skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use steganography with plaintext, you're relying on security by obscurity. Governments aren't going to tell you when they've cracked your secret.

If you're encrypting your steganographic messages, you're increasing the entropy of the plaintext message you're concealing it in.
Qubes OS : An Operating System Designed For Security
Amazon is a public company. You can figure out what AWS is valued at by the market, by doing some math, and reading some annual reports. Admittedly, the web store portion of Amazon clouds that value, no pun intended...but you could probably take a look at Amazon a few years ago, before AWS became a major contributor to their bottom line, to make sense of the numbers.

AMZN currently has a market cap of $95 billion. It's safe to say AWS is worth significantly more to the market than Dropbox; as it should be.
I always found it highly annoying that you had to almost completely disassemble the Power Mac 7100 (and related models) in order to add RAM.
Oops, sorry, I didn't know this was not appropriate, first thread on HN, long time reader.
The Key to Productivity: Working Less
Or peripheral driver code which runs on the Microchip device (and may interact with libc, but not necessarily, and not that it matters from a licensing perspective since there are plenty of non-GPL libc's).
This looks really great!

A couple questions:

- What language/framework do you guys use?

- How secure are the transactions?

- What do you guys use for transactional emails (welcome, password recovery, donation receipts, etc)

I'm the Product Manager of PostageApp (http://postageapp.com) and I'd love to give you a hand with transactional emails, if you are so inclined! Let me know, keep up the awesome work!
If Pakistani government can easily spy on the communications of their citizens, so can other organizations. Israel, India, Iran, to name a few of them.
You'd have to have a pretty long dropdown menu in the data-mining centers for all the genders people self-identify these days. Some people might be uniquely identifiable on that value alone.
AnDOSid the DOS testing tool for Android
Try in Chrome 13 and below (due to breaking Web Socket changes).
Personally, I would board people without carry-on luggage first (non-blocking group) and then people who have a single bag that can fit underneath the seat in-front-of-them, and then board people who require the use of overhead space. I suspect it would make things a lot smoother and it would perhaps reduce the size and number of bags people bring on board. Just a hunch.
That's right. iPhone and iPad wireless carrier profiles come with special carrier root CAs. You can't delete them, and by using them, your carrier can easily MITM your IMAP password, Google cookie, online banking credentials, or anything else you do over SSL. Your carrier's unfettered access is in addition to the Department of Defence Root CA, the China Internet Network Information Center Root CA, and the others who enjoy the same privilege already. Apple just made it easier to hide by making it impossible for you to actually see the chain of trust in Mobile Safari.

Interestingly, this is why corporations and governments managing secret information continue to rely on Blackberry, where each device gets a locked certificate on activation. That provides the only serious protection from man-in-the-middle attacks in the wireless industry today. Remember the public pressure on RIM to support wiretapping in India? They were the only company not making it easy.
Didn't knew about them either. Not too worried about the home page having hickups earlier as it isn't their database cloud. But, I'll definitely do some testing around this/these MySQL MySQL cloud service(s). Something I haven't looked at before and sounds too good to be true.
How do you cope with self motivation? To who do you talk to when you have problems, or questions, or feel like just throw everything away to get a 100k job? To be a single founder, do you need to be as good in the marketing/business side than in software and technologies?
Why is Guile still relevant (as the GNU extension language)
Essentials of interpretation
Given the math of owning vs. renting, I strongly suspect they will want to begin building their own. If I were they, I'd be hiring ops developers from Google or Facebook or someone who has dealt with really big data centers and start dipping my toes into ownership immediately. They'll need to figure out how to cheaply and reliably manage petabytes of storage.
Getting feedback sucks only for a little bit
> That's great news - next time I fly Continental, I'll be sure to be the last person in line, I love the aisle seat.

You don't get to choose your seat at boarding time. You are pre-assigned a seat or pre-choose your seat (aisle, center, window) and then boarded based on that seat you already have.
Primarily assistive technologies for smartphones and children with intellectual disabilities. See here for more info (2011 winner):

http://www.ergonomics.org.uk/awards/hywel-murrell

I'm currently finishing a project developing interaction models for interactive TVs for older individuals.
I haven't ordered any t-shirts yet, but I've been digging this company's user interface to get the design set. Prices seem reasonable. What's really cool is the selection of t-shirt brands. Meaning, you can get a nice, soft American Apparel shirt. Vistaprint did not offer as many choices (styles, brands or colors). Zazzle seem too expensive.

http://www.customink.com
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Even without selling apps, building a huge customer base and finally attracting developers to write apps for the platform is hugely beneficial. If they have a large ecosystem with millions of users and thousands of apps, it'll be much easier for them to license the OS to other OEMs. Either may actually be their plan, but I suspect it was a plan made after the fact; otherwise they wouldn't have killed the Pre3 before the US launch.
Impressive? Do you remember the news that China published routing that sent all traffic for Facebook through Beijing? Given that the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) root CA comes with every browser these days, all it takes for a hostile entity is a fake BGP advertised route through a compromised router to make that happen.
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So, apparently the order went out, and with typical news corp subtlety the WSJ is going after Google. Last week the piece with them and Apple, now this.

