skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any services that will take my name, photos, and some personal info, and then shoot chaff across popular web services? Seems like enough bogus info would make it a lot harder to put together accurate information on someone.
I subscribed to this course. I also recommend Moralities of everyday life by Paul Bloom which I'm currently taking and it's great. A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior[1] starts soon and from reviews it looks like a great course.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/behavioralecon
I didn't know what this was and looking at this link it was tough to tell.

The github lays it out well.

https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch
Just a little marketing/human nature insight that someone will hopefully find useful:

"Fighting back" works as a slogan in countries where people are fed up or believe they have been abused long enough.

Americans are very placated and have an over-inflated sense of privilege. Calls to "fight back" sound like hard work that someone who already enjoys a comfortable life shouldn't have to do. I believe a better slogan might be something like "The day we reclaim our privacy" or "the day we renew our dignity" ... or something along those lines as long as the implication is that we are simply taking back what's rightfully ours.
"Offices with under 100 employees beat us by an order of magnitude "

Hmm. I sense a connection here. But I'm not a CEO, so what do I know.
Perhaps just like they're not really a "bank", they could try to argue they're not really an "employer", and are really "paying" their workers, so they're not subject to normal behaviors.
I've found this to be one of the better ones http://www.ispeech.org
Whom loves ya?
Elasticsearch mostly "just works". The latest version of Solr has made clustering easier (requires managing Zookeeper), but before that, it was either ES or nightmare.

Lucene is one of those projects which hardly has any real competition. That's surprising given how many real world software projects have a search requirement. While Lucene is excellent, it's not without flaws and competition is always great.
This saddens me. I appreciate clear writing as much as anyone, but are we not denuding our language if we attempt to describe everything using short sentences and a small lexicon? I hate reading James Fenimore Cooper as much as the next person (including, notably, Twain), but surely there is a place for complex ideas expressed with a rich vocabulary and nuanced structure.
Voice mail

250 new messages in voice mail

Maybe you meant this one:

> SIM-ERROR
> PUSH DISMISS TO ERASE TELEPHONE
> Sincerely, Your mom.
I feel this would be more interesting as a bookmarkelet to parse web pages. Like the Simple English Wikipedia but everywhere on every page.
This was a good start because it mobilized some passionate people.

The next step is building effective organizations for these people to get behind, organizations that promote a minimalist tech/privacy platform - leave off controversial issues like immigration, as much as it tempts you. The purpose of these organizations should be that anybody who supports it gets reelected, and anybody that doesn't loses their job. This is the same principle that powerful unions and interest groups work on.

All other bullshit issues of the day have to become secondary importance, or this organization will never gain clout.

Until Feinstein is enjoying 7-day vacations every week, the job is not done. If you're thinking "OMG, that might mean a moderate California Republican took her seat! Think of the childrenz!" then you're not up for the task.
Those evals() are valid only if user is authenticated, if there is no authentication then no eval() will be performed on the cookies.
your timeline is wrong. pewdiedie did it well after it was the #1 app on the app store.
The site has a ranking system for posts that handle this question.
If someone commits suicide because of some bullshit on a random website, then the suicide was probably going to happen anyway.

This is the same tired "think-of-the-children" argument about reversed song lyrics played backwards, Ozzy Osbourne, foul language, and on and on, that the PMRC lobbied against, and used as a point to provoke the parental advisory album labeling in the 80's.

The term "cyber bullying" (which is new and different) is used incorrectly as a catch-all sometimes, but really, it should be reserved for a different form of pervasive harassment that follows the victim across many different scopes of internet and telecommunications access, where ignoring activity originating from one source (a single website, the victim's e-mail inbox, or the victim's telephone number) does not provide escape from disparaging remarks.

This is not the same as one website providing anonymity or even pseudonymity.

Yeah, children are inexperienced, and thin-skinned. They don't understand the risks of providing their real information on the internet, and and don't behave with the sophistication of those that do. There's lots of things on the internet that are not for kids. LOTS.

All the more reason to inform the inexperienced to AVOID revealing their honest real-life identity, rather than encouraging rubes to engage in promiscuous full-disclosure so that advertisers and ad-driven businesses can make a buck off of "unique" impressions.
Be serious. It's not a question of the process not responding for 10 seconds.

If the same code in V8 is causing a pause to deal with GC, then the LLVM compiled code must be doing something different to handle the memory. Is it using a different GC? Is it running on a different thread? Is it just sucking up memory without freeing it?

These are all things that need to be known before getting too excited about the speed of LLVM compiled Javascript.
What's more puzzling than the flagrant absurdity of this is why the people involved are content to waste their lives creating these things.
> Objective-C is a dynamic OO language

Objective C is not a dynamic language.

Do not confuse dynamic language with dynamic typing or whatever the standard wisdom in the Apple cult is.
"...a startling 93% of the companies that get accepted by Y Combinator eventually fail.": http://www.businessinsider.com/startup-odds-of-success-2013-...

Good luck picking that 7% that won't, AND that's only Y Combinator startups.

Lottery tickets it is.
I think what both pieces miss is the behavior that asymmetric anonymity seems to encourage. The ability to lambast public figures from behind a screen of anonymity seems to bring out the abusive worst in people, and the target has nowhere to run. Conversely, communities in which everyone is anonymous seem to foster a degree of creativity and respect rarely found elsewhere. I think Altman was thinking about the former when he addressed the app, and this piece addresses the latter. But they're different kinds of anonymity.

Edit: Asymmetric, not asynchronous.
When I left Kidder (an investment bank long gone) I got six months pay and benefits, a end-of year projected bonus based on my earnings for the firm from the prior year and a nice bottle of bubbly.

I even got a job. They were closing my department not down-sizing. My VP told me the firm didn't want to leave "blood on the street" (Wall Street). In other words, rep.

Now in 2008 this changed seriously. Cause banks were dropping over like flies. When Bear (Sterns) and Lehman failed it got worse. But I hear now it's back to worrying about "blood on the street".

None of this applied to the back-office staff. You got fired there, you got a few weeks and that was that.
Interesting. When I came to college here in the US (CS, engineering department), I was rather shocked that most, if not all, engineering students came in with zero calculus or advanced physics.
Lovely to see venturebeat sowing more confusion around sensible usage of the word 'hacking'.
<i>If you're ambitious and good at office politics and self-promotion, it's entirely possible - maybe even easier - to pass from junior programmer to executive management without actually passing through a stage of technical competence.</i>

Sad to see this happening, but (unfortunately) being politic is more important in this century than used to be before.
It's your tone more than anything. I read some of your previous posts to see if you were a d-bag and I came to the conclusion that you're not[1]. This reads more like the post was a button-pusher for you. I can relate. :)

Unfortunately, even with the tone removed, the comment hits that "top-voted middlebrow" button for many of the other people on the site. I would however say that for TFA itself as well.

[1] the opinion of some random interdweeb carries a lot of weight, I know. :)
“We’re getting back to our technology and innovation roots, and we really want to be driving the best customer experiences that are possible,” the spokesman told VentureBeat.

Yeah, maybe if you took the customer experience seriously by, you know, responding to people's emails, having a human being customers can talk to, and not holding their money hostage, you'd be doing better? Just a thought.
I had the same reaction. Unfortunately the general public is ignorant about the different definition of hacking here. The author is likely ignorant about it too and not purposefully trying to deceive people.
Good thought. I believe SRP is patent-encumbered.
How companies alienate their employees. Chapter: David Marcus, PayPal.

Somehow, I doubt you can make people enthusiastic by threatening them or yelling at them (figuratively). Then again, I'm not a CEO.
Putting ads on the users timeline pages may not decrease fraud. The fraud issue is not where you put the ad at.
You raise a good point: how should a "language linter" be integrated into the authoring workflow.

I write mostly in plain text and have developed a bunch of command line writing scripts to check readability, passive voice usage, and naming conventions, but I'm not sure how I could share this with my less tech-saavy friends.

Should the language tool be integrated into the editing interface or be an external service?

Assuming an external service, how should it be integrated with CMSes (wordpress/dokuwiki)? Should the source, normalized plain text, or HTML be sent to the language service for checking? Where do the corrections/edits happen?

As far as the business model is concerned, I'm not sure there is money to be made in this as a service to end users, but if this system is integrated as part of a complete workflow for edits/corrections some publishers and freelance editors might be willing to pay for this---not as the final check, but as a self-service "run this before you submit to me" requirement they give to authors to prune the low-hanging fruits.
Doing Things In House
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It works terribly on the nicescroll site itself. Why do they feel like they need to mess with the scroll behavior? Why break the expected behavior?
So doing your job isn't enough for PayPal.

Now you have to show loyalty. And enthusiasm. And hack on the product in your free time. And install your employer's app on your personal devices.

An app that knows your personal financial details, tracks your fine-grained location, reads your personal contacts and SD storage, and can transmit all of this to your employer[0].

Will PayPal also go above and beyond the employment relationship for their employees? Will they show the same loyalty in return[1]?

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paypal.her...

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-12/paypal-said-to-be-c...
Isn't this a wake up call that PayPal juts sucks?
This. A THOUSAND TIMES "This".

The one drawback ES had in the bad old days was that backup and restore was a nightmare... ESPECIALLY on AWS. The new system they introduced was so simple I was concerned about updating to it because I was SURE something would go south.

But it all just worked.

I still have the Couch to ES replication running because I'm anal like that... but really... yeah... you can do without Couchbase, Mongo et al... ES will probably do everything you need PLUS everything you can't do in the others.
One of the benefits of being unprofessional, I guess, is that the products of our labor are generally considered products of the corporation we work for rather than us as individuals.

Google, SAP, etc. get sued all the time, though.
In other words, you want to use LLVM as a VM. Sorry to be harsh, but you're only the millionth person to think of this "idea". LLVM is not a well-defined protocol or specification; it's a library for making a compiler that changes with every release. Read:

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437...
For example, in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration is responsible for reviewing and signing off on aircraft systems. Documents DO-178B (and now DO-178C) describe the overall methods by which software that runs in avionics systems needs to be developed.

FAA personnel (or more frequently, trained FAA representatives within the avionics company) conduct reviews to ensure that the software is in fact being developed according to the prescribed methods, including requirements capture, coding standards, configuration management, verification, etc. Software is tested in simulation environments, and in partial hardware setups, and eventually on actual airplanes, before receiving FAA sign-off.
The distance between who I am and who I want to be is separated by my actions
I heard it as "dancing bunnies". I think more people will go for dancing bunnies, than pigs or monkeys -- bunnies are cuter! I wonder if scammers do A/B testing...
hahaha this is amazing. Thank you whoever made this.
Well if you choose two-factor by sending the code to your SMS and your device is lost it is certainly doom. Just as if you lose your laptop there is a great chance someone with enough patient and skill can/may hack into an encrypted disk/brute force the login.
What did I say that is wrong?

Oh, and Ripple is very different from eGold since it's peer-to-peer and open source. Most importantly, Ripple allows payments to "ripple" through people until they reach the end target. All this is very different from eGold, a centralized, closed-source payment processor.

Ripple themselves doesn't hold any currency except for the base XRP (Ripple) unit of account, which they require for opening an account, transactions, and various other actions.

I agree that RippleLabs has poorly distributed this XRP they created as their system's base currency. This has left them open to accusations of scam(not really) and greed(totally), which is too bad given the incredible technology Ripple offers. RippleLabs has also done a pretty poor job marketing their increasingly advanced technology.

In the end, Ripple can happily co-exist with Bitcoin, and offers solutions to many of the problems Bitcoin will soon face (such as transaction load). But I don't see this happening unless the cryptocurrency community decides to approach Ripple with an open mind, and unless RippleLabs puts down the arrogance and actively communicate with the community.

Signed,

A dedicated Bitcoiner since winter 2010/2011
Do you do API versioning at taskrabbit?
Journalists are only professionals in the same way hookers are. As Baldwin said “Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”

Will any of the NOW hacks who hacked phones have a problem getting a new job NO.

Was Rupert Murdoch stripped of his newspapers as a result of the NOW scandal NO
King has bought an old trademark, and you're not going to like it
Generally the less syllables the better...
Think we killed the server. :\
That's pretty funny!

Reminds me when I worked for Yahoo couple of years ago, I was not even working for the search team, but one day I got busted by a product manager of that team who saw me googling. That chick sermonized me and said that engineers were people with great technical influence and if I wanted yahoo search to be successful, people around me had to see me use it. I tried to make the point that the path to success for a product is to make it better in the first place, but that didn't fly for her.

It was also pretty funny to see all those hypocrites use Yahoo Mail while on the campus only to switch back to Gmail in the company shuttle :)

I love capitalism!
> asynchronous anonymity

Do you mean asymmetric rather than asynchronous?
I disagree. Honest discourse means you are able to express a differing point of view, even if it is very critical/harsh. Meanness would be calling someone a faggot when it is unrelated to the topic and that is never a part of real discourse.
The NiceScroll website doesn't let me stop the scrolling's inertia/movement by tapping with both fingers.

If this site hadn't broken it, I wouldn't even have noticed that this is possible and that I use it every few seconds :)
And no adverbs?!???? That's just ludicrous. I modified an adjective with one right there. I regret nothing!
In detail, that's not quite right about the A7.

Apple designed the A7 themselves. It happens to implement the ARM instructions, but is not an ARM design. The only other player I can think of currently with this in the wild is Qualcomm, and this is one reason Apple and Qualcomm chips maintain a performance edge over other ARM CPUs.
The way I'd do this is have front-end load balancers just re-direct to a nginx configured just for this purpose.
It's easy to miss. On the front page, the word "store" only occurs once, buried three page-scrolls down in the body text. Otherwise it very much gives the impression of being some kind of analytics dashboard for third-party datastores. And I didn't notice that until after I've visited the website, clicked through a few links trying to figure out what the fuss was about, then gave up and decided to read the comments here.
Did you try/consider Sphinx? It's simple and it's quite fast. I'm using that and I'm pretty happy with it, but I might investigate ES at some point to see if I can squeeze a bit more speed out of it.
Searching for that I found that the Software Engineering exam for PEs was introduced in 2013. I doubt that any states require it yet, if they do it's probably a provisional thing (way too many people that should qualify that won't because they haven't taken the exam yet, that's time and money to get certified, be stupid to require it after only 1 year of availability).

EDIT: Exam information (pdf):

http://cdn1.ncees.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Exam-specifi...
I'm sorry, but the truth desperately matters in your account. Timelines are very important in understanding how knowledge flows from group to group and from generation to generation. In particular, these things need to be highlighted:

- Computers became commercialized around 1952-54. Immediately prior to that, physicists hired programmers for the clerk work of coding up their problems (interesting note: they usually were women. You can find the story online of the programmers who worked with von Neumann. It's very interesting).

- Business adoption was pretty good! In fact, by the late 60s, software was exhibiting its standard characteristics - buggy, late, expensive, hard to control. See the NATO conference on software engineering, 1968.

- In the early 60s, dynamic languages came about in the form of Lisp. This did not take off until, AFAIK, Perl started making headway in the 90s.

- Cobol, Fortran, and others that I don't remember were standard in the 50s & 60s. And everywhere. These preceded the foundation of computer science as an academic discipline, which became institutionalized in 1969, give or take.

- Where did these business developers come from? I don't have job ads, but in my readings from the journals of the times, academic work seems to have gone on fairly apart from the line of business development.
Why wouldn't it be? Physical access to a computer is the best way to own it.
True, but just because you trust someone to access the dashboard doesn't mean you trust them to execute code on your server. There are other things to consider as well, like MITM attacks, and that an XSS hole would let the attacker set their own cookies.

The data in the cookies is just JSON, right? If json.loads() would work here you should switch to that instead.
P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume
Not very relevant to hacker news.
Doesn't Google Authenticator provide you with a list of one-time use codes you can print out and carry with you for just those types of situations?
I tend to agree, so long as you meant asymmetric anonymity instead of asynchronous anonymity
So this is a recruitment agent, then.
Not everyone makes online payments, some people have no need for PayPal's services. Should they be denied their job just because of that?
Have you ever burned out?

We're not talking about using positive thinking to imagine everything is hunky dory. The issue is strong negative emotions. If you are constantly having strong feelings of anger which you are repressing, that can lead to burnout.

Usually there are better ways of dealing with problems than getting silently angry.
Scalzi considers "ugly" anyone that is outside a very small neighborhood of idea space. It's fine for his own professional blog, but it's incredibly narrow as a general principle for discussions.
Is there an website where I could just paste the server IP?
He's Captain Kirk's abandoned bastard son, he has some anger issues, you would too.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/David_Marcus
I'm really glad you replied. I'm not trying to be a dick, but I'm comparing it other frameworks that I'm familiar with.

I disagree quite strongly with not trying to adhere to composer packaging guidelines, since it's common to many PHP developers (especially those on HN) that using it shouldn't be an issue.

Also, tying into composer would help you as a developer as well -- there is a very large body of packages available that are quite stable and reliable.

A lot of what I went over is mostly semantics/preference, however those are important to me. No shame, no guilt -- just constructive criticism.
If you can remember your password - for PayPal or whatever else - you are probably doing it wrong. Use a password manager, so you only have to remember one password, and can have distinct, strong passwords for everything.

I have to admit that I wondered when I read that CEO tirade (and not knowing what the hell Cafe 17 is) if his employees couldn't remember their PayPal passwords in a testing situation for a fairly legitimate reason, being away from their computers and therefore their password managers.
Not frustrating?
The idea of getting vending machines to accept PayPal seems ridiculous. What are the fees on a 0.65 cent candy bar? Does that leave any profit at all for the operator/owner of the machine?

Or am I missing something there? I'm interested to know more about that 'hacking' of a Coke machine he is referring to. Anyone have a link?
Didn't know that one thanks!

For your projects, do you consider the fact that this component does not depend on a specific framework to be a positive thing? I ask because when I started writing my editor, I considered to go jQuery free, but then I decided to stick with jQuery and create it as a jQuery plugin since people are used to components wrapped this way.
Stackmob shutting down to focus on PayPal
Offtopic: Scrolling is broken/disabled, someone put overflow: hidden; on the main content element (section#panels). Either way killing that rule fixes it with no ill effects.
Cute! I like it. I installed it on my server and it's ticking away quite nicely.

I'd love for the Processes table to have click-sortable column headers.
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