skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this on their website , but still don't know how it works :
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That makes things better, but it's still not great to have your account compromised on one website because that website stored its passwords in plain text.
You know when you learn a new word, and then you suddenly start seeing it everywhere? You've probably been seeing the word your entire life but you haven't noticed it because you didn't know what it meant. This is pretty similar.
First off Ryan, I think its a great platform. As a very frequent visitor to the site I would have to reiterate that it is frustrating that I can't really participate in the conversation where there is an aspect of the product that I would like to ask the founder more about. Hopefully you guys can create a way that doesn't result in spam, but feels a little more inclusive.

IMHO, a good way to do the comments would be to focus on Q&A with the founders (or someone affiliated with the product) address the question. As a visitor I would like to easily be able to see which questions have been answered instead of scrolling around to piece together the conversation.

Certainly looking forward to seeing what you have planned for PH.
Apparently the list of offending sites is hardcoded in the extension ( https://github.com/klinskyc/PTOAlert/blob/master/sites.json ) and the extension is not updated to reflect changes on the sites.
Thanks for this Colin, I was unable to link it. :-/
It could be true. But I haven't found any other chess website that does that. Anyway what is more interesting to me is that lichess is an open source application and the core devs are taking feedback from the community and implementing new ideas.

And at least for chess tactics it has replaced chess.com for me.
Agreed. I don't mind waiting to be able to comment (I've signed up for the queue), but I almost never open up any existing comments on featured products. Almost every one has been a circle-jerk of positivity. There is a very strong groupthink vibe in that community at the moment. Some form of dissent is needed to spark conversations that will have real value to them.
" Since 1965, mothers at every level of the economy have tripled the hours they spend working outside the home. Fathers now spend much more time playing and talking with their children than they did in past decades, but men’s domestic labor—cooking, cleaning, and readying the kids for school—has not kept pace, meaning women are still working the “second shift”"

This is a fine example of how to misuse statistics for ideological reasons. Without absolute numbers, this is completely meaningless - women tripled their time working outside of the home - from what? How much are they working now, and how much are fathers working? Why is the time spent on household chores even relevant? It's relevant who contributes how much to the survival of the family, not in what way they contribute.

The message of the article is simply that "men who don't earn a lot of money are not good enough", not very surprising.
The problem is that you don't want to punish the children. They are innocent.
That's why we should use different passwords on each website
Are those celeb reviews for real? Excellent app :D
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digitalocean.com stored your password in plaintext!!!
The thing about the disruption is that it wouldn't happen if it were predictable. (If it were predictable, the companies would have done something different, and they wouldn't have been disrupted.)

So, while predictions can be made, it won't necessarily pan out that they actually occur. The disruption is normally only really apparent in hindsight.

In any case, the companies concerned were honestly trying to do their best, not their worst.
You are also listing websites that send you your password when registering or changing password.

I am not sure that's appropriate. I know systems that send you the mail with your password after registration/password change and then save the passwords to database hashed.

You cannot deduce that they save passwords in plaintext because they send you the password after registration/password reset.

Example:
http://plaintextoffenders.com/image/89463394135
The idea is to let you download content that is normally streamed. I've been using this service for quite some time now. It will work with many websites such as YouTube or Soundcloud.
This seems to be the default 2 choices for government agencies lately when something bad happens: either they were incredibly incompetent, or they're lying about it. Neither of which puts them in very good light.
Ahan. Well, the target audience is not limited to IT service providers or designers for that matter. Even, if I own a bakery shop, I would want leads from people asking for cupcakes.

This is another challenge we faced to write the description in the best way possible so as to not focus on one vertical and alienate other businesses. What would you guys recommend? Should we write bullet points after the tag line stating:

1. Recommended for small business owners and freelancers. Ex: Developer, Designer, Event Organizer.
2. Helps you expand your services to real people enquiring about those on social networks.

Something of those sorts?
No problem here? It goes through so many servers, unencrypted…
Congratulations, you have just invented taxes.

Coming from a country where education is funded by the government, I really have to chuckle at this.

Wouldn't it be revolutionary to simply pay for education with taxes (say, 3% of people's income), and let people go to university for free? Guess what - that system already works in several countries to good effects.

Granted, a tiny difference is that apparently in Oregon only people who actually study pay the tax. But in general, the state collects taxes from everybody and invests in things that don't benefit everybody, and it works out OK.

On the other hand if they could work out how to only tax people for things they actually consume, it would be interesting, too (VAT maybe?).
I am not sure what you mean.

