skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sort of? see http://dnscurve.org/ - but it doesn't entirely address the same problem as dnssec. DJB looks like he took the parts he could do better and did them better while leaving key management (which some people claim is the hard part) to the user.

there was a discussion of it on dns-operations[1] the other day

[1]https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2010-Feb...
Ummm..... wouldn't such a test be something like Putnam or IMO? As you said, those exact tests that let us distinguish at that level.
Here it goes: http://wpparty.com/tag/lucky-this-time/

Not only the soil was different but the depth and location of the epicenter were not comparable:

"Saturday’s quake was centered offshore an estimated 21 miles (34 kilometers) underground in a relatively unpopulated area while Haiti’s tectonic mayhem struck closer to the surface — about 8 miles (13 kilometers) — and right on the edge of Port-au-Prince, factors that increased its destructiveness.

In terms of energy released at the epicenter, the Chilean quake was 501 times stronger. But energy dissipates rather quickly as distances grow from epicenters — and the ground beneath Port-au-Prince is less stable by comparison and “shakes like jelly,” says University of Miami geologist Tim Dixon.

Survivors of Haiti’s quake described abject panic — much of it well-founded as buildings imploded around them. Many Haitians grabbed cement pillars only to watch them crumble in their hands."
Its a good drill to go thru - even if you have more than one advantage, practice pitching each one in isolation.
Successful online poker players have managed to sell their e-books for nearly $1000 (see http://www.balugapoker.com/books.html or http://dailyvariance.com/let-there-be-range.html, for example). I really doubt they're doing the same volume this guy is; however, given the price difference, they only have sell 1/13 as many books to break even with him...
Rate my Webapp: Securely send passwords (SendMyPassword.net)
Site:
https://sendmypassword.net/

Details:
At my work we spend a lot of effort and time trying to get passwords to our users (Faxes, telephone, having them show up in person, etc).

After trying to think of a better, more secure way, I came up with the app above. You enter your password (or generate one) and it saves the encrypted PW in a database and gives you a link to access that password.

After the password has been accessed, it is deleted from the database, so you can be sure that the user is the only one who has seen it.

The passwords also expire within 24 hours, so even if the user does not view the password, it will be deleted automatically.

The entire site uses 256-bit SSL security, and at work it's cut down on password-related troubles quite a lot.

I'd appreciate any feedback on the app.
Thank you very much.
The free enterprise system explains most of them.
Here's a quotation: It has all sorts of bells and whistles which people tell me are great - including a new "content management system" and something called Disqus which is a way cool commenting device with avatars and such.

I'm not sure how much to make of this, honestly. But part of me immediately thinks: yup, no wonder print journalism is dying. The people who work there put "content management system" in scare quotes and describe Disqus as if it were a videogame they don't understand how to play.
God Bless you Mr. Tesla!
For the Rubyists out there, here is a Ruby library based off of the same blog post: http://github.com/jamesgolick/friendly
Reminds me of a segment I once saw (60 Minutes? years back) about a mailman with an IQ of 145. He didn't see any reason to knock himself out just because he was born 'that way'. Happy doing what he was. What more is there?
And a wireless phone device at the demarcation point!
I released some code under a similar license, but I just made it up on the spot: http://trailbehind.com/comment_widget/

"CommentWidget isn't released under a particular open source license. You can do whatever you like with the code, anything at all."
When most folks buys most things by choosing the best price, the cheap stuff gets cheaper and the better stuff gets more expensive.
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The only example here is yours - I didn't bring up seatbelts.
Whatever it is, factor in benefits, delayed paychecks. 80% of scale would be fine I suppose. But hourly its going to suck no matter how you figure it.
Are you being hired as the CTO or the janitor? The "(salary/equity)" may be different.
Seems like the real threat here is training a user that it's ok to use third party web sites to tell them what password to use. That's a very bad habit.
Thanks. We are doing something similar and are running into some constraints with this setup.
I would love to see that link too!
I'm the guy behind PRManna who got the C&D from HARO. If anyone is interested in this whole debacle, I posted about it Friday on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1154159
Ah - would be interested to hear about those too!
are you an engineer? are you going to be a lead engineer? do you know what kind of funding they have? ie how much? i would say you should get at least 1-2% equity.
How much worth is a secure software if it quickly becomes outdated and thus useless? (at least in its original, secure form)

Qmail is an example of how to success in security, but then fail another way. DJB never reviewed contributed features, or reimplemented them the "right/secure way". There was absolutely no plan to evolve Qmail, so it was unable to fit future requirements.

This catastrophic project management literally provoked forks and patches. People had to modify the original Qmail to get even basic features such as SMTP authentiation or integration with spam scanners. Many patches of questionable quality are flying around, and no official next version of qmail.

