skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the article's concern about selecting specific patients to donate to: I actually have the same problem, and found myself (irrationally) trying to pick the least photogenic or narratively appealing patients to donate to, and then giving up and spreading donations across the whole pool of patients†.

And my point is: Watsi should have a button that would, at some minimum donation floor, fund every patient equally. Make it a little expensive! I would push that button every time, and you'd be harnessing a broken part of my thought process to make me make better decisions.

Also: man, does Watsi need an API. We're doing more public contests soon! Big ones! It would be freaking awesome if I could plug my analytics stuff directly into Watsi so I could make automatic donations.

† Before you assume this is some kind of humblebrag, know that I'm not donating my own money; we send $20 to Watsi for everyone who finishes our crypto challenges, which are a lot of work, so in a real sense it's the challenge-takers who are doing the funding here.
There's an old saying, if your boss is your friend, he's either a bad friend or a bad boss. There's nothing wrong with partitioning your relationships into work and play.
> workers that attempt to either save you or remove your remains from the mountain

The Sherpas are paid to maintain the mountain for the tourists who climb there. Customers negotiate for whatever services the Sherpas are willing to provide. If you want to find injustices you'll have to look deeper than a simple choice to attempt to summit without oxygen.
Pretty sure you are addicted to oxygen. You are probably addicted to hackernews also. This is not meant to be a banal comment. Addiction is not necessarily a bad thing. You could be addicted to hard work, for example. You could be addicted to your family. Being so addicted to your family that you would be willing to die in order to protect them is not necessarily a bad thing.
Plant hackers in Iran (or just buy Iranian blackhats). Hack someone. If you're caught, blame the Iranians. Two birds, one stone.
Lots of companies do do this, you can become an Intel Fellow for example.
Then the board is incompetent.
Very true, variation in capitalization is some sort of multiplier.

What I don't understand is the shear prevalence of this. Is there perhaps a popular system (email provider or game network or something) that is recommending these sort of usernames?
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>Strange thing was, after removing the substance, the behaviors persisted.

This part. Seems an odd thing to say if you knew the person had addictive behavior before... perhaps I'm misreading it.
Similarly: here in Iceland your official full name cannot exceed 32 characters, including spaces, due to legacy database constraints. It's retarded and has been highly debated recently.
you really think its normal that google has direct access to various different PERSONAL passwords. I don't. 99% of the users don't even realize this is being done.

Then people go crazy about the NSA having the same access.. you guys don't make the link or ... ?
I'm a huge fan of Clarity. It's awesome that there's a text-based option now.
Simply put, charitable giving isn't a zero-sum game; people who don't donate to/through Watsi might not donate at all.

It's intellectually dishonest to argue - without substantiation - that Watsi diverts funds from other charities.

We can argue about improving their efficiency, but the zero-sum argument is counterproductive.
Docker maintainer here. That's basically it. There's no specific danger that we're worried about - just engineering best practices.

As long as we're not comfortable operating Docker at large scale ourselves (we run quite a lot of containers in production at dotCloud), we won't recommend that others do it.
Meh, Chrome on iOS has had peekaboo interface elements for a long, long time. It works fine 99% of the time until you run across a site like this one.
PostPary : An iOS app made for party people
Here's some interesting discussion on the 'fiduciary duty' mantra the finance types keep singing:

> Are U.S companies legally obligated to maximize profits for shareholders?

> Not directly, but often conditions surrounding corporations lead to this obligation

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-com...

As long as we continue to not call them out on their bullshit, they'll keep singing.
Well to be fair, the scam charity industry is pretty big. My dad actually considers all calls he gets from firemen association, cancer charity foundations, etc. soliciting donations to be scams... and I think that's a good move on his part. Because he's been had before by a scam that was claiming to be a charity fund for 9/11 victims. Just the other day he asked me about an e-mail he had gotten... about this guy who's wanting a business partner. I saw in the sentbox a heartfelt reply to help him out... and that bothered me very much, that my dad is wasting time on that shit (something that was clearly a scam). I'd rather that he just stop worrying about this, I've told him point-blank to just never donate anything to any entity -- he's old, there are lots of fraudsters out there, and he doesn't have the ability to check which ones are legitimate. I'll do the donating for him with my money.

You're a security professional, you have a very highly developed and sophisticated ability to discern scams from non-scams. Normal people are not like this, scam charities are actually a big problem that they have to watch out for. That is just the sad reality.
I like the design a lot better than Bootstrap, but I don't think "Semantic UI" matches the implementation.
http://www.neowin.net/news/the-wps-wifi-protected-setup-flaw...

