skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm running into a similar problem with a trademark I hold for my brand (that I created and am developing). People have fast-followed with different (similar) Twitter accounts, but are calling themselves my trademark (thus diluting the brand). The problem is, I reached out to Twitter and they said that these accounts weren't in violation. I spoke to a lawyer who referred me to someone else. Should I pursue it further or just be flattered that they are promoting the name? The problem if I do that is that then everyone thinks it'll be okay, so the trademark is essentially useless. Any ideas? By the way, some of these accounts have > 400k followers where I only about about 5k.
Note: I'm not the OP of the article.
As for caching, I'd suggest nginx proxying against unicorn with a cache store for static files. This is functionality built into nginx.
Very cool. It would be nice to be able to link to your representation of a particular tweet. Also, expand the shortened links.
I'd rather find a niche and become a domain expert in the problems related to the discipline.
We're probably all NSA sleeper agents, every one of us, we just don't know it because we haven't been activated yet.
i think the theory is that, "space" going on forever, it is one vast, unending frontier beyond which there can be no others. also (seriously) the phrase "final frontier" being alliterative gives it a lot of memetic staying power.
Gliding over their ridiculous logic (meaning they're obviously lying, and did it on purpose), then why do they keep insisting "everything is under control, nothing to see here! We have lots of oversight."
This issue is too complex to be summed up by the wealth gap. It presumes that wealth can be measured in money, when human happiness is increasingly becoming cheaper to acquire, and free in many cases. I don't think the author of the article appreciates all the economic forces at play.

One thing we do have to think about is how the economy would have to adapt if the true cost to produce critical goods became zero. Capitalism's supply and demand theory will become inadequate in such a case.
That's all very nice in theory, but if I am not a domain expert in a subject and the book's cover is made of clip-art and Comic Sans, human nature will lead me to trust it less.

Humans are not rational animals, no matter how much we'd like it otherwise. Rather than shouting down the tide, it's wise to invest in a little design/marketing - even if it rankles.
If that were really true, then there should be markedly less piracy of content from publishers not affiliated with the MPAA or RIAA, but that doesn't seem to actually be the case.
Thank you for pointing this out. While a "walled garden" approach is less than ideal, it is clearly somewhat more effective from a security standpoint.

Perhaps not your "NSA backdoor" variety of security though...
There's no need to spend hundreds of dollars on a sunrise alarm clock. Just buy some super-bright, flat white bulbs[1] and a timer[2]. (And a lamp if you need one, of course.) Sure, it doesn't get gradually light, but the main thing is that it's very bright when you get out of bed, which is really pleasant!

[0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00198U6U6

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0040718V4
I've been reverse-engineering old microprocessors lately (e.g. Z-80), and I've been thinking about this question. For chips of that era, you can actually look at the silicon, examine what it does, and be pretty confident that there's no back door. (Although interestingly the Z-80 is said to have a few "traps" to prevent copying, where due to silicon doping tricks the circuit doesn't do what it looks like visually. But scanning capacitance microscopy would catch this.)

But for a modern microprocessor, it's impractical to reverse-engineer the chip at this level. One solution would be the manufacturer could publish the full plans and circuitry for the chip, which would make it easier to see if everything looks okay in the circuit, and then you could verify that what's on the chip matches the plans. For instance, if Intel published the circuitry for their digital random number generator, you could look at the circuitry, look at the chip, and be pretty confident that everything is okay. (Note that this could be published without being open-sourced. In a perfect world, patents would include all this information.)

The problem is for chips that have microcode that can be updated, knowing the chip itself is "correct" doesn't help you, since the microcode could be malicious. Even if the random number generator is valid, the microcode could modify the values before you get them. My conclusion is that even if your chip is 100% validated, it doesn't help you at all if you don't know what's in the microcode.

(This all depends on what kind of attack is being put into the chip, of course. I wouldn't notice any side-channel attacks built into the Z-80 such as timing-based attacks or power consumption. You could probably sneak in something super-obscure like the carry flag not getting cleared in some corner case and make it non-obvious, but that would be pretty hard to exploit.)
It goes the other way around. Because the government has almost everyone's fingerprint on file already, it is important to them that fingerprint scanners become a widespread method of authentication.

Making sure the new locks fit all these old keys we have lying around, basically. Standard government cost saving measure.
That's a very good point. I'm reading HN without my pants, as I usually do.

Those same ads would work here just fine.
>I'm wondering if the concept of free-software and a walled garden are really that incompatible.

