skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His actions enabled him to cause damage if he chose, but it would be disingenuous for us to avoid examining his intent. The only evidence we have of his intent is that he warned the hosts who were vulnerable, and also warned the customers whose personal information and private emails may no longer be safe.

If he had malicious intent as you imply, then I believe he would not have disclosed anything, let alone under his real name.

He seems honest to a fault, loquacious to the point of legally endangering himself just to spread awareness of some horrible things he witnessed.

In my opinion, spinning his actions as anything other than heroic is itself an order of magnitude more malicious than what you're claiming, because it contributes to a false narrative in which the end goal is to completely destroy another human being's life when he was just trying to help.
Interesting that you use the word 'just' there. I think it's a much stronger statement to say that women bring different useful approaches than to say that feminism does so. It's an assertion of differences at a significantly deeper level.
Thats all well and good, Provided you know I have one of these drives. I wouldn't exactly advertise that fact.
Interesting background... creepy is good.
It's not true that anything one can imagine being regulated can legally be regulated. The state has an extremely compelling interest in regulating automobiles --- they are incredibly dangerous and create externalities. It is harder to see how a restriction on free speech and association could pass Constitutional muster.
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Common core is not a curriculum. It is not a textbook. It is not a method of subtraction. There are badly-written textbooks both in and outside of Common Core.

Edit: Here we go, Common Core math standards. Grade 2 starts on page 17. http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/Math_Standar... Have a look, it's only 4 pages long.

To be specific, this is a third-grade textbook. Students learn subtraction in previous grades, so this is just a quick review before moving on to third-grade topics like multiplication. Notice the problems at the bottom don't require students to use this particular method. If your third-grader can't subtract, they were already behind before you switched to Common Core.

Also, is the method given really that hard to understand? It's probably not my favorite way to subtract, but it's kinda cool.
zen or meditation, is not just about developing a capability. With a pill, or drugs/steriods, you can gain something...but what is the use of all this, if you dont gain the wisdom (the ultimate end goal, which you usually get by walking the path. )
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There are a couple of dev teams working on something similar with Kinect(s) and Oculus Rift. The two main applications I've seen are VR "movies" that would record a scene with both video and depth information which would allow you to walk around in a recorded "scene" as it plays back. The other is focused on using depth cameras to capture depth and video information and then compress and transmit it to create a more immersive form of telepresence.

I think that sort of thing is a much "bigger" application of VR technology than the gaming focus that it's starting out with. Gaming makes sense as a starting point since there are already engines and frameworks in place for generating 3d content that can be rendered from different angles to create the 3d illusion.

Still, I look at it like the early nickelodeons and parlor games seen at the advent of motion pictures. I think it will be much more useful when you can place small, inexpensive depth cameras near the top of each wall of a room (for example) and use that to capture depth and video information. That could be used to build a real-time 3d map of a room and people in the room and used in recorded or live communication. I think it's already at the point where this stuff can be done in a prototype form but as head-mounted displays and processing hardware is refined, it will be able to move from something requiring ski goggles and beefy workstations to streamlined specs and consumer-electronics base station appliances.
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This is fascinating because I've totally become a mainlander, although in high school and young adulthood I flirted with many island cultures, and everything about this post reminds me of some of my mid-90s irc days and socializing with all manner of gamers, goths, freaks and phreaks.

These days I had sort of been feeling like there are no more islands because of The Internet and all culture is available to everyone at all times. But maybe this is just part of passively slipping into the mainstream and not recognizing how the subcultures are thriving without me.
Had to Google "Garanimals", but yeah. I'd imagined getting a little geekier about the details, along the lines of "Take 2 lbs from food list A, 1 lb from food list B, 1.5 lb from food list C..." but I may be falling prey to the very thing I'm criticizing.

I disagree on one point: this sounds delicious for breakfast.
> After working some years at an organization

How many years has this person worked at reddit?

> Is it not fair/humane to give employee a chance to hear charges and to tell his/her side of story so that independent body can decide fairly?

The employee does have a chance at redress by an independent body. At least in California, they can sew their past employer for wrongful termination. It will probably cost them a lot of money, especially if they were rightfully fired, but who were you hoping to pay for the 'independent body' to defend? The employer can't, it would be a conflict of interest.
The probability of any kind of deal happening with a big company is very less. Be upfront about how much time you can spend with them. Personally I would not spend more than few hours. Also make sure the person you talk with has the power to make decisions and ask their intentions clearly. Preferably in writing.
In a 'modern' mailing list a troll will be able to spam people on the list, but they won't really be replied to. They won't be able to participate. The actual conversations will be moderated.
No, it does not include that:

usa$ head -5 yob2008.txt
Emma,F,18791
Isabella,F,18598
Emily,F,17419
Olivia,F,17066
Ava,F,17024

The USA Census Bureau released names.zip and namesbystate.zip back in May and they include README files of how they were anonymized.
Disagree. Nipping the rumor in the bud that Reddit management fires for dissenting opinion has tangible value to hiring and retention, so a case could be made that Yishan was compelled to provide this response as part of his fiduciary duty. Reddit is a special case that is very pitchfork-happy when it comes to online drama, and even a mere offhand rumor will grow legs.

