skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to wonder if it'd be possible to DDOS the NSA by having everyone do 'dd if=/dev/random of=supersecretstuff.txt count=1024 bs=1048576' and post large files full of random bits all over the web.

The NSA would be obligated to collect and store every damn one of those huge blobs of random bits on the off chance it'd be used later as a one-time pad, or that it's encrypted secrets that they need to investigate. It costs nothing to generate random bits, but it costs > 0 to store that data. Sooner or later they'd just run out of disk space.
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Yeah, I understand not wasting any more time on this thread.

You aren't getting attacked because you said 15 gallons though, people are down voting your posts because they don't add much to the conversation. You're imagining some motivated contingent of people voting against your posts because they speak the truth about the article, but really, your first post was down voted because it was somewhat obnoxious.

I mean, are you commenting here because it is a convenient place to propagandize, or are you commenting here because some decent and interesting conversations take place? If it's the latter, then you have a reason to make a better effort than making sure that your views get equal time propaganda. I realize that sounds preachy, but I'm too lazy to figure out how to better put it.
I only have 1 sentence:
“Coding interview (democ­racy) is the worst form of interview (gov­ern­ment), except for all the oth­ers”
It's pretty easy to imagine that somebody might get attached to their given name; maybe they were named for their grandparent, of whom they have a lot of fond memories. Maybe it's a connection to their family that they really cherish. Maybe they just really like the way their full name flows together. Suggesting that somebody "just change" their name to something that's only vaguely related because "it's just a collection of random syllables" seems to kind of miss the point of a name.
I'd guess zeetee, silent J
Honestly this seems really pretentious.

My last name is almost impossible. Even people who know me tend to just abbreviate it. Whenever I meet someone new who stumbles over my name. I just smile and say 'Don't worry about it, I said it wrong the first time too.' Then give the correct pronunciation. It's a good way to break the ice.

Conversely sending someone a link on how to correctly pronounce your name just screams 'I'm impossible to get along with'.
The difference here is that with Tor it is me who is providing the bandwidth for them to use. I want to see Tor succeed, but I just can't get past the fact that the people running .onion directories seem to feel that since it can be used for anything that everything should be promoted equally.
How long does your battery last under Linux, with reasonable screen brightness? What's the battery discharge rate indicated by powertop? Are you using a full desktop environment?
Honestly, I'm ok with this. The specific case is dumb, but I can't imagine a change to the laws that could make things better. You can't outlaw dumb.

Recently I found that one of my popular posts on startups had been boosted without permission or credit by some wannabe-accelerator in Texas. I filed a DMCA request and their host took the page down promptly. It just worked.

I'd hope Github is doing some basic checks on requests like this. But I don't want them to try to become a mini-court. We already have a perfectly good court system for resolving ownership disputes.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to DDOS a DCMA takedown system with a randomized spam of takedown requests.

You know, like a mad-lib "Your site has our content askjdh12312312.avi on the link yourtube.io/5h0rtur1/ and must be removed to comply with yadda yadda yadda".

It's probably five kinds of illegal and three kinds of immoral, though.
Several languages use compound nouns, proper and common. These cause pronunciation problems when the phrase is read atomically, instead of by parsing. For example, German armbunduhr is easily understood as arm+bund+uhr = clock around arm, or wrist watch. Since I speak languages that also build up compound nouns (e.g; chair = four+legs), I have no trouble recognizing the need to parse in other languages.
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Well, before IeSF changed their rules yesterday (under massive social media feedback + comments from Blizzard), there was no world championship for women in Hearthstone; it was male-only.

So even if the local organizers in Finland would have rebelled (which they did not), and allowed women to participate in the national event (which would have been against the IeSF rules), they probably could not have sent the national champion – in case she was female – to the international championship games.

So the local organizers decided to follow the IeSF rules and not allow female participants. But something like this stands out in Europe, so there was something of a media storm, and everything turned out nicely: IeSF decided to update their rules.
Lots of dithering, a 16 or 256 color palette, or just straight up convert to ASCII art.
this is called trickle-up economics
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The link is self-reported statements of people who have a vested interest in suppressing wages.

The fundamental, persistent flaw in your argument is that you're not distinguishing between observed effects of changes to the minimum wage vs. what people believe about changes to the minimum wage. You're not even bothering to acknowledge the distinction.

