skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I think a lot of VCs are investing in the Bitcoin space, and I why I think there is an extremely bright future for the currency. Many economists (i.e., Paul Krugman) can't get past the idea that a currency needs to be backed by a state to be a real currency. That's the most ridiculous claim ever...currencies existed long before nation-states ever did. Events like this are proving those economists wrong.
Seriously. Just, no.
I was not aware that other home owners get a say into what is being built in the city. That should explain anything. It is very much like our Indian community where people on H1B often demand immigration reforms but once they have it they demand stricter immigration laws. :P
Neat! I wonder what the next steps for commercial use would be, since the patent is filed through the UW's Center for Commercialization and funded by the US Department of Energy. Could BP or whoever come in and say "we're interested" and throw money at them to build a full scale reactor (in a few years)?
Actually, the question you should ask is 'where is your witness?' - the lender needs to have more than documentary proof of your debt.

Here's how the process plays out:

When you owe a debt what happens is the lender will contact you a few times and then, if you don't pay, they will sell the debt on to people who are in the collections business. And over the course of a year or two your debt will likely change hands multiple times, at incredible devaluation. (Listen to the This American Life episode, it's great in this regard.)

These companies will make all sorts of outlandish claims about what might happen if you don't pay. In reality, nothing at all will happen outside of the hit your credit rating will take if they take the issue that far. All things considered, that's a non-issue for most people facing debts they have no way of repaying.

In the not very likely event you are actually summoned to court, what will happen is that the lawyers working for the current owner of your debt will try to strong-arm you before you go before a judge. They'll say 'let's settle this now before things get serious in there' etc., and will offer to accept a fraction of what the paper says you owe.

That's when you ask, 'where is your witness?'. The chances of the 2nd or 3rd collection agency to purchase your packaged debt being able to haul into court the very same loan officer who witnessed you sign for a loan years ago approaches zero for cases involving less than seven figure sums.

Source: advice given to me by a debt counselor during my own business loan default 'issue'.

Update: the idea of bad debt ruining your credit score is a myth. I defaulted on a high-five-figure debt and two years later qualified for a six-figure mortgage with a mid-five-figure income. Most of the talk of 'this will go down on your permanent record' is FUD.
What can cause glDrawArrays to generate a GL_INVALID_OPERATION error?
IKEA spoofs Apple
I generally agree that the visible benefits are not available to undocumented immigrants but you're forgetting about the unseen things that taxes support. As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr once remarked "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society..".

Taxes pay for civil infrastructure, a somewhat-functioning democratic government, our National Parks, and of course our armed forces. We don't often think about these things since they're not as visible but our ability to sit here in the relative safety of our homes/workplaces exercising our 1st Amendment rights is in a large part supported by the taxes we pay.
> pay off small debts, use the boost in cash flow from getting rid of each debt to pay more on the next

http://unbury.me/

I believe this was posted here months ago, but this is helpful for examining different options of clearing out a set of debts. Helps with considering the option of paying off highest interest versus lowest balance. The former likely saves money, but the latter can help psychologically. (Ah! I'm finally free of that $1k @ 3% car loan, now I can focus on that $8k @ 16% CC debt!)
Indonesian cave art may be world's oldest
Well the entire US legal system disagrees with you so I guess this is just where we part ways.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge-approves...
My guesses are speed - not that relevant if you are interacting with an app that is waiting for user input - and memory usage.

In a traditional VM, you have to reserve memory that is used by the guest OS and the apps you want to run, and is unavailable as soon as the VM comes up.

Docker is incredibly lightweight in comparison. Also, you can move your development environment around, same way you would move a VM disk around. That requires less resources, again, as there is no OS install.
But you also make money from advertisers. From your privacy policy:

"you agree that we may provide any of the information we have collected from you in non-personally identifiable form to an Advertiser, in order for that Advertiser to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements and/or offers."

"Final is aligned with you"

No, not aligned with me at all.

Why can't we have a business model that is straight up, you know, where the ENTIRE relationship is between you and us, the end user, where your profit comes ENTIRELY by making us happy. The free-market works much better that way.

Advertising never makes anything free or cheaper. Quite the opposite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8372640
That's a weak argument because there's a lot of people who aren't willing to consider the possibility that an assumed-good guy might actually be a bad guy, either now or at a date in the future, and may even mock you for suggesting it. The HN gestalt itself has varied opinions on this matter depending on the topic.

Much better is just to observe that any such key can't be kept from the bad guys, whoever they may be, and backdoored encryption over time tends to be no encryption at all. This is simply the truth. For all we know Snowden carried out some encryption keys, and if he didn't, for all we know Snowden II will.

