skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the original paper, not blog posts. Roy Fielding in chapter 5 of his dissertation: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...
I made the switch to OpenCombat, it's based on the same open source software, but without the spammy ads.
Agency officials insist that if Mr. Snowden had been working from N.S.A. headquarters at Fort Meade, Md., which was equipped with monitors designed to detect when a huge volume of data was being accessed and downloaded, he almost certainly would have been caught.

This, to me, is the most laughable and amazing part of the article. How did they think they had any security at all if this was the case?

"He would have been caught, if he had done it right in front of us!"
If it is a major economic activity, it is a safe assumption that the U.S. gov is collecting statistics on it. The pain in the ass is finding where they publish them.
I'm not sure about Google getting specifically into power monitoring. After all they already tried that with Google PowerMeter and stopped in 2011. I think the Nest purchase was more about getting into the internet of thing/connected devices market and all the different types of data they can capture.
Have you tried Fastmail? I switched to them a while ago and haven't looked back. Their web UI isn't as nice, but they have an honest business model with a much better privacy policy and migrating is pretty straightforward.
> In all the cases

Please cite references rather than hand waving.

Here is some other dirty tests: If I write a website that links to someone else images, I can still be held liable under copyright law. It is not good enough defense to claim that the images themselves are not sent by my web server.

Dirty tests are often not enough in discussion around law.
BSD has jails and rctl for controlling users resources limits and other analogous tools for process monitoring. The issue is systemd was not designed with portability in mind. Taking full advantage of Linux's features is fine for some distros, but Debian's philosophy has always been grounded in stability and portability.
The story really isn't about the 'twist' at the end.
This thing was built in the 1970's. It has no locomotive power. It aint no Mars rover.
I prefer Thunderbird's search to Gmail. I also have 4 email accounts I use and having them all in one client (and being able to move mail between them) isn't something I would be willing to give up.
Yeah.. but they are just using Bing in the background so it's not really a search engine, just another meta ones from the 90s which surviving thanks to gov. subsidies.
So you're saying Antarctica would be a good fit for Amazon Glacier (https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/)?
This is an amazing collection. Thanks!
Right, it might make sense to save an infant (although it makes a lot more economic sense for women who cannot have healthy children to adopt instead).

But the bigger question is why we spend so much money to prolong the life of someone who's in their 70s or 80s (and often suffering and in pain) for another couple of years, or even just months.
How I stayed motivated taking MOOCs
33% of the employees at my startup are over 40. They are highly skilled and hold PHDs in subject matter areas key to our business. They're precious.
And what about paying customers for hosted domains?
The engineers hadn't factored in management's contribution.
Udacity is my favorite because like Instagram or YouTube or the iPad-sepcfic apps, contents needs to be produced specifically for each medium. You cant take an mobile app and stretch to a tablet, you cant take a textbook and just make a PDF and you cant take a university lecture and just put it online. Udacity gets that
Ubiquitous computing…but I'm guessing it's the data that's important?
Just the other day another HN user was berating me for using the term "female", which he felt ought only to be used to specify sex and not refer to an actual person.

My point: there'll always be people who disagree on the appropriate word to use in this context :)
We're supposedly open-sourcing our codebase (it's for a Federal government project) but the process of deciding the licensing seems to be interminable (yes, shocking I know).
So it is. Which is one of the uglier fuck-you behaviors a company can pull.

(I make any web work I do work with or without an adblocker, because I don't own their browser.)
Would it be reasonable for, say, a car manufacturer to be forced to include a statement painted on the side of each car they sold for a period of time? Or a consumer electronics manufacture to have an apology statement on, say, a TV that gets displayed whenever you change channels? Something like that would severely damage their product. So why is it reasonable to require a tech company to deface their product? Now it wouldn't be as bad for some companies, where their main domain points to an information page, but the main page for Google is an application page, not a "web" page. This just feels like a bad precedent -- what happens when this is forced on another company, who's application front end isn't conducive to having arbitrary text on it (I'm thinking of like map programs, word processing, presentation apps, etc).
Our system is intentionally much simpler than this -- the idea being that if it becomes like a "language" people will do stupid things in it that need to be debugged.
I think it's cool Tim Armstrong asked this question on HN, even if did use an alias.
"Updated javascript"
This is the problem with futurism, it becomes a projection of the small unit of time we currently reside in.

Reading Brave New World in an updated edition, the preface was about the nuclear arms race and how Huxley wished he had focused more on that as threat. Since I was reading that in 2002 or so it seemed that elements of the book itself were more relevant.

To solve this we would have to figure out which technologies have a future trajectory, try to ascertain what that is, and also predict unexpected events that would change those trajectories.

Let's say that we think electric/autonomous cars will become a majority. We first have to figure out the factors that will drive that, whether it is ecological consciousness, the price of fuel, simple competition between established car markers confronting upstarts, safety concerns, etc.

We also have to consider the darker sides of human nature, and the intervening events that may shape the years between now and then.
The 'compelling' reason was "sysv has a ton of problems". Upstart was an earlier attempt to resolves those problems - whether it does those well or not doesn't mean that there wasn't a compelling reason to create it.
There already is one.
TLS doesn't address session fixation. (And certainly neither does CORS or the same-origin policy generally.)

Client fingerprinting (with cookies) does address session fixation. But but but didn't you just get through saying how wonderful your solution is because it doesn't use cookies?

If you're happy to use cookies and link them with server-side sessions, then just do that. (Just don't tell Roy.)

And when you need maximum performance, don't force the client to do multiple round trips.

> You only have to get that type of stuff once.

Most visits to public-facing web pages have a cold cache. Maximizing for warm-cache performance at the expense of multiple round trips for cold-cache performance is probably the wrong thing, but only A/B testing and RUM will tell you for sure.
Destructuring Bind in Python
It would be reasonable for a car manufacturer to include a statement on their website, even if it happened to include a search box.
>How can you bootstrap such a world with only one soul?

VC funding, baby! Don't worry about monetization yet, just work on scale.
> I know it will sound unfeeling

Yap, it does

> why, in a world with billions of people, we would spend a million dollars to keep just one human alive?

Because part of what makes us, "us" is keeping one human alive. That one human, one baby is someone's baby. If it was your baby, wife, sister, friend, how quickly you'd tell the insurance company and hospital, nah, don't pay for it, let them die. You wouldn't have to pay. That is why you joined AOL maybe and have "great" insurance. For not having to go bankrupt or make such decisions in cases like this.

I can see how someone in a poor country might be offended, but I am offended when a CEO who makes millions of dollars per year says that. Saving those 2 babies was just 15% of his annual salary. You can turn that question around and then ask: "I know it will sound unfeeling but I have to wonder why, in a world with billions of people, many making under $100/month, many sick and starving, we would, as a society even let one single CEO of some washed up Internet company that used to mail stupid cup coasters in CD form, make tens of millions of dollars / year?".
According to Armstrong, Obamacare forced them to increase benefits for employees in healthcare. So reducing retirement benefits commensurately seems like a reasonable way to make sure comp stays the same.

This is exactly what you should expect when you mandate employers provide a benefit to employees - they will cut something else to make up the difference. Employees who liked the other thing more are screwed.

A single good quarter is NOT a reason to increase employee comp. Maybe a bonus (note: AOL has bonuses which are based mainly on profit sharing, not individual performance), but not a permanent comp increase.
I wonder if it would be feasible to support Java and maybe some (most? some well-defined base of?) Android APIs in "native" Windows apps, in a similar way to how JavaScript and HTML are supported via WinRT's notion of language projections. Although this would mean narrowing the goal from "making Android apps run on Windows" to "making Android apps easier to port to and maintain on Windows".
Regarding the last line, I think you're thinking of the veil of ignorance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
> "isn't even that much"

Especially coming from this clown, who, if had just paid that out of his annual salary would still have $10M left to party with.
One up for Pandoc.
I agree. I am building something similar for a client but I am using node+mongo+backbone. I fetch the 'entire' site sans images and navigation is instant except I place loading anims where an image will show. Obviously not an architecture that suits all needs but very useful for a wide range of semi-static sites. In a way I feel this architecture is like the new 'flash': let the users wait for a bit while everything loads and then let them navigate very fast. (I also use require so some views may need adittional async loads like html templates or js but they are soooo small that the extra ms don't matter)
Another anecdote here -- I also use them and like the service.
They are probably going to scrap Google Talk. Even now you can't participate in group chats on Hangouts over XMPP which is hugely annoying.
I'm not him, but I'm in the same situation: I currently use Gmail almost exclusively through IMAP, and I'd jump ship instantaneously if they turned it off.

Why haven't I left already? Because it works fine and does everything I need.

Why would I leave? The way you ask, you seem to think it's obvious, but I have no idea.
When I'm evaluating a project on GitHub, one of the first things I do is walk through the commit history. The info in there is invaluable IMO for getting up to speed on a codebase fast.
Mmm, I'm not so sure. She's a spokesperson for code education telling a journalist that it's easy to code, and she doesn't know how. If she has to speak for the program like that, she should understand its learning process.
.... and yet, most people are not self-consistent, so apparently this is not a meaningless operation.
Understand – a novelette by Ted Chiang
I see "disinterested" used correctly quite often. This isn't like failing to use whom and using who (no-one cares). It's using whom when you should use who (because whom sounds clever).
Middle class leaving San Francisco, census says
Q: Would you consider working your rear end off for years on end to pay medical expenses necessary to save the life of some arbitrary human being halfway around the globe you've never met?

Q2: Would you consider working your rear end off for years on end to pay medical expenses necessary to save the life of your own daughter?

The reason AOL pays these expenses is the same reason it pays its own employees and the same reason those employees spend money on things like "television" and "dining out" and "silicon valley rent" instead of spending it on improving the fate of third world nations. People spend money on themselves and on people they care about!! There is more to life than the welfare state!! And it's a good thing, too, because taxation of an individual's economic output in favor of redistribution damages his incentives to work, and eventually you see the Laffer curve in action and the welfare state isn't doing as good a job of providing for peoples' welfare. (See also: abject failure of Communism, and associated famines).
I think it's more a problem of prioritising finite resources. Pointing to his salary is just an ad hominem attack, and does nothing to progress the discussion. Basically, say you have a thousand employees and $5 million. If you spend $2 million on two of them, then it only leaves $3 million to spend on benefits for the remaining 998 employees. Like it or not, it's a zero sum game. It's a tricky ethical dilemma.
More like 70's panel van art.

80s typography is probably best exemplified by Neville Brody. Process colors were rarely used (owing to expense) so it tended to rely on a lot of very dramatic and grungy layouts and spot colors.

Look up "Neville Brody" and "The Face".
You hit the nail on the head. It's the programmer's responsibility to stay relevant, not some company's. But the best companies will take an active role in ensuring their programmers stay up to date (since it's in the company's best interest, too).
I mean let's just think about it here. Is Flappy Bird really ruining people's lives? Flappy Bird? Really?
I have toiled for projects for many years which raked in far less than that annually.

I have seen people toil for many years for absolutely no return.

In both instances, subjected to "the internet is mean" behavior.

I will trade you making very little or making nothing and getting the worst of the internet in exchange for getting $50k/day for it, until the ride ends. In fact, for $50k/day, you can have my direct phone number. In fact, you can come to my house and piss on my carpet and blow smoke in my face all day long, for as long as the $50k keeps coming in.

Unless there is some sort of mental instability involved, I can not understand any developer - no matter how random or unexpected - saying "oh, the internet is so mean, I'm taking my stuff down and you can keep your $2,200/hr".

Also, can we dispense with qualifying everything with "the internet is mean"? this has been the case for decades. We don't need to preface every comment with it and qualify everything we ever say with a comment about how the internet is going to be mean to you for what you're going to say. We all know the internet. We've been here with it for a very long time. It is getting almost as obnoxious as when people begin every sentence with "to be honest", only it makes people come across even more insecure.

(I know this was a bit of a rant, but I've been realizing in recent months that a whole percentage of every podcast or article or show I ever watch that has anything to do with the internet can be attributed to the people on it whining about the mean internet or prepending forthcoming statements with how the internet is going to be mean to them for saying something.

Are we still going to be doing this in another twenty years or are we going to be over it?
Don't know that this is what the author put in, but what I took out was that he doesn't consciously remember the lives, but there's associative memory. In the Ambien hypothetical, you could imagine all sorts of different flinch reactions developing, without a conscious memory underpinning them.

I thought the author meant, this is how you get "moral progress", and why history becomes less barbaric.

But then, that would require most of the future lives to come at the end of his timeline. Which doesn't really make sense. Shrug.
On Password reuse - Implementing a one factor, password based auth puts the accounts security in the users hands. There are lots of email, password lists from hacked web services (Linkedin,Yahoo Voices, Gawker, etc.) in the wild and users all too commonly reuse their weak passwords across multiple services.

If a user couldn’t figure out how to set up Firefox Sync previously by following the instructions and taking a set of digits from one device and entering them into another, what hope have they of picking a strong and unique password?
history tells me that big companies like Google and Toyota are unlikely to still be around making a huge impact. A newer, younger company is more reasonable
5) Make money.
And when you have extra profits of hundreds of millions, you can take a few extra of those millions and shore up the insurance coffers so that future outlier scenarios don't give people the option of scapegoating that section of the company first.
Will do mate.
My advice is to ask your boss this exact question.
Ghost city: https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/Delray/@42.2958015...
> taxation of an individual's economic output in favor of redistribution damages his incentives to work

The part I keep increases my incentive to work.

"You know, I really want that promotion, but since the government is going to take some percentage of the associated raise, fuck it, I quit," said no one ever.
When I'm completely in control (writing a totally custom app) I do all my DB access with stored procedures. The application connection cannot see or access any tables directly. It can execute stored procedures, and that's it. I essentially build an API with stored procedures, and that's what the applications use.
Yes -- just to be clear, the submission you link to occurred before Google released the Gmail export feature.
Flappy Fraud? – Review Analysis on Flappy Bird
> Nuclear is an outdated cold-war technology that won't compete with solar economically.

Source? Or did I not catch the sarcasm?

Or am I reading this wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

Or do I just lack faith?
Sorry, but $50k/day compensates completely for any potential resentment. Especially coming from the real world, where stalkers and people showing up at your door and getting hold of your phone number because of a service or product you provided that drew a few nutjobs rarely comes with any compensation.

He should make all the money he can, laugh off the haters (whatever haters there are - I have only heard people talking either about how much they like the game, how frustrating the game is, or how nuts it is that it is making so much money for what it is). He could ride it out for a few weeks (or months, if he's lucky) and retire. Especially in his part of the world.

This artsy-fartsy turtle-head-back-in-shell thing is pretty crazy.
It's worth noting that there was a lot of noise about too much siloing in the intelligence community resulting in allowing 9/11. Arguably, this kind of openness is a consequence of that.
They already turned off Exchange access, but they grandfathered in any device that already added it. Unfortunately, now there is no way to get pushed gmail on phones like the iPhone without using the native application.
Your post would have fit me pretty closely ~ 7 years ago. Personally, I got into tech by getting exposure to online advertising with a side project. This led to an internship and then a full-time job in advertising operations.

My advice: apply for entry-level roles in tech companies on a business/operations focused team. Hustle and learn something new every day. For me, that has meant launching side projects, learning Python, advanced Excel skills, reporting automation (VBA and Python), becoming an expert at the industry-standard ad servers, and learning how all the pieces of the online advertising ecosystem fit together.

Depending on your interests and current skillset, you may want to adjust your own path accordingly.

Feel free to reach out to me directly as I would love to help.
That works as long as the database server is kept up to date with security patches. Quite often in production running a security patch is not high priority.

I guess it all depends on using this feature as an additional layer of protection or using it as the only layer of protection.
I get what you're saying, but at the same time, how can a company possibly know whether any given technology is useful to them if they don't have anyone evaluating it?
That isn't how Polygon works. They and their writers absolutely despise their readers and gamers, in general.
I'm the CEO of Twitch. We hire almost exclusively based on [programming skill] and [not an asshole].

Email me your resume (check my profile) and I'll either put you in touch with a hiring manager or let you know why. I can assure you up front that we don't hire based on school prestige or previous company size. While we like to hire referrals, we can't get nearly enough to fill all open positions.
Flappy Bird creator pulling the game from stores
This place has mods?
"I was able to create a new iTunes account with the same billing info and address of my normal iTunes account and leave a legitimate review on Flappy Bird in 2 minutes, 24 seconds on my first try. Someone who was doing that task for hours a day could probably get it down to under 2 minutes per account."

After about 5 accounts from the same IP, they shut you down. (Personal experience).
I added it to my profile. (Its my spam email but I'll go through it the next week.)
The <article|movie|book> itself is merely the title's host organism.

That describes so many things.
Do you give all your disposable income to poor kids? Why not - they could be your child!

If parent sounds unfeeling, frankly your post sounds hypocritical. Everyone implicitly makes a decision on how much to give away vis-à-vis spending on less noble things. Parent's not a worse person for acknowledging it.
Honeywords: Making Password-Cracking Detectable
> Pointing to his salary is just an ad hominem attack ... and does nothing to progress the discussion.

Isn't it the other side of the coin? I think it progresses the discussion pretty well. The profit pool a company makes is a finite resource. Let's talk about that then too if we are going to bring in logic fallacies and game theory into the game.

So let's look at it this way -- You have a thousand employees and $5 million. And you spend $4 million as salary to the CEO and then spread around the rest to everyone else and it only leave $1 million for everyone else. It is a tricky dilemma? Or is it?

What is the sum, for this "0 sum" game? Whoever set up that insurance pool might have been pretty incompetent and stupid for not accounting for such events. I am assuming there is no explosive epidemic of expensive-baby-threatening-diseases amongst AOL employee's families. So there is one person to fire on the spot during a "town hall meeting"
This assumes you are not solving hard algorithmic problems, but I certainly agree the open sourcing certain components can be very valuable - you can get more customers if others are extending your work and of course you attract consulting work. Providing a good, usable SDK is a good meeting point.
but you said exponentially growing... which typically means "doubling". You are now saying the 'exponent' could be < 1... then you aren't 'growing' anymore... so you refuted your own statement.
For anyone who isn't aware, this essay was also written by Richard P. Gabriel under a pseudonym as a rebuttal to his earlier worse is better paper.
Google Unveils Box For Business Videoconferences
Well done. Thanks!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7189178
They just want to point out that the majority of NSA employees and contractors can't leak documents the same way Snowden did.