skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with Instagram and Facebook APIs and they are doing mostly fine but when it comes to Twitter API, it always becomes headache

Last thing I figured out was that the API 1.1 search has "since" and "until" keywords in the url but they are mostly useless because Twitter Search API looks only for the recent tweets, mostly a couple weeks. After that you can't find your tweet through the API as I experienced in the last 2 months with several testing
This (or, even better, a physical Spirograph, together with a document camera) is spectacular for teaching mathematics.

In my calculus class, we wrote down parametric equations defining the curves you get.

In my abstract algebra and number theory classes, I got the students to figure out the rule predicting how many loops the figure will have.
"most of the work I have done is invisible" -

1. Yes, but you could mention the name of those mobile apps.
2. You can ask your clients to mention your name in humans.txt

Just my 2 cents to make your case stronger.
So, doing things that don't scales?
Someone can also reveal their marital status, or possibly sexuality (A male employee tells you he needs it more because his husband's mother is sick, etc.)
It's OK that Alexander created humanity's greatest surveillance machine and is trying to profit from it, but if I criticize it I'm on some kind of Politically Correct McCarthyist witch hunt against the brave souls, like yourself, that defend it?
> It's probably appropriate to use a throwaway when discussing this topic, not as a way of sniping via anonymity, but because the social climate surrounding this particular topic has gotten so extreme. Those not immediately in agreement with any anti-NSA sentiment seem to be ridiculed or personally attacked for their ideas. Such behavior is usually a sign that we're treading into "What You Can't Say" territory; hence, the throwaway.

You seem to have stumbled on to the fact that sometimes anonymity is the only way to allow honest discussion. The trade off is that it also allows jerks to be jerks.

I, personally, would prefer allowing a few more jerks in order to also allow people to be honest without being lynched. The reason I bring this up is that usually you find the pro-NSA commenters making arguments against a right to anonymity/privacy. What they generally mean is that others should not have a right to anonymity/privacy, because they are potentially bad people...but when "I" need it, it is justified.

Not saying this to you, personally, it is human nature to be hypocritical in such a way. Sometimes we just need to have it pointed out to us.
From this post, it sounds like you would have been more interested in the YC Hacks Hackathon back in August. Plenty of outlets, plenty of food/drinks, lots of developers, everyone was building stuff, and over 80 products were demoed. Startup School was not targeted to be like the Hackahton, and rightfully so. If I was to breakdown the two events based on my personal experience I would say.

1. YC Hacks Hackahton Goal: Idea (0 People) - Founding Team (2-3 People)
People who wanted to build products. It was all designers and engineers with ideas working together for two days to build a product. The end goal was light pitches of products to prominent people in the startup community. Lots of design, building, and engineering.

2. Startup School Goal: Founding Team (2-3 People) - Small Team (6-10 People)
People who want to run startups. After you've got your product, startup school answered questions like: Where do you go from there idea? What keeps you going? what pitfalls are you going to encounter? What types of people are you looking to work with? etc...

From your post, it seems like you were expecting YC Hacks. I would suggest going to that next year.
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I started using SalaryFairy after seeing your link here -- nice site!

I understand the "collective intelligence" angle you're going for. However, the way SalaryFairy is implemented seems to "taint" the collective intelligence, at least in my case.

After predicting quite a few salaries, my score was -9 because apparently my predictions were different from the "crowd" predictions. This negative score is encouraging me to "guess" the crowd predictions, rather than simply make my best guess as to what the salary would be for the given prediction.

Since I noticed that my guesses are, on average, quite a bit lower than the "crowd" guesses, my new "strategy" is to guess the salary, then pad it $10-$50k to improve my score.

This seems like a bad thing when it comes to the "collective intelligence" goal of the site.

Just a thought -- hope it's helpful.
I've worked for the NSA too, and everyone can see Alexander's defense of this arrangement ("The NSA can't afford to lose this guy, he's just so good") is horseshit, which is why the deal is now under formal investigation.

The ethical issues here are very serious and very simple. To begin, Dowd (the CTO of NSA) is not an irreplaceable commodity or even particularly qualified relative to his peers. He is however a very close personal friend of the former Director of NSA - who is now competing for contracts awarded by NSA - and in his CTO position retains a massive influence over what technologies get adopted and what contracts get awarded with NSA's ~$10b a year budget. On top of this already obviously disqualifying conflict of interest, the NSA is handicapped with a part-time, 20-hour-a-week CTO in the midst of the largest intelligence scandal in the NSA's history.

