skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I have tried many ways of solving this issue: using other ad providers, disabling the ads and asking for donations instead, blocking entire AdSense categories. Unfortunately each one of those 'solutions' drastically reduced the amount of funding raised for the project, to the point where we'd be underfunded. So for the time being, I'm sorry to say the ads are here to stay."

In other words, they're knowingly and deliberately exposing their site's visitors to malware to fund their project.

And that's why I feel no guilt when I block ads in my browser.
Steve Jobs once said in reference to Ed Catmull (and another Pixar co-founder):

"They're babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen."[1]

I guess training Mr. Catmull to do things like what we see in the above email was part of it...

1: http://izquotes.com/quote/240878
When I was interviewing for my first developer job (about three years ago) I found most employers/interviewers were far more interested in side projects I had been doing for fun than anything I did for/at school.

If you already have some side stuff you do on your own try to highlight those during the interview process, if you don't you might want to consider starting one. Ideally open source these (on GitHub or similar) so they can see the quality of the code you write in "real life" (i.e. as opposed to whiteboarding during an interview).

Learning other languages can also be helpful, even if you're only interested in Ruby stuff. Each language you learn will make you a better programmer, and it demonstrates to potential employers a desire to learn (very important in our industry).
As a tangent, one could also argue that there's nothing wrong with these compacts, and that market forces would make them untenable if there were truly a dearth of the needed specialized labor to complete the product. Again, that doesn't mean this practice was legal, but the illegality is non-obvious. It's not something that has to strike the average person as fundamentally immoral and socially harmful. If you cast it as an evil plot to steal money from hard-working middle-class Americans, you'll get people fired up, but again, I don't think that's a self-evident conclusion.
They obviously don't like just writing "No."
Did some investigation:

* The tar file (cnet.com.tar) is 489MB.

* Unpacked it's 536MB

* No database

* Around 30,000 files

* READ.ME has a promise of a copy of the database if you send this person 1BTC (not publishing their name here)

* Based on directory structure, looks like this is a release from 06/12 of this year

* Looks like the site is based on Symphony?
>READ.ME has a promise of a copy of the database if you send this person 1BTC

Sounds legit.
>Please don't downvote comments that contribute to the conversation just because you disagree with them.

That's a rule on Reddit, but to my knowledge it's never been a rule here.

Here's pg's own words on the subject.

>I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
I started downloading it before that happened. It's downloading now but the transfer rate seems to be slowly dropping.
Exactly right.

They think it's just a game.

Bastards.
I chocked up when they pulled down their pants revealing their underwear. To make something for yourself; something so intimate, that you depend on everyday, to make it, not only have it on shelves but have it on you. That is powerful.
apparently the zip file contains an installation of symfony2 with supposedly the cnet code as bundles. I don't know, it's kind of boring to look at the code of a standard portal website built with a well known framework.

instead of posting the source code(which I hadn't looked further than directory structure so I can't confirm if it's real, because well, it's just another symfony code) why just don't tell that cnet is hacked and they are using symfony and explain who and how did this?

I really can't see much value of distributing the source code of a standard website built with a standard library.
If you're passionate about this kind of stuff, you should take a look at some of the work that's going on at News Genius. Its in very early stages obviously, but for example we worked on the syllabus for the Hobby Lobby case last week: http://news.genius.com/The-supreme-court-of-the-united-state.... You can see a list of all our legal articles at http://genius.com/tags/law, though a lot of them definitely need some love!
And many women go through 3 pads a day during their peak. Which is much more convenient than having to change your underwear, and have somewhere to put them to carry them around with you until you get home.
Maybe he's trying to get you to bite on the database so that he can extort some money out of this.
The no-poach agreements were clearly made in good faith between the parties involved.

It's the parties who were not party to the agreement but whose wage-earning potential was affected by it that are the problem.
No, that is nitpicking. One of the first sentences is "Matt Inman (The Oatmeal) got everything right, about the Tesla S."

He incorporated humor with his comic that his readers could understand. These articles are just derogatory and have no benefit.
Agreed. Also, I like that they seem to be extremely transparent when it comes to any issue at all. Both these issues, and the one from a year or so ago, where they thought maybe their servers were hacked, were clearly explained to their customers. I really appreciate that as a user.
The instant demo is a huge plus. Thanks for having that available.
uhhh, you do realize this was part of the price fixing that included apple, google, and others right?
"these LibReSSL dudes sound like idiot hipsters"

No, they're just poking fun at people like you :D
Who cares about "most developers". This is interesting for its own sake.
My memory on that was that it let you know whether you could trust your compiler. I couldn't remember if it extended ot the rest of the tool chain. Nor did I remember if it really hinged on deterministic builds. I'll have to retry it.
What are the good intentions you think someone could hypothetically have?
hmm, it's an advertisement for those who may want the database file. the zip file contains a read.me file which has a bitcoin address in it, offering the DB for 1 BTC.

