skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shitshitshitshitshit! I knew that this would be the knee-jerk reaction of politicians. If this happens, we will get borders on the internet. And if there is anything which can wreck the internet, borders are it. Now for the first time I'm really scared about the future of the internet. Let's get involved politically now and educate these people about the foundations of the internet, and try to keep it a neutral piece of infrastructure. Curse the NSA for wrecking net neutrality, and other agencies for waging war here. The internet was international and neutral from the start, don't bring your territorial thinking here!
Actually, I love C and think it is very elegant=P, especially when you read its source code. But my favorite languages are Common Lisp, Ruby and Haskell. Concerning C++, I have to agree with most part of what Steve Yegge said http://bit.ly/1dUsZsv, although I used it on a daily basis... The only reason I am doing it is because the legacy code of the system is written in C++.
You have it all wrong, the graduation is when the lawyer becomes a USA senator or congressman on their behalf.

The accelerator is mostly on the technical side of Disney, such as apps for automatizing the detection of copyright violations.
Elvis Presley – Hound Dog Cover – Ryan Havens
Having to deal with Federal, 52 states and local taxes certainty looks insane from outside compare the UK all a business needs to handle tax is deal with VAT (sales tax) NI (SS tax) and Income tax.
I think that's where the job market has gone wrong in IT: bosses think salaried == enslaved
They're not showing "Kevin likes Acme Inc," they are showing "Kevin likes Acme Inc and Acme has a discount on widgets this week."
Indeed, I followed the discussion and it was almost entirely about which implementation would best handle concurrency concerns.
It's really too bad that you recommend an app that is practically garbage user-experience-wise compared to LastPass and 1Password.

If users aren't convinced of the value of a password vault, a god-awful piece of software certainly isn't going to encourage adoption even if it's "free"

"free" if your time is worth nothing
> True, but we'll never know if they used unsalted SHA1 or scrypt

Except that we already do know ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7245439 ) . This notice to the general public is not the sum total of their communications. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7245598 )
Bitcoin the protocol? Bitcoin the idea? Bitcoin the network? Bitcoin the whole ecosystem?

I would argue it was an attack on Bitcoin the ecosystem, due to an _oddity_ of Bitcoin the protocol. Bitcoin the idea is still fully alive. The attack worked from within Bitcoin, the network.
Earlier articles [1] have said that one could click "Like" on a company's page and then have one's name and picture show up in a sidebar ad apparently endorsing a later post that one had never seen and perhaps found distasteful. I don't know whether this practice has changed or changed-so-some-peripheral-point-is-untrue-but-the-core-objection-is-still-present since.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/21/faceboo...
Thanks for posting, fantastic debate. Might check out this[0] from a few of the former NSA leakers identified by Ginsberg that had been targeted for beliefs.

[0] - http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...
Yes, for me this is a showstopper. All MySQL projects I've worked on have REPLACE INTO and/or INSERT … ON DUPLICATE.

Postgres' equivalents of UPSERT that I've found either only work correctly with single-row inserts or are inefficient and complicated.

It's really hard to sell Postgresql to developers of a MySQL project when a simple 1-line query explodes into a complicated stored procedure for apparently no good reason.
I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if the actual use in the industry of effective intrusion detection systems was negligible, but I'd hope otherwise. I'd note that we wouldn't likely hear about many intrusions discovered by the entity itself, they'd ideally stop them before anything major was lost, at worst case keep it quiet.

And, you know, outside of computer stuff where I send my money to NewEgg, I do by default prefer Amazon to all others.

