skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The russion threat is a threat to the world, because starting a war is a popular option with those failing dictators.
And he's wrong. The loss isn't just 1 million, and calling a certainty a risk is just baffling. If we assume the legacy system actually needs 10 million in enhancements to be adequately protected, I think it's safe to say it's a train wreck security wise. For that, and other reasons (Sony assume they will get owned) then it's afe to assume the system is going to get compromised. So its not a risk anymore, it's a certainty.

So with that said, if the cost is report is 1 million, and the system is vulnerable, and they expect to get compromised then it's not just going to cost them just 1 million. It's going to cost them at least 11 million, or more.

Further, the "don't dix, just accept the risk" costs also won't just be 1 million, it's going to be 1 million every time it's compromised until they fix it. Since he's only accounting for the cost to report the breach, and the box is STILL owned and STILL vulnerable, it's going to keep getting compromised. So its 1 million times each event, which is a potentially infinite since nothing's changed to stop the next event.

To stop that infinite cycle, he has to pay to fix it, or keep paying to report. Either way he's paying more than 1 million. And since Sony I'm sure isn't that stupid, let's assume someone with common sense will order him to stop accepting the risk and the bleeding, then his real risk cost is 1at lesst 1 million to report and fix once that decision is made (and fixing is probably going to cost more now that the original 10 million since the system is now compromised too).

I'm not sure if he realizes this or not, or if it was a clumsy attempt to explain risk, but at least in the statements reported that's a critical flaw in his reasoning. And that's why what he said isn't just unconvincing, it's wrong.

If that's how Sony makes risk management decisions I have a Pinto to sell them.
Hmm,

It's always nice to build a tool for solving a problem. If some idea will make people life more easier, then it's great to start building that tool.
London is too. They are planning to build a huge office in Kings Cross to replace the current offices, although it has been delayed apparently to make it bigger[1]. This is much larger than Zurich and almost the size of Mountain View it seems.

[1] http://www.building.co.uk/google%E2%80%99s-review-of-%C2%A36...
Military law punishes them for quitting.

(Walking away from a civilian employment contract wouldn't normally result in criminal charges)
F# use the same + operator

> 1.0;;
val it : float = 1.0

> 1;;
val it : int = 1

> 3.0 + 1.0;;
val it : float = 4.0

> 3 + 1;;
val it : int = 4

or strings

> "3" + "4";;
val it : string = "34"

implicit conversion is not supported (good ihmo)

> 3.0 + 1;;

3.0 + 1;;
------^

stdin(5,7): error FS0001: The type 'int' does not match the type 'float'
The way Go makes "publishing to GitHub" and "public distribution" so similar is resulting in a lot of packages up on GitHub where it's not clear to me whether they're just there, or if the author just wants to show it off, or if the author really seriously thinks people should use this, or what. I'm developing an eye twitch in reaction to "A fast, simple, powerful library to do X" showing up on /r/golang. Especially when X is one of the things we have a ton of because they aren't that hard to write in the first place. And especially when no evidence is particularly provided for any of the adjectives, except that the author really hopes they're true.
Apparently, it's online again: http://thepiratebay.cr/
Apple 1 computer sold at auction
> Whether you use an iPhone, Android, Mac, or Windows, we have you covered.

Does it support Linux?
Drone flown 20ft from landing Heathrow jet
Apparently it's already back up
I used to download huge files in eMule(eDonkey) and Kazza.

I've never used Napster, so I can't say about it, but eMule had (and has) the ability to download the same files from multiple users simultaneously.

I'm pretty sure Kazza had such an ability as well (the more popular files downloaded faster).
Well they use Y年M月D日 for full dates, so I would imagine they would use M.D in an abbreviation?
The New Yorker had a pretty good review of this movie: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/keeping-secrets...
I get emotionally inspired by Art or sometimes even just block colours.

However on a logical level my inspirations come from analogies between different domains. I have one of those minds that accidentally splices ideas together when I daydream so I read a lot to give myself material.

