skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've felt like quantified self is like an engineer's magic diet pill. If you track how many steps you take you must be losing weight!
Hackers don't really have much motivation to seriously go after many sites. Or if they do they don't do much harm.

But with bitcoin there is huge motivation. Anyone running a bitcoin website has a huge target painted on them.

How do banks manage to make websites without being hacked?

Do they not get hacked in the first place, or is it because they are able to "undo" most thefts?
So many times people forget the legal principal.

It's like those tacky trailers at the start of a movie "pirating movies is illegal". First question the judge asks - what steps did you do to prevent pirating and when did you notify your customers.
The UK used to have talking therapies available on the National Health Service, but since the Conservative government cut the NHS budget I know of no-one who has been able to get them.
totally agree,lol, i'd format the hardrive too just in case. 10 times if needed...
> So, what conditions will best help PayPal continue to grow its user base, increase revenues, and bolster its profit margins on a consistent and ongoing basis?

Well, on the last two: freeze all user accounts, confiscate the funds contained within, make charges of $5000 to each credit card holder, and justify it by linking to your terms of use.

You know, PayPal.
Of course they won't. It would take a politically suicidal president or congressperson to try to rein them in, in any way other than as a token gesture.
But each frame is a separate JPEG, right? So I'm guessing the compression here is less than fantastic.
Not true. I usually need a bit of psyching-up time if I'm going to a party, advance warning so I can get used to the idea and refocus my mental state outwards, but I enjoy them fine once I'm there. And I love places like coffee shops where I can hang out by myself and read, but be around people and maybe see someone I know and have a spontaneous chat.
As someone with personal experience inside academic psychology and academic computer science, it's my impression that psychology is far stronger as a field, having a much more rigorous community dedicated to scientific truth, and exhaustive standards of review and experimental design.

But, I'm sure that your general opinion is well-informed as well, or you wouldn't make such strong claims about a very broad field. What's your background in psychology, and what makes you say the things you do about it?
I believe that typically DCP movies are delivered via hard drive or satellite.
Is my first iOS game too hard?
My first iOS game (http://appstore.com/frogtrip), which is free and has no ads, went live on the app store about 9 hours ago.

The good: the game is already in the top charts (Arcade & Action categories).

The bad: I've received feedback from some that the game is too hard.

Thing is, I designed the game to be extremely challenging. I did so knowing it wouldn't appeal to everyone. I want players to fight for every point.

But I'm wondering now, when is too hard actually too hard? If there is a line, is my game crossing it?
"Seriously, who wears a hoodie at an office party?"
- As the only intern in a small office, I did it last year :) (Partially because I was forced to go)
I'll put odds equal to the odds that these assholes in Congress will ever be punished for their crimes.
Update: See http://www.learneroo.com/modules/64/nodes/350
Good thing there were no questions about extrapolating from a sample size of 1.
The thing I would be wondering in a Congressperson's shoes shoes: what other things have I been doing that the CIA has been spying on?

Chilling effects indeed.

And for those inclined to brush that away as implausible, it might be time for a refresher on J. Edgar Hoover and his secret files on political leaders. [1] 50 years later, our tech is a lot better, so it would be much easier to gain inordinate power through surveillance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
A lot of great points. I've worked with a lot of people that know one language well but are almost willfully ignorant to others... even when the skills are needed on the current projects. I've gotten to where when I interview applicants I worry less if they know the answer to esoteric questions about rarely used features of certain languages and spend more time on architecture, testing/debugging and deployments. It's amazing how many people interview with 15 years of Java but no experience with Continuous Integration and testing techniques beyond JUnit.
I was going to comment to say ability to pause/rewind would be awesome. Seems like you've already done that! I also like the interaction of selecting the text you want to speed-read.

One thing that might be interesting, is a shortcut to jump to the article where the current word is.
This happens when I want to glance at a paragraph above, and don't want to rewind all the way back.
When it comes to McAffee and Symantec I don't trust a regular uninstall. Until I do a clean install of the OS the machine is forever unclean (any fans of "The League" out there?)
An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.
"he needs to get better at saying no to people" but if he had not gone to the party he might not have stumbled on his solution.
To each their own, but I think it's a fancy way of procrastination/avoidance/navel-gazing.

The examples on the site include how many tweets you wrote (ok), tracks you listened to (erm... ok), checkins you had, and the max degrees Celsius for your location that day (what?).

