skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a single, solitary sentence in this article that implies there might not be a data breach: Perhaps someone got a name and guessed a password,” she said. The rest of the article is full of evidence that there was a data breach.

Edit: including the part you quoted, information used to file fraudulent returns was obtained from other sources outside the tax preparation process.
Oops... The reason the cluster was not displaying was because I left the node name off the zookeeper url. Originally I just had hostname:2181 but should have been hostname:2181/kafka.
So far seems to be working well.
And remember we're on the 17th annual Independent Games Festival. (http://www.igf.com/)
Once you've raised significant VC funding they expect you to target $1B+. You basically can't slow down once you've stepped on that treadmill.
I am the first employee of a startup with less than 10 employees. We are a direct competitor of Fab latest incarnation Hem (One Nordic).

We have been around for more than 2 year now. Our revenues are in multi-million and most importantly we are profitable.

Lucky to be working with founders who believe in reaching profitability first. We are a data driven company from the get go. Which allowed us to make smart decision while been super lean.
I believe my co-founder and I were the oldest founders ever funded by YC at the time (in 2007) and I was 33 and my co-founder was, I think, 34 with a wife and two kids. The batch after ours had a couple of folks in their 40s, and I think the average age has crept up a bit over time, though the founders do tend to still be quite young.
It's not just the headline. "A TaxAct spokeswoman said that company is not seeing similar fraud issues and that customers can file state and federal returns as usual." "Minnesota announced it has stopped accepting tax returns submitted by individuals using TurboTax, although it is still accepting returns filed using Intuit professional-preparer products."
From the TurboTax blog:

http://blog.turbotax.intuit.com/2015/02/06/intuit-working-wi...

(Shouldn't this be the proper link for the HN post?)
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Meh, too late. io.js is the standard now.
Keep an eye on the number of different colors in your CSS
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>"Manhattan Project for Cybersecurity" -- it would look like NSAs Bluffdale facility

i think that facility and all these fiber-splits secretly installed across the world has been the "Manhattan Project for Cybersecurity" :) Like with the original MP, sometime ago there was theoretical idea that it is possible to listen to and record the "whole Internet" and that would open new possibilities, incl. ones like "total awareness" and Tor traffic correlation... So the government has thrown best brains and money and "voila!"
Why are you talking about forced static typing when the presentation is talking about optional typing?
No it's not (IMO). At least not to the extent where cost control is paramount above growing revenue. Check out this HBR article from 2013:
https://hbr.org/2013/04/three-rules-for-making-a-company-tru...

(keep in mind this is a fairly exhaustive study of thousands of companies over 40+ years, not some link-baity blog)

Rule 2: Revenue before cost—that is, prioritize increasing revenue over reducing costs.

Now, there's a slight difference between "controlling expenses" and "reducing costs". But there's also a difference between "controlling expenses" and "making stupid decisions" and I think some of your examples are in the latter camp (as were Fab's).

If you have product-market fit and you can extract value, your focus should be on growing revenue. A couple $100/mo SaaS subscriptions, a corporate retreat, or buying employee lunches aren't going to make or break you. Unfortunately, as Fab confessed (in the article), they never found product-market fit ("we spent $200M and we have not proven our business model").

Playing with millions of other people's dollars™ makes it easy to forget this I suppose.
The 100k was in reference to cash. I know people who have gotten up to $500k in vesting equity upon graduation.
First, no the NSA does not have some kind of secret, hardened OS.

Second, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux

Third, https://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configur...
The capabilities for converged devices are getting closer. Will's video (lower down) shows some of the latest software developments. You shouldn't be discouraged - it's on the way - but there is a reason that the major players have two OS platforms! It's a hard software problem to solve. You have to create a full stack that will work across both device form-factors and the variety of use-cases that both supports.

The Ubuntu Edge campaign was aimed at trying to accelerate hardware innovation for those that wanted convergence faster. We didn't make it - but it will still happen.

