skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> I thought I was the only one.

You're definitely not. When scanning or seeking, Podcasts are to web communications as reel to reel is to data storage.
Justin, this is awesome news. A question:

Have you guys started isolating any patterns to the bugs you missed pre-ASAN? What were your fuzzers (for instance) failing to do? Are there specific kinds of code paths (things buried in specific state transitions, things that were timing specific) that you couldn't catch without this level of instrumentation?

If you knew then what you knew now, short of implementing ASAN, how would you change your fuzzing cluster?
1.) Let's say you are at the shopping cart checkout and "Total $99.50. Pay just $98.00 using Dwolla and save $1.50"

That's called offering a cash discount.
Let's see. Linkbait title, latest buzzword, consistent use of "bureaucracy" (I do not think that word means what you think it means - you cannot wave a magic DevOps wand and make bureaucracy go away) and insinuations that operations departments are "outdated"... Yeah, seems like a worthwhile article with a good point.

I sure want Joe Random Engineer committing code that goes live on our real, grown-up site, where we make real money, and a failure leads to us losing real money. Ops departments exist so that that can't happen. If that means you have to wait a day before testing your latest code in production, I don't see this as a bad thing.

The "cultural problem" is in people who think that operations departments don't need to exist because "like, how hard is it to run servers? We'll just put it 'on the cloud' and magically all of our security, reliability, and availability problems will be solved"

The biggest piece of nonsense is this concept of a "private cloud". What the fuck is a private cloud? Oh, you mean a remote datacenter, like we've had since the 70s. OK.
There's another side to being optimistic that's extremely important when you're proposing an idea. I don't mean assuming every new idea is great or that every proposal will work out exactly as planned; that's obviously a recipe for disaster. In my experience, any sufficiently technical person will already have an opinion on whether or not some proposal works by the instant someone finishes explaining his or her big new idea. A lot of times, these opinions will be correct. However, often these opinions will be based on assumptions from situations in the past that were similar in some way but aren't necessarily important now.

As someone proposing a new idea, you should find out what the assumptions behind these objections are and why they're considered relevant now. Make someone explain the fundamentals of why something won't work instead of immediately walking away and telling yourself, "oh, someone objected, clearly they know more than I do and this idea will never be good."

Getting into the habit of identifying your assumptions and challenging them also helps you keep a more objective viewpoint over time by helping you to understand accepted wisdom instead of simply parroting it.
We're oceania..
Same here, from Baja.
We were worried about implementing this feature too, citing the same issue. What we did was explain to the users why we were making the change, bless some of the existing users that are known to be in good-standing, and then provide a tiered view of the forum for those accounts with an unverified email address. The people in that group could post only text. However, once their email address was verified, they are automatically put into another group and they can post like normal users again.

So while it's a barrier to entry, we attempted to minimize it as much as possible.
And not a single fuck was given.

Does anyone actually think dojo has a future compared to the power that jquery gives to make your own "widgets" but far simpler than dojo?

The simplest tutorials in the dojo documentation put html tags in the JavaScript code. Generating them like strings. It reminds me of the days when people would generate html (and javascript, oh god) using Java.

Dojo is too big, too complicated and bloated. It should be split up/down in all its major components.
Same here, out of the UK a couple of years earlier
That he does.

Truthfully, I would be interested in finding out how he sold his WhatRunsWhere product to all of those clients he has listed on his site. Like I said, the story leading up to this point in his life is good, but I would personally be more interested in hearing more about WhatRunsWhere, not so much about making $10K/day being a broker for diet products. That being said, if the ultimate goal is to make as much money as quickly as possible, this is one way to make that happen. However, by his own admission, he is a shining example of becoming disillusioned with making money just for the sake of making money.
Can you Crack It?  Break this cypher, get an interview with GCHQ
There's just no need to invoke the name of a violent dictator to make a point like that. Unfortunately, it seems that other people seem to think it's appropriate. I expect more from this place.
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That statement is rather difficult to evaluate without knowing what such theories you're referring to.
If I had to guess, you got downvoted to the greys for suggesting that I yell about bcrypt because I like Coda Hale (he is dreamy, though).
You are quite right about the original list -- I unfortunately cannot edit my comment at this point.