So to be fair, we should count the bugs in the Qmail forks (e.g. qmail-ng), because these are the versions that are actually used.
I don't think its good. How will Ralph Nader investigate a code crash that leaves a balled-up bit of twisted metal in the median? What trace does a bug leave? Toyota can't even debug their throttle problem. Without a black box or hardware backup we should expect mounting unexplained accidents. Remember power steering requires a mechanical backup if hydraulics fails - who hasn't experienced that, or doesn't know someone who has?
I didn't know she closed her Twitter account. I noticed her absence. I hope she is OK.
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Arguably a keypad is worse than a key when it comes to being easy to open. Think about carrying a heavy load or box. You can (usually) still reach into your pocket, pull out a key, unlock the door and go inside. It's likely impossible to key in the keypad while holding the heavy load.
Yeah, it was quite poor on details and explanation of what goes on. Drawbacks are barely explain anymore than "It fills up memory".

While recursion in some languages sucks, not all languages are like that and most jobs want experience in more than one language.
I would worry that this is not actually legally binding.
I doubt they are intentionally misleading you.

If anything, I would guess it's a UI/design issue, rather than malicious intent on their part.
So, they're 2^13 (13 * 18mos = 20yrs) times thinner than they were in 1990?
It's probably feasible given enough time. However, Adobe Flex/flash excels at graphics and image manipulation and provides a set of APIs that let you focus on developing features for this particular domain.
The ideas are kind of implemented in Haskell, if that counts.

Every pure transformation (i.e. function) in Haskell is safe from side effects. There is a very clean and safe separation beween pure and impure code. So an operating system based on Haskell, with a Haskell shell and the like, would be a very secure environment.

Of course, that means the Haskell compilers and interpreters have to be secure, but the same holds for C compilers, too.
For anyone interested in having Git, SVN and VirtualEnv status in your prompt: http://pastebin.com/f79a9af51
[O]rdinary people just want something cheap that works.
And that's how the iPad will seem to them. Many will never
make a conscious decision to switch. They'll get an iPad as
well, then find they use their Windows machine less and
less. When it dies they won't replace it.

Quoted for truth.
Isn't this the question of the eon? How to hire good programmers?

Currently, hiring a programmer is like hiring a poet - there's no objective standard by which to measure them - thats because software writing is not an engineering discipline yet - but it will be.

Also - the IT industry is so primitive it is still practicing hunting/gathering, that is, it waits for someone else to train up a programmer then tries to scoop them.

It is well known that that ability to program a computer is a trait, and you can't train for a trait, but when was the last time you heard of some firm filtering for kids with this trait, then training them? THAT would be 'agriculture' something the industry hasn't got to yet.

Instead, they pursue proven programmers, there being a big competition for the few at the top who seem to know the secret handshake.

It's been my career's karma to live in interesting times.
Your approach to the whole thing was very much affiliate/internet marketing oriented: list building via PPC, squeeze page, product sold through ClickBank, generous kickbacks to affiliates, high price for low page count, artificial urgency created through a limited time offer, and so on.

Here is what I admire:

* You managed to do all this without pissing off geeks, who are very sensitive to bullshit and tend to have an holier than thou attitude towards these techniques.

* I didn't buy the book, but I suspect it's rather high quality, compared to most junk sold on ClickBank.

* Your landing/squeeze page is surprisingly classy. It manages to accomplish a good CRT, despite the lack of autoplaying audio/video, exit popups, and the typical centered column look.

In short, good job.
This is the kind of narrow thinking that surprises me. Here are some random possibilites:

- Solid urethane or other material tires.
- Some other unpressurized (i.e. mechanical, rubber, electromechanical) device instead of pneumatics.
- Built in air compressors into wheels. Alert for a slow leak and keep pumping in air until you get it fixed. (i.e. like a sump on a ship)
- Built in "fix-a-flat" type goo dispersal device.
- etc.

Jumper cables? Why doesn't my car have an "emergency electrical jack" that I can just plug into from a home outlet, tow truck, or other car? Why do I have to go on about finding batteries, connecting alligator clips, etc. It should be more like "Connect two devices with emergency electrical cable. Press start on both devices. Wait for green light. Remove cables. Drive to service station."

Tire chains? Do you seriously think this is the best solution to getting temporary cold weather traction? How about (at the least) those Spikes-Spyder things? (http://www.spikes-spiders.com/) That's just the beginning of innovation that could happen in this space.
Mm, the logic here is ultimately of economic activity for the sake of activity; that the activity is useful is a happy accident. It is different from the broken window fallacy, but not greatly.
There'd be a backup physical key, just like on my car. And/or it could be run via battery backup for 24+ hours. Short-range wireless devices like this don't draw much power.
They also did mad things like not use salt water to make their concrete like Haiti.
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Zero-click info for error messages would be a great resource. There are already some sites that do this for specific kinds of error (e.g. ora-code.com for Oracle errors) but a general "put in this error and I´ll tell you what it means" site would be fantastic.

