skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I guess verifying the full length of the fingerprint would mitigate that, and not doing that exposes you to a MITM attack anyway. Not much less secure than exchanging the keys directly, then, you are right.
Has anyone changed their opinion on Edward Snowden?

There is a difference between this, and exposing potential crimes toward the American people by the NSA.

Now he seems to be attempting to embarrass and weaken US-interests as much as possible.

The funny thing about all this is these leaked "revelations" are pretty much standard operating procedures for any country and their native NSA counterparts.

All this is doing is allowing those other countries to mobilize public hate towards America and Americans, and use that to potentially give them the upper hand in future dealing with or against the US.
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I don't think the spying stuff is leading to a decentralization of power. Moving from unipolarity to multipolarity was happening anyway. Further, I don't think that they will challenge the US in services or economy simply because the governments are upset at being spied on.

Citizens still want to buy what they want to buy. If the average citizen of Mexico got really angry about this, enough to make actual sacrifices in their day to day life, I would be incredibly surprised.
Things being offline aren't inherently at odds with "us hackers". This is a bizarre train of thought.
I think it is a bit too far into the right direction. But it seems to me that nowadays everybody outside of the halls of power seems to be unhappy with the lunatics who run the asylum.
/dɑːns/ and /kɑːnt/ in the UK, /dæns/ and /kænt/ in most of the US.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dance#Pronunciation

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/can%27t#Pronunciation

Which way you should pronounce them depends, I suppose, on whether you speak to more British people or Americans.
Brazil wants the servers within its borders (officially) to snoop on drug traffickers and other suspected law breakers without having to ask for permission: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/08/11/act...

Calls to mind a high profile case of China imprisoning an activist who used Yahoo mail which then was hosted within China.
I don't know, I used to be excited by spectator sports in my teen years, but as I got older and more intelligent, I found other spectator sports like politics and business much more fun.

Also, I get more of a kick from movies, even sport movies, in that short-duration time period you mention.
I have to disagree. I think it's 80% 1) and 20% 2)
Of course the more informed people were reading Popular Electronics, Byte (my personal favorite), Creative Computing, etc.

But while those magazines reached millions, Sears catalogs reached an order of magnitude more than that. Possibly two orders of magnitude.

Companies bent over backwards to get their products noticed by Sears. If your product made it to the catalog, that was the 1975 equivalent of being bought by Google. Atari fixed a last minute glitch that almost kept Pong from being carried by the company:

http://books.google.com/books?id=lKZriBxbcwQC&lpg=PA41&ots=D...
Could not believe we should be considering giving so many different favicon sizes from 195px (Opera Speed Dial) down to 16px. Wider SVG support in favicons would be welcome.
Sending Your Secrets Safely with Chaos
The .NET framework library source code is available. If you are a national government or very important partner, you can take a look at what is supposed to be much of the Windows source code, but you can't build and run it.

Microsoft derives a lot of income from enterprise licensing and support, so it's not obvious just how much income Microsoft could lose by going open source.

Windows CE had to be abandoned for mobile devices because it had fallen behind Linux-based mobile device OSs. They probably continue to believe Windows is superior to Linux, so they, internally anyway, have a "secret sauce" argument against open source for that.

Perhaps they will have to go truly open source to regain trust after the Prism scandal.
You omitted those who consider that there are different forms of socialism. Bertrand Russell covers this ground in "The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism" (which you'll find on Project Gutenberg). Since he was writing in the 1920s I don't think it can be considered too revisionist.
The guy probably has a plan that he just isn't sharing. The lack of details doesn't mean their aren't details, and he doesn't need you criticizing him for not thinking things through.
programmers (unlike auto workers) have not locked in long term benefits

This is true in many of the developer communities. But I work for a local government agency as a programmer. So, I have long term benefits and a retirement plan, and I assume there are lots of programmers in this category, they just aren't publicized like the start-up and web community.

I am thankful for the influential programmers that live more risky and work at start ups, but there is also a place for programmers that have a secure job, working at companies/organizations with specialized software. However, I know that many bad workers have been created from these environments...there is always a group that will ruin it for everyone.
What about "this is not redit" or "who changed the title?" (shouldn't someone change this title to just "Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing"?)
I understand your point and you are quite right that if an exceptional individual has given space to pursue his passion without the worries of "making a living", it's awesome and they can blossom. But for general population, this doesn't work. Otherwise Poland would be filled with success in all fields instead of 2M jobless receiving unemployment pension.
The most recent edition of this book came out a few years ago, so it doesn't verify this year's claims specifically:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/privacy-line

...but what it does explain (and backs up with a plethora of sources) makes this summer's NSA news sound like business as usual.
Programmers fell into poverty after the dot com burst? That seems a bit extreme. Lost very high paying jobs, maybe.
> I'm told that CS enrollments are now at record highs

Given the high dropout rate of anyone attempting to learn programming, I don't think enrollment rate is good metric.

