skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stasi's Zersetzung: "The Stasi perfected the technique of psychological harassment of perceived enemies known as Zersetzung. ... This often included psychological attacks such as breaking into homes and messing with the contents – moving furniture, altering the timing of an alarm, removing pictures from walls or replacing one variety of tea with another" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung

It's just history repeating itself.
Seriously - if you're not using 2FA then you're just looking for trouble.
Not sure what's going on with the scrolling. It's just a plain static webpage with some CSS. No fancy JS or anything.
> Whether the project is so distinct in terms of code or philosophy, it is a genuine question. Anyone should be allowed to ask question. All the downvotes are either because (1) some bigot mind can't appreciate question, or (2) people who can't get along with the other development team so any thought on merging two project must be a crime, or (3) people just hate my idea of asking Google to donate a couple machines.

Or (4), people are strongly adversarial to the "why do we need" question in the context of open source projects. Do we also really need iOS and Android? Windows and OS X and Linux and the many flavours of BSD? Chocolate and vanilla ice cream?

> Whether the project is so distinct in terms of code or philosophy, it is a genuine question.

No it isn't.

Yes, people who dislike your ideas will downvote you. It's pretty much how the interwebs work. If there are more people who dislike them than people who like them, the downvotes will outweight the upvotes. There also tends to be no correlation between how bad an idea is and how many downvotes or upvotes it receives. Because the Internet is full of mean, misbehaving people like me.
I actually welcome new languages. Even if some may be buggy, and lacking in features. Most will most likely end up being lost or unused. But the knowledge gained from developing it is spread out into the industry. Also, it is distracting if you try and follow every new trend. Like you said, there are already a good amount of options available. No need to learn each and every new language. Though it is fun to download them on a Saturday and learn about the ideas the creator(s) had in mind when developing it.
Turning back time: ageing reversed in mice
What if you just did

var x = { ...};
var y = Object.create(x);
Object.freeze(y);
Object.preventExtension(y);

Wouldn't that achieve the same effect?
Are you seriously claiming that profits create wealth but counterparty losses don't destroy wealth???
Well, it's very-very fast in 8.1. I don't know why it does not find the document you want - it works quite well for me, YMMV obviously.
I'm bashing someone for being an asshole. The fact that there's a religious touch in his assholeness is quite irrelevant to me.
Who here is aware of the fact Oskar schindler was a psychopath? He sold all his business and fortune to save hundreds of lives.
All we hear is psychopaths who fit the stereotype, not those who do not. Cognitive dissonance.
You can take a look at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet and maybe less directly relevant, but still good information is https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses .

Personally, I keep my btc wallet.dat file in a AES encrypted diskimage (sparsebundle on OS X) in my Dropbox, and then symlink that file to the place where it needs to be on the computer. My wallet is always backed up, and secure enough (you need either physical access to my computer and get the password right, or, access to my dropbox account and, again, the password for the wallet diskimage).

Quite content with my setup, I just mount the diskimage before I open my Wallet application...
Got to admit, SF looks a whole lot better now than it did then. There's a reason rent is high now and low then: SF is now an incredible place that everyone wants to be.

Back then, clearly not so much. Looks like that convention center was an incredibly good idea.
Hey thanks. I've actually already accepted a full-time offer from Amazon, so I'm not looking around anymore. My teammates have all accepted full-time offers from other companies as well.
People buy computers to solve problems, not advance causes. It's not a zero-sum game like the FSF believes. I own Apple products but also use a ton of free software, as well as software that I've paid for. Fundamentalism doesn't help anyone.
Great information for how to write a press release, as well.
Surprised Germany is so resistant, although I suppose there was that WiFi SSID collection scandal which caused tension.
> Why wouldn't he?

Because it's colluding topics. "break into your account" refers to a Coinbase account. "lack of regulation" refers to the Bitcoin methods. Using both of those in a sentence or quoting that sentence in another comment creates implied blame.

The original comment could be assumed to say two different things: 1. If Coinbase security was compromised, then Coinbase is accountable for the transfer of Bitcoin from op's account. 2. If the op 'allowed' access to his account through malware or unsecure API keys, then the op is accountable.

I believe the second assumption is what chasing was referring to. I should have been clearer in my questioning.

Edit: Actually, I shouldn't have even asked the question. I should have said what I said above instead of asking a leading question. My fault.
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For starters, it is a two player game. Secondly it will not always be crystal clear that you chose "defect" to your coplayers in the real world, since actions are subject to interpretation. Third, the real world is not a game of perfect information.
2factor authentication please
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I agree there's an increasing demand for big data but I think the OP is overreacting. I think there's going to be a big demand for internal LOB apps, mobile apps etc for a long time. Not everything is big nor needs to scale. Can't hurt to learn unix or jvm languages though.
I recommend watching Greg Young's talks on DDD/CQRS

http://skillsmatter.com/expert-profile/open-source-dot-net/g...
Ah, OK. Well, it's never too late to say no to the BigCo and join a startup :)

* http://notonlyluck.com/2013/07/23/reasons-to-join-a-startup-...