If I were to add up all the searches I do in a day, then searches for programming advice (e.g. how do I fix X, what's the syntax for Y) would outnumber all my other searches put together, so I definitely think there's a bit opportunity here.
i've replied twice to this and deleted both because it's difficult not to be rude.

so can i just suggest that, in the future, before you tell other cultures how to live, you do the research?
How about financial consolidation and reporting? Having had a fair bit of experience with "market leading" applications there is definitely a better solution out there waiting to be built.
Scalaris (http://code.google.com/p/scalaris/) is consistent and has transactions.

As an aside, three sentences doesn't really warrant a "tl;dr".
Consider most of the Flash most people see.

1) Ads. Animated ads. Ads that suddenly make noise. Ads that do both.

2) SKIP INTRO. (Enough said.)

3) Playing video easily on a web page.

4) Games.

Of these, only the last two are things most people want, and they see far more ads than they ever do YouTube clips.
I'm so glad! He groks security and UNIX extremely well, I find his software a joy to use.

I know he has several detractors, but that doesn't prevent his ideas to spread, albeit slowly.

We all stand to gain.
It would be more notable if they didn't diversify and bet the whole company on HTML 5.
"Maybe I'll create a competitor that doesn't charge anything."

And yet, I would still bet on airbnb...
Steve Jobs wants the computer to be the equivalent of a toaster... which I think is absolutely awesome for "normal folks". The computer is supposed to solve problems, not create them. That's why I'm bullish on the iPad. Some type of black swan event is likely to occur in personal computing. I don't know if the iPad is "the event" or just a major accelerant, but people are clearly waking up to the fact that they don't need all this complex shit.

I'm not worried about guys like us. There will always be machines for us (powerful, complex, etc.). Why? Because if for some magical reason there wasn't all of a sudden, we're the type that would just make one.
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In this post, we see the strange assumption that large corporations inherently make more efficient bureaucrats than elected officials.
I think you nailed it. Essentially, what they are up to is to automate the content production, because that could make them (not those journalists) rich. Demand Media did it with how-to articles using SEO, now these guys wants to do that with journalism. Much harder task, IMHO. Good luck...
I completely agree with Paul and the others at Ycombinator. Although my writeup was specifically about control systems, my point is that this device is not about eBook reading, so comparing it to the Kindle is a waste of time.

My writeup can be found here: http://lr.posterous.com/the-ipad-its-about-control-systems-n...
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Ugh. My experience is that insurance companies are one of the few institutions that somehow manage to be even more bloated and bureaucratic than the government.
if they are not prepared to handle a wire failing, i dont want to be using that vendor.

btw, that was the first magic trick i learned as a kid.
Can you please define the pain that you're solving with a little more granularity? Is the issue the friction of getting the password to the user, or is it a security thing? If it's a security issue, there's still the problem of key distribution (rather, PIN distribution).

When I look at this quickly, I think, "hmm, email solves the distribution concern. And this isn't really a secure solution, so it doesn't solve the security concern." So what are you solving?
First of all, you can study for those (although virtually all of us hit a ceiling because those problems are very hard). I used to study for those tests (although technically not IMO since I never qualified for it) and did reasonably well, although my IQ is "only" about 150. If these tests were perfect IQ tests, I shouldn't have even placed in the top thousand... since there are 400-4000 Americans smarter than me per year, plus the international students. (However, my "math IQ" if such a thing could be measured would probably be around 165-170, and "verbal IQ" around 135-140.)

Also, there are a couple of famous mathematicians (names don't come to mind) who are notorious for sucking at proofs. Their conjectures were very good and almost always right, but they relied on future mathematicians to prove their work (details, details). They would likely zero the Putnam.
I'm not sure if this is really an innovation. Trac has had something similar for years. Github is arguably doing it better, but in the source control world, this isn't that original.

As for the API, I agree. Although I'm not sure how much more you need than just the URL...
What's the equivalent of a rollover effect for touch?
Most of these categories are niches that the average person has some experience with and don't require specialized knowledge or connections to create a successful product. Most programmers don't know enough about non-programming fields to build a successful product, so they all tend to pile on in the few niches they understand. There are probably a lot of business opportunities out there for programmers who also have experience in non-software fields.
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This is a little project I made some time ago. Just revised some of it today, thought that some here may think it's cool.
Claiming that the stricter building codes would stimulate the economy is arguably also the same fallacy, just without the obvious net-negative of the "broken window" case.

