skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I checked 5 sites, all single dyno: 3 down, 2 up
If it is like the interrogation I have gotten from developed countries outside the US, they are asking questions about what you do and what brings you to their country, and the questioning can be somewhat adversarial. Which nobody likes.
I was just wondering how you accomplish that.
It's difficult, because low-budget web shows often have quite a short turnaround, whereas a high budget show can take several years to get off the ground (at least a year in development, and a year to write, shoot, and edit).

For example, Netflix are shooting for (comparatively) high-budget original content with several shows due to drop in 2013 (like Arrested Development) - there's also been a move towards joint production deals where the shows are produced for streaming on a service like Netflix in the US but then sold for TV broadcast in other countries.
[Edit: parent said he felt Dow was unethical, and then edited it to the statement above. That's what I was responding to.]

I agree completely that businesses must act in an ethical way. However, I don't feel that Dow was unethical. The wiki pages on this are very one sided, making it appear an open and shut case. Dow disagrees, and I've heard that from toxicologists that I knew and respected personally.

To quote from
http://www.dow.com/sustainability/debates/agentorange/

____________________

Agent Orange

The jungles of South Vietnam were ideally suited for providing enemy cover for the guerilla tactics employed by troops battling South Vietnamese, American, and other allied forces during the Vietnam War. To offset ambush attacks and protect allied forces, the U.S. military sought to defoliate combat areas by developing and using the herbicide Agent Orange. U.S. military research developed Agent Orange, and the product was formulated based on exacting military specifications.

Companies supplying Agent Orange to the government included The Dow Chemical Company, Monsanto Company, Hercules Inc., Diamond Shamrock Chemicals Company, Uniroyal Inc., Thompson Chemical and T-H Agriculture and Nutrition Company.

Public concern over Agent Orange has centered not over the product itself, but an unavoidable by-product that was present in only trace levels of one of the product's ingredients. The unavoidable trace by-product was the dioxin compound 2,3,7,8-TCDD.

Dow's Position

As a nation at war, the U.S. government compelled a number of companies to produce Agent Orange under the Defense Production Act. The government specified how it would be produced and controlled its use.

The scientific investigation on Agent Orange has gone on since the Vietnam War and continues today. There have been extensive epidemiological studies of those veterans most exposed to Agent Orange. Today, the scientific consensus is that when the collective human evidence is reviewed, it doesn't show that Agent Orange caused veteran's illnesses.

___________________

You are of course free to disagree with me, and Dow. However, this is such a political topic it boggles my mind we are discussing this on Hacker News. So how do you feel about Mitt Romney's chances, while we're at it?
An element of mystery
Huffingtonpost??... just to name one
Yes Radu, wanted to add that myself. thanks!
I've been using 1Password for about six months now, and loving it. It can auto-generate passwords for you, so for most of my main sites now I actually don't know the password anymore.

The advantage of 1Password is that it runs on Mac/Windows/iPhone/iPad which are all the main platforms I use regularly, though this setup cost a little more than buying it just in one place.

A feature I quite like, and that made me feel somewhat more confident in trusting ALL my passwords to it - is that not only does it sync to dropbox, but you can visit the dropbox website and view a .html file to get web-based access to your passwords though a now-familiar UI.

(I'm just a happy customer, I don't work for them - and I've never tried a competitors products so this isn't a comparison)
Obama For America TV Ad: "Jobs"
Google’s Matt Cutts Admits SEO Will Only Get Harder
502 Bad Gateway . . . is there a page that displays the status of the status page?
Queen - One Vision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvpsEKSNkkA
I'm really surprised that people think consoles are currently a niche market for games

http://boardgames.about.com/od/monopolyfaq/f/copies_sold.htm

According to Hasbro, as of early 2008, more than 250 million copies of Monopoly have been sold worldwide. (As of early 2003, the estimate was "more than 200 million copies.")
The company estimates that nearly 500 million people have played Monopoly.

Anyone want to guess how many decks of playing cards, or chess sets have been sold?
I would suggest doing something else than payjobs until you're over 20. Enjoy your youth, do lots of open source stuff. You have so many years to spend in a squirrel wheel.

I would love to have an option to just lay around at home and contributing to open source.
Oh, please... quit worrying about some silly labels and adjectives. You are, as far as I'm concerned, a "programmer" if you write programs. How old you are, whether or not you get paid, what kind of credentials you have, etc. are totally irrelevant.

