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joeya

Ask HN: Want to work on open-source, don't know where to start. Advice?

dblock

I suggest: (1) choose a tool/language/library you want to learn, (2) work through a use case and write a blog post about it to help the next person do the same, (3) consider how the README or docs should be updated accordingly.Writing up your experience is often a useful trigger to create an open-source tool/library or modify an existing one. It forces you to consider how your own experience can be made useful for others.Also read the source of tools/libraries you use. Often, gaps or modifications jump out readily.

2014-09-24 16:15:52 UTC

sheetjs

Istanbul: A JavaScript code coverage tool written in JS

sebslomski

I'm a fan of mocha + blanket for coverage: https://github.com/alex-seville/blanketThe mocha integration is incredibly easy: mocha --require blanket -R html-cov # for html output

2014-09-24 16:15:55 UTC

Pxtl

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

... I think a lot of geeks might be burning their "free kevin" t-shirts.

2014-09-24 16:17:22 UTC

mhurron

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

"Mitnick became a symbol of government oppression in the late 1990s, when he spent four and a half years in prison and eight months in solitary confinement before his trial on hacking charges. The outcry generated a miniature industry in “Free Kevin” T-shirts and bumper stickers."I wonder if money could be made selling 'Fuck Kevin' shirts and bumper stickers now.Incidentally, Fuck Kevin.

2014-09-24 16:17:58 UTC

earthmeLon

BitPay and PayPal

seansoutpost

Hmmmm... I thought that a large reason many people helped develop bitcoin and it's community was to thwart Paypal, its highly-politically-motivated nature, and others like it.

2014-09-24 16:18:24 UTC

wyager

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

This is what happens when you have two different processes doing IPC using a human interface mechanism.Another huge family of vulnerabilities that exists for the same reason are SQL injection vulnerabilities. SQL was invented as a way for humans at a terminal to do database operations. However, we started using it as a way of doing IPC. The problem with using human interfaces as an IPC mechanism is that human interfaces are rarely well-defined or minimal, so it is very hard to constrain behavior to what you expect.The way to fix all of these bugs is to use well-defined, computer-oriented IPC mechanisms where there is a clear distinction between code and data. For example, database queries might be constructed by function call instead of string manipulation, which could pack them into a safe TLV format with no chance of malicious query injection. Generating web server content from a different language could be done via a proper FFI or message passing mechanism, rather than CGI scripts.

2014-09-24 16:18:31 UTC

bsawyer

Study: Google Glass Is a Driving Distraction, but Still Better Than Smartphones

bsawyer

I've been lurking here for years, but I finally have something worth sharing! Our laboratory was lucky enough to partner with the Air Force (a very early recipient of Glass), and we have run the first driving distraction study with the wearable. Tell me what you think!I'm also here for advice. Aside from my university's press release, how do I get the word out about this?If anyone want's the full article, hit me up at my website: bendsawyer.com.

2014-09-24 16:19:06 UTC

Someone1234

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

> It costs $11.95 per person per mealSo if you liken it to getting take-out, that isn't that crazy, maybe a little high. They also seem to have a lot of variety, and might help people segway into doing their own cooking.I can see the value in it. If you compare it to buying the raw ingredients yourself and then cooking them, yes, it is expensive. If you compare it to take-out (which is a convenience commodity, like this) it is within the ballpark (depends which takeout).Also locally to me there isn't much selection of healthy take-out. I mean if you want a burger then you have tons of selection. You might even be able to find a solid salad. But beyond that? Meh.

2014-09-24 16:19:25 UTC

gcb4

Istanbul: A JavaScript code coverage tool written in JS

sebslomski

i have some projects where the meat is in a cross domain connector. no way to test it in units. only functional test in real browsers cut it. otherwise it's just red tape testing.there is zero coverage tool for this case, until browsers wake up and give me a decent Dev api like opera 12 allowed

2014-09-24 16:19:59 UTC

mikeryan

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

On first scan I read that as Google instead of Gobble and though WTF Google?!?anyway. carry on.

2014-09-24 16:20:02 UTC

sixQuarks

Did something stupid and am scared

throwawaycredit

Oh, you are soooo fucked dude. I can't believe you committed such a terrible crime, and then you come online and tell people about it. You're probably looking at 10 to 15 years minimum.

Posting from a throwaway account for obvious reasons.I've been trying freelancing and building my own software for the past year and it hasn't gone well. I've hardly earned any money and am going through cash and credit cards quickly.So here's what I did that was stupid. I received a credit card application in the mail today and decided it couldn't hurt to put last years income in for my total income, even though this year I will be making half of it, mostly my wife's meager income. I put the LLC I freelance under as my employer. It didn't ask if I was self-employe or not. I submitted the application online and now I'm panicking and having second thoughts. I am terrified that I just committed fraud. I called to cancel and the application department was closed. Now I can't sleep and don't know what to do.

2014-09-24 16:20:35 UTC

javert

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

So if a machine is not running a web server, does that mean that machine is not vulnerable?

2014-09-24 16:20:58 UTC

dominotw

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

I tried plated for a while. It was super expensive and came with insane amount of packaging. Like 1 onion was carefully packed in 5 layers of packaging. It was just absurd and silly.

