skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their streaming business has only been around for < 1 year. That said, it's pretty impressive they have as many titles as they do. Their streaming catalog is only going to grow from here - even if it's at the demise of some in Hollywood.
The Child Protection Policy at my church requires a male and female leader in every situation.

Its a shame that this is where our society is going and that being 'beyond reproach' means remaining one step ahead.
Heh, I actually already use Geckoboard, and I have created my own custom widgets for it. It's an awesome service, to be sure; I plan to continue to use it.

If you revamp your charts at all, let me know, as I'm really trying to get some more intense data into my dashboard.
I should clarify. I'm not picking on the open source community. I'm differentiating the open source community form the private sector because the incentives are different. There are crypto guys in the private sector that can build secure crypto systems for $600/hour. Now, crypto is devilishly hard to do, so there's no guarantee their system would be secure either. But if you have nation-state levels of funding, you certainly can buy a system that would take serious talent and funding to break. On the other hand, open source communities are motivated by intrinsic incentives. Clearly this is enough to implement state-of-the-art operating systems, but is intrinsic motivation enough to implement secure crypto? It may well be that the bar is too high in this area and I think the next decade will yield some interesting results here. Even if we count OpenSSL as a point for open source (generous), that's one reasonably secure system over the course of a decade.
Public shaming is an appropriate response to prejudice. It's how we get from "that's common sense" to "does anyone really think that?"
It will be cool to share code and ideas, and he is definitely an expert in this field, where I'm just a newbie. But... I see that Kyoto is taking the route to be GPLed selling BSD-alice licenses. This is incompatible with my vision of open source.

So what I'll do is to provide a minimal, clean, possibly toy-sh btree implementation outside Redis as a stand alone github project. Put it into BSD. Wait for requests of collaboration and code. A BSD-licensed library not bound to Redis is my way to say: let's collaborate on this.

If the author of Tokyo Cabinet will join the effort, well, we'll be very lucky as we have an expert on board. But I suspect that anyway we are going to take some good contribution anyway, as this is a project that can be useful for many.
Great article - though obviously if you didnt have the connections you do, your trip would have been far more pedestrian.

How can people get intros to FoundersDen?
This may be a naive question, but are unit tests for encryption code a reasonable idea? eg, each revision is tested against a known set of data and a known set of common attacks.
Why You Should Not Charge for Your Webapp From Day One
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Now the question is: Is diplomatic immunity retroactive?
So this is a new version of InstantRails (http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl), good to see the project was continued.

It was how i started with Rails and Ruby on Windows. After I got addicted I switched to Ubuntu.
Compression prior to encryption is generally a good practice, but as Colin points out, it doesn't actually do much to mitigate this bug; in a bulk encryption setting, you're going to find known compressed plaintexted to back keysteam out of.

It's true, and Colin's right to point it out, that it's unlikely that this bug will be exploited (you have to be Colin to do it, and it's a general PITA to deal with), but I wouldn't want anyone to have the impression that CTR mistakes are survivable just because you compress.
That is exactly what I'm talking about, your new government should focus on giving its populace economic opportunities as that will help more people than democratic reforms.
I would love to post a reply which answers these and other excellent questions from some of the replies here!

But if I were to write such a comment, it would, in a sense, be the code. Not that I wouldn't love to post the latter, when it is ready, but this is not the intended use of this site.

My apologies if this sounds like a slick excuse, but it is the truth.
Make quick fixes quicker on Google Project Hosting
You are an adult of some sort at 20, but for most people, that sort is "barely."
Not all teachers are created equal. Your pro small classes point applies if all teachers are just as good. However if one teacher teaches 60,000 people, you can pick the best teacher in the city. If one teacher teaches 20 then 20 students get the best teacher, and the other 59,980 dont. Instead of just hiring the top 1 teacher, you must now hire the top 3,000 teachers. The average skill of the top 3,000 will heavily affect the average level of teaching of the whole 60,000 students.

If you doubled all class sizes you might be able to double the quality of teaching.
Linux has a genealogy independent from Unix, too. Only pedants would argue that it isn't a Unix. Sure, OS-9 has more differences from Unix than Linux does, but it's obvious that it was designed to be Unix-like. You're not going to get POSIX-compatibility in 64K of RAM, but OS-9 did a pretty good job.
Colin is wildly competent, but I was always uncomfortable with how much he was willing to do his own work without review. He is probably one of the best people in the world to do this work, but even the best person in the world will occasionally make mistakes, as happened here.

Generalist devs shouldn't build crypto. Expert devs shouldn't build crypto without review.

