skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a 40 year old who was hacking in his early teens (by both meanings of the word), this isn't that striking to me. It was common for people back in this time frame (the events of Cuckoo's Egg) to half-jokingly make "Echelon keyword" lists where they would insert dubious words as postscripts in email or on usenet posts. I spent quite a bit of time hanging around the MIT Media Lab building (where GNU/FSF was located at the time) and it was an open secret (and source of lots of joking) that one of the always-locked doors there lead to a "spook closet" where some guy nobody there really knew would come and pick up mag tapes once in a while (with the implicit assumption that the tapes were a traffic dump of data going through the routers there).

The NSA revelations of late aren't really that surprising in context with my prior experience, other than that it was surprising that the leaks so thoroughly confirmed a lot of suspicions and showed that their tentacles into commercial service providers were even more extensive than originally thought.
Bottom rung drug dealers make less than that, and are probably in a higher risk position.
This, together with the release of Pussy Riot and the Greenpeace activists, has been speculated as being Russia's attempt to clean up its image for the 2014 Olympic Games. Given the timing, it's not surprising.
I'd say static typing and purity as advocated by FP are some of the tools one wants when trying to engineer larger, more complex systems.

I wasn't familiar with the Mars Climate Orbiter case, but a cursory reading suggests one of the causes was a type error (confusing newtons with pound-force).
Do they need domain knowledge?

If not, then you might try starting with companies that provide coaching on daily huddles, goal setting, etc.

I have a friend who has a consulting company that is in this space. I know they will at least come in quarterly. Not sure if they have ever had a daily client or not.

It is worth checking out: http://petracoach.com/
My father only agreed to have kids if we lived near what's now known as the research triangle. Same line of thinking as prof. Falken: go out early. I was born in '78, so guess I don't owe my life to a movie, but it's an interesting tie in.
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I had exactly this issue when trying to make my OpenSCAD port multithreaded in asm.js - the results of each worker took longer to serialise/deserialise than the time saved by doing them in parallel.
Unfortunately couldn't even use transferable objects, as the C++ objects in question were CGAL nef polys, and once copied across would be garbage. It would work though if you have objects you can allocate to a specific buffer (I since discovered called a 'bump allocator')

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!searchin/emscripten-disc...
I guess someone could make a platform for plugins then also provide a translation plugin for IntelliJ, Eclipse, Emacs, Vim, VS etc. So they can all use the same plugins.
You Can't Log Out of Pinterest or Instagram - Django Security Weakness
I was more talking about the logic of it. "Apple charges $100 therefore $5 is a good deal" isn't good logic.
ph0rque can you provide some context as to why you found this interesting?
Nacchio defrauded shareholders out of millions of dollars. Let's be careful about who we're valorizing.
I didn't downvote you (just catching up to posts), but I wanted to thank you for providing a contrasting view (via Chomsky no less!) to the conundrum: Should I pay the crazy housing prices or should I go elsewhere? I don't know what the right answer is, but I appreciate different vantages.

You may be surprised how much of what does get posted here is full of bias (confirmation bias, selection, survival, small sample sizes, etc). We're human, it's normal. I've seen some posts about YC competitors get flagged off the front page while other YC-related firms tend to get more airtime, so-to-speak. Is it intentional or just a reflection of the community? I don't know, but I do know you can't take it personally.

Thank you for contributing and helping round out this complicated discussion.
It's what the ER is called in the UK.
> The biggest problem to me is not about NSA involvement, it is how WE treat people who work at NSA and other government intelligence agency.

An organization is made up of people. If you don't like what the organization is doing, you start by holding the people accountable. I see nothing wrong with shunning people who, in their professional capacity, are a part of machine that uses said capability to undermine my rights and privacy.
Trusting tptacek in the form of completing and learning from the Matasano crypto challenges would lead to a much less exploitable world forevermore.

It's okay to provisionally trust the word of someone who has previously and clearly demonstrated actual competence.
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"While you're at it, Google, stop providing the property tax base for our city, and start having your employees drive individual automobiles to work every day."

Google: consider Chicago. We'd be happy to have you. Also our food is better, we have all four seasons, and most of your employees wouldn't even need a special bus to commute, because our public transportation actually works. But you can still run your busses out to Plainfield and Elgin (the approximately equivalent commute from SF to MTV). We'll find the busses charming, not inflammatory.

I am of course dignifying what has happened here. Really, this is just a bunch of people thrilled to have an excuse to fuck up a bus.
"... a new startup, Meteor, an open-source Web app development platform more interesting than Coin, Bitcoin, and Uber put together."

Oh yes, another colorful dev framework is more interesting than programmable money. Who is this pleb author and why are we giving this article any consideration whatsoever? It's such a poor attempt to dress up what is only a libertarian-hate article as a genuine analysis (see: purely anecdotal) of some urban culture shift.