They are defiantly compatible. Consider the way Debian (and many others) approach the problem. Almost all software is installed through the package manager, which gets the software from a set of repositories. These repositories can be as much of a walled garden as the repository owners want them to be.
The main difference is that, it is possible to add third party repositories, and/or remove first party repositories (or sidestep the package manager entirely).
"Snark" means "snide remark" and is absolutely not an HNism. Hell, I think I learned it from my mother (who no doubt used it at me). Despite heavy use, the word retains clear meaning, even as used by stanleydrew above in his otherwise foolish comment.

It is a perfectly cromulent word.
His argument isn't based on contractual relations. He's quite right; Buzzfeed has kept the money they should have paid him in licensing fees for using his picture, so they have it and he doesn't.
TPB are paramount in any accurate representation of copyright infringement as it exists today.

I don't dispute people are upset with the MPAA/RIAA, just that it has very little to do with Disney or material that shoulda/coulda/woulda been public domain at various times in the last century.

Centuries before Disney was created the copyright length was still decades longer than the age of material people primarily pirate.
"already have my for-porn pre-paid CC out ... better use it for pizza as well"

just saying. ...never paid for porn.
It was also submitted here even earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6351712

Personally, I'm just glad to see this video finally getting traction. It really is such a cool demo. It even stands out in the field of consistently high-quality SIGGRAPH demos. Can't wait to read the paper!
As I've pointed out in another thread, Canadian citizens visiting the U.S. are not automatically fingerprinted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-VISIT http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/usvisit/usvisit_edu_us_ca...
Why would anyone willingly submit to daily bio-metric validation of one's data is beyond me.
This is a great post! it seems a lot of the shortcomings he points out stem from ALL goods and services available to home-owners being planned around square housing of standardized measurements. Besides that, there are some inherently 'different' aspects of a dome (acoustics, floor arrangement, extra length requirements in wiring & wall surface jointing, unusual structural stresses) that are both interesting, and probably hard to realize without having lived in and worked on one of these things.

Thanks for sharing this.
Or it's just the cops, and unlike a password or pin or pattern, they can actually physically force your authentication out of you with a single finger press.
You're right, apparently not all states require this.
> For those of us in the other 200 odd countries it really is boring as hell to have to wade through your pointless, unsubstantiated paranoia.

Speak for yourself, not for the rest of us, please.
Not true about drivers licenses in most ( I really want to say all) state. Even covertly, I doubt they could collect them. You don't, at least in any state I've dealt with, give them documents they could keep and pull fingerprints off.

In the US, the only one gets fingerprinted are by being arrested or for certain back ground checks( e.g ones for teachers, some bank employees, and security clearances).
I think they would implement a password manager, and instead of a master password ,they'll use fingerprints/fingerprints-hash
This is fantastic, breakthrough, I've long waited fingerprint scanning technology. This could definitely decrease cybercriminals.
That sounds like a Flickr problem
more than a BuzzFeed problem.
>don't think even the NSA has people smart enough to insert code into a compiler which will add backdoors to software which didn't yet exist when the compiler was written.

Oddly enough, that is almost exactly how the Flame malware worked.

It injected itself into a compiler, causing the compiler to silently compile malicious code into custom firmware being compiled for nuclear reactor control equipment.

So at least one state actor has done just that at least once.
Very nice. I do something most similar.

One tiny nitpick: you might want something like: dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8 to go with your redirect-gateway def1 .

This is because all of your DNS traffic will be redirected over your VPN as well. If you happened to have been assigned a local only DNS by your home router or cable/dsl provider, DNS will be broken when your VPN connects. Use a globally accessible one like 8.8.8.8 and the dhcp-option to tell openVPN to switch your DNS on connect.
I agree. Grandma is worried that the NSA is spying on her. I told her to switch to Android and read the source code.
If you're religious, the prohibition is based on Genesis 38, in which a fellow called Onan avoided his familial obligations towards a woman, having sex for pleasure but pulling out to avoid conception. This irritates God, who promptly strikes him dead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onan has an in-depth explanation from multiple doctrinal perspectives.
Well, you would expect the H1-B salaries to be below the average since most programmers on an H1-B are relatively early in their careers.

I've hired a number of software engineers, both citizens and those needing H1-B sponsorship and a visa was never viewed as a significant factor in the offer amount nor was it viewed as an opportunity to get someone on the cheap.
Obama to Speak on Syria Live
Haha. What he meant was:

"I'd love it if it remained 'pretty challenging' to identify who owned what on the web, because our whole business model would crater if we had to pay for the content we rip off."
Kalvain twerking to get off punishment for PS3
That was incredibly depressing - the story gets flagged because its not newsworthy to someone.
"Free software empowers users to replace any software hostile to their interests."

I suppose so, but there's a much powerful mechanism: consumer choice. If a user feels a phone is hostile to them, they will buy one which is not. This replacement phone may be Free Software, or it may be non-Free. Free Software can be user-friendly software, yes, but it can also be user-hostile. Users won't use hostile Free software, but they won't use hostile closed source software, either. That's the free market at work.

