skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ok because:

- only the "good guys" do it

- No one ever abuses it.

- Even if someone abuses it they would never just get a slap on the wrist (maybe just fired, and security clearance revoked) rather than criminal charges.

- The disincentive for abuse is "patriotism" and no one has ever decided not to be a "patriot"... ever.

- Absolutely zero people in government seek out power, or have weird ideas about controlling what other people can do or think.

- No one in the intelligence "community" would ever abuse surveillance to (e.g.) blackmail politicians for funding/votes/more power. Because every single one of them always make 100% perfect moral choices.

- It's only used for "threats to national security"... except when it isn't, but the winning the "War on Drugs"/spying on animal rights activists/making sure US companies win bids for foreign contracts/making sure that the correct politicians are re-elected really all fall under the umbrella of "National Security" if you think about it...

/s
Oh man I want to be a kid five years from now.
If you're doing this for a living the last thing you should be doing is relying on Google ads. The publications that make money at this have sales staffs (and much higher CPMs, and no CLC campaigns)
From talking with a friend who recently visited and had a magic band, they still do require the finger print in addition to the magic band in order to gain entrance to the park.

I have no idea what kind of fingerprinting system is used.

My friend also said that the near field RFID is used to unlock your hotel room, at least in some of the hotels. Which is neat since you don't need anything other than the band to enjoy everything at Disney, but probably would be a fun target to reverse engineer :)
I think the bigger concern (which has been backed up by recent research) is that there are vulnerabilities in the hardware that might be exploited to install malicious software. If that software lives in a BIOS or a hard disk firmware wiping your hard disk will not protect you.
In the enterprise Java world, the comfy auto-completing IDE is a smart strategic choice when "managing the environment" means weeks of frustration at installing, configuring and fitting together by trial and error an application server like IBM Websphere and the application.
Funny tools like Maven, Subversion and certain Eclipse plugins add extra puzzles and unpredictability for the true amateur, but the normal unforeseen complications are usually enough to forfeit any hope of good automation.
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so what does it mean to performance?
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Exactly. No publishing site serious about making money sells anything on a CPC. It's CPM or leads, all the way.
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It sounds like you guys are not handling errors well. One can write a broken server in any language. Node-restarting tools are purely for the use case usually covered by crashing threads in other languages- that of shit really going wrong.
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There is the concept of pruning in the original paper[1] which basically removes all fully-spent transaction trails.
That does not yield a reasonable upper bound on the size though[2]. Beyond pruning, it seems you need to trust another network component (external wallet, server).

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability#Storage
[2] http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/4650/upper-limit-...
I'd love feedback on the listing, I want to make it the best it can be!
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Indeed. What the hell is with this "right to be offended" anyway? Not being easily offended is a sign of being a mature adult.
I think your fonts are messed up. They look like Japanese kanji, or missing, so just empty boxes.
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Oh my. Must. stop. reading.

Thank you!
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yeah, another bitcoin pipe dream...
what's needed is probably something like integrating a wallet+bitreserve+exchange+payment processor in a single business. And then forking/enhancing btc itself. Some of the top btc companies have got ridiculous investment rounds that could be used towards that goal, easily.
HN really needs a feature where you can combine multiple links into one discussion. Techmeme does this very well.
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No clue, but "kukuruku" sounds a lot like the Russian onomatopoeia for the sound a rooster makes, and the submitter has the word "skazka" in his or her name, which is the Russian word for "tale" or "story".
Do you not remember the Prism program that really got the anti-NSA sentiment running? In that case, they weren't listening for communication. They were compelling private companies to hand it over.

If we go all HTTPS, the NSA will just step up its pressure. Because the warrants can come with gag orders, we'll never know who's giving our data up. Hardware makers, SSL providers, data carriers, and destination servers can all be compelled by the U.S. as long as we allow it to operate as a legitimate authority over our personal data.
Wow, that's great news. Thanks for the correction!
Etymylogically, "million" derives via French from Italian "milione", the augmentative of "mille", thus a thousand thousand (MM). In British English "billion" originally meant "a million million" a la French "milliard", but has shifted to America "thousand million".
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It seems like an alternative to Medium.com. I suspect that if people continue to use it, it will get the same initial penalty as Medium submissions.
Hey can we not just make up stacks that spell things?

Believe it or not, each one of these components are choices you should make an independent educated decision about, and then make sure that those educated decisions integrate well. Integration with best-in-class solutions is A criterion, but not the only one.

Like, can you imagine someone using a stack like this to build a to-do list app, just because?

