skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main defense against AES or similar being secretly broken is that people (nominally) on the same side also use it.

If NSA had discovered a flaw in AES and not announced it - then when this was innevitably discovered, there may have been a few conversations with the CIA/Secret Service/The Whitehouse/SAC etc along the lines of:

"so there is a flaw in this algorithm and you have been letting us use it all this time for our secrets?"

>"Yes but it's OK only we know about it - nobody else could have discovered it independently"

"Really? Prove it!"

This did actually happen with Bletchley park. After the war various UK/US allies were given copies of the Enigma machine and told that it was unbreakable.
A nice layman's explanation by Glenn Fleishman @glennf
These days being hacked is just a matter of time for say a winxp sp1/2. The environment is becoming flooded with oxygen and we need to evovle cellular Walls.

The problem with cost benefit analysis is that it makes one core assumption. That tomorrow will be substantively like today. I don't believe in black swans but I do believe in climate change
Full Text Of George Soros' Famous Speech
C# with an ordained set of macro based extensions intended for use with WPF would work fine with a visual designer like Blend and the VS one. The visual designers would be the ones generating this code, so they'd know how to parse it.
I'm not following. Why is the name of the module "[removed]". Was that an edit? Why? Surely a bug in a core python module (whether it be AppEngine-specific or not) is a matter worthy of public discussion.
Awesome news. Like many Australian devs I have been feeling a distinct lack of love from other payment solutions. And now I see in a comment above that braintree is on its was as well.

Who knows, maybe VCs will start investing in Aussie based startup as well?
I was responding to the insinuation that needing to drive 200+ miles regularly is almost unknown and the claim that an hour-long charge is acceptable for long distance trips.

In other words "nobody needs what it doesn't do" is wrong as is "it can handle that situation".
The difference here is that he's promising something eminently achievable. Easy to to achieve, even, and remarkably clear.
Ah. Language drift.
Google found me links to Amazon, but it never occurred to me that there might be a preview that happened to have exactly what I was talking about. Very cool. Thanks.

For folks who have not read or heard of this book, it starts out like a more-or-less normal diary, but soon becomes a set of observations on working, creating, dealing with people, making art and music, and a bunch of other stuff. The second part of the the book, the appendices, are a set of interesting essays, fleshing out many of the things he touches on in his diary entries.

Even if you're not a fan of his music he has some provocative ideas.
This shocked me, but I found it to be true not long ago. Who knew.
As a support manager, I was ready to tweet "Always Listen to your support manager" until I saw it was $4MM in revenue...

This is one of the reasons that is hard to adopt the "80/20, walk the difficult customer" approach; I have seen the right manager turn a bad client into a good one too many times. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
It can be either easier or harder. Depends on your consulting pipeline, skills, hourly rate, and the job you're comparing it to. Many jobs are pretty much clock-in, clock-out, which means that before & after work you don't have to worry. In some ways this can be better. Often you can cut back your hours to 4 days a week or some other way. (I did it; more than 1 friend has taken my advice and done this, too.) Consulting is often more stressful and demanding, even if you work much fewer hours. A steady paycheck can ease your mind; consulting pays more, but less steadily (usually). Those are the variables. I chose consulting because we worked in short, but manic, bursts, and pocketed $15-40k at a click. But YMMV.
So I just looked through the slide deck again, and it seems to me most of what was in there should be standard advice AT ALL TIMES. Don't spend money on things you don't need. Watch expenses. Build a profitable company. This should be the default rather than here's 10 million see how many users you can get maybe facebook or google will buy you.
A long interview in Paris Review from 2010: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fic...
CustomInk's customer service is actually too good -- the last time I ordered shirts they redesigned our logo without even asking us first. At first I thought the font wouldn't load so the substituted a different one, but nope, they actually kerned the whole thing by hand and even changed the rounding of the corners on the graphic to match the new font.

In the end I had to tell them that no, I actually wanted the original logo that we sent them, but the whole thing was kind of amusing.
Yes, all the passwords in LinkedIn's massive leak were unsalted.
anyone care to bet everyone with a linkedin account who works at a tech company just got targetted attacks? Hi, my name is Joe Hacker, and I work at <domain name>! Since you got my linkedin account, why not try that password at admin.<domain name>?
I love stories like this. A couple of others that come to mind with a similar theme:

A bank was going to turn down an account for some long-haired young man in jeans who wanted his statements forwarded all over the place. Then some young employee told the middle-aged manager he was a wealthy rock star who needed his bank statements available while touring.

