skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that's spot on! I just updated it. Hope you don't mind that I based it on your excellent and to-the-point description. :)
Please keep in mind you are comparing a continent to a country. So no, north america has not 'figured out' the unified currency & freedom of traveling thing nor the bickering.
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Anyone else wonders who are these people that answered their survey? I don't know about you, but Facebook never asked me anything, let alone to compile a survey. My guess is that these people are Facebook employees. What is wrong with that, you ask? It's simple, Facebook is used by 1B+ people, so the results from a survey answered by a few thousand doesn't tell you anything about the general consensus. Even worse, you're only seeing what a very specific niche wants: the American, mostly white, tech-minded portion of the userbase. It's good dogfooding your products to root out bugs, but it's downright reckless to use your own people to make assumptions over the needs of the real user base.
> I've actually been seeing it a lot more recently

Me, too. I live in Japan and it blew me away when I saw Square readers for smartphones in convenience stores the other day.
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>these original, truly Nigerian scams, were less sophisticated than the later Internet imitators, since targeting technical professionals isn't targeting the dumbest of the dumb.

On the contrary, the scam you describe look much more elaborated than current ones since they got your real peraonal info. Besides technical professionals seem like a great target for scams, since they likely have more money than the average and they are probably not as hard to scam as you might think, given that even a harvard professor fell victim to a 419er http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/31/harvard_prof_scams/
Well, the comments are interesting...

"You, Sir, have caught some absolutely breathtaking photos of POSITIVE ET'S AND THEIR CRAFT CLEANING UP THE FUKUSHIMA RADIATION AND SAVING THE PLANET AND IT'S ECOSYSTEM FROM SURE ANNHILATION!...It is QUITE OBVIOUS WHAT THOSE LIGHTS ARE, MY "SILLY WABBITS"!!!"
Yes, when I was there (2010-2013), the people I knew at Google generally kept business hours or close to it. I suspect the company was a more intense place to work when it was younger and fighting to get to profitability. There are probably also newer units within Google that haven't made it yet and are pushing hard to get there. But the part I was in (ads) wasn't like that.
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Amazon is in many ways a more interesting company than google. Amazon's offerings are becoming more and more diversified and they're industry leaders in more than one area. And they are making a strong push at maintaining growth/expansion.

Amazon has a strong history of expanding their business and building new highly valuable products with staying power. Google has only expanded a little in terms of actual functional products, most of their additions have been via acquisitions, and they have not done well at monetizing or even supporting many of their new product offerings. Google is primarily search + backbone ISP, that's where almost all of their revenue comes from, everything else falls into a tiny "other" category. Indicative of their utter inability to effectively spinoff new products and high revenue businesses.

The only downside is that the work environment is more than a little dysfunctional.
These sites are also, whether that say they 'aren't' or not, are racist on some level.
I'm sure there are some real a@#holes participating and running these scams but often the people on the ground are just human beings who have no other way to earn money.

I would actually consider it racist to assume that people from a certain country are incapable of telling right from wrong in earning a livelihood. India, for example, has (surprisingly) a far smaller GDP per capita than Nigeria, and despite India having a reputation for being an IT hub, one seldom hears about online scams being perpetrated by Indians. The same goes for many other poor countries whose citizens don't resort to online scamming.
I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app... Yeah right!

This app is not a one man show! This app, with all it's license stuff, backdoors etc.. all ready to know a lot of all your network traffic going in and out, and you agree upon all this when you install it. Now YOU got hacked! Or do you think the app will also show in detail what data they store and share on their servers and third parties and more?

767 point and counting on HN, amazing...

Good luck!
geohot hunts bugs for google now. I did not know that. Nice to see a happy ending there.
Norway doesn't actually spend any of theoil money. Its all saved in a rainy-day fund. Said fund now owns over 1 % of all publicly listed sticks in the world. Norways welfare state is run of non-oil income, generated by maximizing the number of middl-class taxpayers in the coutry. Much the same strategy as Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Nederlands, Belgium, etc etc employs.

Americas welfare expenses is actually about 1/3rd of what the really successful European eco0nomies spend. Germany, Austria, Switzerland...America spends about what Italy and Spain does per person in welfare. A bit more than Portugal and Greece, but definitely UPIGS territory.

Americas model worked in the decades after world war 2, when all competition was bombed into ruins and needed American resources to rebuild. There is basically three countries that didn't get ruined by WW2, America, Sweden and Switzerland. All had the same prosperity-boom after WW2, despite very different policies.

