skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might try using this to teach Python to kids in our homeschool group. I haven't kicked the tires yet, but it sounds like it might be a really easy way to get a bunch of sharable environments set up for a class.
They could also sell it by access time. For example, University X rents access to the telescope for $Y/week.

I think (but could be wrong) that's how observatories and other space telescopes work (except probably government grants instead of outright purchasing the time). Is anyone familiar with how access to resources is determined in the astronomy world?
Not sarcastic. I personally do not like Google or their supposed morals, but I'm not "a lot of people" :P
Think what if YT automatically deleted videos with 90% dislikes. They would only "host your content" then, even though users would have some kind of "administrative privileges". On Wikipedia, it is not that automatic, yet administrators are expected to execute "community will" in the same way. Choosing administrators is also done by other editors, Wikimedia rarely influences this process.
I submitted this a week ago and I titled it "Python Anywhere. Share Python/Bash/SQL console instances.".

Easy pair programming or tutoring on a shared REPL, VIM or some other editor is what I see as the main selling point of it.
Makes you wonder how much potential there is in all of us that just isn't "activated".
Thanks! It's great to see interest in our work on HN. Yes, this is the precursor to and basis for our current work on refinement type inference for C.

For those who haven't seen it, our recent work has focused on extending the automatic program verification techniques shown in this talk to work for low-level programs - that is, programs that use mutable state, pointer arithmetic, and so on. The project page for our Liquid Types-based verifier for C programs is here: http://goto.ucsd.edu/csolve/

The project page for the overall Liquid Types project is here: http://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/liquid/
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After coming across Incredibox recently, I saw your post and decided not to repost. Guess I should've thrown my hat into the marketing ring...

There's a viral barrier that needs to be breached for things to hit the front page, and then the views shoot up from there.
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"But HN readers are almost exclusively rich white American males. They've never had any adverse experiences in their lives. They've never been frisked by the police; they've never gone hungry for even one meal; they borrowed money from their parents to get started; their parents put them through college."

Where are you getting all this from?

"nor does telling them that they are one injury from abject poverty make any difference"

That seems to contradict this: "rich white American males.....they borrowed money from their parents to get started
Very impressed with Z-Type: http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/
I have a feeling he was referring to e-mailing yourself with g-mail's web interface (which you connection to is, typically, SSL Encrypted). However, as the data is still stored unencrypted on google's servers so... yeah, still sucks.
Is that seek.co.nz?
The packets are routed over the public Internet, but if you're using HTTPS, they'll look like encrypted garbage to anyone who doesn't have Google's SSL private key.
If you are using an e-mail client, you will be connecting to the gmail server using STARTTLS, so your e-mails will not be transferred over the public internet in plain text.

If you use the web client, everything is over HTTPS, and, like the gp stated, probably goes nowhere beyond the database, although merely a supposition.
It's still stored unencrypted, which is not the ideal state for a password at rest.
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Ignore the plugin install then. Download links for text/slides/video are available in a number of formats in the bottom right hand corner of the page.
Emailing yourself password-protected MS Office files isn't much secure either (unless something has changed in 2010 version). I've routinely cracked passwords for my users using freely available tools when they couldn't remember the password to unprotect an Excel workbook.
if you are emailing yourself, you are doing it wrong
There's so much misinformation about what the IQ test is for. It has become common understanding that it's a measure of intelligence (or ability, or potential), however it was never created for that nor ever intended to be that. In addition, intelligence is often seen as a fixed thing. Any reasonable and practical definition of intelligence is in complete contradiction to this idea.

Study after study shows that an apparent talent (or intelligence) in one moment does not correlate with future potential talent, intelligence, or general potential for achievement in anything.

So to add to your point -- who knows when Feynman took the test and got a 122, and who knows which test he even took -- to me this point decreases any commonly understood value of the IQ test to an even greater extent.

Quote from Alfred Binet (creator of the first IQ test) himself:
“I have not sought in the above lines to sketch a method of measuring, in the physical sense of the word, but only a method of classification of individuals. The procedures which I have indicated will, if perfected, come to classify a person before or after such another person or such another series of persons; but I do not believe that one may measure one of the intellectual aptitudes in the sense that one measures length or a capacity. Thus, when a person studied can retain seven figures after a single audition, one can class him, from the point of his memory for figures, after the individual who retains eight figures under the same conditions, and before those who retain six. It is a classification, not a measurement…we do not measure, we classify.”
Looks promising. However I selected C++ and the first result was railscast? 2nd results also rails.