As for academics... a lot of us aren't as hopeless as some of the trash that appears in conferences and journals might appear. :)
are the days of one machine being cracked and then being big news over?
1. Abuse > molestation. A woman can still horribly harm your child without sexual assault.

2. Regarding Mr. Abels quote, I think you'll find that female abusers go unreported more often precisely because of this bias.

3. Do you also avoid black people? Statistically they are much more likely to be criminals. So you only allow your family to be around white people right? Do you feel safer that way?
Truncation like that also happens on the Mac when the Finder's grid spacing is set too tight. They may have overlooked it for the screenshot.
It's hard to test the behavior of crypto code (even insecure crypto code can still generate data indistinguishable from random noise), so your unit tests end up tightly coupled to the actual implementation. You can do it, but it's not as clear a win as it is in other settings.
Developers who target old OSes lose the features that are available in the newer OSes (unless they do feature detection and a lot of extra testing). This is so obvious that I must not be understanding your comment.
That assumes they have great teachers now, which is not a given.

If they have bad teachers, even a semi stupid program will be better than that.
Wrote a long comment and then the web bug ate it :-(

In a nutshell: it's more of an introduction to GNOME Shell, which is just one part of GNOME3. It's going to be used by default, by old interface will still be available for those who want it. The UX is probably the least finished part yet, since a massive amount of work first went in invisible improvements for v3 (such as gobject-introspection).

Something the HN crowd will like: the Shell is written in JavaScript, has bindings to low-level libraries using gobject-introspection, uses JS libraries like jQuery, and comes with its own FireBug-like tool for inspection and modification at runtime. Since most of the look&feel is done in JS, you can just jump right in and hack left and right. One of most impressive demos at GUADEC2010 had a couple of JS oneliners doing various special effects on the desktop. Also, the whole thing is themeable in CSS, which is a lot nicer than doing gtkstyle theming.
No one is qualified to implement crypto without review.

cperciva is extremely qualified to implement crypto, but not without review. I think it is wise that he has implemented a bug bounty procedure. He should make sure it applies to unreleased versions too so maybe someone will put an RSS feed of his SCM checkins into their RSS reader and try and catch bugs as he's making them. :)

It would be nice if he had the money to spring for paying someone else to look at all his changes, but alas... that stuff is expensive!
Why is it bad to have 70B in cash
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The developers absolutely deserve to be applauded for their work, but declaring it as "simply beautiful" is almost laughable. I think that it's actually quite ugly. And even if you disagree, I don't think it's fair to call your own work beautiful unless you've proven that the overwhelming majority consistently enjoys your aesthetic.
I think there's no substitute for clued-in developers.

Focus groups produced the interface overhaul to Windows Vista and 7. Rather than building on an existing, successful interface, they decided to be more mac-like, and managed to make the interface prettier but much yet less usable in the process.

I agree, gnome fonts are yuck. Even in the screenshot on the frontpage the fonts look awful - both in the text document and the dropdown menu headings.
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As far as I understand it, Windows Phone 7's API is Silverlight with a few restrictions related to screen size and the like.

I haven't coded anything for Windows CE, but making a Silverlight app for Windows Phone 7 is about a difficult as making a WCF app for Windows, or an ASP.Net app for the web.
Hopefully this does bridge the gap between lurker and contributor! There are many times that I myself have wanted to contribute a one-liner, just to find that I need to signup and confirm membership to a mailing list, or open an issue with a registered account, etc, etc... so, this could be cool
Perhaps those are good ideas, but they don't sound right for you right now. Building a network-effect business that requires buy-in from Paypal and/or national brands? I can't think of much that's tougher or more speculative.

You should consider creating something that individuals or small businesses will pay for because it scratches an itch. I pay for several services like that each month -- Blinksale, Springloops, AuthorityLabs, Chargify, WebsitePulse, Postmark, and Basecamp. (But don't limit yourself to tools for developers -- there are many industries with un-scratched itches.)
I'm no expert on flashing ROMs but bit the bullet this weekend. Flashed the latest Cognition ROM (3.02) to my Captivate. It was easy to do (for users of HN) and is quite an improvement over stock. I'd recommend owners of Captivates look into it. Take the standard precautions, read up, make backups, etc.
> Also, the whole thing is themeable in CSS

Does this mean the ludicrously generous padding will be as easy to change as

html * { padding: 2px!important; }

That would make me very happy.
I personally find this absolutely bewildering. I like cat pictures as much as the next guy... but $30 million? That makes them, what a $300 mil valuation? For funny pictures of cats?

