skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well-designed cloud services will have a way for you to "de-authenticate" devices. For some of these you may need to be on a real computer not just a phone/tablet.

For some of the synced cloud storage options you may be better off moving all of the files out of that provider's control from another computer so that the removal will have time to propagate back to the PC in question - not all of them offer remote wipe capabilities.

In LastPass, go into your vault in a browser, then Settings. There are areas for both Mobile Devices and Trusted Computers, from which you can disable/delete each entry.

In Dropbox, go into your Account settings, then Security and you can see and manage a list of all devices and applications you've linked with your account. Note that you can ONLY do remote wipe of your Dropbox files if you have Dropbox Pro or Business, but you could presumably sign up for just 1 month of Pro.

If you're using 1Password, the Dropbox cleanup should take care of that since it stores passwords in a folder structure under your Dropbox account.

Google has something similar, particularly if you're using 2-factor authentication. I'm not sure about remote wipe.

Box.com has something similar, go into your account settings and look for the Security tab at the top, but there doesn't seem to be any remote wipe capability.

For bookmarks, I didn't see anything along these lines in the XMarks documentation or my control panel, but I've submitted a ticket to ask them about it.

That's just a starting point, details will obviously depend on what specific services you use.
You'd think so but people actually post pictures like that. Not sure if it's been taken advantage of but I have a feeling this has:

https://twitter.com/search?q=my%20new%20credit%20card%20pic....
So what exactly do you get for those prices? Some data munging and analytics? Just hire a few data scientists and give them a map/reduce cluster. But this is the government so that might be more expensive than forking over the cash to Palantir.
I hate to be "that guy" but someone has to say something about the Useless Use of Cat.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/U/UUOC.html
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"if you need it"
Intelligence as a general topic is pretty hard for me to swallow. A lot of "intelligence" that we can test for is mathematical in nature and that can be learned. I'm pretty sure I could teach multiple-choice test taking.

Intelligence, I think, can broadly be defined as "the ability to score well on intelligence tests." The most common is supposedly correlated with freshman college survival. History is full of people who were considered "dull" as students but later shook the world in a way that means they had significant intellect.

It wouldn't be a problem except we sort people into piles and this is yet another sorting mechanism.
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> I really like the Dream Chaser; a 1/4th size STS that can be mounted on the tip of existing rockets is very tempting.

It's much heavier than a Dragon v2, meaning it carries less payload for the same launch cost, for more or less the same land-where-you-want capability. It's pretty, but pretty does not solve the problem.
Dogs have been bred to perform these tasks, but they've also evolved to become dependent on humans. If humans had never entered the situation, who knows where the intelligence of other animals would be.
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I don't want to take the lollipop, but I do want to know what happens when someone else does. Share spoiler?
I'm not aware of any generalised test of athletic ability. The traits that make one good at archery will be different from those that make one a good sprinter. With intelligence we attempt to collapse it all down to one number and rate people as smart or dumb as a single metric.
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If you can't move windows between the desktops it's kind of limited...
C++ vs C is mostly irrelevant in my opinion.

The other two are more substantial, but still seem pretty unimportant things to ask from Apple in an alternate reality. I'd say the problems with Apple are mostly non-technical.
To be perfectly clear I am just assumed it was, my assumption is that Boeing issues a press release with some talking points, the reporter reads it and rephrases it in their own words and that goes out on the wire. What results are pretty much the same words and talking points in a number of stories. But looking at the 'official' release here : http://boeing.mediaroom.com/2014-09-16-Boeing-CST-100-Select... and NASA's release here: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/nasa-chooses-americ... I could believe its just the reporter's take on the day's news
I first saw this concept in the context of intelligence in "The Bell Curve" by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray (1996). They suggested the process is accelerating dramatically with development of situations that make it easier for intelligent people to find each other: the movement of the population from the farm to cities, higher education, improved communications and less restricted travel. I would not be surprised if online dating sites are also playing a role. Once you start thinking about this in the context of genetics, matings and the potential for a survival advantage and increased quality of life leading to further segregation you wonder if this does not have the potential to eventually result in the development of a new species?! I would be interesting to know if the IQ "density" is significantly altered in certain communities in northern California, Boston, NY, etc. associated with industries selecting for high IQ workers.
[Edit]Just amused myself thinking of the Silicon Valley crew as participants in a breeding experiment.
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My dad still uses Norton Commander or some variation of it to this day. Never forget.
It is great to have more examples of building a indexed fast query representations of the the current ledger state.