2014-09-24 16:21:20 UTC

petervandijck

Ask HN: Does Android-development-as-a-Service make sense to you?

petervandijck

Clicky http://getandroid.co

My question: would it make sense to offer Android as a Service?Startups/businesses often don't do Android apps, but your audience likely is on Android. So I'm exploring this idea of doing Android as a Service.We would design + build + maintain your Android app, as a copy (but adjusted for Android) of your iOS app. The important bit is: it would be JUST AS GOOD, not a crappy Android copy but an Android app that feels Android-y and has a great UX.Doing this as a subscription service (not a project-based consulting service) would (?) make it much cheaper for you. And it would also mean your Android app continues to get love and polish after launch, which is what you'd want. You'd sign up for ongoing development at a fixed monthly price, and you could cancel anytime.I am looking for startups/businesses that have an iOS app but not an Android app and that think having a great Android app without tons of distractions, and at reasonable cost, could help them grow significantly.I want to discuss this idea. It may well be dumb (feel free to criticize in the comments). I'm probably missing a bunch of things.I wrote down some more detailed thoughts on a landing page here: http://getandroid.co/ (you can leave your email there too if you're interested in seeing how this turns out)

2014-09-24 16:21:35 UTC

AshFurrow

Ask HN: Want to work on open-source, don't know where to start. Advice?

dblock

I think one of the best ways to start is by just using open source software. Many developers don't realize that they're already part of the community, and can begin contributing by submitting feature requests and bug reports.

2014-09-24 16:21:43 UTC

deweller

JQuery UI Hacked?

electrobruin

I don't get it. What should I be looking at?

2014-09-24 16:21:54 UTC

bdcravens

Right Livelihood Award: 2014 – Edward Snowden

sroecker

"Often an Honorary Award is given to a person or group whose work the Jury wishes to recognise but who is not primarily in need of monetary support. The prize money is for ongoing successful work, never for personal use."Falls pretty short of what the Nobel gives."It has become widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'"So basically they just co-opted the name.

2014-09-24 16:23:19 UTC

drzaiusapelord

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

It amuses me to hear how middle-class people are baffled by the fetishization of criminality in hip-hop culture, when we fetishize the same type of assholes in our culture. Mitnick is a criminal and all the pro-hacking sympathies have been wasted on a very, very undeserving person. Funny how easily you can manipulate public opinion with the right PR and anti-government message. Everyone wants to be the rebel against "the system." Everyone seems to think they're the Ayn Rand hero amongst the idiots, when in reality, the rebels and the intellectually vain are easily co-opted politically. The rise of libertarianism in geekdom seems to fall under the same dynamic.

2014-09-24 16:23:33 UTC

benologist

Ask HN: Does Android-development-as-a-Service make sense to you?

petervandijck

This already exists in a fashion so it's not a terrible idea - http://www.apportable.com/

My question: would it make sense to offer Android as a Service?Startups/businesses often don't do Android apps, but your audience likely is on Android. So I'm exploring this idea of doing Android as a Service.We would design + build + maintain your Android app, as a copy (but adjusted for Android) of your iOS app. The important bit is: it would be JUST AS GOOD, not a crappy Android copy but an Android app that feels Android-y and has a great UX.Doing this as a subscription service (not a project-based consulting service) would (?) make it much cheaper for you. And it would also mean your Android app continues to get love and polish after launch, which is what you'd want. You'd sign up for ongoing development at a fixed monthly price, and you could cancel anytime.I am looking for startups/businesses that have an iOS app but not an Android app and that think having a great Android app without tons of distractions, and at reasonable cost, could help them grow significantly.I want to discuss this idea. It may well be dumb (feel free to criticize in the comments). I'm probably missing a bunch of things.I wrote down some more detailed thoughts on a landing page here: http://getandroid.co/ (you can leave your email there too if you're interested in seeing how this turns out)

2014-09-24 16:23:57 UTC

andrewljohnson

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

My initial thought was "this should be illegal" - but if there's no market for exploits, security will remain poor. So, this sort of business is a bump on the road to global security, which I have some hope we're heading towards.Either way, an exploit market is a grimy business, basically war profiteering. I wonder who is off-limits to sell to - certainly the Iranians, but who else, and who decides who is evil and who is good? People will die from some of these sales.I think we'll see pervasive encryption and P2P (blockchain-based) applications that will push back tyranny a bit. There will be technological solutions to things like secret legal proceedings and warrantless wiretaps. And by pushing computation back out to decentralized nodes, there won't be such juicy targets to attack.

2014-09-24 16:24:37 UTC

saosebastiao

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

I've always thought it would be a just punishment for a neutral, but government arbitrated, third party to hold a highest bid auction for zero-day exploits, where the breached company has the opportunity to buy back their bad security at a market price. I feel as though making it public and legal would force larger targets to make better security decisions, instead of the current status quo of letting them off with tiny fines if anything at all.

2014-09-24 16:26:17 UTC

RadioactiveMan

What “technical” concerns do I have with systemd?

rossj

As a user of linux on the desktop, I've never felt a moment of concern over the fact that it takes longer to boot than did Windows. I'm not sure who is panicked by this and I'm distressed that we would solve all of our problems with init by embracing systemd.If Gnome requires systemd, lets drop Gnome.

2014-09-24 16:26:30 UTC

pestaa

What “technical” concerns do I have with systemd?

rossj

Integration comes with a huge price.I'm a beginner sysadmin, and therefore not really knowledgeable about the recent changes in Linux -- however I've seen FreeBSD in production(ish), and it was indeed a more pleasent experience. Paths, configuration, the package system, the documentation (!) all felt nicer.

