skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Function over form." But the form of clothes is very functional: it determines who you can easily associate with, what strangers think of you, who is attracted to you, what sort of jobs you can have, your promotion potential, and your general likability. There's a lot to be said for "looking good" and how it can positively impact your life. And regardless of how you might wish to treat clothing, know that others will treat it as important.
I use CentOS in my stack. It's going to get it today. Because I'm going to compile it =)
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Linode compromised! That is important news that concerns me. If the headline didn't mention the BitCoin scam that HN is always pumping would it have made it to the front page? Certainly haven't heard anything from Linode :-(
It's a little like wondering "what music to listen to."
Congratulations! I didn't know Newsblur was open source, that's awesome.

Good luck, Samuel. Don't forget to change the company name on your Github profile ;-)
> The vulnerability we're worried about here is an automated attack against many customers of a single hosting provider.

This was an attack against Linode's customer service systems, which allow their support reps to reset root passwords. There's no reason for that system not to be protected by two factor authentication on top of heavy logging.
that was terrible... terribly funny
As far as I know, NaCl is still only enabled for very manually installed Chrome Web Store apps. If they want to target the tiny niche of developers that have free-for-all NaCl turned on, well, have at it.
An added benefit of targeting a sub-section of the market is that these big companies are doing the awareness marketing for you.
I'm skeptical if this guy understands what he's talking about.

He says he doesn't have to build a billion dollar company, he can just build a $50 million dollar company and go home happy. It's probably time for a massive reality check, because that's not a good way to assess your bootstrapped context.

I don't know who Dan Shipper is, but I'm hoping he's 19 or 23 years old and just getting started in business.

edit: I'm happy to find out he is in fact that young. Good for him, I remember being that naive at his age. He'll learn a lot from doing Airtime no doubt.
> The last time I looked, you needed to be able to ensure secure access to the facility, enumerate who has physical access to the hardware and when, and things of that effect. And you need to be able prove all that in the event you're ever compromised.

None of that should be particularly difficult for a VPS provider as large as Linode.
Nice article, but I was amused by this:

> If it takes too long to turn a profit, as a bootstrapped company you're dead in the water.

I love how it's now an assumption that VC-funded companies will not be profitable until they're flipped. That's a relatively recent invention, for those that weren't around before the internet bubble.
Not explicitly mentioned in the article: VC bubbles redirect resources toward flat-out bad ideas (to the point that they brag about how few of their ideas pan out) which sends otherwise competent human capital off on fools errands. So your smarter competition is off building pintrest-for-cats or navel gazing at one of the over-funded tech giants.

The bootstrapper doesn't have that luxury: the idea is singular, it has to work. Therefore he or she must get to cashflow quickly, or adopt a secondary business to self-fund the idea. Either way, it isn't Other People's Money, which concentrates the mind.
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That seems likely, but I don't have evidence either way. In one case the transaction came through as what I presume was the driver's name, the other as "SQ *TAXI OF CHICAGO".

Still, the that fact that out of three recent cab rides, the two trips involving credit cards were both paid for using Square is an impressive sign.

As noted by others in this thread, drivers here regularly try to use the "machine is broken" tactic, despite the law. If Square's existence makes taking credit cards sufficiently easier for drivers then cab riders will directly benefit.
This is why insurance exists.

I wonder if there are any insurance providers who'd be willing to provider coverage for this sort of event.
Yammer looks to be groupware with a cloned Facebook UI...

Why does that need hundreds of employees and $142M in funding?
In William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, the main character (Cayce Pollard) subscribed to this aesthetic. Her wardrobe consisted of primarily garments that could not be tied to a brand, trend or a period. This is partly a result of a upchuck reaction to fashion and is also a side-effect of her rare allergic reaction to bad branding.

Great read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayce_Pollard#Apparel
I believe some states have laws requiring parts of PCI DSS to be implemented.
In this case, there's no one to authenticate - it's an automated system that transfers bitcoins. If the application is able to send bitcoins, so is anyone with root over the machine running it.
thank the legacy financial system for these unexplainable delays

I understand your feelings on this. But the fact remains that the using the "legacy financial system" I can move my money between investments on my etrade account with a latency of minutes. I can buy that car on a credit card or with a personal check with zero latency. Bitcoins aren't remotely there yet.