No, really, what bubble.
I planned on modifying tarsnap to work on local files and upload to different resources (dropbox, local, etc) but as I dug in and looked at the license I noticed this little gem in COPYING "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, without modification,
is permitted for the sole purpose of using the "tarsnap" backup service". Why even provide source if the license doesn't allow me to do anything with said source? I can't create a patch without being litigated and I won't due to that.
Was hoping someone would uncover the designer.
Ocupop has more info > http://ocupop.com/html5
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Impromptu poll: Who really thinks a diatribe like this from TechCrunch can make Google or their carriers do anything different?
Noteworthy: Apple "analyst" Gene Munster predicted 4.3 million iPads sold in 2010. (http://read.bi/cYCppW)

Actual results: 7.33 million just last quarter.
"You don't hear much about investments from China"?! What about the Chinese sovereign wealth fund (SWF) that invested in some of our banks during the crisis (along with other major investments)? What about the Gulf State SWFs that did the same?

Russia's problem is it there are plenty of obscenely rich individuals (that's why Moscow is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive cities in the world) and no middle class- its oil money powers its own SWF. Many of the rich made their money in oil and other commodities, others are the result of the more recent consumer spending boom, many used their government positions or contacts, the list goes on and on...
Cheezburger Network secures $30M in first round of funding, LOL
Reminds me of this Reddit post
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/cf8j9/14_year_old_charg...
A Rare 240-year-old Map of New York is Reborn
Bug bounties are not reviews.

No professional is going to undertake a review on spec. The demand for software security is too high; most of us have our pick of interesting projects that will pay whether we find something or not. We're not unique in that respect; top iPhone developers won't work for you on spec either, not because spec is evil, but because the economics don't work.

Furthermore, you can pay $1000 for XSS bugs and random memory corruption flaws in browsers because fuzzers can find them, because they're luck-of-the-draw findings, and because people are hammering those things whether you pay them or not. But $1000 doesn't pay for a day of qualified review, and no qualified reviewer would suggest less than two weeks for something like Tarsnap.
You cited a study of college-age students and a study from France when there is a wealth of domestic data ready for your to cite and you expect the claims to be taken seriously? As far as your claim that these were the first two on-point google results, I guess it just depends on what you search for:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=research+class+size+student+achievement

I beleive that you are misreading the Konstantantopoulos and Chun if you think that it agrees with you. An achievement gain of that size in education is actually quite significant and both the abstract and text make this clear. To dismiss the fact that the study followed a third grade class for five years and showed improvement down the line by saying that "they don't even bother to look past grade 8" is more spin than reasoned analysis.

Once again, please provide the links to papers that show that smaller class sizes do not have a long-term positive impact on student performance. So far it seems you are much like the anti-CSR group I mentioned previously, all spin and bullshit. Prove me wrong.
Hacker news gets 40% off on Eloquent JavaScript
Whenever a submission about learning JavaScript has appeared on Hacker news the past years, someone ended up adding a comment linking http://eloquentjavascript.net . To show my appreciation( * ), I'm offering anyone who comes across this post a 40% discount on the updated, paper version of the book, which is coming out this week. Use the coupon code 2ELOQUENT2QUIT when ordering the paper book from http://nostarch.com/ejs.htm . The offer goes until the 21st of January (next Friday).

( * And, of course, to stir up some publicity.)
Are we being trolled...? FTA: "Seventeen million subscribers later, some people probably wish a clerk would have just refunded the man his 40 bucks." A few thousand ex-Blockbuster employees, and some antediluvian Hollywood execs? Who cares! Maybe I'm just a short-sighted Joe Consumer, but I hear things like "[Hollywood people] are worried about Netflix devaluing content" and "no one fully trusts its motives" and I feel like I'm reading an Onion article. I love Netflix. I would happily pay twice what I'm paying now. If someone created an OS that was impenetrable by viruses, ten thousand Symantec employees would lose jobs, too. It's called "progress".

The article provides explanations like, "“Even though it has a detrimental effect on their business, everyone keeps feeding them content,” BTIG Research analyst Richard Greenfield says." Is there really anything here that isn't exactly like the death knell of the tape cassette industry as CDs became vogue, or the indignant crowing of Newspaper execs who feel so entitled to business that they can't understand why customers are abandoning them in droves?

Am I missing something?
Ask HN: Review my startup, a search engine to find what you like
We're building a search engine to "find what you like", and are targeting t-shirts as the first application. The site works by showing you two shirts at a time and asking you to choose the one you like more, and uses your votes to learn your preferences and find shirts you'll probably like.

