skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow... I was all excited to try to generate some bitcoins, so I installed the software, checked the box to generate bitcoins, and walked away from my machine...

I come back a few days later and no bitcoins... I should have done a little bit more research because the rate I'm doing hashes on this old machine is a factor of 1000 slower than what people are getting out of GPUs. I'll be lucky if I generate 1 group of bitcoins in the next 10 years!
JC never has bought into the Welch fire 10% least productive plan..otherwise it would happen every year..[sarcasm] wait that in fact has happen thus far!
I'm pretty sure there was a figure floating around that suggested >60% of businesses who participated in Groupon ended up more profitable. That being said thats a pretty good gamble -- having a 60% chance shot at higher revenues.

I'll update this with a link if I find the article again.

Source: http://bit.ly/dChtxz
It's not so hard to detect exploits - usually all you have to do is to detect system-calls - it's more efficient than looking at source-code.

That said, I don't think Apple does any kind of audit that targets exploits and only relies on reviews.
DHH is a force of nature. Usually appears around topics that are part of Enterprise folklore and causes combustion of said topic.

DHH also caused Rails to happen. With it the DHH spawned another force of nature called the Rails community. The rails community acts very much like DHH and also causes various combustions of various topics. The Rails community also closely monitors DHH activities and should some threat to DHH arise, the Rails community spawns instantly to protect the pure essence of 37 signals idea that is DHH. Oh and Rails community also buys books that DHH has materialized.
Same thing ubuntu does with chromium. As far as I can tell it's a problem already solved.
It's also easy to believe that what goes on in your small part of the world is according to the "fundamental principles of human society".

Most of the shit you take from your employers wouldn't fly on advanced Western European (inc. Scandinavian) countries.

To quote G. Bernard Shaw, "he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
This worries me more than the malware.

I don't own an e-book reader because books that I purchased could be deleted without my consent.
I'm sure it's nice to be able to point to something when people ask "What's with the name 37 Signals?".
Yes, yes it is in fact. :)
What about for people who don't have a specific idea (or none small enough to reasonably start on in 54 hours) but want to hang out and help on someone else's idea?
I've been out of money and desperate at various times. It sucks. But if you point the blame only outwards, you're very likely to remain broke and desperate.

Own everything. Take all responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if it wasn't your fault. This leads to some instant satisfaction in terms of feeling more in control of your life. And long term, you do a hell of a lot better.

I try to own everything, even if it wasn't my fault. Especially if it wasn't my fault.
Note the source:

No attribute quotes.

Protocol relative urls.

No head, body and </html>.

Base64 encoded robot graphic.

Saving every byte to the extreme.
Conway's Game of Life in HTML5 canvas
Thank-you again. Gotta love Hacker News--never know who you'll find on here!
Hey Groxx how did you find about the /canvas link? I could find no reference on Google that would have direct me to it in the first place! Very curious how you knew about it. Thanks for it btw as I never knew it existed.
Our request was fulfilled within a few days if I recall correctly.

If you're getting nowhere and need to get something done, you can also consider getting a bronze premium support ($49/mo, cancel anytime). This gets you 12-hour guaranteed response on tickets:

http://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
How do you know it isn't already happening?

Do you monitor the outgoing traffic from your cellphone?
Exactly, the moment when you realize that 99% of bad things that happen to you or success you're NOT getting are directly or indirectly the result of you putting yourself in that situation is the moment you become free.
When speaking about finished products, I also saw lots of stuff made in UE in Eastern Europe.

But for example China exports a lot of textiles. Many clothes are still made in Europe, but a large percent of textiles come from China.

That said, I'm glad that Germany can be the powerhouse that it is by focusing on quality rather than cheap-labor. It shows that it is possible. Good for them.
For developers who need to provide mobile access to their hosted apps, this event makes it easy to decide on a path with regard to "Native apps / Web apps ?" question.
Here's a comparison of various EC2 regions & other providers in the US: http://cedexis.com/data/charts.html?country=223&provider...
> Apple has allowed (benign) root exploits to slip through their approval process in the past.

