skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come to the conclusion that multiple world governments --working together and against each other-- are attempting and in some cases are able to manipulate the narrative of conversations on the internet to further certain political agendas.

I don't believe most of the crap I hear about teenagers leaving in droves to join ISIS all over the world, this is the red scare all over again. I'm also pretty sure twitter is one of the main social platforms used to manipulate the political/social narrative of the internet. More than half the accounts are probably fake, who knows how many fake "ISIS" accounts there are or even what countries government is making them. I also suspect twitter is being used as some kind of data hub for surveillance because of how fast it caught on in Arab countries and a lot of countries that aren't quite "western", then the western media started to push it in every news broadcast for a while as if anyone in America actually used it.

Surprise surprise! all the terrorists always have twitter accounts. I wouldn't be surprised if the next "home-grown" terrorist has a twitter account.
How is someone in China reading about some Americans a "real" threat? When I think of a real threat, I think of a person with an intent to harm a U.S. resident or citizen, a plan to do it, and the means to launch a plausibly realistic attempt.
This is a pure python solution.
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Back in 2004 Microsoft had an initiative to build a smart client into XP (and future OS versions). I was in a group of people from various companies who went to Redmond and did a 3-4 day workshop where we covered their ideas, how to implement into the networks/software we were operating, etc.

At the time, most of us agreed it was needed, but would never really take off. The implementation on the network-side was somewhat clunky and the user experience (even integrated in the OS) was just also pretty bad.

I wish I could remember what it was called to look at detail now. The idea was to make it easier for Users to connect to public WiFi networks, though had it taken off, I'm sure there would be additional security built-in now.

There are some public WiFi networks (and "Smart Clients" e.g. Boingo/iPass) that have 802.1x integration with networks. This does offer some more security, but still not a perfect solution as Users must have the software installed.

Frankly, I see everything becoming even less secure in the near future. I started building/operating WiFi & wireless networks in 2001. I was out of the industry for a few years, but now I'm back with a company enabling businesses to offer free WiFi as a marketing tool (plug: http://www.gozonewifi.com) I never would have thought the demand was so high for this type of service, but it is. People love it and use it a lot.
...so your personal data being compromised by persons unknown is not something you would deem a problem?
The Oculus App Store Will Be a Walled Garden
Word. When I got to MIT, I found my community. I didn't realize up to then that I had been restraining some of my nerdiness.

Same thing with my wife. When we met, I discovered that I didn't have to censor the literary references... she read way more than I.

I love being around people I can be myself with.
silicon valley is plenty of dark or plain bad stuff
https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/the-back-cha...
I think that this reasoning is completely flawed.

Reading this article, I understand that the author's definition of threat is quite extreme. A threat is not something that "has the potential to annihilate" but is rather "a thing that has the potential to inflict damages".

Dismissing any threats that has not a fully destructive potential as "not important" is sloppy, dangerous thinking.

There is two extremes to this spectrum, you will notice that both have a characteristic in common, they fail to differentiate and nuance threats.

From this fallacy, we can classify the two end of the spectrum as:

- The "paranoid", who genuinely end-up thinking that "the end justify the means" and propagate their hysteria to the rest of the group, effectively becoming the biggest threat to what they were trying protect.

- The "naive", who dismiss anything that has no fully destructive power as "trivial", effectively allowing threats to turn into actual damages, grow to become "fully destructive" (at which point it is too late) or cause a chain of events leading to destruction of what they were effectively trying to protect as well.

Let's not be fooled for a second by the "alliances" and "historical relationships" between the US and its allies.

Nation-States are engaged in a game for survival which is directly linked to growth and domination. A game-theoretic analogy would be the "non-cooperative" game, defined as "a game where players play independently and where any cooperation must be self-reinforcing".

There is exceptions to that rule but they are such of limited scope and impact that we can safely consider them negligible.

Since "Nation-States" lack a system of belief, they are free from the constraints that Humans self-impose onto themselves. A Nation-State will do anything to further its own interest, they are in essence, cold-blooded machines.

The author of this article is forgetting about the 195 other countries in the world who are also playing this game.

Obviously not all of them have credible chances to become big players but you can bet on the fact that all of them will fight tooth and nail for their part of the pie, no matter what it takes.
Remember when everyone was discussing how bad it is for the NSA to know everything, because they can do things like ride in at critical moments in someone's life, like a politician's, and blackmail them with releasing something unless it goes their way?

Same argument holds with China, or anybody who gets the data.