Now the article has lost some credibility with me. I agree with you about branching. Although technically what the article says about branching is true, I don't think someone who sees branching the way you and I do would write it that way. (The article didn't lose all credibility since it's from 2008, when although DVCS were reasonably mature, they weren't pervasive.)
The great part about this type of cofounder is that they exhibit early proof everywhere they go. They keep impeccably awesome apartments. They have blogs that are exquisitely well-designed. They're own personal branding is clean, articulate, and meaningful.

I didn't know Steve Jobs had a well kept apartment and an exquisite blog. Is tripping on acid and living in India any better an indicator of your product design prowess?

I don't mean to be cynical, but this kind of writing to me is just "talking". The camp director, the hustler, the protege; they have these characteristics, come from this background, blah blah blah. No fact, all fiction, bullshit for the ear and mind.
I just imagined a DEA agent saying "if you only knew" regarding drugs. There are limits to the trust we can put in government officials.
I have, yes. I own a Pentium 4 which runs Plan 9, and have done for two years or so.
The beauty of Unix is its simplicity.

This made Unix so reliable. If you want to write a beautiful terminal as _addon_ I have no problem with that. But I would not accept a _replacement_ of the old fashioned terminals. Because they are so simple, they just work.
Nice .. Im going to chile in a couple of weeks and i was thinking about opening in deláware to .. Can you please add me to skype: j_camarena to chat a little?
Please don't forget that the terminal should be useful to just get work done without programming. It's also all designed to have a human interface - all the output can be grok'd by a human and not some complex tool or parser. This is what prevents things from just magically working and forces us to come up with hacks to pipe and grep and cut pieces of data to do what we want.

If you really want to "reimagine" it, throw out the box and make a new one. If you redesigned all the standard unix tools to have a universal API and added hooks for each function they contain you could just specify a workflow to execute and the tools would figure out how to transmogrify the data internally. So for example:

rehooliginator --store=val1 --filesystem=/proc/cpuinfo --rowname='model name' --match='([[:digit:].]\+)GHz' --store=val2 --filesystem=/proc/meminfo --rowname='MemFree' --match='([[:digit:]]\+) kB' --store=val3 --cmd=ps --fields=rss,comm --sort=rss --match='java' --field=rss --sum --math='$SUM*1024' --store=val4 --cmd=vmstat --samples=5 --field=cpu-idle --avg --output="Stats:\n\tCPU: $val1\n\tFree Memory: $val2\n\tResident memory used by Java: $val3\n\tCPU idle time: $val4\n"

Not the greatest example but you get the idea. If this seems more complex than traditional one-liner scripting it's because you're trying to do a lot of little things on a single line. It may be better to shove all this into a little file in easy to understand non-programmer language and save it for later. (Also, the long GNU options could be replaced by short options for quicker use, depending on the API/module being used)

This is obviously not getting away from the 'old school dynamic' of a fake terminal, but it does remove some of the need for it when we have tools robust enough that the terminal doesn't have to be as user-friendly as it is. You could combine a tool/framework like the above with a text editor to write multi-liners, sample the output and execute them on the fly. Build in hooks to execute commands over an ssh connection - or even gather output from various hosts at a time - and you could automate sampling your whole network from a one-liner.

For a "friendly interface" I think a simple tree view file browser would work nicely. So basically an "explorer"-type app with an embedded text editor and output window to let you explore a system rapidly and also automate tasks on the fly. Hell, you could build an IDE or other friendly GUI to build your query tool's arguments using quick mouse clicks.
Konqueror did a lot of things right which still aren't by any other browser.

E.g. it had okayish system integration while other browsers have it awful.
It displayed site favicons in task panel, instead of boasting its own.
It was a birthplace of webkit.
That's actually my point: it's not a particularly interesting release, but it was still fun to read.

