skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is illegal. Under the CFAA, any unauthorized access of any "protected" system anywhere (that causes at least $5,000 in damages, but hell, anything over a 1-2 man business can have $5,000 in damages, in legal terms, in a few seconds) is a felony.

Protected system:
"including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States"

I think taking down NK internet would be considered affecting foreign commerce/communication.
Actually, "people" don't object to spending money on affordable education. People do object to paying paralyzing amounts of money of for an education that quickly begins to lose its value.

I don't understand peoples logic here. As if knowing differential calculus and working to pay of tons of debt is somehow better than perhaps being a mechanic in middle america where they have time to travel the country and have little fun. Not saying that this is the case for the majority, but we're coming awfully close to it.
It's dated January 2015, not 2014.
I like round numbers, so lets say that we've got 26 lowercase, 26 uppercase, 10 numbers, and 18 symbols, for a total pool of 80 character options. For our single lame character, you're stuck with 26. All calculations are rounded off to make them a bit less insane to read.

Assuming a 10 character password, there are 1.07 × 10^19 combinations without the restriction, 3.5 × 10^18 combinations with the restriction.

If we're dealing with a 24 character password, like my password manager slings out, it's 4.7 × 10^45 vs 1.5 × 10^45.

As you can see, it definitely reduces the keyspace, but when you look at the overall impact it's rather small.
Ask HN: Learn JavaScript from actual websites?
Is there a resource that walks through the end-to-end code of actual websites to help teach Javascript? I am almost through the Codecademy courses on HTML/CSS/JS/Jquery and I still have trouble understanding what is happening, or how something is achieved, just by checking out a page's source.
If there was a JS teaching framework that picked apart the code of several actual websites, I would be interested.
Thanks!
> but tomorrow it'll cook the cat

I considered that as well, but it doesn't look like it closes up or gets particularly hot, I think it just warms up sufficiently to aid drying.
Email Habits: How to Use Psychology to Regain Control
One might almost say the creation of psychopaths is the goal of military training. Without training a small fraction of soldiers ('natural psychopaths') will kill for pleasure, another small fraction will be the heroes that kill and put themselves in danger for the good cause, but the majority twill try and come out alive. The goal of military training is to make the army more effective by increasing that second fraction, but increasing the first fraction isn't that bad, either, from a direct military perspective.

(http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Killing:_The_Psychological..., http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killology)
It seems that at least a few of the graduates mentioned in the story gave up entrepreneurship to start a family (i.e. a traditional path.) It would be interesting to see if modern-day delay/avoidance of "family life" stage [1] may lead to a different outcome today.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/image/i5kUtaPYUPf8.jpg
I'm sure the first few customers signing up is a really satisfying experience.
There's a setting for that.

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What you say is true - city driving is complicated with too many decisions to make, but it does not need a very optimized controller to control the car through those scenarios. Changing a lane at 15-25MPH is far more easier than on a turning highway with merging traffic at 55-60MPH. At that speed the controller would not only need to safely execute the maneuver but also stabilize the vehicle in the event it needs to come to a halt or take an evasive action.

Moreover if there is say some uncertainty in the sensor readings at 25mph, that is multiplied by many factors at higher speeds and becomes very significant. Control at higher speeds has more stability issues and can deal with less uncertainty and than at lower speeds.
Nigel Farage attacks pupils’ Ukip parody app featuring Nicholas Fromage
So I should support a third party that will get no representation in the government and have no impact? We live in a two-party system whether you like it or not, and it's not changing anytime soon.

I quickly grow weary of the constant anti-establishment chant on HN to "vote out all the incumbents" (not going to happen) and support an independent candidate (not going to get elected). How about I vote for the one of the two major parties that didn't opt for the useless wars that spurned this and didn't authorize torture in the first place? I know Obama hasn't prosecuted Bush, Cheney, and the other torture enablers (it's political suicide in case you didn't know), but at least he didn't let it happen under his watch.
This short docu explores that a bit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE
تحميل جريدة الوسيط القاهرة عدد الأثنين 22/12/2014 – تراخيص
Autos will never be sold to consumers. At least the general public. Or at least average people will never buy one.

It is a tremendous, insane, unacceptable waste to have autos parked all day. The only way these things make sense is through subscription services where you can summon a car from a fleet whenever you want, so that you can maximize utilization.
So you're saying that anything done by the state should be legal, and if you have a problem then you should apply diplomatic (ultimately military) pressure? Sounds like a recipe for atrocities and then war (like in nazi Germany). It's unfortunate that the high level sociopaths will probably get away with it, but we should still prosecute the lower level sociopaths who did the torturing. This will make it hard to order people to do this in the future.