There may be some privacy or social justice reasons behind pushing bitcoins. They may be fun (I'm sure they're more fun for a hacker to play with than mutual funds). But they're not a serious option for someone looking to "invest" their money, and claiming they are is doing the people you're trying to sell on the idea a disservice.
Actually not. Just use a loopback cypto FS to store the sensitive stuff. The reason they had to reboot the machine is that they just had access to the HDD where they could change the password, as opposed to having live root access.
Login screen is showing an odd domain name, apps.googleuserscontent.com, is requesting authorization to my account.

The site XXXXX.apps.googleusercontent.com is requesting access to your Google Account for the product(s) listed below
How much do you think a founder will walk away with if a company goes public, on average?

Now compare that to, say 33% ownership of a profitable company doing $50M.

You will be surprised at the result.
Lots of other animals have "negative" impacts on their ecosystems. Beavers build dams and flood habitats producing drastic changes to the ecosystem. Locust swarms clear entire fields of foliage. And you can't suggest violence is only a human activity. Check out Jane Goodall's work, apes will kill the offspring of rival females.
brilliant idea. completely open platform for instagrid. plus it comes from the folks at sps and they have never put out a less than perfect product!
His children will not inherit a significant proportion of his wealth. This is consistent with statements he has made in the past indicating his opposition to the transfer of great fortunes from one generation to the next. Buffett once commented, "I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing".

Since when is Warren Buffet "screwing over his kids"? He wants to give them enough that they can do ANYTHING. That doesn't sound like "screwing over". If that's "screwing over", I'd love to be screwed over!

And if this billionaire had good reason, perhaps, like Warren Buffet, he would have explained it?

Are you his divorced ex-wife?

Don't you love the smell of ad hominem attacks in the morning?
1- SF is a city with diverse neighborhoods; there are some that are quite safe, and others where you'd be well-advised to watch your back. The crime may appear dense on that map, but in reality, it's not like a stick-up happens every time you set foot outdoors.

2- San Francisco is not the same as the Bay Area. As someone who lives in So Cal, you may possibly think that I live in "San Francisco," whereas I actually live in the East Bay. The Bay Area is a huge, fairly dense populated area. Palo Alto, Berkeley, San Jose, Oakland, Fremont, San Mateo, Marin County—they're all in the Bay Area, but none are "San Francisco".
Hey shingen, saying that I didn't want to build a billion dollar company and instead want to build a $50 million dollar one is more of a tongue in cheek way of saying that as a bootstrapper I can pursue opportunities with a smaller addressable market.

Sorry if I came off as young and inexperienced, I am actually 20. I'd love to know if you still think what I'm saying doesn't hold water and more about why. Thanks for the comment
> How is '<?=' being always on great change? I always thought it was weird and kind of stupid, but I'm genuinely curious how is that great thing.

When you share your code with various clients (open source, software seller, ...), you can not assume that short array are on, thus you have to use <?php echo $var ?> everytime instead of the shorter <?=$var?>. Having the second syntax always working solves that, this is on the same level as the short array syntax change, removing a hurdle and letting you concentrate on more important stuff.

> $a = "foo"; $a[0][0]

$a is a string "foo"
$a[0] is a string "f" equating to substr($a, 0, 1)
$a[0][0] is a string "f" equating to substr($a[0], 0, 1)

> $a[0][1]

This will give an undefined index error, same thing as $a[42] for exemple, since index 1 doesn't exists in $a[0] (= "f")
This post completely misses the point that clothing can be an enjoyable form of self-expression, and that picking out what you're going to wear need not be some onerous chore. Instead of acting like it's completely unreasonable of "society," writ large, to judge you by your outward appearance, consider taking ownership of it. Strapping on the most boring thing you can possibly find and wearing it until it disintegrates isn't going to solve the problem that people aren't judging you by your "intellect, actions, or humour."

Distilling clothing down to its original "purpose" and saying "don't use it for anything else" is naïve and dismissive of the human experience. I suppose the author also doesn't keep any art on on the walls of his shelter and eats nothing but flavourless meat and vegetables?

I realise that a lot of people, and programmers especially, just aren't that into clothes, and that's fine. But that doesn't mean you /have/ to be bland. I love how the piece ends by essentially saying "wear the same uninteresting clothes every day, blend into the crowd, and THEN enjoy as the mundanity of your life somehow decreases." I hope I'm not alone in thinking, "Wat?"

