skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's shocking for many reasons that Joyent thinks its reasonable to fire an employee over something as trivial as that pull rejection.

Not correct him first, but fire him.

Not stand behind him, as in "sometimes we all make errors", but fire him.

This is callous, abusive, shocking behavior.

Is it a lack of training and sensitivity on the part of Joyent, or their fear of retaliation from the Tech Feminism?

This statement of Joyent's should be condemned by anyone who has ever held down a job.
Depends how you define value... Arguably the knowledge that e=mc^2 is far more valuable, and contained within much less data.
I agree with this interpretation. If client side technologies hadn't been invented, all websites would be giving us nice plain easy to read text layouts like HN.
Oh please. Obviously he's undercover. The ingenious part was getting his car to throw a rod exactly next to the drug kingpin's house.
> What is the general consensus on TPM?

I want to know this too. Last I ever heard about TPM was that Treacherous Computing campaign which said that TPM was supposed to be the ultimate DRM scheme which was supposed to lock you out of your media, files, and the computer if it didn't like what you were doing.
> the injection into earth orbit with correct orientation.

Can that be called a new achievement for the launch vehicle? Is it more difficult than a high orbit satellite?
Especially now that there is this apple-like bar in Windows 7 and 8. Applications like Skype or Evernote don't need to be in the task bar anymore.

For things like Google Music, I'm glad it is in the task bar since it is actually doing a background job that kind fuck with you (if you're squatting a slow wifi for example). Not having the visual reminder just makes me forget that it is actually running.

EDIT: I just noticed that they removed Skype from the task bar. Now I'm not complaining anymore :)
http://www.dhs.gov/if-you-see-something-say-something%E2%84%...

Evil has taken over America.
What is XRP? What is it worth?
First, look at the headers to see where the message originated. If it didn't originate from your VPS or mail server, you're probably okay.

You should google and implement SPF and DKIM for your domain. SPF is just a DNS change that says what hosts are allowed to send email for your domain, and DKIM is a DNS + mailserver change that will sign legit outbound email with a key that MTAs can verify to make sure that the email is legit (and bounce it if it's not). That will stop the vast majority of fraudulent email in its tracks.

Looking at the email you provided:

Received: from __MY_USERNAME__ by __MY_WEBSITE__.com with local (Exim 4.80.1)
X-PHP-Script: __MY_WEBSITE__.com/ for 127.0.0.1

I'd bet good money that you have a compromised or vulnerable mailer script on your machine somewhere and it's being exploited in an automated fashion. Check all of your mailers for known vulnerabilities and patches.

It may be wise to assume that the box is compromised, save your known good data and code, torch the whole thing and rebuild it piece by piece, validating the pieces as you go. That's extreme, but when dealing with a potential machine breach, you can't really ever be sure that you're clean without nuking it from orbit.
Data In. Data Out. I have seen very little of exactly which databases are being integrated. I saw a reference a few days ago that there were many arguments about using SSN in the system. Does that mean that some of systems being pinged for data don't use it? Very hard with SSN, I can't imagine trying to wing a match with similar name, similar address, similar birthday.
The thing that is illegal, thc, is hardly dangerous. Inhaling burnt cannabis might be, but then again nobody smokes 24 or 48 blunts a day.
I'd find it really odd if the ounces they reference aren't troy ounces, which is the true de facto for precious metal weight quotes.

To the true matter though is that valuing things by their liquid value is problematic especially when their liquidity isn't ever really going to be utilized.
Hi Mr. Graham, thanks for taking the time to personally respond to my criticism. I'm a big fan of your essays (especially Keep Your Identity Small).

Having read your comment, I have a better understanding of why HN does not make the account deletion option available to users. I agree that preserving the flow of public discussion is important.

At the same time, I think other users in the comments below have raised interesting ideas (making comparisons to sites such as Reddit) about how to preserve the integrity of discussions while granting users a little more freedom to manage their data.

Besides offering criticism, I should reiterate that I think HN is a uniquely valuable forum. And I appreciate how difficult it must be to manage a technological website for technological people — because every user has a million suggestions and believes he or she knows best. :)
>Thus, each individual bit protects USD $631,212... USD $631,212 per bit

That seems a rather flawed way of viewing the density, since that key represents 2^256 possible combinations. So if you take a way a bit, the density by that measure goes up 0.3%. Practically speaking, it should double.