I'm noticing more and more articles like this coming from the left, to which the only appropriate response is: "Okay, we disagree. Let's have a discussion. Just don't lock me up for disagreeing." Freedom. It isn't something to scoff at.
The Train of Terror 2013
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> Just because people are poor, i.e. defenseless, doesn't mean others should be able to have their home automatically.

In all fairness, if he's buying a home, someone else is selling it. I don't see anywhere he suggests that he's nefariously evicting people from their homes so that he can reside within them and laugh maniacally.

In short, he's buying empty homes, or homes that the owners are moving out of. He's not displacing anybody in doing so.
Why did you take down this site?

http://beacon.nist.gov/home

It offered simple proof of God.

God says...
geek bad love in_practice no_you_cant climate honesty it_figures
ouch exorbitant how_bout_it wrath adultery honesty not
sad in_other_words Dean_scream fight industrious I_planned_that
music thank_you_very_much clever bank ohh_thank_you place
earnest Give_me_praise incredibly don't_you_love_me have_fun
Ivy_league joker downer segway tree_hugger delightful
Shhh vengeance That's_my_favorite African happy far_out_man
dance quit skills hurts_my_head delightful busybody
You can kind of see how you could get sucked into this, though. Suppose for example you start out simply participating on the forums. At some point someone reaches out to you and says something like, "Hey, you seem like a fair and diplomatic person and we like having you around, how about we pay you to moderate?"

In that context it might have felt pretty harmless. It's somewhat analogous to being rude to people on the Internet. We all know it's awfully easy to antagonize people who you're not face-to-face with. Similarly, being a forum moderator for the Silk Road must have felt a lot different than standing around in a warehouse while a bunch of Columbians package coke.

From a legal perspective, I guess it wasn't that different after all.
I often get asked if I'm "looking for company", or "want to party" by scantily-clad young (and old) women (and men passing as women) on my evening walks around my neighborhood here in SF.

Not all cities are alike. :)
> For those of us that don't live in the city, or the valley, or the west coast at all (though I work in Mountain View), wouldn't anything else be considered an improvement?

It was considered an "improvement" even then! And by "improvement", I mean the whole gentrification and character-of-San-Francisco arguments were bubbling around at all the hip tech parties attended by the VPs of XML Operations of every TomDickHarry.com dotcom!

From my (very limited) perspective, the Tenderloin actually hasn't changed much at all.
So glad to hear you're feeling at peace in NZ, Derek. I know many people who are quietly excited you've chosen this far flung island to call home and know that you are a fantastic addition to the community no matter what you chose to do. I know you've been inwardly focused lately, but whenever you're ready, there's a great community waiting to welcome you with open arms at Enspiral (including Loomio of course).
Ah, damn, the fact that that post is dead is very sad. I know it's years old, but, losethos, do you still need advice? (I'll probably see your reply, as I have showdead on). We could probably get a thread going, if so.
It might not be a con, the letter just demonstrates a self-serving nature written in a manipulative, empathy inducing style.

The letter may have no long-term purpose, but it might be written that way because the author is so used to this way of thinking.
How much of the software they run do they do their own code reviews on? That sounds weird (not impossible, just weird).
It's because Silk Road sold a lot of hacking tools (password sniffers, key loggers, and remote access tools) alongside the drugs.
Hey there! I have lot of experience programming but not a lot of CS theory and low level engineering behind it. I find things like HHVM to be really inspiring, and I'd love to one day contribute to such a project. My question is-- how can I cross over from a script kiddie on steroids to a software engineer? Is there any hope if I'm not doctorate track? I'd appreciate any open resources you provide. Thank you for your great work!
Okay thank you. My initial tone was unwarranted. I apologize.
Regarding 1) That's an effect of the market. If the talent can't afford to live and work in the valley, they won't. Generally speaking though, that's not who's affected by low wages, it's usually the non-talent, or, to put it as delicately as I'm able, the lower-skilled positions.

In short, it's the engineers and designers making it expensive for the janitors, waitresses and security guards that serve them.

As for 2, that could be fixed easily if San Francisco eased up on housing regulations and allowed for more building in the area.
Quote possible that one arm of the company was an aware of the other arms actions. Probable, in fact. If most of the company knew of the backdoor, it would have leaked.
I cant believe people aren't shocked that they even spy on Israel's PM. To me that is stunning. I, clearly wrongly, assumed that where it counts the US and Israel are glued to the same page. So, why spy on them? Its almost like the NSA treating some US states as enemies to spy on. Does the US consider any nation a trusted ally? Well, clearly the US and Israel are not quite as chummy as I had previously thought.

BTW, is Snowden done yet? Is there a chance that we'll find out that the NSA spies on the US President and the UK Queen? (I'll take as a given that they spy on London Mayor Boris Johnson for pure entertainment value. Hell, even I'd do that.)