Also, what I'm seeing is someone lumping one of the best graph databases I've seen in with some utter schlock technologies just to force a catchy analogy to a separate anagram.
Try restarting the app.
thanks. I was looking all over going where the @!#$! is the damn interview...
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I'm the founder. Kukuruku Hub is a collaborative blogging for engineers, designers, etc, meaning that any user can write an article and publish it to an appropriate hub. Kukuruku is more like a hobby than a real business.
Interesting project.

I see in some classes you set the object "self" to "this" and use it later in anonymous functions. That seems to be a common pattern in a lot of peoples code.

It seems like naming the "self" object something more descriptive and specific would make sense in general, but I can't help wondering if there is a more fundamental reason for using "self".

Is this common in OO parlance for a reason?
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That is so unprofessional I can't fathom it.
Never work for a company that values professionalism so low.
Same feeling here. Thanks OP. Really needed a new comic in my life.
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There is though, I can't recall the specific buts I believe in world three the books talk about how the main character needs to be immune to the princesses' power (or charm, or something) and then the level introduces you to the items that aren't affected by time reversal.
Wow. My cards seem to have no more than a 6 month max-time-until-fraud despite extreme care, so I'm sold on this.
I have a friend who contributes Windows bug fixes to his favorite open source projects. It is a fairly miserable slog for him.

On the other hand, it's probably because of people like me: I really don't like using Windows. Everything is weird and designed for people not like me (not to mention the lack of F/OSS). :-/
Consider that someone might have incentives to communicate with a potential client far more nicely than to a person they dislike who probably will never be their client.
There is a backup tool on github[1], I use it exported my feed when a saw the news.

[1] https://github.com/zverok/clio
I doubt this is a company-wide problem. I think this is an employee with a serious inability to appreciate boundaries, and he should be removed from his position of responsibility.
That's great to see. Thank you for the correction. I did not know that information was available. I wonder if there are others like me who didn't know this because they've been doing the plain-vanilla EXPLAIN like always.
It's a little discomforting that we're hoping that corporations, presumably guided by a profit motive, will defend us against the government formed for the people (though more heavily influenced by other corporations). Even if Apple is trustworthy for a company, I'm not going to enjoy the future in which we pick our favorite companies to enact policy.

Now, this is obviously happening to Google, et al, as well, so a joint action by the captains of industry — an appeal to the public more than the court — will be more effective.
You're aware that's not real, right?
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Valid art is only art that is shared on your terms?
I agree with you about firmware, but you will notice a very important overlap between the firmware and the software sectors here, in that it tends to be true that you end up with closed software to match the closed hardware (cellphone radio modems having DMA to the same address space as the CPU all under proprietary firmware and software blobs is a good example). I very much agree that we need open hardware, but it doesn't seem to be much of a priority for any of the big players that I am aware of.

Regarding the weakening of crypto standards, this is why I think everyone is wrong when they tell you not to roll your own. Even William Binney (NSA whistleblower) has been saying so recently.
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You have a point. While I don't think being an asshole is a part of hacker culture, I can see a lot of things hacker say and do be labelled as "offensive" or "unprofessional", because they break unwritten rules about behaviour. Most of the time I saw that happening it was because hackers tend to state things directly instead of engaging in political correctness that is perceived to be a waste of time.
Isn't this really a bet on turning all of your data into streams and moving to do everything in real time? If it is, I whole heartedly agree!
Hah, same for Greece, although it's "kikiriku" here. We have a wafer candy thing called "kukuruku", which makes the site's name funny to me. And also delicious.
If the analogy is billions to millions,
BB = Billion * Billion
I've never run into that issue, ~90% of our users are on iOS8 or above. With iOS you can safely support the current version and last version while only pissing off 2-3% of the customers which is exceptional compared to most platforms. I also do Android development, Don't even get me started on what a mess that is, complete opposite..
Ah, I see. I just found it odd that there's been an uptick of submissions from it lately.
I think you are misunderstanding the incentives that are setup via the Starfighter business model. You are thinking of them on the QUALIFICATION side of the pipeline. That is, you have entered a companies hiring pipeline and they are using Starfighter to determine whether you should stay in it or not.

The Starfighter team is trying to change the ACQUISITION side of the pipeline. They are stepping in to the space where traditional recruiters feed applicants into the pipeline. In marketing terms they are generating leads. Their value proposition to the employer is that the leads they generate will be of higher caliber than the traditional contingent recruiters. Their value proposition to you is that Starfighter is a) fun and/or b) at least better than dealing with a traditional recruiter. Your Starfighter experience replaces your resume/cover letter that gets you into the pipeline. Not your ability to navigate the pipeline once you get into it.