2014-09-24 16:26:30 UTC

phantom_oracle

Ask HN: Writing a book – Where to publish?

redxblood

Another alternative: https://leanpub.com/

So i´m almost done writing my first book ever, and I was wondering if anyone had any experience using services that publish your book for you? As in, they sell your book in epub, pdf and other formats online.I´ve heard Amazon is pretty good, giving you 70% revenue and other benefits, but honestly i have no idea how to tackle this.

2014-09-24 16:27:04 UTC

codercraig

Growth Hacker Interview Morgan Brown

codercraig

Morgan Brown is a growth guy. He’s been working with startups for years and understands how valuable it is to work at the intersection of marketing, product and data. By meshing his creativity and experimentation he’s been able to unlock growth for companies like ScoreBig and Qualaroo among many others.

2014-09-24 16:27:47 UTC

josefresco

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

For those wanting to criticize Mitnick's actions, what I gather from the following quote is that there is an existing "industry" around finding, and selling these exploits..."Researchers find them, they sell them to us for X, we sell them to clients for Y and make the margin in between."Can anyone shed light on these "researchers" and how they sell their exploits now? Or is this just a friendly way of saying "we pay hackers for exploits and then blackmail vendors"?

2014-09-24 16:27:55 UTC

sarciszewski

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

So, who did he buy the 0days from?I know he didn't find them himself. The boy can't code.https://keenot.es/read/kevin-mitnick-is-celebrated-nobody

2014-09-24 16:28:00 UTC

idlewords

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

My experience in trying Blue Apron (a sous-chef simulator):* extravagant, simply incredible amounts of packaging. There was easily a 4:1 ratio of packaging to food. I had to stop using the service out of packaging shame* The produce was often not that good because it needs to withstand transport and storage. The tomatoes were faint pink and could have probably made it through a baseball game without a lot of damage* It made me try recipes and ingredients that I wasn't used to, which I enjoyed. I feel like it's a kind of Guitar Hero for cooking.My understanding is that Gobble is taking this stuff one step further, by doing the prep work. I'll be interested to see how they address the problem of having stuff be freshly prepared and transportable/storable at the same time.This stuff gets marketed at beginning cooks, which seems unwise. If you're just getting started, fancy restaurant meals are not the way to go. Make an omelette or two.

2014-09-24 16:28:06 UTC

codercraig

Show HN: Digital Detach – technology is great, but sometimes you need a break

lukethomas

Definitely could use this app!

2014-09-24 16:29:17 UTC

TDL

I Had to Develop an iPhone App to Understand Swing Trading

riveralabs

Nice job. This looks like a much better and more complete position sizing tool then the one I built (more of a learning exercise for me.) I wonder if the William Eckhardt position sizing algorithm was used.http://powerful-reaches-1118.herokuapp.com/ [very much a work in progress.]

2014-09-24 16:29:26 UTC

kacy

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Ubuntu has been patched, it appears. If you're on Ubuntu, try this:sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get --only-upgrade install bash

2014-09-24 16:29:30 UTC

vtlynch

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

“Researchers find them, they sell them to us for X, we sell them to clients for Y and make the margin in between.”A glorified reseller and scumbag. Pathetic.

2014-09-24 16:29:35 UTC

aristus

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

coreymgilmore

I used to be a server monkey long long ago, and played with the mockups of these servers that were set up at FB HQ. One thing to realize is they are heavy. Loaded with hard drives, one of these servers is roughly the size, shape and weight of a long 120mm mortar shell.Easier to rack than the Dells of yesteryear, sure. But there can be up to 120 of these bad boys in a single standard rack, which means 60 of them have to be lifted above waist height during rack and stack. That is pretty strenuous, and technically you should use a moving lift and / or a lifting partner. Especially when you're talking about hundreds or thousands of racks.Thinking outside the box and keeping the poor floor staff in mind, I've always wondered why we don't build little catwalks or half-height rack units, or even moving racks, like a dry cleaner's.

2014-09-24 16:29:43 UTC

extide

JQuery UI Hacked?

electrobruin

Well if it was defaced, it's back to normal now.

2014-09-24 16:30:11 UTC

nobodysfool2

Show HN: Beyondpad – New kind of note taking and data management solution

dzjosjusuns

I was looking at this because I want to make something similar. I've been looking for the software I want for the last ten years, and nothing comes close to the image in my head as to what software can do. So, I'll explain what I want.I want something similar to this, which will replace email. It doesn't necessarily have to replace email, but it will accept emails and you can send emails out of it. The idea being that email will manage the projects. I'll explain. You create an email to people. You tag it as 'project' and it will create a new project, a distribution list, and automatically give the project a name (based on the subject). Any files emailed between you and others in that project via email will automatically be added to your project's workspace. Appointments set will be assigned to the project, and each appointment occurrence will have notes that you can keep for that occurrence. Tasks can be created for projects as well, and people can be assigned those tasks, and get email reminders.With those features, if I don't recall what happened in the last meeting, or some client is asking about a file that I supposedly received, I don't have to go looking around trying to find which email on which day it was, as I'll have all project's emails together.Once a project is finished, then emails between people in that project won't automatically be categorized, but there will be 'suggested' categories.-- that said, this is nice, however, I can't figure out the ordering here, it appears there is none. Here's a simple test. Add 21 new notes. Just 1 enter enter 2 enter enter... it appears that the new notes are added to the left and that pushes everything else to the right, except when it comes to the extreme right and then it pushes that one all the way to the left and down one. That's an easy way to do it, but it's not easy to read. People are used to reading newspapers, Newspapers have a columnar format, and you read your columns. Classified ads are vertical columns as well, and if you are looking for something you look vertically within the categories. This on the other hand is horizontal categories, which is very confusing, especially since the category something is in is related to what's left of it, and how large that left thing is... in the example I give, you notice now 1,2,3 are from right to left on the bottom. Then 4 is slightly higher than those, on the very left. and then go right again, 5,6,7 all good, and 8 is once again higher... continue on until you get to sixteen, and now it all looks nice and tidy. Now edit 14 to say "14 this is a much longer note just as a test to see what happens with the columns". Now the whole thing looks like a mess.tldr; use vertical columns to make the output predictable. People are used to spacial relation, so changing that because the content of one cell changes, makes the spatial relationship memory useless.

