skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The embarrassment they have suffered along with the damaged relationships with artists is going to affect them for a number of years. The coming lawsuit by former employees for the loss of personal information.

Let's not forget that a terrorist threat against your customers (theaters / viewers) is really bad for business. So, let's say one of the places playing the show suffers an attack by some crazy. Sony is going to be on the hook in a big way. US courts[1] are known to pay out some huge settlements[2].

So, a loser in so many ways with no upside for profit.

1) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/new-lawsuit-claims-...

2) Despite politicians and other calling them "cowards" you would have to be insane to release a film suffering such a terroristic threat. If the politicians believe we shouldn't buckle then they should pass some tort reform.
Parent meant 'portage', which is the Gentoo Linux package manager.
I think an equivalent product that runs on Nashorn instead of Node would solve 90% of their problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer

Spain seems to have multiple poop based Christmas traditions.
To the outside observer it can all seem like "work" but to the code artist.. some percentage of it is indeed drudgery but another (hopefully larger) percentage of it is "creative play" using an artistic medium that the master painters and scribes of antiquity would have traded an arm for.

For me the problems arise when money enters the equation because then you find reasons to set aside your vision of a masterpiece so you can hurry up and ship your your "Minimal Viable Product". You do make a good point though about the "addictive quality" of shiny boxes. I leverage meditation to help me "decompress" rapidly on the occasions when I do end up overworking.

Sol Robeson: Have you met Archimedes? The one with the black spots, you see? You remember Archimedes of Syracuse, eh? The king asks Archimedes to determine if a present he's received is actually solid gold. Unsolved problem at the time. It tortures the great Greek mathematician for weeks - insomnia haunts him and he twists and turns in his bed for nights on end. Finally, his equally exhausted wife - she's forced to share a bed with this genius - convinces him to take a bath to relax. While he's entering the tub, Archimedes notices the bath water rise. Displacement, a way to determine volume, and that's a way to determine density - weight over volume. And thus, Archimedes solves the problem. He screams "Eureka" and he is so overwhelmed he runs dripping naked through the streets to the king's palace to report his discovery.

Sol Robeson: Now, what is the moral of the story?

Maximillian Cohen: That a breakthrough will come.

Sol Robeson: Wrong! The point of the story is the wife. You listen to your wife, she will give you perspective, meaning. You need a break, you have to take a bath or you will get nowhere.
Jonathan Wild: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild

Thanks for the pointer. The Wikipedia text seems way more of a movie script (daring escape after daring escape (if I had to guess, most of them involving bribes), tickets sold to a hanging, etc) than the very loose adaptation at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065209/, but I guess the movie makers wanted a happy ending.

Maybe the director of Game of Thrones should have a go at this story?
This Christmas-eve open source present form Shape Security (my employer) is getting a lot of attention on twitter.

https://twitter.com/jquery/status/547782921671962624
https://twitter.com/jspedant/status/547572942209421312
https://twitter.com/littlecalculist/status/54760390560215859...
I wish they hadn't used illegal example use cases (stealing trade secrets, etc). I would have donated :-/
iPads, tablets, smartphones disrupt good sleep, study finds
Everybody is a critic. Everybody has an opinion. Everybody is just writing rank speculation. The gov't filed charges, so to speak, so lets see them play out their case.
Schneier is going back in the "Skeptic" category.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/12/did_north_kor...
I think you are fortunate to be able to do things you enjoy while commuting. If you had to drive to work and sit through terrible traffic, things might not be as nice unfortunately. I have more recently been taking the bus but I still can't really read on it because I get dizzy..
Both of you are breaking the HN guidelines by being personally abusive. Please stop.
I've found a second method to see the movie for free.

Step 1) Go to https://twitter.com/search?q=seetheinterview.com%2Fplayer%2F

Step 2) Click on a link to seetheinterview.com's player

Step 3) Either use a USA VPN or enter the '403 Forbidden' URL into a USA web proxy such as http://www.usawebproxy.com/
I'm not sure how the exclusive sale model would work with information. Some problems I see are:

1. You can't prove a negative. The seller cannot prove that there's not a copy of the same information elsewhere.

2. If you prevent the same data from being sold again, the exclusive owner is also prevented from selling. What if that person wants to sell bits and pieces of the information as an arbitrage play?

3. Doesn't this obligate the police to bid for any child pornography whatever the cost?
BUG: log in with github. see mostly empty profile of some random person. strip everything from the url except the domain in the address bar. hit enter. Page is now completely blank. Can't log out. Can't do anything. Dead.

