skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While there's no evidence that backdoors or other malicious code were surreptitiously inserted

And it's difficult to imagine how changes would have gone unnoticed.
It has little to do with the quality of the comments, but a greater initiative of a Single Identity online. For better tracking, control, and ad coverage. The goals that also align well with the government.

First, they got a hold of our data with trendy cloud computing. Now they gradually lock in our identities - for our own good.
The title reminds me of the shittiest software job/project I ever worked on- short and sweet: Got hired off craigslist. It was all php. Their main competitor was "the spreadsheet". Worked directly next to a cold caller that repeated the same phrase over and over again, fake laugh and all. They were all from the same church group and tried to convert me multiple times. Paid minimum wage.

In addition to being funny in retrospect, it was a good lesson to me to learn that no matter how shitty your current situation, you can always improve it.
> Allowing unrestricted Internet access.

On the contrary - filtering my internet indicates that you don't consider me capable of self-regulation... I prefer being treated like a responsible adult - responsible for my great code or my slacking off, whichever I choose.

I greatly value this level of respect from employers.
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You're describing a binary fire/else system. I would consider that a minimum viable product, and this is a very mature market. I'm expecting more than that, and I'm willing to pay for it.

(You not being able to think of any improvements doesn't mean they don't exist.)

A better fire alarm could connect to my Nest via wifi and add a remote temperature sensor to my existing thermostat system, allowing it to increase overall accuracy/efficiency. It could talk to other detectors in the same manner allowing for a whole-house fire alarm system that's doesn't require running wires. It could text me when it's battery needs replacing instead of emitting a high-pitched chirp I have to hunt down at 2am. It could do the same thing via notification on my existing Nest app. It could detect humidity levels in my house and increase it's sensitivity if appropriate. It could notify me of alarm (once again via text or through the app) while I'm away from my property. It could snap picture with a low-res 360 pano camera and send them to my phone so I have a record of how the fire started; if the latency was low enough it could be used to help fight the fire.

I'm not an expert in this field. I'm an interaction designer. It took ten minutes to think of those improvements. (I'm just brainstorming, but surely one or two is feasible.) I'd bet a year's salary that the team at Nest labs is better at this than I am. They've got something up their sleeve or they wouldn't bring it to market.

Anyway, I have no affiliation with company, but I really like their thermostat and I'm expecting good things from them as they expand their product line. Particularly, the kinds of things that will get to me to pay a premium over the existing stuff at my nearest big box store. I paid similar premium for my Nest.
> These days I would handle this easily; after the first or second iteration I would explain the situation: I had based my estimate on certain expectations of how much work would be required; I had not expected to clean up dirty data in eight different formats; they had the choice of delivering clean data in the same format as before, renegotiating the fee, or finding someone else to do the project.

Great advice for dealing with issues we did not consider in our estimate.

Had he charged hourly instead of a fixed price, would this project have been less shitty?

Edit: Fixed grammar. Thanks b0z0. :)
so its root in forth?
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I'm sure it would decrease in the U.S. as well if all the cable companies weren't greedy, antiquated whoremongers. Consumers find alternatives when all the options available are sub-par.

That being said I'm glad newer options are becoming increasingly more available, despite setbacks from the regulators.
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Everything is in the AUR man ;)
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"my guess is that what Thiel says is very smart indeed in the context of boosting certain business interests and/or political philosophies."

Well yes, there's certainly that as well. I'd be hard pressed to say that Peter Thiel has no vested interests in the status quo.
> "Furthermore, I am not sure that spying on commercial companies is wrong. If information learned is redistributed to American companies, then that seems wrong to me."

Thats was exacly my the point; Once the information was collected, we never know exactly in what hands (harmless or not) they will pass by.. not now, and not in the future.. it gets out of control.. (chinese hackers might breach security somewhere and enter the party.. and on.. and on..)

We dont know all of this.. what we know its that, its too much dangerous that all that data be flying around.. it doesnt matter if its about you, me, the president of whatever.. it has unpredictable results.. (and probably none of the good ones)

(My point by using the Hitler example, was to point out an archetipical example of any one with dictatorship intentions, that might surprisingly subvert the democratic system and do whatever he likes with the country.. its just easy to think about him first, as such an example.. sorry about that)
You'd be amazed how many criminals are, in fact, idiots. The brainy supervillian is largely a myth. In any case, it would be up to the prosecutor to prove that you were the origin of the dodgy reviews, not up to you to prove that someone else was. If there was insufficient evidence to identify the author, then you couldn't be successfully prosecuted, and most prosecutors won't waste the resources on a case they clearly can't win.
The punch line here is great, but even if the specs necessitated something more than a static page, then it'd still be a hard job.

