skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to be so suspicious, but do you have ANY experience working with Chip & PIN? How are you reprogramming your physical card on the fly?

When you make such bold claims, it is difficult to take any other part of your product seriously.
Since Adobe is not selling books, how do they benefit from parsing this data? If not for DRM-style tactics?

Are they selling it to third parties? Unless this is the case, then I'd say their obsession with DRM and rights management is the primary issue. Without of course discrediting that digital surveillance is the new standard.
I wonder if it would be possible to integrate this into existing online banking. Being able to use this through an existing bank account could be a good selling point to privacy-aware customers, at least in Germany.
Reversing the Design: Chrono Trigger
I was put off by the hipster mentality as well.. I want a FOB to be in these videos.
TANSTAAFL

As soon as you have user names with an associated history, you're dealing with state. Functional programming is a style of managing state transitions, not avoiding them.
Two comments. First, weev is known, not anonymous. That hasn't seemed to stop him, if Kathy's post can be believed.

Second, do you remember the old Smurf attack? You sent pings to a bunch of networks' broadcast address, with a forged address. So the machines on the networks replied to the pings. For one packet sent out, you could get a hundred aimed at the victim's machine. You can wind up with something like that here: If you end anonymity, then someone can forge something horrible as coming from you, and all the honest, morally upright people online will come down on you in outrage. (In her article, Kathy mentions trolls/harassers already using tactics like this.)
Is this an art project or self-parody? The site is completely broken and unusable in Chrome.
Interesting, this service is a lot like http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage
This looks like the right solution to work around the current craziness of sharing a single credit card number across all purchases. (An ideal solution would involve some kind of assymetric crypto for authorization, but this seems like the best we can do with the current credit card infrastructure.)

The biggest question the FAQ doesn't answer: Will this interoperate with (at least one of) MasterCard, Visa, or American Express? Because if not, it isn't going to work with most merchants.
"Hall’s server got attacked, but the attack was coming from an unlikely place, a server that belonged to WinZip."

He should sue WinZip or report them for the same exact "crime."
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What about confidentiality: I assume you collect what I purchase, when, where, and the cost. What do you do with this data? (Of course this question applies to every credit card vendor, not only to Final.)
It's not about the knowledge, it's more about being on the spot.

More experience and credentials you have, the higher expectation is desired, which leads to higher pressure to solve that problem in the best case possible.

I've been coding since 14 years old, got a degree in Computer Science, haven't been back to school in 5 years, and most of my work just comes to me as second nature. If I have just small doubts of my abilities, I just cannot perform. Which happens during interviews.
I agree! There is a ton of awesome information just waiting to be uncovered. Diffmatic currently just sends out a really raw digest but getting smart about surfacing meaningful and important changes would be huge. I think that incorporating sources like sentry and other exception trackers and correlating them back to code changes in the digest would be very interesting and useful.
Banks shouldn't be held accountable for illegal activity that occurs on their platform unless they are complicit in the activity neither should AirBnB. If the government comes to AirBnB or a Bank with evidence of criminal activity they should then have act but neither should be in the business of policing on behalf of the government.

I would agree with AirBnB having to be audited so that the gov't could do the policing but that's about it.
Getting out of my comfort zone here, as I feel we are not ready, but my company is working on a product that is focusing much more on application profiling than NewRelic and less on the monitoring that is built exclusively for PHP:

https://profiler.qafoolabs.com/

We are still in closed beta but not for long anymore. You can sign up for our waiting list if you are interested to hear more.

As for the pricing, we are working on a model that is not per server/host.
GestureKit SDK: Cross platform, easy and opened source gestures. Shoot
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Python slow read performance issue
Thanks for you insight!

I wouldn't discount men from using this for purposes other than gawking. The idea is men would also download this, scan through and find what they'd like their SO to buy.
We plan on rolling out a 'Share Wishlist' feature, that'll allow couples to choose together.
You might be surprised with what you can get away with not doing from your stream of daily tasks that need to be done.
Is caveat emptor something they sold the company when trying to land that enterprise contract? Or did they sell them security of their information?
Sites storing credit card details
isn't there a law which gives the option to the consumer to save the payment details on the site or leave it? Many of the sites first want the payment details to be saved on the site and only then permit to use it - is there a reason for this?
The immediate "solution" I thought of came from "who watches the watchers?" Why not form a anti-troll trolling group that's sole purpose is to dox the doxers as it were? I then realized all you're doing is changing the victim but at least a tiny bit of karmic justice is served in the process.

There seems to be no real constructive, intellectual or positive way to deal with this problem. Sociopaths aren't technically sane so how do you deal with an insane person? Expose them as having a mental illness and getting them locked away for treatment does seem like one avenue. Like reverse-swatting, you inform mental institutions of would-be patients but everyone is a tad bit insane so there's a lot of room for abuse.

