skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I didn't miss the point of your post. I understood it completely amidst the insults you hurled MY way and the way you misread what I was trying to say.

I will however accept your apology and reward that with this little gem:

You can get rich in a place called China or in a place called Russia, but you can't criticize the government there AT ALL or you will end up in jail or dead. Or alive and wishing you were dead. Americans, rich and poor, criticize the government all the time, and don't worry about this (much).

There are western countries (like France) where you can get rich and live (mostly) free, but you'll be constantly hounded by the taxing authorities to support their ever-grander uses for the money you earned. Like political elites? Like enclaves of power you can't ever penetrate? France has 'em in spades. In America, you can go to a crappy school and still become President. We've had Presidents with only a high-school diploma. Some had no formal education.

You can live in some Middle Eastern countries like a sheik, but you'll be dependent on a ruling class that holds power via a system of socially acceptable corruption and religious oppression. But hey: LOW TAXES.

You can find examples of places that have individual things that are better (sometimes a LOT better) than we have in the US.

What you can't find is a nation anywhere in the world that has the same level of disparate groups living in more-or-less peaceful coexistence to keep the country moving forward. We have every kind of person from every kind of place with every crazy religion you can imagine. We have so many choices that people make up their own religions. We have so many mixed nationalities in offspring that we have almost lost the idea of what it means to be from-somewhere-else.

It's not any one thing, but the combination of things that has made this place great. We are more cacophonous than many other places but also more resilient. It's tough but we manage. We make mistakes but the people course-correct. We elect bad leaders and then elect good ones.

But if you ask me if I would rather live anywhere else, the answer is NO. I still think the USA is the best place.

But seriously dude, you need to THINK before you attack: You might just learn something. Not all of us older types are terminally fuddy-duddy.
Easier to implement this if your data is backed by Datomic. I'm working in a HIPAA environment and we're quite happily using Datomic there.
In the meantime you can read her ASR article, which someone was kind enough to make available here: http://www.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/Goffman_ASR_09.pdf
... fluffy, sensational article because The Atlantic.
How does this affect physicians?
Just for teh lulz, you could do ARP-spoofing on public wifi's too, and achieve the same effect wthout having the trouble of setting up a hotspot.

I admit of having spoofed a Burger King public WiFi and replacing all img-tag sources with Goatse. Priceless reactions everywhere ;)
The intent is often to construct a purposefully broken sentence, mirroring the broken logic that comes next. The word after because would only satisfy the question "why?" if you're a moron.

I put bacon in my salad. [why?] Because bacon.

That explains absolutely nothing, the implication being that if you're asking why, you're a moron and nothing more can be explained to you because bacon is so overwhelmingly and obviously self-justifying. Other interpretations abound as well.
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An undo feature for updating a blog post would probably be better described as a roll-back. Wordpress implements this buy saving each revision as a new row, with the most recent indicated by a flag.
> Contempt of Congress is defined in statute, 2 U.S.C.A. § 192, enacted in 1938

... by Congress, presumably? If so, it seems to me there might be questions about whether Congress can give itself increased authority when it comes to compelling the executive branch.

> who is summoned before Congress who "willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the question under inquiry"

Hmm. 5th amendment?
You could, hypothetically, move from CookieStore to a different session store, but I am not positive that this will mitigate the vulnerability (by making it more difficult for the attacker to get write access to the session, not by making it more difficult to turn a session into code execution), and do not have a few hours to reacquaint myself with the code to give you a firmer answer there.

I am weakly confident, on the basis of some spelunking in the Rails internals in February, that if you get attacker chosen data into the session you're uniformly hosed on (at least) Rails 2 and Rails 3.
The point isn't about the content of one person's definition of felony.

It's about the lengths we will go to break a stacked deck. It's about prima facie privacy.

[EDIT: And who should be afforded that prima facie privacy. (We're obviously going to cherry-pick based on arbitrary characteristics like "shady".)]
Often data contains structural features that initially aren't observed and without them appear to support a hypothesis only weakly. By exploiting the structure, we can see things much more clearly.

An example: say we want to know how a drug affects cognition. We give a simple test to a bunch of people on and off it, blinded, etc. The control group's average score is 74, and the test group's average score is 72. We can use a t test to see if there's a statistical difference, and find there isn't. We can't conclude anything about the drug.

Now imagine we have exactly that same data, but we were careful to give two tests to each person (in a random order, and different tests, of course). We take another look at the data and find out that every single participant scored lower when they were on the drug. With even a fairly small sample size this provides strong evidence that the drug impairs cognition, and probably tells us quite a bit about how much it does.

