skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paypal and Netflix are not any other site, they should have a higher standard. Amazon does a much better work for example: when you try to send for the first time to a new address, it asks to re-enter the credit card information.

There are basic things that companies should do, if they really care and try to protect their users/customers.
Branded zones do not run Linux any more and emulation was never complete. Nor is the FreeBSD emulation complete.
Ghostery's default setting is to disable submitting data. You have to explicity opt-in. How is that tricking?

I was interested in your project but your smearing of 'competitors' with FUD is seriously disconcerting.
I remember using XFS some years ago. It was blazing fast for anything involving large files.

It also had a bug, in that a power failure or kernel crash was liable to truncate some freshly-written open files to zero size. Anyone knows if this problem has been eliminated?
I think, typically, if you've gone to the trouble of calculating variance and correlation, you would have also calculated the median and mode of these datasets. The differences would have been obvious with those basic analyses.
"If people are getting attacked in the streets, warning everyone to stay indoors only redirects the problem. To really stop it, you need to find and arrest the perpetrators."

Both seem like good ideas, with the second of course being a higher priority, receiving more funding.

Universities in cities frequently send texts and emails to their students warning them of recent muggings/shootings at such-and-such street. That doesn't mean those universities think that those messages are "the solution"; thinking that would be rather foolish. They also invest in more security, assist police investigations however they can, etc.

In this case (http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunte...) the "Jack" person apparently gave the family some advice for securing their computers... that wasn't Jack saying that securing computers was the solution, or saying that the victims were at fault because they had insecure computers.
Not sure why you feel the need to be so aggressive?
What happens if the site is hosted in anywhere but US?
Totally missing the point, of course.

The comments in the original FB post that trigged this whole thread were of a rather different sort than you are quoting above:

The difference is in other cosmopolitan cities, the lower part of society keep to themselves. They sell small trinkets, beg coyly, stay quiet, and generally stay out of your way. They realize it's a privilege to be in the civilized part of town and view themselves as guests. And that's okay.
…

You can preach compassion, equality, and be the biggest lover in the world, but there is an area of town for degenerates and an area of town for the working class. There is nothing positive gained from having them so close to us. It's a burden and a liability having them so close to us. Believe me, if they added the smallest iota of value I'd consider thinking different …
When I said "call BS," I didn't mean literally just saying that, I just meant denying the claim and perhaps asking for a definition of "bubble" or a testable prediction, much like I originally did in this thread.
In the context of coding projects, the author's conclusion seems realistic.

Given current events though, I can't help but wonder if there's a subtext about privacy and snooping. If so, then I would venture this observation: Your friend's super-secret diary is meaningless to you only because you have no desire to abuse the access you've been given. Suppose instead your friend's devious enemy obtained the diary. Then, he could probably use it to damage your friend's relationships and/or career.

Now imagine a dystopian future when all such diaries are available to a privileged subset of society. Imagine the power that subset would hold, and all the ways it would likely be abused.

Unless we want to ensure our every communication and personal note is fit for public consumption, some things are by definition our secrets.
Chrome botnet? Really?
When you open to the public the contents of your instance of Beekeep and Peeps databases, then you will have a point.
haha a nice party is going on in that room right now. The site definitely needs a tonne of work but we're humbled by the attention it's got today. We'll definitely be cleaning up a lot of things!
I don't think you have to, working on a prototype of full process isolation with decent guarantees.
Whether you're homeless or a well-off tech dweeb, you shouldn't be allowed to poop on the street, run around screaming at people, obstruct traffic, openly deal drugs or stolen goods.

None of which requires police-state tactics to bring into check. But the fact that so many people from well-to-do half of the city seem ready to clamour for such tactics says, well, lots of things.
Botnet again? Are you part of the scroogled team or something?
I didn't see this point in the article, but I might have missed it:

On a J-1 visa you may have to return to your home country for 2 years after it expires -- you can only visit on tourist/student visas in those two years, not work in the US. I was subject to this, as a UK citizen interning in Redmond between undergraduate years (in 2002), but I have not met many other J-1 holders and don't know how common it was.

http://internationalaffairs.uchicago.edu/page/j-1-status-two...
Wonderful! Seems to be public domain, too?
One free thing you can do to optimize marketing is to not name your business a generic term. If your business has a unique name you generally don't have to worry about competitors outranking you for the name. For example, I don't think my brother will ever get outranked for "porcelain rocket"; he currently owns not just the top spot but the entire first page.
I bought a couple poster texts about 3 years ago. They're awesome :)
$25K doesn't make someone an accredited investor. Plenty of negative-net-worth people could scrounge up $25k to day-trade.
This sort of topic has come up before, and to put it gently, blog posts like these have been lacking in context and substance. See a previous HN post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4154755

