skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, it is a problem that Adam Baldwin is "conservative" shares his opinions? You must realize most of the people attacking #gamergate and gamers are doing so to spread their "brand of liberal thought" too. Yeah, people have different opinions and different politics. For example, I disagree that people having different opinions is a problem.
You are spot on. As an Indian I can confirm this behavior. Managers consider people as "resource" and treat them as "slave" (not an exaggeration). I hear lot of my friends use this exact word (slave) and I by myself felt the same way. They ask people to work for 10-12 hrs. (During 2007/2008 recession, companies like infosys/tcs increased working hours -8 hrs to 9 hrs -, even today, its the same hours).

Unless you are close to the manager (do some shoe-licking), working on Indian IT services is a hell,if you have conscience.
Here's a paper supporting this point of view: http://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459
After seeing how civil forfeiture works(i.e. cops using seizure of property ,for their own literal slush fund), I would not be so sure it must be FOR TEH DRAUGZ.
"this study will have a siginificant placebo effect, and the results should therefore be treated with extreme caution"

You have no way of proving this. Let's face it, we do not have a good grasp on the factors involved in the placebo effect, for example we don't know whether someone needs to be susceptible to it for it to work, we don't know how to reliably trigger it, we don't know whether there are limits on its effects in the body. As you're an author of a book on the subject, you already know all this.

Regarding people's hope, there's no guarantee that people will read more into the study than they should, but we should give people the benefit of the doubt. It's fairly common to read about promising scientific studies that take a long time to develop into something more tangible, if at all (for example, here's a whole website full of such stories... http://phys.org/). Anyone with an interest in science is going to be used to these stories by now, but it doesn't mean there isn't something promising that can come of single research studies, once the data can be verified.
I will never forget when a Gawker employee (Gizmodo, brand under Gawker) used an on/off device for TVs in the middle of a tech demo at CES 2008 [1]. Gawker showed their true colors then.

They have not changed since, only gotten worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmodo#TV-B-Gone

Edit: I'm getting downvoted. Please explain where I am factually incorrect, either in what I have said or linked. Thanks :-)
We use reportlab (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/reportlab) for invoice generation. Once you decide upon the template it's very easy to use.
Thanks, glad you like it. Currently it is only for date but I can add optional view for hours as well.
"the thing that caught people's attention was his claim that she'd intentionally slept with the editors of gaming publications to receive positive coverage, which turned out to be true."

No, this is not true. Here are the ways in which it isn't true:

- You're claiming that Zoe Quinn slept with people for the purpose of positive coverage (as opposed to, say, pleasure). There's no evidence of this.

- She didn't sleep with "editors of gaming publications." Of the three people named in the blog post, only one is a journalist and none are editors.

- Zoe's ex-partner didn't accuse her of sleeping with people for positive coverage; in fact, he explicitly says "if there was any conflict of interest between Zoe and [journalist] regarding coverage of Depression Quest prior to April, I have no evidence to imply that it was sexual in nature."

- [Journalist] wrote one article that talked about Zoe Quinn at all; it was not a review. It does say nice things about her. He wasn't sleeping with her at the time.

I don't have much hope of this, but seriously: you should stop and think about why you've come to believe this skewed, angry version of the story. What are you getting out of thinking Zoe Quinn is this bad a person? Could you be wrong about the rest of your beliefs about Gamergate?
Can anyone with knowledge about the topic shed some light on it and tell if it's really a big breakthrough or just like another PR post by labs to attract and justify more funding?
The failure to solve the chicken-and-egg problem sorta nips this immediately.
I argue that, while sparked from the same incident, gamergate is not the same as the childish harassment you refer to. It's rallying cry has always been "game journalism ethics" , and never "women get out".

I would ask the rhetorical question of why journalists continue to focus on claims of gamergate members harassing women, and give no lip service to the gamergate claims of poor journalistic integrity, and a lack of ethics.
That is a very good idea. But it means I need to intercept the default logout behavior of the system. I will check whether that is possible too.
It uses gl-rs. Which auto generates a rust wrapper around the C bindings using a compiler plugin.

https://github.com/bjz/gl-rs
Note: Big Mac price in Argentina is artificially depressed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index#Manipulation
This is absolutely false. There was no coverage that was slanted for her free game after she supposedly slept with anyone. This is not about ethics, if it were that would have been an issue when BIG publishers started paying youtubers to cover games without any negative language. Or any of the other actual scandals. Not when ONE indie game developer happened to have some dirty laundry aired by an asshole.
Sounds like a lot of female sexuality policing to me. I'd be ashamed to have my name anywhere near it.
Two years ago, I spent eight weeks teaching high school students about the legal system through a juvenile diversionary program called Street Law. One would think that this would be prime time for what you described, what with me being essentially a substitute teacher for a classroom of only students who had all at some point been charged with a crime. It was not.

