skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As Marcin said, twitter seems to be the security industry hangout. Watch the conference schedules/abstracts to get a good idea where the security industry is headed (some exploits will be revealed in those talks/papers.) Full-disclosure is OK, but I've never been able to follow it -- too noisy.

Really, I think the best way is to keep track of the major vendors security advisory schedule (MS, Apple, Adobe, etc.) Those advisories will say which researcher has submitted the which report. By following those researchers, you will be able to keep out on top of the public research.
I'm just gonna say this, NEVER have SSH keys without a password and say it's a secure way for a passwordless logon. It's unsecure and your keys can get used against you. Giving your key a strong password and using ssh-agent and ssh-add will give you passwordless logons and the benefit of security.
How We Got Rejected from YC and Moved into the SpeakerCave
I did this and it upped click-throughs tremendously.
We've been waiting for it to put in to swift (openstack storage) since we heard about it. It should really help performance on container and account operations.
It's also available compiled for MIPS and running under a pure Java MIPs emulator for cross-platform Java software.

http://www.zentus.com/sqlitejdbc/

If you need a pure-Java solution for a fast SQL database without needing T-SQL or Oracle, it's a great solution.
Hence the title of the article says "software" insecurity. Problems with security of the OS and problems with security of the software running on the OS both have the same end effect: they make the system vulnerable.
The actual report (http://secunia.com/gfx/pdf/Secunia_Half_Year_Report_2010.pdf) is only about Windows computers. So it's about iTunes, Safari ... for Windows, not Mac OSX.

"In the first part of the report we look at the global picture covering all vulnerabilities in all products, followed by the analysis of vulnerabilities affecting the products and the operating system found on typical end-users PCs."
Evaluating Game Mechanics For Depth
Yep, that's true! For further information in regard to testing in SQLite have a look at How SQLite Is Tested, http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
If I was 19 yo I'm not so sure I wouldn't give up 50% of a company for $1k. Remember, at age 19, you haven't actually created anything of value. This $1k seems like a free computer at the time. And in the off chance this company does well, 50% of $1B is $500M. I'm happy to just have my $500M. Or at least I would be at the time I'm hypothesizing about this company.

Of course, Mark wouldn't take that deal now if he started a new company. But I bet you can still find a relatively bright student somewhere who would.
> You would think a site called "Nature" would provide a less human-centric point of view: "The elimination of Anopheles would be very significant for mankind."

You do realize that's a quote from a medical entomologist, not Nature's journalists, right? And that they are obliged to provide both sides of the argument?
The Chipophone: a homemade 8-bit synthesizer
Speaking a mistruth and lying are not the same thing. I sometimes think I'm telling the truth, but my facts are wrong. I'm not trying to deceive.

I'm not just pulling things out of my butt, either. For example, I spend a lot of time researching new technologies, but rarely have the time to become proficient with them. This is very similar to the kind of learning you may do in a classroom; I've never made an electromagnet, but thanks to my physics class I can tell you about them.

Sometimes I say something incorrect. Sometimes someone with more experience disputes my claims and I don't have the knowledge and experience to rebut them, or to know if they're really right.

Modern society is founded on feeding off of each other's knowledge and experiences; if we all spoke only about what we knew very well, and first-hand, we'd say all very little. I'm humble enough to admit when I'm wrong, but I'm trying to be wrong less often. It makes me look incredible.
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I have often thought the same thing. I have no "moral" or any qualms about this. If we have eradicated smallpox why not the mosquitos or the AIDS virus. However, let's not go too fast on this:

First, if you read the article, there's considerable disagreement among the scientists on what the effects of the disappearance of the mosquitos would be.

Second, fiddling with super-complex systems without having even a rough estimate of the possible effects may be disasterous. Typical example is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species_in_Australia, where success is mixed.
Khoi Vinh - Why I left my job at The New York Times
General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE)
Fair enough but I just think it's a little dishonest to call out Old Spice when many deodorants contain aluminum and you have an allergy. It just seems you could have made this post initially and that anyone in your shoes would already know to factor it in.
What I would really like is a RTS (such as starcraft) that let me play realtime, but we my macro preconfigured. To explain a bit more, starcraft let you queue up actions.. (For instance, build this, then go take minerals). However, suppose there was a script language that you could use and use it in all your games.. For instance, this script could take care of scouting the opponent, queuing up workers automatically, etc etc. while you focus mainly on the high level strategy.
It depends on the industry. Some industries definitely require a recruiter. You just need to talk to a lot of them until you find a good one; they're not all the same.
The Microsoft one you are thinking of is called Terrarium. It was built to help people learn .NET 1.0 but I don't think it's been updated for newer versions of .NET (currently 4.0). It was .NET specific, meaning you could write your dll in any .NET language but non .NET languages would not be compatible.
Excellent. Thanks for responding.