Making the former argument puts you in a position of trying to argue uphill against what may be some very solid presuppositions about the goodness of the good guys; the second argument is undeniable, and very simple. (Of course some will managed to deny it anyhow; there's no such thing as a perfectly effective argument. But it's much stronger.)
I cringe at image macros and other internet memes, but I'll tolerate any marginally original silliness.
The Powers that Be are conducting a coordinated disinformation campaign to keep and expand their backdoor access by scaring the bejesus out of the public.

Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile.

What happens when they blame strong cryptography for the next gut-wrenching tragedy involving innocent kids and a bombing / school shooting / kidnapping / pedophile?

Your arguments will be swept away by a tsunami of grief, hatred and blind patriotism. Is it possible to make an equally emotional argument in favor of the freedom to be secure?

Secure information deserves the same prestige and protection as the Four Freedoms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms
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For banks... we're discussing short-term real estate rentals.
So does Citibank. I use it all the time for shady-internet purchases.
Golden Key security underlines DNSSEC and TLS. Fundamentally you are trusting 1 or very few agencies that they in fact have your security and best interests in mind.

This is normally when somebody starts talking using GPG to replace TLS and DNSSEC systems. But this is normally somebody who doesn't realize how graph theory or at least path finding works, so they are ignored.
Yeah, it's not really clear what they gain by keeping it closed and the fragmentation fear seems unwarranted. If it were open source people might be more likely to port it to non-ARM platforms but I doubt that's the main motivation.
Does the article get any better after the cat video and the mention of Cheetos™? I bailed at that point.
What happened with coin?
When you have to update 15 different recurring accounts, and it happens 2 or 3 times a year, it gets to be a burden. Despite it happening that often to me, I almost invariably would find some account I forgot to update every time until they got mad when charges started getting declined. I finally fixed this situation for myself by using a dedicated card just for recurring charges, and thus far (knock on wood), it hasn’t been compromised while my primary cards have.

Also, three out of the last four times my card was compromised, it happened during a trip or once the day before I left (on a Saturday). So an overnighted card didn’t really help me. I have backup cards, but it’s still a hassle.

Finally, because fraud is so rampant, the banks seem to have gotten super paranoid about suspicious charges. I’ve had my card declined at the grocery store I shop at multiple times per week. My spouse had her card declined at a local clothing store. Again, not a huge deal because we have backup cards, but it’s both annoying and embarrassing when this happens.
The Sense of Style review – lessons in how to write
Rather than encouraging proprietary blobs that will have their own bugs and never get updated (if they're even publicly disclosed), we're better off solving the firmware update problem (eg GPL3).
No just higher fees but the merchant becomes liable for fraudulent transactions processed without chip and pin.

Whereas before the big card brands would cover more the risk and fees.
I'm having a hard time reconciling the first two sentences.

If it's intuitive then where was the pressure from? And if you had 20 minutes there wasn't much of a time constraint.

The last sentence is counter to your original post, which was that because of this part of the interview you didn't get the job (which is possible, but I'm still skeptical).

I'd spend some time practicing "mini presentations" where you take a problem like this, and pretending like you're in that situation. Code on a whiteboard (or some paper on the wall). Think out loud so the interviewer knows where you're at. Practice how to write code for someone else to read, and so you have an idea of what patterns or anti-patterns you exhibit.
Thanks for your curiosity. First of all, we use the Bootstrap framework but did the whole design ourselves, so you cannot buy it.

We have two big differentiators towards staffing agencies.
1.) Online Marketplace: If you go to an agency they think about your request, make you an offer and afterwards find suitable employees for you. If you go to us, we just route your job to the employee profiles in our database, they respond if they are interested and for what wage, and you receive a list of potential employees with different prices, that you may or may not book.
2.) Software Technology: Agencies do pretty much everything by hand. The have software to manage their processes, but they don't really automize any processes. We try to automize every single step. Right now we just take a look at every new customer request and if the customer has no special needs our software does the rest (job routing, automatically sending emails, sending working contracts, exchanging contact data, reminding to upload workingsheet, etc.)

So basically our competitors have an agency business model where the agencies employees do all the work. We have an online marketplace business model where the software does all the work.
my mom uses checks as a direct response to major credit card hacks, and i can't say i blame her
Very cool! Congrats on the quick work!