Citation please. To my knowledge, Apple has never allowed code through the official app store that would jailbreak or root an iOS device.

There have been, however, web based exploits that were quickly patched, but you can't really blame this on Apple's approval process. The most notable one of these was the PDF viewer exploit used by jailbreakme.com.

This incident seems to prove to me that a curated app store is the best way to keep a large monoculture safe from malware.
The Parable of the Languages
> He overlooks some basic things - like that you can work part time, freelance, or save up your money and then not work for a few years.

It seems the authors works as a novelist/writer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ventura. He probably didn't overlooked this exit strategy.
Not just you. Took >45s to load for me
Except that as discussed, there are plenty of code execution flaws in mobile builds of webkit that will do just as well as any flaw in the native app API.

One XSS or SQL injection vuln in your webapp and your users could be just as rooted as the victims of this malware. Exactly like in the desktop browser world.
Did The iPad 2 Just Leak Out? Again?
heh, cute: <blink>12:00</blink> (http://37signals.com/03)
SpeakerText seems to be a solution to address that problem. I know Matt is a user here. I'm sure he can speak to how it could solve that problem better than I can.

http://www.speakertext.com/
How to hire front-end engineers
There's a guy who went to my college, Jared Jordan- Fairly nondescript athlete, 6'2 slow white guy. Basketball is basically his life, worked his ass off more than anyone and studied the game to the point where he knows it more than the coaches do. He was drafted in the 2nd round of the NBA draft a few years ago, never made any teams' roster. All the scouts said the same thing- absolutely no upside. Now he's playing in Europe. That is about the ceiling of what you can do without being 'gifted'.
5 reasons why Apple CEO Steve Jobs doesn't matter
Apple expected to ship 40M iPads in 2011, and 6.5 M in Q1 2011
> How do you know it isn't already happening?

There is no evidence that it is happening, with plenty of security researchers and interested amateurs keeping their eyes open for it. There's nothing special about iOS that prevents you from discovering this sort of app behaviour that isn't present on Android.
DUPE:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189121

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189183
Before you go off and give ANY part of the company away, please do another AskHN post or see a startup lawyer or SOMETHING! You could easily screw things up at this stage that will affect you longer term (i.e. YC). Many startup lawyers will work on delayed charges (i.e. you pay $400 up front, rest of charges accrue and only become due on a funding event, etc...).

You sound like a great guy! I LOVE your attitude. Wish I was younger and closer to OH cause I would be happy to help.
Lists like this should begin and end with Ada Lovelace.
Makes you wonder how ridiculous handheld tech will be just 5 years from now.
Hot Girls Area: Pamela Anderson's Hottest Pics Collection
I took a look at that page you linked as an example of quality content, and I just don't see it. The video was incredible superficial and a better medium would have been screenshots that identified all the UI controls and their function since that is all the video did.

Khan Academy has quality content which are dense with information. Your video wasted four minutes and told me nothing I couldn't find out by playing around with Photoshop.
Browsers on my desktop won't be running up phone charges, which I think is an important distinction. Malware can now rip me off directly.
I just read the full transcript, and yeah, it was all over the place.
Yes. It takes effort, and it also takes balls (for lack of a more gender-neutral and appropriate word).

If you want to get out of the drudgery and soul-hemorrage of the rat race, then you need to be prepared for the risk. Most people aren't. They do the mental math, figure that they need the salary or the stability or the medical coverage too much to risk it, and they take the blue pill. They resign themselves to their fates. And that's fine. It's a respectable and probably smart choice for most people, but it's a choice nonetheless. People shouldn't lose sight of that fact.
Hey Guys,

Interesting article - just tweeted it. While i wouldnt say i am part of the "lean startup cult" - i must say i really like their stance on Pivoting.

The Flickr example is a great one, smart companies, the truly smart ones you find always had to pivot a few times. It has certainly happened at the company i work for (Grasshopper).

