skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'll permit me to share some wisdom with you,

I'm a bit older than you (20, which could be mountains by your reckoning). I do consulting now in sunny San Francisco and am altogether very satisfied with my pay, station in life and the work I've accomplished hitherto. I'd like to think this gives me some ground to speak on.

I was once in your shoes, given my lack of any sort of advanced age, I was wholly without opportunity. I endeavored in various fruitless directions before my first real financial success (inasmuch as a 14 year old can be financially successful). The biggest bump to my career (also all-around credibility) was the first open source project I ever did ( http://zv.github.com/work/swiftcrack/ ).

It may be true that it was only able to attract a small number (19,000 downloads) of largely Japanese fans, but by Jove, they were rabid. When all was said and done, I made around $5,000 shooting the shit about wireless security to people interested in my work (forgive my language). I'm firmly confident that none of them had the remotest clue I was 14. I would do something like this if I found myself in your shoes (like maybe become an expert of NoSQL databases by working on the hit new database thats sweeping the land called Artifact??? zv.github.com/artifact ).
The app is on Google Play also. It sells more on the Amazon store.
I'm not sure about this. Moving away from being mostly reliant on advertisements is where they want to be, but they need to be careful. If they annoy too many high profile people, the people that are hurt by these charges will be vocal and lots of people will listen.

I think they need to use the money they have right now, from the IPO, to expand their business in a novel way. Perhaps milking the current system is not a good way to go.
Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Lone Survivor Added to Humble Indie Bundle V
Those submarines are crude, has you seen pictures? And submarines and cell phone networks are pretty standard technologies, well understood, that any competent engineer can build off of off the shelve components.

It's not like drug cartels are Dr. No like enterprises...
This is a really impressive piece of macro and template hackery.
Ha! Everybody knows that this virus was hand-written by our Great Leader and Horse Rider King Jong Ill, right before he decided to exchange his earthly existence for another greater one.
The impression I get is that if the US actually wants to ask you about something then they'll do it for more than an hour. They'll fly in someone from the NSA to meet you at the border, he'll probably make you comfortable and have a nice little chat with you and it will become a big deal.

Getting stuck at the border for an hour is a sufficiently short time, in the bureaucratic system, that we can assume they didn't really care. In all probability it was just some random border guard who really did have a CS background and was excited to get a chance to use it.
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I'm guessing trying to just stream video of an event like that would (a) raise all sorts of rights issues and (b) not be adding much editorial value.
I see this usage of "literally" more as a dereference, or an unquote. I mean, it takes a dead metaphor and tries to bring it back to live. It means "hey, pay attention to this metaphor!"

If you'd say, "the financial system was melting down", that is such a stale metaphor that it might not even trigger any associations with nuclear reactors. "Literally" forces you to stop and think about molten goo and radiation.

And as such, I approve of it (although it is much preferred to use fresh metaphors than to resurrect stale ones.)
Bullshit. It's your fault. I'm your user, you took my money. We're done here. Everything is your fault.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4079813
Why is it a trespasser's problem that your door locks can easily be bumped open?

If you can't do your job by figuring it out, why do you feel entitled to keep strangers out of your home?
I don't want my users to know I use Heroku, and by using Heroku I understand that if they go down my site goes down. It really is "our" problem at that point with regards to how our users understand it.
I thought Intel next architecture, Haswell, was going to have the same feature?
It does have it's bad spots, but I really don't see how something can "suck" when 1) it works and 2) every single other alternative is light-years behind.
Sent you a request on Skype. I would like to speak to you about possible project..
Exploring In-Stream Video Creatives
Frankly, I believe it certainly can matter. It may not make any difference to all clients, but some will draw a distinction between avoidable / unavoidable downtime.

Rational clients understand they are not hiring demigods or living in some uptime utopia. However, they expect their service providers to adhere to best practices and make logical decisions.

In this case it's Heroku, in another setting it might be a NetApp filer. Both are reasonable solutions in their appropriate environment, yet both may fail. There's a significant difference between downtime caused by the failure of a reasonably trusted solution as opposed to that due to design flaws, bleeding edge prototyping and flat out bad decisions. The former wouldn't undermine my faith in a service provider, while the latter certainly might.
yeah I feel that the title needs to be more specific as well.
I think the point was more that the amount of money it would take would not necessarily come from a "wealthy nation-state." I'm not arguing over who actually did it; but I agree with the above that it's a pretty big leap to include that only.