2014-09-24 16:30:21 UTC

NoMoreNicksLeft

The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB

ferrari8608

If an SSD is written to once, and kept powered on (and at a temperature in the low 70s), while getting regular reads, how long can I expect this drive to last?If that drive is powered on, but kept at low temperatures (say near or below freezing), does this help it survive longer?What failure modes would occur in such an environment? Would it just be power surges frying the thing, static electricity?

2014-09-24 16:31:25 UTC

Karunamon

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

Am I the only one who finds it deceptive when companies offer something for "free" with a shipping charge attached?Free means $0, not $0 + $n.

2014-09-24 16:31:30 UTC

leichtgewicht

Hosting for Node.js apps done right

kertof

The things I miss in this "done right" approach:- Continuous Deployment: automatic load-balancing, proper termination of instances, all seem to apply without documentation or not?!- Redis: MongoDB for persistent data is fine in many cases but for performance nothing beats a key/value storage (also: some session storage works well with redis)- Where is it hosted? Europe? Unusable for my location :)

2014-09-24 16:31:55 UTC

msluyter

Analyzing Programming Languages Using Rosetta Code

nkurz

How is it possible that ruby is faster than Java? Are they counting jvm startup time or something? That seems rather suspicious to me.

2014-09-24 16:32:41 UTC

teknologist

Show HN: XSScrapy – fast command line XSS vulnerability spider

DanMcInerney

Does this also work for dynamic "ajax" sites that have their DOM built in script?

2014-09-24 16:33:00 UTC

JoshTriplett

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Is it just me, or are the patches "fixing" the vulnerability woefully insufficient? With the patch, bash stops executing the trailing code, but it still allows defining arbitrary shell functions from environment variables. So, even though the patch fixes the ability to exploit this via SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND or HTTP_*, anything that can set environment variables can still override an arbitrary command. (Note that privileged environments typically filter out attempts to set PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and so on.)This applies even if your shell script or shell snippet uses the full paths to commands. For instance: $ env '/sbin/foo'='() { echo exploit; }' bash -c '/sbin/foo' exploit

2014-09-24 16:33:20 UTC

copper_rose

What “technical” concerns do I have with systemd?

rossj

He's hit the nail on the head - systemd's fundamental design is not appropriate for the server environment:"I have to provide a system that runs reliably and can easily be reasoned about and yet I have to build it on distributions created by people who consider how long it takes to get to the fucking GDM login screen and if shutting the laptop lid will cause the system to hibernate properly or not."

2014-09-24 16:36:35 UTC

kjs3

ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit

skbohra123

Congrats, India. Welcome to the club. Hopefully you'll have many more successes.

2014-09-24 16:36:42 UTC

carsonreinke

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

Why does anyone need to legitimately buy a zero-day?

2014-09-24 16:40:18 UTC

cbhl

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

The one thing that drives me nuts about these kits is that they're all designed for two people or more. I live alone. Am I forever destined to eat TV dinners to feed myself? Am I supposed to eat out, because it's cheaper than mailing the box? :/

2014-09-24 16:40:40 UTC

vishalzone2002

Ask HN: Which tech companies have offices in New York City?

chromedude

dropbox opened up recently

2014-09-24 16:41:20 UTC

gradschool

Ask HN: Do Not Reply to This Email Why Not?

nwenzel

From what I've read in related discussions on HN, current thinking seems to be that customer feedback can be managed more efficiently by directing customers to a web form that answers frequent questions and requires customers to classify their remaining inquiries for the appropriate department by checking boxes. It's like getting customers to do some of your work for you. Since people are being increasingly socialized to accept that kind of treatment, you might as well use it to your advantage.

I think this question worth asking on HN because... it has been bugging me for awhile (so probably others too), there are people on HN who like to ask "why not" pretty regularly, and the answers may be helpful to founders/sales/customer support folks.Why do companies send emails from "do not reply" email addresses?At my company, we send onboarding emails, confirmation emails, notification emails, and more from our help email address and we tell people to reply to the email if they have a question.What are valid reasons for sending an email from an email address that won't/can't receive replies? What am I missing?

2014-09-24 16:41:41 UTC

Y-bar

Right Livelihood Award: 2014 – Edward Snowden

sroecker

Carl Bildt (The Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs) did not allow the prize ceremony to be held at its regular place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building. The stated reason is that he disapproves of Snowden's actions.http://www.thelocal.se/20140924/row-as-snowden-wins-swedish-...

2014-09-24 16:42:30 UTC

brudgers

Ask HN: Which tech companies have offices in New York City?

chromedude

StackExchange.

