skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a climate scientist myself but the consensus seems to be that we're past a lot of tipping points already. Some even go as far as write us off altogether.

In any case the story is huge but the real weird part turned out to be the indifference of people in here. Weird -at least to me- because I thought that HN readers are mainly people that have a wider and deeper understanding of how the world works and thus (I assumed) a greater sensitivity on setting the priorities right. Meaning that probable extinction should rank higher than this or that new framework.

All in all I submitted the story three times (that's the third). This time I got most attention - 7 votes.

I rest my case.
I like this project (i am creating something like this, so i'm pretty serious).

But doesn't the auto-tagging feature make to much noise for a business use-case? For example, it tags a article of Amazon and includes Google in the tags. White-listing words wouldn't fix this (Google is a whitelisted word if Amazon is).

I don't know about LDA though. Perhaps a proper tag administration would fix this, but then you'd have to remove tags on the go.
> Information security and customer data protection are of paramount importance to eBay Inc

Which is exactly why we took 3 months to inform you, you've been hacked. It's because we care. Don't you see?
30 teenagers at that.
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After watching "Enough Machine Learning to Make Hacker News Readable Again"[1] I thought of recommendation engine/machine learning based linkshare/discussion system (eg HN/reddit style). Your frontpage would be continuously formed by your up/down-votes. I'm not sure if the same could be applied to comment threads too, essentially creating automatic moderation. Algorithmic tagging would certainly be useful for that kind of site.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7712297
the simple fact remains that when your company is funded by other people’s money, you are no longer your own boss.

The evil of VC is that there are people (passive capitalists) who want their money intelligently invested, without desiring to explicitly manage it. If they could have their risk diversified/averaged out in the same way that VC does, they'd be happy to have it that way. You could connect young talent and passive capital in a way that doesn't involve so much onerous interference.

VCs are an unnecessary and mostly counterproductive middleman between passive capital and young, poor talent. They take a huge cut, almost no real risk, and make enormous sums of money while others do the work.

VCs who gave their founders more autonomy would have better performance on the market. The problem is that they'd have fewer executive jobs to give out to their friends. The purpose of the forced fast growth (beyond the obvious) is to create needs in the company for executives under extreme time pressure. "Oh, you need a VP of X? I've got one for you. Now, just let me see which of my less successful friends I owe a favor..."

Passive capital and young/poor talent need to find each other and VC is about the worst system for making that happen. It leads to abuse of the talent and to crappy returns for those with the passive capital. But the VCs get their 2-and-20 and a bunch of executive-level positions to hand out to underachieving friends from MBA school, so the system persists.
Hi - PayPal was not affected. Info on and an FAQ for eBay users is here. https://info.ebayinc.com
Yeah, i know lobste.rs. But i go much further then HN or lobste.rs.. (not limiting with only url's or texts is just one feature). It's more a "Document Management System" with HN influence for larger Businesses (or public websites) with ( > 30 users) then a HN copy.

Call it lobste.rs 2.0
I'll vouch for this. I've used Charles extensively, and while I haven't used Proxy yet, the most annoying things about Charles are always related to it not using proper UI paradigms, components, etc. I'd love something that was a proper Mac app for this.

As for the comparison with Burp, I have much less experience with Burp, but the pro version has a huge amount of functionality. Things like plotting the distribution of cookies so you can see if they are backed by a good RNG. It doesn't look like this is quite that advanced yet, but those are the sorts of features that only real pen-testers would be using. For most developers who just need to test stuff, this looks excellent, I really look forward to trying it out.
This. I couldn't but agree with every single sentence you've written (though I haven't worked at SF)!

I almost fell into this trap while I was inspired to work for a super cool team within a bigger company; a la start-up within a giant. I, unfortunately, got inspired enough that I ignored my new born, didn't see him grow up. I realized that I was being played just in the nick of time (after an year).

Irony is that now I'm in a real start up for almost two years and these two years have been best years of my life, both professionally and personally. I get to work on something that's really challenging and rewarding and at the same time I get to spend a few hours of high-energy time with my son, wife and family (I also am very active reader).

All this just because I figured out how to balance by spending sane hours at work and work at home late night once in a while when everyone is asleep!

My take away from this experience is; after your needs are taken care of to a comfortable extent never trade time for anything. Not for money, not for equity not for anything. Especially if you have a young family. Watch your child grow spend time with her; children develop emotional attachment by the time they are 5 and it only comes with spending time.

