skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have trouble remembering book plots too (except in broad strokes). But what I find I do remember is a particular line here and there, something that sticks with me because it's just so well-put, or because it crystallizes something that was already in my head in some form.

I can forget everything else about a book, but years later I'll still have a line kicking around in my head, word-for-word, because it just resonated with me. It's even gotten to the point that I've googled the line itself sometimes to remember what book it came from, at which point I'll usually give it a second read.

Maybe I'm just weird though.
Surely not as bad at taking notes as a smartphone?
In the US most of the trees you see in residential areas are actually species that are native to Europe, meaning that most of them were planted by a rich person at some point.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/23998

"But for the most part, a lot of those early users were actually Steve and me with aliases. We had silly user names that we just generated in order to make it look like there was a diversity of users on the site. "
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/06/03/microsoft-...
I'm not sure those steps will be that effective without Windows boxes everywhere being updated. Shouldn't the certificate be blacklisted?

Will removing the signing function from Remote Desktop disable the exploit in current installations? I don't think anyone using it to sign malware will want this upgrade.

Can anyone give an explanation on what happens?
Is this more serious than the signing for stuxnet?
Besides the text-based tools mentioned, there's BlueGriffon for those who want a FOSS WYSIWYG editor.

I've been using it a bit of late and it seems pretty decent (though I still tend to do most of my HTML writing in TextMate).

Edit: add link.

http://bluegriffon.org/
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Have you checked out Nodejitsu? http://nodejitsu.com/

You still have to implement in app load balancing but this is easy via Hook.io, by the same group.
It's not true that (unsigned)INT_MAX + 1 is never 0 - it's allowed for UINT_MAX == INT_MAX (leaving the sign bit unused in the unsigned representation). I've never seen such an implementation, though.
Probably looking for common typos in harder to spell words.
See steps 1 and 2 from the linked article:

We are taking several steps to remove this risk:

• First, today we released a Security Advisory outlining steps our customers can take to block software signed by these unauthorized certificates.

• Second, we released an update that automatically takes this step for our customers.

• Third, the Terminal Server Licensing Service no longer issues certificates that allow code to be signed.
Dreamweaver used to be the bane of my existence when I worked on a sites that had been initially created with it.

Funny enough, I have an article on my site about tweaking mm_menu.js that gets regular visits still to this day. So I know there are still people out there using it. This is the page - http://verysimple.com/2006/10/23/mm_menujs-and-the-firefox-m...
This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, and I have to admit that I'm disappointed that the author also hasn't come up with an easier solution than work at it and take notes.

I've been using Goodreads.com, which is fantastic for a lot of things like book recommendations/discovery and reviews. It's easy to write a public review and to save private notes, and after my Kindle was stolen, I thought it might be useful for note-taking. However the private notes section is arbitrarily limited to a very small number of characters, which makes it useless to me as a note-taking tool. It's not much more difficult to use Evernote or whatever but I put enough effort into maintaining my shelves on Goodreads that it would be nice to have notes integrated.

For the time being, I'm back to paper. I miss my Kindle... I can see that it is still alive somewhere on my account, as I'll periodically email insulting messages that I can see are delivered on the Kindle control panel.
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Consider the bad A/B testing algorithm implemented by Dr. Awesome. Instead of reporting statistical significance, if it would be statistically significant below 10% chance of coincidence, he reliably reports "It was Awesome!" Dr. Awesome then promptly burns his notes to warm his awesome heart.

Even though many people would take issue with using 10% (a lot of practitioners like 5%) and Dr. Awesome has some serious issues with data retention policies, if you always follow Dr. Awesome's advice, you'll win 9 times for every time you lose. I'll take those odds.

Say Dr. Awesome also has one additional problem: one time of twenty, regardless of the results of the A/B test, he just can't help himself and says "It was Awesome!" anyhow. If you follow his advice, you'll now win approximately 5 times for every time you lose. I'll take those odds, too.
Yes, it's hard to believe, but it's really possible to sense the small color changes due to blood flow in the face using cameras. My earlier work described how you just need a simple webcam :)(http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/pulse-camera-1004.html). As a result, I'm working on Cardiio (http://cardiio.com) to bring this technology to both the web and mobile very soon. If you're interested in computer vision based biosensing, please sign up!
Being intentional about creating frequent - even if brief - sanctuaries from business is crucial. As much as I and many here love their jobs/startups/companies, you have to step back occasionally. It's not healthy to be 100% consumed be something all the time, even if you're madly in love with it. You need little breaks to reflect, recharge, and reconnect with other important parts of your life occasionally.