The FSF's position here is akin to: "Buy open source toasters, so you can easily modify it if it's a design which spontaneously explodes!" No thanks--I'll just buy a different toaster.
I would argue quantity is better than quality for learning. This is why in art classes teachers have you constantly making new things instead of spending the entire semester on one painting, sculpture, whatever...

When I was learning Ruby on Rails I built iterations of the same stupid app dozens of times—I found that more helpful that the more in-depth app that took more than a month.

EDIT: wording
I believe both sides have valid arguments depending on who you think the threat is. If you expect complete control over your data then you would want the system to be open source and transparent. To protect an average smartphone user from malicious apps, a closed and curated system like Apple's appstore makes sense.
How can somebody not know that Apple is the brand of rebellion. You didn't see WTO protestors winning the day with Windows Phones.

When Bashar Assad gassed his country at night, you didn't see lives being saved by Android-mounted LED's. You saw iPads lighting the night sky.

Just sayin.
How do you think that follows? I am not asserting that people pirate MPAA/RIAA content because they hate those organizations, nor do I think that is the case. That would be a foolish thing to assert.

I think that people pirate primarily opportunistically. Some of these people try to justify their piracy by saying they hate the MPAA/RIAA and pirate for ideological reasons, other pirates do not.

People, sometimes people who pirate, sometimes not, hate the MPAA/RIAA for a wide variety of reasons that have been beaten to death in this thread.
If you want to understand why this example is so relevant, try to understand what exactly step-by-step they did to recover these images.

Here is the link again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3031698 [Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies]

Hint: how can you explain that sometimes, the recovered image contains an object completely different from that seen by a subject of the experiment? [say, tree instead of a man]

Hint: can similar experiment be done with the part of the pre-frontal cortex responsible for associating visual memories with the condition in which these memories were formed? [imagined, dreamed, seen]
"Ona" and "Bednar" are in separate data fields. Do standard JS implementations handle this case? Is that even desired - treating each word as an isolated search? Interestingly, because of the concatenated data issue, "onabednar" does return the record ("it's a feature!").

The example only supports single words because it contains only single-word data. If you edit one of the indexes to include a space it works.
That's because the data-index field has been created with all whitespace removed. If the field was created with whitespace preserved, you could search with the original whitespace.
I am really glad I am not the only one who has experienced this! It really has been a strange and annoying phenomenon.
This is essentially just two-factor using email... give me your phone and I can steal anything I need.
Why is harvesting fingerprints such a catastrophic possibility? The government already has your fingerprints if you've ever left or entered the country, and they've likely been taken during other periods in your life as well. Hell, even the Cambodian government decided to scan my fingers when I passed through.
DrCube's counter-argument [1] is logical: that with these existing databases, the government can now access your phone. But really, is this feature being touted as a impenetrably secure way to unlock your phone? It seems to be positioned as "a way to make accessing your phone convenient for you and non-trivial for others," and I think this feature does exactly that.

If you can't trust the phone vendor, why are you not more paranoid about entering your username/password on the device? What about location data? I really can't fathom why decrying fingerprint technology is the nexus of your argument here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6364725
Yeah, I followed him for a while because he had some occasionally snarky and clever conservative quips [1]. (I like following and reading lots of smartass people all across the political spectrum)

I can remember reading quite a few and thinking "wow, this guy's gonna get called out one of these days". Guess it finally happened, and by someone with a big enough megaphone to really make it go viral.

[1] "Passion of Christ" tweet not among them. That was just foul.
Yep. Fond memories of writing an execution trace disassembler for the i960CA back in the early 90s. The chip had an 8-bit incremental trace bus, which made it possible to produce an execution-time instruction trace, as long as the code didn't modify the instructions in memory.
> The latter would be far more obvious in the code and easier to spot.

But we can't see the code. And it's far from certain you'd be able to pick it up through watching data packages.
Sure, you can always find someone who you are privileged relative to. Why does that matter?

That doesn't change the fact that in America, in high-tech industries, there are many privileges that men enjoy that women do not.

It's a derailing tactic to say "you're privileged relative to some extremely impoverished, down on their luck person over there, so you shouldn't ever complain." Just because I don't have the worst boss in the world doesn't mean I shouldn't ever complain about my boss. Just because the US may not spy on its citizens as much as China does doesn't mean we shouldn't be complaining about the US spying on its citizens.

That's what I mean when I don't understand what he means by hyper-privileged. If he's referring to relative to some hungry orphan on the streets of Calcutta, that's just not relevant. If he means relative to the other people in the class, which is the comparison that actually matters for this discussion, then I'm not sure what he means as she obviously is not privileged relative to them, as they were able to harass her into deciding not to continue that course of study.
This is silly. The free-software folks doesn't want phones to be like Android; they want them to be like Debian (or gNewSense or whatever).