The article is probably talking about multivariate regression; the more important number comes a few sentences later---"retention was related more strongly to manager quality than to seniority, performance, tenure, or promotions". So presumably, they did the same sort of analysis, carefully pairing people who were similar in as many ways as possible, and found out that good managers are more important than seniority in terms of employee retention. The more variables you have, the more even large differences can hide in raw group averages.
I was thinking about how memory must work to allow "Undo" on desktop apps earlier today, and realizing how different that is as it pertains to the web. Undo is amazing, it's a life saver - it's probably literally saved me days of my life when I've accidentally deleted entire projects before.
Montreal..on the map, finally. There's a lot of talent here.
True, and that might also give you access to more traffic than just a random open wifi because people expect a wifi there and look for it.
See "Part VII" of this SO answer from Jeff Atwood describing mitigation techniques for "distributed brute force attacks"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-...

TL;DR - compute the average number of system-wide failed password attempts, and if it's over the norm, impose small delay on all users (except those that login via a persistent login cookie).
I'm not a mathematician, but this is an interesting subject to me.

Does this imply a certain density to prime numbers? And given this new information, does it mean that it could be less computationally hard to find or verify primes?
You know they're hurting when The Atlantic is reporting on trends in Wonkette, Daily Kos, and Jezebel. At least Slate, in their ridiculous "where's the journalism now?" pieces, aims up at the NY Times.
Inflation and deflation pertain only to currency not products.

Inflation is when your currency buys you less stuff tomorrow than today. Deflation is when it buys you more. Falling prices due to efficiency gains caused some deflation during the industrial revolution, and technology making products cheaper is definitely a kind of deflation. From Wikipedia:

Growth deflation: an enduring decrease in the real cost of
goods and services as the result of technological progress,
accompanied by competitive price cuts, resulting in an
increase in aggregate demand. A structural deflation existed
from 1870s until the cycle upswing that started in 1895. The
deflation was caused by the decrease in the production and
distribution costs of goods. It resulted in competitive price
cuts when markets were oversupplied. The mild inflation after
1895 was attributed to the increase in gold supply that had
been occurring for decades.
Why is there arbitrage on BitCoins?
That's what AppleTV is, just a hockey puck not a stick.

I still don't understand why "AppleTV" isn't just a dock for your phone with an HDMI tail and an IR receiver on the front... Maybe it's old fashioned of me to not use my phone while watching TV.

Chromecast has shown how very little you actually need connected to the TV in order to provide this kind of functionality though.
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Every single single-payer system has ended up costing far more than even the most pessimistic estimates predicted. It will be interesting to see if Vermont can do better. Costs have been rising so fast in the US that I can imagine this might be the outlier.
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I tried Square Cash. Sent a payment to a friend and immediately received a notice that due to fraud detection my account had been permanently closed. Completely turned me off from Square and I don't ever intend on using one of their services.
Actually, I think it was an interesting observation. It is a relevant example to illustrate a point. Say, if he was talking in a car mechanics's forum, he would have have used body shop instead of start-up.

The interesting thing is the personal dissonance between ideal principles and concrete experience. Pretty sure most here fancy themselves as not being racists. Going out at night and seeing a group of black young men start crossing the street and heading towards you, would you be scared? Would you be less scared if they were white and wearing argyle sweaters instead of black hoodies and baggy pants? Thinking about it, yeah I would be afraid. Rationally I know I am not a racist but in that case, I can see myself running as fast as I could.

Back to a black person walking into the start-up. Well that is kind of interesting, because of the way it is presented. Walking in? Almost sounds like he "breaks" in? How often do you hire people that just "walk in" to your startup off the street. The hypothetical example is already biased and infused with stereotypes the way I see it. Did we already do a phone Skype interview and passed? Hey he might have a good chance. I also don't see "felonies" as being a clear cut yes or no differentiate. I can see looking more into what those felonies were and balancing it against other aspects.
youtube-dl: https://yt-dl.org/downloads/

You'll need Python to run it.

Or just write a script yourself in your language of choice.

I wrote one using only shell, sed and ftp.

1. Download the video with your script of choice.
2. Watch it with your video player of choice.

No flash needed. And you'll never have to wait while some silly pre-roll commercial plays before the video.
Hey,

Belgian here, I've registered just to reply to your comment.

> Let me tell you as a holder of a not as valuable passport [...]

> Even people associated with people of my nationality [...]

What's so secret about your nationality ?

Your comment doesn't make any sens, you're are comparing a pre-Schengen era (which means prior 1985 - more than 25 years ago!) to a post-9/11 era.