Separate to convergence, the "next billion" devices are mobile in some form. Ubuntu's goal is to be the free software platform available to everyone [0]. That's why we're creating a first-class phone experience. And there's still lots of room for innovation in what phones can do and how they can be central to people's lives.

So the point of today is shipping the first Ubuntu phones to users. I'm really looking forward to how people use, enjoy and develop with them.

[0] http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu
Does the compiler help?

$ cat unsigned.cpp
#include <iostream>
void f(unsigned int x) { std::cout << "x = " << x << std::endl; }

int main()
{
f(-1);
}
$ g++ -Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -Werror unsigned.cpp
$ ./a.out
x = 4294967295

No error, no warning. The two are not really distinct types. See the link I posted above for more argumentation along these lines.
"Jonathan Blow's beautiful, distinct 2008 platformer Braid is largely regarded as the original indie game..."

Nah, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Story
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I was under the impression that it was usually done by duress, not deception.
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Wow that Firewatch trailer is really well done. Adding it to my todo/play list.
Yep, io.js v1.1 works really fine and i switched too.
Wasn't Anthem was attacked by super-chinese state-sponsored ninja hackers? That;s what bloomberg was saying.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/signs-of-c...
I was going for sarcasm, but oh well. And you could argue that the HH process would have been invented earlier if electrical powerplants has been invented earlier; the simultaneity of these two historical events is remarkable: the world's first public powerplant opened just 4 years before the discovery of the HH process.
Some more talks:

http://vimeo.com/94259578 (2014)
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014982/ (2011)

If anyone likes game talks then check a repo I made https://github.com/hzoo/awesome-gametalks
Node 0.12
Better for both parties, if they have a long-term outlook.

I'd say you want to be paying a market rent so that your landlord is happy with you. It's in their incentive to keep you there and happy, and they're likely to go out of their way to keep you happy. If you manage to get locked into a contract to pay under market rent, then they will be unhappy with you and motivated to go out of their way to hurt your business and make your life difficult.

Granted, this may not be that common of a viewpoint in the restaurant industry, though. Or in the NYC rental industry.
> In my opinion, this is the heart of the diversity problem. We spend a lot of time trying to improve the representation of adult women in tech. Wouldn't that be a whole lot easier if girls felt more comfortable growing up to become women in tech?

I think you may be making a mistake in assuming that people are interested in nothing more or less than addressing the problem. From where I'm sitting, people are interesting in addressing the problem and having a scapegoat.

It's always easier to blame a small group of people than it is to accept that you are part of the problem.
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This really isn't practical in New York City. Almost all of these spaces are leased, even the ones for institutions like Union Square Cafe. There are very few restaurants here where the owners own the building as well.
Can you give us the txId of a bitcoin transaction used to represent the entire state?
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Yay !!! Took a year, but it's here now..
> Fraudulent tax refunds are a huge issues that the IRS has not kept up with. The IRS itself estimates it paid $5.2 billion to identity theives[1]. Protecting taxpayers without creating too much of a hurdle to tax paying is a very hard problem to solve.

Eliminate advance tax withholding and pay all taxes in arrears with allowance for a no-penalty payment plan for up to one year after the end of the tax year. You have significant one-time cost from shifting obligations forward, and a bit of an ongoing cost from the time value of money, but you eliminate the problem of fraudulent refunds by simply eliminating routine refunds.
My read of the typical situation is that the rent increases are made within the bounds/scope of the contract (the lease) and yet tenants still complain.

When a lease expires and the rent goes up at the renewal? Tenants complain.

When a tenant is month-to-month and the rent goes up with 30-days notice? Tenants complain.

I didn't read anything in the original article, nor in the GP comment to yours about Rio to suggest that the rent increases were contravening an existing contract.
Yeah it seems they had spent millions and were only managing 1000 items at one point. Why that needed a $80M investment in Europe defies logic.

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding, but Fab seems like a curated Etsy plus a lame (compared to Amazon) fulfillment system. If the value of your company is all in front end (marketing/UI) I'm not sure it makes sense to spend so much on the backend.