Seems like you are just pushing matched results to the top instead of removing unmatched results? Anyways with some work this could go in my bookmark bar.
Though once again in all fairness, the security of SSL is not a guarantee.

(See: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/08/update-on-a...)
Neat project. I built something similar a few weeks ago with Alfred Chan and Michael Grosser that calculates the "gitscore" for startups on AngelList. If you'd like to check it out, the URL is:

http://startup-score.com/
> zynga has earnings.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/zynga-disappoints-again-141528...

"Net loss was $85.0 million in the quarter compared with net income of $65.1 million a year ago."

I assume you realize the point of having Generally Accepted Accounting Principles is that they are generally accepted.

You could maybe create a market for VC-Accepted Accounting Principles (VAAP), but I thought that died in the first tech bubble. Apparently I was wrong.
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I believe the underlying idea in Hawking's comment isn't that people shouldn't boast, but it's that no information of value is conveyed in the act of boasting about one's IQ. This is due to an understanding that the IQ test does not (nor was ever intended to) be a standard and fixed measure of intelligence[1] or potential. Therefore it is a moot point to boast about.

[1] Any measure of intelligence that doesn't take potential into account is essentially worthless as a measure of intelligence.
As the CTO hiring my first developers, I'm looking for people who will integrate with my company and my tech stack with the least amount of friction possible. This means that (a) you're a full-stack RoR/JS programmer, (b) you're smart as hell, and (c) you're not annoying.

The only thing that's really going to come through on a resume is (a), and I might be able to glean some of (b) and (c) from your cover-letter. It's rare enough to see full-stack RoR programmers on the job hunt though, so (a) alone is enough to get a call from me. Your resume almost doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't violate (c).

For me at least, just put together a generic resume and write a frank, friendly email/cover-letter. Even though I'll probably call you regardless of the cover-letter, a good one may give me enough confidence to skip right to on on-site (or coffee).
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Hanja is widely used in modern Korea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja
> You can look at GAAP vs. non-GAAP

non-GAAP is pure crap made up by the company, without any checks or balances.

Such crap went crazy in the first tech bubble. The fact that people are plugging non-GAAP tells you everything you need to know about whether there's another bubble.
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This didn't crash my mac entirely. don't avoid.
The DigiNotar case was an anomaly where the certificate provider was compromised. This is a rare case.
As an occasional EVE Online player, I keep thinking these stories are about the EVE universe. It's always a little world-inverting when I realize they're actually about real life. This whole concept of asteroid mining is incredibly awe-inspiring.
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I don't think it's fair of you to imply that I lack the mental capacity to remember that: I recall it just fine. However, it's quite immaterial. I was responding to your statement that they don't care, which is not to say that they couldn't. They clearly care - this, and nothing more, did I intend to point out.
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Really curious, how do you guys know that google's servers store our data unencrypted?
Absolutely. I use 1password, and it's hard to beat - encrypted, well organized (certainly better than searching Gmail for e-mails from myself!), and it syncs the encrypted store to Dropbox so I can have it on multiple computers.
What happens to the resumes that don't make the cut? I know that I'm always in search of some great additions to our team and while the resumes might not be a fit for you, they might be a great fit for me, and YCombinator is an amazing magnet / funnel that attracts a relatively higher quality of candidate, regardless of whether or not they made the cut. Around these parts, it's hard to convince tech talent to join a startup at all, their skills notwithstanding.

I know that resumes are probably shared with a reasonable expectation of privacy, but perhaps you can let it be known that there are other, non-YC startups that might be interested in these resources if you would be willing to share and float a few other boats with those that weren't a good fit.

Just a thought.
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Smart people don't play monkey games. If you want a monkey at the very least be honest about it. If you want a rockstar you better have a damn good reason for them to come to your company rather than just start their own. Playing monkey games to see if your possible new team rockstar is good at reading minds through osmosis is the first reason they won't even look at you. Better stick to brogrammers, however I doubt you even see many of them.
When talking about passwords, best to assume the worst case.
Probably seek.com.au given the Melbourne references.
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The assumption he implicitly makes is that Google is not going to do anything malicious with his password, and has a secure enough network. If you take this assumption to be true, then his practice of emailing himself private information (over SSL, you can't access gmail without it), is reasonable.

