skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It kind of is the Bose Audio of scotch; you can get much better for the price, regardless of how delicious it is.

(I'm pretty much done with scotch these days, though --- tastes like burnt trees --- so I'd defer to strong disagreement).
So you're saying that unencrypted DNS traffic is more secure than DNS traffic encrypted using questionable algorithms?
If the recruiter is going to be so uneducated about the technologies that are so important in our industry, I wouldn't bother working with them. They'll surely screw up the salary negotiations and not have done the background research on the firm they are trying to place you with.

I have a recommendation for a good recruiter if you are looking for one.
Opera 11.60
Man, still Code Complete? I dunno. Wasn't that big a fan, honestly. I think I got more out of the first three chapters than the sum of the rest of the book.

If we're talking about technical books, Refactoring is easily the most beneficial read I can remember having. I was pleased to see it (barely) trump Design Patterns... a book that I think (through no real fault of it's own) has spoiled more developer-years than it's benefitted.
As an Ontario boy working in Silicon Valley, there are really very few local Californians working in tech here. Talent goes where the jobs are; companies go where the talent is. If you want to discovery why one place ends up being a magnet over another place I know some profs at Waterloo who do research on exactly this question. Anyone looking for a PhD?
Why bother securing your DNS from eavesdropping when an eavesdropper can easily tell what sites you're visiting based on your other IP traffic?

It seems OpenDNS is interested in this technology only as far as it deflects from people being interested in DNSSEC, an ietf standard. Why don't they care for DNSSEC? Because it either discourages or prevents DNS poisoning or hijacking (depending on how you set up your client) and Open's business model relies on hijacking NXDOMAIN DNS responses to serve ad filled pages.
If you're going to run DNS over TLS, you probably don't need DNSCurve anymore.
HTML5 History and Terminology
Thanks for pointing this out, I didn't see NaCl and who it was written by; I thought maybe they wrote their own version of Curve25519. I'm still wary of the implementation until an expert looks over it, though.
You see most of these services either have advertisements to bring home the much needed money to progress (see YouTube, Flickr) or are simply owned/backed by internet big shots which provide them visibility in the economy with these free services (Picasa, Delicious (until a while back)).
With still others, they have a business model based on paid and free services (see Skype and Grooveshark). The gaming sites, like Zynga, sell speed, better products; again some revenue model.

This is exactly the point the author wants to bring home. If somebody plans on providing a free web-service, you clone it, think of a business model (ads or user registration) and wait until you're the only one in business.
That's a good point. Interestingly, it also shows the weakness of the English language as a technique for expressing an idea.

I think there's an unwritten condition in the question:

"What is the single most influential [explicitly programming related] book every programmer should read?"

My guess is that is how most people interpreted the question. Of course, there's no explicit reason to interpret it this way. This just highlights the weakness of human language (that is on a standalone basis, using context human language is probably very powerful).
You bring up an important point, which is the speed with which they've addressed the issue. That deserves commendation, and is a very smart move on their part. It nips the story in the bud, which is important.

That said, this does not read as a preliminary post. It's titled, "Regretsy Issue Resolution". It makes no promises of further updates, and just says that they're dealing with the issue privately. That's their right, but I think it's a PR mistake. There are two issues in this case: 1) regretsy being treated as a scammer, and 2) the behavior and tone of the paypal representative. This post addressed 1 but not 2, and it doesn't look like there will be a second. This is a missed opportunity on paypal's part to turn the incident into a PR win.
I really enjoyed it. Being self-taught, it provided a really handy primer and computer-architecture fundamentals, logic gates, etc. that I imagine I'd have otherwise gotten in school.
Blogs often provide perspective and analysis on projects not gained from direct links.
I realize that.
Based on their signup help page (https://pinboard.in/help/fee/) the price is "number of users * $0.001". Now there is no telling when they started with that pricing but assuming it was from the beginning they have made around $50k. Since it was created 3 years ago that is an average of around $17k/year.

I realize the archival accounts are $25/year and I have no way of knowing how many they have but assuming it doubles their profits which I doubt they are still making less than $40k/year minus expenses.

I'm not huge on selling out but I would rather build a large app and flip it vs run a company that profits less than $40k/yr

(I did not double check my math so please forgive me if I rushed through this too fast)
It also is the case that some countries measure a different population of students for 'high school' than the US.

E.g., in Germany at one time, the secondary schools that were measured was the academic track, this was being compared against the US's schools which was the general secondary school population.

I'm not sure if this still holds true but it's something to be aware of - the measurement bias.

Paying teachers well & requiring them to have in-depth knowledge of the subject is good. No argument there!
Facebook shares some secrets on making MySQL scale
Confidentiality isn't the killer feature/flaw here; integrity is.

