skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you provide all the cash needed, then we'll find you a Greek Island. There's an estimated 1,200 to 6,000 in Greece and one will belong to you. This one has yet to be ratified with the Greek Prime Minister himself but it's pretty much in the bag."

After reading this I wondered what the going rate for an island was.

I was not disappointed when I found
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/areas/greece
Nope no formal support. I'm not terribly familiar with ember-cli, but I'd love to hear how we can make it easier to use tota11y with any codebase.
Hi - Yes we will definitely be creating a mobile app at some point. Thanks for your suggestion as well about timestamps, if you have any other suggestions you can add them to our Roadmap here: http://roadmap.livecoding.tv/
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It depends on the MX you're delivering mail to. Some aren't restrictive at all, some will reject if there's an A/PTR mismatch, etc. I make use of FCrDNS on my mail systems.
> It'd be a great way for the NSA to give an unfair advantage to state-linked American corporations, or for independent actors within NSA to line their pockets.

Funny, because this is exactly the reason that the NSA is spying on these French companies(to determine if they are illegally affecting the US via hidden state subsidies, breaking of international regulations, etc).
There are benefits for marking a row as deleted w/ a boolean column though. Undo-ing deletes would be easy to implement, and retaining references to deleted records would be simple as well.

The solution the problem you described would be to use a surrogate key column (typically a UUID/auto-increment), and not natural keys.
>free market

Why can't competitors obtain and release the info to those they consider more deserving?
how are you liking it? are you missing any features? do you still feel that smartphones are more bad than good?
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> you're going to have a hell of a hard time with outbound delivery.

Been there done that. Takes a good while to build up reputation, but it's possible, even without dkim signing or anything like it. Also since it's my personal email, my policy has always been "if you can't receive it because of your mailserver, sucks to be you -- you're using that service so it's on your end."
The key being that code reviews on pull requests nicely encapsulates the stuff to look at. Google had (has?) two processes that I really admired, one was 'readability' which basically was a qualifying exam to write code in an approved style, and the other was 'reviews on every checkin' which captured exactly this flow. Small, big, didn't matter, it got reviewed.
Why do you need my demographic info?
Vegetarians probably don't know steakhouses, having children might not change your palette but they are probably going to limit where you can enjoy a meal, you want a bargain - ask a starving student. Providing your demographic info will not only help contribute to the PeerOpt community, but you can also set the filters to your "peer" group with one click.

What classifies a "favorite" restaurant?
Your first choice to meet a good friend for dinner, standbys you send anyone new to the neighborhood, the place you arrange travel plans around. Think of a restaurant and ask yourself "Will I be back?" - if the answer is a definitive "yes" add it to your favorites.

Is my profile public?
No. PeerOpt will never display your personal information (demographic data) to other users.
Our cash-strapped school still had a BBC B in 1993/1994 for an adventure game (no idea what it was teaching us), and also a motor control system that ran off the user bus. I think I still have that control box somewhere.

They also had another Acorn machine, not sure which one though. And a machine with Windows 3.11 on it which appeared to be FROM THE FUTURE.

When my secondary school chucked all their Beebs out, we took them (with permission!) so my dad has a loft FULL of As, Bs, B+ and a couple of Masters. He has a second processor too.
It is not my understanding (and I'd be interested to see where you get that from) that the ECB is the one demanding cuts. The EU and the IMF are the one's proposing the package, not the ECB.
I know there are good reasons why it's not included, but a pet peeve of mine is when sites like these do not allow you to sort by viewer count. I think sorting options would be useful for this, especially once more people start streaming on it.
No one seems to tout the "everyone's doing it" mantra when China does it.
It would be very interesting to know, technically, what are the interception means. Does it target phone calls, emails, internal spys, other things?

From other documents, it appears that the NSA has the ability to listen to phone calls on French networks. As most of the "targets" use Orange, the historical telecom operator, and that collaboration from Orange with the NSA is unlikely, it would mean that their IT systems are owned.

Regarding email, most French companies use Microsoft products both as servers (Exchange) and client (Outlook). Are there exploitable vulnerabilities in these products?
As we are in that space, we have to push hard, for people even to consider French-written, open source communication software such as ours (https://github.com/MLstate/PEPS).
"Please explain how people were able to live before debt was defined as money? Because there was a before, and people lived by then."

Not really. Money historically was created for tallying and clearing credit accounts. It was debt that led to exchange. This has been explored pretty heavily in recent books from Felix Martin, Graeber, Weatherford, etc. Of course money is more than debt -- but it is intrinsically linked. Hard money is something of a delusion.
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Yes. And not limited to the EU.

