skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be a lot of people equating investment (often by the rich or owners of business) with people returning all/most of their wage income back to the economy (the poor or middle class that spend their paychecks directly).

If these activities are the same, I assume you would agree that they should also be taxed the same? If so, we should really get rid of "capital gains" taxes and tax those profits as regular income. Otherwise there would be a severe bias introduced into the economy from the uneven application of taxes.

/or, maybe there is something different about investments after all...
Do did qualcomm's own repository get taken down, as a result of their overbroad automatically generated request?

I really hope so. And I really hope they need to file an official challenge, and then wait two weeks, to get it back again. Like everyone else.

That's the best part of the story, they let a drone takedowner loose and actually shot themselves with it.
I also miss awesome, and xnomad wasn't cutting it. Hopefully Amethyst is what I need.
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Sylvain here, I wrote the post. If any of you got feedback from Apple on their App Previews as well, it would be awesome if you could post it in the comments!

Cheers
You need to suggest what those words should map to, otherwise, what are we suppose to do with them? Map them to bullshit also? That would make the article not necessarily make sense.

I propose the following:

lean -> no money

startup -> small business

disrupt -> survive

vertical -> business

arena -> business

ninja -> obedient intern

rockstar -> young and naive

growth-hackers -> salesmen

cloud -> rental servers

social media -> facebook clone

analytics -> number crunching

Consider the following sentence translation:

"We are a lean cloud-based startup looking to disrupt the analytics arena in the social media vertical, we are looking for growth-hackers who are also ninja programmers and rockstar coders."

Maps to:

"We are a no-money rental-server-based small business looking to survive the number crunching business in the facebook clone business, we are looking for salesmen who are also obedient intern programmers and young and naive coders."
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Be that as it may, it's not the claim the article was making. The claim was that rich people don't lead to growth because much of their money sits idle, and thus cannot "trickle down" by being used in the economy.

The moral effects that you outline aside, you seem to agree that the portion of their money that the rich don't spend themselves, they're allowing to be spent by another person. Thus while you may dislike the moral implications, you seem to agree with my assessment that the claims of the article are incorrect.
That looks like data about

People who read xkcd AND have twitter AND feel compelled to tweet about xkcd.

I suspect that's a small subset of the total people that read xkcd.
My Polish friends tell me that speaking in Polish "ow" is pronounced like the English word "off" (or maybe "of"? I forget) instead of the English word "ow". So "off-ski" or "uv-ski" instead of "ow-ski", at least for some of them.
Well.

I'd like to revise my comment above: article is 100% accurate and yes, that is real XKeyScore source code, and it is being directly called, solo, by real selectors in the wild.

I'm horrified: this is actual "your name will also go on ze list" territory. Selectors as wide as this have absolutely no genuine intelligence value whatsoever. This never saw oversight. They're insane.

Please do not let this discourage you from using Tor. Oh, quite the opposite - this shows you exactly why you need to use Tor, more than ever, and why more people, perhaps everyone, should. The more people who do, the more useless this selector becomes.

I'd like to warmly thank all the new sources who have come forward since Snowden's disclosures last year (no, this isn't from Snowden). This is absolutely golden.

By the way, malformed regexes are a frequent source of exploitable security bugs…
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I think the cooperation necessary would be for the "big guys" to not have a vested interest in selling out privacy, which has been the prevailing business model for a long time. And, since the big guys only listen to their bottom line, that means not using them until they support privacy. It may mean not using the Internet substantially at all. (It's more than a little ironic to be saying this on the preeminent "business hacker" (or "startup") community, which has a visible subset who sympathize with some of the NSA's programs, or at least have been able to rationalize them...)

As you say, the tools have always been there, but no one uses them. That might be because it's a chicken-or-egg problem. At the same time, it might be because the people in the positions to develop and promote the tools, even if only for their own use, are being prevented by a one-track culture that encourages them to sell out their client's privacy in addition to discouraging them from working on projects like Tor. (Again, the HN forum is an example of that conflict - being a largely business-oriented forum; surveillance technology sells... Even DuckDuckGo, a favorite startup in this community, has filters to protect us.) Rather than peer-to-peer solutions like Gnutella, Gnunet, Tor, and even open wireless, people continue to make websites with JavaScript encryption, despite the proven MITM threat.

