skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a LOT easier to recover from a key breach - you expire the old *.com certificate, and publish a new one under the root. No problem. The root key, of course, must be VERY carefully guarded - but since updates are infrequent, this can happen on an isolated system with no network connection (or even more paranoid systems, such as secret sharing schemes...)
I first noticed this in the movie "Traffic." Great movie and cinematography in my opinion, but I noticed how the orange came out in the Mexican drug cartel scenes and a heavy blue in the DC ones.
What a terrible idea. I can't think of a worse morale destroyer than this. You may think you're checking commitment levels, but what you're really saying is: "We don't want you. Here's a paltry sum, now scram."

If I were given such an offer at ANY company, it would raise so many red flags that I'd take the money and leave.
heh, the robotic lady voice was annoying at first, but i got used to it. there is experimental support for custom tts engines built into the app if you want to use different ones.
100wpm with 1 mistake.

Edit: Could feel the stress in my hands towards the end, could not keep that rate up for long.
I work for the professor from the article (but not on TextRunner).

We're working on extracting meaning from reviews as well: http://revminer.com/

At the moment, it only has reviews of Seattle places (restaurants, hotels, etc.) but we're moving it mobile. It's written using node.js and socket.io; I'd be interested in hearing any feedback.
I appreciate the effort, and while I haven't gone through the whole thing, you could probably brush up on the use and meaning of "executive summary." Nothing personal!
Your reddit experience is as good as the sub-reddits you follow.

Subscribe to sub-reddits of your interest and you will only see stories from those sub-reddits on your front page. Stick with the default options and you only see the top stories from default selected sub-reddits.

In a way its like twitter and facebook, the quality of tweets and wall posts you will see are only as good as the people you decide to follow.
Article claims that making the encrypted file public is perfectly fine, so long as the password isn't made public.

I think all of us here know how wrong that is. A password isn't going to stop people for long. It was a matter of time until it got out. Maybe it already had, and we didn't know it.
Following you 100% on this vision.

There's been a lot of hype around social recommendation lately; it was fresh and new because only [somewhat] lately has 'Social' itself been made possible through Facebook.

But as I see things, we don't make friends because they have our tastes or because they can correctly recommend us stuff we'd like; we simply feel really good with friends, no matter what they like.
Only the people who have our tastes can help us finding what we should like, or at least be able to do it better than most of our friends.

Basing recommendation solely on our social circle's tastes is like thinking our friends are the ones with the closest tastes to ours. And I think that's wrong.

Unless I got it wrong, Rex.ly for example, is taking a much better approach by letting you select specific friends to influence your recommendations.
As a Dutch citizen, I am ashamed our own government's CA was compromised. And I'm a bit angry, because this hardly concerns just us but the entire secure web.

Frankly, I'm hoping for a lot more than just damages.
The whole CA trust model is a complete mess.
I suggest interested people to google for the work from moxie marlinspike (@moxie__),
e.g., presentation from last BH (http://bit.ly/rbqMCq) and convergence (http://convergence.io/).
I'm doing this right now actually. I've been in Europe for two weeks and I'm in Prague for the next two months.

It does take a somewhat adventuresome spirit. Often it's difficult to get any kind of long term accomidation beforehand. You're often going to places where you don't speak the language. It can seem very daunting. However, I've found that in most places things seem to go reasonably well. I've managed to find few month accomidation in countries where I don't speak the language at all.

As far as cost, it can be surprisingly cheap. The most expensive part by far are the initial and return flights. Beyond that, the US Dollar gets a long way in places and I've found that doing this also helps you accumlate less junk (you don't really want to be carrying all that stuff around with you). Thankfully, reliable broadband internet is becoming pervasive and with that there are more and more places that you can reasonably work out of.

If you haven't done it then get off your ass and do it! You won't regret it.
> a decent fraction of the population will make a reasonable argument for change

That's how it works in theory. In practice, there is one party (Lobbyists) with two representations, Democrats and Republicans. This guarantees that everyone keeps arguing about supposed merits (mostly about things like gay marriage and legal abortions, which make little difference overall, but occasionally also about things that do matter like health care), but little gets done on any argued front, while in the meantime wars and patriot acts happen.

I'm sure reasonable arguments can be made for both sides, e.g. on the health care debate. But I've listened and looked for them, and never heard them (on either side). I'm familiar with reasonable arguments on the "for" side for socialized health care. I haven't managed to find a reasonable argument for the "against" side. (By reasonable, I mean based on facts and comparison to other countries who have implemented similar programs ..... e.g. the entire western world except the US).

> a majority of the population is violently against it, and while I disagree with most of the arguments, they are neither unreasonable nor apathetic.

I remember reading about >50% support FOR one-payer system (the way Canada and the UK run theirs), before the rulers (eh, sorry, "leaders") decided it's not even on the table.