The paintbrush is applying the language of one topic onto another: this is an early stage, later you read these thoughts back and sometimes something clicks. It occasionally leads to ideas that have some game-theoretical economic value. Other times they remain poetic/fun.

The problem with inspiration is that it only leads you part of the way. Convincing yourself to forgo other interests to pursue them is a whole other thing. Additionally not all surface-level "good" ideas are economically viable today or (if they are) within my reach.

Practical ideas are a whole other deal. You need to empathise with your own and others pain. Personally I think it's often not worth creating these however unless they are partnered with ideas that can be executed to significantly alter the underlying economic reality.

I am interested in granular ideas and insights that can be used in the pursuit of better products. Not just the idea that "a product to do X should exist", but the ideas that would allow it to work well.

I would love to meet and discuss thoughts like these with others that live or work around Central London by the way?
I may be remembering incorrectly, but I think post-Napster clients like DC++ made it possible to resume a download from a different source, or pull the same file from multiple sources, by comparing checksums.

This made downloading popular files quite a bit faster, and eliminated most of the issues with p2p networks like Napster—it was just much less convenient because you had to search for the peers yourself.
The disability rate of 20-30 year olds really jumped in the last few years.
I get that too with certain music, but the brain massage effect is distinct from that. :)
It brings us one step closer to The Culture.
Simple; you force ISPs to block any incoming connections to services/machines that don't have the proper governmental license. Any servers that allow two client nodes to communicate freely (like a proxy, or VPN) won't get a license.

To prevent smartasses from using servers in countries without these restrictions, you further force ISPs to prevent any large amounts of data from being uploaded to those countries (cumulative, to avoid tricks like uploading small parts to many servers). E.g. back in the early 00s, some of our ISPs used to have different traffic caps for national vs international connections, here in Portugal.

It's not that hard if you're willing to go the full mile.
Startups are all nutters
Definitely. These are good for VPN/proxy endpoints in various geographic areas to test servers or get around restrictions and not much else. I use the cheap VPS boxes for backup static file hosting for my products, but I serve everything primarily off Amazon S3.
> (Pretty sure the Chinese don't use MM.DD for dates)

Wikipedia says China is big-endian, matching iso8601.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Asi...

Didn't seem likely that Chinese censors would make that kind of mistake. 1989.6.4 is, of course, the date of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

iOS autocorrect turns "tiananmen" into "tiara man". This could be construed as a form of censorship (or dialogue-shaping?) as well.
Did you maybe miss an important point in my comment? Communism in those forms is another type of idealistic extremism willing to sacrifice the individual for the "higher purpose". And no surprise... the new religion preaching about the life to come behaves in the same brutal way.

My opinion? There is nothing higher than the individual. No time more important than now. Just my opinion.
When I try and differentiate a "client" from a "server" - I usually think in terms of "Display/Interact" versus "Processing/Transacting" - the more emphasis there is on displaying, and interacting with the user, the more I consider it a client. The more emphasis there is on "Processing/Transacting" - the more I consider it to be a server.

But, you are right - there is an interesting middle ground that I did not consider - the device that is designed to simultaneously do massive amounts of processing/storing/transacting while interacting with the user. Workstation should probably enter the nomenclature - but then things get very grey - your average 2013 MacBook Air is more powerful than any workstation any engineer in the world had in 1998. Does this mean the only difference between client and workstation is comparison with it's peers? And, a client today, is a workstation 15 (heck, maybe only 10) years from now?
> In between blow-blew and grow-grew sits glow-glowed.

What a same. I quite like the sound of "glew". It glew with the light of a thousands suns.
I get my inspiration from other peoples work, and in my case mostly Github.
>Another reason is that people don't pay for something when they can get it for free

I would like to say this is wrong, but I have no evidence to support my claims. However what I can say empirically is that myself and many other people I know have stopped pirating games and/or music ever since easy-to-use services like Steam and Google Music came out.