And, if you're selling a $10 light with $50 of cups on it for almost $2000, you've got plenty of margin to spend on outsourcing... Would Amazon fulfillment have been too expensive/unusable for their use case?
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Sorry to be so confrontational about your intentions, however I just see way to often good businesspeople (like Elon Musk) talk about how they are changing the world, while using this to underpay their workers. Now as a theoretical worker at your company, I think I couldn't care less about what other people make, the question for me is would my pay be competitive with my other options. If however your company is based on the idea that normally I would be paid 100k and the janitor 20k, but in yours both of us will earn 60k, well I hope you can understand why I would be less than enthusiastic about this proposition.
We already have one. Look at the NSA's budget. Look at the money being shoveled into Microsoft/Google/Apple. All the people in position to fix things are positively flush with cash.

And off in the corner, a few non-paid developers of F/OSS are creating better security products than all the above combined. Manhattan-style money throwing is not the answer.

And I take issue with the article's depiction of the Manhattan Project. "Those working on the Manhattan Project were dead serious about the threat before them." ... um ya well the vast majority of those working on it had absolutely no idea of what the project was all about. They all operated within a disconnected web of secrecy, not the best model for security imho.

The author "has served as a street police officer, senior adviser to Interpol and futurist-in-residence with the FBI. " He isn't a security professional. And his twitter feed doesn't give the impression of someone with any deep understanding beyond headlines and talking points.
Maybe the "Ronco principle" has some truth to it. The two things I remember about the CEO is 1) Getting mad at someone who wont switch seats in a plane 2) Not allow employees to hang their jackets on their seats and joking about firing people
> Not when competing, but when cooperating.

Cooperating to do what? To compete against other species and groups of humans!
It's more cost effective to hire a bunch of Cuban machinists to maintain the old cars/build new copies of old cars. If you need to make the project flashy they can get augmented reality welding masks or whatever.

DM(L)S is good for small complicated parts, but for large pieces/large scale manufacturing it's not cost effective (or easy to get the right material properties/do quality control!)
My experience has been that just about every module that uses native code (there are more than you think) doesn't work in IO.js because of the changes to the V8 apis. So until all of those are updated to work with both I'll have to stick to Node.
Thanks very much! Yes, I'm at one of the bulge brackets. I'm a pure maths student, not CS or finance, so the whole interview process has been really interesting.
Rhetorical question: If nobody is stopping them, there is no harm in giving them the source code, right? So why don’t you?

> I've written format converters (with no guiding documentation) to overcome the bounds you imply.

Please do not assume that everybody should be like yourself.

> If you're paying the price of a few cups of coffee to use it, heck yeah you're not getting the complete body of work a team spent years creating.

There’s an easy way to rectify this – just don’t call it selling. Call it renting, which is what it practically is. The thing which I get when I buy software today is by no practical definition my property: its utility is deliberately limited by the manufacturer, and I am both legally and practically prohibited to extend that limit or repair it.
Awesome! Even better, will Joyent pay me to use it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8996797

I hope they have enough Timothy J Fontaines.
I would prefer to use auto when iterating through the container, certainly. But much of the code I write is numerical stuff and "i" really is logically an integer rather than an iterator, arising as the result of some actual arithmetic.

I find I have to do this quite often, and I'm not going to write static_cast<int>() every time.

Yes, I can see why this isn't a good idea -- I'm pained by it myself. I'm just wondering what I might have overlooked among the possibilities available for this kind of code.
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It has gotten a lot better lately. It was designed in the era before people quite realized that everything should be a library first and an application using that library second, and that still shows. However, the most recent version pulls all the interesting cryptographic operations out of the application and puts them into gpg-agent, paving the way for a future libgpg that holds no key material and just asks the agent to perform signing/encryption operations. I'm really looking forward to that.
Go Big Blue!

Sorry ... I work at Penn State and just had to get that in. My (amazing) daughter is a molecular geneticist who's considering that other Michigan school for her Doctorate. I'm not sure my genes need saved that badly (though obviously in this case, she is my creation).
Good to see that a new version is out - if anybody here wants to take it for a spin on Azure Websites, we at Microsoft just created a small one-click script[1] that installs this version.