Even if you don't have family don't trade your time; go see the world, read something new, learn something interesting. But don't give away your time.
What made you stick with using Nikola? Any good things worth mentioning?
No computer-generated password can be truly random unless you use physical properties of matter. I doubt DDG does that.
But it answers less questions than it poses: e.g. given that statistics says that there are always outliers, how come that the outlier "a lot more women than expected by statistics on this conference" is almost never found, while the other outlier is often?

That just poses another question: how do you know your premise is true?

chemistry, by the way, is a field that has an equal gender ratio at start in some countries

FWIW, this isn't a general chemistry conference, it's a rather mathy one.
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Women get ~40% of the doctorates in chemistry. The field is unbalanced, but not that unbalanced.

This isn't a general chemistry conference, it's a quantum chemistry conference. I don't have any particular knowledge of the field, but I expect it's like I've seen at biology conferences. Tons of women in conferences on certain topics, but usually not the ones involving lots of math.

Which is more likely: a traditionally-male field full of old white men has adapted exactly in step with the changing gender makeup of their field, OR it has not?

I don't understand the question. You're asking if it's likely that the gender ratio of the field has moved in lockstep with the gender ratio of the field? Isn't that tautologically true?
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Hi tptacek,

Indeed security tools should be part of the developer's workflow but not necessarily the way they are presented in Burp. We are yet to see a horde of developers who can spend spare time fiddling with requests in order to find bugs in their own code. There are not only time constraints but also this type of thinking is not natural to everyone.

Websecurify is working hard to find out better ways to enable developers do the minimum security testing without getting in their way.
I've had my debit card used at least half a dozen time by thieves (they must skim the magnetic information off it at gas stations or something), including a thousand dollar charge at an ATM while I was abroad.

In every case Chase refunded me in full within a few days. This isn't something every bank does?
Right on, thanks for the thoughtful response.

Did you guys run into any issues getting the app approved by Apple?
"for profit"

The horror.
EBay urging users to change passwords after breach
To say that it is inevitable is silly.

Plenty of examples of founders that have control.
As far as I can tell, mitmproxy is very capable, but requires a lot of configuration to use effectively, and the interface isn't exactly brilliant. I've been using Charles for a while instead of mitmproxy just because it's quicker to set up, I'm much more productive with it. Looks like this app will be similar.
I feel like the section about crooked pictures is disingenuous. The picture in the article is crooked by about 30 degrees clockwise, but then the next picture below, still taken with Glass, is almost perfectly straight. There's no way his ears are that misaligned to take a picture that's rotated by 30 degrees.
I did something pretty similar, but it seems definitely less comprehensive: https://github.com/llimllib/soccerdata/ . Will be using this, thanks!
I'm curious if this data is actually public domain. Where are they sourcing it from? Are they legally allowed to redistribute? Etc.
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Ebay claims that 20 characters is the max, but it's a lie - mine is 29.

Likewise, Newegg claims that you have to have special characters, but my password has none.

I'd suggest trying the password you want and seeing if it gets rejected. In a lot of cases, some programmer may have fixed the crazy password scheme and forgotten to update the page text.
PayPal was not affected. I just tested changed my password and it worked fine. Info for eBay users are here. https://info.ebayinc.com
Mentioned above, but relevant here too. I've had my debit card compromised several times, and it was still trivial - one phone call and was refunded in a few days.
It is interesting to consider what could be done if somehow a battery were invented that could, say, store 1GWh of energy in a $1 rechargeable cell the size of a AA battery with 99.9% in/out efficiency and no danger of catastrophic failure.

Every car would be electric. Airplanes too. The idea of running a vehicle on gasoline would be as ludicrous as the idea of running them on steam is to us now.

The massive challenges of wind and solar energy would disappear. Transmission and varying supply/demand are trivially solved with storage.

In computing, the massive effort expended in the name of efficiency would become unnecessary. Multitask all the things all the time! You want your phone to spin the CPU 24/7 listening for swear words so it can record hilarious videos automatically? Go for it.
Don't worry about it. He is schizophrenic and believes God talks directly to him. If you had this problem, you probably wouldn't want to take medication for it. He thinks he has been chosen. It really isn't under his control.
FWIW, original lack of discussion [0] and [1]...

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7402393
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408089
Why wouldn't they? It's just raw facts, presented in their own minimal style.
He famously defended the GOTO statement and mostly writes programs in MIX assembly or Pascal. He seems pretty old school when it comes to programming.
From your description of the qualifications for the use cases, I can immediately think of several consumer markets, with the right content. There's a chicken-and-egg problem of content and adoption, though.
I agree with most of what you say, except for three points. First, in some California cities, police/fire municipal workers can retire at age 50 with a 90% pension. If the average life expectancy in the United States is 79 years, and it is, that could push the effective value up over $2 million.