That said, let's remember here that Yammer has no real "damage" to "control" here. I'm guessing 99.9999999% of their customers could not care less whether they build things in Java or Scala or INTERCAL. The kinds of people that do care about stuff like that are disproportionally likely to sh!tc#ck about Yammer being "a dumb Twitter clone" instead of buying.
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We are seeking an individual who can take on the role of CTO in our startup. Qualified applicants should be comfortable with some of the following, and should have a willingness to learn about and supervise items they do not have expertise with: back-end web development (Python/Ruby preferred), front-end development (Photoshop, HTML/CSS), SEO, mobile app development (iOS, Android), and general technology project management.

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I trust users who know how to use the shell to be able to decide what suits them best and to not be paralyzed by indecision between their system's default terminal emulator and some guy's obscure hobby terminal system.
Since Dwolla funds are kind of like cash, it is much easier to move them to something like PayPal.

This conversion happens frequently on the #bitcoin-otc marketplace as those selling bitcoins end up with excess Dwolla USDs. At the same time, there are others needing Dwolla USDs to buy Bitcoins, and will pay using PayPal USDs.

http://www.bitcoin-otc.com
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#bitcoin-otc-foyer
Caldecott leverages CloudFoundry's existing interfaces (e.g. router, service bindings, authentication).

As a platform as a service provider, we've faced many challenges while operating OpenSSH for our customers, ranging from managing authentication with its authorized_keys files or custom patches, integrating with existing auditing systems and so on.
my theory is that slowly and measuredly leaking confirmations to the old, well established conspiracy theories, They create a managed well controlled sideshow ( if They wanted to take Wikileaks down - They would already have ) which takes attention, imagination and investigative effort off the new developments :)
or you can just do density estimation in python also and not use R at all
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I'm from Mexico to .. Please use english. HN's standard.
As a user that cannot live without vertical tabs, Chrome just does not bring home the bacon.
>>“Even though your light might be green, it may recommend you not go because there are people behaving badly that you may not be aware of,” said Jonathan How, an aeronautics and astronautics professor who co-created the algorithm."

There is the possibility that this could result in more red-light running instances, if runners begin to presume there is this collision warning system. Whereas before they were "taking chances", now it'd become less "chancy".
Unfortunately the legal documents suck hard. Most legal documents were written for lawyers and courts to execute and only incidentally for humans to read. Our ToS, when I'm finally done with it will have quite a few parts which may be more use to you than the Wordpress one. Wordpress focuses on a product with a tenant structure, where each tenant "owns" their domain. Our product is more like Twitter, Foursquare or Quora, where you have users in a shared space. Check out my profile for my company domain. The ToS and PP should be posted by the end of December when we go public with our product.
Show HN: Making money with microapps presentation (from MongoSeattle)
Sigh... US Only... as usual...
Or more directly, there is a high impedance mismatch between PaaS and existing SSH server solutions, for my reasons above.

I'm not giving up on SSH for CloudFoundry altogether, but Caldecott is an elegant solution that fits our constraints and solves one of our customers' problems.
I would love to share some of these with my social network but I will surely not post this at ("into") Facebook
Carrier IQ speaks: 'We'd like to be as open as we can' after independent testing
Aren't you confusing a terminal with a terminal emulator?
> But isn't that exactly what Flash is?

JS and the various browser APIs for media come with the browser. Flash doesn't necessarily. You can count on Chrome and Firefox having a media API, but not Flash.
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We're a gamification platform – we make it easy for anyone to add fun, relevant loyalty programs to their site or app, storing all their virtual economy data with us.

Lots of people are focused on badges and leaderboards – and we do that – but we consider that the simple stuff. We're way ahead of that. We're also working with major brands (a few we've worked with this year: Major League Baseball, Nickelodeon, Dell).

We're venture-backed, still small but growing fast.

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If you site ranks highly enough for certain valuable keywords and the bad guys start specifically targeting you, a lot of these countermeasures are useless.

I get comment spam on some sites that I'm 99% sure is being posted by a human using a regular browser at an internet cafe in China.
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Well, since the mid 90s, every time I built a computer, a 'good' amount of ram landed somewhere in the $200-300 price range. So the cost of a modern amount of ram has stayed relatively constant in my experience.