This specific response with that level of harshness is definitely worth discussing, but if you're going to make the abrogation of fiduciary duty argument I think I'd side on him doing the right thing here (with respect to that).
where are the proofs that ex-employee is lying? It can be CEO is covering up. Is it not?
Usually, if your country has a DTA with estonia you'll have to pay whatever your country takes for dividend distributions anyway. The DTA means you can pay 10% to Estonia and the rest to your country but in total you're still paying whatever your country wants, in total.
There might be other advantages, however, but repatriating dividends is not going to be one of them.
I think the issue is that we are all trying to figure out who is in the right in this situation based on a handful of reddit comments. At the end of the day we don't have enough information to understand what truly happened.
Sounds like a browser level or OS level plugin could be useful to check paste buffers and swap to|from fancy quotes.
I'm not sure but there might be a destruct key. Give them that, and have them nuke the drive for you :)
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IIRC, all 50 states have implied consent laws.
Why the "Jwz" in the title? Is this article more or less important because of who wrote it?
Do they call this thing e-Eesti then?
Are you aware that Poettering's PulseAudio project runs on Windows? Are you aware that the only Linux init system that ever ran on a non-Linux kernel (sysvinit) did so only because the FreeBSD and Hurd kernels implemented the Linux-specific /proc filesystem?
> How do I approach potential clients who have no reason to trust a small business at the southern tip of Africa...

Use the Cape Town network to your advantage.
Linkedin has 600+ Cape Towners based in the US alone.
Sort the individual executives for target profiles your firm can likely help. Reach out to them for a 1:1 dialog.

https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?keywords=Software&school=...
While I agree that one example is not enough to grasp the concept for most people, I think that the "counting up" method is actually better because it shows kids what is going on in subtraction.

The borrowing method that I learned growing up doesn't make much sense. You just follow the rules with no real reason.

I'm in my third year of college and only just learned why the borrowing method works - and I only learned it because I had to start subtracting numbers in different bases for my MIPS assembly class.
There's plent enough fat in back bacon. Its unclear why the US doesn't sell it readily. Streaky bacon is more of a condiment than useful protein source.
I suspect that in the not too distant future, we will look back at ourselves eating this highly intelligent and emotional animal with disgust. Why do we call it "bacon" instead of "pig belly"? To keep consumers from remembering that it was ever an independent, conscious creature. The amount of marketing that goes into this narrow vision of "mm smoky salty tasty" B.S without thinking with your brain about what it actually IS, really is a tragedy
Whats a good way to automate this to run? I see the getting started in the documentation says "Save it as hello.js and then run it from the command line" but Iwasnt sure if there are tools like CRON in Linux to automate the script.
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Authentication and Authorization don't belong in the front-end, that belongs on the backend with the server, the one true source as to whether a user is authenticated and whether a user has authorization to do what they are trying to do.

So as long as you write your REST endpoints correctly, your front-end will fall into line.
Is this probable given how much risk he would be taking on himself in this situation? It could be a career-and-company-ending move.
Can you add a section for travel please....
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Microsoft will pay up to $100,000 plus $50,000 bonus for defense submissions (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dn425049)

Facebook has paid $12,500 for one (http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/02/security-researcher-discove...)

Google will pay up to $20,000 for one (http://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/#rewa...)

Forbes even posted an article a couple years ago on the market of zero day exploits and listed prices someone could get for zero day exploits with prices in the tens/hundreds of thousands. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/23/shoppin...) It should be noted that they state in this article that the groups that will buy these exploits for these prices are generally western governments.
Not too much. Coronary heart disease wiped out a big chunk of my family and it wasn't because they ate sugar - it was the lard on toast and chips cooked in lard...

Everything in moderation is probably better advice than a single fact.
When you've taken 50 million dollars in investment and are expected to bring a good return on it, amatuer hour is over.
Exactly, so you keep the money in the company, reinvesting the profits (and repatriate when you are a resident of say Bahamas or BVI if you build up quite a nest egg).
The contemporaneous objection to the proposed Bill of Rights was that future generations would come to believe that only those rights enumerated in the Bill are protected by the Constitution.