What did you guys go with as a policy for handling or avoiding orphan blocks...
Now a quora answer, lightly edited.

http://qr.ae/iKZQV
Carmack's piracy protection was bleeding-edge stuff, back then!

https://github.com/keendreams/keen/blob/master/kd_main.c#L39...
Let's put it this way: a "meritocratic" society has made intelligence inextricable from wealth and power in a way that was not true 100 years ago or earlier. If you were very smart in 1900, whether you worked in a factory or ran the factory was determined by your family's wealth and influence, and that also determined your pool of available mates. So instead of having a society where people practice assortative mating based on non-hereditary factors (wealth and power) people are mating based on intelligence and passing it onto their children. (I suppose familiar wealth and power is "hereditary" to a degree, but not with the durability of intelligence.)
I think the most interesting part of this (socially) is this:

> This release was made possible by a crowdfunding effort.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/let-s-get-keen-dreams-re-...

Looks like they got most of the way, then someone must've paid the rest outside of indiegogo.

What other classic games could be saved this way?
You're forgetting the absolutely incredible intangible value and legitimacy of having Stanford on your resume.
curious, too. I spent the last months doing meteor exclusively, and compared to the usual node/RoR/php stuff on the server and angular/backbone/ember on the client, meteor is just superb IMO.
> It's not the information or know-how that makes YC a game-changer.

YC is composed of equal parts capital, smarts and process. That's not taking into account the connections or the seal of approval, those are results not inputs! You could claim they are inputs now but it wasn't always like that.

> It's the connections and seal of approval, which are scarce by definition.

Connections are not scarce at all. You - and anybody else - have the power to reach out to those that you want to reach. Assuming you play at 6 degrees for a bit you'll find a link to whoever you want to reach. What makes the difference is that once YC gives you that coveted 'seal of approval' (and that's also not that scarce, vast numbers of start-ups have received it) that some people will throw money at you.

But that's a curse and a blessing at the same time, for many of those recipients will receive the 'curse' and only a few will eventually see it as a blessing. But all of them agree: the experience alone was well worth it.

Now I'm not a YC alumnus, nor will I ever be one but I think that if a very large number of people that go through a program think it is worth it then that has my vote.

The seal of approval is something that VCs that do not wish to do their own vetting have come up with, they have basically outsourced their vetting to YC because YC does so much better a job of this than they could ever do by themselves that they might as well try to get in on the feeding frenzy aka demo day.

And YC has forever been expanding the size of their batches based on capacity available for processing. So the scarcity element would seem to be under control and reducing.

> And now the Stanford -> Funded pipeline is even stronger, which means that everyone else is slightly (imperceptibly) more an outsider fuckhead employee on 0.04%.

On the contrary, all the material will be made available, so you too can benefit from this.

Stanford is merely a convenient vehicle.

> I don't begrudge YC, really.

I'll take your word for it. But it seems as if you do hold some kind of grudge and a pretty deep one.

> It's a brilliantly run business and it's probably done a lot of good for the world.

So why all this negativity then? It's like walking around on a square attempting to insult random people for either being successful, connected, part of some perceived secret cabal or some other figment of the imagination. That's a strange line to walk.

> It's just fun to snark about these things because, honestly, most of the people "out there" (the ones who actually think protesting Google Buses makes some kind of sense) are going to react more harshly than I do. I just make fun of shit.

Well, it's good to have that on the table then because I honestly believed that you were serious in the way you present yourself. You're obviously a pretty smart fellow, the bit that I did not understand is if you're so jealous of all this why are you hurting your personal rep at this level. But if you're just 'making fun of shit' then that explains things sufficiently for me, I tried to make sense of it. My mistake.
Don't be a wuss. Take it!
It doesn't support any RPC calls so standard mining software won't play well with it yet due to the lack of getwork/getblocktemplate.

User agent: Toshi:0.1.0
> Just hire a few data scientists and give them a map/reduce cluster

That's exactly what Palantir is... companies like (SAP/Oracle)+(Accenture/Deloitte/IBM) can't compete with this since the "Just hire a few data scientists" talent is near impossible to attract without the sexiness of a company like Palantir. Palantir packages the whole thing up in a nice bow. Having spent a lot of time in enterprise software (mainly SAP), Palantir's value proposition is extremely attractive to BigGov and BigCo, with largely a higher rate of success and lower cost.
I'm not sure what that means. Is that a good thing?
Just finished reading Peter Thiel's Zero to One; and it is interesting that both him and Marissa Mayer are going to teach. He sort of disses her in the book. This is a quote from his book.

"Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous. Ever since Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo! in mid-2012, she has worked to revive the once-popular internet giant by making it cool again. In a single tweet, Yahoo! summarized Mayer’s plan as a chain reaction of “people then products then traffic then revenue.” The people are supposed to come for the coolness: Yahoo! demonstrated design awareness by overhauling its logo, it asserted youthful relevance by acquiring hot startups like Tumblr, and it has gained media attention for Mayer’s own star power. But the big question is what products Yahoo! will actually create. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he didn’t just make Apple a cool place to work; he slashed product lines to focus on the handful of opportunities for 10x improvements. No technology company can be built on branding alone."- [1]

[1] - Zero to One Book by Peter Thiel
Has anyone contacted the author or editor? This kind of shoddy "journalism" annoys me.
Feedly. You need curation on the Internet, so HN is for the interesting stuff I haven't found yet, and Feedly is for sources with a high signal-to-noise ratio.
Is NRO technically military?
I wonder what that actually did.

For the confused. The piracy.h and those two lines were removed.
I'd love to pick your brains about this. Have sent you an email. Thanks.
Also Palantir's software actually does something more challenging than a lot of enterprise software.

People should go and see what small packages from Oracle, HP, Tibco & IBM cost. It's incredible.
It's totally readable. You may dislike the aesthetic but it's a capable, simple page layout, unlike many modern sites "optimized for readability."

It doesn't mess with your scrolling or use unreadable color combinations. It doesn't use crazy fonts or table layouts.

What's unreadable?
Some years ago I was working contract for a large employer. Among other systems I had access to was the LDAP database (effectively: the full company directory).

My contract agency requested that I provide them with a company directory. I found the least helpful way to comply with that I could, with minimal information. Though thinking back on this, I 1) probably shouldn't even have done that, 2) should have refused the request, and 3) should have reported the request to the client.

And that's one of the, generally, more upstanding contract shops I've dealt with (still have occasional relations though no further gigs to date).

Dealing with ethics in the heat of it, especially where an engineering mindset tends to "this is a problem I should figure out how to solve" can be ... interesting.
It depends. Countries like the US are ruthless to those whom they consider enemies of the state or traitors, but let's be honest, the qualifications to be an enemy of the state are much higher in the US than they are in a country like Tunisia, Pakistan, or Iran. The FBI is not going to plant malware on your computer just because you say "fuck Obama" or are planning a protest, but this could very well happen in many oppressive countries.

The US treats certain people very unethically, including Assange, but in these cases it's more a sense of vengeance for having our top secret dirty laundry aired, compared to simply disagreeing with or disliking the government. We still have a long way to go to, but the freedom to express yourself is simply a lot higher in most Western European and North American countries.
I remember reading in Masters of Doom that they had actually asked Nintendo if they could license games to get them on personal computers, Obviously, Nintendo declined. They were able to get the first level of Super Mario Bros running on personal computers and used that method in the Commander Keen series.
this hasn't happened to me, but i witnessed it at Outside Lands SF this year and it is devastating to watch. there is basically zero recourse for the buyer of the ticket that scans invalid and many of them have very legitimate looking pdfs and emails they got from craigslist.

neither the ticketmaster folks nor the venue folks tend to be super compassionate in my experience. it's a real mess though, the venues often have no in-and-out privileges (possibly due to how scanning invalidates some 24-hour key), so even as a law-abiding consumer, you're stuck at an event for the whole time just to deal with ticketmaster's implementation details.

i'm sure others have said this, but that is definitely a business that wants disrupting. there's so many bits of tech that could make this experience better and safer for consumers, but i suspect ticket fees are more profitable than user experience.
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Ditto.. feedly, it's not perfect, but it's good enough. Very similar keyboard shortcuts as google reader.
"pasteured meat"? so pre-cooked? no more steaks for you?

tapeworms and other shit are fun.
I thought that #if 0 doesn't get compiled and therefore definitely not executed. Can you explain more about your comment? I'm confused.

Edit: Corrected "not"
> a "meritocratic" society has made intelligence inextricable from wealth and power in a way that was not true 100 years ago or earlier

An interesting hypothesis.

1) Are the U.S. economy and society more meritocratic than they were 100 years ago? I've seen research saying social mobility has decreased recently (it didn't say about over 100 years) and is lower than in Europe, for example. Also, at least some research says that access to higher education depends significantly on the wealth of your parents; elite universities (and others) have problems attracting and graduating poor, smart students.

2) The value of specific cognitive skills varies over time. If 100 years ago, you had great ability to translate problems into efficient data structures and logic, I'm not sure how much economic value you would have. 50 years from now, I'm not sure how many humans will be writing code.

3) There is far more to capability than intelligence. For example, there are very smart people who, due to lack of emotional or interpersonal skills, don't produce much.
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Thanks for the counterpoint.