This is not an easy problem to solve, verging on unsolvable from an individual perspective. How does one change culture to make this unacceptable? Because in the 10 years since this started, I don't see any positive momentum. Not really. Sure, I do see well more exposure because it's become extremely prolific but it really feels like nothing is being done about it, just talked about ad nauseum. That just really reinforces that it is a tough problem to solve.
Do you mean a non Final number? That shouldn't happen since ever issuer is uniquely identified by the first 6 numbers on the card. For collisions with Final numbers they'll have to keep track of the numbers they've issued and if they have expired or not. Aren't online transactions validated with a combination of CC# and other details. They could use that to deepen their pool of numbers. They can also get multiple issuer numbers (the first 6 digits) giving them more numbers as well. Also temporary card numbers aren't completely new so they're probably drawing on existing solutions to collision issues.
But can you really judge a person based upon commits them might make?

You can read the words they wrote but you cannot perceive the tone they wrote it in....I dont think this is helpful and may dismiss candidates that are otherwise perfect except when Watson analyzes them.
While not impossible, it's less common for someone (who is nearly always female) to be abducted as a child, forcibly addicted to heroin, then sold into kitchen labor.

Yes, if this article were rewritten word-for-word to reference prostitution it would be a fictional story which could be compared to the existing article. However, it would badly misrepresent the state of global sex trafficking and the victimhood of people affected by it.
In the black sun's light

I am become black rabite

destroyer of knights
Ask HN: My software has some traction. I'm still coding my face off. Now what?
I never considered myself an entrepreneur. An obsessive software developer, sure, with an inventive side that rears itself every once in a while. Two years ago I began writing a browser extension to fix an annoyance of mine. Nine months ago it was on TechCrunch. Today, it has 140K weekly users and I'm still toiling on the basics. It's unmonetized, just me, and I work on it almost full-time. Two days a week I contract for my previous employer to pay for necessities, but, other than that, I'm focused on my software.

I've learned a ton of great practices and I have no regrets about spending my days learning the finer points of writing quality code. That said, I can't help but think I'm not doing this "correctly." The start-up world feels so fast-paced. Grow quickly, get funded, exit, pivot, or die. I don't think that's quite for me. I'm just trying to make software I'm proud of, software I want to use.

What actions should I be considering? Should I just stay the course? My ideas for monetization require more coding power and have no validation behind them other than a hunch. The product fulfills a small enough niche as to make investors shy. I don't blame them, their fears are warranted. I wouldn't know what to do with an investment if I got one, anyway.

Is anyone a veteran of going down this path? What are steps I can take to grow my product when my brain is too exhausted to code?
The Anonymity of African American Serial Killers
Interesting...We'll take a look at that. Sounds like something with our OAuth redirect. Thanks so much for the update!
The intent of the sentence was to point out that her article is important because it speaks out about something that's outrageous, regardless of if the reader knows who is writing it.

I did google both of them, and read some of her other blog posts. I'm not going to proclaim though that I really understand what's happening after 25 minutes on google. It's irrelevant to her deeper point.
Which part would scale best: the sleeping in the office part? Or the not necessarily bathing (too often) part?
Did this with Twitter:
twurl "/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=200" | jq -r ".[] | .text" | pbcopy

paste it into http://watson-um-demo.mybluemix.net/demo

87% Openness, 5% Agreeableness, that's funny.
Learn your competitor app's data
Out of time:Please help,Pointer mix has been impounded
For clarification, it wasn't anyone from our team who downvoted any of these threads.

All we can do on our part is to keep working on PostgreSQL to make it even better and faster, and to share our work with others in the community.
Came here to comment specifically about that. I thought surely this was a joke.

Screenshot: http://d.pr/i/PQcW
It seems to work fine in Firefox but it is horribly broken in chrome as you said. They have a form for entering a CC number so my thought is this may in fact be real.
Amazing, great tip! Thanks.
> Social networking is the closest thing we've invented to a “snow crash” in the Neal Stephenson sense.

I'm a huge fan of the book, but... no.

First, the titular snow-crash was some binary information that put certain susceptible people (hackers) into a coma. Not just a meme or a comprehensible social behavior.