It seems to me that that fear has basically come true. Adding a few more amendments won't fix that; in fact they would reinforce the problem.
Absolutely resist the urge to dazzle them with your technical prowess. THEY WILL STEAL YOUR SHIT.

I will not point fingers at any specific companies since I have no interest in being sued, but I have had technologies stolen by 5 different public technology companies.

In my case, I even had patents filed. It won't save you because they'll take the customers in the mean time while you're waiting the years for your patent to be granted. If you've raised capital, your company will have long crashed and burned and the investors will have sold the patents for pennies.

Another set of worthless people to avoid are the folks from the "Labs" at any major technology company. They are in no position to make a major purchase and in the best case scenario will waste a ton of your time.

If they say that they're potentially interested in acquiring and want to do due diligence, DO NOT LET THEM SEE UNDER THE KIMONO. They can back out of a deal at any moment, and if nothing else, even if they are interested in acquisition, they'll use their knowledge as leverage to force you into worse price/terms.
There's a more general and more interesting pattern at work here. As humanity, we have grown too fond of our safety and comfort over the past 50 years to the point of being unwilling to take the risks that are necessary for us to grow further. The levels of risk-aversion we have reached, especially in developed countries is actually akin to a terminal disease that is already ensuring the demise of most "western powers". It's paradoxical in a very beautiful way.. that will eventually serve to remind us that life isn't really about being safe and secure. Safety, security and privacy are unnatural values that have been drilled into us, quite elaborately, over generations. They are fake values that only serve to hold us back and inhibit our innate greatness.
I can't find it right now, but there's a pretty interesting thread from the GCC mailing lists where RMS states explicitly that parts of GCC are very tightly coupled, by design, precisely to make it hard to reuse the code-generation backend in non-free software.

I believe the rationale is that such a reuse would be very hard to find, much less prove conclusively.
Could you?
Would you?
Did you?

Curious to hear if anyone else has done something as "old-school" as this, given all the focus on growthhacking and more scalable customer acquisition methods.
Very cool! Some hopefully helpful feedback: Running Safari on a Mac, and the text cursor visually shows up in a different place than the actual editing occurs, making editing tough. It is off by an amount that varies largely when I change the size of the on-screen text, sometimes off by 1 character, sometimes off by 4 characters. At a really large font size, I got it to mostly align and it made editing possible.
As I understood it Samza ties in with Hadoop/HBase, so if you already have that, it might be easier (or even possible at all) to integrate, whereas Storm has nothing to do with with that and only does stream processing.
That is, at the moment, the current title of the page.
s/crunchy/chunky/g
i have never been in this situation but i like this answer.

what you're doing is forcing them to negotiate as soon as possible on something specific and concrete - someone who isn't willing to negotiate isn't willing to give you any money.
In my mind it is; I've certainly grown or developed skills that I strongly believe have great value... but in past interviews I've been on it's been made pretty clear that for experience to be considered professional - it must be with a formalized business. Hence why I've put professional in quotes.
If he did that, this whole thread would be about how Reddit CEO is a weasel PR-drone incapable of honest talk.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't; people here are going to accuse him anyway, because it fits the David vs. Goliath narrative.
I didn't say no response was warranted. I said a stroppy response wasn't warranted.

Absolutely, letting the rumor mill run with this guy's allegations is a net negative for Reddit, so Yishan (or, preferably, his PR folks) needed to respond somehow.

My quibble is with the form and content of the response, not with there having been one.
> "The best theory I have is that, two weeks earlier, I raised concerns about donating 10% of ad revenue to charity. Some management likes getting feedback, some doesn't."

How else could you possibly interpret this rationally in a conversation about being laid off?
that's the title that the bookmarklet gave it.
>> How many years has this person worked at reddit?

I do not know. It can be some days/weeks/months ...etc. You can read it as "after working some time" but integrity of the message/comment won't change.

>> The employee does have a chance at redress by an independent body.

What I mean is, independent body inside the organization, taking employees from different other groups so that they can judge fairly. It should not be difficult for any one since it takes just few hours occasionally but at the end of the exercise, everyone can have a feeling of fairness, justice and there will be no rumors/ill-feelings ...etc. After all, we are mere mortals.
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Well, presumably a job well done is the primary motivation, or perhaps the recognition of your peers. It is only when you have previously achieved importance and are now in a position to have face to lose; here is where shame can come into play.

Constructive criticism is helpful and should always be the first stop on the train. But if you should already know better, or that ground has already been well-trodden, then it just sounds patronizing. This is where being told to shape the fuck up is the kind of message I would expect to receive.