If you take a look at the actual licensing by countries, you will see my suspicions are indeed confirmed. The support tickets issued by Australian law enforcement, for example, mention that use is only permitted through warrants and even specifically states their reporting and documentation requirements.

>Our Warrants authorize the use of the the FF intrusion capability as well as the individual modules that are used. At the conclusion of a warrant there is a requirement that a report is made on every date / time each module captures information. For example, if a key logger captures data at 1pm 2/1/2013 we need to report this to our legal system. This time/date is important for reporting procedures as there is a requirement to record every instance a module is used. Is there some way of just extracting the time/date and module name to a report?

This does not constitute unethical use of this software. This is simply a way of placing a "wire tap" on a computing device.
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Only slightly related but I read "masters of doom" recently and I can't recommend it highly enough. It is a very entertaining read even if you are not crazy over video games. It tells the story of the two Johns, and mention Commander Keen among other things. Great read
Well, that's exactly what I meant with my edit: carry it yourself so "they" don't get their hands on it. Sorry I didn't make it clear.
I'd love to have a large 24" E-ink monitor of the Kindle Paperwhite type. I would have payed good money if such a think would have existed.
Boeing is an old and slow shop that outsources a lot of its work (even the engines, they're from Russia). SpaceX is essentially a startup and does almost everything in house (even the engines, they're from California). SpaceX also charges much less than Boeing for satellite launches.
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Decided I'd try for the full Conspiracy Theory merit badge.
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> - Everything is an object (the windows way)

I wouldn't say there is a "Windows way", considering that current Windows is actually a system composed of several different layered components:

1) The NT kernel (which is pretty nicely designed) its own ideas of what "objects" are and all the ObXXX functions.

2) Win32 which is a horrible mess from the Windows 3.1 days and maybe earlier.

3) COM and flavors, which actually came later with its own brand of objects.

4) The .NET framework.

It doesn't seem to me that "Windows objects" are really unified in spirit and design across all these components (not to mention that Win32 isn't object-oriented at all).
More to the point: confidentiality of customer data is at best a secondary concern, and often not at all, until it becomes "a problem" (lawsuit, news scandal).

More story time.

I worked for a firm providing services to a large revolving consumer credit organization. These companies are essentially two things: a really impressive transactions processing network (the volume of traffic they handle is immense), and branding.

Think of all the credit card commercials you've seen. That's the branding side at work.

As a contractor of theirs, there was a requirement to go through their data security training.

And while, yes, PII (personally identifiable information) was a concern, the vast bulk of the message, and emphatically highest concern, was with the brand, business plans, and similar information. That is, a company with vast holdings of personal information (described by a military acquaintance with intelligence ties in the late 1990s as "more than we've got" from the perspective of the TLAs, though that status may have since changed), was more concerned with how its trademarks and marketing campaigns were protected was ... revealing.
You almost certainly aren't going to see the show.

In theory it should be simple to identify who you are in conflict with if the ticket is not general admission. They would just have to send an usher to the seat. However, it is difficult to determine who defrauded who without a whole lot of investigation.

You would have to establish the entire chain of custody for both of the tickets. Three possibilities with different culprits are: the original purchaser double sold the tickets, a third-party got the barcode and sold a fraudulent ticket to whoever is in your seat, or the person in your seat made the fraudulent ticket themselves.
He's just pointing out that he did refute the claims, where you (in the comment directly above), claim that he refutes the persons character but did not refute the claims.
Having now learned the terminology, assortative mating could indeed lead to speciation in the general case; it's just a special case of sexual selection. I find it highly unlikely that that will happen with human intelligence, though (despite the fact that it's been used in fiction more than once). The reason is that there's a limit to how big the variance can get- it doesn't grow forever, it grows until limited by other factors (i.e., there are only so many intelligence-promoting alleles that you can possibly have).

It would take intentional segregation to cut off all gene flow between the upper and lower halves of the intelligence Bell curve, thus allowing other differences to pile up between the populations, to cause speciation. And as noted elsethread, that's called eugenics and generally frowned upon in polite society.
right, so what was "bleeding-edge" as the poster stated above?
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Even if there were no absurd lawsuits (which certainly do happen), you cannot realistically expect 100% of your interviewers to be 100% educated and 100% consistent while giving feedback to lots and lots of candidates. The cost of a single suit is high enough that you must take the risk of someone ever slipping up with an off-hand comment very seriously. The only way to reliably prevent mistakes is to reliably prevent any form of feedback.

It's unfortunate because I'm sure many people I interview would appreciate feedback and I would be quite happy to give it to them. But, the aggregate risk across all candidates is too high.
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