skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say that as if all LE would be on the same side. They wouldn't. The military is another factor altogether. Depending on the circumstances, it's fairly likely that some fraction of both LE and military would be on the revolutionary side of the matter. Civil war is a complicated matter.

Another poster already covered the heavily armed citizenry so I will defer on that one, except maybe to say that I don't find it alarming.
> "Advanced weaponry" is of no use without the will to use it. As an extreme example, a few nukes could terminate ISIS with extreme prejudice and collateral damage, but I don't know of any serious "hawk" even advocating their use.

Very good point. Air support of any kind would be unhelpful in a revolution because the government would, understandably, be reluctant to bomb the hell out of its own population/economic centers.
I really hope EU doesn't propose any more bailouts / help to them until they sober up and go through the withdrawal and all the grief stages.
The Greeks were getting a shitty deal, and knew they were getting a shitty deal. Good for them for decisively telling the Germans to get stuffed (who conveniently forget about their WWII related debts being forgiven).

Iceland demonstrated that it's possible to say no to perpetual debt peonage and go on to do well. If Greece has to leave the Euro, so be it. The Euro made sense as the Deutschfranc, but that's about it.
How do you explain Steve Jobs, who stepped into the nearly bankrupt Apple and transformed it into the largest company in the world?
Mostly because companies still look at software as being a line item on the budget rather than the foundation of their business.

The thing is whether they realize it or not every company is now has to be a software company, if they aren't then a software company will put them out of business within 10 years.
A route organizer to reduce your carbon footprint and save time
That's the way I read it, and no, it doesn't really answer the question -- it just begs the question. Most "good" projects are totally irrelevant to your business. Someone has to pick and choose, or you rapidly end up with the team situation I described: lots of people working on "their own problems", and only a few people working on the core problems of the business.

Your second paragraph is an assertion -- maybe it's true that one project like React makes up for all of the failed initiatives that the author describes (i.e. multiple person-years of effort), but that's a claim that deserves some evidence. Even if it's true, there's a level of management implied, or else everyone would spend their work hours chasing the same, captivating rabbits. My suspicion is that there's a lot more selection happening inside Facebook than the author lets on.

From experience, it's easy to get to a place where you have a lot of smart, well-intended people working on things that just don't matter. Saying "the best projects win" doesn't really solve anything, because you still have to define "best". Either that, or it's true that this is just a "champagne problem", and the Facebooks and Googles of the world can just throw dollars at anything, in the hope that something sticks.
This might have been the cover story, but is VERY far from the actual reason the "EU project" exists.

As with all similar noble initiatives, the EU has much less to do with fairness and much more with power concentration (as is becoming exceedingly obvious).
You're right. Occupy movement is an example. It was so effectively quelled. $15 or $30 minimum wages can't change the divide. It's just a ploy to keep the masses happy in the matrix.
The uncollected tax receipts graphic is shocking: 89%.
No wonder they can't afford their spending.
> As a side-note, why don't people ever talk about testing? And not just linking to some tools, but actually talking about how you figure out what things are worth testing, and how you test em.

I have a screencast on this subject at http://www.letscodejavascript.com . It's been going for three years and has tons of content on this subject.
The current situation of Tox
Have you read the article before posting?
OK, fair point. So is there nothing like that available in Windows? I had thought Win 7 and 8 had similar features, but maybe only for the desktop, not applications?
Here is Bloomberg animation for european debt crisis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8xAXJx9WJ8

I kept this in my bookmarks more than a year.

Euro is failed project by its core because monetary policy without fiscal polity doesn't work.
900 miles per year... You definitely don't need a car at 900 miles per year. Get zipcar or rent a car when you occasionally need it.
The Security Researchers that I work with, and myself included, usually follow the RFPolicy:

http://www.wiretrip.net/p/rfpolicy.html

This responsible disclosure policy was first put together by rain.forest.puppy. (One of the first people to discover SQL injection, and one of the founders of the OSVDB.) We have had good results with it, and nearly all the people that we have disclosed vulnerabilities to have found it to be more than fair, and motivating. The researchers have found that it also gets results quickly.

By default it requires you to disclose that you are following this policy, disclose the vulnerability, as directed in the document, then give them 5 days to respond. If you have done everything you could to contact them, and they will not respond, then disclose.

However, as others here have been saying, it may take a while to fix this problem. If they do respond, they may want to "negotiate" more than 5 days to fix the issue. That's great. Get some details, set up a reasonable timeline with them, and get a contact's information. Then it's up to you to hold them accountable. Sometimes this means disclosing on the agreed upon deadline, other times it means following up and seeing if more time should be given before disclosing.