We used to be called GotVMail - we realized that being voicemail focused wasnt the right strategy, and that really we were a communications solution for entrepreneurs. We bit the bullet, as pivoting is always taking one step back to go forward. But its been amazing for our business ever since.

Good luck!
That baby is pretty creepy. Also, you may want to get a native English speaker to look over your copy. There are some weird grammar / structure things going on there.

Who is your customer? Are you targeting non-SaaS startups? I would imagine that any SaaS startup would want to be hands on with server choice and setup.
I think that it really has to do with Steve Jobs really thinking that other products are ugly and not refined. He has this deep inside of him. I recall when he bought the Jackling House in Woodside, CA he only had an expensive Bose stereo system and a BMW motorcycle inside because he felt he could not find products he liked. He slept on a mattress on the floor even.

To this day, he doesn't put a plate on his Mercedes because he thinks the font is ugly.
It sucks to have nothing to offer an employer except fungible labor that they could get from a million other people. The author should work on that. There are 6 billion people in this world and not enough wealth to let everyone live like a king just for breathing (yet).
He paints the boss/owner as such a stress free and secure position.

The reason an owner is entitled to higher pay is that they are also entitled to no pay or negative pay.

My father in law is a partner in a law firm. For the past year he has made less money than his non-partner associates, working on half salary to compensate for a lack of revenue. The working drone is much more protected against speed bumps. A bad month generally won't result in a pay cut or layoffs for the bottom of the food chain. It does directly affect the business owners. That's the risk/reward payoff.
Some brilliant stuff there. My favorite:

Try an A/B test where B is a redirect to Google. Users assume it was their mistake & search for you again, thus improving your clickthroughs
Motorola Xoom: The first 72 hours
Brightbox announces websockets-based Cloud Server console
I can't say anything other than that we listen to our customers and that we study usage patterns to drive decisions of this type. Feel free to PM or email me if you have any special needs.
The face behind your website
"3) Users should be able to trust everything in a curated app store, or else there's not much point to those 30% fees."

Isn't the appeal of Google's app store that it isn't curated? Anyone can sign up and submit anything.

And Apple has never let a "(benign) root exploit" through approval.
Use application/json plus the JSONView Firefox plugin to get nice pretty printed json output.
Very cool indeed
How the creator of Alfred (osx launcher) got into Mac development
You can use Chromium if the license is what bothers you.
Three Routes to Spaghetti-Free Javascript
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Programming Language Survey Results
I'd like to see - maybe one year I'll have both the time and expertise to put work towards it - a Common Lisp that can be retargeted to different vms in a straightforward fashion: JVM, .NET, Rubinious, llvm, etc.

While it's awesome to make yet another Lisp, I think it's far more awesome to have a well-defined Lisp that can run on multiple places.
Note: You have left the html5 boilerplate hot pink text-selection colour in the CSS. To optimize for irritatingly smug faux-irony, you should change it to a slightly hotter shade of pink.
Malware has been able to do this for some time. Back in 2004 I (and many others, all independently) identified that some mobile phones (for me, most notably my beloved Nokia 6310) had a hidden bluetooth AT profile that supported unauthenticated connections.

It was quite simple to connect to and gave you effective access to a modem Hayes AT-style interface with mobile phone extensions, allowing you to download or modify address books, connect to the internet using their phone or even make phone calls.

The key thing is the monetisation. Just as with all the startups on HN, without monetisation you're effectively dealing in experimentation. With a monetisation route it all becomes worthwhile. Presumably the people who did this have some form of perceived monetisation route for the data they stole, otherwise they wouldn't have done it on quite that scale.
From the article's comments:

Ruby is a language designed in the following steps:

* take a simple Lisp language
* remove macros, s-expression
* add simple object system (simpler than CLOS)
* add blocks, inspired by higher order functions
* add methods found in Smalltalk
* add functionality found in Perl (in OO way)

In my opinion, Ruby is already a Lisp modulo macros. But sometimes, macros and more parens/less syntax are really nice to have.
Now I feel old, and I'm only 23.
Hence why I say "at least not right now".