I would really like to hear some of these reasonable arguments against.

The contempt is from actually living in the US, talking to people daily who believe that they live in a democracy, or that their government is working to benefit them in any way.
<raises hand> Don't remember any file-system problems though I believe I got into the betas mid cycle. I do however remember well the "What the heck is a Start menu and where did Program Manager go?"

Edit: I'm also starting to feel old when threads like this come up :)
I believe it when I see it.
The irony, of course, is that people's economic hardships are creating jobs. Which means there's enough money in foreclosures alone to warrant having an employee to evaluate the extent of foreclosures. It's sickening.
The author is a colorist.
And? Was I suggesting the author isn’t or what? Criticizing the author’s web design skills just makes no sense whatsoever. It just doesn’t. There is no connection.

I was also trying to make a larger point: Even if you think the author’s work sucks you can’t just dismiss everything that is said.
That was an intentional narrative device from Soderbergh though.

From IMDB:

"To achieve a distinctive look for each different vignette in the story, Steven Soderbergh used three different film stocks (and post-production techniques), each with their own color treatment and grain for the print. The "Wakefield" story features a colder, bluer tone to match the sad, depressive emotion. The "Ayala" story is bright, shiny, and saturated in primary colors, especially red, to match the glitzy surface of Helena's life. The "Mexican" story appears grainy, rough, and hot to go with the rugged Mexican landscape and congested cities."
Don Norman's DOET should be required reading for anyone making a human-facing system.

It is not a complete education on the topic, but it's a huge step forwards.
If anything I would say that my reader saves me time and distraction. I don't have to search for the information I'm looking for, wasting needless time on links in search that wind up being non-relavent spam. I get to skim through articles that have a higher probability of being relevant to something that I need to know and I get to do this at my leisure.
Making beautiful forms; Square and Recurly
Weird presentation. He has a disclaimer upfront that he doesn't really know much about the JVM. He wants a Decimal class? Fine go ahead and write one. You can easily emulate it using an int with a globally accepted denominator value, but whatever. He wants the class file format to be changed from stack machine to register machines. And exactly why?

He wants deadlock detection on every lock acquisition? So lock acquisition is now O(n) instead of O(1). Fine, go ahead and write your own expensive deadlock detecting lock class. Why does he need the "JVM" to support this?

Also what does - synchronized must die because we have > 2 CPUs- mean. One would think this makes synchronization more important. He is not even proposing an actor model as an alternative.

What does non threadsafe objects not being allowed to escape mean? Escape into a different thread? How does he propose to do the analysis required to identify such objects? Statically/Runtime? Is this even tractable? What level of granularity does he expect the lock on an "escaped" object to be, if the object itself is a graph of of many objects?

I like how he pretends to solve all GC problems in one slide, using "escape" analysis or whatever. Everything will be concurrent and nobody will pause. And there seems to be some persistent obsession with the Date and Time classes. He has also somehow managed to combine immutability with autoboxing.
To every generation there is a film technique which defines it. There was the smokey grey/green from the Matrix films. Michael Mann had his desaturated shallow-DOF look. David Fincher uses silver-retention on his film development to extend the dynamic range while underexposing his shots (thats why interiors in Seven were so "dark" yet exposed).

Part of the device of cinema is extending the mise-en-scene outward and upward to the representational devices (projection, development and treatment).

Part of the study of film is tracing how the use of technique defines generations of film makers. Often, technology serves as an impetus for a style (i.e., Robert Altman and the use of multi-track audio on Nashville precipitated very "talky" films from the 70's/80's), or the developments in computer motion controlled rigs.

Or lets not forget: lens flares.

Color grading (ie, the orange/blue compliments in this article) are also defined by outward influences like magazine photography, trends in CGI, etc.

Anyhow, in a few years a new dominate "look" will pervade cinema and we'll all have something new to complain about.
An exploration of Yelp's own filtered reviews
If you're running Windows, you need to disable this root CA immediately, as you are now vulnerable to having arbitrary code run on your machine as SYSTEM if someone spoofs Windows Update.
The Infamous Apple Syntax Poster
Ask HN: Help Silicon Valley transplant land Product Mgr. Job (Resume - PDF)
From the article -
"For example, to find the names of people who are CEOs within millions of documents, you'd first need to train the software with other examples, such as "Steve Jobs is CEO of Apple, Sheryl Sandberg is CEO of Facebook." "

Sheryl Sandberg? Deliberate or honest mistake? :-]
I want more attention paid to realistic games. The early Ghost Recons were going in that direction, but the later ones turned around and went for arcade mode, letting you get shot many times, aim effortlessly etc. Seems they're trying to catch up to Battlefield, when they could carve out their own niche.