2014-09-24 16:43:01 UTC

at-fates-hands

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

So the same people who support Silk Road and black markets suddenly say, "Yeah, Fuck Kevin Mitnick!" because he's a capitalist and using essentially the same system to make some money??

2014-09-24 16:43:12 UTC

alasdair_

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

I was surprised by the ACLU response given that sharing source code is very clearly free speech.Is the ACLU of all groups really interested in stopping/censoring people from sharing ideas?

2014-09-24 16:43:30 UTC

jojofanboy

Bent iPhone claims put Apple under pressure to respond

HarveyKandola

There is a lot of fanboys out there still defending Apple with ridiculous arguments. Being a consumer, for me, this is unacceptable. Paying 800 to 900€ for a phone that has the quality of a sub 100€ phone is simply taunting the actual Apple costumers.Mark my words. This will be the major flop remembered in the future for the start of the downfall of this brand.This will make history.The excessively low production costs with these devices made in China with low quality standards and low QA at an excessively price range for the end consumer. The profit margin in this phone has to be huge and will serve as an example in the future in how a major international manufacturing fiasco is made of. This is truly amazing.

2014-09-24 16:43:59 UTC

FiddlerClamp

Ask HN: Best HN android client?

padraic7a

Try http://hn.premii.com. If you like it, you can add a shortcut to your home screen/launcher.

Can anyone reccomend an android client for HN? I have been using https://github.com/manmal/hn-android but find it problematic recently.It works well as a reader but I can no longer log in to vote or comment.

2014-09-24 16:44:22 UTC

Lazabianca

Show HN: Chat for Trello

paularsen

Hi, keep going, love it !

2014-09-24 16:44:55 UTC

agentultra

Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video]

declan

Great presentation and very clear that the rest of the course will be focusing on advice for SV-style hyper-growth startups.There's still some good advice for those of us not interested in that life style. I was particularly taken with the idea of building something that just a handful of people will really love. Having a rapt-audience for your product would be a huge win if you decide to build more, scale up, or sell out.I think it's really good that they're at least trying to convey how difficult building the style of companies they're talking about can be. I can appreciate how challenging that must be. The cultural yard-stick for success these days are valuations and IPOs. There's a ton of pressure to go that route especially from YC. I'm glad they're being conscientious about it even if they don't 100% succeed at removing some of the glimmer from the stars in peoples' eyes.There's nothing wrong with wanting to start a smaller enterprise and aspire to keep just a handful of customers you know by name.

2014-09-24 16:45:08 UTC

neilellis

Time to Show Solidarity with Women Over the World

neilellis

If you talk about Women in Tech and you are male show some support. The treatment of women across the globe brings shame to every man. From slavery, to abuse to simple inequality there seems no end to the mistreatment of women.A simple 'I agree' can help in many ways, not least because it get's us talking and shows the women campaigning that we are listening.

2014-09-24 16:45:13 UTC

AnimalMuppet

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Off topic:This is why I keep coming back to HN. I've gotten an amazing amount of useful info on this very quickly. Great discussion - no trolling, no BS, just serious questions and serious answers.

2014-09-24 16:45:14 UTC

justinsb

Google HTTP Load Balancing Now Open for Preview

Sami_Lehtinen

This sounds like it is using anycast routing ("single global IP address"). Can anyone confirm? If so, I think that's awesome; I don't know of anyone else offering that as a service. Presumably this also lays the groundwork for offering SSL more cheaply (as it is one IP per app, not one IP per app * endpoint)

2014-09-24 16:45:34 UTC

tmikaeld

Cash: An absurdly lightweight jQuery alternative

vsidamon

Wonder if it works with any plugins?

2014-09-24 16:45:46 UTC

Mickydtron

Show HN: Beyondpad – New kind of note taking and data management solution

dzjosjusuns

It looks interesting. There are two features that would make me really excited (could be that I just didn't find them in the few minutes I looked for them). The first is the ability to link notes directly to each other and then view the notes in a graph view, mind-map style. I see the graph view for tags, but nothing for viewing notes in a graph. The second is a mobile app, cause I do most of my note-taking on my phone. The web interface is useable on my phone, but not really ideal, as many of the controls are too small for my finger to reliably hit. I don't know how much I line up with the target audience here, so there could be good reasons that those aren't planned or prioritized.

2014-09-24 16:45:58 UTC

kauffj

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

People will decry this, but I'd argue a free and open market for vulnerabilities would be a great thing. Here's why:1) It would result in more vulnerabilities foundThis is fairly axiomatic. An open market increases the price of vulnerabilities which in turn increases the number of vulnerabilities found (unless you want to argue the ability to find vulnerabilities is inelastic for some reason).2) It would result in more vulnerabilities being disclosed to the proper authorities rather than malicious partiesThis is more debatable, but since there should always be significantly more incentive on good actors to prevent the exploit (i.e. the software creators and/or community) than bad actors, the good actors should always win the bid. Indeed, one could argue that it is only the prevention of free negotiation in the sale of vulnerabilities is the reason an exploit is ever sold to bad actors (e.g. if I found a Windows vulnerability and told Microsoft $10m or else, I'm a criminal).3) It would ultimately increase the quality of softwareGiven more vulnerabilities are found and more vulnerabilities would be disclosed to good actors, the quality of software increases.I believe that 2) is essentially the Coase theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem), but I am only an arm-chair economist. Also, I'm not sure that what Mitnick is doing actually is a free and open market for vulnerabilities.

