I don't consider this to be a good thing at all.

It's pretty clear to me that C/C++ aren't going anywhere any time soon, and it's always good to see a CS curriculum that still focuses on C/C++.

1: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...
Learning C++ was the best. That course is just missing the Algorithm Analysis which mine had along with Data Structures, all C++ and no #includes allowed.
Yeah, that was one of the goals. Ink is supposed to co-exist with existing layouts when you have a legacy to maintain.
This is interesting:

"The median employee tenure at Google is just more than one year, according to the payroll consultancy PayScale."

I assume that is all employees, not just developers. I wonder what the median tenure is for developers? I have a difficult time imagining that the median tenure for developers is just 1 year. I think it would be very difficult to maintain, and advance, some of the best technology in the world, if the developer team had a high turnover rate.

But if we assume that the above comment applies to all employees, and not just developers, then some of the comments in the article about perks are somewhat misplaced:

"the freedom to work on one's own projects 20 percent of the time"

As far as I know, this perk was only ever extended to developers.
And if stuff doesn't get written in Go, then people will criticise Go for not having anything in production. The internet is not going to run out of space through people writing too much software.
NY/NJ, I didn't say they were very young :P
That, like your initial assertion, isn't really true.

Hacker School doesn't take a segment of your earnings either. They try to get you a job at then end they take a recruiting commission from whoever hires you, but nothing from the student.

In fact, I don't know of a single school that does this. gSchool refunds your tuition if you don't find a job. Flatiron School refunds a portion if you take a job through one of their partners. No one, as far as I know, takes a portion of student's salary beyond the tuition.
Lovely architectural and design elements, until someone ruined it with the stupid names. The serious design elements are really exquisite, it's a shame, the architecture & design team must cringe to see what Dropbox did with their work.
>a lot of the problems MBAs solve can't be shared on Github and/or can't be shared outside of the company (because it would violate NDAs, trade secrets, etc) and so it seems that MBAs are worthless.

There is definitely something to this. While programmers do perform undocumented effort, at the end of the day they still have the opportunity to commit or push to production. In that sense, proof of work in manifested by looking at Github.

Using email and phone calls alone a business manager can improve a key relationship or be influenced in a way that will lead to a major impact on a product's future, and there is just no way to express this in a similarly auditable fashion.

Running the business of a startup is much about managing the flow of energy. Energy flows do not have line numbers. You can only feel the effects daily, or wait until a major milestone like a funding event or growth spurt to clearly evaluate success.