Love the early mornings. I need to muster up the discipline to make that happen, too.
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They do; if you look at Herou's "dedicated" database instances the RAM numbers correlate perfectly with EC2 instance sizes. Even a "dedicated" Heroku database instance runs on shared EC2 hardware, making both its latency and throughput very unpredictable under any kind of serious workload.

Combined with limitations in how their dyno instances work, like the inability to have more than one slug version deployed at once to take advantage of Heroku's routing fabric for hot-deployment, I only recommend Heroku for early-stage systems. Thankfully it's not very hard to migrate off of and still offers an awesome time savings in the early stages - it's just not something to build out on IMO.
Solid list. I'm going through the same thing soon and have decided to never give it away. Give it away while you're patching critical bugs, but if it works, they should pay for it. Give them other stuff, like faster response times or better support, but you should never give the product away. No idea if this makes business sense, but it's what I've settled on.
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That’s awesome!

Hmm, when I tried to sign up I got a message that I was already on the waiting list.

EDIT: It looks like the page is making a request to cardiio.com, specifically, and if you’re at www.cardiio.com (the one you linked to) the response gets blocked by Same Origin Policy, and the page treats it the same as a you’re-already-on-the-list response. You might want to avoid hardcoding the hostname in the JS, and/or force everyone over to the www or non-www domain.
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Love the chart. Another fun thing to plot might be: what's the retrospective half-life of the Fortune 500? (That is, how far back do you have to go from each year for 50% of the companies to be different.)
Not only isn't Dreamweaver dead, but it may shock many to know that Director isn't dead either.

Why? Well in the case of Dreamweaver you have an audience that invested a great deal of time to learn a toolset. And while under the hood there are better ways to code, jumping from WYSIWYG to looking at lines of code is a real turn off if you don't do web production as your full time occupation. The other reason is that even by offering an upgrade path to other Adobe tools a certain percentage of users will leave Adobe when a product is discontinued.

Of course Dreamweaver is dead to folks who really do HTML all day, but I suspect that those folks never really used Dreamweaver back in the day or they stopped using it when CSS for layout started to become popular.

A key lesson that many of us can learn from this is that ease-of-use is really important to a non-tech audience. When I look at developers playing with HTML/CSS it reminds me of a phototypesetting machine setup circa the early 80s before desktop publishing programs came about.
I'm actually thinking if it might be a good tool to detect distress in a subject. Not lying exactly, but might provide insight into a subject's emotional state non-invasively during questioning or interrogation. People might become distressed for many reasons that may not just be simple lying.

Perhaps even a Voight-Kampff-like test a la Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
It's not a mainstream position in linguistics that Sanskrit is a direct ancestor language of Latin. The overwhelmingly most popular theory is that both are ultimately descended from different branches of proto-European. Latin is from th centum branch and Sanskrit is from the satem branch (which includes Proto-Slavic as well). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centum-Satem_isogloss

The blog you cite shows serious signs of crackpotterry, as do its comments.
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I don't know why programmers consider themselves as a separate bunch of lot which considers that nothing in the world that applies to others, really applies to them.

There are a lot things that are similar to programming, and sometimes difficult too. Things like Surgery, Music, Some mind based games like chess all come under a similar category. Some times you have to play with intensity.

If there is something I have learned over the years. People who burn out, who are under burden of chasing tough deadlines constantly. People who are always sprinting towards their goals and have desperateness in completing what they have will inevitable end up doing more work. Sure they will be stressed, they will burnout, they will go through some pain.

But I would love to experience such a sweet pain often. The best sleep I've have is when I'm too tired. Athletes, boxers and other sportsmen experience happiness after going through a rigorous regime. They will be undergoing pain, but it still makes them happy. They are also getting stronger and better than everybody else. This is called 'Going the distance'. Ever heard of runners high? Every time I felt like I have been stressed or burn't out I feel happy, Because I have clocked more work than anybody else around me.

You don't need a ocean of creative ideas or a storm of opportunities to be successful, what you need 1 or 2 good ones,and then you need throw all you have to chase them and work on them make them happen.

Sure you need to rest well, but you need to do it properly and then start over again.

Its not going to be easy, Its going to be difficult. There are too many people working 9-5. And commonly done things, bring common results and make you look common. Getting some distinction will require you to 'Go the distance', it will painful, stressful, you will burn out on the way, it will test your will power to persist.