What would be even worse is being ignored or shunned.
This article was very interesting, since I'd been puzzled by the popularity of bacon as a meme. I've also wondered about moustaches, which became a meme around the same time and with similar people and products, sort of the same "meme space". Is there something that drove the handlebar 'stache as a meme? (Reading this, it seems like kind of a crazy comment, but I do mean it seriously.)
Bingo. Word is out that college is a chance game for the 'right' school and even when you get in, it's rigged. You simply cannot compete with China, India, or Malaysia for spots at Stanford or UCLA. Those kids and parents can just plain out work you. My wife went to UCLA for grad school. Her students could speak English better than her, and would just out wait the professors for points on tests. Every single little thing was an argument and you'd just tire out and give it to them eventually. The cheating was a real concern as well, as the other cultures didn't really have a sense of it being 'wrong', that it was just another arbitrary rule you had to jump through. You get caught? Then you didn't cheat well enough. Also, all those kids are then either ending up back in Asia or in a cheap H1B visa spot you can't afford a mortgage or kids on.

So, somewhat smart kids from Iowa will ask themselves: Why bother? I can't compete to get in, I can't compete when I am actually in there, and I can't compete when I get out. Forget this game, I'm taking my tiddly-winks and going home.

And that is where the tier-2 schools really shine. Vassar, Colorado School of Mines, the Claremonts, etc really can take those kids that aren't literally-cookie-cutter-perfect-snoflakes-drill-and-kill and make them really shine. Yeah, they won't be the CEO of Hundai or GE, but they will make a damn good Lt. Major, or a VP at 7-11, or a hell of a McDonald's franchise owner, or the best darn member of a school board that is always re-elected, or a real good child abuse prosecutor. You won't make billions, but you will make 3-4 million.

There really is a need here for B- students that deserve a good living. Getting rid of the darn SAT is a great way to attract them.
Are you sure, or is the medical community changing its mind in 10-20yrs now with a "oops, we just realized its only good when you eat a tenth of what you are eating", or something like that. Also, is both the fat of the pork, and all the oil it is cooked in healthy, or just the first?

I think we don't really know enough about health to have a comprehensive answer, sp. regarding long term effects, so the best thing may be just to be conservative.. i.e. don't each much of anything that our body may not be wired to (like you said, processed sugars, but also deep fried precooked bacon)
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Yes, one might think that; I understand where you're coming from. And it would be a valid argument if mail clients and mail protocols worked differently today compared to a quarter century ago.

How mailing lists operate is constrained by how e-mail works. E-mail is very conservative.

(Yes, various things are there that weren't there a quarter century ago, like parsing out MIME-attached HTML and rendering it. Sure, SMTP is optionally authenticated and encrypted now. And in the routing and delivery infrastructure we have things like DKIM, SPF and DMARC. And we have DNS-based anti-spam databases. But by and large it's the same. The way a client sends and receives has not fundamentally changed.)

E-mail is a mine-field for people who think they have some great idea about some quick fix to a perceived problem.

About fifteen years ago, it seemed---to multiple people at the same time---like a brilliant idea to write an extension for a mail client (or a procmail script or whatever) to automatically answer all e-mails from senders who are not on a white-list, and challenge them to verify that they are real. That would solve all forgeries and spams, they thought! Oops ...
It's an ID/credential system that government and financial services will be using. So you'll be able to use the ID/credentials to log in and interact with Estonian entities that use it, like banks, tax authority, corporate registry, etc. Vaguely like an OpenID identity, but run by the Estonian government, and with two-factor authentication.

It doesn't in itself give you any specific rights, as far as I can tell ("e-residency" is a bit of a marketing term). It just makes it easier to do things that foreigners are theoretically allowed to do, but which aren't currently very easy to do remotely. For example it's already legal for a foreigner to register a company in Estonia, but it's a bit of a hassle if you aren't an Estonian resident; this is supposed to make it easier, because you'll be electronically "in the system" with a proper ID number and login, making it easier for agencies and financial institutions to know how to deal with you. Especially since it's combined with a move towards self-service online portals for government services, so you should be able to log in with this ID and do a lot of things over the internet, instead of visiting civil-service offices.

Here (Denmark) all that is also theoretically true—anyone with legitimate business in Denmark can get an ID, and once you have one you can do things like register a company entirely online, self-service, as well as interact with banks and anyone else who implements the "NemID". But in practice the authorities are very suspicious of anyone not living in Denmark trying to get into the system, so almost the only non-residents who do so are Swedes and Germans who either commute cross-border or have frequent business in Denmark.