Second, gambling is probably a much better analogy for a "real-life snow crash", and we've had it around for a lot longer.
I am in nyc as well! Hit me up if you like - qbix.com/about has my email
did they ever explain why they got rid of them?
Also,

3. Being different (hipster) makes the audience remember the video, and hence the product, which is the purpose of the video.
That's called civil disobedience. I consider it more legit if it is done by individuals for social change rather than for profit companies to make money.
I guess it's just concerning that the people who would say this kind of stuff online don't think about what they're doing. They wouldn't say it to someone's face, isn't it common sense that saying it over a tweet isn't that different?
Clojure and The UFC: Part 1
Do you know why it's important to measure the browser used to view your site?
Prompt 2 – SSH client for iOS
HN is a simple mechanism. It fails in a few predictable ways. No raw spots in the chicken or exploding bowls of oatmeal.
Exactly! This quote is entirely wrong: ""In the five years from 1998 through 2002 [...] 415 new drugs were approved -- an average of 83 per year. Of those, 133 (32 percent) were new molecular entities. The others were variations of old drugs. And of those 133, only 58 were priority review drugs. That averages out to no more than 12 innovative drugs per year, or 14 percent of the total.""

Just because it didn't get priority review, doesn't mean it's not innovative.

It just shows how little Angell understands the industry.
something I've always wanted, just wasn't sure if it was feasible enough to implement. If it works like in the video, great job guys!

PS: am I imagining things or do all startup videos have the same actor?
Depends on the company. I was applying for a jr/student linux admin job at a university. They asked me to code a linked/doubly/inverse linked list in C++. The school did everything in java... Beyond that no other job has asked me about linked lists.
Except that's likely not the case here. For many professors, their salary is effectively paid by grants they bring to the university, which depend solely on their research. People who are paid to be teaching with no expectation of research do not generally have tenure track positions.
I am reminded of Steely Dan's "The Caves of Altamira" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt9VCuAbRxc), a meditation on cave paintings, and other artifacts of the human drive to create visual art, such as movies, that are shown on the walls of a darkened chamber, for our delight.
Ah, interesting way to qualitatively determine diversity. Taking the quoted example, from my perspective a city with 100 ethnic groups, each with 1%, is much more diverse than the example with 4, each with 25% - but they share the same entropy index of 1. Do I have that right?
They fuck up at big airports too. I was flying from Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson to Miami, FL. I was traveling with two parrots in a kennel that were going with me in the cabin. I told security that they needed to be screened in a separate room because I didn't want to risk them getting startled and flying when out of the cage around a bunch of strangers. They took the kennel and told me to follow them. We walked on the side of the scanners and into a separate room. They made me take the birds of the kennel and proceeded to wipe down the cage and put the piece of cloth in the explosive detector machine. Once it came back ok I was clear to go. I never walked through a metal detector or the body scanner. I informed them of this and they were like 'oh shit' and gave me a quick patdown. I could have not told them and been on my way but didn't want them to realize their mistake and then have to clear out the whole secure area.
I thought the same thing about the new Apple Pay. I didn't consider the process of "take credit card from wallet and swipe" to be a massive inconvenience that needed to be turned into an app.
He could have if he had observed it passively rather than trying to get control of the remote server. As it is he has set himself up for a counter-suit.
Shouldn't he have been expecting this?

He CC'd the FBI in his email to Marissa Mayer..
Are Haskell engineers second-rate?
Physical-web by Google
For all we know, that result is a complete facsimile of the original source. But then again, we don't have the source.
I feel like connections are what are most important. Will you need funding? Will you need people? Working at a startup can usually put you in front of like minded people.
What do you find broken?

I'm on chrome too, and the only outrageous thing I see is the rectangles that line the middle of the page, which don't seem to serve any real purpose...

Overall, I think "make img into useful background for a full-width div" is a useful feature but I won't pay $8/mo for it.
I like that it shows the air which has hit the sail and then spilled off, or "dirty" air.
It's a good indication of why you don't want to be sailing behind a boat you are trying to catch!
Actually, there were other parties in Spain using Agora, like Confederación Pirata [0] (the Spanish pirate party). Indeed, Agora's core developers are tightly related to the Pirate movement.

As a pirate, I'm happy to see other parties using our tools and I'm also glad to have somebody disrupting our political landscape but pirates are also "a tool for disrupting". We just disrupted it sharing our experience and favorite tools! :)

[0] https://agora.confederacionpirata.org/
Here's what startup employees hate the most about their jobs
Didn't realize that this would be confusing to people. This is a story of human trafficking.
This is the tricky bit.

I suggest

i: a small short website that can serve as a point of accurate information

ii: support for the person under attack. Whether privately by email (or similar) or a short single "please don't let the attacks get to you".

iii: disengaging from the trolls, and building a culture where responding to trolling is avoided.

The UK had some high profile arrests, trials, and imprisonments recently. I'm not sure if it made much difference in the frequency or severity of trolling.