What else where you thinking?
Direct link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/books/review/Collins-t.htm...

(IMHO this post adds very ltitle)

The poster is quite skeptical that books change us. I don't understand why because the truth is this (IMHO) is blatantly self-evident.

Even our machine learning models are capable of taking inputs and changing the internal structure creating or modifying the ability to make inferences. Why do you think our brains are any different?

When a conversation happens, at first you remember the exact words that were spoken. Soon you think you do but those details will change between different participants (they will in fact probably be different from the first moment for any non-trivial exchange). Then you're left with the gist of what was said and then later typically an emotion or association with a person, time, place or some other stimulus.

Books are no different. You may remember key quotes. After awhile you'll struggle to remember all but the broadest plot elements. Most often you'll remember that you liked or didn't like the book and often won't be able to quantify why (in any kind of specific way).

Reference books or books that teach you anything are more "obvious" in this regard. Read "Effective C++" or "Effective Java" and it'll essentially reprogram your brain (to varying degrees) by a change in habits, preferences, etc.

Fiction is harder to pin down. Sometimes it's pure entertainment. It may not necessarily change you. But there is something about human development that is particularly receptive to the meme of fiction. The greatest ability we evolved is the ability to teach our young significant skills such that one generation is building on the fruits of the last and we've all learned something beyond how to crack nuts open with rocks.

Fiction often has a moral. Books are capable of changing our behaviour and attitudes (although many don't).

All of this just seems so obviously analogous to reprogramming a computer (albeit an incredibly complex one) that it baffles me that people would think otherwise.
Those are not database instances that the specs are listed for
We discovered it after grabbing the various Seuss books at the library for my daughter. It is inspiring, but would have to say the Lorax is still our favorite. (Not to be confused with the noisy garbage that arrived in cinemas this year.)
I've had good success with an open source tiling window manager for Windows called HashTWM [1]. I use it inside my Windows XP virtual machine to manage a bunch of hairy situations with multiple windows. I like that it actually does reposition new windows to fit inside the grid, and that I can easily adjust the middle "split" line so that my main window can become thinner or thicker.

Where it falls down is when you deal with modal dialogue windows, like the "Save File As..." window of Firefox, or the "Find and Replace" window of Excel. I haven't found a good way to overcome the issue of those modal windows being hidden, even with the "-i ConsoleWindowClass -i #32770" ignore options. It seems like Firefox, Excel, and Photoshop implement some non-standard ways of opening smaller windows. In these situations, I quit HashTWM, deal with the modal window, and then start HashTWM again (using quick keyboard shortcuts).

[1] https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM
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Wow, this is awesome, so I must be an idiot. I've been playing around with Heroku with a simple NodeJS app that I don't care about the performance of for the last week. I've been scouring their website for information exactly like this and I couldn't find anything this comprehensive. Thanks so much for figuring this stuff out. Just answering the simple question of "Is the 750hr's free for each app or is it per account?" is golden.

Anyone have an example of a simple NodeJS worker dyno? The web one is easy, now I'd like to see the other. I've been searching around and haven't found any good examples. Thx.
Microsoft: Unauthorized Certificate Was Used to Sign "Flame" Malware
I think it is due to whose signature it is. Stuxnet was signed by Realtek, while Flame had Microsoft's signature.
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More details in the MS technet post:
<quote>
We have discovered through our analysis that some components of the malware have been signed by certificates that allow software to appear as if it was produced by Microsoft. We identified that an older cryptography algorithm could be exploited and then be used to sign code as if it originated from Microsoft. Specifically, our Terminal Server Licensing Service, which allowed customers to authorize Remote Desktop services in their enterprise, used that older algorithm and provided certificates with the ability to sign code, thus permitting code to be signed as if it came from Microsoft.

We are taking several steps to remove this risk:

• First, today we released a Security Advisory outlining steps our customers can take to block software signed by these unauthorized certificates.

• Second, we released an update that automatically takes this step for our customers.

• Third, the Terminal Server Licensing Service no longer issues certificates that allow code to be signed.
</quote>

http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2012/06/03/microsoft...
A little more detail:
http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-unauthorized-certifica...
From the link ...
How did this happen?