Personally, nowadays I find myself with so many legit games on Steam that my first thought when a new game comes out is "meh, I don't have time to play that, I'll buy it later when it goes on sale". Years ago it would've been "let's hop on XXXX to see if there's a torrent ready!".

It simply is not worth it, to me, to pirate games, set up cracks, be sure I have all the proper files, set up backups in case I want to replay it later, etc etc. With Steam I can just click "download" and it just works.

I firmly believe that if you make something easy-to-access, cheap enough (steam sales, anyone?) and immediate in delivery, you will soon realize piracy really does not matter. The market just needs to evolve and adapt to newer technologies.
It's also extremely expensive ;)

But yeah, I know the city, and I agree with most of it.

Also, yeah, not part of the EU (but in practice it's more of a "pick what you want" thing with the EU
HUDDLE CEO: A 'Ton of Customers' Are Leaving Box for Us
Jimmy DiResta. You can laugh as it's not exactly related to CS but you can't help yourself when you watch him. You wanna build stuff, it doesn't matter what. He really makes you want to just build stuff... to solve a real problem... with the right tools for the job... the way you know how... and be proud of building it.
>>The issue isn't access.

Access clearly isn't an issue for you, and that's good. Perhaps your peer didn't have access issues either and that's good too, but if you believe that access isn't an issue for some people, then you are inexperienced in dealing with some forms of poverty.

Perhaps in some places the library is the solution, but in Chicago, public access is limited to two hours a day. I don't know how much access you required when learning to program, but I needed more than two hours a day.

That is assuming that you can get a library card. For one, you need a verifiable address, which is easy to produce if you live in a home, but very difficult if you do not. Also, if you have violated your card in the past, perhaps due to a youthful indiscretion, you are shut out of the system unless you can monetarily recompense, which is also difficult to do when you are poor.

Not to mention that street gangs can make it challenging to leave your block to get the library in some cases.

So while access has improved, to deny that it is an issue for some people because public libraries exist is glossing over the problem.
Different styles of factorial implementation in JavaScript for fun
Loan funding is still funding. In the startup world people think funding== equity funding, but that is not true. Equity funding is normally the most expensive kind of funding. Glad to see they can grow with loans instead.
These claims certainly don't square with Levie's recent claims that Box has only 5% customer attrition.
Facebook like doesn't do anything much really. It should either only have upboats and sort things likewise which wouldn't require a dislike button.
New Retro Arcade offers an entire 80s arcade to play in on Oculus Rift
The student loan debt crisis we are dealing with as a country. It's just starting. Figure we are in the 3rd inning. Want to figure out how to dampen the blow it will have on middle class entrepreneurs.
Using Lambdas and Streams to Find Lambdas and Streams
Digital Cybercherries
Exploring Mac App Development Strategies (Feedback Request)
I wrote and released a book called "Exploring Mac App Development Strategies" which helps developers design reusable code and untangle Core Data from their app, for example.

I have another writing projects in the queue, so first, I'd like to get your honest feedback on the topic. There's not a lot of literature on maintaining Cocoa code. I'd like to change that.

What do you think of the book?
Java – Generate CSV from Java Bean Using OpenCSV
Could This Be the End of the Line for the Airbus A380?
Extremely amusing to see how resilient the service is.
True, one thing though is that the Bittorrent protocol favours a 'tit for tat' type data exchange between peers unlike say, Emule which uses a queue system with a slight bonus for people who has given you data, this is in my view what made bittorrent quickly gain such widespread use as opposed to other existing p2p solutions.
They did the same thing when they first closed the engineering office in São Paulo (Brazil) years ago. If I remember correctly.
These kinds of criticisms seem little more than trying to jump on an SEO bandwagon

I don't even understand what this means.
I am not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that in Canada, this would be in violation of the federal "Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act", as well as many provincial laws.

https://www.priv.gc.ca/leg_c/leg_c_p_e.asp

"Use or disclose personal information only for the purpose for which it was collected, unless the individual consents, or the use or disclosure is authorized by the Act."