In the Total War series, they barely improved gameplay since Rome, focusing instead on superflous graphics.

It's called gaming, not rendering but the focus is on showing pretty screenshots to sell more games.

And yes our first world problems are important and we shouldn't apologize for them. We won't be solving any other problems.
And i have a mate who was roadie for Muddy Waters (to give some age context) who learned the phrase well before i was born!

A canonical reference for the first use would be fascinating.
Full link: https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Marlinspike/BlackHat-USA...
Hello fellow Hackers and hiring managers. I'm moving to the Mountain View area Sep. 29, and will be looking for employment with one of the Bay area's tech companies as a Product Manager. Hiring? Let's talk!
Even if you think the author’s work sucks you can’t just dismiss everything that is said.

Yes. We can. Some ppl may not like it, but we certainly can.
Looks like the directory index was left open. http://textrunner.cs.washington.edu/
FWIW, i have another pal who was posted diplomatic to HK in the late 70s and was instructed to read Noble House - it's thinly veiled translations of real characters, some still alive.
Good Fashioned Orgy,Megavideo
Good Fashioned Orgy,Megavideo
This is where the movie spends most of his power as Eric and his best friends debate whether or not you should This is where the movie spends most of his power as Eric and his best friends debate whether or not you should This is where the movie spends most of his power as Eric and his best friends debate whether or not you should
How to handle a VC who flies First
PHP code completion for anything in Eclipse + PDT
DNS hack hits popular websites: Telegraph, Register, UPS, etc
RSS become my bookmarks folder in the cloud.
Are you talking about color grading or web design?

If you are talking about web design you are making no sense whatsoever. No sense.
or maybe the opposite. maybe yelp's competitors paid to have negative reviews. hah :)
lifehacker gets lots of posts a day, I really need to filter that
"Wrong?"

GP's comment said "The obvious thing to do for the guy is to post a note ... on his website" - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2959702 - that's the context.
From the DigiNotar press release [1] on the matter:

VASCO expects the impact of the breach of DigiNotar’s SSL and EVSSL business
to be minimal. Through the first six months of 2011, revenue from the SSL
and EVSSL business was less than Euro 100,000. VASCO does not expect that
the DigiNotar security incident will have a significant impact on the
company’s future revenue or business plans.

[1] - http://www.vasco.com/company/press_room/news_archive/2011/ne...
There's a "who's hiring" thread each month (e.g., http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949787). For every candiate to individually spam HN would be utterly unsustainable. Flagged.
You or I can point or click our way through dealing with a breach of a TLS certificate.

Tell me what you'd personally do to deal with a rumored breach or misuse of .COM?

Remember: under DNSSEC, Libya would have been BIT.LY's CA.
The captcha looked quite clearly to me to be "inctory". These captcha's are not necessarily real words (I believe to thwart dictionary based crackers?), and I also am pretty sure the service they are using is not tied to Yelp itself.
What is illegal about it? That's wasn't made clear in the memo.
Well, if you start measuring it in some indexes, you can come up with all kinds of crazy numbers. How about in gold or silver prices?
This agrees: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Software-Engineer-Sal...
VMware CEO: Facebook will also have to face a patent war soon
The first word wasn't the difficult one, it was the last word (it's even tougher to decipher when zoomed in for normal view. Zoomed out, it appears more like 'Law'). I agree though, I know the service probably isn't tied to Yelp, I just found it weird that I had to decipher a blob of ink on page 52.
I started testing it when it still had the "Chicago" loading graphic.

It's funny for me because I desperately wanted Microsoft to go after Apple on the UI elegance front, as I was a huge M$ booster at the time.

What makes me feel old is that people take pre-emptive multitasking for granted. In my day we had cooperative multitasking AND LIKED IT.
Be the Anthill — Appsterdam Legal Defense Initiative
Yes I plan to continue development of this application after the competition, there are still some rough edges that needs to be fixed. So I see this a great working prototype to iterate on.

I still have some amazing ideas planned :)
NIN's official Vimeo channel (http://vimeo.com/ninofficial) has some amazing live performances on it: http://vimeo.com/18328943
The reason that "some ppl [sic] may not like it" is because it's logically unsound. Dismissing a point of view based on the party, rather than on the position, is the definition of a tu quoque fallacy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

P.S. I agree the author's web design isn't exactly "web 2.0" but it clearly does not diminish the author's credibility to comment on film colorization. They are completely separate.
Doesn't it also publish only a summary instead of the full article? If I see a site like that in my feed it quickly gets removed.