In the vast majority of Western countries the notion of at will employment is considered an ancient, socially unacceptable practice.
The banks voluntarily lent money way beyond the means of the ability of Greece to pay. That was foolish. They shouldn't take a loss on their foolishness? Only one party of the transaction should suffer for the foolish loans?

Predatory lending is not what happened in the case of Greece. the validity of that concept is not relevant in this case.

I know what consent of the governed means. I don't know what it has to do with any of my comments. All I've said is that there are two parties in borrowing money. Both have responsibilities and both should suffer consequences for bad decisions.
I didn't catch this part- why did the author leave? Was it just a term end and he chose not to renew it?
Have you seen FedEx's prices? I recently got a quote for a small packet from London to Tiblisi. From $109 + vat for the slow service.
It sounds like a Health Exchange, but for SMB. While the Health Exchange isn't curated, it functions as a marketplace.

I'm curious how curation would work.
I've done coding through twitch and checked out livecoding.tv before deciding whether I wanted to stick to twitch or move there, since I do/did game streaming on twitch. I ran across several concerns about livecoding.tv such as they don't show you the current viewer count of a stream while listing the streams, they show only the total views, and they specifically require logging in to accomplish anything on the site.

I ultimately went with Twitch as Livecoding.tv has a fairly small userbase, the above negatives from livecoding that haven't changed in months despite the feedback, my app is gaming related, Twitch offers me bots that can help manage and improve the experience, and finally it can help grow my viewerbase for non-coding related streams.

Edit: For proof that they were asked to remove the login requirement months ago http://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleCode/comments/2zmw29/i_am...
Any information that leads to the return of the coins from this incident will be greatly rewarded. We invite you to analyze the above bitcoin addresses and find out where the bulk of the coins ended up if you have the skills.

What does this mean? Are they trying to steal the thief (according to them). Shouldn't they inform the local authorities and let them handle the case?
Because it's the best Ask HN in a looong time, that's why.
>They must just be really respectful of the civil liberties of citizens of the world.

The contents of Wikileaks archive is not solely a function of civil liberties violations. Someone has to get the information and get it to Wikileaks. I don't know how much international news you follow, but many strange and curious deaths occur to Russians who seem to defy the state. Most probably don't want to risk it (if they even have any real information to begin with).
So what? I certainly don't mind if my Government spies on _other_ countries. It's just spying on its own citizens that's an issue.
Only tangentially related, I apologize in advance.

The top rated comment mentioned "Voice of Fire" [0]. I visited the Wiki article and now I'm about to pass out from lack of oxygen to my brain.

>A further controversy ensued in 1992 when it was discovered that the painting had been displayed upside-down following its acquisition.

I can't stop laughing. Please, send help.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Fire
Think of it like the security offered by a safe. With time and the correct tools, any obfuscated binary will eventually yield. However, the sheer volume of a complex obfuscated binary (especially one which defeats conventional reverse engineering techniques) can keep security researchers spinning in circles for days or weeks while malware remains at large, or frustrate would-be pirates to the point of giving up.
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Ask HN: Seeking Alpha Testers for Heroku Add-On
Hi,

I'm looking for 10 alpha testers for a Heroku add-on. The Add-on is a search engine rank tracker which essentially tells you where a website ranks for a given keyword.

If you're interested just send an email to mail@@@citizensinspace.com (just one @). I'm happy to offer a discount as a thank you to any alpha tester who is interested in using the add-on beyond the testing period.

Thanks!
Not sure why you've been downvoted - it's pretty much the truth.

Maybe for the last snarky remark on russia ;)
> Do you have any data on the percentage of spam email sources (of all email sources) that send 1-10 emails per day?

Do you have any method by which all the different mailservers worldwide can successfully collaborate to determine precisely how many emails a particular mailserver sends per day?

You're proposing that mailservers with a low emails-per-day metric be trusted. How is that metric established? How does everyone agree on it? Do we have to implement a new protocol in addition to SMTP in order for this to be viable?

The most obvious response to this is "well each service provider can just count the stats internally and use that" but it's a non-starter. That means that Google with their, what, 1000 email servers (or more) now has to figure this out. And every other service provider too.

Finally, given all the service providers out there, and the total number of "consumer" internet connected computers, giving all the computers a free 1-10 email pass means that spam is back to the worst of 2000-2010 levels. Here's some math:

There are 115mm households in the US http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

81% internet usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_States#...

That's 93mm consumer connections

Let's suppose that there are 20 big players in the mail provider category, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft (hotmail, office365, etc), AOL, comcast, at&t, time warner, etc. 20 seems like a good number.

