skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. Random people have found his Yelp, Linkedin, Twitter, and Instagram. He also made the mistake of spelling out his name and detailed contact information on the letter. I know that his threat is stupid at best and harmful to Sauce's business at worst, but clearly he's young and inexperienced. Having hundreds (thousands?) of people discussing, criticizing, and examining your details online is terrible. I'm not too worried about posterity, because he has a very generic name, but it could have been much worse.
Your response is incredibly dumb.
The source of the boing boing post: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2013/08/apple-patents-wireless-ca...

He also mentions there are legitimate but less headline-worthy uses for this:

> While the patent does use "covert police or government operations" as an example of an application, it also mentions legitimate applications, for example, stopping cameras in a locker room or other place where one has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
It saves bandwidth and leads to faster website loading. A cookie is transported with every request. This is why sites use cookie free domains for static content. If etags were used instead a separate domain wouldn't be necessary.

It's more secure. If identifying session data is not accessible to JavaScript, it makes a site more secure from XSS attacks.
They found one http://hackaday.com/2013/07/25/hello-from-supplyframe/
So many frameworks popping left and right for Go. Any thoughts on how this compares with something like Revel?
Thank you. This prompted me to take a look at my codebase. About 20,000 lines of code. I barely knew C++ before I started out. Very excited to note this and a bit more confident now that I am planning on pricing my product.
This is a fairly standard story with a modern twist. Taking the story at face value she seems as though she was academically very bright from an early age. With that comes a full set of expectations. "Oh, she'll be really successful at whatever she does because she's so bright!" comes in a bunch of variations from teachers, family and friends. Many children want to please their parents and so follow that path and get oddles of social approval. (good grades/schools/careers) Google is the West Coast flavor but it could be a great law firm, Goldman Sachs, medical field etc. At around 30 the majority of these folks don't have too many more hurdles to clear and they start to question the "Why" of what they're doing for the first time.

The modern twist is the fact that the author is a little self absorbed and many people are reacting to that. 8 minute YouTube follow up videos etc. A very long winded story that could be tightened up.

What's most interesting is how little she's really challenging herself by changing her environment. Same field (tech) and same state (SoCal vs NorCal) She saw how a single weekend with people not from her field impacted her life. Why not take that weekend and stretch it into a year! Imagine what could happen then? Right now with this path I'd say 50%+ chance "relative" poverty will set it in 12 - 18 months and she'll be back in the womb of a large technology company again.
Repro, with an r. I've heard it more the last, say, five years than previously. Also East Coast.
The thing about changing the spacing of words isn't really fair on the computer. It'd be like spelling words phonetically and expecting a deaf person to understand it. Or if I gave you text in binary and expected you to understand quickly.

The point is to prove that the computer is actually understanding what you are saying in normal English. It's not necessary for it to be able to figure out different formats that words can be written, in order to prove that it's intelligent.

Also it's a terrible implementation of the Turing test on purpose. No one has ever come close to real AI that could pass a real Turing test. The point of the prize is more of who can come up with the most convincing chatbots. At least if I understand it correctly.
I think its relevance to google is that a position at google is perceived to be a peak in achievement and fulfillment, which the author obviously didn't find.
i disagree entirely. Andy is not within his rights to publicly slander a business he has never stepped foot in - much less to entice others to do the same - because someone hung up on him. Especially not on Yelp, something businesses live and die by, at least in the Bay Area. As Trip said, Groupon was being a pest and should have expected to be treated as such. I have no sympathy for Andy here.
I asked him if it helped, and he unfortunately said: "Actually no :( All it did was boost the bass up so much that it just got muddy." But I think he has a pretty severe impairment in terms of hearing bass frequencies, so I don't know if there's much that could feasibly be done.
Building new bigger buildings is the only way to lower the cost of living in the city. There is a massive shortage of realestate in the city. Build more and build it faster.
It's a large area of expertise. I can't thing of a book with frontend design or engineering in the title even.

Shameless plug: http://theriseoffrontendengineering.com
Your tone is definitely one pushing it as a new and ominous discovery.

Another criticism "It has already being used by numerous websites but few people know of it" without any more information. If you know of which websites, you should state so, if you don't, you should at least say why you know "numerous websites" use it. Also the "few people know of it" bit, a bit presumptive if you were referring to the engineering community, and flatout meaningless if you were referring to everyday people, of which many don't even know what a browser is.

I did like the working example, but maybe tone down the hyperbole and more informative claims when the claims are also accusations.
What is Android based on? Linux.
Case study #2 doesn't hold water.

The web didn't plunge into the dark ages because people gave away their labor or because they didn't buy proprietary stuff. It was because Microsoft stopped developing IE after it had reached market dominance.

