skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you're wondering, I did not downvote you (I don't have enough points). But I will reply anyway.

I don't need to have all these "skills" to gain enough information about someone to be able to destroy its life. All I need is to witness something, and tell someone. Is it illegal to witness your male colleague wear a dress and tell others? Is it illegal to tell a friend he's being cheated on? Is it illegal to tell a kid Santa Claus doesn't exist? Should it?

The skills/tools you mention above don't have a qualitative effect on spreading knowledge. They just increase it quantitatively. My eyes won't catch so many things, but they still can catch enough information to have the same effect. And unless you argue that I should need explicit consent before I acknowledge and share anything I hear and see about a person, then I don't think it's reasonable to ban or limit access to tools that increase knowledge and transparency.

The chilling effect is very real. But is it really a bad thing?
One anecdote is hardly evidence of their service being down for a week, more likely it was an issue with the merchant site or some intermediary.
Having experience running a service similar to PayPal's IPN, the most common problems are invalid certificate chains on the webhook URL or some other misconfiguration or blacklisting.
Unfortunately webhooks are usually work most of the time that people dont think they need to implement a secondary system to check on pending transactions.
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There are indeed a lot of problems with individual users. Small networks as such were generally maintained by sysadmins like teenagers/students/grads which sometime fix these config problems for a small amount of money. Plus, good tech guys were always requested by neighbours to fix problems as such, change a HDD, change a cable or a faulty plug.

It is indeed a local community type of network. Plus, in every family there is a teenager willing to step into network configurations. Teenagers, students and young professionals were those that made these networks so popular because they were demanding high quality connection and they were tech savvy. People like them are generally willing to do the hard work of learning something about setting a network IP to a router or AP.
Setting a DHCP server in your network was something that released a lot of pressure in my network. Mac addresses were also used quite often to block unauthorised devices from accessing the network. You had to call your sysadmin and send / spell over the phone your mac address.

When everything was at very beginning, during storms a lot of equipments connecting two blocks were getting burned, UTP cat 5 cables broken and required fixing.
People who started this kind of networks were to become country's first big generation of top notch dev ops who faced networks growing from 3 users connected by a BNC cable to thousands of users distributed all over a large neighbourhood.
I stand corrected. But I will note that Captain Rogers never commanded another ship after the Vincennes returned to the US in 1989.

My main point still stands though. The US acknowledged the mistake and took measures to make sure it didn't happen again. Will we ever see the same from MH17?
I agree. Though my Evernote usage has dipped since I started using Keep.
I just need these for a rare plain-text note/list and the Keep App launches effortlessly.
> A truly open-minded position would have to continually consider that maybe Haskell and its type system are not the best options at all

There are two ways that I can parse this comment. The first is that you mean that there are other, newer options out there that will turn out to be better than Haskell. This, almost all Haskellers would agree with: most of us have more than a passing interest in e.g. Idris, Agda, Shen, etc.

The other reading is that you mean that other established paradigms are better options (A third reading is that there is no such thing as better, but for that I'll just point you to pg's classic Blub essay). This is a good thing to consider once, but I strongly disagree with considering it continually. Once you've made the comparison, if you come to the conclusion that one tool is better than another, it doesn't make sense to continue that comparison forever. It may make sense to revisit it from time to time as you grow in your understanding of the task and the context, but at some point your posterior probability of the other tool being better must grow so low as to no longer be worth investigation. For many Haskellers, the comparison between a Haskell-like type system and dynamic typing is this kind of comparison. My posterior probability of dynamic typing being a better choice is less than one percent, so it makes no sense for me to continue reevaluating that option.

If the latter is what you mean, I can't disagree that it is a truly open-minded position, I can only point you to a quote by the inimitable Tim Minchin: "If you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out."
Correlation does not equal causation.

I don't think it came as a surprise to terrorist organizations that the NSA was working to break their encryption techniques—just as I'm sure it wouldn't have been a surprise to the Soviets during the Cold War.

The group that was surprised and caught off-guard was the American people.

It's been just over a year since the Snowden leaks. Overhauling an entire communication system likely took more than a year. Ground-up rewrites rarely go that well.

This strikes me more as a publicity grab for this firm than any kind of objective science.
Isn't this drive using relativistic effects similar to what allows a magnet falling down an aluminium tube to produce an opposite magnetic field and slow down? I mean, clasically speaking that effect is also impossible.
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You are probably mentally discounting bus infrastructure. Busses are much more prevalent than people think but their demographic skews much lower on the economic scale than other transit options (often because they are abysmally slow).
Yes. A quick google reveals:

> Telecom – The telecommunications industry is much more proficient with technology than it used to be. However, once services have been provided, recipients may dispute them. Card-not-present transactions are a mainstay for telecom companies. http://www.aliantpayments.com/who-we-service/high-risk-proce...