Ask yourself two questions:

Is it ok to kidnap someone, lock them in your basement, beat them and rape them?

Does some shit written on a piece of paper make it ok?
> but we also need to admit that the innate behavior of men could possibly play a huge factor in their roles in business

That's a terrible way of thinking about it. Unless some difference is proven to be biological, we should certainly assume it is not. That's how we deal everything else that has to do with technology: unless something is proven to be impossible, we try as hard as we can to achieve it. Some people believe cryonic re-animation is possible, and some people believe in indefinite extension of life or even uploading one's mind to a computer. If those notions are credible enough for technologists to put a lot of effort into achieving, then surely something as simple as equal representation for all groups in the seats of power is something we must work towards, no?
A lot of golf cart like vehicles operate at this speed. We had a few dozen at the university and all of the "street legal" ones had a limit stamped on them of 25mph.
Is there a particular training kit that you recommend? What are they cons to this? Do they sometimes miss?
IANAL.. but the US laws on cybercrime aren't limited to attacks within US borders. For example, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act says "such trafficking affects interstate or foreign commerce".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

here's a list of us cybercrime laws:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_cybercrime#U.S.
Major Privacy Bug in Skype – forced answers even if not physically present
San Francisco is similar in a way. Nancy Pelosi keeps winning with massive margins, simply because of her name and the fact that she's part of the political machine here; and no one goes anywhere in SF politics without the backing of the machine. And the machine prevents viable challengers from coming forth. For all practical purposes, we don't _have_ a representative who will represent us; she just represents the rich and the powerful.
Is it better to have a low churn rate per month with lower MRR or a higher churn rate with higher MRR ?

Can you counter churn rate by acquiring new customers?
Government agents kidnapped, rape, beat, tortured, and killed innocent people. This is pretty similar to what the nazis did and it is a fair comparison.
Maybe it's the doing of the U.S. gov't... maybe not...

But in any case, what's the point of keeping the U.S. government's action or non-action secret?

As the linked piece states:

"If the attack was American in origin — something the United States would probably never acknowledge ..."

It's sort of like the Doomsday Machine in Dr. Strangelove: it just doesn't work as a deterrent if you keep it a secret.

Or is all this secret "cyberwarfare" capability that the U.S. government is secretly building only going to be used in secret?
I believe the suggestion was more along the lines that plenty of people who voted for the "evil torture party AKA:GOP" were not actually knowingly voting to support torture, but instead voting for the candidate that espoused economic policies beneficial, or at least, the least detrimental to their own personal interests.

It's hypocritical to blame one side for torture, when the other side instead just started doing assassinations via drone. If you truly believe anyone who voted Republican supported torture, you must admit anyone who voted Democrat supports assassinations.

Full Disclosure: I've voted Libertarian in every presidential election since I've been eligible to vote. I see hypocrisy and political spin on ALL sides of the discussion.
Also a much more boring option. Pretty sure our cats have paid for themselves many times over in free entertainment.
It looks attractive, but at these times, the client application can be easily be auto-updated, that's how all applications work, including those made by Google.
I agree with this. Those type of folks may not be the best representation nor the most successful. If you browse WF you will get a sense of the demographic.
What a hypocrite. He wishes so dearly that everyone have the same opinion he does so as to willingly work more to pay for other people's shelter and food. He can be the change he wants to see - all he has to do is take care that the poor people around him have shelter and food. Aren't we seeing something similar in India, with neighborhoods getting together without help from any organization and fixing their death traps and beautifying their pissing corners and walls? DFW could have done that, but instead he was an armchair idealist who one day wished some centralized power would take a lot more money from a lot more willing people so that they alone could solve the problems of the world. How convenient.

That quote that stood out to you is the myopic and uneducated opinion of a depressed person. At least with my depression I don't go around like a lunatic defending there must be a power giant to steal more of people's money and give it to the poor, as if that ever worked. A true Utopia that this planet has never seen. I have seen pictures and videos of those citizen movements in India and that is not Utopia but real life. Alas, not good enough for DFW. It seems every depressed person hates this world and wishes for a better one, but with all his reading and writing, his opinion never matured beyond that of current high-schoolers.
If someone kidnapped, raped, and murdered your father and brother, would it be justifiable to join a militia opposing them? I think you're basically advocating for IS here.
HackerFund – Teaching High Schoolers How to Code
I don't disagree with anything you've said, and I don't think I really have any significant difference of opinion on the matter as a whole either. I'm just pointing out what seems to be an unfortunate hole they've dug for themselves by undermining their own trustworthiness - or perhaps a hole some agencies have dug and others are now falling into.