Remove browsing history. reload. confirm there are no cookies in play.
still dead.
Card names and text would be covered by copyright, but that's really unlikely to escalate beyond a DMCA takedown at worst, and Blizzard is more likely to just ignore it, as they do with the handful of Hearthstone wikis (which also include copyrighted art).

Game mechanics are almost never copyrightable, so you could come up with aliases for the cards and be 100% in the clear.
I have, to an extent. I've been working with Blizzard games for almost ten years (I worked on reverse engineering in WoW before), and Blizzard tends to be very cautious with this sort of projects.

In this case, it would be relatively easy to implement a server on top of Fireplace which would communicate with a slightly modified Hearthstone client. This would be a huge no-no for Blizzard and they would try their best to shut it down, so I'm not doing that.

You'll also note that the game files I am reusing in fireplace are actually in a separate repo (hearthstone-data submodule) so that I can take it down separately, should Blizzard request it.

Edit: Part of me also hopes that Team 5, the team behind Hearthstone, is a bit different. They have been incredibly close to the community, much closer than Blizzard has with other games, and I'm hoping that if issues arise, we can work them out peacefully.
I hear it can even add ten pounds...
Good showing of what are three good data languages. Strange I was a Python guy for a long time. Pandas just looks strange to me now since I switched to R two years ago.

Seems like I need to dive into Julia again. Haven't for over a year.
I have been looking for close to a week for Infosec professionals who believe DPRK was responsible for attacks.

So far I have found two.

One is @daveaitel, who sells security solutions to governments.

The other is @thegrugq, who believes that everything we've heard from FBI is a lie, and the NSA simply told them who it was.

Neither is particularly convincing. Does anyone know of any others?
Did you just explain why some people experience visual snow? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow
I think it's interesting in how people are readjusting their views to stop thinking of violence and misery as "normal".

This makes cases where it happens more notable.

You'll notice in countries with extraordinarily low crime rates (South Korea, Japan, etc.) that the locals don't perceive their relative safety and point to various happenings in the news as evidence.

Yet while I'm here in America, supposedly surrounded by gun violence, mass murders and other crazy nonsense. I feel no issues at all with walking by myself to the local store at night.

I've even seen opinions here on HN by non-Americans who talk in frightened tones about the violence levels in the U.S., but may come from countries that we Americans are educated to perceive as scary places.
This is Crystalwell, right? Which is shipping in some laptops to power the embedded graphics.
Finding work that you enjoy is harder than you make it sound! While this may be because I just beginning my career, I find it difficult to identify what it is that I like or dislike about a job.

And of course, if you ever think of changing careers, you will need to spend a lot of time to study, all the while still supporting yourself on a job you don't like.
Horrible title, sounds like clickbait.
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So are you still shipping Python/Django as an executable with atom-shell? Or is this purely client-side javascript?
It seems completely wrong that arbitration requires revealing the content of the secret.
People are extremely defensive about the 24 frames, so I feel for you trying to take a stance.

When I watched the Hobbit I thought to myself that some of the breathing movements in the CGI were amazingly fluent and they kind of reminded me of a computer game.

And then I thought, what a loss to Hollywood, that beautiful fluent movements have come to be associated with computer games and not films.
Does Brian Krebs count?
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/the-case-for-n-koreas-rol...
For me the installation bombed. Just locked up forever in 1 min remaining.
Sorry, didn't mean to be extraordinarily dense.

I think the counter argument is the present state of things. It's not too terribly hard to do small things, none of which are secret, to improve your value and demand higher pay: go to school, get certifications, build up experience, ask for more money, better financial management, etc.

Yet still most people in low-end jobs don't do these things. Anecdotally, I have very frustrating conversations with my own family members and several close friends, who never made it out of being poor, and simply refuse to follow advice on how to improve their lot, then endlessly call me up to complain about how they don't have money. A few of them have even had extraordinary opportunities come up to go to school for free or otherwise improve their situation and simply choose not to do it.

When I think of poor outcomes from BI schemes, I think of my family and friends, who simply would stop working, but wouldn't put their time to other productive or value growing opportunities. Or would continue working as is, but BI would simply be an inflation driver and would result in less effective income from their labor.
>I wish this kind of data was frequently mentioned throughout the year in mainstream media.

Except bad news is what people want to see and it's what makes money. If you try to shift your news reporting away from crime and gore it kills viewer/readership.

example: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-30318261
Of course. Like almost all of the films in tv. But almost everyone is already used to this, we don't even notice it.
I think threw most of its history the USSR did export some stuff. Also Im pretty sure that it was the USSR that did not want to trade, not the capitalist nations.