(NewEgg has good prices, superb shipping of bare hard drives, the very best and informative reviews, and now a question and answer system, which sends email to people who've bought a product in case they can answer them. Or so I've found with a fan I recently bought, and helped two people, in one case whipping out my micrometer.)
PJs https://github.com/jayferd/pjs is the sanest js classical inheritance library I've seen. It's very lightweight, doesn't mess with Object.prototype, and interoperates seamlessly with coffeescript classes.
Seriously. LastPass and 1Password are light years ahead for the non-technical people. God KeePass is terrible.
There are companies who can help with dealing with state sales taxes. E.g., http://www.avalara.com [1]

[1] I'm just offering this as an example, not as a recommendation, as I've not used them. I know of them because they are local and there were a story about them in a local business newspaper.
Perhaps I don't understand the whole keyserver concept... But how is a keyserver not a centralised "IdP" like construct?
Stephen Fry: An Open Letter to David Cameron and the IOC
> Instead, the more we imbibe of all the glories available on streaming services, the more we’ll need to shell out for high-speed broadband service.

You'd think that, normally, an ISP would try to upgrade the bandwidth for their users to stay ahead of the higher bandwidth requirements. In Europe, I've just upgraded to 100 Mbps about 3 years ago, and now I could upgrade to 1 Gbps for a little more. The only reason I'm not doing it yet is because my laptop (HDD) and router (802.11n) haven't quite caught up with this speed yet, and a lot of it would be wasted if I got it now.
What happens at Netflix when House of Cards goes live
Yeah, agree about learning assembly for the sake of grokking the hardware, bluescreen texts, and it helps when configuring bootloaders like Grub.

If you have a Windows XP installed somewhere, you can learn some assembler just by playing/poking the video memory with the old DEBUG.EXE program, like this:

1) Switch to fullscreen/DOS mode by running CMD.EXE and pressing ALT+RETURN.
2) Start DEBUG.EXE
3) Check you're on the right track by entering
df000:0, it should display ... IBM COMPATIBLE... something
4) Fill the video memory, e.g.
fb800:0 888 1 2 3 4 5 6

Try to understand what you just did :-) then try to enter some assembly code, start with the command a100

Re. our progress with computers, I think actually things have progressed rather nicely, ok maybe not so much with JS but look at Go for example, they're really trying to fulfill the old dream from the 80's of "sofware ICs".
I've just written some small test programs in Go, but it's remarkable that once I've built an .EXE file, I can copy and run it on other Windows computers, no installation or other configuration necessary.

BTW, I'm testing out Qt right now, in that framework there are some great promises of code reuse.
>they're probably slammed with other things

To be fair, GP did say he didn't mind if they delayed answers until they've remediated the issue.

>you aren't actually entitled to answers to all of your questions. You are obviously free to take your business elsewhere if their answers aren't satisfactory.

I would agree, generally. But this is an issue wherein the company has failed the trust that was previously placed in them by the customer. The customer already made the decision to give the company his business and so could incur harm, even if he subsequently chooses to take his future business elsewhere.

So, I believe customers are certainly "entitled to answers". Judging from the way Kickstarter is handling this, it appears that they agree.
> While you are an exceptionally skilled software developer and investor, you probably need to work on communicating in a more amiable fashion.

Why bother? I just used crystal clear prose to make a legitimate point about investors' understandable wish to avoid pointless and undermining publicity, and got downvoted by people who obviously didn't understand what I was saying, not for lack of clear prose on my part, but because of a lack of real-world experience on theirs.

> You don't come across very well here and nknighthb's point is both argued better and more logically backed.

Nonsense. I addressed the topic, and nknighthb tried to make me the topic. That's not only trolling and ineffective communication, it's a logical error.

> It seems very clear that those names would not be published in a high visibility public relations press release like this one without contractual agreement.

That may seem clear to you, but it's also obviously and transparently false. With the exception of corporate VC entities, individual investors are naturally protective of their privacy and would prefer it if their choices were not made a matter of public record.

My experience in this area goes back to the early days at Apple Computer, where we had to be very careful how we described the handful of angel investors who considered backing what at that time were almost two guys in a garage. Look -- this is investment 101. I don't know how to make this clear to you, but listing investors is a tricky business, not to be taken lightly. It's more political than it is logical, and it's not remotely like writing software.
I guess I should have been clearer. I think having the right formulation of the problem helps both approaches. The algorithmic approach is one that tends to rely more on quantitative/statistical properties and less on a rule of thumb.