And what brought the web back out of the dark ages? An open source browser (Firefox).
Palestinian Hacker posted vulnerability details on Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline
You seem to be making an awful lot of excuses to not just pay someone who brought to light a critical exploit. Do you work on the security team or are you a lawyer (maybe with a panicking accountant looking over your shoulder) trying to find fine print reasons say, "Aha! We can save money to our bottom line in this instance!" ? Do you know how silly it looks for you to make these excuses?
I think a dirty bomb would be more than "scary" enough, given general anti-nuclear phobia, and is still objectively far easier than even a simple gun-type weapon. OTOH, I'm pretty sure I could build a gun-type weapon with pretty modest resources. More than Kickstarter, less than $50mm. The hard part would just be doing it in secret, especially since there are dual-use controls and people trying to actively find people making covert weapons. However, almost all nonproliferation controls are still based around restricting access to fissile material; if you solved that, I'd be comfortable doing this in a third-tier US city (away from the border), maybe in an old mine.
Nope. Even in a time of war, you are entitled to your due process rights under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Automaton rising - that's what I would call it and that's there was a long route to the point. She was waking up, reliving her rising through writing.
I bet if she threw in some awkward Homeric references (instead of the boyfriend one), and wrote it a bit overly analytical and detached, then HN would be satisfied.
I could see this tech being a hit with theatres (that is - if they stick around.)
Ask HN: Is Go to C as Rust is to C++?
From http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/why-not-go/240005062

While the article is about Go, it makes this comparison:

"While many languages—notably D, Rust, and Vala—aim to simplify C++ and add specific features, they all feel to me like “C++ with better features.”"

Given that Go and Rust are often compared, is there a distinction that Golang more comparable to C and Rust to C++ ?
Because they are responsible for not letting critical security exploits through
As a general rule replying to people who insult you is a status lowering move unless your response lowers their status. Do not engage with the enemy, it suggests you care, and if you don't care you can't lose.
It works even if you use incognito mode in Chrome. So incognito is not as incognito as we thought.

Edit: not really, the article explains it but I hadn't finish reading it.
Thanks, I'm giad I wasn't the only one who read that and thought it was the most self absorbed, narcissistic things I'd read in quite a while.
> Why waste your life doing what doesn't fulfill you?

Because it can be extremely difficult to distinguish your own needs/wants from the desires and expectations of the people around you.

No one wakes up in the morning thinking "I'm going to ignore what I want for no reason, and instead do what everyone else thinks I should want." And yet it's an easy trap to fall into, like the author did.
Hey guys and gals, I just found an FTP server FULL of secret NSA files! Its IP address is 127.0.0.1 -- check it out!!!

http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=6289
The plague is also quite good at covering absurdism.
If you fail 50% of guesses, that should flag you as a spammer.

If you ask a few questions with multiple possible answers it's pretty unlikely it would get them all correct through random guesses anyways.
Thank you for the constructive criticism, that's often rare these days.

> Your tone is definitely one pushing it as a new and ominous discovery.

I'm sorry if the tone gave a wrong impression, that wasn't my intention (English isn't my native language). It was quite a discovery to me though, perhaps that's why I made it sound like that without really meaning to.

> Another criticism "It has already being used by numerous websites but few people know of it" without any more information

Oh that's right! I had a source link elsewhere but forgot to move it when rearranging text. I'll add this again now.

> Also the "few people know of it" bit, a bit presumptive if you were referring to the engineering community

This was mostly my personal experience. I don't know anybody knowing about these etags being used for tracking, while I know that many friends and classmates could give me details on how cookies work or how localstorage works.

Edit: Why are people downvoting the person I replied to?
> Obviously I don't love the end outcome,

If only you could do something about it to make the end outcome more ideal.
The "stuff" I struggle with pitching is books. It just seems criminal. And I hate that I can only get 10% of what I paid from a used book store. But I miss very little of anything that I've pitched over the years. Out of sight, out of mind.
This is pretty silly. Facebook obviously doesn't care about the dollars here; if anything, I'd imagine they want to be paying more bounties.
Just what we need, more government intrusion into our lives. Yet another reason not to embrace proprietary technology.
My educational background is heavy on Classics, but that's not it at all. I really thought about what she was saying before commenting, and for me it has nothing to do with the incidental that the author is a woman.

The problem here is the millenial-style privilege. It's all so shallow, first-world-problem-ish and child-like in its naivete. So she bought into the lie that having a job is a mystical road to self-fulfillment, discovered it's not fulfilling and set out to live, strangely enough, a lot like a housewife, except without the husband.

