skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing wrong with being a theoretical problem solver and yes I was defining winning by making money. Thinking about making a product is good, but taking action and then testing that result is even better, the point is get it in field, test it you can only theorize so much.
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That's because the data has already been seen. (Did you expect "You're overestimating the competence of government" to change anyone's mind?)
Generally, if you are going to commit a felony, don't do it in public.

If you get away with it (at least for the time being), you don't bring it up again, and you sure don't post it to social media sites.
Most individual Indian developers I have worked with have been good developers -- not to mention good people. But at the same time my experience has been that as a group they tend to fail at an alarming rate.

That's why I'm now thinking that a better (even though also potentially flawed) generalisation would be "India = bad management".
Apparently at least one FBI counterterrorism agent did this very thing, on national television. I think you are seriously underestimating FBI agents' big mouths.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/tim-clemente-fbi_n_...

http://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/going-dark-lawful-electron...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/fbi-surveillance_n_...

Edit: Note that this was well before the PRISM leaks.
> If "letting the terrorists win" means getting out of mideast hellholes, ceasing to assassinate civilians with drones, and stopping the continual interference in various places they consider holy, then yes, I'm absolutely suggesting that.

Sounds like ends (violence stopping) justifying the means (letting the terrorists win) to me.
I would definitely say that's a presumption for many people, but I think things are changing. Working at a very large fortune 100 that dealt with a lot of H1-Bs and foreign talent, I saw a lot of managers who learned to shed that bias, and it helped them.

Jerry average american building a real estate site may have some different biases though, and that bias may cost him some really good talent.
I thought Yahoo was a goner for sure.

On the day Mayer took over, if you sat me down and said "Michael, discuss the most optimistic yet still possible scenario for Yahoo's future", I would have dismissed the current course as implausible.

That doesn't mean they're saved, but Mayer as a CEO has exceeded my (very low) expectations.
There are a number of different "extended set" (IBM code pages and ISO/IEC 8859 parts for instance), and they're "extended" because they're not ASCII but supersets of it (as is UTF-8).

ASCII is the 7-bit encoding ANSI_X3.4-1968, composed of 95 printable and 33 control characters.
> Have you always felt that you had a purpose in life, and regardless of what happens, that conviction never changes even though you don't know exactly what that purpose is?

Nothing in life is absolute.

> Did you ever have to make a seemingly selfish decision that hurt someone close to you in order to achieve the focus/freedom necessary to fulfill your purpose?

Yes.

The right way to approach this is to have an excellent #1 which you can fall back on if you're having trouble with #2.
There is fair share of weird stories. Way back when cellphones were just getting GSM, I had a strange call person on the other end of the line was demanding private information and I just balked at that. About 5mins later my phone was dead, apparently some fraud depart of cellco revoked my cell account and billed me for 250$ dollars suspension fee. They wanted 3 pieces of government issued Photo ID and another 200$ dollars to restore the account. The Carrier was Fido I think. I was working as a developer, all my bills were paid on time. It was kind of weird to get such an abusive treatment, right out of the blue .. so there are some true and weird stories to go around...

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Most forms maintain the data that was entered by the user when there is a validation error. Say the attacker is after csrf token they could just use one of the fields in the form for entering their guess and it will be included in the responce.
"...but there is something I wish would happen first.

An LTS release of an open source compiler."

Surprising that this doesn't already exist--Apple and RedHat and Ubuntu, etc. must all maintain what is in effect a LTS version of the compilers they ship, in the same way that OpenBSD does.
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Go: I actually disagree that it "not ideal for things that change too often". The cost of deploying changes is very low b/c it compiles so quickly. Furthermore, the static typing is extraordinarily lightweight. You have nothing to worry about there.

Lisp: I've only ever used it academically. I'm not fit to comment on it, although my inclination is to say as a founder you should skip it since it's not nearly widely used enough.

Ruby: Works good. (sic) Tons of libraries are a blessing and a curse, though. Also, there's 1000 ways to do everything in ruby...that gets old fast since every library you ever use will chose a different one. All that said, you can't go wrong because of how widely it's used. On the other hand if you're using it solely b/c of rails, then Ruby itself will never really be your main focus.

Python: I have a soft spot for python...I use it to deploy my Go. It's widely used, mature, and I think it's a reasonably good choice. Great for quick file-manipulating tasks as the tools are built in and are easy to remember.