There's also the assumption implicit in your argument that reduced employment is bad, which is also plainly wrong. It's better for society to have 400 hours of labor at $15/hour than 500 hours of labor at $14/hour. Everything we know about productivity says reduced hours are good, and we should be structuring wages to penalize companies for overworking employees. Not just because it's better for employees, but because it's better for business.
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Well if your job resembles writing on a whiteboard, solving problems, then they should make sure you can do that in the interview. Try going through some problems on a white board you'll probably enjoy it more than you assume!
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> If you read the constitution, there's a section called the Enumerated Powers Clause that gives the federal government very specific, limited powers.

This name is sometimes given to Article I, Sec. 8, which gives Congress certain powers, but is not the only part fo the Constitution providing powers to the federal government -- or even Congress specifically -- powers (as well as limitations other places in the Constitution that apply even to the exercise of the powers enumerated in Art. I, Sec. 8 or elsewhere) are provided throughout the Constitution, so it is completely untenable to describe a federal government whose power is defined solely by those powers assigned to Congress in Article I, Sec. 8 ("the Enumerated Powers Clause") as "the system [the US] was intended to have in the Constitution".

> Consider this- the federal governments debt alone (including unfunded liabilities) is more than the amount of US dollars in circulation.

The total debt held by the public (you are using a bit of nonstandard terminology, so I'm not sure what you mean to include or exclude) is about 10 times the amount of US currency in circulation, and the total public debt is closer to 15 times the amount of currency in circulation, but I have trouble finding any remotely plausible reason for considering any particular ratio of those two numbers important.
Cool, this is something I had thought about trying to make, but decided on another project instead. It's just big enough of a project to be a primary endeavor, but small enough for a single person (or two) to handle. It also doesn't seem like it would require tons of maintenance once you get everything worked out. There's not many competitors, it's something in high demand, and it's easy to charge for. Good job!
I dunno; as somebody who's name gets mispronounced essentially all the time, I'm pretty sensitive about trying to pronounce other people's names properly. If they embed the pronunciation in their email, then a) I don't have to ask, and b) I can practice on my own time with a reference to make sure I have it correct. It's nice of them.
But if it's worthless, and the employee realizes it, then it will not serve its purpose. Case in point: my last gig gave me something like 0.15% of the company vested over 4 years. I left after 2.5 years and the equity did nothing to keep me there even though the company was in a reasonable place financially. Why? Because 0.15% * the valuation * likelihood of a sale * sale price * likelihood of my shares actually being given any value in a sale is effectively 0.

Everyone keeps suggesting that when evaluating a compensation package, one should not count equity for anything since it's worthless. Well, it is nearly worthless, unless you happen to hit the startup that becomes Facebook, Google, Dropbox, etc. and you get in early enough (usually only employee #1 gets over 1%). So why bother even offering a worthless piece of compensation. The startup might as well include a bunch of lottery tickets with every paycheck instead.
Depending on what you mean by "spending". I see spending as an irreversible process, where someone actually decides how to convert resources to products. You could say the more you do that, the bigger the economy.

However, rich people don't engage in this sort of spending as much. Lot of their "spending" is in reality just circulation of money through rent extraction. And it's important for them to do that, because that allows them to keep their power. For instance, if they loan it to a person, that person becomes dependent on them.

Your idea is based on flawed premise that one has only two rational options what to do with money - invest (in a narrow sense, to make actual decision how to convert one resource to another) or consume. In reality, there is a third option, which is similar to saving, that is investing money in power grabbing and rent extraction. While saving doesn't give you an advantage to other players, the rent extraction may.

This was already explained by Marx long time ago, when he described the capitalist as someone who wants to create more money from money he has through profit from investment. And more recently this was explained by Piketty, that you can have a situation in economy where rich people try to "invest" into rent extraction and not producing more goods or services.
Title: EU's right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google

"EU's right to be forgotten", people with context understand this cause.

You are so good at political correctness... That does not matter if you use "search engine" to generalize google, Google is effectively the "search engine". You can say that Google has no fault in this incident, but you should not pretend that Google is not playing a crucial role in this incident...

Wording is just wording, truth is the truth...
Which language should I learn to use better? is probably a useful question to answer.
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> We already have a perfectly good court system for resolving ownership disputes.