Also: You don't understand national debt.
Those aren't consensus rules. They are recommended policy.
Yes it could be a feature of the spam detector.

However it could lead to an arms race. What if the scammers start to write bots that parse the answers until there is a substantial progress in the scam? We would end up with machine small talk and the overall level of spam traffic would skyrocket…
Quick question: If you recommend to start learning Erlang now, it's better to play with normal one (I actually don't like syntax since I'm used to semicolons and other C-influenced stuff) or Elixir, which looks pretty neat?
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"My guess is that these people are Facebook employees"

Why do you guess that? Facebook could get a very accurate assessment of user opinion by surveying 10000 users. If Facebook has over a billion users and surveys 10000 of them, then the probability that I personally get surveyed is tiny, and even the probability that anyone I know gets surveyed is pretty small. So the fact that Facebook didn't survey you or me is not a good reason to think they haven't been surveying their users.
I seem to recall the budget at Google for food service was $15 per person per meal. And the snacks and drinks in the micro-kitchens cost something like $5 per day; they used to cost more, but they also used to be a lot better.

Of course, Google provides really elaborate meals. You could probably get the cost down to something like $5 per meal, but it would mean fast-food-grade meals.
As I commented elsewhere in the topic, this runs the risk that the scammers themselves start to use bots to parse and analyze the responses, yielding to a net increase in spam traffic, although no human would read the messages.
As personally attacking as this post is (though the anger is perfectly understandable), it's probably closest to my view, mentioning "the helpful (to his party) side-effect of throwing millions of black people in prisons."

Except I don't consider it a side-effect, nor do I think it's limited to Republicans. For example, prison was one way to control the newly freed slave population. (http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/199804--.htm) Being the world's biggest jailer isn't exactly an "oops" thing.
Kinda ironic having the picture of the current finance minister, Siv Jensen, there, as she is so opposed to us saving this money. She is mainly elected on promises on lower immigration, cheaper alcohol, cheaper fuel and lower taxes. Planning to achieve that by using the fund's money.
Not necessarily lava. Could be a pumice raft which had enough latent heat after floating up to re-ignite.

Clutching at straws.
That's why I always answer them as soon as I have some time. Lot of fun.

And now I realize, it's been a few months since I didn't get one of those mails.
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Bergen is not the center of Norway's oil and gas industries. Stavanger is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavanger
I think you're assuming an awful lot based on the fact that you haven't been surveyed by Facebook.

Facebook has 1B+ people. Do you know how trivial it is for them to run surveys? 100K population surveys, if they want? Many hundreds of them, simultaneously?

I have no insight into how facebook manages its surveys, but I'd be surprised if they didn't have some sort of generalized surveying platform built in to facebook that allows product teams to independently survey more or less anything they want.
War on Drugs has been won, not lost.
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Much better now :)
The clogging of the bus lanes because of electric cars is mostly wrong. It's been a lot in the news, but no one has proven it. They all just point to the correlation of more electric cars in the lanes. Not the correlation with more traffic in general.

The clogging happens because every car wanting to get on or leave the highway has to cross the bus lane. It's easy to see for yourself.
Many of the usecases where reflection is used could be also addressed with metaprogramming. This is probably why so many C++ GUI frameworks still use C macros and/or code generators. So I guess C++ not only needs reflection, but also much better metaprogramming capabilities. Template metaprogramming is considered awesome by some academics (being accidentally Turing-complete), but in fact it is quite limited compared to good macro systems.
I'm sorry, I don't, but there are detailed tests and comparisons at: http://www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-security-challeng... . One well-respected app that does not appear in those results is Online Armor, apparently due to some sort of falling out: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/privatefirewall-awful...
Maybe all software released after this is infested with spyware and exploits, and we are just led to believe it's the other way around
How about a hardware switch that physically cuts the electricity to the microphone, the camera, the transmitter, and even the battery itself?

With my own phone, I'd love to be able to switch that off/on. Why is that option not available to me?
The situation may not be perfect today, but communication to/from prisons are heavily guarded to prevent these situations and others.

Inmates in most countries can make phone calls only to phone numbers which have been approved, usually only family. You can't make random phone calls. All phone calls are monitored and recorded to prevent abuse.
You can't call an inmate afaik, that would be a very low security facility, which I am not aware of.