I would imagine that things like VoIP service are targeted by criminals who constantly need new, anonymous phone numbers for other scams.

Stripe's real business is measuring and assessing risk. The moving dollars around is the easy part.
Just read your list. Awesome. Can you expand on number 2 a bit? Are there other similar questions that can get people talking about solutions amenable to a software product?

I like the Excel idea a lot, I'm hoping to have several such questions.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
I am surprised that Chicago is not stacked higher. I was under impression we here have one of the better transit systems, compared to others in the US.
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> One explanation could have been that it was a 30-meter-wide piece of rock, but University of Arizona astronomers found that the object's electromagnetic spectrum was consistent with white titanium dioxide paint, the same paint used by NASA for the Saturn V rockets.

I know this is a really old thing but the idea that we can determine composition of the surface of an object from so far away simply by looking at the light it reflects is absolutely incredible to me. Very science fiction. :)
I think it's safe to assume that a 15 year old kid in Palestine is much more terrorised at the sight of Benjamin Netanyahu than Bin Laden.

It's also safe to assume that a kid in Ukraine is terrorised by Russians or by US/EU depending on which side of the country was he lives.

So, to you Al Qaeda is a terrorist group and I totally get that (to me too). But you have to understand that to Afghans (and a huge load of populations worldwide) the USA/NATO is the terrorist group. That's why what @lectrick said is right I'm afraid.

So either we can assume that all of these parties are terrorists since they indulge in actions of terrorism ?
Here's an idea I have had for a while and I dont figure I am going to make it so why not just see if someone else wants to make it.

It's mostly a mobile app because you have to be mobile to use it. (You can emulate mobility at a desk, sure)

In my head I call this app "Road Stories"

The premise of this app is that while you're driving around, your phone knows where you are, what speed you're going, etc. As you're driving home from your folks, to stay awake you fire up Road Stories and when you are coming up on an old memory worth sharing with the public, you hit record. The app starts recording your voice. Base case, you're going the speed limit, there's no traffic, so the story unfolds like one of those annotated amusement park historical rides. "See that white house on the left?" You do, because you're in sync with the original recorder. I'm sure there's some algorithm fudging to make it work.

That's obviously producer mode. Then you have consumer mode. You leave it on, and as it starts hitting nodes, it auto plays them. After there are overlapping ones, it plays by newest, best, unlistened, etc cetera.

Advertisement is the obvious way to make any cash off it. I dont know anything at all about that domain and I think this is why I never bothered trying to make it. It'd be neat to know some local businesses tucked away off the highway, sure. Mostly you're listening to hear either synthetic, or historical, folklore.

I think it would be a neat way to make people more aware of where they are, spread history, invent folklore, and just stay awake on that long-assed drive across new hampshire at 10pm. Steal it if you want it.
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In Europe (and I think some states) Paypal is a fully licensed as a bank.
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You have some points. There is a lot of missing data though. Do we know that cracking their program was significant in gathering intelligence? Do we know if they even regularly use it?

The lack of oversight, or at least effective oversight, makes it difficult to trust the efficacy of their supposed tactics. Also if you want to be really pedantic about it how do you suss out causation vs correlation regarding Snowden? The only thing about the NSA that I feel really certain about is they want Snowden punished. That and they publicly lie and lie to congress, we know that too.
Wouldn't go as far as calling @amyhoy, @alexknowshtml and @thomasfuchs scammers

Regarding "only actually familiar with selling online scams" – they don't live of www.30x500.com but of http://letsfreckle.com/
I think they meant this kind of factoring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_(finance)
Sure, why shouldn't you be able to create game graphics? As long as you can export rasterized images I see no limitations on what you could or could not create with a vector illustration software.

Could you elaborate why Sketch didn't work out for you?
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Unix and AS/400 are similar in that both can have uptime measured in years. Typically, with an AS/400, you unpack it and plug it in, and it just works. No drama.

Does it have a fancy UI? No. It's designed for line-of-business applications where there's heads-down data entry and reporting.

The AS/400 (I refuse to call it "iSeries") is one of the best parts of IBM. I am in dread of how Ginni will fuck up the division.
in order to fulfill their mandate to protect their country from its enemies, they need as much information about the actions of their enemies as possible.

But who is the enemy, and who defines them? Terrorist watch lists now contain over a million names in the US alone - are all those people plausible terrorists? Spy agencies now routinely record the communications of entire populations, domestic and foreign, and use that information for economic and political gain (why else spy on Petrobras and G20?). Terrorism seems to be the least of their preoccupations given the focus of their spying.