I don't think that this post should be on HN.
In the section about nasal demons, did anyone else think the right answer was 12 too? I figured the parens make the context local so the ++ had to occur after the add.
Anecdote. I heard about Milk Thistle when I was college, it supposedly protects your liver from damage. So I tried taking it when drinking, or immediately after drinking.

I was surprised that something so benign and unnoticeable during normal life could cause such a painfully upset stomach and aches in my gut area. It felt like being poisoned. I tried several times with different brands of milk thistle, too.
I can see what you are saying (however, I don't agree), but I think there is a bigger issue afoot: there are just too few companies that do any one thing, i.e., in a world of 7+ billion people, there are only a handful of companies that make feature-length CG films that the majority (of movie ticket buyers on the planet) watches. Because of this, those handful of companies are a virtual monopoly (cartel), and can, and do act in this bad way.
Yea, this is exactly what I said in another thread.
OS X no longer comes preinstalled with an X server. Most Mac users are capable of getting along perfectly fine without it -- even developers. And anyway, X11 apps in Mac OS X are like weeaboos on the streets of Tokyo: no matter how earnestly they try to assimilate, they stand out like sore, awkward thumbs and obviously don't belong there.

If you want to develop beautiful apps on the Mac platform you use Cocoa -- not X. Apple decided against basing its graphics stack on X11 for sound technical reasons.
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Docker could speed up parts. But, unless I misunderstand what you mean it wouldn't really help the trust aspect. You'd just be shifting your trust to the docker pieces. (That is, then the goal shifts to "can anyone reproduce the docker container?") Right?
Right, CLID and ANI are definitely not the same.

I'm sure there's some variation based on the switch manufacturer or software version at the CO, but it is definitely possible to confuse E911 services by misconfiguring your PBX. IIRC, without configuration (if your PBX sends no data) the network tags the call with 000-000-0000, which might trigger some kind of subscriber table lookup.

But it's also possible to send different ANI based on your originating extension. I had different ANI configured for my and a few others' home VOIP phones (connected by T1s to the PBX in the office, itself connected to the PSTN by a PRI into the router), so that a 911 call from our houses wouldn't summon an emergency response to the office in the Financial District.
Those "many women" may have menorrhagia and should consult with their doctor for treatment, yet very few realize this and just think they are "heavy flow" people, which puts them at risk for disease and other medical problems. I should think, though, that it's much more convenient to carry around one pad than three, and for the rest of people is probably a relief to not need one at all.
And people wonder why I think the internet is making life worse for most musicians. Of course, there's revenue to be made from playing live, but touring costs money, there's a lot of music that doesn't attract large crowds for live performance (but which made enough on recorded sales to sustain the cost of production), and lots of songwriters who are not necessarily performers.

How a fee of 10 cents for 1000 plays is considered equitable beats me. Imagine, using the supplied royalty table, that you had notched up 1/2 million plays over the course of a year - not bad for a niche or emerging music act, right? Then it turns out that the value of this is under $100. That will buy you a few sets of guitar strings or drum consumables. If you're an electronic musician it might buy a new set of headphones. Whoopity-doo.
For the many people discussing how this has been effective for them, does MySQL 5.6's online DDL [1] not solve this well enough for you? I know pt-online-schema-change does some extra stuff to e.g. prevent overloading the server, but so far regular migrations in 5.6 have handled this fine for us.

[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-create-index-o...
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In Maryland, for rape, there isn't one: http://research.lawyers.com/maryland/maryland-statutes-of-li...
>Every change (for significant values of, err.. significant) breaks someone's workflow.

And since you are not part of the workflow, and everyone who is part of the workflow is happy with things as they are, why on earth would they break things for themselves because you don't know what you are talking about?
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Sounds somewhat reasonable; though, some long term support Linux installations were vulnerable to Heartbleed.

And, especially with how far reaching some of the features of modern browsers are, the surface area for attacks is growing rather large.
would be nice if there were something similar for PHP :P
Do you agree that this is an accurate framing of the issue: a few rich and powerful people were in cahoots in opposition to the best interests of a bunch of far less rich and far less powerful people. If not, in what ways do you view it as being incorrect?
OpenBSD combines two seldom used techniques. First, not having millions of lines of code written by random untrusted people. This allows them to use the second technique, which is to actually read their code.
We're too fast to discard people in this community. The linked article is heavily editorialized; it doesn't represent anything like even-handed coverage. We should give important figures in our community the benefit of the doubt, and learn how to respectfully disagree with one another. Even if something is illegal, it's not necessarily self-evidently immoral, and Catmull et al easily could've made anti-poaching pacts without the intention of suppressing employee wages.