Patent trolls are ok too ?
Because anyone trying to keep anything private or secure must be hiding something bad... That's just wonderful.

After 10 years of pervasive surveillance and not being able to catch a single terrorist I can't believe the NSA is trying to rationalize it as being a good thing. It's too bad the bill to defund the NSA didn't pass: http://defundthensa.com/
>I've talked to a couple health-care startups on the East Coast that have started by tackling one small aspect of healthcare and built off of that. Prescription drug tracking. OR procedures and checklists. There are tons of companies in the medical startup space that are doing good work, there are tons of areas that traditional big tech companies have failed to innovate in that are ripe for being upset.

While this is true, one of the problems currently being faced by the industry right now is that all of these niche vendors have their own ideas about how data should be handled, and it's resulted in a fair amount of balkanization of the healthcare IT industry.

It's getting better, and HITECH and the ACA are finally pushing toward real standardization and data interchange, but from where I'm sitting (working in healthcare integration), it's probably going to take us another decade to sort out the mess things are in today.
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You're right; I didn't update the example while the syntax was in flux. Fixed! ☺

(There's no certainty that the syntax will be kept, though, see this[1] about deferring it to ES7 to generalize the syntax for parallelism, and this[2] to make async promises and generators work together.)

[1]: https://speakerdeck.com/dherman/a-better-future-for-comprehe...

[2]: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4PVbLpUIdzoMDR5dWstRllXblU/...
thanks - i will check it out.
They tend to go hand-in-hand, though.
My partner finally decided to give it a try to her idea for her own fashion brand[1] (instead of regular career in journaling), designing and hand crafting clothes in small quantities made of self designed and produced specially for us materials and we're just starting being profitable, even tho we're at the moment not very active when it comes to advertising via any channels. The profit varies heavily so far, having very good months and a bit worse ones, but overall, we're positive.

[1] http://facebook.com/kropeczki
Yes, and then face one zillion lawsuits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L...
cool - i'll take a look at it.
I launched Duet (http://duetapp.com) in May 2013 and it's been profitable since day 1. I'm going to start focusing on it more so it can hopefully grow into something I can live off of.

*edit: I'm very curious to know, what about this comment is worthy of downvotes.
Only part of it is under penalty of perjury, and that's the part that is true in this case:

"A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
Ah Cyveillance is part of QinetiQ. I guess when they're not giving or receiving bribes or orchestrating government sell-offs that result in their management personally gaining huge pools of wealth they take time off to spam DMCA take downs. Makes sense.
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> I'd hope Github is doing some basic checks on requests like this.

You're not allowed to do that without losing the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA. Anything that shows up that matches the format must be obeyed. That's why counter-notifications exist.
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You suggest the point of a name is false associations and nostalgia. I think you're missing the point of a name.

The point of a name is so people don't refer to you as "hey you, the tall guy with the blue shirt". That's really it.

By the way, I have shortened my name. Saves a lot of trouble.
It gets better every time I try again, but I'm still missing four things:

- Good project management. I tried the project-manager plugin, but it doesn't seem to remember my fuzzy finder options and reindexes everything every time.

- Good Vim emulation, like Vintageous in Sublime.

- Keyboard mapping override. I use cmd-j and cmd-k for switching tabs in Sublime. I cannot map this easily in Atom.

- Actually, I disabled tabs in Sublime and only use the side bar. I miss this in Atom too.
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This is cool. The supplementary information is really useful.

Not sure if this is intended or not, but the e's being are rendered kind of like c's for me (chrome, win7).

example: http://i.imgur.com/IOxeyxO.png
> GitHub's brand of DMCA compliance is much like YouTube's: lazy to the point of unequivocally benefiting copyright owners, not content producers.

I believe the text of the DMCA is written to cause this. If you are an ISP, and you don't want to be liable for infringments, you have to take things down after receiving a DMCA takedown notice. The end.

You can put it back up after the user has followed the right procedure to challenge and assume liability themselves. I admit I'm not sure exactly what procedure the DMCA outlines for this.

I think what ISP's _could_ do is facilitate user's filing challenges more easily. But they've got to take it down after receiving a takedown request, that's pretty much what the law says (or else the ISP can be sued for the copyright infringement too).

Theoretically you can sue someone for issuing a takedown request in bad faith. Perhaps ISP's could help their users do this too, but it could get sticky for them.
>I'm one of the only people in my department that doesn't have a prior clinical background. I almost wonder if the fact that they're less trusting of the technology at times is a good thing to some extent.