Beyond this, Keith Alexander, who supported Dowd in his pursuit of the CTO position, just began a company that competes solely based on his former NSA assocation (the desire to benefit from decisions informed by classified knowledge) and personal patents that he alleges sprang fully formed from his head during his time at NSA but were in no way influenced or produced as a result of his classified knowledge.

Alexander has lost direct access to current classified information as a result of terminating his ties to the NSA. However, as a result of this scheme, he can retain access to that information by having the HIGHEST RANKED TECHNOLOGY OFFICIAL AT THE NSA on his personal payroll with a perfect 50/50 time split. Dowd's equal time commitment (and surely larger pay via Alexander's company) create an unreasonably high incentive to develop greater loyalty to Alexander's $1m-a-month-for-classified-consulting company (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/29/the_crypto_...) than he has to the NSA.

This is the same reason you can't take a side job working for Kaspersky while you work in NSA's TAO division developing malware.

It doesn't matter whether or not it's a great deal for the employee: it's a bad deal for the country.
interesting. i knew about the letters shapes resembling tongue/mouth positions but not that blocks represented morphemes, not just syllables.
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Good point! I was speaking about more pervasive encryption in general, and it's fair to say I didn't consider the topic in question sufficiently before replying.

That said, It's worth pointing out that the NSA is known to have been active in exploiting endpoints, not just retrieving data from google/facebook/whatever. Of course it's questionable whether this would provide any substantial protection against such an exploitation.
Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World is a journey through human history as seen through a lense of expanding, contracting and competing languages spheres. Well worth a read.
If you are interested in how music works, I recommend to read this paper about music theory from physics point of view:

http://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v1/
When the government hires a 3rd party (aka "Contractor"), that party signs lots of agreements and adheres to very strict rules, especially when they are allowed to handle classified information. It takes years for a new company to win a contract, setup the facilities, clear the people, etc.

This is basically an end around all of that. I doubt IronNet has any type of clearances to work on classified information. Furthermore, they are in the business of selling, brokering, etc. information that many times the US Govt considers classified (aka Harmful to US Interests if release).

Imagine this scenario. IronNet is "studying" an advanced hacking group and attempting to determine their TTPs (Again to make $$$, whitepapers, consulting, etc). So on Friday, NSA employee walks into the room and looks at their work. They can just ask "Are we on the right track?" He can simply shake his head yes/no..etc. Its like having the frickin Oracle in the room. You can do all kinds of dances so you don't reveal classified information, but help them.

This is obviously unethical at a minimum. If a lower level government employee did this, he would definitely be persecuted.
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I've gotten messages from people who didn't even know how to open the log viewer until hours into the process, so it's just a highly variable delay depending on individual circumstances.
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The GP isn't wrong. Consider all of the mutually unintelligible Chinese dialects that use the exact same script.
"Rules for thee, not for me."
The jump from recidivism rates to characterizing public safety is a giant flying leap out into a chasm.

That there are places with lesser sentences and lower crime is a good data point for establishing that a society need not rely on imprisonment, but it actually isn't instructive as to the effectiveness of imprisonment in other societies.

I think the US imprisons too many people for too long, but you are using a phrase like 'empirical fact' to describe an opinion you have reached.

Also, note I said "completely disconnected", I'm at least somewhat aware of the speculation and research into lead and criminality (my favorite question is how the lead effect might compare to the Sesame Street effect). An alternate explanation of the trend you speak of in your last paragraph is that stricter enforcement has made criminality less attractive (I'm not endorsing that argument, I'm saying I think it has equal footing with your conclusions).
Needs something that resolves case-sensitivity in usernames.

For example, because I've chosen "case_sensitive" as my user name, no one else may choose "Case_Sensitive" or "CaSe_SeNsItIvE" et c. Meanwhile, a request for "Case_sensitive" will fail.

http://social.gnod.com/hn:case_sensitive!

http://social.gnod.com/hn:Case_sensitive!

It would be possible to fix this by crawling and scraping an enumeration of all valid user names into a lookup table, and then matching a query tranformed to all uppercase (or all lowercase) letters against the similarly transformed lookup table which retains the valid case sensitive version, then showing the results with the corrected name.
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The authors were actually part of the Harvard Negotiation Project, not MIT, and the book was published as far as I can tell with no university affiliation.
Although it's kind of minor, the way the NSA hack people is by hijacking non-SSLd connections and feeding them exploit kits. So, the more SSL there is, the harder it is and the longer it takes for them to do that.
I have in my mind CoreOS which does not provide a cron daemon nor any way to install one. So using systemd timers is the only way to get cron functionality.
You're probably downvoted because it's been pretty widely known that Chrome is a CPU hog on OS X. Checking the energy shaming feature, Chrome is pretty much always in the "Apps Using Significant Energy" section. I did a quick search on "Chrome energy OS X" and found a number of pages that mention it, all of which date back to Mavericks which is the first time energy usage was reported (separate from straight CPU usage).

