skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't read the GP as questioning the worth to HN, but simply asking if the article is a general interest article or if there is some specific reason the article is especially relevant at this moment in time.

Yes, it's possible this was simply a "historical submission", but that possibility alone doesn't answer the question. We shouldn't be in such a hurry to protect HN from degenerating into (say) /. that we make assumptions about intent or silence relevant and potentially interesting questions.
> I did not mean to imply that it was 5 days

My comment was supposed to be an addendum but I failed by nitpicking and questioning your interpretation. I'm sorry.

As a security researcher, may I ask you these questions:

Which channel are you using as a first contact ?
Would it be enough for me as a saas supplier to monitor security@myservice.com ?
I must admit I'm bit afraid by a cleartext channel for this kind of disclosure. Would you have some recommandations for the receiving part of the vulnerability ?
This absolutely needs police action.

Regardless of what your stance is on unwanted sexual attention, sending death threats is not acceptable.
Nice description, ACPUL is made for same purposes.

1. IfLoop has no compilers

ACPUL also compile on fly + Live coding

2. IfLoop has no keywords

ACPUL is no keywords & fully native translatable language

5.Every custom function can be used as the entry function

Same, like JS. No-args functions.

Also, ACPUL made for full UI customization, developer can made & run self-IDE. Here is easy sample, how I made new touch-input control for graphics, that much better than code editing like Codea, Mobile-C or TouchDevelop, IfLoop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf2JWD7wQmo

ACPU: The Matrix - is remote control extension for integration with Desktop OSes. Here is demo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4EpL1P47jc

Another sample is working version of DOTA-like game prototype with Physics, Networking & Graphics in some lines of code:

https://github.com/d08ble/acpul-demo/tree/master/dota

I think, mobile developing is the Future, I'm very happy, than more & more peoples going in dev @ mobile.

http://acpul.tumblr.com/
Also, if you have an AMEX Platinum you get 10 GoGo passes (per year, I think)
there is no reason to believe intelligent extraterrestrials will be at all polite -- predators and scavengers are the best guesses

or to put it in the words of Zoe:

If we meet aliens they will probably rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing – and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order
You seem to be conflating "security" with "insecure communications"
Wow, he did not ever back down. An enjoyable read.
Why would I concede that? 2015 Greece has begun privatization and should be feeling the impact of other reforms started in the preceding years. We're only talking about primary budgets, not debt service. Why would I think Greece in 2015 would have poorer intrinsics than in the preceding years?
This is a good example of why many people don't consider "software engineering" a real discipline.
According to one article, 46% of US households didn't pay any Federal income taxes in 2011.[1]

That was the observation that got Romney in trouble. If those people weren't voting, that would be a very substantially different to what we have now. E.g. quite likely Romney would be president. (Let's not debate if Romney would have done better than Obama. Too much of a tangent.)

You're absolutely right about the "quotation marks". :) I went way overboard. Please accept an upvote as an apology.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/18/w...

Edit: I forgot that, to a considerable minority of people, Romney and Obama aren't substantially different. It's easy to think Republican vs Democrat is the entirety of the political spectrum, but it's not.
Wtf does schneier use Windows for, outside the lab?
I didn't mean to insinuate that the users are not victims; they are certainly the (primary) victim.

I also don't mean to say that that doesn't mean the company didn't mess something up. However, that's a completely different story: there are worlds between "made fatal mistake" and "doesn't care the tiniest bit".
So what? No online voting system is perfect, and double-voting isn't unique to reddit.

The sheer amount of natural language written about the topic on reddit and elsewhere should tell you how many people are interested in the subject of reddit's management.

The petition was started some three weeks ago, but the number of signees hovered around 10,000 until the last few days. Also, over the last few days the number has risen at a consistent pace.

I assume change.org has some filter in place to attempt to achieve uniqueness. Regardless, the problem you're describing is a function of voting on the internet, not any particular community. Given interest and opportunity, there are individuals in any community that would try to rig the system. For example, competitions shared on Facebook, or even whole countries.
International piano competition feet pianist debut
Please take a short trip a bit north, to Bulgaria (EU) or Macedonia (not EU) and you'll see that soon you'll have to make ends with 100 EUR a month, or even less. I do not know how many Drachmas that'll be, though, but that's the price of thinking with your pride...
West Germany did repay some of the defaulted WWI debt to help rebuild their reputation after they lost WWII.

Also, there is another gigantic difference here, Germany lost a bloody war and we told them how it was going to be, we restructured their economy, wholesale, and they were in no position to disagree. About half the debt was forgiven because they did what we made them do. If Greece wants to put their sovereignty on the table and let their creditors structure their economy for them, that's a very different negotiation than what they've had. Further, the west wanted a strong Germany between them and the communists, what's Greece got to bring to that table?