Javascript: Plan on making a web-tool? You're gonna have to learn it. Some of the ugly goes away when you use coffescript. I think you'll need base-level competency at this no matter what other language you choose.

I notice you didn't add C#/Java. C# is actually a really pleasant language to use. The trouble is that you (more or less) have to have a windows back-end to use it.
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The resources are transmitted via JSON responses. This was a bit of fun.

API:

{path:"/"},
{path:"/news"},
{path:"/news2"},
{path:"/newest"},
{path:"/newcomments"},
{path:"/ask"},
{path:"/x", uri: (req) -> "/x?fnid=#{req.query.fnid}" },
{path:"/user", uri: (req) -> "/user?id=#{req.query.id}" },
{path:"/item", uri: (req) -> "/item?id=#{req.query.id}"},
{path:"/submitted", uri: (req) -> "/submitted?id=#{req.query.id}"},
{path:"/threads", uri: (req) -> "/threads?id=#{req.query.id}"}],

Source:

https://github.com/blackjable/hackednews
Isn't it odder that local police have access to this data?
Who cares if we can't be sure? We can't be sure if he hasn't released a super-hacker sci-fi bacteria infection on New York, either.

Only time will tell.
Microsoft Research wrote a paper about the intentional use of bad grammar/spelling in 419 scams. Keeping the ostensible source as the email Nigerian is another tactic along these lines, since anyone even slightly savvy will see that as an immediate red flag after all these years.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tzink/archive/2012/06/24/bad-spellin...
Delightful concept. However, perhaps you should reconsider the name? Its spelling/pronunciation may be a bit of an anti-hype barrier.
The rise of wifi means there is still a lot of shared ethernet.
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I'd be very interested in that, because I would put money on me being able to tell the difference. Maybe not all top and bottom shelf vodkas, but I bet I can tell the difference between a vodka I like and a vodka I don't like. (For instance Grey Goose vs. Smirnoff)
If that's the case, it sounds like you're either not charging enough, or don't have enough work lined up.

Striking out on your own means you take on more risk in exchange for a LOT more potential upside.
Way to go, Percona!
Reminds me of this ACLU link : http://privacysos.org/node/1048

Basically we're at the point where there is no benefit to be had, and great risk, in talking with law enforcement. That is a sad place to be.
All I meant was that all three of those technologies are famous for their unreliability. OK perhaps the flash runtime not so much, it's disliked for different reasons. It's definitely true of the other two. I've had to talk soap to a coldfusion service before and it's not an environment conducive to safe programming.
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Sorry, but that is misguided thinking. It is a misuse of resources. A death by terrorism is no worse than a death by cancer, and cancer deaths happen much more often than terrorism deaths. So, resources should be allocated accordingly.
You have that completely backwards. The means is what you do, and the ends is what happens after. The means here would be ceasing to kill and oppress. That is justified all by itself.
I think it is definitely interesting, if you can test for a string for encoded data, either form encoded `&key={GOLD}&nextkey=` or json encoded `"key":"{GOLD}","nextkey"` you can get to almost anything.
Amash Amendment was painfully close. We got to keep pushing this. I can't wait to go.
Disclaimer: CRIME co-author.

It's the same attack. CRIME works for TLS compression, SPDY header compression (yes it broke HTTP/2.0 even before it's called HTTP/2.0), and HTTP gzip response. BREACH was described in slide 39 in our presentation. We didn't test it because it's an application-dependent attack, and we couldn't find a nice target. We're happy that BREACH authors have found a very good target, and proved that the attack works.

See: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11eBmGiHbYcHR9gL5nDyZ...
This is right on point, what we should do is ask them to make videos of what and how they did, and get them to other soup kitchens, why help only one when they could easily help hundreds with a few youtube videos. I would even be interested in watching them
I think the better tactic is to focus on mastering programming and solving problems, rather than a specific language.

Learning a new syntax is not that challenging, and no language will be the optimal(or even possible) to use for every project.
This does seem implausible and I understand why. This program couldn't last more than a couple weeks, right?

But 2 things, neither of which are solid, can't rule it out (for me): if all search engines are monitored, what does it matter if the sources and methods are revealed? The adversary won't have much use for that information, unless they stop using the Internet altogether. It's a dumb argument, sure, but I could see it used as justification.

Second: does FBI leadership think a program like this could have prevented Boston? If they think this program is a good idea, I would not put it past them to run it so openly. Security theater works best when everyone sees it.
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I would recommend a non-fiction book "The Machinery Of Freedom" by David D. Friedman, it depicts and discusses how a society could function without a government.
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There are indeed laws relating to proper labeling of food and alcohol that you sell. They're not selling it.

