skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does a billionaire do after buying a $90M apartment in Manhattan? Remodel it of course. Lots for work for carpenters, electricians, plumbers, interior decorators, and all the people that support and supply them. I don't see this as a bad thing; it's a good thing.
I'll hazard a guess that the author ends up on a list of people that need to have extra NSA monitoring. :-)

Quite a fascinating read. Luckily the terrorists don't seem to think like he does.
Awesome, didn't see that before. Maybe turn it on by default, then have the option to back it off? Why is the quantity bump represented as an error with big warning signs? Shouldn't it be a good thing?

Is there any way to represent shipping as well? That seems like the killer - sure something is $2 cheaper on Mouser than Digikey, but if I have to pay $5 for shipping, that breaks the deal.

Something else that would be cool - and this is a huge pain point for me when developing PCBs, is let me tell you rough characteristics I want, you find me the part. I want a 0805 10K resistor +- 10% @ quantity 100. Find me the cheapest one! As long as I can use it as a pull up resistor, I don't really care what it is. It's a huge pain in the ass to go through when I want to make my BOM and have 10 different tabs open looking for a 1K, 5K, 10K, 22uF, 10uF resistor and caps. Make that part easy.

You should increase the part lookup speed as well - it spins for quite a while. Autocomplete after a few characters would be good too (I wouldn't remember PU-ND, had to look it up, but I can get the first part).

Good stuff - do you have a mailing list or anything to get updates?
Bishop Fox is a glorified gossip queen of a security company. What type of engineers, or so called hackers just make stupidly false claims without actually knowing what is going on behind the scenes. This is the software industry, not the Kim Kardashian, Honey Boo boo entertainment industry folks... Get the facts straight, or get a new job.
After the previous discussion, I kept wondering why I didn't trust LinkedIn with my email, but did trust Google.

Google is actually much more terrifying in that they have more information about me than any other entity (Search, Gmail, Google Analytics, Chrome, GChat, etc.) Yet, I tend not to give it much thought.

Some people are upset about LinkedIn spam - but that's never been a problem for me. I haven't figured out a good answer to this yet.
Building it with mil-spec parts can legitimately raise the cost. Generally, components have a higher failure rate early in their life, then that failure rate goes down, and eventually goes back up. Mil-spec components are the ones which survive the early failure rate curve, so you're paying for that component, plus the others which didn't survive, plus the initial wear-in process itself.

Now, the $1000 price point on this seems somewhat high, but is difficult to judge without more specific specs on what's in it.
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LinkedIn’s new Intro app is a nightmare for email security and privacy
Your last point nails it. I can't help but think there are a good number of people now angling to build similar hacks in a much less rigorous fashion and then build entire companies around this hack. The next year is already, from my vantage point, lining up to be a year full of "give us OAuth access to your GMail account" products. This adds another vector for this type of product. In any case, users are not going to care about security and just tap "OK", so it's kind of scary that this train is really moving now. Imagine if Facebook (or the Next Facebook) required e-mail access and this was normalized.

I think it may have been a bit short-sighted for LinkedIn to post a developer-focused, "hey look at what we did" kind of post around Intro, regardless of how properly they implemented it behind the scenes.
The Web will only be for everyone when we can say that it’s from everyone too
This is nice to know (and to everyone who have answered me so far), thanks!

I always think www.domain.com resolves to one of the ips and domain.com should too. Thanks!
CameraLends (https://www.cameralends.com) -- AirBnB for cameras, rent cameras and lenses from local photographers. It's cool because:

- sharing feels good

- if you have camera gear, you're probably not using it all the time

- it's a way earn back cash from lending out gear

- it's a side project that I've bootstrapped this year :)
I'm hesitant to bring this up since you seem much more informed about this topic, but your statement "Thuen admitted copying at least some components from 'Sophia'" seems to contradict Thuen's statement from the TechCrunch article:

"Visdom is not a translation of Sophia from C to the languages in which Visdom is written. We did not have the Sophia code when we created Visdom."

So I'm interested in what you mean by "copy".
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You must be exceptionally lucky. In most cases they will ruin your life before they give you conscientious objector status.
Possibly. That's not directly related to my point though. I'm not saying that these drones strikes should (or shouldn't) happen. I'm just talking about the word. I don't think it's helpful these days to people who want to have a rational discussion. There is no "most people's definition" that we rationally

But fear has always been used in war. Civilians have always been affected by war. Our armies aren't champions that go out and duel to decide our quarrels.
Something that might be really interesting: do it with moving video rather than a single image. There are several ways it might work, each of which could look very different.
It's just a library, so it doesn't handle plugins. However, the library is thread-safe, and the server [1] I wrote on top of the library supports plugins and is also thread safe. For anything dependent on a specific thread, there's generally a queue to push things into.