Plus, the ability of attackers is not bounded by your creativity or credulity, or mine. The question isn't whether you or I can come up with something interesting to do with the data, the question is whether anybody who gets their hands on it can.

For the most part, the data really is mundane and irrelevant, sure. I know some government employees I went to college with, none of whom are in any position to do anything all that interesting at China's behest. But it's that .1% percent of data on the movers and shakers, and the people who will be tomorrow's movers and shakers, that is very valuable.

(And I've got a bridge to sell you if you think the full range of the hacking has been revealed yet.)

Edit: Oh, hey, look what I found in my newsfeeds literally one minute later: http://www.wired.com/2015/06/opm-breach-security-privacy-deb... "Federal background checks, after all, are meant to suss out information that might be used by foreign enemies to blackmail a government staffer into turning over classified information. And that stolen information could be used for exactly that extortion purpose, says Chris Eng, a former NSA staffer and now VP of research at the security firm Veracode." They literally got their hands on the forms constructed to contain exactly the information we didn't want foreign governments could get.
You know - the ones you had to start with a crank.
But wouldn't that prevent the portal itself from loading? Kind of a chicken and egg situation.
Sam Selikoff's article on preparing for Ember 2.0 includes a pattern that could easily upgrade into routeable components [0].

[0] http://www.samselikoff.com/blog/preparing-for-ember-2.0/
This topic keeps coming up. I think someone should start a community for older coders. A place to brainstorm and help each other out.

Edit: SilverFox (and Foxess)
Because the US never has been home to unbridled capitalism. We've been home to regulated capitalism, and we've been around now we're forgetting the capitalism part.
"I think you made a false equivocation there--computer science in relation to programming is like geology in relation to ditch digging."

That's a very 1960's attitude. Change 'ditch digging' to 'mining', or 'engineering geology', and I'd agree.

"Besides, math literally is at the core of all of our advancements as humans, and is probably going to be the differentiator for people in the future--kind of like degreed versus not degreed today."

This is rather hilarious to me, considering I've taken a BMath program, which has had zero bearing on my work prospects. Helped me to think & learn, yes.

Math is certainly a component of many areas of advancement, and I believe a certain level of mathematical knowledge is required to be a productive knowledge worker. But to single it out as the core of our advancements is false.

For example, the greatest source of our improved economic equality and growth globally is improved productivity in managed industrial processes brought to light in various phases by Henry Ford, Fredrick Taylor, Taiichi Ohno & Sheigo Shingo, and Edwards Deming. Math, particularly statistical analysis, queuing theory, etc. is a part of all of that, but not the core insight, and not even required to understand and apply the approaches, methods.

Similarly, our greatest achievements in understanding macroeconomic systems come from fairly basic models like IS-LM that have stood the test of time. Advanced mathematical models of the economy, like Real Business Cycle theory have tried to fit reality to their maths, with disastrous policy results. Blind faith in advanced maths placed at the heart of the shadow banking system is what almost destroyed the world economy in 2008.

"It is far more universal than programming"

Philosophy is more universal than all of these topics, but I don't necessarily see it as requiring primary importance.

Math is traditionally one of several liberal arts, and not particularly central. There's also language & literature, history, psychology, science (in various sub-forms), art, music. I'd add systems engineering to this list as another key subject area that's been necessary for our advancement. All of which interact with each other, and all of which are are core to our advancement as humans.
> TerryADavis: Highs and lows balance for everyone.
"try to price at the highest point where people will complain but still buy"
--Probably the most elegant pricing advice I've yet to come across.
For those who don't like PHP there's http://ajenti.org/ (Python) or Webmin+Virtualmin (Perl).
Why don't we see people talk about the downsides of being talented( in sports)..

Why is being talented in a bookish or intellectual sense looked down upon? so much so clever kids are asked to not show of their cleverness.

We don't ask sporty kids (or people) to be less sporty..

Is there an underlying principle at work here that threatens the average populace?
Women’s+World+Cup:+U.S.+Earns+a+Draw+the+Hard+Way
I don't think this is much of a secret.
SMTP is easy. POP3 is easy. IMAP is more complex.

Building a simple email client (say, like mail(1), even including SMTP and POP3 instead of local delivery) is rather easy.

It could be a nice programming project for first year (2nd semester) students, I'd say.

Of course, you can complexify things, adding GUI, IMAP, MIME, displaying inline attached files (pictures, pdf files, etc), SSL/TLS, dealing with local mail folders, spam filters, automatic mail sorting, including an wysiwyg editor, message encryption with key management.