Second, the surviving spouse can get the pension benefits, which again raises the effective value. Cite: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870362530...

Third, pension benefits are often indexed for inflation.

Clearly the pension-maximizing approach is for a 50-year retiree to marry a 20-year old. :)
so apparently we ran out of credits on builtwith. :(
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There is a spectra of 9-5 jobs. Some suck a lot, some suck a lot less. You don't have to pick between only the job you have right now or startups; there are more choices than that.

Essentially what I am saying is, it might be time for you to look for a different 9-5 job.
Every time I see discussion of Warhol I feel like I'm in the middle of mass hysteria, staring at a naked emperor. Everyone is entitled to their own artistic preference, but I blissfully imagine a day when people "come to their senses" and agree with me.
The speed of r.js and browserify compile is about the same, indeed. The difference is that with browserify i had to wait for it on every reload, and r.js runs only for release, on buildbot.
Thats on;y the case if you do the password reset when you are already logged into your account. Its another layer to prevent people changing your password on a shared computer if you stepped away for example. Doesn't happen if you are not logged in
would love to chat more diego at algorithmia dot com.
There's a difference between setting a 99.9% uptime on a monthly basis vs. implying that my data will be safe for a period of time exceeding the existence of humans as a species.
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Glass is infinitely more useful when you don't have to worry about battery life. I rigged up a Leopow Moonstone to mine and suddenly found myself using it a ton more.

That being said, I looked like a Borg.
I've used Ant, Gradle and Maven - they all suck, but in different ways.
Maven is too restrictive and its XML too verbose, but Gradle can turn to spaghetti code, its DSL is often hard to debug and sometimes under-documented, and could be faster imho.

Maybe one day Gradle will suck less than Maven, but currently I think they're about the same.
Legacy systems. There's almost certainly some ancient backend system that deals with passwords, and can't handle long passwords or certain special characters. I would not assume that bank passwords are being hashed properly.
Especially since the original "X considered harmful" was not formulated by the author, Edsger Dijkstra. It was an editorial emphasis provided by none other than Nikalaus Wirth, who had the qualification of having written or having helped to write a long list of significant programming languages. Dijkstra's origin title was the much more humble "A Case Against the Goto Statement." Wirth's formulation provided a gravitas and finality that signalled a strong endorsement of the essay. The important takeaway lesson, in my mind, is that NOT EVEN EDSGER DIJKSTRA would have presented a paper with such a pretentious title. It was the judicious endorsement of a journal's CHIEF EDITOR. And it is quite literally, at this point, a pretentious title.
I actually find this essay odd.

What it says is fundamentally true but I'm curious about the allocation of "maker" and "manager". As someone who has worked as a manager and a developer, I value uninterupted time in both roles. It doesn't matter whether I'm planning, or writing a proposal, or coding - large chunks of uninterrupted time are good, a broken up day is bad and less unproductive.

Certainly managers might more often have to respond to changing situations (though if you're a developer with any involvement in support you might question that) but if they opt to plan around frequent task changes when they don't have to that's just odd.

To me it just feels like a difference between people who manage time well and those who don't, rather than a maker / manager distinction.
Chart Shows Which Content Owners Have Direct Interconnect Deals With ISPs
The gold standard for freely-available sports data is baseball, with the Retrosheet project:

http://retrosheet.org/

The license on the data is a pretty permissive one, simply requiring attribution of the data to the Retrosheet project. Software to process Retrosheet files is available, under the GPL:

http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html
AMEX also has surprising restrictive passwords.

Is the security surrounding password resets so bad that it's more secure to force easier to remember passwords?
I get what you are trying to say, but: not really. Something like cowboy is an Erlang "application", and cowboy most assuredly does not crash on one bad request: it has a try/catch in order to deal with errors without tearing everything down.

Somewhere in an Erlang system, there has to be a judicious use of try/catch in order to keep things running when some kind of persistent error occurs.
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I work from home for a startup. My daughter is in the next room, I can hear her watching Curious George.

And I still teared up reading the poem, because I could have written it myself.

I don't know about the author, but for me the startup part of the equation is a symptom, not a cause.
You're right that the news is rarely actionable or locally 'useful'. But I do read the news and go to events where foreign journalists speak to shape my perception of the world, its diversity and scope, it helps me engage with people from considerably more varied backgrounds (and futures), it reveals new ways to approach or conceptualize unrelated events in my own life. Dont restrict yourself to the SF myopia (which is so easy and attractive).

Useful? Nah. Necessary? Absolutely.