Right now the site is pretty bare-bones and the "suggestions" at the bottom of the page are just randomly generated, but the site will work by using machine learning algorithms to compare your votes to other people's votes and come up with predictions of what you'll like.

We'd love it if HN could help us out by providing feedback/comments/criticism and the initial dataset of votes for the algorithm to analyze.

Thanks!
The level of restoration is incredible, I wonder how much of this was simply redrawn.
The answer isn't vanishingly low. Contrary to popular belief, while family is the single largest group to molest a child it isn't an order of magnitude difference. And to capture just sheer numbers, I've borrowed a quote from Wikipedia:

"In North America, for example, approximately 15% to 25% of women and 5% to 15% of men were sexually abused when they were children.[11][12][13] Most sexual abuse offenders are acquainted with their victims; approximately 30% are relatives of the child, most often brothers, fathers, uncles or cousins; around 60% are other acquaintances such as 'friends' of the family, babysitters, or neighbors; strangers are the offenders in approximately 10% of child sexual abuse cases.[11] Most child sexual abuse is committed by men; studies show that women commit 14% to 40% of offenses reported against boys and 6% of offenses reported against girls.[11][12][14] Most offenders who sexually abuse prepubescent children are pedophiles,[15][16] although some offenders do not meet the clinical diagnosis standards for pedophilia.[17][18]"

If you read my other link there's a study from the UK that notes 20% of studied male daycare workers had a sexual interest in children (maybe selection bias or reporting issues, but no indication that such a problem exists in that data).

And regarding harming someone, I'm an incremental customer. My choice does no more harm than someone else's incremental choice to not fly at all due to "irrational fears" or not solicit a certain neighborhood bar due to "irrational fears".

I just can't look at this data and see what you see. I'm sorry. I really wish I could see things your way. Honestly I do. But I can't seem to find a way to slice the data that gives me the warm fuzzies you have. And at the end of the day I'm not going to place my child in a situation that I'm weary of in order to make other people feel good.
$6 billion profit on almost $27 billion revenue... that's almost 50% YTD. That's insane. And 62% of that from outside the US.

Say whatever you want about Apple, but they know how to print money.
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This is silly. Colin clearly isn't going to "litigate" against you. He provides the source precisely so that people can find bugs in it. It's a commercial product, though, not a GNU project. It's a good thing that he provided source code, and it's disingenuous and petty to try to punish him for doing that.
Slippery slope, dude.
There have been unofficial full-text feeds for just as long...
They're hitting $1000 share price this year. :-)
The earnings call started a few minutes ago...

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq111/
If IT was serious about encouraging innovation, I doubt things like this would have to be written.
It may be true in a political sense that having classes smaller than 15 students is out of the question but the cost isn't that great. We spend around $1.2 trillion in national defense. $70 billion more for education is not that great a sum.
But perhaps not an appropriate response to scientific fact. Countless psychological studies have documented women's higher innate capacities for communication and empathy. So if you disagree on that fact, you are simply misinformed. What I'm saying might not be popular and might even sound prejudicial but there is no debating the innate genetic differences between men and women.
I hereby hypothesize a new category of content:

"Straight to Netflix"

Much like straight-to-video movies that were never put into theaters, but were designed to sell as VHS tapes (later DVDs), there will be content generated for the sole purpose of streaming it on Netflix. Interestingly, there is flexibility in the character of such content: originally it could look like a two hour movie, or like a 22 minute or 44 minute or 60 minute TV show, but there is room for innovation, including episodes that vary in length throughout a season in order to accommodate the story. Or it could be a mix of five minute shorts released on Tuesdays, alternating with 50 minute long-form episodes released on Thursdays. Or it could be a two hour episode, released once per month. Or quarterly.
"No matter how secure Tarsnap's design is, however, you don't run the design on your computer — you run the code. For this reason, all of the source code to the Tarsnap client is available. You don't need to simply trust that Tarsnap does things right (and that it isn't a trojan planted by the US government): You can read the source code and check for yourself."

Last § of https://www.tarsnap.com/security.html
Also, that way he doesn't have to compile/package it for every system somebody might want to run it on.
This is a perfect example of why we shouldn't have (or not allowing the use of) ++ in languages. If instead of being buried in a long statement, the increment had been explicit on its own line there's a much smaller chance this bug would have happened.

Which is easier to miss?

aes_ctr(&encr_aes->key, encr_aes->nonce++, buf, len, filebuf + CRYPTO_FILE_HLEN);

or

aes_ctr(&encr_aes->key, encr_aes->nonce, buf, len, filebuf + CRYPTO_FILE_HLEN);

ncr_aes->nonce += 1;

?