skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minus the 112 days he received as "credit" for his "inhumane treatment" in Quantico!

I mean, that's some consolation, right?

/s
This is interesting because it's an end-run around the FDA's current regulations on caffeine intake. Reminds me of when Five-hour Energy claimed they weren't an energy drink but an energy "shot" and shouldn't be held to the same regulations.
Just an obligatory reminder that as cool as quantum cryptography is, it's very unlikely that anyone (including NSA) can break today's run-of-the-mill classical encryption, and an XOR cipher plus a hardware RNG (such as, unless you're somewhat paranoid, the ones built into modern Intel processors) is essentially completely unbreakable.
From my understanding he messed with real accounts when Facebook didn't take the issue seriously, shrugging him off rather than discussing with him.

Facebook should have rewarded him. Instead turning him away only makes a white hat hacker turn black hat and sell the exploit to the back market for far more than he would have initially got from Facebook.
I didn't know what Alice.com was. Here's a blurb from a press release:

Alice.com provides eCommerce and interactive marketing services exclusively to the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. The company’s eCommerce platform allows CPG manufacturers to create branded storefronts that make it easy for the mainstream consumer to buy all of their household goods online. Co-founders Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire have an entrepreneurial track record that includes three previous start-up successes: Bizfilings.com (sold to Wolters-Kluwer in 2001), NameProtect.com (sold to Corporation Services Corporation in 2007), and Jellyfish.com (sold to Microsoft Corporation in 2007).

And a link to google's cache of the home page:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jXbidML...
The big idea as I understand it is:

He proved the bug on a live account instead of one of the prescribed test accounts

He reported it as "this is a bug" not as "this is the procedure to use in order to reproduce the bug"

He demonstrated critical inability to report the steps required to reproduce the bug.

It must get to the point where this money faucet receives hundreds of people submitting "bugs" where their friend has really left their account logged in and it's been exploited via social engineering, or some other "not a bug", so bugs are closed when they're submitted with not enough information.

I understand and subscribe to this strategy myself.
true, unbreakable now, but probably breakable in a few years....
You store whatever SIGINT you pick up now, and understand it in a few years. A lot of it will still be valuable in 5,10, 15 years
On Android, top-down is used to open the Notifications (where new messages and other pieces of info come in), and starting with some 4.x release, bottom-up opens Google search / Google Now for you.
I found Async Javsacript by Trevor Burnham super helpful for learning how use promises properly. However, it doesn't cover the javascript implementation of a promise (uses jQuery), so this is a nice blog post complementing that material.
But does it support do-while loops?
Is this just a re-implementation of SmartOS using the Linux kernel?
In 1999 there wasn't Turbolinks.
There is economic benefit to cement production and concrete construction (theoretically), whereas there is essentially no economic benefit from brush fires, and the savings from slash-and-burn vs. regular clearing is tiny.
Scalable session handling in Node.js with Firebase
>No, this is the Armed Forces code of conduct.

now that you mentioned it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_the_United_States_Fight...

....

b. Your obligations as a U.S. citizen and a member of the armed forces result from the traditional values that underlie the American experience as a nation. These values are best expressed in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, which you have sworn to uphold and defend. You would have these obligations—our country, your service and unit and your fellow Americans—even if the Code of Conduct had never been formulated as a high standard of general behavior.

...
I completely agree. It does a disservice to people like Snowden to have Manning lumped in the same pile as them.
This is bullshit (specifically, a perpetual motion machine of the 2nd kind).

Suppose you have a heat source T_H in an environment T_C. If you could extract more work from the thermal radiation of T_H than the Carnot limit for this system, you have enough work to run a Carnot heat pump from T_C to T_H that increases the temperature of T_H, and decreases the temperature of T_C -- an violation of the 2nd law. You could use work to increase the heat source's temperature, leading to more work, leading to higher temperatures, in perpetuum. No can do!
Spotify and Pandora artist payments
Passwords are making me cry
Nancy uses extension methods in placement of Attributes.

Forms auth is done by calling this.RequiresAuthentication(); you can implement an extension method to do an ApiKey check in about 5 lines of code :)
I am in the EU :-)

What I'm really looking for is the storage. The KS-2G is exactly the right size for off-site backups that I can control end to end. Very cheap too! ~£3/month for 500GB storage with unlimited bandwidth is pretty decent. I don't care about memory or the processor, just that I can rsync encrypted copies of my data to an off-site location cheaply.
An interview with Private Internet Access founder Andrew Lee
Gmail Tabs Have a Mobile Trick Up Their Sleeves
Only thing I thought was "this will make a really killer domain to own".
League of Legends is hacked, with crucial user info accessed
Social Media and Sports
you're clearly a MS fanboy

Um...okay. That says enough. End of story.
> That's nice, but obviously there was no oversight, no logging, not even simple rate monitoring.