* http://notonlyluck.com/2013/07/24/more-thoughts-on-reasons-t...
Just tried it again using Chrome on OSX. Works fine for me. Do you have any weird browser extensions that could be screwing it up?
Because S3 is totally out of the reach of these adversaries.
One thing to consider: if the capabilities of your side project would be useful to $dayjob, a sufficiently aggressive company lawyer would be likely to argue that that makes it "related to our business". (And most of the lawyers I've met would be at least that aggressive, if the company was their client.) If you wind up using that code on the job, the case becomes even more clear cut.

So, if you want to keep releasing this code on the side, having something from them explicitly disclaiming (i.e., renouncing) exclusive rights would be very good to have. You've gotten some suggestions about things to look at. There are also open-source projects whose contributor paperwork includes standard employer disclaimers. As to which of these (if any) best fits your situation, you'd probably be best consulting a lawyer of your own.
Best answer is - consult a lawyer! ;)
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On the one hand, a background check should reject anyone with such a visible a conflict of interest; On the other IETF is full of U.S. nationals, so it's only trustable for countries with common interests with the U.S. Either way, the IETF reputation will be exactly constant before or after a decision is made.
I feel like developers who haven't worked with medium-sized data don't know where to draw the "big data" line. You see this with companies overspending for complicated "big data" solutions when the only have something on the order of billions of rows and nothing more. I deal with many billion row tables in the products, and SQL Server still works wonderfully there. Throw 1TB of RAM and a stack of Fusion IO drives on a pair of servers and I'm confident the pair (for mirroring obviously) and a DBA can easily handle the needs of any company that thinks they have "big data", save the current big data pioneers (e.g. Google, Facebook) who are only spending time on these problems because throwing more money (read: hardware) was hitting diminishing returns. In my specific case, we have billions of rows store in SQL tables whose schemas (including PK and indices) and queries were built by server engineers without any explicit DBA experience. If we can manage to store our data quite naively in SQL server by just putting it on a pair of superboxes, I find it hard to believe this solution wouldn't apply to all but a handful of tech companies.
When comparing to established financial institutions and systems, I think it's fair to refer to even the most reputable BitCoin service provider as a 'random website'. That's the point that's being made.
Until you can verify Coinbase's internal security and practices, trust every employee with access to your account info, and verify their honest intentions, it's still pretty much a "random website". Until then, you're effectively driving your Ferrari across the border into Tijuana and tossing the keys to a random barkeep.
Well, in my view CoinBase with two factor auth is as or more secure than leaving it on my physical computer. If this person had enabled two factor auth this wouldn't have happened.

I was under the impression that 2 factor auth on CoinBase wasn't optional, but I guess not.

CoinBase should also be failbanning any computer trying to brute force the same account with more than one password.
I just wish that their ruling was a little more broad and far reaching in its effect. For those like myself who believe in self-ownership this is a no brainer, and it would seem that people are recognizing the basics of self-ownership in this case, but refuse to do so in almost every other facet of modern Western law.
@pg: can you please ban off all those Coinbase support threads? It's getting ridiculous, we're not Coinbase customer support here.
And here's what would happen:

1. As far as the police are concerned, someone stealing your bitcoin is like someone on an internet forum stealing your avatar / profile picture.

2. Bitcoin have no intrinsic value -- Welcome to the land of non-fiat "currency".

3. Someone taking your BTC simply doesn't register as a crime for them.
For some background as to why people like Appelbaum or Poitras might be so paranoid, here he is describing the harassment he has suffered at the hands of US border agents in the past (because of being involved in the Tor project):

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/we_do_not_live_in_a
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/17/long_before_helping_ex...

This sort of impunity to harass civilians who have not committed any crime is something you'd expect in a police state, not a functioning democracy. Sadly it seems the UK and US have now joined the ranks of countries who employ this sort of harassment routinely at the border.
I think it's easy to come down on either side of the argument around this (I have no stake in it as I don't live in the US). Things progress and move forward and if rents are high and you can't afford them you need to move. A small number of apartments with lots of people wanting them drives the price high.

On the other hand it does suck for people who have lived there their entire lives and now can't afford it anymore. It also seems quite unfair.