Since these systems can't be made to communicate with one another easily about the sent-count of every IP address in the world, they just do it locally. That means that the virus that infected your computer and turned it into a spam-bot gets:

10 free messages * 20 major providers * 93mm computers = 18 billion spams per day

And that's just from the computers in the US. Once you take this global, you're probably talking at least 100 major providers and 300-500 million computers. Then you're talking something like a trillion spams a day.

Seems like a reasonable idea until you look at how it would actually be implemented. Then it doesn't seem so great.
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Is there any special consideration/feature to help prevent streamers from sharing secrets (keys, tokens, pw, etc)? Sharing secrets is easily done by accident and can go unnoticed by the streamer.
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> Math.random()

That's just not acceptable, even as a fallback, I'm sorry, the whole idea of this service is just horrible. Please don't use this.
> The problem with this democratic approach is that most users are not qualified such that their opinion is particularly valuable.

They aren't advocating a democratic approach, they are saying that the general expectations of users is valuable information.

You don't rely exclusively on what the users want, but users expectations for how compilers behave is very valuable behavior, whether it means finding out how to inform users of the real behavior or changing the behavior.
They do "tours of duty", since I think they found people had a hard time moving to DC permanently. Using this, they've managed to get a lot of people to take sabbaticals from their Google/FB/etc jobs.

"Quit your high paying job and indefinitely work for the government" is a hard sell; "come do something awesome for 6 months then go back" is much easier.
ring.to is free. I have five numbers parked there (but am otherwise unaffiliated). They make their money by, I assume, connection fees paid by other phone companies whose customers call numbers parked at ring.to.
Hey one thing about your website It could be nice if you can add a "Hardening" button. On clicking you can set to true/false hdl.hardening(bool) in order to get very specials chars.
cheers
Is there a good spot to see available mods, similar to vassals? http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Category:Modules

I'd be interested in picking up tabletop simulator depending on what's available.
To some degree, yes.

However...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#France_an...

US/French economic espionage has been an ongoing problem since before the Cold War ended.

Its the "normal" state of affairs, similar to US v. China. Its simply a question of how "gentlemanly" the matter is handled. France/US tends to be rather "gentlemanly" as they tend to target the negotiations/technology/contracts specifically.

> According to an economic espionage order, the NSA intercepted all French corporate contracts and negotiations valued at more than $200 million in many different industries, such as telecommunications, electrical generation, gas, oil, nuclear and renewable energy, and environmental and healthcare technologies.
I think people who have the problem of open work spaces wouldn't mind something as uniform and boring as a cubicle or a near equivalent since it's seen as a lesser evil.
If you use an IMAP client, you have a local backup. Alternatively, even if you exclusively use Webmail, you can still maintain a remote backup (using imapsync or similar). There's also the "optional P2P backup".
Yes, it would be, but interestingly I didn't interpret it that way. I'm not sure what the author intended but while reading I imagined malware using this technique for obfuscation, and the inability to run this code in virtual machines would also hinder the analysis of such malware. Goes both ways I suppose.
Main developer is here. Would be happy to get feedback and contributors here :)
> France is one of the most notoriously brazen state sponsors of industrial espionage, especially within the EU.

When France does it, it's bad. When the USA does it it is bad too.

If my country would do this - and it is very well possible they do - I'd be very much ashamed of this.

> This stuff is rampant between all the industrialized nations. You can find stories going back decades about Americans being evicted from embassies over industrial espionage.

Those stories are along the line of the article, not much of a counterargument there then.

> Technically --- modulo the "getting caught" part --- this is what NSA is supposed to be doing. That's a positive assertion, not a normative one!

This is true, but - and this will probably surprise you - the rest of the world (the people, not necessarily the governments / those in power) considers industrial spying to be a negative activity, and considers it a hostile act against those people.

The goodwill that a country builds up can easily be eradicated by activities such as these, especially when uncovered.

The only other countries that I'm aware of that use their intelligence services in such a blatantly offensive (both meanings of the word) manner are Israel and Russia.

And none of those - and definitely not France - have been caught spying on US politicians in their own offices.

'They do it too' is such a lame excuse anyway (especially when that is not objectively the case).
Personally, I just feel stupid every time I try to do anything in Angular... None of it works the way I expect it to, and I can't get the point where I feel like I actually understand what's going on.

React's "rerender the world" approach is _much_ easier to reason about.
I know someone who writes his C++ like it is C; it is truly horrible to read and riddled with bugs. He does C-style casts from siblings in a class hierarchy, which in my mind is insane - they clearly are NOT castable in a safe way; only up the hierarchy is safe. No use of dynamic, reinterpret, static casts - all C-style. For loops are used everywhere instead of std algorithms. He doesn't see the point of references (pointers everywhere!) and const correctness is an expression he has never heard of, let alone abides by.