I only use Chrome if I need to use a site with Flash and I use the "Open Page With" item in Safari's Develop menu to open the appropriate page. Then, I quit once I'm done with it.
If the MITM proxy can rip apart SSL then SSL is broken (or the client trusts bad CAs). What's an example of where pinning a SSL session, one that's been established securely, to a client IP prevents an attack? If SSL is broken, trying to restrict sessions to the IP that initiated them is inadequate security, isn't it?

(Arguably it's useful to associate a session with a client IP for unencrypted, http, connections, since in that case cookies can be intercepted passively on the wire, and an attacker can try to reuse those cookies from clients with different IPs, since knocking the real client off the LAN to steal that IP might not be desirable since it could be detected. But a basic assumption with properly functioning, secure SSL connections is that no third party can steal session cookies to begin with other than due to a client or server compromise which IP restrictions won't help with.)

What you're mitigating against seems to be only this: an attacker capable of MITMing SSL sessions and capable of stealing session cookies passively from legitimate sessions, but only able to establish connections to the real server from some other public IP, not the client's actual public IP. I don't understand how that could be the case.

Serving a blank page or rejecting connections to port 80 still doesn't help, does it? The security vulnerability appears whenever the client even attempts a port 80 connection, since a MITM proxy will happily accept it and MITM it to the real https site. Once a client gets the HSTS header that attack is prevented, but the first contact is always a risk, and I don't see how refusing to support http on the server mitigates that.
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as someone who really enjoyed playing with the plastic-and-ink version as a child, this is awesome!
I doubt the education varies that much between the top schools
Y Combinator has many characteristics of a cult; a Dear Leader (who appoints his successor himself!); a devout following of young people who are ready to make great sacrifices just to be part of it; mega-churches and mass events such as Startup School; dubious characters as spokesmen (Andrew Mason, Travis Kalanick); apologists who contemplated a career as priest (patio11).

They prefer young people because bullshit is harder to swallow the older you get -- and if your bullshit detector is hyper sensitive, like Colin Percival or Maciej Ceglowski, you either can't tolerate the thing (Maciej) or you feel like it leaves you cold (Colin).

But it's also an extremely successful cult --possibly one of the most successful ones ever?-- so who are we to criticize.
You're probably downvoted because it's been pretty widely known that Chrome is a CPU hog on OS X. Checking the energy shaming feature, Chrome is pretty much always in the "Apps Using Significant Energy" section. I did a quick search on "Chrome energy OS X" and found a number of pages that mention it, all of which date back to Mavericks which is the first time energy usage was reported (separate from straight CPU usage).
Perhaps my notation was a bit too terse. GF2(8) is a Galois field of order Pow(2, 8). The xor operation is addition in a Galois field, so 8-bit xor with 'M' is the same thing as a constant additive shift by 'M' in a Galois field of order Pow(2, 8). So, it's a Caesar shift cipher using the GF2(8) definition of byte addition rather than the standard modulo 256 definition.
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O/T: Marek, I'd like to thank you for other Gnod projects. I remember being enthralled by Gnoosic, Gnooks back in the day. Really wonderful stuff.
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> throwawaytime

It's not necessary to keep this guy around and let him double dip at the same time. It's a conflict of interest and a security risk too. As the CTO of the NSA he will be privy to technologies that would benefit a private security firm in thwarting NSA intrusion.

Not to be hyperbolic (but why not?) I look at it as both a sell out and cash in!
Yes, I am aware, they are run in non root users.
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This is partly because while Korean and Chinese are distinct languages, a large part of the Korean vocabulary consists of imported Chinese stems, and Chinese is heavily monosyllabic. As such, a lot of Hangul blocks are close homophones to the sound values of Han characters.
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As judk mentions, an offer in hand (or even a ballpark from the recruiter) is solid data.

Also, Wealthfront keeps their startup compensation tool pretty up to date (https://www.wealthfront.com/tools/startup-salary-equity-comp...), so that's useful.

Agree that Glassdoor's data isn't very reliable. There are too many crossed incentives in that system to make me want to believe.
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I did not edit, and that is precisely what I meant. Thank you.
The revolving doors between government and corporate welfare businesses work that way on purpose.
so, if someone has to develop a text(English)-->voice, or voice-->text(English) application, how many special cases would the developer have to handle?
I've never had a recruiter that worked hard on my behalf, every one wants to do as little as they can get away with.
Developer mode is probably available on this machine like it has been on chromebooks, which would allow you to install another os. in my experience, though, it's just a hassle and really not worth putting up with. Maybe theyre more open now, but in the past it was a pain.
Nice.