(Quick search, seems a good explanation, if anyone else is curious.)
Amazon is the exception. Bezos is very smart in training investors to look at the value of their investment in other ways and that company profitability is NOT one of them.

In the majority of corporations the pressure is immense to be profitable, stay profitable and increase profitability. Very few CEOs/BODs have the backbone to resist that.
It's basically true, though. Google install arbitrary Android apps on nearly any Android phone without user interaction.

Source: If you log in to https://play.google.com from a desktop computer, you can install apps on your phone. You get the permissions dialog on the website (on your desktop computer), not on your phone.
I can attest to this in countless examples from my own life. The problem is it's hardly quantifiable at all. It's a "feeling" that isn't always easy to pick up on and quite frequently you can be fed wrong information to make you think the ship is sinking when it's really just taking a new direction (that you may or may not be or want to be a part of).

The analogy I use is rats know when to abandon a sinking ship. If you're a pirate sailing along and see a shitload of rats jumping off your pimp ass boat, you better be joining them lest you actually want to sink with it. That's reserved for captains (CEOs) not us regular folk.
I believe Dell's suppliers also used the demonstrated advantages of Dell's logistics to enter the market as competitors.

Also in the pre-2000s run up, Dell's pricing was premium, and with those margins Dell provided better than average in-house, state-side customer support, most (all?) of which was eventually dismantled as PC prices dropped.

Maybe when they aren't public, Dell will be able to invest heavily in R&D & customer support without worrying about earnings per share for the next quarter.
I have been looking at your username for over five and a half years and that never occurred to me.
Not so, active MITM is absolutely required if you want to get around PFS.
Site is down, Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
i'd like you to come and crack my WPA2 password. its not because wifi has had various bad issues, that current wifis with a proper configuration aren't secure.

Heck, in many countries, wifi routers actually use WPA2 with a pregenerated shared key, which is a good 24 chars long and fully random. Incredibly easy to guess or crack! (its very, very hard to crack.)
That reminds me that SAP has yet to respond to my question "Is SAP Business One not sold in Sweden". For some reason it has been decided that 50 characters are enough for a field that contains first middle- and last- name. Normally you can just deal with the extremely long name when and if they occur, but 50 characters is pushing it a bit.
The world's systemic problems are almost entirely political in nature. Unless you want to try mass bribery, your monetary donations aren't going to fix those.
OK so in the case of a "normal" lost password then how is it that it's safe on Apple's servers? That is, if it's not encrypted with a key derived from your password, then Apple can still decrypt.
Frankly, Bootstrap is exactly that, for me. I've been converting our products (Webmin/Virtualmin, which are 15 and 10 year old codebases, respectively, and it shows badly in the current UI). Converting to Bootstrap, while extremely time-consuming, is not requiring significant design skill on my part to make everything look freaking awesome.
Raw decode of the cert that has been blacklisted.
http://pastebin.com/4wJXTsR4
Let the speculation begins.
Fancy Terminal in Ubuntu with ZSH
This is a real concern. All phones are suceptible to malicious programs being injected via usb plug. Basically can make your phone into a bot for a botnet. It's like windows 98 all over again.
You know, he's not being entirely unreasonable.

When one considers that publications have people whose job it is to try to write link-baity titles, it doesn't always make sense for HN submissions to use the article's title.

Consider: it's not infrequent that writers loathe the cotton-candy bait their articles are given.
In Portugal, we have either contracts that renew yearly (where you are forced to give a two-weeks notice) or contracts that are "permanent", where you have to give a months' notice (under two years) or two months notice (over two years).

For "permanent" contracts, there is a 6 months experimental period where both the employer and the employee can terminate the contract with no notice at all.

This gives enough time to get to know a new hire and fix any mistakes. After that, both parties have a penalty for breaking the contract (an advance notice for the employee, or a severance pay for the employer).
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Or an ancestral name with 10^1000 letters. It's easy to reduce the argument to absurdity.
When I visited Kenya two years ago I was amazed at M-PESA's spread, and the $99 Android phone had just launched there. If you're interested in disrupting tech in Africa, I'd recommend a visit to Nairobi's iHub, it's am amazingly energetic space: http://www.ihub.co.ke/
Just got a question answered re: bootstrapping, very smooth and insightful. Great work Clarity!
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> Those who prepare and go on a quest without suffering negative consequences are somehow derided for not being independent thinkers, somehow cheapened for not risking enough.

Who is "deriding them for not being independent thinkers?" Maybe others who go on quests are independent in their own way, none of the comments here are trying to say one way or the other. What the comment DOES imply though, is that there are a lot of people who don't try anything like that at all, no matter the level of preparation.
By demonstrating creative abuse of a language, one can better understand what the language constructs do and the scope of their capability.