There are a lot of organizations in the world, corporate, criminal, and otherwise, that can muster say $25 million (which, I admit is a number I just pulled out of my ass) to accomplish a monumental task. I'm just not sure that I'm ready to believe that the money amounts we're talking here are restricted only to the wealthiest of nation states. Is the claim that you would need literally billions of dollars to get the smart people and equipment?
That isn't how your comment reads, particularly taking into account the second sentence.
Thanks for the suggestions earlier - have now put something in place :-)

If a multiple of items are listed together if they have the same title, price, picture and listing type (ie same number of bids, BIN, etc), it's removed from the returned items. This should cut out the same stuff, but still show you what people are bidding on (or those with fewer bids).

Looks a lot better on your 'triumph cub' search!

Thanks again!
Would one smart, determined person, working in his spare time and for his own satisfaction, be capable of doing it?

I mean, if I had the capability to screw up Iran's nuclear program in my spare time I probably would, because, y'know, fuck Iran.
The most I've sold on Google Play was 8 in one day. This was sufficient to make it rank around 200 in the Entertainment category.
A Short History of Ontology: It’s not just a Matter of Philosophy Anymore
Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Selling Subscriptions
Great design. I wish windows in general looked like that, a complete redesign that would get rid those ugly thick transparent borders.
Yeah but CPM is also used to denote revenue. I notice Google now uses RPM in their Adsense reports which makes more sense but they used to (from memory) use the term eCPM.
Do any other developers find this somewhat distasteful? I mean obviously the goal of selling software is to make money, but for me personally I just don't like the idea of carefully crafting a nice looking and useful application and then slapping a bunch of advertisements on top of it.
I disagree. Experts have understood the true risk of a cyber war for over a decade, at least. The infrastructure of the United States, both public and private, is woefully unprepared for such attacks to be brought against it.

I'm reminded of a recent quote describing how getting stuxnet into Iran may have been difficult, but getting something into a US power plant would be trivially simple by comparison.

Not only is the US infrastructure not ready, but it looks like no one is actively trying to change that.

I imagine that businesses won't see the need to waste all the money until something big happens and they're forced to.
I also plan to do some more in person visits around my area (Columbus, Ohio) to give a demo on it. Not sure on how that will work but it is worth a shot.
it's always unsettling seeing a governmental or otherwise undisclosed institution developing such cryptographic breakthroughs in secrecy. this leaves me as a developer with inferior tools to protect my data against any kind of intrusion. it’s understandable from a national perspective but unfortunate for the programming community at large. so far we still have bcrypt or scrypt - but who knows, maybe someday we'll have an efficient collision attack there as well...
As stated in the article

"We have developed a forensic tool for collision attacks [7] that can efficiently detect a wide range of known and unknown collision attacks against MD5 as well as MD5's successor SHA-1."
One term my company uses (not sure if it's an industry standard) that captures what you're describing is "yield," which is basically revenue/cost per user. Ultimately, what "CPM" you are making your advertisers is hard to really evaluate without knowing how much they are paying per impression or click.

That said, sounds like you guys are on the right track, now just have to sustain this success and scale it!
Maurice Ravel's Boléro [1].

The piece is about 10 minutes long. Ravel stated his idea for the piece was taking a theme and trying "to repeat it a number of times on different orchestral levels but without any development."

It's a tune that just fades into the background nicely. I can put it on repeat for a couple hours, and the slow rises and falls in volume keep me in a good rhythm.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol%C3%A9ro
It is illegal to discriminate against someone due to their age, but it isn't illegal at all to ask. Most places just avoid asking so noone can accuse them in the first place.
Ubuntu on Microsoft’s Windows Azure IAAS
Yeah, but come on, everyone knows how counterproductive this is.

Flame and Stuxnet have been rumored to have been US/Israeli sponsored for a while; the confirmation is no real surprise.

What surprises me is how stupid this shit is. I mean seriously? If I knew the US was using crypto warfare leveraging the spreading properties of a virus, I would hope that it would be nearly impossible to tie back to us. I mean that's just fucking common sense.

I mean really, at the end of the day, what did this achieve? I'd say it probably just gave every crypto nerd in China, Japan, India and Russia an infinite budget.
In my experience, users actually do care quite a bit. Back when my company was on Rackspace, we had several periods of significant downtime that weren't our fault. Customers who contacted us were very upset, but when we made it clear that it wasn't a bug with our software, but rather a problem with the hosting provider, they all calmed down. I believe there are at least a few key things a customer takes away from a message like that, even if they don't understand anything about website hosting:

1) This isn't a bug with our software. They don't need to worry about the security of their data or anything else like that.

2) There's no point in getting mad at us. Sure we chose our hosting provider, but we're just as upset about the downtime as the customer is.

3) This problem is affecting other websites as well. People seem to be better at handling stress if they think everyone else is stressed out too.