I totally agree. Over time I've come to really value working with teams made up of a variety of backgrounds. I think it's incredibly valuable to not end up in group-think on either end of the spectrum when it comes to how to approach problems, assessing risk, and healthy cynicism about technology.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. My last name is not hard to pronounce but if you haven't seen it you can pick 3/4 ways to spell it...but if I've worked with you for years and my email is firstinitial.lastname@ it drives me kind of crazy when I see people misspelling it.
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Are you sure? I thought OPG v Diebold ended in a substantial payout after false DMCA filings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPG_v._Diebold
These type of bots have many problems. I have see similar situation on Youtube where a content provider mistakingly takes down their own content along with the infringers.

Also, I have heard of this happening with people sharing open source software on bit torrent. This isnt the original article I read but the closest one I could find.[1]

[1] http://max-technology.blogspot.com/2008/12/open-source-torre...
I knew a university athlete from the Congo with a tough to pronounce name. He started introducing himself as "Bob" during his flight to Canada.
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> There seems to be no negative effect of making false DMCAs so play that game.

Unprosecuted crimes (e.g. the perjury one must commit to file a false DMCA notice) have a strange way of suddenly becoming prosecuted crimes when people act in blatant disregard for the law.
Agreed, unfortunately meaningful projects such as this are not a high priority for the US electorate (and thus the US Congress) [1]. My hope is that growing interest by college students in STEM subjects [2] will ultimately lead to an increased understanding of the importance of these projects in the long term.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

[2] https://www.stemconnector.org/sites/default/files/store/STEM...
Reflections on whiteboarding:

Lately I have realized that I use google a lot less than I did in the past. I don't have to look things up as much, thus I have seen gains in speed when working on some functionality. The interesting part is that coding/reasoning without google feels a lot like whiteboarding. In fact I get into the same 'mental patterns' when solving a problem I don't need google for that I feel when brushing up on algorithm problems at the white board.

I don't come from long history of math rigor. I don't have a mathy degree at all and have hardly used a whiteboard in front of any professors or math nerds. But I'm also not an imbecile; computer science is built upon a foundation of mathematics and if you aren't willing to play ball then get off the fucking field.
"it's even less efficient that its government-run counterparts" Because the VA System is so lean, mean and well run. All health care should be modeled after the gubberment Rolls eyes
>>Because there is no pay-out. You'd be fighting an uphill battle just to see someone get a slap on the wrist.

No, it's much more important than that. If you win, it would establish legal precedent, which would make companies think twice before pulling this type of shenanigans in the future.
An animated giv scanning through each line of the image one at a time?
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It's Armbanduhr, though. So it's more like Armband (wristband) and Uhr (clock).
But your solution is at least equally clever! I never thought of that.
Yes, I wonder how much Qualcomm payed for these bozos to run grep looking for Qualcomm on several files and take down all that match

A lot of them looks like SDKs and stuff

Good to know not to waste one second with their products
Me too - I wish I could read his internal rants at Google.
I can't find something to replace the kind of blogging he did.

And I think I'm not alone in this: http://blog.fogus.me/2011/03/27/the-long-lost-art-of-thought...
*until it doesn't.
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And meanwhile, years of your life will be wasted sitting in prison awaiting challenges, all while you're threatened with decades in prison for evidence that the government should never have had access to. Not to mention the legal fees if you can't get pro-bono coverage on your case.

It's no wonder so many plea out to a lesser (but certain) sentence when given the choice.
I've been using `history -a`, but what do `history -c` and `history -r` do?

It looks like it clears your shell's history, and then re-populates it from the .bash_history file?
Make sure to check out the project's wiki page, where he goes into detail on DOS terminal modes:

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Right, so in your case it makes perfect sense. You are a third partner with a 10% stake in the company. Contrast this with a first employee who is getting a 1% stake and less than half the normal salary. Would you have taken this position for a 1% stake, all else being the same?

Edit: your point is that good engineers cost $150k (really closer to $200k with taxes, etc). That's correct. So what happens when these engineers as a group realize that taking $70k + 0.5% equity is not the same as taking $150k + full benefits elsewhere? What other options do startups actually have at that point? More importantly, will this point happen and will it happen soon?