skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Private key" normally means asynchronous cryptography and digital signatures, however this is talking about synchronous cryptography, secret keys, and HMAC.

It starts with trying to authenticate that messages really came from the app and then it drifts off into talking about verifying passwords (which actually seems to be more about serial numbers/defeating keygens). It also suggests using AES in one paragraph and then later suggests making your own encryption function(!) shortly thereafter.

The only thing these techniques will get you is the difference between someone finding your static key with strings(1) and spending 5 minutes in IDA. If you are trying to do any of these things you are probably better off going back to what you are trying to accomplish and working from there instead of "how do I give and not give them the key at the same time".
It's interesting what he said about choosing Python over Ruby. I made the same choice this past week. My friends and I are trying to start creating a web service off an idea we had months ago and while they were all talked into learning RoR, watching them struggle to even install Rails on their machines as well as horror stories about Ruby's constant version updates made me choose to learn Python instead. Zed Shaw's famous rant/article played a role in my decision too, and this article seems to support what Zed said a couple years ago about the community being "arrogant" and difficult.

(Now my friends and I are learning separate languages and planning to work on the same product, and I'm actually curious how/if this will resolve itself...)
I agree the article is very informative and taught me a number of things I didn't know about nginx. Unfortunately letting people learn the hard way tends to not work out well when it comes to security.
Microsoft contributes a lot of changes to Linux kernel 3.0
I'll just point out to you, yet again, that the gap between the US and Singapore is almost completely explained by ethnicity. Asian Americans have test scores only marginally worse than Asian Singaporians.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-well-do-above-...

In terms of test score ranking, the best test scores come from Asian Americans in CT, closely followed by Asians in NY and TX. (As one might expect, CA underperforms the US and Singapore.)

Similarly, Americans of European descent rank #6 among Europeans of European descent.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...

I don't know why you refuse to acknowledge this.
At first you want a small hard core team of dedicated people. They all have meaningful equity and are "the founding team". Maybe 2 co-founders and 2-5 employees that work really well together. They're like a special ops team that can quickly maneuver around a problem.

They can probably do just fine with 12 months runway and a low burn rate. If they do figure out a repeatable/scalable business, they can raise a lot more money and grow it. If they don't, they can shut the company down.

The problem with Mahalo is that they skipped the first stage completely. Calacanis was "hot" and (like everyone) he thought his idea was a sure thing. He raised $20M because he could.

Even so, if he had created a small team and spent a year or two iterating it might have worked very well. With no pressure of running out of money it might have been harder to keep the the team focused, but it would have probably been fine. Hell, the company could have been breakeven off the interest of $20M.

Instead, they started scaling the business from day one and never really had that hard core team to perfect the processes, product, and business model. Even if he had wanted to, the VCs would have never let him keep the company to 5-10 people for the year or two it might have taken.

Due to the perverse incentives of raising that much money so early he's actually "forced" to make a bluff bet of the whole company rather than build it methodically.

The first bet was made by scaling the company before they figured out the business. The second is an even more extreme version of the first. After it fails there will not be a third.

tl;dr: Mahalo will fail because it raised too much money too early.
Good post. Somewhat related: Any good books/recommendations for those hoping to study post-school math on their own?
I didn't see any science-related words when I took the test. Not sure if this is because of the process by which they made the word lists, or because there truly are not many common science-related words.
To get `vv serve` working you have to do something like this:

vv config set server/files /usr/local/share/veracity/server_files

Be sure to replace /usr/local/.. with the correct path to server_files.
I think you neglected the line in front of it, which does define FooBase.

1. >>> FooBase = type("FooBase", (object,), {})
2. >>> Foo = type("Foo", (FooBase,), {'bar' : 42})

Although I am not a python expert, so you may be right... in which case, how does line one not work?
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Correction. Minnesota gets temperatures from -20 to 100. Tomorrow has a high of 97. Definitely not an odd place for AC.
I doubt that many people are cheating, but the "percentiles" are basically meaningless because the survey obviously self-selects for 1) people who are on the Internet, 2) people who are on Internet sites where this survey will get reposted 2) people who suspect they have pretty good vocabularies (who is going to take a non-mandatory 'test' that doesn't even earn them any Facebook Credits to inform them they aren't so bright), etc.

End result: substantial inflation of scores relative to what you'd see if you gave the same survey to the general population (and assuming everyone is relatively honest).
Well, I find rating songs very important to my own music discovery. I have around 6500 songs in my collection, about half of it rated, and all of it meticulously genred. Making playlists and picking something to listen to is really easy, as is downloading something new and incorporating it into my playlists.

