skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The database, which was compromised between late February and early March, included eBay customers’ name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth. However, the database did not contain financial information or other confidential personal information."

…So, just my entire identity then? eBay really seem to be down-playing the severity of this.
It was a pretty good joke.
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"My dear Daughter, Wait for me."

Of all the things that might happen, much as we'd like it to be different, I can guarantee that this is one which won't happen.

However upsetting it may be now (or looking back in the future), time isn't going to wait for you and all those firsts, all those events and experiences you miss, won't wait and won't happen again.

We tell ourselves it isn't a choice but for many of us it is. Most of us could earn enough money to support our family comfortably in a relatively regular 9 - 5 job. We might not be personally as satisfied and we might not be as financially well off, but we can choose one possible version of our life over another.

It's absolutely fair to say that you have to balance the needs of being a "good" father (which let's remember is a subjective term in many ways), against your own personal needs (and indeed the needs of your partner, the rest of your family and so on), but most people reading this board are fortunate enough that there genuinely is an element of choice.

No-one should tell you that working long hours so your child need never go without (or so you're personally happy and the time you spend with them you do so without resentment) is better or worse than coaching their sports team and being there every bath time, but whatever you decide to do, I think the most important thing is to accept that you're doing it because you made a conscious decision - ultimately that's going to be the only way you'll be at peace with it.

And if you haven't made a conscious decision, the for heavens' sake sit down with your other half and do so. Of all the outcomes, doing what you're doing without thinking about what you want and what works best for your family maybe the only truly bad one.
So given that developers have a lot of trouble programming normal simple binary computers even using languages as high-level as python (not to mention their trouble at grasping advanced languages like Haskell), why do we think they will do better with fuzzy logic for which we don't even have high-level languages?
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It is not hard to imagine a company like Microsoft wanting something in exchange for all the zero day exploits they report to the NSA in advance.
Nope. Nope. Nope. She won't wait for you, mate. Time doesn't wait. If you want to be with your family, they have to be your priority before any fame, glory, and wealth from your ability to churn out ideas or sling some code.

Don't live a life of regret. Make do with less. Maybe get there slower, but be a happier person.

I'm in a similar situation in that I have two young children (under 5) and I am the co-founder of a small-ish startup in healthcare. I make sure to leave every day at 5pm so I can be with my kids for a few hours. If I have a busy week, I'll get up earlier (5 or 6am) and get my work done earlier in the day.

If additional work needs to get done, it gets done after they go to bed.

Importantly, my co-founders also have families and value them as I do. If that were not the case, I would not be involved in this company.
> Python has always been a mixed bag for me. What I wrote in it worked, when I wrote it. Then, a little while later it stops working, either because some module that it depends on gets deprecated or changed in an incompatible way, starts to exhibit weird behavior or even disappears.

This is no longer a problem in Python because of virtualenv and pip, which together allow you to tie down the version numbers of all the dependencies an application uses.
This article has a "path to market" section, which I appreciate. But that section 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? Maybe I'm too much of a skeptic, but that doesn't sound plausible.

Honestly, unlike you, I don't want to hear about it if it's going to turn into vaporware. Should it be published in a peer-reviewed journal? Absolutely. Do I want Apple and Tesla and Samsung looking into it? Definitely. Do I, personally, want to hear about it? Not particularly.
On the contrary, it is limited by the size of the cable going from the electricity distribution grid to the side of the car. With a typical (not a high performance) car engine capable of generating 75kW of mechanical power or so and a typical wall socket (in the UK at least) capable of transferring 3kW (and the average house having a 24kW total limit), there's going to be a problem that can only be solved by upgrading the cabling and using special high power sockets.
It is a legit ebay domain, but without https, verifying it is tougher.

This announcement actually leaked when a "placeholder" was put up on
the paypal-community.com forum:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7777182

And I did some simple tests to make sure that domain was really ebay/paypal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7777419
One of my best friends has a mental illness. Society should get over it, and learn to deal with it.

I've never met or spoken to Terry Davis, but I think he's amazing (and I'm an atheist). His code is incredibly inventive, and I don't know of many people who have achieved what he has single-handedly.

Yes, Terry Davis has a mental illness.

Yes, Terry Davis is very likely a true genius.

These can both be true.

Terry, if you're reading this, my best wishes.
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What I appreciate from a design standpoint...i.e. aesthetically is the `defn` special form versus `defun` and `define`. In Common Lisp, `defun` takes on the general form of the lambda:

lambda (x)(+ x 1)
defun f (x)(+ x 1)

Syntactically `(x)` looks like it should be evaluated, but isn't because there are special rules for special forms, and each special form can have it's own rules:

let ((x 7)(y 3))
(+ x y)

is a whole `nother set of syntactical rules which are even more in conflict with normal rules of evaluation.