Now if he qualified that as "I was a professional programmer at six" then I could see some (small) cause to say "Hey, wait a minute." But to get this up in arms over somebody saying they are / were a programmer? What's the point?
Enhanced Web App Firewall for IIS with Geo-targeted IP Blocking
Would have been if he had lost
When will heroku have a multizone offering?

I know most sites hosted on heroku are pet projects with no real need that type of uptime, but this type of downtime makes it impossible to use them as enterprise customers.
Please create a Firefox add-on. I don't like using the bookmarks bar at all.
I was just talking about this last night with my brother! He made a prototype for a puzzle game in PyGame. Since he has a full-time job now, I decided to continue it's development.
If status.heroku goes down due to 500 errors (overloading) use https://status-old.heroku.com/
I was hoping to actually hooking up with companies (9 diff ones?) to offer a new weekly exclusive sale
It is well known that Opera has done a lot of work in this area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Functionality

Of all the parties Google should listen to for SPDY feedback, Opera is probably the top of the list. It looks like Opera took it quite seriously and shared a lot of good work with us all, and I thank them for it. I'd say their point about the asynchronous headers is one that requires serious addressing ASAP. For one example, is it valid to push down a header redeclaring the encoding of the response at the very end? What would that even mean? It's a good point.
I was looking for similar advice when I was your age, unfortunately HN wasn't around at that point and information was more scarce. Kudos for using these tools to your advantage.

The most important thing you can do is build experience. I would keep working on open source projects, and try to engage yourself into popular ones to build a career direction that is impressive (the Django work is a great start here).

As far as a job, you're 16 and I'm going to guess your costs are very low. This is the perfect time to work on building a portfolio of your own work, as well as doing the aforementioned open source work. If you can get a fair job with low hours, look into the opportunity. At age 16, I fear a lot of people are going to try to take advantage of your youth to pay well-below-market prices. Do you have a need for money, experience is more valuable at this time?

Other random advice: do well in school, and invest a percentage of any money that you do make.
We are still down: http://warsocial.com

Edit: Came back for a second. Went down again. Came back. Went down.
Apple’s hardware “dilemma”
A mere $1 "per month".
http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#...
This is different from routine security nonsense. This developer was specifically questioned about his open-source projects.

If DHS is targeting people when they travel just because they work on information security, that's pretty chilling.
Of course but that isn't the same IMHO
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I never saw value in promoted tweets before this
I'm going to give you pg's advice to undergrads: get good at building things, if you want to do a startup later.

If you want a job at a software company, you'll want to get good at reading other people's code and fixing bugs in older, larger codebases. Ensure you are an effective communicator by practicing your writing skills (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ultimate-guide-to-wri...). The ability to speak and talk to other people (and in front of them) will prove invaluable, especially in an industry that still is saturated with people who are poor communicators.

If you need practice on building things, check out the "Somebody Make This" subreddit (I'd like to it, but reddit seems to be down at the moment).

My email is in my HN profile -- shoot me a message. I might have a small project I can hook you up with.
Exactly this. I just tackled this question in a podcast interview about my freshly released board/card game. As gamers, we can all have ideas. Video gamers in particular like to dream up their holy grail of gaming... but making a video game takes FOREVER and is mostly NOT fun.

Making a board/card game, however, is accessible to EVERYONE. If you can manipulate a pen and a pair of scissors, you can have a functional game in a matter of minutes. Then you get to spend 90% of your time working on the game design and not figuring out how to fix bugs in the physical medium.
If you're looking for a truly disruptive startup, you should tackle insurance billing. This is a $1 Trillion+ industry powered by people making phone calls and sending paper mail.

Just look at this list of insurance payers: https://drchrono.com/public_payer_search/. See how they all have different enrollment forms? Every clinic that wants to do electronic billing with insurance has to fill out an enrollment form for every insurer on that list (though most only do a subset). Filling out those forms is powered by people.

For those of you that haven't dealt with insurance, a real-time eligibility checker is actually a huge deal. The best of class eligibility providers define "real-time" as "we'll respond within five minutes to your request, and only between the hours of 8am and 6pm Eastern, and often the service will be down for many of those hours, and requests will fail randomly, and we can handle a full 10 requests per minute." When clinics get eligibility information wrong they end up eating the cost of service or sending out a huge unexpected bill to the patient.

(Actually, it looks like DrChrono is using Emdeon, which has many of the problems described above.)

The (stealthy) biotech startup at which I work has to deal with a huge number of insurance companies. I've been working on insurance claim integration and had to build out a parser for the absurd file format standard the healthcare industry uses (https://github.com/sbuss/TigerShark). We're parsing and handling claim acceptance/denials pretty well (resulting in, literally, a 300x boost in productivity of our billing & support team).
You're obviously talented so I would recommend getting involved in the start up scene in your area.
FYI, if you want to recover the origin of those ~/box pictures, they may have the original URL and referring URL stored in their metadata. Anything saved from a web browser should have this information in it.