(As I find myself pondering the idea of standing something up like this on an dual-stacked server purely so that I could access HN from my IPv6-only test network... hmmm...)
EMP Commission Report on Assessment of Threat to Critical Infrastructures of USA
a picture....worth one thousand words...

http://i.imgur.com/Buprj7w.png
Shuddle is hiring Ruby, iOS, and Android engineers
The day that credit becomes a civil right, I move to Mongolia. You pay for what you have; nobody owes you anything. To view a house as some natural right is an upside-down view of the world to me.
Call me crazy but the first time I saw the article I thought I was reading a NSA press release. I'm very sceptical on the source of the this article, did the author (and the newspaper) came with the idea alone or he driven by third parties.
When banks have to pay millions of dollars a month in credit card fraud, it impacts consumers. And there is peace of mind that there is no POSSIBLE way your card can be used for fraud.
The Common Core makes simple math more complicated
Some feedback for you: Thanks for conveying this in an easy-to-read style with simple examples.

This makes it far easier to send to our non-technical friends, who struggle to understand what this is all about.

Unfortunately, it always seems like these kinds of tricky technical issues are communicated by the mainstream media using oversimplified, easy-to-understand language (often, in support of government entities) and, on the other end of the spectrum, us nerds end up talking about it, by default, in unapproachable language and format.
apropos: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/advertisings_collater...

"It's easy to think that the ads are designed to draw in the demo shown in the ads, but that's not the way advertising works, and consequently that's not how America works. If you're watching it, it's for you. These ads play heavy during late and late late night talk shows: the target is boring middle aged white people. Blackberry isn't targeting gays and limber blondes, it's pretending they are already on board so you don't feel like a dork without a touch screen."
This threat tends to be underplayed by our intelligence community.

> Threat #2... Even if you trust the U.S. government to act in your best interest (say, by foiling terrorists), do you trust the Russian government? Do you trust the Chinese? If a door is open to one organization, it is open to all.
"OK, just spitballing here, but how about instead of leaving a back door open, we just don't lock one of the windows? Is that a good compromise for everyone?"
A List a Fart – For people who make websites that stink
I think the issue is assuming the company charging the account are behaving in a moral manner.

Changing terms after the fact, dark patterns, charging for things the customer didn't agree to, over billing for cable services in the hope the customer just doesn't notice or gets worn down by trying to fight it.

There are a lot of times the corporation is unequivocally in the wrong, but they already billed your card and you have to fight to get it back. Being able to cancel the card first and force the corporation to take you to court and prove their case could help put the consumer on a more level playing field.
I think VPN is a use case for SDN. Weave is fundamentally a software network that provides a virtual switch at layer 2.
Bitcoin called, it works already. Just gotta get the vendors to take it.

It is really amazing to pay subway by scanning a QR code and pressing confirm.
Martin Seligman 'Flourishing – a new understanding of happiness and wellbeing
Every heard of the concept of "a picture is worth a thousand words"?

Here's my take on it and why I think you dismissed it too quickly (but of course you are free to do what you want):

He-Man is a cultural theme that everyone understands and can relate you. If you watched it as a child, you know what he represents.

So the author is making the point that a "magic tool that only the righteous may wield" is about as realistic as a saturday morning cartoon. He does this in one line and with one image, instead of in many more lines of text that would have sidetracked his main points.
I see, you are right you could only do ` ` to get some information and `public_repo` grants write access too.

https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes
I think "a few years" is optimistic. I would assume a lot of the community is holding its breath to see how ITER fares once it's switched on in 8-12 years. Nobody knows for certain if it's possible to generate a plasma on earth that can heat itself, and then produce excess energy. And by that time the anti-fusion lobby will have poisoned the mind of the average power user to believe that fusion = fission.
All these multi-number payment card offerings go against the age-old truism that it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

If people really cared about avoiding a fraudulent transaction depleting their bank account, they would use credit cards instead of debit cards.
Show HN: Retrieve HN top stories from the command line
Wells Fargo employee to CEO: I need a raise
Google search results are again overriding browser arrow key behavior
Google: Please stop overriding standard desktop browser navigation. I and many other users use arrow keys to scroll web pages, and do not wish to be presented with non-standard navigation on random websites.

Google has done this several years ago but reversed course after user outcry.
I can only imagine. Sometimes when you sign up for US services you need to provide "a copy of a utility bill".

I don't get bills on paper, much less pay them that way. I come from the future though. You'll love it. You won't believe this but I'm typing this very message on a palm sized computer/telephone device.
It doesn't make sense. On one hand you're against violating your privacy. But on the other hand you are still supporting financially the very same developers who are OK with such violations when they offer their games through Steam. You're still increasing their Steam sales numbers, so obviously they will continue to publish their future content on this platform.

> I only buy them on steam, then I download a copy that will not violate my privacy.

There's a third choice - don't buy the games that violate your privacy and don't play them. You've pointed out great ways to support developers that don't violate privacy (GOG.com, Kickstarter) - why not stick only to these? Unless, your urge to play a video game is bigger than your integrity.
That's a cruel outlook and not at all what I meant. I think it's reasonable (and in fact an essential part of calling into question the norms of patriarchy) to point out that attack surfaces are real and they require scrutiny.