The main issue, as you point out, is keeping users/data safe. If the company is unwilling to work with you, not disclosing could put other people at risk, because you didn't stop unsuspecting users from signing up for the service. On the other hand, disclosing without working with the company can unnecessarily put the current users/data at risk.

It's good to have a balance. The RFPolicy has helped me to have that balance when doing responsible disclosure. Give it a look over. It's not too late to use the RFPolicy now.
As I prepare for trip #4 up that mountain (keep running into friends that haven't been and want me to take them), I'm surprised at the changes in the past ten or fifteen years since I first went up there. (Of course, those that climbed it >35 years ago will note even bigger changes.) The crater used to be a lot deeper before 2004 and the difference is readily apparent. The lava dome has grown, and now there's a new glacier. Not bad for something that's supposed to change along "geological timelines".

As for the article's quoted complaints about the cost of the new guided hikes, just the shear amount of toilet paper I see every time I go up (let alone other trash) there makes me somewhat supportive of the idea of requiring adult supervision to go via an easier route that acts as less of a filter than the much harder summer route to the rim.
Calm the hyperbole :)

GP is right that the EU is the result of a long process that started with the goal of preventing another big European war. You are also right in that a large part of what is happening is a result of power politics.
How do so many CEOs fire people on the spot without any apparent consequence?
It also makes it easier to sell things on a Europe wide level rather than a country-by-country level.
You're definitely on to something. Sweden's working on a neutral pronoun.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/01...

To respond to the point on recognizing when to use honorifics - various languages around the world conjugate singular third person honorifics to a plural verb, and that's what I was referring to.

I wrote the article and will happily claim it's flawed - it tries to take on an old, deep problem with not too many clear outs. It also tries to focus on a specific problem many institutions around the world have with unnecessary bias invoking writing styles. It tries to provide options that can be used practically, while understanding trade-offs.
There is extensive discussion on the 5 hour earlier post of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833375

Probably best to comment there instead of here.
Awful page to link to since it features (a) an auto-play video ad, (b) click-text hidden ads, and (c) a full-page auto-popup after x seconds. Sheesh.

Try this instead:

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ20...

Page about the 1st shipwreck found:

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ20...
Horrible idea. If they know who he is, and they find it on there, they're likely to try and hit him with legal bullshit if they're a dumb company.
Anonymous India hacked BSNL website and compromised more than 30M records
I got about two minutes into the fibonacci tutorial before I couldn't stand watching any more.

If you don't mind my asking, why do you feel this is an advancement?
Grammar does matter. This article tries to isolate cases in which we can remove implicit gender bias. Sweden's neutral pronoun may be the answer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/01...
You berated this person...

I disagree.

Telling someone that they are sticking their fingers in their ear
(strongly implying that they're acting like a child) and then
telling them to "level up" clearly conveys vitriol.

I think @csvan shared an immature opinion, and I'm happy to stand by that.

It's not a personal attack. Everyone has shared immature or half-informed opinions; it's a human thing to do. Do I think @csvan is a bad person? I sincerely doubt it.

Vitriol means "bitterness or cruelty". Why do you think it vitriolic for me to treat @csvan's comments as immature?

He made his comments because he considers himself a good guy, defending meritocracy. I'm making my comments because there's plenty of evidence of flawed assumptions rotting away underneath that meritocracy. I'm not angry with him, or bitter, and I don't want to hurt his feelings. All I want to do is change his mind, and whoever else reads this thread. Yours too.

This is a post about Javascript. Let's talk about that...

No, this is a post about "JS The Right Way" and all it entails, authors, visual design, and content, including the list of people to follow. Stop deflecting.

...my own opinion is that I'm sick of hearing about women's plight in the first world.

The "first world" comment is red herring; just because a baby dies or a bomb goes off in some distant country doesn't mean we should ignore lesser problems closer to home. That leaves you being "sick of hearing about women's plight". If you were just bored of hearing about it you'd just stop listening, so this is something else.

Am I wrong? Does hearing about the tech industry being inhospitable to women make you angry? If so, why?
All the arguing about whether "women have more rights than men" is part of the problem

Why?
Ask HN: European cities with surf and tech jobs
What cities in Europe have a decent tech job scene, and are within an hour of good surf? The jobs don't necessarily have to be start-ups, but can be.

Lisbon sounds like it could fit the bill, possibly somewhere in the Netherlands too, but I'm surprised at how rare it seems to be.
In France, the rift opened in 2005 with the rejection of the Constitution by the people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_European_Constitution_r...

It looks like the Treaty of Versailles story. Very dark perspectives...
Greece needs to get their house in order: the stats on tax avoidance are huge. There was a greek restauranteur on the BBC earlier complaining that due to the ATM shutdown he couldn't pay his suppliers, even though he had the money, since they preferred cash. In the UK you wouldn't dare say that about your business on TV.