All this hypocrisy talk misses the point. Greece should go elsewhere to finance their debts if they don't like dealing with Germany. With their history, lifestyle, economy and government, I think that will be a challenge. Nothing prevents BRICs from investing there, they just don't seem that interested. Nations aren't individuals but try to go negotiate with a pawn shop or payday lending place, it sucks to need money and not have options. Sure, Germany has defaulted in the past, Greece can crap on then when the tables are reversed...
If you are curious about reading more, CCSDS is an overloaded term in the space industry for an onion of different OSI layers that are changing all the time. My guess is that the telemetry coding standard CCSDS 101.0-B-6 is likely to have been used on New Horizons. Even though it is now a "historical document", some new space missions still use it.

Here is a copy:
http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/101x0b6s.pdf
> You expect us to change all that in just five years. This is fucking impossible guys. Please, get a grip of reality. Countries don’t just change in five years.

October 7, 1989, DDR celebrating its 40th anniversary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeePo6BGmHc

October 3, 1990, reunification of Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4kpqKBbdic

Who are The People in Greece? Mad Communists or people who want freedom and prosperity and liberation from the old political class?
Is nationalism a bad thing? (Required reading is much appreciated.)
This post is the best answer you can ask for.

I spend a lot of time poking at software I can install on my own device (i.e. open source) because I've made the mistake of testing someone else's server (CFAA violation) then going public about it (which gave them incentive to prosecute). Don't make my mistake.
I am at a Marriott now, and am streaming just fine...
So apparently in the 1997 paper on the 20-year legacy of the signal, Ehman wrote that he resisted "drawing vast conclusions from half-vast data."

That's a bit of a hidden signal too, I think.
>Inflation in the cost of goods and services = wages go up.

In theory, yes.

In practice, the poor also have higher job-switching costs (because of higher uncertainty that they'll find another one), which means their wages can be inflation-sticky upward as well.

Also, what little savings they have tends to be in cash and they find it harder to store it in inflation hedges.

>If you're involved in any economic activity beyond hoarding cash, inflation isn't a bad thing.

Hold on -- all usage of money involves some kind of hoarding, in the sense of "store money in liquid form for some unknown future need". But that's the entire freakin' point of money in the first place: that you don't have perfect knowledge of your future needs. (The coincidence of wants problem by itself doesn't include this -- far more important -- role of money.)

You can see this role during hyperinflation -- people are no longer able to indefinitely defer choosing where to spend their money, but must spend it immediately on something else that will hold some of its value or which sates a current need, and they bear a tremendous cost in having to choose this way.

Monetary policy must strike a balance between "no one spends ever" vs "everyone must spend now", and leaning toward one or the other bears some of the downsides of the extreme cases. Spending too soon and too late have their own costs. It's not as simple as "any storage/hoarding of money should be discouraged".
Um, what? It will be forced into austerity? I'm sorry, but they have been. Past tense, like…years ago. That's why they're suffering a 25% unemployment rate and a contraction of GDP that exceeds what the U.S. saw in the Great Depression.
It's the same reason that hotel minibar pricing is so high.
The $10 for wifi nets you something akin to 28.8K modem speeds. So yes, I'd gladly pay more for a ticket that provided something approaching usable speeds. When google.com takes 45 seconds to load, the connection is basically useless.
I don't think we disagree. I'm certainly in full agreement that companies should take it seriously and often don't. However, being breached does not mean that you did not take action. The article I was responding to doesn't distinguish between a breach after an ounce of prevention, or no prevention at all. Is it realistic to expect a health company to have prevented a breach if that breach is a consequence of an Exchange 0-day?
An Interview with Mark Twain
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Even considering state of the art security (e.g. Ed448-Goldilocks + ChaCha20-Poly1305) offers a finite security margin. (Probably on that is never going to be reached.)
> Now it's touch screen "entertainment in-flight systems." Not like any of those things have made the flying experience any better.

I couldn't disagree more. A fourteen-hour flight with in-flight movies is vastly superior to a fourteen-hour flight with the back of the seat in front of you.
Next month might be the best time to visit Greece and have cheap hollydays..
I'm certainly not trying to defend them. I'm just saying that a serious commitment to security doesn't preclude breaches any more than a serious commitment to quality precludes recalls. You only need to screw a minute detail up to get in trouble, and so far no distinction has been made between companies that have actually been incompetent/irresponsible and others.
>Reddit is absolutely correct to ban subs that are harassing people, and I wish they'd be even stricter about it.