Some young bank teller with an attitude was being an ass to a guy in coveralls or similar, covered in paint and looking kind of like a day laborer. He finally got mad and said he would move his accounts if he did not get treated properly. She continued with the attitude and told him "Go ahead". He was the owner of a construction company and his accounts were worth millions. (Edit: And, yes, he moved them.)
What is "work"?
Yeah, the article seems to start at a weird point. An algorithm to find out how many points a given question is worth might be better than having the teacher just decide what is worth how much. Or it might be worth.

But what kind of stupid school system would grade math per question instead of per difficulty?
I think it makes sense that a well funded government was behind flame, but it makes me wonder, there is nothing that explicitly calls for huge funding. Nothing is very costly other than talent. So just a hypothetical situation here but why can't a hypothetical real life Tony Stark make it? (not rich like Stark but intelligent like Stark) Just a one or two people in a garage on their PC. What makes it impossible for that to be the case?
There's a bit of confirmation bias going on here. I'm a huge advocate of going the extra mile to help out a customer, but I could easily imagine a story where a company wasn't able to focus on its profitable customers because it was so inundated with supporting unqualified users that it didn't have the time and resources to close a $10M sale.

"We would have chosen to go with ACME Technologies, but when we had challenges with the installation their staff was so tied up offering Windows tutorials that we could never get the help we needed to do a proper implementation. It's a shame as their product did appear to have the edge."
'I'm Not Your Wife' A New Study Points to a Hidden Form of Sexism
Unfortunately it is very easy to end up with boilerplate code when using Java. It isn't a direct fault of the language but rather that Java developers hate making decisions so you end up with endless layers of abstraction and indirection. (Immortalized as FactoryFactoryFactory.)

You may find this list of libraries used in Android apps useful. There are several that cover this architecture pattern if you want to use them (eg data access, networking, format parsing):

http://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/dev
You said "99% of the violence committed against Israelis is done by Arabs." I brought up domestic violence because I thought the topic was on violence against Israelis, and that was a relatively easy topic to research.

Now you say that 1) you made up the number, and 2) you're talking specifically about terrorism. Okay, that's fine, but that's a different topic than "violence" and different than the "lived under constant threat to your life" which you started off with. You did say that profiling reduced terror attacks, but didn't say that it reduced the amount of violence. These two are not necessarily coupled.

South Africa, for example, has complex history of people divided by race, and where ethnic tensions and hatreds still run strong. In my 6 months or so in that country I met many people who "lived under constant threat to [their] life", for being outside at night, or in the wrong part of town, or while being carjacked or during a break-in while they slept at night. So no, it's not apparent to me that you are saying that all violent attacks, or that all threats to life in Israel are due to terrorism.

(It appears even that there are more homicides per year in Israel than deaths by terrorist attacks, but then as is often pointed out, every year over 10 times more people die in car accidents than died in 9/11 - some things we just get desensitized to.)

It looks like you are restricting 'terrorism' to state-sponsored terrorism. Surely al-Qaeda is the premier example of a stateless terrorist organization. Why can't the terrorist appellation also describe organized groups of settlers who, in violation of the law and counter to government policy, attack Palestinians?

I am not defending Hamas. I am attacking your rhetoric. You use absolutist statements, and you change your definitions somewhat when it serves your goals. I highlighted some of those changes. That annoyed me, and I do not believe it helps you achieve your goal of explaining your views to others like me.

If it helps, the statistics from btselem.org are quite clear that a large majority of the civilian Israeli deaths by Palestinians are done by people affiliated with the political organizations of the Occupied Territories, Lebanon, and elsewhere, and done in such a way that I have no problems calling it terrorism. But - and to get back to the topic I once thought you were making - based on those and other numbers, it seems significantly more likely that an Israeli will die of violence inflicted by another Israeli than by a non-Israeli.
> The Republicans were saying the same sort of stuff in 1929.

In 1931, Republicans in general and Hoover in specific were pushing stimulus and restrictions on production. FDR campaigned against these measures but continued them after he was elected. (And no, congressional Repubs did not oppose Social Security's enactment.)
I agree with the other commenter that the analogies are getting stretched but I'll bite:

1. You haven't paid them for anything yet.

2. Wrong question!!! It's an opportunity. If I showed up for lunch and despite power being out (probably on the entire block or neighborhood) the proprietors were set up outside making cold sandwiches next to a sign that said "Sorry, power's out so only egg salad" I'd be thrilled. Here are people single-mindedly devoted to my experience.

That's really my point. It's an attitude problem. I want to spend my money with people who hustle when it hurts, and I want to do that for my users. I'm not saying it's not "fair" to close shop and blame the other guy. Sure it's fair, but the person who cares more is gonna eat (or make, in this analogy) your lunch... and the world will be a better place for it.
Interesting question, but it doesn't seem to provide any sort of an answer.
IMO providing quality service and tech support is the most cost effective thing you can do to market your business bar none.