We're only getting one side of the story here: the story of the DOJ, which has its own political interests. And in typical fashion with these highly sensationalized scandals, bullying and shame are deployed to force people into one camp or the other. People are discouraged from finding a middle ground, trying to empathize with both sides, etc. They're told, "X is bad, and Y did X! How can you still act in any reasonable manner toward Y? He must be banished!"

We need to be careful and we need to quit feeding our own to the wolves. We need to back off of our hair-trigger. So far, I know of no documentation that shows clear mens rea on the part of Catmull, and even if that is shown, it doesn't mean all of his contributions should be thrown out the door. That's very simple-minded, silly thinking.
> Willful misuse of terms to evoke cultural reactions is not uncommon, extremely hard to counter in fairness, and terribly destructive.

Yeah, it's a terribly dishonorable, but still extremely effective tactic.

yvain has some interesting writings about how "rape culture" is nonsense [1] and why "willful misuse of terms" is so damn effective in derailing rational debate [2].

[1] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/19/i-do-not-understand-rap...

[2] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-word...
> startups in weapon technology

Metal Storm: old but interesting. Mike O'Dwyer conceived of an idea for "a rapid-fire gun prototype ... can fire up to 1,000,000 rounds per minute, or 16,000 rounds per second." [0] to give extra fire-power for Special Forces soldiers. More details can be read here: http://www.abc.net.au/austory/transcripts/s167329.htm

cf: [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Mike_O%27Dwyer
Speaking of memory issues, I could've sworn that the Apple version of U5 required a 128KB //e. I just went and checked the box on my shelf, and you're right, it only required 64KB. It's a memory issue -- with my memory -- because I probably wrote about 50% of the code in question. :-P It's cool to see that people are still enjoying it, though!
I don't know what you're talking about.

https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx/commits/master - Last commit 3 weeks ago.

https://www.keepassx.org/news/2014/04/433 - Last alpha released in April.
I'm an ex-animator. Reading the bit you excerpted didn't sound too bad at first - talking frankly about how someone burnt out is a pretty realistic view. Animation burns a lot of people out.

The "she isn't so bad that she'd hurt Sony" starts to sound bad. But it really gets bad after the part you excerpted:

We don’t have a no raid arrangement with Sony. We have set up one with ILM [Lucasfilm] and Dreamworks which has worked quite well. I probably should go down and meet with Sandy and Penney and Sony to reach some agreement. Our people are become [sic] really desirable and we need to nip this in the bud.

At which point I was like, dude, fuck you Ed.
Well sure. But this is php we're talking about here.

I'm not sure this is any more substantive than an interview where you're supposed to have the right names on everything and show up in a pressed suit.
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an you were right :)
There is one point I don't understand.

Naked short selling is illegal, so you have to borrow the stock in order to sell it.

But if the lender decides to take their stock back from you the borrower, then you are suddenly and unexpectedly in the position of naked short selling?

Aren't there some sorts of protections for the short seller, e.g. terms on the borrow?
This rifle by TrackingPoint takes another approach but seems similarly effective, the main thing that it doesn't account for is wind changes. I think you basically hold down the trigger and it fires when it thinks it'll hit the target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLmf_CBHKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBC8IFWC1P0 "Vice - The Rifle That Aims Itself"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mZB6NtCx38 Moving targets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA_ndsi5wnA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xleHVuj2uGQ
You've had a handful of very insightful responses in a thread that is otherwise busy sharpening their pitchforks. Thanks for keeping it real. =)
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Possibly you're thinking of my article "How the Bitcoin Protocol Actually Works": http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a... It was on the HN front page 7 months ago.
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I find the annotations interesting, but agree that they break up the flow. I think I prefer the style you see on some blogs where users can comment on specific paragraphs, and it will then show a little comment icon in the margin. However, that does restrict the specificity of the annotations.
Which was not, and is not, an entirely invalid strategy.
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There's an interesting Mexican science fiction film that explores some of the future described in this piece: http://alexrivera.com/project/sleep-dealer/

Some discussion of those themes: http://fpif.org/science_fiction_from_below/

I found it flawed, but brilliant. It deserved more attention than it got.
> I view LastPass as a "better than what I'd do otherwise" solution

Do you think it's better than, say, using a desktop-based password manager to save passwords to an encrypted file, and then syncing that file to all your machines via Dropbox?
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Not excusing the behaviour at all as it is damaging to those working down the chain, but would it feel like greed to someone in that position? Their first thought would be that they're competing with another team and want to succeed. Their job is to further the success of their crew. I don't think consideration of staff wages and so on would even enter their minds unless they really stopped to evaluate what they were doing.