Also see a previous HN post about a PNAS publication that talks about the people from current-day South India 4000 years ago (while South Indians' language is not based on Sanskrit, and 4000 years ago far predates the time period mentioned in the original post):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5078076
Well, they've overcome the number one challenge, that's getting something launched. Valve does one thing great, and that's rolling out consistent updates and features, so I have faith they'll improve the platform if it gains traction.

In 2014 though, I think the biggest impact on their success will come down to marketing. Will people know what this device is? Will hardware manufacturers be able to get these units selling? Will people be raving about playing Steam games from their couch and telling all their friends to pick one up?

They're going to be a small player in the console world. I can't picture them stealing Xbox and Playstation users. Those Battlefield, Call of Duty, NBA, Madden, etc., fans make up a huge part of the console market, and I think they're incredibly loyal to their console, while being very unfamiliar with Steam. The Steam Machines might have a market with PC users looking to casually game in the living room, and they might have a market if they can offer cheaper hardware and lower game prices than consoles. Offering better visuals would be another huge plus. If someone visits their friend's house, and says, 'wow, why does XYZ game look so much better on your television?', that's going to drive some sales, since you always have a group looking for the best of the best.

It's a long road, and I think everyone is watching to see how this plays out. Valve is probably the only company that can make this happen at the moment, so it's exciting to see them taking a chance, and I applaud them for that.
Really? I thought it was very humanizing and interesting to see the guy behind it all. He clearly caught up in the money and attention. Ofcourse he was a complete asshole, but he was self aware and felt bad about what he did. He is just the epitome of a troll - feeding off of other's misery. Schadenfreud to the Nth level.
I've taken the opposite, albeit extreme, approach to solving this problem. If I want to send a nude to my significant other, I'll post it publicly then send them a link. If I'm not comfortable with it being posted publicly, then I wont take the photo. If you go in with the expectation that the picture will eventually find its way onto the internet, then you wont be burned when a phone gets stolen, a cloud account gets leaked, or a significant other seeks revenge.
That's a different guy, and that's an interview from 2011.
The problem is that people have gotten comfortable with the idea that it's acceptable to hate someone for their hateful beliefs - forgetting that virtually every belief can be considered hateful with the right spin.

While I think this case had mitigating factors and the guy could have been charged anyway, I certainly don't trust the jerks in the DA's office to decide who the other jerks are.
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> hack people's computers, steal their stuff and pit it online.

All 3 of those things were already illegal, and had legal remedies.
You're absolutely right that its a dumb question. But the second half of the page is after you answer it.
> The TSA has rules that say replica guns are not allowed on flights.

Could you link to those rules? TIA.
My thoughts almost exactly.

It's all fine until you wind up on some sort of watchlist because of something "someone" found, and then travelling by air is a nightmare.

I'm not sure why, exactly, we decided that people we don't like but we can't pin any crimes on are punished by having limited access to air travel, but that's how it is!

On a related and more personal note, I once got in a large amount of trouble for a slashdot post. The company I worked for found a post I wrote when I wasn't an employee discussing social engineering attacks on building security(not theirs, mind you, but general ones). This led to some very tense discussions where I was accused of being a hacker, not caring about security, and plenty of other things. My personal (though public) livejournal came to the discussion, too. It was to the point where, if they tried to haul me in again, I would have requested an attorney.

It ultimately blew over and was recognized for what it was; Corporate Security trying to justify the money they spent on data mining. But it was a very tense period.

After that incident I keep things a lot less public.
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I've often said that the best way to get a quick competitive advantage against our rivals would be to send them our source.
I like this a lot. Thanks.
My favorite thing on GameFAQs is the angry verbiage at the end of every FAQ promising dire legal consequences should anyone attempt to appropriate and profit from their work. Do you really think anyone anywhere is going to pay for your Donkey Kong Country strategy guide?

If I ever write a game FAQ, it's going to end with "if you figure out a way to make a profit off of this, you are legally required to let me know how you did it so I can congratulate you."
I founded my own company after leaving my internship position and after my J1 ended. I'm on another visa now.