There is definitely a balance to be struck between a spying agency with effective oversight on their tremendous powers, pursuing only that tiny minority considered dangerous enemies who actively plan to attack (worldwide that is probably in the hundreds, or at most the thousands of people), and a spying agency which views surveilling entire populations, assassination en masse, denying travel, subverting encryption, and even spying on and lying to the politicians who oversee them as acceptable.

Unfortunately at present we find ourselves at one extreme of that continuum.
Chipped credit cards are finally coming to the US
Russian government already explained that it will not be enforced if you just post kitten pics and have over 3000 subscribers.
Wow, good work. Did you get this out the door in 24 hours or was is brewing for a while?
Make sure there's a market for you ideas before you build them. Read Business Model Generation.

http://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-...
People's lack of self control is a big contribution.
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You mean like this?

http://www.hercules-390.org/

EDIT: Sorry, that's a link to an OS/390 VM, not AS/400. That was how I originally read your post, that you wanted a z/OS VM to play with. But, it's a useful link nonetheless ;)
A CSRF attack is essentially a local attack.

All an attacker needs to do is have an array of [192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1, 192.168.2.1, ...] and attempt the CSRF against all of them. 5 different local IPs will probably cover 90% or more of consumer routers, since nearly all of them are on 192.168 RFC 1918 networks and will generally always be a .1 host.

If they were going after a small or large business, it'd be a different story. But even then there'd be a lot of opportunity for likely guesses.
What happens if no bids meet the minimum price?
https://30x500.com/ looks exactly like every other internet marketing "learn to make money online with our amazing course" that's circulated for the past 15 years. I guess "scam" is a bit hasty but "utter waste of your money" is definitely fitting.

There's gotta be an official name for these. That skinny page with varying font sizes of text images or embedded youtube videos encouraging you to buy/ act now / sign-up for their free newsletter til a big call-to-action at the bottom after scrolling for 10 minutes?
Are you saying that strong anti-Russian bias doesn't exist on HN? You must be reading it in some filtered form.
Is there any way to make challenging stupid patents directly profitable? I would love to see someone figuring out how to make a business model out of it and using VC money to bankroll the process.
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When a reporter finds out that the police planted evidence to get a conviction, is it the reporters fault if the criminal goes free?

When a reporter uncovers the story of rapes on campus, is it the reporter's fault that the university's reputation is tarnished?

When Snowden exposed that the NSA was (unconstitutionally) spying on every citizen, is it somehow Snoden's fault that terrorists gain an advantage?
I am an Aussie an d I can ride an X3 no worries
I live in Australia and am the importer and wholesaler of ESWAY brand self balance vehicles and X3 unicycles. It took me 4 weeks to get rid of the trainer wheels, X3 is obsessive, I can jump gutters and regularly do 5 km each way trips on my X3 and get shopping in my back pack. I evaluated and modified for extra harsh treatment and our X3 self balance unicycle is basically indestructible. If you can ride an X3 your life will change as these are by far the best value for monet EV anywhere in the world. The X3 will pay for itself in public transport and petrol in about 6 months. haha why are ya still walking. I dropped into a skate bowl only this week 6 weeks after starting to learn X3 and I have been around a while and cant ride a skate board. I have videos being published about self balance vehicles and X3 unicycle on new youtube channel Milbay. X3 is coolest EV so far, almost a hover board
I wonder what the "grass mud horse" of Russian kitten pic bloggers will be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_mud_horse
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But, trains involve a direct transaction that (partially) funds the facility in a user-pays way. Roads are funded by taxes. They try to use registration and petrol taxes that are related to use of roads but it's still a tax, not a normal transaction. If you drive on a private road, you still pay petrol tax and the taxes can't be tied to use of a specific road. I'd say that's market points to the trains.

Most U.S. public mass transit could not maintain itself based on "user pays", even forgetting about capital expenditures. Unsubsidized, fares would rise, ridership would fall, and prices would then need to be still higher to compensate.

On the other hand, the gas tax and other user fees (trucking, etc.) already fund the majority of U.S. highway spending both maintenance and capital (even with 1/6 of it redirected to mass transit!), and could easily fund all of it if the political will were there. Some people would drive less if we charged 2x the gas tax or had an odometer tax, but nobody thinks the system itself would be unsustainable in the same way that most public transit would be if it had to be funded entirely by its users.
IMO it would HELP if some of the USD and other government backed currency transmitters/gateways/etc tried to help with accountability IE - how much USD did we transfer into Stellar in raw numbers today. I'd be willing to participate on the ACH side.
Hi Ed, former moving professional here. I love the idea, but I think you have a lot of logistical obstacles to overcome. I thought I'd throw some questions at you to think about (and maybe you have already).