I have no doubt that Microsoft's days in the office are numbered, but I think the change is something that'll happen later rather than sooner. As you've mentioned, there still isn't a viable competitor to Office.

Also, what momentum is there for change? Companies would have to retrain workforces on how to use completely different software and hardware. Windows and Office are the baseline in their fields: anybody that can use any other software suite can use those.

I'm betting that in 20 years time our children are still taught how to use Microsoft Word and Excel, that recruitment agencies still ask for your CV/resume in .doc format, and that Windows is still the most popular operating system.

Although I'm sure that tablets will replace desktops in some areas in due time, in the office, Windows and Office are here to stay.
It looks like you never set a favicon from the default given by html5boilerplate.
Prime quote from the other side, "Someone is Stealing My Money":

"I pay you to work 8 hours and you're on Hacker News for 6 of them. Close that browser and get back to work."
I quite liked:

Today, @PaulG claimed there is no tech bubble. In unrelated news, @AdKeeperInc raised $40 mil. in funding for "Delicious, for banner ads".
Can we block Naked Password?
I'm getting a bit sick of seeing this on HN day after day.
Companies The Internet Changed Forever
3) Users should be able to trust everything in a curated app store, or else there's not much point to those 30% fees.

Wait a second - does Google curate the Android market or charge 30% fees?
I've been working on a port of Atomo (http://atomo-lang.org/ ) to the Rubinius VM, dubbed Quanto for now. It's similar to Fancy (though they were both designed/developed separately), but one of the main differences is that it has macros (and pattern-matching everywhere).

Example code: http://toogeneric.com/dump/pretty.atomo.html

"data", "class", "module", "=", and ":=" are all Lisp-style macros. It doesn't have Lisp syntax, but it's very close to it conceptually - in fact Atomo has Lisp's condition system, and a similar string formatting system, and dynamic environment. All of which I plan to port. Fun times ahead!
I'm extremely happy that there are "No hipsters in Kamnik, Slovenia :'(" :)

Great job dude. And I can recommend Swizec if you are looking for somebody to do some coding for you. He's really a smart bloke.
Does anyone know of a reason why the headphone jack moved from the center to the left side ?

EDIT: On second thought, the new iPods (iPhones) have the ear piece for the phone in the middle.
Code turbulence - What you can learn graphing churn vs complexity
Actually ... I noticed that, then I didn't have the heart to remove it.
I haven't used any of them recently but I had the perception that chicken had more libraries available. Gambit's generated C code used to be easier to port on other platforms.

But to address the question directly
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/bench.html
The business is exploding right now, and we are listening closely to our customers about opening or expanding the service.
Interesting, I did not know about fibers. What I meant by continuations is probably what is generally known as first-class continuations (call/cc).
I was curious what the author had gotten up to since that piece was written 20-odd years ago. This appears to be the gent:

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

Flashtastic personal site, here:

http://michaelventura.org/
Should be a calendar.
Sounds like you established the baseline of "3 days what took other employees six months". Work is not a sprint, it's a marathon and you have to know how to pace yourself.
No, but there's a big difference between 1975 and 2002. The fact that the author is famous or dead is irrelevant here.

When I read an article submitted on HN, I can safely assume it was written within the past few months. If it isn't the case, I can't make assumptions about its year of publication (OK, I can assume it was written within the author's lifetime but that doesn't really help).
Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
It was during half term holidays, so I didn't really have to worry about school. My mum trusts me enough to not bother complaining. She knows I'll get my work done. I'd never stay up that late on a school night.
Remind HN: Apple will announce Ipad 2 today 10:00am
Live At Apple’s iPad 2 Event Tomorrow At 10 A.M Pacific!

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2011/03/01/live-blog-apple-ipad-2-event/
Interesting product... Time to run with new features and new uses. I'd love to be in the position of having users figure out new uses for a product of mine. What better way to have user-guided product development?

quplo: Your workflow for managing projects is quite excellent, signed up to try it out!

plug: You all would probably also be interested in my Visual CSS3 Animation Designer, available for prototype preview @ http://editroom.splatcollision.com/

*It's hosted on a single dyno (free) heroku plan, so forgive any slow load times...
Punk Rock Languages
Citation please.

[I would like to edit my original remarks, but it appears that I no longer can. So I've upvoted your comment instead.]

When I wrote that, I had been thinking of the Handy Light exploit which slipped through the App Store's approval process: http://appshopper.com/blog/2010/07/20/handy-light-tethering-...

But upon further investigation, I can't find any evidence that Handy Light used an actual root exploit. It may have just been an easter egg which violated Apple's policies using standard APIs.

Even if it's not a root exploit, though, there's no cause for celebration. Handy Light shows that the App Store process can sneak major, prohibited functionality onto users' devices in the guise of a clearly useless and trivial app.

Apple's biggest advantage may be checking for pirated apps. If Google hadn't allowed obviously pirated apps into the Market, then any attack would have required writing useful, popular applications from scratch, which would raise the bar considerably.
I loved this design. Easy to hold in your hand. Rounded, cute and cuddly. And, the wheel was such a clever interface choice. By comparison, today's iPod feels like a waify supermodel to me.
I'll be blunt - if you don't know who Dijkstra is, you're in the wrong industry. Yes. Seriously.

You might disagree with him, but a programmer NOT KNOWING Dijkstra is the same as being an english major not knowing who Shakespeare is. (Or maybe Chaucer. He's probably the better analog)
Really doesn't make sense to put this on HN, contact one of the creators:
http://hnofficehours.com/about/
Google Pulls Down Malicious Apps - Android Police Saved Us
Tell HN: I'm going to be on TV & want to wear your company's swag.
Hey, this is my first post here. I've been a reader for a few months now and I want to give back to this great community...

I'm a part of a new reality TV show and I want to give some of my fellow founders some exposure. The only details that I can provide right now are: the show is based in Las Vegas, involves a family business (not my family), and will air on Lifetime if it gets picked up by the network.

Interested? All you have to do is...
1) Sign up for early access to my startup @ www.sponsi.com
2) Invite 5 of your friends using your unique link.
3) Send me a message telling me about your company/available swag, why you need the exposure (I'm most likely to pick people based on this answer), and what your biggest complaint/frustration about online travel is (my startup is about travel exploration.)

Airtime is not guaranteed, but I will do my absolute best. The good news is, my co-founder is a big part of the show. She prefers to rock pens, coffee mugs, and calendars over t-shirts. I'm all about the t-shirts though (and anything else you want to send me!)

Please keep in mind that I'm not making any promises. If nothing else, you'll at least have 2 new cheerleaders for your startup – me and my co-founder! :)

Swag could include: t-shirts, hats, pens, coffee mugs, calendars, stickers etc. No fluorescent colors, thanks!

I'm happy to answer any questions!
I feel YUI is much better in terms of it's design and scalability.
While not a root exploit, I believe this is what the OP was hinting at:

http://gizmodo.com/#!5592521/how-a-guy-tricked-apple-with-a-...

>This incident seems to prove to me that a curated app store is the best way to keep a large monoculture safe from malware.

An even better way would be to disallow third party apps at all. There is definitely a trade off between encouraging the ecosystem to grow and fending off malware.
If that can be snuck in, is it far fetched to assume that an actual root exploit can't be?
Microsoft Offers Free Azure Trial
ANSI BASIC has supported SUBs and FUNCTIONs going quite a ways back. Microsoft just didn't bother to support that standard except in its commercial compilers, and later beginning with QBasic.

Some non-Microsoft microcomputer BASICs (for example Extended BASIC on TI-99/4A) support them to some extent.
Google beatbox. Just wonderful use of Google translate
Chris is a really good dude. Every company should be doing this, and the effects (such as the names above the people) and the quality video editing made it stellar.
While it is minimalist, it would be even more minimalist to just return the ip with no json wrapper.