It's curious to me that it's so often bankers, techies, and other members of the 1% who find the courage to "strike out on their own."
It is an accomplishment when no one else has had the ability or interest in doing it.
I find the idea that there are legitimate uses for this technology a bit questionable.

There have been important photos taken in locker rooms.

There is a reasonable expectation of privacy at times, but it is enforced by social pressure, not a technology backdoor.

If someone really wants to take surreptitious locker room photos, they can, and do, find ways around tech like this. The inverse is also true. If someone has a legitimate reason to take a photo in a verboten place (locker room or protest) it's much more likely they will be stopped by this.
> I feel like the authenticity she refers to is very much a 1st world problem ...

Ancient writers of many cultures wrote about living well and how to move towards it. The cultivation of the spirit is neither expensive nor new.
It actually doesn't take all that much courage for a single person with no other responsibilities to quit her job. What's the worst that could happen? She has to get a job again eventually.
I didn't like this one as much as Snow Fall and Silk Road. The before and after image presentations would be better side by side instead of in series form. I had to toggle back and forth. Then, midway through the article, the page froze and I wasn't able to scroll up or down.
As sigstoat said, Kepler is a fairly recent spacecraft. And yeah, it's interesting that they don't treat spacecraft like this as small-batch production runs. The incremental cost of producing 5 Kepler replicas and keeping equipment and processes documented at the time of initial production seems very small compared to doing the same project all over again a decade later. Even if they have to do some major changes, I imagine having a ready to go spacecraft helps.

On the flipside, I guess the arguments for componentization apply. If off-the-shelf components are improving all the time, integrating them into a full spacecraft should be getting cheaper and easier over time.

What I really wonder about is, given how troublesome and relatively lightweight gyros are, why didn't they have more spares?
The hiring process everywhere is a disaster, as far I've seen. Interviews don't really work. If companies operated by giving people a few-week chance to prove themselves they'd be able to give more people more opportunities and have a much better idea of who was worth keeping.

But of course, with the current system if you get fired after two weeks you're looking at trying to get hired at a bunch of other companies that are going to view that as a Bad Thing and are going to try to get as much info from a few interviews before they jump into bed with you for years. We're in a bad equilibrium.
If you design things on the basis of what you think most people want, you end up with nothing special. People probably won't complain much, as it is what they expected, but it is unlikely to excite or interest them very much.
He posted to a real account before posting on Zuckerbergs account. I assume that is what they are dinging him for.
Symptoms.

People lack, for want of a better word, meaning in life. They're looking for it in various places, whether that be via the frisson from buying that glass hummingbird at Gump's or getting a new job selling advertising space on the web.

That this is a 'first world' problem is a sign of affluence. You're bouncing against the ceiling of Maslow's 'esteem' and failing to break into 'self-actualization'.

When you look at these people wondering at the angst they feel because they can't believe they made poor choices in buying not just twice the amount of stuff they need, but three, four, or ten times as much, it's because they live in a society that has (more or less) solved hunger, personal safety, social interaction, etc.

There's this middle ground where they can see that they're unhappy. They can't see what would make them happy, only things that would make them unhappy. They look at people who don't have the current source of unhappiness and they see that those people do not seem less happy for their lack of possessions. "Oh, it must be my attachment to tchotchkes that causes my unhappiness. If I get rid of everything, I will be happy."

In many cases, this "meaning" was provided by religion or by an extended family. Some "higher purpose", whether it was preparing the next generation for the future, or their souls for a post-physical existence. In many cases, it's a "legacy" that is a third way to immortality.

People have to reach a point of deciding if "happiness" is the optimization they need or want. A friend uses the phase "Budweiser and NASCAR" for the condescending view of the basest American pursuit of short-term happiness or amusement. This is just another form of that, just of a different social class.

Looking at the 99% or the developing (or failed) countries is still an externality. It can help frame the scope of your unhappiness, but it is irrelevant how happy you are related to a child soldier in Somalia. You can be grateful for your fortune and privilege, and that can be a good thing, but you're not interchangeable.

Unfortunately, there's no royal road to enlightenment. It is, and should be, hard work. Knowing yourself and discerning what is truly important takes a lot of honesty and reflection. You'll have to redefine superficial and deep, as well as a lot of other labels. You'll have to figure out your worldview, your true values and principles, and how far you are from becoming the person you want or need to be.
All I can say is Wow!

To say something like this on the phone is crazy, and something to get fired over. To put it in writing is a career ender. Any company that does background checks will not hire someone like this. Absolutely amazing.
I think the majority of schools have two ways for students to get through schools.

One would be to skirt the system, prepare for exams, and basically retain hardly anything.(This happens extremely often now, especially because of the number of smart yet not-so-determined kids who can get away with coasting, but they don't realize that it'll cost them later.