[1] https://github.com/SirCmpwn/PartyCraft
My friend works for one the City. He is permanently renting hotel room nearby. He says it is actually cheaper compared to normal rent.
are you making the claim that progressive taxation schemes automatically adjust to mathematically compensate? Because, inflation is a compounding effect, and having first action on created money is so powerful that I doubt that taxing the banking classes at anything but 100% or greater would do much for that. Plus bailouts, contracting work, etc. etc. etc.
Actually they could cost the same. It just said under 3000.
Nice. Yeah I've heard of ezGAuth. If you ever need a contact at Twilio hit me up. joshua (at) twilio (dot) com
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http://www.bishopfox.com/

"Error establishing a database connection"

Can't even keep a website up and running, what a very tech savvy company.
We may be gone before it happens, but it's only a matter of time before most brain work is automated as well.
Best of luck. I, and hopefully everyone else, will be here, ready to buffer more content, when you get it sorted out.
Well put. All due respect to Cory, but this article could have been titled "why we think you shouldn't freak out over our MiTM attack".
Why do the billion dollar companies just not get that people can see through double speak now.

Let´s look at the double speak here, which intends to give a statement weight even though it has zero weight. On the left side original statement with zero weight, after the slash how the statement would have weight

1. We isolated Intro in a separate network segment and implemented a tight security perimeter across trust boundaries./ Doesn't say anything at all again

2. REDUCED exposure to third-party monitoring services and tracking/PREVENT exposure to third-party monitoring services and tracking

3. We also had iSEC Partners, a well-respected security consultancy, perform a line-by-line code review of the credential handling and mail parsing/insertion code./ That statement isn't saying anything at all

4. make sure identified vulnerabilities WERE ADDRESSED/ make sure there are NO vulnerabilities

5. we make sure we NEVER persist the mail contents to our systems in an unencrypted form. And once the user has retrieved the mail, the encrypted content is DELETED from our systems./ These two words have weight.

6. MINIMIZE exposure/REMOVE exposure

7. We WORKED TO HELP ENSURE/ We ENSURE

Overall, Linked avoids using terminology that is actually a commitment except for 5. Fortunately, people picked up on double speak and Linkedin has managed to corrupt trust with its users further.

Somebody should fire the person that think sthis kind of "clarification" gets back their user's trust.
I did that, but the FB app was already taken care of fortunately.
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Just got this email:

Hi there,

I wanted to get in touch to apologize for the awful experience we've caused many of you on your weekend. Buffer was hacked around 1 hour ago, and many of you may have experienced spam posts sent from you via Buffer. I can only understand how angry and disappointed you must be right now.

Not everyone who has signed up for Buffer has been affected, but you may want to check on your accounts. We're working hard to fix this problem right now and we're expecting to have everything back to normal shortly.

We're posting continual updates on the Buffer Facebook page and the Buffer Twitter page to keep you in the loop on everything.

The best steps for you to take right now and important information for you:

Remove any postings from your Facebook page or Twitter page that look like spam
Keep an eye on Buffer's Twitter page and Facebook page
Your Buffer passwords are not affected
No billing or payment information was affected or exposed
All Facebook posts sent via Buffer have been temporarily hidden and will reappear once we've resolved this situation
I am incredibly sorry this has happened and affected you and your company. We're working around the clock right now to get this resolved and we'll continue to post updates on Facebook and Twitter.

If you have any questions at all, please respond to this email. Understandably, a lot of people have emailed us, so we might take a short while to get back to everyone, but we will respond to every single email.

- Joel and the Buffer team
You're a highly reputable security expert and founder of a highly reputable security business. You have enormous credibility with the HN crowd and outside of it (hell, you're the top commenter on https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders by karma, by 70'000 points!). But with every one of these comments in which you defend these people for no reason other than wordplay you lose a little bit of that reputation, at least with me.

You seem to be worried that people will be persuaded by tptacek just because he's tptacek, rather than by the content of his comments. But, somewhat ironically, you're helping that process along by being so emotional when countering his arguments. E.g. I wouldn't want to associate myself with what you're advocating: "Don't think. Trust your feelings." So even if there's some truth to what you say, it's obscured by the way you're expressing it.

EDIT: I've figured out what's upsetting about this exchange. You're not trying to change his mind. That would require you give him some credit, and you seem unable to. You're just trying to attack him (poorly). If forum members don't resist that sort of feeling, then forums will degenerate into flamewars. Therefore what you're doing now is poisonous to HN.
My information comes from the court order, which states directly that Thuen admitted to some kind of copying (what kind, we do not know).
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What it can’t do quite yet is survive a hard fall, but the company is working on that and expects to have durability testing finished this year...