"When we [Microsoft] initially identified that an older cryptography algorithm could be exploited and then be used to sign code as if it originated from Microsoft, we immediately began investigating Microsoft’s signing infrastructure to understand how this might be possible. What we found is that certificates issued by our Terminal Services licensing certification authority, which are intended to only be used for license server verification, could also be used to sign code as Microsoft. Specifically, when an enterprise customer requests a Terminal Services activation license, the certificate issued by Microsoft in response to the request allows code signing without accessing Microsoft’s internal PKI infrastructure."

Interesting. The Microsoft Terminal Services CA has the corporate identity, but not the corporate trust chain. Is this a deliberate back-door provided to the US government, or simply an ordinary vulnerability?

We need some sort of certification, an independent audit, of X509 certificate authorities and their trust chains. Agreed?
Ask them what they want.
I have my own server that I keep in a colo for a reasonable fee; I run small sites for family members and my email off of it. However for things that actually get traffic I go to Heroku or AWS, I don't need the headaches that come with a traffic spike on my server it's just not worth the hassle.

git push heroku master FTW!
A year away? The Windows 8 Release Preview is already out. The B8 blog indicated that this was the last public beta-type release and that RTW would be in the next two months. There's no way that general availability is a year away.
Internet archive has the original, btw: http://www.archive.org/stream/ohplacesyoullgo00seusrich
It's not quite that easy. Most registrars put the domains through a 30 day grace period, then there's still an additional delay before it's on the open market. Hard to find that "exact moment"

I don't know if they work, but I would definitely try to use a backordering service. I have a couple loaded up on GoDaddy but never had any get triggered.
Most people (although probably not most people on HN) I think if they have to choose between doing incredible things or having a comfortable, stable life, they would choose the stable life.

I personally believe in balance myself. But then again I'm not a world-famous developer or filthy rich entrepreneur either. Though I have done some things of note. Perhaps a balanced life is one that may be happy, but not especially distinctive. Oh great now I just depressed myself...
Not always. You can switch those off and on separately.
He's not saying to ignore all the other aspects of life or business.
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It took me a while to realize that it was 750 hrs per app. That was a good day.
The challenge in chat is really scalability. I see no mention about this.

How will it scale on 10 servers?

The UI is well executed.
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The problems with UCBx in the real world are much bigger than that.

The biggest theoretical problem is how it performs when conversion rates are changing out from under it. Which can happen either because your business has natural fluctuations, or because you run overlapping tests - and adoption of one good test can mess up the analysis of unrelated tests that are running at the same time.

You can simply solve this problem by only using data collected in your exploration phase, and throwing away all data collected during exploitation for statistical purposes. However I've yet to see anyone promoting MAB approaches - including you - express any awareness of this rather significant problem.
Maybe:

1. The certificate appeared to be available to anyone who was looking hard enough. Microsoft provided the misconfigured certificate to anyone activating their Terminal Services product (!). Pretty embarrassing.

2. It's not evident what the signing requirements are for Microsoft Automatic Updates code (at least I can't find them). Presumably they validate an explicit Windows Update chain, but if they don't, this could perhaps enable an attacker to auto-install the Flame virus as an update. I doubt that would be the case, but their security announcements aren't very forthcoming.
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How can one know from reading a patent whether it's a "pure troll?"
What are the life altering benefits he is reaping?
Quick note on SSL: it's highly likely those prices will drop significantly once AWS supports multiple physical IPs per instance.

Right now they have to provision an ELB to sit in front of your app to gain that extra IP.
Inaka has two clients (of many), that are particularly comparable. One used a very "cloudy" Heroku stack with SimpleDB, Ruby, Rails, and Redis. It a number of scalability problems mostly related to the different components not performing predictably under load.

A lot of time spent debugging this custom stack that was supposed to be seamless.

Another client was (boxes running on a hosted server provider),using Erlang, Riak, some Rails, deployed w/Puppet. Comparable data volume; similar "Rails w/Dynamo" architecture, but -- much, much less magic. Much smaller operations bill, less time spent working around cloud platform issues, like inconsistent IO, expensive Amazon charges, lack of visibility into what is happening behind the scenes, etc.

In some cases, Heroku is great; for us, particularly prototyping. But it's not always so clear when it's better to just boot some boxes and deploy some puppet or chef.
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buzzing peacefully seemed Midnight

God says...

12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from
him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah
things went well.

12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned:
for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had
chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his
mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the
LORD.

12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written
in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning
genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
continually.
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> top patent lawyers are leaving firms at which they made $4 -$5 million a year

As a patent lawyer, I'm not sure I'm aware of any patent lawyers making that kind of money [from a law firm, I mean].