Now if you want to take issue with his assumption, then go right ahead, but this is not an instance of Jeff Atwood misunderstanding how [eg]mail works.
Which version of Excel were you working with? Security was greatly increased in Office 2007.

http://serverfault.com/questions/122627/how-secure-is-the-en...
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I was really turned off to Debian when I hit "apt-get install firefox" and it gave me ice weasel :/ Computers and religious whackjobs don't get to second guess my command line :/
The 'recently closed tabs' feature in recent browsers also makes closing your session more difficult. A few years ago it was considered good practice to close your window after checking your account. Now it is just a click in the browser to fully restore that window. Remember to 'Sign Out' all the time, 2 factor doesn't help in this case.
Presumably because they only hire when they have a need?
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If you think it's that simple, try writing to your representative with your solution to the problem.

But ultimately the issue is you painting them as innocents in this, 'they're not mind-readers', when the main article suggests that they were actually aggressive pioneers in finding ways to dodge the spirit of tax laws.
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Has it worked? Which startup are you with now? I see from your blog you are interviewing with Google (not a startup anymore), but still not bad. Are you still open to finding the right fit with a startup? Are you "startup friendly" (appropriate expectations of work hours, pay, and equity)? I find the latter to be the biggest hangup in folks that we're looking to add to our team. They like the tech challenge, but can't really grok the startup work environment.
Google is on the public internet, you know.
Were their passwords more complex than "secret"?

There is a known flaw that Office uses (used? I believe it's unfixed) the same RC4 stream for multiple versions of a document, which could be bad news if you used the same password for them and an attacker has old revisions, but even so, that may be hard to leverage if the doc in question is just a list of passwords. [nm, it's been fixed for a while. thanks, nhebb.]
You should be very careful using fox's intellectual property to endorse your product. I'm sure you can get away with it once or twice, but it'll ultimately kill you.
Even if the data is stored encrypted, Google can always decrypt it on an as needed basis (since they serve ads based on the content of the email messages.)
Do you disagree with the effort in trying to find the commonalities between high-performing people, or merely the stated results?

I agree that they may not have the whole answer here, but it's a whole lot better than any random commonality between any two people (e.g. they both like the color blue, or they both lived in the US).

I think there's some insight here, even if you just take the idea of how high-performers think ("productively" rather than "reproductively"). I definitely believe most things I see are a result of reproductive thinking (many of my own thoughts included), and I have many times more respect for things that have come out of "productive" thinking.
http://www.infoworld.com/t/authentication/weaknesses-in-ssl-...

Seems to happen often enough.

(Then again, 2011 seems to have been something of an unlucky year for security professionals. Just ask RSA.)
Human beings will accept some probability of death on manned missions - notably soldiers, but also miners and fishermen. It's politically unfeasible for NASA to plan a 5% chance of astronauts not coming home, but private companies could do it (I would take that risk to be an astronaut, especially for a good paycheck).
Awesome article, but I'll continue to document.
The only reason for this would be that gmail -> gmail email doesn't leave their servers. However, I think it's irresponsible to suggest emailing oneself private information without explaining the caveat, because others might, say, do the same thing from their work email to their gmail account, and consequently send private data in the clear through random mail servers.
My co-founder and I are hopping among different start-up hubs in the US to get a feel for this sort of thing. So far, Boulder has been the most dense (though it's small in size- ~ pop 100,000). And Austin seems to be one of the most active (not as dense, but a larger population overall- so a larger critical tech mass). Austin feels like it poised to be a giant.
I think the intention is to protect government information from being obtained by someone gaining unauthorised access to the phone (e.g. an employee takes their smartphone into the building, goes to a meeting, and someone else compromises an app on the phone and uses it to listen in to the meeting), not to protect against the legitimate owner of the phone.

So the owner of the phone deliberately faking the MDM software is probably outside of the threat model.

That said, someone who managed to root someone else's phone remotely might be able to tamper with the MDM software in advance while wi-fi is still enabled so that it doesn't function correctly.
I didn't really mean you specifically, but a lot of the people I've met lately seem to think that way.
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Since email generally traverses the internet unencrypted, the consensus is that it's already insecure. There's little to be gained by encrypting it after the fact.

Besides that, what key would they encrypt it with? Something from your password? What do they do with email you get while not logged in? How do you build a search index? I'm actually building something similar, and even after a lot of effort, there's tons of corner cases that simply cannot be protected, so it seems a reasonable guess that gmail does nothing special to encrypt your data.