4) There's a team of professionals working on the problem. My customers know I run a small company, and they seem to appreciate knowing that a much larger company handles the hosting.
This is actually a really good point. I can't find it now, but there's an article floating around somewhere about a government employee in some small town accusing Apache or Debian or some project of being "hackers" because his web server broke and was showing the default "congrats it works!" page instead of the town web site.
Sorry. I fluffed the last line. I've removed the word 'apart' to make it closer to what I meant to say...
...and, by extension, Windows 8 and the Metro design language, which are pretty unique in the current tech landscape.
Is it the farmers who have a powerful lobby, or the food processors, such as Monstanto and ADM?
That was basically my thinking. The purpose of Flame seems to be clear intelligence gathering, so most likely it is a state actor that wanted it; I wonder however if it was indeed developed by a state or a private group on behalf of a state.

Plausible deniability is useful after all.
A case for a simpler Ruby Logo
It's interesting that Google Analytics Realtime just updates using a never-ending GET with type text/chat.
Game of Thrones vs. Farmville
Assuming that the other side of this story is somewhat as it has been portrayed, blogging about the issue with the potential to reveal the name of the startup might encourage them to clear up "the misunderstanding".

Heck, you might even just email someone with some equity a link to this story.
I'm sorry I couldn't make it down to this today - was out of town earlier this week and had too many catchup meetings today.

Any eyewitnesses care to share the highlights?
On the other hand, it's much harder to crack a hashed thumprint image.

[edit]

evan_ is right, you don't hash scan images. The question is, how much usable bits of entropy you can extract from a thumbprint scan? Anyway, I retract my main point.
I can't help but feel that these people will someday look back and have great pictures of these events but no memory of them.

Not necessarily. I am going to a lot of concerts (~3-4 per month), and I take pictures with my phone because of my horrible memory.

If stumble upon the photo a few months later, it triggers most of my memories and experiences, but without this sort of "evidence" I'd be totally lost on the details from that evening.

edit: And, after all, wasn't that kind of the original purpose for a photograph? To capture an awesome moment you want to memorize?
Add a custom 500 error page, problem sovled, you can make it say anything you want.
As someone who was inconvenienced by the outage, and with no mitigation strategy in place, I DON'T blame Heroku. The weight is placed squarely on me (lone tech in our company) for not having researched how to distribute services alongside Heroku, or fall back to something else, or whatever the proper term is.

I've been googling like mad since this morning, finding a few mostly-unanswered StackOverflow questions and a smattering of blog posts, but I haven't learned much. The only clear-cut answers I've seen are:

1. Hire a sysadmin who knows more than you do (But whole point is that I want to learn for myself!).

2. Pay for a service that will host in multiple geographic locations for you, and do the switchover (recovery? fallback? I don't know my terms here) for you.

3. A few mentions of "load balancers" and "heartbeat monitors". Sounds self-explanatory, and these are my current terms of googling.

Any suggestions on where to start acquiring this sort of skill? I'm prepared to teach myself anything, but the problem is not knowing the terms for what I want to learn.

EDIT: Well, just watching this thread is helping a bit.
i respectfully disagree

i was at the Times Open announcement years ago which was one of the first events to be live tweeted

the organizers were shocked at the time but they realized that this got them great publicity. my live tweeting, it turned out, made me some connections with people that have helped me greatly in my work since then
What are 5 things you have learned that has completely changed your life?
For posterity, HN discussion on an earlier submission
(same story, just linked directly to Wired):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4076910
You can customize the error page. It is your fault for not reading the docs and serving the default.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/error-pages#customize_...
The Microsoft of 1998 is not the Microsoft of 2012. Today's MS releases a tremendous amount of code under open source licenses - most recently, their entire web development stack (ASP.NET MVC, etc):

http://aspnet.codeplex.com/
you don't get world class cryptanalysts and mathematicians working on such a specific endeavor out of "determination"

In World War II, you had such in Poland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski
(Who deserves some of the credit for cracking Enigma and thus for the outcome of World War II.)

What you can get for lots of money, you can also get for patriotism and somewhat less money. There are over 30 countries with populations over 40 million. Most of these are industrialized. The odds are that they've produced the requisite mathematical talent. The only question is if they've been able to retain and apply it.
What's the name of your app?
6 years ago I was in your shoes, I was certainly not of anything remotely resembling "advanced age" (14).

I was wholly without opportunity. I endeavored in various fruitless directions before my first real success (inasmuch as a 14 year old can be successful). The biggest bump to my career (also all-around credibility) was the first open source project I ever did ( http://zv.github.com/work/swiftcrack/ ). When all was said and done, I made around $5,000 shooting the shit about wireless security to people interested in my work. This was huge for me, and set me up for being taken much more seriously. I'm firmly confident that none of them had the remotest clue I was 14. Had they known, I'm sure I would have been laughingstock and never given a serious chance. There is something to be said for concealing your age and making a solution where your elders make excuses, this is your paramount strength. I will imagine for now that you aren't interested in the politics and subtle ego-stroking that accompanies a lot of business, which gives you the power to actually get things done as a pace that will have your superiors dumbfounded. Suffice to say, hard work can fix hard luck.