One thing I find strange is why tech companies set up in an area which is limited in growth opportunities because of it's location. It's not like SF can grow out in all directions. It seems like this is only going to get worse. It means that if you setup a company in SF you'll have to pay your employees more so they can afford to live there. You'll also have to raise their salaries more every year to combat growing rent prices. It seems in the interest of companies to start moving out of SF. Once they do engineers will hopefully follow. It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem though. If you setup outside SF now talent will be difficult to get and until some companies start setting up outside SF talent will stay in SF.
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There are many ways of tracing transactions. There are no ways of canceling or reversing them.

You trusted your valuables to a third party and were careless with your own access credentials to communicate with that third party. Your fault, your consequences.
I am mainly talking about server technologies. So yes, client technologies do not need to scale. But if the when even LOB apps need to work wit

Remember "Can't hurt", not quite true. I am shifting focus, so I am spending time that could be spending on learning and mastering, blogging, speaking Microsoft technologies. If I am wrong, it will hurt me.
I'm sure they could at the very least attempt litigation for outright lying. Maybe false advertising? -- I suppose not since the FSF isn't selling anything in the traditional sense of the word. In any case that would be a PR nightmare for Apple. Goliath picking on David. If the lawsuit didn't financially destroy the FSF, and I doubt it would as many would step up to help fund it, it could possibly mean a ton of free PR/awareness/advertising/whatever for the FSF. I think a lawsuit is lose/lose for Apple here, considering this "stunt" was ineffective at best.
The Jarvic 7/SynCardia temporary CardioWest Total Artificial Hear and Abiocor both seem to simulate a heart beat.

My brief research also suggests they are the most widely used devices (the support support system for the Jarvic 7 is down to 13 pounds!). I'm not familiar with the stuff, I just thought it was an interesting question.
But isn't the point of the pamphlets to provide that information? I don't get the impression that they are soliciting donations in the street.
This is just a waste of time for all involved. If the FSF wants to advance free software, they should use donations to pay professional UX and graphic designers to improve the look and feel of those projects that need it.

Making free software better advances the cause of free software more than this ever will.
At work I'm helping build Juju, which is Canonical's cloud management system. If you're using Linux it might appeal to you. A demo of the GUI service management tool is up at https://jujucharms.com/sidebar/.
The Verge Using Apple's PR Campaign To Ding Android's App Ecosystem.
No, oil is oil is oil, you'd have to blockade a country to stop it from getting oil in general, and oil from your wells just goes into a global pool.
Hacker threatens to sell data of 3.7 Million Israeli Bank Customers
Q: When to deploy https?

A: Always.
This guy makes the assumption that all problems are big problems.

Most problems are NOT big problems.
Don't worry, someone will change the title.
> It means that if you setup a company in SF you'll have to pay your employees more so they can afford to live there.

According to the detractors, that's exactly the problem. The engineers at Google can afford to live, roughly, wherever they want, while the waiters, waitresses, security guards, janitors, etc., that have lived in San Francisco all their life are being "driven out" by those Google employees, which are the ones driving up rent prices for the rest.

Note, Google is a placeholder for 'tech company' in this scenario. Clearly, Google isn't the only high-paying company in the area.
Funny, the "How can you detect a cycle in a Linked List" question is in the "Secrets of Programmer Job Interviews" Section (actually it is the Appendix) of the fabulous book "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets" by Peter van der Linden from 1994. Excellent read and apparently even the interview preparation section is still valid! ;-)
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It most likely had nothing to do with his computer. I could buy a new computer, use it only to consummate a transaction on Coinbase, and destroy it, and I've done little to minimize my risk.
> When 'tptacek is wrong, he's obnoxiously wrong, especially in his inability to believe in government misbehavior

For the record, this is incorrect. In past interactions he has stated his concerns over certain of NSA's "misbehavior".
I'm going to expand a bit on this. I am not a lawyer, but I see 2 possible scenarios:

1) You want to retain sole the rights to the IP and possibly license it for money to others some day. In this event, you should license it to your employer for a fee. However, this presents quite a tricky proposition of how you allocate time to spend on the tool vs time on your other work. If there is work to be done on the tool, you'd have to completely separate that from normal working hours, which may be impractical once the company is relying on said tool. The best way I can see to do that would be switching from employee to some kind of contractor role, where you could allocate time spent separately. As you can see this gets complicated.

2) You just don't want to give up the ownership completely to your company, but have no interest in ever charging for the tool. In that case, I'd suggest releasing it under an open source license prior to using it in your work. There are a variety of open source licenses available, and I feel like the pros and cons of each are well-worn territory already which can be examined with a simple Google search.

It seems like open source might be the way to go from your description above. In any case, you definitely need some kind of legal license in place, be it paid or open source.
It's literary license. There's no reason that 'splat' cannot represent zero or more printable characters or 'dot' be a reference to the literal character within a syntax for expressing regular expressions. There is no single correct isomorphism.