Scheme, keeps the let and uses a syntax for `define` that mimics the function call rather than the lambda.

define (f x) (+ x 1)
f 1

In Clojure the use of a vector for `defn` arguments follows it's formal lambda form like Common Lisp and is very much consistent with Clojure's rules for evaluation.

fn [x] (+ x 1)
defn f [x] (+ x 1)

Likewise Clojure's `let` syntax does not require wetware parsing to recognize what gets evaluated and what doesn't.

let [x 1
y 3]
(+ x y)

What I am appreciating about Clojure as a language is that it prunes some historic artifacts from the Lisp family tree. Raw memory allocation with `cons` made sense when human memory could retain more facts than a computer's fast memory. This meant it was easy to think of useful programs too big to fit in memory. That's distinctly harder today where doubling fast memory is less than $300 for the vast majority of computers.

Lisp was developed as a direct improvement over assembly. Clojure was developed as a direct improvement over Java over C++ over C over assembly. It's a rethinking of what a Lisp needs (when backwards compatibility is ignored). It's an interesting design.
"I think it's great that police officers, teachers and gov't employees with seniority make six figures with pension in some of the better unionized municipalities."

That would be great and all if the money to pay for these things wasn't being taken out of your unborn children's unearned earnings. Eventually it'll pop, and all the good we gained by paying "public servants" big pensions will vanish as the rest of society crumbles paying untold debts that they never had a decision in.
That depends. Do you require them to be in their original context and be still current? If not, yes, I have seen some "real" ones.
Salt is used with a hash function, not encryption, AFAIK.

Though whether they really are using encryption (of plaintext passwords?), or whether they actually meant hashing is another question.
those testimonials seem fake? are they fake?
I'll be a father in a couple of weeks but I've been working on a "life/work balance" for quite a while now. If it ever comes up with a client I remind them that we're running a marathon, not a sprint, and that putting in a solid 8 (or 9), consistently, week in and week out can get a tremendous amount of work done. It's really easy to work too much and burn out, even if you have a lot of experience -- and 40 hours per week is a huge amount of time if you're making every hour count.

Kudos for making extra time for your kids. I plan on doing the same.
> take a scroll down memory lane
I've been out of the "domain game" for a while, but aren't all of these TM-holders basically allowed to "claim" their names during the "Sunrise" period? That seems quite the opposite of a land grab: opening up early to avoid speculators snapping up copyrighted terms.
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I knew a professional photographer who loved it when websites used his images without permission, because he made a lot more money.
That can definitely be better if you have full control over a domain. But what stopped me from going that far is dictionary attacks. There are plenty of spammers who will just try hundreds of common-ish addresses at a domain.

I considered going even further and building something where I'd register each new address as I gave it out, but for now, just adding a tag on to my regular address has been good enough for me.
I would agree with this. People have a way of heavily discounting the present in favor of the uncertain future. It becomes a habit, almost an addiction, to medicate feelings in the present (FUD - perhaps their anxiety over being a parent, even). A friend of mine uses the term "future tripping" - I like it.

I will give this guy a lot of credit for honesty. It's tempting to pretend that starting a company is something you are doing solely to provide a better life for others, when the truth is it is just as often, if not more so, for the self-actualization need of the founder.

From the wife/kid's perspective - they want you to be happy, but they also want you to be present and engaged. From that perspective, what you do to make the money isn't so important as the fact that you can provide, and be part of the fun.

"believing that this is the great sacrifice I must make, the choice I took upon myself for the betterment of the family, for you, but I know that’s not entirely true A little or a lot, it’s for me This addiction or obsession I seem to have with work"
You have to remember that eBay is an ancient tech company run by the old MBA types that didn't really understand what value to place on engineering.

All their internal systems are maintained by vendors, VARs, and contractors.

So weird stuff like the ebayinc.com domain is to be expected. As is this hack. Also it'd be interesting to know how it was detected, and how the extent of access was determined. But if my prediction is correct, we will never see a truly open blog post about it. First, because it's not clear to me that eBay "infosec" is up to the task. Second, because eBay believes more in compartmentalization, secrecy, misdirection etc. than 'openness'.
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That is illegal — and it's why photographers need to get model releases
i don't know why you think i failed to grasp that. there are benefits, i agree. i just don't see any such great or important benefits which would justify this almost complete destruction of the notion of privacy. can you give me some examples?