I don't think JavaScript and CSS will get us out of this, but if this latest revelation doesn't wake people up in the tech community specifically, nothing will, since BoingBoing readership is a large number of them - which to me means that the tech and programmer categories are themselves a primary focus of the surveillance that some highly-respected tech pundits (and HN forum members) have defended and rationalized as only being used for terrorists and perverts. That definition now includes anyone with enough knowledge to build or use strong privacy tools. The definition now includes everyone on this forum.
Originally I was gonna write:

>Religious texts don't change over time due to community suggested changes.

Then I caught myself.
> Mean student debt runs less than $30,000 and activists won't even report the median.

Most of the people I knew in college weren't paying for it themselves, a parent or other relative covered most of it. The students who were paying for everything always had the standard $27,000 in Stafford loans plus whatever else they needed in a different type of loan. I know many people who exceeded $50K in student loans. I'm not saying my experience is the norm, but the commonly posted student loan figures can be very misleading for either side.
So, in summary: you came up with a company name / domain that someone else was already using, asked that person to sell you the domain, then when they refused, threatened to sue them for it, then tried begging, then tried bribery and finally got them to agree to sell it for less than they wanted to, by using some "secret" technique, then bragged on the internet about how clever you'd been?

You sound like exactly the kind of person I'd love to do business with (NOT!)
> I can't believe the NSA is trying to rationalize it as being a good thing

Is it really a surprise people in power wish to remain in power?
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Just curious about this type of arrangement. How long does it last and what happens when there is continued development?
But most of those immigrants are sneaking into or being smuggled into the country, as opposed to trying to cheat their way through immigration and border security. The former involves a backpacking trek through the desert whereas the latter involves years if not decades of expensive, arduous bureaucracy.
Now, I guess, if an ISP ignores a DMCA takedown request, all that happens is that they too can be sued for copyright infringement of the content.

Now, I guess an ISP _could_ individually evaluate each DCMA takedown request, decide that some of them are completely illegitimate and there was in fact no infringing material, and thus that they have little legal risk to leaving it up, and probably nobody's going to take them to court over it, and if someone does, the ISP will probably still win and they're willing to deal with it.

I think it's pretty obvious that it's not really reasonable to expect a business to do this (by assigning an actual lawyer to evaluate every request? By trusting less trained/certified people to make the determination? Even paying them minimum wage it's probably not affordable), although it would be pretty exciting if one decided to anyway.
I am not making a 'repugnant point'. I am in complete agreement that it would be better to fix social problems like prejudice and bigotry.

The point I am making is that we don't know how to fix those problems quickly. In the meantime people are being hurt by the consequences and you are asking us not to protect those people. I think if anything qualifies as a repugnant point, that does.

And no, you can't meaningfully put 'data security' in quotes and compare it to 'lawless minority' and act as though it is some kind of totalitarian repression. We are talking about stopping people's medical records from being hacked so easily. That is a practical and reasonable problem to fix.
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This was a project I made in a little over 4 hours, from idea to finished implementation, and finally purchasing the domain and setting up the hosting on S3 (since it's entirely static).

Completely pointless, but it was fun to make.
You mean my bash fanaticism isn't religious?
Does the other person know what that means? Is it their phone unlock code?
It's full of gems like:

"These variables define terms and websites relating to the TAILs (The Amnesic
Incognito Live System) software program, a comsec mechanism advocated by
extremists on extremist forums."

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suspect that Hacker News and Reddit are extremist forums.
Weirdly, it's only capitals, no numbers or punctuation. Not sure what I would do with such a typeface! Also it's more like an average of the world's finger-painting styles, since you have to draw the letters super big and on a touchscreen. Still, everyone does have their own style, and there are some interesting stats on the "left" of that nearly un-navigable website, letter averages by country or profession and such.
Why didn't I check there first. Sorry for the bother -- my first Ask HN attempt, and asked-and-answered it was. Thanks fellas, glad to know it's still in motion. Fan of this project.
I think you are wrong, because you assume that the ability of people to exert power (to influence prices, for example) is independent on income. But that's probably not true.

So for example, in your thought experiment, some of the people could start a business with that million of dollars (invest it), and become more independent. That would be competition (or substitute, depends how you look at it), and it would prevent from rising the real price to the original level. If you suddenly give everyone a big sum of money (which is resources), you actually equalize power.
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I don't think this will help as much as they hope it will. In my experience, people are generally incapable of pronouncing anything, even when it is said to their face.