In this case, the one with which you seem to take issue OP's point #1, which I merely want to point out is a surface that is only available against people who haven't already dox'd themselves. And for those people - people who want to occupy a place on the anonymity spectrum that is far away from a "public figure," the threats to this attack surface are more damning than trolls - they include huge advertising corporations and the NSA.
Nextt Postmortem
I finally got around to watching the fourth lecture and I have to say, this has been the best of the lot so far! The preceding classes have come across to me as a collection of (humorous) soundbites. This class felt much more relatable and, as much as a lot of it could be cast as common sense, it was a fantastic synopsis of what works in reality.

Definitely going to rewatch this lecture soon!
Opensource cloud based service
I wonder how will people react for a service which is could based, but code is Opensource. I mean anybody can contribute and and it will be deployed to prod :) And data will be kind of sensitive. What are your ideas about this, do you think people will use it or they will afraid of it?
> Tired of your monthly yoga pants subscription? Or a two-week "free" trial that lasted four months? Just deactivate that card number. It's that easy.

Why not just cancel the subscription? If you remembered you are getting charged for a subscription, and took the effort to cancel that card number. Why wouldn't you just cancel the subscription in the first place?
I know I'm repeating myself here, but I want to make sure I communicate this:

IDA's price is so low that it actually harms the market for professional reverse engineering tools. Most useful products you can build --- tracers, visualizers, emulators, pattern matchers, debuggers --- fit into IDA's orbit. As products, as "feature/function/benefit" statements, they are subsets of IDA. But they're chained down by IDA's price. Just like IDA, they have to serve a small market of users who make tens of thousands of dollars per week using the tools, but the market optics make it hard to charge even a significant fraction of the (low) total cost of IDA.

It's sort of hilarious to me to see what Hopper is doing to the market. "Ruining it entirely" wouldn't be far from the truth. I'm only sort of complaining. Viscerally, I'm thrilled that Hopper exists.
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The insurance secret that Uber doesn't want you to know
This sort of reminds me of public key cryptography. I generally really like the idea. I've always felt really uneasy about credit cards, the fact that all I have to do is enter the same numbers to every single website I purchase from.

The programmer in me tells me "this just can't be secure", and the only hope I have that my card number is never stolen is, well, hope.
Adobe spies on reading habits - Title is author emphasis
>There are similar competing technologies that do essentially the same thing in order to arrive at sub-difraction-limited images including STORM & Structured Illumination.

Thanks for the info. Your mention of STORM led me to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution_microscopy

Given all these competing technologies, could you comment on why the Nobel was given to STED/PALM/STORM(?) in particular?
The full text is not free, only the abstract.

However I uploaded the full text [pdf] for you:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rzvou6dbjtosyu1/J.%20R.%20Soc.%20I...
Sen. Wyden: Tech companies shouldn't be req'd to build backdoors into products
There's an anti-fusion lobby?
Say you're an illegal immigrant working for a factory in Texas. Here's a list of your state tax burden:

http://www.itepnet.org/wp2009/tx_whopays_factsheet.pdf

Illegal immigrants are surely in the lowest 20% bucket. What taxes don't they pay? They rent homes, so they pay property taxes. Their money is spent on clothes and food, so they pay sales taxes. The income taxes that they might not pay are an absolutely minuscule portion of their burden -- literally $11/year on average.

Ever since the I-9's existence, most employers use fake social security numbers for their illegal immigrants. So FICA taxes are removed from their paychecks -- and they'll never get them back in the form of Medicare or Social Security. (Don't take my word for it, here's NYT reporting on SSA's "Earnings Suspense File": http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/business/05immigration.htm...)

Smarter people than myself have looked at this, here's a good example: http://www.itep.org/pdf/undocumentedtaxes.pdf -- Tl;Dr: Illegal immigrants pay a lot of taxes, probably pretty close to the amount they would pay if they were legalized. However, they get far less benefit from their taxes since they don't qualify for most programs.
Yea I wish it was possible. The read/write repo permission is the only way I've found to be able to list all of the private repositories in an org. There's a few other threads in these comments that cover the specifics a little bit better but the gist is that GitHub has pretty coarse grained permissions unfortunately.
Don't fall to predatory hackers: understand the lay of the land in data security
UW student and patentee here. That's what the UW C4C is for—to license UW-developed technology to interested parties. They front the money for filing the patent and then recover the cost when the patent is licensed to an outside party (or by the inventors, if they want to commercialize their work on their own).