You're never going to stop all online harassment by fighting fires like this. It'd take a paid army to monitor. Reddit had a free army taking care of that and they're slowly dismantling it.
I'm sorry but Greece almost certainly didn't forgive debts then out of solidarity, but because it was told to do so by the US. In case you didn't know your country was ruled by a British/US puppet government at that time.
They were the first insurance company in the US. They started the inflated insurance practice of policies, group benefits, plans, network rates, etc.. The seed the grew into the national insurance racket we have today.
My understanding (though I don't have any sources and it could just as easily be hearsay) is that nicer hotels jumped onto the new business model and signed long-lasting contracts with providers of internet service when things were just getting established. So it's less that nicer hotels are necessarily trying to milk you, and more that the nicer hotels jumped onto the bandwagon when it was still a bad financial decision, and are passing their bad luck onto you.

Of course, I wouldn't at all be surprised if your suggestion is right, and they're just trying to milk the more well off clients.
> It's a silly analogy

Right, very much so, because a live conversation using vocab is very much different than anything you'd do while programming.

> The more you expand your repertoire of memorised functions and patterns, the easier it becomes to go from design to code.

Yeah sure, but the criticality is much less, isn't it? Like it's not the rote memorization of function calls, or standard libraries that makes a good programmer. Design patterns, idiomatic language structures (i.e. how do I write truly "Pythonic" code), etc are all way more important than, say, what does library X provide or what are the args to function Y.

Flash cards don't address the important parts of learning a programming language. And if you focus on the important parts, generally you'll get enough experience in the language that the things you'd want to memorize naturally just stick.

My 2c.
You're assuming that all security issues are obvious known ahead of time, and that's clearly not true. You can't compare your average remote code execution vulnerability with a speed limit. Speed limits are posted; RCEs typically aren't as clearly documented ;)
This is the part that gets me. We're clearly getting PR-talk from Alexis. That would be fine if the expectation of Alexis was that he would simply be the Executive Chair of the Board of Directors. But that's not what was expected. Those of us who were around reddit when kn0thing and spez ran the place and it was held together with duct tape and good intentions remember someone who was an active member of the community and who truly had the community's interests at heart. We thought when he returned that we were getting that Alexis back, and we were happy.

But that Alexis appears to have "matured" into a vanilla businessman, and that's fine. What isn't fine is the mass exodus of admins who were actually redditors, the bringing in of a CEO whose goals clearly align more with monetizing than nurturing, and a series of decisions that have shown the remaining braintrust at reddit to have grown further and further away from the community.

It's fine to monetize reddit. It's fine to run it like a real, live company. What's not fine is to do that to the exclusion of all else, and risk jeopardizing the very community that gives the site value in the first place.

What we've seen from the actions of the executive team at reddit in recent months suggests that they simply don't understand how their actions are being perceived. They've either lost or pushed out the people at the company who had a finger on the pulse of the community, and now they're flying blind. It seems that the only thing keeping reddit going right now as a community is the lack of a viable alternative, and that's a very dangerous place to be for a company like reddit.

I don't know whether the executive team at reddit sees this episode as just another fire to put out or as a portent of things to come. What I see, as an active participant on the site, is a restive user base that increasingly sees itself as neglected and taken for granted by a dismissive and aloof leadership. There are many things keeping the user base in reddit's orbit, but most of those things come down to inertia and lack of a better alternative. If the latter is solved, the former will take care of itself, and reddit will hit a tipping point whereby its most engaged users leave en masse.

It's not there yet, but it's an existential threat that it doesn't appear the reddit brain trust is taking seriously.
The exact reason people are resorting to WiFi hotspots more and more.
This is precisely the issue I'm referring to. The assumption is made that if you got breached, you must not have known what you were doing, and that's bullshit.
We only know the two possible RA and dec, not the distance. So a probe in or near the solar system is possible. It could also explain why we did not detect the signal again; the probe's position would not be as fixed as a distant star.
It's pretty mathematical. In some respects, it contains more CS formalisms than SICP---but it's not too hardcore.

For example, last chapter defines all the operational semantics of their language.

Mind the authors come from the logic programming community, so the book is quite tight.
I have a still better plan: why don't they take even crappier Balkan economies in the eurozone instead of Greece, and "benefit" from even lower currency value, thus boosting exports to the max?
short REIT?

I'm not sure why Home Depot would be affected directly, I can see less demand for housing construction and such.

Would commercial estate be affected by residential homes?

Wouldn't the rent go down as the asset falls in property value?
Cheapest is the main variable but when it's a reasonable difference (probably under 10%) I'll choose based on flight experience expectations - planes,food, entertainment, wifi, FF program etc. Personally I wouldn't write off the customer value of these add-on segments.
It tends to also be location based. I find wi-fi at hotels in big cities almost universally bad, while the same hotels outside the cities to be generally good.
What, why the down-votes, isn't that the accepted model for this situation?