DNSSEC is a design-by-committee debacle. It's a good thing to have options here.

I'm a broken record on DNSSEC on HN; a decent starting point
might be:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2078488 (Goals of DNSSEC v. DNSCurve)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1523704 (Bunch of things I think are wrong with DNSSEC)
There is, called a PR firm, if you don't want to write up your own blog post and submit it everywhere.

Perhaps a consumerized PR firm that takes contract copy editors, submission bots, and some sentiment analysis to gauge the response of a NYT writer to a potential story (two lawyers suing each other far less emotional appeal than kids' xmas gifts getting shut down), and voila. Insta-noise-machine.
Save the Internet - the pressure is working
What's new in Edge Rails: EXPLAIN
No, the way it's done is that you offer everything for free and get a large userbase. Once you have the userbase, then you start ruining it with advertising or sell it to a company to will slowly kill it, like Yahoo or AOL.
A Hacker News participant who kindly checked the facts in another recent thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3319177

was able to verify what I had read in other official sources on international testing programs, namely that United States students underperform (because their schools underperform) on an ethnicity-matched basis. One detailed report on the issue that I think you will find to be interesting reading is the Education Next report on mathematics learning opportunities for top mathematics students in the United States,

http://educationnext.org/teaching-math-to-the-talented/

which shows that United States students miss opportunities in school to develop their abilities to the fullest. A look at the content of mathematics textbooks in different countries, and specialized studies on differences in teaching practices

http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...

http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Gap-Improving-Education-Class...

in different countries have helped me understand the differences I frequently observe between people of the same ethnicity who received their primary and secondary education in different countries.
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Yeah, I thought that it was an ironic homage to the Apple way of launching.
You have a weird way of reading. I don't see where I said that. Can you quote it for me?
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Reading biographies on Benjamin Franklin[1], amongst others, makes me seriously doubt the importance of formal schooling on the amount of success a person has in life.

I think other factors like innate curiosity and developed capacity for work are more important.

[1] Franklin's entire formal schooling consists of 2 years at the Boston Latin School, from which he did not graduate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Early_life
Do they really claim that the last-mile is the most insecure part of DNS? They specifically mention the kaminsky attack, which was best used against DNS servers, not individual PCs.

This is really only an improvement for open wifi, but then you can MITM the IP without having to hijack DNS.
Lets all sign please!
1) as a rule of thumb it takes 3 months to raise money

If you're already connected with multiple VCs that might be true. If you're starting out cold, I wouldn't count on getting funded in 90 days even if you have the greatest thing going on planet Earth.
"My conclusion is that college lectures really aren't an efficient way to disseminate education, and they are even less so when they are recorded on video."

I'm curious about how you came to the conclusion that lectures are less efficient when they are recorded on video. It seems to me that (for the student which doesn't speak up and engage the instructor in class -- most students?), that a recorded lecture would provide a near identical experience. I would expect that recorded recorded lectures would also allow students to slow down, decompose, repeat, and revisit portions of the lecture in order to better grasp the information at their own pace.

Is it the issue of not being physically surrounded by students or faced by an instructor that you're not keen on? Perhaps a lack of physical accountability to keep students attentive and on-point?
I should be pretty easy to find, but if not, my email is jonathan.watmough@gmail.com, any recos or leads gratefully received.

My iOS apps are at http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/watmough-software/id302009...

I also have 10+ years oil and gas software experience, including Visual C++, MFC, .NET, Oracle, SQL Server 2005 etc., working 8 years for a big service co, and 4 years for a really great software consultancy.
This makes me kind of tingly inside. It feels like the beginning of a viable 'personal cloud.'

http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/6277876911/the-personal-cloud

I can't seem to find anything about access control, though, (who can see which photos). Is anything like this in the works?

Anyway, this looks awesome, and I'm excited to get started when I get home from work tonight!
Glad you like it! $500 is actually just the base bounty - I've seen payouts for quite a bit more depending on how nasty the bug is.