Why don't we instead calculate the density as the expected value of guessing one combination. In other words, let's say I have stolen an ATM card and can wipe a bank account containing $100,000 by guessing the 4 digit pin:

$100,000/(10^4) = $10/guess

Or in our case:

$161,590,330/(2^256) = $1.39e-69/guess

Not so impressive now.
and Netflix. Although it could be good for productivity.
I was taught it was good grammar to use gender-neutral pronouns. On the other hand, people who use open-source projects as platforms for their favourite cause are annoying.
Drug lord was chosen so they could plaster Breaking Bad pictures and get links, but it resembles any other tournament-like profession. Its like being a musician or actor, unlimited money at the very top for the few who make it and extremely large number of people at the bottom trying to make it just scraping by.
This drives me insane. As long as applications let me remove them I'm good to go though.
Male prison rape is a joking matter in many places. "Pound me in the ass prison" is well-known in the hacker community.

Think before you react.
If we did whatever 'people told us' we wouldn't do anything, this alone isn't a reason for action.
Does secrecy matter?

There was a period in history where this claim was certainly true. Now, not so much.

Information of this nature loses value when revealed.

That private key holds value until it becomes public. Then, the wallet is plundered and its value falls to nought.
Internal investigations are a lucrative practice area. When a company hires a firm to do an internal investigation, something has gone sideways, and companies are willing to pay top dollar to fix things.

Look at it this way. Another way this situation could have gone down is that Apple could have conducted an internal investigation of its antitrust practices before the DOJ's action against them, in order to show that they were proactively and voluntarily addressing the problems. If Apple had hired a private firm to do the investigation, $1,000+/hour would not be an extraordinary fee for the lead partner on the matter.
Speaking of menu bars... I really dislike how the current application's menu bar can infringe on the icon bar on OSX. I realize that on Windows, icons also minimize, but on OSX you can't just show all the icons like you can in Windows. If I'm in an app with a lot of menus, I have to switch to a less menu intensive app to get to an icon I want (usually Hangouts) (is there some way to change this? - Google returned nothing). Back when I switched to OSX from Windows, I was baffled by the one bar to rule them all approach. While it has it merits, allowing the bar to show infinite icons and letting apps control their menu/options width detracts from its 'cleanliness'.
> The power of labor unions for low-paid workers is not as strong as you think.

It's exactly as strong as I think. I just think that all the alternative ways to protect them are even weaker.
There are various bugs in the game that can be exploited to achieve this, without the need of an emulator or cheating device. The creator of the thread demonstrates how to obtain the special "item" in the game that makes it possible in a YouTube video [0] and has a video demonstration of actually running a program here [1]

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD_GVaQwn8o

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3EvpRHL_vk
I wish the monochrome icon for Dropbox would do a better job showing me when the app is syncing or in sync. That's the only reason I still have the color icon.
Before having a big complain about the radio buttons, why not see:

https://github.com/1337/alpaca/commit/d15032dd14214786f69525...

It literally would have taken a similar amount of time to fix vs complain :/, and much less to just open the issues list.
gpgtools is great. It integrates very nicely with Mail.app.

Any suggestions for what to do on an mobile device to pair with desktop mail?
Show HN: logfs, a FUSE fs that sends logfile writes to syslog for nginx
Look, 9% is a far cry from 60%... is 9% effective?

The 9% represents elderly people, a target group for the vaccine. I think what's more important is that anyone considering the vaccine should be told that they still need to take precautions with basic hygiene.

The marketing/sales pitch implies too much that getting the shot means they're going to be immune ("be covered this Winter!"). It might result in them getting careless, not washing hands after being on public transport, touching their nose, etc. and getting sick.
That argument proves too much [1]. The same can be said for almost all stock, e.g. Bill Gates could sell of his shares of Microsoft and crash the stock price.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Proving_too_much
Regarding point 1, is it really obvious that Gender neutral language is preferable?
How about peptides? The targeting end of the anti-obesity drug described in [1] can be expressed as 7 characters (KGGRAKD) in a 20 character alphabet. Another agreement [2] values candidate peptides at $32.8M each, even without a specific therapeutic application. The same value could be applied to certain short linear motifs, which could be composed of as few as 3 amino acids. These strings don't suffer from the same liquidity problems that limit the real value of bitcoin addresses either (i.e. the value is really in the data).

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3666164/

[2] http://www.arrowheadresearch.com/press-releases/arrowhead-an...
It's more complex than that. For instance, I was on student health insurance which (a) jumped substantially in price and (b) required upfront payment of 12 months of premiums, with no possibility of reimbursement if something better coming along. Since I'm expecting things to be significantly cheaper under the new regime, I've taken interim insurance, which ends (i.e., product will no longer exist) on January 1. It's been a huge hassle, and it will be an even bigger one if I can't arrange ongoing coverage after that.
Private keys should have over 128 bits of entropy, which is enough to make it un-brute-forceable with at least the amount of energy likely to be obtained by any human organization on earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack#Theoretical_... That's what makes it un-guessable. Also, some users do choose passwords with at least as much entropy and are also unguessable. But most don't.
Apparently they just secured an $11m round of funding, but the investors might as well have burned their money. Their sole differentiator was the promise they couldn't keep: infinite storage. Now they have introduced "new and exciting" features (like a 10x price hike) all that is left is alpha-quality software that leaves you unsure if your back-ups are actually backed-up, rather than corrupted.
Bitcasa is on Death Watch. They are a joke.
Why would that be the case?