1. What will you do if something breaks? (As the saying goes, if a mover tells you he's never broken anything, he's either lying to you or it's his first day).

2. What will you do to protect yourself against mistaken/fraudulent damage claims? (i.e. Buyer/Seller claims you scratched the DR table, but you didn't).

3. How will you load your truck to maximize space efficiency? The more things you can store on the truck, the more things you can put up for auction. As a mover, the first thing I put into the truck is the last thing I take off [0]. But you can't do this as to the dynamic nature of your business. You always need access to everything on the truck...which is surprisingly harder than it seems.

4. What will you do with breakables (i.e. china, glasses, lamps etc)? Different animal than furniture.

5. If I'm selling a large ticket item, why would I use your service? For example, let's say I bought a couch for $2000 last year and now I want to sell it. I should be able to fetch $1000 for it. If I'm patient, I could probably get as much as $1700. You're taking half. $500-$850 is extremely expensive to list an item on the internet and move it across town.

That said, I wish you luck this weekend.

Edit: General Clean-Up

[0]: http://www.angieslist.com/files/packed-moving-truck.jpg
There has been studies that linked the type of surveillance NSA do to behavior changes which decreases calls to hot-lines, doctors, lawyers, and priests. Since suicide is the second most common cause of death in adolescents, one would think that tampering with the effectiveness of suicide prevention is worse than blowing the whistle on the surveillance.

Now I don't doubt that this report that was made by a CIA funded company include a somewhat unbiased view, but maybe in a few years time a independent research group could look into the effect that the NSA surveillance and the Snowden leaks had onto society.
>now that they know they can't trust US companies/government

Or the rest of the West for that matter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Eyes#Future_enlargemen...
Great article! Very helpful. Thank you Scout for posting this. I've bookmarked it for future server troubleshooting.
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I personally enjoyed this comment and this type of humor in general. It was witty, critical and open about it's satirical nature, distinguishing it from a troll post (which would disguise itself as genuine extremist view). Unfortunately the community doesn't seem to enjoy it as much as I do. Quite the opposite actually.

The comment specifically touches the following issues.

* The community's overall pro-western tendency

* Pointing out that the parent comment has been one of the few moderate ones in a thread that has otherwise been rather 'emotionally charged'

As much as I enjoy the content and the discussions here, the lack of appreciation of satire has always puzzled me.
It's the Swedish equivalent of "I think Putin is good. His reforms are improve life in Russia. Americans suffer from frogs wanting to get horseshoues".
Agreed - the statement of "Because of how critical IPNs are to any Paypal integration, we didn't think to double check if IPNs were not being sent." is exactly why you should double check - anything that is critical needs tests and backup solutions.
Weird fact: Snowden leaks have changed behavior of NPR reporters and content of news reports!
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> That skinny page with varying font sizes of text encouraging you to buy and act now or sign-up...

Those pages convert shockingly well. If you follow A/B tests and don't care about aesthetics, that's often where you end up.
link to said studies?
Check out dashlane : https://www.dashlane.com/ I've been using it for a while and Its much nicer that 1Password.

It has desktop app, a browser extension as well as android and iOS apps.
Out of the 3 people in this situation that I know well, two stayed home with kids, and one went to school herself. Of the two that stayed home, one also did a lot of volunteer work including helping her husband in the lab during his PostDoc.
People always blow things out of proportion when it comes to Russia. If journos need to register, so should bloggers to make things fair.
I took a flight back to Scotland last year. There was an anti-terrorism poster, asking to be on the look out for any of these suspicious thing: A van, a laptop, a mobile phone...
It was just ridiculous every day stuff that the average person would use.
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X3 self balance unicyles available in Australia
I live in Australia and am the importer and wholesaler of ESWAY brand self balance vehicles and X3 unicycles. It took me 4 weeks to get rid of the trainer wheels, X3 is obsessive, I can jump gutters and regularly do 5 km each way trips on my X3 and get shopping in my back pack. I evaluated and modified for extra harsh treatment and our X3 self balance unicycle is basically indestructible. If you can ride an X3 your life will change as these are by far the best value for monet EV anywhere in the world. The X3 will pay for itself in public transport and petrol in about 6 months. haha why are ya still walking. I dropped into a skate bowl only this week 6 weeks after starting to learn X3 and I have been around a while and cant ride a skate board. I have videos being published about self balance vehicles and X3 unicycle on new youtube channel Milbay. X3 is coolest EV so far, almost a hover board