Isn't its durability kind of one of the major selling points? The primary use of these is to throw them into hazardous environments. It seems to me like getting the electronics into a package that would survive the beating would be priority #1
East London is where it's at! It is cheaper to buy than rent though!
I might have to read the book. I would have appreciated a clearer definition of radical. My opinions have already been sculpted to exclude radicals from serious engineering, medical, legal disciplines.

But I think I appreciate the arguments made.

I wonder if it's always mutually exclusive. Can you be a traditionalist when it suits your goals, or the task at hand, and a little more of a wild/creative "radical" at other times? Learn the commonly accepted methods/needs/approaches but keep a part of my mind as of yet unwritten?

My own education (currently underway) is this constant dance between practical engineering problems and highly theoretical physics or mathematical constructs.

At a high level, the question is really: how do we train someone's body and mind without crushing their soul? The idea that "society only needs a few creatives" is deeply disappointing and misguided. Society needs discipline, society needs creativity, an individual needs discipline, an individual needs creativity.
I'm working on https://www.uncover.com (an easy way to offer perks and rewards for your employees) with a few other people. We're bootstrapped and making decent revenue in our 6th month. We've got a huge update coming (hopefully) before Thanksgiving.
Decrypting Rita: http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/

It's a graphic novel about a robot lady who's dragged outside of reality by her ex-boyfriend. She's got to pull herself together across four parallel worlds before a hive mind can take over the planet.
Reminiscent of the insane 100-layered iframe issue with ad networks all jousting each other for the coveted impression when the page loads.
Absolutely. I put a "todo" on my list to ping you as soon as I got home from ATO the other day. Look for an email soon...
Why should Apple/Google be gatekeepers (and potential sources of arbitrarily long delay, complication or strategic-veto)? What about the N other IMAP providers?

Talking about a more generalized hook-in API is a good idea, but not in strict preference to proxying-tricks. Rather, it makes sense as a parallel or subsequent followup, after the value has been prototyped and proven.
There's cost, and there's availability. You will literally have a very hard time finding offices-based real estate in the silicon valley for any reasonable size organization. Landlords don't build it.

Let's say offices take 150 sqft per employee, and open plans take 75 sqft per employee. At $8 per sqft, this is an additional $600 per employee.
Money out is easy to measure. Productivity and disruption (as well as serendipity) is close to impossible to measure accurately.
This chair is expected to sell in retail for $1,300 USD.

It would be nice if someone could produce an innovative but affordable solution for the 'rest of us' working poor, since we have to sit also for long periods of time.
It's remarkably hard to find images of what it used to look like. I've seen some before. Here's what one section looked like in the 1870s when the railroad run underneath it:

http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05...

Here's park avenue in the 1920s:

http://screencast.com/t/7GRMhOzq

Park Avenue (used to be 4th Avenue) has probably changed more than most Avenues in NYC. Here are some images of when railroads ran down it.

http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/three-views...

You may also enjoy seeing these photos of the NYC mansions from back in the day:

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/02/09/looking_back_at_man...
We could hope Node becomes such a ubiquitous solution, but the love HN is no great predictor of the future. Often it seems if the early adopters of HN love something, it is doomed. It's got to grab the middle of the bell curve's attention and drag the tail of the HN crowd to it kicking and screaming.
In my spare time I am working on Seatbelt (http://seatbelt.io), a web app to help developers find pair programming partners.

It's cool because I think we need to bring developers together and share the knowledge, and I am convinced that pair programming is a powerful way to do it. There is much we can learn from working with people from different backgrounds.

Right now there is only a landing page with some copy, I work on the code when I find time. It's taking a while since I use this project to teach myself node.js (I am a .NET backend guy in my day job) but it's a fun side project.
Parallel JavaScript
suggestion: package oauth support too

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tut_oauth.html
Re: "called our brain" - that was not actually meant to be an insult, but I can see how it could be read like that. I'll go and edit that out, as that was not the intention.

Re: thinking methods - analytical thinking is not the only way to think effectively. Logic has its limits. I am loathe to shift the discussion to a meta-argument about thinking approaches. But here goes...

It has been my experience that intuitive thinking can arrive at useful conclusions faster than analytical thinking. It is in fact the way that most people function (though I'm not defending it as a general approach) - by jumping to a conclusion and then rationalising it.

However, in some cases, this intuitive thinking (described but not fully discussed in "Blink") can be useful. Blink itself gives a number of examples where it works. In my own experience, the areas where it is most effective are:

- ethics: whilst I have on occasion changed my mind from my initial intuitive ethical stand, that has been rare and usually involved a shift in fundamental assumptions and world view, not just an argument.

- judging people: in hiring, in particular, the few times I have hired someone that I didn't get a good feeling from almost instantly, I have regretted it. Same for dating and other people interactions.