But maxing out the ram in a machine for $40 certainly seems a hell of a lot cheaper than it's ever been.
Most forum-spam involves spam posts with links to sites in the hopes of getting customers and/or page-rank.
The worst is the bots that are smart enough to figure out how to post spam on your site, but not smart enough to see that it's all rel=nofollow
Brilliant way of solving cable problems - use an alligator paper clip
Only just checked 'threads' and saw this - Yes, exactly - those tweaks address the main concerns. Some upvotes for you.
"Most of the time they are oblivious to it. Some of the time they feign ignorance. The ones who are oblivious to it after a bit more questioning appear to have hired 'SEO Experts' to help improve their website rankings. These 'experts' then start up their various pieces of spam software and sit back often charging the site owners a lot of money for that service."

Back in the time when I was too lazy to install Akismet and manually managed comments on my blog (via moderation), I used to see from time to time annoying SEO comments - a fake profile with genuine-sounding comment, backlinking to a website catalog. When I was especially bored, I used to go to such catalog in order to find the SEO company who was spamming me.

On one occasion I contacted a private photo studio, asking if they're using SEO company XYZ, as links to them are all over the catalog. It turned out that they just hired a SEO company to 'position their website', without knowing anything about how it's done. I explained the situation (sending screenshots), and the studio immediately ditched the SEO company and hired another one. I was amazed by this attitude and featured a special advert-like post on my blog for them and we're in good contact since then.
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Cybercriminals Combine Malware & DDoS Attacks to Drain Accounts
“When Google and other piracy apologists start talking about free speech, it’s completely disingenuous,” Harbinson said. “These guys don’t give a crap about free speech.”

Maybe they don't, but at least they are trying to stop this bill, while the others are pushing for it, clearly not giving a crap about free speech either, as it seems all they care about is the ability to stop piracy - at all cost.
If you're being targeted by humans, you're right, nothing you can really do. If they are using automates systems to target you best thing to do is start IP banning.
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The idea of using an obscure unicode code point to indicate the start of metadata, in the expectation that nobody will use it, is probably self-defeating. As soon as that's is use, there will be a reason to use that obscure code point (in documentation, in code, etc), so you will still have to deal with escaping it.
Undiscriminating Skepticism
Hyperspeed-esque Android launcher hidden in ICS
This was a good read for me, as I am currently looking for a co-founder.

It made me realize that I am already a Camp Director and Hustler myself, and made me re-affirm that what I need is a design co-founder (aka the Steve Jobs protegé, as he calls it).

Here are some startup ideas of mine btw: http://ideashower.posterous.com
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Product / UX Designer
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ChallengePost is a web platform that connects talented problem solvers with rewarding challenges. Our clients include the Federal Government (Challenge.gov), First Lady Michelle Obama and the USDA, the City of New York (and the NYC BigApps challenge), Thomson Reuters, Samsung, the World Bank and more.
Important caveat for using honeypot hidden text fields: use a field name that is gibberish.

If you name the honeypot field something like "address" or "website", you get browser toolbars that will "helpfully" try to pre-fill the field for the user even though it's hidden. And then you're flagging legit users as spammers. I think an ideal system would simply require users who fail the honeypot field to submit a captcha rather than lock them out altogether.
I really liked the hustler archetype, to me the hustler is the biz guy equivalent of the hacker. They are doing things they aren't supposed to be able to do and like the OP said are more scrappy than polished. As you said there are two critical functions, making and selling. Hackers make stuff, hustlers sell stuff.
Good story! Being proactive like this is a great idea, and I think I will try the same when we get some more. A lot of it is from this sort of thing, people who don't really understand what they are paying for which is what I tried to highlight a bit.
Because it is tied to the checking system, where checks were routinely flown across the country from bank to bank before they could be settled? (Even after we had electronic systems that should make this unnecessary?)
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Off-topic but relevant: everyone should look at this guy's book: http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Work-Breaking-Stupid-Results/d...
Nevada Judge Dramatically Exceeds Limits Of His Authority