For better or worse (for my sake, not yours!) I know what this means in terms of how I may be able to use it in conjunction with an exotic options platform with which I am tangentially involved.
wouldn't you need crazy critical mass to unlock any deals this way? only places w/swarms would qualify.

group buying/groupon style sales + checkins makes sense, but not sure if simultaneous checkins is the answer.
OK, I'll be that guy: what are we looking at here?
It's good not to adopt strong opinions on things you don't know much about. There are also lots of ways to drop in disclaimers about your (lack of) knowledge so you can still have a good conversation. This results in more learning and less arguing.
some good comments on slashdot: http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1727682&cid=329...
Contrast and compare.

Population
USA 310 Mio. (2010, est.)
Singapore 5 Mio. (2009, est.)

Area
USA 10 Mio. km^2
Singapore 0.00071 Mio. km^2

Population density
USA 32 per km^2
Singapore 7,022 per km^2

I don’t know how useful comparisons between countries of similar size are, never mind countries which are so radically different.

What would be interesting (though not necessarily conclusive) is data on growth, stagnation or contraction in single cities (with, say, a population bigger than one million) in the US and to then to compare that data.
FWIW I don't see much of a user base for Foursquare either where I live in the Midwest. Especially not when compared with Check-ins on the West Coast.
It seems only cute animals deserve to be saved, and disease carrying ones eliminated. Whereas I hate mosquitoes as much as anyone, but they do have their ecological place. Pandas on the other hand...are suspect.
What are you thoughts on the game server itself?

You could open source it and just expect someone to pick it up and host it somewhere for others to play on. The advantage is the host could make modifications to the game mechanics itself (just like any other game).

The alternative would be to develop the server with the 'cloud' in mind. Meaning, there would most likely only be one large game server that perhaps managed 'instances' of matches. The advantage here is that you avoid fragmenting an already small pool of players.
Calling it lying is going overboard. Sometime what happens is that people overgeneralize from the domain they know to domains they don't. Engineers, because we are problem solvers, are especially prone to do this, whenever we are given a problem, we like to offer a solution.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? We do not have any ads on the DPP site, I am unable to replicate the problem, and we would appreciate any additional information on this. Thanks.

--Steve Repetti
DataPortability Board Member
I once called someone I don't like a "human mosquito" because she added no value whatsoever to the world. Good to know that insult is now backed up with science.
I think Pay Pal has been grown more because it is more convenient for all people because it has low fees.Http://www.fdiseagle.com
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And that`s why you should say you have worked on three well defined projects, with tight schedules and scopes, and were able to deliver the client requirements with awesome quality (insert anecdote about when a customer said you did something incredible).

But now you`re looking for a different type of work (whatever the job description says). That means you have to research the job/company/ask questions before answering the recruiter.

You can`t change an industry. Leave the pragmatism aside when trying to get money and play the game.
Why not integrate Google Chrome's API with boomerang? The following functions are available to web content:

chrome.loadTimes().{requestTime, startLoadTime, commitLoadTime, finishDocumentLoadTime, finishLoadTime, firstPaintTime, firstPaintAfterLoadTime, navigationType, wasFetchedViaSpdy}
chrome.csi().{startE, onloadT, pageT, tran}
Have you tried it? This was posted in January, but doesn't seem to work anymore.

curl -A Opera 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=4&__a=1'
for (;;);{"error":0,"errorSummary":"","errorDescription":"","errorIsWarning":false,"silentError":0,"payload":{"friends":[]}}
In my personal experience, any essay that starts with a martial arts (or zen) analogy usually brings in a lot of touchy-feely arguments. And it seems this is no exception. (Considering the historical retconning the Japanese like to do, I wonder how valid that "ancient" distinction is anyway).
I didn't see a link in the post to http://speakertext.com/. I checked it out, and it looks like a really useful app! Best of luck to these guys!
The real power of an application like this would be aggregating real-time news events as they unfold and creating news stories from real-time tweets, blog posts, and other social media. Instead of just clustering together topics, being able to "read" a large amount of sources and generate a summary would actually be very useful. Unfortunately, I think that it ignores a lot of very difficult problems in natural language processing and computational linguistics. It will likely have a few homeruns, but peter out as it hits an accuracy wall.
True my original post is a bit harsh. The point is Old Spice is like the Burger King of deodorants, yeah there are McDonalds but McDonalds didn't have a recent gigantic/viral ad campaign with a now popular figure.
I'll point you to some articles written by people more experienced than I at this:

anti-family: - Jason Friedman
http://www.humbledmba.com/the-drag-coefficient-scoring-syste...

Pro-family: - Vivek Wadhwa
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1431263
http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/07/when-it-comes-to-founding-s...