Visitors are only by request and undergo security checks before, during and after visits. And yes, visitors are a huge security issue in prisons, but if you deny all visitors to prisoners, you're in Guantanamo, not a normal prison anymore. There are different levels of security in prisons.

Internet access is much harder to control. Encryption is, as you as a HN reader know, very easy to do on a computer, but hard using your voice. Hiding information on a computer is easy, but very hard on a voice phone.
There have been prisons in the world that allowed internet access to inmates and there are problems with that, much as with visitors or phone calls. It's a balancing act to weigh those problems to the benefits. You just have to go into the discussion with open eyes about the problems that internet access would bring. Imagine a pedophile convicted for sexually harassing children online, and giving him/her internet access in prison. What an outrage. Someone in a low sec jail for DUI could be given internet access, no problems. It happends, I've even seen a CEO run his company from within the jail. He was given supervised internet access to his companys financial system once a month, one guard watching pover his shoulder at all times. Not a very scalable solution though.

It all depends, doesn't it.
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I wonder why the government needs to force everyone to hit a collective rock bottom before considering a new strategy. Throwing everyone involved in jail was a bad idea from day 1.

What they need to do is manufacture and sell the drugs at cost to registered addicts. This way you destroy the business of the drug cartels and you insure your citizens are at least using pure drugs.

Regardless of the legality of the use of the drug it is a health issue that the drugs your citizens consume are pure. The safety of your people should come first and a government that has taken this long to realize something that basic is simply incompetent.

Prioritizing law enforcement before public safety is a revealing and meaningful sign of incompetence or even corruption.
I suppose it will eventually be taken away. It's a nice temporary incentive but it obviously cannot scale.
This must really be upsetting for the extreme liberals of the country.

"Public resources being invested sensibly! Horrifying! You can tell that this is an awful idea by looking at how miserable the people of Norway are, and how badly their businesses are doing.

You should liberate yourselves by giving all of it to private interests. That's the definition of freedom!" /end sarcasm
Thanks. This is an awesome idea. Sent you an email.
Ok, thanks for the clarification
"Lessons from my 20s" – Ryan Allis
Ryan Allis did an AMAZING job on sharing his experience from his 20s, right on his 30th birthday.

These 1285 slides must be the bible of a young entrepreneur.
If you tell me what's not perfect, maybe I can fix it :)
They are responsible for minimum sentencing laws:

http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/04/a-timeline-of-the-ri...

> June 19, 1986: College basketball player Len Bias dies of a cocaine overdose, which highly politicized the drug debate during a mid-term election year, as Frontline explains. In 1999, Eric Sterling, a former lawyer for the House Judiciary Committee would go on to explain to This American Life how Democrats, in an effort to recover from their soft on crime reputation, pushed through a drug bill that introduced mandatory minimum sentences.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/143/s...
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A lower limit could be troublesome with eg. wildcards: `tar cf stuff.tar *`.
An article about Israel really discusses how our media operates
Yeah, so awesome. 729 whales so far, tell me again how awesome they are.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-kills-...
> Alcohol is considered to be the most harmful drug [...]

Only because of the wide spread of use.
Speculative easter egg in Google Chrome
I have been observing this inline search on may Mac Chrome since a few days now. This empty padded top section always gave my OCD some creeps. I felt it as a bug. But when I tried to investigate further, it seems as an placeholder for an Easter egg. See the attached screen shot:
http://t.co/Ask1YhGpFW

Anyone else facing a similar issue? The Chrome on my other Machines do not exhibit such a behaviour. I would probably in be A/B testing rollout on my this chrome.

Anyone figured out what this could potentially be?
That's very impressive. It's also why you should be running a pax/grsecurity enabled kernel.
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Another request from me for a Linux version!

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maybe related...
I remember when switched to linux some years ago, the software I really missed was ZoneAlarm and still haven't find a nice alternative (for fast and easy control of the outbount(!)/inbound net trafic). I liked that I could block and unblock the internet access of each application from the systray icon.
Any suggestions?
Well, make it happen. University is one option:

http://www.studyinnorway.no/Tuition-Scholarships

I say this not to be glib, but as someone who yearned to move abroad and found out that it wasn't as hard as I thought.
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I answered the survey, and I am not a Facebook employee, nor white.