In general, you optimize what you measure, but eventually it becomes a parody of itself.
Your startup: vitamin or painkiller?
Yes, you can be. Introversion doesn't mean you hate people, it means you recharge by being alone.
This website has a lot of unclosed h3 tags
Oh man, I hate this as much as the next person, but I think
the best thing we can say right now is that there is nowhere
near enough (public) evidence that this is a believable allegation.
What we have is an article from McClatchy whose title ends in
a question mark (“Probe: Did the CIA spy on the U.S. Senate?”),
which to me is the red flag of red flags that they have no
level of certainty whatsoever. Then the article seems to draw
dubious lines between this allegation and some questions in
hearings. Other articles building on it imply additional
tenuous connections between all this stuff and a letter
Mark Udall wrote that may be referencing this vaguely, maybe.

It's a problem that all of this stuff has to remain vague.
It gets in the way of our reaching conclusions. But assuming
the lack of information is information in and of itself is
problematic for me in this case. I think it's fair to wait
and see what the justice department's investigation, if any,
reveals. If there's no investigation, then we have to make
do with the information we have.

The fact that the CIA has been shown to be doing all sorts
of terrible stuff doesn't mean that our obligation to be
skeptical about allegations in general needs to be suspended.
To me, it's likely that this is true, but I won't tout it
as fact until something clearer than the current foggy tangle
of vague statements emerges.

As a side note, I think the greater question to arise from this
is the fact that during a Congressional investigation, it was
through agreement that the CIA wasn't supposed to be
monitoring Congressional investigators. Why is that sort of
thing not clearly ensconced in law?
under the Patriot Act the lines are no longer clear cut and dry like you imply.
congress will want blood, sadly not for spying on the american people but for spying on them.
Nope. Because they have dirt on everyone; and because politics is a messy business, there's plenty of dirt to be found if you have the kind of resources that they do.

Heck, Clapper lied _openly_ and admitted it later, only to get away scot free. (Yes, I have read the entire account in detail. He lied. There's no doubt about it.)
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This looks amazing and further increases my respect for Michael Hartl. I don't really have publishing intentions, yet making this as seamless as it is should allow people who have talent and desire to publish their works easily.

I see that Michael is answering questions here, so here is one. If someone decides to publish... let's skip anarchy, let's say erotic and porn novels, is this still game?

Now that I think this through, someone can use toolchain and get their stuff published anyway, I would just like to know, where are boundaries of your service?
It's not McClatchy that's making it up. It's in Senator Udall's letter to Obama.
Nice $600/month saving for me! I can't wait for ELB and CloudFront to implement SPDY and WebSockets!
^ saunas
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If you take the story literally, yes. If you assume that the problem is slightly more complicated and the author simplified for the benefit of having a readable story, your little notes app does squat.

If the solution for a complicated problem comes to you this way, you have managed to see dozens of moving parts at just the right time, from just the right angle, in your mind. It is incredibly hard to hold on to that, and writing it out in notes takes several pages.

When that solution comes to you, you cling on to it for dear life until you can put it into a form that works - several pages of notes, a test proving your point, a large diagram. Whatever it is. None of those answers can be captured with a phone app.
Might want to throw your +1 in this AWS thread: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=353099 [Add SPDY protocol support to ELBs]
If you don't believe that a product's price effects its sales, then you could have simply stated this several comments back, rather than role-playing a computer by placing critical importance on the form of my saying why I assumed you agreed with that widely-held belief. Then we could have actually talked about the actual non-meta issue.
There's TOEFL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_of_English_as_a_Foreign_La...
This is what a code commit should look like
Firefox succeed because it was so obvious to people that IE sucked, period. IE was a shitty product, MSFT did not care.

Firefox with it's tabs,it's plugins was a natural choice for internet users.It was faster,more reliable and gave the best experience.No need for a sales team to promote that.

By the way i think that without Mozilla there would have been no Google success story,but that's a discussion for another time...;)

The envirronment is much more different today.
I'm like this: It pretty much drives me insane.
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The thing I have noticed is that there usually seems to be a lack of humility towards the customers that are being burned in these kind of write-ups.

It is all happy sunshine, rainbows and unicorns and no mention of the trouble they are causing to people who use the service.

It kind of smacks of "Thanks for signing so that we could get noticed by big company, so long chumps!"

I also worry about the well poisoning. It is almost like a lot of start-ups are not being run as companies but as portfolios to demonstrate skill for aqui-hiring.
I'm not sure what alternative you have in mind. The pigs who patrol our streets are very much in favor of having crufty laws on the books for the purpose of abusing their political enemies and the less fortunate, and politicians are generally supportive of pigs.
There's just not enough fuel in the outrage tank to keep up with all of these revelations, which starts to look a lot like disaffection/acceptance.
Wow, that really sucks. Bookmarklets can be really useful.
I was in an interview on Monday, and the tech lead and I were having a good giggle about that exact cartoon! I told him about The Headphones Rule[0], and he thought it was an awesome idea. Funny coincidence.