If you are changing the password/registering, the password is in plaintext in the memory on the server anyway; it just has to be. So they can just mail it to you.
Yes, this is also explained in a link from our About page here: http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/7006690494/whats-so-wrong...

TL;DR - it's still a security issue (albeit smaller), we've included it in our mandate, please don't do it.
I think most people misunderstand what this site does, totally understandable given the extremely vague impression it gives off.

It is basically a site which downloads YouTube movies.
99.99% of people won't do that. We're trying to make the Internet safer for them.
I mean how would you explain it if they would find something?

I guess this is another Bayesian vs classical statistics thing. In Bayesian thinking, absence of evidence is evidence (not proof, mind you, but it is information).
It's appearing on Wikileaks because nobody else has written about it about it or has any intention of writing about it.
Looks like there's a tiny little emulator for this, too.

https://github.com/ICTeam28/PiEmu

I've got as far as installing the SDL headers (you're looking for SDL.h from SDL 1.2) and running cmake . but not much further.
The whole concept of a threat is all about uncertainty, so it's somewhat incoherent to talk about it in connection with a supposed certain future.

An argument of the same structure would be: Simply playing russian roulette is still not a threat, if the chamber will be empty.

Well, yeah, _if_ - it's a threat precisely because you do not know whether that condition will hold, and there is a reasonable chance that it won't; if you knew, it wouldn't be a threat but either a boring game or a method of killing yourself.

Also, why would your argument not apply to medical information, say? If they collected your medical information from your doctor's office to then blackmail you with it, that is not a privacy issue because they could also have come to your door and asked you about your medical history, and that would also be unacceptable, wouldn't it?

If I understand your argument right, it is roughly "if 'they' can do something bad in more than one way, then either of the ways is not bad because it would still be bad if the other way was used"? I'm not quite sure how to make sense of that.

Also, one anecdote from history: The nazis when they invaded the Netherlands used existing census information on religious affiliation that was easily available on hollerith punch cards to find and deport the jews. Would you say that that information collection was not a threat for the jews who probably got killed faster and in larger numbers than if the data had not been available in that form?

edit: One more example to consider: A dictator is not a threat, if he doesn't do anything that would still be inacceptable if it was done by a democracy. Well, a dictator is a threat exactly because you don't know that, and we tend to prefer democracy in order to protect ourselves from that risk of having a dictator of the bad kind.
I highly doubt that Stephen Fry would miss-spell "Lets".
Well he's a cs grad. And one thing nearly all cs grads have in common is the idea that software/software products will dominate economies "real soon now". And they usually believe it's their own software that will do so. I actually found a 1950's article claiming that.

But let's face facts here : IaaS might dominate the hosting industry (I think not, but maybe ), but that's the furthest it can possibly go. Amazon's other businesses are way bigger.

But no way you're going to convince IT people of that.

I think PaaS vendors, the biggest of which will be Oracle/SAP/Salesforce (maybe, maybe salesforce) will realize their margins will be better served by not participating in any public cloud. I don't have good figures though.
....pornhub doesn't work though. (Yes, I had to try, for science.)
Great idea, but how do they find the good times - simply by watching all movies? That might get old pretty fast.
Great. Never thought all these stuffs go into the app along with the code. And yes, As you said i've done some part of my homework too. so it won't be the developer doing everything himself. But my concern, i don't know whether the app is possible to be developed or not. And i've budget issue also. So i have to explain the idea to the developer, before we sign contract right? so that he can tell me whether it can be done or not. Is there any other work around that you can suggest me?
and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3K7RSw_8wU
There's a fairly trivial way to do it in Django I think (whether it's still safe to send an email with pw in plaintext is still questionable at best):

Say a user forgot their password and they click some link to reset their password:

Generate the password text, then create an email with that password, send the email, and then store the password, connected to the User object, in the default Django way, which is SHA'd.
"Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group labeled eco-terrorists by the Federal Bureau of Investigation."

In 2001, Earth Liberation Front firebombed a Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington, so they really were eco-terrorists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington_firebo...
The climate has previously (and recently) been altered by human activity, but fortunately we noticed, and thankfully, as of last reports we actually may have fixed this one.