All of the above exists. In fact, it's required to exist, along with various access controls in the system depending on the protection level. All is specified in DCID 6/3.[1] That is not to say the requirements were implemented properly, or that the oversight was fully competent. It does, however, exist.

[1] https://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/DCID_6-3_20Manual.htm
Why Facebook can't pay the bounty -- but should anyway
Another sad day to be an American. There's been a long string of those lately, though, so tragedy fatigue has probably set in up there.
At the same time, the present implementation of Democracy doesn't give voters very many options.

I am very divided on this.
You seem to have some kind of obsession with whole foods.

If it's true that we don't know what we don't know, then how did you arrive at the whole foods conclusion? What's the difference between whole foods and Soylent?
Get over it people

It's OK to not like things.

then you best look for alternatives ASAP.

This is exactly what the author is doing.

But even when the good outweighs the bad, its totally fine to stay using a service without some obligation to pretend like the negatives don't exist or never talk about them.
Yes, he messed with real data, but he appears to have no idea that is a problem, given the blog post that spawned these numerous threads about the events that transpired. FB did not follow up with him; did not explain the rules; he had no idea he had wronged anyone and thus expected a bounty (Re: his blog post to the public). FB could have avoided all of this and probably without the bounty; they could have explained the rules better and made sure he understood why no bounty was plausible.
Gerrymandering Jigsaw Puzzle
Just a thought:
When publishing correlation articles, maybe responsible authors should set up some kind of verification system where the reader must demonstrate that they understand that correlation does not equal causation before they are even allowed to read the article.​

Otherwise, we end up with all these knuckleheads running around saying "Moz said that +1s are the key to high rankings and you have to have lots of them! Who wants to buy 10,000 plus ones from me?"
There's no such thing as "unlimited" bandwidth...It's "unmetered" in the loosest sense but they get around high bw usage by only supplying "best effort" bandwidth. They're more than welcome to choke connections that happen to leave their network for transit. The reason they're EU only is OVH is relying on the fact that 90+% of the traffic is going to travel through their network and leave a PoP directly to your ISP
Thanks for the pointers, will do. One strange thing about vim is everyone seems to have a core set of commands they use. An interesting tool.
I like oracle way of hiring. You got a degree from a decent college with decent GPA you are in. Very clear and straight forward. If you got in a decent college and graduated with a decent GPA - you are smart and somewhat hardworking, you should be doing well in your job.
A good github repo does go a long way. I have one project I did as an interview 'test' that I leave up there simply because it shows my thought process etc. It was not a proprietary thing so no sensitive information is in it.
"perfect" is a dangerous word. Whether it's someone saying a "perfect" product or "perfect" society or "perfect" anything, I tend to run in the opposite direction. What can I say, I'm a digital Burkean..
>The big idea is to make caffeine palatable to people who get the jitters from coffee and energy drinks. Four sprays, the recommended dose, has less caffeine than a cup of coffee, Yu says.

I guess they've never heard of tea?
> Since Amazon deleted all those copies of 1984 from everyone's Kindles

What? When? Seriously?
you're arguing from an ethical viewpoint, which is fine, but it does not apply to this sentence. i know this is hard, but let me explain.

in the civil justice system there are laws. if you break them, you get punished. some of them have special rules around them. take murder. kill someone, go to jail. but if it was self defence, you might walk. easy, right?

in the military justice system, leaking classified docs is a punishable offence. there is no way around this. there is no self defence, etc alternate way. you break the rule, you get court martialed. morals, ethics do not come into play here.

as a soldier, your interpretation of your oath does not apply here. it would when refusing orders like "kill those civilians over there", but only maybe and not in the way you'd like. again, military justice is not following the same framwork of rules and ethics you're used to as a civilian.

the armed forces in itself are not a democracy. they are a special area of society that exist to provide the ability to kill other humans. in order to do so anything civilian quickly goes out the window. the rules exist to enforce the most optimal sytem to maintain a killing force, not the well being of the individual within the organization.

if you don't like that, you should campaign for complete disarmament and the complete disassemblement of the armed forces. there is no half-way, grey area. once you have an army, it exists to kill humans, with all the consequences. the hero whorship present in the US around any soldier seems to imply that the US society has forgotten this (and then is surprised once something like the sentencing of Manning happens).

Nuremberg does not apply at all here. German officers were tried by the Allied Forces, not their own Army. This was the victors cleaning up. The US has not joined the International Criminal Court for similar reasons, to prevent other nations prosecuting its officers and soldiers (for war crimes, etc.). If you want to do so, you'll need to invade the US and be the victor. Note that Saddam was tried and sentenced by an Iraqi court, not an international tribunal even though US soldiers caught him.
Tricky link you've got there. Hidden character at the end.