If your resume/traditional recruiters/responding to web ads/word of mouth is more valuable than Starfighter CTFs fun - hassle + employer payoff than you are quite simply not a good fit for the Starfigher Recruitment agency. Just like you wouldn't be a good fit for a DBA centric recruitment agency if you weren't a DBA.

If I'm disappointed about anything in the announcement, its that it is obvious to me anyway, that they are NOT trying to replace the current qualification steps in a hiring pipeline. Because to me, getting rid of that time wasting/unproductive process is the big value add, not shoveling more devs into the top of the pipeline (management at my company may feel differently).
I see nothing wrong with what he did. She was not hired for objective reasons. The fact that he asked her out after is completely orthogonal. Are there any MEN left on HN?
* Say no.

* Forward copies of emails to the company's leadership/HR department.

* Keep printed copies of the emails handy in case he decides to retaliate with lawyers.

* Keep your own legal counsel on speed-dial.

* Move on with your life.

There's not much you can do from a legal standpoint, with regards to grievance/redress. Escalating the situation through contacting his boss/HR carries a risk, even though you have the moral high-ground, but it could work in getting him punished. Or it could achieve absolutely nothing.

Or he has a long history of this abusive behavior and this is the last straw that will get him ejected from the company for being a serious liability/generally unpleasant.

He has your resume, and he's exhibited awful behavior -- legal counsel should definitely be at your disposal on a moments notice.

Naturally, if it really interests you, you can consult a lawyer to verify whether there are any punitive measures you can apply against him. The OP hasn't indicated that the guy has harassed her per se, so I don't know if she has any legal standing regarding that.
This is true. If I got a "$100 better than your best competitive offer" ad when I was car shopping, I would have clicked through. There was enough data on my phone to suggest this was the case.
What, do you consider 7 years as "long term" for social evolution?

And yes, count me along the people that expect fully self driving cars to be available in 7 years. I also expect truck driving to be an extinct profession by about there (10 years at most). City driving will probably live longer, and people'll probably keep driving their own cars.
Maybe he ran out of things to say. Some artist die before their time, others sadly won't shut up and end up ruining their own art.

Anyway, as far as I am to understand he couldn't see himself escaping the shadow of C&H, so he secluded himself and put his art in the attic, feeling that its release wouldn't better the world as long as people would just respond to it as "this isn't C&H"
> It's just not. It's not easier than swiping a magnetic strip and signing something, or typing in sixteen digits (or using autofill or the site's previously saved CC info) and pressing buy.

It's much easier to take your phone, open an app, and scan a QR code, than to take out your credit card, transcribe a 16 digit number, check the expiration date, and enter the CSC (or is it CVC?).

Sure, for websites where your information is already saved, or if you leave all your credit card information saved in the browser, then this isn't easier, but they're still pretty comparable in my opinion. Even if it was slightly more work (which I personally disagree with), I would find that worth not having my credit card information saved by who knows how many third parties.

> It's not good that I can't demand a return or have recourse in the event of fraud.

I've never had to go to my credit card company for a refund, since most places I buy from will take refunds with a receipt or proof of purchase (and if they don't, why would I buy from them?). Fraudulent purchases are another issue, but the risk of fraud is lower with bitcoin versus credit cards (no single number that allows access to all funds, a properly secured wallet is impossible to steal, although I know wallet security is still not the easiest thing to have).

> And it's not a benefit that with bitcoin I have to spend the money first (to buy bitcoin) and wonder if it will hold its value, versus just buying stuff when I feel like it on credit and covering the transaction within 30 days at no interest cost.

This is a very real problem, and what I think will truly determine whether bitcoin gains anything near a large following.
Is there an easy way to port this to IntelliJ?
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I still don't see how Watterson doing nothing is harmful or hypocritical. He felt like he didn't have anything more to give. He refused to put out something less than his standards. While I'm sad he never found anything worth saying, I'm glad he didn't waste words saying nothing.
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OK, I was willing to at least entertain your comment until that last sentence there. As a bona-fide MAN on HN, the anecdote reads as extremely slimy to me. And it's pretty clear that women have to deal with this kind of BS constantly.
Potentially very useful but at the same time a little limited - it's tremendously 'tech news' oriented for everything I searched for. Terms like "furniture" and "wind turbines" returned Gizmodo which seems unlikely to be the most relevant site out there for either term. Is that just intentional for the market segment you're starting out with? Or something that the /hackernews in the URL affects?
Better qualified to make statements like what? She hasn't said anything about the document except to pretend to misread part of it, and call it bad grammar. The rest is insulting Linus and the kernel devteam.