Thanks for the note - I'll update the post.
Doesn't the UK have a mandatory 20% VAT? Isn't that strictly more onerous than anything you'd face in the US? Are UK taxes generally so simple that you'd recommend a business owner not retain an accountant?
I would argue that no one who has built their fortune on the backs of the carried interest tax loophole (Hedge Fund and Private Equity crowd primarily) is deservingly wealthy.

And there is a large overlap with the HF crowd and those who caused the financial crisis and the resulting 0% interest rate policy. Who has gained from 0% interest rates and quantitative easing? The HF/PE crowd. So they drive the car over the cliff, but in the end they up with new and better cars, while every else is slowly trying repair their old busted car. F them, I say. They are deserving of a black eye, or worse, certainly not their wealth.

a simple example from the PE world:
Blackstone defaults on its debt, and takes the proceeds to pay of the default itself. It's not exactly that simple, but pretty close

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/a-surprise-from-hilto...

If you or I pulled that shit, we'd never be allowed to borrow money again, but Blackstone can borrow at interest rates and terms the average homeowner can only dream of.
Well most spheres actually print nicely at that size (radius being less than 10mm or so), but yes, sagging can occur. That was just the first test infill, it didn't really hold any significant value or anything. The other infills are much better.
(Author of the software btw)
It isn't necessarily, but obviously it does exist. My point was not that instapainting is doing this, but if they are not that it might be nice to make it transparent how they are also bettering the lives of the painters :)
The sense you'd have to have today is that if you sign in with Facebook credentials your profile picture will appear on all your friends' timelines next to a made-up quote about how you really love the site when you don't even have an opinion about it yet.
I wonder if when all of this NSA spying was starting out in the government offices in Washington D.C.; did anyone think about the law of unintended consequences? Trying to spy on everyone in the world is a massive project. Placing oneself into everyone's private lives goes beyond simple hubris. It's megalomania.

I wonder if even now, those involved, have any idea of the nature of what they've done and what the magnitude of the consequences are shaping up to be.
> I don't think the nature of mathematics has much to do with whether or not we live in a computer simulation.

Yes, I don't understand the logic behind this idea. If our universe is only orderly because it is inside a simulation, what is the universe in which the simulating computer like? Totally non-mathematical, and yet rich enough to have computers in it? Seems farfetched.
Show HN: Papa Carlo – Scala incremental parser library
This looks rather clueless, I think. As others have mentioned, the problem isn't so much in the interconnects, but more with the services being used. But there isn't going to come a new Facebook or Google out of Berlin - or anywhere else for that matter.

What would be helpful would be decentralized services that match the user experience of the existing ones. But that kind of innovation isn't what's going to be discussed here, I'm afraid. On the contrary, such eavesdropping-safe technology would be viewed very conspicuously by the non-tech savy politicians in Europe and other places.
Interesting results and fan art: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ka89uCBeLl9VV5GPlAKuW7yF...

And here come the imitators:

http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_

http://www.twitch.tv/trakof

http://www.twitch.tv/piapwns
Hacking Flappy Bird with Machine Learning
Right now it's actually still a sort of democracy; it's just that the voting system is extremely noisy.
And corporation tax, you'd hope...
The actual use in industry of intrusion detection is negligible, and the systems themselves are nearly worthless.

For what it's worth: we don't generally recommend IDS deployments.
The plans for logical replication and the amount of work put into it seems serious so I would expect logical replication to land sooner or later (my guess is in 9.5, but I may be optimistic here).

Several patches of the ground work have already been committed with a bunch of other patches being worked on.
>I agree. It's good mainly for revenue-generating assets...

Precisely.
Heh, there is absolutely no way that the Conservatives will let the UK leave the EU. This is an empty promise to try and stop their grassroots voting UKIP.

The thing it, while many of the people who vote Tory want the UK to leave Europe, the people who actually fund the Conservative party make a lot of money from being part of the EU. The disconnect between the voters and the funders of the Conservative Party has been a defining feature of theirs for decades.

This is why mentioning Europe is so destructive for them, because they have to stay in Europe, but cannot publicly admit that.
That's not a problem in practice; if you give someone an address and they use it to pay with any conforming client, the resulting transaction will conform to one predictable, easily parsed format. Yes, there are numerous other transaction types possible with the same underlying public key, but they are represented by different addresses in all cases.
"No credit card data of any kind was accessed by hackers. "

Ironically there is at least a clearly defined system and procedure setup to mitigate a stolen credit card number. Essentially most if not all credit card companies will wipe out any malicious charges and cheerfully replace your credit card. And hopefully if you have more than one card that's not even a problem that you have to wait.

All the other information though that is:

"some information about our customers was. Accessed information included usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords"

...well to me that's actually more of an issue. Ironically.
Hash all the sha1 passwords with scrypt. Hash all new passwords with sha1 then scrypt.

Your new hash mechanism is sha1 then scrypt.

There is no excuse to do otherwise :)
On one hand, there's a social aspect to viewing an event simultaneously, and moderately large HDTVs of that resolution will soon be affordable.

HDTV is basically just what monitors get called when cable and antenna demodulators are built in, especially larger than 32". They use the same HDMI plugs as many monitors, which is DVI in another shape (plus some extras).
If you live in California and make around $100,000 you face a marginal tax rate of 52.6% (i.e on $1,000 of additional income you would pay $526 in tax and keep $474). Making $100,000 in San Francisco you are definitely not rich. Of course you also have to pay 7.5% sales tax, the new gross receipts tax, and various other taxes and fees.

Federal Income Tax 28.0% ($89,350-$186,350 bracket)
Self-Employment Tax 15.3% ($0-$117,000 bracket)
CA State Income Tax 9.3% ($49,774-$254,250 bracket)
----------------------------------------------------
Total Marginal Tax. 52.6% ($89,000-$117,000 bracket)
Agreed. I've started following his blog for this reason. An excellent voice.
From an outsider point of view, this looks insane.

If one of your costumers is in another jurisdiction, you have to comply with its rules?

Shouldn't the jurisdiction impose its rules on its inhabitants, rather than everyone else?
Ask HN: What do you wish that someone had told you before you attended college?
I'm entering college next year, and I want to get some advice from you considering that you're an intelligent, educated bunch.
I have no 'special interest'. I was responding to the idea that "we can't respond because of starving babies" comment.

That is factually untrue, and my response was based on fact, there is money, and it could be used, no babies would stave.

But I pointed out it was never considered because if the profit motive.

You seem to be railing against a position I am not holding.

To simplify:

"We could do everything we thought was needed to decrease global warming and no baby would need to starve".

I'm not saying:

- We need to do something

- We are the cause of global warming

- Doing the things we think will reduce global warming will actually reduce global warming.
That's weird isn't it? I always imagined private dentists to work more like shops: you get your service for a list price. The idea of giving bribes during shopping baffles me.

Russia here, which isn't known as being bribe free.

Maybe it is extra regulated or price-controlled so non-market forces kick in? You needing them more than they needing to retain you as a customer, because supply becomes limited.
Yeah, there are a number of ways that it could be thwarted. Any civilization that can achieve this kind of universe simulation would probably also have solved general AI, so the "heuristics" we're trying to fool may in fact be an intelligence far more clever than ourselves.

But evidence is never perfect.
"...people in your position bringing out the "but the rich pay more in taxes!" just reinforces my impression that harvard and higher education institutions are a complete sham."

Can you qualify this line? I'm not entirely sure why his providing the verifiable statistics bears any connection to the merit of high quality higher education institutions?

Genuinely confused - not bating.
"Upon learning this, we immediately closed the security breach and began strengthening security measures throughout the Kickstarter system."

..and

"We have since improved our security procedures and systems in numerous ways"

Perhaps when you do the blog post you could elaborate on what simple things (that were implemented in a few days?) were done especially why they didn't exist in the first place? An example being "we didn't do x because we thought y but now know that isn't the case so we are taking z extra precautions".

Also did you have outside security auditors and could they have done a better job? And if not, why not?
I got a Fitbit in January. I log all of the food I eat in the app and it (roughly) calculates how many calories I'm burning through walking or running, plus the passively burnt calories. It's now clear to me why people not measuring tend not to be able to lose weight. They simply underestimate how much they need to exercise, and overestimate how much they can eat. It's an easy trap to fall into. I've had days where eating one thing too many would blow my calorie budget unless I went for a half hour walk to compensate for it.
Winning is fun, but just playing sports is too, and I participate in plenty of sports that are not competitive, or competitive sports organized in a noncompetitive fashion (for example, constantly rotating or re-balancing teams)
Citation required.

Though it would be interesting if true.
Beating the unbeatable with science. I like it.
Quote:
#2 – Built a Solution Without A Problem (i.e. No “Market Need”)

Choosing to tackle problems that are interesting to solve rather than those that serve a market need was often cited as a reason for failure. Sure, you can build an app and see if it will stick, but knowing there is a market need upfront is a good thing. “Companies should tackle market problems not technical problems

I am trying to figure out how to think more clearly about this type thing and write about it. I am sorry to see so little discussion here on HN for this submission.
That's not true when it comes to age related diseases like cancer or heart disease.

Well of course! Whether it's "good" or "bad" is kinda hazy and contextual as well. A gene that might encourage heart disease at age 50 might also make us better at spearing ferocious animals at age 19.

It is very likely that an ample supply of burgers, fries and fat cheese (especially during winter) would have led to higher birth rates not lower ones.

I know of someone from the pacific island of Yap, and his entire generation was stunted in their growth from his culture's encounter with American junk food.

It could well be that much of our ancestors' lifestyle is poison for anyone over 50.

So then it's fine for young hipsters to practice?
Read the mythical man month.
I am a recent cord cutter. I was paying $46/month for satellite that included only local channels and 2 or 3 Disney channels. I also had HD service.

I now have a Roku 3 and am fortunate to live in a location where Aereo provides service. Unfortunately, the stream quality of Aereo is no where as good as Netflix. I can only hope this changes in the future. Also, my kids are now at the age where they are outgrowing Disney.

I now pay about $16/month for TV. I feel like this is a major paradigm shift: Instead of paying for TV in dollars per day, I am now paying for TV in days per dollar.
At least as far as visible hops in a traceroute go (admittedly doesn't cover everything, such as fiber-level switching), most of my traffic to the U.S. from Copenhagen currently seems to bypass the UK. A few common transatlantic endpoint pairs seem to be Paris-Ashburn (he.net), Amsterdam-DC (hwng.net), and Copenhagen-NYC (tdc.net).
Over the many hacks (breaches, as companies prefer to call them) we’ve come to see, as a user who at times felt nervous about how I was affected, I have tried to write a simple guide for how companies can disclose a hack in a way that will assuage my concerns in the best way possible: https://gist.github.com/ndarville/5072091.

I originally intended to convert it to a disclosure generator, but I haven’t had the time.

I hope it can be of some help to you in dealing with this awful situation, and I’m terribly sorry this happened to you.
This is an outstanding project with great potential.

Killer for many commercial, overpriced services.
"PATRIOT" Act. It is an acronym. The word "Patriot" is not part of the law.
>This is so stupid and pointless conversation

I agree. I think.

>You don't sound like a marketer to me.

>I personally am happy that chimps can't make facebook work. Less competition for me.

Well then, it sounds like you have it all figured out. Carry on.
"Jeff" comedy sketch