skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, their solution was to build OpenSSL 1.0.0 (which is stable) from source.

That was easy, but then rebuilding other components which were linked to the original v. 0.9.x was a major PITA.

This is the problem, according to the auditor:

Vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.8g Severity: Critical Problem CVE: CVE2008-0891 CVE-2008-1672 CVE-2008-5077 CVE-2009-0590 CVE-2009-0789 CVE-20091377 CVE-2009-1378 CVE-2009-1379 CVE-2009-1386 CVE-2009-3245 CVE-2009-3555 CVE-2010-0433 CVE-2010-0740 Impact: A remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands , cause a buffer overflow, bypass security or create a denial of service. Resolution OpenSSL shouldbe [http://www.openssl.org/source/] upgraded to 1.0.0a or higher.

Those CVE ("Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures") items are explained in more detail at NIST:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-089...
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-137...
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-074...
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-043...
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-324...
Not necessarily: lisp has CLOS and components (if I am correctly understanding both your and their definition).

I do agree with the premise that FP feels a lot more agile to me, and thus benefits less from a big design-up-front effort.
I'm surprised about the negativity here, one of the most fun parts about being an entrepreneur is exercising this knack for getting money aspect (I'd say start a non-profit if your business has nothing to do with this, but they have to hustle too).

As to it being about money or manipulation, to me it's about seeing or creating opportunities that no one else can then chasing and obtaining them.
Resources for building wireless devices for AT&T's network
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ever dreamt in English? until you reach that point, dreaming in a foreign language, you didn't really grasp the other language.
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I doubt that. For instance, I started dreaming in English way before becoming fluent.
Funny. The author wrote a long article on how to avoid procrastination, when the intended audience isn't going to go beyond the first paragraph.

How to beat procrastination? Set noprocrast to yes.
The Wave-Maker
So, you release software for free but do not provide sources for fear of being ripped off.

I understand the reasoning, but I must say your fears are unfounded. The thousands of open source applications out there are the proof of that. There are a number of cases of GPL violations, and BSD licensed software being used in closed source applications without any attribution, but these are not the majority, and it doesn't seem to impact whatever recognition the original authors receive.

If you write anything worth ripping off in such a manner, you will most certainly receive recognition for it.

However, in this day and age I can say that free software without sources raises a flag with me. I won't use any of it because it usually means the author has something to hide, either the suckage of the code or something worse.
I assumed that was a pace time (9 minutes 48 seconds per mile).
Opening an US itunes account takes a few seconds if you want to check it today.

Just go into iTunes, select the US store, try downloading the daily, select "create an account", use an email address that is different than the other you used in your real account. In the payment section select "None" (No credit card), and specify an address. Get a random cool address on google map. Put a random phone number. Done.
Yes, but there are also some risks associated with commercial apps. What if the company folds? What if they decide to stop supporting my platform? Are slow to fix bugs?

Having no rights to the source code leaves you in the cold if any of the above happens.
I had two deaf grandparents.

My grandmother lost her hearing to meningitis around age 12, while my grandfather went deaf through his work as a machinist (presumably in his 20s). Her deafness was profound -- the only time I ever saw her react to sound was when balloon burst beside her. His was a bit better and could interpret some sounds with a hearing aid.

Neither of them knew ASL, but were fluent lip readers [They met at lip reading class!] To some extent I believe that my speech was influenced by their deafness. To make myself understood I needed to face them and an enunciate.

Stories aside, this article is a bit strange:

It is quite common for deaf people, when they are
dreaming, to not only communicate in their dreams using
sign language, but also to communicate telepathically
and sometimes even verbally even though they may not
know how to speak verbally in the waking world.
Great book if you're interested in further reading

http://www.amazon.com/Talking-Hands-Language-Reveals-About/d...
This is very similar to what Socialogist George Herbert Mead proposed in his grand theory of "Social Behaviorism" (1934):

"Mead the social psychologist argued the antipositivistic view
that the individual is a product of society, or more specifically,
social interaction. The self arises when the individual becomes an
object to themselves. Mead argued that we are objects first to
other people, and secondarily we become objects to ourselves by
taking the perspective of other people. Language enables us to
talk about ourselves in the same way as we talk about other people,
and thus through language we become other to ourselves.[16] In joint
activity, which Mead called 'social acts', humans learn to see themselves
from the standpoint of their co-actors. A central mechanism within
the social act, which enables perspective taking, is position
exchange. People within a social act often alternate social
positions (e.g., giving/receiving, asking/helping, winning/losing,
hiding/seeking, talking/listening). In children's games there is
repeated position exchange, for example in hide-and-seek, and Mead
argued that this is one of the main ways that perspective taking develops."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert_Mead)

He proposed that organisms first experience or see themselves as an object (or perceive themselves at all, thus stepping over the instinct-border) when they use their voice and hear their voice at the same time and see that others react to that voice too.
Even though it is very theoretical it makes for good and interesting reading.
Why do you assume that it's easier to get wide adoption of a product if it's free, but not if it has a price tag?