The comparable IOCCC.org contest is a great place to learn C: sure the primary focus is making obfuscated code, and the audience marvels at the bizarreness thereof, but taking the time to pick a submission apart and figure out why it works (despite a host of reasons why you'd think it shouldn't) expands your understanding of the language.

It's a great way to improve your language skills when you've reached the initial "I know language X" confidence.
Are you running the newest firmware on the PERC? The firmware used to limit you to only Dell certified drives but they removed that after about a year, probably due to backlash. I know we told our rep we wouldn't buy the new cards until they got rid of that.
That's very interesting. Do you think addicts already have those personality traits from before they became addicted, or the traits developed as a result of the addiction?
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Note that I can probably get your bank account password with your wifi password, when you'll be annoyed and hit that "ignore warning for invalid SSL certificate" ;-)
No, just no. There is absolutely no upside to the employee in doing an exit intervew; rather than going into details, Nick "Ask the Headhunter" Corcodilos lays it out very well: http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/haexit.htm First graph:

"Exit interviews fascinate me like cockroaches do. An exit interview is the meeting a company's human resources department has with an employee who has been terminated or who has resigned. Like the Top Ten Stupid Interview Questions, exit interviews are the cockroaches of the human resources world: no one knows why they exist, no one can justify or eliminate them, and they will likely survive into the third millennium."
Hey Allen, at Factual we're working on something in that vein: https://github.com/factual/skuld. As you might expect, doing it right takes something a bit more ambitious than just a library.

If you're interested in collaborating, or just have thoughts on how it could be more useful for you, let me know.
I think a tree view make for more sense for navigating JSON. The table view of the parser is very confusing for any JSON with lots of nesting.
Using Graphite, Logstash, & R to learn some useless things about my web traffic
> Seriously, you can't hold him up as an idol of a 'better life' when his life was cut short very, very prematurely.

You can still respect the attempt, consider the ideals, and identify specific mistakes (which most of his intellectually stunted detractors fail to do).
Some guys are there to make money, get stuff done, and get it shipped.

If they think that having a woman means having to slow down and be nice and set out tea cozies, their answer will be to not hire women.

Create problems on a team, you will get bounced from the team ... I have seen it time and time again.

(the link got dead'ed, so I can't respond directly ... however my point is more "results matter" and if you are a purple spotted owl that can code, you will get respect ... nerdy guys with technical competence are what built the Internet, and technical competence is what gets respected)
D'oh United Airlines accidentally sells free plane tickets
That, and good ol' violence.
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I'm not convinced the the problem you're concerned about actually exists. I just donated to two people, and one of my criteria for deciding who (since it was mostly arbitrary) was "who looks like they need it most?" At least in my mind, the less 'photogenic' they are, the more they seem like they could use some help.
The best thing you can do is make sure your WPA2 password is totally random and long. Everything else is icing or next to negligible importance.
I have no doubt ageism is real but it does not start in the 30's. Trust me. You have a few decades to go before ageism is your problem.
In the US it technically varies state to state though most states are now "at will", you can leave at any time (you can just walk out one day and never return and that's legal though rude) and the two weeks is just a common courtesy.

The flip side of this is the company can fire or lay you off at anytime. So while 2 weeks notice may not seem like a lot, the system we have here is actually potentially much harsher for employees than employers.

As with the 2 week notice courtesy from employees to employers, most places will offer some sort of severance pay to soften the blow, entice employees to sign an NDA and smooth over any legal challenges that might pop up despite the "at will" employment situation.
Another one is the French Canadian nom-dit form. Some of my ancestors had the name 'dit Laverdure'.

Also from French Canadian, some last names have a period in them, I know someone with the last name "St.-Germain".
Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Why does Microsoft Research exist? Why is Google sending balloons over New Zealand? Why does Costco pay their employees above minimum wage?
Nice app... definitely gonna buy this one...
I posted this earlier and it was flagged off the homepage. It'll happen again here in 3, 2, 1...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6381218
Yachts don't operate, maintain, or moor themselves.
Ok, I haven't followed this whole thing closely, so if I'm missing some crucial fact please tell me.

What exactly is the problem with Pax Dickinson? He has expressed some political and social opinions that many disagree with. He used coarse language in doing so. And he got fired because his political opinions were incorrect.