Hope you find these helpful. Good luck!
We're not trying to do massive deals. We're focusing on bars and restaurants, so the plan is to have deals that are 10 - 50 people typically, during a window of an hour or two. These places can't accommodate a giant swarm of people. We also want it to be that night - not something you redeem over say three months.
You would do better as an in-house recruiter at a technical company. That way, you're in more direct contact with hiring managers.

Build your rep there, and go out on your own.

My first real job was working for a recruiter who used to be a programmer. He didn't really need to use his programming knowledge, though, because recruiting means sending candidates who won't make the hiring manager look like an idiot if they don't work out. If your choices are a) brilliant dropout, or b) someone who went to Princeton but is really lazy, your incentive is to send b). If a) works out, you get no direct benefit; if b) doesn't work out, well, who could have predicted that?
The iPad caused companies like HP to rethink their tablet strategy, which set them back in terms of release date and OS of choice.

In general, I think it's unlikely Windows 7 will gain much adoption as a tablet OS, since it's not designed for touch. Some evolution of Windows Phone 7 is more likely.
Does anyone have concrete data points on how and what recruiters are paid?

The data point I heard for the finance industry was 25% of base + guaranteed bonus (but not signing bonus or discretionary bonus). I have no idea how the rules change if the employee flakes and quits within X months.
Gov IIX
I love being corrected, because it's educational. What I fear is looking incredible. Get corrected too often and people start to assume whatever you say is probably wrong
I posted this article because I wanted to hear smart responses backed by informative sources and unclouded as much as possible by preconceptions. I'm sad that this is none of those, including the article that you linked to, pragmatic, written by Munger, part of the group known for its predatory practices and idolized as the ideal of modern market manipulation.

Please please please try to respond based on reality, not the narrative of a reactionary dogma (your response) or the narrative of entrenched forces tied to the success of the current political, financial and regulatory systems (Munger's editorial).

That said, it's quite interesting that you'd both tout an article by Munger while decrying wealth transfer to Wall St. Which part of Munger == Wall St is not completely clear to even the casual observer.

I would also like to point out that it's quite hard to deny that public works projects of the past 80 years, yes 80, as in four generations, is a big part of the success that is modern America. Sure you have to repair and upkeep roads and bridges...but in the meantime those make you...guess what...successful!

Anyone got some comments that aren't clouded by populist narratives? I want to know more about the topics of this article, what are the truths and exaggerations in it? I'm not equipped with the knowledge (yet) to parse this stuff fully.
NWS radar image from Indianapolis, IN
I mean no offense, but based on the folks I know using Twitter (at least here in NYC), I'm not so sure that people on Twitter are good representations of all of America.
"[It] is a device that allows people to get together and control their own destiny..."

Seeing that my high school classmates have gotten fatter helps me control my own destiny how?
Good find ;-) in face you're right. We're heavy on the crowd sourcing models. But.... it goes further than that. We've got patented technology that surround the connotative capabilities to truly collect and measure the emotional effects of words, phrases, punctuation, emoticons, etc. We've built an adaptive learning engine that is learning new language that's spoken today. It's also self-healing - the more the tool is used, the smarter it gets.

Thanks for your feedback! We're certainly happy to hear people's interest in our tools. We've abstracted our system into an API (called ToneAPI).. if you're interested in building emotional tools - sign up!

Thanks!

Josh
"but fails to realize that the developer they are talking about simply has no say"

I agree with you, and in particular this. My experience in craporate IT is exactly that. I've had a number of projects where we had a very specific set of operational requirements (platform, OS, database, web server), and couldn't get even a hint about anything vaguely resembling a functional requirement. I've even had "emergency" projects where it was suddenly critical that we deliver right away! But the same people complaining that we were late couldn't tell us what the software was supposed to do.

One company I worked for didn't tell the development team about some software we were supposed to develop (as it turned out, this software was supposed to be part of the company's flagship product, but no one knew what it was or what it was supposed to do) six months AFTER it was supposed to have been shipped.

There's really no way any developer could ever actually add value to a place like that, no matter how skilled and how motivated.
Precisely. Connotation is lost in translation... Cough cough GOOGLE! :)

Thanks for the feedback.
I guess I still don't understand what you're looking for as an answer. Logically there are only a few paths to "be wrong less often".

1. Become an expert in everything.

2. Stop talking about the things that you're unsure of.

3. Preface the things you're unsure of with "I'm unsure, but I think".

If you're worried about looking incredible (and not in the good connotation) because you are saying too many things along the lines of "I think..." then stop doing it or learn to be confident that your expertise in the places where you have it will shine.

What others paths are there here for "be[ing] wrong less often"? Am I missing some hidden deeper question at play here?
Anyone who thinks the technological singularity is a viable idea ought to listen to Bruce Sterling's Long Now talk, "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole".

http://longnow.org/seminars/02004/jun/11/the-singularity-you...