All we need now is the head line "NSA spies on NSA", and the whole thing will implode.

Sorry HN. Its just that it is getting so absurd, it has to be funny.
Don't overthink my comment. I don't know C and have no idea how pure his intention in writing the letter may be.

Despite his intent, I believe that I left the letter thinking exactly what it was designed to make me think. Therefore, the actual mechanics of the letter (which were outlined well by tomstokes, in my opinion) were excellent at eliciting what I assume is the intended response. This is akin to successful manipulation, but may not necessarily be from a place of malice on the part of C. However, C's changing my opinion of psychopathy does in fact place him in a more advantageous position if the two of us were ever to meet, thus I was manipulated.
That's a very uncharitable way of reading it. You can still get root.
I didn't say unions, I said labor, which encompasses laws that are still popular today like child labor laws, breaks to go to the bathroom and eat lunch, overtime pay, fire exits and sprinkler systems, workplace safety, minimum wage, etc.

The poll numbers you cite on Afghanistan are public opinion of the country itself. If you will look at the next chart down you will see that even in 2013 a majority of Americans do not believe it was a mistake to go to war there after the September 11 attacks.
Luckily, open source can't include secret code. That's the point.
Shameful plug... sorry..

I actually just released an account manager for Chrome, called Waltz. Waltz uses Clef (http://getclef.com) for multi-factor auth, and then submits using preconfigured login URLS - not heuristics like most other password managers.

After a semi-thorough read of the article, I don't believe Waltz falls into any of the security holes mentioned in the article.

http://getwaltz.com
This guy obviously hasn't traveled far outside his little circle before making such broad statements. From Kentucky, I could say almost the complete opposite to every point and be correct, though I'm not small minded enough to think that represents every engineer in the nation.
Get outta here, party pooper!
Security firm RSA took millions from NSA
Now that you mention it, I think it was exclusively the Tenderloin wherein those deranged people were doing those deranged things, specifically, while waiting in line for breakfast at Dottie's (which I find to be slightly overrated, but that's subjective).
Can you do that globally?
"The San Francisco group was organized by a loose coalition of housing activists, including representatives from Eviction Free SF, Our Mission No Eviction, and Just Cause."

Do these organizations seriously campaign for no evictions, or are their names just hyperbole?
But "everyone" agreed it wasn't actually a backdoor. I wonder if that will get walked back finally.
So is it worth replacing my debit card and updating numerous automated payments that bill it, or just closely monitor my banking activity (like I already do)?
Google already has an office in Chicago. :)

http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/locations/
If you disagree with the following opinion please don't down vote me instead enlighten me.

Frankly I don't see the point of compiling C/C++ to JavaScript. If you'r using C/C++ you might as well compile to machine code, it's not like you gain anything by compiling to JavaScript.
Are you saying that yahoo web mail lets senders create forms with submit actions? That's.. Horribly broken.

But tumbler allows JavaScript redirects to phishing sites, so yahoo standard I guess.
Seems like, basically, exactly that. Or, put another way, you're free to own property and rent it out, but you're only allowed to make as much profit as they want you to, maybe?

"We are a direct action group, whose mission is to help stop the wave of speculator evictions that have been hitting San Francisco by holding accountable, and confronting, real estate speculators that have been displacing long time San Francisco residents for profit."
The police conduct welfare checks on people who may need help. Despite the internet's fascination with police abuse, they can be quite helpful to people.

And maybe you shouldn't be so offhandedly judgmental. I actually called a suicide hotline in the area first (the only mental health service I could come up with) and, after I convinced them that I wasn't suicidal, it was their suggestion to contact the police.

But yes, I guess it was terrible that this poor guy got help and got his life back on track.
It's impossible to use OTP as part of an encryption key without some sort of oracle that could do the decryption without the OTP.
Currently, yes. But in the article linked [1] above they claim that that too will be prohibited starting january

[1]: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-fr...
You get the security model of the browser; you can run code at native speed without worrying about it accessing your private data.
You must realize how different the situations are between Java BigIntegers and Dart integers.
HuffPost now requires a "verified" BookFace account to post
How would that work?

"We have cought you cheating! We know because… (we've hacked your exchange)"
Meh, I literally ctrl-F'd and looked for "encrypt". Worked on the first try.

You're right about the keys though, I always forget which keys get used for what.
It's a pretty great office too. Lots of happy chicagoans work there.
From the screenshot in that article, it looks like Target stored not just the credit card number, but also expiration date and full magnetic track information, including CVV1.

Why in the world would they do that? I would lose a lot of sleep over if I had to store just name and card number, but at least I could see some use for that. For example, you could look up a customer’s past purchases for returns or warranty claims.