On the other hand, even disregarding the risk mitigation, it's also arguable that the seemingly burdensome building codes would inflict no appreciable harm on the economy, for exactly the same reasons that the broken window fallacy sounds plausible.
Oh that discussion is raging right now among people. It was also brought up under the subject of Flash. I leave that for others to figure out.
Maybe the Web doesn't need rollover effects.
I suspect it never really occured the grandfather - because there wasnt really any secrecy, this is a community that generally scoffs on secrecy as "a bit silly really" and there appeared to be no harm in spreading possibly interesting knowledge.

Not deliberately malicious I am sure.

I was going to post it too but checked myself at the last minute.
Yeah unfortunately there's a steep learning curve, but worth it for anything math-related.

Here's a sample chapter laid out with LaTeX: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://betterexplained.com...

The #1 rule is to not use the default styles unless you want your book to look like a master's thesis.
TouchUpOutside

Essentially, the user touches an interface element, then slides their finger off the element to "cancel" the touch.

For most iPhone UI buttons/elements, it doesn't register a button click unless the the finger touches down on the button then releases up off the same button.
Expected to be a lead engineer. And they currently have $1 mil in angel funding
What product you have heard of can greatly depend on your responsibilities within the company. If you're focused on product, you will almost undoubtedly have heard of Balsamiq. On the other hand, Dropbox is increasingly being used across the organization (sales, engineers, etc).
I predict you will see a bias toward companies at the beginning of the list, as people see how many there are and give up. I did. If I were you I'd delete this and repost with a list of 5-7 cos.
"Maybe it makes you feel better because you only have a 120 IQ, but that precludes you from achieving anything meaningful in math and science."

Child prodigy and Fields Medalist Terry Tao disagrees: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to...
1Password is quite good for the Mac:
http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password

It integrates well with Firefox & Safari, and will sync over wi-fi to an iPhone for an encrypted backup.
I ran the numbers along with my regular publisher for doing something possibly similar (though only guessing based on what they are saying) here in the UK.

You could probably pick up solid but cheap freelancers to join in (one of the magazine the publisher owns encourages community generated content and quite a few tech writers got a start through it) simply because it would mean increased output for them (not being at capacity like super-pro writers generally are) and hence more money.

But it's so so hard to compete with what the print mags would pay. We talked to a few freelancers who said they wanted at least 50% of what they would get for print - but twice the uptake (i.e. twice as many articles). That's hundreds of dollars per article you have to shell out for a few months before advertising picks up to cover it.

I think it's going to be tough to do this.

I saw they were promising payments, elsewhere, of 30-70K. That is "serious writer" territory and they aren't going to get any of them.

It was the ultimate reason I haven't emailed what looks like an interesting idea - 70K is such a ludicrous promise it sounds like they barely know the talent pool :(

(though maybe US journalism works like that, I dont know)
I think Dropbox is the only company on that list that I know for certain I would have heard of without HN.
Kathy did not close her Twitter account due to anything bad (unlike the unfortunate threats that coincided with her blog shutting down.)

There are lots of ways to participate in communities and conversations, and she wanted to step away from that one for a bit.

I can't point to a public URL as I got this from private conversation, but there was a public Tweet from one of her friends on this as well.

In any case, her work is GREAT and anybody from an engineer to a marketer would do well to absorb her customer-centric philosophies that make EVERYTHING clear ("your product doesn't kick ass... your product makes your CUSTOMERS kick ass...")

Google and learn :D
@pw0ncakes

This just shows that IQ tests are garbage. Top level math contests are a much better indicator of your intelligence. I don't know what tests you're talking about because USAMO and Putnam don't have internationals.

And what mathematicians are you talking about? Take time to look them up because I can think of no examples of great mathematicians being "bad at proofs". That would mean they were bad at logic, which would mean they were bad at math. Being more famous for a conjecture doesn't mean you were bad at proofs. To even produce those conjecture requires deep understanding of the math leading to it. I can almost guarantee that there are no great mathematicians who would zero Putnam. I don't even zero Putnam, and there are plenty of people way better than me who still have no chance of becoming a great mathematician.

Do you realize how brilliant a mathematician has to be for you to even ever know his name?
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This is a great overview from Guy.
Customer development is an often overlooked process that boils down to understanding what is actually useful for the end user or customer, rather than what the entrepreneur thinks is useful.
I don't think appliance computing institutes a disconnect between what hackers and non-hackers compute on. I actually think the opposite is true but that the tools aren't here just yet to support that conjecture.
Indeed, I think many tech people forget they are in the vast minority of computer users.
Thanks. I'm a big fan of her books, blog, and philosophy in general. I hope she doesn't lay low for too long, but she's given so much to the programming/online community that I guess she deserves a break if she wants one.