If the most critical part of a data heavy project is speccing it out, I'd say the next most important part is the data munging process...and sadly, both of these things are the most overlooked.
Another option for doing interactive tours is Hopscotch.[1] It serves pretty much the same purpose as Intro.js, and seems to be very popular as well. I haven't used Intro.js myself, but I'm currently building out intro tour using Hopscotch and it works quite well so far.

[1]: http://linkedin.github.io/hopscotch/
Not true. There is only one Fed regulation about how much central bank money a bank must have, and that is the minimum reserve requirement, which is currently 10% for sufficiently large banks.

This is a required ratio between accounts of clients of the bank and money that the bank itself has in its account at the Fed (or as cash in its vaults). As such, it does not even have anything to do with loans in the first place.

The only way it has anything to do with loans is that as a loan of e.g. $1000 million is created, the bank creates a new account or marks up an existing account to the extent of $1000 million.

The minimum reserve requirement then increases by 10% of the newly created money, i.e. by $100 million. If the bank does not already have a sufficient amount of central bank money in its accounts, it must obtain this money within the next two weeks or so.

This is what happens in practice: Banks create loans based on creditworthiness of potential borrowers. An institutionally separate department of the bank then ensures sufficient central bank money to satisfy regulations.

tl;dr: Your number of $1.1 billion is completely wrong. The number $100 million would be somewhat less wrong, but is still not correct. In reality, banks do not need any money to make loans. They do need to satisfy minimum reserve requirements, but if necessary, they can obtain the required money after the loan is made.
" it makes me want to do business with brazilian-based companies, once the announced more autonomous technologies are put in place."

ONCE....
Please do not wait do now...
I am still waiting for speed rail here in Brazil, Cheap gas or electricity and Less than 44% of my GDP in Taxes.

But please do not take my 'hispterism' because I live in a bubble here in Brazil (native) and lived 3 years in US and 1 year in Middle East.
I just came to the terms that after 35 years here we are STILL blaming US for 'everything' and we do not have nothing to blame us....strange..
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Just say we will load data(phone number) using AJAX in JSON format and everyone will be happy.

Page is static. JSON is a static file with a phone number. And use jQuery to load the JSON file.
My gnome-terminal seems to be using Source Code Pro from https://github.com/adobe/Source-Code-Pro at Semibold weight and 12 points, though I basically just fullscreen it and frequently resize up and down depending on requirements. In reality I probably mostly I use it at 14 or 16 points, on a black background of course.

compiz-fusion spins between desktop cube faces with ctrl+alt+arrow and a handy wacom tablet allow easy text selection, window placement and inkscape-driven thought-capture.

I'm very interested in striking a balance between a minimalist console and graphical thinking, and have become a big fan of tools like mscgen, graphviz, and inkscape.

Every time I use inkscape, default font selections irritate me to the point where I now generally the more tedious option of manually scribbling on the wacom tablet.
I thought it was the NRO?
http://www.nro.gov/about/
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http://www.payoneer.com/

https://www.payza.com/

https://www.skrill.com/en/

Apparently payza is global
"Just as we reviewed how we deploy our extraordinary military capabilities in a way that lives up to our ideals, we have begun to review the way that we gather intelligence, so as to properly balance the legitimate security concerns of our citizens and allies, with the privacy concerns that all people share."

Notice how Obama said nothing about neutral parties, let alone civilians who are citizens of hostile countries. The "either you're with us or you're against us" philosophy is alive and well! Who really knows the definition of "with us" in a war on an emotion?

The sad thing is that, were the entire UN unified in condemnation of U.S. spying, nothing could come of it. The UN is, be design, absolutely toothless when it comes to permanent security council members. It's impotent enough even when it comes to countries like Syria! The only way to make the UN effective is to grant it real power, but that can never happen as long as some of the citizens it represents are more equal than others.
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How much influence can the UN have over online spying?
I do. I have many videos on youtube and have had many mini-conversations on youtube. And I think this is a disappointing move. YMMV.
'My US Dollars are "stuck" in a Bitcoin exchange'

This seems to miss the whole point of bitcoins. To "free" your US Dollars, use them to buy some bitcoins, transfer the bitcoins to some other exchange, sell them there, and somewhat less than 22 months later, you have your money.

The article does not report any difficulty in withdrawing bitcoins from Mt Gox.

(After researching this topic a further 5 minutes, I do notice that the USD bitcoin price is a bit higher at Mt Gox than at, for example, Bitstamp, which amounts to taking a 9% loss if you use the method described above to withdraw your USD from Mt Gox.)
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If they're going to slack off I'm sure they'll find another way.
Ok, since you apparently haven't done this yet: Play Machinarium. You're in for a treat.
Good on them. In reality, however, fuel from the sun is free and we have unlimited land. Getting the cost down and economies of scale are what everyone is really focussed on.
Awesome! +1 for using Perl :)
Which of efficiency or price/watt matters more depends on the application.