Find a new reggae artist, rate his songs, and boom, next time I'm listening to good reggae, his songs pop up (but just the good ones).

Spotify makes all of my ratings and all my playlists useless. And it is therefore not very useful to me :/
The bootstrap code (which unpacks the second stage, compressed in the PNG image data) does indeed work this way. The key difference is that in addition to the code at the top level of the image, there's the second stage inside.
Indeed I am. In the development of this demo (and the framework which built it), I've found more bugs than while actually attempting to attack WebGL; I don't know whether to be happy or sad about this.
You definitely don't need to be a genius to do math. To everyone out there with small children, I would recommend this site - http://jumpmath1.org - they product a system that helps children learn the basics s.t. advanced features become self-explanatory.
No one getting high scores did so because of or despite their education. They did it by having the sort of brain that happens to retains words like uxoricide and reading copious quantities of material in which such abstruse words are employed.

I got a high score and went to public schools in the US, and didn't finish college either.
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I grew up in the town where he lives (Wilton, CT) and was lucky enough to experience his son Chris playing at our school frequently. Dave himself played a few times too.

I first heard take 5 when I was 11 and I've been a fan of odd time signatures ever since.
Most interesting to me were the words I recognized, but weren't sure of their meaning (e.g. malapropism, which turned out to mean ludicrous misuse of a word).

BTW: a nice thing about online dictionaries is they have sound files for pronunciation. e.g. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/malapropism With a plugin, you can highlight and right-click to open in another tab.
Texas property taxes are the third highest in the nation [1]. About 1.81% of the property value annually, or $5,430 in this case with a home value of $300,000. That's about $450/mo., which seems reasonable for low end rent in some parts of Texas. Property taxes vary by county, so Denton may have a higher or lower property tax than the average in Texas.

[1]: http://dallasdirt.dmagazine.com/2010/10/05/texas-property-ta...
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Shocking, 9885. I acquired current command on English via Internet, Harry Potter and Klan Academy - and I was pretty comfortable making points in English than in Japanese

I could use some help boosting my vocabulary...
ahhh.. he said, she said.

i really love to read very good illustrations of how ruby developers being arrogant for noobies.
For those of you concerned with your score, you are deovting an undue amount of your time in discussing the results of what is—let's be honest with ourselves—the literati version of a "Are U A Vampire Or A Werewolf?" quiz.

P.S., 36,700 .. I took this before it got a lot of general circulation, and my standings have improved considerably. I suspect this makes me more worthy of oxygen.
I got 19 800. As a Swedish non-native speaker I thought it was OK. The test needs to also show the averages for non-natives and natives separate.
They are agitated by the difference not because it's vast and deterring, but it's subtle, persistent and it slaps them in their face when they let their guards down.
i cannot up vote you enough!
On statistics and silliness
To know why Indian Muslims have been left out you have to go into the colonial history of India. It all started with the 1857 rebellion, The Sepoy Mutiny. The rebellion was primarily started by the Muslims soldiers with support from Hindus. After the rebellion was quelled the Britishers ostracized the Muslims and the Hindus were given preferential treatment. All the best Civil Service jobs, the licenses, etc. went to Hindus. Hindus had better access to education compared to Muslims. After independence the bureaucracy continued this discrimination. (As an aside, this was one of the reasons why Muslims flourished in Arts; Bollywood being a good example).

The trend however has largely been reversed because of vote bank politics. The political parties today are trying to woo the Muslims (and Dalits) as best as they can. The ruling political party, Congress is viewed as pro-Muslim. The Economic liberalization has also opened up the possibilities for Indian Muslims. The corporations do not discriminate when it comes to a customer. Indian Muslims have the same access to loans and credit as the Hindus (and all other religious groups). Schools don't care about religion as long as somebody can cover the tuition fees. As an anecdote, in Bangalore majority of auto-rickshaw (three wheeler transport) drivers are uneducated Muslims. But their kids all go to English medium schools, not Madrassas.

Rural India however is still divided along communal and caste lines. Caste and religion play a huge social and economic part of the rural fabric and change there is slow. But the Muslims there are as discriminated against as the Dalits, if not more.
import string; string.digits, string.lowercase, string.uppercase, string.hexdigits, string.ascii_
House in Seattle for $250k? Not really.
How is saying 'no homo' even remotely appropriate?
"And just how does one build a startup with all that such an effort normally entails while factoring in the need to make sure others aren't "left behind" as that startup pushes on toward a hoped-for success?"

One can focus on working on products that will help. For example, instead of building the next photo-sharing app, one can build the next AirBnB or Uber.

Having said that, you're right - it's hard enough to succeed as is, so most first-time entrepreneurs have enough on their plate without more things corrupting their focus (at least that's how I feel as a first-time entrepreneur). I do think that investors and serial-entrepreneurs can chose to focus on ventures that help the country (or even help the world).
Considering that the only thing they really promise in this release is that the repository format is final, I have hopes that those things will be ironed out.
Are you saying that the first barbary war was funded by debt, or that Jefferson was a pacifist, or what exactly?
Nearly all the sentences have "some" in them.
I think in this case, Duncan Watts is wrong. I own his book. So social does work sometimes. :-)

I agree with his statement that SM should start with an experiment, many of them really. Developing strategies that require viral cascades is a recipe for failure.

social media is engagement in my view. many small engagements are like small fires. It is unclear which one will catch. Which message will resonate with our audience. However, if it does, then investing further energy, getting the fire to shift and turn into something larger is possible.

He is right that most agencies can not do this. Nor do clients see much value in small multiple experiments across mediums (sites, technologies, platforms). Some see this as a risk. few see it as an opportunity. The difficulty is shifting resources and being able to kill off projects that have little current value. Most projects in large agencies are priced and resources allocated (most outsourced)long before the project beings; which means agility is lost while risk is managed.

This is actually the benefit of a startup. Being able to track real time metrics, actually creating value and engaging in that creation with their users/buyers/clients shifting resources as needed.

I think the Ted talk about the Why, How, What circles explains very clearly why some campaigns are successful and why most fail. If you are starting at What, you will fail most of the time. If you start from the Why of your product, community, the philosophy and thoughts and beliefs behind it, there is a chance that it will be far more appealing.

That some believe Social Marketing does work and does not work only clarifies that our strategies are poor. Not all TV commercials are culture shaping, nor do all magazine ads shape society, but to assume that they have no impact is a large mistake.

Social marketing works. Just not the way you think.
Choose a path.

What are you interested in? The theory of information? Ideas about space that go behind the flat plane of a piece of paper? How to communicate and co-operate securely when people might be eavesdropping and impersonating your allies? How to model various kinds of learning? How one studies the interacting strategies of military, economic, or biological adversaries? How complexity arises in simple systems? How sounds and images can be compressed?

These are just examples, but each one of these topics will select a certain 'diet' of pure mathematics that will keep you well fed with cool ideas as well as 'in's to different fields.

Although it does work for some people to just pick up a book on linear algebra and read it from cover to cover, I've never found that a very interesting or self-motivating way to learn. I think its better to hang one's knowledge on a tree of interlinked explorations.
I graduated with Math 11 in highschool and never pursued it again to any extent until I was out of programming the first time and about 3 years into my culinary career.

I decided to pick up calculus and linear algebra citing a lack of intellectual stimulation. I used the dummies books and augmented them with schaum's outlines (not easy studying).

I got back into programming again, and although I didn't make it all the way through the first time, i've picked it up and have found the Demystifying series pretty good (better than the dummies books by a long shot in fact).

These are also bolstered by other books I find that fell off the back of the internet truck. There's lots of great website for study notes and tutorials. One I like is Paul's Online Math Notes (http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/).
I think this highlights exactly what is wrong in so many discussions of IP. People get so caught up on the word "right" in "copyright", that they argue for hours on whether there is a right to intellectual property, whether stealing IP is the same as stealing actual physical goods, despite the fact that no one is deprived of something, etc.

The truth is, that's all more-or-less off-topic. The reason we have copyright and a patent system is very simple: they're optimizations to make society better at producing more new stuff. The big question is, do they work? Another valid question is, even if society creates more new stuff under a patent system, is it worth it considering the other problems a patent system has?
I was just about to call "BS" on that wimpy zero. Zero is brisk compared to some of the lows in and around Minnesota, and pushing near 100 isn't uncommon. Not every year, but many, certainly.
It's a nice presentation but are the videos available somewhere?
Very good and balanced article overall. The hatred of each other has become so deep rooted in both the countries and the mutual suspicion so strong that it is too late that the relationship can be changed. But we still owe it our next generation to work towards peace so that the wealth that belongs to them does not get spent in keeping up the needless hostility. We cannot let the past ruin the lives of the poorest people in the world who live in this region.
It is time for the Pakistani people to call a spade a spade. They cannot take refuge anymore in the filmsy excuses and their needless obsession with Kashmir anymore. If they don't do anything now and continue to behave as they have done till now for the last 60 years, it will be too late. Pakistan as a nation is literally on its last breath and it needs an immediate shock treatment by its own people if it wants to survive. India will continue to grow and survive but it is Pakistan whose survival at stake. If Pakistani people continue to behave like ostriches with their heads in sand, then they will have only themselves to blame and not any of their make believe enemies like US or India.
This makes me feel a lot better about my 15500 as someone from Holland who has been studying in England for 4 months.
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How so? Or am I underestimating the prevalence of fake IDs such that my name and photo are no longer valid points of verification? This can be more easily battled with a photo on the card itself. Unless of course I would simply underestimate the prevalence of people scanning said photo to use on the fake ID which shouldn't match and could be further battled with a hologram over the photo, or, with Lytro, a holograph of the person.

With all that said, I don't understand how it could hurt more than help. Do explain!
Learning to program did help. I could check "shard" and "bloat", which are apparently quite rare in general context compared to words I know.

How about you? Were there words you could check because you encountered it often in programming context?
Let me justify that categorization for you.

http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-makes-it-science.h...
I second that. My main side-project-esque interests involve AI and Computer Vision. Knowing that cleared up a lot of confusion as to what was 'best to learn'.
Part of the Indus valley is in India as well.
This is the first big step to actually creating an ecosystem for plan9. It's a fantastic OS, though there's not much I can do with it, unfortunately. Maybe that will change now!
Howdy,

I scored a little over 40k on this, and did well on other verbal tests for the general population when I was still taking tests.

I attribute much of my facility to 1)reading fantasy and 2)looking up words I don't know. Since I loathe interrupting the flow of a story, I read with a pencil and make a list of words to batch learning later.

Best,
Here's a perspective I have some sympathy with:

"It is a huge waste to have gifted problem solvers off in la-la land writing papers that start with the sentence "Let G be a Grothendieck category of the first type."

The world is a place churning with real problems that affect real people, and one of the most severe bottlenecks is that of smart and competent people."

There are a bunch of counter-arguments one could give to this complaint, ranging from vague promises of long-term usefulness, through the idea that pure math is a intimate bed-follow of critical thinking and so its practice should be exalted, to the notion that theorems of higher mathematics are somehow art-forms, albiet esoteric ones, worthy of state support.

Another point might be that pure math is often practiced by people who are deliberately avoiding the real world, who want a fantasy land to be clever in, and they'd be off doing something else rarefied if there weren't math departments. I don't believe that for a moment.
Vocabulary is trivia...
That's possible, even likely. Another explanation would be that tests like this tend to be biased towards people with very evenly distributed interests, preferrably with a literary, classical bias or background. Someone who knows 10,000 words from one or two specialzed disciplines will always score worse than someone who diligently read through all the high school text books and topped it off with some gutenberg.org.
"Many of these commenters were hilariously under-qualified to be taking on that kind of role with respect to anyone."

You inferred this based on user profiles?
Yes, I am. :-)
OR they could actually make it a REAL test, e.g. multiple choice

I scored far lower than I would have expected, which although it hurts my ego a bit, I can easily dismiss because of the nature of this test.
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I am looking forward to the blog post. Please post it on HN when it comes around.

Until I read to the third paragraph of the snippet, I was thinking "this is just another polling website", but the innovation that is proposed could result in some interesting results.

After reading the snippet, I was excited to go visit the site, expecting some thoughtful discussion on current affairs and politics. I was pretty disappointed with the activity on the site.

I understand that currently the site consists of the core functionality, but you should make that clear. If I was just a standard visitor I would have no incentive to come back in a few months when the app actually has some meaning.

A final note: when I vote in elections, my vote is anonymous and private. On hyperarchy I can see who voted on a topic, in 'real life' this information is not available and I believe that many people would not want it to be known what they are voting on.
> Who knows what violates their community standards

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=...
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My god, none of this shit matters! Why does anyone put any stock in any of this kind of thing? The best a test can do is make you feel smug, the worst it can do is totally destroy your confidence. It's a lose-lose proposition.
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I can understand getting downvoted for tone, but I disagree with the downvoting as I was just trying to state facts. The thought process here seems to be: Terry Tao is a brilliant researcher, therefore why he wrote here must be great. I thought one of the tenets here is that work should stand on it's own value and not on who did it, especially when so young. The typical Princeton student would do better on this, and if you really want to see a good one you can check Bhargava, Venkatesh, etc.
I was going to go through this qual and give examples but nearly every paragraph has something bungled. It you have any particular questions, I'd be happy to respond