At least for me personally, it's not the posting of one person's private photos that is most frustrating - it's public posting of repro instructions so that script kiddies can exploit a bug. That just seems irresponsible.
This is off topic but people are discussing Amazon and shipping so I figured I'd ask this here, because it's always confused me. Why do so many American based companies refuse to ship to Canada or limit what they do ship to Canada (Amazon, has Amazon.ca, but the selection is nothing compared to the .com, which does not ship to Canada)? It seems strange with things like NAFTA in place that companies would restrict their market power by eliminating a potential buying supply that for all intents and purposes is very similar (in terms of shipping costs, dollar value etc). So HN, what am I missing here?
Great video! I did one myself for a Startup weekend in Bogota, so I didn't have many resources, fortunately I was able to use a voice over talent from Voice123 which made it look way better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z...
M-! open http://www.vim.org/
Walmart makes special deals with those they buy from. It's more like Walmart tells them what the price is. I don't think Amazon has that kind of leverage.
Creating a pinnable Windows Phone 7 tile for your website like Google
The Starbucks Index | Bombtune
Because the default font for most browsers (Times [New Roman]) looks ugly and the number of people who customizes their own styles is abysmally low.
What's the blended scotch you prefer to Johnnie Walker? I tried to avoid the trap of saying "yeah but you can get Springbank for half the price".
wow, unbelievable. I posted a comment to thepaypalblog.com and I've had two total strangers tell me that my email address is appearing in the comment input fields when they go to comment! They've both said that other people's details are also appearing.
Clean Code wins hands down for me http://stackoverflow.com/a/317750/261363
The first rule of crypto is: never implement your own crypto.

And tptacek's corollary: "If You're Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code, You're Doing It Wrong" http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/7/22/if-youre-typin...
This has always been the case with PayPal. They deliberately make it as hard as possible to actually contact a real human, and then act all surprised if the victim manages to get enough publicity to get past the barriers.

http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/06/9252...

PayPal's business model seems to be based off of Kafka's novel The Trial.
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I don't think he's saying they deserve success. Rather, that if you want them to still exist in the future, you should buy from that.
I'd suggest the nature of free and paid services biases how many of each we think gets "shut down" post-acquisition. Free / freemium services will tend to have tens or hundreds of times as many "users" versus a paid service of the same value.

So when one gets shut down, we all notice because so many of us had an account (even if we weren't using it.) Whereas when a paid service closes, it impacts only a tiny fraction of us in comparison, so we don't hear the same hue and cry.

The fact is that for a large company like Google or Amazon, the $$$ income from most small startup acquisitions (ads or paid) isn't large enough to be a factor in the decision to continue running that product. Either they believe that it's going to turn into a business that does tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in sales a year, or they don't and it's better to move those developers and resources off to a project that might.

I've seen this firsthand - I've had to fight to maintain services that were making lots of money with a few staffers, because a large company just didn't think they were worth the hassle of supporting from a legal and administrative perspective. And I understood that point of view from a management perspective, in many cases.
That really depends on how far you stretch the term "often".

I think the number of unprofitable free websites vastly outnumber the "hugely profitable free websites".
Personally I would always chose a single malt, and as such I'm not an expert in blends. That said, plenty of people tell me that blends can be pretty good, so I try not to judge them too much - although truthfully I do think of them worse objectively as well. A great blend might be better than a poor scotch, but I think the worse and best of blends are lower than the worst and best of scotches.
The problem isn't whether or not they're using a strong crypto algorithm as much as who implemented it and whether there was intense peer-review or not. Anybody can try to implement an algorithm, but most will probably screw something up, which is [one part of] why the first rule of cryptography is: don't do your own cryptography.

Luckily, the library they're using (NaCl) is part of a project led by djb, thus we can assume it's going to be competently written and reviewed by him. I hadn't seen this so this makes me feel better about the crypto part of their project.
Photos can be private or public. If they are private you can share them with others via their email address. The authentication system for OpenPhoto isn't tied to any single provider. We prefer BrowserID but can support anyone who authenticates that a user owns an email address. For example, we have a Facebook Connect plugin.
I'm not much of a butt-licker, but Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age from PG is a classic.
http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp...
> by including each bar as all persons that have greater than the level of debt, rather than into bins, means everyone in bars to the right is also included in the count of bars to the left. Sure, she explains this, but it is completely different than normal convention

It's called "cumulative", and it is quite common, and not misleading. For this kind of presentation it is what you want because most people are interested in picking some particular debt level and saying "X% are above this debt level". If you don't do a cumulative chart, then you have to take all the bins above X% and add them up to get the number you want.

> Then there is the issue that she is not even including anyone who graduated in less than 6 years! It's hard to imagine that if we saw those numbers they wouldn't skew the curve as well. The whole presentation reeks of cherry picked data classification

Yes--it skews the numbers toward more debt and away from the point she is making it. This strengthens her point, not weakens it.
What snark? I'm being totally straight here.

I love Maciej and all of his body of work and I aim to give him many of my dollars in the future - but this is something I'm going to nitpick on.

The reason why I feel comfortable using Pinboard on a day to day has nothing to do with the fact that I've paid for it because it's just as fragile and likely to suddenly disappear. It has a high "hit-by-a-bus" factor.

It's because Maciej loudly proclaims his love for letting people export their data. That's it.
Yup, an overwhelming response that our copy sucks :). We'll get this addressed.
Haha, I clicked the HN headline thinking "I am going to see the top answer as Code Complete and then be annoyed again".