However that's a generational change: Greece can't and won't be fast enough to do this and will never be able to meet it's creditors. Greece shouldn't have been admitted into the Euro in the early 2000s, this is now the result of that unwise decision.
They miss the most obvious aspect of being gorgeous for women - men will pursue them relentlessly for sex. Probably few young girls are adequately prepared for the onslaught.

I've had women friends who fit into the gorgeous category. In time I found that they were introduced to sex at an early age by adult men. They all had ongoing sexual affairs with multiple older wealthy men, and all were damaged goods mentally. The relationships often started as professional, e.g., doctor, optometrist, psychologist, etc. and became sexual later.
It's not trash, though.
This is only partially true: with online storage, it's relatively easy to make bit-for-bit identical copies even if the physical storage medium changes over the years because there's always an overlap period when a technology falls out of favor.

Where it gets expensive is when you neglect to do that and then 50 years from now someone is pulling a Zip disk or LTO tape out of a box and wondering how to read it.

In contrast, analog formats will always lose quality as you copy it so you have a strong incentive to make copies which will last as long as possible. If you get the right material it might be transferable in the future with no work – e.g. high-quality photographic prints on archival-quality stock – or you might end up needing to build exotic equipment which can do things like optically scan records to reconstruct an audio waveform (http://irene.lbl.gov) or deal with media which has disintegrated (https://www.nedcc.org/audio-preservation/irene-blog/2014/08/...). One look through e.g. http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/index.htm... should be enough to see limited a time period “no extra work” is valid for.

The common theme for both formats is that it's critical to maintain the ability to read and make copies. Once something falls out of common usage the cost to rebuild that capacity go up dramatically because you're no longer enjoying mainstream economies of scale and the work will increasingly require skilled technicians using bespoke tools.

This can be particularly bad with digital formats if the use of DRM means that few/no people are legally allowed to create tools during the period where many of the original creators are still available for consultation.
I can't refute your statement "Greece apparently provides Scandinavian-grade benefits on Alabama-grade revenues" because it is very vague. In either case the onus is on the person making the statements to back them up not on other persons to refute them.

The reason I made the comparison with retirement age is because you can ask a random person on the street in Sweden or other country whether Greeks retire earlier than the EU average or not and (I'm sure) almost everyone people will say that they retire earlier even though that is false.

Bluntly, you made two statements 1) Greece apparently provides Scandinavian-grade benefits and 2) [has] Alabama-grade revenues. Back them up with evidence or else you are just parroting back what someone else told you.
I don't understand why the pro-gun community doesn't take a stronger stance against mass surveillance, "swamping" a group of law enforcement requires communication that can't be deciphered, and the general public has little interest in that. History tells us that communication wins wars (think cracking the enigma machine), but we're losing the ability to communicate privately at an alarming rate. How do you plan to "swarm" when the safest method of communication is the carrier pigeon?
> The bit that I've not seen mentioned prominently in many articles on this is that every billion Euros that is forgiven from Greek debt or that is provided in aid, is a billion Euros that must come from the other Eurozone economies, and by extension their taxpayers.

It's not at all a zero sum game. The other nations benefit significantly:

1) They gain political and economic stability for the institutions involved (the EU, the Euro, etc.) and for Europe in general.

2) They avoid an economic and political meltdown in a European country. Such situations spawn other problems (crime, refugees, political extremism, etc.) and those problems tend to spread across borders.

3) They gain a more prosperous and stable trading partner, which helps everyone.

4) They gain the precedent that when they are in trouble, for whatever reason, other nations will help them. Germany might recall the forgiveness of their massive crimes (and war debts) by their neighbors, enabling them to become the largest economy in Europe today. (EDIT: And all the creditor nations are depending on another country to defend them in case of war.)

5) They avoid Greece forming stronger bonds with other powers, such as Russia and China.

6) There also is the simple moral gain, that the impoverished in Greece won't be driven to further misery.

The perspective that all that matters is money, and that it's every nation for itself is unrealistic.
I have been collecting links for days now, here are a few. The picture is really not pretty and while you can place some blame on the Greeks, for the last five years at least it would seem they are not the one to blame.

if you want a very simplified slightly hilarious explanation, https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bhwij/what_i... this will do.

https://twitter.com/cstross/status/617775611642257408
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/anil.kashyap/research/papers...
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26112-an-economic-hit-man...
http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5965.html
https://twitter.com/AP/status/616622654234169344
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/who-will-dare-say-out-loud...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/03/13/contrar...
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/30/greek-debt-t...
https://fsaraceno.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/its-the-politics-...
That may be so, but the EU was still created by individuals. I'm sure many of the officials believed the story. I'm also still confident that the European citizens can have the EU as it should be, not as it currently is, if they can get over their short-sighted selfishness.
The old joke: "They're prepared for class warfare--are you?"