If you want your free thing to take off, you still need to market it and do all the other things you describe. The barrier to entry is almost exactly the same, except that with a paid product you need to figure out a way to accept payments.
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What happen in the atmosfere when polystyrene burn ?
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>I won't use any of it because it usually means the author has something to hide

And you, good sir, are the very epitome of what I was referring to. Thanks for proving my point. If I were charging money you wouldn't say this, but since I'm not you seem to believe you're entitled to even more than I'm willing to give for free.

I'm not going to bother repeating why I do this, read my other points. But, yes, people have found my software worthy of being ripped off in this fashion.
What if the software supplier goes out of business?

I am going to pay for support for any software open or closed source. However, with open source, I can almost always get some support.
It is not really about risk - it's about blame. If you choose the "professional" (whatever that means in your business) alternative, it's not your fault when it fails. It also helps when there is a business behind the product that you can point your finger at and say, "It's their fault, their fault!"
"Everybody uses them, so let us also use them"

That's my guess.. the web is very monkey see, monkey do. That said, I don't mind seeing a pink pig on stackoverflow. But I never fill in the avatar images myself
Did you hear aboout it?
> I doubt anyone would spend years of their life and thousands of dollars in UI testing trying to make, say, an accounting package,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCash

... oh wait, you said 'thousands of dollars in UI testing.' :)
I'm sorry if this is off-topic, but I have become amazingly addicted to Readability's view of webpages.

On topic, switching to the Readability view increased my desire to read the article, because I found it less mentally tiring. However, if I had homework due in the upcoming days, I probably would have archived it into Readability, because I doubt reading it would have presented a lot of immediate value.
Hyperactivity and impulsivity are two of the primary characteristics of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). So Adhd is one example of hard-wiring that affects impulsivity.
Whaa?? "Concurrency is hard... Actors... ZeroMQ... End scene!"

This is far from enlightening.
Interesting article, but I don't understand this: "The male brain has the enviable ability to essentially switch off emotions when desired--in part because it’s hard for a man to think clearly in the face of emotion."

"For a man"? Wouldn't it be hard for, you know, anyone, man or woman, to think clearly if they're over-emotional at the moment?
Components of Startup Critical Mass Have Changed
FYI, an app submitted to the app store is available everywhere by default (there's an "everywhere" checkbox). If you want to limit its availability, you have to go in and specifically check the regions it'll be available in.

So yeah, it's harder to distribute US-only than to the world. Not sure what The Daily's reasoning is there.
I get a registration required form.
"Works for mild cases, but has little bearing on genuine pathological procrastination."

My guess is that 'clinical' procrastination, like drug addiction, largely stems from Adverse Childhood Experiences and should be treated the same way. Although I haven't actually looked through the research yet.

As for any attention deficit tendencies, these can be trained via meditation.
Now that you mentioned, I don't remember a single instance of a person speaking in my dreams. But I can't figure out if it was just a lack of language as general or if people communicated telepathically.

Either way... that's unsettling.
The Bible is widely read in the US.
What I got out of this presentation:
"You thought the only way to do concurrency was by using synchronization primitives? Surprise! You can also do it by message-passing between processes!"

What I think of this:
Say whaaaaaaaaaaat? Message-passing as a concurrency model? That's crazy talk! Brilliant crazy talk! I wish this was such common knowledge that it was being taught in undergraduate "Parallel Programming" courses everywhere.
Oh wait... IT TOTALLY IS!
ØMQ: Multithreading Magic [Video Conference]
The "area" of San Francisco is nothing like the city of San Francisco.
Poll: what is your BMI (body mass index )?
BMI (body mass index) is a formula that uses both weight and height to estimate body fat. For most people, BMI provides a reasonable estimate of body fat. ( I used http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bmi-calculator/NU00597)
less than 18.5
18.5 - 24.9
25- 29.9
30 and above
It was a good troll, then - look at the vehemence of the resulting discussion, even here.
Yes, I realize that. Presumably there is some disconnect: I said Christian mythology gets used in Japanese fiction, which causes problems when it comes back here where the bible is widely read. Not because Americans don't read the bible but because they do. If non-Christians in a foreign land, speaking a foreign language borrow on Christian imagery for "fluffy" fictional pieces, and it comes back to a culture where Christianity is widespread, it tends to not go over well. I assume the same is true in any comparable situation.

Really baffled by your reply.
These slides were part of a "lightning talk" on ZeroMQ (video here: http://streaming.fosdem.org:8000/ferrer/0mq.ogv ). So I think Pieter just wanted to make the audience curious and not dive into the details. I do agree that it might be better to use more slides for patterns and use cases and fewer generic/actor-slides. Also the argument that it's not taught in university was a bit weak.
Here's how Joel Spolsky of StackOverflow positions it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140871
I wish Pieter had a bit less sensational title than "Multithreading Magic - Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Concurrency is Bogus, if not actually Totally Insane" considering that the slides contain only common knowledge.
The article is several paragraphs of sensational hypotheses with no supporting evidence.
That would depend on your chances of contracting the disease. If there were 0% chance of you contracting the disease, then there would be a disincentive to take the vaccine- it would actually raise your chances of dying.
SSL, Still not computationally expensive (A response to F5)
If you want to bypass that, always search for the title of the article via Google and then click on it from there.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Cracking+the+Male+Code+of+Off...
Well, this ignores the reality of how most linux distributions are maintained.

Version numbers are not supposed to change after the fact in a stable-release, hence security fixes get backported (every distro has a security-team for this).

If PCI requires a less tested newer version over a battle-scarred (patched up) older one then PCI is working against its own stated goal.

It doesn't take much wisdom to realize that it's less likely for new bugs to crop up in the 0.9.8 openssl that Debian ships than in the 1.0.0c that RHEL6 bundles (just one month after release!).

New software has bugs. Old software has less bugs.
I've found that this sometimes happens because I have serious second thoughts about some aspect of the project (maybe I don't know how it could ever make money, or it seems like it would be difficult to acquire users).

The most effective thing seems to be getting someone else involved. That way, you are committing not to yourself, but to another person as well. If that person is a coder, then you don't have to do all the programming work yourself. If not, maybe they can help you to get around some of the shortcomings in your own skillset.

Some people just don't work well alone (I'm one of them). It's not that I can't do all of the work myself (I can), but just that I don't enjoy it. I've learned to accept that, and then to get around it by bringing others into my projects at an early phase.
This magical currency detection is in a single DLL? Why hasn't it already been reverse engineered?
I believe the reason is because they plan to roll out localised versions to different countries.

Although they surely won't roll out special versions to each national app store, so you do have a point there…

I'm not sure why they did it, but it's their prerogative.

Ferner, I don't think you should forget that there is still a lot of web content which is restricted by country — YouTube being a much-despised example of that, although they have obvious reasons there; BBC iPlayer being another example with similar (but far more justifiable) reasons.
From those examples, I think one can guess that one of the issues may be copyright: It's easier for them to handle the copyright of just the US.
Someone who is a good listener, doesn't assume anything, and asks lots of questions has a special talent.
If vaccination really works, then it's only the unvaccinated that will be affected.
This has "survivorship bias" all over it. Why not just write about how lottery winners have a knack for getting money?
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Here is the disambiguation page showing the Bible reference along with Andromeda. Compare them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magog

I think we're just having an academic discussion and citing "prior" sources for the sake of disclosure and intellectual honesty. Hopefully no one is offended by the discovery that their idea of 1st rate sci-fi is rehashed religion, or that their one-true-faith is just pagan lore ;-)
It could be a license-issue. The Daily seems to use wire material from AP. Not sure about their pricing, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's cheaper to distribute their texts in the US alone.
I know I'm not the one that asked the question, but I've been looking for these types of resources for a longtime. The w3fools one was especially eye opening, and the topics at greenspun are very interesting too! I'm off to learn, yeay!!! Thanks HN, you guys are awesome!
Frustrated with Quora policies
Unfortunately, that didn't prevent "The Secret" and others from trying to appropriate Quantum Mechanics to delude people and sell books.
I read through this thread a few times before saying anything. No I am not trying to pry your teeth but you seemed to act altruistic yet failed to mention that your site makes the donation action very seamless and evident. What I am saying is that your statements make it out to be like you do this for free and have no interest in receiving monetary compensation for your efforts yet the donation button is awfully evident on your site's page.
Mea culpa. Like I said in the post, I'm not a blogger. I just threw some static html up not thinking of how it would interact with my site styles when needed to scroll. There's now a bit of UA sniffing in there that will display a simple text version if viewed on an iOS device.

As an aside, is it really so unusual to see an iOS (or any mobile platform developer) ignorant of their platform's corner-cases when it comes to things like mail or the web? We spend all our time on laptops coding, just like everyone else ;-)
I like Steve Blank's definition of a scalable startup:

A scalable startup is [a business] designed by intent from day one to become a large company. [1]

http://steveblank.com/2010/01/14/a-startup-is-not-a-smaller-...
Fixed. Very sorry.
Gausie,

Glad to hear you will be getting the code on Github. I look forward to it.