Softies are overrepresented on stackoverflow.

Edit: Oh, no wonder. This is a very old repost.
If anyones got any suggestions for the list, let me know and I might add it.
Interestingly enough birds are the one group that systemically destroys the sentience tests.

One test, the Mirror Self Recognition test was thought to only be accomplished by humans and the great apes, even monkeys aren't capable (in the traditional sense). However the humble pigeon passes, and not an occasional get lucky pass, but pigeons just nail the test.

Tool use was one of the very classical 'gateways' to sentience argued for humans. Except there appear to be far more bird species than mammal species that regularly use tools. Further than this, Herring Gulls are noted for tool-use hunting by using pieces of bread to hunt goldfish - which essentially one-ups all other known tool users.

Ravens are one of the few species who actually make the toys they play with. IE they don't find a stick and play, but will break twigs off of trees and brushes with the intent of using it to play with others.
Ask HN: Need advice on what to do next with my niche adsense website
Sorry for long text :)

A read somewhere on HN about creating small niche adsense sites, so I decided to give it a try.
I did this in free time, usually after coming home from work.About 1 or 2 hours a day.

I used google keyword tool for about 3-4 days, and finally I found my micro niche - "how to have twins".
It maybe sounds funny but it has 22.000 global monthly searches ,low competition and 0.89$ approximate CPC.(Sounded good to me, but maybe it isn't)

Then I searched domain names and found out that howtohavetwins.org is free.Bought it immediately.
I built my little website fast using wordpress and did everything there is to do about on-page SEO (title description tags, unique content(but only one page because it took me long time to spin it), page name and website structure,must have pages such as privacy,about us,contact us)

Then I did some offpage SEO like blog commenting, link wheels, web2.0 links, youtube account with short movie about website (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctM1DtIM1kE) which sucks in my opinion,but I wanted to try even that:)

And that's it.I did that in about 2 weeks.
Now when you type 'how to have twins' on google, i think my website(www.howtohavetwins.org) is number 9.

But I earned about 1$ total :(
What did I do wrong?
What is the next step I can do to improve this website earnings?I aim at about 10$-15$ a month, but I don't know if I am going to make it.

Thanks for anyone who will give me some advice on this topic.
Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it and we'll include that in our revision which we need to do soon based on HN comments! :)

Can you send an email to hello@openphoto.me? Swamped with invites and that way you won't fall through the cracks.
Thank YOU for supporting :).
Insider Tips From HubSpot's Launch of Marketing Grader
I'm pretty sure they just restock them and sell them at the same price. They only accept returned shoes that are unused.
Stanford and HP mod TouchPads to go inside MRI room for Interventional MRI
Thanks for this. I read it and posted to fb. Assuming you already posted to reddit. I am in a similar situation and am also the 1%.
The Director of Communications needs a new headshot. I'm sure he's a swell dude, but his photo makes him look like he's about to pounce on you.
It feels wrong to store whole XML document in a single field of a relational database. It makes more sense to parse XML and then store it in an appropriate relational manner.
I think you're probably having a harder time of it because you're in the USA where the middle finger is so offensive it still gets blurred out on TV (like no-one can look at their own middle finger!)

In the UK I have a feeling it would sell far better. Try to contact some of the online stores that sell items for stag weekends (bachelor parties)

Perhaps shoot a video with some University/College guys showing how much fun the game is.
Facebook - Netflix Video Sharing Bill Passes US House (HR 2471)
I have to get a phone with hdmi just to check if the cord is less of a hassle then the 200 times i have to press the A button to start my wii
the only thing better than one way to authenticate DNS queries is N ways to authenticate DNS queries!

"standards are great everyone should have some" snark aside, I guess it's nice to see someone really stepping forward and giving a crap about cryptographic authentication of DNS? the DNSSEC people don't seem to care that much and are perfectly willing to move at glacial speeds on implementation ...
Cut me a little slack, I've been down here for a decade now. :)
I honestly don't know how Amazon stays in business, their customer service is almost too good, they are the anti-paypal.

Just today I wrote them a detailed email about a problem I had with a product I bought and was expecting instructions on how to return it, etc. - instead they just refunded the whole purchase price and told me to keep it. Kinda blew my mind.
CC: Meg Whitman. See, there are use cases for webOS.
Thanks. Project is just started, lots of amazing things in the pipeline.
It's not just PayPal. It's whole industries. Airlines. Banks. Google.

Seems like it's any industry which (i) has high startup costs so is dominated by big players and (ii) can cost you enough money in a single incident that you'd get seriously upset.
- ido mode with ido-enable-flex-matching set.
- recentf-mode integrated with ido.
Too many to list.
I think he started off with the pricing at something greater than the multiplier... $4 comes to mind.