"Keep personal information only as long as necessary to satisfy the purposes."

If the client uses one of those "points" cards, yes, they are tracked, but otherwise they shouldn't. When a retailer asks for your postcode, it is mostly just for market study to identify where their clients live, but that's it (although I rarely get asked). You can also just answer "no thanks" to this question.
Submitted previously, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7802661

... and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8484313
“Some people have asked for a dislike button before,” Zuckerberg said in response to the first question in his second Q&A With Mark session today at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters. “They want to be able to say that a thing isn’t good and that’s not something that we think is good for the world.

“So we’re not going to build that. I don’t think there needs to be a voting mechanism on Facebook whether posts are good or bad. I don’t think that’s socially very valuable or good for the community.”

[1] http://marketingland.com/zuckerberg-dislikes-110958
Glasses for Color Blind People
Yes, the problem here of course is that 'the people on the street' don't know about this crazy stuff in their country, so something more drastic needs to happen than shutting down Google News if you want 'the people' to speak up. Trying to block Google because they refuse to comply would be a good one for that.
I've heard they use the signals from EZ-pass tags (regardless of whether or not it's a toll road, since the tag ID can be read anywhere).
A better question: who would pay $3-5 for an episode of Game of Thrones in 1080p that starts playing with a single mouse click and is available as soon as the episode airs in the earliest timezone (at least an hour before it appears online illegally)?

My guess: not everyone, but a lot of people.
Commenting here for posterity. My money is, unfortunately, on Apple screwing you guys over within the next year. Likely right before they launch a tool of their own that only does a fifth of what Workflow does.
Those surveys are incredibly subjective and will vary person to person. There's not such thing as a "best" city for standard of living.

When comparing cities I think it's best to use hard data and then compare them based on what's important to you personally. I usually use http://www.numbeo.com as a starting point for this.
Random User Generator – API
Whenever something else sucks.

I have never built anything when there is already something acceptable available. That's probably why I've never spent much time building low level stuff like platforms, utilities, and tools. People way smarter than me have that covered really well already.

But when a customer needs something and examining their options causes me to vomit, I am highly motivated. "I can do way better than that!"
June 4, 1989: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_19...
I haven't tried it yet, but at first glance, a lot of work and thought went into this tool: query parser, SQL, VFS layer, fingerprinting, file move detection ("repair"). The code looks pretty readable and well organised too.

Generally speaking, I can't help but feel we're not quite there yet when it comes to meta-data and flexible file system views. We're still coming up with all sorts of cataloguing systems for different types of binary files – I just implemented a Vorbis comment (music tag) parser the other day, and that's just one out of many formats.

Extended attributes (attr(5), "user_xattr") are enabled by default these days on most Linux file systems, but are limited in space and I don't see a lot of tool implementations around the functionality.

Sure there are some general blunt force search indexers, but overall I feel we still live in a Wild West meta-data age as opposed to the myriad of well standardised open data formats.

It would be nice to be able to use a (music, movie, picture, porn, whatever) site's existing meta-data when downloading a file, or hide all work-related files from the file system when you're at home.
It's going to be a sliding scale isn't it? There will definitely be some sales lost, but not all of them would have bought it.

I love how easy it is to get a book on my Kindle from Amazon at the click of a button, but given my voracious reading and the bill it generates it might be that I would consider looking at alternate sources for some of those books. So I might consider buying some and torrenting some. The alternative would be reducing the amount I read. And if I went the torrent route, I might suddenly notice that the volume of bought books might reduce from 5-10 legitimate purchases a month to 1 a month.
New Phishing Emails Descend on GoDaddy Customers
Any plans to offer VPSs on Brazil?
Try Polish! I would say that every word here is irregular (seven cases and three tenses).