[0] http://theheadphonesrule.com/
Right, because the CIA has no electronic surveillance capabilities whatsoever. They can't cast a large dragnet over all of the country's communications like the NSA can, but they can sure as hell tap a few congressmen's phones and email.
They do it by hiring competent people, by following standardized accounting and security practices, by having third party auditing, etc. All those things that companies like Mt Gox eschewed in the name of being able to rapidly push site updates without testing, etc. Yes, an environment with more stringent testing is less "fun," but at the same time, it's a lot more secure.
I agree with this 100%, if you need them you should take them.

That said, just because you need them at one point in your life doesn't mean you will always need them. I was on various things for around 9 years before making a serious attempt to see if I still needed them. Tapering was a long difficult process, but it's been almost a year now and I'm glad to be off. I'll certainly go back on if I need to, but for now I don't.
"60 percent complained of feeling emotionally numb" ... which is essentially what major depression is, interestingly enough.

It isn't surprising that these drugs would cause depression and suicidal thoughts / actions. What is surprising (or was at least) is the rate at which doctors prescribe these drugs (SSRI, SSNRI, Wellbutrin) after barely knowing someone for 15 to 20 minutes. Their insistence that they have an answer when they have no idea what these drugs do or how they work is literally driving people insane. These drugs should come with a warning (along with many other "mental health" drugs like benzodiazepines) not only on the label, but from every doctor who prescribes them.

But doctors and pharmaceutical companies make too much money to worry about ineffective, unstudied drugs such as these killing people and ruining lives. So forget that. Let's lie to people and tell them that help exists, it's in a pill, and that's all they need to feel better.

If you want help, talk to a friend, not a doctor (psychiatrist usually) whose main interest is to keep you hooked and coming back for more. After all, in this case too, you are the product.
It really depends. This reminds me of when I took a bunch of writing courses. I found that some people didn't "get" my stories, but the feedback they gave actually means that they experienced what I wanted them to experience when they read the stories. They didn't like it, but it's what I intended, so... it was a win, right?

So it depends on what you're going for. If you intended it to be really hard, and people say it's hard, you win. Now, if they are also giving it really bad reviews (few stars) and that affects you in some way, then you need to somehow integrate the difficulty into the game in a way that makes it clear to people.

You need to present the game as a challenge that not everyone is up to (maybe you already do, I haven't checked yet) but this should help make things more clear to people up front.

At the end of the day, people who type into text areas on the Internet are fickle and don't care about you, so don't take it too hard.

edit: just read your description. I think you should try changing it to a challenge, rather than a caution sign. Make it a call to action of sorts, see if people are up to the challenge rather than saying "you aren't up for it, don't bother."
>under the Patriot Act the lines are no longer clear cut and dry like you imply.

This is incredibly creepy to see under two deleted posts.
> the only solution is to educate.

Exactly. The more things you do to restrict users so "it's safer for them", the more reckless and stupid they'll become - "because $security_feature will protect me" - and they won't ever learn anything. On the other hand, if we give them the freedom to make mistakes, those that do will learn from them. Instead of trying to block "self-XSS" or telling everyone "don't listen to anyone telling you to paste something into the URL bar", we should be encouraging them with "if you don't know what it does or don't trust the one who told you to do that, then don't do it - or find out what it really does." That last part is particularly important, since it encourages curiosity and that motivates learning.

I understand that many people would just want to use something and not want to learn all that much, but I feel we should also not be encouraging this "lack of thought" mentality either.
You can also setup the authorized_keys file to only run specific commands as root with a given certificate. This is usually easier for automated tasks. Especially if the key is also restricted by remote IP address b
I have worked at the Walmart home office, and if Target's corporate culture is remotely like Walmart's I can tell you their former CIO likely knew half as much about Target's security practices as any of us do.

Walmart has zero career paths for technical expertise. There are low-level technical positions (rarely entry-level) and they peak at "Technical Expert", and to get past that you have to switch to pure people management.

The IT division, internally called ISD, is so completely inept that the majority of the company still runs on Windows XP despite the fact that support will expire in about a month. They had a Windows 7 team at one point, but that team was dissolved and the rollout "suspended indefinitely".

ISD is so universally recognized as terrible that they were actually the only reason I had a job there. Individual departments and divisions have been forming their own "IT Teams" for years, because it's a hell of a lot cheaper to pay somebody $70,000/year to create a half a dozen new applications yearly than it is to pay ISD $2.8 million to do one of those applications poorly over the course of two years. And then completely dissolve the development team responsible and offer little to no ongoing support for the application.