My first paragraph? You mean when I commended the project and it's motivation?

"But I'm not sure any of this is really relevant. The key question is: how sensitive is the data?"

If it identifies my participation in potentially anti-Government protest, then rather.
All I have asked for is transparency and disclosure. If security is not so important, why have you gone to the trouble of the pitching for trust so heavily on your website?

"We can do nothing about the telcos using their geolocation features to track the whereabouts of phones."

Of course, you surrendor certain freedoms whenever you carry a mobile phone. But there is an important distinction between triangulating my cell position and this application.

Furthermore, I think my concerns have been concise enough. You have just refused to answer them. If you did that, there would be no more discussion. And that's why the original post has been consistently upvoted on this thread.

"I've extended an invitation to you privately to come along to a hackathon and to help us. And I extend it again."

When did you invite me the first time? No really, I have no idea.

Anyway, I might have taken you up on that offer if you didn't just call me a "self important pompous windbag".

That's a real mature and educated argument, thank you.

Congratulations on doing your project a momentous disservice.
Debian and Arch are my favorite too. I just wish Debian had a bit shorter release cycle. But it's a trade off, longer release cycle == stable release.

I use Arch on my workstations. They don't need as stable a platform as my server. And any downtime would be minimal and easy to schedule around.
And we all know what assume does.
I guess what I take issue with is the use of the term 'hard-wired' as the exact causes of ADHD are not known, nor is it necessarily permanent.
Am I really so hard to understand? I’m a bit insulted that you would really think that I’m that stupid.

The 10 percent in my completely hypothetical example were obviously already factoring in the chance of getting the disease in the first place, otherwise the comparison wouldn’t even begin to make sense.

Today one problem is obviously that herd immunity protects individual defectors. The chances of getting measles even without being vaccinated are relatively low when everyone around you is vaccinated. I would have less of a problem with people who freely admit that they don’t want to vaccinate because they are selfish gits. That’s not the argument they are making, though (it also wouldn’t scale), they think that no one should vaccinate and if that were the case massively more people would die from measles and other preventable diseases. (We have already seen that herd immunity can be seriously compromised in places where many parents don’t vaccinate.)
Sometimes because people want help? Look at some libraries like matplotlib, or numpy. They're extremely useful, but they benefit because you have a team of developers working on it. Now, imagine that you're a company that sells services (data analysis, made to order applications, etc.)--it makes sense to open source the core (which is built from commonly known algorithms) and have that rock solid, because it is not your core competency.

Another example might be language translation. While there are open source (and even non gpl) libraries for western languages, unless ocrpus has advanced a lot recently, I didn't find much out their for Chinese (at least on English web sites). Writing a good online OCR library for Chinese is nontrivial and more than I'm likely to be able to do in my spare time--but, I might be able to get one started and open source it with a permissive license (so businesses can also contribute developer time) and have a community of people who might work on it if the groundwork is good. Now, people might use this for a variety of other applications (scanning, so-so machine translation, etc.) which might be profitable.

Otherwise--for some people we simply happen to have a "hobby" that could be profitable....
You should have explained to your auditor that Debian backports security patches to the shipped version of OpenSSL.
I'm not religious. I'm more familiar with Christian imagery/themes/whatever-you-want-to-call-it in part because I grew up in "The Bible Belt". But it doesn't have the same meaning for me as it would for someone who is actually Christian. I just don't understand why the downvote or the above reply to me informing me the bible is widely read in the US. Total mental disconnect for me. Still scratching my head.
Dreaming in another language may be a sign you're still just a beginner, I don't know. I remember reading that when you have the Tetris Effect (which is awesome) it's because your brain is still trying to figure out all the rules of shape patterns, and that experts who play all the time don't have the Tetris Effect.
The surprising truth about what motivates us
I have heard that babies do not realize that their thoughts are private and they assume that thinking by itself is a form of communication. I have always been skeptical of it and never understood how would anyone even figure that out or verify it. The paragraph you quoted gives me an anchor point and suggests it might be true.

I have a friend who was very nervous about speaking in English, but he dreamed fluently in it. We knew because he talked a lot, rather continuously, in his sleep. Extrapolating that I can imagine a deaf person dreaming verbal communication.
Every 6 months, there's a flurry of posts to HN from people who were surprised that they were not accepted into YC. A few months later, as YC companies announce themselves, there's a flurry of stories about how people were surprised that they were accepted.

Moral of the story? It's really hard to predict which startups will be accepted. You might as well apply; from what you've said there's certainly nothing which definitively rules you out.