> What's the barrier to entry that's keeping us from being flooded with supply?

Programming is hard; really f'ing hard, for most people because it requires critical thinking continually and learning continually.
English would appear to be the Javascript of spoken languages.
I wasn't working then, but from my understanding (might be wrong), it was 'html coders' that had difficulty finding jobs, not actual coders.
Plus, anyone can jump into the place of an auto-worker with very minimal training. That will never be the case for programmers.
"Dear Paul,

The warm and fuzzy thought police department (WTFPD) would like to have a little chat with you. You see, we have taken down bigger game than you, and we could easily have you stuffed and mounted on our mantle.

Instead of saying what you believe to be true, the WTFPD recommends that you say what we wish were true. Here at the WTFPD, our belief is that wishing hard enough for something will make it true.

Sure, some founders might be hurt along the way while your advice is temporarily false during the small period when we are waiting for our wishes to have effect. But it is far better for a foreign founder's company to die than suffer the chance that he might be made uncomfortable by the suggestion that adapting his accent to the norms of the local market might help his startup.

You see, the worst crime in the world according to the WTFPD is making people feel uncomfortable. That's why we're warm and fuzzy ;)

Do I need to spell this out to you? Shape up Paul. Our sanctimony is powerful enough to destroy any reputation. Struggle too hard and we can make you a "racist". News reports about you will forever read "Paul Graham, the investor who stirred controversy by saying that foreign accents are bad for startups, ate breakfast today". Don't make us do it Paul.

The next time you are tempted to open your mouth to speak your mind based on your experience investing in over 500 startups, stop and consider that maybe we know better. You may have built a firm that revolutionized how investing is done, but we feel deeply. So who is really the expert here?

The world needs more sensitivity Paul, not the cancer of your nasty hatey hate speech. But we will give you a chance to redeem yourself. Beg for our forgiveness, say what you're supposed to say from now on, and join us in making the world a warmer, fuzzier place.

giggle and hugs

-The Warm and Fuzzy Thought Police Department
"But do you really need a co-founder? Even if you’re not technical and you think you need a technical co-founder?"

I relish the day when non-technical co-founders and single founders fall by the wayside and technogeek types learn how to sell themselves. It's largely an introvert/extrovert personality thing, where technologists are convinced they should keep to interacting with computers and not other people -- but it's just not true. There's no reason why they shouldn't do both aspects of work as the technology-side of the business is the one that generates the value and it doesn't make good business sense to share profits with someone who only sells the value you create when you can just do that part yourself.
Or the PHP port which is awesome: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
Yes and No depending on the sport.

1. Chess is a game traditionally considered to be strongly co-related to IQ (which is strongly heridetary), but a survey of Grandmasters find that they have generally average IQ. What they did have a lot of, was years of experience and dedication, and also probably very good memories.

2. Basketball is a game where height (which is also strongly heridetary) is very important (the average height of a NBA player is 6' 7"). What are the odds of a man who is 5' 7" becoming a great world-class player? Sure, you could name some guy who fought all odds to rise to the top. But the key word here is odds, and genetics plays a huge role in stacking up the odds.
That's indeed the best answer.

Another one is that, Opa should provide by default a pretty good level of security, being immune to XSS attacks and database injections.

Edit: looking at alternatives, it might also be one the cleanest...
Actually, most people don't tell you to follow your dreams. Most people tell you you'd be crazy to give up a "good paying job", i.e. one of those ones where they keep the vast majority of profit from your work effort for themselves. Most people get angry and defensive at the slightest suggestion that you're doing something different from them, that you have a different set of priorities that doesn't allow for you to take the same path as them.
Explaining a company's actions by "the legal duty to maximize shareholder value" - Since this can be used to explain any action by a company, it explains nothing. Not to mention the validity of statement is controversial.
We get it.

Edward Snowden is attempting to hurt American interests, rather than expose some horrible crime against the US people. While the self-promoting hacks he picked as journalists continue to do what they do best, fabricate stories that don't really exists once you put the facts on the table and use the proper context.

That's the only way I can understand what he is doing right now, unless he really thinks the truth must come out purely for the sake of the truth, and secrets cannot exist. In which case he is extremely immature and doesn't understand the way the world operates.