To my knowledge there's no limit to how many J1 visas one can have so you could do another one in the future. The process isn't complicated but a small startup probably doesn't have experience of it so you need to do the heavy lifting there.
I'm not sure I agree with this. The owner of the site didn't post any content him self or steal anything. I know and understand that the content of the site updated by its users has harmed many people and is morally wrong. But they should be going after the users that updated the content not this guy.

Ask you self whats the different between anonib.com and revenge porn site?
Ask HN: Opportunities for a high school student ready to get an internship?
Hi! Does anyone know of any tech startups or companies around silicon valley that are willing to accept qualified high school students for internships?
Don't bother getting an internship. On the top line of your resume, put "I AM CHEAP, TRY ME OUT!" and offer to work for < $20 / hour.

You have to look at things from the employer's perspective - it is very expensive to make hiring mistakes, because it usually takes a couple of months to realize that someone is pure dog-shit, and you've already agreed to a salary that is way above their productivity level.

By being cheap, you make the situation almost risk-free for the employer.

"Intern" says "please hold my hand". "Employee" says, "I promise to provide you value".

In a year or so, after you've learned a lot on the job, you'll be able to start hunting for a new gig at a much higher pay rate AND you can do it while already employed.

Good luck!
I don't think he's making a point the NSA dragnet (which I'm assuming you're referring to) - that's obviously a completely different thing.

He's talking about individuals willfully releasing information, not some secret government program to collect all your personal data that has ever been on the Internet.
What, you don't email yourself a copy of all your nude selfies for safe keeping? I thought everybody did that.

edit to add: wow. From the xojane link it appears that's actually exactly what everybody does. I'm at a loss for words.
>If you appreciate music at all, you will appreciate it whether you can get it instantly or wait weeks for it, the latter being an inconvenience, though one filled with anticipation, stress, and excitement

Unfortunately, this just isn't true. Enjoyment of music is very dependent on context in most circumstances.

An easy example is metal drumming -- not necessarily impressive based on sound alone, but extremely impressive once you realize the physicality it requires.

The same goes for the way in which the user hears the music. Track 6 out of 10 on a physical CD or spotify CD may not get noticed as much as it would if it were track 1 on side B of a vinyl
It makes for an interesting thought about what is intrinsically valuable versus what isn't.

The diary is 'non-intrinsic' because he doesn't have the context in which the information makes sense. A series of usernames and passwords is secret because it is self referentially useful.

Stuff in the first category can become useful over time (the Mosaic effect) when someone suddenly lashes out about something and that connects the context of a series of family dramas. Stuff in the latter category is useful right away.

Its useful to think about both cases. (oh and I really enjoyed reading through the ideas, they are fun) I should put my list up somewhere as well.
Cool, thanks! It seems to be for freelancers, though. What I need is a developer for a full-time position. Let me edit the post.
What the author seems to be missing is that most of what we keep secret can be taken by someone with a malicious intent and used against us. This is a major reason some things are best kept private.
Thank you. I think I asked the wrong question, in a way. Is this on index.docker.io, so I can base on it, or do I need to do the Docker build for it locally? You really needn't answer, because I can go research the answers when I get off of work. :) Thanks again.
Great idea. Here's mine:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pn5vL3TY3VKr3WyZrKBpWnGW...
In theory things like the clock could be namespaced too, if anyone found it useful.
While searching for the Dilber strip IvyMike mentioned, I came across one relevant to your post: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-10-24/
Statwing looks great!

Right now I do my data analysis in numpy, but this looks good for my Excel-based colleagues.

What library is doing the statistics?
"the mutated virus would have a survival advantage of not killing its host."

Not terribly reassuring :) Perhaps 1918 wasn't a very high-fitness virus, but it still got ~5% of us before burning out.

That leaves the threat level >> (conventional) terrorism.
40% hacked, 36% revenge porn, 12% photoshopped, 12% self-submits.[1]

[1] http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunte...
Bon appetit (NSFW)
At least with this guy we had some recourse. When some Polish programmer makes a copy cat website no one will be able to take it down.

Bollaert just showed us the new reality: You can't stop the internet from trolling. Everyone missed the moral of the story and just sent the law after him.

(I think if he played this off as a social experiment to expose the world we live in, he'd have gotten a lot more slack )
There's an old joke: so this guy is trying to get rid of an ugly old sofa, he puts it out on the curb with the sign "free sofa!". Days pass; no luck. So he puts up a new sign saying "sofa: $50, call ###-####" and it's gone in ten minutes.
I've been giving people advice on marketing strategy as I meet people here and there. For quite a while I've held the best ideas back. I always figured I should tell them enough to get them thinking but no more. Then I read a passage in a book that got me thinking so I tried something different. I decided to tell the next person i meet everything he/she needed to know.