Seriously though. Why wouldn't you want as large a screen as fits comfortably in your pocket?
For touch devices screen size is important even beyond having more context for what you are doing. Since it is also your interface you get larger buttons to press, thereby increasing the speed of your interaction. [0] This is especially important because your screen is also your keyboard, so every little bit counts.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
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Just integrated ckeditor to my own mailer app, but the extensions they have created on this Beefree editor is amazingly thought through!
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Nevermind that for much of the history of TV, and still today, it randomly cuts out?

Heck, I sometimes say "I don't understand, can you explain?" Why would people be less tolerant of that from a robot than from me?
I never said "always"! But it would be nice to have sometimes. It's an area that's almost completely unexplored in popular music.
Aside from English, they're all closely related languages (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati). I wouldn't really expect knowing related languages to give the same payoff as say knowing languages from different groups or families of languages.
I'm going to post a gripe here because it's been on my mind. When a player drops a Naxramus card, I usually concede immediately. A player with those cards will usually win against one without them anyway. Those cards cost $20 bucks or something to get. But thats not the reason I don't upgrade. The reason is I don't want to have those cards and be matched up with someone who doesn't have them. Players with nax cards should be matched with only other players who have them. Blizzard has built in a disincentive for players like me to buy their expansion.
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I played a little bit of Hearthstone, but didn't enjoy it. Simulating it, though, was great fun :) And by "it", I mean the game of collecting the cards...

My estimate is slightly lower ~350 packs, but I had to guess a lot of numbers.

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No. The Google voice recognition stuff does not have a personality or try to be a character. This was an explicit design decision, I believe, made early on. They are going for a "you are asking Google and the answer is spoken with the voice of Google", presumably, people are more tolerant of mistakes the less human-like a machine tries to be.
Mac OS X vs a browser, what is there to consider?

What matters is what I get at the shop, not what I have to invest time hacking around.
Slightly OT, but I'd be tempted to argue TV Shows can and do have bugs; plot holes, bad acting, continuity errors et al. They can be quite jarring.
Not the OP, but from the numbers you get a view on what playing a "free to play" game to the end will cost you (600USD).

Which is about as jaw-dropping as what people spend on WoW and other pay-to-play games to get to the end game.
This isn't a review, it's an advert peppered with Ads. How did it make the HN front page?

Summary: Generic Chromebook, typical Chromebook spec, typical Chromebook price, not out yet. Ugh wired.com
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Came here to say the same thing. I seriously hope we don't suffer from karma arbitrage where articles from reddit are cross posted here for karma. It's ab interesting article but it's obviously spurred on by it hitting the front page on reddit over the last hour.
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Can somebody expand on using a Chromebook + a service like Nitrous.io to do out-and-about coding as a second computer?

I worry about taking a mac pro to any given coffee shop or bar, just due to the chance of coffee spills, theft, and general wear & tear.

Does anybody use a chromebook for this kind of purpose?
Here's a review with more details, godawful site though.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2470486,00.asp?kc=PCRSS...

I just might jump for it to replace my aging 2008 vintage laptop, skimpy storage though.
I am not wrong. My native country did this experiment about 200-300 years ago -- it failed badly, and that was with a very small population which was (geographically) widely distributed.

Trying to read (as schoolchildren) a few samples of text written in different dialects during that time dispelled any notion that it was a good idea.

Also: China (as another poster pointed out).

EDIT: Btw, if you have a good grasp of English accents, it's pretty easy to see what kind of chaos would occur in a country as small as England. (Thinking of the "north south divide" thing.)
"They don’t know how to dress or behave."

Thanks Gamasutra, it has been a long time since I read a opinion article this well argued.
I can't help myself but every time I hear "octave", I think fencepost error.
Part of me worries about a world where you, as a consumer, have a hard time getting services because of some hidden rating that you cannot shake... But, with that said, i think this is the first time i feel satisfied with consumer accountability.

For far too long i feel like people have become entitled in their "consumer rights". Always being treated as "right", and knowing that they (the consumer) have power over the other. People can get used to this, and start to treat the person on the otherside of the service poorly. I dislike this greatly.

Don't get me wrong, as a consumer we have a ton of power, and it is our money afterall. But i also think something that may keep us more human, might be a good thing.
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Thank you! Happy to hear that!