You can use "mdls" to see it. I put a quick and dirty python library to get and set these values at: https://gist.github.com/2889617 (I use it to backup this data.)

This field can also help you find the source of those random pdf files lying around your disk. And you can query it with spotlight. For example,

mdfind "(kMDItemWhereFroms = '*ycombinator.com*')"

will find all of those pdf's you saved from ycombinator.
1) that's my first goal, I'm very glad you think so.--
2) I hear you, and I agree 100%. You must be on an ipad or a smaller browser window, try resizing it larger- they fall into a 3x3 grid. I want a 3x3 grid system to work, but I decided to have it work like this for the accessibility right now.--
3) Is a very awesome idea, I enjoy the idea of expanding the 9 item set in this way. Noted and stored, and will be considering something like this (if not exactly) in the future.
"If someone can't be bothered to retype my non-mailto-ified email address, chances are high I'm better off not being bothered by their email."

This. It is less to do with me worrying about spam as much as it is me adding an extra layer between myself and people that mass-email myself and others about employment opportunities, etc. If they really like my work and want to talk, they won't have an issue typing it out.
Hmm. A few more minutes with this has me a little mixed. I may have confused this with some kind of personal mirror service. Is there a way to mirror an entire page? (Recursively --no-parent is ideal, usually.) Even backing up the plain HTML without images would be suitable. Text is formatted usually.

A great product nonetheless. It will replace a cocktail of pastebins + image/binary uploaders for me, in many cases. The screenshots are most definitely useful. For articles where formatting and sublinks are important, I may need to keep using my silly wget routine.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog comes to mind. It won an Emmy in 2009.
Yep sure.

- It's speed is very unpredictable. Sometimes it'll be lighting fast, other times requests will hang for up to 8 seconds. We've used nodes in data centers across the world to measure this and have confirmed 100% that the delay is happening at App Engine and not our machines :)

- There's been several times where I have used Google Python libraries (for other Google products) and found them incompatible with the version of Python on app engine. I've had to write several dummy modules that replace googles ones that attempt to open a file on the disk in write mode (not allowed) when they're not even writing to the file! I cant be specific, under NDA. I have contributed the fixes back to the Google API team.

- The last 3 SDK upgrades has broken something in the core modules, or Django. App Engine SDK upgrades are now a running joke at my workplace

- It's insanely expensive for the CPU / DB power that you get
Totally agree with this assessment. I don't know how their routing mesh works exactly, but it seems that they're coupled too closely. Either everybody is mostly working fine, or everybody's down.
You can calculate billions of SHA-1 hashes per second on a single $100 graphics card using standard software. That's pretty common. There's AFAIK no implementation of bcrypt for GPU.
Recap: E3 2012 Xbox Media Briefing
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My Experience with Amazon Mechanical Turk
I don't use the HBO Go application too often, but what problems did you encounter or what would you add?
my demo site is still down.
I'm going to guess that the loyalists of the day couldn't tell much difference.
Working away: consider it for your startup
Link to the wired article with more details:

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/17-04/ff_diamonds...
Why not? It's good!
That is exactly what I was hoping some people would want to do. I've made a page to catch e-mails of those interested, but I assume you didn't see it? (it's in the footer, basically very hidden)

I'm interested in speaking with you further (briefly!) if you don't mind! @acoyfellow on twitter

Edit: To answer you more directly- the "play" is that you are buying these 9 items, curated and hand picked by Me (click on the Me tab, it's supposed to be personal feeling, not scammy and ad like. I should maybe throw a pic of myself?)

I look at the Girlscouts of America as inspiration.. They aren't selling something they made themselves, they just sell something good. I always buy cookies from the girls who I know- my bosses daughter or a friends niece.. Therefore I was hoping that I can use my existing personal network of people who already know and trust me, to start selling cool shit!
IE 10′s "Do-Not-Track" default dies quick death
The $6 quoted is the current market price (give or take a few cents) for old crop corn, sans subsidies. That is historically high, by a large margin. I think most would consider that to be quite the opposite of cheap.

I will add that as a seventh generation farmer in Canada, where we have no real subsidies, we still grow just as much corn. It is a core part of our crop rotation, and even when it is a money loser, we still pretty much have to grow it at some point – you can get away with not growing it for a rotation or two, but it will catch up with you eventually.