There are indeed laws that prohibit people who manufacture alcohol from also being the ones who sell it to consumers. They're not selling it.

You can label things any damn way you want to label them, if you're not selling them. If you want to go home tonight and print out a label that says "Vinegar", and paste it on your Vodka bottle, I promise you won't be breaking any laws. If you then give that Vodka to your friend, you're still not breaking any laws, provided your friend is an adult.

The level of hysterical paranoia by other posters in this thread is confusing.
> I don't buy this, at all.

I got the same impression after reading the post and before looking at the HN discussion. Good to see I wasn't the only one.

Initially I was horrified by the blog post because we now know for certain that google search histories are readily available without warrant to certain subsets of NSA analysts. Then it hit me that the blog post content and timing was too perfect. If such an uproarious event happened to the author, why on earth hold on to the story for "a few weeks"?

Who knows, maybe the author's husband did get searched and she's only assuming it was related to interest in pressure cookers and backpacks. I have no real reason to assume the author is lying, but I also don't have to assume she's telling the whole truth and not just trying to attract page views.
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Yes. In fact, Tupolev worked with Bartini in the same sharashka (TsKB 29 NKVD - ЦКБ 29 НКВД). See "Tupolevskaya Sharaga" by Kerber (in Russian):

http://www.lib.ru/MEMUARY/KERBER/tupolewskaya_sharaga.txt
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As I understand it, the goal of Islamic terrorism (possibly internal anti-government terrorist?) is not to kill people. The objective is to bankrupt countries such as the US. Killing people is just a means to an end.
Doing right by the user doesn't mean "doing exactly what the user wants". I'm sure there are people who want iPhones and don't want to pay for them, yet I see no ethical lapse or legitimate conflict of interest with the user in Apple's charging > $0 for an iPhone.
And how will you get every editor available on board?
> I fail to see how following the recommended directory structure (which is assumed) helps that, beyond that you can then correlate with a separate list of "things that are mine".

If you are following the recommended directory structure, you don't need to "correlate" to "a list" of things that are yours, as all of your things will be under a path that corresponds to your remote repository, while external dependencies will be under paths that correspond to other remote repositories.

> In a Visual Studio project, just to bring up a comparative example, I have my solution and projects. And then, elsewhere, I have nuget dependencies.

In Go, you have the solutions and packages under (e.g.)

/src/github.com/corresation/

And then, elswhere, you have dependencies that aren't yours.
What if this was a fake story up about how they created a fake product to promote there startup and sell it as a real story to drive traffic to their startup? Either way a dangerous idea.
Ah crap, say it ain't so. Never noticed that before (in the "Comments" section):

"You should use two spaces after a sentence-ending period."
That would make you arrested.
I was disappointed that it took her 14 paragraphs to get to this. She starts "I was buying a pressure cooker and my husband was looking at backpacks" when she should have started "my husband makes frequent trips to China and Korea ..." Less frenzy that way I guess.
There is a method in this madness, if you are implying that she is buying companies for shits and giggles, I think you are wrong.
I don't think the goal is to replace code entirely, goal is to have a high level tool for high level problem that today is solved with a code but could be lifted. People that love low level stuff will still do it by implementing low level components.
The post makes no mention of whether they actually submitted their label for approval

From the article:

"The problem with this idea was two-fold: one, having previously worked in spirits marketing, I knew that spirits brands' turnaround time was way too long to get approval by February 14th"

Which seems to imply not only that they knew the law, but actively took it in to consideration.
I think we disagree on what "crippled" means. You have taken it to mean "no longer functions or exists", which I think many handicapable people would disagree with. It simply means that it operates at a measurably diminished capacity in some regard, which with the economy can have profound implications.

If the NYSE building were bombed on an operating day, it would absolutely have dramatic financial repercussions, and that market would absolutely be crippled. Would some simile reappear? Of course it would, just as government would reappear if a full capital building were attacked. But the impact would be major and it would be felt.
I never said anything about voting or not based on terrorist actions.

mikeash said it was ok not to defend so hard against terrorism because the outcome was good. I was refuting that.
Does this mean we'll finally block these kinds of submissions?!
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So, you disagree with the existence of Wordpress themes? I think premade themes/styles are a pretty good place to start for many developers.