Few forms of simple "to be": jestem, byłem, będę, jesteś, byłeś, będziesz, jest, był, była, było, będzie, jesteśmy, byliśmy, będziemy, jesteście, byliście, będziecie, są, byli, były, będą.

good luck ;)
Do you think Google will launch Fire TV/stick support for Google Play Movies/TV/Music in future?
I used both Napster and Kazaa, both were entirely too slow to download large files on. I mean, you could, but you'd be waiting a long time.

I don't think it really had a whole lot to do with the protocols themselves though, but rather that broadband penetration in the States ramped up really quickly at about the same time Bittorrent came onto the scene. There was probably a short period of time where you could have downloaded TV shows on Kazaa, but that protocol died really fast.

Not many people used eDonkey back then. I tried. It was hard to find the stuff I wanted. Right after Kazaa died, both eDonkey and Bittorrent started taking off. Bittorrent just became the most popular protocol.
What inspires me is fear. Fear that I'm stuck in a dead-end job that won't give me any options or marketable skills. That I won't be able to pay for my children's education, that I'll be a burden to them when I retire. And most of all, the fear that if I get hit by a bus today I leave them with nothing.

That drives me to work harder, keep improving my skills and stay on the lookout for projects that will make me valuable on the developer market and maybe bring in revenue.
How depressing! I'm 37 and still feel I've got loads to learn and try out. Although I note that many of my peers are planning their escape routes to retirement.

If I try to create a startup I'll be doing it on my own.
it is worrying what is happening in Russia
but much less so than what is going in the USA.

Google, Facbook etc tightly integrated with the nations
intelligence agencies, mining the data found there to
make secret lists that could result in assassinations,
indefinite detention and torture.

Russias actions are for the most part overt, and rightly
criticized, what the US does, it does so covertly.

If anyone speaks about the actions that the Us takes in secret
they are hunted to the end of the world, and must seek refuge
in Russia.

We hear a lot about Russian dissidents leaving Russia because
they have their freedom limited. Snowden and Julian Assange
have had their freedom limited to much more so than any of the Putin dissidents. (With the exception of the possibility that a couple of them
have been assassinated)

Remember that the air plane carrying the President of Bolivia was forced to land and be searched by American allies under the suspicion that Snowden might be on-board. Can you imagine AirForce One being forced to land, and be searched by Russia or China? Becaus they suspected it might be carrying a dissident? I dont think so.
Growing Developers and Designers into Leaders
Linode still don't have a $5 offering. Linode's cheapest VPS is $10 per month on a 125Mbit port. DO's cheapest is $5 per month on a 1Gb port.

That difference is huge if you're doing high-bandwidth work and you run a ton of droplets.
Is it just me or has the Washington post been kicking a lot of ass these past few weeks? Is traditional journalism on the cusp of getting disrupted... from the inside?
This related article, also dated today, was linked at the bottom, and is a longer read with more/different details and stories:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/upshot/unemployment-the-va...
Remove specific element from an array in JavaScript?
This article describes the growth of disability benefits and the way they are dispensed: thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/09/how_to_be_mean_to_your_kids.html
I wasn't aware there was a TLS 1.3 PoC that people could use for testing.
How about 'sympathize'?
tit for tat aka network effect. With it bandwidth grows with user count.
No! The EU doesnt require its citizens to show ID when logging onto public WiFi!
Seeing as you posted the list of platforms they support, and Linux isn't on it, the answer is no.
> If at all, the greatest achievement of the torrent protocol is allowing for discovery of files without a central repository.

Am... What? Color me surprised, I thought the biggest weakness of BitTorrent protocol is that it need a centralized, searchable repository of files.
Multidexing allows developers to bypass the 65K method limit for Android applications. The new toolchain will hopefully decrease build times.
> which I have to think will be well received.

sorry I can't read the english here, do you expect it to be well received (why? seems like it would be a though choice for many people even with a relocation package) or are you expressing hope it will be?