That is, where users have a choice of a curated package repository maintained by middlemen who have the users' interests at heart. And where packages and the changes to those packages have an audit trail.

The Google Play store is a disaster from the GNU perspective -- zillions of nearly-identical closed-source programs, most of them pretty lousy, no curation by a trusted third party, no access to source anyway (so not so easy to curate even if you wanted to), no ability to fetch an old version or see what has changed, no way to "take over" an abandoned package and bring it up to date or improve it, no way for a distributor to make programs play nicely together, and no way for a distributor to modify programs to make them less privacy-invasive or battery-intensive or whatever users might want.
Those guys aren't brought here on a H-1B visa though, atleast that wasn't the case at msft. They come in on 'L1's i think. L1 allows a company to shuttle employees within their branches. They aren't allowed to work anywhere else though.

MSFT outsourced ops/rote testing stuff to an Indian consulting company, Infosys/Wipro, don't remember which. Those companies in-turn have branches here and they bring in these guys from India. They come-in for periods of 3-4 months and go back once the project is done. Although, considering the fact that all these Indian outsourcing companies are morally, ethically corrupt and run by scumbags, I wouldn't be surprised if they were pulling some fraudulent scam.

I totally agree with you, I don't think Apple/MS et al have significant cost savings when they pull this shit. They can easily find someone here without making a dent in their pockets. And like you point out, they're actually probably paying more to these guys. My guess is there's some MBA in the finance/HR division pulling this shit..the 'consulting experts' from OfficeSpace come to mind.

Being Indian, I know the quality of idiots these outsourcing companies hire. Most of them can't code their way out of a paper bag. And worse, they bring a bad reputation to Indian engineers in general. I got my masters here in the US and there were scores of reasonably component people in my undergrad class I TA'ed who'd be more than happy to fill up QA and data entry jobs at these companies. These Indian outsourcing companies should be banned from bringing people here period.
Just put in ear plugs. I use generic dollar store orange ones and I sleep like a king now.
I'm trying to inform you as to why you received downvotes. Perhaps regurgitating descriptions of logical fallacies makes you feel better, but unfortunately it doesn't improve your argument.

Theft has a specific meaning which you should learn before you make broad, sweeping, incorrect statements about it.

Even if your analogy had any relevance to this copyright dispute, it doesn't follow that theft has occurred. Giving a bad cheque is not theft. Giving a bad cheque with a certain intention may amount to fraud.
As did I. I've built these systems (socket-like systems that work efficiently across browser in diverse environments). And if you think you can just get that right the first time, then either you have the hacking skills of which I have never seen or you are (more likely) wrong.

But this thing here they are talking about is something I've been doing for a long time. I didn't think about making a brochure site for it though.

Just follow the principle of making the parts as dumb as possible. They should be the stupidest simplest things ever. Sometimes you can't get to this model on the first try, and that's ok. But the closer you get to it, the better the product becomes. I swear this is true and part of the soul of the machine's ghost.

If you can't make things laterally connect this way, then make them vertically stack this way and then laterally connect this way. But don't obfuscate the objective.
How is this different from any other product of any kind you have not custom-built yourself?
Interesting, but I can't help feeling that a better implementation would be to split ethe input on white space, and build a slightly more complex selector such that a search for "term1 term2" would set the style to:

.searchable { display: none; }
.searchable[data-index*="term1"][date-index*="term2"] { display; block; }

and an empty input would hav eno selectors (or .searchable {display:block;} ).

It's slightly more code, but much more usable.
I don't know what this guy's like in real life, but if he acts relatively normal in a job interview, why would his social media habits come up?

In all my job interviews, no one has ever asked me whether I tweet out racist and sexist comments (spoiler: I don't).
Logo Quiz Game
Assuming the phone isn't locked.

A combination with email confirmation plus two-step verification like Google Authenticator could work as well.
I would say that you are willfully, self-consciously out of touch. This may not affect you on a day-to-day basis, but it will make you completely unqualified to make certain decisions for anybody else. Your designs will not be usable by the majority of the population.

This might be okay if you're not targeting the general population, but there's a danger of forgetting just how out of touch you are. There's a danger that, like RMS and PG, you may create a website that is visually abominable, and convince yourself that it doesn't hamper the flow of information.
This is one of the greatest advantages startups have over "regular" businesses. They have access to a large talent pool that the regulars have no way of reaching. Its like reaching out and pulling in talent from another dimension while the bigcos fight over the only talent they can "see".
If TouchID is adopted by 95% of all user I wonder if iPhones will still be a worthy target for average thiefs?

I think you can't reset or jailbreak a locked even today.