Despite those exorbitant costs ISD is hemorrhaging money just trying desperately to keep the lights on, mostly because they're still running decades-old legacy applications and hardware. They only recently started drawing up plans to start sunsetting some of the hundreds of legacy systems over the course of the next decade or so.

This is really just scratching the surface of how terrible retail IT can be, and how little they value real technical expertise. Given what I've seen I wasn't so much surprised that the Target et al breach happened, only that it didn't also include Walmart or happen much sooner.
>Flexcoin was attacked and robbed of all coins in the hot wallet. 'As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back from this loss, we are closing our doors immediately.'

Traders have a concept called value at risk (VaR). VaR can tell a trader the most they are likely to lose over a given time horizon for a given probability [1]. For example, a 1% daily VaR of $10 million means a portfolio will lose more than $10 million 1% of the time (or every 100 trading days). VaR helps instruct (a) traders to reduce their risk and (b) corporate treasuries to hold enough liquidity.

The Bitcoin economy is rife with theft and fraud. This is a risk to be managed. Losing one's hot wallet should never be a lethal blow. If hot wallets comprise an unsurvivable fraction of one's capital (a) reduce the hot wallets' sizes or (b) increase your capital.

Will either of these divert steam from growth and profitability? Yes - that is the price of prudence.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_at_risk
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With more of these issues happening in the bitcoin world, it just screams of bad PR and self-limiting for mass adoption. I know it was stated that this helps "weed" out the bad apples, but to be honest, I couldn't even tell you who the legimitate ones are and I bet you can't either because it's just too soon to tell. There's an implicit trust for me with banks in that they've been around for a while (even though many have/will fail(ed)), but you get some satiation with FDIC deposit insurance as well as government regulation.

Curious what other people think about the public perception of bitcoin right now, and how to avoid something like this.
Transactions can be reversed. They leave a trail. The punishments are huge. It's not worth the risk. Hacking a bitcoin exchange has no consequences. MtGox has no idea where the money went.
It's an option in countries with strong consumer protection laws.

Besides, Steam games don't come in a box. It's a lease contract anyway, so refunds should required zero attrition.
I wonder how the US would react if Crimea pulled a Texas? Declare independance from Ukraine, then request protection and anexation by Russia?

They could become the Lone Hammer state
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I tend to track things I'm trying to improve on or get in the routine of doing. Checking something off as being done is very satisfying to me. I've been using an iOS app called Balance (no affiliation to them) to do this, and it works perfectly with gentle reminders.
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I can't second this strongly enough. These drugs can be devastating when they're not right for you. And the standard for diagnosis is a glorified questionnaire.
Article in The Intercept: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/05/congress-intel...
The CIA director has pretty much acknowledged that they did indeed spy on the committee in this letter: http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/brennan-lett...

> The Computer Crimes and Abuse Act...expressly "does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective or intelligence agency...of an intelligence agency of the United States"
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The way I see it, unless you are a speculator/miner, there is no upside to using bitcoin for transactions right now. The risks are too high for almost existence benefits. I understand when merchants would be pushing bitcoin, no fees, no charge backs etc. But what is the benefit for the consumer?
The big difference for me is Facebook has a bad reputation for abusing privacy (ask forgiveness rather than permission) and their entire company is based around the dissemination of personal information. Amazon's drone fleet delivers at the behest of a user. To me that's the difference between the paparazzi and the postman.
The state is a threat to the welfare of the people, and allowing it to selectively enforce laws is worse for people in the long run than requiring it not to.
Banks don't make websites without being hacked. They do, however, spend more on technical security for a single week than the entire Bitcoin community had spent on all technology to date, and they have substantial processes in addition to the tech to mitigate risk.
This is why I need Y Combinator. Because I know there are features I can add/subtract from the current app. However my vision is and always will be in tact: share cool things and talk about them.

Thank you Alex, really appreciate the feedback.
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Hundreds of schools have made standardized tests optional.

http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional

>Indeed, students' grades and the academic rigor of their courses weighs more heavily in college admissions decision than standardized test scores, class rank or professed interest in a particular school, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling's 2013 "State of College Admission" report released in January.
Woah there.. citation required. There is limited therapy available for free, and often you have to convince someone that you are a high risk (ie likely suicide) before you'll get help.
That's how most doctors make the diagnosis too: with absolutely no information.

This is a great combination for suicidal thoughts and numbness.
It's ridiculous to believe that the CIA deserves the benefit of the doubt in this matter. More likely there are worse things we just aren't privy to.
Anyone filed this on http://crbug.com/ yet?