Also the USSR influnced almost half of the world, the extend of the market is easly big enougth. Its not like the USSR was Hong Kong or Cuba.
Appeal to authority (as a fallacy) refers to advancing the opinion of a prominent figure for something on which they themselves are not an authority. Citing Schneier on computer security is not an appeal to authority. Appeal to authority is citing his opinion on the best way to prepare coffee.
Not only Europeans.
Is the end goal to implement AIs and try to come up with interesting decks via something like genetic algorithms? Because that does sound like a fun project.
The sad situation is that most American's don't have nearly enough saved for retirement and most never will. That's why social security actually exists and it's not that great for those that end-up depending solely on that type of income. Essentially, we already have the situation you described without any of the other benefits BI would bring. Here's another HuffPo article that has some very disturbing figures on this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/die-than-retire-poo....

If the given individual is ok with the standard of living BI offers, there is no need to do extra work. That's kind of the point. On the flip side, if the person wants more luxuries or spending power, he or she will stay in the workforce, either working part-time or full-time.

The amount of work and effort a person will need to exert will depend on how much better than the base he or she wants to live. BI will undoubtedly result in some inflation, but if managed properly, will prevent poverty as we know it today. Of course poverty in US today is nothing like poverty in the middle ages Europe, so one day people will look at living on BI alone as living in poverty. It's all in degrees of better or worse.

The benefit of BI is that people no longer live in fear of their world collapsing completely if they lose their employment. Today in US, for most people if you lose employment you also lose healthcare. Obamacare is still not there to truly act as a safety net. (Speaking from family member experience.) With BI, the unemployment rate becomes a lot less important, because so long as the capital streams are flowing and proper taxation is in place, consumption won't collapse beyond the minimum level afforded by BI.

In the end, I still believe people will continue to work regardless of BI. Some will drop-out, but enough will stay. It's about empowering personal choice.
We leave world peace to politicians. I think engineers would probably do q better job.
This thread hilariously earned me a glorious slowban. Hacker News literally descends into yet another conspiracy site.

However why don't you contrast your comment with mine. Are you actually countering anything I've said?

No, you actually aren't. But somehow in these sorts of black/white discussions people think they can find one sort-of thing and then say "aha". Hardly.
Im sorry, I was a bit angry because I felt like you did not even read my argument.

> 150 years ago was a vastly different time. I don't care if they were wrong THEN. Back then they didn't even have computers and motors were inefficient. Time and technology have changed.

I agree. But simular argument can be made for every decade since then.

Im not arguing that it WILL go on, Im arguing that we have no reason to belive that it will stop soon. Im not hearing any new arguments and the data does not really fit the 'automation' story.

So my question is, why is it diffrent now, and 'now we have tech X' is not good enougth.
There's a lot of end goals! This is something that did cross my mind, yes. I think Fireplace is more of an enabler for this kind of thing. Writing an AI that would directly interact with it would be easy and I'm also posting here so that if anyone has a cool idea for something they want to do with it can poke me and I'll accomodate!
What's the use case?

GPS collars meet most common needs such as for hunting dogs. Pets that are let run, by definition return else they would be feral not pets. The standard RFID chip improves the lost pet case significantly and cheaply and without having to plug the cat into a USB charger at night.
I like the equality, free healthcare, and decent holidays that Europe offers amongst other things. I am considering starting my own business.
I would argue that it doesn't exactly need to innovate, since it's supposed to be a minimal way to make a SPA. If you do want more complexity, there's always Marionette: http://marionettejs.com/
Thanks! You are absolutely correct in summarizing two underlying themes for my microbenchmarking related posts: (a) one needs to understand what one is measuring (b) one needs to understand if that actually matters for their project.

> Currently, I find the external tools for doing this hard enough to set up

I have tried making this kind of information easier to grok for JavaScript developers by creating IRHydra[1]. Please reach out and describe your issues - one of the reasons why something like IRHydra is not part of Dev Tools yet is that Dev Tools people are not registering big demand for indepth analysis tools.

[1] http://mrale.ph/irhydra/2
This part: "Discrimination on the basis of sex is, in fact, not as illegal"
I don't know what they were selling you in the US, but that's straight up untrue. UN Inspectors were repeatedly telling the Security Council that Iraq was complying with WMD regulations and that in a matter of months, they'd be able to verify if all claims were true.

As usual, incompetent American intelligence was used instead since it was convenient.