PS there's a lot more to life than efficiency ;)
For me as well. Seems completely random and false even for things that are extremely easy to detect such as Google Analytics.
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To be sure, Levinson should have gotten competent legal counsel long before this all started. (He knew he was going to have this fight eventually, but he had to scramble for a lawyer when this specific request came in.)

And that counsel would have advised him exactly what he could have and should have revealed, and how to comply with previous requests. His complying with prior orders surely weakened any attempt to say "but I can't get that information!"
It really helped me to see a screenshot of the "tester" interface, I didn't quite get it until I saw that. It's behind one of the "try a live demo" links.
I worked a while back for a major company involved in the TLD rollout and was rather taken aback about how callous they were regarding what felt akin to extortion.
What does it offer over jekyll?
> At the mere click of a button, our honeybadger will let you see how much traffic the site gets, how much money they raised, what powers their stack, and much more.
I think Paul Graham summed up the situation fairly well when he wrote:

"Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast."

and this:

"Combine all these multipliers, and I'm claiming you could be 36 times more productive than you're expected to be in a random corporate job."

and the reasons why we might want to do a startup:

"For example, one way to make a million dollars would be to work for the Post Office your whole life, and save every penny of your salary. Imagine the stress of working for the Post Office for fifty years. In a startup you compress all this stress into three or four years. You do tend to get a certain bulk discount if you buy the economy-size pain, but you can't evade the fundamental conservation law. If starting a startup were easy, everyone would do it."

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

That essay can be read both as an inspiration and as a warning. On the positive side, it is good to realize how much you can achieve in a few short years. On the negative side, you must be wholly focused on one thing during those few short years. The rest of your life needs to put on hold.

A personal anecdote: I am a bit of a news junkie, and I typically spend an hour or two a day reading the news, but when I had my own startup, I gave up reading the news. For the years 2003 to 2004, and for most of 2006, I rarely read the news. That was a huge change of personal habits for me. But avoiding the news was important for me to stay focused. I would write code for 12 hours a day, sometimes 14 hours a day. I think one has to have a very narrow focus during the first year or two of a startup.
How we built interactive heatmaps using Solr and Heatmap.js
The site gives me absolutely no information about what this extension actually does. "Juicy informations" could literally be anything.
Ebay hacked or not
Ebay may or may not have been hacked! suspicious postings on reuters
AlertMe has done pretty well for themselves, although they do now recognise the need for an open platform.
So, HN was built with Stiqr and reddit was built with Website Tonight...?
It's an investor relations-ey site.
What?! I actually thought this was a little side project by Honeybadger(.io). Poor form.

Added: using the same orange helped the deception.
So, nodefan, are we actually going to get concrete technical reasons? Or are you just going to try shove down the old "look how many github projects for javascript are popping up" and "look how many javascript job openings there are" stories again?
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EBay Says Client Information Stolen In Hacking Attack
Yes, hopefully the dev will see this and tell us about some amazing RESTful API that is on it's way :)
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Microsoft reports these zero days to every company with a MAPP subscription.
I completely agree.

Tho mine wasn't a "startup", I started a web design and hosting business when my son was 2, I worked ALL the time for a good year or 2. I had the luxury of working from home so I didn't really miss big moments, but I did put a serious strain on the relationships between myself and my family. I was even glued to hosting issues when we were on vacations, sitting at my laptop a couple hours a day.

If I could go back, I would definitely give myself 8-10 hours a day max, be home and present with my family by 6. On days where I needed more time, I should have woken up at 5.

I added probably 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, to be more productive back then, but knowing I had those hours, I probably slowed down 2 extra hours a day, and those extra six hours were tired hours, so I was probably only productive for about 3 of them.

The way I look at it, I probably maybe gained an extra week of work time a month back then, and every project I was working on I could have EASILY asked for 1 more week to finish.

Anyway, regret sucks, and looking back, I should have worked smarter and not harder.
Nice naming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
Sorry that this bothered you guys and I took out the testimonials all together until I get actual pictures.

This site was created using a bootstrap theme that had her picture in there FWIW.
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If you had batteries which could accept that (Li-Ion's don't like going above 3C I think) and had the kind of energy density being claimed then it would be a relatively trivial matter to use a larger bank of them to provide the peak capability to charge a smaller bank of them.
There's a big difference there.

Your comment is written like you've never ventured outside of the tech industry.
> The company also said it has no evidence of unauthorized access or compromises to personal or financial information for PayPal users. PayPal data is stored separately on a secure network, and all PayPal financial information is encrypted.