But the basic mail(1)-like client using SMTP and POP3 is easy.
I wonder if there's a difference between the SF Bay Area and the rest of the country, as far as ageism is concerned in tech.
I think you could use this with celery tasks so as long as each worker used a different PID file.
Can you speak more about this? Id be interested in some of the details (you dont have to throw either under the bus, just curious about the nitty gritty stuff)
CIA declassifies 9/11 report
So do you not write your scripts to know if its already running using file locks?
Don't worry, I'm sure the union has your back. What's that? No union in the tech industry?
I am an outsider, but this is true for pretty much anything in life. There is a always a "dark side" to things. Finger pointing SV as being the mother of all evils is a bit naive.

"The grass is always greener..." :)
Not one worth going to war over.
How about 'the rest of the world'?
Very nice work! Your defaults and choices show that you have experience in the field.

What I would really like to see is good documentation and the command line you run on my server every time I hit save. Server administritation is opinionated work, so I would like to know your choices for when I will need to fix the server myself.
I think the way you ask the admin to configure the services himself is great!

Also I would like to see support for alternative nameservers. Bind imo is overkill for most cases. I get good mileage from powerdns.

A few minor issues:

- customers should be allowed to add domains themselves
- rules for passwords should be shown beforehand
I think my solution is simpler, but their timeout command line argument has inspired me!
I guess it is the same old fallacy that crept into some big software companies long time ago.

The fallacy is called "speed":

Some companies are just looking for young, smart people who can solve problems fast.

This fallacy has some correct side: Software development is most of the time about solving problems and when you can solve them faster, you will have the software faster.

The fallacy part is, that fast is the only quality you need.

With many, smart and young developers right of the college, you can create a huge pile of software in short time ... but you can also create a huge pile of problems in a short time. That is the reason, there are so many quality problems and security troubles around. Those young, smart people just lack the experience to make good design decisions ... and those decisions do not end, when the rough design is done.

Those people make fast decisions, but they just lack the experience to oversee the consequences of those decisions.

Without also having experienced developers around, which can share their experiences and guide other people, many companies are doomed to have bad quality software also in the future.
Apparently, it is now illegal in the US to account for a worker as a low fixed cost capital asset, and instead we must treat all workers as a higher variable cost fungible commodity input. This makes a big difference on how one treats that piece of economic production equipment. (Or "cog in the wheel", we might call it?)

In any case - it's horrifying. I know that the US can't do much about mandating working conditions in factories in other countries. And we can't do much (this is in reaction to a comment ITT asserting that the shareholders shouldn't get their return until this is taken care of) about companies that are not headquartered (nor traded) in the US. (LG is, as you know, not an American company)

That said - this is one of those things that the company's liability insurance should be for. I don't know the mechanics involved, but it seems as if as a condition of importing a product into the US for retails sales, then one could ask for an annual report of claims: Number of factory workers, # of injuries; # of claims; # of settlements; amounts (in number of year equivalents of their normal salary). This could probably be avoided by shell company arrangements, so it may be both bureaucratically onerous and hard to enforce fairly.
>but this theory is supported by simple logic of buddhist philosophy.

but not supported by science.
Let's see - you can get these experienced engineers, who will build a proper platform, a robust architecture, a decent code base, and given the fact they have delivered before, a solution that will provide what the customers want.
Or
You can have these wet behind the ears fuckers straight from college who will just download a metric shit ton of code via gem install and npm, and then rebuild several wheels in JS, whilst spending all their time on the company engineering blog wanking about how great they are?
And the vcs choose youth over experience every time.
I do, but now with Highlander I've created a generic solution.
Huge difference. CA companies and investors (e.g. YC) specifically require your age to the interviewers. Using YC as an example, many interviewers are happy to publicly boast about using age as primary factor - I can link to to some comments written here on HN.

In some other places, e.g. NYC, this is all generally believed to be highly legally-risky and no respectable employer would ever consider doing it.

Shame on you CA.
I've already read most of the blog posts that make up the bulk of this book, but I'll still be buying the book to support Axel's work, and you should too. You won't be disappointed.
How to Avoid Making Incompetent Hires at Your Startup
"Saying that the US has no threats is forgetting about the 195 other countries in the world who are aspiring to be as much powerful as possible."

I believe that this is exactly the way of thinking that is being criticized in the article. Very few of those 195 nations dream of removing the US from the position of world power, and even fewer are capable of it.
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This article is poorly written. It provides no background or supporting references to bolster its claim. I find it frustrating in the extreme. Threats do not have to be overtly threatening. A person in the room that dislikes you and has a lot of money and time can be just as threatening as a person in the room claiming to have a gun at home and an aversion towards your faith/gender/culture.