"Aside from the direct effect of ultraviolet radiation on organisms, increased surface UV leads to increased tropospheric ozone, as noted above. Paradoxically, at ground-level increased ozone is generally recognized to be a health risk, as ozone is toxic due to its strong oxidant properties."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_hole
Hey, I'm part of the team who wrote this. What platform are you running on? and what errors are you getting?
That's what it seems like - In the 3-4 years I've used them (usually to see whether there's a scene after the credits, which last time I looked was a paid feature but may now be free again) they've seemed to stay pretty good at it.
I have to say, this assignment in general has been my favourite part of first year (my group extended our assembler to look enough like GNU as that we could assemble the output of GCC, so we could compile CSUD).

Nice work - love it (might play it at some point to see if I'm any good).
Like the good old Amiga days. :)

Place floppy on drive, press Ctrl+Amiga+Amiga and up you go.

Congratulations.
Can someone explain to me what the real privacy concern is? The way I see it, the drivers are on a job. To me it seems the same as mapping out the route which a bus driver took. It's not like the passenger's information is being made public.
Pointing it at HN offers to download the pdfs from the frontpage.
I think the very best submissions got something like 2k points. Since those are really interesting, I would assume a significant proportion of the readers upvoted them, let's say 20%. It would mean 10k unique registered visitors a day. I don't know about the non registered visitors, but let's say for the sake of guessing that they are 10k, that would be (very approximately) 20k unique visitors a day.
Cabs are not always taking a predfined route like a bus driver. They are picking people up at home/work which makes it relatively easy to extract information about their personal life.
Yes, it looks like it - they would have completed the assignment last year.
What is there to take issue with, given that the article states:

"Of course if the number writer knows this Gaussian strategy, he can make your winnings as close to ½ as he wants by writing numbers that are very close."

It would be very close to ½, but still larger than ½.
Although rangi42 probably only meant it could be raised, there is evidence for the damage route. http://listverse.com/2013/07/23/10-fascinating-people-with-s...
Why so? I was already looking at Assembly listing at the age of 12.

When I was 16, I enjoyed using higher level languages but the real fun was doing Assembly.

Kids these days real need to get some of this exploratory desire back.
It's no problem, as long as it's a one-time-only password and has a limited lifetime (ideally only a day or so). It's similar to a password reset URL, which is also a password equivalent, but only usable once.

At least it's better than asking for your mother's maiden name.
We already have a fairly good solution to this problem in OAuth. However, current popular implementations of OAuth are third-party owned which is not desirable for many reasons (for example, google won't use facebook owned OAuth, and vice-versa).

Ideally, we should have a self-owned OAuth service implemented by browsers or operating systems. And the APIs of this service should be standardized. Also, the storage should be locally available with remote sync optionally available for backup and cross-device syncing.
Not only Acorn/RISC OS, but all 8 and 16 bit home systems.

The main issue is of course portability, but I had lots of fun with Assembly during that timeframe.

Do you know how RISC OS fares in the Raspberry PI?
https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/459689832986734592
Well, what would you do with an encrypted password sent to you by email?
How do you propose to solve this? Using password reset links instead changes very little.
From the very first paragraph:

"The grammar described here is intended to help you understand the language in more detail, rather than to allow you to directly implement a parser or compiler."

A language specification is for people who want to implement a parser/compiler/VM/etc. It's something you need if you want to standardize it (e.g. TC39 [ECMAScript] and TC52 [Dart]).

A language specification is also generally clearly labeled as such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_specificat...

PHP, for example, doesn't have one.
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> If someone were to hack into any mail account, all they need to do is search for ‘password’ and they have all of the user’s passwords.

Only if you're dumb enough to not delete any password emails.

Granted, preferable any site sending you your password in an email should either send a reset link or "your password is 'red*'"
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Here's a metric for the overall quality of a given film: the relative amount of pee-time.
The authors of this site have "technical people" bias. Because the spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about their idea, project, whatever... THEY BELIEVE EVERYBODY DOES!!

I have no idea what this thing is , what it does and way worse than that, there is no info in the site for those that want to use it.
Downloading tracks from Soundcloud and Mixcloud is what I use it for. I think it can also rip PDF's from Scribd but I'm not sure.

For Youtube I can recommend keepvid.com
> strip clubs on the other hand are required by law to be tucked away in isolated locations

Really? I used to live across the street from one in Manhattan. It wasn't an illicit club, and I didn't live in some sort of squat house. Dancers and patrons going there would be indistinguishable from people going to my building, apart from the address being off by one.

Behold, a "Gentlemen's Cabaret" club and a porn shop between a falafel place, camera store, burger joint, and residential flats: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.758115,-73.989143&spn=0.0...
Hello,

I have added a more informative README and fixed a couple of issues that prevented the game from running. In case you need any more help, could we move this discussion to GitHub issues?
Hey, congrats on this project.