If this is the solution to a problem people are having, it sure is a depressing one.
Seems like the multiyear unit-test coverage campaign is starting to pay off for the core PHP engineers, 5-6 years ago they swore they couldn't do shortened array syntax without major problems.
I guess there's value in explicitly calling out to your followers that you're broadcasting your reply with the ".@" but I find it horrendously ugly, even in the Twitter world where tweets like @bob RT @Mary #FF @Ryan @Greg #ThePiManCometh t.co/Nf8QZ are commonplace and obviously ugly, I find them less so than .@ —My preferred way to broadcast a reply to all is either with a leading space (if that even works anymore) or to use as much English as possible (Well, @Bingo I think we have a #Nameo problem). But that could just be me being a terrible Twitter user (you'll see on my feed that I tend to prune my own tweets down to exactly 140 characters and try to avoid abbreviations, acronyms, etc., though I retweet many other tweets). I also rarely broadcast replies because I figure that nobody cares unless they already follow both of us in the conversation, and also because I have my website configured to display recent tweets that aren't @ replies, so I have better control over what's showing on my blog sidebar (without limiting my ability to @reply).
The issue is the $50 million, whether valuation or sales.

I fully understand the math involved, no surprise there.
I've yet to find a pair of earplugs that block conversations in my office enough to let me concentrate, I seriously doubt that they'd be good for a concentrated blast of sound.
That hasn't been the case for months, AT&T has been allowing sideloading for a while now.
Ah, unfortunate name clash with http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/wiki which is a python wrapper on top of sqlalchemy made me confuse for a second.
I use linux, os x, and windows over the course of a usual week. The only team I root for is good design. I am thrilled with the direction Microsoft is taking with Metro. Hope to see much more from them that uses this approach; it's a huge step forward.
Dislike. I used to have an unhealthy obsession with fashion. While I'm over that, I still love clothes. Being fashionable has had a huge impact on my life. It sounds superficial, but clothes really do make the man.

People really do treat you better if you can dress competently. Even if that sounds shallow, and it probably is, the boost that looking good gives your confidence can be very profound.

I don't advocate that everyone devote time to following fashion on a daily basis, but learning to put patterns and colors together goes a long way. You can learn the basics of "How to dress" in less than a day.

Really. I don't see why people make such a huge fuss about this. Especially if you're a man. Being fashionable takes almost zero time. If you're afraid that you're going to spend 2 hours getting ready, like a girl, realize that most of the time that women spend getting ready is put into makeup and hair. If you have a few good outfits, you just throw them on like any other clothes. Unless you can't operate a zipper or buttons, it's not much harder than pulling on a hoodie...
Love it, great interface and very useful. Keep up the good work.
I think the point is that the State Department is a juicier (or at least more high profile) target than 25% of people on the web.
that got a few hairs on my arm to float upwards when i read it.
I'm at the airport heading home from Strata right now. I have to say the conference was very disappointing. There were far too many commercially "sponsored" sessions. There seemed to be no quality or content guidelines for the talks and most of them were either sales pitches, vague and fluffy but full of hype and buzzwords, or they were entry level.

This was my first time at Strata, but compared to other technical conferences, I walked away thinking it was a serious waste of time.

It's possible that's just a sign of the gold rushy nature of Big Data right now, but as a serious practitioner, I can't recommend this conference.

-- Edit
I will add that it's possible my selection turned out to be very poor, and there were good sessions I didn't make it to. I really hope that was the case actually. If anyone was there, did you find any sessions particularly valuable? I would be interested in input from people who are doing Big Data now, not those thinking about it.
It's not about "don't put anything on a VPS", it's about "don't put money on a VPS."
According to this website, New York, NY doesn't have any crime.
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This:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50693

seems to be the specific issue, and it says it was fixed in 4.6.1.
Oh HN, you never disappoint. So many people scratching their heads not seeing the value in Yammer, and not a single one of them have ever used it.

I've been at a company for a year who uses it extensively, and it is probably my favorite communication tool we have.

Let the down-voting commence!
1) Almost everywhere is safe during the day.

2) At night most issues happen in certain areas where you can take steps to minimize your risk.

3) Most crime doesn't cause permanent damage. Getting mugged sucks, but physical things can be replaced.

4) It's a risk/reward proposition. If it's worth it to you to live in the city then you deal with it. If it's not worth it to you then there are plenty of safe suburbs.
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Yeah, I noticed that my Stack Overflow profile was outdated, as well as GitHub and others. In fact, my personal blog still says I'm working on DocumentCloud.

