skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's trivially easy to say "metric x is meaningless" if you assume the person interpreting it doesn't actually understand the context of that metric. You might as well say "metrics that aren't based on a solid understanding of your business model and user behavior are meaningless." Of course they are; this is not useful information.

If you run analytics on bad or incomplete information or information that doesn't realistically relate to something important to your bottom line, or if you try to interpret useful data without knowing what you should actually be looking at in the context of the service you're providing, it'll obviously be meaningless.
I agree with you, and can't help but think: how many of these people would resign in protest when an openly Christian CEO takes the reins of their company. There's a lot of slimy shit in the bible: homophobia, slavery, misogyny, patriarchy, social injustice, etc.

I'm of the opinion that actions speak louder than words. The first time Eich tries to pull some shit, I'll change my mind. But until then, I'm willing to give him a fair shake
I admit, those scenarios are almost as odious as they are unbelievable. People already select for height, strength and a host of other genetic characteristics when they mate. But anyways, mother's choice. Her body, her choice. Very simple.

PS I liked the line about optics better.
Isn't this how it's always been in US? We all know that Facebook does not work with government.

Right?
Maybe more importantly, they would know whether their message was classified as spam (or a pretty good heuristic thereof). A naive bayes classifier for spam relies on the spammer not knowing whether the message was marked as spam or not. Such a classifier isn't difficult to fool if you can test how a given message is classified. (Presumably gmail's spam filter is more advanced these days, but the idea that it is easier to fool if you can tell the result still seems reasonable.)
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You know what's a perfect, concise byte code? An ast-laden ASCII blob. What's the byte code for a byte array again? Oh there isn't one.... What's the byte code for a compare and swap? Shit....
"This poses obvious problems, however. Prominent among them is the discussion on what to call 1 billion Bitcoin, which symbol color to use for it, and when wallet clients should switch to it by default.

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Haha April fools! ... I hope?
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

Architectural design is like programming except that the first run of the compiler is the last and even a cheap building office building costs a multiple of a fuck you exit money. So there's no ok let's walk away. Users are going to live with the first executable for thirty years or more.

That said, there's a reason that Alexander's book launched the idea of software architecture twenty years ago. It's that fertile in design values for the working humanist. Libertarians and corpratists perhaps not so much.
Coinbase's tone at https://hackerone.com/reports/5200 convinces me that they just don't care about user account enumeration. Combined with the blog post, my sense is that Coinbase does not deny that systematic enumeration is possible; rather, they deny that we should worry about it. ("it's not a bug, it's a feature")
I know… I’m just trying to defend the good side, which is always the one listening first.

As for history, it’s a forgiving mistress: always remember that the one absolute, un-impeachable moral hero of all modern history was an openly incestuous child molestor, and that all his friends and relatives begged him daily to stop.
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Which SE site though? That question is totally open-ended, it could generate answers forever. One of the key philosophies of the Stack Exchange sites is to suppress extended discussion.
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There was no assumption of sabotage that I saw. Just a bunch of stubbornness while ignoring security expert's suggestions, followed by a compromise of their highly touted security.

What part did I miss?
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I'm not sure why you think MVC should be RESTful. These patterns solve different problems. It's fitting they have different implementations, not a one-size-fits-all framework.
Nope!

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3842
People are generally a lot less likely to ask questions over IM. The Cornell study found a couple of things of note here:

1. Being able to "read" someone visually helps in determining whether it's an ok time to interrupt. "Unexpectedly.. more visual contact actually contributes to fewer unwanted interactions, not more, by changing not so much the frequency as the timing of conversations."

2. More frequent social interaction builds more trust. People felt more comfortable asking for help.

3. A lot of information is acquired through something called "tacit learning". That's info that's never written down that you pick up by observing others. You may not even know to ask about it or have an opportunity. Open plan greatly helps the spread of this.

4. Most damningly, it notes that self-interested developers are biased towards individual productivity more than team productivity. This often leads them to undervalue the benefits of "disruptions".
Has it been shown that the USG can order an entity to lie?
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Gee, I wonder why no one's thought of that before. You should get right on that!
Cue the HFT apologists.
The "container" I run my Windows apps on in Linux is, amusingly-enough, a VM running Windows XP.

I think Microsoft would be very smart to release a multiplatform replacement for W7/8's Windows XP Mode. Presumably it'd be an even-more-stripped-down version of Windows Embedded 8, with no shell, and all background services configured to only start on request.
i subscribe to nearly all of these and can vouch for them being a welcome sight in my inbox. sure, a lot of the links are HN repeats, but some are not :)
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Mine is zombo.com. I still remember how I felt the first time I sat there waiting for this incredible site where I could do anything! The internet was new enough (to me) and amazing enough that I thought it just might be possible that I had stumbled upon a place where the only limit was myself.
I'm sure there is, but it's a bit like looking at the power grid and saying "Isn't there a huge opportunity here for cold fusion?" Stable, modern operating systems don't grow on trees after all, and if part of the problem is inertia relating to a few perfectly good, stable, modern operating systems, yet another new one doesn't seem to add much to the bargain.
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>So you are writing this off because 'only' 1153 emails were leaked?