I met an assistant director for a local project. I spent over 30mins telling her everything i could to help her. Next thing i know she's telling me how amazing i am, telling all her work colleagues and then asking me to come back to do a workshop.

All in all, went well. I then decided to do the same with my next blog. I laid it all out as much as I could. One reader emailed his whole team and the email got circulated to 133 people from just one person.

Then another guy stopped me in the street and told me how he loved my latest article and passed it onto the management team and that he thinks they should meet me.

I could never have expected that kind of response. Just goes to show how irrational our fears can be and how we project things based on our experience instead of what might be possible which - let's face it - might just be better than you've imagined.
That is pretty much 12 months old does it still apply?
This is honestly the most worthless comment I have ever seen on HN. Besides ad hominem, there is literally nothing here other than a giant pile of conspiracy.
I joined a mid-size company while they were still calling themselves a "start-up". There was a little bit of risk in joining, but not much. We are definitely not a start-up now.

The funding question is good, but, fortunately, they're funding is well publicized, so I don't really need to ask.

Also the options question is good, I'll make sure to look that over. I have some experience with options with my current company, but I'm going into this next position with more leverage, so I should probably ask the right sorts of questions, etc.

Thanks again!
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Man with personal and professional interest in Bitcoin prices increasing tells reporter Bitcoin prices will increase. News at 11.
There are alternative full-node implementations. A couple examples:

https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/btcd

https://darkwallet.unsystem.net/
San Francisco: The scapegoat capital of America
The important part missing here is that it must be a choice. If I want my location data public I can make it public. If I want my super-secret diary read by anyone I can post it on Tumblr.

But if I don't want to no-one should judge me for making that choice. And I should not judge those that choose differently.
This varies a lot depending on your exact situation. I interned in the bay area last year and it didn't apply to my case - and now I'm back on an H1 without any issues.

The 212-E 2 year home country requirement has 3 conditions [1]. Specifically, if you're interning, you do not fall under "Government funded exchange program", nor do you fall under "Graduate medical education or training". You may fall under "Specialized knowledge or skill: Skills List" but that list is on a per country basis. [2]

[1] http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1267.html#15

[2] http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_4514.html
This is what is commonly known as Two Year Rule or 212(e) which is applicable to few different situations, e.g. if you get a grant from your government for your training or your profession is on your home country's skill list. It's also pretty random and I for example was stamped with the rule but many countries issues "no objection" letters which allow you to waive the requirement. Two year rule does only affect some visa types, such as H1b but not O1 or J1 visas.

Here's more information: http://www.isso.cornell.edu/academicstaff/jwaiver.php
So a concept you find in a beginner stats textbook is now 'news'? Definition of blogspam surely...
What's wrong with NY Healthcare site? I can't access it for 3 days already
Why Apple's iBeacon is about to disrupt interaction design
For quotas, you probably want something like ZFS. It allows you to set both quotas and reservations. Reservations are nice in that they guarantee the specified amount of space to the given filesystem. ZFS allows the creation of many nested filesystems with different properties (including block-level compression and encryption) and uses inheritance and overrides to give you a very flexible, fine-grained level of control.

ZFS also has real-time, block-level deduplication. This will dramatically cut down on the space usage when users install multiple different versions of the same package.

By combining all this, you can give every user their own nix store with its own set of packages and a quota as well as a minimum reservation of space. Deduplication will take care of all the wasted space from multiple users having the same/similar packages installed.
At least half the convenience of Instacart for me is ordering my groceries from a computer: It allows me to plan meals, look up recipes, and check nutritional information. And using search is easier than wandering around a grocery store.
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I like your take on it turning acquaintances into friends. I think it is spot on.

For a while I have been saying that Snapchat is for sharing moments digitally. It makes sense that sharing moments, digitally or not, brings people closer.
I sent mail to my state's public utilities commission and the FCC about this very issue. AT&T's lobbying efforts being what they are, please take some time to do it yourself too.
I'd really like to see someone fire up Quake 3 Arena and play a few rounds with a mouse, 360 controller, and Steam controller. Give them a few hours practice with each device, and let's watch some comparison videos, against the same skill bots, on the same map.