This is a neat turn-around. Historical revisionism. That's good.
Beyond Phishing: Experts Predict the Cybercrime of 2015
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I'm starting to realize that quite a few on HN actually have no idea what happened during this period (too young?), and at this point they're just going by what they read on Reddit.

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

Iraq's cat and mouse game with the UN, which was a condition of the ceasefire from GW I, had been going on for years. The UN had passed resolution after resolution authorizing force, any of which gave the US -- if they even decided that they wanted its mandate -- the legal right to remove Saddam. Yes, when it was apparent the US had had enough, Iraq started complying, but it was too late for the US administration. Tough, but this notion that it was all cooperation and the US just wanted a fight is pure absurdity, and has absolutely no basis in actual reality.

But it does appear in the black/white simplified story that so many tell.
Many year ago I was asked to provide a component cost quote for "a device". The parts list specified a Bourns resistor network - a standard easily available part - but specifiedthe 1% tolerance part. This was a rare impossible to find part. The parts list had instructions for testing the normal 2% part to find parts that suit the spec. My bosses at the time refused to use that teat procedure and insisted on the listed 1% part. This meant I sent emails to the few brokers I knew, which then started a bidding war with myself for this part amoung those brokers - driving the price much higher than the already high price it was at.

TL:DR aerospace/mining/etc projects really suck if the design engineers do stupid things.
Free markets have allocated billions to the creator of a social network, which really doesn't provide much value to the world (ok I am sure you can argue that it has some value). Yet you complain about increased spending in education. I personally think the resources would be better spent on the things I mentioned amongst others, but the free market says otherwise. Recycling would be a perfect example, but it is far cheaper to destroy the planet than solve the problem.
Exactly, this conversation is about extrinsic factors. It's a widely held belief that experiences of financial need drive some people to succeed financially. In my view, this is a personal question for every individual and not that useful of a generalization.

I've been struggling with this question myself in terms of how do I pass my drive on to my future kids. A good deal of my drive comes from the experience of growing up in a collapsing country (90s Russia), but I can't really tell what part of it is the fear of not having enough again and which part of the drive is because I love what I do (and given the option to re-do my career, I'd still take the same profession in a heartbeat). The idealist in me wants to think that love for my work is greater, but the realist thinks it's at best equal parts...

With BI, fear won't be as much of a driver, but we are still not talking about "a Ferrari in every garage" kind of BI. It's human nature to always want more. I trust that this nature will prove the "kick".
It sounds like all of the people involved are experienced

It says nothing about the people involved or their experience. It claims they are "9 cryptographers" and says nothing more. They also appear to be trying to raise money for this:

http://coinmesh.io/

I agree that using C is a really dumb idea for anything security sensitive.

However the people behind this have been thinking about it far more than I have

I see no evidence of this either.

In fact all I see is an attempt to grab money from people for a product that does not exist, has no prototype and quite possibly never will exist.

As to their identities, I suspect it's the same people (Amir Taaki and friends) who are doing Dark Wallet, given that they're the only people who use libbitcoin as far as I know, they explicitly recommend Dark Wallet although it has almost no users, and both sites very much match their writing style and general way of thinking. It's exactly the sort of thing that they'd think was a good idea.
No, they're vastly friendlier, by and large -- as demonstrated by the project maintainer of text being nice acceding to your demands despite having precisely zero legal obligation to do so, and despite you being an utter jackass about it.

I, on the other hand, am seriously considering taking Metaphone3.java and reimplenting it in several languages, then making those publicly available.
> Just because it has been true up until now does not mean that it still is true and will continue to be true indefinitely.

My argument is not that it will go on for ever, my argument is that we can not predict when its going to stop and without some groundbreaking new line of argumentation I see no reason why I should expect it to change very soon.

However the only argument I hear is 'Tech X replaced Y amount of people'.

There are many things that come back again and again. Overpopulation pops up every 20 years. Resource prices will just go up (peek oil).

All these arguments have one thing in common, the stay consistanly the same and they are consistently wrong. Now once in awhile some prediction turns out to be true, and then people cry 'see I was right'. However its very unlikly that these people were actually right in the sence that they had discovered some new analysis or something, they are just luck.

So if there is a great new argument, please tell me and if its good I belive you.

> Indeed historically, rapid technological development did often lead to many years of immense economic suffering for large groups of people

True. But I dont think the last couple of years were specially revolutionary in terms of technology.

> I don't think it's wrong to ask if now it's possible it will never get better because we're on the verge of technology replacing so many jobs.

Its not wrong to ask. Belive me I spent quite some time reading about this, reading both sides but in the end, one side was consistently correct and the other never changed there argument or there position.