His attempt at misleading people by almost doubling the actual count shows that his intent was/is to make this worse than it is. It is likely that all he could find was 1153.

>if anything the guy who was doing this just did a quick proof of concept from a few lists and got matches

You don't know that. He could have been trying for weeks. The percentage of the internet that has Coinbase accounts is minuscule, and this attack requires one to correctly guess that a particular email is already attached to a Coinbase account. The fact that he falsely doubled the size of his list is a testament to this.

>Then you are comparing security of virtual bank to something you did to Facebook back in the day.

This wasn't that long ago, but my point was that this "vulnerability" is minor compared to other sites, yet the backlash against Coinbase seems to be far greater.
No, that is not what I was saying at all.

Go to any of the thousands of rural communities in the United States, especially in the midwest, and you will find many people who will strongly stand by their opinion that gay marriage should not be legal.

Just because you believe that gay rights are as fundamental as women's suffrage does not mean that, as a political issue, gay rights are as decided nationwide as women's suffrage.
At the risk of being pedantic, the Declaration of Independence does not "grant" rights in the same manner that the Bill of Rights does, and really can't be used in the same context when attempting to make a Constitutional argument.
So your saying that Steve McConnell and many other experienced developers are wrong.

Back in the 80's I was the core programmer on a map-reduce system that formed a part of one of the only 3 products British telecom sold internationally my CTO was one of Vint Cerfs reports.

what have you shipped or done?
Applying it over the Internet is quite feasible, especially with simple code. If it connects to a remote SMTP server, the delay may very well be noticeable enough without doing any complicated timing. It might be just about as easy as scraping the page for "user not found" versus "email sent".

I assume that was the original point - that on risque dating sites, the recover password system tries to hide membership.
Not somewhere, pretty much everywhere.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/how-l...

I think your idea of how the case developed is fairly inaccurate.
This caught my eye "travelled along fibre optic lines and hit the closest exchange first, where high frequency traders would get a glimpse, and then use their speed advantage to beat him to the other 12 US public exchanges and 45 private trading venues."

Why not simple stagger the network dispatch to those exchanges so the order hits all exchanges at exactly the same time and with that protect you from HFT snipping tactics. Seem simple solution and somewhat obvious so what am I missing?
The remaining 40 percent of VK belonged to the Mail.ru group, co-owned by … Alisher Usmanov.

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Agreed, I don't ask trivial questions myself.
Not just any paywall, either. A single seat subscription runs $1k/year.
I'm liberal, and I believe society should be as permissive as it can stand to be with regard to behavior, choices, and the kinds of lifestyles we can create. But I'm not an idiot. Abortion is perhaps the only thing you could have used as an argument here. It's obvious to me why people have a problem with abortion. Even people who had one probably didn't like it. But I don't care enough about it to try to prevent anyone from having one.

Gay rights aren't abortion. Enough people believe it is exactly like every other precedent for civil rights, that you can't really seriously hold onto this argument anymore. Sorry. And absolutely nobody said it had to be about voting, so where did you pull that out of?
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*2013 not 2012, my bad.

https://technology.ihs.com/440359/russia-introduces-first-on...

It's been in the talks since 2012, not passed until 2013. In 2012 they passed a law criminalizing viewing images of child exploitation, this was a big sign of things to come (previously to this law they were very free to do anything on the internet). I think it was also 2012 when the ROMS license was discontinued (making websites like AllofMp3, legalsounds.com illegal in Russia).

Roskomnadzor has used this new legislation to censor any website it wants to, drug, copyright, defamation, they'll find any excuse.

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They will be killing entire ecosystems of websites using Vk (video, image and audio), Pavel is against this but will get raided or censored for not complying.

It's been going downhill quickly for the past 2 years and shows my signs of slowing down.
You'll pay for a shorter lease term with a much higher monthly payment. Depreciation isn't linear; both a car and a computer will lose value much faster during the first 6 months than during the second 6 months (much less months 12-18.) So if you lease for say, 6 months rather than 24, the rate has to reflect that higher depreciation (plus the risk and cost associated with reselling the item at the end of the lease, spread over a much smaller number of periods.) I could easily see it costing double the rate Apple charges for a 24 month lease to rent for 6 months.