Mainly I was waiting to reboot into Linux to try to build this.

You may want to add some instructions for building the game/emulator.

For the emulator, I'd never used cmake before (sort of) so I didn't know to run cmake .

Then the error about SDL (needed libsdl-dev package or similar)

For the game, I'm currently downloading a Linaro ARM toolchain on a slow connection but I don't anticipate any further issues.
For those wondering what it does, you can use Offliberty to download mixes from Soundcloud or Mixcloud.
Just replied to someone else before you posted this. Thanks!
It's interesting that the relationship between fertility rates and economic status applies so strongly within the US as well as between countries.

Often the high fertility rates in poor counties is seen as a way of guaranteeing someone will be around to care for the parents when they are old. I wonder if this explanation is backed with research, or the reasons that apply within the US also apply elsewhere?
There's some interesting analysis going on over at:

http://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/28ialf/173_million...
Great effect.

I would love to hear another sentence distorted the same way, though, because I wonder if I just learned to recognize this particular sentence, or if I learned to separate the signal from the noise in this type of distortion.
Government transparency is largely about opening the data they have available to them up to the public in a consumable way. FOIL requests like the one Whong filed are essentially the second-oldest way they have done this. (The oldest being, well, just asking directly.)

So, yes. It can definitely be argued that cell phone records, insofar as they are shared with the government in the first place, should be published. A simple counterargument would be that cellphones do not consume a public resource, unlike the way taxis consume road space, so there is no reason to share said data with the government and consequently the public.

But as a rule of thumb, government transparency is that any data the government has ultimately belongs to the public. It's not a matter of regulation.
> If I understand your argument right, it is roughly "if 'they' can do something bad in more than one way, then either of the ways is not bad because it would still be bad if the other way was used"? I'm not quite sure how to make sense of that.

I think what you're missing is that I'm not saying that nothing counts as a privacy violation. Medical information, for example, absolutely has an expectation of privacy, but I claim that the outside of your envelopes does not. My point is that the mass collection of information, where there is no expectation of privacy for each piece of that information, is not itself a privacy violation. What people do with information is not what determines whether the collection of that information constitutes a privacy violation.
I'm sure that there are a lot of cases where you could make code look neater and sleeker with this kind of syntax extension, but my thesis -- and this is inherently hard to prove -- is that the uglier code you may have to write in C is nonetheless more robust and maintainable code in the end. A lot of very good software has been written in C, and what I suspect contributes to C's impressive record of robustness is its spare syntax and the fact that there is almost no room for ambiguity and subtle, invisible side effects. What you see is what you get.

Adding simple, inline anonymous functions like these is a fairly modest proposal, of course, and I can't tell you exactly what damage they'd cause. They could turn out harmless. But they are redundant, because C already has a syntax for functions, and that redundancy now forces the programmer to have to make a choice about which syntax to use every time the situation permits them. Reading code becomes a bit more complicated, because there are more kinds of syntactic elements to recognize and know the consequences of. You end up splitting your time between two ways of writing functions, and that works against developing consistent practices and conventions for writing functions.

Is there a trade-off? Probably. It may be too onerous to write some types of code in C, and a little syntactic sugar might be able to make it tractable. But maybe you're better off writing that code in a different language, anyway. C has a good thing going, so why risk messing with it?
I found there was a visible link on the page that said "FIRST TIME HERE?! Better late than never - Read THIS", which takes you to http://offliberty.com/#about. The below content is what appeared.

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Offliberty lets you access any online content without a permanent Internet connection. Today many websites offer nice content but most are difficult to browse offline. If you have limited access to the Internet you can use Offliberty to browse any content later - being offline.

If the Internet bus visits your village only once a week or your grandma doesn't let you use Internet more than 1 hour a day - Offliberty is for you.

Offliberty DOES NOT host and has NO RIGHTS to any content. You must agree with our Terms of Service and other sites usage rules before you take them offline. Sometimes browsing offline content requires permission from its author or owner. Remember to be sure that you have it. We ARE NOT taking any responsibility for Offliberty users activity.
Not to mention tell the operator if they are alive at all. It may not be obvious if you see from a few meters away someone who is mostly immobilized by a fallen whatever. For this sort of application, a microphone on a winched cable might be useful (n.b.: make a feature to jettison the cable if it gets stuck!).