2014-09-24 16:46:53 UTC

falsestprophet

Ask HN: Which tech companies have offices in New York City?

chromedude

There are tens of thousands of software developers employed in the New York metro area. This is not a reasonable approach to identify tech companies.

2014-09-24 16:47:25 UTC

WalterSear

This Is Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense

gabzuka

No one ever explains why having children in poverty makes perfect sense. It's not that unavoidable either.

2014-09-24 16:48:19 UTC

drcode

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

It seems like a much better idea for 99% of people is: 1. Learn three or four fast single-pan recipes so that you can do them without this hand-holding. 2. Eat more things out of cans, for days you want variety beyond your standard pan dishes- Just because it's in a can does NOT mean it's unhealthy, if you choose the right cans. 3. Take the money you saved in steps #1 and #2 and use it to eat meals prepared by a real chef in a real restaurant, with real fresh ingredients.

2014-09-24 16:48:22 UTC

IshKebab

What “technical” concerns do I have with systemd?

rossj

So... none?Unintegrated desktop linux is painful, and the fixes for it so far have mostly been hacks. Systemd actually attempts to create some kind of modern cohesive system which is a good thing.Maybe you don't see the downsides to the lack of integration because you're just used to putting up with them.

2014-09-24 16:48:24 UTC

avbrink

Show HN: Village – Hacker News for people who care about their cities

steve-benjamins

Good idea! I'd be interested to see this "coming to a city near me!"As a west coaster it been too long since ive heard anything but Rob Ford news come out of TO :)

Hey everyone,I started Village because I couldn't find a place online with reasonable, civil discussion about my city, Toronto.On Reddit, r/toronto could be a bit harsh and was pretty heavy with downvoting. Local blogs had comments sections that were mean and insulting.Village is an experiment. It's a place that- while honest about the challenges my city faces- tries to celebrate and share what's awesome about Toronto too. It's a place for reasonable and civil discussion. It's a place to discover awesome and interesting things in Toronto.I custom wrote the software for Village but I feel like the software for creating a social news website is pretty trivial at this point. If you want, it only takes 5 minutes to set one up using Telescope. The hard part is cultivating a community.But in the same way that you can’t design a users experience (because it implies a sense of control over what a user will experience), you also can’t design a community. Instead, you can only hope to cultivate a community.That's what I'm hoping to do with Village :)PS - If you're interested, you can read more about my thoughts on how to cultivate community here: http://www.itsonvillage.com/design-tips

2014-09-24 16:48:44 UTC

Pxtl

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

Isn't this blackmail?"Pay us for all your secret vulnerabilities or we'll sell them to the highest bidder".

2014-09-24 16:49:35 UTC

rodolphoarruda

Show HN: Beyondpad – New kind of note taking and data management solution

dzjosjusuns

It looks very interesting. Congrats!Is it possible to have more than one widget associated to an item. Let's say, I create an item and add a countdown timer and a to-do list. Would it work?

2014-09-24 16:49:36 UTC

boomskats

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

It's all very nice hoping that a free market for this kind of thing will improve security, but I don't see how that's going to happen. Government agencies are probably going to be his top customers... let's face it, they obviously have more funding for this kind of thing than they know what to do with, and it saves them having to do any hard work.It's going to bring way way way more detriment than it is benefit, especially if his clients start looking at using semi-legal tactics to protect their investments.

2014-09-24 16:50:21 UTC

tomelders

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

t'would appear he cares about nothing and no-one, and has opted to use his powers for evil.We shall have wait and see how that works out for him.

2014-09-24 16:51:29 UTC

kyleconrad

Show HN: World of X – An Interactive Exploration of the World of Marvel's X-Men

kyleconrad

Cross-posted this to Designer News, but just wanted to share it here as well as I just finished building and deploying this morning. Ever since Marvel announced their API, I've been looking to find something to build using it. A friend of mine is big on MeteorJS, so I decided to combine the two - using Meteor, the Marvel API, and the Google Maps API, I put together this interactive map that lets you explore the world of the X-Men based around key locations in their history and the stories based there.

2014-09-24 16:51:29 UTC

cafard

Ask HN: Hackers who cook

Cherian

Habitually, since marriage (25+ years), four days a week, Thursday through Sunday, we cook.1. It is by now largely out of habit, but both of us enjoy cooking. 2. Thursday and Fridays are often leftovers, or something quick. Saturday and Sunday are usually decided in a five-minute phone conversation before my wife goes to the store on Friday. Midweek there might be brown rice and broccoli or something with lentils. 3. This can be seasonal. During the warm weather, hamburgers once most weeks. During the tomato season, pasta with cold tomatoes etc. at least once every other week. Stews in the winter, etc. My wife is good with desserts--pies and cakes. 4. No. 5. Think about the leftovers when you plan the meals.