In fact, the exact opposite occurred. Students engaged in thoughtful discussion on a wide range of complex issues on which reasonable minds frequently disagree. We debated constitutional rights and justice reform. We shared personal experiences with racism and bigotry. We searched for ideas to stop it.

One or two times, I think I even saw someone consider changing their mind.

You probably think I am making this up. I am not. It happened, and I think it happened because I didn't treat them like children. I spoke to them with honesty. I asked them what they thought, and it took them by surprise. Perhaps if we stopped treating them like small children, they will stop acting that way.

let's just be honest and call school what it is: baby-sitting

Oh.
Nope, it's not a problem at all. However, if you say "#gamergate was started by Adam Baldwin, specifically to address corruption in games journalism and the collusion of media outlets in trying to silence discussion of it." I feel OK about pointing out that you're omitting some of Baldwin's motivations.
One of the most common failure modes is screen captures which are often used for auditing. So there enabled even when everything is working correctly. For encrypted passwords that are sent directly to the clipboard you still get those files backed up which means you can brute force the password file without throwing up any red flags. Also, pasting passwords is disabled on many secure applications. For apps there stored on an unsecured device with a wide range of failure modes.
When did this happen last?
If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, please list them. One may be something we've been waiting for. Often when we fund people it's to do something they list here and not in the main application.

Which was the last alternative idea that was funded or for that matter how many during the course of YC's existence?
Diabetes is an autoimmune disease (source: am diabetic) so this is probably not a viable long term solution
A few simple things which would help and are easy to implement:

1. Stop auto-discarding abuse reports which aren't from the target of an attack. Right now, Twitter won't investigate a credible death threat unless you say you're the target.
2. Limit new accounts ability to send messages to people who don't follow them
3. Apply blocks to email addresses, requiring griefers to churn validated addresses rather than reusing them
4. Give you better filters for notifications: i.e. currently there's no way to have it default to only notifications from people you follow so you can't avoid seeing crap unless you use a bookmark. Similarly, filtering out messages from new accounts you don't follow or which don't have n followers in common, etc. etc. would reduce the dog-pile effect.
5. Allow friends to help: auto-block/mute accounts which people you follow have blocked (specific people, threshold, etc.); hide tweets which people you follow have flagged as annoying / abusive; etc. There's a ton of interesting opportunity to use the social network for good here.

None of this is perfect but increasing the frictional costs matters a lot for this kind of thing when they're only in it for fun. A lot of prior art from the email spam prevention world applies here as well – the main thing is simply that Twitter's management clearly don't care to make any significant investment in this area.
> Do the people in this thread think that getaway drivers on bank robberies should get off scot free because driving a car is not itself a crime?

I think this is more like putting the car salesman in jail for selling them the getaway car ... and that would be wrong.

> But it's patently obvious that Anaya is a criminal and engaged in criminal conspiracy to traffic narcotics.

You can say the same about every bank in America, which facilitates the same. Oh and probably every electric utility for growing all that weed. Water utility too?

I mean, it's not like they ask each of their clients if they're drug dealers or growing dope. They don't exactly look for the criminals either.

Probably because it's not their job.
I would be strongly relieved learning he failed his PhD in security: his article is a pure FUD.

Why secrets are needed? Because secrets are unpredictable and thus are the signature of a common knowledge that cannot be guessed when checked against randomness.

Every other solutions are scams especially biometry:

- measure can fail;
- if something can be measured it can be captured/duplicated.

Security market is based on fear.

I so wished security efficiency was audited based on the number of security holes they cause sometimes.
Unfortunately for you and Anaya, the courts -- and America in general -- do count that as a crime. Aiding criminals has long been a crime and will continue to be a crime. In the same way getaway drivers, launderers, and trafficking in stolen goods are criminalized, so too are building tools for criminals, with features only needed by criminals (odor control to avoid drug-sniffing dogs), mostly or exclusively used by criminals, with explicit knowledge they're being used by criminals. (What on earth would Anaya have counted as knowing his clients where selling drugs? From this article and the court documents, nothing short of his clients running up to him and shouting, "Hey everybody! I'm transporting drugs!")

Pretending that criminalizing helping to commit crimes erodes civil liberties is somewhere between silly and stupid. Particularly to anyone sympathetic (as I am) to arguments that we should legalize most drugs and redirect those moneys to harm abatement.
No offence, but if your not going to fire people when you find their password written down then there going to write their password down. Written policies are practically irrelevant it's enforced policies people pay attention to.