So who wants to speculate on motivations: Murdoch business interest? Or a sense that Google and Obama are friends?
From a blog post[1] I wrote:

Nortel: $4.5B / 6,000 patents = $750k per patent.

MMI: ($12.5B - $5.5B (cash and assets)) / 14,300 patents = $489,510.49 per patent.

Plus 6,700 patents pending.

Plus a hardware company.

It was a lot of money. But it looks like a pretty good deal against the market rate, if the Nortel deal was any indication.

Schmidt is still executive chairman.

[1]: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9026076073/google-motorola-an...
That's kind of the whole point of the app.
I can't really answer that since I don't work for MailChimp.

The OAuth2 service is aimed at people building apps for people that use MailChimp, not people that subscribe to a mailing list hosted on MailChimp.

Like how you'd use Twitter's OAuth2 service to build apps for people that use Twitter, not those that just read feeds.
It would be interesting to see how much of the time savings come from more efficient boarding order versus just forcing people to all be lined up and ready to go. If passengers can board faster but it takes an extra ten minutes to get everyone in the right order, that's not a win.
Why I am boycotting Skype, and choosing Google+ instead
Who are the folks/companies in the picture at the bottom? I feel like I might recognize some of them, but they're much younger.
"...and at a time where more people 'get' the need."

I think this is a really good point. The market-timing was right for dropbox. More people with multiple machines (mostly laptops) so the desire to backup/sync across devices became more important.
If we want more anonymized datasets, maybe we should be asking for approx. age or year of birth instead. I doubt that most things that ask for DOB need anything more than granular than that.
...and obliterated their domestic cybersecurity. Stupid.
Is Scvngr/LevelUp’s Latest Marketing Ploy a Cry for Help?
Whenever I read articles railing against single founders, I usually assume the person writing the article doesn't have a meaningful amount of single-founder experience. This makes me question their reasons given to not be a single founder.

I'm sure some of these reasons should actually be carefully considered before deciding to go it alone, but I feel that many of them can be safely ignored given one's appetite for risk. After all, if you aren't willing to take chances, why are you trying your hand at a startup in the first place?

tl;dr - Of the common assertions against being a single founder, which are myth/overblown and which are serious concerns?
No need to make up wild guesses. iSuppli says the TouchPad bill of materials is $318. http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/HP-TouchPad-Carr...

Even if you think they're off by 10%, $99 would never work.
PyPy Status: Wrapping C++ Libraries with Reflection
One of my favorite quora answers:

http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...
If only 6 people out of 54000 shared Weld's birthday, she was just lucky (not that this invalidates the main point).
You did read the last line where I said that I joined the company years after the voting machines were in the news, and never had anything to do with them?

Of course Nedap's machines were the ones in the news, as they were the only machines that were used. I was simply saying that my impression at the time (as a normal person watching TV) was that the discussion was more about how voting machines should not be used for elections unless they can be proven to be secure and have guaranteed integrity (something the Nedap machines failed by public opinion). I am sure that if The Netherlands, Ireland and Germany had used machines with similar issues from another manufacturer, the same discussion would have taken place. This is a good thing™, shit like this scares the living daylights out of me: http://www.truth-out.org/new-court-filing-reveals-how-2004-o...

I cannot speak for the company's conduct at the time, because I simply don't know enough about it :)
getting a MVP up and out, means that you don't have all of the bells and whistles. So it's a good idea to not do the things on your list, until you have a few people asking for the product. Or you can set up a wishlist, checklist that you have people check off. So they can tell that you are looking for future upgrades. You just would like for their input in the direction to go.
Your coffee cup example - if math were taught more that way rather than a dry list of mechanical actions I think less people would dread it. I have nothing but hatred and horrible memories towards my grade school maths education.

I can only study this stuff in my spare time so my knowledge is very patchy. But when I see stuff like eigenvectors I associate them towards a much more powerful concept of invariance - which I see everywhere. Recursion, programming, Machine Learning, dynamical systems, physics. And I feel on the edge of an epiphany but do not have sufficient knowledge to fully grasp it.

But it makes me think that all these things that appear over and over again in different guises, the subject is taught far too inefficiently. I feel there is a much simpler way to teach maths and have it flow and be holistic rather than a replay of history: disjointed and disconnected.
> The use of Functors, Applicative and Monad (as well as other classes of types) is just like following the GoF design patterns.
How true: another set of tricky patterns, instead of just doing the simplest working thing. ;)
(Hint: dynamic languages render most of the patterns unnecessary - http://norvig.com/design-patterns/ - and that also applies to functional programming)
> Sorry, but this is bull. If you take any information, even if it's an email and password, data security is either tops on your list or you're abusing your users (even "only a hundred"; one is too many!). There is literally zero middle ground on this: you do it or you shouldn't be building web applications

http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/12/15/never-store-pass...

Needless to say, almost 5 years have passed and they're still around :) their traffic probably a couple of orders of magnitude higher. I was there when it happened, and yes, probably some Russian hacker or whatnot has my password from there, but that's not such a big deal because reddit doesn't know my name, doesn't have my CC number or any details related to my life.

Now, were this to happen to a company that has a lot more information available about each and every one of us stored in one central place (think Google or FB), then things could get really nasty. And I'm not talking about stupid mistakes like the one from above, I'm talking about MITM attacks orchestrated by (vicious) Governments, or cyber-warfare, or just plain old NSA not having to bother to collect information from a myriad of places anymore, when they can just go directly to the source.
The fact that most of us have ditched all our VHS tapes and perhaps even DVDs and converted to Blu-ray discs is a testament to that human need for modern, elegant, complete solutions.

What? I've done no such thing, and know of no who has. I know people who may buy new stuff on Blu-ray, but most people I know are happy to watch something via some stream and never bother with storing a physical. Of those who do buy movies quite a few (such as myself) are quite happy with plain old DVD. I know nobody who is interesting in re-buying something they have on DVD to get it on Blu-ray.

His point about TV show skepticism is dead-on for me. I've learned not to get invested in any show that hasn't made it to season 2. Sadly this leads to a self-fulfilling end; fewer people watch the first season because they have no confidence their attention will be rewarded, so ratings are poor and shows are not renewed for season 2.
It is if they can do it just before the plane's ready to board.
Here's a quick back of the envelope calculation:

The US population is 300 million and there's about 43,000 zip codes in the US. Assuming an even distribution, that's about 7,000 people per zip code. Cut it down to just one gender and we're at 3,500. The probability of a chosen person in that group having a a unique birthday is (364/365)^3500 = 0.0068%. Now, if we say that the person could have been born in one of the past sixty years, we get (21914/21915)^3500 = 85% as the probability that this person has been uniquely identified.
Ah ok, thanks for the correction.
Ask HN: Bad co-founder breakup, what to do?
Hi HN, I'm in a sticky situation now and thought I'd reach out and see what you would do.

I did about 3 months of work (and managed several contractor jobs) as a technical cofounder for this guy and the new direction for his existing company. Our original verbal agreement was very explicit that I would be an equity partner. Even though I pushed several times for formalizing our agreement, he never had time for it and we never had a contract (I should have stopped work after this red flag). Now, he has decided to have someone else handle the development aspect, which I'm OK with and in agreement because over the course of the 3 months that I worked for him, he departed from the strategy and vision that inspired me to join. While I am OK with not continuing the work for him, there are two "loose ends": first, he is avoiding reimbursing me for the contractor work that I paid for (and normally he has been reimbursing me); second, I feel that my own 3 months of work ought to receive some compensation - and it probably makes more sense for that to be in the form of cash rather than equity. So now I am out over $5,000 of reimbursement, and also have received absolutely nothing for my 3 months of time.

Any advice? What would you do? I already know there are lots of things I should have done to prevent getting in this situation in the first place.

By the way, word of advice for my fellow HN... the guy was super nice, friendly, and easy-going, which made it easy to not recognize the red flags (no contract, delaying contract, slow reimbursement). Don't get into my situation.
Here's some relevant advice (that doesn't actually answer your question, but might be useful)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174367

I'm a former professional T-Shirt designer. Here's a few pieces of advice for people thinking about designing t-shirts:

1. Reduce the size of the design - while it looks great on a flat t-shirt (and perfect for the promo picture) you need to add room for a human body at the sides (surprisingly more than you think). My rule of thumb is to measure from your left nipple to your right nipple. Try sticking printouts to your chest and you'll see what I mean. A logo could probably fit on a large post-it note (roughly the size of the of an iPhone).

2. You need to position the design so it floats in a woman's cleavage. The most popular t-shirt I did had a small duck that looked like it was sitting on a woman's chest.

3. Screen printed t-shirts are printed light-colour to dark colour (like an oil painting). If you put a full print of white under the other colours they will look more vibrant - even black. But remember that t-shirts have bleeds measured in mm! getting accurate registration on cloth is tricky.

4. Large designs with many layers of solid ink can get very sweaty to wear. Try to keep things small and have gaps in the design. The recent trend for grungy, worn & badly printed designs were naturally less sweaty.
You will notice bad documentation almost immediately which makes the disadvantage of using LOD as a metric practically irrelevant.
I wish. Unfortunately, most sites need this for legal reasons, to determine whether or not the user is above or below a certain age.

One could theoretically ask "how old are you" but then you don't know when to lift limitations. Say a user joins six months before their 18th birthday. Are you going to block 18+ content for a whole year from then?
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But mysql was originally European, so there was some strange extra significance.
Same. Not sure they want the resale though, I think they rather get some manufacturers on board, license the OS and sell support. Seems to jive better with their current stated focus of software.
Ok... but I won't log into these kind of FB-connected sites before seeing a demo of what it does and what it will do w/ my FB account & contacts. Needs a video or a sandbox or something.
You're really paying for a degree from Stanford. You can get a similar course for much cheaper at a state school. Or now, online for free!
A new way to detect secret nuclear tests: GPS
> A lone founder never wastes time

I find it quite difficult to agree with this statement based on personal experience. For me, it is quite easy to try things to see if they work which often leads to going round in circles until a solution becomes obvious. I found that when working with other people, it is a lot easier to put ideas out there and you usually get the weak points shown to you right away. Also, having said that, I am also finding that the most of my dev activity on my current project involves stripping out functionality that simply turned out to be unnecessary or half baked. I feel that having a co-founder would be great help in avoiding some of the unnecessary work in first place.
I'd be curious to see any actual data about relative success rates with single and multiple founders (where success is measured as 'business profitable or sold after N years' rather than 'got funded').

Like in so many things, it's best to minimize the hand-wringing and make a decision based on your personal working style, who's available to join you, and how badly you want to be funded by an entity with a strong bias against solo founders.
You're right, but I don't think OP is alone in thinking they way he does. Creating an app in pure HTML/CSS/JS and having it actaully run quickly is an interesting idea, and one that makes WebOS unique. The problem before was that there was almost nobody using the OS, but that's changed a bit now. Is it worth doing? Time will tell, but if you can bang out something quickly and not spend a lot of time/money getting it done, it might be worth a shot now.
sometimes you have to lose money to make money. maybe they're trying to capture the long tail of ad/apps revenue? it's a very risky move nonetheless.
cool, we agree on that.
Anecdotally, webOS devs, given the low threshold of competition and influx of new Touchpad owners, are doing pretty fantastic sales right now. Good for a quick return at least. Since HP's also being charitable and giving away 6-packs of apps for free (and paying the dev for each one at full regular 70% share), a couple of those devs picked found themselves 5-figures richer overnight. No idea how long they intend to keep doing it, but it seems ongoing for now.

Good platform for quick wins. Mid-term and longer, it'll largely depend on whether webOS finds new hardware with which to keep it alive.
New Relic Adds App Performance Service for Heroku Java Users
I would pay good money for a postgresql client as superb as sequelpro, and I think a lot of other developers would. Someone is going to cash in on this gap if sequelpro don't beat them to it.
As another October 8th birthdate with the opposite impression of how many October kids there are, I had to look this up.

8.62% of all live births in the US during 2006 occurred during October [1]. No single month deviated significantly from it's expected percentage.

[1] http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode:55
You can find some of the materials for last year's ML class at http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/.
CS 221 had a similar one, although it got taken down recently. I imagine you'd at the very least be able to access the materials while the class is ongoing or shortly thereafter for archival purposes.
About a year ago, I did a project for de-duping customer entered contact info. We had less than 100k records for any particular region (Bay Area, New York, etc.) From what I recall, we were able to confirm identity in about 80% of cases using Name, DOB, and zip code.

By far the best metric is phone number, that bumped us up over 97%. If the comparison was limited to only three metrics, then we would use Name, DOB, and phone number. In reality, we also compare zip code, street address, and contacts (like friends on facebook), in that order.

It would be interesting to see if on average, people change their phone number less often than their name (marriage) or address (renters).
Thanks! To answer your questions:

1) Rails
2) WePay handles our transactions so they're secure - we use their new API. We highly recommend them. You can learn more about their security here: https://www.wepay.com/about/security
3) We actually already use Postmark. That being said, we'll check out PostageApp too :)
I have a developer device and have been following the threads in the WebOS developer forums and developers are pretty frustrated. Lots of people have purchased developer devices in the past 1-2 months and paid much more than the current fire sale prices.

Also, registered developers are having to hunt to find retailers with existing $99 TouchPads, instead of HP giving WebOS developers early access to buying a device. If developers can't even get a development device when they want one, there isn't much hope for a diverse App Store
Thanks for the comments. The wiki is open to registrations - feel free to improve/fix/update things as you wish. Johnathon