You have no knowledge of the surveying process, it is presumptuous to assume that they carried it out incorrectly simply because you were not surveyed.
He went to prison for routing marijuana through his business. I think if you're willing to risk doing something like that, you're probably not going to be "too devastated" if you end up in prison - or, at least, surely you're not going to be too surprised.
"When they partner with the company they used to poke fun at (1984 Commercial)..."

Then the Microsoft deal at Jobs comeback. They had issues, identified them and then luck or genius made them what they are. Except even without mojo, they're still huge so I believe they can't have a crisis reaction yet.

Maybe its the whole technology products that is in crisis. What is there to dream about ?
They do, keys are chipped. See http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/upshot/heres-why-stealing-...
Nix, NixOS, Nix ... a thousand times Nix.

I can't believe the article doesn't mention it.

I've been using NixOS as my OS for development, desktop and we're in the middle of transitioning to using it for production deployments too.

Nix (the package manager not the distribution) solves so many of the discussed problems. And NixOS (the linux distribution) ties it all together so cleanly.

I keep my own fork of the Nixpkgs repository (which includes everything required to build the entire OS and every package), this is like having your own personal linux distribution with the but with the simplest possible way of merging changes or contributing from upstream.

I use it like I'd use virtualenv.
I use it like I'd use chef.
I use it like I'd use apt.
I use it like I'd use Docker.

http://www.nixos.org
No, actually not. Alcohol is a potent poison and kills cells - hence the use as desinfectant. The physical damage caused by alcohol abuse rival and surpass most illegal substances.
you haven't had had any of those calls from "Microsoft" saying you have a virus then?
Could it be the same one: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/iraqi-... ?
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Now that's what they call product market fit.
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I've met several managers who have flat out stated that they believe a technical person with a lot of books on their desk isn't very technical or skilled. They'd rather have employees who actually knew stuff and didn't have to look it up in books - or at least knew how to google the answers.

These (non-technical) managers have said that having a lot of books doesn't make you look smart, it actually has the opposite effect.

They actively discouraged staff from at least publicly turning to books to learn stuff.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with this point of view - I'm just pointing out that it is a point of view that is out there and seems to be fairly common among non-technical managers.
Also mentioned in the article is Thomas Pytel (Tran), who went on to be a lead engineer at PayPal.

Fond memories digging through the assembler code of PMODE, his free DOS extender. Learned a lot. Thanks, Thomas!
Simple. I grew up in the US, but am in Norway now. I have Norwegian ancestry that comes from my grandparents. Doesn't matter whether here or there. Mix Lutheran-piety (even if Norway is quite secular) and a bit of boredom does help in the cooperation department. I am not applying this to everyone, but that is how it is.

None of this is a culture shock for me. Probably someone else has something deeper to say about it, but I knew what I was coming to when moving to Norway, in this regard.
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That was my first thought, too - but you'd probably have to specify things like wall materials and thicknesses to get decent results.

I'm hoping for precise indoor navigation, Google and Apple are currently working on that. All you'd have to do is walk around with your phone, measuring signal strength and then visualize that.
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Maybe you should drop this pedantry (which is starting to come across as just egotistical nonsense now) and actually pay attention to what I've been trying to say. The Middleware I was discussing did allow for derivative works (as I stated in my original post!) so the licence was akin to some of Microsoft's "shared source licences" that have been reviewed by the Open Source Initiative as being "Open Source Licences" (citation: http://opensource.org/node/207). I'm guessing you actually trust OSI's definition of Open Source Licence better than you trust Wikipedia's ;)

But even that aside, I never said Oracle's middleware was open source per se, I said it was licensed similarly to open source (though my wording might have been clearer).

Oh and since this is now just an exercise in pedantry, I should point out that you posted a link to Open Source Software while talking about Open Source Licences. Obviously the two are related, but they're not specifically the same thing (though your confusion of the two might explain this discussion)
That's just sensationalist clickbait. The whale species hunted are not endangered and there is no ban on hunting these whales. There are many species of creatures which actually are and which you should spend more time caring about though. These whales are not among them.
They cant do that already in cases of national emergency's? how quaint the USA's Telco seems to the rest of us in the developed world
You can install it via NFS and add a few cute icons for the users. Really easy!
At first glance this looks racist, at second glance it looks anti-semitic too. Can you explain the value of this article?
Those people are brain damaged and should probably be banned from society altogether. Next time you see one of those managers, please kick them in their reproductive parts to ensure they don't endanger the future for our children as well.