As a Belgian, I've been traveling for 20 years around many countries in Europe and North Africa without ever being bothered by the customs.

On the other hand, while - as a kid - visiting the USA was a dream, it is now something that wouldn't even come to my mind when I see how much freedom and privacy (more broadly human rights) you've got to give up to come to the USA (the situation being even worst for foreigners [non-American]).
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I've implemented processors with narrow functionality using Am29116 and Am2901 devices. They we're simple but not toys, per se. The software infrastructure to recreate this mostly doesn't exist, unfortunately, and the comparable FPGA equivalents are vastly more capable. It was, however, an amazing learning experience.
I would be curious to know what impact this would have on primecoin which appears to have gained a lot of traction over the last few months.
Ask HN: Why do developers often use a Mac?
I've been seeing more and more posts where people are using Mac's. For the past few years I've been a windows user, with Linux experience mostly from server management, and seeing so many people developing their applications using a Mac has started to finally mess with my mind. I really want to know, why do so many developers, including web developers use a Mac? I can understand that having a usable, stable Unix environment can be great, but is it worth the large price tag to purchase the hardware, especially with Apple products getting less and less expandable?
If these attackers had tried targeted brute-force on some limited accounts, they might have been successful without tripping over the GitHub security team. Nonetheless, kudos to GitHub for handling this perfectly.
Had five attempts over the last 2 days, four from Venezuela and one from Bangladesh. All unique IPs.
In my experience, sorting by domain is usually enough.
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It looked fine to me, and the performance is a factor of your hardware. Get a faster computer.
Also:

The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all,
then it can also be answered.
—Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

I'm not saying these things to entertain or prompt a hackers' game of philosophy. I'm showing you the problem. My definition of "felony" is irrelevant, and (again) not the point. — "What is a 'felony' to you?" is not a real question; I am not a legal system.
Wow, as a big multicopter and fixed wing enthusiast/hobbyist, I find this to be super awesome. It also literally hit home for me because I noticed that it was captured only a few miles away from where I grew up, haha. These technologies look very promising for things like mapping agriculture and providing recon in environmental disasters.
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> Why does Google use the term "Off the record" when there is a product called Off the record that has been used for end-to-end encryption of IM that pre-dates Google Talk?

Google seems to have a habit of picking names that conflict with already-existing products [1].

[1] https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9
Wouldn't it be nice if phones can detect headphones are inserted to ear or not
One could attempt to log in from multiple IPs over a long span of time, let's say weeks. This scenario is difficult to trace using timers. Alternatively, sending email alerts on each failed log in attempt may not very optimal and generate a lot of false positives - person A (not an intruder) randomly tries logging in by impersonating multiple github users.

IMO something similar to SSH security policies like allowing logging in from a set of IPs and/or without password i.e. using public key, may be a good idea.
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From a Github email to a friend to whom this happened:

"We have reviewed our logs and it doesn't appear that any actions were taken by the attacker other than to authorize the 'GitHub XRP Giveaway' application against your account.

You should be able to find the OAuth events for that application in your account's security history:

https://github.com/settings/security

We do not believe that the application's authors were responsible for the break-in, rather that the attackers were attempting to game the giveaway.

Ripple's explanation of the giveaway can be found here:
https://ripple.com/blog/git-in-the-game-2020-xrp-giveaway-fo...
Network throughput is pretty quick. Used a droplet to grab something off bittorrent (no, not copyrighted content; just can't use bittorrent at the office). Pulling down from the droplet was at a full 100Mb/s to our office.
Since a load of unfeeling morons have taken over HN, let me say for them that this was amazing. Thank you.

I really can not wait until there is some new community to which these unemotional sociopaths can wander.
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Using a browser in incognito mode does none of the sort. You can still enter your password into it and it can be stolen just as easily. The true solution is to only browse over HTTPS, connect to a VPN or not use untrusted networks.

Note that if I can spoof an IP address, I can send you bogus DNS replies, and send you to a web server that impersonates Google/Facebook/etc. but does not require HTTPS (unless they use the strict security header). In this case you do not get a warning, just the absence of a tiny green icon.
How to market your freelance services..
So you’ve decided to take the plunge and start a freelance business. Wondering how to build a client base (people that are actually willing to pay a fair amount for your services)and most importantly, how do you set yourself apart and be the service provider that clients seek after? Going to be discussing that here..
And if he "breaks" in wearing an argyle sweater?

(Or if you bump into him outside your office building, monitoring the logs of his app on his iPhone via http://www.loggly.com/?)