I realised the lack of C++ knowledge when he said "what is push_back???" with a vector. I can only imagine the brain implosions when lambdas replace all those stupid struct unary predicates I have to litter my code with, and when I implement move operators.

I am trying to convert my code to C++11 (mostly it is 03 style) which will necessitate a move in Windows compiler version but no big problem (and not too many changes - I use STL containers everywhere).
I totally understand your pain but I don't agree. We got rid of the CC on our signup (www.nusii.com). We got many more users because of that (3 to 4 times more) but we've seen that the conversion rate (trial to paid) was WAY lower. 4% instead of 40%. We don't exactly know why this is, but I think it is because the CC makes you want to try the product much more. You end up with a happier user.

Our biggest mistake was getting rid of the CC on the signup. I could write a very similar blog post. Free trial period with a 60 days money back guaranty works the best for us and our users.
Definitely something we should add - thanks! You can actually already sort by viewer count for videos, but not currently for livestreams.
Yeah, especially pop-economics and economists that the politicians trot out to promote their latest policies, or the guys trying to forecast the future of some part or another of the economy. And overall economic conditions change a bunch, all the time. Hence the aforementioned hesitance. Unfortunately good consensus surveys only come out every so often and then you have trouble looking them up if you aren't somewhere with JSTOR, so.

But, that said, economists in general have been pretty consistent on a few basic principles. Supply and demand, the impact of price controls thereupon, et cetera. And if you think through enough of that you might begin to think that the EITC is a better vehicle to help out the working poor than a minimum wage (since it doesn't cause unemployment or promote unnecessary investment in automation to further damage employment unnecessarily...) It's been known to happen, anyway.
I thought one advantage of Tries over Hash tables is fast prefix searching.
Not to mention that some places expect bribes if your stuff isn't going to get stuck for days.
I talking about failsafe not fallback, U will never reach the condition on browsers or nodejs. This mimic is there just to avoid a null return from .password() (generaly not checked by user) which could be more dangerous.
That's exactly the difference between deprecated an obsolete. The former means it's on it's way to the latter. Putting work into upstart just means you'll have work migrating to systemd in less than a year or two.
So the men are single and they don't want to be it's because all the white women are "outmarrying" (yeah, not going to touch that one with a 10 foot pole...), the modern world is less violent, and there are too many lesbians.

The women are obviously single because of their bad judgment in not marrying any of these fantastic creatures while they were still young and fertile.

Seriously, why on earth is this posted here?
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I'm not bitching about France. I lived there and had a company. And yes, I agree, most of what I'm saying extends to europe in general. But if you look at innovation centers for the tech industry (and for companies in general) it isn't France / Europe.

Also, if you don't think that companies like Orange (which has an infamously high suicide rate) doesn't treat its employees like expendable assets, you're kidding yourself.

Lastly, I dunno if you're being sarcastic, but actually France is a terrible place for new fashion trends and has been since the late 60s.

A huge part of the large French fashion brands appeal is based on tradition and capturing that lost time / place when style was timeless (ie Chanel, Hermes).

Most of the best young fashion designers leave France to London, NYC etc.
Sorry, to be an asshole, but I'll use pwgen[0] over some website that gives me a password everyday. Even if it's client side only it's still a bad idea.

[0]: http://linux.die.net/man/1/pwgen
All you did was swap out one word for another from the sentence, which to me when reading it says 'these two words are equivalent.' The sentence is so vague on its own so as to be true for basically any noun which represents an individual, group, or organization that you substitute in for casinos. Hell it is even true for animals 'There are plenty of cows, and many of them comply with the law'.

How you expected anyone to jump to the conclusion you were talking about the manner in which Nazis rose to power and their eventual punishment or lack there of as being the analogous part is beyond me. Especially since you kept your sentence in the present tense leading me to believe it was about modern day people who hold the beliefs of the Nazi party.
I.e. the revolving door.
Your phrasing is hard to follow. I was assuming you meant that all information necessary to validate the certificate is attached to the DNS record which is crazy as the primary reason for SSL certificates that are centrally signed is when you don't get the right DNS record for some reason (roughly speaking).

If you are instead saying that you should avoid having a URL in the certificate itself, validate it as normal and then use the DNS record to match the certificate to the URL I guess that could work. However you still have the above problem where anyone who has a valid certificate at all can impersonate any website by injecting a DNS record.
I find it strange there is no mention about batteries. From what I understand (and it isn't much, I'm way out of my field) getting energy is easy, saving it is hard.
Microsoft's Skype integration with Outlook.com is so bad it's embarrassing
It's put me off immediately, unfortunately.
It looks like the attacker had some sort of celebrity status and fanfare throughout all of this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=843892.0 so maybe Ocean's Eleven isn't so far-fetched.
I think almost all the companies have a X days money back guaranty