This said, (if you are interested in learning Erlang) I would be more than happy to help you along if you'd like to be a part of developing my open source NoSQL database, Artifact. You gain experience developing your own database in a language that people take very seriously and you get to be a part of an open source project. You know what they say about birds and stones.
Rocking out your AngelList profile
They've already solved that one, at least partially. And it certainly seems likely to continue to progress in the right direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor
I see; on Vista and above, certain fields in the certificate prevent it from being accepted for code signature. So they did a collision attack to create a slightly twisted certificate where all those fields are tucked away in a useless segment and ignored.

Are there any details on what's new with this particular attack, compared to the known previously published ones? Why wouldn't earlier public research (such as that ps3 fake SSL CA stunt) suffice?
The root problem is that you can't produce usable XAML without also knowing C# and the .NET Framework. In other words, you have to be a programmer to generate XAML in Blend. Fail.

That's like complaining about gravity or friction or taxes. Give me an example of a software tool that non-programmers can use to generate working software and I'll eat my hat.
looking at the actual announcement from flurry.com, it seems that the company does not have any data indicating what platforms developers build Apps for.

They just know how popular their own SDK is on both platforms.

There are many reasons of course why flurry could be more popular on iOS than on Android: What SDK was available first? how is it advertised? how well does the competition do?

On Android, flurry competes with Google Analytics, which Google advertises in the Android documentation, developer blog and support pages.

Similar misleading is when they write about "Fragmentation". They list a long list of different devices that their customer's apps are running on. But they have no idea if developers run into any issues when supporting these many devices. How is it fragmentation if you can target many devices and operating systems with a single code base? Isn't this more like the opposite of fragmentation?
Not if you live outside the US.

I honestly think that "unavailability" is the cause of 90% of pirating. Not because people don't want to buy stuff, they simply can't.
I think he would get rejected.
Agreed. The catalogue thing is annoying. But I do remember it took a while for iTunes to have a complete catalogue as well. I feel like eventually though that problem should self-correct for subscription based model over time, as it increasingly becomes the de-facto medium to consume music. Either way, I suppose we'll find out the answer in a few years ;-)
Django. The D is silent.
That only specifies that their tool can detect them, not that it was detected in this case.
I believe you're looking at this issue through the eyes of a technical person who understands those distinctions. There's a huge group of sites and apps catering to entirely non-technical folks to whom that distinction would only bring confusion.

For a software bug tracking app, I can see why you'd want this. For a store that sells something like cloth diapers, I think it would be confusing (at absolute best) and certainly not any kind of improvement for either Heroku's customer or their customer's customer.
I'm willing to bet that if every person who watched the Game of Thrones Season 2 premiere (6.3m, http://www.wetpaint.com/network/articles/63-million-people-w...) paid $10, that would pay for the entire season.

I'm also willing to bet that there's no way you could get enough people to do that.
As with GCHQ's discovery of the concept of asymmetric encryption years before it was rediscovered[1], it's always good to bear in mind that there's likely similar things being devised currently. When weakening or breaking encryption & hashing are such golden keys for certain organisations, they'd be fools to not put a lot of money into researching it.

As I've remarked a few times before, anyone devising a feasible break of RSA or a practical quantum computer would probably keep it quiet and only act on it in absolute need or deniably (like Bletchley Park in WW2). As Bletchley shows, even major operations with tens of thousands of people involved you can keep things very good secrets for decades.

[1] http://cryptome.org/ukpk-alt.htm
After experiment seven
The "programming community's" threat model in cyberspace is no different than anyone's threat model in meatspace. If a well funded government decides you are an enemy of the state they can harm you in meatspace or cyberspace. Are you staying up at night worried about a hellfire missile coming in your window?
Spawnfest 2012 - July 7-8,2012
An annual 48 hour development competition in which teams of skilled developers get exactly one weekend to create the best Erlang applications they can
Hmm... if only there was some sort of National Security Agency that employed cryptographers so we'd know about these things first and could protect us from these attacks.
Chrome for Windows 8′s Metro UI right around the corner
...but the US is not a nation-state.
The app is aimed at children from 2 to 8. I'm not going to advertise at children.
At this point HBO is a favor for the cable company, not vice versa. Comcast's business would plummet if Comcast suddenly no longer had HBO, and Comcast probably knows it.