This report from 2013 says that 2,000 reports are made to police in London each year. I don't know how many of those are the severe end. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24160004

This report says that 1,700 reports of online abuse reached courts http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23502291
Very impressed. I tried out the machine translation live demo, and based on a few samples I gave it, it appears to beat everything else I am aware of.
The subtle pleasures of owning a smartwatch
Contemplating the Future of Endpoint Management (Gartner Conference)
The website is doing stealthy user-referral tracking. Note the end of the url: https://thegrid.io/#53

Other links on Twitter have the same #<user_id> schema.

From the FAQ:

> How do referrals rewards work?
We offer rewards for referring new paid Founding Members. Every Founding Member is provided with a unique referral link that we use to track people who have signed up through referrals.

When you purchase a Grid Founding Membership, well give you a unique referral URL to share with your friends. For every person who purchases a Grid Founding Membership using your referral URL youll receive $32 of the proceeds refunded toward your order, until your Founding Membership has been paid for. That means if you get three friends to purchase, youll get your membership free.
I reported two fake profiles* a few weeks ago, but Facebook did nothing to remove them. I guess fake profiles boost the "user" count for FB :)

*: profiles adding 100 "friends" the first day, using pictures from obscure russian models (which can be found using Google image search)...
This is a perfect example of why I don't like to take silly shortcuts based on tenuous assumptions like the GP suggests.

Assumptions, more often than not, (1) change, (2) are understood differently by others, and/or (3) (as in this case) are flat-out wrong. Code that takes "advantage" of such silly assumptions usually (1) are poor examples to coders new to the project, (2) complicate reviewing the code for correctness, and (3) waste brain-time figuring out when they can (and can't) be applied.

Just escape everything that should be, whether you think you know what it is/where it came from or not.
In my personal moral code, most debts ARE a moral obligation. Perhaps your moral code is different from mine.
I would be curious to see if some of these characteristics are correlated with higher average karma/total karma.
something like this?

http://www.redditinvestigator.com/
I agree with most aspects of your blog post, but I disagree that white men/women are being attacked at anywhere near the scale you claim. I am a stereotypical white man, for reference.

I think this whining is not much better than the bloviating and crying exhibited by SJWs. In other words, you're close to stooping to their level. The Arrington situation was much more about him being a man than being white (though I am not a MRA).

These frankly insane people should be ignored, not fed with "no you're actually oppressing MY group, not the opposite!" or "well if it's okay for them to do it then it should be okay for me (re: doxing)."

They're parasites. Don't give them more veins to suck from.
It worked from the UK IP for me, but not from the US one. Anyway - returned 502 after request.
This guy! Again! :)
That's definitely a good point, but my personal reaction in that case would be to not make that claim. Such claims feel insincere to me and I'd rather hear "an excellent tool for creating animations and exporting them to SVG and SMIL" or something similar. I'm not saying I'm a marketing guru by any means, though. Just trying to give my honest feedback as one of the target audience.
>>It will potentially help to identify candidates that are downright rude, arrogant etc.

This sounds very dangerous to me. I assume when recruiters and/or lead engineers decide to reach out to me via LinkedIn, they did their homework on me. I purposely link to enough stuff for them to realize "smtddr" is my handle. The same blog & youtube channel in my HN profile is also in my LinkedIn. But I expect a human to look, not some computer judging me. I can totally see people getting lazy and just doing stuff like only filtering for people who rate 80% on openness or something. Then everyone will start grooming their posts simply to get positive results... then someone will create a social website that claims to block those scanners so people can say whatever they want.

It just forces people underground and the filters won't work anymore since at that point you might as well assume everyone is gaming the system.

(fwiw, I'm also against standardized tests. Anything that forces a whole group of people to start grooming themselves for a very specific measurement kills diversity, imho. Since the very term "standardized" kinda goes against the concept of diverse... and people become lazy and just rely on such tests to make or break the deal)
Gregariousness
8%

Given my name I found that funny
Also I know it's wildly inaccurate on several characteristics, but maybe my persona here is like that! Interesting.
I’m wondering whether one could use machine learning and C/C++ code from GitHub to find reasonable variable names automatically.
Awesome! Who knew? They certainly don't promote that at all!
This is a neat idea, but it's super confusing without the concept of the sail's curvature.

AFAIK, sails work like airplane wings (not like socks), creating lift on the convex surface by virtue of faster moving air and lower pressure. Perhaps your model assumes the same, but it's not clear from the way the sail is drawn, and it looks like sailing down wind is just as fast as sailing somewhat across the wind, which is in fact the fastest way to sail.
Looks fine here. They have videos in the background, so perhaps they are blocked on your end.
MIT wants to mainstream Bitcoin
A heartwarming story of conspiracy to violate immigration laws, the tax code, and employment discrimination law.
Dude, I work 2 blocks from their location in Portland. I can't go 10 feet without seeing their t-shirts or hoodies.