I'm not saying I'm particularly against driving hits to a website to show ads (although I really am), but to me it defies the purpose of RSS feeds. (Opinion)
it's open source. just download it:

http://reverb.cs.washington.edu/
Iranian govmnt revenge for stuxnet?
Yes I noticed that as well, but I found that the name observer really suited this service. But I'm still searching for alternate names to avoid potential confusion.
If people are already writing books about doing it, there aren't many opportunities left - except in selling books about it.
Then how do you explain this?

http://jamiehdavidson.blogspot.com/2011/09/exploration-of-ye...
> I'd be curious to learn what possessed the people responsible for DOS to have ever shipped a system with the insane 8.3 restriction

CP/M inspired them. PC-DOS (Q-DOS, really) was more or less a rip-off of DR's CP/M-80. It's possible to give "ease of porting CP/M-80 programs to PC-DOS" as an excuse for that.

At that time, short file names were not a big issue, as CP/M filesystems were rather small (5-megabyte hard disks were very expensive at the time) and hierarchical filesystems were outside the realm of microcomputers. PC-DOS didn't introduce directories until version 2.

BTW, the Apple II DOS (all versions) had filenames of up to (IIRC) 33 chars, case-sensitive and with one byte to indicate the file type with a flat hierarchy. ProDOS has 16-char filenames with a hierarchical structure.
It took us about 6 months to really find our groove and work efficiently on the road. Now after more than a year, we settle into new places pretty quickly. It takes a day or two to get fully productive, which is pretty negligible out of 3-6 months. Plus we lose another couple of days to arranging flights, visas, etc.

There's also a productivity uptick from working in foreign cities. With no friends or family around, you'd be surprised how much extra time you have. Some of that time is spent meeting locals and joining expeditions, but otherwise, weekends are free from external disruptions (unlike at home).

It's certainly not for everyone because some people find it difficult to self-motivate and others just don't like to travel. And if there's one real downside, it's that we spend less time with other tech founders. We try to meet-up with them where possible, and in Montreal we met many more than at home, but in lesser developed places, it's not so easy.

All of that said, living in countries like India, Bolivia, Peru and Thailand (which we've previously done) is highly thought-provoking. I don't mean in the clichéd charitable sense, but day-to-day seeing how we all live. It tends to get the creative juices flowing.

Watching how people do business in India, for example, provides a lot of lessons for business in developed countries. The fundamentals are the same, but often the drivers are different (lower margins, higher volume, lower income, cheaper labour, government regulation, corruption, etc.) Both positive and negative drivers provide useful lessons.

I remember suggesting to one guy that his idea wasn't very scalable because it relied on lots of manual labour. He said, "what do you mean, of course labour is scalable." Of course in India, labour is pretty scalable. I was very surprised to see the value you'd get for $1.

This actually brings another positive of working on the road. In places like India, we saved a lot of time because we never have to cook, clean, wash clothes, drive, etc. It makes sense to outsource these services because the price drops way below the value we ascribe to our time.

We have recently promised to slow down a little; maybe 6+ months in each city where visas allow.
What in the world must DigiNotar's business plan for the future include? How could anyone trust them again? How is it possible that root-level certs were being issued and they've got no warning systems, no logging to determine what actually happened? And remember, we only really know about it now because someone caught the DigiNotar-issued SSL cert floating out in the wild and put it up on Pastebin! As rhizome noted, it borders criminality (if you think about it, does it even border?). These folks told users "Users of SSL certificates can depending on the browser vendor be confronted with a statement that the certificate is not trusted. This is in 99.9% of the cases incorrect, the certificate can be trusted" & their site is full of old defacement tags (on both of these, see http://isc.sans.org/diary/DigiNotar+breach+-+the+story+so+fa... - also worth reading).

The CA system is broked. Everyone's known it for awhile, but man, it's still tough to look straight in the eyes at its brokenness like this.
This is interesting and spot-on so far as building modular, decoupled components go. Nevertheless, as the first of many Google Closure developers at Monetate, I got a lot more mileage out of Ray Ryan's great 2009 talk on Google Web Toolkit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDuhR18-EdM), of all things. He pretty much only talks about two patterns (MVP and services/event buses), but he does a great job of explaining how these apply to all sorts of parts of the application (history, RPC, display, etc.). And much to his credit, those were the only two patterns we ever needed.

Other folks might disagree, but in my experience, one of the bigger headaches to making a rich web application in JavaScript is that the class+instance model just doesn't work like you need it to -- and so in this post, we see a lot of patterns dedicated to getting around just that problem. Closure took care of that for us, so we spent pretty much no time coming up with new patterns, and instead were able to focus on writing re-usable, modular components and services from the get-go. It's not a tool I'd recommend to everyone, but if you're building a fairly high-featured web application, Closure's definitely worth looking into.
Tron certainly takes the prize here, but at least they had a plausible excuse for the palette choice :)
Competing in what? They don't offer the same courses!

Alison has stuff like "personal development", "touch typing" and even adobe products and a bit of Mathematics and Science, while Khan Academy is mostly Math and Economics in detail.