It's shockingly rare to get good proactive customer service nowadays that by giving it a little attention, you can easily give yourself a competitive advantage of your entire industry.
I wish at&t would read that.
Given that we'll only ever get one side of the story, and that side of the story being interpreted a certain way would certainly bring favor to the author, how can we actually presume that the few tweets he made really gives us the whole picture?

I mean, this is a guy who is, by what appears to be his own admissions on twitter, a "internet freedom activitist," who just got done talking at a conference about his software. This would be a great PR icing on the cake. I'm not saying it's manufactured, but I have just as much evidence for that as I do to the contrary based on the information presented.
I believe the key lies in the second sentence, 'Nobody cares why your site is down, and for most sites 99% of your users will have no clue what is meant by "This site is hosted by Heroku"'. My mother wouldn't care whom the hosting provider is nor understand what it is.
Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
Turn.js: A book about Steve Jobs in HTML5
Turn.js is a JavaScript library that will make your content looks like a real book or magazine with CSS3.
Great story.

I always appreciate a company that has top rate customer service.

Amazon.com is the best example I can think of these days.

Comcast is the worst.
That seems like it would be just as much work (and just as prone to errors) as building it right in the first place.
Twitter gives you the bird
You should read Alan Blinder about "The Great Moderation" -- recessions since the late 1970s have been shorter and shallower than their predecessors. And far shorter and shallower than their counterparts under the gold standard in the 19th century. Also empirically, the reason the United States is doing better than Europe is because of the stimulus/bailout. It might be hard to think of the United States as a success story since it is only a relative one, but look at the much more dire situation in countries like Britain and Greece and Spain where governments were forced or choose to embrace austerity.

There is no reason the world cannot produce the same amount of goods as it was producing in 2007 - there are more rather than less people willing to work and the cost of borrowing money is very low. The only big outside constraint is energy costs, which are being offset by some fairly amazing reductions in the prices of alternative energy, including solar power.

So why the mess? The problem is a classic liquidity trap, a preference of investors for highly-liquid and safe assets that results in less money being spent in the private sector. This is visible in the way the borrowing rates of the Federal Government have fallen despite the best efforts of the Republican Party to drum up a debt scare the moment it fell from power and stopped spending the money itself.

Bailing out the banks did somewhat stabilize the banking system and probably prevented catastrophe. What remains necessary is getting out of the liquidity trap, which means increasing the amount of spending in the private sector. One way to do this would be having the government borrow at essentially zero cost and invest that money in public infrastructure projects which offer a return on investment. Another approach would be having the Federal Reserve declare an inflation target of 4% until the economic crisis is over. This would reduce the expected ROI from parking money in Treasuries and provide a greater incentive for firms to make private sector investments instead of just parking cash in the bank.
sounds like it would be pretty darn awesome to me :). and I haven't even gotten the chance to go travelling yet, hehe.

but I really do want to. if you end up pursuing this and need some extra dev help, lemme know ;)
interrogators will routinely ask questions to which they already know answers so that they can establish a baseline for "truthfulness" (sort of a human lie detector).

they also need to engage the subject in a conversation and may ask most banal/unrelated questions, as well as keep asking the same question in a different way.

also, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cryptocat
Dennis Crowley On Reinventing Foursquare
More and more of the world is occurring in browsers in javascript, so this problem is important! I'm going to try it out.
It's not narrow, just different. We're not all 20 something's with free schedules.

Once you have kids and become involved in their lives, something like this goes from being an enjoyable vacation-like work-bonding experience to ridiculous pain-in-the-ass to schedule time away from family requirement.

That isn't to say that it can't or shouldn't be done outright, but that like anything, it should be done with regard to the people and personalities on your team's best interests at heart.
Servint. I wish I could handle my customers the way they do it.
Interesting take on it, which I disagree with.

This isn't "gambling with your time" this is "making good on your customer's commitment". And your note triggered a really interesting visceral reaction in me.

You can look at life as a series of choices you make and a scoring system by which you evaluate the quality of those choices. Typically a positive scoring system is used so the higher the score the 'better' the decision. It is often the case that people are judged by their scoring system.

Examples of scoring systems might be "how much money did I get out of that decision?" or "How many people are better off based on that decision?" These being centered on the individual describe the 'greedy bastard' archetype and the 'saint' archetype. Most people have a more nuanced system which combines the scores of several systems (is this good for my company? my career? my personal wealth? my celebrity? my family? my community?) which they weight sort of like the ice skating scoring system in the Olympics.