The whole notion is really dreadfully implausible and poorly thought-through. A few computer-centric technologists take their hobby to be the most important thing in the world, as if the exponential growth of transistors on a chip or bits on the web are more important than the (stagnant) power grid, energy and food production, global war and peace, etc.

Admittedly, that's not an uncommon phenomenon in these parts.
I know at least one place that doesn't pay anything until an employee has stayed 3 months.
Am I interpreting correctly when I say that she is a blogger that happens to specialize in Microsoft? If so, big deal: She knows how to get the hits.

At first read I thought it was saying she was a paid evangelist for Microsoft.
I use to be really big into "Robot Auto Racing Sim" (~ 12 years ago):
http://rars.sourceforge.net/

You would write all the logic of your car in a single C program and then race it against others. It had a visual so you could watch the race or just see the results. At the time I thought the physics engine was pretty realistic, not sure what I would think if I went back to it now though. It was a blast to play with friends.
Recruiters who come from technical backgrounds are the best ones. One of my good friends has a CS degree and been working as recruiter here in NYC, he's making over 300K/year.

Despite having a CS degree, he's not a typical geek though - very personable, open and extraverted, great social skills. For a recruiter, I'd say that's a #1 skill. If you don't have that, don't even bother, you're gonna hate it.

I did it for 6 months to help pay bills, and I hated it with passion.
Brain Scans Could Guide Career Choices
I think affiliate marketing that you mentioned can be really undervalued to. Sure the business has a shady underside but on the good side of affiliate marketing your paying for results only and hopefully attracting people who spend most of their time marketing to see if they can sell your product.
Admit it, you're awesome too :)

But yes, I've felt like you do.

There are people here that make me feel inadequate as a programmer. I realize that many - if not most of them happen to be people who live & breathe programming, and solving problems and quenching their thirst for knowledge. This means they're world-class programmers, and used to actually using their brains, but it doesn't mean that they're guaranteed to be considerably more intelligent than I am.

Then there are people like patio11, for example. Whenever this guy says anything, it's always brimming with insight & razor-sharp wit. Now, he's kind of a bummer :)
As pyre I did get the same error also. Using Chrome, avg detected it. Directing to this site

----------------DO NOT CLICK--------------

"http://www1.software35.co.cc/?p=p52dcWplbW6HjsbIo22AgXOOipnV...
You mean idealism, not pragmatism.
It's not lying. For some people "fact you know" is not a well-defined category. If you are smart and good at inferring stuff, and you know some facts, then maybe you can go further. Maybe you can provide insights. You can certainly appear more knowledgeable than you are (you aren't, you're working things out as you go along, which isn't guaranteed to be correct.)

What it is unfortunately is intellectually arrogant. I saw a great comment from roel_v (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1535064) about this (reproduced below). If the benefits are working out for you (you look smart, you're right often enough) then great. But if you keep getting called out, and you're worried about that, then you need to equivocate more. You also need to become more aware of the unknown unknowns. It's all very well knowing some things, and guessing others, but you also need to know what you actually know and what you don't, otherwise you'll not only look stupid, but at some point you'll also do something really dumb too.

"95% of legal chatter amongst technical people on the internet is meaningless to lawyers ('meaningless' as in 'jibberish', 'flux capacitor'-style nonsense) - because the fundamental assumptions and reasoning methods are so vastly different"
Someone asked a similar question on Stack Overflow a while back: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12259/should-i-be-di...

This was the top answer, by Paul Tomblin:

"The secret to happiness as a developer is not to know everything, but to be prepared to learn a lot about a particular niche. I don't know the answers to 90% of the questions here, but I do pretty well with the ones I do know. (And I've been a developer for 25+ years)

"And then some day, you'll be like me, nearly 50 years old, and looking at all these questions and think "am I too old to learn all this new stuff?" In my case, I snap out of that funk by assigning myself a new side project involving a new technology. Last time I felt this way, I learned Perl and built some web sites using Fast::CGI. This time I'm doing an iPhone application."
In my experience recuiters are used to staff long term positions. If a hiring company is looking to hire someone for a position that will take many months to learn an existing code base it is reasonable to expect that person stay with the company for some multiple of that amount of time.

That said, recruiters should ask potential candidates about their work preference. If the person is open to a long term placement they shouldn't dismiss them based on previous short term engagements. But don't get upset if "Large Corporation A" isn't interested in you because you like to do 3 month freelance projects.
I don't have a choice. But they, still, do.

(P.S - maybe I was wrong, maybe it is not a cultural bias. Maybe it is just the difference between -- cliché warning -- knowing the path and walking the path).
Looking back at a year of bootstrapping Guestlist
You don't understand, yet feel qualified to attribute his problem to a character flaw.

Interesting. It appears you may have the same problem as the original poster.