Though the point about Regex's being distinct from wildcards just reinforces the idea that regex's are not an obvious concept.
This is a bad interview question. It involves "rediscovering" a named algorithm on the fly, over the phone OR already knowing about it an acing it which is disingenuous on the part of the interviewee, or telling the truth that you know it and moving on to an equally bogus question. In the spectrum of questions, this one is near yes or no.

Good questions might start with, "how would you implement a system to ..."

or

"We have a system to solve VVV using UUU what issues good and bad do you see with this?"
Still, what if you can solve your problems and support a worthy cause, just with some inconvenience from time to time? Isn't it worth the inconvenience to support a worthy cause?
You can use them now on Node with the experimental --harmony-proxies flag.
If you have the ability to track the number of visitors to your website (I think the FSF recommends piwik for this) then you can get a rough measure of whether that number goes up noticeably in the time after a campaign, especially if you filter by IP addresses in the geographic area. No need for unique URLs.
A hacker can simply break into your account, steal your bitcoin by sending it off to his own account, and no one has to hold any type of accountability? Is there no way to trace, cancel, or reverse a transaction?

It would seem that you understand Bitcoin very well.

A review of all of the hacks/breakins/inside jobs since 2011 would have told you this already. You DID research its history, rather than jumping in blind, right?
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I have dozens of unique domain names to secure and growing. The cost of buying an individual cert for each one is prohibitive. What can be done instead?
I suggest checking out the short video "Flatline" on Vimeo. I can't link to it from my phone but it's worth a watch.
Have you freaked out when you found that somebody could analyze all your tweets?
I was tracking one of the companies in the twitter while doing competitive analysis. I could see when they started, how they started and when I plotted in the graph I could actually see the tipping point when they hit off. I realized that if I could do that about others, then anybody else could also do about me. I know some algorithm can reveal much more. This freaked me out
> subverting the IETF is a little like subverting the Linux kernel --- doable, but bad tradecraft

... and what kind of tradecraft, pray tell, is subverting a random number generator and planting it inside the BSAFE library after paying off RSA DSI with a $10 million dollar contract?

If the NSA is willing to do something like this, what is would it consider too unethical/immoral/bad tradecraft not to do?
Note that some employment contracts already say that if you use any of your own IP at work, then the employer gets full rights to that IP including ability to use it in any way they want, sell it, or sub-license it.

Trust does go a long way though.
Tangentially related: is the movie any good?
> [..]and HTML email never progressed beyond 1997.

Thank christian God, Allah, Osiris and Buddha all at the same time.

Something more horrible than HTML emails would be HTML emails with jquery and more useless stuff.
Please think about renaming it. This is the most generic, hard to find thing possible. Consider `vecmao` has only 13.5k hits on google.
That's true, on all counts.

Meteor could use Miro inside minimongo on the client, for example, and turn objects into vanilla JS before passing them to the app, if that implementation offered significant performance benefits (or equal or better performance and cleaner code, though the size of the Miro payload would also have to be weighed). Once the app has to deal with Miro objects, though, it starts to feel less like the JavaScript people know.
What about a CMS for, say, a blog? You want the administration console to be protected with https, but what about the main pages? Could I make admin.mydomain.com (and have the admin console on that) https only and my domain.com http?

I don't want to buy a cert for the site, but I'd be happy to create a self-signed cert for all the people who can access the admin.
Because you can withdraw your coins from Coinbase, that means Coinbase has a copy of the private key associated with the BTC address that your BTC resides in. Two factor auth is not going to prevent a rogue attacker or employee from taking these keys.

By immediately transferring the BTC to a paper wallet address generated on a secure, offline computer, it is simply impossible to withdraw the BTC without possession of the information on that physical piece of paper. This is far more secure than any digital or two factor auth.

Edit: I notice that Coinbase does store the vast majority of their BTC in paper wallets[1]. The problem is, Coinbase still has a copy of the private keys associated with your BTC address. While this may hinder the efforts of outside attackers, there still exists a vulnerability with those employees who have access to the systems that move BTC from cold to warm storage. That's why your BTC should always reside in an address you generated yourself and solely possess the private key to.

[1] http://blog.coinbase.com/post/33197656699/coinbase-now-stori...
> I must say its rather amusing to see the very American style hyper legalistic logic applied to most parliamentary democracies

You would be quite mistaken to believe such hyper-legalistic logic only came into existence with The United States. The US only built on the myriad of legalese already put in place by the British, Byzantines[1], Romans, and Greeks, <insert dominate culture/country of the era>.

How do you think Julius Caesar came to power? He abused the laws put in place by the Roman Republic by refusing to step down at the end of his term.

[1] The Byzantines themselves[2] have become synonymous with "complex political system"

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantinism