skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also seems to host a plenty of other linode related databases according to information pasted on IRC.
Isn't cunning just malicious intelligence?
There was an article a while back that discussed how most people's perception of what is "enough" wealth is always ~30% more than what they currently have, be it thousands or millions of dollars. Unfortunately I can't find the article at the moment, but the point still stands that, to a certain extent, wealth addiction has become embedded in our culture and we are taught to seek it from a young age. So to say that the financial industry is somehow immune to something everyone else around them is suffering from seems to be pretty disingenuous.
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Yes, I was sharp, good with numbers. I had marketable talents. But in the end I didn’t really do anything. I was a derivatives trader, and it occurred to me the world would hardly change at all if credit derivatives ceased to exist.

Hits the nail on the head for me. In the end these people make incredible amounts of money for doing what amounts to a job that is worthless to the society at large.
are you shitting me, again?
Found a copy of some of the DBs. ra.pe/linode2.sql
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Yes:

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-...
It seems to be the classic "security through obscurity" instance.
So bitcoin is the new quant?
Awesome, thanks for helping with the seeding! I'll also be trying out the new release today :)
Nothing's on their website yet... I guess HN is pretty fast...
The two common reasons are that they're resubmitting something that's already been submitted the reasonable way or they're letting everyone know before the official release notes have been published. That second one is a little risky sometimes, since it's not uncommon for the linked release directory to be filled with something that turns out not to be correct.
I think his overarching point is that these people (by and large) do NOT do anything 'significant' with their millions. They don't even participate in a part of society that is useful beyond making ridiculous amounts of money.

That was why I believe he highlights that he has started speaking to the less fortunate and trying to 'make a difference' towards the end of the article.

Edit: Not to say this guy still doesn't sound like a total twat. Look at how he ends with a sales pitch...
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It's one thing to talk about empathy and another to actually have it or feel it. I am sure >80-90% people on HN don't have it only to a certain degree but they think the exact opposite of this.Also you have to take into consideration your character, where, when and how you were raised etc. Empathy is broken in many pieces. Even if you think you have it, sometimes you don't. Others are just gifted with a deeper empathy and so on. If you think I'm wrong or need additional explanation, I will be happy to talk about it.

@TheBiv You just proved you do not understand empathy at all.
> In NYC and San Francisco, price/rent ratios can reach absurd numbers: 40 to 50 years. Why? Emotional bullshit, a sense of prestige, et cetera. Buying only makes sense if you expect apocalyptic increases of housing prices (see: Tokyo, especially in the late '80s).

Yeah, that's certainly true. I'd call those outliers in the same way that I'd call places going through huge economic crashes where you can pick up a house for pennies outliers.

In typical markets, and even ones close to those outliers, over the long run (30 years), buying an equivalent property nearly always makes more sense.
Uh, yes? You've been living under a rock?
The most egregious flaw in this guy's argument is that, contrary to his disclaimer about not advocating a technocracy, he's deceptively arguing that people should trust experts beyond their respective areas of expertise.

To see this, consider some points that should not be controversial:

1. Experts, properly identified, have much more factual knowledge in their respective fields than others who are laypeople in relation to those fields (the only thing the author gets right).

2. Being an expert in facts related to a particular topic does not mean that the person is truthful, benevolent, unbiased, or candid with the public; nor that his/her intentions, goals or ideology align with those of anyone who is asked to "trust" the expert.

3. Expertise makes one better qualified than others to make value judgments, only to the extent that the value judgments depend closely on factual issues. In other words, if A and B agree that X is a good policy if proposition P is true, but a bad policy if P is false, then the expert in the intellectual area covering P is better qualified to decide the right conclusion - but if A or B claims that X is a good or bad policy for reasons unrelated to P, then that expertise is irrelevant, and a false basis for following the expert's recommendation.

Keeping these points in mind, there is no such thing as an expert in "public policy". Someone may be an expert in factual issues that are considered relevant to policies, but making policy decisions intrinsically and pervasively involves value judgments and ideologies, regarding ends as well as means, and therefore is not properly conceived as a realm of expertise comparable to, say, bridge design, reducing infectious disease or conducting accurate polls.

Thus, for example, on views like the author's, if you can't recite the statistics about gun-involved deaths and injuries, you're unqualified to have an opinion on gun laws - but this is a gross fallacy unless you've agreed in advance that the right policy depends on those stats. But the latter is a value judgment, not a matter of expertise.

In this way he tries to parlay a sort of snobbery about expertise (he's obviously very proud of having been consulted by political leaders) into something like "you're anti-rational unless you shut up and obey". A real expert who's worthy of trust will instead present the facts, as well as possible to a lay audience, including the likely consequences of policy choices, and then defer to the public and a democratic process for decisions.
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It looks like this is the same password from the last hack. Did they really not change their passwords?
I like the idea behind protoshares and DACs.

Wall Street is next to be disrupted.
If I had to summarize European vs NAmerican, I'd say European is more group-based whereas in the USA it's almost always about the individual (even group protests feel more like a lot of individuals than a single group). Anecdotally, as an European, I can say that I always have a gut feeling of distrust when I meet someone very charismatic or who clearly loves going at things alone.
Possibly just that they have update mechanisms supported through US corporate channels, by which the NSA could push some individual Chinese-government official a one-time backdoor with no one being the wiser. (Which, you know, has happened.)

That's more just a reason to create your own Linux distro, though.
One downside to having a lot of empathy. If you are a really great tipper, you will observe most people tipping worse than you. If you are super empathetic, you'll observe most people being relatively insensitive.
Plain text credit card numbers in the file, usual linode quality.
At what point in the vid do they talk about family?
HTC is already distancing itself..look for the same result as before Google finds out and than puts pressure on HTC to drop it like its hot and stolen
Nice! It isn't quite the same since the spending party will know the private key forever, while m-of-n is a per-transaction signature. Still very useful.
That's not really the argument I'm making b/c I do ultimately believe it's the public's own responsibility. But nonetheless, short-term framing of issues is influenced by media, and that's often enough to nudge things quite significantly.
Thanks for the kind words and advice. I'll keep these minds.
The hardest part is how tightly coupled this project is with myself. If it fails, it's me failing, not the team or the project.
Given the fact there were 4 UX people and a project manager. I'm the one doing the death march at the end when all their work was done.

I need advice on how to properly deal with that.
It falls on me.
The framework is a modern blessing/curse. Since you mentioned other languages, I've written plenty of revenue generating software with just libraries. I'm about to write a fairly large REST back end in golang and I have high confidence that I won't need a framework to pull that off.
Email must be looked at as a "stream of information". No longer are you required to read, respond, or organize everything.

The best thing is to archive everything once per week and forget about all the unread emails. If it's really important, the sender will be in touch again.
I am new to WebRTC so here is my question: how can you "ring" my browser so I know I have an incoming call without you first telling me to go to a specific url?

I believe WebRTC has great potential to replace facetime and skype with a browser based version.
Singin' the first world problem blues.
If it is "worthless to the society at large" then why do people pay for it? Are they insane? It's popular to beat up on the financial industry, but they do actually do something: finance loans. Without them, good luck getting a mortgage, car loan, or a loan to start a business.
People wgo like this should check out ditaa. It's similar but then again very different.
Light Table already has coffee-script syntax highlighting etc from CodeMirror. What's missing is support for evaluation and auto-completion.

Some people have written plugins in pure js (eg https://github.com/joshuafcole/).
I've worked in finance. There are all types. Sure, there are asshole alpha traders who whine about $2 million bonuses. Those guys are pretty uncommon, they're disliked even in spite of their P&L, and no one helps them when they get unlucky. There are also people who don't think or live very differently from respectable professors-- except who have $12 million in their bank account instead of $12. There some pathological "wealth addicts" in finance, but not that many; and there are far more in the VC-funded startup world. (VC-istan is essentially Wall Street with a lower talent level and worse ethics.)

I used to think it was a negative that Europe doesn't have the same "class" mobility. If you're rich in Germany or England, you're still considered middle-class. Politicians don't worship you, your kids still have to work hard if they are to attend good schools, et cetera. (The "upper classes" are hereditary aristocracies that have lost 80-95% of their wealth, privilege, and relevance.) You can't become upper-class if you weren't born into it, but the flip side of that is that middle-class people can rise quite high. (There's less mobility in social class, but more in terms of things that actually matter-- economic well-being, access to education, etc.) The sickness of the US is that we unify wealth, power, privilege, fame, and social connections by creating an efficient market through which people can trade one for another. Instead of having a society where some people have more money and some have less, we have this toxic arrangement where some people are just implicitly held to be universally better.

The issue for the OP (who sounds like a self-indulgent twat, to be honest) is that he learned the hard way that making more money didn't make him a better person-- at all. It didn't make him smarter, happier, or anything else. He met his God and saw vapor.

The sad thing is that he's still better off than any of us. If he wants to start a hedge fund tomorrow, or raise a $5-million seed round for whatever project he wants to take on, he's got the credibility to do it. If he doesn't feel like working hard, he could probably use his VC connections as a cash cow by funding young startup kids on a shoestring while taking an unreasonable percentage in equity (although that's been done before).
After reading your comment, I find it curious that this submission from Slate isn't too far behind "Your most important skill: Empathy" [1] by Chad Fowler. It seems the general gist of the attitude "You're better off than X% of the population, so be happy" is rather lacking in empathy, is it not?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7084299
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I like how after all that, he ends with an ask for a quarter of his readers' bonuses to start a fund for his philanthropy

old habits die hard :)
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Given that the site is now slashdotted, can anyone please mention what it even is?
> If you are super empathetic, you'll observe most people being relatively insensitive.

Not really. I mean, I empathize with those who view charity differently than me. Besides, I have more empathy for the gas attendant who can't take tips (not allowed) who work 8 steps away from a Tim Hortons attendant who I tip everyday.
There's no speed limit.

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That is really scary. I mean, yikes. Credit Cards in plain text? In 2014? Come on guys...
Same mysql server also appeared to accept * as the password for the root user.
I know this is sacrilege to say on Hacker News, but for some people, getting a degree is a goal unto itself, and not just a means to a job.
tldr: like most things in life, there is no "one correct answer". basically, the cheaper the property, the better idea it is to buy.

yes. this tool illustrates it perfectly. [http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...] it actually shows why the khan video is seriously flawed.

if you plug in the values he uses in the video: (which are stupid and no money manager in the world would tell you to buy a house like that)

- $1,000,000 house
- 25% down (all $250k? really?)
- 6% interest (ouch...)
- $3,000 a month in rent for 1600 square feet? (in the bay area!?!? hahahahahah)

that, of course, adds up to a terrible loss of $200k after six years for buying.

now, let's change the numbers to something more reasonable.

- $1,000,000 house. (1600 square foot house in the bay area)
- 10% down. (that's all you need and this leaves $150k for investment)
- $4,500 a month in rent (according to zillow, that's what a 1600 square foot house rents for)
- 5% interest is more realistic.

that is still a loss for the buyer, but it's $45k instead. plus, you haven't completely destroyed your cash flow and investment capital.

still bad tho, huh?

yeah. because buying a $1,000,000 house in an over-inflated area is dumb.

now, let's look at something where it actually makes sense.

- same house.

- cheaper area -- not everyone wants to live in the bay area.

from some real numbers on a house i actually own (tho, i don't live in it - we're renting it out)

- $120,000 house.
- 10% down. (you have almost *ALL* of that fictional $250k left...)
- 5% interest
- $1200 a month in rent (again, zillow for that area)

that's a net win of $59k if you buy.

if i lived in the bay area and didn't need all my intangibles (like, putting in new countertops in my kitchen or adding solar panels if i wanted to), i would totally rent.

if i lived in kirkland? i'd sure as hell buy.
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Is your objection that an organization adverse to the policies advocated by the music industry is not painting the music industry in the most favorable light possible? Why would you expect them to?

Put the rhetoric to one side. What objections do you have to their policy goals?

> Also note that courts consider deterrence value when deciding the statutory damages amount.

This is obviously a problem with the law. Deterrence is traditionally the domain of criminal law, not civil damage awards, and punitive damages in civil cases are a mistake in the absence of gross misconduct (and even then it is wise to require a higher standard of proof). Allowing disproportionately large damage awards under the civil standard of proof promotes litigiousness on the part of plaintiffs and increases the power of plaintiffs with illegitimate claims to coerce defendants into settlements against the risk of a jury not understanding the nuance of a complicated case. This is exactly the same problem with allowing prosecutors to make charges with overly harsh penalties, but worse because the party choosing whether to proceed is given a direct financial interest in the outcome.

> Note that statutory damages are per work infringed, not per copy. So, if Alice and Bob separately infringe your copyrighted song, with Alice selling 1000000 copies and Bob selling 1000 copies, then it would be quite reasonable, all else being equal, for statutory damages in your case against Alice to be much much higher per song than statutory damages in your case against Bob--because in both cases there is only song

It seems like you've already identified the problem -- that statutory damages per song rather than per copy make no sense. Compare this to the typical P2P file sharing case where a defendant might be sharing a thousand songs but won't have made more than a low single digit number of copies of the vast majority if not the entirety of the individual songs. In that case even the minimum statutory damages would exceed actual damages by two orders of magnitude.