In terms of file size, a naive implementation of replacing reference to image files with data: URIs carries a theoretical overhead of 1/3. However in practice, as long as you're serving the relevant CSS file gzipped, you're likely to see less than 5% overhead on a single file. If you've got several similar image files converted to data: URIs within the same CSS file, you might even see a significant gain because the compression can remove more redundancy.

In terms of HTTP requests, generally fewer is better, so it's hard to go wrong here by using data: URIs instead of separate but relatively small image files.

The only major factor I can immediately think of that is clearly in favour of separate image files, unless you're really at the level where the decoding performance for data: URIs makes a significant difference, is that the image files can be cached independently, which may or may not be a win depending on how you manage your CSS and how often the various parts of it change relative to each other.
Think Like A Martian
If you're taking feedback, it might be cool if at the end of the tutorial (or before) you actually have an embedded SSH to a very tiny virtual server where the users can do what they're reading about, and then at the end you could have "save this server" rather than "try this tutorial".
I suppose discriminating on sexuality is just fine at Joyent then? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bGkVM...
Yeah, I was just upset that it happened in the first place (and obviously, after a carrier update) It's mostly annoying because my phone keeps ignoring my preferences about how to open links from facebook and then one day NFL Mobile shows up and damnit, I can only be ignored so many times!
Ask HN: What do you expect in a language's 1.0 release?
It can be hard to decide when to release. So, when you see a "1.0" as a language's version number, what do you expect to find?
Hold cmd-option and drag it out. Problem solved.
Isn't the gold at Fort Knox already off the market? Would destroying it really alter the value of existent non-Knox gold that much? How much?
I honestly don't know why we try to go after executives at all. It's proven ineffective since you can never mount enough evidence to get a real case and the fines are just seen as a cost of doing business for the company. Instead you need to create labor laws that are enforced in much the same was as moving violations are enforced for driving.

For example, if you are hired as a driver for a delivery company, you, the driver, are responsible for speeding or running stop signs and red lights, not your employer. You never here about a manager telling their employers to speed and retaliating against those that don't speed to make a delivery. On the surface, similar laws may appear to victimize the people at the bottom, but it instead does something very very important. It's places a firm barrier across which almost all workers will push back from since they are the ones that will be left holding the bag when law enforcement shows up and starts handing out fines.

So in the original article, they could create a law that fines the manager some multiple of the amount that every one of those laborers lost. Let's say it is 15 minutes work times 30 employees at $12/hour. That's $90 dollars in lost pay. Now make the fine 10x that value plus court costs and lawyer fees and now every single manager is going to think twice before willingly victimizing these temp workers, and will question their bosses when asked to do things like this.

Laws that make illegal these unethical actions with very real victims would empower workers to stand up for their rights better than anything else. No one would ever have to stick his or her neck out, they can just call the cops anonymously and tip them off to unethical business practices. The enforcement of violations would be handled right there on the spot without ever involving the legal department of the corporation responsible for the abuse.
Don't worry, no one is.
His job is not to be a "neutral arbiter." The court appointed him not just to passively monitor compliance, but oversee Apple's revising its policies and employee training to address the compliance defect. This job obviously involves some level of investigation and working with and directing the executive team. It's entirely Apple's characterization to say the investigations are "arbitrary" or that he's "interfering."
I wouldn't even call it offensive. I don't get where that's even coming from. It's not offensive, it's just simply incorrect phrasing. It's poor English if you will.
Is that true? Can the "difficulty" level in hashing ever reach the bit-length of the key?
Oh come on, seriously? He's a fantastic coder, a great educator and a decent guy in what he does. Sure, he's abrasive and runs people up the wrong way. But let's not read stuff into timing.
All of their early adopters you burned by declaring them leeches and announcing a "new and exciting" 10x price hike? They're developers. NOBODY IS GOING TO WRITE CODE FOR YOUR BUGGY, UNTRUSTWORTHY PLATFORM.
User experience isn't objective.
Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

Yeah, because being inquisitive and asking questions is bad!
Obvious in that it is obviously poor English, if you want to ignore the gender issue altogether. "He" has a specific definition as a pronoun, versus using "one".
Yes, I've noticed that debates with those who advocate socialism over capitalism tend to devolve into arguments over semantics.