For example, I believe something like 4 m^2, 40% efficient, 8 hours of charging is enough to get electricity to drive a Tesla something like 30-40 miles. (In practice, I assume you'd cover all of the outside of the car with 40% efficient solar panels to make this work (or maybe even 80% if you can figure out how to build them), and then 4 m^2 approximates the effective useful area after you take into account suboptimal sun angle, the side of the car facing away from the sun, etc.) The number of people whose commutes could be entirely covered by 40% efficient solar panels built into the car being used to recharge the battery is a lot more than the number of people whose commutes could be covered entirely by 12-15% efficient solar panels. Current mass produced technology doesn't make any variation on this cost effective today, but it seems clear that in the future, a 12% efficient panel array built into a Tesla is never going to be all that attractive for this application no matter how cheap it might become.

I suspect that high rise apartment buildings can cover a much larger percentage of their energy consumption from solar panels mounted on their sides and roof if those solar panels are 40-80% efficient instead of 12-15% efficient. If localized solar right next to the consumer of the power becomes cheaper than paying for electric grid transmission, this may become very relevant in 10 or 20 years.

Even for residential suburban solar installation, where finding adequate space for an adequate quantity 12% efficient solar panels is generally not a problem, the really important thing is not the price per watt of the panels themselves, but the price per watt of the system as a whole. The mechanical support of the panels is a part of the system cost, and the cost of that portion will shrink with more efficient solar panels, though of course there is an open question as to whether that will end up lowering the total system cost or not in the long run.
There is a disturbing amount of mis-information in this thread. As a sibling commenter writes, deposits have nothing to do with capital.

The Basel regulations are, as the term "risk-weighted assets" which you quoted implies, about the riskiness of assets of the bank.

NB: Loans made by a bank are assets of the bank, and they are risky, that is why Basel regulations are relevant. The corresponding liabilities of the bank are the money that is created in the debtor's accounts when the loan is made. But those liabilities are not part of the Basel computations, because Basel is about risky things. Risks do not come from liabilities, because liabilities are known, certain quantities. Risk only comes from assets.

When a risky asset has to be written off (e.g. loan goes bad), then the asset side of the bank's balance decreases. This is offset by an equal decrease on the liability side of the bank's balance. To be precise, the bank's capital is reduced (yes, capital is a liability).

This makes sense because capital represents the "liability" that the bank has towards its owners. When the bank makes bad decisions, the owners are supposed to pay for it in properly implemented capitalism.

When capital goes below zero, the bank goes bankrupt. Therefore, the ostensible goal of the Basel regulations is to ensure that capital never goes below zero (or, at least, that a lot has to go wrong before that happens).

This is why a risk-weighted sum of the bank's asset (the things that can go bad) is compared to capital (the only liability that can be legitimately decreased).
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> In 1995 I quit my regular job as senior web engineer

You had the job title "senior web engineer" when the web was 4 years old. That's pretty cool.
Bolivia's plane was stopped on the way back through Europe under suspicion that it had been sent for Snowden. I don't think it has been shown that Bolivia was making an attempt.
Dammit, I completely read the article wrong. Labs wasn't capitalized, so I didn't grok it correctly. Well, it saves you clicking on the article if you just came straight to the comments...
Brazilian president: US surveillance a 'breach of international law'

Ummm, even if it is, no one cares. Brazil would spy on US in a heartbeat if they could and probably try to spy on the US Embassy there. The spying I'm worried about is different, not the reading a foreign leader's email kind.
I disagree. My young kids and wife love the stuff on the Canadian service. It's easily worth the 8 bucks a month.
I think keeping a picture is a bit extreme, but there were several times when I thought "Hmmm... what would Elon Musk do..." and pursued that course of action.
Even then, the post adds no value to the discussion, so it deserves downvotes anyway. Its a great blog post, and I upvoted it, but its a bad comment, and I downvoted it.
One change is the willingness to pay workers as contractors. This saves quite a bit of money in terms of insurance, payroll, and taxes.
Except the most successful political fundraising machine in history that ran on Jekyll [0] :P

[0] http://kylerush.net/blog/meet-the-obama-campaigns-250-millio...
excellent article, thanks for sharing !
It should be a risky venture for the company (ie a new strategy). I think gambling in Las Vegas would count as fraudulent.
For lack of a better term (because I hate buzz words)... google "growth hacker" and figure what this means for the company you want to work for and then think about how you can differentiate yourself from other startup marketers. Think outside the box but be realistic.
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I built this tool because I was sick of having bookmarks stored my an individual browser or having to install a plugin. This is the fastest and easiest way to save bookmarks I could come up with.
Deploying Varnish is like cheating but in a good way. Varnish isn't a set-and-forget cache proxy. It requires a well thought out VCL and a good deal of attention and maintenance. So the saying not all VCLs are created equal applies in this case.