My name is Nat, which is about as simple a name as you could ask for. But quite often, I will introduce myself, "Hi, I'm Nat", and the response will be "Nice to meet you, Nate". My wife experiences it too (even from her mother!), so I don't think my pronunciation is the problem here.

Is this kind of vowel sloppiness more common in the US? Or should I just take the hint and change my name?
It's remarkable that I still don't know if I should pronounce "names" or "name-zee".
I was going to write a shell package/snippet manager until I discovered this:

https://github.com/ziyaddin/jean

It would be nice to get all of these .bash_profile enhancements in as packages.

I suppose it could be improved to prompt for a brew/apt install if needed.
While attacking the NSA on legal grounds is admirable, they operate above the law. If their public budget was ever threatened, they would just turn to the black budget. Any laws attempting to restrain the NSA's power would be circumvented.

Tell everyone to use Tor Browser. Heck, I think it's worth starting an underground bounty for ISP techs to install Tor Browser on customer computers. Pay per install, paid in BTC.
That's quite pretty. How do you get the triangles?

I've been loving a prompt which color codes git branches (which, if I understand right, would be built-in if I used zsh instead of bash) [0], though I have to edit the last line in order to get my history appendation working as well.

0: https://gist.github.com/tobiassjosten/828432
Do you have a source about the lunch?

Yes, the traffic is encrypted now, see e.g. http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/gmail-traffic-between-googl...
Of course this happens, and it's an obvious technique. I'm sure that not having a facebook account adds to your score, using AdBlock adds to your score, mentioning the NSA online adds to your score, refusing cookies adds to your score, using Linux adds to your score, etc.

That's how a police state works. (XKeyScore += 5)

My mother was involved in civil rights, so she has a file. It's fine that I have a file too. Hopefully I'll be gone before they start going door to door.

edit: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extrem...
the "Are they male or female" link is wrong
This reminds me of the old recording from Linus[0].

> "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux!"

Does he still pronounce it this way?

[0] http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux...
Thanks for the links! I made a post on the last one, but I guess I'm a little late for this month?

I actually tried to include links in the original post, but no matter what I did, I would always get the "keep your message under 2000 characters" message (and the text wasn't longer than that). It wasn't until I removed the links that I was able to post.
And for any OS X user (* BSD based sed)

curl -s programmerexcuses.com | sed -n -e '/<a.*>/{s/<[^>]*>//g;' -e 'p' -e '}'

git commit -m "$(curl -s programmerexcuses.com | sed -n -e '/<a.*>/{s/<[^>]*>//g;' -e 'p' -e '}')"
From a strictly monetary point of view (as in, not counting the type of environment in which you want to work, etc.), let's say E1 is the expectation value of a payout of your equity in cash. So E1 = probability of a sale where your type of stock does not get screwed * cash value of your stock in this deal. E1 is by all accounts and all advice incredibly low.

Now let's look at E2 which will be the expectation value of a payout from investing your salary difference between a high paying corporate job and a startup. Let's set this number at a safe value of $50,000/year. Invest $50k a year for 10 years in some safe stock and bond mutual funds and I bet E2 and much higher than E1. Heck, invest $50k year in lottery tickets and you might make out better than working at a startup.

That's not to say you should ignore startup jobs. They have a ton of other benefits. Just seems like equity is not one of them unless you are a founder.
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No.

But finite state machines take finite amounts of time and memory to run - and even though it runs 'nearline', XKeyScore is not invulnerable to targeted resource exhaustion attacks.
I think that's an overly generous assessment. Oscar's founders have invested incredible sums of money into the company and are very well connected. If they've not hired people who know the insurance industry, it's safe to assume it's because they chose not to. This is not a small scrappy startup. This is a company started by powerful people looking to get into an opening they saw.
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About a year ago (or so), I added a parenthetical, (My last name is pronounced "Tate"), to my business cards and email sig block. I've had several people comment approvingly.

That said, I do wish my German ancestors had changed either the spelling or the pronunciation when they came to the U.S. in the 19th century. I didn't do it myself when I was younger for fear of family disapproval, and by now my professional "brand" is under the existing spelling. Interestingly, my son, who's just starting his career, brushes off my suggestion that he change the spelling.
On OSX it's SIGINFO (29) in case anybody wondered
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Are you sure about that? My guess is that if I, say, forge some DMCA notices as being from major media companies trying to take down stuff belonging to other major media companies, YouTube will happily ignore me.