Why did Target want to store the expiration date, so the card could be used on online stores that don’t check CVV2, and the magnetic track info with CVV1 so the cards can be cloned?
Just a simple web app for people to checkin with failures and the key lessons. I wanted to have tags for different topics, and a feed based on tags you were interested in. Pretty basic. I didn't take it beyond the checkins because I couldn't envision myself checking in very often.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13513173-the-rent-is-too-...

I highly recommend this book for anyone who is constructively concerned about these issues.
Is webdomainwhiteelephantexchange.com one of the domains in the exchange? :)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w10268

Deflation and Depression: Is There and Empirical Link?

Are deflation and depression empirically linked? No,

concludes a broad historical study of inflation and real

output growth rates. Deflation and depression do seem to

have been linked during the 1930s. But in the rest of

the data for 17 countries and more than 100 years, there

is virtually no evidence of such a link.
Everybody needs a few critical passwords that they should memorize and not use shortcuts with. My email and Paypal passwords are very strong; to break them you have to either keylog/shouldersurf/whatever, or else brute force an attack for quite a few characters. Nor will you find joy with alternate ways of getting in, such as security questions. If I used a password manager, its password would be another critical one, but even so I probably wouldn't use it for accessing my other crucial accounts.

A lot of my other accounts can be more easily hacked, but relatively little harm would be done if they were. I think one of my MMO accounts -- to a game I no longer play -- actually was.
does that make it right?
I have a question.

Can government issue gag order to security firm doing audit and prevent them from releasing backdoors or intentional weaknesses they discover?
You may get the same protection, but the debit card protection comes after you've lost the money from your checking/savings account. After checks may have bounced.
Some problems with the Paul Graham quote mentioned in the article --

"...hear that the richest 5% of the people have half the total wealth, they tend to think injustice! An experienced programmer would be more likely to think is that all? The top 5% of programmers probably write 99% of the good software."

I've never understood this quote. First thing I don't understand is the last sentence -- I can't really imagine any scenario in which 5% of programmers have written 99% of the good software. What must PG's standards of good software be in order for this to be true? If anything, software development seems like a place where there is a healthy supply of people writing "good code", often working in large teams to make great projects.

Second thing I don't understand is his analogy -- he's claiming that programming accomplishments is to software developers as money is to the rich? Huh? Is wealth a skill? So we've just assumed that because someone is rich, that it obviously means they've earned it through hard work... and not only hard work, but hard work on the order of how much time and effort was spent developing 99% of the good code in the world, which to me sounds problematic at best.
Yes, somebody claimed that. Anybody would claim that. Good job shooting it down.
>"The people outside your Google bus serve you coffee, watch your kids, have sex with you for money, make you food, and are being driven out of their neighborhoods," the flyer read. "While you guys live fat as hogs with your free 24/7 buffet [my emphasis], everyone else is scraping the bottom of their wallets, barely existing in this expensive world that you and your chums helped create."

Wow that is a lot of vitriol, it really does feel like back in High School. Too bad for the protestors there are fascist police to protect these fat nerds, er, techies.
Oakland!

http://youtu.be/CzkoeyhAAdk
The metric of measurement is wealth, which profits create.

Your proposed change would reduce the benefit because it would eliminate the profit (wealth) that HFT firms create.

Your proposed system is not hypothetical; it is how all trades used to happen. HFT did not arise from nothing. People developed it because it created new profit in addition to that generated by slower trading.
Seriously? I'm kind of shocked at the raw stupidity of this comment- just a bunch of people thrilled to have an excuse to fuck up a bus huh?

These are actual real problems that need actual solutions, and the elitist attitudes really need to stop. Just because we know technology doesn't make us better than those who don't, and for the bay area to be a sustainable location it really needs all members of the community to work together. The tech companies have failed at this, and that's why these protests are happening. Not because people want to 'fuck things up'.

As far as the Chicago bit goes- yeah, it's not a bad city. I feel the bay area could learn a lot from it when it comes to scaling things up. I can live without the snow though.
A person can be "constructive" while fundamentally disagreeing with the premise of these protestors. I would recommend the following as a starting point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorems_of_welfare...
The xenophobia and lack of basic logic of these protests are appalling. Even the people giving speeches at them[1] have a hard time making the connection between the buses, the evictions, and the tech industry.

"we are against the ellis act ... we see that as related to tech and we want the ruling class which is becoming the tech class to listen to our voices"

"we are against the tech money that has caused evictions of seniors and people with disabilities throughout the community"

uh...wut?

I understand that the growth of the tech sector generates quite a bit of demand for housing and that leads to increasing rents if supply is held constant. But, this is a econ 101 problem. The solution is to let more housing be built as to stabilize the prices and not YOU PEOPLE GTFO ALONG WITH ALL THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS THAT HAVING A THRIVING INDUSTRY IN THE LOCAL ECONOMY BRING!

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSHbMbkqwDk