skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The TSA denies virtually every incident. It's a pattern. Their high school graduates are perfect people, theft included.

It's like the FBI, in 100+ years, every single shooting incident of theirs upon self-investigation, every single agent was magically justified. Even the completely unarmed guy that recently was shot 7 times at close range including the back of the head. All cleared. Just ignore how they deported every witness, refused to release any medical examiner results, etc.
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At that age most babies are experts at getting their parents to do everything for them...
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Lean UX by O'Reilly Media
- This is a good read for a better understanding of the lean UX principles but seems to focus on teams with a few more resources than a startup. However, many of the principles can work within a startup if adjusted to account for it.

http://www.amazon.com/Lean-UX-Applying-Principles-Experience...

Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
- This is one of my favcorites. Steve challenges you to really think about how you are building a product (mostly web) so that your users have the most frictionless experience possible and ensureing that things are made obvious to them.

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp...

Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
- This book isn't so much about web or digital focused UX as it is for physical space. Specifically, retail. It gives you great insight into the thought processes behind consumers and how some stores take this into account when designing their own store layouts. Very interesting read for any UX Designer.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Buy-Shopping--Updated-Internet/...

Storytelling for User Experience by Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks
- This one I grabbed tidbits of useful info out of here and there. Gives you a better understanding on just how to better build user stories for your product as well as usability testing etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-User-Experience-Whitney-Q...
This is bound to happen in any industry where supply of talent exceeds demand AND the powers-that-be can get away with collusion (either by virtue of being 'private' or simply being powerful and thus not give a shit).

So what if one talented employee decided to quit one crappy company 'A' AND is unable to find work at the non-poach pact company 'B'? The place he quit will always find another willing sucker 'coz the supply is ever present (with, at most, a minor reduction in quality).
There should be two different classifications for F2P games : Those who are pay to win, and others.
I've heard the same argument in respect to almost anyone who is successful today.

Saying that Person X will fail because their project/idea is not based in reality is a cliche.

Musk and a lot of other entrepreneurs who can be classified as visionaries, are not bound by reality, simple because reality is bound within the scope of the present. Visionaries aren't concerned with the present.
The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire
It's actually a myth that a company has to maximize shareholdervalue. There is no corporate law even remotely suggesting it and it is generally a horrible idea.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-the-m...
The usual saying is that "the adjective is the enemy of the noun," but on this issue, you shouldn't think about "practice" except in combination with the word "deliberate." What Dan McLaughlin, the amateur golfer who is trying to become an expert golfer, is doing is testing out the idea that sufficiently structured and systematic practice with a coach can turn a moderately interested, not particularly talented average performer into an expert performer in the domain of playing golf.

The research base that developed the term "deliberate practice," (and, for that matter, more rigorously defined "expertise") comes from K. Anders Ericsson[1] and colleagues who contributed to the The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (2006), a book[2] summarizing research in many domains of human performance.

There are a lot of popular books on these ideas, but only a few take care to distinguish deliberate practice from playful engagement or routine performance by an amateur, and only a few look carefully at the definition of "expert" performance. What's rigorously defined as "deliberate practice" (with coaching and monitoring of fine details of performance) is very hard to do long-term for more than four hours per day, which is why the "ten-year rule" was the original expression of some of the earliest findings on the development of expertise. Your sleeping hours don't count (directly) for development of expertise, nor eating nor hours spent on other daily activities, so it takes years to accumulate 10,000 hours of deliberate practice with necessary rest and play in between sessions of practice.

[1] http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson.dp.html

[2] http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/psychology/cog...
Great stuff. Can't see how to submit new resources, but I've just got to plug http://saas.fm . Answer a few questions and get a complete financial model as an excel sheet.

If anyone ends up using it, you can use the voucher code "gimme gimme" for the next month or so.

It's a side project I'd done once with friends, If anyone uses it, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Some insider, the next snowden, should leak the database to the internet. When crying children run to their parents, saying that some posted nude pictures of them, I think, this would an effective wake up call.
I don't understand how it can be cost efficient running CI on Amazon AWS? Seems like it would be cheaper with a private cloud ...
At least under Linux, you could -theoretically- verify the type of a connected device and only load and bind drivers you are actually considering to use on that device.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/authorization.t...

As far as I understand this, I think it still reads the USB descriptors (which itself has been shown to be problematic in the past), but postpone binding the drivers (thereby locking out an enourmous amount of potentially buggy code from automatically starting to work on your USB device's maliciously crafted data).
If it's "unlock extra maps for $5" I think that's fair.

If it's "125 tokens for $10", that's not really telling you the price. Video arcades used this abstraction tactic successfully. Make people convert money upfront, make the exchange rate difficult to calculate mentally, ensure that the user is left with worthless "change" so they top up again, to avoid being left with sunk costs.

If every time an IAP is offered it showed prices in real $/€, people would think twice.
> Apple launching iOS in-car with Ferrari, Mercedes, Volvo

I can with certainty rule out Mercedes, and I highly dispute that any manufacturer will be shortsighted enough to enter any kind of exclusive deal with a technologically isolated company.
The unexpected costs would be tied to game elements (like higher levels) that required IAP. If this wasn't made clear when the app was downloaded, it would be a deceptive means of marketing a paid app as free.
In a successful defense, does the defending party get their legal fees reimbursed by the suing party?
It'd be interesting if they required games with IAPs to show an "average spend/user" number next to the big "FREE" label, so you know how much you can expect you'll get suckered in. Although I suspect it would be pretty meaningless since users would be split between "doesn't pay a cent" and "whales who spend lots".
OK what if the attacker replaces the action of the form to submit to their servers instead?

Also Pandora does not work without JavaScript just like most modern websites. Would be pointless to sign up then, wouldn't it.

Lastly, what you are saying is simply not true.
A stock broker may feel as much anxiety from a poor trade as an astronaut may feel about a slightly anomalous course correction.

The brain adapts to different risk levels, but that doesn't mean that the fear experienced can be objectively ranked.
I think this is a matter for regulation because unlike a regulation deciding what you can and can't do, this is a regulation of advertising your product. App developers, myself included, have a responsibility of being honest to customers about what they are getting. Currently many freemium app descriptions tout the "free" and intentionally divert buyers attention from the fact that they have to pay later. Payment advertising is sometimes completely ignored and players feel that they are buying as a form of game play rather than as a buying transaction tied to real money.
Although I agree completely with your recommended course of action, and indeed your sentiment, I find it frightening to see our reliance on the emergent properties of democratic process so bluntly demonstrated.

We don't really know how to live in this society yet! No one has a definite solution, but greater public awareness will definitely accelerate the outcome, whether it be a solution for the general populous, or a "solution" for those in power.
I traveled a lot in post-soviet countries. Once I was held for several hours by military police for losing my way into restricted military area. But never ever anyone took my fingerprints, except TSA agents...
Probably not ideal given it's financial situation, but the userbase may respond positively, and that could have a proportionate benefit that outweighs the negative.
Right now, you don't.

Currently, having watched the whole Mt. Gox fiasco unfold, and having read from at least one HN poster who lost over US$100,000 worth of bitcoins, I wouldn't touch bitcoins with a 100-foot pole. I understand it's safe if [list of conditions which I 80% understand], but that's little consolation to me.

But certainly there is no harm in giving clients the option.
How on earth do you conclude that people who install adblock aren't rich? There is literally no sense behind that babble.
What comes after 2, 4, 8? a math riddle that doesn't add up
That code was only used past numerous safeguards that required multiple access codes/keys. The actual activation code was trivial compared to the layers of security necessary to use it.
Elliptic Vault[1] is an example of a startup attempting to solve this.

https://www.elliptic.co/vault
I use github and do a fair amount of Ruby, but I can't say I find Atom to provide enough benefit to move from a native option. I would have to see it used in more example cases to make that leap.
But,they can use their parents' cards if they know the password.
I agree that there is more tie-in than we’d al like, but given Apple users’ tendency to spend more, image of enjoying the finer things — especially good design, etc and notably with Android image of lagging when it comes to integration, and platform segmentation… I’m not convinced that it’s going to play against those manufacturers as much as you are saying. Then again, we are both biased, in opposite direction. However, with rumors Telsa is also joining the Apple side, it sounds like an uphill battle for Android. I can’t imagine Apple effectively tying them — it's too easy for them to launch a distinct collection with exactly the same models, different brands and an Android connexion. They already do for far less compelling reasons.

It’s actually a gambit like you find a lot in two-sided market approach (say, like that airline alliance ties with that credit card for miles).
How is this kind of thing handled in the medical and aviation industries?

Since you ask, I'll draw on what I've learned from my childhood best friend (an electrical engineer who worked first in the aviation industry and now in the medical device industry) and my son (who was a summer intern for a medical device company). Simply put, safety-critical devices are heavily regulated in those industries, and everything new is assumed to be safety-critical by default. My son's summer work designing the doctor-facing user interface of a new bedside patient monitor was subject to a line-by-line code review by programmers on the FDA staff. He estimated that the product he worked on would take six years to get to market, even thought it was just version 2 of a device that already worked and had clinical usefulness. Federal government regulators try to be extra careful in review of new software that protects human lives in those industries.
> why should we ever legalize drugs?

Because enforcing strong anti-drug laws causes even more damage. It's not that most people want drugs to be legal, it banning them does not work.

On the other hand a legislation like this is easy to enforce, because you pretty much only have to get Apple, Google and Microsoft to comply in their stores.
Reddit could offer Reddit platinum which would give users a simple user page / blog.
The National Library of Australia is progressively digitising it's collection of historical newspapers (some coverage from 1803 to 2007). http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper?q=
I guess the main difference would be that everyone in the network is a node, while everyone in a client/server network is not a server.
Yeah that gets to the "is it a good idea" portion. Honestly, the fact that there is any faith in Bitcoin is amazing to me. And I believe that it's a resilient currency that will bounce back from the current controversy. But I do fear that it may collapse entirely, especially if governments start getting involved and trying to regulate it when they can scarcely understand traditional money, or even other much more simple concepts.
I seriously hope that this whole episode blows up in the form of an implosion of RSA's top line.

That's the only message that will resonate with other NSA conspirateurs and make them think again.
I have the same problem. I've spent the last few years tied into the Microsoft ecosystem. Decided to move to the Mac as I got a hand me down MacBook Pro. About 9 months in now, I'm pretty stuck. With respect to liberating data from the ecosystem, it's pretty hard. It's also pretty hard to escape the interoperability problems. For example, I've become dependent on AirPlay, iCloud, iWork formats, iPads and associated apps as well as all the extra metadata I've meticulously pumped into iTunes that it doesn't update the files with. So has my wife and so have my children.

The cost to escape is quite large now.

If you include the cost of a vehicle in that, it's getting ridiculous. If it starts to force purchasing decisions then it's broken.

For me this was having to purchase an Apple TV to play media on because none of Apple's streaming stuff works with my (standardised!) Bravia EX DLNA stuff.

As a devops person though, I'm well exposed to different platforms (FreeBSD and Linux), so I'm slowly making a move in that direction and towards open standards.

I'd buy neither car these days and use a Bluetooth hands free (parrot etc). Screw the integration if it locks you into an ecosystem.
It’s funny because in the mind of Finnish people, Nokia is still a brand of tires.
The Justice Department intervened.
I guess it is risky. Many people see finding next job before leaving previous one as the responsible thing to do. Especially if you live in an expensive location or have family or other financial obligations that simply needs to be paid.

Technically, you can find "temporary" job in smaller company and then move to the company you "really" want to work in. It just seem to me somewhat jerk move toward that smaller company.
The TSA has over 50,000 employees serving transit related functions. If they were "getting a bonus" for seizing cash, shouldn't we have heard from >1 officer who was complicit in this?

I understand the motivations for skepticism over TSA practices, but I don't think that justifies baseless speculation about unlawful institutional practices like you describe (LEOs don't receive a bonus tied to civil forfeiture, which would be far more likely)
That depends. One of the problems, again, is that the process can take its sweet time to happen, and there's always a risk involved. Your legal team needs to be paid up-front, generally, which means that in terms of financial capital you're allocating your resources in advance, and have that much less to contribute to real business investment.

Other than that -- I'm wading in above my head, so I'll let someone more qualified respond at more length.
Does this mean that anyone who doesn’t want random and unknown censorship of their page comments should avoid using Disqus?
At risk of appearing to be some sort of TSA shill in this thread, you are not actually fingerprinted for international travel by TSA:

"United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (commonly referred to as US-VISIT) is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) management system. The system involves the collection and analysis of biometric data (such as fingerprints), which are checked against a database to track individuals deemed by the United States to be terrorists, criminals, and illegal immigrants."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-VISIT
You mean everyone quit together? That's called a strike.
I have to disagree with you here, specifically concerning the Script Your Car talk at 30C3. (In which the speaker had lots of experience in embedded linux security and no experience in car electronics, so he decided to hack the linux-driven hands-free set in his Volkswagen car. He was able to send messages via CAN bus that appeared on the info display on the dash board.)

First of all, the linux PC was firewalled with a CAN transceiver that dropped any malformed messages to account for bugs in the linux box. Secondly, all other CAN devices on that bus are designed to withstand any erroneous messages. Thirdly, this was just the infotainment bus. There are three separated busses in the car, the first of which has ABS, ESP and the motor controller talking to each other, the second has semi-important things like window lifters and probably AC on it while the third and least important is the infotainment one. The linux box was allowed to be configured so badly precisely because it couldn't harm anybody.

I sat next to a Volkswagen engineer in that talk, and he wasn't particularly impressed with what the guy on stage achieved on the car side of things, but rather with how much he was able to learn so quickly, and how easily he opened up that random Nokia box. Keep in mind he owned the box, not the car.

Volkswagen tests all of these busses and devices exhaustively. They do have to pass TÜV certification, but more to the point they don't want any expensive bugs to happen. You can be sure that IT security is taken very seriously on that front. (Also consider that once you are inside the car, you by and large own it already, so discussing further CAN bus attacks would be derailing. The attack vector here is through a firewalled device on an unimportant bus.)
The scientist interviewed is one of the most important biologist ever. He is worth listening to.
> "... and the options before us are to either eschew all technology entirely, or to figure out how to live without privacy."

A completely false and thoroughly unhelpful dichotomy. It's comments like this which lead to defeatist attitudes and a lack of push-back (which, unsurprisingly, becomes self-fulfiling).

Options include:

- Engaging in the political process. What's the point of democracy if people are unwilling to use it? There are so many fringe interest groups that have managed to get their way because they've figured the system out and how to play it. It's fucking irritating when smart technical people simply write off this piece of the process. If you want to 'hack some (non-computer) system to your advantage', let it be this one.

- Advocate for and try to use secure technologies. Security on the internet is a farce and ordinary people are constantly misinformed or poorly educated on the issue. Even developers don't get it right. It's in this state because the hard work of coming up with secure crypto is only a third of the problem. Another third is making it useable by normal people/devs and the final third is actually working on getting adoption of products and services that incorporate it. Of course, this directly conflicts with any business model based on advertising so it's time for new models too. Anything that gets decent crypto usable and widely deployed is a good thing for everyone.

- Understand that 'privacy' is a multi-faceted thing (and help others understand). It's completely ridiculous and unhelpful to talk about it in binary terms and it's made worse when people confuse privacy with anonymity. There's a scale on which people treat these things which is obvious when you consider behaviour rather what people say about it.

Change doesn't occur overnight, it takes schlep and conviction.
How many hours does it take to reach the last level? Doesn't that game have over 600 levels? At 10 minutes average per level we're talking about 100+ hours, which is several weeks of full-time occupation. If you have lots of friends who did that, we're talking about collectively months of FTE. If those had been paid hours, how much money would they have earned in that time?

I'm not going anywhere with this, just wondering about the staggering amount of time that gets sucked into games like candy crush.
As with earlier numbers: sounds like it should be enough for anybody, but I can think of a number of other companies which have been excluded from the suit which should be included. Cisco comes to mind.
A No-Excuses Guide to Blogging
This is more of a "How to improve your learning technique" guide. Using blogging.
And the US is not the only country which fingerprints non-citizens on arrival. I know Japan does, and possibly other countries too.
I've never read so many comments from so many people wanting to give money to products they hate to support companies that use tactics you deplore.
This story sounded a lot like the one that happend to me in 1984. It's rather hard to describe a place I was working at the time beyond saying it was a restricted access area. Anyway, I was detained by security for walking out from the gates with a floppy disk and a programming manual. I had to explain what a floppy disk is. It wasn't actually very funny, mostly because my quarterly bonus was at stake. The funny part was to read the incident report, that said I was detained with one "manual" and one "information".
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The myth of self help has replaced religion (translated from Swedish)
Wow. The quote in that section is stunning. Definitely worth a click-through. Thanks for posting this.
This is excellent advice, and quite ancient, too. I first read of the approach in a guide to Stoic Philosophy, and have been attempting it ever since, with good results :)

http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/01953...
Where is the story? No link
"I've heard quite a lot of people that talk about post-privacy, and they talk about it in terms of feeling like, you know, it's too late, we're done for, there's just no possibility for privacy left anymore and we just have to get used to it. And this is a pretty fascinating thing, because it seems to me that you never hear a feminist say that we're post-consent because there is rape. And why is that? The reason is that it's bullshit."

-- Jacob Appelbaum ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3h46EbqhPo&t=7m46s )
Correct, and if you do that, methods will invariably end up small.

If you'd said "usually", I'd have agreed with you, but "invariably" is far too strong. Sometimes the logic you need to implement is fundamentally complicated, and so the code you write to implement it must inevitably be at least that complicated. If that means writing a 100 line function, but the function really is doing one job, at one level of abstraction, in a cohesive way, then so be it.
The Volvo that's coming out this year runs Android. I know because I have a friend who drives a prerelease model. So it would seem like weird move from them.

Perhaps they're doing market segmentation with it?