Edit: Really, I'm curious. the last guy that did it is considered a hero.
haha, no.

they want to open source their TOOLS and maybe even their model, but their data(ie their users)? gods no, that's their profit center, giving that up would be committing corporate suicide.
Even if the engineers were willing & able to do that, the managers would kill it like a 1st trimester abortion.
In the future, the big news that will move American markets will increasingly come from China. I wonder what this does to American indexes tomorrow.
It's not the intrinsics. It's the whole list of special one-off factors at play. By the way, Greece started privatization in the 90's, not in 2015.

When there's no external assistance and the government pays loans out of its budget, it means it's not paying something else internally, usually some business it owes money to. If you feel that that is a non-factor in economic destruction and therefore tax receipts, then sure, have your own numbers.

The question is how the country would fare if the debt wasn't there, but the rest of the economy was functioning properly.

As a disclosure, I am Greek and have intimate knowledge of facts of the ground. If we can't agree the past six months are not "normal" there's very little to talk about.
Honestly, I prefer that anyway. I've got no shortage of devices with plenty of my own media, and now I don't have to be stuck 12" from a screen I can't reliably turn off, that will be shining advertisements and redundant safety lessons in my face when I'm trying to sleep.
Just looking at the previews of these makes me want to go back, and watch the making of these. Truly fascinating.
> All SRS does is optimize those practice sessions.

I think I'm struggling to see how flash cards would be an effective practice session. Why not just code something? Start a hobby project, contribute to something open source, etc. You'll use everything you'd rote memorize in context (and naturally start remembering it).
> the west wanted a strong Germany between them and the communists, what's Greece got to bring to that table?

Continued loyalty to NATO and the EU? http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/03/eurozone-greece-ru...
Paid for inflight wifi on United earlier this year (FRA to SFO) streamed one way video all hands just fine.

Gogo wifi on Alaska between SJC and SEA, service is quite variable.
Do you have any actual data to back up that claim?
If public transit is such a viable alternative, why do so many people in those cities drive? Perhaps you're overlooking some disadvantages of public transit.

I haven't spent much time in Boston, but public transportation in SF is a joke. Average fleet speed is 8.1mph, the slowest in north america. Even express lines are outpaced by bicycles. Heck, I've been able to outrun the N from Civic Center to Ocean Beach.

In addition to being slow, SF's public transport is disgusting. Many homeless leave filth on busses and trains. I can't remember a time I've taken Muni or BART and not smelled urine (or worse).

Then there are the constant annoyances stemming from the public part of public transportation: being packed into cars like cattle, sick people spreading germs, passengers playing music out of their phones, etc.

All of these problems combine to make a distinctly unpleasant experience. That's why I often Uber or just walk in SF.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9672249
Pick services that practice transparency and are actively trying to fix their software; e.g. through a bug bounty program.
I can assure you that the sizes of the public sectors in Scandinavia damage our economies!

Our private sectors are a lot freer than in Greece, though, which is why we can afford them and why Greece can't.
What's the speed cap?
The Angry Trader Never Wins
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9579025
Personally I'm not experiencing this issue you describe. If someone does, I can imagine that they would be helped if a service like this would be integrated in their (web based?) e-mail client. I can imagine that this would be very cumbersome to use if I had to leave my e-mail and go to a particular website (tempr.org).
What you don't understand is that a debt represents a risk to the lender, not a guarantee. If a debt were a guarantee, then there would be no basis for charging interest.

In a well regulated system, the people who make bad bets are not entitled to retribution. They are "entitled" (read: expected) to go out of business. At the very least, they suffer embarrassing losses that they must explain to their shareholders.

"Moral hazard", properly understood, is a term used to describe conditions that encourage reckless lenders. The threat of default is a good thing. That's what keeps otherwise rapacious lenders fearful enough to excercise good judgment and prudent restraint. Indeed, in advanced economies, the power of bankruptcy judges to wipe out debt is seens as an essential component of healthy capital markets. Bad lenders get wiped out, and take the money of their imprudent investors with them.

That's what should have happened to the private lenders who originated the Greek debt. Instead, they got bailed out by EZ members who are following up one bad choice with another in promising their electorates that they can collect from a nation manifestly unable to pay.
JetBlue's WiFi is still free? When is that supposed to change?

I read about their Ka band transition, but thought the free connections were for a limited time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993
The TSA would have a field day with all your cavities if you try to even so much as bring more than an ounce over three through airport security. Good old USA!
Hard to tell with the noise out the Eurozone. Together, the next week will be a bit of a bumpy ride.

Definitely agree with your first statement; maybe you should look towards Australia as an example country that over the past 5 years has been increasingly following Chinese financial markets (Commodities and now property).
Greece most assuredly has not had years of primary surpluses!

There has been a single quarter so far -- and that's assuming we can trust Greek accounting!