American schools tend to be lenient on the amount of time required to be spent on school work which allows them leeway to pursue things interesting projects if they are so motivated.

The second is to actually learn the material and work your way through it, thus being able to handle the exams well, and getting something out of your education.

The large part of why students pick the first option is most of the time the material is not very challenging and students find it much easier to slack off than take an initiative to go above and beyond the standard curricula.

The flipside occurs in Asian schools, where while the material is not challenging, it does take a lot of time and effort (not mental, but just constant work) to do well, and survive. This albeit crushes the innovative side that students should nurture at a high school level.
It'd be pretty great if phones couldn't get make/get calls in movie theaters (aside from emergency calls).
The incognito mode is designed to be incognito from the moment you open the window. When you close it and re-open the window, the cache will be thrown away (along with any cookies, localstorage, etc.). During your incognito session, cache and cookies and everything is stored. If they didn't do this, websites would not function properly.

I believe the incognito mode has more potential than it's currently being used as. For example multiple parallel sessions would be not only nice and handy, if people learned to use it, the isolation would also enhance browser security. As I mentioned on the page, it single-handedly eliminates a number of https attacks and tracking methods.

Edit: Oh you mean that bug in this demonstration? Yes that's a local issue here. In practice the two sessions could not be linked, as you can see when you press f5 in the incognito window. Sorry about that, it's mostly meant as a tech demo where people can understand and learn from the code, not a finished product!
To the extent that "YOLO" can be applied to a variety of things, it does not make a good summary of anything.

On critiquing: something has gone very wrong when you're making dismissive and snarky remarks about someone's long, personal thought piece. You could do a number of interesting things, like, say, disagree with it or suggest improvements. But if you're idea of a critique is "this is long and boring and I know this stuff", I suggest simply finding other reading material instead.
http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-ci...
Don't get anything with an SLI graphics set-up.
Don't get an Nvidia Optimus card.
Don't get an AMD processor or GPU.
Check out fullcontact.com's api if you want to be truly creeped out. All these services match you up via previous information they find.

i.e Flickr username FaisalAbid, great lets see if there is a Youtube name faisalabid that fits the same location as the flickr location, or a location gathered from somewhere else.
IOS Coding Best Practices (2012)
He has the opportunity to begin his new job search immediately.
PirateBay is down
Dammit now I'm hungry.
I guess part of it is do you want to collect data, or analyse and massage the data.

Just collecting data? NoSQL looks good, you can throw stuff in and get it out easy, but moving bits around is where it gets tricky. You will notice a lot of noSQL examples are forums, blogs, CMSs and such that don't get much action in changes, just additions and mixed media too.

If you want to move bits, crunch numbers, mix and match, etc. SQLish DBs will make those tasks easier. Queries may be long data sets spread out but you can assuredly get out the results you want.

What do you want to do is pretty important on what to choose. Take your target purpose and see if you can find examples in that database if there aren't many even close that might indicate its not currently be as easy to accomplish.
The "time of war" clause applies to soldiers serving in the U.S. armed forces, who are subject to military law. It doesn't apply to random U.S. citizens.
Now the question is, if a meteor vaporized the moving truck, and you did not receive a check for the loss, would you be satisfied?
Does your education extend to existentialism?
FYI, Lenovo is about to release the T440s. It's finally got 1080p as an option, and it will have a Haswell processor. If you decide to go for a Thinkpad, you might want to wait for this one.

http://shop.lenovo.com/fi/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t440s...
Impressive. Looks like it can get out of ground effect too.
Mass assignment vulnerability - how to force dev. define attr_accesible?
Yeah, that's not going to get abused at all.
The thing is, once you're financially secure and rising up Maslow's hierarchy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs), these first-world problems are your main concerns: what am I doing with my life, and why am I doing it? Of course it is a luxury to be able to worry about self-actualization and finding a comfortable identity/purpose, but so what? Should she not worry about these things? Should she not question her trajectory?

I understand that injustice is happening all over the world, but isn't it still important to examine your own life? Isn't that basically the goal of being alive: to figure out what you really want to do with your time on this planet?

I don't consider that Millennial privilege. I consider it a good idea.
I'll ignore the inflammatory parts and focus on the 1% thing.

Why is it that someone who is privileged isn't allowed to want something more? True, they have a lot, but that's the way of life at this point, people move up, people's position gets better, that's the story of human history. However, this person is SO well off, that they're not allowed to question or look for something better?

Just because there is suffering in the world doesn't mean I can't want for more for myself and family.

Edit: Nope I lied, I'm not going to ignore the inflammatory bit, fuck you for saying it.
With many of them you can just install the RAM yourself and save quite a bit of money.