And to be clear, I don't think they've sunk so low that "the FBI is framing NK" is anything but a garden variety conspiracy theory at this point, but "the FBI is rushing a very complex analysis under heavy political pressure" is plausible to me, as is "the FBI has strong evidence that they are not willing to show us".

Ultimately, assuming they do have classified evidence, there's also a cost-benefit consideration to be made - it doesn't have to be a given that they can't release it. I don't think this describes the present situation, but depending on the scale of the response a situation calls for, compromising one or two classified methods or sources in order to get public support for the appropriate action may be the lesser of two evils.
Anvil – An ACME CA
This all stinks (TBP included) of a media blitz to prepare the greater masses for further restrictions to their Internet abilities.

"Sure a content filter makes sense, there's a war going on."
> 35mph is the normal minimum in the US

In California, the default speed limit in business or residential districts is 25 mph, this is also the default speed limit for school zones.
Google has tried hard to make Google Glass fashionable in its current incarnation. That's why they are inserting it into New York Fashion Week, getting designer frames, etc.
> that a non-nut is seriously considering it and quite possibly it's worth pondering as an idea.

I would agree, but it would be a monumentally stupid way of trying to send encoded information into a foreign government, given the notice that is linked to. So no, it's not.
There seems that people living under regimes with limited freedom often fail to comprehend that people living in other countries might produce something without the explicit approval of their government.

To the North Koreans, it is beyond comprehension that people living in the US made something, rather than the US government making it. To them, if Americans made it, that means America made it.

This misunderstanding isn't limited to works coming out of the US of course. Another example of this failure to comprehend freedom of expression is the aftermath of the Muhammad cartoons published by some Danish newspapers. Enraged extremists around the world began rioting in front of Danish Embassies, as though the cartoons were drawn, commissioned, or even approved by the Danish government.

See also: The souring of Chinese-Norwegian relations after the Norwegian Nobel Committee (which is a private organization which awards a private prize, despite having some members selected by Norwegian parliament) awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo.
I've arbitraged by getting a bachelor's degree from a no-name university in Europe, and then getting a Master's from a recognized school.

Not saying it's possible for everyone to swing it, but resume-wise people pay attention only to last educational institution and last employer.
Bill Oreilly? GTFO with this partisan bs. Most people on hn oppose both of these things. This thread is about one of them.
"linquistic" -> What other kinds of phrases are there?

Musical phrases.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase_%28music%29

Means almost the same thing as linguistic phrases except it is about groups of notes rather than groups of words.
The stories about the backlash against the diversity efforts at Stanford, circa 1994, are what Susan Faludi was talking about in her book "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women" which was published in 1991. That era saw a turning point, as various important factions in USA society withdrew their support from the project of advancing the role of women in society. The encouragement given during the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s disappeared in the 1990s.
Late to the party, but here is my experience:

Absolutely dead.

I went on sabbatical in October 2000 to SE Asia to backpack for 6 months. When I left, my current company had an open return door for me in my position. I also had two other companies that I had been talking to about working for either of them when I got back.

When I got back in March, there were no jobs to be had. I had money in the bank though and didnt realize how bad it was. Six months after getting back we had a party where ~55 people showed up. All tech workers. Out of the 55, only 3 had jobs.

It wasnt for another 12 months that I found a job - falling back to my previous skill as an architectural drafter. Fortunately it was for a small design firm that was wanting to do more technical stuff - so we were designing datacenters, server rooms, corp stuff. It worked out well - but for 18 months it was really really really bad. I only survived because my family owned my condo and I had a roommate who paid me $750/month in rent which is what I lived on. I couldnt get unemployment because I voluntarily left for my trip - on which I spent almost all my savings.
It bears mentioning that the "Designer" and/or "Front End Developer" in a small startup team will usually end up wearing several of these hats.

Larger teams can afford the level of specialization described here, but a smaller company (or a small internal team) may have a technical front-end developer who produces prototypes and live code, plus a non-technical designer who does everything else on the design side. If it's a really tiny team, there might be a single person who rapidly produces mockups and scripts for usability tests, then turns around a few days later and starts writing HTML/CSS/JS based on their findings.

I wish there were a better word than "unicorn" for people with a wider band of responsibilities. "Full-stack UX" sounds a bit silly too.
I don't want to go to lyrics sites for lyrics. I have yet to find one that isn't awful, spammy, slow, popup and interstitial ridden.

Maybe if there were some that weren't utter shit, I'd agree. But the thing is that before this, the only results I was getting were inferior search results.
The Uberfication of Knowledge
party in the usa lyrics

still yields azlyrics.com but that might change soon.