This is a problem needing solving. Or not.
Android Apps also have a backdoor to your photos
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Cockroaches inside your house are a sanitation issue, since they drop feces everywhere. Beyond that, they can knock themselves out.
An odd post for HN, it seems to me. Kind of like a post arguing that science fiction is worth reading: you are preaching to the choir here.

Myself, I've had this aesthetic since childhood. Not only does function-over-form clothing save time for more important activities, it prevents accidentally clashing colors (and other such faux pax that people like me are largely blind to). A couple of years ago I went out to a special occasion wearing a button-down shirt and an xkcd tie. Over the course of an afternoon I got complimented by three attractive strangers.

I cannot in good conscience endorse this post.
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Ah, yes. Crime mapping. As an LA resident, I've lost quite a bit of time playing around with the crime mapper at the LA Times website, poking around places I used to live, checking out demographics, average amount of education, income, etc. and it would be safe to say that LA is significantly more dangerous than SF, at least going by the numbers.

So, what keeps me from bolting for the cozy countryside? Well, it's tempting to hit you with the one-word answer "Work." which is certainly compelling, but obviously there are alternatives in the age of telecommuting to living in the risky city.

The best I can come up with is that I'm alright here. I might be better somewhere else, but I'm ok with LA. I have friends, family, and fond memories here, and those mean a lot to me. I'm no romantic, and I would up and leave if opportunity in SF, Austin, NYC, or Mumbai called, but this is where I am right now, and it's not bad.

Try not to get caught up in the crime maps. You know very little about what lead to the unfortunate incidents represented by those ominous buttons. Control what you can, keep your eyes open, and, should you ever find yourself in a precarious position, don't be a hero.
Why does flying East to West take longer than West to East in America?
And the graphics on the map tend to make you think that these were all serious crimes. The "gun" symbol actually means "weapon" not "gun" which could mean a guy threatening someone with a baseball bat. "Robbery" would include low level stuff like shoplifting. Also it's worth remembering that lots of crime is low-life vs low-life (aka settling of accounts) and not much of a risk to the average person.
Rats can swim no problem.
What's wrong with building a $50 million dollar business?
Sigh. Please give me a definition of 'scam' that fits with bitcoin and not e.g. Apple or Google shares.

Hint: In a scam, there's deceit. The bitcoin devs never deceived anyone. The whole system is transparent, so if there's anyone who bought without understanding the risks, they have no one to blame but themselves.

(Note: No, I don't own any bitcoins).
The attitude that Linode should refund the loss is a fragilising attitude. The more trust you keep pushing onto the provider the bigger everything is going to blow up when something goes wrong.
This map doesn't show any information about population density. It's impossible to judge risk without normalizing for that. It's certainly possible to get scared from the shear number of incidents, but it's not a rational fear.
All cities have crime. Many areas of San Francisco are very safe, many areas are not. If you avoid going to unsafe areas, particularly at night, you'll be fine. San Francisco is once of the most dense cities in the US, looking at a map might isn't the best way to determine if a city is unsafe in general. Check out stats like these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...

Also, there are many cities in the Bay Area. Oakland has a high crime rate, but other areas have very little crime.
Hopefully they're working on it, and will give a post mortem once they get it sorted out. I'm inclined to show patience and not demand they do anything other than ascertain the scale of the breach, alert those affected, and secure their systems at this point. Later, they can get into what happened and how they will avoid it in the future.
Thanks. Let me rework my original question then. Why the hell didn't it always work?

php > $a = "Hello";
php > echo $a[0];
H
php > echo $a[0][0];
PHP Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in php shell code on line 1
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That does seem high. Here's downtown L.A. which seems pleasant in comparison: http://bit.ly/zdnbyn
Two problems.

1) I don't think PCI is relevant here. If you store bitcoins somewhere and they get stolen then this is, in my world, cash. It's your very own digital cash. Not a credit card. That's why I constructed a (probably poorly implemented) example of someone leaving a wallet full of shiny $currency notes out there.

2) 'What state?' WTH? Can I reply with 'What kind of question is that?' The state I'm coming from is called 'Northrhine-Westfalia' [1]. Now I'm living elsewhere and there are no 'states' here. I can offer the district 'Tel-Aviv'? The point is, 'what state' is invoking aggressive feelings towards your US-centered mindset.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrhine-Westfalia
Exactly. The attitude of pushing more and more trust onto the provider is just going to cause bigger blowups when something inevitably goes wrong.