[1]: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/node12-azure
So can I use generators without a --harmony-generators flag now? Surprised there aren't any mentions of ES6 in the blog, considering the competition from io.js.
So it becomes its own "web of trust" in a sense? Every time there is activity, it's another point for "yeah, this person is who they say they are, look at all the stuff they've verified"? That's an interesting concept, at least for casual communication (the kind I might want to keep out of the ears of Google or Twitter, probably not the kind I'd want to keep out of the ears of the government). Is there any plan to incorporate traditional keyservers into the "web" as a component in the trust model?

Additionally, doesn't the user signing the statement with his or her private key mean that you need to have his private key to really believe it? I notice on the website it states that encryption/decryption is done with client encrypted keys. If it's client encrypted presumably the signing is happening at the client and an announcement is sent to keybase stating as such. How can you trust the data your getting back from the client is trustworthy or not also compromised?

Forgive me if I'm being boneheaded here, I'm just trying to grasp this so I can say, "Yes, that makes enough sense."
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I can see that. Why limit your revenue by a potential $1m/year because you don't want to spend the extra $50,000/year (for example).

At the same time when you start out saying "I need to pour millions into this idea to make a single dollar back", I start questioning whether it's a viable idea in the first place. Granted, some ideas/problems do require expensive solutions: converting from our current transportation system to driverless cars cannot be done on the cheap. However, if I was an investor, I'd be picking startups running out of someone's basement on a farm in Iowa, rather than someone that wants to use my money to open a lavish office in NYC.

Then again, I'm not an investor, so I have no idea what I'm talking about :)
S&T. I'm a pure maths student, not CS or finance, which is where an increasing number of the S&T pool is being drawn from.
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Back then Indie was called Alternative, don't you remember 90's kid?
I'd argue that Fab never really had a business, it just had investors willing to finance a growth hacking strategy.

For enough investor dollars you can buy sales and create a convincing hockey stick graph sufficient to attract more investors.

I think investors should insist on a few weeks every few months with ZERO marketing spend so that the cycle can be broken long enough to accurately measure organic growth. Inevitably the founders try to misattribute paid growth for organic growth.

The result would not be investors pulling out, it would be a more rational focus on retaining customers and building a sustainable business. Optimistic metrics don't do anyone any favors.
There are around 100K Christian Scientists in USA, they only must be vaccinated if required by law, and there are religious exemptions most places.
Its essential to regularly update what tasks are done and what tasks are being worked on by whom, but if you use some other system to handle those updates and keep people aware of the updates (e.g., visual artifacts updated as items are completed and pulled for work, as in kanban), then you don't need to do that in the standup meeting.

Identifying issues encountered (both to share knowledge of how issues were resolved and to gather information on addressing barriers that haven't been resolved) is a pretty standard element of standup meetings even when they include progress updates, and certainly a good thing to keep them for if you've moved the status updates to another channel.
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Instagram. I am not a fan of the product, but their story is the poster child for "we can't spend millions on the thing we want to build, so let's build the smallest possible thing that'll work and iterate."
Wonder if the ability to easily refresh the view will make a difference to ios dev used to the wysiwyg approach by xcode for building views.
This must be some strange definition of OS. Phones already run on a Linux kernel - and are already capable of running a GNU/Ubuntu yserland in parallel with an Android userland. Clearly the Android userland works quite well for mobile use, and the desktop userland could work quite well for docked use. It seems odd to claim that the two modes of userland couldn't be more tightly coupled (allowing a single app to expose multiple UIs, like a browswr exposes both a command line interface (firefox www.google.com) and a GUI?
When GOMAXPROCS > 1, your program goes from "everything is executed sequentially" to "everything is maybe executed in parallel." This can expose data race bugs in your code that aren't present when GOMAXPROCS = 1.

(I'd suggest using Go's race detector.)
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They didn't catch up on v8 and libuv and they didn't deliver the supported C++ API.
Congrats on the release, but it's kind of disappointing.