Business Insider of course has the right to fire people for having the wrong politics. But I'm a bit surprised by all the people celebrating and supporting this and criticizing Dickinson, and I rather doubt we'd see the same reaction if the opinions he rudely expressed were more in line with the mainstream.
And another article about misogyny in the industry falls off the front page just as soon as it appeared. I actually hadn't heard about the Business Insider thing, and that one actually seems worse than the TitStare debacle.

edit: and it's dead. What the heck?
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is it still the best search engine?
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Well, not on mine, and it's a somewhat common one (Fritz!Box) in northwest Europe.
So this seems like the appropriate thread to link a series of illustrations of sorting and searching algorithms illustrated with and by Hungarian Folk Dancers http://algo-rythmics.ms.sapientia.ro/
Well, I'm just gonna say arguing anecdotally is pointless. However, functional opiate and amphetamine users are not "hiding a big problem". In many cases, this is enabling them to deal with high-stress situations, or think more clearly. One example is Paul Erdős, a brilliant mathematician that used amphetamines quite a bit and found no reason to not use them. No hiding, no problem, no "keeping up appearances".

Don't by into the "addiction is bad" story that DARE and the like sell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
Mostly naked, has six arms (artwork)
I sometimes feel like yahoo get better results. For tech problems it is good.
Two more words: research facts

Yes, there was/is blame to be placed at the feet of corporations. That is probably undeniable. However, it is important to understand root causes here. The truth is hard to stomach for anyone who pro-big-government. The single gating element or decision that opened the doors to what would become the financial meltdown of the century was the US government's decision that everyone should be able to buy a house. Facts and qualifications be damned. Congress wanted everyone to buy a home. So, they loosened all the controls and actually pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to facilitate lending. It was: Go! Go! Go!

That, and that alone, enabled what followed. Without this gate being opened it would have been imposiible. --as in absolutley fucking no-way impossible-- for masses of bullshit mortgages to be issued and CDO's to follow.

Blame executives all you want for playing within the framework given to them by legislators but, please, be sure to take to task the true monsters who got us here.

BTW, this is not partisan. Both sides of the isle have blood on their hands on this one.

Suggested reading:

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0...

EDIT: My guess as to why nobody has been prosecuted is that a lot of politicians would be exposed through these actions. And, of course, they want to be as far removed from that kind of exposure as possible. The truth is not what they are after. They want votes. None of this would gain them votes and, in fact, might land some of them on the street or in jail.
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I agree that this would certainly create problems for the network and the manufacturers. If it better solves a customer problem, and you are able to overcome the problems it creates for the people creating the device, they will suddenly have a significant competitive advantage over the manufacturers that didn't consider better ways to solve the customer's problem.

As a network and/or a manufacturer (or any industry leader), I would be watching potentially disruptive technologies very closely to make sure something didn't blindside me and knock me off my post.

Finally, as I said before, I think this will generally be technically nonviable for many of the technical concerns mentioned by other commentators. There are good reasons that the components in most devices are very tightly coupled.
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Especially one who's already had other services attacked. (Google)
I mean, wouldn't one rather admire someone who tried a similar thing, but was prepared and succeeded?

Do you have any examples? Ted Kaczynski doesn't count.

I have one: Sooyong Park.

You know why he's not widely admired? Because people don't know much about him because no one's been able popularize a good narrative about him. Some it it is just marketing, and the extent to which he succeeded or not is a minor detail.

Also, what Park did was dangerous, too, filming tigers in the Siberian wilderness. He easily could have died accidentally in similar fashion to McCandless. He was prepared be he still could have been killed many times.
Absolutely, man Chrome is the best browser in the world and through that he can know everybody password...
Sure, but there's a line between optimizing donations and excuse-making or concern-trolling. I know Jacques isn't a concern troll! I'm just saying, not every "accurate" objection is productive. If the end result is that you're suppressing donation, the world is probably better off with you donating indiscriminately.
With the pervasiveness of self-centred "charity" in my high school and university, it's cognitively easier to just disregard all charity altogether.

Students go around asking for thousands of dollars to send local kids to go "build a {house, school, well} in {third-world country}". If you look at the budget breakdowns, something like 80% of it goes to the flights getting the students down to said country in the first place.
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>You have an urge to save a life? Make a direct donation yourself or to one of the hundreds of charities that exist. Some charities are certainly better than others, but the options are out there. Watsi is a pathetic excuse for a "company" where this sort of pick-and-choose comes across as a form of good when it's really quite creepy and saddening.

The "pick-and-choose" mechanism Watsi uses is a (pretty brilliant) psychological hack to grab attention and elicit empathic concern [1]. I suspect a lot of Watsi's donors would not have donated to a similar cause otherwise; if so, Watsi isn't competing for their money with traditional charities.

I would love to see the statistics on how many of the people donating to Watsi are first-time donors to any charity.

[1] Phrased this way it might sound like a bad, manipulative thing to do but I don't think it necessarily is one -- at least in this case.