While going through a ProductHunt post[1] I came across a fellow HNer[2] who was following NYT Cooking[3] and cooking with a plan on a regular basis. I was very curious to understand how he spaces time to cook and work. And the type of stuff he cooks.Which kind of inspired me to start working on project to follow someone and get inspired by their – meal plans, shopping patterns, recipes, hacks, tips etc (Another inspiration [4])I am trying to find hackers who cook at home on a regular basis (even if its only 2-3 times a week).If you cook, some questions:1. Why do you cook? Is it to save cash or is it recreation? Or something else?2. Do you plan ahead? Like a weekly meal plan?3. What kind of things do you cook usually?4. Do you follow any diet? Atkins, Slow Carb etc.5. Do you have any life hacks, tips to be more productive as a cook?Disclosure: I run Cucumbertown (http://www.cucumbertown.com/), the Tumblr for cooks.[1] http://www.producthunt.com/posts/new-york-times-apis[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cdavis565[3] http://cooking.nytimes.com/[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/2gutuk/26_2021_1592_grocery_list_meal_plan_and_recipes/Edit:Seems like this was taken off the homepage for some reason. The comment rate’s coming down.Thanks a lot for the encouraging comments. A short but exciting Q&A. If you can help me out more, please reach me on cherian@cucumbertown.com

2014-09-24 16:51:32 UTC

tmshu1

Ask HN: Which tech companies have offices in New York City?

chromedude

Bond Street

2014-09-24 16:52:12 UTC

bambax

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

I don't quite get the point of all these services; one of the joys of cooking is shopping for fresh ingredients, choosing them, prepping them.Putting pre-cut ingredients in a pan for a specified amount of time is not "cooking".You can get pretty good / excellent meals that have been separately cooked sous-vide in a factory, that you simply reheat in a microwave -- they're much faster, much cheaper, probably better tasting than these pretend-cook meals (and just as healthy).

2014-09-24 16:53:00 UTC

emcnicho

I Had to Develop an iPhone App to Understand Swing Trading

riveralabs

The chances of the stock moving from {$25 - $24 = 4.00%decrease} is much more likely than a move from {$25 - $27.5 = 10% increase}-plain intuition. To be brutally honest, it will most likely hit both of those price targets assuming the stock has been trading between that range and they are within one standard deviation of the historical price records.The most important part of being a trader is TIMING and the second most important part is being able to make decisions based off of analysis of technical parameters and NOT based off of your emotions.This type of analysis tells me that you are not comfortable emotionally with losing more than $50 on one trade which I see as a sign that you should be looking into more traditional investment practices.I would suggest you analyze the opportunity cost for the amount of research, training, and actual trading it will take before you become profitable. Don't forget about taxes!As a seasoned trader, I can assure you this is the type of analysis that will result in lost money and unimaginable negative emotions. It is too simplistic and lacks both fundamental theory and actual technical analysis.

2014-09-24 16:54:09 UTC

zemvpferreira

Make Dinner: A Home Cooking Manifesto

jcater

A pan-roasted spatchcocked chicken is one of my favourite easy meals, it's rewarding to see it glorified in the NY Times. However, I'm a bit disappointed they'd use it to sell us on a 16,000 recipe database.Is it really helpful to have 44 years worth of different dinners on your iPad? Isn't a simple and malleable classic like the chicken dish proof that all you need to get by are a handful of recipes and the skill to play with them?(disclosure: I'm the founder of a home cooking tech startup, and biased against the recipe-library approach)

2014-09-24 16:54:56 UTC

olssy

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

At least this way large corporations will start paying more for their bounties.

2014-09-24 16:54:56 UTC

hoopism

Alexey Chervonenkis found dead

reinhardt

I read about him just now, admittedly was not aware of him prior.My first thought though given the location was "so what was this guy doing the government didn't like?".

2014-09-24 16:55:02 UTC

steanne

Bent iPhone claims put Apple under pressure to respond

HarveyKandola

apple has specifically advertised the iphone as fitting in a pocket.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxtyxCAxGNE

2014-09-24 16:55:45 UTC

edmack

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

We tried the Shitake Miso meal last night, it was tasty and fun to make. We work long hours, so it was a nice treat to cook without the time sink of shopping and prepping.

2014-09-24 16:55:49 UTC

deweller

Was jquery.com compromised?

getdavidhiggins

Update [9/24]:https://twitter.com/jquery/status/514811609752289281"We have detected a new compromise of http://jquery.com and are taking action to mitigate the attack. Updates to follow."

2014-09-24 16:56:21 UTC

jsabo

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

coreymgilmore

Does anyone have a link to more info on their differently sized racks or the storage arrays described in the article? I'm not too familiar with the open compute project, but the storage vault design they have is 2U: http://www.opencompute.org/projects/open-vault-storage/which doesn't match the article.

2014-09-24 16:57:14 UTC

mfkp

ClearSlide Mail – A Sales-focused Email, Calendar, and Contacts App for iOS

mfkp

Direct link to app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clearslide-mail-sales-inbox/...

2014-09-24 16:58:00 UTC

igaape

Ask HN: Which tech companies have offices in New York City?

chromedude

Full stack academy , Trello , Codeacademy ... These are the 3 start ups that come to mind .... I'll keep adding as I remneber more

2014-09-24 16:58:56 UTC

hackpm

ClearSlide Mail – A Sales-focused Email, Calendar, and Contacts App for iOS

mfkp

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/09/24/clearslide-ac...

2014-09-24 16:59:49 UTC

raverbashing

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

Well, this is what happens when researchers are snubbed by software vendors.I don't agree with the attitude and sale of vulnerabilities, but if someone approaches the vendor and get the responses "this is not a vulnerability" or "why are you hacking our software, we're calling the authorities" this is where it ends up...

2014-09-24 17:00:04 UTC

phkahler

I Had to Develop an iPhone App to Understand Swing Trading

riveralabs

>> I have the potential to make a higher 2R profit, with the same amount of risk as before, because I’m simply buying more shares.What he's really doing here is demanding a much larger percentage gain in the stock price to get that higher return. It has nothing to do with the number of shares.