In the mean time, he will continue to cause problems for the US. While the rest of the world uses these leaks for their own benefits. It will keep him relevant.
I'm glad you posted this. It's a much needed reminder.

Your artwork is excellent and I love the sentiment. I signed up and look forward to seeing more from you. Keep up the good work!

BTW, thanks for the free posters!
> New subscribers will be charged the initial $9 and then extended as well.

Spin up another account then cancel it!
I don't understand. If people are offline, they're less likely to be consuming the products hackers create, and therefore not paying hackers.
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+1 for Freckle. I use it everyday for my time tracking.
Perhaps you underestimate how incredibly small the margins are in sport?
I would not be too sure about that. RMS predicted the business model of most open source companies. If I recall correctly, he consulted to TI back in the Lisp Machine Inc. days.

He was not hostile to commerce. To him, "open source" was a consequence of the nature of software. He considered it the best way, not just the right way, to do software and that it would win out in the end, which it seems to be doing at least in some categories.
Speaking as one who could live comfortably off a Basic Income of $1,000/month (Which would be 2,000/month for my family- wife and myself and our 1 year old): If this plan were implemented, I would likely do a few things with my new found free time:

1) Develop more open source software
2) Work on my small 4.5 acre farm, growing produce to sell to locals for extra cash.
3) Spend more time helping other people with their needs and wants.
4) Do more substitute teaching, perhaps volunteering to teach a programming class or similar.

While most of the time I would not be earning any significatn income from these activities, I think the societal benefits would far outweigh the cost of providing the Basic Income.
Thanks for this update ! Looks like an interesting project, although i think this kind of information should really be on your website, and not lost in some HN comment, rather sooner than later if you want to create a bit of interest around your project.

Catchy videos are good, but in the case of projects such as yours, an associated architectural overview would be much appreciated !
Indeed, from the README: We used to rely a lot on CDB (which is a really great piece of software). It performed blazingly quick and produces compact files. We only stopped using it when our data started growing close to the 4 GB limit
In Maslow's hierarchy there is as much value as in any other piece of art or literature. It's nice to look at it so people enjoy it, but it doesn't fully/adequately describe the reality. You can find much more exceptions from it than listed in the post, so it's practically useless.
You belittled those who don't speak English as lazy schmucks. This is an offensive, narrow minded viewpoint. Not surprisingly, others reacted strongly.
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You should have a look at:

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Threat_Risk_Modeling

To understand the standard approaches to threat modelling.

It should be trivial for someone to look at the documentation and quickly answer basic security questions like "Does it defend against replay attacks ?" and "Does it leak message size ?"
Facebook really doesn't test anything for security vulnerabilities before pushing to production, do they?
Yes.

Read about myostatin. It's a protein that inhibits muscle growth.
Yea, it's nice of him to be specific and tell us the reason he's taking time off is to improve his morale, which will in turn improve the content. That's some real mature thinking.
Urrrgh, for fuck's sake: are you gonna make me trot out the 'First they came for the...' cliché (which like all good clichés is totally on point)?

Obviously, despots don't care what the intelligentsia or anybody else with < despot power thinks. But in a high-functioning democracy, it is only through the apathy or willful ignorance (or freaky racism / nationalism) of the citizenry that you get despots in the first place. We're not there yet, but are obviously on that path.

I assume you're caucasian and rarely have your luxury car searched at traffic stops, or your electronic devices searched at border crossings? Me too. Yay for us.
This Atlantic article suggests that you will never win an Olympic medal in sprinting unless you come from West Africa[1]. This same population is bad at distance running, where Kenyans dominate. There appears to be strong genetic components at work here.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the...
Mirrors, cameras and cultural evolution
Stop patting yourself on the back. Seriously.

Because obviously, no other job requires critical thinking and learning continually. These are "skills" that are in no way related to programming, and do not explain an inclination towards CS rather than any other science or the myriad of other academic disciplines. And even outside academia, not every job is just that of the "sheeple" who "mindlessly" "slug away" in their "boring" and "thoughtless" jobs.

If you do a job for a long while, chances are you will have to adapt to new developments. Take craftsmen for example. Every year, new areas become part of their trade, from new building materials to new requirements, from new technologies to new standards. The electrician of today might also have to deal with laying network cables, with photovoltaics etc. Carpenters deal with new materials for insulation, new structural possibilities and requirements etc. etc. Secretaries and office workers moved from typewriters to PCs, from OS to OS and often from program to program.

I know it is particularly popular in IT to foam out of the mouth about the "clueless" average users who do not get the simple feature X or Y of a given software, but at the same time, the same people will happily admit their own inaptitude in many other professional areas.