The point of the article was that if you're committed to your company and your company's success, then you decide to do what ever it takes to solve your customer's problems. That is because they took a chance on your product and you want them to be ok with their choice. Its an anecdotal story which illustrates a principle, of customer focused execution.

When you look at successful companies, you will see that they share this principle. And companies that do not, can be disrupted (like the US car industry in the 70's, the airline industry in the 80's, etc etc). There isn't any gambling involved. Anytime you spend extra time with your customer you win. That customer will relate that experience, win, they continue to buy your products, win, and they stick with you if you accidentally screw up somehow, total win.
With generally available wifi and a smart phone, one hardly needs voice, data or text services from a carrier at all.
Time? But besides that, I can't really think of anything. Some guy on NPR was talking about how it might be some professional developers who did this in their free time, so that would kind of make sense.
If they don't add them, and you're still craving the soundtracks:

http://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com/ has a few Super Meat Boy soundtracks. You'll probably want the Digital Special Edition. (I physically have a signed Double CD copy, and it is glorious.)

http://spacerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/lone-survivor-orig... is the Lone Survivor soundtrack.

And the Braid soundtrack was linked elsewhere in the thread, but for completion's sake: http://magnatune.com/artists/braid
I take it that you are not checking HN from a internet cafe in Tel Aviv?
"Not only is the US infrastructure not ready, but it looks like no one is actively trying to change that."

Really? I know it's controversial, but that's pretty much what CISPA is supposed to help with.

[edit: Unclear language.]
I've had "basic computer time" with customers before. Usually it doesn't pay off in direct dollars. But some of them I had to push them out the door with a stick they were so loyal by the end of the time they could use our stuff.
cost between $8 and $15 trillion depending on what you're counting (total deficits + Fed bailouts)

I always cringe when somebody calls the Fed's actions bailouts. These are asset purchases by the Fed versus injecting cash into the monetary system. The Fed will have to unwind these at some point in the future. But essentially, what the Fed has done is that it has made a market for securities nobody was willing to make a market for.

Net "bailout" performed by the Fed: zero. Actually that's wrong - the Fed added around $78 billion worth of profit via its open market operations to the Treasury last year (it's obliged to do so after deducting servicing costs/salaries etc.)

Pray, what are the "natural" mortgage rates you're talking about - ie you mean rates absent Fed intervention (via Operation Twist)? There wouldn't be a mortgage rates market in existence if the Fed were not there to make one!

And no, you're not imploding like the EU. Their banks are woefully undercapitalized and can't lend to the corporate sector. Plus, they have one monetary policy and 17 different fiscal policies - that simply doesn't work!

Your banks and your corporate sector are flush with money. It's your consumers who are broke. Even then, they aren't broke - they are just not making long-term investments(ie purchasing durable goods) as credit has dried up and there is no good quality collateral left in the market against which people are willing to lend. Homes used to be the collateral earlier on - but that's no longer the case.

That's what the Fed is trying to do - lower mortgage rates (ie assume credit risk on your behalf - it can do so because it can print money - inflation is not a risk in this economy) to enable credit to flow in the economy so that the consumer can start becoming active again.

Deleveraging is painful - but it's not the end of the world as you've portrayed it.

Edit: fixed typos
Then at least you are only partially an idiot.
10 i = i + 1
20 PRINT i
30 IF i > 100000 THEN i = 0: GOTO 10
40 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10
50 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

God says...
unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth
eaten.

14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as
a shadow, and continueth not.

14:3 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me
into judgment with thee? 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an
unclean? not one.

14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with
thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 14:6 Turn
from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling,
his day.

----

Tell Bob he's in the Bible :-)
No @jgeorge you are completely correct, I was just coming here to raise the same point. This is NOT password salting, it's appending a string to the start of each password based on the site. But it's not just any string, no, the author of this blog post wants you to put the NAME of the site the password is for. It will take someone a whole 5 seconds to guess that if for your FB password you used facebookFsdh52f then your google password might just be... wait for it.... googleFsdh52f.

Now if you were "salting" (Still not sure that's what I would call it) your passwords for each site you used with a RANDOM string then yes it would provide extra security, however at that point why aren't you just randomly generating the whole thing.

The author clearly doen't know what he is talking about and is using buzzwords to drive pageviews. He is an idiot.
Do the dollar amounts mentioned in the article include pre/post operation work? Or just the actual operation itself? If it is just the time in the operating theatre then 1.4k is not too shabby for a couple of hours work (i am guessing that it doesn't take, on average, a whole day for most hip replacements).

But if the $ mentioned is to cover before and after consultations, prep work etc it seems a bit on the light side.