It seems that so very few of you can argue in favor of your favorite alternative to capitalism well enough to refrain from nitpicking. It becomes tiresome after a while.
The sane thing to do would be to phase it out.

And replace it with what? You can't phase something out until you have a replacement. (Or you could send everyone back to a 19th century standard of living.)
Nice point. Even if the money did get to the workers, I don't see why most people would really want to do this, since is equivalent to donating $10 to people who happen to be working that particular job. Wouldn't most people rather donate that money to a charity, whose recipients are presumable more needy than people who at least have jobs.
VC-istan is the same thing. VCs force rapid growth, act as a herd that injects huge amounts of cash or none, and have thus created an economy powered by clueless men in their early-mid 20s who think they'll be founders in their next gig (when, in fact, they will be founders never).

The truth is that the world's full of suckers who can be paid in promises rather than actual rewards. So many people will believe anything they are told.

Academics and startup engineers have less of an excuse than drug pawns, though. The soldiers have felony convictions (often) and generational poverty issues against them, putting regular employment out of the question. Academics and startup engineers are privileged people who refuse to fight for themselves; most of them exhibit the very process by which wealth declines-- a refusal to look out for one's own interests.
you need to brush your tongue for that.
Yeah, the command line tool was really easy when I used it as part of my project https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg
Most importantly... a commitment to backwards compatibility for some period of substantial time (~year? two?).
I agree that that makes a lot more sense in a way, but there is another interpretation.

Suppose you are omniscient but that you have a terminal illness, and have 256 time units left in your life to give value to your heirs. Due to your illness, you can only communicate by blinking. If you can give one bit of information per time unit by blinking, what is the information you can give your heirs that will maximize their inheritance?
Buying and Selling Crypto-Currencies
> because they are an abstraction away from the bare metal.

This really is a myth, there's been plenty of work showing you can compile the lambda calculus to abstract machines which map nearly one-to-one on to assembly. High level functional languages make the same performance compromises that high level imperative languages make in performance ( garbage collectors, runtime dispatch, etc ), but there's nothing inherently about slower about compiling functional languages.
The TestFlight one drives me nuts because it's non retina. This is made worse by the fact that it's genuinely useful for me so I have to keep the blurry thing in my menu. (I upload 10-12 builds per week and it makes it easy.)
When my environment allows me to get quiet time earlier in the evening, I can naturally shift. All the more so if the morning also offers quiet time to myself.

If my evening is noisy, I end up waiting until it quiets down to "unwind"; I find I typically need a couple of hours of peace and quiet. The exception would be when busy and particularly positive circumstances have me quite tired at the end of the day, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

If my morning kicks off immediately into unpleasant circumstances -- work is fine, but attempting to work despite a bunch of crap is not -- then I find myself staying up later perhaps out of avoidance; I'm not entirely ready to wake up and put myself through that.

TL;DR: I love mornings -- when I can face them rested and not full of crap. Work is not crap, but crappy work is crap.
The Revolt Against Urban Gentry
It's not that easy, for a few of reasons. One is the establishment (no better word for the mixture of subjectivity, entitlement, money, and fashion in the art world). Rewriting art history is frowned upon unless it makes the genius artist look like a greater genius artist. Applying a scientific method doesn't work there.

Another reason proving this is hard is that some artists do have a great ability to reproduce reality (this was really the most common way to measure an artist's ability before photography came along), but the economy of an artist's technique may reproduce some aspects of reality exactly, while other aspects are just suggested or completely ignored, so you'd need complete consistency.

One more reason is that simply seeing a camera obscura image or a similar 2d image may change an artist's technique, they may become aware of things they hadn't considered before (this was the case with linear perspective, look up Brunelleschi's experiment - though nothing as elaborate as a camera obscura). For a camera obscura projection, lighting conditions are very specific, that alone might shift an artist's (mental) focus from being 100% descriptive to being very vague about contours. Basically, you can't "unsee it".

Dutch artists from Vermeer's era are perfect candidates to have used lenses, because they had the technology. If you can find undeniable proof anywhere, it's probably there. Really the more proof adds up, the more ridiculous the naysayers appear. Some natural selection would do this field some good.
It seems that if you want to say something good about feminism, it is a perfectly well defined concept. But the moment a person says something critical about feminism, suddenly there is no such thing as feminism to be criticized.
This is very clever. I love it.
Ron Burgundy does News in North Dakota
Technically, I don't know, as I don't personally understand the code behind the mining and what the difficulty would be like to mine the very last bitcoin.

But from a social aspect, cracking that key would be like hitting one of the multi-state lotteries. And people continue to play them all the time, despite the astronomical odds against their winning.
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