I assume the same is true for Americans in the corn belt. How much of a factor do the subsidies really play in those decisions, or is it just a part of their normal crop rotation (with the added benefit of not having the big losses we often have to deal with here)?
I think a better analogy might be a beneficial computer virus.

Let's say you write a virus that uses patented technology to remove malware, defragment the drives, reorganize the registry and whatever else a Windows machine needs to run well these days. It infects some of my company's computers, and I notice that they're running well. I direct the IT department to wipe all machines that aren't running well, and leave the ones that are alone.

Can you now sue me for royalties?
Confirmed. One of my apps is down. I hope they resolve it soon, but I don't pay anything at the moment so I am not too upset.
Thanks for the advice. You're right about the costs bit, but I have a few projects of my own that require the money (which is more than I can afford on my pocket-money.) So, I'd love to do a proper web development project for both the experience and well, y'know :)
It's not collusion. Its a carriage deal. HBO wants distribution on the cable operators lines. The Cable Operators want HBO. So they do a contract which precludes streaming via the internet. These contracts are standard across the industry and in fact standard across almost all industries with products and distribution (see liquor distributors).

HBO is free to distribute via the internet if they so choose and the cable operators are free to stop distributing their content.
And that would be interesting (and I think they do exist - I'm curious about the poster above saying that they show it's not healthy because my understanding is precisely the opposite), just I think that there are other factors you need to control for to really understand it.
If someone respected their business decision, I would've guessed that they wouldn't download their show and instead watch or do something else.
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Sounds like it will be good for the web. SEO is a race to the bottom which makes all of our lives worse.
Hahaha I understand. It was a cop out item I just threw in, figuring it was cheap, everyone drinks coffee, and I needed a different category of item.

Your opinion is appreciated though, thanks for commenting!
I watch full episodes of How I Met Your Mother for free on cbs.com. No need for Pirate Bay. Unless, of course, you're talking about web-exclusive shows.
The Display Galaxy: Efficiency Lost
Also can follow @herokustatus on twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/herokustatus

Edit: Also IRC #heroku

Edit 2: heh... I just noticed the "subscribe to notifiations" link on the incident page: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/372
Agreed. We are finally scaling from "small scale production" to having actual customers we want to take care of. Worse, we began a huge marketing push this week and had been seeing promising results. Now we'll probably miss a boatload of potential customers.

Heroku had been a joy to work with until now. I ask of you all (as most of you are far more experienced in these matters than I), what is the traditional practice to mitigate this sort of risk? Paying for hosting with two separate companies?

EDIT: I understand the benefits of cloud hosting over hiring a sysadmin. At the same time, I'm interested to learn about what possible solutions there are. I'm at the point where I don't know what I don't know, and even the name of a topic or technology would be a huge help.
update: all 5 down
Well, the movie was fairly popular, and did raise a lot of awareness for people not directly involved in the farming or GM production dialogues.

That, or because it's easier to dismiss someone's argument by discrediting their words.
Who did he terrorize?
I dig this idea very much. Good tip, I appreciate it MidwestMuster! I will consider this or a variation of it for the future. You'll get credit!
We don't really know what questions he asked. For all we know, the developer has a bone to pick and is grossly exaggerating his claims.

Guard: "What do you do for a living?"
Dev: "Software developer on a secure chat app"

Dev later claims he was interrogated about his work.

In regards to the specific question about the algorithm and the interrogator knowing something about computers, isn't it possible that he was personally interested in and asked while he had the chance to talk to someone who was familiar with that stuff?
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What it’s like to get hacked
It's an algo. But the resulting data is a protocol.
I think their landing page needs to indicate how they are different from Evernote. The ability to 'find cool new stuff' is intriguing - a bit like Stumbleupon + Evernote then?

Also there needs to be a way to contact someone and/or ask questions and/or provide feedback. An Olark tab would work.
Such combinations could end up worse sometimes, just like 2DES has the same strength as DES.
I wonder if I will subjected to the same sort of questioning ... I am developing crypto software for my day job.
I liked it. So, your title is inappropriate.
Unfortunately, there isn't a "start up scene" where I live :(
that alone is not something worth fussing over. it happens a lot, and to people much less and more interesting than this guy.
Brand Resource is probably a good start:

http://www.facebook.com/brandpermissions/index.php

"You can make a reference to Facebook (online and offline) to describe your presence on Facebook and your use of our products and services. Your reference must be truthful, and cannot suggest that you are affiliated with, sponsored, or endorsed by Facebook."
Ironically, this is probably making HBO more money as it gives them stronger bargaining power with the cable companies.