One example of security. Someone (A) giving a breafing has someone (B) grabs at it so they can read the document. At which point (A) pulls his sidearm and threatens (B). Later (A) is given an intense debriefing to verify that he was willing to shoot (B) and simply wanted to clarify the situation vs being unwilling to shoot (B). (B) was later told he was lucky not to have been shot.
Type 1 Diabetes is due to the total loss of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells. The loss is a result of autoimmune destruction. This brings up the following questions:

1. Will the transplanted cells produce insulin in a human host?
2. Will the transplanted cells be targeted by the host's immune system and be destroyed just like the original beta cells?
3. Will the beta cells produce insulin in response to the same regulatory pathways as original system? One major problem with self-injected insulin administration is overdose.

Those are the questions I'd look to answer in the future.
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You have to be pragmatic with users and offer them a path of least resistance while implementing a greater level of security. I've only recently been able to get users to pay attention to why they need a password manager - the iCloud hack helped more in that than even Snowden did.

That path of least resistance right now, I find, is installing a password manager and securing it with a primary password that is generated from four or five dictionary words. Combine that with two-factor authentication for the most important accounts (Google Authenticator is surprisingly easy to teach people to use).

You find corner cases that cause problems: apps that don't support automatically having the password entered, or pasting the password in, mobile apps that become frustrating to enter long random passwords into so users just change them to something simple (including Apple ID's).

Four random words is beyond 'good enough' and far better than what most users are doing now. Rolling out and advocating new security measures is much about compromise and pragmatism. When somebody who is an ordinary computer users asks you what a good password technique is, do you spend 60 minutes explaining entropy and how people are bad at generating passwords (putting them to sleep), or do you just point them to a comic and one of the random xkcd password generators?

The iCloud hacks have done more for security awareness than what a million blog posts could ever have. It would be good to take advantage of it with a common approach rather than mixed signaling (I just know that at some point i'm going to hear someone say "but I saw something on hacker news about how those xkcd passwords aren't secure" - and I will have to take a deep breath).

Advocacy now could be focused on developers, where there is some catching up to do - a common protocol for password managers, allowing copy and paste, hooks in apps, agreeing on a set of weak passwords that should be not allowed (a lot of services already do this, most use top x from RockYou), removing those silly character restrictions (example: apple ID's can't be XKCD passwords since they enforce a capital letter and number), building password generating into more systems (based on an open spec - it should be an OS feature, not an app)
You mean like when TotalBiscuit called out Shadows of Mordor and then Boogie reported that publishers are changing their contracts?
Honestly, I've been Chrome's print to PDF + Quartz Filter to compress JPEGs for over a year.

These are the most important tricks:

.A4page {
width: 793px;
height: 1120px;
position: relative;
padding: 200px 50px 50px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}

@media all {
.page-break	{ display: none; margin-bottom: 100px; }
}

@media print {
.page-break	{ display: block; page-break-before: always; }
}

Good font rendering, selectable text. Not perfect, but the best I've seen so far.
Basically a rant about Linus' communication style. But let's consider this:

Linus Torvalds --- occasionally an asshole
Theo de Raadt --- occasionally an asshole
Bill Gates --- occasionally an asshole
Steve Jobs --- occasionally an asshole
Larry Ellison --- usually? an asshole

I'd say that Torvalds is in pretty distinguished company. Many more successful "technology" CEOs kick ass than kiss ass. Too bad for Poettering if he got his feelings hurt. Let's see him switch to OpenBSD so we can see Theo's reaction to systemd!
I had a friend do the same thing when we were trying to get point-to-point wireless between our houses. He was wandering over my roof with his laptop held in the air, with it chirping 'yes yes yes yes' as it found the better areas of connectivity (his commandline used 'yes', but can't recall it).
Thanks for the non-paywall link
We use it here and have found it to be very flexible. We render a DOM in memory which we can then turn in to a variety of formats: markdown, html, pdf etc.
I don't agree with everything in this article and he glosses over some complex issues too quickly, but it is good to see such a reasonable discussion about actual password security in contrast to the pants-on-head mouth-breathing "security" standards of "enforce changing your password every 12 weeks" and "your password must contain an upper and lower case letter, number, and special character."

There are people that believe those practices have positive effects on authentication security. Those people should be identified and prevented from ever making a security-related decision again.
Password managers, combined with randomly-generated passwords, solve the most serious problems afflicting user-selected passwords. Adding two-factor authentication solves yet more problems. And yet both password managers and 2FA are not widely adopted by users. Where do we go from here?