The problem is fundamentally that making 500,000 copies of one song is significantly worse (by a factor of 500) than making one copy each of a thousand songs. Claiming that this is hard to measure and using statutory damages to make up for it gets you nowhere, because proportionality requires you estimate the amount of actual damages in any event in order to set an appropriate level of statutory damages.
Not at all. They didn't say closed source OSs were more secure -- they said that EVEN OSS OSs were not secure enough for their needs.

For an example of what that could mean, check the sibling comment.
You're seriously attempting to imply that there were no loans/lending of money before 1993 (when the derivatives markets became a 'thing')?

Or are you just talking about the financial sector in general (and even so there were loans long before that.)

Wall St. does not exist so people can get loans to purchase houses/cars... You may be missing some points about loans vs trading here...
I think what's interesting, is if the Chinese consumers will buy it in large numbers, or not. The future of Android will be very different depending on what happens in China.
I'm not sure that's a good idea, because then they'd be made very sad by constructors, by prototypes being something completely different[0], by not having mixins[1], by single-inheritance, by dynamic inheritance[2], by the lack of blocks (and non-local returns), etc…

Essentially, by javascript not being a very good Self.

[0] IIRC in Self the prototype is the object you copy, objects linked through parent slots are either mixins or traits.

[1] although it doesn't have a lobby, which makes the difference between traits and mixins, js's prototypes are probably closer to self's traits.

[2] that's being added in ES6, yay. But still single, boo.
Not sure there's really any need for the ad-hominem, is there?

I'm replying to comments on this thread because I'm the author of the original post, and it's polite to respond to people commenting on your work :)

I suspect that we largely agree on the subject of death marches and their advisability, actually. Certainly, I'd say that as soon as you're doing death march hours for longer than about 3 weeks, or more frequently than about once a year, that's a Very Bad Idea.
I rarely wear a suit to an interview. When I was interviewing for jobs I'd show up in a suit and most developers interviewing me were in blue jeans, or flip-flops, etc. I now dress to be one standard deviation above what the people interviewing me are wearing.
I can't find anything in that dump dated beyond 2009. Isn't this just the old dump, posted again?
Does it come with a GUI or not?
Rate of pay for vocational work is a separate subject. The issue here is the divide between those that can follow a vocation, and those that (for whatever reason) are not in a position to.

The reason that it's a separate issue to rate of pay is that it goes beyond money. Even if monetary incentives to work did not exist, we would still wish to spend our time in activities that were fulfilling. Removing money from the equation would free up a larger slice of the population to find that which they love to do. Expanding that slice should be the goal, not having a go at those who are already placed to do what interests them.
You are not understanding.

I am not saying it is a safe /investment/ I am saying it is a safe(ish) /value store/. There is a big difference.

Your comment is the equivalent of saying "Saving accounts are not a safe bet. If it were everyone would be putting money into savings accounts until it stopped being a safe bet."

You have to pay so much to have a roof over your head whether it is through rent or through ownership. Even if a house is a loser, investment wise, it can be a winner value-store wise.

Now, you can totally mess that up by buying a home at the peak of a bubble and watch it tumble to near worthlessness, no doubt. But that is not the situation 99.999% of potential homeowners face.
I don't understand, I'm not really seeing anything interesting in the SQL dumps, were they scrubbed of most of their rows? It looks like most of the tables are severely outdate/deprecated tables that were once used for testing but no more. E.g. users, customers, etc..
I HATED chemical engineering. No idea why I finished my degree.
So I switched to Digital Ocean after the last Linode security fiasco and I can't say I regret it.

Should you decide to switch to another VPS provider I strongly recommend you cite the security problems when they ask you why you're closing your account. The only reliable way to get the security message across to technical managers and business people alike is to make it about money. That said the fact that this has happened, in this way, again to Linode is a very bad sign.

Having been in meetings, advocated for taking security seriously, and heard the rationalizations for a lax approach I can only say that as a customer if your desire for security isn't made crystal clear you have no hope of getting it. It has to be a deal breaker or not only will companies like Linode not learn, but their competitors who stand to gain from their loss won't either.
i think it's much worse than that. sociopaths etc are just extremes. people in general perceive the world in vastly different ways. it's because we all waddle around in the same reality and seem to speak a common language that these differences aren't obvious
I'm to paranoid to download it myself, but it almost seems like someone took their "private" media collection, made an app and released it :)
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-01/17/content_172403...
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