Try copying and pasting this:
xkcd.com/605/‎
vs.
xkcd.com/605/
I have a dozen WCF projects under my belt.

WCF is fine until you need to extend it. Nancy, MVC, Web Api are much easier to extend.

Plus WCF needs all sorts configuration stupidity which alternatives just don't have.
The OP said this isn't rule of law, it's savage reprisals. The counter to that was that it is military law, with an aside that civilians don't usually appreciate the difference.

It's a little obnoxious to be accused of conflating things one has explicitly separated, but I suppose on this topic those that are outraged are mainly here to vent rather than discuss, and there's nothing wrong with that, so I think I'll bow out here.
How do you back up the private data on that laptop?
From his blog post:

i report that exploit through whitehat --> www.facebook.com/whitehat

So he clearly found the whitehat page. While English may not be his first language he clearly has some higher level understanding. The phrasing of "don't mess with data" is pretty clear:

make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations

And if you look at testing accounts, it's also quite clear (emphasis mine):

Please use a test account instead of a real account when investigating bugs. When you are unable to reproduce a bug with a test account, it is acceptable to use a real account, except for automated testing. Do not interact with other accounts without the consent of their owners.
I hire people based on their ability to learn, not what they know.

If you're asking interview questions that can be googled in 20-30 seconds, you're wasting your time and theirs.
Hey pearkes, your reply was intelligent and thought provoking. You've made a valid point, provided sources and had a structurally well set out argument. But I just can't help myself to try and preserve the English language and point out the faux-pas I see when intelligent people comment. Please don't use 'then' when the correct word is 'than'. It shits me to no end. I really hope that was a typo and if it is, do excuse me. If not, don't take my comment as malice, please take it on board. I love to see a great comment become bulletproof/immutable, without dissenters picking holes in it because of bad grammar. Sorry if I've gone a bit overboard with your comment over one word! It really just is a compulsion of mine to keep 'then' and 'than' pure! Kudos to you otherwise though.
You use powerpoint to give a presentation. Possibly to a group of high-level people.
This is a popular opinion which still makes hiring an art.
The best people I have ever worked with are the people who are fast to learn, have amazing problem solving skills and are socially intelligent. That's it. No knowledge of btree required.
I'm with you on this, I had no trouble with my accounts being associated until they decided it had to mean my real name appeared on youtube.
I understand why they do it given the state on comments there, but for me this is why I keep my account dissociated ever since (despite the stupid popup that keeps asking me the same question every couple of days).
Can we please put the name of the author in the title of Medium posts? Ike Ellis: I will not do your tech interview
New Work City Wants You to Put On Some Pants and Come Work With Them
I get your point, but knowing the differences between http, udp and tcp isn't minutia ... it's cornerstone knowledge for anyone working with distributed systems.
This trial was political: people vs. government. The government won by not upsetting the people "too much" by giving him a "light" sentence of only 35 years (what a deal). He will lose 5 years of his life for the service of the greater good.
I'd go so far to say that most interviews do not seem to serve much purpose other than to boost the interviewer's egos. The more that a company is full of engineers who feel trapped in their jobs or lives, the more that this seems to be the case.

The other irritating thing is that people seem to prefer selecting people who are technically more intelligent than they are, but who are less socially apt that they are. It's so bad that I think entrepreneurs need to think about protecting their employees from themselves, because this cannot possibly be good for companies in the long run.

Lets just face it. Engineers often times have low self-esteem (especially compared with "business types")(edit: myself including), and interviews frequently become the one place where they can be on top. It's always re-posed as some "meritocratic" test of skill (isn't it always?), and it's anything but, because an interview setting is not effective at measuring whether someone has the initiative and creativity to get a job done.
I think I've write fun things in this life (in the sense of code to do stuff). But I can't imagine how the "job" of persons behind all this stuff could be... mmm...
"When articles like this are submitted to HN, can we have a discussion on what us as individuals can actually do (if anything)?"

I think we need to start explaining the privacy/surveillance issue and how the advent of powerful technology makes universal surveillance possible and, as others have commented, rather banal.

As one example of a possible 'hook':In the UK, there have been reports on the extent to which ordinary police officers are using the National Police Computer for purposes unrelated to police work (checking out boyfriends/girlfriends for instance). I imagine the potential for misuse is much higher with the comprehensive capturing of data from all communications. That might get people thinking.
Anna Karenina is a novel by Tolstoy, not Dostoevsky :)
Old google made cool things and make their money off ads and search ranking.

New google only cares about beating facebook because they came onto the scene and took over the front page of everyones Internet role.

I don't even think it has anything to do with bottom lines, either. I can't understand how knowing who spams my G+ page with crap who I friended for an arbitrary reason is more valuable information in how to target me with ads than what RSS feeds I subscribe to and read, which is a direct link to my interests and engagements. A social network doesn't reflect pretty much at all what I am interested in spending money on.
What kind of world is this, where Bradley Manning gets a heavier jail sentence than Anders Breivik?
Cool, best of luck!
Reliably verifying real-world identities online is a hard problem. I personally don't enjoy faxing my driver's license several times to get it to come through legibly, handing out my SSN like candy, scanning bank statements, answering questions about previous residences, and waiting for a 48-hour manual review process just to do any sort of business that's tied to a real identity.

The existing system is archaic, fundamentally insecure, and horrendously broken from a UX standpoint. As far as privacy, the federal government is already an identity provider required by many services (in the form of social security numbers). I have no objection to it performing that role more securely and efficiently.
This is an excellent point. I think there is an argument in there somewhere for actions starting a war versus actions ending a war.

Also doing it Charlie Sheen style helps (winning!)
In writing could bite you in the ass later.

I wouldn't put those type of accusations in writing.
i know a guy who got ripped off by another guy on ebay so he went on google earth and sent him a picture of his front door. he got his money back straight away LOL ... hopefully a phone call will resolve things though. wrapbootstrap seems like a nice website. hopefully you can work things out.

Anyway, here is the owner of the domain ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=coderdude

Registrant Name: James Simmons
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 276 N Tustin St
Registrant City: Orange
Registrant State/Province: California
Registrant Postal Code: 92866
Registrant Country: United States
Admin Name: James Simmons
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: 276 N Tustin St
Admin City: Orange
Admin State/Province: California
Admin Postal Code: 92866
Admin Country: United States
Admin Phone: +1.7143504203
Admin Fax:
Admin Email: stuff@wrapbootstrap.com
I'm a big fan of what GroupTalent is doing - I am finding exceptional candidates through them.

One of their main features is contract to hire. I find many great candidates through them where I work.
People still believe in moral relativism?

I hardly think pitchforking live babies into cauldrons of boiling water (as during the Rape of Nanking) is "just following orders".
Good point but it's better than nothing. Besides asking the supposed author about their work could probably uncover whether or not they actually wrote it. If they worked on a big open source project, it'll probably be less likely that they were faking.
That may be the case for nexus, but on my HTC One that bottom-up gesture doesn't work
For me, it's really easy to dismiss the product as snakeoil when I hear something like Homeopathic energy being used to promote the product.
This looks interesting, but I find the name choice odd since there already exists http://silverbackapp.com.
You can tell this by the code, usually the people who offsite the code have the worst syntax, worst grammar and use foreign symbols in the code unless requested otherwise.

Also, after they have submitted it, go into detail with them as to why they did this, or why they did that. Tech interviews with puzzles, quizzes, and logic are just a massive waste of everyones time.
Me too, but you've got to start somewhere.
Quite the opposite. The dangerous people are the ones who think morality is something you can negotiate about. That's a recipe for unethical behavior.

Ethical principles != Fundamentalism.
This is nothing close to an exact copy of Medium. I spent a ton of time on this UI. It's definitely inspired by Medium. I'm not hiding that fact.
>when enough members of the military decide to do what's better for the country against the lawful orders of the elected government that they serve, we call it a coup

I'm not disputing that Manning broke the laws of the military. But calling his actions an incipient coup is laughable. In a world in which the worst offenders at Abu Ghraib got ten years (and were released much sooner), sentencing him to 35 years (as a deterrent!) is a disgrace. I don't see how you can defend the laws and regulations of an organization where it's much better to commit a crime against humanity than to publicize one and err on the side of too much info.
Ask HN: it is me or Google is very slow now?
It doesn't seem down but really really slow. I'm in italy
The whole point of tech interviews is to see if the candidate actually has the requisite skills for the job.

The point of resumes is to see if the candidate actually has the requisite skills for the job. The point of interviews is to verify what is represented on the resume is likely to be true. And, as the op is suggesting, a small contract would verify that the candidate can complete projects for the company and to their satisfaction.

he may be farming it out to oDesk or Elance at a fraction of the price

This is just plain paranoia. No one would do this and expect to be employed at a company for very long. Also, if you've ever farmed work out to oDesk/Elance, you might not want that work to represent you in an interview process (even if you were able to have it completed in a reasonable amount of time).
>>which almost nothing Manning released could have been
Again how do we know that? How do we as not involved in the Intelligence game at that level know? I'm not about letting anyone off on war crimes. They need brought up on charges and now. However little details can easily lead to lots of other bits of information. Manning didn't think about that, he just opened the firehose. There is no clear answers but endangering others for no real reason has to have consequences.

>>The fact that the US government hasn't been able to point to a single death resulting from Manning's leaks implies to me that everything he released should have been public to begin with.

Again how do you know that? Just because they haven't doesn't mean they can't. To point to deaths mean they but the others in the chain of intelligence at risk.
The problem is not military justice per se, the problem is the corruption of military justice.