I come from a place where people blindly believe the US is the best[sic] nation in the world. Anyone that disagrees is obviously some "egghead/pinko/etc" who can't appreciate the sacrifice of others. This, the opposite extreme, is a s frustrating as the words of the dullard who penned this piece. I confront it constantly in an attempt to represent the middle path. In my years of argument, discussion, and reassessment, i have come to realize that nothing is quite what it seems. To make absolute statements, for or against anything, is to place oneself in an inherently weak position intellectually.

The author shrugs at Russia's expansionist aggression, pointing out their economic weakness as a reason they are no threat to the US. The approach to China and Venezuela is similarly misguided. Threats != weapons. Europe's relative peace since world war 2 is largely because of the US being extremely security minded.

...but who knows. Maybe Russia bullying its neighbors is just as symptom of it being misunderstood. Maybe China steals technology and data because they are just in that adolescent "acting out" phase. Maybe the world is really a nice place and the US is ruining the party for everyone.

:|
Youth also doesn't ask complicated questions, like why is the VC getting 10% and I'm getting 0.05% when I'm doing 10% of the work and the VC 0.05%.
Not really since you'd still need the game assets.
The lede to this article is silly. IQ leads to substantial difference between groups, but is not perfectly correlated with success, so that there is still substantial variation between individuals with the same IQ. What is do difficult to understand about this?

> the Termites’ [1,500 pupils with an IQ of 140 or more] average salary was twice that of the average white-collar job.
> Terman concluded that “intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated”.
> Over the course of their lives, levels of divorce, alcoholism and suicide were about the same as the national average.
> Why don’t the benefits of sharper intelligence pay off in the long term?

They do pay off on average for certain measures.
Mirror: https://archive.is/57N99
@zxcvcxz, you have crossed the line into stupid. Your idea is reminiscent of AntiVax people or homeopaths. Here is some light reading for you to contemplate.
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You can dive right into Ember with this book with zero previous experience: https://pragprog.com/book/mwjsember/deliver-audacious-web-ap...

I've read lots of Ember books and have seen a couple of screencasts including CodeSchool's Warming up With Ember and hands down this book is the best I've read. There's also https://leanpub.com/ember-cli-101 - but I'm not sure if the author has updated it to use pods and components since the last time I've read it.

It's in beta, but in it's current state it's good enough.

The idea right now is to create as much as you can as self-contained Ember components and pod structure. I know that doesn't make much sense if you're new to Ember, but imagine your project structure being:

/app
/login
/register
/profile
/profileedit
/forgotpassword
/about
/contact
So are you of the opinion that if the US made an exit from the world stage today, there would be no power struggle?
The article is interesting enough, but the thing that amazed me was "The world's longest ongoing illustration":
http://www.foreverscape.com/
Beautiful math can become useful math: From triangles to computer graphics
How is this a dark secret? This is true for almost all industries is it not? Most business want young hires because the work more (in quantity, not talking about quality here), and can be trained to fit the organization's needs.
> it gives you the option. Android and google present no such option.

Umm, what? Did you really not know you can search with Bing on Android? You can also not choose to add a Google account and instead use alternative app store on any Android phone by the way. People user Google services because they like them and find value in them. No different than on ios.
It seems making it "pay a lot to win" isn't that much better than straight pay-to-win. I never understood how these players could tolerate broken mechanics in such an expensive game.
It is an editorial in the opinion section. agreed references help but ive always assumed words in the opinions section of papers can be regarded as just that
It's the reverse in a lot of places. It's common in the Baltimore / Washington area to base salaries on years of experience, education level, and industry certifications. I've applied for jobs where the first question HR asks is do you have at least 10 years of experience. These jobs pay as good or better in absolute $ terms than any salary range I've ever seen for engineers in the valley and if you look at it from a cost of living adjusted value the valley pays a lot less.

My two cents is that preferring young employees has a lot to do with the fact that they will work for a lot less money and put up with housing situations that more mature people wouldn't tolerate.
"Going to war" was not a part of my question at all.
It's not entirely unusual. I've been a member for about 6 years now and, candidly, it's in a permanent state of disarray. I've not been there in about 7 months as I've been out of London but I don't imagine much has changed.

I would say - don't let it put you off. The Hackspace is more than the sum of its tools. In any event there's a lot there including some fantastic equipment. The out of order equipment is more often a work in progress than it is abandoned kit.
How is that complicated? Their game, their rules. You can start your own company and keep 100% of the profits -- your game, your rules.