Example: $2000 machine that depreciates to $1500 after 6 months, 1200 after 12 months, $800 after 24 (keep in mind much of the value loss happens when you "drive it off the lot" and turn it from new into used). $100 overhead on accepting the return, cleaning it up and reselling it to extract that value.
6 mo lease: ($2000 - $1500 + $100) / 6 mo = $100/mo
12 mo lease: ($2000 - $1200 + $100) / 12 mo = $66/mo
24 mo lease: ($2000 - $800 + $100) / 24 mo = $50/mo

(Yes, I"m ignoring interest here. But rates are low.)
One thing you may want to try, if you're not doing this already, is to remove the actual numbers on the axes when you xkcd-ify graphs. I think people see the numbers and think that the results are precise and removing numbers that mean very little can have a pretty big effect on people's perception of the precision of the results. I say this because your first example still has the numbers on the axis ticks.
I'm lucky that the launch of Gmail happened when it did. I was a sophomore in college when I launched my first startup and I was tempted to use my .edu (my primary address at the time) or the @yahoo.com I had set up years before for random stuff. The pain of switching isn't something I've had to deal with fortunately.
I thought the supply of bitcoins was already finite by design, at around 21 million
I'd be curious to read the study too.

One of the most fascinating observations by Cornell is how self-interested employees are biased towards maximum individual productivity to the detriment of team productivity. I wonder if the 100 other studies controlled for that. Cornell is a pretty reputable institution. You know what they say.. 1 great study is worth 100 good ones.
They did it, but my perception is people were still downloading to local clients. (At least I was, until gmail)
The name is optional, and you can supply it to make the experience nicer. If you don't plan on using Coinbase this way, don't supply a name.

Making things easy to use is the answer to your question. Rate limiting might help a tiny bit, but you can just register multiple accounts to get around it. (And no doubt someone would do that and make a fuss about it.)

Many people will take the feature of presenting the name, so you have another layer of comfort while making the transaction (knowing it went to the right place, that you didn't introduce a typo) to be a feature. And those that don't want it don't have to provide their names.
Some financial services are even worse. One of the largest banks/brokerage sites truncates passwords at 8 characters without notifying the user. It is possible for the user to save their password as "password104n35dsu348a21p9sdj28x". They might feel pretty safe with the length, (pseudo) randomness, and complexity of that password, but someone would be able to log into their account by simply entering "password".

However, the big differentiating factor between startups and financial service companies is the faith in them "making it right" when something does go wrong. At this point, we have little reason to believe that one huge security issue won't simply kill a startup like Coinbase and leave all of its account holders out in the cold. It seems pretty safe to say that wouldn't happen with any major bank in the US.
You mean something like the Windows Runtime that used to come with some apps that I've since forgotten? I'd find you a link to what I'm talking about but...no, not that Windows Runtime, Google, the other one from the late 80s or early 90s.

Of course now it would be a specialized, stripped down VM, which Microsoft would never sell you because licenses. So if you're willing to pay for it, it's called (your VM software of choice) + a Windows license. Not optimal, I know, and way overweight but that's what we get right now.
Here's a question: when you return the computer, will they review its condition for damage / mileage, the way a car dealer would for a lease return? And if not, what's the incentive to take care of it?
This is an april fools joke. Im really getting sick of them.
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Schemaverse[1] could be considered something similar, I think, down to the "space-based strategy game", although it is controlled by raw SQL queries instead of an API.

[1] https://schemaverse.com/
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Calling me "self-interested" because I want an environment that makes me the most productive is not winning me over.
Maybe they want to connect it to Palestine.
>The thing I don't get about this whole faux controversy is since when is it professionally acceptable to discriminate against someone for their private political views and esp. those that might be informed by religious beliefs so long as they don't bring them into the workplace?

Because actual voting is essentially worthless now that our judicial elders have dictated that spending money is the same thing as speech. Money now buys elections, moreso than votes. So we're learning to vote with our dollars like the fat cats do.
You were downvoted for saying exactly what I was about to say: for most consumer use, my 2009 MBP does everything I need. It beats me at chess. A/V transcoding could be faster, but that's really an edge use case for me, and probably most people, even on HN.

What I do care about is ergonomics, specifically the keyboard, and I have yet to find a $300 (or $600) Windows or Android machine with a keyboard comparable to a Mac. If it exists, I hope someone will let me know in the comments.
Control + Command + D also brings up the definition popover
Nope! Read the BIP.
Also, there's no way that you can build a project like that in just over a year (July, 2015). It would probably take much longer than that just to obtain a continuous strip of land for the right-of-way for a conventional highway.
Suppose they limit it to 100 emails before blocking your account. The guy can just sign up with 10 accounts. Or 5. This "attacker" would still post it and make a big fuss.

Most likely they're implementing rate-limiting to appease people and prevent an ongoing spam issue. Or perhaps it was on their list for a while and just hasn't been an issue until now.
It absolutely does have the same status for those who are on the right side of the argument (the one that will certainly be vindicated by history). The people who are in the right don't have to wait until the slow people catch up, in order to be right.