Could there be better business education in this regard?
People are fucking stupid and we wonder why the world is so fucked up....it's the potato salad
Indeed. The courts have ruled that it's almost impossible to slander or defame someone as famous as Bill Gates.
Absolutely - how can I get a million bank passwords at once by hacking Dropbox, which just has a bunch of encrypted fucking files on it? Geez.
Do programmers only type 30 minutes a day?
The best way to learn correctly is to have someone who knows what they are doing sit next to you and explain what's going on with the IDE. I did this last week with this cool dev @firebase and it was great. I just told him what to click, what to press, where to go, how to set stuff up, and he did all of the controls. He learned the IDE, and how to build a project.

Second best way to learn would be to check out Apple's code samples and training videos. They usually have good syntax and proper usage although most of Apples examples are in Objective-C right now. They still give you a good understanding of what's going on. Taking an online class is also another avenue I would place at the same level as code samples. If you can find an online class that you find interesting, that's another way to get familiar with xCode.

Third best way would be to look at examples on cocoacontrols.com or github.com for code examples. The only challenge with this is that you might not get the best code structure as a lot of developers are just copying/pasting from other code and aren't really architecting their software correctly. That being said, you can still find code that works.
* More effectively preventing the transfer of trade secrets or other proprietary information; non-competes are widely unenforceable, so while no-poach doesn't necessarily stop it, it makes it less likely.

* Preventing major disruption to studios' projects as key players are poached any time a film goes into production. You could say they should have separate contracts binding the employee to stay for the duration if that's the concern, but that's not really practical, especially in an at-will employment state, where said contracts will be viewed with heavy skepticism by all parties. The more efficient way to achieve a similar effect is to just agree at the corporate level that you won't engage in this practice. This can have the side effect of limiting wages, but I don't think it necessarily has to.

* "Poaching" can be variously defined; the contract may make it legal for a competitor to process an applicant, but not legal to actively pursue staff that have not expressed direct interest. In such arrangements, employee mobility would be considerably less hampered.

I think those are good intentions. The business guy is trying to do right by the business, which is the sum of all of his employees. One could logically conclude that if films are constantly hindered by bidding wars, making 90% of the process recruitment, and secret information is constantly wrongly disseminated by that high rate of turnover, that his business may struggle and jeopardize the livelihoods of everyone involved. Some people may not believe it, but employee dependence does weigh heavily on good people in high-powered corporate positions.

One could also argue that the bidding wars just have to continue until the price for an animator stabilizes and that the companies just need to suck it up. These highly-editorialized articles definitely seem to make that case, and claim that the law backs up that perspective. That's fine if so. But it doesn't make Ed Catmull or the executives at every other firm involved in these pacts evil moustache-twirlers that exist only to steal from the middle-class, and we shouldn't be so quick to throw our own under the bus.
That specific quote sounds like a reasonable and fair assessment of a person with potential.

I would expect the discussion to move to how could they keep her (more money, better position, or just extol the long-term benefits of staying), whether she was worth the cost of keeping her, the long term consequences on Sony and other employees etc. But unfortunately, he instead suggests a "no raid agreement" with Sony and that:

Our people are becoming really desireable and we need to nip this in the bud.

EDIT reading the whole thing, I see one aspect of Catmull's concern that seems reasonable. Entrants want to grow fast, and therefore offer unrealistically and unsustainably high wages - it's a bubble. It's disruptive to keep losing the people that you've trained - and then, the competitor goes out of business anyway. This hurts the industry as a whole, the employees and employers.

Successful industry problems. But it's up to employees what they think is in their best interest - not for employers to decide.
I really think you are jumping to a conclusion here that 19 years olds are sexually experienced.
What about this part?

> We don’t have a no raid arrangement with Sony. We have set up one with ILM [Lucasfilm] and Dreamworks which has worked quite well. I probably should go down and meet with Sandy and Penney and Sony to reach some agreement. Our people are become [sic] really desirable and we need to nip this in the bud.
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They can demand the stock back consistent with the terms of the borrow. A footnote in the article made it sound like it was typically a day-by-day thing. They don't instantly get the stock back, presumably you need to go and buy it on the open market and then return it to them or pay some sort of fine/interest.