The twitter thread does contain some actual criticisms: "it’s uselessly vague, blames the victims of abuse rather than the perpetrators, and lays out no actual process for violations"; "the 1st graf def sets up some apologist precedents" - but Hypatia is not the one making them. (I don't think I agree with these criticisms, but they're better than insults.)

I'm sure she has behaved admirably in other situations. In this situation, she is not behaving admirably. She is not communicating well through difficult times. I don't buy the "not much space" argument, because she's not even trying to be constructive in the 140 characters that she has. (I'm not saying she's morally obligated to provide constructive criticism, I'm saying that if she wanted to do so, she could be a lot more constructive than this.)

I'm not saying anything about Hypatia in general. Maybe she's having a bad day. If I encounter her in another situation, I'll try not to judge her based on this incident. The fact remains that in this particular twitter thread, she is behaving poorly.
It is abundantly clear that the deep state will not accept losing these tools. Even if by some miracle someone was elected with a strong mandate to eliminate privacy abuses, the deep state would lie and obfuscate as much as needed to maintain and expand its total surveillance capabilities. We have to accept that the cat is not going back into the box, and that we now need to focus on finding adequate defenses, both technical and social.
Our outrage tanks are being emptied by Internet arguments. Just as Apple's got both ResearchKit and Apple Pay on soda machines, perhaps it could create ActivismKit to balance out the distractions they (and every smartphone maker) enable.
Oof.

The poster should forward that email to whoever else at the company can deal with it so that hopefully someone else doesn't have to deal with it in the future.
For someone that's not very familiar with garbage collectors, does this mean that the GC will reduce or eliminate execution pauses that are common in GC'd languages?
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It could be seen as spiteful, or it could be seen as a compromise. Bear in mind that not all kernel developers have the same views on civility, codes of conducts, etc. and some will not want to lose face by being seen to "capitulate completely to SJWs" (as some of them would probably see it). Arguably it's better to have this kind of compromise than nothing at all.
And secondly forking is not 'right'. Rights have to be codified, are guaranteed by someone and can be taken away.

Does a software license not satisfy this definition?
I haven't been keeping up; where does Blackphone land on having a secure baseband? This always seemed like the most glaring security hole.
Their jobs page provides some hints as to what they're up to: https://21.co/#jobs
hopefully, they take me up on the advice I gave Bitpay: http://cointelegraph.com/news/113255/keeping-score-at-the-20... (see "The solution")
The FISA courts have been authorized by an Act of Congress. That's what the checks and balances are for, though, and the courts can overturn it.

I wonder if the system will stand uo though. The addiction to bigbdata is strong once tasted, and spy agencies actually enjoy getting away with stuff.
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I suspect he was referring to the FriendFeed founders giving their user community the middle finger by cashing out to Zuck. People are going to do what is in their own self interest so you can’t exactly blame the founders for that.

As I recall FriedFeed’s growth had plateaued so they probably figured it wasn’t going to compete with FB and Twitter. Mobile and apps were also starting to take the world then too.
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Real men do not abuse a position of power to pressure women into accepting a date.
No, performance and participant identities will be public only to the extent participants want them to be. Again back to our incentives: it does not in fact work to our benefit for any random employer in the world to be able to query our site to qualify a candidate. Those companies are free-riding off our work. :)

We need participants to make the game fun (for all of us). We can't do things that make participants wary of us.

This is fuzzy because I didn't let Patrick write about what the game was (that's entirely we're-about-to-ship-itis). It'll be less fuzzy soon.
Most definitely. There's a whole series of them: http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/
Stacks were absolutely great back in the day, when getting getting all the moving parts required some legwork. I remember the LAMP installer for Windows - I was up-and-running and making a PHP app in minutes. One of the most usable pieces of software to come out of the open source community, it was great.

These days those moving parts are usually an "npm install", "go install" or "apt get" away. Meaning that this:

> different versions

Becomes significantly more important than having a single install bundle.
What if the voltage kills someone? Is it not too dangerous?

Lesson is not to use/touch the USB stuffs not belongs to you. Good moral story for 2nd grader.
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Yet somehow this guy wormed his way into interviewing her. Someone let that happen, and someone gave this guy interviewing responsibilities.
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