I welcome this, it saves a lot of clicking and viewing ads (not that I do since adblock is installed) but on mobile phones and such.
> It sounds to me like it's so far off the rails that the real lesser evil choice is to refuse to participate in the process and rob it of its credibility.

The result of refusing to participate is that you lose even more freedom to pursue happiness. Your captors don't care a whit about credibility.

> None of the parties represent my interests, so I don't vote and I certainly don't agree to respect the decisions made by those who don't represent my interests.

Then you waste an opportunity to help prevent greater evil from happening. You needn't agree with the lesser evil when you vote for them.

> To tie it back in with the original point, those who voted against Bush implicitly agreed to abide by his decisions if he won. Only those who refuse to participate in the system can claim zero complicity.

The good people who didn't vote in 2000 could have prevented a needless war from happening. They had the opportunity, so they are complicit. Only those who voted for the lesser evil can claim zero complicity.
Doubleplus interrogation is one of the best parts of Miniluv's joycamp.
Or arbitrage by doing X years at a cheap local school, transferring credits and then spending 1 year at an expensive big-name school.
I prefer having both options. I first try out social media sign up and verify the permissions the app requesting. If the permissions scare me, I sign up with my, e.g. myname+appname@gmail.com.
I think the plan is to partner with issuing banks and convince them to reissue emv-like tokens to plastc when a card is added (similar to what apple pay does with tokens over an NFC link).
But, I wonder, if a case could be made for such an attack being a defensive maneuver on the part of the USG? That is, due to the claimed recent activity by NK and future threats articulated by NK to engage in cyber warfare, might taking their access offline be construed as a defensive measure?

If so, would there be anything under the U.S. Code or otherwise that would supersede the CFAA; or are there exclusions in the CFAA itself?
as long as it gets me the answer I want faster with minimal maintenance, it is always welcomed.
First programming language should be simple but not simpler. Java/C/C# has too many complexities to be first programming language for 12 years old, IMO, and carries a risk to actually turn away kids from programming. It's like teaching them how gravity works with equations involving calculus. Why do you even need a "class" keyword to create a simple program to sum first 100 numbers? You want to remove everything from a language until just bare minimum Turing complete syntax is left. Also curly braces needs to go to keep things simple.

From this perspective nothing beats BASIC. Python may come distant second. Some people have advocated Scheme but I'm not too sure because there is a quite a bit of friction involved as tasks become more complex. I'm also not in favor of drag-and-drop so called "visual" programming languages. It is extremely important to learn composibility and currently nothing seems to be better medium than text to express it. Gifted kids sure will have no problem learning programming from whatever language you give them but our goal should be eliminate as much technological friction as possible to make programming accessible to any kid who wants to learn it.
I am an American expat living abroad. One thing that bugs me about this is that there is a shrill hyperpartisanship that underlies a lot of this discussion. Yes, we should be prosecuting torturers, their bosses, and those who aided and abetted this via existing CIA programs or via extraordinary rendition during the current and last two administrations.

But Democrats won't sign on to something that will implicate Democratic party Presidents, nor will the GOP sign onto anything that will implicate a Republican president, no matter how despised he is by the Republican base.

The result is a lawless government and a strict reminder that there is no such thing as a "government of laws." In the end, all governments are "governments of men."
> I fail to see how ruminant poop would improve the situation.

Contrast:

Headline: Blah Blah Government Agents Blah Boring Blah Torture Blah More Big Words Blah Blah

with:

Headline: Protesting Citizens Dump Tons of Manure at White House for Blah Blah Government Agents Blah Boring...

I can tell you from experience that the second one raises global awareness of the issue in a heartbeat and would put a lot more pressure onto slimy government accomplices to clean up their act.

And that's how poop would help the situation. I'm sure you knew that and was just trying to be funny, though.

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot this great point:

> [The US Government] committed these crimes

> [The US Government] investigated and published their findings

> [The US Government] are in the process of getting more agents [...] to act on that report

This is hilarious. Corporations needs regulation because we don't trust the free market with all its different agents to regulate themselves, but you trust this one monolithic organization called the US Government to police and prosecute itself when the very crimes it committed are evidence enough that it can't? You should do stand-up.
I think that virtually nobody who is certain that self-driving cars will be short-term rentals (ie, the Uber model) has children. It's a HUGE blind spot that the of course mostly very young, mostly childless tech commentariat has.

The value of car ownership as a way to have large amounts of your property available at whatever location you are presently at without you constantly engaging in a bunch of loading and unloading work is not to be underestimated.

(There are plenty of other ways that long-term rental or ownership of driverless cars makes sense, too. How prevalent a ride-for-hire model will be is going to depend on lots of details about the technology; it's not a given.)