Skip techcrunch, network tv, and USA today. Look for groups like commonwealthclub.org and find out who smart folk pay attention to (Ezra klein's following list on twitter is pretty golden).
Unfortunatly the trademark rights are not extended to TLD's so this is a bit of an exception. That does apply to domains in general however.
I agree, there are many absurd components of the NBN, the most obvious being the idea that the government should spend $2 billion to launch two satellites into orbit just to provide internet to the 400,000 most rural customers who can't get cellular wireless (yet).
The question is one of numbers. How many Scala developers use it as a better Java, and how many use it for its "richer set of features". The first group would likely benefit more from Kotlin (as those other features are, IMO, Scala's Achilles heel), and if that group is the larger one (and I suspect it most certainly is), then Kotlin is in direct competition with Scala.

As to "bringing nothing new to the table at all", I'm not sure about that. It depends on your definition of "nothing" and "something". I think they certainly bring convenience, and their[1] switching costs are orders of magnitude lower compared with Scala's. The question is, then, is the "something new" Scala brings worth the price. Again, the answer to that depends on the user. Some will think it most certainly is; others will find the cost way too high.

[1]: Well, Kotlin's; not Ceylon's
Curious: what are some examples of citizen-led governance beginning to render states irrelevant? Likewise, where are you seeing a collapse of less entrenched governments all over the planet?
Higher power density would be ideal for toy helicopters, as they typically have to use a different formulation of LiIon battery that compromises energy density and recharge cycle endurance in order to get a little bit more energy density.
A lot of developers are "talking" about scala, but very little production code is written in scala. Folks who used scala often get bitten by it.
I'll answer with a question; does that matter?

When I had a kid, I worried what the other individuals at my level would think when I started taking vacation regularly, and paired my work day down to 8-5. I know that one, who I used to work incredibly closely with, looks down on my hours now, and believes that there is no way that I can still be productive in 8 hours instead of the 12 he pulls every day.

After a bit, though, I realized that co-workers' opinions only matters as long as I'm at my current job, and that I can replace them at a moments notice, whereas it's harder (and costlier) to replace my partner and kids.

Priorities realigned, I know my work output, my superiors know my work output, the rest be damned.
Was there something wrong with PostgreSQL before 2010? We used it and I thought it was pretty great (still do) but maybe I'm missing something.
(let [my-list '(1 2 3)
my-vec [1 2 3]
(= my-list my-vec))

That syntax is wrong. It lacks a closing ].
Ebay is asking for passwords to be reset. PayPal is not affected.
The 2 banks I have to deal with online both require 5 characters. Fwiw, they at least lock your account after 3 wrong entries.
We can now charge devices deep within living bodies, by wireless
VC money is like debt and when you are in debt, you have to answer to someone else. Even if you have a majority stake, the person who is funding you ultimately has a pretty significant say in the operations of the business. And, as always, investing is about making money and investors hate losing.
Ugh, companies misunderstanding password security is so infuriating. Yes, let me use my memorable 8 character password instead of my fully randomized 30 character password protected by a strong password I use only for that, and a keyfile I have stored on my computer. I feel so much more secure now that I'm using weaker passwords.
for some strange reason, java developers (web, framework) are not much aware of android.
>you cannot really absolutely with ultimate certainty prove that this bracelet doesn't work...

Sure you can. Double-blind randomised controlled trials.
>raises its own questions, such as: if this technology is so amazing, why is it being deployed in satellites and medical devices but not cell phone batteries and laptops? Why would you put unproven technology into the most fault-intolerant sectors first?

Don't know the specifics for this technology, but the answer is obvious in general.

Because new techologies are first put to use in expensive and demanding sectors, that can pay the top dollar needed for them (since they are not mass-market yet to have economies of scale).

That's why the army, NASA, industry etc had GPS, cellphones, etc before you had one, and the same for most other such technologies.
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I wasn't using it, but it had a reputation for being slow and for the replication being considerably more broken than MySQL's -- apparently both of those have come a long way since.
that doesn't answer my questions, why do the stolen passwords work, why aren't they just sending password reset emails?
So this post has been deleted by the mods (or flagged out of the top few hundred posts), in less than a hour.

Honestly the best thing HN could do for its community today would be to remove permanently remove flagging privileges from every single user that flagged this article.
Hi danpalmer,

Some tools are much more useful in the browser - and not in the proxy. As for the session management security - you will rarely need this functionality these days unless you do security research. This tool was useful years ago when everyone was implementing their own session management systems. These days most of these sub-systems are part of the core web frameworks and therefore already tested - we hope. That being said, there are still bugs to be found but this falls into the realm of security research.
If you're not trying to compete with Burp, you may want to remove it from the sentence, "While there were plenty of proxies such as Burp, ZAP and Charles…"
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