[edit to add that once you include oauth in the picture, I think the encryption story starts getting really fuzzy.]
I assumed they were profitable because they just stuck Billions of dollars in a savings account... o and robot swarms are cool too.

Orbital fuel anyone? That may be a bigger deal than the automation, in regards to launch price dropping. Just for assisted reentry allowing reusable vehicles.
There was two RC4 keystream reuse flaws in the Office binary formats. One involved salt reuse on save (an implementation bug) and was fixed in Office 2007. But there is still another one that can't be fixed without changing the file format. The original Office 2007 file formats used AES-ECB, but later switched to CBC in SP2.
It doesn't really matter. Any method of server-side encryption for email (and many other) systems as we currently understand them has inherent flaws.

The simple fact is that key material is accessible in RAM, and even if it weren't, the data still must be decrypted at some point, and once the server is compromised, you can likely capture that decrypted data.

That's not to say you shouldn't do it -- it helps prevent accidents like unwiped drives getting out, and might be a reasonably effective obfuscation against some attacks, but it just isn't secure in the same way that real end-to-end encryption can be.
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Your password is 1password too?
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I would totally apply for a beta. I also expect it to be free, inline with all the other google services, in return for giving away all my data about my personal life, so they can put ads on my walls.
I've been reading Land the Tech Job You Love [1] recently, and he says the same thing about putting "keyword soup" at the bottom. But he also recommends naming the section something like "Buzzwords" so that human readers know to skip that section. "Oh, this is obviously to satisfy the automated resume screeners." I'm not so keen on the idea, but probably because I usually apply to companies that are too small to use the automated resume screeners.

[1] http://pragprog.com/book/algh/land-the-tech-job-you-love
I hope you remember that Gmail scans your email for their stats and adverts and that your email storage is in NO WAY private. Go read the TOS, or the various websites explaining the TOS if it's easier.
More than that, many Google employees, for stats or project purposes may read them. More than that, you'd think gmail has never been broken into? Public info != reality.

Emailing yourself sensitive data unencrypted is simply dumb.
As it turns out, they don't have a real plan to mine asteroids. It is just a big hairy audacious goal. Their actionable plan is more realistic (cheap telescopy).

Making a spectacular but unprovable and therefore undeniable goal is an effective way of announcing and positioning your company to the world through public relations.

Nothing wrong with that. People love to dream and back the dreamers.
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Nope, that infographic is used to confuse people because it doesn't make clear that it's primarily showing the federal discretionary budget which is only ~40% of the entire budget: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY...

As the diagram has evolved they added a small total budget thing to bottom, but most people don't realize what it means.
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"you'll get it (about a week after the US)" - theres the problem right there.
But lumping these high-performing individuals together with
the single glittering generality "genius" leaves us less
enlightened for the trouble.

I think that was precisely the author's point: viz., the word "genius" is vacuous, amorphous, and altogether a meaningless label affixed to people whom the plurality deem exceptional in some manner. I believe the author's intended message is that it's the producer/consumer dichotomy combined with divergent thinking that's ingenious, rather than raw brain power.
gmail has been revamped so that China, with a fuck-ton of resources and desire, cannot get into it. they hired the NSA to help them. maybe it's no longer secure from the NSA, but it is from everyone else.
> To mingle with programmers who call themselves “rockstars”: Ruby.

Oh fuck off. I'm really getting tired of the Ruby backlash. It is a FINE language, better than most.
This scares me. It really does.

These idiots are planning to put swarms of objects in orbit, planning on a significant percentage failing? Are they actively trying to get the Kessler syndrome under way? (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome if you don't know what I am talking about.)

Seriously, they need to have a plan for what to do with the junk they will be creating. If they have no plan, I don't think that they should be allowed into orbit.
I agree with you, but once there are orbital factories (and how far are we from that with companies like this? 20 years?), the cost to "launch" becomes next to nothing.
I spoke with several Japanese people who said that some valid characters are not representable in Unicode.

That means that it's not just a technical problem (expensive sort routines or inefficient encodings) -- it's a semantic problem.
Had no effect in Opera 12 alpha with HW acceleration and webgl turned on, just black screen
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If 20% of their satellites become space junk, and they are putting a lot up there, they are going a long way towards making the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome go from a theoretical possibility to a depressing reality.

The sad part is that, since they already planned on a high failure rate, they would still be OK. It is just everyone else who would be hosed.
That's much less than 80% reliability per pun.