- business risk: while a good feeling is not sufficient to make a decision, getting a bad gut feeling about a business decision seems (across many successful entrepreneurs) to be a very good reason to pull out of a deal or other situation immediately without further discussion. I've certainly seen that in my experience too.

There are other contexts - and also contexts where this kind of thinking definitely doesn't work, like relationships, for example, which are way too emotionally charged - but I think this will do for an HN comment.
Well, you should be merging the master changes to your branch everyday. I haven't had an experience where that took a lot of time.
Here's a stippling implementation in Processing, inspired by the above:

https://github.com/jordanorelli/stippling
If there's "lots of work" for all of those people to support and supply the newly wealthy, why are the wages and employment rates of people who aren't wealthy going down?
I was thinking about doing something similar. One of the things I wanted to incorporate was an reputation ability (beyond just blocking). It would be similar to a referral engine in Netflix or Amazon.

So, I'm user A. I mark user B as a high-value poster. User B marks user C as a high-value poster. When I run across a post by user C, I see they have a good reputation. If many people I ranked as high-value, also ranked user C as high-value, then I see user C as having a very high reputation. The same, in reverse, for low-value posters.
The outrage here I think is that LinkedIn didn't explicitly state that risk. We know google has our email and can do things with it.

To the average user, LinkedIn made no attempt what so ever to explain that by doing this, you were putting approximately the same level of trust in them as you do in Google/some other mail provider. This is particularly troubling if most people, as I do, don't have an existing trust relationship with LinkedIn simply because everything we have on their is public.
> ...running this story solely to generate rageviews...

And so, a new term was born today.

"Rageviews" - (noun), page views generated by
unsubstantiated or misinformed
outrage among the readership.
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When was the last time someone from a financial firm on Wall Street went to jail for unscrupulous/illegal actions? Why are financial service organizations allowed to rent seek against the rest of productive society with impunity?
Don't see an email in your profile - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=praxeologist
> Mr. Muhtorov is accused of planning to travel abroad to join the militants and has pleaded not guilty.

I don't want to distract anyone from the conversation but I don't understand the case. The prosecutors are just accusing him of planning to join militants? No actual firm conspiracy/plans to actually cause any physical harm? No actual target to attack?

What crimes are the prosecutors trying to prove here?
Your argument is wrong or poorly articulated. What isn't sustainable is an economy where those whose labor has been displaced by technological or economic advances have no opportunity to meet their basic human needs.

Automation and globalization are sustainable. An increasing population is sustainable so long as it is in lockstep with technology's ability to support it. Malthus would have never imagined in his wildest dreams that 7 billion people could live simultaneously. The reality is, none of us can predict the future, and what kind of advances we will see in the productivity of essential goods. To think otherwise is gross intellectual masturbation.
5 is worthless if you are worried about them looking at it.
> I'd say that the collateral damage caused by "Signature Strikes" is as an effective terrorist recruiting agent as is burning some old religious books.

This is your opinion, but I think you are wrong. The most tense times as a coalition soldier in the Middle East for me were shortly after some idiot burned Korans (in Florida?). This pissed every civilian off.

When a lone soldier went off his rocker and heinously killed a bunch of civilians the only civilians that were upset were those related to the dead and some who lived in the same area.

This is anecdotal but I really got the impression that burning 'old religious books' was a much bigger deal to far more people (at least in Afghanistan) than even randomly, purposefully, killing of someone of another tribe.
That is not what I am advocating. Please read my other comment.

I am worried that every time one of these arguments pop up, tptacek suddenly sprouts fifteen heads like a hydra and starts defending "the system". That worries me, because I don't understand why he feels that is worthy of his time, and none of the explanations I can come up with are satisfactory in view of his standing in the community.

Volumes of comments can appear convincing even though they are made by a single person (I've experienced that in flame war situations).

Edit: Perhaps. In any case, I need to go now, so I'll stop and let this rest. That said, I'm still worried.
Exactly. The money these billionaires have doesn't magically disappear from circulation (perhaps they keep it under their bed?). They spend and invest it.

And, give it a generation or three or four, and their kids will have blown it all, having grown up thinking $90M apartments are their expected standard of living, and be back to working at McDonalds.
Measurably the first or second best education system in the world (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11939566 ; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20498356).

You are apparently describing a correction in the sense that the quality of education will be reduced. I would be happy for you to clarify otherwise, but why should any country seek that out? Education is perhaps the primary reason for the continuing strength of South Korea's economy. What reason is there for South Korea to go in a different educational direction than it has, consistently and successfully, since its formation?

As you note, the article indicates that there's an ageing population due to low birth rate due to the expense of education.
I find that an extremely long stretch and I've never heard this link made regarding a Western country. Why does this logic apply to South Korea if it doesn't apply in the UK?