Let's set aside the technical issues involving revolution; weapons, tactics, whatever. Let's just look at the basic philosophical points and high-level problems.

What exactly would be revolted against?

Is one revolting against shitty local/state/federal government that they themselves (statistically) continued to vote in, either directly or through inaction?

Is one revolting against poor treatments of minorities, especially since they've (statistically) shown themselves incapable of interacting with people whose political views they disagree with (much less people with obvious differences in skin color, economic class, or some harder-to-overlook uniqueness)?

Is one revolting against the centralization of capital? This, despite the fact that that person is (stastically) unlikely to have any of the basic but essential skills required to grow food, mend equipment, slaughter animals, write books, orate effectively, organize teams, balance checkbooks, run businesses, or write programs?

Is one revolting against the loss of control one has over their own affairs? A loss of control literally begged for every time they've let slide a "think of the children" argument or repeated some other form of fear mongering?

America today has the government and economic distribution of wealth that it deserves.

~

The only revolt that really makes sense is one purely out of spite, pure juvenile hatred and rage and desire to see the nice things these folks have turn to ash because "fuck you that's why". Anything more highbrow is just trying to dress things up.
Really helpful, thanks!
A week is no time whatsoever.

Lots of people routinely publish vulnerabilities; anecdotally, if you do it the same way everyone else does, I think your risk is probably minimal.

Some thoughts:

* Have a calendar and stick to it. If it's 90 days from acknowledged contact, don't publish anything for 90 days.

* Be careful about upselling services (my advice: simply don't do it). If you're effectively breaking someone's terms of services by testing (spoiler: you probably are) and you "ask" for a service contract in return for doing something favorable (ie, not doing something unfavorable) with the results of that testing, you're being coercive. Doing something unlawful to coerce someone into giving you something of value is extortion. Don't extort people.

* Be extremely careful testing other people's sites. The short answer to "is it lawful to test someone's site" is, "probably not". If they've posted a bug bounty or a list of thank-yous to researchers, you can reasonably infer that they're allowing remote testing --- but if your testing crashes their site or compromises user data, all bets are off.

* Do not under any circumstances post actual user information, sanitized or otherwise.

* Do not post exploit code, or information that makes exploitation trivial. If the world doesn't believe you about the severity of your finding, get better at gauging severity, or become a better writer.

If it were me, I'd probably sketch out a policy as follows:

* A calendar and set of escalations for confirmation of a finding --- first contact in order to find a safe way to relay the finding, escalating to public (Twitter) requests for someone to relay the finding to (maybe 2-3 business days later), escalating to simply sending the finding to public support addresses (maybe a week later). With no acknowledgement of a finding after, like, a month, I might escalate to posting the name of the company and a SHA2 hash of the finding, repeatedly confirming the finding every other week or so, and then maybe a month later more details on what the finding enables (the "Phone numbers. Names. Location." thing you wrote here, I would not write for a long time.)

* Once the finding is confirmed, a simple schedule for public announcement. Maybe 30-90 days, depending, on generating a patch, and then N days after than for an announcement on my blog or whatever. If we're doing a coordinated announcement where you send a bulletin that credits me and agrees with my assessment of the finding, maybe I'll give you an extra 30 days after the patch if you want it. If I'm the only one who announces, maybe I'm announcing 5 days after the patch. Things like that.

The important things are:

1. Write a policy and stick to it.

2. Get the vulnerability confirmed before you announce it.

3. Negotiate with the vendor to minimize harm.

Again: be especially careful when you're testing someone's servers. The law is generally pretty supportive of testing software you personally install, but not at all supportive of you testing software on other people's machines.
Create Native Node.js modules fallbacking to Emscripten ones
China is in deep trouble; it has a total debt to GDP ratio of 282%, the highest compared to the other big gdp countries. (http://bloom.bg/1evYSQ5). The housing bubble has already burst in the 3rd and 2nd tier cities in China, and the 1st tier cities are close to bursting. And the shanghai stock market is close to retracing back to 2000, since the current stock market has a p/e ratio that's 41% higher than that of US's 2000 dot com market. (http://bloom.bg/1HNgqA4)

When (not if) the china's stock market collapses, and the capital flight from China accelerates (estimated 600 Billion a year currently http://bit.ly/1NJQuIX), then China is going to be permanent decline for the next 10-20 years. It would be anyone's guess what China will do then, since it will inevitably suffer massive internal unrest, due to the fact that it's ruled by a bunch of dictators.

EDIT: China seems to be following the same path as Japan in 1990, except China has really screwed up their environment and rich people really want to leave the country.