Certainly I don't see anything in the law itself that prevents them from verifying that the notice actually comes from the entity claimed, or saying, "Hey buddy, are you sure you really own that?" Which is all I meant by basic checks.

Are you aware of some case law that demonstrates otherwise?
If you are already using Alfred, I'd suggest having a look at the new workflows available, in particular layout, which covers a lot of the features of spectacle.

For instance, typing 'layout left' in alfred will push the window the left side, topleft for the corner, etc.
Or even worse: When a barista takes my name for my order, I say "Andrey." Usually they'll spell it "Andre" but whatever.

Five minutes later, more often than not, they call out "Aubrey." That's reading their own handwriting.

You can't explain that.

:P
To be fair, most of the files do have a proper Qualcomm copyright line in them. It looks like they've just searched for "copyright qualcomm"

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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http://www.thingsunder15.com and http://www.myfancysauce.com

both slightly profitable.
I launched http://ipinfo.io back in 2013 and when it hit 50M API requests a day early this year I decided to launch the paid plans, and it's been profitable ever since. It's now hosted across 2 providers in 3 different cities, and handles almost 100M requests per day with a p99 of less than 1s and p50 of less than 100ms. Expect more services and features later this year!
http://boingboing.net/2009/12/08/farm-family-put-unde.html

Edit: The title and link of this HN article have changed. The link changed from a BoingBoing article to the original German article, and the headline used to be a question ("Who is the NSA spying on..." or similar) that gave the GP comment more context.
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This assumes that, given the right pronunciation, people will be able to pronounce your name correctly. That's just not reality. I've corrected many a person many a time only to have them repeat the same pronunciation back to me as they did before I corrected them two seconds ago. Finally, I just gave up.

Now I have two first names.

EDIT: Also happens a lot on voicemails, seconds after they've clearly heard my first name pronounced (the last name I don't mind much as it is unusual).
Yeah, that's what I meant by their theology/philosophy. As I understand it, they evaluate technologies on a case-by-case basis, the key judgement being whether the technology makes members less dependent on the community, without regard to "how modern" the technology is. And the decision is on a per-community basis, and their communities are quite small (although they do generally fall into larger regional groups that share many decisions). The Amish near where I grew up have what appears to me to be a fairly modern lumber mill that must be powered either by grid electricity or (more likely) internal combustion generators.
Yes I did mean that, thank you for the correction!
Actually it's unknown whether it's the rational thing to do. It is only rational given a narrowly defined self interested actor making the choice, but that actor cannot know whether they are participating in a tragedy of the commons situation and undermining the overall environment (of employable people) in which they must grow and function.

The fact that selfish actors can sometimes do more harm than good in the pursuit of their interests is the reason we have regulation.
The question is very board and it depends on dozens of factors.

If your talking about developer 1, square 1, your the 'idea man or women' and you approach me with an idea I like it and want to work with you on it. Then I'll likely want some ownership, or revenue sharing as the product couldn't exist without my technical know how (or another developers).
Andrews and Arnold is xkcd 806-compliant (2010)
We did not want to “adapt” the algorithm to each language to improve speed, because it will open the door to too many “uncontrolled variables” (how good a programmer in that language you are and so on). The only partial exception was with Mathematica for reasons explained in the paper.

This is rather half-baked reasoning. The only ways I can think of to control for programmer skill or at least account for it is to

1. Use "idiomatic" code for all languages.
2. Use "optimized" code for all languages.
3. Use "real" code for all languages with a large and detailed sample set.

In number 3 you aren't "controlling" the variables so much as diligently including them in the observations. The baseline skill of a programmer sounds to me more like an unknown than a variable-- something more worth studying first than controlling.
What is your current best strategy to acquire customers? Are you doing any social marketing, is it mostly organic search or paid search placements?
It isn't as if the government just takes that evidence and unilaterally decides to blow people up.

Well, except when they do, in Afghanistan or Yemen, say.
CDA §230 could be amended to immunize intermediaries for all liability for copyright violations (just as they're immunized for liability from other civil lawsuits).

Even in a notice and takedown system, the time required to act on the notice could be increased to ensure that the target has an opportunity to counternotice, and the counternotice could be made immediately effective, rather than effective with a delay.
Thanks for the catch, fixed now
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Was profitable within 2 months despite some idealistic pricing on my part. The feedback and kind words from my users over the past year has been incredibly humbling.
Websites hosted on tor are, but aren't the majority of users connecting to the external internet?