There have been numerous threads on pg's "founders' accents" remarks, and there, all of a sudden, it is the most normal thing in the world that not everybody finds the same things equally easy, important or possible. Yet when it comes to programming, there obviously exists no such thing, rather, there are naturals, those gifted enough for this divine trade, and then there are all the others. The average user, with stress on the average as opposed to the extraordinary.

I am sorry that this rant is directed directly at you, but I find the sheer arrogance of your two one-line remarks baffling.
I challenge you to take a month off this year
This line falls apart because people will rightly argue over what is a sport. If we then include chess, then why not programming? Or education in general? Education is not competitive, but we can compare and rank.

In the end it all becomes a horrible mess.

In then end I tend to think the genetics must have an impact all over society and culture, and, well, that's that.
I personally knew a number of competent programmers who ran into extreme financial difficulty in that time period. However they didn't like to talk about it then or now, so I can't give names.

They were, of course, a drop in the bucket compared to the number of people who had no business calling themselves programmers having trouble. But there were still lots of them.

How do I know this? When I went to move from New York to the west coast in 2003, I took the precaution of taking a month to travel up down down the coast, so I could meet with people I knew and respected from online interactions. What I learned was that at the time, Portland was a disaster zone, Seattle almost as bad, Silicon Valley still had a huge hangover but was slowly on the road to recovery, and I should have no problem landing a job in Los Angeles. I therefore moved to Los Angeles and landed a job in about a week.
I take it you've never been to an actual city.

Nobody cares what this building looks like because nobody would walk to or past it because it's in the middle of nowhere and there are literally no sidewalks.

This article is about a real city where people walk to things. Here is a picture of it. https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=ballard+seattle&data=...
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I often get to translate what my Brisbane colleagues are saying to my Seattle colleagues. I'm from Europe and not a native English speaker. I suppose it makes me more indifferent to thick accents. However, Danish accents are too severe even for me.
If you are talking about the front end of a corporate site then sure, you can do that in WP. Don't think many would though; maybe for the grocery shop, but other than that?

Even relatively small businesses in my neighborhood with not much cash to spend start out with a 'cheap WP' site, but then they want reservation systems integrated with their CRM. They want a live chat system. Integrated with their CRM. They want their reservation system connected to online partners. Etc. In a few months after starting out with this site, WP or anything else is no longer relevant; existing solutions need to be integrated manually anyway and custom solutions made by, for instance, the CRM/reservation system which do not use WP are a better fit. At a much higher price. And people pay it, because custom integration is even more expensive.

Even with all it's plugins, WP is only a good solution if you like to do a lot of work manually or you want to spend a lot of money having every plugin and external package nicely integrated. And no inexperienced programmers is going to bring that to a good end without landing on reddit/hn as being responsible for making some epic security holes along the way.
I dont disagree with what you are saying, but I think its woth mentioning a lot of people speculate that Messi might get an advantage from his growth deficiency, he has a low center of gravity which can help shifting momentum (not to take anything away from the best player in the world)
Martin Luther King Jrs Speech at Bennett College 1958 "FINANCE Your FREEDOM"
Not only would we have to consider you losing our data we'd have to consider that our logins would go offline if we had networking issues between ourselves and your location.

Offloading, and outsourcing, some things makes sense. But authentication data? That just seems unduly risky.
HTC executives arrested over leaked trade secrets
I'd argue that if you are going to focus on keeping abreast of research, you should focus on things that have much more obvious applications than various niche topics in programming language theory. For example, advances in machine vision, computer graphics, machine learning, and distributed systems seem to be much more meaty than category theory and lambda calculus for ensuring you do not get left behind in the next big wave of innovation.
US Marine's website hacked
If you do go to Paris, make sure you check out the catacombs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris - they're not at the top of most people's lists but they're spectacular and unlike anything you'll see in any other city.
Right. You need your precious time to tell everyone on HN that you pressed stop.
This guy was lucky to be proficient enough in English to recieve the bounty, unlike this guy:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/18/4633046/facebook-security-...
Trying to imitate the drawing of native components and emulate their behavior is not impossible, but is excessively burdensome (platforms x versions x options quickly becomes large). See Java.

Having an ability to use platform-specific native components is a definite win.
Comparing the size of the city doesn't fix the issue that food, shopping and cultural events (art, theater etc) are dismal compared to other cities.

The fact that Orem/Provo is better or worse than your average city in the same class doesn't make the food choices any better.

Now, since Ann Arbor Michigan which is on par with your listed population size for Provo actually has good food some decent shopping and a fairly large number of cultural events your argument comes up strongly lacking.