Ebay being hacked kind of scares the hell out of me because PayPal has my checking account information with direct access to withdraw funds. A hacker could rob me blind. Like seriously the owner of PayPal should not be telling me this "we have no evidence of" bullshit because there's no alternative to PayPal that online stores actually use and changing your checking account number and routing number is very very painful. You have to get new checks, you lose checking history. Fuck.
Deleting the emails would have put Levison/Lavabit in violation of long-established law (destruction of evidence is a crime). Note that with PFS (if I recall correctly, Lavabit did not use PFS), preserving past emails does not help the adversary.

Deleting the account, however, seems much more viable for similar situations. Forcing a company (like Lavabit) to provide service to an individual might be supportable, based in part on past precedents to do with race discrimination and general regulation-of-business principles, but would be unprecedented in regard to a non-commercial entity. Arguably it would run afoul of the 13th Amendment in the US.

Of course, written law has little bearing on what the government can do in practice in today's USA.
The NSA has largely accomplished this level of foreign surveillance with the consent of foreign governments. Perhaps if foreign citizens pushed their own government to resist, the NSA would have a harder time getting access to data streams.
great explanation, thank you. I too wonder about the conversion. I had a pending cash out transaction that was cancelled and wondering whether the assets would go towards it (from my reading it does).
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Securing the Internet of Things? How about securing the Internet first?
> Would you think it would be totally ok if other countries take similar stance towards US companies and persons?

I would be surprised if other countries don't take a similar stance. Not that that justifies it.
More like "2245 Azure Bluff, or 2245 Azure Bluff Street?"
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I've been doing this a long time, and I haven't caught anybody doing that yet. Generally spammers are a) not so smart, and b) all about volume.

The delimiter character on one system is a legitimate component on another, so stripping like that will fix some addresses but break others. Could they increase their total address count by 0.2% trying to strip tags? Possibly. Is it worth the effort? I doubt it. People who tag addresses are also the most likely to report spam and raise a ruckus.
The most useful/interesting for me is the technology section. As that's not the easiest to get data about. Unfortunately the info that its giving is completely false/random. Checked it on a few websites that I've built or know the stack and the info shown is completely wrong.

www.builtwith.com provides much more information but they do not have a chrome plugin that I'm aware of. Definitely should check it out if your interested in this plugin.
For educated Americans it is usually quite shocking to learn that this is one of the few places in the world that celebrate the fight against non-Western Imperialism by people who in America would be told to check their white privilege.

Can you elaborate? The above sentence is difficult to parse, and I don't quite understand what is shocking about a Bulgarian uprising 150 years ago.
Virtually all Western nations cooperate with the NSA. Good luck getting your country to cut off their nose despite their face. "The West works together for intelligence gathering" doesn't work as a narrative, at all, everyone wants to pretend that their country is not complicit.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, have you thought about not believing everything the Turkish nationalist news papers print about ethnicity they don't like? You might have a hard time fitting into polite company when you start denying the various genocides modern Turkey and the Ottoman Empire were a part of. At any rate here is a google translate of the Bulgarian page on the origins Bulgars:

"The origin of the Bulgars is a problem still encourage discussion. In its linguistic affiliation Bulgars are counted preobladavashtiya number of modern scholars to Turk-Altaic peoples. It is assumed that the Proto-Bulgarian ethnos was formed in Central Asia (East Kazakhstan ) between the Caspian Sea and mountain Imeon (Pamir, Hindu Kush and Tian Shan). Other possible areas are Altai, or West Siberia , Tarim basin , western Mongolia, southern Siberia and upper reaches of the Irtysh. From the late 16th century were offered various hypotheses, some of which attract with their whimsicality and stubbornness in defending them. Most authorities reject the concepts of aboriginal (or Thracian) in Slavonic, for Tatar and Finno-Ugric origin of the Bulgars . Popular, but also challenged and Hun are ogurskite options Turanian hypothesis. Some scientific papers and amateur research in recent years revived another hypothesis according to which the proto-Huns were mixed Iranian population."

https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7...
Indeed. And if you don't have enough power density to (for instance) absorb energy from regenerative braking and then accelerate out of a corner, you just add a large capacitor with a massive power density (but a low energy density).
Fair enough, sorry if that came off harsh. If you're actually contributing to running exit nodes, then you're more justified in using Tor to watch videos.
Pages 4-6 are the English.
Now we just need a Honeybadger Firefox edition