2014-09-24 17:00:26 UTC

Elizer0x0309

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

This again, reminds me that money can buy you anything... apart from a free CONSCIENCE.

2014-09-24 17:01:27 UTC

mikestew

The Grand Tour, 2.0

Thevet

"A traveller usually understands that itineraries are pretty useless, admits ignorance, and is open to whatever the road may bring."That pretty much sums up most of the travel my wife and I do on motorcycles (sometimes to her chagrin). In a week or two we'll travel up to Canada for a week. Where in Canada? Umm, British Columbia, maybe over to Alberta. What do we plan to see? I have no idea. Lots of provincial parks, I imagine. I have a very loose route planned, which we'll probably abandon by Day 2, and that's about it. Getting late in the year, might hit snow in higher areas, in which case we'll turn back. We have to be home the following Monday. That's our itinerary.Semi-randomly wandering around isn't for everyone. Despite the loose plan, there's still planning to be done, either at the supper table in the evening or a map and breakfast in the morning. If you don't like to think during your traveling, it's definitely not for you what with ad hoc planning and a dozen off-the-cuff decisions throughout the day.But you know what? One will often see and experience things because they're worth seeing or experiencing, not because you're told to go see them. I'm as much about the random roadhouse diner with an owner who can tell you the history of the area going back the four generations his family has lived there as I am about seeing the Grand Canyon (which is a bit overrated, IMO).One of these days maybe we'll do a cruise where every minute is planned. But not for a while, if ever.

2014-09-24 17:01:45 UTC

mindcrime

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

It's disappointing to see that Kevin would sell exploits to a government body, but I don't otherwise see a problem with an exchange for exploits. I mean, they're going to get developed and sold eitherway, whether it's here, on some darknet forum, or whatever.

2014-09-24 17:02:26 UTC

thezach

JQuery.com vandalized

thezach

link pulls up saved version of vandalized site, linking to site in story pulls up story from two years ago.

2014-09-24 17:03:11 UTC

japaget

Alexey Chervonenkis found dead

reinhardt

Link to Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Chervonenkis

2014-09-24 17:03:15 UTC

SirPulse

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

coreymgilmore

What a teaser of an article. I wish it included more details about how Facebook and Google went about reimagining the server architecture and design.

2014-09-24 17:05:50 UTC

bf3rocks

A guy slipped inside tiger's cage in Indian zoo, dead

chankey_pathak

1. Forcibly drag a wild animal from its natural home and throw it in a cage. 2. Some dumbass climbs a wall of this cage to click photograph. 3. Dumbass slips and falls into the cage. 4. The wild animal peacefully stands beside the said dumbass, and touches him playfully. 5. Some other dumbasses standing outside the cage hit the wild animal with stones for no reason (as if this is going to chase it away!) 6. The agitated wild animal kills the first dumbass.This is entirely the wild animal's fault, who is now judged as being a cold-blooded murderer. #HumanLogic

2014-09-24 17:06:24 UTC

cpwright

How to tell when a robot has written you a letter

Thevet

One of the things that readily annoys me is the "Important Information About your Current Account" letters from a credit card company that are just purchase checks inside. I do tend to open them, just in case; but have never actually used one. I don't think there is necessarily any trickery going on here, but it certainly trains people to ignore mail from them.The mortgage companies are worse, in that they plaster the name of your current (or former) lenders on them; even though they have no actual association. These are usually easy to differentiate from real mail though.

2014-09-24 17:06:38 UTC

kartikkumar

Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video]

declan

One thing that bothered me about the lecture was reinforcement of the idea that working hard is the same as working long. I can appreciate the fact that at times as a founder you have to work all hours of the day, but surely this is not the optimum scenario for maximum productivity. If I look at my own work situation currently, it's abundantly apparent to me that the law of diminishing returns affects me strongly after working 8-10 hrs straight.I would have expected the message to be that the most successful founders in the long-term are the ones that figure out the right work/life balance, to ensure they don't burn out. In other words, successful founders are able to be focussed and driven for the hours that they work, and in recharge-mode when offline.This is intuitively what I would have expected and I'm curious if the message from the lecture of "work all day, everyday" is really right.

2014-09-24 17:07:27 UTC

palidanx

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

I wonder if it is better for these food start-ups to perhaps sell a food starter package? Something like all of the woks, knives, and small amounts of spices you would need for all recipes. But then, I'm not sure exactly how they would make money after that.

2014-09-24 17:07:56 UTC

sauronlord

What happens when National Geographic steals your art?

playhard

<sarc> I'm so sorry to hear that they took what is yours and that you no longer have access to your creation.</sarc>Since when did copyright infringement be made equal to theft?

2014-09-24 17:07:58 UTC

sboak

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

My experience with Gobble went as follows: I was going to do their trial but bailed before completing checkout because their terms automatically subscribe you for weekly meals. I got a call a few days later saying that I was being sent the meals anyway and that, also, they weren't sure which meals I was supposed to be sent so they might be wrong. No offer to refund my money. They said the meals would be arriving the next day. It's now over a week later and I never received the incorrect meals that I never actually ordered but was charged for. I emailed customer service again about this and haven't heard back. Caveat emptor.

2014-09-24 17:08:03 UTC

gregonicus

I Had to Develop an iPhone App to Understand Swing Trading

riveralabs

Sounds like this type of trading could generate near 1000 taxable events per year. How do you manage this data for your tax filing?

2014-09-24 17:08:04 UTC