I use a password manager, and the UX of registering to a new website is just awful. On the registration page I need to check what sort of password is being asked for (e.g. 'no longer than 15 characters'), and configure the password generator accordingly. After registration I need to manually convert the password into a login; my password manager can try to do it automatically, but it often fails because it doesn't know how to translate fields from the registration page to the login page. Compare this with what most users do: just enter the same password everywhere. Much less friction.

I think we can make using password managers easier than entering the same password everywhere. We can do this by introducing a standard web interface for password managers. This interface will let browsers fill in usernames and passwords on registration and login pages, automatically. It may include password specifications, such as 'password should be between 10-15 characters long'.

Here's the use case: imagine the password manager is integrated with the browser (say as an extension). When it detects this interface on a web page, the password manager hides the password field, replacing it with a message like 'secure password is auto-generated'. Similarly, login pages that support the interface will not show a password field at all. From time to time, the user has to enter their single password (to allow the password manager to access its database). In this scenario, the user has to do less work (on average) than when they enter their password manually. When no password manager is installed, the browser simply displays the same old password field.

Given a standard interface, implementation is simple: on the server side, it's just a few tags that specify user and password fields on registration and login pages, and what to replace them with when the password manager works. There should probably also be a site identifier to let the password manager know which registration page corresponds to which login page. (Currently password managers rely on URLs to figure this out, and this heuristic sometimes fails.) The whole architecture of storing passwords stays the same. On the client side, password managers already do much of this work anyway, including trying to heuristically figure out which fields correspond to the username and the password. This sort of interface makes things much simpler for them.
The admission she herself made, as well as the video-captured facebook conversation logs her ex posted with her where she admitted as much, was evidence enough for me.

The scandal wasn't about her though, try as the media might to make her the focus - it was about the journalists who had accepted sex, and reciprocated with positive coverage. It was also about the many other journalists who were found to have been doing similar things - patricia hernandez, writing a multitude of articles about the games of her housemate; danielle rindau, giving Gone Home a 10/10, when she had a pre-existing friendship with the developers, to name two.

It's the behavior of the journalists which is what's being criticized.

Gamergaters generally wants people to stop focusing on women's sex lives.
Apparently we hate the metric system so much using kilo as a unit lands you 24 yrs in prison
His motivations were not the issue. The purpose of the hashtag and movement were. Nonetheless, your desire to point out that he is not liberal enough to meet your standards is still hypocritical. Why aren't you pointing that out all the "journalists" attacking gamergate have liberal politics and want to discuss them?
More importantly, you can host the storage over i2p, or a hybrid of clearnet and darknet. There's even an implement ion of free net over i2p using tahoe-lafs.

I have assisted a few people in implementing this for their storage needs. No complaints, either.
Can someone point to the visualization libraries being used in the attendance website?
It has nothing to do with her actions - the complaints are aimed at the journalists who accepted sex in exchange for coverage, as well as the numerous other journalists who have demonstrably low integrity and poor ethics.
They also didn't have the zero-cost memory safety abstractions that Rust has. Nor did they do much optimization.

That said, we're working on compilation speed. The focus so far has been getting the language in shape and runtime performance of the generated code, not compilation speed (although we've picked most of the low-hanging fruit in compilation speed anyway).
I am Type 1 Diabetic. I have done some research, but am by no means an expert.

1. Yes
2. No. "Melton said that the device Anderson and his colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are testing has thus far protected beta cells implanted in mice from immune attack for many months. “They are still producing insulin,” Melton said."

There are two breakthroughs. The mass production AND the ability of the device to protect the cells from destruction.

3. Yes. It reacts ideally in pretty much all scenarios. When you eat, it produces insulin. When you fast, it doesn't lower you into hypoglycemia. When you're sick (like a cold) it regulates insulin as it should, as your body needs more or less as your insulin sensitivity is off.

This is definitely HUGE!
I run http://template2pdf.com/ as a side project.

Take a LibreOffice/OpenOffice document as your template and send a simple http request with the values you want to replace (with support for images and what you call 'repeatable parts'). The system will then return a link where you can pick up your generated pdf.
It's not true that she slept with editors to receive positive coverage. The ONE writer she became involved with did not write any reviews of her game and the only article he did write was written before they became an item.

The fact that you choose to lie about this fact shows that you are perfectly happy with your role as a cog in the harassment campaign. Gamergate is a hate campaign that you are participating in.

As for the #gamergate hashtag, after its first use by Adam it was quickly taken over by several people on 4-chan to attack Zoe, so it was helmed by someone. see http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/09/new-chat-logs-show-how...

in a response below you state: "it was about the journalists who had accepted sex, and reciprocated with positive coverage." Yet there has never been any proof of this, because it didn't happen. She started a relationship with a writer and received no positive coverage from it. You continue to state lies that have been proven false.