(I don't work for Loggly. I'm just adding to the droll.)
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Ask HN:What is wrong with html5?
drag-n-drop,DRM,DB,attributes without value...
I might be way off here ... but does this not have implications for RSA encryption .. isnt the whole concept resting on the fact that two prime numbers cant be factored ... (I don't know shit about encryption obviously)
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To be fair, Facebook shutting down GraphMuse left us with no other choice but to abandon the project, as mentioned in the article. Greekdex still has active users, and we'll still push the occasional update on there.
Not directly. This says that at any point on the number line, if you go sufficiently farther down the number line, you can always find 2 primes whose difference is no more than 600. It is possible that the distance between such groups gets arbitrarily large (at an arbitrarily fast rate) as you go down the number line.

Having said that, the primes do have a known density, given by the Prime Number Theorem [1]. This theorem states that the number of primes less then x is x/ln(x), as x approaches infinity.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem
From the interviewer side, I always ask this. I think it's just polite and don't really have any expectations at all. If somebody doesn't have questions, that's fine; if they want to know if there's a good coffee shop nearby, that's fine too.

But then, I'm not really one of those "culture fit" interviewers. By this point in the interview, I have a pretty good sense of where I think your technical skills are and that's what matters to me. I think judging people on weird intangibles is where interviewers tend to let their prejudices sway their judgment, and I strive to avoid that.

On the other side of the table, I always ask about bike facilities and source control processes.
Seems a bit excessive for a open source repo site.
How much effort is spent on the equivalent administrative tasks for other currencies such as the USD?
ASK HN: What are your feelings if this was your app?
(Molhem Barakat/Reuters) is the credit for the image - any person looking at the image url can tell where it is from, that being said I am purposefully not giving the context of the picture.
To clarify, this result means that there are infinitely many pairs of primes separated by at most 600. This doesn't mean that the gap between subsequent primes must always be less than 600.
I don't understand all the negativity in this post. This product is a work of art. This layout/presentation is making Apple stop and take notes.
These attacks could be given longevity by using a cache manifest.
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This has to be my favorite HN comment ever... bravo 53, for this gold alone:

"Pencil isn't designed to only work with Paper. Anyone who is interested in an SDK for Pencil should let us know..."

Oh my, we've come full circle. I look forward to next learning about Bookmark's SDK and it's integration with Bound Book
Who ran the webapp and its server? Did that person know that there was a class assignment to brute force passwords?

If so, who complained to digitalocean?

If not, your professor should be fired, because the assignment encouraged students to break the law. Forget DigitalOcean's TOS. Attacking a server without permission is a crime.
The overall density of primes is known, and decreases continuously as the numbers get larger (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem)

What this theorem says is that no matter how large the numbers get, no matter how sparsely the primes are spread out, on average, there will always be pairs of primes that are relatively close (within 600 of each other)
Yep, way off, sorry. This has basically nothing to do with factoring. This is just proving that there is never a point beyond which no two prime numbers are 600 or less apart.
(Molhem Barakat/Reuters) is the credit for the intriguing image. I am intentionally linking to the site's image and not giving the context of the app user in the submission link. (note: it can be found here - http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2013/11/19/photos-of-the-d... )
No, the vulnerability is about literal space.
But then it's trivial to lock someone out of their account by trying to login as them a bunch of times. That's why they'd key it based on ip and username, not ip alone.
pretty much explains why the 10th amendment to the us constitution needs to be followed. centralized government inherently migrates towards corruption. competition between the states is a nice restraint against such stupidity.
Give it an appropriate prioritization in your life. e.g. "This is more important than X".
And have in your mind the REASON why it is more important than X. The secret, that I have read, to success at difficult things is knowing your "why" - Why is this thing more important than X? What does success look like, and how does that compare to X?

Your "why" is what makes you get out of bed in the morning, makes you confront that issue you can't resolve, and to resolve it. If your "why" isn't strong enough, you will likely fail.

I read a quote a very long time ago that simply said "Imagine if man learned how to use all of that energy, that determination, all his resources that he uses for chasing women ... for something else more important?"
It has not actually been proven that RSA is backed by the difficulty of factoring. That is to say, it may be possible to break RSA without an efficient way to factor numbers. However, an efficient way to factor numbers does break RSA.

Having said that, there is no obvious way that this result helps with factoring. Indeed, the Twin Prime Conjecture states that the gap is actually 2. Obviously, this has not been proven, but if there was a way to use a proof of this fact to efficiently factor numbers, then we would have used that method without the proof. If it ends up not working, then we would have disproven the Twin Prime Conjecture.
Last time it took them six months to do so.