I challenged myself to build the most generic VCL in the sense that I want it to work with the majority of "scripts" in a semi "shared" server deployment. I also wanted to make it as easy to deploy as possible while exposing some of its advanced features.

The end result is an array of software "plugin" products that one can download and deploy on cPanel and DirectAdmin (two leading control panels).

Shameful plug (wait for it...):

http://www.unixy.net/advanced-hosting/varnish-nginx-cpanel/

http://www.unixy.net/varnish/

There's a free 14-day trial (no payment or CC required) for those who want to give it a spin.
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Race is always a factor for anyone who knows anything about the history of Oakland. For example, the Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland. There has been class war and racism at the heart of Oakland for many, many years.

This post is another example of a long history of gentrification, which also has a racial component. Race is absolutely on-topic here.

That doesn't mean I expect said discussion to be productive.
It's really, really not similar to AOL.

AOL has an ongoing cash flow from subscription payments. Those payments keep coming from customers until they either quit the service or die off.

Blackberry sells devices. They don't have significant recurring revenue streams - customers have to come back and re-up to a new device every 2-3 years, or they don't get any money. That means as soon as you're no longer offering a competitive product, the revenue stream can dry up very quickly. Especially if carriers and retailers decide you're no longer worth carrying.

Look at the 50% drop they've taken in the past two years. Even if that line just stays constant, you're talking about a decrease of 90% in 6 years total. It's rare than you can scale a tech business down 90% or more and still operate it in any reasonable fashion.
It is a nice bundle indeed. One workflow I found is missing, though, is Dev Doctor: http://wemakeawesomesh.it/alfred-dev-doctor

Easy to use, quick access to several languages (python, ruby, js, clojure) base documentation.
I know the US has decided to start prosecuting thoughtcrimes, such as jokes on FB, but that's actually unconstitutional. Accessing a server is not a crime, the user agent is not meant for authorization, and what he did was immoral, not illegal. The only difference between what weev and Aaron Swartz did is the type of content downloaded and the quality of the person downloading.

You're arguing to put this douchebag in prison, but not for an actual crime. Remember that the next time they use the CFAA to crucify someone who doesn't deserve it.
And now I want to read a book titled Typefaces written by Jacob Rus.
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Props for trying - project have been
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Oh yes the "easy" project... we just need...

The real issue is sales...you make the sale because you have to. Then you stick the project on some poor PM/Ba/Dev who will fight with them forever over this stuff.

Maybe I'm just bitter about the situation that I continually get stuck in.
I can tell you aren't Canadian. The process here is "is it on Netflix? Oh, no of course not. Pirate bay.
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hmm yes... until your pipeline slows down.
> The solution to privacy in the face of foreign dragnet surveillance is cryptography.

I agree with you on that.. of course defensive matters must come to aid this dragnet environment..

We cannot put the genie back in the bottle anymore,once he came out..

But,together with preventive and defensive measures, politically we must make our governments and rule makers to stand in favor of privacy, writing more severe laws against mass surveilance, that do not obey any court order for particular citizens....

Even if they lie, and they tell us they do so.. once we catch them lying, like right now, we can do something about it, in the political sphere.. their political position are defenseless

For instance, Companies in US right now need to fight politically over this, because even the economy is in danger..

So i think this is a battle that should be fight in two fronts.. If we pick just one of them, we will lost in the long term
Same here. I love Alfred but I often forget it's even around because of my visor terminal.
You might find something useful in this list of News related APIs

http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?apicat=News
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Let me be a fly in the wall when Huber, Singhal or whoever is Searches' chief is speaking to others and especially Larry Page and I'll have proof. The proof so far is in the pudding, we read your quarterly earnings statements and see your search pages.

I don't think that is a safe assumption. There are plenty of documents, e.g. our IPO document, that indicate that we play the long game of providing the best results, and if the short game of getting the most revenue is harmed by that, well, tough. We play that way because the only way to keep users is to please them, and good results are critical to that end.

Ah yes, unimpeachable evidence, you said so 10 years ago and it was true then and it is true today. Debate ended.

we play the long game of providing the best results

Long term = all ads I suppose http://www.click-conversion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/g... . The best results money can buy. Let's me disarm you defense: Of course, your don't do that on terms you don't have ads for.
Right.

His comment reads as "ok, do all these simple things then just put in your backdoor but make sure it has the same SHA1 hash as something benign, and that's it!"
Please don't sell my email address to marketers.
It specifically highlights the moment, with a caption on screen.